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Subject: [Leica] Pray for Hong Kong
From: richard at imagecraft.com (Richard Man)
Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2019 12:57:02 -0700
References: <CAF8hL-EvzPtd1H=CZ88UinAGkA6psc=izD0RepFfxzLb7QSFuw@mail.gmail.com> <F6CBBF91-F1C2-4461-8047-2825DFA5377A@frozenlight.eu> <CAF8hL-FR8LomPcwGG8iKW-YCHkmqGFYMnYGWnXj9QoMPYu6yzA@mail.gmail.com> <d6869abf-af02-0340-9325-337931476c58@iol.ie>

Douglas, just for the record (again), that all LUG photos were transferred
to Leo. This is what I call a low blow, and this was the type of behaviors
that made me dropped out for ~a year.

Shame on you.


On Sat, Aug 17, 2019 at 4:34 AM Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> wrote:

> Good thoughts and prayers, Richard? I tried that while I waited for the
> last Lug yearbook, but.....
>
> Unfortunately, for the one country, two systems future of HK, some of
> the protestors have wandered away from the happy medium and are
> inflaming opinion in mainland China and elsewhere. With Trump
> effectively sidelined by the competing needs of a US/China trade deal,
> Xi will probably crack down on the next major violent protest and send
> in the Red Army who are parked on the border ten kilometres away. Hope
> you have shorted all your shares.
>
> Douglas
>
> On 17/08/2019 07:30, Richard Man wrote:
> > You may very well be right. However, that's what good thoughts and
> prayers
> > are for... perhaps, just perhaps...
> >
> > On Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 11:17 PM Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> I am sorry to say that I am quite pessimistic. I was a child in Poland
> >> when the Prague Spring was crushed by the Soviet Union and four other
> >> Warsaw Pact countries in 1968, and I believe the same thing will end up
> >> happening in Hong Kong. And just as the world did nothing then, it will
> do
> >> nothing now. China is too powerful, it is an ?internal matter? etc.
> >>
> >> Sorry?
> >>
> >> Nathan
> >>
> >> Nathan Wajsman
> >>
> >> Alicante, Spain
> >> http://www.frozenlight.eu <http://www.frozenlight.eu/>
> >> http:// <http://www.greatpix.eu/>www.greatpix.eu
> >> PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws <
> >> http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws>Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/
> <
> >> http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/>
> >>
> >> Cycling: http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator <
> >> http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator>
> >>
> >> YNWA
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>> On 17 Aug 2019, at 08:00, Richard Man <richard at imagecraft.com> 
> >>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> A number of LUGgers have lived in Hong Kong, some like Howard, for many
> >>> years. Some like Greg, occasional visitors. Many have visited.
> >>>
> >>> I was born in Hong Kong, and the current events fill me with
> >> trepidation. I
> >>> talked to my Tai Chi teacher, and he said wisely, "Water always find
> its
> >>> level". A very Daoist thing, be like water.
> >>>
> >>> If I have the resource, I will go there now, to document the events.
> >> There
> >>> are lots of propaganda flowing around, including hilariously that US is
> >>> paying the protesters.
> >>>
> >>> Anyway, please keep up with the news. I don't know what will happen. I
> >> hope
> >>> the Tiananman scenario does not happen. If you are on Facebook, you can
> >>> follow sites like Hong Kong Free Press (which is definitely very much
> pro
> >>> democracy and independence), or SCMP which was a very well respected
> news
> >>> source, but less so in recent years as it was bought by Jack Ma, the
> >>> Alibaba founder, but it still does provide news reports without too
> much
> >>> bias.
> >>>
> >>> Without getting into politics, the current administration does not care
> >>> about democracy in Hong Kong other than whatever fits its selfish
> agenda.
> >>> However, we can still call our Congress representatives. Anyway, please
> >>> send good thoughts and hope for bloodless resolution.
> >>>
> >>> Thank you.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> // richard http://imagecraft.com
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Replies: Reply from imra at iol.ie (Douglas Barry) ([Leica] Pray for Hong Kong)
In reply to: Message from richard at imagecraft.com (Richard Man) ([Leica] Pray for Hong Kong)
Message from photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan Wajsman) ([Leica] Pray for Hong Kong)
Message from richard at imagecraft.com (Richard Man) ([Leica] Pray for Hong Kong)
Message from imra at iol.ie (Douglas Barry) ([Leica] Pray for Hong Kong)