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作者: hkron 时间: 2012-2-29 16:23 标题: BBC 人非人的香港政治与社会
不久前，《华尔街日报》编辑Hugo Restall发表了一篇名为Hong Kong Was Better Under the British的文章，引起不少回响。
有人批评，作者是洋人，自然认为香港在英国管治下比现在好，然后搬出华人曾经不能与洋人平起平坐住进山顶等民初时代的例子，以及港府警界之贪风也曾非常猖獗，力证香港在殖民地时代有多不济。
但亦有很多人和应作者引述回归前《远东经济评论》编辑Derek Davies的感慨：「『我只期盼并相信，在未来，不会有香港人对英国访客说，香港还是在外国恶魔管治时比较好。』十五年后，越来越多人如此感触。」
香港城邦论
由2003年五十万人七一大游行开始，不时可看到示威场合中有游行队伍拿出昔日的殖民地旗帜，也有不少人在网上发起群组，缅怀殖民岁月，再发展至近日由学者陈云，一石激起千重浪的香港城邦论。（根据城邦论，香港不等于中国，香港要推行自治运动，最终走上城邦自治却非独立之路，而政府之间当然井水河水互不侵犯。作者主张香港的民主运动与中国民运分家，以摆脱这种消灭港人尊严的中国情结，而香港也没有人心回归的必要）。
由此可见，十五年间，中共和特区政府在香港把去殖成为当务之急，甚至有中国官员动辄指责港人亲英恋殖、港英余孽，但人心未回归是事实，社会愈想和谐却愈分化也是事实，如今特首选举上各党派和利益集团的斗争害了香港的福祉也是事实。难道真的是洋人管治下，香港才有太平日子？
《华尔街日报》所指的──如香港有民主的保护，诚然有偏颇之处（香港却从来没有真正意义的民主，出现过的直选也只是昙花一现），但文中有几个重点──相对廉洁、尊重法律、防止滥权的政府，确是英国人留下来的好东西。这是由麦理浩时代至回归前的二十多年间，香港努力建立起来的，不管背后宗主国有什么动机，那仍是香港之福。
动物农庄的局面
香港回归的蜜月期已经过去，香港人也看清楚「五十年不变」的理念消失，在劣币驱逐良币的情况下，这十五年间，香港既无任何深得民心的政策出现，也无力帮助中国迈向廉洁民主之道，反而见证着我们在殖民时代最后二十多年建立、曾经紧抱不放的价值，有逐渐崩溃之势。特首曾荫权的贪污丑闻，虽至今未有定案，但已暴露出香港的廉洁社会有自身难保之势。
昔日廉政公署乃总督特派，而总督又代表英王，押上的是英国王室的尊严和权威，不敢造次。廉政公署无私的形象，也可在多宗大案中反映出来，远有葛柏案，近有冼锦华案，无分国籍种族阶级，一视同仁。回归后廉署能否保着这个贞节牌坊，实在令人担忧。回归以后，廉署向特首负责，但特首并非民选，他听命的中央十之八九也离不开贪腐，维基解密就指出中共高层和高官在瑞士银行拥有多达5000个账户，三分之二属中央官员。而未来的特首，不论是哪位候选人出线，他们与中央和商界的关系千丝万缕，代表了中港两地不同派系的利益，比曾荫权的公务员背景更为复杂。香港面对涉及宗主国的贪污舞弊，根本就束手无策。
莫说曾荫权贪污指控是否成立，但权贵之间的往来所造成的瓜田李下，其实是越演越烈的仇富表现。这次特首选举，票不在市民手里，候选双方背后都是大资本家，一方代表传统左派势力，另一方明显有地产利益集团为后台，资本家刀光剑影，不论谁胜谁负，我们都只是蚁民，香港也将继续成为中国的利益输送带和提款机。面对这个困局，即使不缅怀殖民的旧日好风光，现在真的难以令人说一声「我爱香港」。
不能否认的是，港英时代，社会有歧视和矛盾，但「华人与狗」和「反英抗暴」的时代早已远去，过去社会上大致容许不同的人物、角色和目的，不同利益集团可共生，左中右算是互不干涉侵犯，而不是今天的权斗。那时候，人还尊重彼此是人。英女皇是人，港督是人，小市民是人，“阿星阿差”（对印巴族裔的俗称）是人，“阿灿”和“大叔”（来自中国的新移民）也是人。现在呢？我们被称为狗，新移民是蝗虫，议员是老鼠，未来特首是狼或是猪，现任的只是奴！
我们距动物农庄愈来愈近。
作者: hkron 时间: 2012-2-29 16:37 标题: 华尔街日报 Hong Kong Was Better Under the British
By HUGO RESTALL
Hong Kong
The slow-motion implosion of Henry Tang, Beijing's pick to be Hong Kong's next chief executive, brings to mind a speech given shortly before the 1997 handover by former Far Eastern Economic Review Editor Derek Davies. In "Two Cheers for Colonialism," Mr. Davies attempted to explain why the city flourished under the British. Fifteen years later, the Chinese officials who are having trouble running Hong Kong might want to give it a read.
Hugo Restall says that Beijing's fumbles in Hong Kong are making some in the city-state yearn for the British.
.The Brits created a relatively uncorrupt and competent civil service to run the city day-to-day. "They take enormous satisfaction in minutes, protocol, proper channels, precedents," as Mr. Davies described them, "even in the red tape that binds up their files inside the neat cubby holes within their registries." Their slavish adherence to bureaucratic procedure helped create respect for the rule of law and prevented abuses of power.
Above the civil servants sat the career-grade officials appointed from London. These nabobs were often arrogant, affecting a contempt for journalists and other "unhelpful" critics. But they did respond to public opinion as transmitted through the newspapers and other channels.
Part of the reason they did was that Hong Kong officials were accountable to a democratically elected government in Britain—a government sensitive to accusations of mismanaging a colony. Still, local officials often disobeyed London when it was in the local interest—for this reason frustrated Colonial Office mandarins sometimes dubbed the city "The Republic of Hong Kong." And for many decades the city boasted a higher standard of governance than the mother country.
Mr. Davies nailed the real reason Hong Kong officials were so driven to excel: "Precisely because they were aware of their own anachronism, the questionable legitimacy of an alien, non-elected government they strove not to alienate the population. Their nervousness made them sensitive."
The communists claim that the European powers stripped their colonies of natural resources and used them as captive markets for their manufacturers. But Hong Kong, devoid of resources other than refugees from communism, attracted investment and built up light industry to export back to Britain. And as for taking back the profits, Mr. Davies noted, "No British company here would have been mad enough to have repatriated its profits back to heavily-taxed, regularly devaluing Britain."
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The English queen is a red sun in the Hong Kong people's hearts.
.Most expatriate officials retired to Blighty, so they were less tempted to do favors for the local business elite. The government rewarded them with pensions and OBEs. A Lands Department bureaucrat didn't have to worry whether his child would be able to find employment in Hong Kong if a decision went against the largest property developer.
Contrast all this with Hong Kong after the handover. The government is still not democratic, but now it is accountable only to a highly corrupt and abusive single-party state. The first chief executive, Tung Chee Hwa, and Beijing's favorite to take the post next month, Henry Tang, are both members of the Shanghainese business elite that moved to the city after 1949. The civil service is localized.
Many consequences flow from these changes, several of which involve land, which is all leased from the government. Real-estate development and appreciation is the biggest source of wealth in Hong Kong, a major source of public revenue and also the source of most discontent.
In recent years, the Lands Department has made "mistakes" in negotiating leases that have allowed developers to make billions of Hong Kong dollars in extra profit. Several high-level officials have also left to work for the developers. This has bred public cynicism that Hong Kong is sinking into crony capitalism.
This helps explain why the public is so upset with Mr. Tang for illegally adding 2,400 square feet of extra floor space to his house. Likewise Michael Suen, now the secretary for education, failed to heed a 2006 order from the Lands Department to dismantle an illegal addition to his home. His offense was arguably worse, since he was secretary for housing, planning and lands at the time.
In both cases the issue is not just a matter of zoning and safety; illegal additions cheat the government out of revenue. But it's unlikely Mr. Tang will face prosecution because nobody above or below him is independent enough to demand accountability. So now there is one set of rules for the public and another for the business and political elites. Under the British, Hong Kong had the best of both worlds, the protections of democracy and the efficiency of all-powerful but nervous administrators imported from London. Now it has the worst of both worlds, an increasingly corrupt and feckless local ruling class backstopped by an authoritarian regime. The only good news is that the media remain free to expose scandals, but one has to wonder for how much longer.
Hong Kong's Chinese rulers have been slow to realize that the only way to keep Hong Kong the same is to accept change. It is no longer a city of refugees happy to accept rule by outsiders. And democracy is the only system that can match the hybrid form of political accountability enjoyed under the British.
Mr. Davies ended his appraisal of colonialism's faults and virtues thus: "I only hope and trust that a local Chinese will never draw a future British visitor aside and whisper to him that Hong Kong was better ruled by the foreign devils." Fifteen years later, that sentiment is becoming common.
Mr. Restall is the editorial page editor of The Wall Street Journal Asia.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB ... 39252005926874.html
[ 本帖最后由 hkron 于 2012-2-29 16:44 编辑 ]
作者: duanmu2000 时间: 2012-2-29 20:51
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作者: simonliu751 时间: 2012-2-29 20:54 标题: 回复 3# duanmu2000 的帖子
呵呵，說對了，必須禽獸不如
作者: whn007 时间: 2012-2-29 21:55
作者: woaihe 时间: 2012-3-1 00:44
香港真的没落了
这篇文章其实是在给gcd唱赞歌
作者: lantting 时间: 2012-3-1 14:38 标题: 大陆人是算个屁啊！所以叫屁民。
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原帖由 duanmu2000 于 2012-2-29 20:51 发表 
香港都“非人”。。
那大陆13亿牲口岂不是禽兽不如。。
作者: h60155 时间: 2012-3-1 16:24
大陆人猪狗不如。。。。
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