they didn't expect the Government to be breaching the law for
Mr. Cheong then said: "Well, the people
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will send her army to Hong Kong if we do not censor our political
films? If so, what is there to prevent this censorship or pre-
publication censorship from being extended to the other forms of
the mass media?
The sole concept of one-country-two-systems
high-degree-of-economy will come to nought if the hon.
Mr. Cheong is right. His statement, with respect, will damage the credibility of the PRC in the hearts of the people of Hong Kong.
My hons -- friend, Mrs. Rita Fan, asked
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why I only raise the matter now. The answer is simple: I only got Mr. Barend's opinion recently. She asked the Government for an
assurance that pre-publication censorship will not be extended to the theatre, television and the printed media. The Chief Secretary
did not give us that assurance. He merely said: "Ah, but surely if
the future Government were to introduce or were to seek to introduce
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that this motion is made at the wrong time and so on. The
difficulty as I see it is that if the motion is not carried, we
will never know whether there is such a need because quite wrongly for over 30 years the censorship or political censorship of films 27 has been enforced and, really, when the Administration were to tell
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wonder how many of us would say "no" to that?
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The hon. Dr. Tse quoted Lenin on the influence With respect, that must be a rather old-fashioned
quote because Lenin was pre-television era. If Lenin were to be alive today, he would say: "Ban television."
May I now come to the submission or the
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Chief Censor in effect suggesting that I was wrong in saying that
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