TNAG-1726-FCO40-2439-Minutes-and-Hansards-of-the-Legislative-Council-of-Hong-Kong-1988 — Page 122

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in opinion. concerning principles in the past. I cherish warmth, but I certainly will not embrace a carrier of disease. Some members have repeatedly called for others to refrain from creating confrontation; people who make such calls often display a high degree of confrontation in their own speeches, or even give rise

Have they

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to new confrontation. Has he never thought of this

henever thought of this fact that in

opposing sides

the

it

takes two opposites for confrontation to exist and that he comprises

one side of these two opposite6 ?<

The present controversy does not adversely affect investment and ner asset administration in the past two years, has Hong Kong not continued to prosper and has it not been stable? The hordes of

The people are emigrating or are angred to emigrate. What are

that

frightened by they afraid of? Are they afraid

have be

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biny fearful of the present controversy or are they really in fear of something else? Ι believe that if those who are courageous enough to speak up new all of a sudden fall silent, or start embracing

start embracing those who believe

in opposite principles, or simply give up and flee and emigrate, will that not affect the confidence of Hong Kong people even more greater I am not over-estimating myself when I say that many people pin their hopes on those who are undaunted by repeated

and setbacks, who work with perseverance, mindless of their own safety. We cannot let their hopes of the people of Hong Kong turn into despair.

Yesterday, a member said that direct elections in 1991, though not exactly a goal which those who fight for direct elections in

1988 are fighting for, at least is a fruit of their labours. But

had it not been for these members who have striven in the past few years had it not been for confrontation, those who support the introdan f direct elections in 1991 now will have nothing to be in favour of. So when an attack is levied on these people, when names are named, please hold your fire. some say that we will have direct elections

£faranse does it me what difference

Three years makes up one third of the

in 1991: after all,

does three years make?

transition; it is not unimportant in the context of gradual and