Recently, some of the columns and reviews in the SCMP have indicated that the speech of Mr. Tsang last week "is" fallible or even despicable because his speech “is” an order to the local judiciary system. As anyone who barely knows contemporary hermeneutics has to conclude that, the same piece of text can be interpret very differently even by identical triplets; not to mention when it was “decoded” by the Pan Democratic Parties that have never asserted anything the government has been doing. It is not very surprising that they have to make a statement today, claiming Mr. Tsang has, once again, made a personal, public, political, administrative and …. mistake.
Frankly, I just care very little about the debate between whether the stability of the judiciary system and the development of Hong Kong should be preserved and so on, what I would like to question is, “Does Mr. Tsang enjoy freedom of speeches like everyone does?” Defining the term with common sense, freedom of speech is a self-evidence property that everybody was born with the right to speak freely. So here, if anybody say you “cannot” say something, it simply means that you do not have the freedom to say certain things at certain place and certain time, just for instance people have suggested that because of Ai WeiWei's political speech, he was caught by mainland government and it is a typical case showing that Ai WeiWei has been deprived of making speeches freely.
According to the Pan Democratic Parties, they have protested against Tsang’s comment today, claiming his statement was meant to pressure the court to favor the government; consequently, the speech should not have been made. Firstly, base on the news, Tsang just claimed that there had been a trend in Hong Kong believing that some politicians had been misusing and hijacking the judiciary system for their political means. If we read his comment once again, I cannot see a problem in concluding that Tsang has just stated a fact. For sure, one can say his speech implied a message to the court; nevertheless, since we love to play with the judiciary concepts, isn’t Tsang “Innocent before proven guilty”? Thus, it is the burden of Pan Democratic Party to prove that other than stating a fact, Tsang was in fact guilty of planning to devastate and manipulate the judiciary system in Hong Kong. I personally am not sure whether anybody from the parties is going to step out to prove the sinfulness of Tsang, it is because, to the them, they have already passed filming the court scene, it is already time to sentence him to death.
Secondly, as I have been suggesting since the very beginning, Tsang, like every of us should be benefit from having the freedom to speak; however, base on the press conference from the parties, I believe Tsang is most likely an alien from Area 51. I remember I had read a book when I was a secondary school student, named Animal Farm, it says something about class struggle resulting that some are enjoying more from the rest; nowadays, it seems like our system is indicating some are enjoying less from the rest.
I sympathy Tsang and I could not help but wonder, “On what grounds did Tsang is not allowed to make such a speech?” In this case, Tsang has just stated a fact and it has been the Pan Democratic Parties, who interpret Tsang’s speech as a sign in controlling the court, which they lack arguments for validations. Secondly, even if Tsang did mean to say something about the court's ruling, he has the right to do that, it might not be appropriate but still it is the right God has given him. Maybe one might want to say, if Tsang really meant to set directions for the court, he has already broken the basic law. In that case, besides saying Tsang is wicked, it also suggests that we cannot take the concept of freedom of speech as granted, when we use the term we have to stress the boundaries of it rather than using them universally and univocally, like most the parties have been using. So once again, it is a double standard, some are enjoying less because those are working for the HKSAR government.
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