Visitor submit by Joe Hoft, republished with permission
Democrats need to mimic Communist China. They need to select the Republican candidates who can run for US President.
The takeover of Hong Kong started when Nice Britain handed over Hong Kong to China in 1997. On the time, China agreed to attend 50 years earlier than taking on the tiny nation. However China didn’t wait.
One of many first issues China did was to take over the tiny nation’s election of its CEO – its head of state, with powers just like the President in the USA. China started vetting the candidates for CEO and solely China-approved candidates may run within the election.
And the scenario in Hong Kong has solely gotten worse. CBC News reported:
When China introduced a brand new nationwide safety regulation in 2020 to deal with what it noticed as troublesome Hong Kong subversives, then-secretary of state Mike Pompeo stated the U.S. going ahead would deal with Hong Kong as “one country, one system,” and punish these repressing freedom within the metropolis.
Beijing has had its personal concepts ever since, and has supplied up just one candidate to be Hong Kong’s subsequent chief government, efficient July 1.
Sole candidate John Lee was instrumental within the harsh responses to widespread protests in Hong Kong going again eight years. A former police officer, Lee was beneath secretary for safety in Hong Kong from 2012 to 2017, when he was elevated to secretary for the subsequent 4 years.
The election committee comprised of a cross-section of Chinese language officers has already endorsed Lee for chief government. He wants solely a easy majority to win. Clearly, Beijing needs the Asian monetary centre ever extra beneath its sway.
The method for choosing candidates to vie for the Hong Kong management has all the time been opaque and designed to make sure Hong Kong residents solely chosen from candidates permitted by Beijing. However Benedict Rogers, the British co-founder and CEO of the non-governmental group Hong Kong Watch, stated this yr’s course of represented a brand new low.
“Every [chief executive] election since 1997 has been a stitch-up. But at least in the past they’ve pretended to have a contest,” Rogers tweeted this week. “Yet this one is a farce.”
On Tuesday, Democrats in Colorado determined that they needed to decide on the candidates for the Presidential election from the Republican Get together.
The Colorado Supreme Courtroom validated the unconstitutional determination from a decrease court docket within the state that dominated that President Trump couldn’t run for the workplace of the President of the USA and wouldn’t be allowed on the 2024 poll.
Certainly one of Colorado’s Supreme Courtroom Justice’s didn’t agree with the bulk within the court docket. Colorado Supreme Courtroom Justice Carlos Samour writes in his dissent:
“Procedural due process is one of the aspects of America’s democracy that sets this country apart. The decision to bar former President Donald J. Trump (“President Trump”)—by all accounts the present main Republican presidential candidate (and reportedly the present main total presidential candidate)—from Colorado’s presidential main poll flies within the face of the due course of doctrine.”
“I have been involved in the justice system for thirty-three years now, and what took place here doesn’t resemble anything I’ve seen in a courtroom.”
It’s because what the court docket dominated in Colorado solely occurs in Communist China.
