How did he get it so wrong?

Peter Wu

5 March 2012

I am referring to none other than our leader Bowtie Tsang who is in the poo about his allegedly accepting ‘advantages’ from you know who.

For a life-long civil servant brought up in the era of the ICAC, he really should have known better.

Does he not realize that there are no free lunches in this world? People give you things for a reason. Why do they not offer you and I the use of their private jets and luxury launches or foods and entertainments? What else did they give him that has yet come to light?

Is this yet another indicator of the convergence of the ‘norms’ and ‘business practices’ between HK and China?

Is it his last fling to take full advantage of his position to avail himself to some temptations before he sails into the sunset?

The ICAC has now launched an investigation. But what choice does it have? More fittingly, what will it achieve?

Anyone can make a complaint and the ICAC is compelled by law to look into the allegations. However, whether anything will come out of it remains to be seen. If he refuses to talk, if there are no witnesses, if nobody owns up to it, or if no evidence is found, that’s the end of the matter as far as the ICAC is concerned. Do you think people will talk, or volunteer information? I very much doubt it. The risk of having your head involuntarily separated from the body is just too real.

So HK has two Chief Executives after its reversion to China. As we can all see, both are Wallies. Not only that, they are highly-paid English-speaking shoe-shine boys in a suit and a bow tie. I thought that only running dogs existed during the colonial ear. Little did I know that they are now replaced by puppets.