Simon Elegant
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That's the reason I picked a policeman.
I think policemen do tough jobs and often do them pretty well.
And it's easy to get them to be vilified.
And what happened in Hong Kong was it became tribal and the police began to hate the protesters and vice versa.
So the one person...
You know, that's a tough one.
I'm not sure there's anybody who would read it, even if I gave it to them as part of the setup that they have to read it to, because I think a lot of the people I might want to give it to would say, would throw it away.
But, you know, maybe the chief executive, the chief executive, the current chief executive of Hong Kong is a former head of the police force.
Maybe it'd be nice to get it in his hands to say that people think about these things and
People, you know, they're not cockroaches as the police are calling them during a protest and that there are many sides to a story and this is the other side.
I'd really hope you're right.
I know that there have been problems with some of the performance, especially, obviously, all the way from Venezuela to Iran, especially the anti-aircraft missiles and stuff like that.
Maybe it will.
I mean, as you know, as Mike Tyson says, everybody's got a plan until he gets punched in the nose.
Well, I've been punched in the face more than once, Michael, both literally and metaphorically.
Well, the thing about the Chinese, I'm sure you do understand, is that they will be learning an enormous, I mean, never underestimate them.
I think it would be a huge mistake.
I used to teach for a while, so all the Catholic colleges in the U.S.,
What Jesuit colleges specifically, like Loyola and whatever, Georgetown, that kind of thing.
They had a center in China, and I taught history there for a while, and it was fantastic.