The next few days – weeks, indeed – are a rush, so this CIA-funded painfully unconvincing ‘rich expat banker’ act will be even more erratic than usual for a while.
Just time to note a couple of things.
First, all right-thinking people will be heartened to see yet another reluctant, hand-wringing half-admission in the press that the forthcoming Hong Kong Chief Executive ‘election’ is a rigged, fraudulent, ritualized joke-charade…
As substance-abuse counsellors say, abandoning the pretense and admitting the reality is the first step to facing and overcoming your problem.
Second, it’s only mid-February, and we are already making plans for the July 1 20th anniversary of Hong Kong’s handover from the UK to China. The celebrations of the reunion with the motherland promise to be suitably rousing, joyous and merry…
As a patently CIA/NSC/MI4/MI5/MI6/MI8 3/4’s funded ‘fat-cat-banker’ with nothing better to do obviously than quaff the Bolly off the backs of your prostrate serfs you can be forgiven for being erratic. However, I do look forward to my daily dose of chuckles from the Hemlock… don’t tarry too long…
Rubber bullets and supplies happily procured from “Henan PSB #53 Weapons and Dry Goods Supply Issuance and Luxury Hotel Company Group, Limited”
A company gwailo having to actually work (as opposed to the expert and artful simulation of gainful productivity)… absolutely shocking.
Come back soon Hemmers …
This reads like a cover story to mask the fact that your CIA cover has been blown and you’re in damage control mode.
Maybe Hemlock has ‘moved’ to Shenzhen ‘at his own free will’ and he is now ‘assisting’ the authorities in China as a ‘person of interest’, just like other subversive writers we have know about. We may never hear from him again.
When Inspector Frank Knight was seized at the border in 1967, he was soon returned with complaints he was eating the other side out of house and home. I trust things have improved ‘up north’ and Hemlock’s dietary needs can be met.
Joe Blow : I do so hope that the ever omniscient Hong Kong Authorities have duly recorded the ‘move’ to SZ as of course they do in each and every case without,er, fail.
Hemlock – if you are paraded on the News of your own free will – go for the one handed headstand backwards on the unicycle so that that we know all is well. Otherwise the parasols are coming out big time…
Many years from now people will sit in bars, teary-eyed and all, and talk about the old days: “Remember that Hemlock ? Disappeared without a trace. He did a Glenn Miller”.