Your biggest foreign political heroes?

[Zell in Hell]

Mine is Leung Kwok-hung, a leftist activist who was just elected (unlike those right-wing anti-democracy shit stains appointed by the pro-Beijing business community that (s)elect the other half of the legislature) to Hong Kong's Legislative Council.

Leung is known for his long hair, his Che Guevara T-Shirt, his obessesion with getting to the bottom of the Tiananmen Square massacre, and the demonstrations and events he leads against Tung Chee-hwa and other Beijing-appointed fascists.

Leung calls for an entire legislature and a chief executive chosen by universal suffrage, more protection for the rights of workers, the transformation of Hong Kong into a Scandinavian-style welfare state, an expansion of press freedom, and laws to protect disadvantaged groups from discrimination and hate crimes.

By far the most intelligent and progressive-thinking Chinese politician since Sun Yat-sen. (Emily Lau, Martin Lee, Lee Teng-hui (if you consider him Chinese), and Chen Shui-bian (idem) come close.)

[NinetySix]

1. THIS guy.

I just hope it doesn't have to come to this in the States.

[Smarmie Doofus]

3. If he did this on the West Bank...

he'd be flatter than a pancake, dead as a doornail and know one would remember his name or the event.

If they were permitted to know about it in the first place.

Ahhh... freedom of the press.

Paul

[HEyHEY]

4. Wasn't that guy Killed?

[ret5hd]

2. hugo chavez

[Zell in Hell]

5. Good choice

:-)

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

6. Ang San Suu Kyi, Nelson Mandela, Hugo Chavez, Gerhard Shroeder

Lula da Silva, Jose Luis Zapotero, Helen Clark..and others.

All have had the courage to defy BushCorps on Iraq and other issues.

[LeftishBrit]

7. Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu

[Zell in Hell]

8. Ang is anti-Bush?

I didn't know that.

Why are the liberty-minded opponents of Asian totalitarian governments always left-leaning?

Ang, Chen, Lee (Martin and Teng-hui), Leung, Lau, etc...