Welcome to the first guest post by The Libertines Pub at the Dark Side. We were so flattered when these people found us and told us that they wanted us here. I’ve been dreaming about this kind of love for years, finally, we’re getting near to have our share!

Love is all around in Hong Kong. It’s not difficult to tell by the recent happenings that our lawmakers just love to screw Hong Kong people so much. We have DAB, the pro-establishment party that regularly bribes treats our elders and housewives to free snake banquets and cheap tours to the mainland to solicit for their support. Their Starry Lee, the future MILF Sarah Palin of Hong Kong, loves our citizens so much that she took three $%^&# months to find out that we’re poisoning ourselves by putting our fries directly on the fast food tray paper. At the pan-democrat side, we heard about the romantic love story between the Honourable Kam Nai-wai and his former assistant. The pro-democracy camp has always demanded open investigation when shit hit the fan, but this time they decided to hold an internal investigation instead. I tried not to think that the democrats are hypocritical, but that this romantic story just involved something like this, which is too hot for a public hearing.

Not only do the Legco members love us, we love them and their myths ideals back like fanatics. I trust most of us love democracy. But in Hong Kong, if you love democracy, it necessarily means loving the pro-democracy camp. It also means hating their rivals’ guts. If you don’t love the “democracy” the pan-democrats endorse, sorry, there’s no other choice. If you ever say “hi” to or simply share a table with anyone from the DAB, you’re sold-out.

And speaking of sell-outs, Danny Summer, the so called Hong Kong father of rock, was found to be one last week by the pan-democrat supporters. A few louts stormed his stage when he played for DAB’s national day celebration concert. They took his mic and ranted about their hatred for the Beijing government. Now initially I found the incident kind of cool, as stuff like this represents the true rock n’ roll spirit from back in the days. How I wish Danny Summer just smashed his guitar against the heads of those kids to give the concert a real red color. But then the incident kickstarted a struggle session against Summer in the local blogsphere…

Our democracy fanatics, like the local internet guru Charles Mok, condemned Danny Summer and supported the storming of his stage by blogging about it (Mok’s entry was basically about how rock music is always about politics. To support his statements, he quoted Rolling Stone Magazine’s 25 Best Protest Songs. Now of course any ten-year-old knows that RS Magazine must have hundreds of those Best XX Songs lists all these years). The main point was that rockers have the responsibility to rebel and hate the establishment. Any rocker who doesn’t greet the DAB and government with “fuck off” every time they meet is simply a traitor.

Being a rocker myself, I don’t know since when I was damned with such responsibility. I guess I’m just old fashioned by clinging on to the “Sex, Drugs & Rock N’ Roll” motto. I wonder what Willy would say about all these shits. The only thing I am sure of here however, is that the “democracy” some of these pan-democrats are pursuing, sounds rather totalitarian. So next time when they ask you to take to the streets with them, make sure you’re comfortable with marching among a few dogmatic nutcases.

Some of these pan-democrat supporters followed us on Twitter and Facebook, because they imagined that the Pub must be on their side as we have ranted against the government before. Unsurprisingly, we found out that those who tweeted about basically every pee they took, never even mentioned the Kam Nai-wai incident. It’s not hypocrisy working there, most certainly not. They simply care about our feelings so much that they don’t want to remind us of how hot Kam’s former assistant is.

This is Henry’s first guest post for The Dark Side. He is one of the founders of the Libertines Pub and also writes for Global Voices Online.