Disneyland Hong Kong

$3 Billion Dollars. And one of the most prolific entities of American life. Now up and running in Hong Kong.

Hong Kong used to be free. Then in 1998 it was turned over to the Chinese (something only a free society like Britain or the United States would even consider doing, based on a nearly hundred year-old contract...amazing--and it was done peacefully no less...unheard of, even it was unfortunate). People were convinced that the Communists would destroy the city. But the Communists hurried to ensure everyone that they appreciated the wealth the city represented--and everyone knew that Hong Kong was worth what it was because it enjoyed freedom the rest of China hasn't known in decades. So they let it be, generally, and Hong Kong hasn't drastically changed--so far as I am aware. It belongs to China, but it still practices free market values, and is hardly a great bastion of communist ideals. And now Disneyland has come.

How have the communists accepted this? Why would they allow this? Take our money, that's one thing...but take our amusement parks? An amusement park whose theme speaks of fairy-tales which are completely incompatible with the ideals of communism?

Some people are complaining about the costs--that the money should have been given to New Orleans instead of funding a new amusement park. I think that's ridiculous. Communism is truly dead--and even the last greatest of its proponents now has one of its prized cities not merely wealthy with capitalist dollars, but amusing itself in America's Happiest Place on Earth. China needs many things--with so much of the worlds population within its borders we would be remiss to forget that...I think this is something that will mean good things to come for the people who have lived and suffered under that evil idea called communism. Its a good day when your enemies start allowing your amusement parks to be constructed in their cities! Especially Disneyland...when you grow up with the Sleeping Beauty Castle at the end of Mainstreet USA, how can you possibly believe in the madness of Communism? Or Fascism? Militant Islam?

Today is a victory.

Hurrah for Walt...defeating the Communists decades after his life ended!