It is very wrong for any one to assume that I would blindly attend anything that SDP organized. Pure socializing dinner party is not one of the things meaningful enough for me to show support, such as Hawaii this thing. I did not attend at least half of SDP's activities in the last few years.
Just that your spies are too poorly informing you. :-)
I have my own principles to support activists and political parties. I go forward to support those moments when people are confronting famiLEE LEEgime, or when famiLEE LEEgime is oppressing some people. And when some support will enhance courages of fighters. Not necessarily that I share the same set of principles or stands or values with the people that I go forward to support.
I rendered my support to SDP actively from before GE2006, when CSJ began civil disobedience, based on above principles. I recognized that they were beginning to confront famiLEE LEEgime in a new and more effective way, which at that time few were courageous enough to step forward, so I played my part. I was taking part in every of SDP activities then.
Now it is already a very different stage, that famiLEE LEEgime is so obviously unable to stop SDP's movement, which have picked up in size and frequency and scale and strength is developed & established. I am happy to see that. I have my own route to take to be more aggressive. :-) There are enough activists there for SDP already, it is no longer a place that I should restrain myself in order to fit in. If I stayed on it would be a burden for SDP & myself mutually.
In the past period more than a year, I have not join SDP's seminars & workshops which are aimed to develop activism. I have not join their social / fun events. Because there is not much of meaning for me. Only events that famiLEE LEEgime mata are expected to stop or arrest or harass, I will go and film, but I will not take part, I will not wear their T-shirts either. Essentially if it is not anything aggressive or challenging enough I don't think it is important or meaningful enough to take part. E.g. in door seminar for human rights or democracy which I used to take part, I will not go.
If it is screening ilLEEgal movie I know famiLEE LEEgime will try to stop them, send mata, I will go and film. If it is protest, march etc I will go and film. But Hawaii dinner?
What for I go?
:-)
Understand?