I have to disagree with the defence by your correspondent (letter, South China Morning Post, July 14) of the Chief Executive's unwise and insensitive decision to confer a Grand Bauhinia Medal to a prominent leader of the notorious riots in 1967, which disrupted law and order for a long period of time, arrested our economic growth, tarnished our city's image, and even led to many deaths and injuries.

I am afraid that employees may now take the cue and stage industrial action whenever they feel discontent with their employers. Worse, people who bear a grudge, whether legitimate or not, against the Government may feel inspired to resort to extreme, illegal and even violent means to achieve their aims, even if their action causes serious damage to our society and jeopardises lives and property.

From a more positive perspective, however, those who clamour for a re-evaluation of the 1989 pro-democracy movement in China, which has been branded as a counter-revolutionary riot by Beijing, can now stick to their demands.