HK Chief Executive Phone-in (Cultural Revolution=extreme democracy?)

The Chief Executive of Hong Kong’s Donald Tsang controversial RTHK Phone-In show (real-audio file) that compares “democracy to the extreme” is like the “Cultural Revolution” (at the 31:40 mark).

The following is an Apple Daily created transcript (sub req & article in Chinese) with my own corrections of the transcript, [emphasis mine and my corrections quoted in "[", "]“]

Host :
I was struck by one phrase at the end of the policy address, towards the end of the conclusion, you say, we promote democratic development without compromising social stability or government efficiency, that kind of implies that democratic development does compromise social stability or government efficiency?
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Donald Tsang :
It can, it can, if we go to the extreme, people go to the extreme, and you have a cultural revolution, for instance, in China. When people take everything into their hands, then you cannot govern the place. [And the similar thing is for instance ]
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Host :
But Cultural Revolution wasn’t really an extreme example of democracy.
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Donald Tsang :
What is it? People taking power into their own hands! Now, this is what it means by democracy, if you take it to the full swing. [And in] other democracies, even if you have an elected person, then you overturn the policy in California, for instance, you have initiative number, number, number what, then you overturn policy taken by the government, that is not necessarily conducive to efficient government.

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Here are HK Standard and AP reports about the controversial.

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Oct 14 Update: Hong Kong leader apologizes over ‘inappropriate’ Cultural Revolution remark even many think the damage has been done in the eyes of HK people and the Beijing Central government.