Further inflaming public outrage in this freedom-loving city, Chief Executive Carrie Lam just invoked emergency powers to impose a law banning the use of masks - or any kind of facial covering - at public meetings and processions.
What's actually destroying the great city of Hong Kong is the rule of Carrie Lam herself, or, to put it more accurately - since Lam is ever more clearly a puppet of Beijing - the Chinese Communist Party's brutal methods of governance, which include using law not as an instrument of justice, but as a tool of repression.
Hong Kong's chief executive, Carrie Lam, and her bosses in Beijing have responded with yet more threats, police brutality and blank refusal to honor China's treaty promises for Hong Kong.
What the initial extradition-law threat highlighted for Hong Kong's people was that unless they are able to elect their own leaders, they will be directly at the mercy of a Beijing-appointed chief executive, who will - a la Lam - serve Beijing's imperatives of grinding away Hong Kong's freedoms.
As it is, Hong Kongers did not choose Carrie Lam as a leader, nor do they have any institutional way to get rid of her.
Such powers are enormously dangerous in the hands of a chief executive who clearly jumps to the tune of Beijing, and has shown no interest whatsoever in defending the rights and freedoms promised to Hong Kong.We can all hope that against the odds and despite the monstrous record of Beijing and Lam's administration to date, Hong Kongers will yet manage to save themselves and their freedoms from the grinding machine of China's Communist Party rule.
Given what we have just seen of Lam's plan to try to restore calm by further stripping away what little protection Hong Kongers have left, it is time to brace for the terrible possibility of a bloodbath in Hong Kong - and it is very, very urgent that the leaders of the free world do everything in their power to persuade China's President Xi Jinping, and his marionette, Ms. Lam, that anything of the kind would run deeply counter to China's interests.
https://pjmedia.com/claudiarosett/fueling-hong-kongs-fury/
What's actually destroying the great city of Hong Kong is the rule of Carrie Lam herself, or, to put it more accurately - since Lam is ever more clearly a puppet of Beijing - the Chinese Communist Party's brutal methods of governance, which include using law not as an instrument of justice, but as a tool of repression.
Hong Kong's chief executive, Carrie Lam, and her bosses in Beijing have responded with yet more threats, police brutality and blank refusal to honor China's treaty promises for Hong Kong.
What the initial extradition-law threat highlighted for Hong Kong's people was that unless they are able to elect their own leaders, they will be directly at the mercy of a Beijing-appointed chief executive, who will - a la Lam - serve Beijing's imperatives of grinding away Hong Kong's freedoms.
As it is, Hong Kongers did not choose Carrie Lam as a leader, nor do they have any institutional way to get rid of her.
Such powers are enormously dangerous in the hands of a chief executive who clearly jumps to the tune of Beijing, and has shown no interest whatsoever in defending the rights and freedoms promised to Hong Kong.We can all hope that against the odds and despite the monstrous record of Beijing and Lam's administration to date, Hong Kongers will yet manage to save themselves and their freedoms from the grinding machine of China's Communist Party rule.
Given what we have just seen of Lam's plan to try to restore calm by further stripping away what little protection Hong Kongers have left, it is time to brace for the terrible possibility of a bloodbath in Hong Kong - and it is very, very urgent that the leaders of the free world do everything in their power to persuade China's President Xi Jinping, and his marionette, Ms. Lam, that anything of the kind would run deeply counter to China's interests.
https://pjmedia.com/claudiarosett/fueling-hong-kongs-fury/
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