Folks in Hong Kong got some good news and some bad. First, mainland China has agreed to scrap the extradition bill that started the protests. It will not be scooping up Hong Kong deplorable and ferreting them away in some prison while they await “justice.”
Hong Kong’s Beijing-appointed puppet leader, Carrie Lam, has withdrawn the extradition bill that triggered the protests, the one that permitted Beijing to freely snatch back anyone who displeases Red China to face what passes for “justice” in the communist dictatorship.
The bad news?
The police have been intimidating and even attacking their media.
“…riot officers decided to pepper spray multiple reporters and photographers who gathered to cover a smaller demonstration outside the Mong Kok police station. No warning dispersal warning was issued and one reporter ended up in the hospital with a hand injury.”
Using the police to keep the media quiet is part of the Democrat Socialist toolbox. Socialist and Communist nations never have a free press. They have strict control over their internet content. They never promote anything that makes speech freer. Always less.
And Politicians, bureaucrats, and party leaders never expect to be subject to press coverage of their remarks or actions unless they control the message.
Meanwhile, in America
Democrats have not been deploying the police to silence dissenters; they have Antifa. In Portland, we’ve seen peace officers doing little to prevent Antifa violence until the media made a stink about it because a journalist got beat up.
It’s not just Portland.
Closer to home, we have nothing like that to compare but the Left has used threats to silence local activists with whom they disagree. Josh Moore’s website was down for about two days because local Democrats went after his hosting company.
We’ve had threats to our lifestyles, including persons, family, and occupations. From those associated with these politicians. The idea of police involvement has been raised as a specter to silence us as well. We got the message, and we have a policy for this.
Double down.
There is no precedent for silencing media reports about what politicians say and do except for this. We’ll do more of it and talk about your attempts to silence anyone.
Pro Tip!
If you’d like to live in a nation whose politics and culture openly suppress the press and free speech, move to Mainland China. You’ll be in good company until you open your mouth to complain about how they run things. (As if you could stop yourselves). At which point, you will be scooped up and ferreted away in some prison while you await socialist “justice.”
The irony here is that this what they have planned for America, but it never occurred to them that they might not be at the top of that food chain even with their party is in charge.
That is why we insist that they’re not as bright as they think. Useful Idiots, is, I believe, the property description.
Image: Reuters
