Anti Mask Law - Authoritarian Reloaded

This morning, in the urgent meeting at ExCo, Hong Kong high officials led by Carrie Lam have passed EMERGENCY ACT and the ANTI-MASK LAW under the Cap 241 Emergency Regulations Ordinance, an almost obsolete emergency regulations ordinance that date back to 1922 during British Colonial days in the early 20th Century.

This hasty move without careful political consideration, shall grant Hong Kong Police Force, a dramatic amplification of executive power against peaceful citizens, protesters and rioters who obscure their faces with masks, paints and other materials, to carry out arrest and detention during  'unlawful assemblies' defined by Hong Kong Government. Since the breaking out of serious clash between protesters and police force on June 12 this year, prolonged civil unrest have given rise to the incessant police violence against protesters, ordinary citizens and members of the press. We have, in the past four months at numerous location of conflicts, witnessed how police force have rapidly transformed themselves into a barbaric military force, a BEATING CANES with the political mandate : to stabilize and maintain authority of the puppet regime under PRC's total and absolute control. Already, two females, a local nurse ( First Aid ) and a foreign press ( Indonesia National, cameraman ) have lost their eye-sight arised from rubber bullet gunshot wounds. Thousand protesters being arrested, many of them allegedly tortured, female detainees raped, sustaining serious injury to their body and mind. Arbitrary police lynching, in the absolute privacy of interrogation rooms without proper surveillance at numerous police stations seems rampant. Furthermore, it is believed that a number of protesters have been 'murdered' during detention and their dead bodies destroyed sponging out material evidence.

The urgent implementation of EMERGENCY ACT and the ANTI-MASK LAW well reflect the will of Beijing Regime, their desperate hope to crackdown prolonged civil disobedience in unprecedented scale and length of time by introducing tougher measures. Beijing, obviously is in the state of shock. In the past four months, HKSAR regime under Carrie Lam's administration not only failed to open up channel for dialogue with the citizens and protesters, but on the contrary they have been putting out fire with gasoline in a desperate attempt to quell civil unrest which is causing billion of dollars of financial loss, and defacing of 'international reputation' of once proud 'top financial metropolis of Asia'. Numerous Medias have commented that Hong Kong Government have opened the Pandora Box, the Beasts and Evils have been let out. With the urgent implementation of Emergency Act prohibiting the use of masks by Hong Kong citizens, it is obvious that this impulsive move to stabilize current social unrest, not only fail to pacify anything but only serve to fuel up already damaging condition making everything even worse in the coming months.

Some says, this is the 'Beginning of the End'. I can only agree partially because in my personal opinion, the ENDING of Hong Kong, started precisely when a clock struck 12:00 am midnight at Admiralty Central on the 1st of July 1997 watching HMS Brittania slowly leaving Victoria Harbour with Last Hong Kong Governor Christopher Patten on board.
There will be no HOPE at the bottom of the Pandora Box as long as Tyranny stay firm carrying out their Evil Schemes oppressing Free People enforcing SLAVERY over Democracy.

With the materialization of authoritative police law, HKSAR have announced official death of ONE COUNTRY TWO SYSTEM, a grand political HOAX of the 20th Century. Thus assimilation of PRC authoritarian dictatorship and HKSAR that boasts 'Two Systems' is almost complete, unified as identical twins. Establishment of Little Stalin State is now becoming tangible.

Let us carry on.

Liau Chung Ren

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Oct-4, 2019

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