July 1 2024 This July, the 27th Anniversary of the Abandonment of Hong Kong to China and of Democracy to Tyranny
We mourn and organize resistance for the liberation of Hong Kong as a sovereign and independent nation from the imperial conquest and dominion of the loathsome Chinese Communist Party, throughout this July the twenty seventh anniversary of the abandonment of Hong Kong by Britain to a carceral state of force and control which was never a legitimate successor to the China with whom the original lease of 1898 was made, and the iconic fall of democracy to tyranny and state terror which it signifies.
On the first of July last year the despicable tyrant and criminal of violations of human rights Xi Jinping walked the streets of Hong Kong, an ambush predator wearing the face of a man which cannot conceal his intent to conquer and enslave the world, beginning with Hong Kong as a launching pad for the conquest of the Pacific Rim.
Why had he come to hold a triumphal march in imitation of Hitler in his 1940 visit to Paris; to terrify the people into submission, to claim it personally as a conqueror and imperial occupied territory, to reinforce an illusory legitimacy when all China has is fear and force? All of these things, and one thing more; this is also a marketing stunt aimed at the one partner in tyranny which can bring his regime down and liberate the peoples of both Hong Kong and China, the international business community. Send us your manufacturing jobs, he offers; we have slaves.
If we do not free Hong Kong from his talons, we will be fighting for our survival in the streets of San Francisco, San Diego, and Seattle, in Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Jakarta, Manila, Kolkata, Bangkok, in Sydney and Melbourne, Tokyo and Yokohama, any city which is home to a community of Overseas Chinese, which the government of the Chinese Communist Party considers their own citizens, whether or not they consent to be governed by Beijing. The CCP is uninterested in consent; for a vision of the world they would bequeath to humankind, we need only look at the vast prison and slave labor camp of Xinjiang.
Let us stand in solidarity with the people of Hong Kong and of China in the cause of Liberty and a free society of equals.
When will the free nations of the world recognize the independence and sovereignty of Hong Kong and take action shoulder to shoulder with its people to throw off the tyranny of the Chinese Communist Party?
The Black Flag flies from the barricades in Hong Kong, and its primary meaning has not changed since its use by the First International and the veterans of the Paris Commune; freedom versus tyranny, the abolition of state terror, surveillance, and control, resistance to nationalisms of blood, faith, and soil, and abandonment of the social use of force.
With this bold signal the people declare: we shall be ruled by ourselves and no other.
Shall we be collaborators and profiteers of slave labor, or shall we stand in solidarity to cast down from their thrones all those who would enslave us?
In the lyrics of the Chinese national anthem, “Arise, ye who refuse to be slaves.”
As I wrote in my post of February 15 2022, Monsters, Freaks, Transgression of the Forbidden, the Sacred Wildness of Nature and the Wildness of Ourselves: On Chaos as Love and Desire; Watching the sunrise overlooking Hong Kong from Lion Rock, seized many times in recent years by democracy protesters and revolutionaries in the struggle for liberation and independence from China, in the wake of the last celebrations of Chinese New Year and several nearly sleepless nights of making mischief for tyrants under cover of the festival, my thoughts turn to the nature of freedom and the freedom of nature, of ourselves as wild and glorious things, of love and desire as anarchic forces of liberation, of transgression of the boundaries of the Forbidden and the violation of norms as seizures of power from the tyranny of other people’s ideas of virtue and the refusal to submit to authority.
Freedom, and all that comes with it; above all freedom as the wildness of nature and the wildness of ourselves, as defiance of authorized identities and fascisms of blood, faith, and soil, of love and desire as liberating forces of Chaos, and all of this as sacred acts of reimagination and transformation of ourselves and the possibilities of human being, meaning, and value.
And of our myriad possible futures, sorting themselves out in our daily lives like a hurricane governed by the flight of a hummingbird; tyranny or liberty, extinction or survival.
Order and its forms as authority, power, capital, and hegemonic elites of patriarchy and racism, class and caste, which arise from the Wagnerian Ring of fear, power, and force, which appropriates and subjugates us through falsification, commodification, and dehumanization and weaponizes hierarchies of otherness and belonging and fascisms of blood, faith, and soil, and creates states as embodied violence, tyrannies of force and control, carceral states of police and military terror, and dominions of imperial conquest and colonial assimilation and exploitation; all of these systems and structures are born in fear, overwhelming and generalized fear weaponized in service to power and submission to authority, have a key weakness without which they cannot arise and perpetuate unequal power, for this requires the renunciation of love.
Chaos has as its champion the totalizing and uncontrollable divine madness of love, which leaps across all boundaries to unite us in solidarity of action against those who would enslave us.
Love exalts us beyond the limits of ourselves and the flags of our skin, disrupts authorized identities and narratives as imposed conditions of struggle, seizes power as ownership of ourselves, and reveals the embodied truth of others.
Once we have a definition of democracy as a free society of equals and a praxis of love, there are some principles which can be derived as an art of revolution and seizures of power.
Order appropriates; Chaos autonomizes.
Order is unequal power and systemic violence; Chaos is liberty, equality, interdependence, and harmony.
Order subjugates through division and hierarchy; Chaos liberates through equality and solidarity.
Authority falsifies; speaking truth to power or parrhesia as Foucault called truth telling and performing the witness of history confers authenticity to us in the sacred calling to pursue the truth, and delegitimize tyrants.
Always pay attention to the man behind the curtain. As Dorothy says to Oz, he’s just an old humbug.
The four primary Duties of a Citizen are Question Authority, Expose Authority, Mock Authority, and Challenge Authority.
There is no just Authority.
Law serves power and authority; transgression and refusal to submit confer freedom and self-ownership as primary acts of becoming human and Unconquered.
Always go through the Forbidden Door. As Max Stirner wrote; “Freedom cannot be granted; it must be seized.”
Such is my art of revolution and democracy as love; there remains poetic vision and the reimagination and transformation of ourselves and our limitless possibilities of becoming human, and love and desire as unconquerable informing, motivating, and shaping forces and innate human realms of being and powers which cannot be taken from us as truths immanent in nature and written in our flesh, anarchic and ungovernable as the tides, and it is love and desire as forms of wildness and embodied truth which offer us a definition of freedom as the wildness of nature and the wildness of ourselves.
As I wrote in my post of February 12 2022, Genocide Games: the Case of Hong Kong; I do not like thee, Xi Jinping; and unlike Dr Fell in the beloved poem of 1680 by Tom Brown, I both know and can tell why as a truthteller and witness of history; state terror and tyranny, carceral states of force and thought control, disappearance and torture by police, universal surveillance, and the falsification of propaganda and alternate histories, imperial conquest and colonial exploitation, slave labor and genocidal ethnic cleansing, and fascisms of blood, ideology as a faith, and soil; of all this I accuse Xi Jinping and the Chinese Communist Party.
These things I am able to say because of the freedom of access to information which I enjoy as an American citizen, because the transparency of the state in America and the legal protection and heroic stature in our society of whistleblowers and truthtellers is a firewall against secret power, and because the sacred calling to pursue the truth as both a right of citizens and a universal human right are among those parallel and interdependent sets of rights of which the common defense is the primary purpose of the state.
So are legitimacy, trust, and representation conferred to any state which is a guarantor of the rights of its citizens; the corollary of this is that any state whose primary purpose is not to guarantee the rights of individuals has no such legitimacy.
We must be a democracy and a free society of equals, or the slaves of tyrants.
And this we must resist.
Why we fight: the stakes of the Hong Kong liberation struggle can be seen in the corpses of political prisoners which toured the world as the CCP’s threat of terror and atrocities to silence global dissent.
They are coming for us and for all democracy protestors with teams of assassins throughout the world, and we must come for them first and bring regime change to the Chinese Communist Party.
https://www.thoughtco.com/china-lease-hong-kong-to-britain-195153
https://www.state.gov/hong-kong-25-years-after-handover/
https://www.cnn.com/asia/live-news/hong-kong-china-anniversary-07-01-22-intl-hnk/index.html
China’s Claim to the South China Sea, enforced by an archipelago of artificial island fortresses as the launchpad for the conquest of the Pacific Rim
2024 年 7 月 1 日 香港回歸中國、民主淪為暴政 27 週年
今年七月是英國將香港拋棄為監獄狀態二十六週年,我們哀悼並組織抵抗活動,爭取將香港作為一個主權和獨立國家從可惡的中國共產黨的帝國征服和統治下解放出來。 武力和控制從來都不是1898年最初簽訂租約的中國的合法繼承者,而且它所象徵的民主制度標誌性地淪為暴政和國家恐怖。
去年7月1日,卑鄙的暴君、侵犯人權的罪犯習近平走在香港街頭,他是一個伏擊的掠奪者,臉上掩飾不住他征服和奴役世界的意圖,首先是香港 金剛作為征服環太平洋的跳板。
1940年他訪問巴黎時為何要效仿希特勒來舉行凱旋遊行? 恐嚇人民屈服,親自宣稱自己是征服者和帝國占領的領土,在中國祇有恐懼和武力的情況下強化虛幻的合法性? 所有這些事情,還有一件事; 這也是一種營銷噱頭,針對的是暴政中的一個夥伴,可以推翻他的政權並解放香港和中國人民以及國際商界。 他提出,請將您的製造業工作崗位發送給我們; 我們有奴隸。
如果我們不把香港從他的魔爪下解放出來,我們將在舊金山、聖地亞哥、西雅圖、新加坡、吉隆坡、雅加達、馬尼拉、加爾各答、曼谷、悉尼和墨爾本的街頭為生存而戰, 東京和橫濱,任何一個擁有海外華人社區的城市,中國共產黨政府都將其視為自己的公民,無論他們是否同意接受北京的統治。 中共對同意不感興趣; 我們只需看看新疆巨大的監獄和勞改營,就能看到他們留給人類的世界願景。
讓我們與香港和中國人民團結一致,爭取自由和平等的自由社會。
世界自由國家何時才能承認香港的獨立和主權,並與香港人民並肩行動,推翻中共的暴政?
黑旗從香港的路障中飄揚,自第一國際和巴黎公社老兵使用以來,它的主要含義一直沒有改變; 自由對抗暴政,廢除國家恐怖、監視和控制,抵制血腥、信仰和土地的民族主義,以及放棄社會使用武力。
人們用這個大膽的信號宣告:我們將不受任何人統治。
我們應該成為奴隸勞動的合作者和奸商,還是應該團結一致,將所有那些奴役我們的人從他們的寶座上推翻?
中國國歌的歌詞是:“不願為奴的人起來吧。”
正如我在 2022 年 2 月 15 日的文章《怪物、怪胎、違禁、自然的神聖野性和我們自己的野性:論作為愛與慾望的混沌》中所寫的那樣; 近年來,在中國新年的最後一次慶祝活動和幾個近乎不眠之夜的惡作劇之後,民主抗議者和革命者在爭取從中國解放和獨立的鬥爭中多次佔領獅子山,俯瞰香港的日出 對於在節日掩護下的暴君,我的思想轉向自由的本質和自然的自由,我們自己是狂野而光榮的事物,愛和慾望是無政府主義的解放力量,是對禁忌和世界界限的侵犯。 違反規範是從他人的美德觀念的暴政和拒絕服從權威中奪取權力。
自由,以及隨之而來的一切; 首先,自由是自然的野性和我們自己的野性,是對血統、信仰和土壤的授權身份和法西斯主義的蔑視,是愛和慾望的解放混沌力量,而所有這一切都是重新想像和轉變的神聖行為 我們自己以及人類的可能性、意義和價值。
以及我們無數可能的未來,它們在我們的日常生活中自行整理,就像蜂鳥飛行控制的颶風一樣; 暴政或自由,滅絕或生存。
秩序及其形式,如父權制和種族主義、階級和種姓的權威、權力、資本和霸權精英,它們產生於瓦格納式的恐懼、權力和武力之環,它通過偽造、商品化和非人化和非人化來侵占和征服我們。 將差異性和歸屬感的等級制度以及血統、信仰和土壤的法西斯主義武器化,並創建國家作為嵌入
令人厭惡的暴力、武力和控制的暴政、警察和軍事恐怖的監禁國家、帝國征服和殖民同化和剝削的統治; 所有這些系統和結構都誕生於恐懼之中,壓倒性和普遍性的恐懼被武器化,以服務於權力和服從權威,它們都有一個關鍵的弱點,沒有這個弱點,它們就無法產生並維持不平等的權力,因為這需要放棄愛。
混沌以愛的全面且無法控制的神聖瘋狂作為它的捍衛者,它跨越了所有界限,將我們團結起來,採取團結一致的行動,反對那些奴役我們的人。
愛使我們超越自我和皮膚的界限,打破作為強加的鬥爭條件的授權身份和敘述,奪取權力作為我們自己的所有權,並揭示他人的具體真相。
一旦我們將民主定義為平等的自由社會和愛的實踐,就可以衍生出一些原則作為革命和奪取權力的藝術。
訂單適當; 混沌自治。
秩序是不平等的權力和系統性的暴力; 混沌就是自由、平等、相互依存、和諧。
秩序通過劃分和等級制來征服; 混亂通過平等和團結來解放。
權威造假; 福柯所謂的“講真話”和“歷史見證”向權力說真話或直言,賦予我們追求真理、剝奪暴君合法性的神聖使命的真實性。
時刻關注幕後的人。 正如多蘿西對奧茲所說,他只是一個老騙子。
公民的四個主要職責是質疑權威、揭露權威、模擬權威和挑戰權威。
不存在公正的權威。
法律服務於權力和權威; 越界和拒絕屈服賦予自由和自我所有權,作為成為人類和不被征服的主要行為。
永遠要經過禁門。 正如馬克斯·施蒂納所寫; “自由不能被授予; 必須抓住它。”
這就是我的革命和民主的藝術——愛; 仍然存在著詩意的願景、對我們自己的重新想像和轉變,以及我們成為人類的無限可能性,而愛和慾望是不可征服的信息、激勵和塑造力量,以及人類固有的存在領域和力量,它們不能作為內在的真理從我們手中奪走。 愛和慾望是野性的形式,是真理的體現,它為我們提供了自由的定義,即自然的野性和我們自己的野性。
正如我在 2022 年 2 月 12 日的文章《種族滅絕遊戲:香港案例》中所寫。 我不喜歡你,習近平; 與湯姆·布朗 (Tom Brown) 1680 年受人喜愛的詩中的菲爾博士 (Dr Fell) 不同,作為一個說真話的人和歷史的見證者,我既知道也能說出原因; 國家恐怖和暴政、武力和思想控制的監獄國家、警察的失踪和酷刑、普遍監視、偽造宣傳和虛構歷史、帝國征服和殖民剝削、奴役和種族滅絕種族清洗、血腥法西斯主義、意識形態 作為信仰,作為土壤; 這一切我都指責習近平和中國共產黨。
我之所以能夠說出這些話,是因為我作為一名美國公民享有獲取信息的自由,因為美國國家的透明度以及舉報人和說真話者在我們社會中的法律保護和英雄地位是防止秘密的防火牆 權力,因為追求真理的神聖使命既是公民的權利,又是普遍的人權,屬於平行且相互依存的一系列權利,而共同捍衛這些權利是國家的首要目的。
任何作為其公民權利保障者的國家都被賦予合法性、信任和代表權。 由此推論,任何主要目的不是保障個人權利的國家都不具有這種合法性。
我們必須是平等的民主和自由社會,否則就是暴君的奴隸。
我們必須抵制這一點。
Here follow some of my essays on the subject of the Fall of Hong Kong:
July 2 2019 Riots on Anniversary of the Fall of Hong Kong to the Chinese Communists
As over half a million citizens of Hong Kong flooded the streets Monday on the anniversary of the sale of their nation by Britain to the Chinese Communist Party, and to the cruelty and brutal terror with which the Communist forces of occupation have met demands for democracy and independence, including the horrific organ harvesting of political prisoners, Trump shook hands on a trade deal with the tyrant of Beijing and signaled clearly that in the fight for freedom and the Rights of Man the people of Hong Kong are on their own.
Trump’s policy of appeasement to tyranny cannot succeed in the long run, any more than it did to safeguard Europe from Hitler. Of course, his is not the cause of freedom.
The figment of China as a Great Lie of the Chinese Communist Party, claiming both legitimacy and domination over its historical peoples and territories as a fictive illusion, including what they call Overseas Chinese, which means all persons of Chinese ancestry everywhere, a fascist regime of blood and soil no different from that of the Axis powers, this nightmare of an evil and predatory China, the dark mirror of bright Hong Kong as a shining beacon of hope, must not be allowed to consume the world.
We must liberate and defend the freedom of Hong Kong, and deny the Communists their first victory in the conquest of the Pacific and its sovereign nations. For Hong Kong is the gateway to the civilizations of the Pacific Rim, the Philippine Islands (I know our leaders have had their differences, but my uncle is a Bataan Death March survivor and I would honor his service by standing with you in defence of freedom) and then Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Australia, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, until we are fighting in the streets of San Francisco. We must stop the conquest in Hong Kong, where the people are in revolt for independence, and while our allies yet stand.
Liberate Hong Kong, and the conquest of the Pacific by the Chinese Communist Party vanishes from our future history like the distorted images in funhouse mirrors.
August 19 2019, Weekend Eleven of Hong Kong’s Democracy Revolution: a Quarter of the City Defy the Imperial Conquest of Beijing
In a stunning display of fearlessness and solidarity, a quarter of the people of Hong Kong, one million seven hundred thousand of its citizens, defy the communists and the brutal totalitarian police state of Beijing to march for democracy, freedom, and the universal rights to which every human being is entitled.
The revolution against communism and the struggle to liberate Hong Kong from the unjust and imperialist rule of the mainland government and the torture, surveillance, and xenophobic racist ethnic cleansing which the Chinese Communist Party and its tyranny of faceless bureaucrats represents is now too large to crush through its usual means of abductions, secret trials, re-education camps, and the use of criminal gangs as enforcers.
A quarter of the population cannot be murdered and terrorized in secret, without the true nature of the Communist Party being revealed; a vast system of slave labor for the benefit of a plutocratic elite no different from the aristocratic mandarinate the communists themselves rebelled against a hundred years ago.
The true origin of the Chinese Communist Party which now exists is the Loyalty Purge and Massacre of the Jiangxi Soviet of 1930-31, in which Mao killed three out of four of the communists, some one hundred thousand people, all who were not personally loyal to him, and seized absolute control.
Then of course there was World War Two, during which the CCP used the Japanese army as a proxy force against their own pro-democracy enemies and fellow Chinese, and against bastions of freedom protected by foreigners such as Hong Kong.
After 90 years of tyranny, the people of China are fighting back; it’s time for the free nations of the world to help them liberate themselves, and to recognize the independence of Hong Kong.
October 1 2019 China’s Bloody Day: the liberation of Hong Kong has its first martyr in Tsang Chi-kin
On the 70th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party’s seizure of power, the forces of state terror were once again loosed upon its citizens in a brutal repression of mass democracy protests, resulting in the police shooting of a teenager, Tsang Chi-kin.
History will remember him as the first martyr of the liberation of Hong Kong from the imperialism and tyranny of communism. From this day forward the first of October will be known as China’s Bloody Day.
The CCP is following the playbook of their former proxy forces against democracy and human rights, which they used to defeat the democratic government of China and successor state to that of the visionary Sun Yat-sen, the Kuomintang under Chiang Kai-shek which escaped to Taiwan, and to isolate Chinese democracy from support by driving out the British and other foreign guarantors of liberty and the rights of man; that proxy and plan being the Imperial Japanese conquest of Asia and the Pacific.
After Hong Kong, Singapore and control of the South China Sea will be the next front, and then Malaysia, Brunei, and Indonesia, where they will enact a campaign of de-Islamification and ethnic cleansing of non-Chinese populations as being tested now in Xinjiang. They already control a third of India, waging a long Maoist revolution whose goal is dominion of the subcontinent; if you don’t think they can do it, just look at Nepal.
Any government which has gamed this out to its logical conclusion about fifty years from now should be terrified; the CCP has long insisted that all Overseas Chinese, persons of Chinese ancestry everywhere, are subject to their military draft, and in matters of law the CCP has first claim on them over any other government. When the communists have the power to annex and occupy any city with a Chinatown, they will do exactly that.
The liberation of Hong Kong will guarantee freedom and universal human rights not only for itself, but for the whole world as a balance point of history. We must help Hong Kong win free of communist imperialism, and reverse the tides of time which are driving forward the Chinese Communist Party’s conquest of the world
October 6 2019 Vendetta lives: Hong Kong Defies the Occupation
In a bold and united rebuke of the authoritarian imperialism of the Chinese Communist Party, the people of Hong Kong defy the mask ban wearing a new symbol of their revolution, the mask of the figure of the rebel Vendetta from the great film. It is a provocative image for the freedom fighters of Hong Kong, with a long history of use by the Anonymous network in combating tyranny and state control and surveillance.
The next step will or may be to break that power through direct attack of the control systems employed by the government in Beijing to dehumanize and subjugate their peoples, including massive and pervasive face recognition and the social credit system. If Hong Kong can defeat the means of control being tested against the Uighur minority of Xinjiang and stop the campaign of ethnic cleansing, they may liberate China as well as themselves and stop the communist party’s conquest of the Pacific and South Asia and their dominion over the world.
And the free nations of the world can help by recognition of the sovereignty of Hong Kong and safeguarding her independence from the force and influence of the CCP.
I am one man, of limited understanding, though I have worn many masks in many places, and not all of my causes have been lost; through all my forlorn hopes and a lifetime of last stands I yet remain to defy and defend.
Of our many possible futures I can only say this; all is not yet lost, nor is anything past redemption when the will to resist and to become can be found.
So I leave you with the words of Alan Moore from V for Vendetta; “Since mankind's dawn, a handful of oppressors have accepted the responsibility over our lives that we should have accepted for ourselves. By doing so, they took our power. By doing nothing, we gave it away. We've seen where their way leads, through camps and wars, towards the slaughterhouse.”
December 16 2019 Hong Kong’s democracy revolution: a Children’s Crusade
Hear the voices and testimony of the innocent in Hong Kong’s struggle for independence; a Children’s Crusade which opposes evil with a fearless and united voice declaiming; No!
This is the crucible in which nations are born; in the dreams of liberty of its children and of those with nothing left to lose, willing to risk their lives to reach for a better future. Hong Kong is discovering its identity as a nation and a people under the occupation of a Chinese Communist Party no less terrible than that of Imperial Japan from December 25 1941 until liberation on August 30 1945.
In many ways the methods of state terror and control are parallel between Fascist Japan and Communist China and suggestive of a master-disciple relationship as with serial killers. For example, the Japanese Imperial Army had mobile processing factories whereby Chinese persons killed in the conquest were cannibalized, which accounts for the speed with which the Imperial Army could move without outrunning its supply lines, a terror operation which became the model for the Chinese Communist Party, which used Imperial Japan as a tool for ridding themselves of the British and pro-democracy Chinese Nationalists, in the use of organ harvesting of democracy activists which they employ today.
As with the cannibalism of their former secret partners against democracy, the horrific terror and refined social control of the Chinese Communist Party, whether directed against the economic prize of Hong Kong or ethnic minorities such as those in Tibet and Xinjiang, methods of repression, force, and intimidation fail to convince, and in fact recruit membership for the resistance. China should have learned this from the Rape of Nanking; far from being brutalized into passivity, survivors of terror will gladly die if in doing so they can claim vengeance on an enemy.
And the family and friends of every person in Hong Kong whom the Communists in Beijing abduct and imprison, shoot or beat to death in the streets, torture, and assassinate, will awaken to a new day with solidarity in the common cause of liberty and a vast network of alliances forged by the inhumanity of a violent and evil authoritarian enemy.
In the long run, resistance and revolution always win because tyranny creates its own counterforce and downfall.
As Verna Yu writes in The Guardian; “Officials said as of 5 December, of the 5,980 people arrested since the movement started in June, 2,383 or 40% were students and 367 of them have been charged. Among them, 939 were under 18, with the youngest being only 11, and 106 have been charged. Suspects have been arrested for a range of offences including rioting, unlawful assembly, assaulting police officers and possessing offensive weapons.”
How wonderful that someone somewhere has an education system teaching its next generation of leaders how to question and challenge unjust authority.
“James, 13, and Roderick, 16, from elite schools and middle-class families, are among the youngest people to have been charged over the protests. They were arrested in a protest shortly after others had thrown molotov cocktails – a scene that would be defined as a “riot” under Hong Kong law.”
“They said an incident on 21 July when thugs indiscriminately attacked passengers at the out-of-town metro station while police were nowhere to be seen had led to a breakdown of their trust in the authorities. After that, they went to the frontline of the protests, braving teargas and confrontations with police.”
“The teenagers said the police’s escalating use of force – including more than 16,000 canisters of teargas, water cannon, 10,000 rubber bullets and live rounds – and the authorities’ refusal to investigate police’s abuse of power were what prompted them to take part in the increasingly violent protests. They see protesters’ attacks on riot police as justified because they can no longer trust the police to deliver justice.
“We don’t attack unless we’re attacked,” James, a 13 year old said. “We can’t just stand there and not do a thing.”
“Both boys carried wills when they went out to protest. “I was always scared – whether I would get shot, get arrested or even lose my life. But if we don’t come out because we’re afraid, there would be even fewer people out there,” James said.
“I really want to give all I have to Hong Kong,” the 13-year-old said, his eyes welling up in tears. “When you pursue freedom, sacrifices are unavoidable. “We are halfway into the gate of hell. We’ve put our future and career on a line, but it is worth it.”
https://time.com/5689617/hong-kong-protest-china-national-day-october-1/
January 8 2020 Let Anarchy Reign: Waves of liberation actions hammer the communist occupation of Hong Kong: massive freedom protests on Christmas and New Year’s Days
Sustained and relentless waves of liberation actions continue to hammer the Communist occupation of Hong Kong with massive protests on Christmas and New Year’s Day.
When will the free nations of the world recognize the independence and sovereignty of Hong Kong and take action shoulder to shoulder with its people to throw off the tyranny of the Chinese Communist Party?
The Black Flag flies from the barricades in Hong Kong, and its primary meaning has not changed since its use by the First International and the veterans of the Paris Commune; freedom versus tyranny, the abolition of state terror, surveillance, and control, resistance to nationalisms of blood, faith, and soil, and abandonment of the social use of force.
With this bold signal the people declare: we shall be ruled by none.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/01/new-years-day-rally-hong-kong?CMP=share_btn_link
January 18 2020 Hong Kong’s often imprisoned democracy activist Joshua Wong speaks
How we must cherish and defend the principle of free speech, without which there is no liberty.
In Hong Kong under the heel of the Chinese Communist Party’s occupation of state terror and control, as in so many tyrannies throughout our world, thought crimes are punished more severely than any other, for no tyranny can abide defiance. Xi Jinping, tyrant of Beijing, can permit challenge to his authority no more than any other, for truth is not on his side nor can his regime long survive where it flourishes.
Tyranny may have horrific instruments of terror and repression at its command; in China today this includes the abduction of its critics and dissenters, the harvesting of their organs and immurement in concentration camps, torture and genocide and universal constant surveillance, but such force is brittle and hollow. It may be shattered and proven meaningless by anyone willing to defy it regardless of the costs.
And so heroes like Joshua Wong are vital rallying points and examples, for he has called out the emperor who has no clothes, withstood his punishments and returned unconquered to fight again. The fact that China dared not torture or kill him while in prison is a sign that the occupation is weakening; only two years ago the Chinese Communist Party paraded before the world the carcasses of its victims on a world tour of the Real Bodies Exhibition, which you can read further about here:
We have come far from this provocation and arrogance by the government of Beijing, from this brazen display of power intended to dehumanize and humiliate its political opponents and openly threaten America and Europe into submission as it seeks a stranglehold on the Pacific Rim and South Asia.
And for the recessive tide of its cruelty and barbarism before the eyes of the world we offer thanks and celebrate the courageous and unconquerable people of Hong Kong, and champions of liberty like Joshua Wong.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/jan/18/unfree-speech-joshua-wong-extract
May 23 2020 We Must Bring the Fight for the Liberation of Hong Kong to the Streets of Beijing
Now is the moment to seize the initiative, when the naked greed and brutal tyranny of the Chinese Communist Party is revealed before the world, while the legitimacy of Xi Jinping’s regime of xenophobic ethnic cleansing and bureaucratic culture of silence has been discredited by loosing the Doom of Man Pandemic on us all to destabilize our global economic and political structures and systems and to prepare the way for the CCP’s conquest and dominion of the world, while their true intentions and plans toward us all lay revealed in the state terror and control of minorities in Xinjiang and their disregard of law in Hong Kong.
How may we help the people of Hong Kong resist occupation and brutal repression? We must fight the occupation of Hong Kong on three fronts:
On the diplomatic front by recognizing the independence and sovereignty of Hong Kong and aiding its people to fully seize control of their own destiny through the establishment of a democracy wherein the autonomy of individuals and the sacrosanct status of universal human rights is paramount.
On the economic front through a policy of isolation of the Chinese Communist Party to include Boycott, Divestiture, and Sanction of all trade and manufacture with mainland China, and the suspension of all debt, until the CCP recognizes the independence and sovereignty of Hong Kong and other occupied foreign nations and subject peoples and withdraws all official and military presence from these and from the archipelago of artificial islands they have constructed as military bases in the South China Sea which threaten free shipping and their neighboring states.
On the third front of any revolutionary struggle, that of direct action which is internal to and wholly owned by the people themselves and their legitimate representatives, as distinct from the actions of free sister governments as guarantors of universal human rights, we must act in solidarity as a united front of humankind and do everything in our power to help them secure their freedom and put into their hands the resources necessary to liberate themselves.
Let all those who love liberty join together to resist tyranny wherever it may arise to enslave us through state force and control.
We must bring the fight for the Liberation of Hong Kong to the streets of Beijing.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2020/jul/01/hong-kong-protests-china-security-law-carrie-lam
October 5 2020 Occupation and Exile: Hong Kong
As the iron talons of the Chinese Communist Party close upon their prize conquest of Hong Kong, eager to batten onto the legacy of wealth and influence generations of freedom has built, they begin to kill the thing they most desire, hammering dissent and a free market of ideas which they cannot swallow and survive with brutal repression, revealed before the world as a tyranny of state terror and thought control; for this is a golden egg which cannot be extracted from its goose without destroying it.
The unrivaled trading and financial power of Hong Kong emerges from its innovation and traditions of open intellectual research and debate; democracy and universal human rights, among them being the sacrosanct nature of pursuit of the truth and of scientific and academic discovery. Send forces of occupation and political control to repress freedom of thought and the self-ownership of autonomous individuals, and the state annihilates the conditions which made their conquest valuable. Let them continue, and that conquest will utterly transform its conqueror with its alien Enlightenment values and ideals. Such is the dilemma which now confronts the CCP; the one which confronts the world is that we must intervene to liberate Hong Kong now while our options still include those other than war.
Xi Jinping’s Communist government, which squats upon mainland China like a miasma of contagion and darkness, as xenophobic as any fascist military dictatorship, as authoritarian as any feudal monarchy of the divine right of kings, and eyeing its neighbors hungrily as an imperial power with designs upon the liberty of any Chinese person anywhere and on the cities which they inhabit as future conquests, remains a threat not only to Hong Kong, but to all humankind.
As I wrote in my post of February 3; “In this the Chinese Communist Party follows the First Rule of Tyranny; When the state’s absolute monopoly on power is in doubt, kill everyone not personally loyal to you. This aphorism, not included in the public version of the Red Book, was put into practice by Mao when he seized totalitarian control of the CCP during the Jiangxi Soviet Massacre in 1935 by killing three out of four of its members, the true origin of the Chinese Communist Party as it exists today as a structure of state terror and thought control.”
What then can we do? First America and the free world must recognize the independence and sovereignty of Hong Kong; second we and our allies must enact a total Boycott, Divestiture, and Sanction of all trade and manufacture with mainland China.
Shall we be collaborators and profiteers of slave labor, or shall we stand in solidarity to cast down from their thrones all those who would enslave us?
In the lyrics of the Chinese national anthem, “Arise, ye who refuse to be slaves.”
July 1 2021 Anniversary of the Fall of Hong Kong
As the Chinese Communist Party celebrates one hundred year anniversary of in founding in Shanghai in 1921 with military displays and belligerent threats to her neighbors, Hong Kong mourns the twenty fourth anniversary of her abandonment by Britain to China and the second anniversary of its democracy movement born of Xi Jinping’s rapacious and brutal conquest and repression of liberty.
I swear this now before the world and on the stage of history; I will never abandon the people of Hong Kong, nor of China. If this sounds personal, its because it is.
I am a bicultural person in my origins, raised from the age of nine to that of nineteen in part within traditional Chinese culture, and these were the first people whom I recognized as my extended family, though as languages are a hobby of mine and I have lived as a member of many different cultures in the years since my sense of continuity through others has broadened to include all humankind on principle. Yet I feel a kinship with Chinese peoples as a legacy of my childhood, and I owe them for their laughter and inclusion when I was young and needed a space of belonging, and I will restore that balance as I am able.
The Black Flag still flies from the barricades in Hong Kong where we raised it on New Year’s Day in 2020, and its primary meaning has not changed since its use by the First International and the veterans of the Paris Commune; freedom versus tyranny, the abolition of state terror, surveillance, and control, and resistance to fascisms of blood, faith, and soil,
With this bold signal the people declare: We have no masters; we shall be ruled by none.
As written in the Washington Post by David Crawshaw, Alicia Chen and Claire Parker; “China warns enemies of ‘heads bashed bloody’ on Chinese Communist Party’s centenary.
Xi Jinping has changed his tone. China’s leader, just weeks after urging his nationalistic “wolf warrior” diplomats to play nice, hit out Thursday at unspecified “foreign forces” and said any external attempts to subjugate the country would result in “heads bashed bloody against a Great Wall of steel.”
In a speech to thousands of people in Beijing to mark 100 years since the Chinese Communist Party’s founding, Xi hailed the “great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation” under the party’s guidance. He declared that the party had achieved its centenary goal of building a moderately prosperous society and solved the problem of absolute poverty, adding that nothing could divide the party and the nation.
The speech comes as Xi’s China finds itself locked in an intensifying rivalry with the United States and facing pushback against its assertive actions in the region and beyond. In a blunt message to Taiwan and its allies, Xi underscored China’s commitment to one day bring the island under Beijing’s control and vowed “resolute action” against any efforts toward what he called “Taiwan independence.”
At the same time, Beijing has faced escalating criticism over its human rights abuses, especially against Uyghur Muslims in its far-western Xinjiang region, and its dismantling of freedoms in Hong Kong.
Hong Kong also marked two anniversaries this week. Thursday was the 24th anniversary of the handover of Hong Kong from British to Chinese rule. But the occasion, normally a day of protest, was conspicuously muted. A year ago on Wednesday, China passed a sweeping national security law that gave Beijing the legal ammunition to effectively criminalize dissent in the territory. Pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong, who is now in jail, described it at the time as “the end of Hong Kong that the world knew before.”
In the year since, its critics have seen their fears materialize as China used the threat of punishment under the law to further cement its grip on the territory.
Since Xi took over the CCP’s top job in 2012, he has repeatedly meddled with Hong Kong’s special status. After opposition to an extradition bill birthed a major protest movement in the territory in 2019, Chinese and Hong Kong authorities argued the national security law was necessary to return “stability.”
If quashing protests was the goal, it has largely succeeded. Under the new rules, a maximum life sentence can be handed out to anyone found guilty of “separatism,” “subversion,” “terrorism” or “collusion with foreign forces.” Acts previously protected as free speech could now fall under these categories. And the legislation has allowed Chinese authorities to increase their control over Hong Kong institutions and law enforcement.
More than 100 people have been arrested under the law over the past year. Some were detained for helping to facilitate a primary vote in July 2020 to pick pro-democracy candidates to run in elections scheduled for September. The elections were ultimately postponed, and many of the pro-democracy candidates were barred from running. Journalists and publishers, meanwhile, have found themselves and their work under threat. Under pressure, the pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily shut down operations last week.
“From politics to culture, education to media, the law has infected every part of Hong Kong society and fomented a climate of fear that forces residents to think twice about what they say, what they tweet and how they live their lives,” Yamini Mishra, Amnesty International’s Asia-Pacific Regional Director, said in a press release this week.
The draconian rules have fueled an exodus of Hong Kong people to Britain, Canada, Taiwan and elsewhere. For those who remain, Beijing is using the law to rewrite history and push for a new generation of obedient subjects.
A Pew Research Center survey published this week revealed overwhelmingly unfavorable opinions of China among developed countries. But Xi, 68, indicated he would not be swayed.
“The Chinese people have never bullied, oppressed, or enslaved the people of other countries,” he said. “At the same time, the Chinese people will never allow any foreign forces to bully, oppress or enslave us. Anyone who dares try to do that will have their heads bashed bloody against a Great Wall of steel forged by over 1.4 billion Chinese people.”
“Heads bashed bloody” became a trending topic on the social media platform Weibo on Thursday, with more than 900 million views.
Thursday’s celebration at Tiananmen Square, which included a military flyover, 100-gun salute and patriotic songs, capped weeks of pageantry and nationalistic displays in the lead-up to the ruling party’s 100th anniversary.
The Communist Party was founded in Shanghai in 1921. It won victory in the Chinese Civil War in 1949 — ousting the nationalist Kuomintang, which fled to Taiwan — and has ruled the country ever since, often with an iron fist.
In the speech, Xi reiterated that it was the party’s “historic mission” to bring Taiwan under Beijing’s control. China has sharply ramped up military incursions into Taiwanese airspace in recent months, leading some analysts to warn of the potential for military conflict, perhaps even a Chinese invasion of the democratic island. Along with Beijing’s territorial claims in the South China Sea, the Taiwan dispute is a major flash point in the region.
Xi, who has eliminated limits on his time in office, has presided over steady economic growth and a rise in living standards since he took power. But his tenure has been marked by the rollout of a vast surveillance state in which citizens are tracked closely by the government and dissent is crushed.
The country’s economy — the world’s second-largest — has rebounded quickly from the coronavirus outbreak, with the World Bank forecasting growth of 8.5 percent this year. But China also faces many challenges, not least the demographic dual hit of a low birthrate and an aging population.
China’s diplomats have been increasingly aggressive in pushing back at Western criticism, often via social media platforms that Beijing blocks its citizens from using. But this forceful “wolf warrior” approach — named after a patriotic Chinese action film franchise — has rankled outsiders and has been cited as a key factor in Beijing’s diminished global image.