Public Eye | Take a look outside your ivory tower, Carrie Lam

How much does Chief Secretary Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor make? Well over HK$300,000 a month, plus perks. Where does she live? In a taxpayer-funded mansion on The Peak. How can someone with such a lifestyle possibly think like ordinary people do? Good question. She can't. Proof of how totally clueless she is about ordinary people came from her own mouth last Thursday when she called off a meeting with student protest leaders. She mocked the Occupy Central movement by saying the participation at occupied zones had thinned considerably. Her idiotic comment galvanised tens of thousands to join a rally outside government headquarters in Admiralty the next day. Speaker after speaker at the mass rally taunted her by thanking her for boosting the turnout. Taxpayers pump big bucks into oiling the government's public relations machinery, yet get such brainless gaffes from our top officials. Makes you wonder whether Lam actually resides in our world or that of Marie Antoinette.

Don't you just love Occupy Central? It is overflowing with heroism, hypocrisy, hate and humiliation. Public Eye loves the way our overpaid bureaucrats are humiliated. No longer can they reach their swanky offices at government headquarters in chauffeur-driven cars. They have to walk like the rest of us. That's humiliation indeed. We must thank the Occupy barricades for that. So-called ethnic minorities manning the barricades were told by Occupy opponents to go back to their countries to cook curry. Now that's hate indeed. It made us think of how Occupy supporters put Gandhi, Mandela and Martin Luther King on pedestals - one brown and two black faces. Would the Occupy supporters who worship these giants of civil disobedience be willing to rent their flats to black and brown faces? Mull over that one. There are hypocrites and there are heroes. Many disagree with the protesters' disruptive tactics in pushing for democracy, but you have to agree with one thing: they have shown Hong Kong and the world what heroes are made of.