My Take | US picks on Hong Kong in the midst of worldwide protests
- Washington celebrates our rioters while foreign protesters imitate their tactics. But the only reason they get away with it is the sheer incompetence of our officials
A friend from one of Europe’s richest and freest countries who is also a long-time Hong Kong resident makes this observation.
“CHILE: The president declared a state of emergency as rioters destroyed rail services.
“UK: Curfew was set at 9pm for protesters and a record 2,800 radical protesters arrested only after a few days of citywide protests.
“SPAIN: The president ordered the cutting off of the app Telegram widely used by protesters and issued a no-bail for those arrested radicals.”
What has our chief executive done after more than four months of mayhem? Well, Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor has done something, like banning the wearing of masks during protests. That becomes another excuse for more protesters to wear masks and cause more destruction across the city.
But didn’t Apple shut down an app used by rioters to track police deployment after being asked politely by the government and police to do it? They might reactivate it, though, because US senators Ted Cruz, Ron Wyden and Marco Rubio and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, among others, have been pressuring the tech company, just so rioters can wreak more havoc in Hong Kong – all in the cause of freedom and democracy!