My Take | Let’s just say this, Jimmy Lai is exactly where he deserves to be

“Say Jimmy Lai’s name”. That’s the title of a leader from the Wall Street Journal’s far-right editorial board. It sounds so breathtakingly righteous. Unfortunately, it would be hard to think of someone who is more deserving of where he is now. Let justice run its course with Lai. There, I have said his name.

When will America’s state functionaries and their media propagandists stop interfering with other countries, and Hong Kong’s independent justice system in particular?

US Consul General for Hong Kong and Macau Gregory May said the city’s national security law was undermining the rule of law. Maybe it does or maybe it actually strengthens it.

I am sure there are excellent arguments by experts from both sides. May is not one of them. After all, the guy’s from a country that only recently operated black sites, and a military prison and kangaroo court in Cuba to kidnap, detain, torture, imprison and/or try suspected “terrorists”, sometimes for years, even decades, on end. It wants to extradite the Australian Julian Assange for exposing its war crimes and atrocities.

Meanwhile, WSJ’s very own hard-right editorialists have blasted British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak for ignoring Lai’s plight. Wouldn’t it make more sense for them to appeal to their own president? But wait. The Joe Biden administration has some serious bad blood with Lai and his defunct Apple Daily dating back to the time he was running for president.

The Hong Kong newspaper not only ran an extensive campaign calling for Donald Trump’s re-election. Under the personal initiative of his long-time sidekick Mark Simon, Lai’s own funds were used to commission a report purporting to expose shady dealings of Hunter Biden with China to discredit his father who was then running for president.

Jimmy Lai Chee-ying may carry a British passport but spiritually, he thinks he is an American and a Republican.