Just Saying | The unbearable hypocrisy of Donald Trump’s crackdown on peaceful US protests after supporting Hong Kong’s
- Yonden Lhatoo says the very people who condemned the slightest move to restore law and order during Hong Kong’s social unrest are now unleashing a massive show of force on Americans protesting against racism
Remember when the People’s Liberation Army was “deployed” at the height of Hong Kong’s “revolution of our times” last year?
It was a one-off, lasting for an hour, and they jogged back into their barracks, never to be heard of again, but we never heard the end of it from local opposition figures and America’s useful idiots, as well as Western governments and politicians. As the self-appointed guardians of Hong Kong’s freedoms, they were outraged that the military had been trotted out in an unacceptable “show of force to intimidate peaceful protesters”.
Fast forward to what’s happening in the US now, and listen to the deafening silence from those same, two-faced virtue signallers as American authorities effectively declare war on peaceful protesters rising up against systemic racism that has plagued the country since its founding. The tipping point was the case of George Floyd, an unarmed black man who died while being subdued by police officers arresting him on suspicion of using a fake banknote.
The first reaction of US President Donald Trump was to brand everyone as “THUGS” (in capital letters) and warn them cheerfully, “When the looting starts, the shooting starts. Thank you!”