There were no slogans and no words, only blank white sheets of paper, quivering in the hands of a few dozen Hong Kong residents standing in a shopping mall, saying nothing at all.
She had remembered a joke she’d read from the Soviet Union: an officer once arrested a person handing out fliers on the Red Square, only to find that the fliers were blank. Undeterred, the officer had shouted: “You don’t think I know what you wanted to write?”“I suddenly wanted to see whether that seemingly absurd joke has become reality,” the woman said.
The night before the law was implemented, Lee stood in her cafe, gazing at the artwork she’d had on the walls for months. On one poster, protesters in yellow helmets and face masks stood with lifted chins before a cloud of tear gas, emblazoned with: “We create our own destiny.”“I have no other choice,” she said. Her shop was one of many displaying protest artwork that had been harassed in recent months with accusations of having faulty licenses or blocking public space.
The law would only target “an extremely small minority of people,” Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam asserted. But the text of the law extended its reach to Hong Kong residents and nonresidents alike, inside or outside of Hong Kong. A cartoon by Hong Kong artist 365.dllmy depicts a protester speaking in blank speech bubbles after the promulgation of a new national security law.
Living in Tseung Kwan O now and previously Manhattan Beach, Pasadena... USA media didn't get Tianenmen 2.0, so they will chip away at security law with a blind eye as to why it was needed.
brianstelter Just like liberals want America to be like!!!
Good thing this is only taking place in Hong Kong.
Do liberals seriously not see the irony that this is EXACTLY what they’re imposing on the US? Did the LA Times really miss that?
Is this HK? or US?
brianstelter So you’re saying democrats are following the Chinese communist party ?
brianstelter Thought crime. Not a new concept but a very scary one.
Foreigners should be aware as well.
brianstelter Sounds a bit like what the left wants in the US.
brianstelter A Social justice warrior’s wet dream.
Just like here in the US! Say something the left doesn’t agree with and they destroy you and your family.
Literally Twitter
Wow this is familiar
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Sounds like what leftists like AOC, Omar, academia and the media are pushing in our very own USA
So the gets it right to decry this in HK but is a major force promoting this in USA? Fucking Hippocrates.
Chy-Nah says 'Hate Speech Isn't Free Speech'
Called Accountability or Karma . How ever you wanna see it . jesustalks
Almost like the United States, where laws are written to protect bigots in the name of old man in the sky based on a collection of fables.
Sounds familiar!!!
After months of vandalism & beating during ugly protests, new security laws are necessary.
Sounds like America
You realize this is happening here in the U.S., right?
China has choked Hong Kong with this security law.
That sounds familiar. When you can't say what you actually believe or feel, because they will suppress and punish you! GOYA CEO is going through it right now, right here!
That's happening in America and on internet ,Twitter , Facebook. Its facism. Marxist and communist always use facism to censor and bully opposition. You dont have to go far Look around California your being suppressed my the same thing .
Are you talking about Hong Kong or America?
Just like here..........
Sounds like the USA.
American scientist: 'I left academia because I didn't conform to ultraleft views. I was walking on eggshells to avoid being denounced. No one knew I (horror) held moderate views...'
Before I read the Hong Kong part, I thought you were describing what's going on currently in the U.S., and perhaps going to concede your role in it. Alas. Irony is dead if the LATimes is writing this article with a straight face.
Listen to rap. That will stop crime.
Huh. Sounds familiar. Can't quite put my finger on it, though...
HORRIFYING
firelight61047 The 'strong, powerful' China is scared of and threatened by a piece of blank paper
The regime which couldn’t tolerate a blank white paper. Looks like a paper can overthrow a “Big Country” 🤫
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9 removed books, 6 of which are from WanChin. He is the ideological leader of the 'HKAutonomyMovement' dubbed as the 'Godfather of localism' in HK. The library banned his famous 'HongKongCityState' series which shows that CCP has transformed HK City-State into a PoliceState.
walterng17 A prestigious city ruined in the hand of carrie lam and her worthless administrations.
HongKongSecurityLaw
They can erase anything but not our memory and our will to fight! standwithhongkong
Leftist boner alert 🚨... this sounds like a BLMprotest
how fragile of the govt being afraid of paper
The new Hong Kong: In short, = Tibet, Uyghur BoycottChina China_is_terrorist
HongKongers are now living in a place where even showing blank post-its and white papers is not allowed.
Lived to see Soviet union jokes actually happening in HongKong, once the freest Asian society.
Sounds just like a liberal arts American University
kerokero_HKer Hongkonger well knew CCP Chinazi & HKPolice are extremely evil & brutal Totalitarianism long ago Though this time a much bigger crisis, HKer is still fighting For justice, HumanRight & democracy! Please, pls StandWithHK SOSHK FreeHK HongKongNeedsHelp NewWestBerlin
The HongKong government keeps creating white terror and blaming the civilians.
Everything is illegal unless you joined them! However, Hkers will never stop to FightForFreedom ! StandWithHongKong antichinazi
HongKongers will not give up, although our enemy is huge. We will continue to demonstrate to the whole world about our determination to fight against CCPChina. We look forward to more proactive steps to be taken by the free world to BoycottChina and StandWithHongKong.
It is really depressing living under such fear but Hongkongers shall never surrender. NationalSecurityLaw is evil and led to worse political situation. hongkongpolicebrutality is still serious in hk. We shall never give up!!!
HongKong now steps into a dark time that CCP can’t even tolerate the white paper to express the anger to NationalSecurityLaw. And NationalSecurityLaw was used widely by HongKongPolice to arrest people.
It's so sad when it's actually happening in Hong Kong.
How does CCPChina look like? Maybe you will find it out in HongKong in the very soon future.
Despite horrible chain reactions brought by NationalSecurityLaw, we HKers take every chance to express our will and let our voice heard. We are taking courage to preserve every inch of our freedom Please keep on supporting us HongKong StandWithHongKong
As a Hongkonger, my dream is simple but difficult.. So difficult for HK to have justice, HumanRight, liberty & democracy.. But We’re still fighting! Will world be with us? No more PoliceBrutality, evil CCP Chinazi Totalitarianism! StandWithHK Democracy SOSHK FreeHK
People are arrested for holding a white paper in a mall. The gov keeps saying our freedom won’t be a undermined by the national security law, but now people could even chant slogans like ‘Liberate HK, Revolution of Our Times’.
Welcome to the new Hong Kong city of CHINA!
Absurdity is ubiquitous in HongKong nowadays but we still carry on. How about the world ?
shiroihamusan new HK, the city that we are no longer familiar with, a place that alienates people living in there. Police who was once Asia's finest became HKGestapo Political environment that respects citizens participation became totalitarianism. This is the New HK under NSL.
China Hong Kong is formed But true HongKongers are still fighting for freedom StandWithHongKong
The NationalSecurityLaw blunt the basic rights of Hong Kongers. One country two systems is meaningless if freedom of speech is not preserved under the law.
CCP wanna spread fear in the society, but HongKongers won’t surrender! We are brave!! FightForFreedom CCP_is_terrorist
It is just saddening to see our once-freest city in Asia had a downfall like this! The world had hoped that HK could set an example for China to embrace freedom and democracy! But 🇨🇳 turned 🇭🇰 more like itself! standwithHK
panic-buying books... what a crazy time we live in HongKong
Large scale brainwashing is under way. Both public and school libraries are censored. Discussions about politics are prohibited in schools. Absurd that the CCP regime can be intimidated by blank paper. HKers' freedoms are being eroded at an unprecedented speed. StandWithHongKong
Hong Kong is no longer free. CCP tyranny destroy our beautiful Hong Kong.
Large scale brainwashing is under way. Both public and school libraries are censored. Discussions about politics are prohibited in schools. The CCP regime can be intimated by blank white paper. Absurd. HKers' freedoms are being eroded at an unprecedented speed. StandWithHongKong
shiroihamusan There are much more was disappeared, Human right, freedom of speech and press, autonomy and many teenager’s life...
Its sad that no one here has cared for whats happening in Hong Kong. They needed us and we did nothing.
A country who afraid of blank paper. StandWithHongKong
It's time to let the world realize how ridiculous is the Hong Kong National Security Law. The Law is just to silence all HongKongers.
2020, perhaps, is a year of reckoning . . . Truly, if we are to move forward, the barbaric, outdated thinking and actions of so-called 'world leaders' must change. Evolution morphs into revolution when persecution becomes the norm.
shiroihamusan The new NationalSecurityLaw is like, no standard, they can charge you even you’ve done nothing. Ridiculous
ccpinvasion
We are living in the world like a Russian political joke 😔
Coz the CCPChina wanna control the mind of ppl.
Welcome to HK. Where freedom dies
🇨🇳 real face 😢
It prove that Chinazi does not care about the content but just cares whether your are a dissident itself and whether your behaviours have threatened to its regime's stability. But even the situation has come to this worse, HKers will never give up and compromise to the CCPChina
Sounds like the and nytimes and liberal media's tactics exactly. Leftists hate America
Let’s see if Lebron James will make a stand for Hong Kong. He promotes China, that slaves, and murders people by the millions. And the NBA, will bow to them as well. Instead they want to tell us there is white privilege. They are weak!!
But twitter has words that can’t be used as well. United States has disappearing history books. Yikes.
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