“Tyranny arises on ‘some favourable emergency’...For us, the lesson is tht our natural fear & grief mustn’t enable the destruction of our institutions... Recognise&resist terror management right away”-Snyder
Be vigilant. Be water, my friends. Not endgame.
#LIHKG#StandWithHK
Volunteers had gathered with donations and supplies for those affected by the fatal block fire in Hong Kong, but in less than 24 hours, authorities had almost completely cleared the square.
Sky's @HelenAnnSmith0 reports.
🔗 https://t.co/p5CvslQmwM
This type of community mobilization drove the 2019 protest movement. No surprise authorities quickly shut it down here, despite the charitable purposes. In China, any kind of organizing outside official government auspices is seen as subversive.
“What really needs to be replaced is never the bamboo scaffolding." -Clever, but sad. HKers are increasingly adopting the euphemistic language of the mainland, because speaking plainly is risky. In time, people may lose not only the ability to say the truth, but even to think it.
Surprise surprise. The Hong Kong police is now treating the mass self-mobilisation of citizen-led volunteers in aid of victims of the Tai Po fires as a national security threat, with Chief superintendent Lee Kwai-wah (who is sanctioned by the US for his leading role in Beijing’s crackdown on dissent in HK) from the National Security Division inspecting relief operations sites for “evidence” of national security crimes.
1/ I don’t often speak in my professional capacity as a Hong Kong–born, UK-chartered construction professional (MRICS, MAPM, NECReg, among others). But I need to address inaccurate reporting about bamboo scaffolding in the Hong Kong Tai Po fire.
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This is a photo from 4 October 2019, from five years ago, that I saved on my phone.
True, a picture is worth a thousand words. This one tells a moving story too.
I wish i could credit the photographer.