#Spelling out Hong Kong’s doom

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Extradition was the issue that kicked off Hong Kong’s massive pro-democracy protests back in March 2019.
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China’s rulers have now released the text of the proposed crush-Hong Kong law, and it’s worse than feared.

The national (puppet) legislature is poised to pass the measure without involving the city-state’s own lawmakers, in clear violation of the agreement that gave Beijing rule over the island. The pretense is that it’s about protecting the country’s national security, rather than a bid to end freedom in Hong Kong.

The bill will empower Beijing to override the city’s independent legal system and local laws — as well as to extradite whoever it likes to the mainland to face kangaroo-court “justice.”

Extradition was the issue that kicked off Hong Kong’s massive protests back in March 2019. But protests on the island can’t stop a legislature in Beijing, the way they moved Hong Kong’s lawmakers to drop the earlier bill.

And this measure goes further, outlawing “collusion with foreign or external forces” — with the central government handling at least some cases. It also will install a dedicated security-service office in Hong Kong — putting the jackboots on scene for use as needed.

The Chinese Communist Party pretends this is about quelling unrest. In reality, it’s all about killing freedom.