Letters | Carrie Lam, what kind of mother punishes terrified children with tear gas and rubber bullets?
- Government reactions to the extradition protests make clear its mindset that the people are children to be dominated, with neither voice nor power
With her insultingly condescending metaphor, Chief Executive Lam reveals that she intends to exercise control over her “children”, regardless of the harm she is inflicting on them.
This twisted mindset is the ultimate danger to freedom in Hong Kong – whereby the government treats its people as “children” who can be dominated, as they have no voice and no power. Ultimately, it is this warped logic that enables the Hong Kong government to advance the interests of the mainland government, whose rule is absolute, as the “parent” of Hong Kong’s wayward children.
The failure of democracy in Hong Kong dooms it to remain an infant of China in perpetuity.
Catherine LaJeunesse, Sai Kung
Anger boiled over not because of foreign forces
Carrie Lam, shame on you. You have betrayed the people of Hong Kong. Do not be surprised by the anger of Hongkongers.
We thought you were one of us but you have proved, beyond reasonable doubt, that you are a puppet of mainland China.
I am angry with you, very angry, and I am a 71-year-old expatriate who has lived here in Hong Kong since 1970 and consider it my home. You have not only betrayed us, but also yourself.
Lesley Anderson, Sai Kung