The latest is to empower the Secretary for Immigration to ban anyone from leaving Hong Kong.
In the mainland, the National People’s Congress (NPC) is the legislature and the hand-raising machine. If the Chinese Communist Party needs any power, it will let the NPC raise its hand once, and the power will be in hand instantly. With this machine, the Chinese Communist Party can have as much power as it wants, without any obstruction and without any supervision.
After the Legislative Council of Hong Kong was boycotted by the democrats, the Legislative Council was under the control of the Chinese Communist Party, and the Legislative Council became a hand-raising machine. If the Hong Kong government wants any power, let the Legislative Council raise its hand once, and the power will be in hand.
Empowering the Director of Immigration to prohibit anyone from leaving Hong Kong is an insane deprivation of the freedom of entry and exit that Hong Kong people originally enjoy. What kind of a world is this where this Secretary can deprive someone of his freedom of entry and exit at will if he goes crazy one day?
Even if a person has broken the law, it depends on the nature of the law he has broken before he can consider whether to restrict his departure based on the seriousness of his crime. The Secretary for Immigration is in charge of administrative affairs and does not have sufficient legal training. What qualifies him to make such a ruling on personal freedom and individual rights?
This is a great damage to the social environment of Hong Kong. Hong Kong should not boast of its international status since then, and there is no protection for any foreigner coming to Hong Kong in terms of his freedom of entry and exit.
Even if a Hong Kong person breaks the law, there are all kinds of administrative measures to restrict him from leaving the territory if necessary. As long as he hands in his passport and proof of identity, there is no way to leave through normal channels, or worse, as long as he puts on his electronic shackles, he cannot even leave his Home. In the short Time that Lai was released on bail, the government installed surveillance cameras outside his house, sent traffic police to block the road, and sent people to monitor him directly outside his door, so it was impossible for Lai to fly. There are so many administrative measures that can be used to prevent a prisoner from absconding, as long as the court approves it.
The Director of Immigration can override the court at any time to prohibit a person from leaving the country, of course, quickly and conveniently, but also enough to create a psychological deterrent to all the people of Hong Kong, that is, if you do not obey, if not patriotic, I can always prohibit you from traveling abroad to visit relatives and business. I don’t need any evidence, I don’t need to fulfill any formalities, I’ll detain you first. There is no reason, you first look at the door sigh, afterwards you then go to appeal, engage in a round of appeals and pleadings big dragon and phoenix, the government may restore your freedom of entry and exit. You have suffered a loss, the government will not compensate, and then you have to consider whether to accept the “lesson”, the future obedient, do not dare to talk nonsense move.
For example, the 11-year-old chairman of the Tin Shui Wai Community Concern Group, Wang Jizuo, who was going to travel to the United States with his Family one day, would most likely be detained by the immigration commissioner at customs and not released on the suspicion that he “might” be collaborating with anti-Chinese forces in the United States. Will Wang Jizu, having suffered such an unwarranted disaster, be a good student of President Xi from now on?
The purpose of this measure is not just to target a specific person, not just to worry about someone absconding, but to create a reality where the government’s administration is paramount and the judiciary and the legislature are subordinate to the executive. The purpose is to tell all the people of Hong Kong that from now on, the government can do whatever it wants, and there is never any separation of powers, or even cooperation among the three powers, but only the subordination of the judiciary and the legislature to the executive.
The Government wants to give the Legislative Council as much power as it wants, and whether that power is used or not is secondary, as long as the Government wants it, it will have it. No one knows how much power the government will ask for, and this unlimited expansion of power means that the government can only obey, not resist, and there are consequences for resisting, and as for what consequences, that is also the government’s decision.
Hong Kong has degenerated to such a point, is Hong Kong still Hong Kong? Hong Kong people are about to lose, of course, not only the freedom of entry and exit, more personal freedom, personal rights will be rapidly lost, which is why there are so many Hong Kong people to rush feet to escape from this place of right and wrong reasons.
I would like to say: want to go hurry up and go, have not made up your mind to hurry up and make up your mind. No one knows which day you want to travel to visit relatives, you have to apply for approval before you can travel, just like mainlanders. More seriously, how much more doom we do not know is waiting for us?
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