Posted on 04/12/2021 6:30:53 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Four intruders barged into the printing plant of the Hong Kong edition of The Epoch Times in the early hours of April 12, damaging computers and printing equipment in an attack believed to be the latest effort by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to silence the news outlet.
In an attack on the same facility in November 2019, four masked men set fire to two printing presses; the perpetrators are still at large.
Cheryl Ng, a spokeswoman for the Hong Kong edition, said the intrusion was characteristic of the CCP and had the aim of silencing an independent outlet from reporting on topics that are taboo to the communist regime.
Ng, who condemned the attack, said it was a crime against Hong Kong’s freedom of speech.
The Epoch Times, one of the few independent media outlets in Hong Kong, is known for its uncensored coverage of China, including political infighting within the CCP, the regime’s human rights violations against ethnic minorities and religious groups, and Beijing’s propaganda and influence operations abroad.
The Hong Kong edition also has provided extensive independent coverage of the city’s pro-democracy movement, which started in June 2019 but subsided in July 2020 when Beijing imposed a draconian national security law on the China-ruled city. The law has further stripped Hong Kong’s dwindling autonomy, in particular the city’s press freedoms.
In a statement, the Hong Kong edition of The Epoch Times condemned the CCP for creating “white terror” in Hong Kong, while calling on the international community to monitor Hong Kong’s freedom of speech, which is under siege by the communist regime.
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This is at least the second time ChiComs have physically attacked the Hong Kong Epoch Times offices.
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Global socialist M.O.
Nowhere near as bad as SecDef officially going after all loyal American patriots within the DOD though.
How unsophisticated. Here in US America, we do the same thing with a push of a button by some geek thousands of miles away.
RE: This is at least the second time ChiComs have physically attacked the Hong Kong Epoch Times offices.
CCP: “Don’t look at us.... it must have been someone else who hates this outfit.”
SecDef Austin’s new flag “🇨🇳”
The 1st amendment protects the right of the people to a free press, that is, the right of the people to publish. Not just the New York Times or CNN, but all of us. That means that anyone can publish their opinions, not just accredited graduates from J-schools.
As is shown from this story, physically destroying the machine known as the printing press is how to stop publication of thought. They can disappear the people as much as they can, but if the machine remains so does the ability of ideas to spread.
Over here, they are trying to do it digitally by banning people from from Facebook and Twitter, and deplatforming any conservatives who become popular.
-PJ
Tell me about it.
Sat through the “extremism” stand down trng.
Heard Austin has issued another memo w/3 new actions.
The knock-off Xerox photocopiers made in the USSR supposedly made TWO copies; one for you, and one for the “key operator”...an unmanaged photocopier was an extremely dangerous piece of equipment.
Communistic control: Coming soon to a country near you.
How very pre-WW2 Germany of them.
BLM learned from the CCP’s playbook.
Were they contract hires? If so, can we fly them here, as we can keep them busy for years, given what we have to deal with.
This is at least the second time ChiComs have physically attacked the Hong Kong Epoch Times offices.
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The fifth time.
Ideological Anti-American, no-moral-boundaries, marxist, globalist, extremist are performing a top-down socialist purge, very similar to what the NAZI’s executed in the 1930’s.
Formally started under Clinton, and is in full and near end game now.
If people think the IC and DOD were out of control and acting anti-American while Trump was in office, they haven’t seen anything.
Neither Bush 43, or Trump, could control or survive the feminization/sodomization, and marxist globalist controls of Clinton/Obama/Chinese/and FSB influences within the IC/DOD forever deep state.
And yes, I too have witnessed it first hand all along -
The left within the DOD deep state have been guiding Austin’s career all along.
He is right where they worked for, and hoped he would be.
American DOD and society are 100% set up now.
“The fifth time”
Interesting. I’d only heard of the one earlier incident.
Heard that this AM on Maria’s show from the General she uses on military matters.
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