Posted on 09/08/2022 8:58:38 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Five speech therapists in Hong Kong have been convicted of a conspiracy to publish seditious children’s books on Wednesday, in what is a major blow to free speech.
The therapists were convicted of using allegories to describe the Chinese Communist oppression of Hong Kong. The charges refer to a set of picture books about wolves and sheep with the sheep resisting an invasion of their home by wolves — a thinly disguised reference to the Chinese oppression of Hong Kong.
In one book, the wolves tried to takeover a village and eat the sheep, in another, 12 sheep are forced to leave their village after being targeted by the wolves, which the court believed alluded to the case where 12 Hong Kong activists attempted to flee the city to Taiwan as fugitives, but were intercepted by Chinese law enforcement.
In a ruling Wednesday, a Hong Kong District Court judge sided with the prosecution, expressing his view that the images had a correlation to events in city, and finding that the authors had the intention to “bring into hatred or contempt or to excite disaffection” against the local and central government, or both.
“By identifying (the People’s Republic of China) government as the wolves … the children will be led into belief that (the PRC government) is coming to Hong Kong with the wicked intention of taking away their home and ruining their happy life with no right to do so at all,” the judge Kwok Wai Kin wrote in a 67-page document outlining his thinking on the verdict.
A Hong Kong court has convicted five speech therapists of sedition after they published a series of illustrated children’s books about cartoon animals.
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This is reminiscent of the left’s efforts to criminalize allegory and metaphor, pretending to take seriously “threats” like placing a bullseye over the district of former Congresswoman Gabby Giffords and then accusing Republicans of wanting her dead after she got shot.
The Chinese Communists aren’t playing silly political games, however.
Ah yes. “Misinformation.”
Joe Biden’s speech has supporters in the CCP obviously.
The Chinese banned Pooh Bear because people were mocking their ruler who resembled Pooh Bear.
Weak Britain were foolish to turn Hong Hong over to the wolves. It did not have to be that way. So sad. I feel so bad for these 5 speech therapists.
“the judge Kwok Wai Kin wrote in a 67-page document outlining his thinking on the verdict.”
67 pages to contort the law to fit his jaded narrative. What a friggen blowhard. Hong Kong is never going to recover. It’s a madhouse, run by petty, ignorant, evil, would be tyrants.
The verdict proves their point.
Can they buy copies of Animal Farm?
The Chicoms arrested them for writing the ChiComs are oppressive, thus proving their point.
Thanks for posting cartoon!
Yes, they can buy one copy of Animal Farm; then it is off to the reeducation camp.
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