From a woman waving a colonial-era flag in a shopping mall, to bakery staff selling cakes with protest symbols on them - dozens of Hongkongers have been reported to the police by one man for what he believes were national security violations.
“We’re in every corner of society, watching, to see if there is anything suspicious which could infringe on the national security law,” former banker Innes Tang tells the BBC World Service.
“If we find these things, we go and report it to the police.”
When the UK returned Hong Kong to China 28 years ago, internationally binding treaties guaranteed the city’s rights and freedoms for 50 years. But the national security law (NSL), imposed by Beijing a year after Hong Kong’s 2019 mass pro-democracy protests, has been criticised for scuttling free speech and press, and for ushering in a new culture of informing.
There is a danger the National Security Law will be weaponised, he says, with people saying: “If you don’t agree with me, I accuse you of infringement of the national security law.”
“I don’t agree with this type of stuff,” says Mr Tang.
After years of searching, we finally found him. The least self-aware man on the planet.
Innes Tang, you’re a fuckin chode.
This kinda Stasi shit is what patriotism always leads to. Always.
I’m not sure patriotism is the right word, but nationalism in an autocracy? For sure.
They are inseperable imo. To prevent one from leading to the other is almost impossible. As soon as crisis hits, it switches.
Jingoism, the term is Jingoism.
Ah, the PEOPLE’S bootlicker!
One day the eye of sauron will turn his way, and no one will come to help, because he’s reported them all.
This man will die old and surrounded by family without any regrets related to this. You need to break this infantile view of the world where you think bad people will see consequences for their actions. That is fairy tale nonsense. In the real world, the villains usually win. Karma is bullshit used to make people think that justice is some universal constant. The universe does not care.
I think that you can’t paint people with a wide brush like that while also criticizing people for painting with a wide brush. Bad people are also capable of regret and growth as well, even if it’s less likely.
If only “regret and growth” could rebuild the environment, bring back the years people spent falsely imprisoned, bring people back from the dead…
If only.
What a donkey
This fuckin guy… He’s the reason we can’t have nice things.
He needs a double ping from a .25 automatic behind his ear.
Snitches get stitches.
Innes is libbed up
