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Why don't we believe in the courts anymore?

(20 Apr) Arrestees were beaten so severely during custody that they couldn't appear in court, while the courts turned a blind eye to them.
Arrestees filed complaints against the police brutality they experienced.
The judge said, "It's none of my business."
Arrestees were deliberately denied their right to legal counsel.
The courts remained silent.

Numerous counts of police brutality occurred in plain view of the camera lens, with which the courts were incapable of dealing.
The police kept lying but the courts maintained that they were reliable witnesses.
The police selectively enforced the law. 
The courts remained indifferent. 

Geoffrey Ma said nothing.

The government says that the Department of Justice should decide prosecution independently. They think we would trust a Secretary who breached building regulations without consequence to act justly.

Gangsters assembled on 721, police terrorised on 831, yet no one faced any legal consequences.

The past year's wave of police brutality had no independent commission of inquiry and had no fair adjudication to rein it in.

The death of the rule of law is not a matter of over whose dead body, but a matter of totalitarianism turning our city's spirit into a floating corpse.

Running up to this day, we are actually a little lost but at the same time, we refuse to give up. This is because we believe in the same values, uphold the same morals, confront the same dark fears and threats.

The Revolution of Our Time may take more time.

Will you still resolutely stand firm today?

Source: RWBB
https://bit.ly/3bJH8iv

#Court #Trust #RuleOfLaw #Judge

#Interview
Families turn to the “Civilian Tracing Chain” in search of missing Anti-ELAB movement protesters

• Lack of trust in the police has led to crowdsourcing on social media communities when searching for missing loved ones

• Front-line photojournalists are at the start of the “Civilian Tracing Chain” as they take photos of arrested protesters on scene

• Social workers act as intermediaries between families of missing persons and lawyers who help the arrested

• Private detectives provide an alternate solution but often as a last resort

Full article :
https://telegra.ph/Families-turn-to-the-Civilian-Tracing-Chain-in-search-of-missing-Anti-ELAB-movement-protesters-04-30

#AntiELAB #MissingPersons #SelfHelp #Trust #FailedState

#Newspaper

Australia’s trust in China and confidence in Donald Trump have hit new lows

//Australians are more distrustful of the world… this year has captured historic lows in trust in its closest trading partner China and even its closest strategic ally, the United States.

//Only 23 per cent of Australians surveyed trusted China ‘a great deal’ or ‘somewhat’ to act responsibly in the world, down from 52 per cent in 2018.

//22 per cent of Australians said they had confidence in Chinese President Xi Jinping to do the right thing in world affairs, almost half of the 43 per cent backing he got in 2018.

//The poll... taking into account some of the impact of coronavirus, but not the recent Australia-China trade stoush and China’s warning to students to reconsider travel to Australia.

//Many Australians will have lived their lives differently if China had acted more quickly and with more transparency

//Sixty-eight per cent of people said they now feel ‘less favourable towards China’s system of government’ when thinking about China’s handling of the pandemic.

//confidence in President Xi had already been sliding in last year’s survey results and the Hong Kong protests, as well as human rights abuses in Xinjiang province against Uyghurs, may also have been a factor.

Confidence in Trump

//While 78 per cent of Australians said its alliance with the United States is very or fairly important to Australia’s security, 51 per cent said they trust the country to act responsibly in the world, down 30 per cent from a 2009 high point.

//Thirty per cent of Australians said they had confidence in US President Donald Trump to do the right thing in world affairs.

//his America First policies aren’t good for Australia...“He puts his interests above his allies and cuddles up to autocrats, such as photo-ops with Kim Jong Un. This sort of embrace of autocracy doesn’t go down too well in Australia,”

//Seventy-three per cent of Australians said they would prefer democratic nominee Joe Biden to be president over Mr Trump.

Decoupling from China

//A huge 94 per cent of Australians said they wanted the government to look for other markets to reduce its economic dependence on China.

//a shift in the public eye of China as the source of economic prosperity to Australia to being a risk because of what is seen as economic dependency

//half of Australians still thought China should be an economic partner.

COVID-19 response

//One in ten Australians thought the US had handled it well, while 31 per cent said China had.

Full Article: NewsColony, (23-Jun)

Further reading:
Trump's campaign was trolled by TikTok users in Tulsa
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/06/21/politics/tiktok-trump-tulsa-rally/index.html
Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor: China charges Canadians with spying
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-53104303
Singapore PM says China can’t take America’s security role in Southeast Asia
https://theprint.in/world/singapore-pm-says-china-cant-take-americas-security-role-in-southeast-asia/435799/%3Famp

#Australia #Trump #China #Xi #Trust #Decoupling #Economy #Coronavirus #AmericaFirst

#GoHKGraphics
#FailedState #CarrieLam #Trust
Why do you think HKers can't trust Carrie Lam?

Source : ArmChannelTV