Hong Kong is going underground today because dissent will become illegal tomorrow. The new laws will allow the government to jail ppl indefinitely and without any evidence. People can be locked away for life just for protesting.

Abolitionists, look to Hong Kong. /1
Hong Kong continues to be a testing ground for new methods of movement suppression.

We saw how in 2019, the Hong Kong government tried to use mass teargas, police violence, vigilantes, & ever stricter laws to control the growing movement and the massive street actions. /2
Hong Kongers responded by creating reproducable new methods & capabilities for dealing with riot police. Hong Kongers became online, organized, & anonymous. “Be Water”

Now, the Hong Kong government has shifted towards imprisonment as a final resort to control activists. /3
This new Law will make it possible for you to be arrested and imprisoned indefinitely for any form of dissent. *No evidence required.* Torture is likely. Police will use surveillance to find and arrest you, just like in the Mainland.

Nobody protests the CCP in China. /4
If this law is successful, dissent will soon become virtually impossible in Hong Kong. Prison is a death threat against dissenters. The powers of the surveillance state will be weaponized.

But it’s too late- the people of Hong Kong have already been radicalized. So, what now? /5
Dissent will always take new forms. But for now, the people will evaporate.

I was scared after Umbrella in 2014 that Hong Kong would never have another popular mvmt. I was wrong.

Hong Kongers: Be Water.
See you under the pot.
光復香港,時代革命。
We’ll keep fighting.

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