Carrie Lam has finally declared the extradition bill dead, demonstrating that this was not impossible.

The protesters, meanwhile, have added democratic elections to their demands, as well as release of the political prisoners jailed over the months of protests.

The conman has much in common with Britain's conman (Bogus Johnson), but one difference is that Bogus couldn't intimidate the whole Tory party into supporting him.

Young Chinese are posting lots of messages to attack Hong Kong protesters and sentimentally support mindless loyalty to their mind-controlling government.

Thoroughly credulous teenager volunteers work along with paid propagandists. They are organized into groups and follow government orders; they simply are not paid.

They can be compared with the credulous Americans who thought that Dubya did Iraq a favor by hijacking the US military to conquer and occupy that country.

A prisoner in Virginia was kept in solitary confinement for almost 2 years, and it made him severely mentally ill. For instance, he can no longer communicate in English, only mutter unintelligibly. And he cannot recognize his mother any more.

This makes me think of the terribly sad ending of the great movie, Brazil.

The nastiest part is the fact that prisoners in solitary in Virginia that can't communicate in written English can _never_ get out of solitary. What kind of fool cannot recognize the injustice of this?

Bogus Johnson told his aides weeks ago that he planned to prorogue Parliament (and effectively rule without Parliament), even as he continued to say publicly he had no such intention.