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After completing negotiations to hand back Hong Kong to China, British Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, recorded in her diary that she was seriously disturbed by the Chinese insistence on recovering sovereignty over Hong Kong .
The Iron Lady has been proven right.
Today, the Chinese Communist Party has a stranglehold on Hong Kong.
Pro-democracy groups are being silenced just as protesters have been driven from the streets.
There are currently 35 directly-elected members in the 75-strong Legislative Council.
The council is being expanded to 90, but voters will get to choose only 20 representatives.
In this same week, pro-democracy activists including the so-called father of democracy , 82-year-old Martin Lee were found guilty of attending an unauthorised protest in 2019.
Portrait by Robert Adam Mayer
It started with a bully. “The noise bully,” Nancy Rosenblum calls him, a man who lived in her Cambridge loft building years ago and tormented the family next door with a rooftop air conditioner whose roar and vibrations shook their apartment day and night. They couldn’t sleep. They tried earplugs and insulation; they tried moving their bed to the back of the room. Finally they tried selling their place. They received no offers.
Meanwhile, the noise bully refused to move the air conditioner, even after Rosenblum and other neighbors confronted him on behalf of the sleepless family, even after they got together and offered to help pay for the cost of relocating the AC unit to a quieter spot on the roof. Instead he hired engineers to certify that the sound and vibration were within legal limits and posted the paperwork in the hallway. “This was malice,” Rosenblum says. “It was an act of deliberate cruelty.” In part, he liked the attention.
“Thought-terminating cliché” was a phrase coined in psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton’s seminal work on mind control,
Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism. Described by Lifton as “the start and finish of any ideological analysis,” the thought-terminating cliché is just that a short phrase designed to stop those who hear it from further exploration. Such cliches can be as simple as “it is what it is,” or “that’s just your opinion” phrases that end a conversation in a way so as to remove the possibility of rebuttal. Featured Video Hide
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