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    https://www.hongkongfp.com/2019/12/1...investigation/

    Joshua Law, Secretary for the Civil Service

    Law defended the policy of suspending arrested civil servants because the employees must be “law-abiding, dedicated, impartial and politically neutral,” he said.
    “It would be difficult for the community to accept if a civil servant arrested for his suspected participation in illegal activities could still return to work as normal and continue to exercise the powers and functions of his office,” he told the legislature.
    Meanwhile, under the management of the Hong Kong Police Force, a traffic cop who drove his motorbike into a crowd of protesters last month resumed active duty after a brief suspension despite still being under investigation for the incident.
    Asked why the motorbike cop was not suspended from active duty, Police Commissioner Chris Tang said that his reinstatement was not a sign of “leniency,” adding that a police officer can continue to work while being investigated.
    Uhm...so some armed psycho with a legal monopoly on violence and powers of arrest doesn't cause fear in the community, while potentially some principled pen-pushers (or even innocent passersby) aren't allowed to work because it would be difficult for the "community" to accept? Which community is this? The community that calls other people cockroaches? With this kind of illegitimacy I'm not sure I can understand how moderates don't turn a blind eye to more people flinging plastic bottles in outrage.

    Meanwhile, taxpayers foot the costs for malicious prosecutions like the one of the innocent Filipino expatriate who walked past an unauthorised protest on his way home but was nonetheless charged with taking part in it.

    There is no sense of rule of law, much less one of justice in all of this.

    If we follow on from the logic here, the first person to be suspended for not being politically neutral and impartial should surely be the Secretary of the Civil Service himself.

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    https://twitter.com/WeiDuCNA/...11343597006850

    This has gone way beyond comically stupid. With the police going totally blunderbuss like this, it threatens the very existence of Hong Kong as a financial centre. Let’s see how they credit this to the protesters.
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    https://twitter.com/joshuawon...75700309327872

    New allegation to be carefully noted.
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    Quote Originally Posted by AsianXpat0:
    https://twitter.com/WeiDuCNA/...11343597006850

    This has gone way beyond comically stupid. With the police going totally blunderbuss like this, it threatens the very existence of Hong Kong as a financial centre. Let’s see how they credit this to the protesters.
    https://twitter.com/elson_ton...17160152936448

    Seems others have reached a similar conclusion.
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    So is this the so-called "CIA secret fund" that the pro-establishment keep harping about? What's really going on here?

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    Freezing the money is on legally dubious grounds I might add:

    https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/...-freezing-hk70

    Seems like another attempt of government overreach. If this does not get thrown out of court, then I don't see how rule of law still remains in HK.
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