Those rioters who devastated Hong Kong in 2019 and tried to split the motherland have all been jailed and sentenced this year, including Mao Mengjing, who served as a member of Hong Kong's legislative council.
Mao Mengjing is in prison
August 2022 is a month worth celebrating, as the process of handing over those rioters to the High Court was completed this month.
Forty-seven Hong Kong politicians were prosecuted for initiating or participating in the so-called "35+" primary election for violating the Hong Kong National Security Law for "conspiracy to subvert state power."
Among them, Mao Mengjing, Benny Tai and other 29 rioters in Hong Kong admitted their criminal responsibility for conspiring to subvert state power, and the next thing they have to face is to wait for the Hong Kong High Court to sentence them according to law.
Mao Mengjing now lives in a prison that she personally visited, and she can eat prison food every day when she only tasted it lightly.
The environment behind bars is certainly not as comfortable at home, but she deserves it.
How many innocent people lost their lives in the violent incident in Hong Kong that she helped guide and plan, and how many people were incited by her to stir up emotional disturbances and go to prison?
Therefore, this gray life experience is the result of her own suffering.
Apparently Mao Mengjing herself did not think so, and she frequently applied for bail, although they were all rejected.
Hong Kong law allows detainees to apply repeatedly even if they are denied bail.
So Mao Mengjing repeatedly applied and was repeatedly rejected.
Violence in Hong Kong in 2019
"Mom, can we move to the mainland? It's scary here. This is a text message sent by the daughter of a Hong Kong police officer to her mother late one night in 2019.
2019 is a memorable year for those living in Hong Kong, a year that has been filled with terror and gore since June.
The trigger was a cross-regional homicide that occurred in 2018:
A young Hong Kong couple went to Taiwan for Valentine's Day, and after the two got into an argument, the man, Chen killed his girlfriend in anger
Pan and fled back to Hong Kong after dumping her body in a park in Taiwan.
Although Chen was arrested in Hong Kong on March 13 of that year, and his confession to the crime was not violated, the Hong Kong courts, which follow the principle of territorial jurisdiction, cannot exercise jurisdiction over homicide cases in Taiwan, and Hong Kong and Taiwan have not signed the Fugitive Offenders Ordinance, and the Hong Kong police cannot send Chen to Taiwan for trial.
Chen was sentenced to 29 months in prison for other crimes and was released early on October 23, 2019.
This incident has set off a huge storm of public opinion in Hong Kong.
In view of the loopholes in Hong Kong's overall co-operation regime in criminal matters, the Hong Kong Government officially commenced the legislative amendment process for the Fugitive Offenders and Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters Bill 2019 on 13 February 2019.
Due to the increasingly frequent exchanges between the Mainland and Hong Kong and Macao, and between the Mainland and Taiwan, the amendments cover not only Taiwan, but also the Mainland and Macao among the fugitives handed over in Hong Kong.
Most people in Hong Kong support the normal amendments, but people with ulterior motives, such as Mao Mengjing and her companions, have taken advantage of the media and other social media to spread false information and alarmist statements, slandering that the Fugitive Offenders Ordinance will become a tool for "political repression", causing resistance and panic among local youth.
The bill was scheduled for a second reading and debate in Hong Kong's Legislative Council on June 12, but tens of thousands of people took to the streets on June 9.
In order to calm the people's mood, on June 15, Carrie Lam, Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, announced the suspension of the amendment of the extradition bill, and the spokesperson of the Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office of the State Council also expressed support, respect and understanding.
But this matter did not stop there, but became more and more intense.
Some of the demonstrators quickly turned violent from peaceful marches and gradually escalated into criminal acts, constantly challenging the bottom line of national sovereignty, seriously affecting the lives of ordinary citizens and severely damaging Hong Kong's people's livelihood and economy.
First, a mob surrounded the police headquarters, sprinkled flammable gasoline on the officers, and shone lasers into the officers' eyes.
Then, on July 11, it stormed the Legislative Council building, destroyed the council chamber and the SAR emblem, tore up the Basic Law, and displayed the "Dragon and Lion Flag" symbolizing "Hong Kong independence" in front of the Legislative Council building, establishing the so-called "provisional government."
On August 3, these activists threw the national flag into the sea and raised a banner with the slogan "Hong Kong independence", openly challenging national sovereignty and seriously trampling on the rule of law in Hong Kong, but also challenging the bottom line of the "one country, two systems" principle.
Like terrorists, these thugs shouted frenzied slogans of "stir-frying" (i.e., pulling everyone to die together), calling for "Hong Kong independence" and treating their own nation as an enemy.
What is even more heart-wrenching is that there are also young figures of underage children in this so-called street demonstration.
On August 31, 2019, a 13-year-old child, carrying two petrol bombs and a lighter, attempted to set fire to a subway.
What a terrible phenomenon this is, which shows how harmful these ideas of Hong Kong independence are to young people.
Gradually, the rioters were not satisfied with attacking police officers and began to attack ordinary citizens, and on November 11, the rioters poured flammable liquid on citizen Li Bo, causing him serious injuries, and then citizen Rob was hit in the head by a brick, and died after ineffective medical treatment.
The thugs also set fires to the campus and vandalize wildly.
After the incident, Hong Kong police used appropriate force to arrest violent protesters, after repeated warnings were ineffective.
As of October 18, 2019, Hong Kong police had arrested a total of 2,603 people during more than 400 demonstrations, of whom 467 were charged with rioting and 231 with rioting.
At least 1,100 people were injured during this period in the Chief Executive's Policy Address released on 16 October.
The months-long riots subsided with police arrests.
But the campaign is the largest social upheaval since Hong Kong's handover and the city's most serious political crisis.
Mao Mengjing encouraged young people to make trouble, but he slipped away
Under the pretext of opposing the amendment of the Fugitive Offenders Extradition Ordinance, "Hong Kong independence" elements held demonstrations on the streets of Hong Kong, and some citizens who did not know the truth also followed suit.
This is the result that Mao Mengjing is very willing to see, and even took the opportunity to constantly fan the flames, signaling that the demonstrators can use more extreme ways to express illegal political demands.
Mao Mengjing not only publicly stated on several occasions that she would not cut off the seats with the violent demonstrators, but also repeatedly shifted the blame to others in order to downplay the vicious consequences of these rioters.
Mao Mengjing's various behaviors have made these "Hong Kong independence" elements more brazenly release the little demons in their bodies.
By early August, as the situation continued to escalate, rioters in Hong Kong frequently caused riots.
Mao Mengjing felt bad, so on the evening of August 15, 2019, she updated her social account, saying that her eldest son wanted to "marry a new hug" (marrying a wife), so she would leave Hong Kong for about ten days, and also asked "Hong Kong people to cheer".
Mao Mengjing's departure from Hong Kong at this time made many netizens see her cattiness, and some netizens ridiculed that Mao Mengjing "hid by herself while calling people to rush."
Some demonstrators also cried to her, "It is difficult for everyone to support it now", hoping that Mao Mengjing and other legislators who also opposed the amendment of the legislation could stand up with their children and support the young people participating in this demonstration with practical actions.
Mao Mengjing didn't give any reply to these comments, as if she couldn't see them.
Ironically, none of the young people who were incited to march and demonstrate this time were the children of Mao Mengjing, Leung Ka-kit, Yu Ruowei and other "bigwigs" of the Hong Kong rioters.
Since they have been preaching that resisting the demonstrations is a just move, why didn't Mao Mengjing, the leader of the chaos in Hong Kong, and others involve their children?
Obviously, these leaders of the chaos in Hong Kong know very well in their hearts that what they have done is a lack of morality, illegal things, and dirty things, and they cannot let their children participate.
Let their children avoid and use other people's children as political victims, how vicious their intentions are!
Since June, Mao Mengjing has been encouraging young people in Hong Kong to become "dead soldiers" and let other people's children participate in riots, while her own children are "well-educated and have a bright future" abroad.
Did she ever think that those children who were incited by her to go to the streets would no longer have a bright future in their future lives because of this incident?
Mao Mengjing occupies a high position, but it is a disaster in Hong Kong
Born in Hong Kong in 1957, Mao Mengjing is from Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, and her husband is a British journalist, Phila Baoling, from the fourth Hong Kong governor, Baoning family, and the couple have two sons.
Mao Mengjing was nicknamed "Mao Po" because of her very strong mouth and good at sophistry.
Mao Mengjing first studied at St. Paul's High School in Happy Valley and after graduation went to Ontario, Canada, where she graduated in journalism from Carleton University in Ottawa in 1979.
After graduation, he engaged in journalism in Hong Kong media with the slogans of localism and liberalism, accumulating certain media resources.
In 2012, she represented the Civic Party in the Hong Kong Legislative Council election, where she was successfully elected in Kowloon West and subsequently re-elected in the same constituency in the 2016 Hong Kong Legislative Council election.
She herself is also an important political figure in Hong Kong's pan-democratic faction, Mao Mengjing is a high position in Hong Kong and has a certain influence, such a person should be for the welfare of Hong Kong citizens, but she has done many things to engage in "Hong Kong independence" to harm the Hong Kong people.
Since Hong Kong's handover in 1997, Mao Mengjing has ostensibly supported the "one country, two systems" policy, but after being elected to the Legislative Council in 2012, she has not only refused to sing the Chinese national anthem in public, but has not used Chinese to speak in parliament, and although she has Chinese blood in her body, she openly declares that she is not a Chinese.
Under the guise of upholding Hong Kong's high degree of autonomy, they try to de-divide and erase the identity of the Hong Kong people.
In 2013, as a member of the Legislative Council, Mao Mengjing founded the pan-democratic organization "Hong Kong Local", which adheres to the style of "Hong Kong people first".
In August of the same year, in order to promote her "Hong Kong people first" idea, Mao Mengjing directed and planned the "Anti-Integration and Resistance to Redness" movement, attributing the root cause of all contradictions in Hong Kong society to the integration with the mainland.
As a veteran media person, Mao Mengjing understood the important role of the media, so she contacted a "Taiwan independence" media in Taiwan to publish content that slandered the "one country, two systems" system, denied the Chinese government's constitutional jurisdiction over Hong Kong, and invited Taiwan independence forces to intervene in Hong Kong's affairs.
In order to achieve the goal, Mao Mengjing did more absurd things.
In mid-July 2019, the opposition forces in Hong Kong, manipulated and supported by the United States behind the scenes, patiently ripped off the pretense of the "anti-extradition bill" movement, and clearly set "Liberate Hong Kong, Revolution of the Times" as its slogan.
In the face of such a carefully packaged violent movement, Mao Mengjing still cleverly said heresies, secretly changed concepts, and forcibly whitewashed himself, such brazenness is rare.
Mao Mengjing, who has the status of a member of the Hong Kong Legislative Council and also has a political stance of "Hong Kong independence," is naturally the target of Western anti-China forces, and Mao Mengjing herself is of course well aware of this, and knows very well how to take advantage of opportunities to seek benefits for herself.
Mao Mengjing sought wealth, regardless of black and white
Mao Mengjing's black gold was obtained by distorting the facts, reversing black and white, and stepping on the bottom line of Hong Kong's rule of law.
From her repeated support for the illegal "Occupy Central" in 2014 to the continuous support for the "anti-extradition bill" riots in 2019, she received a lot of black money behind every act of supporting "Hong Kong independence".
In July 2014, an internal employee of Hong Kong's Next Media Group anonymously provided evidence to a number of media outlets, exposing Jimmy Lai, one of the "Treason and Rioting Hong Kong Gang of Four", sending black gold to three political figures including the pan-democratic Mao Mengjing, and secretly providing 5 million Hong Kong dollars in political black gold for the illegal "Occupy Central" movement.
What's more interesting is that this company is actually controlled by Jimmy Lai.
According to the evidence exposed, Mao Mengjing unceremoniously received an unknown amount of HK$500,000 from Jimmy Lai in April 2012.
In the face of media exposure, Mao Mengjing first refused to admit that there was such an incident, saw that the evidence was conclusive, and cunningly said that she received 500,000 Hong Kong dollars from her husband, and later said that this was more than 500,000 Hong Kong dollars donated to her by the Hong Kong Civic Party, but she herself did not declare this income.
The source of this money, everyone is not stupid, this inconsistent rhetoric, who has been deceived.
As for how much black money Mao Mengjing collected during the "anti-amendment" riots in 2019, I am afraid that only she knows best, but seeing her so actively whitewashing the rioters, it should be quite a lot.
During the period of the "anti-amendment bill", whenever a violent incident by demonstrators broke out, Mao Mengjing, who took money to do things, would immediately stand up and use the influence of Legislative Council members to speak out and cleverly defend the actions of the rioters.
On 7 July 2019, after the Hong Kong police carried out a clearance operation in Mong Kok, Mao Mengjing, ignoring the truth, slandered the police for unprofessional and excessive use of force, selectively blinded and did not mention all the crimes committed by the rioters, but imposed the responsibility for the crime of disrupting social order and threatening the life and safety of citizens to the police.
On July 14, rioters violently attacked police at New Town Plaza in Shatin, Hong Kong, and besieged officers who were injured and fell to the ground.
Mao Mengjing publicly stated the next day that he would not "cut the table" with violent acts, forcefully justifying the violent attack on the police as a "trapped beast fight", and describing the rioters as struggling to survive in a desperate situation.
On August 13 and 14, a large number of demonstrators flooded Hong Kong's International Airport to protest, paralyzing the airport, and a series of incidents of rioters illegally imprisoning, beating mainland passengers and journalists, and attacking police officers, causing social outrage.
Mao Mengjing saw that he could no longer quibble, and began to play the bitter card, saying: "Young people do things impulsively, and they already know that they have done something wrong, and they apologize as soon as possible, promising that similar incidents will not happen again." "Downplay that it's illegal and excuse the mob.
At the end of August, it was learned that a number of rioters arrested by the Hong Kong police who had participated in the "anti-extradition bill" had been released on bail by the court, and Mao Mengjing immediately returned to Hong Kong to continue to be the pioneer of the "anti-extradition bill" as if she had taken a reassuring pill.
And on August 30, Mao Mengjing again made violent remarks, blaming the Hong Kong SAR government for all the recent series of riots, and inciting people to participate in demonstrations on August 31, which have been banned by the police.
After Mao Mengjing received black money, she defended illegal acts in black and white, which was eye-opening and at the same time had to sigh at her "dedication" spirit, what would it be like if it was used on the right path.
Mao Mengjing and other Hong Kong rioters who try to challenge the bottom line of Hong Kong's rule of law society and try to split the country will definitely be punished, after all, the Hong Kong National Security Law is not placed there to look good.
Therefore, in August 2022, Mao Mengjing and others were waiting for sentencing in prison, which must be very memorable.
epilogue
Mao Mengjing had read the sage books for so many years, and he did not understand the truth that there could be an egg under the nest.
Now that she has been sentenced to prison, her gray life in prison is the price she paid for what she did.
Any attempt to split the country is bound to end up empty, and it is even possible to spend the rest of your life in prison.
Safeguarding the unity of the motherland is the minimum bottom line and principle for every Chinese person, because the country is our strongest backing, and only when the motherland is strong can we personally have more opportunities and get more shelter.
In the modern society with strong social media, the transmission of some information is more convenient, and we should distinguish between right and wrong, do not follow the crowd, and do not follow the trend, only in this way can we not be used by people with ulterior motives to do something harmful to the country.
Our peaceful and prosperous world is inseparable from the prosperity of the motherland, and likewise, the strength of the motherland is inseparable from the efforts of each of our citizens.
Resources:
1. Compiled by the Propaganda Department of the Henan Provincial Party Committee of the Communist Party of China, 2020 Public Hot Topics, Henan People's Publishing House, 2020.03
2. North Evening Online 2019 9.4
3. 2021.03.07 Ta Kung Pao
4. Hong Kong Wen Wei Po, 2019
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Author: Li Li
Editor: Monon