Since the Policy Address last Wednesday, Carrie Lam has been interviewed by quite a number of media outlets for days on end on purpose to promote the Policy Address as well as responding to public discontent with and queries about the authorities. Beyond question, in today’s Hong Kong, where all the three powers – executive, legislative and judiciary – have been taken away by the Central Government, composition of such a “work report by a municipal government” needs no consultation with the citizens; passage of it at a “municipal National People’s Congress” needs no support from public opinion; plebs are not allowed to make inquiry about implementation of it in the end for sure. So, Carrie Lam putting up a show for peddling the work report was just a mere formality, not a bid for “winning over support from the masses”. It was nice if you could listen to it till the end; it didn’t matter if you dropped out. Perhaps what is more inspiring to the citizens than the Policy Address is seeing to what extent Carrie Lam is out of her mind in the interviews.

Carrie Lam said in an interview by the South China Morning Post she did not feel remorse about the social tumults over the past year, and asked in reply, “What wrong have I done?” She also reiterated she meant well in putting forward the extradition bill amendment, and the problem lay in the PR capacity of the government, which was so weak that the motive behind was not elaborated on and the accusations were not rebutted promptly. Notwithstanding the government wanting in PR capacity being universally known, it cannot explain 2 million people taking to the streets, large and small protests lasting for more than a year and the debacle of the pro-establishment camp in the District Council elections. Graduated with first class honors at the University of Hong Kong, Carrie Lam should have been aware that there were problems other than the PR capacity, despite her heads in the clouds and being delinked from public opinion. The podcast widely circulated last year in which she said in a tearful voice she “craved resignation” also proves her recognition of what the problems were. Her question “What wrong have I done” is not a sincere inquiry, but her ridicule poured on the opponents who are powerless to stop her from doing anything, as well as a manifestation of her having in her evil mind to knowingly commit mistakes and set herself against Hong Kong people on purpose.

What wrong has Carrie Lam done? To a lot of Hong Kong people, mollycoddling police brutality is the most despicable wrongdoing among many she has committed while for her, “inquiry into the police”, an option overwhelmingly supported by the society at large, has become a deed that “she deems erroneous” and the entire society including her friends and colleagues around press her into doing. How much arrogance and self-centeredness does it take for one to reckon “I think it’s erroneous” drowns out “The entire society thinks it’s correct”? If she still had any “friends” of hers by her side, they would be advised to keep her at a distance for staying with a person with antisocial personality disorder causes more harm than good.

How anti-human nature would one be if he/she is so proud of “not doing anything except work”? Carrie Lam even said she doesn’t spend time on small talks with her husband. As she even cold-shoulders her bedmate, whom she has married for most of her life, her remarks “I love young people” just feel sham. No wonder she has been apathetic towards the aches for the comrades in the hearts of Hong Kong people since last year and has not been interested in sincerely communicating with the citizens for she does not even know how to love and talk to her family members. Or is it because her grasp of love is “beating is a sign of affection” so that she mollycoddles police brutality leveled at the bodies and hearts of youngsters?

Carrie Lam also interpreted all of this as great passion for “servicing Hong Kong”, so she feels smug about being workaholic. Come on! When did Hong Kong people ask you to “service Hong Kong”? Since day one Carrie Lam assumed office, she has not been Hong Kong people’s pick. To the majority of Hong Kong people, it just so happens that the best way for Carrie Lam to “service Hong Kong” is “not to service Hong Kong anymore”, wrap up her stuff and leave the Government House with her piles of cash no bank would allow a bank account for. If she, nesting in a cuddle by the motherland, can move to a place in the Greater Bay Area where she won’t chance upon a single person from Hong Kong, that will be perfect. A gentle reminder for her: on the mainland where the technology is so advanced, lugging chests of cash without a bank account to activate a WeChat Pay account is a real hindrance to enjoying the basic necessities of life.

What wrong has Carrie Lam done? Maybe she hasn’t really done anything wrong as after so much she has experienced she is still in a high position with a handsome salary guaranteed. Maybe Hong Kong people should ask themselves what they did in their previous lives, such that they are today reduced to a bunch of miserable people ruled by her.

(Lam Hoi, journalist)

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