Who are the fragile 'eggs' in Hong Kong? Not the rioters

On May 28, hours after she found Jimmy Lai Chee-ying guilty and added 14 months to his sentence, the judge Amanda Jane Woodcock received a death threat.

This is exactly like what happened on Dec 3, when a caller threatened to bomb the judge Victor So Wai-tak and his family after his trial of Lai.

Ridiculously, while making these threats, some in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region call for public sympathy, saying they are "eggs" against "stone walls" and they need support.

It is good they have read the address of Haruki Murakami upon receiving the Jerusalem Prize for Literature in 2009, where the "egg" metaphor comes from. However, they are not as innocent as they claim to be. They are calling a judge and threatening to bomb their family; what kind of "egg" is so powerful it can bomb others?

These same people were armed with sticks, stones, bows and arrows, even Molotov cocktails during the riots in 2019. With these weapons in hand, they turned the campus of Hong Kong Chinese University into a battlefield. What kind of "egg" is so well-armed?

They also set a 57-year-old passerby on fire and killed a 70-year-old street cleaner with a brick. What kind of "egg" could be so cruel?

Their organizers, Nathan Law Kwun-chung and Joshua Wong Chi-fung, were photographed meeting Julie Eadeh, political unit chief of the US Consulate-General to Hong Kong at the JW Marriott during the riots in August 2019. What kind of helpless "egg" relies on foreign forces to fight his own people?

The fact is the rioters in Hong Kong were never fragile "eggs". Their deeds show how cruel they are. It is hard to imagine how much damage they would have done if they were not stopped.

Fortunately, those days are gone forever and Hong Kong has resumed order and prosperity. With the national security law coming into effect and local electoral procedures improved, the dark days will never return.

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