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>In response, Ho posted a Facebook video making death threats against pro-democratic legislator Eddie Chu, who has spoken up against corruption in rural areas i

>In response, Ho posted a Facebook video making death threats against pro-democratic legislator Eddie Chu, who has spoken up against corruption in rural areas in the past and argued with Ho on a local TV channel on Tuesday. >Ho said Chu had “two paths” before him: “One is a path of being alive, one is a path of not being alive. You must choose which path to take. Decide soon,” he said. Jesus it's gotten bad. If ever there was a way to galvanize the populace, it's to do away with the masquerade and just tell them "step in line or die."

onetimemanytime 7y ago
welcome to most parts of the world. In US they threaten to sue, in other parts they cut through bureaucracy and threaten to wipe you out.
- devoply 7y ago
  US threatens to wipe foreigners out as well. See Trump solving the war by threatening to wipe out population of Afghanistan.
  - leereeves 7y ago
    That's not what he said. He said he wouldn't - the very opposite of a threat. "If we wanted to fight a war in Afghanistan and win it, I could win that war in a week. I just don’t want to kill 10 million people."
- Kinnard 7y ago
  Depends . . . are you black?
  - rolltiide 7y ago
    Reread what our Declaration of Independence says about indigenous Americans, coupled with what happened
mtgx 7y ago
That's when you get when your country is run by a dictator with supreme powers -- everyone is at the behest of his/her mood (and of those who follow their direct orders), including other countries with which they may enter more conflicts because they are personally offended by them. There's no body of representatives to keep that mood in check.
k_sze 7y ago
Native Chinese Hong Konger here. I don't like Junius Ho myself, but I think the LA Times translation of that quote is incorrect. 生路 and 死路 in Chinese don't literally mean "path of being alive" and "path of being dead". They are figurative, more appropriately translated as "free/open path" and "dead end". So Ho isn't really making threats about Chu's life, but more like abstract "consequences", maybe legal, maybe career-wise, maybe popularity-wise. Frankly, I don't know what Ho can do. I don't think Ho has enough evidence that Chu's supporter(s) vandalized his parents' graves and that Chu knows the exact perpetrator(s). Otherwise Ho would have provided that evidence to the police and the police would have made arrests already.

onetimemanytime 7y ago

welcome to most parts of the world. In US they threaten to sue, in other parts they cut through bureaucracy and threaten to wipe you out.

devoply 7y ago
US threatens to wipe foreigners out as well. See Trump solving the war by threatening to wipe out population of Afghanistan.
- leereeves 7y ago
  That's not what he said. He said he wouldn't - the very opposite of a threat. "If we wanted to fight a war in Afghanistan and win it, I could win that war in a week. I just don’t want to kill 10 million people."
Kinnard 7y ago
Depends . . . are you black?
- rolltiide 7y ago
  Reread what our Declaration of Independence says about indigenous Americans, coupled with what happened

mtgx 7y ago

That's when you get when your country is run by a dictator with supreme powers -- everyone is at the behest of his/her mood (and of those who follow their direct orders), including other countries with which they may enter more conflicts because they are personally offended by them. There's no body of representatives to keep that mood in check.

k_sze 7y ago

Native Chinese Hong Konger here. I don't like Junius Ho myself, but I think the LA Times translation of that quote is incorrect. 生路 and 死路 in Chinese don't literally mean "path of being alive" and "path of being dead". They are figurative, more appropriately translated as "free/open path" and "dead end". So Ho isn't really making threats about Chu's life, but more like abstract "consequences", maybe legal, maybe career-wise, maybe popularity-wise. Frankly, I don't know what Ho can do. I don't think Ho has enough evidence that Chu's supporter(s) vandalized his parents' graves and that Chu knows the exact perpetrator(s). Otherwise Ho would have provided that evidence to the police and the police would have made arrests already.