Why Big Brother Xi robbed a museum

On Thursday, Xi Jinping advanced his war on free thought, seizing exhibits from the shuttered Tiananmen Square memorial museum in Hong Kong, which commemorated the People’s Liberation Army’s 1989 massacre of hundreds of unarmed protesters in Beijing.

The four activists responsible for the museum were arrested on Wednesday and charged with breaching the city’s national security law. Introduced last year, the Chinese Communist Party claims that the law is necessary to prevent terrorism and Hong Kong’s forcible secession from Beijing. Thursday’s action reminds us that this excuse is a lie.