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Colourful sticky notes appear on the Lennon Wall outside HKCTU’s office.

control the boss who has the immense want and say whatever we want,” Lee a lot. We lost freedom in Hong Kong.
power to decide whom to hire and fire. says. “We always speak a lot during We lost freedom in our company.”
He refers to the organisational con- the flights. Even if we have different The sudden mishap disrupts Lee’s
trol as party-state capitalism, a term points of view, we can share with each plan for the future. “I became the col-
used to describe the economy of Tai- other.” lateral damage crushed by the large
wan under the authoritarian military But after the first dismissal event, a wheel of politics,” Lee wrote in a Face-
government of the Kuomintang. “You “weird” atmosphere arose among the book post on September 5, the day he
don’t have to use any harsh measures crew. Lee says they did not chat any- left his once-beloved company.
to control people,” Au says. “Once you more in the cabin and he could feel the
have money and capital, you can have distance between colleagues. “We lost
more civilised ways to control people.” Edited by Gloria Li
Au thinks the white terror will not
end, and people will get more used to We lost a lot. We
it.
Lee shares Au’s observation that lost freedom in Hong
the climate of fear has no end in sight. Kong. We lost freedom
Lee recalls that many chose to join the
airline industry because they thought in our company
they could enjoy freedom there. “We
can fly to other places, do whatever we