Hong-Kong Protests

I think, from the perspective of the government, 2 possibilities:
1. Classic overreaction
2. These guys are pests, if you are not familiar
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Everyone keeps talking about "rule of law", one of the rules is to respect the taking of the oath to the office. This is true of any country. Why allow someone to hold an office if they only intend to cause trouble?

Again, my interpretation.
recently I linked an SCMP article saying something to the effect he's barred due to Beijing influence -- would this be true?
 

Gatekeeper

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before I go to bed,
it's controversial because "someone active"

(Today at 8:48 PM
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is going to stay active irrespective if for now restricted in the right to stand for election,

and "someone active" is anyway going to find a substitute person to run in the coming elections


"someone active" is not elaborating!

Please can you kindly share why do you think its controversial! Thank you.
 

manqiangrexue

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if he's such a weaky, why did they bar him?
For the same reason most places bar serial rapists/sex offenders and murderers from running; it's not necessarily that they think these people will win, but their candidacy is a mockery of and besmirches the reputation of office that they are running for... not that there's much left about democracy in Hong Kong worth besmirching.
 
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Gatekeeper

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Because he is a terrorist sympathiser with the full weight of the American media machine behind him.

With the amount of free campaigning by western MSM and politicians as well as western social media he can expect to get, you can get just about anyone elected where there aren’t effective safeguards to prevent blatant foreign meddling in elections, as is the case in HK right now.

Barring him has nothing to do with how effective a candidate he might be, and entirely about how much damage a foreign agent like him can do in any position of power.

Exactly, it's not the person It's the symbolism. You can put a monkey up front, and the MSM will do their upmost to support the monkey, and demonise China. Period!
 

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Everyone keeps talking about "rule of law", one of the rules is to respect the taking of the oath to the office. This is true of any country. Why allow someone to hold an office if they only intend to cause trouble?

This is what I said a few post back!

But noticed how the MSM twisted this round as something more sinister!

Here's the headline from a premier paper in the UK. that days it all!

Josh Wong, face of Hong Kong’s umbrella movement, blocked from elections
 
"someone active" is not elaborating!

Please can you kindly share why do you think its controversial! Thank you.
honey I'm sorry I'm unable to explain better than Yesterday at 10:05 PM
before I go to bed,
it's controversial because "someone active"

(Today at 8:48 PM
)

is going to stay active irrespective if for now restricted in the right to stand for election,

and "someone active" is anyway going to find a substitute person to run in the coming elections
why it's controversial to bar somebody who by now have found a substitute

EDIT actually "Just before deadline last week, Kelvin Lam Ho-por also enrolled and was widely believed to be Wong’s substitute in case the activist was barred from running." is the last sentence of
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recently I linked an SCMP article saying something to the effect he's barred due to Beijing influence -- would this be true?
unaware of
Beijing censures Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong for being pro-independence despite his denials and state media accuses him of receiving aid from the United States
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Disqualifying Joshua Wong is a law-based righteous, reasonable decision
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probably answering my question
 
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