Hong-Kong Protests

Here's the rest ot the clip where the two old guys completely beaten and dazed.

The mob still hit one of them with a step ladder in the face! There just no humanity left in the mob!

Rioters trying to snatch gun from police!

This clip is worrying, not only the mob overpower a citizen, they then proceed to take his mobile phone and pass it over to a female to check the contents.

Talk about violating the guy's liberty and freedom. (they can't see the irony in that).

And to top it all, whilst all this is happening, a councilor stands idlely by as if all this is ok. This guy is meant to be Hong Kong's law maker, and swore to uphold the law!

Not long before we see someone dies.

Beijing needs to intervene. This cannot continue.

Let China's foes say and do whatever they want as a result of an intervention. I am confident China can weather whatever they can throw and come out even stronger.

Let those brainwashed fools believe Hong Kong is doomed, and let them flee like rats to the West. Then rebuild Hong Kong bigger and better than ever.

Let those traitors wallow away the rest of their lives washing dishes in American Chinese restaurants while the true citizens of Hong Kong reap the benefits of their steadfastness.

That is the best retribution I can think of.

In addition, as the Wall Street Journal reported on 9/21/2019, the protestors are receiving aid and funding from older ideological groups and individuals inside HK among others which is part of why the protests have lasted as long as they have, which is why it is also imperative to track down the money trail as far as it goes to strangle the protestors supply lines.

Time to send in the troops. Really, HK Police is just spread too thin,

‘Liberate Hong Kong, revolution of our times’ – a legacy from the intellectual history of Republican China

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Enunciated, inscribed on banners, spray-painted and chanted—it is hard to avoid the slogan that has sparked the lightning strikes of power in the streets of Hong Kong since this June: “Liberate Hong Kong, the revolution of our times!” (Guangfu Xianggang, shidaigeming in Mandarin, or Gwongfuk Hoenggong, sidoi gaakming in Cantonese).

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Crafted in 2016 by Edward Leung Tin-kei, the helmsman of the local Hong Kong Indigenous movement, these eight characters conjured anxiety and anger from local authorities and Beijing. The slogan was officially denounced by Carrie Lam, the Chief Executive of Hong Kong, on August 5 and was the target of fierce critiques from official media outlets such as the

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Global Times, whose attack was published under the signature of its chief editorialist Hu Xijin.

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Accused of promoting the overthrowing of the One Country, Two Systems constitutional principle under which Hong Kong is now ruled, this slogan has become the focal point of official criticism in recent months. The official understanding of the slogan’s keywords does not seem to be shared by the majority of the population; complete emancipation of the territory is cited as an aim by very few protesters, as revealed by a number of surveys conducted by Hong Kong media on its meaning.

However, the historical meaning of the wording cannot go unnoticed and deserves further investigation, as it connects Hong Kong’s democratic aspirations to the history of the early Republic of China (Zhonghua minguo).

The “Liberate Hong Kong, revolution of our times!” slogan is undoubtedly rooted in Republican China’s (1911-1949) intellectual heritage. Indeed, the terms “liberate” (guangfu, meaning literally restoring the light) and “revolution” (geming) summon a political heritage stemming from the 1911 Chinese revolution, also known as the Xinhai Revolution.

Ending the Manchu Qing dynasty (1644-1911) without shedding much blood, the 1911 Revolution led to the establishment of the Chinese Republic, 10 years before the founding of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in 1921. Interestingly enough, Beijing has recently been trying hard to dismiss early Republican history in favour of post-1949 and CCP-centered historical narratives.

Guangfu was first used by one of the three major revolutionary organisations opposing the Qing regime, the Restoration Society (Guangfuhui), founded in Shanghai in 1904. More generally, it was widely used by the revolutionaries of the Revolutionary Alliance (Tongmenghui), the ancestor of the Kuomintang (Nationalist Party). The Alliance was founded in Tokyo in 1905 to pursue the overthrow of the Qing regime.

In 1945, this term was used for the association of Taiwan to the Chinese Republic (Taiwan guangfu) following Japan’s surrender after occupying the island since 1895. More recently, it was frequently employed in Taiwan in the 1950-60s in the Nationalist Party’s propaganda that was meant to prepare for the “reclaiming of the mainland” (guangfu dalu).

Referring to guangfu in order to designate their enterprise as to defend political freedom and to restore morality in local government, the protesters frame their claims in the ideologies of 1911. The reference to 1911 democratic ideals is even more telling in this slogan as the British colony often served as a refuge for anti-Qing intellectuals and activists during the formative phase of the Chinese revolutionary movement.

A relatively safe harbour for the revolutionaries, it was in Hong Kong that many uprisings on the mainland were prepared, such as those of Canton in 1895 and 1911.

Sun Yat-sen, the first President of the Republic of China (1912), stayed in Hong Kong for long periods between 1884, when he started school, and the Revolution in 1911. And after the 1895 founding of an important local branch of the first Chinese revolutionary organisation, the Revive China Society (Xingzhonghui), Hong Kong also welcomed the first revolutionary newspaper, the China Daily (Zhongguoribao), founded in 1900.

Therefore, it doesn’t come as a surprise that protesters symbolically enrolled Sun by equipping his sculpture in the HKU campus with their typical mask and helmet. Even more striking was the kickboard they put into his hands, on which was written the first four words of the slogan: “Liberate Hong Kong.”

By asserting their demands from Hong Kong – and through a Republican revolutionary tradition contradictory to the Communist revolutionary orthodoxy – the protesters are rediscovering a page of Chinese history rather unwelcome in mainland China, all in order to struggle against the regime.

Allied under an open slogan recalling a Republican intellectual legacy, the protesters align their claims to the history of the construction of Chinese democracy. By doing so, they reassert the singular place Hong Kong occupied in the process that ultimately led to the 1912 establishment of the Republic of China.

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In California where I live a law was passed where theft of under $1000 was basically non-punishable. A crime wave hit California because every petty criminal knew if they stole less than it, they basically got away with it. A lot of these crimes were committed by the homeless so homeless rights activists did not help the situation. So how do you handle this situation? You loosen the restrictions on how little one can defend themselves and their property.

This is how they brain-washed the pro-democracy rioters. My nephew's wife who is really pro-democracy camp! Posted this from one of her religious sites.

The caption was "police brutality, tear gas chocked 70 year old man"! lol. You can't make it up!

First of all, why is this 70 year old man out in a riot zone, (i supposed you could say he was just happened to be at the wrong place and at the wrong time). But don't forget he was wearing a YELLOW jersey!

He came prepared to confront the police. Anyway if this is police violence, then It pale into insignificant compare to what we saw. (which people like her still insist is made up )!