Hong-Kong Protests

Fantastic! Police finally got their acts together. These rioters trying to get into the airport to disrupt the airport again this weekend.

But the Police were ready. Road side check of ID. (a colonial period of law enforcement. When I was a kid, we are told to carry ours all the time, failure to show proper ID can lead to immediate imprisonment)!

This tactic stops all these rioters in the track, and at the same time identify who they are and car registrstion to boot!

This together with non-stopping metros (only stopping at Hong Kong central and airport terminus, and both ends with heavy Police presence)!

I thought they should have done this as soon as airport was disrupted, because in Hong Kong is quite easy to do. If you've been to Hong Kong, you'll know there is only a limited way in and out of the airport. One of which is a 10 miles long road at the airport end where once on it, you can't physically get off.

Pika said:

How many have been arrested? I've heard 1000+.

Where have they been kept and what awaits their future?

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I read that there's some temporary facility out of the city but in a part in the new territories.

Pika said:

How many have been arrested? I've heard 1000+.

Where have they been kept and what awaits their future?

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Yes, but almost all of them have been release out on bail. And some even got off scotch free due to these judges!

I ask you, where in the world would any country allows foreign judges to sit in their highest court. And not only that, (and these is from memory at university days pre-97),.My law tutor told me that some courts in the commonwealth have to be subsevant to courts in the UK.

Also, some judges and lawyers in the commonwealth have to be abide to the rules and regulation of the law society of the UK. And In fact, in order to be judges and lawyers, they have to sit at the table for lunch in one of the 4 inns in London with other established judges for a minimum of 7 times before they get recognise as a lawyers in their own country. (When I was a student, together with my cohorts we went to one of these sittings with our tutor who was a barrister by trade).

Epic fail! Lol. Trying to beat a citizen up, and git beating up instead! Lol

But the really interesting thing was that when the rioter attack the innocent citizen, the journalist did nothing to stop him, but take photos instead. Whereas as soon as he started to get a beating, the other journalist step in to stop it!

This is why people in Hong Kong are saying the journalist are together with the rioters!

No coverage on CNN of the rallying of protestors right before I go to sleep for the night every weekend. The US is losing interest or their stock portfolio is taking a hit. Protestors losing the number one thing they wanted which is attention.

Here's an example of journalist is not the journalist we think they are. In this video, you clearly see the girl that's throwing the object at police/citezens had a yellow journalist iacket in her hand!

Now, where in the world can you take your weapon (admittedly not a lethal weapon, but it can still hurt if you get hit by it), like this so openly.

And for those who don't understand cantonese. but I think one of the citizen was saying about the gun hitting someone, and he replied. "hit your mother"!

I can't be sure as it wasn't that clear, butvis not nice whatever it is!

AssassinsMace said:

I read that there's some temporary facility out of the city but in a part in the new territories.

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No, there isn't any facilities in the new territory. What I heard, and I have posted before, is that work has definitely started in the unused refugee camps in an island (ok technicaly is in new territory, but not the main part) off Hong Kong where they used to house all the refugees "boat people" from Vietnam (Yes, it is where our friend Joshua and co's parents/grandparents would have been as their first stop into freedom, the ungrateful traitor), to make it more habitable!

AssassinsMace said:

No coverage on CNN of the rallying of protestors right before I go to sleep for the night every weekend. The US is losing interest or their stock portfolio is taking a hit. Protestors losing the number one thing they wanted which is attention.

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Inevitably, the international audience is going to get bored and wander away (audience boredom at more of the same is why so many tv shows stop after a couple seasons).

Gatekeeper said:

Yes, but almost all of them have been release out on bail. And some even got off scotch free due to these judges!

I ask you, where in the world would any country allows foreign judges to sit in their highest court. And not only that, (and these is from memory at university days pre-97),.My law tutor told me that some courts in the commonwealth have to be subsevant to courts in the UK.

Also, some judges and lawyers in the commonwealth have to be abide to the rules and regulation of the law society of the UK. And In fact, in order to be judges and lawyers, they have to sit at the table for lunch in one of the 4 inns in London with other established judges for a minimum of 7 times before they get recognise as a lawyers in their own country. (When I was a student, together with my cohorts we went to one of these sittings with our tutor who was a barrister by trade).

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Everything about British legal tradition is stupid and archaic, most visibly those white wigs, which I understand are extremely expensive. They've left this ugly pile of crap for China to clean up even without any riots. It'll be a beautiful day when Beijing finally overhauls and modernizes Hong Kong's courts and its systems with a full roster of only Chinese judges.