That's not the youngest. There was a 12 year old girl arrested IIRC.the boy shot was 14 years old, how can a kid have political thought? They are manipulated, why hong kong citizens accept vandalism from this bunch of hooligans?
That's not the youngest. There was a 12 year old girl arrested IIRC.the boy shot was 14 years old, how can a kid have political thought? They are manipulated, why hong kong citizens accept vandalism from this bunch of hooligans?
China should classify NED as a terrorist organisation and be done with it.
I was stranded in our Causeway Bay office with my late-shift colleagues after putting the paper to bed on Friday night, thanks to democracy.
The company had arranged emergency hotel accommodation for us, but we all wanted to go home after a particularly hard day at work. Only, there were no vehicles on the streets, and complete chaos had taken over as the freedom fighters on the front lines of the great “revolution of our times” went about “liberating” Hong Kong in an orgy of unfettered violence, vandalism and anarchy.
For hours after the government invoked a draconian colonial-era law to announce a midnight ban on the wearing of face masks at all protests – and then did absolutely nothing to enforce it – unhinged youngsters in, yes, masks, went on a rampage across the city, trashing and burning MTR stations, shops, bank outlets and other public or private property.
Anyone who got in their way was beaten to a pulp, and in one notably shocking incident, a rioter grabbed a handgun dropped by a lone plain-clothes policeman as they attempted to lynch him and burn him with petrol bombs. The officer managed to snatch the gun back and prevent a real tragedy.
Rioters were allowed to run amok with impunity for hours in my own neighbourhood of Hung Hom. A colleague on the ground, who watched them exercise to extremes the very freedoms they claim to have been deprived of, said there was not a single police officer in sight the entire time as they yelled, “Where are you? We are breaking the law! Come and arrest us if you dare!”
They left, disappointed, after vandalising and firebombing shuttered MTR station entrances, declaring, “It’s not worth it, nobody’s coming.”
On Saturday morning, Hongkongers woke up to find the entire MTR network – their most important means of public transport – closed for the first time in the city’s history by popular demand. And by that, I mean the vast majority of the population seems fine with what happened the night before.
Clearly, the fact our already overwhelmed and much maligned police force stood by and pretty much let the rioters dance around their bonfires had much to do with public sentiment and satisfaction. If the riot squad had been deployed to stop the anarchy, hysterical residents in pyjamas and flip flops would have been out on the streets, screaming obscenities at them and demanding they leave.
That’s not quite true, you say? Only a minority supports protest violence in this city of nearly 7.5 million, and the silent majority is against it? It’s starting to sound like bovine faeces to me, the existence of these mysterious millions who apparently disapprove of all the nonsense going on in the name of fighting for democracy, but are not going to say or do anything about it.
You can literally count on your fingers the number of people with the courage to say anything aloud nowadays against the destruction of our city.
The reality is, more like, there are thousands of youngsters on the streets who have tasted blood and become intoxicated by the success of mob rule. They are supported by a massive demographic that includes lawyers, teachers, doctors and other professionals who constantly gloss over and find excuses for all the outrageous excesses on the front lines of the anti-government movement.
Well, you know what, the people have spoken and the people have got what they want. The MTR has been so badly crippled that it can’t get back on track.
Next, it’s the turn of the police force, which the people want defeated and disbanded. And that’s coming soon, don’t worry, because you can already see discipline among frontline officers unravelling as they reach the end of their tether.
What comes after that? Ask the people, they’re singing cheerfully in shopping centres – in masks.
LOL A-Mace in organ trade now inEarlier in this thread some of you expressed your realizations about the media because of the bias reporting. Maybe because I live in the US where Asians are a minority among minorities, I've known this since I was a kid that the media is full of liars. I can remember at least thirty years ago I was watching a local TV talk show here in liberal San Francisco where the topic was the shortage of organ donations in the US. They literally blamed it on Asians accusing them of willing to take an organ but not donating theirs. At the time the Asian-American population in the US was around 7 million in a country with 250 million people. So it's Asians fault there's an organ donation problem because they're not giving up their organs more than any other group in the US? The odds are that an Asian giving up their organs, they will go to someone white and an Asian needing an organ will less likely to get one than everyone else.
I was watching the news where the Hong Kong protests are getting more attention because of the Trump scandal over Ukraine that Trump may have traded silence over Hong Kong for a trade concession with China. It's quite obviously didn't happen because at the time when the call to Ukraine happened was when Trump suddenly slapped more tariffs on China when for months he said trade negotiations have been going great. So China must've said no to Trump when asking for dirt on Joe Biden and his son. And despite all the stories in the media that trade negotiations are going nowhere... The media is no different in lying today than they were back then and the have the gall to believe they have integrity and honor. The media has to perpetuate the lies that the protestors are innocent little lambs being shot now to make it worse for Trump being silent.
Beating people because they speak Mandarin...This would be considered a hate crime in a country that says they believe in the rule of law but since the self-anointed champions of humanity don't see it, don't ever believe following their world order will ever be fair. When they charge that China is trying to destroy the international system... good, because that international system they created was designed to serve their self-interests first. When in history was this summit of the world called to decide this international order that China is out to destroy? The League of Nations? The United Nations? Both institutions that the US got to decide which countries could be a part of it. China wasn't allowed to be a part of either one at their founding. When they make an exception on human rights even being silent on it when they open their mouths on everything else like it's okay here where someone can be beaten just for speaking another language, they don't believe in or have a concept of what human rights means. They just know if they say it they get protection and no one can question nor criticize them. It's like one of Pavlov's dogs. Look at how activist civil rights lawyers will protect the rights of hate groups. That's how low they see the Chinese where the don't even bother caring about the rights of someone who gets beaten for speaking another language. It's their side doing the beating, so they're okay with it. If the world would rather believe in the lies for their geo-political interests and certainly not for human rights for all, the Western world order should be challenged.