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Meet The 17-Year-Old Leader Of The Hong Kong Protests
Joshua Wong is too young to drive or buy a drink in a bar – let alone vote – yet, as The Guardian reports, has become the face of the pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong and an inspiration to citizens three times his age.
With his floppy hair, baggy shorts and stripy T-shirt, accessorised with a yellow ribbon around each skinny wrist, the only thing distinguishing the 17-year-old from the other teenagers on Wednesday was the bank of television cameras facing him.
Joshua Wong is too young to drive or buy a drink in a bar – let alone vote – yet has become the face of the pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong and an inspiration to citizens three times his age.
The co-founder of Scholarism, the student movement which kickstarted the demonstrations, is already a veteran activist. At 15, he battled against plans to introduce “national education”, which critics attacked as pro-Beijing “brainwashing”. Scholarism’s campaign brought more than 100,000 people on to the streets in protest; the proposals were duly shelved and Wong became something of a celebrity. He is probably the first mass protest leader who has had to call a press conference to discuss his exam results (he met university entrance requirements, though he has said in the past: “Teachers have always said my only strength is talking and that I talk very fast.”)
But his 40-hour detention from Friday, along with others who stormed into the blocked-off government complex at Admiralty, kickstarted large-scale protests and catapulted him to global attention. The arrests galvanised those previously indifferent to last week’s student protests and sparked the wider civil disobedience movement that has paralysed a large part of downtown Hong Kong.
The sudden fascination with Wong’s role is not entirely to his satisfaction. “If a mass movement turns into worshipping a particular person, that’s a great problem,” he warned in 2012, after the campaign against national education. More recently, asked about his own heroes, he stressed: “You don’t need role models to be part of a social movement as long as you care about the issues.”
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"He’s so young but so wise that you can’t help but have a lot of time for him … He is every mother’s son – filial, polite, principled, hard-working.”
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His greatest success as a campaigner may have been to prove that his role has its limits, because so many more people have been drawn in.
“Many citizens have said to me that ‘Hong Kong relies on you’ and some even called me a hero,” he wrote in an essay posted on his Facebook page on Wednesday.
“I feel uncomfortable and even irritated when I hear this praise. When you were suffering pepper spray and teargas but decided to stay for the protest despite the repression from the government, I was not able to do anything other than stare at a meal box and the blank walls of the detention room and feel powerless.
“The hero of the movement is every single Hong Kong citizen.”
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Chinese state media have attacked Scholarism as extremists and a pro-Beijing Hong Kong-based paper claimed that “US forces” had worked to cultivate Wong as a “political superstar” – accusations Wong has dismissed.
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Yeah but how good is he at 'Call of Duty'?
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cIA picking the young ones
lol...or..."counter-counter-revolutionary" forces within Bejing trying to upset the status quo of running dog capitalist pig sellouts of the "revolution" preying on the slave labor for the west! ;-)
(Headspins)
Could you please translate that idiotic gibberish into plain English? Thank you.
Are you kidding? This is the new ZH where everything happening in the world has two faces!
You see, this 17yr old who can't buy a drink or vote was hatched from a CIA farm cocoon deep inside Yucca Mountain and gifted with telepathic abilities and has been groomed for just this event to steer the centrally planned communist government away from freedom and "democracy".
Its all going according to plan and the counter-counter revolutionary guards are guarding the establishment bivouac of power elite against his pre-adult power grab, he wants to be king.
That clear it up? ;-)
Oh, much better. Thank you! :)
You're welcome.
In fact, it is nothing more than generations of Chinese born in HK growing up with "other ideas" rebelling against what is now being handed down to them via the centralized elites in Bejing to conform to, who would rather they just shut up and be "good citizen cows" fit for only milking.
I can be as nutty as the next guy when I want to be ;-)
The idiot MSM loves creating such BS little media darlings.
A debilitating demonstration incubated by the CIA, now hatched by corporate MSM.
Deepstate in malevolent action.
Holy shit. I met that kid. I caught him cornholing my mother. I'll never forgive the little bastard.
Ahahahahaha, that little bastard believes in democracy. Ahahahhahahaha... Silly kid, I wonder who gave him inspiration or money to pull those protests.
Go away, blog pimp.
You know, sometimes shit does just happen randomly due to probability and chance.
Another glorious flowering of democracy? Pollinated by the winds of change. Kind of like Maidan in Ukraine? Or Hope and Change in the US, brought to us by the Chicago Mayor Rahm Emmanuel?
Here is another investment in the future.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malala_Yousafzai
If you think a 17 year old teen is behind a revolution, I have a bridge to sell you.
Revolutions are ALWAYS top-down movements ran by fraternal orders and secret societies, and are never organic uprisings.
Read "Fire in the Minds of Men" by James Billington, Librarian of Congress. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_in_the_Minds_of_Men
Yeah pretty much it, a kid with a lot of charisma.
Is he good at Call of Duty? Probably not, but soon the kids out here in the west will be killing tea party members on "Battlefield Hardline" soon enough. They'll be the last to 'wake up'. Perhaps the ones who've been swatted will realize that the government is just a tool for oppression.
After all, wasn't Joan of Arc 14 years old when she pulled a Spartacus? And there wasn't even a CIA back then...unless it was a Templar conspiracy?
conspiracy...um
http://truthphalanx.com/knights-templar-and-secret-cabals-again/
The problem with your theory is, that these protests are not supported by the vast majority.
Reminds me about old George's color revolution...
Idealistic, but gullible and naive.
you don't actually mean that, do you.. Always buckles my buttons to crack a joke.
Girls love activism and Wong's got an audience bigger than any rock star. He's gonna get laid until his wang falls off and maybe even successfully lead some change they can believe in
That is if he doesn't end up in a prison next to a Falun Gong member waiting to have his organs harvested or a bullet in the back of the head
His bento box in the detention cube was a friendly reminder we are all temporarily being ruled by Saturn
Little bastard will probably catch ebola now.
beijing is stepping up with new suppression tactics. on of them is actually surgical removal of the penis and then releasing this 17 year old wang back to his adoring throngs of cuties.
once they find out his wang is gone, the rebellion goes limp. and wang is left wangless and without a movement.
You mean, this Joshua Wong?
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2014/09/hong-kong-protests-mixed-blessing...
But Chinese officials accuse the U.S. of egging on the protests. As the Wall Street Journal’s China Real Time blog reports:
On Thursday, Wen Wei Po published an “expose” into what it described as the U.S. connections of Joshua Wong, the 17 year-old leader of student group Scholarism.
The story asserts that “U.S. forces” identified Mr. Wong’s potential three years ago, and have worked since then to cultivate him as a “political superstar.”
Evidence for Mr. Wong’s close ties to the U.S. that the paper cited included what the report described as frequent meetings with U.S. consulate personnel in Hong Kong and covert donations from Americans to Mr. Wong. As evidence, the paper cited photographs leaked by “netizens.” The story also said Mr. Wong’s family visited Macau in 2011 at the invitation of the American Chamber of Commerce, where they stayed at the “U.S.-owned” Venetian Macao, which is owned by Las Vegas Sands Corp.
If 'our' government continues on as the Global Force for Chaos, we're going to get our asses emp'ed one of these days.
Uhh, most of Macao is owned by Americans. It was the US version of Hong Kong in China, and still a place for tourists and shopping.
Dallas Ebola patient vomited outside apartment on way to hospital
http://reut.rs/1nNUe3L
The Ivy [League] apartments, no less. Next to the skull and bones Hideaway Arms.
And some kid made a Wong turn, stepped in it and showed up in HK.
Its all coming together now!
Ahh, college memories.
Yep. The best hangover preventer in the world is a good puke before hitting the rack.
If you have a vauge memory of puking, you probably did. :-)
Oh hell, there go the fraternities...
that settles it...I'm going to have to stop cleaning up random piles of vomit with my bare hands
This kid may not be CI, but his handlers are
Pretty impresive protests so far, and so unlike what you would get in the US.
Mostly driven by the young - but curteous, polite and respectful youth. None of the hooliganism you see elsewhere. This has been the best behaved multi hundred thousand person crowds you can imagine.
Kudo to the leaders.
That's what controlled opposition usually acts like. Just buying a little leverage, no real desire to materially change the system.
You obviously do not understand Asian mentality or Hong Kong or what is needed to get real change there.
OK, batter up. Astound me.
He looks like a mad Denninger on steroids that actually makes sense and predicts accurately! LoL
The world pins everything on the US just like liberals pin everything on Bush.
There is probably a pretty good reason for that.
US MADE IT THIS WAY Yrad or what your is! So who really cares if they become a world dump
If that kid is the real leader I'll eat my computer keyboard.
Dude, the Chinaman is not the issue here!
Chinaman is not the preferred nomenclature.
Would you like an iPod with that keyboard? They're waffer thin.
"I'm fucking full."
"I need a bucket."
Aw, sir.... it's only waffffer thin!
Spreading western propaganda democracy by 17 year old. Hmm
Joshua, really? Sounds like an irish name to me.
Hitler visits Dachau where all the prisoners lined up for he's arrival.
As he walks the lines he ask's an older man ; where are you from man, man replies ; from Dressden , Hitler; how old are you ? , man ; 67.
He moves on a couple lines stops front of a young boy and ask's, where ar you from? boy; Krakow, Hitler; and how old are you? boy I will be eighteen in a couple of days
Hitler; dont be so sure kid.
Holohoax has gotten old, need to make up new material.
I'm not surprised. A 17 year old simply doesn't have enough life experience to know anything. He probably learned about how great democracy was from one of his school teachers. A "man of action", he immediately led the battle cry and started recruiting moronic socialists from around the world. Like himself, none of them had stopped to think before jumping into action, they simply latched onto the first thought that popped into their minds and considered themselves geniuses. The thought has never occurred to any of them that democracy might not be so good after all. And it never will unless, if they're lucky, some distant day something will backfire in their lives and they'll be forced to grow up and re-evaluate their juvenile world view.
Not to sound like I'm blaming the people, I'm merely describing them. We don't choose our development path. The underlying issue is that life is too easy and doesn't force people to re-evaluate their juvenile thoughts. Unless forced to, they won't, and instead of making life more challenging we try to make it easier, more peaceful, fair, just, and inoffensive all the time.
Or maybe he is just a kid that has not been beaten down and corrupted by life and is out there actually doing something and making an impact.
That's what every socialist is out to do... just make an impact and make the world a better place by, you know, making life easier, less challenging, less disciplined, etc... that way the next generation will have the luxury of spending 16 hours a day on their iPhones instead of a mere 12, will be a few IQ points lower, and those innocent little retards will rinse and repeat the process until... socialist utopia!
Good intentions, innocence, and naiveity are not good enough. They are dangerous and disgusting. We must overcome the sickly moral value system that's been instilled in our society that values these illnesses as good things and replace it with something healthier and stronger.
Somebody needs to sit that kid down and do some splainin to him. Idealism doesn't work in the real world. You have to sell yourself out to the highest bidder while you're a hot commodity, kind of like a certain web site which shall remain nameless. Screw idealism and trying to make a difference, selling yourself out and the cha-ching is all that matters these days.
Where exactly is this kid a socialist?
“Why does a tofu roast pork belly lunchbox cost HK$50 [£4], and $8 more for a drink? Why does the eastern rail line break down weekly, but fares never stop rising? ... Many issues are closely related to politics and I think Hong Kongers should pay more attention to politics,”
sounds like all of us bitching about how .gov hides inflation
"On another occasion he compared the need for public nomination to picking lunch, saying that imposing tight controls on candidates for the role of chief executive was like offering people the chance to eat at one of two shopping centres."
sounds like all of us bitching about the two party system being the same party
"His greatest success as a campaigner may have been to prove that his role has its limits"
sounds like Ron Paul talking about how bog guv needs to be shrunk.
There seems to be a lot of good in this kid if even some of it is true.
Well the fact that he recognizes that national education equates to brainwashing puts me solidly in his corner. At least he's doing something instead of just bitching on some website tats been absorbed its a program in the matrix.
Being right is the same as a bulletproof vest. You can't lose. Certainly, I've always found that to be true.
Tiananmen Square wasn't all that long ago. The students didn't fare so well. In the end it was a giant operation that served quite effectively in it's capacity to flush the malcontents out into the open and demonstrate the government's power to crush them.
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
~ Thomas Jefferson.
That's the umbrella of liberty and its rain not blood. There, fixed it.
So, would you say that bitching in public that he wants to be given free stuff is better than whining on the internet that he's powerless?
Yeah you're right, he should probably just sit down, shut up, and let TPTB roll over him. That always works out well.
Tsk tsk tsk. This is an important question.
When faced with a problem, some people will keep their difficulities private, not complain or make a big show, and try to solve it themselves. If they fail to solve it, these people typically still won't complain and break down, but will accept it as part of life that they can't always get their way.
Another group of people, when faced with the same problem, will whine and complain seeking pity and sympathy from others and hoping that someone else will solve the problem for them. When these people don't get their way they always have someone or something else to blame, but never themselves, and they are usually quite miserable about about one thing or another.
What is the difference between the two groups of people?
Someone should sit him down and force him to think. I'd start by forcing him to do a full survey of the history of philosphy, morality, and politics before allowing him to decide what he believes in and influence the world. Clearly he lacks the respect to do that himself, so someone needs to sit him down and teach him.
Similarly, all budding "musicians" should be forced to study music before they download fruity-loops or start their own "band".
All blog writers should be forced to study the basics of the English language and whatever subject they'll be writing about....
Our world could use some higher standards. We're full to the brim with regurgitated crap spewed out by amateurs with no skill, no respect for skill, no creativity, and nothing of real value to contribute. As long as they're contributing something they're happy; quantity is king! They merely pick the path of least resistance and create the first garbage that they're inspired to create, almost as if they know in advance their fake Facebook friends will "like" it regardless of its lack of quality because that's the "politically correct" thing to do....
"Someone should sit him down and force him to think."
LOL
check please. goodnight.
hand me mine, too.
You seem to have some control issues not to mention some pretty fucking warped ideas about personal liberty, and yet, you're so convinced you're right, you would be dangerous if you had any authority. Force this and force that, fuck you. I'll make my own choices, make my own mistakes, and learn my own lessons. Again, fuck you.
Wonderdawg, clap clap, well said.
Tssk, another control-freak.. Let me guess the 'study' material must be handpicked by you? I bet you think licensing for everything and anything is great idea. No thanks, I'll take freedom even if it makes me an outlaw.
no he's a 17 year old kid who knows nothing. there is no perfect world. 17 year olds have insufficient experience and wisdom to even begin making comparisons between what is useful and what is feasible and what is appropriate.
the occupy sit in was full mostly (80%) of these young retards ages 17 to 24 , fresh out of college kid types. i met a lot of them. they're retards. they will accomplish nothing because they cannot accomplish anything. they're not innocnet because they're young. they are just dumb becauase they're young.
source critical asshole 34 year old male.
He is young, he still has principles, older critical assholes (your words) often lose that as they grow up and life belts them around a bit, it is refreeshing to see such idealism in so many people, they want Freedom, not such a bad thing to want. .
life doesn't corrupt you fonz, life tempers you like fire tempers steel.
if life could 'corrput' you, then you were weak and prone to corruption in the first place. don't blame life for bending you when it is you that was bendable.
Bollocks, of course life experiences affect you, its just a cop out to say if life experiences cause corruption then you were weak and prone to corruoption in the first place.....how do you know that?
Life experiences always bend people.
do you speak coherence?
never did I say life experiences don't affect you, I said life tempers you in my very first sentence didn't I?
or do you not understand what 'tempering' means? don't they teach real english in your neck of the woods anymore?
"...how do I know that?"
because I'm a living breathing human being who can be considered to have lived a 'life' with 'life experiences', and that is my view on life. what kind of moronic question is this?
let's try some examples:
do you have sympathies for a drug lord who entered crime due to early lifehood difficulties? because it's the harshness of life that corrupted him so is he not responsible for what he does?
how about someone who was abused as a child and then went on to abuse others later in life, will the excuse 'life was shit to me so I was corrupted' absolve you in court?
life experiences do mold people, plenty of wife beaters did grow up watching their fathers beat their mothers and go on to do the same, but just as many grow up to become the complete opposite as well.
The choice is still yours.
putting blame on 'life corrputing me' is avoiding taking responsibilty for your own actions.
"He probably learned about how great democracy was from one of his school teachers. A "man of action", he immediately led the battle cry and started recruiting moronic socialists from around the world. Like himself, none of them had stopped to think before jumping"
I love people who see someone on TV and instantly in their minds know all about them, right down to what motivates them and what they are thinking.
If the students in the May 4th movement in 1919 thought like you the Chinese communist party would not have been established.
First I heard of him is in the above article. He already sounds as if he has more "experience" than what is in DC or Beijing.
His age is not a factor. Apparrantly Joan of Ark and Alexander the Great were young too. So was Jesus Christ.
Age is not condusive in and of itself to intelligence or wisdom.
And I am an old guy and I like what I read above about this kid.
Shouldn't he be waiting in line for some iCrap?
He's obviously the last asian kid on the planet who isn't tech-savvy. Two big, clunky microphones in his bony little hand? Where's the bluetooth headset?
That was pretty clever of the US Department of State to install a 17-year-old local kid as their mouthpiece.
That was pretty clever of the US Department of State to install a 17-year-old local kid as their mouthpiece.
Wonderful thing about Langley.
When they see talent they make you a comprehensive "401K" you can't refuse that usually includes members of your family and friends if necessary... Never discriminates based on age, race, or religion as long as you have something they feel they need, or aren't getting in the way to it!
Always an equal opportunity employer!!!
This kid digs George Soros' "sulphur".
Mother England and Georgy are both proud of him!!!
china should do nothing.
let soros and the rothschild cancerous host escalate
using kiev type snipers or odessa nazi style burning people alive.
the rabbi is getting desperate yes sir.
i here netanyahoo is moving in on argentina
rabbi squeezing syria oneside america another and the filthy turk moving tanks to the border.
voting tommorow deciding when the tanks go in.
kirchener plots in the argentine
syriana pipe line wars
open ukrainia wounds of russia
new wounds off china
yes sir
the rabbi never sleeps.
and the rabbi tested waters in Taiwan...and now HK;
as if 89.06.04 re-enact?
Students (or young adults) don't have much a baggage; don't have much an agnda; don't have much motive, no?
And the tear gas sure stirred it up.
I see the cops aren't any better in HK than the rest of the world when it comes to abusing their authority
Watch this a-hole tap the guy in the back to turn around and then blasts him with pepper spray right in the face
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=1fc_1412175403
sympathy goes to the guy...
not a student !
Someone just shared a video with me which show a very different prospective of this protest
-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfUTqQmF_vU
From the video, there really are violence in this protest.
Do they look like students to you?
Why do people have the need to be told.
We have 40 year old, gray-haired illegals enrolling into grammar schools and nobody questions anything.
LOL
I’m not sure how this is continuing on at all.
I've been in enough protests to recognize professional agitators. They leverage the passion of the people and the immorality of hoodlums to create conflict in order to destabilize.
I'm no fan of the ChiComs, but realistically one has to recognize this as a subversive operation.
somethings Wong bitchez
I used to love these words 'freedom' , democracy, human rights n all the rights under the sun....now I hate these motherhood words cos it only brings pain, sufferings, despair n hunger to the common people who can't be bothered by dirty politics manipulated by dirty politicians who have no conscience at all except for their own selfish interests at the expense of the masses who just want to make a simple living in the offices n in the streets to raise up their families in a safe n peaceful environment..
Look at Egypt, Libya, Syria, Iraq ...all these freedom, human rights, democracy movements funded n instigated by the west had created hell in these countries....mind u, millions of families have been displaced n now many have become refugees...babes n kids have no milk, food, the sick , no medicine , future bleak etc.....imagine u were one of them , desperately looking for food n survival....
Now the west n so called local demo politicians making use of students to protest in HK...students , mind u, wat do they know about life? They r so easily manipulated n politicians love them....Don't they know many poor common people in the streets peddling their wares r being deprived of their livelihood ? Do they know wat r sufferings n hunger pangs? These students too young to know all these...
I don't need a kid teach me 'Democracy'. If you give this kid an iphone6, he will do anything for you.
I noticed a few comments asking what the hell a 17 year old kid would know about anything, but after watching a new york times video about Mr Wong, I think I'd rather listen to him than any useless, irrelevant old cunt politician or ceo spouting their tired bullshit. As he notes, "The chinese national anthem includes the words, 'arise all those who refuse to be slaves.'"
A Chinese Justin Bieber now running Hong Kong, telling Beijing how to run their country????
Madelaine Albright's NDI summarizes the CIA/USAIPAC fomented unrest attempt at destabilization of Hong Kong/China correctly in their headline:
Designing Democracy in Hong KongThis kid should intern with one of the young chinese millionaires in the video and get vewwwwwy wich!!! At 17, still plenty of time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZgUyjzPSh8
Mankind is certainly fucked up...
yr like button is fuked up
reeks of CIA/USAIPAC fomented unrest--supposedly to limit
Beijing from vetting election candidates????..yeah, sure....
more like a first move for CIA/USAIPAC to set up their zioNazi puppets governing Hong Kong like they did in Ukraine
Why is this CIA asset still alive? why is his family still alive?
Where are the Maidan-snipers?
Why wasn't he burned down, like people in Odesa?
I hope, that he will die a terrible death.
Hes a US agent
This mofo is unwelcome in any HK business. If he comes to anyone of my agencies my employees will boot him onto the street. Moronic teenager that will have a very unfruitful adult life going forward. He's hated by majority of the HK people that is directly and indirectly affected by this moron.
The real culprits are the DC fascists, covered here in zh.
Looks like guardian is simply promoting the cabal angle. Here now in HK he's viewed as a menace and cockroach. He will have his arse handed to him in due course.
Tro-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo...
That kid has 'Jack Ma' moxie for sure.
I’m surprised Republicans aren’t saddling him with the “Anti-Christ” labels.
even during civil unrest, the chinese are still over-achievers.
"US Now Admits It Is Funding Occupy Central"
http://landdestroyer.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/us-now-admits-it-is-funding-...
He's just another Side Show to distract the Viewer from the "Real" Organizers.
Since he can't Vote, he should STFU and move to GBR or TWN.
The Game has changed. The Cronies of the British Crown and therr friends are no longer in "Power" over the City.
Read many comments critisising this kid here, yet he has effected more people than any of us and stands up for his beliefs knowing it makes him a target. You dont have to agree with him but he has more balls than some.