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Violence Erupts As Hong Kong's Leader Threatens To Use "All Necessary Measures To Restore Social Order"
Having tried (unsuccessfully) to break up the pro-democracy protesters in the heart of Hong Kong using local triad gangs (as opposed to the optics of actual police), it appears the Chinese government is rolling back from its "wait-and-see" approach and becoming more aggressive once again. Hong Kong's Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying, as DPA reports, demanded protesters end their blockade of major roads by Monday, or the government will take "all necessary measures to restore social order." Tensions continue to rise, with clashes breaking out sporadically, as the protesters have broken off talks with the government. As fears of another Tiananmen square debacle loom, former Hong Kong governor Chris Patten noted, "I cannot believe it would be so stupid as to do anything like send in the army."
At least 37 people were injured yesterday in the violence, taking the number of those hurt throughout the protests to 131, health officials said.
Theseare not the images the world has come to think of with regard to Hong Kong...
Following yesterday's non-police triad-based pro-government gangs attacks...
Hong Kong's Secretary for Security Lai Tung-kwok Saturday said 19 people were arrested on Friday when clashes broke out between Occupy Central protestors and anti-Occupy people.
Clashes happened in Mong Kok and Causeway Bay, two major commercial areas of Hong Kong, from Friday afternoon to early Saturday morning, leaving some citizens and police officers injured.
In regard to queries that the police were not capable of handling the clashes in time, Lai explained that as the crowd grew bigger in Mong Kok, fights scattered in different locations, making it more difficult for the police to deal with them.
Of the 19 people arrested, eight of them are suspected to have triad backgrounds, according to Lai.
"We do not approve any of this violence. Hong Kong is a lawful society. Every citizen in Hong Kong should abide by the law. Nobody wishes to see what has happened yesterday," he said, adding that the police would faithfully and truthfully enforce the law with patience.
Which led to dialogue with the government to cease...
“The government and police have allowed triads and thugs to use violence to attack peaceful protesters, cutting off the road to any conversation, and should be responsible for any fallout that results,” the Hong Kong Federation of Students said in the posting on its Facebook page titled “Road to Dialogue Must be Shelved.”
It appears the government is firming its position once again... (as DPA reports,)
Hong Kong Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying calls on pro-democracy protesters to end their blockade of major roads by Monday, adding that the government will take "all necessary measures to restore social order."
In a video message, he says access roads to government headquarters must be opened by Monday to allow civil servants to return to work, and that roads on Hong Kong Island must be cleared so that schools can re-open.
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“I am indeed very concerned about the clashes we have seen in Mong Kok,” Carrie Lam, the city’s second-highest ranking official, told reporters yesterday. “These protests on the streets have great vulnerability to turn into critical violence between the protesters and the anti-protesters.”
The last British Governor of Hong Kong, Chris Patten, has some strong opinions on the way ahead for Hong Kong,
It is not wholly true to say that the eyes of the entire world are on Hong Kong. They would be, of course, if people in mainland China were allowed to know what is happening in their country’s most successful city. But China’s government has tried to block any news about the Hong Kong democracy demonstrations from reaching the rest of the country – not exactly a sign of confidence on the part of China’s rulers in their system of authoritarian government.
Before suggesting a way forward for Hong Kong’s ham-fisted authorities, three things need to be made clear. First, it is a slur on the integrity and principles of Hong Kong’s citizens to assert, as the Chinese government’s propaganda machine does, that they are being manipulated by outside forces. What motivates Hong Kong’s tens of thousands of demonstrators is a passionate belief that they should be able to run their affairs as they were promised, choosing those who govern them in free and fair elections.
Second, others outside of Hong Kong have a legitimate interest in what happens in the city. Hong Kong is a great international center, whose freedoms and autonomy were guaranteed in a treaty registered at the United Nations. In particular, the United Kingdom, the other party to this Sino-British Joint Declaration, sought and received guarantees that the survival of Hong Kong’s autonomy and liberties would be guaranteed for 50 years.
So it is ridiculous to suggest that British ministers and parliamentarians should keep their noses out of Hong Kong’s affairs. In fact, they have a right and a moral obligation to continue to check on whether China is keeping its side of the bargain – as, to be fair, it has mostly done so far.
But, third, the biggest problems have arisen because of a dispute about where Hong Kong’s promised path to democracy should take it, and when. No one told Hong Kongers when they were assured of universal suffrage that it would not mean being able to choose for whom they could vote. No one said that Iran was the democratic model that China’s Communist bureaucracy had in mind, with the Chinese government authorized to exercise an effective veto over candidates.
In fact, that is not what China had in mind. As early as 1993, China’s chief negotiator on Hong Kong, Lu Ping, told the newspaper People’s Daily, “The [method of universal suffrage] should be reported to [China’s Parliament] for the record, whereas the central government’s agreement is not necessary. How Hong Kong develops its democracy in the future is completely within the sphere of the autonomy of Hong Kong. The central government will not interfere.” The following year, China’s foreign ministry confirmed this.
The British Parliament summarized what had been said and promised in a report on Hong Kong in 2000. “The Chinese government has therefore formally accepted that it is for the Hong Kong government to determine the extent and nature of democracy in Hong Kong.”
So, what next?
The peaceful demonstrators in Hong Kong, with their umbrellas and refuse-collection bags, will not themselves be swept off the streets like garbage or bullied into submission by tear gas and pepper spray. Any attempt to do so would present a terrible and damaging picture of Hong Kong and China to the world, and would be an affront to all that China should aspire to be.
The Hong Kong authorities have gravely miscalculated the views of their citizens. Like the bad courtiers against whom Confucius warned, they went to Beijing and told the emperor what they thought he wanted to hear, not what the situation really was in the city. They must think again.
Under the existing plans, there is supposed to be a second phase of consultations on democratic development to follow what turned out to be a counterfeit start to the process. Hong Kong’s government should now offer its people a proper second round of consultation, one that is open and honest. Dialogue is the only sensible way forward. Hong Kong’s citizens are not irresponsible or unreasonable. A decent compromise that allows for elections that people can recognize as fair, not fixed, is surely available.
The demonstrators in Hong Kong, young and old, represent the city’s future. Their hopes are for a peaceful and prosperous life in which they can enjoy the freedoms and rule of law that they were promised. That is not only in the interest of their city; it is in China’s interest, too. Hong Kong’s future is the main issue; but so, too, is China’s honor and its standing in the world.
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For some context - this is the scale of the protests...
h/t @WilliamsJon
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Ebola will fix this too.
From Triad to Triage... Interesting connection...
Hong Kong Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying calls on pro-democracy protesters to end their blockade of major roads by Monday, adding that the government will take "all necessary measures to restore social order."
Except allowing the people to vote for someone not owned by TPTB. Same story everywhere...
Does " taking all necessary measures to restore social order." mean granting visas to persons from countries with Ebola outbreaks to infect the protestors, causing them to disperse?
Governments would never do something so evil as to attack their own citizens, as an excuse to curtail their rights, would they?
Just ask the 9/11 commission.
I have always enjoyed Hong Kong and continue to be very impressed by its people. Living under One Country-Two Systems is a recipe for stress. The students, general population, and even many of the local government officials have behaved amazingly well under such trying conditions. The business men, of course, moslty only care about not rocking the boat, but even some of them are starting to think beyond the next quarter.
This is an excellent update. Thank you for posting it.
Again, you shit western media, those anti-occupation people are not gangs or paid by governments, those are just shoppers, residents. Those "democracy students" don't let anyone pass, whether it is office workers, tram or ambulance. They represent Democracy? fuck yourself.
Those who claim themselveves as "democratic fighters" are just ruining HK. Want HK to be another Libya, Iraq or Ukraine.
Chinese want democracy but not such kind of.
Western media always spreads fulse information, manipulating people's minds.
Again, wish Ebola and ISIS fighters spread to western media who incite violence
And Tyler Durden, you HAVE TO write your article base on truth, not rumors or imagination
anout 70-80% local HK residents don't agree those students and occupation central, they support police to restore order. Only 100-150,000 students or 2-3% of HK population occupied street.Not to say there are numerous mainland chinese back government. Chinese want peace, wealth and prosperity, and democracy is only method not a target. if democracy destroy wealth, democracy is useless.
I'm thinking of heading to Hong Kong just to join the force and break a few heads. I missed out on the 'ol Canadian clubbing baby seals thing and feel that I missed something, like a hole in the soul. Anyone know what they pay? Thanks in advance to anyone who can help.
Why not join ISIS? Cut off a few heads, rape a few Christians and maybe get on CNN... All for $2300 a month... Sounds perfect for an out of work merc...
"All for $2300 a month..."
Does that include meals and lodging?
Looks like a shit ton of ants fighting over a couple of sugar cubes...
^.^
Yes, and Hong Kong is held up as a model economy and a model way to live. Fuck that shit, I'de rather fucking die than live like those ants in their fucking hill. Do they ever even see a green leaf or blade of grass? They are packed like sardines in those King Oscar cans my Swedish old man used to eat every day. Asia and it's hordes of human ants can have it and their great economy. Give me a nice Swedish pine forest running down to a meadow covered in wild flowers ringed by blue lakes and rivers, blue sky above. How does mankind consider Hong Kong even a human civilization? Seems like a vision of hell on earth to me.
Make sure you wear your turban jack, sweden will soon be the Northern Caliphate...
Tubanites mad because IKEA shite is fake wood.
Sweden is like living in your refregerator. nice to look at from the outside, cold and boring inside.
You can get good chinese food 24 hours a day.
You can also get good Chinese poon. Read Roosh's low opinion of Scandinavian women: masculine, feminist, progressive, statist etc. I'll pass.
I would never live in HK, Manila or KL. I'd consider Singapore for several years, but I'd gladly spend a decade or two in Bangkok....fuck I love the food.
Hey Jack -
Lay off the King Oscar sardines. I'll be eating them tomorrow night in the swamps of Alabama. Leaving at 5 am for a kayak trip to some indian mounds. Sounds like your old man had his priorities stright to me! :)
"Do they ever even see a green leaf or blade of grass?"
Of course they do. As cities go, Hong Kong is rather nice. I'd rather live there than ANY big American city.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCl0lMY39cY
Try breathing the air in HK, especially during June/July. Your chest will hurt and what you cough up would make any 3 pack a day smoker proud. When it rains, wearing a white shirt is a bad idea because it turns into a rust color. I like the food and the vibe but I'd never want to live there.
hhahahaha Jack Burton, all of Asia is a giant anthill.
It is addicting...the food, the women, the vibrancy, the motorbikes, the smell....of hell? Who knows? I think you are onto something in Sweden....
A tiny as in micro miniature studio apartment in an old building anywhere in Hong Kong will rent for at least US $2000 per month, and guaranteed with giant coackroaches that chase people and rats the size of Dachshunds. HK is only good for the rich, the middle class was destroyed through outsourcing every job possible to the mainland. Over half the people survive only due to a type of government welfare and there is no future for the young as the greedy, rich speculators have bid up property valuations to highest in the world levels. I lived in HK for a year and during the 6 month hot season if you don't have super expensive air conditioning you'll suffocate to death in the wretched, humid swelter of polluted toxicity. In the cool season it's livable but the crowding is beyond belief, the people are stressed-out, rude and nasty, and husband-wife teams need to work 12 hours a day each just to make ends meet while the only entertainment comes through sadistically abusing the poor Filipino or Indonesian maid that takes care of the brat, sleeps in the bathroom or on the kitchen counter and that you need to pay US $400 a month to. HK does have a certain surface glitz of energy and color but most foreigners even with good paying jobs are screaming to get out after one year--it's that kind of place and sooner or later HK will completely implode.
"The government", by, of, and for the Elite.
"Restore order", ie Status Quo benefitting the Elite.
Same as it ever was?
(Who's the user that keeps posting that phrase?)
At $20,000 a day in an isolation unit you only need 250,000 ebola patients to increase GDP by 10%.
Plus you get oodles of shovel-ready jobs...
Again "the only ones at risk are the healthcare professionals." That should save the taxpayer at least a trillion dollars. And that's just Year One.
Fema beats Bitcoin as we speak!
Why not make it a part of the new basket? Ebola's & Fema's as the new currencies that appreciate.
Tanks running over these violent protesters would take care of this like Ebola. These morons want the failed system of democracy so they can vote to take other people's money, and they are shutting down other people's livelihoods with these protests. They could go to a park or rent a stadium. Kill them all.
Well, aren't you a regular little Pol Pot.
Wrong, silly. These protesters are the commies, like Pol Pot. Why do you equate democracy with individual freedom? Are you that naive? My opinion of posters here has suddenly evaporated. Take the red pill of the dark enlightenment.
Let's see, the protesters are in the streets defending the agreement promising free elections made when England returned HK to Communist China about 15 years ago. Do you know what a Communist is? Do you know what Pol Pot did in Cambodia. Can you explain to all of us how the protesters in the streets demanding the rights agreed to have suddenly morphed into communists?
Are you old enough to vote yet?
And your rank in the PLA is what?
This ebola thing predicts so many changes politically, socially and financially. If they don't get it cured very quickly everything else is going to change. This may be one of the last large demonstrations that we see for a while. What a coincidence. Might make it possible for the bankers to collapse the markets if nobody can protest.
Bring in the tanks!!!
The rest of the world will just go shopping as always!
Tanks a lot.
Reminds me of Eastern Germany just before the fall of the iron curtain. Only BIGGER!!!
But nowhere near as sexy. Damn, Walled-In Germany, why you so sexy?!
Hong Kong going to treat 'em like the DC US gun and badge thugs treated Kelly Thomas,
http://21stcenturywire.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/1-Kelly-Thimas-Bef...
and James Boyd:
http://www.policestateusa.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/JamesBoyd2.png
An American, not US subject.
Nothing new here just more violent force used by thugs in power against anyone that dares stand up to them. This is very bullish and I expect the stock market to jump another 100 points on Monday.
You're right, but you neglect Victoria "Cookie" Nuland-Kagan and cohorts have spent a lot of time and moola, fluffing the crowd.
Be safe my sino-brothers and -sisters. I speak for Colorado: we're here for you. Be strong and kill your phones.
Tanks when ?
It seems they have their icon : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vvxlGUki7U
Dammit it's Football season in the USSA where Guys wear other mans name Jerseys and parade around like cheer leaders. Gay Amerika is here
Don't they know the Rutgers game is on?
Yeah, I know. I always like to troll people I know when they do this. "You're not fooling anyone, 'cuz you don't look anything like <name on jersey>". "You really need to work on that football player costume, 'cuz the jersey without any pads just isn't working." Etc.
NFL fans usually have a Mandingo cuckold fetish, as well. Losers.
Footbola
in kiev ukrainia soros cia freedom agents charge 30 usd a day.
in syriana cia isis charge 50 dollars a day
hong kong students have iphone contracts with 2 year locked in periods
they need to charge more 150 dollars a day
all funneled through ngo init.
time for china mainland to reply to the rabbi via syria
Hey Tony, watch me pull a rabbi out of my hat!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3IogNN0NwQ
Were the people in Hong Kong ever allowed to elect their fucking British governors, such as Chris Patten? Democracy? What a fucking joke! Name just one British HK governor hadn't made tons of money illegally for himself. There wasn't even a single one. Uncle Xi, please just be "stupid" and roll the tanks out. As soon as machine guns start to roar, those pussies paid by the Empire will run as fast as they can from the scene.
Nah, they can still win by playing the Procedure game: Announce that the size and duration of protests now constitute a Public Health Issue and, as such, they now have to "disperse temporarily", to allow Sanitation Crews to clean and sanitize the affected areas.
Failure to comply would constitute criminal behavior, that would have to be resolved via LEAs. Any aggressive acts in response to civic attempts to clean the area would constitute acts of Domestic Terrorism.
And good luck in regrouping after the place has been cleared and cleaned. Not gonna be allowed.
"I cannot believe it would be so stupid as to do anything like send in the army."
Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun. -- Some Chinese guy.
Chris Patten noted, "I cannot believe it would be so stupid as to do anything like send in the army."
Look back at footage of the Boston door to door search for ONE wounded fuckin kid after the Marathon...
chris patten has been covering up for catholic paedophiles for years.
in the bbc and out.
working for rome paying of thousands of men raped when they was kids payouts ranging from 20-100 thousand pounds.
private no courts just legals and nda vows never to talk.
watta fucking catholic british rotter.
Spose he can outrun Walt?
This is where Patten shows what a tool he is.
"No one told Hong Kongers when they were assured of universal suffrage that it would not mean being able to choose for whom they could vote. No one said that Iran was the democratic model ..."
Where is this utopia he's dreaming about where people and not banksters for instance choose who the choices will be? Just look what happened to Ron Paul's attempt in the bastion of Homeland-style freedom.
chris patten has been covering up for catholic paedophiles for years.
Well that certainly explains the "source" rather well. Catholics and Zionists have been profitable selling the best stories and making money from them since Longinus made history with that spear!
Thx for the info t
Obamao?
Where are the youth of America?
From my personal experience they're on the side with those with the truncheons. "After a while you enjoy beating the crap out of people."
This is one of the major metro areas of the world...good luck rolling in your Triad Tanks in there.
This Island Governator seems hopelessly fascist. Wonder if he's the one out the two billion on the Canadian coal mine thingy...
Parent's basements generally speaking.
Walking down the streets of USSA, texting and bumping into light poles.
All the while sipping on their double espresso latte grande.
Completely oblivious to the real alligator creeping up on their backside ready to eat them for lunch.
Sheeple, a term used loosely to describe the average college age youth of the USSA...
DaddyO
"Where are the youth of America?"
Protesting for more communisim/socialisim.
"Gimmie my free stuff!!!" "What?!?!?! I actually ahve to pay back loans?!?!?! Obama??? Pay for me!!!"
And use some of my welfare money to pay for my utilities? Everything else is free or subsidised, why not tap water?
The ones not buried in iGadgets or comatose in a HFCS and TransFat dispensery could be at an Americorps/FEMAcorps/ObamaYouth meeting. Search it. Here is an example:
http://victoriajackson.com/8275/obama-youth-army-and-h-b-1388
That makes me want to vomit!
They join the US military to fight in foreign lands to kill people bringing them freedom and democracy.
They only represent about .03% of the population.
The rest are playing video games pretending they joined the US military to fight in foreign lands to kill people bringing them freedom and democracy.
Sadly, this is quite accurate. It doesn't need to be this way, as the little horsemen all seem to abstain from such behavior. Thank God we threw out our television when they were babies and never purchased or allowed a video game console.
They've got their head buried in a smart phone complete with blinders and a feed bag.
Getting tatoos, getting high, and discussing their bi-curious desires.
Same shit different government
Send in the clowns
What nessasary measures Hung Dong?.
What happens when a get a algro sell-off virus? Simple question, working with you, not against. Keep that in mind.
Kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk!
That was the last warning of China.
The penultimate warning was one class in favor of the Chinese government giving beating protesters.
Going forward will be hard hit in the face and many passports - CIA and soups little letters - trying to get out of Hong Kong.
I will say one thing to you, some will not be able to leave on time and will be questioned after nobly, suicidados.
The Chinese are like the Russians, give warnings.
Then whack ya with gusto.
No use estrebuchar the West, Russia and China turn a deaf ear as if to say - fuck them.
hehe.
The scale of protests picture is breath taking. Really amazing photo. Do you think Murica would assemble like that?
Only on Black Friday or new Iphone launch
Wow, everywhere a government challenges USD reserve currency status, democracy protests break out. What a weird coincidence.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/us-now-admits-it-is-funding-occupy-central-...
Putin was right. Everything the US touches turns to sh!t.
Wow, everywhere a government challenges USD reserve currency status, democracy protests break out. What a weird coincidence.
Well said indeed Al!
Another ebola post. Documentation of aerosol ebola, not speculation or conjecture.
I believe ebola is pertinent to the Hong Kong protests.
The oligarchs,under guise of public health, are going to have to institute martial law Plan accordingly.
Remember our food supply chain is three days long, and so is the average home pantry. Any increase in food demand will result in severe shortages like the 22LR situation.
Please copy and paste the documents below for future reference
Ebola is most definiely aerosol, another lie by the oligarchs. This has been known to the US military since at least 1995.
The links below document transmission by aerosol in a primate research facility and other like events.
http://socioecohistory.wordpress.com/2014/09/18/us-army-says-ebola-flu-i...
http://vet.sagepub.com/content/50/3/514.full
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1997182/
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4113787/
AbstractThe potential of aerogenic infection by Ebola virus was established by using a head-only exposure aerosol system. Virus-containing droplets of 0.8-1.2 microns were generated and administered into the respiratory tract of rhesus monkeys via inhalation. Inhalation of viral doses as low as 400 plaque-forming units of virus caused a rapidly fatal disease in 4-5 days. The illness was clinically identical to that reported for parenteral virus inoculation, except for the occurrence of subcutaneous and venipuncture site bleeding and serosanguineous nasal discharge. Immunocytochemistry revealed cell-associated Ebola virus antigens present in airway epithelium, alveolar pneumocytes, and macrophages in the lung and pulmonary lymph nodes; extracellular antigen was present on mucosal surfaces of the nose, oropharynx and airways. Aggregates of characteristic filamentous virus were present within type I pneumocytes, macrophages, and air spaces of the lung by electron microscopy. Demonstration of fatal aerosol transmission of this virus in monkeys reinforces the importance of taking appropriate precautions to prevent its potential aerosol transmission to humans.
china should turn the fucking gas off..like ukrainia
yes you will say hong dong is hot hot.
i am talking the killer blow
no wok
no egg fu yung
these iphone ipad,nike lomo trendy hipster bastards cannot cope
without a stir fry
Hong Kong gets its water and electricty too from China. Turn off the water! That'll do it.
Happened in Brazil like.
Burned a lot of buses and bank branches, many trades.
Dilma Rousseff has placed military intelligence and the Federal Police - equivalent to the FBI in stopping to investigate.
The Feds seized vehicles with suitcases full of dollars, imrensa appeared in only 15 minutes.
The money had origin NGOs and was distributed to the protesters.
If you reached some embassies seen the strips involving the wads of cash.
Was enough.
I believe it was when someone in Israel or Washington DC told Oops!
Fucked now!
In the left quiet until now.
Hopefully should be so.
hehe.
Too many of you here don't recognize that these protesters are violent, using force to deny others a major part of the city. Kill all of them; I bet they are the real socialists.
I think you are being sarcastic. If not, hello Uncle Joe,
"former Hong Kong governor Chris Patten"
Yes he won a landslide vote in HK if I remember.
Most here may not realize that is sarcastic joke, and that he was appointed.
And it was a democratic vote, I mean the IBM machines were counting the votes. ANd then it is democratic enough.
If the Chinese leaders were as shrewd as Puitin, they would have conducted numerous surveys inorder to determine where the majority of people in Hong Kong stand on the issues and how they bregard the protests. These would have been sorted and analyzed by raw numbers, by age group, by economic and educational status, and by address. Then the leaders would conduct a public relations campaign to diffuse the protests and divide the protesters, and at the same time to unite and articulate the feelings of the majority. Once the public mood had been shifted to favor the authorities, these leaders should call for a refendum, phrased in such a way as to "democratically" support their position.
Personally, I believe that it would be a close vote to support the staus qou and to oppose the protests.
Social Order...
Social Justice...
All Dear Leaders think alike.
This demonstration will be smashed just like Tienanmen square.
Decent people hope so. Squish those commie rats. The CCP is more capitalist the Dems or Reps.
So, it is said Hong Kong has a strong foundation of law and order.
Then, this chaos is so easy to resolve that you won't believe it.
Got cameras in every corner? Yes, well, then it is easy to enforce it.
1. Fine every one who has unlawfully trespassed on the public road without permission.
2. So, it is said vendors in the nearby area suffered an estimated loss of $3 billion for lost profit and sales. Also, countless businesses and salary men/women were blocked for work and suffered economic loss. Excellent! Hong Kong government shall file a class action lawsuit against all those who unlawfully trespassed and blocked traffic... for a loss of circa $50 billion and any punitive damages, etc.,etc.,
Here's what the so-called executive of Hong Kong shall do immediately:
1. Announce a lawsuit seeking an amount of damage of $50 billion Hong Kong dollars against all those " occupiers" for economic loss resulted from such an unlawful act..
2. Order the Police department to collect all cameras image and use face recognition software to indentify each and every trespasser for infraction of traffic law, etc. and fine them under the current law....It shall bring a fortune for Hong Kong government, given hundreds of thousands of offenders....
SEE, THERE IS REALLY NO NEED FOR "PHYSICAL" VIOLENCE BY USING LEGAL FORCE. Or, alternatively, oursourcing some nice cops from the USA who shall browbeat the issue away in no time. The fact is that, on average, US cops shot circa 1,000 people to death each and every year, and, get this, Cops in USA got all encomiums for "this" brazen bravado.
"former Hong Kong governor Chris Patten noted, "I cannot believe it would be so stupid as to do anything like send in the army."
Maybe Chris should lecture the Chinese about the Opium Wars.
who down votes history? Read a book you down voters.
China crack-down on Hong Kongers 'given' autonomy of rights precludes what is taking place with repatriation of US Treasuries, COMEX and the LBNA running out of good deliverable gold bullion. The lesson is; it is easer to extract the wealth of the minions that are the closest in relation to their proximity.
"I cannot believe it would be so stupid as to do anything like send in the army."
Let's not forget where this event is taking place and the handing off of the "torch" in 1999 by the Jew owned and operated Country that raped it for more than 100 years???... Transitions can be a real bitch especially when an imperialist uninvited guest who won't leave that is 9,000 km from home and just decides to set up shop in your yard to teach your people how to treat "them real well"!!!
Who the fuck is Chris Patten?... And did he ever study American history in the 60's and 70's with the antiwar protests, Kent State and provide "reportage" during the OWS movement?...
Must work real cheap for George Soros!
You are an unmitigated idiot and ta ma de. I wonder who is paying you to post your bilge? And 'who the fuck are you'? Tell us. Inquiring minds wish to know.
"And 'who the fuck are you'? Tell us. Inquiring minds wish to know."...
You know who I am. I'm your conscience A!
I assume there's no bridge to the mainland or the tanks would have already rolled into town and squished them in their tracks.
fyi There are bridges and also the underground links to the mainland or kowloon anyway which is part of Hongkong
Who needs tanks? There are thousands of surplus MRAPs available to squash, I mean quash the demonstrations.
Were I making the decisions, I'd strongly consider spreading rumors about outbreaks of Ebola, and send dozens into the crowds to vomit.
How quickly Americans forgot how their own government treated them when they tried to rebel: remember the OWS? Pure USA hypocrasy on parade once again.
It's true, trying to shame Americans is like trying to shame a cockroach. It's just not possible.
Rebeling? Oh that's rich. I spoke with the leader of OWS Fort Worth and read their literature. A more ignorant gimmieDat bunch I could not find if I tried. They are the up and coming newest generation of the socialist swine of amerika (SSA).
Yeah, say that to Chris Hedges.
Protests in Hong Kong have never been successful.
Taiwan envy.
And so it begins, bitches
WB7 Block Party!
I certainly hope that this turns out well without bloodshed or injury but something tells me that the communist bosses who rose to their positions by whatever [and I mean WHATever] means necessary are somewhat miffed over their obvious loss of control... They will not go gently into the night....
You mean, like america?
Thousands of future organ donors.
Only if they move to the Ukraine.
If they let Asian women drive the tanks those protestors get bang ding ow
Anti-protesters?
The story 'A Bug's Life' comes to mind in this current conflict.
Just send in Mr. Duncan
Patten can't believe the Chinese government would be so stupid as to use force against its own people, but I bet he has no problem with Poroshenko sending rockets and artillery slamming into residential buildings in Donetsk and Lugansk.
99.9% don't even support this traitorous movement. It's a Langley sponsored movement. If you had access to live HK tv you would realize there are not that many occupiers. Nearly all the morons are school children.
Boo hoo don't cry. The truth is 99% the opposite. 'Traitorous' against whom? Your paymasters? Sorry vyeung you are a red-licking wumao. Bereft of history, bereft of morality, and bereft of truth. What's left? Just you a koujiao. Nice you label your children as morons. Cao ni zuzong shiba dai!
Will some one tell them voting is worthless, so they can go home.
Send all these 'freedom fighters' to Syria.
The portrayal is highly inaccurate. The occupy protesters are holding position in three cities, admirably, causeway bay and mong kok. When they refer to triad removal of protests they are referring to the mong kok position. Tria have alot of night clubs, brothels, betting outlets, restaurants etc in that area. What do you expect them to do? Of course they would come out pissed for destroying their businesses. Imagine Las Vegas strip being occupied, you think the casino tycoons would sit idle whilst you destroy their business? The rest of the cities are generally clashes with HK citizens that are against the protesters. The democratic party and it's affiliates are grasping at straws at present as the HK people despise their selfish act. This is nothing but soft tyranny.
The HK government it's only going to retake government buildings that have been blocked. The citizens will drive these traitors out of the street soon enough.
You are certifiably insane. Too bad the corrupt illegal triads have their knickers in a twist. I guess you are in the NT shitting bricks because your parallel import business is taking a hit.
Democracy is a form of government totally unsuitable for any brainwashed population that is so easily persuaded to participate in mob demonstrations orchestrated to destabilize and overthrow existing governments and instigated by organized cabals promoting agendas inimical to the welfare of those they seek to govern.
A high time to call in the snipers.
China should call their snipers, CIA should call their snipers and masacre the crowd.
"I cannot believe it would be so stupid as to do anything like send in the army."
Not needed, just send in ebola. Or what they call ebola, more like lab culture X37R23, something like that.
It's way better than any army.
Being tested here in America? Seems to be working great in Africa.