“Only when there is chaos in society does the government pay some attention to our demands. I think that all police are the same. Maybe I hate them too much, but I think that whatever protesters do, whether they slash their necks or whatever, I think there’s no problem.” — Jane, 21
“Maybe I will die for this movement,” he says, at the edge of one of the pitched battles that demonstrations have frequently become over the past eight months. As protesters beside him pour Molotov cocktails, the teenager straps on a motorcycle helmet to hide his face from cameras and facial-recognition software. Like every protester TIME spoke with, Yannus gave a pseudonym out of concern for his safety. But in his pocket he keeps a handwritten will, addressed to his parents and friends. “I’m ready,” he says, tapping it.
When marchers first took to the streets in June, they had one goal: the withdrawal of a proposed bill that would have allowed extraditions to mainland China. The legislation was eventually scrapped, but the demands broadened amid growing fears that Beijing is eroding the unique freedoms — of press, assembly, speech — that differentiate this cosmopolitan hub of 7.5 million from the rest of China. The endgame remains murky, with no consensus among protesters over whether to ultimately seek independence, universal suffrage or some other semblance of greater autonomy. For now, they have rallied around a common enemy.
The Chinese need to murder them all to extinguish the human spirit. They're not above that, but it might shake the sensibilities of an admittedly wicked world. So they haven't yet.
ReplyDeleteIn China the only acceptable religion is the CCP, where everyone and everything else is expendable. Millions of people could be sacrificed to save the CCP. It's the way things are there.
ReplyDeleteLast night I saw some dimwitted twit here in Seattle wearing a "Resist!" button. I so wanted to smack that jackass upside the head and tell him to go to Hong Kong and "resist," where there are actual consequences to resisting, unlike here where he could be oh so woke and cool being so courageously anti-orange man. But, I figured smacking a 40 year old child would be counter productive.
ReplyDeleteWhy in the crispy crap do our leftards not see this? This moral code, this idea of what is good, this willingness to go into the darkness to do what's right is exactly what the founders of this country lived & breathed. It's what our left is trying to tear down.
ReplyDeleteBe the America the people of Hong Kong think we are.
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