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Hong Kong: Protestors Vandalize Government HQ

Hong Kong: Protestors Vandalize Government HQ

An estimated 550,000 people gathered in the streets of Hong Kong Monday to celebrate the 22nd anniversary of the former British colony’s return to China.

A smaller group broke from the crowd and swarmed the Legislative Council building, using iron sheets and bits of scaffolding to break through the facility’s glass doors.

Once inside, protestors sprayed messages on the walls and called for the resignation of Chief Executive Carrie Lam.

The violence follows weeks of protests over a proposed extradition bill that would allow Hong Kong to extradite criminal suspects to mainland China.

Critics view the bill as a threat to Hong Kong’s independent judiciary system and worry that Beijing will use it to prosecute political dissidents in Hong Kong. Over the past month, more than 1 million people have taken to the streets to express their anger over the proposed legislation.

“The kind of deafness that I see in the government this time around despite these protests is really worrying,” said one protestor. “The complete disregard for the will of the people is what alarms me.”

Lam suspended all work on the extradition bill in mid-June, but stopped short of protestors’ demands to abandon it completely. The opposition is also calling for an investigation into police use of tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse an earlier protest.

Lam condemned the violence and described Monday’s events as two separate scenes: “One was a peaceful and rational parade…the other one was a heartbreaking, shocking, and law-breaking scene.”

Author’s Note:

As several Chinese outside the scope of Beijing’s censorship have pointed out, the protests in Hong Kong could result in Chinese Communist interference. Then things will get really ugly.

Hong Kong could lose its cherished independence (a seizure that would rattle economic markets) and find itself under complete Chinese rule. Hong Kong may see itself as a tiny dot of freedom trapped on the edge of a Communist dictatorship, but the truth is, the city owes its success to its role as a gateway for the British into China. Remember, without China, Hong Kong would be nothing more than an insignificant fishing village.

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6 Comments

  1. Frank

    Sorry, but I do not agree with you. In my mind the most important amendment is the 2nd. I believe that once you disarm the people any and all amendments can fall. Germany, Russia, China and Argentina are all examples of the disarming of the people and then the true tyranny to place.

  2. Yadja

    GOD BLESS THE MILLIONS READY TO SMELL FREEDOM. GOD HELP AMERICANS WHOSE “OTHERS” WANT TO ENSLAVE US TO SEE WHAT A BLESSING TO LIVE FREE.

  3. Dennis Yavorsky

    “Remember, without China, Hong Kong would be nothing more than an insignificant fishing village.”
    What kind of idiot hires a hack masquerading as a journalist to write this sort of propaganda, let alone get to print (electronic or on paper)? What is that – Justification for PRC murderers to slaughter the Golden Goose that is Hong Kong and blame the victims for the genocide?
    More accurately, what would China be but a larger North Korea without centers of commerce like Hong Kong? Alice Green’s indoctrination is showing. A sane editor wouldn’t let her report on a birthday party without close supervision. Hong Kong is in a struggle for dignity and freedom by holding the Chinese Communist Dictatorship to the contract for the independent judiciary. When it is gone, everything will falter and fail.
    Break that agreement and all of China will end up a backwater along with Hong Kong. That’s when everything will get very, very ugly, not when the protests are throttling back a huge PRC mistake.
    And, fishing villages feed people – The Communist Party and Socialists everywhere spread starvation.

    • Joe Gilbertson

      With that kind of comment, Alice is going to kick your ass…

  4. Joseph Hajjar

    Looks like I need to educate myself. If Hong Kong is part of China then why don’t the same laws apply in Hong Kong. I am not a China fan but a fan of law. It there a specific contract that was made when British rule ended?

    • Joe Gilbertson

      When Britain gave Hong Kong back to China they agreed the rules would be such that Hong Kong could continue to function as the financial center of Asia, with first world freedoms. It still (tentatively) works that way. Might not be for too much longer though.

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