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[TaiShang]

Why not beat them up a little bit? It will be just fun to sit back and watch them getting mildly beaten although I feel for the police who would have to get tired.

 

[BoQ77]

someone think this protest only last for few days before weekend end.
But it lasts for month.

 

[TaiShang]

someone think this protest only last for few days before weekend end.
But it lasts for month.

That's because of your support, old sport. LOL.

 

[terranMarine]

Too bad the 7 cops can't resume work at the moment

BBC News - Hong Kong protests: Policemen arrested over beating

 

[TaiShang]

Is this badly beating? Come on, that's just a little warm up. What would have they done had they faced more resolute and professional US police?

 

[terranMarine]

Is this badly beating? Come on, that's just a little warm up. What would have they done had they faced more resolute and professional US police?

Latest news in US Tamir Rice shooting, did you see the video released on youtube?

 

[TaiShang]

Latest news in US Tamir Rice shooting, did you see the video released on youtube?

No, have not seen. Just read on Cleveland Police Releases Video of 12-Year-Old Boy Shot by White Officer / Sputnik International

That's scary, indeed.

 

[BoQ77]

Hong Kong protesters clash with police after new clampdown
By Reuters

Published: 23:25 GMT, 28 November 2014 | Updated: 23:25 GMT, 28 November 2014

• By James Pomfret
  
  HONG KONG, Nov 29 (Reuters) - Thousands of pro-democracy activists clashed with police in running scuffles in Hong Kong's gritty Mong Kok district early on Saturday in a bid to reclaim part of one of the city's largest and most volatile protest sites.
  
  After a tense standoff lasting hours, chaos erupted as hundreds of riot police baton-charged demonstrators with shields, pepper spraying and wrestling a string of them to the ground.
  
  The clampdown only stoked more protests, and a three-hour march by hundreds of people calling for "real full democracy" helped put the city's 28,000-strong police force further on edge.
  
  Bands of roving protesters stalked the streets deep into the night amid a wail of sirens, sometimes pelting police with eggs, bottled water and wooden boards. Police, some bleeding, lashed out liberally with their batons to keep crowds back.
  
  The fresh tensions came as authorities have struggled for months to find a resolution to the most serious governance crisis in the former British colony since it returned to Chinese rule in 1997.
  
  Unrest has simmered for three straight nights since a swift and surprisingly smooth police clearance of Mong Kok's main protest encampment on Wednesday that resulted in over a hundred arrests including student leaders Joshua Wong and Lester Shum.
  
  Amnesty International on Friday warned the police against the use of excessive force after Wong and Shum both said they were beaten during their arrests. Several reporters were also roughed up, prompting the Hong Kong Journalists Association to lodge a formal complaint and plan a Saturday protest.
  
  "Is there a need to really use so much force to beat us," said Wong Ching-san, a young protester wearing a black jacket and flip flops. "We're not trying to cause violence but when they attack us we fight back."
  
  Medical volunteers manning first aid stations treated scores of injured including those with head injuries, grazes and others who'd been pepper sprayed in the eyes.
  
  A pro-democracy lawmaker who observed the clashes, Leung Yiu-chung, criticised the lack of restraint by some police.
  
  "Some of them were deliberately inciting people," he said.
  
  It has been two months since police first fired tear gas to disperse demonstrators from the main protest site in the Admiralty district next to government offices in the heart of the Asian financial centre.
  
  The protests, which have lasted well beyond many people's expectations, drew more than 100,000 on to the streets of Hong Kong at the peak. While numbers have dwindled, they have swelled to several thousand at weekends and at key moments given a deep-rooted frustration at China and Hong Kong's refusal to in any way offer to meet their democratic demands.
  
  A police spokesman said on Friday officers were worried about reports of excessive force and would investigate.
  
  Lined with jewellery and electronics shops, and grimy tenement blocks, bustling Mong Kok has been a key battleground for hardcore protesters and mobs intent on disbanding them.
  
  The protesters, mostly students, are demanding full democracy. They have called on the city's embattled leader, Leung Chun-ying, to step down after Beijing in August ruled out free elections for Hong Kong's next leader in 2017, despite constitutional promises made by China to allow eventual universal suffrage in the city of 7.3 million.
  
  China rules Hong Kong under a "one country, two systems" formula that accords the former British colony a degree of autonomy and freedoms not enjoyed in mainland China, with universal suffrage set as an eventual goal. (Editing by Susan Fenton and Tom Brown)
  
  
  Read more: Hong Kong protesters clash with police after new clampdown | Daily Mail Online
  

 

[Nan Yang]

10 Lessons From the Hong Kong Protests
1) Beijing will not budge under pressure.
2) Hong Kong citizens reject illegal actions.
3) Pursuit of democracy by undemocratic means won't work.
4) Street politics lead to anarchism.
5) Street politics divide society.
6) Democracy can only be built incrementally.
7) Political turbulence hurts the economy.
8) Poverty and inequality must be tackled.
9) Fat cats are getting too fat
10) Cooperation is the only way forward.

Source:
10 Lessons From the Hong Kong Protests | Han Zhu

 

[pr1v4t33r]

Wong Chi-ping, who has been hunted across Asia for years, finally arrested in huge Jakarta bust that also netted almost a tonne of meth.
scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1676787/hong-kong-drug-kingpin-wong-chi-ping-caught-indonesia-raid

An alleged Hong Kong drugs kingpin wanted in seven jurisdictions has been arrested in Indonesia following the biggest drugs bust in the country's history. Wong Chi-ping had been hunted by police forces across the region for years prior to his seizure on Monday, alongside 840kg of high-grade methamphetamine, according to Indonesian drug officials.

"His syndicate has been a target of the National Narcotics Agency [BNN] for three years and the subject of an intensive investigation in cooperation with authorities in Macau, Hong Kong and Malaysia for the past year," said BNN deputy for Narcotics Eradication Affairs, Dedi Fauzi. Wong, 40, was nabbed after police intercepted the massive meth consignment while it was being transferred between vehicles in the car park of a west Jakarta shopping mall.

Some 42 sacks, each containing 20kg of the drug known locally as "shabu shabu", and a number of vehicles were seized during raid in broad daylight by BNN agents armed with assault rifles. Three Hong Kong-based Chinese suspects, one Malaysian and four Indonesians were also arrested. All nine men could face the death penalty if convicted of trafficking.

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[AgentOrange]

Indonesian bros, be a dear and kill him for us.

Thanks,
China

 

[initial_d]

Indonesian bros, be a dear and ki ll him for us.

Thanks,
China

Don't worry, he'll be sentence by death penalty for sure, or being zero one ( execute In the

Indonesian bros, be a dear and kill him for us.

Thanks,
China

Street

Don't worry, he'll be sentence by death penalty for sure, or being zero one ( execute In the street by pretendinghe's trying to escaped)

Street

 

[Martian2]

A few years ago, in the forums, I learned that Hong Kong was not a democracy during British rule. However, I am not absolutely certain that Hong Kong has never experienced a temporary period of democracy during the 156 years of British rule. This is where you guys come in. You are experts in Chinese and Hong Kong history.

Thus, my assertion in the ABC News comment section is that Hong Kong was never a democracy. I believe this to be true. However, I would like to use your collective expertise to correct me if I am wrong.

China Seizes Toilet Paper Bearing Image of Hong Kong Leader - ABC News

 

[Yizhi]

to my knowledge, crucial government positions were almost all British appointed, especially before 80s. it improved a little after the 'hand over' talk mainly to show the good side of British rule, but not much.
http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/ics/21c/issue/articles/137_1301058.pdf
don't know if you can read Chinese source. @Chinese-Dragon could have better answers.

 

[Chinese-Dragon]

Hong Kong was never a democracy. And we have never been considered or recognized as an independent state or territory (which is correct).

Our top leaders have always been appointed.

Despite the "high and mighty" proclamations from the British, they never considered giving us democracy until a few years before the handover, just as a parting shot at China!

Now, the official narrative from both China and Britain is that "Hong Kong was always a part of China", and the British just "administered" the island on a temporary basis.

That's why the PRC government considers all ethnic Chinese born in Hong Kong to be Chinese nationals, before or after the handover. Because Hong Kong was always officially a part of China, even during the British "temporary adminstration".