HELP! #OpHongKongFreedom

anon8109 · Jul 4, 2014

The crackdown doesn't necessarily have to be tanks shooting civilians in the streets. It can be people disappearing suddenly by the thousands in the middle of the night. People in Hong Kong are wealthy and have much to lose and little to gain. They're not desperate enough to die by the hundreds of thousands to see this thing through. When the government puts mortal fear into the population, the protests will quickly vanish.

Disambiguation · Jul 4, 2014

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White Tara · Jul 4, 2014

I dont know, in a society where there is little in the way of true anonymity some 800 000 people were willing to vote for their right to have truly democratic representation through election. I suspect you underestimate the passion of these people. The truth is we will watch and see. I do not want to see the worst of Chinese dictatorship perpetrated upon the people of Hong Kong forced to staddle the divide of a western life under Chinese rule.

rof · Jul 4, 2014

They should rename it to Hong Cunt.

Then they could censor everything.

White Tara · Jul 4, 2014

The failure of mainstream media to pick this up as a tinderbox about to blow, is disgusting to me.

White Tara · Jul 4, 2014

Hong Kong is a blistering boil on China's arse, lets see this situation get due attention puleese.

rof · Jul 4, 2014

Fuck China.

They should get some aircraft carriers.

Anonymous Button · Jul 4, 2014

http://www.voanews.com/content/hong-kong-protest-organizers-face-charges/1950956.html

The annual protest took on added significance this year amid a campaign to pressure Beijing to allow Hong Kong residents to elect their leader.
…...The protest follows an unofficial referendum in which nearly 800,000 Hong Kong residents voted to be given more control over the nomination of candidates in a 2017 election.

So it's an annual event but it exploded this time

White Tara · Jul 4, 2014

Underlying tensions and. fears will always rise to the surface.

Sekee · Jul 5, 2014

Chris Patten, the last governor of Hong Kong, has attacked Beijing’s increasingly assertive policies towards the former British colony, amid an escalating row between China’s Communist Party leaders and pro-democracy campaigners.
Lord Patten, who oversaw the colony’s return to Chinese control exactly 17 years ago this week, has rarely made public his views on its running.
However, he said he now felt “compelled” to speak out after Beijing released a highly controversial “white paper” in June that has horrified Hong Kong’s legal community.
The lengthy policy document – which was widely interpreted as a warning to Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement – said “loving the country” was a political requirement for judges and civil servants in the semi-autonomous territory.
“The rule of law isn’t a matter – as the Chinese white paper rather surprisingly suggested – of judges being part of a branch of the administration,” Lord Patten said in an interview with The Financial Times.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...s-Beijing-over-interference-in-Hong-Kong.html

Disambiguation · Jul 5, 2014

http://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1546647/roots-hong-kongs-rage

Adding to all these woes we now have the heated constitutional debate on how to elect the chief executive in 2017. Many Hongkongers oppose any attempt by Beijing to limit the field of candidates to trustworthy patriots. On the face of it, it is a matter of Beijing versus Hong Kong people in allowing the people a "real choice". But, essentially, it is about whether Hong Kong people are willing to support the national goal of safeguarding sovereignty, security and developmental interest, or insist on going the other way.

This is pretty funny. This is mainstream China media saying the protests are violent because the protesters say mean things.

atmosphere of violence has set in and is poisoning the civility and stability of our city. Violence in the form of calls to "occupy Central" from self-proclaimed democracy advocates who want to pressurise Beijing into yielding to their demands. Violence in the form of extremist positions on arrangements for electing the chief executive, taken by student groups who will brook no compromise. Violence in the form of reckless filibustering in the Legislative Council, whatever the cost to Hong Kong's future. Violence in the form of unprecedented attempts by young radicals, some armed with offensive weapons, to storm the Legco building. Violence in the form of hate-filled verbal abuse hurled at mainland visitors unaccustomed to the ways of our sophisticated city.

Anonymous Button · Jul 6, 2014

Tension between citizens of Hong Kong and mainland China has been increasing for several years now, metastasising into cross-border online shouting matches that have made strong impressions on people - and governments - in both places.
Earlier this year, mainland Chinese were shocked by a deplorable incident in which Hong Kong locals sprayed mainland tourists with water from bottles labelled "locust insecticide".
As almost every mainland Chinese knows by now, "locust" is what tens of millions of Chinese tourists who visit Hong Kong annually were labelled in a notorious 2012 advertisement in Hong Kong's most ardent pro-democracy newspaper, the Apple Daily. (It was paid for by 800 donors responding to a Facebook campaign.)
It was an ugly message, and it served little purpose beyond highlighting an intractable cross-border culture war - all the while convincing many Chinese that to be pro-democracy is to be anti-Chinese.

- See more at: http://www.straitstimes.com/news/op...ocracy-protests-20140705#sthash.SY2nU4AJ.dpuf
Has good insights into the backstory

Anonymous Button · Jul 6, 2014

n January 2012, an online video of Hong Kong residents berating the mainland Chinese mother of a child eating on a Hong Kong subway went viral. - See more at: http://www.straitstimes.com/news/op...ocracy-protests-20140705#sthash.SY2nU4AJ.dpuf

This is called violence, boy the Chinese sure have a deluded belief about violence.

savehk · Sep 26, 2014

Thanks for all of you posting pictures for us and concerning about HK's issue.
My internet connection were controlled by the gov't and i was unable to access wwp.
However, today, the situation has got more serious.
Secondary School and University Students striked out today for universal sufferage in HK.
They are now being blocked in the gov't headquarters.
Live broadcasting:

Pictures will be posted below. For photo updates, please refer to http://hkgalden.com/view/191556
The word "下一頁" means next page.

A student trying to climb through the fence of the gov't headquarters.

Police displaying the banner showing "Stop Charging Or We Use Force"

The situation outside gov't headquarters. The Chinese words means "Surrounded the gov't headquarters. Regain Civil Square"

Please refer to the link above for more updates. More photos will be posted soon.

Disambiguation · Sep 26, 2014

Bump for bravery

praline · Sep 28, 2014

Cnn picked the story up:
http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/28/world/asia/china-hong-kong-students/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

savehk · Sep 28, 2014

Please go to another post!!
If u know anonymous, call to shut down .gov.hk and .gov.cn.

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