Last night I went to sleep to the sounds of sirens and Helicopters near my apartment, eventually I dozed off and woke this morning in a fog!
This morning was quite the scene in HK. What normally takes me around 10 minutes to get to the office took me more than an hour today. I have been through a few war zones in my life, and walking through the streets on a brisk morning gave me a familiar feeling to what it was I was walking through today. People from from nearby businesses trying to clear the streets of bricks that were used in last nights raids and protests! These were taken with my phone as I was walking to my office.
Burnt out cars suggests the damages could be reaching some considerable numbers, as it is evident this has escalated to a new level.
This last photo is telling on this mans face, as a business owner certain frustrations in dealing with the costs, the delays, the traffic interruptions and loss of business is beginning to be felt by everyone here.
Subways were shut down, no bus service and I was lucky to get a Taxi this morning! Even that, it could only take me so far as I had to walk some distance as most streets as you can see were blocked and littered with debris!
Kind of telling that their idea of a way to freedom is for the citizens to trash their own city. Cochise thinking the protesters arenât citizens notwithstanding, if these people donât get straight thereâs going to be a lot of pain coming their way.
Your tired of it because your guilty of it! FYI there has been a issued warning about derailing threads, I advise you to take notice of that regardless of your cuck virtue signaling aside!
Yes, itâs basically comes down to the British treaty that China agreed to insuring Hong Kongers would remain autonomous and retain their rights under its constitution! China is now trying to subvert that when they introduced a extradition law which was the catalyst for these protests. The bill has since been rescinded but now that the cat is out of the bag sort of speak Hong Kong residents want Carrie Lam to step down and hold open elections without Chinaâs interference.
I never received any official warning.
You should be getting plenty of official warnings for your vile language and for damaging the dignity of this forum.
Yeah you saying that is proof positive you donât practice what you preach. And the fact you didnât see that PA is indicative you donât read much either, hence your attempt of trying to derail this thread by trying to air a public grievance. I gave you the opportunity to settle your dispute with me with the moderators in private, an invitation that you chose to ignore. There is a good reason why a lot of people on this forum chose not to respond to you or your threads as you attempt to derail them altogether and there is plenty of evidence to prove that as being correct, so please spare me your false accusations here. If you have a problem with me then you are free to send me a message in private otherwise stop trying to derail another thread as your BS has nothing to do what is being discussed here!
Things are not going to improve in Hong Kong in the foreseeable future because, after all, the former British colony was returned to mainland China.
When I visited Hong Kong in the last century, a young local lady who was the tour guide announced that the island belonged to the Queen forever. Well, it was just her wishful thinking.
If the protesters start vandalizing public and/or private property, the government is going to come, no matter what country, except Sweden, probably.
If youâre a citizen in Hong Kong, whatâs the best thing to do?
Leave. Donât participate in the demonstrations. They are not going to change anything, only make things worse.
It started as a protest about a Bill which would have permitted extradition to China for (something I canât remember now) and which would have legalised the âdisparuâ process.
However during initial peaceful protesting the police were too heavy handed, not to mention the initial âfuck offâ attitude from Carrie Lam, and the protest has now morphed into something else which includes police brutality.
My (asian) Indian friend lives in Hong Kong with his (native to HK) wife, and he has been feeding me occasional updates. A while ago I told him to stop in case the internet-listeners cottoned on to him, but this is now getting almost daily coverage from the BBC so he is probably Ok.
