[CaptainCrunch]

At the end of the day, this is a horrific situation. But you're dealing with a government that really doesn't give a crap about individual rights and privlidges. You're realistically dealing with a government system that's built around a government defined concept of law and order and structure. And a government that doesn't care all that much about external opinion.


The protestors put themselves into a bad situation when they started doing things like shooting arrows and cops and tossing molotov cocktails, and rushing the police.



I mean seriously, there was no other way this was going to go. The government pulled the extradition law off of the table. That was surprising to me, but I think that was a velvet gloved warning of, we'll do this one thing, you'd better knock it off.


We also have to realize that for the most part the police over there aren't trained the same way that we are here. Its enforcement at all costs, and human rights are defined by what the government defines them as during this situation.



If you look back on Tienanmen Square. it didn't take long for the Chinese Government to send in APC's to smash barracades and send in tanks and the army.



This is now about the police and government putting this thing down with the most brutality possible as a warning to anyone that might think protesting is a good idea.