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Old 08-14-2019, 09:13 AM   #58
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Originally Posted by FlameOn View Post
This is the thing, the HK government has no real autonomy, only the illusion of autonomy to placate the people. When push comes to shove and the Chinese government demands something, the HK government can do nothing except abide by the mainland directives. This is why you see the paralysis in the HK gov't.

As for the police, yes they are not politicians, but they are also not the Hong Kong police of old that for the most part served the people. Those for the most part were placed when the last set of protests happened in 2015. Now you have police who are willing to point shotguns at citizens like this guy



There have also been more and more cases where riot police are being replaced with mainland Chinese police. Like this one where "HK" riot police refer to each other as "comrade" in mandarin... totally from Hong Kong, who are they trying to fool.

Not sure they all deserve as much sympathy given the tactics being deployed.
Agreed with all of this. I still feel sympathy though, as just like the whole body of protesters can't be represented by the few who have acted really violently, there must be many on the police force who don't want violent conflict. Some clearly are on board with it, and the mixing in of mainland police makes it worse for all, but the situation could have become much more violent long ago if that's what most of the police were after. Both the nonviolent police and the nonviolent protesters are being let down and set up by the government with Beijing pulling the strings.
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