They are sitting there and then attackers showed up and beat them up. Don't you try to justify violence and sexual harassment with me. 1st lesson of learning to keep your hands to yourself.
And please spare me the self righteous indignation.
Your protesters have hardly been whiter than white.
All through I see the gameplay of colour revolution 101
Confront, demand, provoke, condemn and deny. On this occasion masked by the innocence and immaturity of the kids leading the protest, but following a more subtle guiding hand.
The presence in places like Causeway and Mong Kok is a provocation to local residents and nothing else. Why would a political campaign aimed the local political elite seek to at antagonise the blue collars and small businessmen in purely commercial/retail districts? There are no Political facilities in these areas, there are no legitimate targets for political protest there.
I suspect that the offer of talks were made on the assumption that the HKGov would reject it. The acceptance came as a nasty surprise and nearly killed the protests as the majority upped sticks and went home. The organisers needed a "provocation" to get the numbers back and manufactured one. It also gave them the excuse to back out of talks, accuse everybody else of being a Beijing stooge and generally blame everything on everybody else.
Some people have asked about the end game. Well I think that is pretty obvious. Sooner or later the protesters will denounce the HKGov and its various organs are no longer "legitimate" and set themselves up as the "alternative and legitimate" government of HK. They will of course ask their friends across the waters to recognise them as legitimate.
Seems as though the BBC and similar organs have made up their minds on this already anyway.
As I said Colour Revolution 101.
Broad based election across 35 sub sectors of HK electing 1044 members. The rest comes from nomination of special interest groups. That was in 2011. Not sure whether there would be changes leading to 2017 CE election as the nomination committee election precedes the CE election.
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I thought that was the HK legislative body? Is it the same body or a different one using similar method and composition?
