Hong-Kong Protests

Yesterday at 10:03 PM

Jura said:

I'll check what's happened while I sleep tonight
Hong Kong protests: Civil Human Rights Front loses appeal against police ban on Sunday march, but members will press on in ‘personal capacity’

• Police tell appeal board that march destination at West Kowloon high-speed rail terminus is a possible target of vandalism and attack
• Group calls result ‘regrettable’, with vice-convenor saying event will still go on with help of pan-democrats

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if interested (mostly contains legal issues)

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now the NYT say
Hong Kong Protesters Rally Despite Attacks and Police Ban

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1 hour ago

so let's wait and see

missed this one yesterday in the evening:

manqiangrexue said:

No, not at all like conscription. That calls for able-bodied men to serve their duty for the military. This is volunteer work. Extra credit. If you're angry at them, go give them what you think they deserve. If you don't want to or don't think you can wield a club, stay home and chill. Watch the news. It is exactly as I described it and not like anything else so let's not rack our brains here trying to find a European equivalent, eh?

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OK OK but once your force of "two million red shirts" Yesterday at 9:20 PM became active, it might be hard to deactivate it I mean what if later in some town people said like 'there're crooks in the town hall' and that force then said 'let's go'

Today at 7:38 AM

Jura said:

Yesterday at 10:03 PM
now the NYT say
Hong Kong Protesters Rally Despite Attacks and Police Ban

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1 hour ago

so let's wait and see

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LIVE
Protesters block roads during illegal march in Hong Kong with Kowloon Mosque and Chungking Mansions on high alert

• March organised by the Civil Human Rights Front sets off from Salisbury Garden in shopping district of Tsim Sha Tsui to West Kowloon terminus of high-speed rail link
• Ethnic minority communities in the area wary following a bloody attack on front's convenor Jimmy Sham earlier this week, said to have been carried out by South Asians

somehow related is
Friday at 7:21 AM

Jura said:

inside
Hong Kong police block Sunday protest march against mask ban by Civil Human Rights Front

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the sentence
"Writing on his social media account on Wednesday, Sham called on the public to not harbour hatred against ethnic minorities, after reports that the attackers were not ethnically Chinese."
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Today at 8:41 AM

Jura said:

Today at 7:38 AM...
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... and now my selection of two entries:

5:09PM
Bricks all over Argyle, Shanghai streets
Protesters have strewn bricks all over Argyle and Shanghai streets, waiting to see what riot police, who are not far away, would do.

Meanwhile, at a junction of Nathan Road and Argyle Street, nearly 100 officers in riot gear are standing by with police vehicles and a water cannon. Traffic at the junction of Argyle and Tong Ming streets has come to a standstill as protesters set up barricades.




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5:28PM
Mosque clean-up
Mohammed Sadeque, 34, who came from Calcutta 12 years ago to Hong Kong, says police sprayed blue dye at the Kowloon Mosque and he appreciates fellow Hongkongers helping to clean up the coloured mess. He says he does not understand why dye was sprayed on the religious building as there were not many people around.





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wondering how many protesters are out there (as of now the SCMP says just "large crowd")

The images and SCMP reports say Hundreds of protestors. I'd bet on the safe side and peg it at 2000 ( why not?).

Update : Xiaomi Stores vandalized/firebombed.
MTR stations firebombed.

In Hong Kong, Gasoline Bombs, Masks and … Goodbye Letters
Preparing for the worst, protesters have started writing “last letters” to their loved ones.

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“I actually worry that I will die and won’t see you anymore,” he wrote to her in his letter. “I worry that you will cry and feel devastated. But there is no way that I don’t take to the streets.”

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Failed parenting that’s what this is. Bunch of attention seeking snowflakes.

Today at 11:34 AM

Jura said:

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5:28PM
Mosque clean-up
Mohammed Sadeque, 34, who came from Calcutta 12 years ago to Hong Kong, says police sprayed blue dye at the Kowloon Mosque and he appreciates fellow Hongkongers helping to clean up the coloured mess. He says he does not understand why dye was sprayed on the religious building as there were not many people around.

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related ():
10:27PM
Police bosses leave mosque without taking questions
Police representatives, led by Yau Tsim District Commander Ho Yun-sing, have left Kowloon Mosque following a 45-minute meeting with several Muslim community leaders. The group, which includes Senior Superintendent Yolanda Yu Hoi-kwan from the Police Public Relations Branch, does not answer any questions from reporters on whether police have apologised for the incident in which water cannons sprayed blue dye at the mosque's entrance.

Some people, believed to be officers, were earlier seen cleaning up the area outside.

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the rest of today's events appears to fit the pattern of protesters attacking Police; MTR; mainland-Chinese businesses
EDIT feel free to add what I missed

This guy complaining about denial of entry to Macau? Wonder why cover your face if you have nothing to hide?

Jura said:

missed this one yesterday in the evening:
OK OK but once your force of "two million red shirts" Yesterday at 9:20 PM became active, it might be hard to deactivate it I mean what if later in some town people said like 'there're crooks in the town hall' and that force then said 'let's go'

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You are really getting too into this. First of all, I don't know what "...and that force then said 'let's go'" means. Secondly, they will deactivate when the CCP announces that they are finished. If not, that means they used the red shirt as an excuse to satisfy demented violent urges instead of defeating China's internal enemies. In that case, they are criminals and should be put down by the military just like thugs in black.

I don't want to have these "what if" conversations. "We'll cross that bridge when we come to it" is how I answer.