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Umbrella Movement: Legco Clearance – 15 December, 2014

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A lone last tent stands defiant beneath the two flags, one system.

The Hong Kong Legislative Building includes a Designated Demonstration Area (DDA) underneath it’s ‘drum’ where anyone can legally protest about anything to the government. Yet it seems that the people elected by Hongkongers to serve and represent them are getting selective in the disputes they like to hear/see. Or rather, they’re too lazy to walk 50m and want the prestige of being driven to the door in their chauffeured transport (paid for by taxpayers of course).

The tented pro-Democracy protest site in the DDA – which was also raising awareness of recycling and objecting to the waste of public money that is the new incinerator (a topic for another day) – was cleared today 15 December, 2015 so that Chinese Premiere Xi is appeased when he visits Macau to celebrate the 15th Anniversary of the Macau SAR.
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Umbrella Movement: Causeway Bay – 14 December, 2014

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Causeway Bay’s last day…

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Your Rights v Police Powers

The increasing suppression of freedom of speech, the blocking of the press by the police to prevent their actions being recorded, scrutinised and exposed when illegal is fast turning Hong Kong into a police state.

There has been nothing public from the ineffectual buffoons in Legco to instruct the police to act in this manner. So one can only assume the harassment is on the instructions of Cy Leung and his Beijing puppet masters.

With this random stop, search, arrest, assault – it’s important that you know your rights and what the police are legally allowed to do. Not that, as we have seen, the police obey the law.

It’s called the Hong Kong Civil Liberties Union Protestors Rights Handbook – but it’s worth reading by anyone as it offers a good simple explanation of your basic legal rights when dealing with the police. Download a pdf copy here

The police have extensive powers, the two most relevant sections of the Police Force Ordinance are Chapter 232, section 54 entitled ‘The Power to stop, detain and search’ and Chapter 232 section 50 entitled ‘Arrest, detention and bail of suspected persons and seizure of suspected property’.

Several tweets have quoted police officers in Mong Kok as saying that if they see the same id card in their random stop and search harassments – then that person will be arrested.

The attraction of Mong Kok is wandering the streets full of wonderful street food and restaurants while trying to decide what’s to eat or buy… if that’s now been deemed illegal then it looks like a slow death for Mong Kok shops by police intimidation of their customers. I love the red bean pancakes and other pastries at the Kee Tsui Cake Shop 奇趣餅家, 135 Fa Yuen Street, but going there to buy them each week I now face the prospect of being arrested.

Or perhaps this is part of the bigger plan by the government, property tycoons and the Urban Renewal Authority to destroy the Mong Kok we love and replace it with more generic shopping malls targeting mainland tourist shoppers.

謝曬皮 Tse Sai Pei The Incapable – The ‘Fakeness’ of the Pan-Dem Camp

謝曬皮 Tse Sai Pei The Incapable political cartoon on the fakeness of the pan-dem camp, stealing the hard effort of the ordinary protesters

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【話你戇鳩怕你嬲】無篩選版 – David Cheang

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvHJ_yt4k_8

【話你戇鳩怕你嬲】無篩選版 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvHJ_yt4k_8)

An alternate perspective from David Cheang
歌曲 : David Cheang (多謝你)

酒吧中聽你跟我呻
你話佔中班友喺度攪乜撚
阻鳩住做生意車都冇撚得搭喇喂
快啲拉鳩哂佢地
我問你你有冇到過現場
(佢話) 我日日睇TVB 由朝睇到晚呀
(你睇啲學生吖) 攪鳩亂個香港警察都好撚慘
快啲拉鳩哂佢地

[CHORUS] (我心諗吖真係) 朋友你太戇鳩
但我講出口又怕你嬲
你既廢話污染這地球
朋友我好撚難受
朋友你太戇鳩
怕我講出口覆水難收
若你食屎可以將你拯救
望住你唔知你要食幾多先會夠[CHORUS]

你咪同我講有正有反好平常啫
喂但係依家係良知同暴力打緊仗
你沒有信念請行埋一邊
咪阻擋理想開花那一天

[CHORUS]

朋友你太戇鳩
但我講出口怕你難承受
呢個世界太多柒頭
香港點撚得救
朋友戇你個鳩
怕我講出口你難承受
若你食屎可以將你拯救
望住你我怕你食幾多都唔夠
望住你我怕你食幾多屎
都唔撚夠

Rough English translation of the lyrics
Sitting in the bar, listening to you complain.
You ask, what the fuck are these students doing?
Blocking us doing fucking business.
Can’t even catch the dick bus.
Just fucking arrest them all
I ask if you have ever been there in person.
You say you watch TVB all day and night.
You say look at those students messing up Hong Kong.
Fuck, look at those poor suffering police.
Just fucking arrest them all.
In my heart I think, ‘My friend, you’re so fucking stupid
but I am afraid if I tell you, you would get angry.
But really, your bullshit pollutes the earth.’
My friend your crap makes me feel bad.
But if I say it, I won’t be able to take it back.
Can eating shit save you?
But how much shit do you have to eat before you wake up?
You saying going back and forth is very normal.
That’s saying peace and violence are fighting a war.
If you don’t have belief please get out of the way.
You’re in the way of the day flower blooms.
My friend your crap makes me feel bad.
But if I say it I won’t be able to take it back.
Can eating shit change your mind?
But how much shit do you have to eat before you wake up?
With your thinking, how can Hong Kong will be saved?
I look at you, I am afraid no matter how much shit you eat.
It will never be enough.
Never enough.

Umbrella Movement: Police Destruction of Education – 11 December, 2014

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The PTU hack down the Umbrella Square study area, a place built with love for the futures of Hong Kong students.
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Umbrella Movement – 9 December, 2014

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After a very blustery night, the wind has eased, the sun is out and it’s a beautiful morning in Umbrella Square.
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Editorial – 3 December, 2014

If this is a ‘proper’ (only water, no food or supplements) hunger strike – and that will take some extreme bravery from those involved – then at some stage CY Leung and the HK Government face a massive problem. Do they arrest and force feed the three involved, or do they let them stave to death live on social media and in-front of the world’s press, creating martyrs across Hong Kong and China.

In failing to negotiate, listen and address the real and underlying causes of the protestors – which have nothing to do with the Basic Law, but centre ultimately around the erosion of hope – the government is failing its citizens. Hence the desire to be able to have a say in who’s in charge. If CY Leung and the rest of the government had been doing a good job in recent years in looking after the needs of all Hongkongers, how they’d been chosen/elected would be irrelevant.

Aspiration, hope and hard work have long been the driving force across all strata of Hong Kong. The knowledge that no matter where you were born, hard work would allow you to improve your lot and the only limit to your aspirations was your own ability and effort. Many people’s hopes are focused on simple things like having their own home (rented or bought), being able to offer their children a good education and life… others want to achieve more.

These hopes, aspirations and sheer hard work are the engine room that drive Hong Kong and make it one of the greatest places in the world to live. Sadly the nepotism, greed and incompetence of those regulating Hong Kong’s engine room – politicians and their tycoon cronies is starving it of air and fuel and hope is slowly dying.

Erecting barriers to stifle hope, helps no one – it just destroys the city. CY Leung’s arrogance, incompetence and stupidity have put himself in a lose lose situation – let’s hope that 689’s own ego won’t allow him to go down in history as the man who destroyed Hong Kong.