Hong Kong’s MTR was an unlikely target for protests – until it showed who its daddy was

Hong Kong Free Press ^ | 10-12-19 | Ilaria Maria Sala

[rockinqsranch]

Trauma creeps up on you when you are distracted. Someone bends down to pick up a piece of paper that fell on the floor of the MTR train carriage, and even if your eyes are on your phone, you catch that movement with your peripheral vision, and your heart skips a beat.

The images come back unsolicited, and play in the inscrutable theatre of one’s brain: people begging to be spared, kneeling in that same metallic, silvery doorway, crying for help and mercy. Police officers don’t care: they storm the train, they beat people they suspect of being protesters with batons and spite.

[rockinqsranch]

A rather awkward article, but an interesting video associated at link.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Bkmrk.

[hanamizu]

I guess the law against wearing masks does not apply to the police in HK

[null and void]

Laws seldom apply to our ‘betters’.

[Nateman]

Part of the set up. By painting the protesters as unlawful barbarians when they step in to crush them.they will claim to be hero’s restoring the rule of law.

[ifinnegan]

Good description.

[PapaBear3625]

What is happening at present could best be described as a pro-government and pro-Beijing wild-cat strike, against Hong Kong citizens. While signs on their machines complain about the evil-intentioned vandals, the MTR leaves people stranded by shutting down at will, either for the day or just closing a few hours early. A collective punishment of sorts.

One big disadvantage of having to depend on mass transit to get to and from protests.

[rockinqsranch]

Especially when the ones being protested own the railroad among many other entities controlling life as we know it.