Dramatic aerial drone footage of Hong Kong protests - video

The Guardian ^ | 9/30/2014 | n/a

[mojito]

Aerial footage filmed by a drone shows the large number of people joining pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong.

[mojito]

Strange and impressive. Many many thousands of people.

Video at the link.

[MeganC]

Where’s the Luddites to tell us that if they were in Hong Kong they’d shoot down these ‘drones’ and that the government should be regulating and limiting them? Looks to me they’d have a friend in the Beijing regime supporting that point of view!

[Veggie Todd]

Very cool.

[Vince Ferrer]

[Sequoyah101]

No, but they can kill enough to make the rest go home.

[cripplecreek]

Funny thing is that liberals are cheering them on while in this country they protest in favor of what the people there are protesting against.

[Jim from C-Town]

Exactly! Everyone in the Tiananmen Square Massacre, 1989 can attest to that. The Chi-Coms killed between 250 to 7,000 people. There where actually hundreds of thousands involved in the demonstrations.

Even after this gross display of brutal dictatorial power, Bill Clinton felt free to take illegal campaign dollars and push for ‘Most Favored Nation Status’ for this human rights abusive regime. Normalization of trade between the U.S. and China has had a significantly negative effect on the industrial base of this country and the wages of the American workers.

[ifinnegan]

George HW Bush sent Brent Scowcroft secretly to Beijing within a month of the massacre to assure the Communists that the US still supported them.

[Ramius]

Nice slander.

[spel_grammer_an_punct_polise]

Nixon is the one who initially started talks with China.

[DouglasKC]

Can’t be a protest..nobody is looting or rioting.

[Jagdgewehr]

Exactly. I pointed this out to a liberal acquaintance today and they had a raging meltdown.

[Gator113]

LOL.... It looks as if the pilot is using the same or similar Quadcopter as the one I have.

[ifinnegan]

Not slander. Totally true.

Why do you think it is slander?

[Prospero]

I remember the Red Cross focusing in on a figure of 2,800 +/- 40... Must have been quite a number of bits and pieces.

I doubt the kind of country troops used to quell Beijing in 1989 would demonstrate greater sympathy for the crowd in Hong Kong.

[BwanaNdege]

"I doubt the kind of country troops used to quell Beijing in 1989 would demonstrate greater sympathy for the crowd in Hong Kong."

Not like the ATF guys did at Ruby Ridge & Waco, right?

[Prospero]

Not like the ATF guys did at Ruby Ridge & Waco, right?

There were huge differences, beyond scale, after those murders committed "under color of law."