Posted on 10/16/2014 7:35:35 PM PDT by TigerTown
“Beijing is bulking up the military presence in Hong Kong,” a source on the ground told Radix News. “Under the cover of night, PLA troops are being sent over the border from the mainland. Why would they need an army in this peaceful place?”
The short answer is that Chinese Communist Party officials view debate and protest as challenges to their authority, and the kneejerk authoritarian response to a challenge is to put it down. The threat of a harsher crackdown has been in the air since last month when security forces used tear gas and nightsticks to try to disperse the crowds. In an overt warning to discourage further resistance, Assistant Police Commissioner Cheung Tak-keung characterized these repressive tactics as “minimum force.”
This begs a few questions: What would be considered “medium force” by the security apparatus? With mainland troops deployed in Hong Kong, is maximum force an option?
(Excerpt) Read more at radixnews.com ...
Never forget: Chi-Coms are the role models for the Lear Jet Leftists.
Ping.
Seriously. Why can’t we get some of these young students to come to America? Wouldn’t they, like the Eastern Europeans, be able to know and educate their peers how this government is being more and more totalitarian?!
Actually, the Chinese soldiers (and public) may like this much less than they did Tienanmin.
It may hurt the government in Beijing, perhaps wound it mortally.
The Obungler administration is always silent when people around the world are confronting evil. What a bunch of putrefying POSs.
The Obungler administration is always silent when people around the world are confronting evil. What a bunch of putrefying POSs.
Good and accurate description, bro.
Obola will stay quiet until he’s forced to make a peep. But you and I know and his putrid pals will be watching closely and learning.
crony capitalists with a communist government, the kind that NY Times writers think is the ideal government system.
You don’t load a gun unless you intend to use it.
CY Leung is human garbage. One daughter slashes her wrist and posts it on facebook and the other one tells HK taxpayers they paid for her beautiful necklace and shoes.
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The banksters are willing to countenance tyranny as long as they can turn a buck.
This is exactly how you run a DEMOCRACY according to the mukkity-muks in the USA.
A Republic? No
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