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Dramatic aerial drone footage of Hong Kong protests - video
The Guardian ^ | 9/30/2014 | n/a

Posted on 09/30/2014 4:44:51 PM PDT by mojito

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

(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: china; democracy; drone; drones; hongkong; hongkongprotests; rchelicopter; tiananmensquare
Strange and impressive. Many many thousands of people.

Video at the link.

1 posted on 09/30/2014 4:44:51 PM PDT by mojito
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To: mojito

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!


2 posted on 09/30/2014 4:47:19 PM PDT by MeganC (It took Democrats four hours to deport Elian Gonzalez)
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To: mojito

Very cool.


3 posted on 09/30/2014 4:53:19 PM PDT by Veggie Todd (The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. TJ)
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To: mojito

4 posted on 09/30/2014 4:55:25 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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To: Vince Ferrer

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


5 posted on 09/30/2014 4:57:32 PM PDT by Sequoyah101 (Adversity does not build character so much as expose it.)
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To: mojito

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.


6 posted on 09/30/2014 5:03:18 PM PDT by cripplecreek ("Moderates" are lying manipulative bottom feeding scum.)
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To: Sequoyah101
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.

7 posted on 09/30/2014 5:14:38 PM PDT by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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To: Jim from C-Town

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.


8 posted on 09/30/2014 5:17:19 PM PDT by ifinnegan
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To: ifinnegan

Nice slander.


9 posted on 09/30/2014 5:26:57 PM PDT by Ramius (Personally, I give us one chance in three. More tea anyone?)
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To: Jim from C-Town

Nixon is the one who initially started talks with China.


10 posted on 09/30/2014 5:37:27 PM PDT by spel_grammer_an_punct_polise (Why does every totalitarian political hack think that he knows how to run my life better than I do?)
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To: mojito

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


11 posted on 09/30/2014 5:39:40 PM PDT by DouglasKC
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To: cripplecreek

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


12 posted on 09/30/2014 5:39:46 PM PDT by Jagdgewehr (It will take blood.)
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To: MeganC

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


13 posted on 09/30/2014 5:41:14 PM PDT by Gator113 ( Ted Cruz, Sarah Palin and Mike Lee speak for me, most everyone else is just noise.)
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To: Ramius

Not slander. Totally true.

Why do you think it is slander?


14 posted on 09/30/2014 6:03:54 PM PDT by ifinnegan
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To: Jim from C-Town
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.

15 posted on 09/30/2014 6:04:12 PM PDT by Prospero (Si Deus trucido mihi, ego etiam fides Deus.)
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To: Prospero
"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?

16 posted on 09/30/2014 7:11:37 PM PDT by BwanaNdege ("Gang Green and the Government Staff Infection " - Glen Morgan, Freedom Foundation.)
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To: BwanaNdege
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."

17 posted on 10/01/2014 5:22:56 AM PDT by Prospero (Si Deus trucido mihi, ego etiam fides Deus.)
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