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PHOTOS: Hong Kong Protesters Embrace American Flag in Fight for Freedom
Breitbart ^ | 29 July 2019 | FRANCES MARTEL

Posted on 07/30/2019 2:27:13 PM PDT by KC_Lion

HECTOR RETAMAL/AFP/Getty Images

The American flag has become a symbol of resistance against China in the ongoing protests in Hong Kong, prominently waved throughout the city this past weekend as police fired tear gas and rubber bullets into the peaceful crowds.

Millions of Hong Kong residents have participated in rallies since early June against a bill proposed in the city’s legislature that would have allowed China to extradite anyone present in Hong Kong by accusing him or her of breaking Chinese law. Under the “One Country, Two Systems” policy China agreed to when the U.K. handed Hong Kong over in 1997, Hong Kong must abandon any claims to sovereignty in exchange for China not imposing communist laws on the city. The protesters objected that the extradition law would violate that policy.

Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam claimed the bill was “dead” this month, but protesters astutely noted that lawmakers had tabled the bill, allowing them to revive it any time. Protesters are demanding that the Legislative Council withdraw the bill entirely.

Protests this weekend were not about the bill, but against gang violence towards protesters last week. Pro-democracy advocates congregated last week in northern Yuen Long, a rural area outside of the central city, to protest the bill. Following the protest, an estimated 100 white-clad thugs surrounded the peaceful crowds moving into the Yuen Long Mass Transit Rail station, beating them with metal rods and bamboo sticks. Following the mob attack, 45 people were hospitalized and, despite the dozens of attackers, little more than ten people arrested.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; america; americanflag; banglist; china; flag; goddessofliberty; hongkong; hongkongprotests; liberty; presidenttrump; republicofchina; secondamendment; trump; usa
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To: KC_Lion

I’m all for opening our border to them!


41 posted on 07/30/2019 4:26:01 PM PDT by aquila48
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To: Gay State Conservative

I took a picture of a copy of this statue made in Hong Kong after the Massacre.

Have to see if I can dig out that box. Also have a tape of a combined artist song Called “Ai Zi You” which was made in Hong Kong and several books with smuggled photos.

I was in HK prior to turnover for more than a month of days and there post turnover. Even early on the difference was night and day.

Praying hard for this folks. I know it’s not our fight, but that doesn’t mean I can’t wish them the freedom God gave’em.


42 posted on 07/30/2019 4:28:03 PM PDT by reed13k (For evil to triumph it is only necessary that good men do nothing)
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To: PIF; fuzzylogic

There was an extremely short time between the last emperor and WWII when the ROC existed and the mainland was learning about freedom, but it was a long time ago and for a very short period and had it’s minor bumps and abrasions which were exploited by the communists.

Likely a small handful on the mainland are old enough to remember that time, but only Taiwan to which the ROC escaped, Hong Kong, and Singapore have really tasted it fully.

The difference between those small bastions of liberty and the mainland are so stark as to astonish.


43 posted on 07/30/2019 4:39:48 PM PDT by reed13k (For evil to triumph it is only necessary that good men do nothing)
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To: TianaHighrider
You are welcome!

Image result for usa hong kong flags

44 posted on 07/30/2019 4:50:31 PM PDT by KC_Lion
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To: aquila48

Agreed!


45 posted on 07/30/2019 4:50:35 PM PDT by KC_Lion
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To: KC_Lion

Liberal US citizens spit on, defecate on, burn and curse the flag.


46 posted on 07/30/2019 5:07:00 PM PDT by bgill
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To: Vision

Thank you for posting that. Gives me thought.


47 posted on 07/30/2019 5:16:03 PM PDT by Karoo
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To: Jim Robinson

I’m ashamed of those ashamed of my country.


48 posted on 07/30/2019 6:28:57 PM PDT by If You Want It Fixed - Fix It
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To: KC_Lion

There is a condominium in Dayton Ohio that flies the flag from memorial day to labor day. Asked why, they said we love our country and we don’t like people who don’t!


49 posted on 07/30/2019 7:20:03 PM PDT by Herakles (Diversity is applied Marxism!)
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To: KC_Lion

Nike, Kapernick and the Kickball lesbian are deeply saddened...


50 posted on 07/30/2019 7:21:58 PM PDT by TADSLOS (You know why you can enjoy a day at the Zoo? Because walls work.)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Remember this?

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/white-house-christmas-decor-featuring-mao-zedong-comes-under-fire

America’s left is a disgrace.


51 posted on 07/30/2019 10:05:40 PM PDT by Chgogal (Trump: Make America Great Again. Democrat: Make America Mexico Again.)
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To: KC_Lion; AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ...
Thanks KC_Lion.

52 posted on 07/31/2019 12:31:25 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam claimed the bill was “dead” this month, but protesters astutely noted that lawmakers had tabled the bill, allowing them to revive it any time.
China's chief stooge Carrie Lam...

53 posted on 07/31/2019 12:33:57 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Yep - people who actually worry about being subjugated, get it.
Those who have heard stories about being subjugated, but who have never suffered any of it, protest the flag, symbol of what has kept them FRee...


54 posted on 07/31/2019 3:39:51 AM PDT by trebb (Don't howl about illegal leeches, or Trump in general, while not donating to FR - it's hypocritical.)
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To: SisterK

Wang chi: Here’s to the Army and Navy and the battles they have won; here’s to America’s colors, the colors that never run. Wang Chi to Jack Button as they prepare to fight demons in big trouble in little Chinatown. It looks like Hong Kong is getting ready to fight their own red demons. God bless them they are letting us know where they stand.


55 posted on 07/31/2019 8:45:54 AM PDT by joegoeny ("Nuts!")
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To: KC_Lion

Wow. It kind-of brings tears to my eyes.


56 posted on 07/31/2019 8:46:59 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam
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To: MayflowerMadam
>>Wow. It kind-of brings tears to my eyes.<<

Save the tears...dissenters in HK are about to be crushed.

57 posted on 07/31/2019 8:59:22 AM PDT by servantboy777
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To: servantboy777

“Save the tears...dissenters in HK are about to be crushed.”

I know the dissenters will be crushed — which brings double the tears to my eyes. Any time lovers of liberty are crushed it’s a horrible thing.


58 posted on 07/31/2019 9:39:38 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam
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To: KC_Lion

How racist. What would Colin Kapernick say? What would Nike?


59 posted on 07/31/2019 9:55:50 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 (If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
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To: KC_Lion

Imagine people who live in fear of their government still look to America for freedom!


60 posted on 07/31/2019 11:45:00 AM PDT by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism.)
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