Posted on 07/30/2019 2:27:13 PM PDT by KC_Lion
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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>>Any time lovers of liberty are crushed it’s a horrible thing.<<
Agree.
Communist doing what communist do.
Freedoms we too often take for granted others would die for. Our flag and our freedom means that much to an oppressed people halfway around the world they our The Stars And Stripes almost as if it might convey freedom to them. Wow.
Freedoms we too often take for granted others would die for. Our flag and our freedom means that much to an oppressed people halfway around the world they hold our The Stars And Stripes almost as if it might convey freedom to them. Wow.
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