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> “I believe the majority of HKers do, but you’d have to come up with some polls to make a claim like that.”

Polls can be biased depending on who did them, but there is a realistic way to tell the amount of support the protesters have.

Over a hundred thousand Hong Kong people gathered today to mourn a youth who died after he was suspected to have been severely beaten by police in the head and then thrown over the railing from a third floor parking lot onto the second floor (the distance is not big enough to match the injuries sustained; and the police obstructed and delayed the ambulance at the scene from reaching the victim for half an hour.)

This is a large turnout considering the fact that many routes of the Mass Transit System have been regularly shut down to prevent the recurrence of massive protests where millions of people can participate.

> “But, at any rate, you don’t win friends and influence people by messing up their daily lives.”

That is true and no doubt many people are inconvenienced by the actions of some of the protesters, but apparently they are a lot more angered by the lawlessness of the police to the point they share the frustrations of the protesters. They also know they are facing a grave threat of having Hong Kong fast becoming like China if they don’t do anything.

And here is the latest outrage they have to contend with: a 16-year-old girl was pregnant and had to undergo an abortion a couple of days ago after she was gang-raped INSIDE A POLICE STATION where she was detained back in September. The case is now in the hands of lawyers but nobody expects the police to cooperate in any investigation.

I have a good friend who is born and raised HK, so I’m pretty up on what’s going on there.

The problem HKers have is they’re dealing with the same people who sent tanks and guns to handle Tienanmen Square. The only real hope of change in HK is a political collapse a la the USSR in Beijing.

When the communists took over China, the Brits should have told them to go pound sand the re:Hong Kong turnover that was negotiated with imperial China.

As it is now, I’m telling my friend and her family they should get the heck outta Dodge while the getting is still good, before the Bamboo Curtain really falls down around them.