by Fubo on Mon Aug 05, 2019 12:50 pm
The majority of protesters were none violent. The government has tried to characterize the protesters as violent to help their position and justify police brutality and take attention away from the hired thugs that attacked protesters.
there are direct ties between the mainland and the hired thugs. There are reports of a China lieason officer in connection to the hired triads, and the same thing happened during the 2014 protests. You also have a pro mainland politician encouraging these thugs to assault the regular citizens. They was an attempt to drum up anti protester support claiming that the thugs were regular “residents” tired of the disruption.
While it’s correct that Hong Kong people didn’t have the right to elect a governor under British rule, it’s not so simple to say that Hong Kong has never been more free than now. Both governments have installed puppets, however, the legal system in HK is a lot more humane than the one in the mainland, and this is a significant difference, cause if the extradition bill had passed it would have completely undermined HK rule of law. A simple example that scared HK residents was when the HK booksellers were kidnapped and illegally removed from HK to the mainland for distributing unflattering materials of the premier.
This doesn’t just boil down to problems with HK, because the CE in HK is not only sympathetic to the desires of the central government, but is consistently pressured by them to perform in their favor. As far as the housing issues in HK goes, it’s another complicated issue as the inflation that started in the late 90s and continued has as much to do with the government holding on to vast amounts of land that they won’t allow to be developed on, as is with many mainland government officials and businessmen taking their money out of the mainland and pouring it into real estate to keep their money safe. This all had a huge part in inflating the costs and creating an ever growing divide between the rich and poor. Go to Mong Kok and then the mid levels and you can see how vastly different people live, but at least they would have fair legal representation under the current system. The healthcare system, while not perfect, is among the best in the world. The government run hospitals have the best doctors impaired to the private ones, and while with any universal healthcare system there will be longer waits, the quality does not suffer.