Tuesday, August 13, 2019

This is not going to end well

What is the dirtiest word in the Chinese language to Zhongnanhai? 混沌, chaos. So imagine my alarm at this headline, deliberate I assure you, in the New York Times:

Chaos Grips Hong Kong’s Airport as Police Clash with Protesters


My heart is with the protesters. My head is with the protesters. My conscience says “WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING?!


You pointed a laser light at the police lady.

Are
     You
          INSANE?!

You continued pointing lasers at the police and threw water bottles.


What is top candidate for second dirtiest word? Humiliation. The Century of Humiliation. Humiliation. You are humiliating the Hong Kong police.




 I agree with everything Michael Bociurkiw of CNN writes here:

...thousands of pro-democracy protesters occupying the arrivals level of Hong Kong International Airport, causing a shutdown of the facility Monday afternoon for all incoming and outgoing flights.

The airport blockade capped one of the bloodiest weekends in modern Hong Kong history which saw police indiscriminately firing tear gas and rubber bullets in the confined spaces of the city's mass-transit railway stations. It's becoming a very ugly scene in one of the world's premier business and financial centers, with Beijing edging closer to intervening.
...
Livestream video from the airport showed protesters detaining and questioning a man suspected of being an undercover police officer -- a scene which will certainly rattle officials.

The situation in Hong Kong is quickly spiraling out of control...
...
...charismatic leader Joshua Wong described Hong Kong as a police state, adding: "We will never give up...We will not be threatened by Beijing."

A charismatic leader of the protests! Sort of like her:


Son Joshua, you will be murdered by Beijing!

That type of language reminds me of what I heard firsthand from pro-democracy protesters in Shanghai, shortly after the Chinese army cleared Tiananmen Square in 1989.

Yes, it does. And how did that turn out? My godsons and goddaughters you are pushing every verboten button known to Zhongnanhai and you are going to pay for it. If Beijing sends in troops they will massacre you. My conscience overwhelmingly overrides my heart and head and says to you, Stop. For godssake stop before it is too late.