Hong Kong protesters refuse to leave

[pocaracas]

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2014/09...leave.html

Protests in Hong Kong continue after tens of thousands of people defied calls for them to dismantle their camps and return home. Demonstrations fanned out to more neighborhoods after police tried to disperse crowds using batons and tear gas early Monday morning. Riot police later withdrew. The pro-democracy protesters are angry at China for limiting their choice in Hong Kong's 2017 leadership elections. Demonstrators used umbrellas to protect themselves from tear gas overnight and to ward off the sweltering sun as they continued their sit-in throughout the day. That gave rise to the movement’s name—The Umbrella Revolution.

As some places in this world become less civilized.... others try their damned hardest to become more civilized!
In China, it had to start in Hong Kong, didn't it?

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Got nothing but empathy for the protestors, but this gig was doomed before it started.

Boru

[Minimalist]

And the cops brought in the armored cars and machine guns and.... oh, wait. That was Missouri.


Never mind.

[Jackalope]

And the cops brought in the armored cars and machine guns and.... oh, wait. That was Missouri.


Never mind.

One authoritarian system is difficult to distinguish from another, eh?

[Minimalist]

For sure.