It’s genuinely shocking. Watching such a
great city unravel in the intense summer heat.
White shirted mobs assaulting members of
the public with bamboo poles in an MTR station while the police turn
a blind eye. There was human blood shed on the polished marble floor of a
public transport hub in Hong Kong last night. It’s hard to digest. This
is the safest city in the world, or at least it was.
There is no shortage of phone video footage
from Yuen Long MTR station of terrified passengers standing in an open train
carriage, trying to defend themselves with umbrellas, as thugs hurl abuse and
attempt to beat them with sticks and poles. One unconfirmed report suggests a pregnant
woman was beaten to the ground and one male passenger is in a critical medical condition.
The police were nowhere to be seen for
more than 30 minutes and no arrests were subsequently made. There are widespread
allegations that the mob had Triad affiliations and may even have been paid to
exact some retribution on protestors, returning from a demonstration in Central that evening.
From all accounts the town of Yuen Long
is now shut down with mobs prowling the streets like a dystopian scene from
1970s Haiti.
It was reported this morning that bomb making
equipment was miraculously found in premises rented to pro -independence political
groups who reported a break-in to police a few months ago. Police were reportedly "acting on a tip off". Really? Do they think we are all stupid and will all just
swallow this garbage?
The sea is polluted, the air is polluted
and now the entire political system is polluted.
The political establishment is now running on empty in terms of credibility or legitimacy. Propped up by Beijing, by the corporate elite and now, it seems by organized
crime syndicates. They remain completely impervious to the demands of ordinary
Hongkongers.
No-one knows where we are all headed. It
feels like a revolution but it also feels like a pending catastrophe. No-one is
predicting a happy ending.
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