Occupy Central
Occupy Central is a civil disobedience movement which began in Hong Kong on September 28, 2014. It calls on thousands of protesters to block roads and paralyse Hong Kong's financial district if the Beijing and Hong Kong governments do not agree to implement universal suffrage for the chief executive election in 2017 and the Legislative Council elections in 2020 according to "international standards." The movement was initiated by Benny Tai Yiu-ting (戴耀廷), an associate professor of law at the University of Hong Kong, in January 2013.
Umbrella Movement
The Umbrella Movement (Chinese: 雨傘運動; pinyin: yǔsǎn yùndòng) is a loose political movement that was created spontaneously during the Hong Kong protests of 2014. Its name derives from the recognition of the umbrella as a symbol of defiance and resistance against the Hong Kong government, and the united grass-roots objection to the decision of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPCSC) of 31 August.
The movement consists of individuals numbering in the tens of thousands who participated in the protests that began on 28 September 2014, although Scholarism, the Hong Kong Federation of Students, Occupy Central with Love and Peace, groups are principally driving the demands for the rescission of the NPCSC decision.
The movement consists of individuals numbering in the tens of thousands who participated in the protests that began on 28 September 2014, although Scholarism, the Hong Kong Federation of Students, Occupy Central with Love and Peace, groups are principally driving the demands for the rescission of the NPCSC decision.
POST OCCUPY CENTRAL - DAY 159:
Full coverage of the day’s events on 24-05
How low can political hooligans get?
The hooligans who disrupted the Sing Tao Inter-School Debating Competition will be condemned by all right-thinking people for the kind of mindless actions that risk spreading like a cancer through society.
Anyone with a sense of responsibility will disagree with the radicals, and condemn the hooliganism they represent.
Their boorish behavior made a large number of innocents - students, parents and teachers - victims of their selfish acts.
Friday's competition was held at Queen Elizabeth Stadium in Wan Chai, with Chief Secretary Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor as the guest of honor.
Halfway through the event, lawmaker "Long Hair" Leung Kwok-hung and a number of his supporters started shouting through loud-hailers to disrupt the judges who were giving speeches.
Some also opened yellow umbrellas. Holding placards high, they walked up to Lam to try and confront her, disrupting the proceedings.
What Leung and his supporters displayed was the kind of hooliganism Hong Kong doesn't need. It will only lead the SAR to a collision course that results in an even greater number of victims in the long term.
The demonstrators claimed they were promoting democracy. But they must be rebuffed in the bluntest language possible that their acts don't stand for democracy. I feel parents and teachers undecided on politics in the past may have made up their minds by now after personally witnessing such actions.
If the protesters started out trying to build a moral high ground, they've undermined it instead.
It's troubling to watch hooliganism escalate. Leung and his peers can no longer blame others for equating them with cancer cells. It's a valid comparison in view of the damaging impact they're inflicting on society.
In the beginning, political hooliganism was largely confined to the Legislative Council, before spreading to public activities involving politics. The disruption of the debate competition demonstrated how far the radicals have reached with their senseless acts. The competition was purely an interschool event, having nothing to do with politics.
So why did Leung and his supporters want to cause chaos at an apolitical event like this? Are they one step closer to achieving true democracy after irritating the students, parents and teachers? Obviously, they're nowhere closer to democracy after the drama.
The participating students had worked hard to prepare for the debate. Parents and teachers - some wearing their best suits and dresses - came in support and to share the youngsters' joy.
Imagine how disappointed you would be if some uninvited strangers crashed your child's birthday party.
The protesters' right to express their views should be respected. But it was totally outside those boundaries of expression that any sensible person would deem reasonable.
It's regrettable that panel judge Paul Shieh Wing-tai, the former chairman of the Hong Kong Bar Association, had his comments interrupted, while another judge, Director of Information Services Patrick Nip Tak-kuen, was unable to finish his prepared remarks.
Hooliganism doesn't equate with democracy. It's time to excise this cancer from society - before it spreads with fatal consequences.
Silent Majority plans protest in support of Chris Wat (right). Elizabeth Quat (left) sends letter (inset) requesting the setting up of a voluntary database for mentally handicapped people. Photos: HKEJ, Facebook
Silent Majority plans protest in support of Chris Wat
Pro-government group Silent Majority for Hong Kong is staging a protest Sunday in support of former Ming Pao columnist Chris Wat Wing-yin, the newspaper reported Friday.
Wat quit after receiving online threats over a column in which she wrote that the arrest of an autistic man in a murder case was being blown out of proportion.
In the column last week, Wat said the public shouldn’t criticise the police so severely, as officers had done a good job by protecting the suspect in a safe place.
The man was detained by police for more than two days, repeatedly subjected to interrogation despite his mental handicap and charged even though police were aware he had an alibi.
Hongkongers should praise the police for how well they treated the man, Wat wrote, saying that “in other places, those who are arrested would face even worse treatment”.
The Association of Parents of the Severely Mentally Handicapped hit out at Wat for being cold and uncaring in her remarks.
The Silent Majority, founded by Robert Chow Yung, said it expects up to 1,000 people to turn up for the rally for Wat to protest against verbal violence.
Wat, who said earlier that she had been subjected to death threats and that her address had been posted on Facebook, was unavailable for comment.
Meanwhile, Au Wai-ho, the elder brother of the 30-year-old autistic man, filed a complaint with police Thursday, over their treatment of his brother.
Au said police promised to conduct an investigation.
He said his brother has yet to recover from the incident and still needs to be accompanied by family members whenever he goes out.
Legislator Elizabeth Quat Pui-fan of the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong has proposed to the Labour and Welfare Bureau and the Security Bureau the setting up of a voluntary database for mentally handicapped people in Hong Kong, specifying the contact details of their social workers and family members.
Quat said her proposal would help protect the rights of the group.
But fellow lawmaker Peter Cheung Kwok-che, who represents the social welfare constituency, said the idea is dumb and would raise privacy issues.
He said no countries overseas had such a database.
Netizens have blasted Quat’s idea and mockingly suggested she should put her own name on the list.
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