5/2/08: Hong Kong Olympic Torch Relay Protesters

my photos are here:
http://www.alivenotdead.com/etchy/Torch+Relay....+protest--profile-148179.html


I didn't see the Olympic Torch Relay passing through Kowloon, HK!

All I saw was this group of pro-democracy protesters getting shouted down by a crowds of pro-China counter protestors on Nathan Road in Tsim Sha Tsui on Friday morning, May 2nd, 2008.

This is raw footage w/o much editing.

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[therepublicofHK]

Disgusting! Showing your support for a sporting event is one thing, what we see here is quite another. The vulgar obscenities & threats against those with a different opinion brought shame on China that day. These thugs demonstrate their inability understand or even listen to anything but their own profanity. Thinking people have nothing but pity & contempt such animals.

Thank you xiaoka for the video

[xiaoka]

thanks. personally, i can understand people's opposition, but not their near violent anger.

To live in a city that lets people with opposition views speak should be a point of pride, not anger...

[emwong89]

Ermmm....sorry but where's the protestors?

well...if I remember clearly, the red flag with 5 stars on it is the chinese flag...apparently, they are all cheering for china (oh so discretely)

[xiaoka]

guys with the yellow signs and the orange banner on the poles were the democracy/human rights protesters. To my knowledge these guys weren't promoting Tibet issue.

[tomkwc]

I find it funny HK people singing the Communist fight song when they ran away to HK like "running dogs" during the Cultural revolution where 100 million chinese died. And now they are kissing ass to the communist. People should respect and tolerate each other's opinions and views. The cursing and shoving is thugish. Protestors are not protesting against Chinese culture and people, they are protesting against a government's policy. Unfortunately, most Chinese don't know the difference.

[xiaoka]

a lot of people here that day were visiting from Guangdong or other parts of the Mainland, not all were locals.

[tubeserenity]

For those who does not understand Chinese: Hongkong people stand up and say "fuck off protesters, you are not welcome in Honkkong"!!

[tubeserenity]

No body can mess up with China.

[eastern2western]

@jimy327 the current chinese system is more like a very extreme form of capitalism, profit before anything. eventually, it would balance itself with communism by blending in more social benefits.

[multitse]

those who rose to the occasion and oppose govenment were no means fool or in need to have some media attention for a fame... but this people simply cannot bear the fact that govenment is not doing enough, that the government is wrong on many policies regarding tibet and so on.. they just simple cannot ignore those facts...i think they are real heroes and true patriotic than those who are threatining to cause problem towards them....! bravo free tibet free china .....!

[tonycl568]

Hong Kong enjoys to be part of Britain, huh!

Do you really think white people give a damn about you?

[therepublicofHK]

Thanks Xiaoka, I fully agree.

Respect for different POVs is a matter of great pride in HK, hopefully what happened then isn't the shape of things to come.

I noticed you have a few videos on Hong Kong, I welcome you to watch mine if you're so inclined.

All the best!

[WestMediaLies]

Clearly, in some people's mind, the cold war has never ended and it goes on and on. Pathetic clowns, pathetic western main stream media.

[jimy327]

Seamus357:

You seem emphasize "dictator" a lot. Again, it shows your ignorance.

Current CCP in China is far from a dictatorship, because there is no dictator. Mao and Deng were more or less "dictators", but that is not the case for Jiang and Hu. There are a lot of political factions within CCP, based on ideology or interest. Hu is also constrained by previous generations' legacies. At worst, the current CCP is totalitarian. At best, CCP's a giant one party parliament.

[jimy327]

Seamus357:

Have you watched or read les miserables? Do you know about the French Revolution? Communism was intended to end those same social injustices: oppression of the state, inequality of wealth, lack of civil rights. Communism is about giving power to the people. So how is that incompatible with democracy and human rights?

Communism in practice however, became much more complicated with political realities, vested interests, and personal judgments/values/interpretatio­ns.

[jimy327]

Seamus357: do you know what communism is?

"Communism is a socioeconomic structure that promotes the establishment of a classless, stateless society based on common ownership of the means of production" (Wikipedia)

Communism is beyond a political system. Comparing it to "dictatorship" or "totalitarianism" is like comparing apples to pears.

The essence of communism is that extreme inequality under capitalism will lead to worldwide proletarian revolt, and creation of a new world order.