Here are the protestors “blockading” the road outside the Hong Kong Government Complex
You will notice that three strong brave men with stun guns and rubber hoses could clear this blockade in fifteen minutes. If the blockade continues to exist, it is because the police wish it to continue to exist.
China itself has no internal pressure, and no factions to play off the democracy protesters. The whole thing really has been ineffectual. I’ve seen this coming though, Friedman in his book ‘the next 100 years’ has an odd section in which he predicts the coastal regions of China will split, and some parts will ally with Japan. Doesn’t give a real reason for the forecast. Smelt of being aware of USA policy. I will not be surprised if the USA is busy in places like Shanghai as well.
I would chalk this up as a failure like the Ukraine. Be interesting to see Russia and Chinas response. Surely plenty of potential cleavage points in the west.
Here is Eric X. Li using a Cathedral mouthpiece to rail intelligently against democracy this morning.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/10/06/the-umbrella-revolution-wont-give-hong-kong-democracy-protesters-should-stop-calling-for-it/
Somehow, Eric Li is permitted use of the Cathedral to rip democracy a new one on fairly regular basis.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/16/opinion/why-chinas-political-model-is-superior.html?_r=0
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eric-x-li/democracy-is-not-the-answ_b_1520172.html
http://www.ted.com/talks/eric_x_li_a_tale_of_two_political_systems/transcript?language=en
What if America has nothing to do with this?
Chinese could be crazy independently of US or USG or NYT or GOP etc.
Seeing Uncle Sam everywhere isn’t that smart. On the contrary! The said uncle is unaware of many important events even on “his” territories.
Uncle Sam’s fingerprints all over the other color revolutions. Britain’s fingerprints all over this one, Britain a muppet of Uncle Sam.
It took a few months for the the people to get tired of Occupy protesters sleeping in public parks and yelling all day when they weren’t having sex in tents for the government to start arresting them and throwing their tents in the garbage.
Hell, I could clear that place in a 15 minutes.
I have a lot of cow manure in my backyard.
CeauÈ™escu, the communist dictator of Romania, infamously used the same solution to clear out some protests during the 1970s. Under his orders to crack down the uprising, to the protesters’ surprise (they were expecting tanks), the soldiers brought in a few fire trucks and used them to improvise a few s**t cannons by using industrial pumps to collect raw sewage. There was no loss of life and the protests quickly ceased.
Sounds like we have a winner. The way to deal with cathedral soft power is by slinging large amounts of shit.
Chuck Norris by sweat bead drip KO!
Any normal avg man can clear an asian blockade with a flashlight. 🙂
Would not try that in Thailand.