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To: twmoore who wrote (150472)	8/31/2019 8:14:20 PM
From: TobagoJack	Respond to of 218195

Re <<I get the feeling that the situation is close to a conclusion,as China is NOT going to relent and they are not going to tolerate the protesters much longer. If China does not step in soon,the situation will only get progressively worse. I am sure that most HKongers are getting tired of their lives being interfered with. I am also very concerned that people will lose their lives before this is resolved.>> I get the feeling that team China would only intervene if and once some semblance of majority requests intervention ala industry / sector societies (accountants, lawyers, merchants, taxi drivers, civil servants, schools, hospitals, banks, corporates, etc etc) witnessing the enveloping devolution allows the HK people to unequivocally choose amongst the paths forward I note the normal folks (folks with work tied to the streets, and tourism and and and, are already very upset w/ the rioters as well as with the demonstrators, and beginning to blur the delineation between the two, essentially of the mind that, "okay, message delivered and heard by the officialdom, now let's get back to work and see" the middle class / upper middle class folks (office workers) are still of the mind that demonstrations even at the cost of organised violence amongst the demonstrators (namely the rioters) are needed to drive the points home, I sense there is definitely an age differential attached to the attitudes with the older folks on "enough is enough" and younger folks still gungho I have heard second hand stories about intra family arguments today (Sunday, especially w/r to airport) and the October national and extended holiday week should be telling, and Monday back-to-school day for public schools and universities should be watched there most assuredly are some seriously bad actors out to kill, and when caught, as the rewards are large, rule of law takes over scmp.com ‘How to kill Hong Kong police’ and what comes next Yonden Lhatoo warns that relentless war being waged by protesters against the city’s police force has crossed a dangerous new line after an officer was knifed by masked men while returning home from work I find it deeply troubling that someone just tried to murder a police officer in Hong Kong and hardly anyone seems to be bothered much, as we all move on to the next cycle of news about mass protests and anti-government campaigns. Three masked men ambushed the 45-year-old officer at Kwai Fong MTR station late on Friday night while he was heading home after work. They knifed him repeatedly in a vicious, cowardly attack, inflicting bone-deep wounds, and fled the scene. Over more than 12 weeks of relentless guerilla warfare waged against police by rioters, radicals, hooligans, juvenile delinquents and common criminals sheltering under the broader umbrella of a supposedly peaceful people’s uprising, frontline officers have been felled by bricks, burned by petrol bombs and acid, beaten unconscious with sticks and metal rods, stabbed with spears, and hit by ball bearings fired from catapults.

To: twmoore who wrote (150472)	10/5/2019 11:04:55 PM
From: TobagoJack	Respond to of 218195

I get the feeling that the officialdom are doing a sort of watch & brief / infiltrate & investigate / compile & sort taking down the truth to better access the situation it turns out that the students amongst the crowds and in black-mask are in the majority from 'band-1' schools (tier 1 of three tiers) - the more economically advantaged (under existing and earlier system) households, and encouraged by their teachers (typically teaching in cantonese and not exactly qualified in English, and certainly useless to use-less in mandarin), so I am told, and if so, would mean the less economically advantaged is not in the fight should such be the case, am sure the communists know what to do, per education by detailing the facts of life to the parents by example of rule of law action. If the understanding is untrue, then much more interesting. let's watch.