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Hong Kong marks Christmas Eve with mall protests and clashes

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By Su Xinqi and Jerome Taylor

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The Demosisto party of Joshua Wong has shown on Twitter the brutality of police force in HK. They accuse the protestors of vandalism and rioting, yet they use brutality as a tactic. Wong for Executive would bring peace to the city.

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Trouble makers are always trouble makers, as terrorists are always terrorists. Any time, any place, no respect of others, no respect of holidays, no respect of humanity, that is the reason for the trouble makers to be eliminated from the streets and put into trash cans where they belong.

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Never fight on Christmas eve.

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The protester violence continues as per usual.

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Akie - Trouble makers are always trouble makers, as terrorists are always terrorists. Any time, any place, no respect of others, no respect of holidays, no respect of humanity, that is the reason for the trouble makers to be eliminated from the streets and put into trash cans where they belong.

wow! Such a naive statement. They are protesting the lack of respect for humanity by their Chinese rulers. That is the reason for the trouble!

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@Akie

“Trouble makers are always trouble makers, as terrorists are always terrorists. “ just like sheep are always sheep?

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The Hong Kong police is getting more and more violent, its obvious the leaders in China are directing this hardline approach.

I wish the protestors in Hong Kong a safe Christmas.

May their good work continue in the New Year.

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Chinese live the happiest life since the beginning of humanity

Not according to the World Happiness Reports

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Happiness_Report

And think about it, happy people wouldn't need a very controlling government that keeps them on a tight leash

The raison d'etre of very controlling governments have always been that their people would devolve into chaos without the central authoritarian holding them together

That wouldn't happen to happy people, so should be afforded the widest freedoms

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wow! Such a naive statement. They are protesting the lack of respect for humanity by their Chinese rulers. That is the reason for the trouble!

They are resisting the rulers who want total control over HK. Let the HKers decide their fate - not Beijing, not London, not DC, not Rome. They are raging against the Communist machine.

AkieToday 08:58 am JSTDo the hustle, China has the largest population on the planet of earth and Chinese live the happiest life since the beginning of humanity, call that lack of respect as your freedom wish.

Does 'happiness' mean living under a totalitarian regime based on a bunged-up ideology set up by Mao, a man whose oppressive policies are responsible for the deaths of millions of his own Chinese citizens? I remember Tiananmen Square in 1989, and the pictures of that event that I've seen are sickening, violent, brutal and disgusting. That's what the CCP is all about. 

VIVA HONG KONG REVOLUTION! STAND UP FOR YOUR RIGHTS! FIGHT FOR WHAT IS YOURS! 

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Carrie Lam, YOU are a stooge and a boot-licker for the CCP and therefore unfit to govern HK. Step your ass down from power and let the city residents elect a successor.

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Lack of basic freedoms and oppressive tactics and manipulation from the overbearing big brother government that is ruled by a single political group bent on ruling over the people is the CAUSE of the entire mess! What exactly does the Chinese communist party accomplish by putting a ring in the citizens nose and trying to lead them around like an ox? The average human being has free thought. And Beijing thinks they can overpower that? A small group of political power mongers trying to control over a billion human beings? Do unto others, which means the CCP needs to have someone lord over them as they try to do to their own country men and women.

Oppression breeds rebellion and resentment. Freedom inspires contentment and happiness.

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