How long can the Communist Chinese government stand against the relentless onslaught of a people who’ve tasted freedom, and want more. Hundreds of thousands daily form the Hong Kong throng, waving the American flag and singing the U.S. national anthem. After more than four months it seems even tear gas can’t choke the voice of liberty rising.
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Hong Kong Throng: Can Chinese Tear Gas Choke the Voice of Liberty Rising?
How long can the Communist Chinese government stand against the relentless onslaught of a people who’ve tasted freedom, and want more. Hundreds of thousands daily form the Hong Kong throng, waving the American flag and singing the U.S. national anthem. After more than four months it seems even tear gas can’t choke the voice of liberty rising.
21 replies on “Hong Kong Throng: Can Chinese Tear Gas Choke the Voice of Liberty Rising?”
God bless the people of Hong Kong, I wish them success, but their fight will be a long one and I pray they’re up to it. I mean, how can you not love these guys?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3tnH4FGbd0
Great show guys!
The question is which general is willing to burn Hong Kong? When Hitler gave the order to reduce Paris a “heap of burning ruins” General von Choltitz surrendered the city intact.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_in_World_War_II#Liberation
Likewise in 1991 the hard line communists who had detained Mikhail Gorbachev ordered troops into Moscow but the troops would not shoot to kill civilians. The key battle at the white house in Moscow came down to unarmed people blocking an underpass tunnel with busses, etc. Only 4 died.
In the end workers militia armoury’s in the industrial suburbs fell into civilian (militia) hands. No one knew who’s side they were on. The coup d’état attempt ended with some the communist hardliners fleeing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_Soviet_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat_attempt#The_coup_chronology
Hong Kong is a city of tall towers on mountainous terrain with narrow roads. Its the death trap for tanks and armoured vehicles and the defenders would be raining furniture etc down on infantry. Any advance along the foreshore would be in full view of a flotilla of boats.
When Tiananmen Square happened 90 % of the Chinese businessmen/ women and students in the west defected, claimed asylum and got it. The numbers out side China are ten times that number today. Maybe more. That’s the children of the middle ranking party in a country where most families have only one child!
It really is the Communist party verses Hong Kong and all those in China who see it the gateway to world trade.
Goose bumps watching this one. The first comparison I have heard to the American Revolution and that was spot one. Always love the emotion you guys put in to your work. Proud to be a member!!!
This was an awesome right angle. Scotts comparison to our revolution was spot on and really gave me a better perspective of whats going on here.
Hey Steve,
Your article today or yesterday was 15 to 20 minutes of Rush’s show today. Way to go! Hope it helps you out with views and clicks etc.
Thanks!
sniff. I was cryfing along with you. Bursting with patriotism. USA! USA! You all talk about the pride every American should have. It is privilege to live in these United States. Everyone knows it. The world knows it. This was a terrific episode. Kuddos!
Tremendous, Mr. Ott!
One of the best op-eds your team has ever produced! (Sometimes I think Scott was in the room when they were signing the Declaration of Independence.) I forwarded the link to this episode to one of my friends and he’s joining billwhittle.com because he was so impressed with your message.
Thank you Scott, Bill and Steve for your dedication, patriotism and an unwavering desire for Liberty and Freedom. I’m proud to be a member of your organization.
Scott does look adequately well advanced in years to have been there.
Wait..isn’t Scott “Web Mcmaster”? Talking of oneself in the 3rd person while under a pseudonym can get confusing! Fast! You’ve got an old soul Scott, just not THAT old.
Give me Liberty or give me death is literally true. Without Liberty there is only death. It may not be immediate but the individual has no right to life and suffers a slow and agonizing death as a consequence. The reason: he has no rights the government needs to respect. He can be used, abused, and discarded at the whim of the government and the government can pretend it is right to do so.
It is because of this potential of government that people without moral boundaries are attracted to government “service”. That they become part of government, any action they take is without limit no matter how immoral and evil. It is action without personal consequence.
This is why government is a dangerous servant and a deadly master. This is also why the second amendment’s limit on government is so vitally important. The people can thereby provide the ultimate limit on the immoral excesses of government.
Did you happen to see the story of some airline company president who had to resign after he was asked to submit names of employees that had taken part in the protests? He submitted one name, his own. He didn’t want his employees to get in trouble. I tried looking for the story but it didn’t come up in the search.
Lynn, here is another story. For All things Hong kong, try the South China Morning Post. SCMP for short.
Cathay Dragon cabin crew union leader has job ‘terminated’
https://www.scmp.com/topics/hong-kong-extradition-law?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIodH-woGX5AIVMR-tBh32QwfcEAAYASABEgLtOPD_BwE
Great work guys. Just shared. I’ve got close friends in Taiwan who are on FB and trust me they’re watching Hong Kong with intense scrutiny. They’ll appreciate this episode of Right Angle so much.
This is the time for Hong Kong to make their stand. The U.S. must stand with them.
sometimes, all you can say is God Bless America!
and, thank you Scott, Steve, and Bill…there IS more than hope with you 3 fighting for “everything”…great commentary!
I literally just taught the run-up to the American Revolution over the last couple weeks. Britain tried to tax the colonists twice before “the last straw.”
First came the Stamp Act. The colonists said Parliament didn’t have the authority to tax them since they didn’t have representation, and they rioted. Parliament took away the taxes, but it insisted that it had the right to tax the colonists regardless of representation.
Some time later, the Townshend Act again tried to tax the colonists, who again revolted. Again, Parliament took away the taxes, but insisted that it had a right to tax the colonists.
To demonstrate this, they passed the Tea Act, restoring one of the several Townshend Act taxes they had removed, just to prove a point. That’s what provoked the Boston Tea Party.
The more the colonists revolted and petitioned first Parliament and then the king for redress, the more the British government decided to punitively punish Massachusetts (both to teach Massachusetts a lesson and to serve as an example for the other colonies). That led directly to Lexington and Concord.
The Chinese are basically between steps one and two of that scenario. They considered an extradition law, when the people revolted, they backed off, but they haven’t withdrawn it, and they haven’t promised not to try it in the future. The government doesn’t see why the people of Hong Kong are still complaining, but the people see through the government’s scheme. They will settle for nothing less than the government withdrawing the proposed law and admitting that such a thing can’t be done in the future.
It will be interesting to see if the people will win this round like we Yanks did, or if Beijing will go directly to Lexington and Concord without passing Go or collecting ￥1,412.66.
Really hard to imagine it has been that many years. And the country’s government hasn’t really changed at all.
Wonderful, Scott. Simply wonderful.