The Yellow-Blue Divide Deepens Further

Hundreds of people marching in Central this evening

This evening hundreds of protesters filled the streets in Central chanting slogans like "Liberate Hong Kong, revolution of our times! And "One nation, one Hong Kong".

The police were out in force all over the city around dinnertime. A friend reported seeing a water cannon near Victoria Park and police all over Wan Chai. The tactic was meant to deter people from coming out, and those who dared to (and in black clothes) had a high chance of being pepper sprayed or forcefully assaulted by the police.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="zh" dir="ltr">【6.9再遊行】中環遮打花園人群沿金鐘道、皇后大道中步向中環方向。沿途高呼口號「光復香港 時代革命」、「one nation, one Hong kong」。 <a href="https://t.co/SgRxBOSn9o">pic.twitter.com/SgRxBOSn9o</a></p>&mdash; 眾新聞 Citizen News (@hkcnews_com) <a href="https://twitter.com/hkcnews_com/status/1270321255799853061?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 9, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

While this is almost back to normal (sadly), it is unbelievable to see senior government officials continue to insist foreign forces were involved in the protests last year to deflect from their complete incompetence in dealing with the extradition bill saga.

Secretary for Security John Lee Ka-chiu today said American and Taiwanese interference were involved in the protests, but gave no concrete evidence.

Lee believes the protests were well funded

"Large-scale protests need resources, money and planning," Lee said, noting he had observed protesters recycling equipment they had previously bought fresh, which made him think perhaps their funding was getting low.

He also believed the movement was highly organized, as he listed things like the division of labour, surveillance of police deployment, the way protesters attacked with the support of supply lines, the on-ground command network, and the use of hand signals for communication.

Lee's observation shows how condescending he is towards Hongkongers. He does not think they have the ingenuity, creativity and determination to do all these things and do them well.

Nor does he understand their mindset -- to them they are defending their hometown from further erosion of freedoms, and are prepared to die for their cause.

Is Lee willing to die for his belief that the US and Taiwan are involved in the protests?

Meanwhile his boss, Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor held her weekly press conference this morning, saying the city cannot afford further "chaos".

Lam doesn't want anymore "chaos"

"All of us can see the difficulty we have been through in the past year, and due to such serious situations we have more problems to deal with.

"We need to learn from mistakes, I wish all lawmakers can learn from mistakes -- that Hong Kong cannot bear such chaos," she said.

Perhaps Lam should do her own self-reflection on what went wrong last year. She may have thought she and Lee were doing a good thing by putting forward the extradition bill, but to completely ignore 1 million people who came out on the streets to protest against it exactly a year ago, and then 2 million a week later?

It is beyond tone-deaf and arrogance.

Her actions have kicked off a series of events that have led Hong Kong to where it is today, waiting anxiously to find out how the national security law will affect us all. And she asks others to learn from their mistakes?

This government continues to live in a parallel universe, where they are willing to throw Hong Kong and its 7 million residents under the bus so that they can have secure retirements. They have absolutely no shame in what they are doing.

And they are surprised people are still coming out into the streets to protest.

But perhaps that's what happens when people sell their souls. They have lost their moral compass and continue parroting disinformaton because that's all they know.