The MAXEY CHRONICLES’ 2019 PERSON OF THE YEAR is the Hong Kong Protestors.
Since June, 2019, they have consistently and valiantly demonstrated against the Chinese Communists. Every day they have gone into the pit to be bloodied by a cruel and joyless regime; they have been intimidated, beaten, gassed, shoved, humiliated, and shot at. Yet they have persevered.
They are not media creations. They bleed not for recognition nor fame, but the obvious right- One’s homeland should be left a better place than found.
In June, 2019, the Chinese Communist regime wanted their allied entity, the former British colony of Hong Kong, to pass a law which would have allowed expeditious extradition of Hong Kong residents to mainland China for judgment.
The people of Hong Kong felt that the proposed law would undermine the sovereignty Hong Kong achieved in 1997, when it reverted back to China from Great Britain.
The Hong Kong protestors were so many that the original extradition bill was suspended by the Communist satrap in Hong Kong, Carrie Lam.
“Protesters feared the bill could be revived, so demonstrations continued, calling for it to be withdrawn completely.
By then clashes between police and protesters had become more frequent and violent.In September, the bill was finally withdrawn, but protesters said this was "too little, too late".
On 1 October, while China was celebrating 70 years of Communist Party rule, Hong Kong experienced one of its most "violent and chaotic days".
An 18-year-old was shot in the chest with a live bullet as protesters fought officers with poles, petrol bombs and other projectiles.
The government then banned protesters wearing face masks, and in early November a pro-Beijing lawmaker was stabbed in the street by a man pretending to be a supporter.
One week later, a policeman shot one protester at close range when activists were trying to set up a road block. Later that day another man was set on fire by anti-government protesters.
In November, a standoff between police and students barricaded on the campus of Hong Kong's Polytechnic University became another defining moment.
Later that month, the territory held local council elections that were seen as a barometer of public opinion.
The vote saw a landslide victory for the pro-democracy movement, with 17 of the 18 councils now controlled by pro-democracy councillors…..”
What do the protesters want?
Some protesters have adopted the motto: "Five demands, not one less!" These are:
For the protests not to be characterised as a "riot"
Amnesty for arrested protesters
An independent inquiry into alleged police brutality
Implementation of complete universal suffrage
The fifth demand, the withdrawal of the bill, has already been met.......
Chinese president Xi Jinping has warned against separatism, saying any attempt to divide China would end in "bodies smashed and bones ground to powder".
What is Hong Kong's status?
Hong Kong is a former British colony handed back to China in 1997.It has its own judiciary and a separate legal system from mainland China. Those rights include freedom of assembly and freedom of speech. But those freedoms - the Basic Law - expire in 2047 and it is not clear what Hong Kong's status will then be…..BBC.”
China has a history of mass protests against corrupt regimes. Those protests usually end in stymied dreams or bloodshed.
On May 4, 1919, Chinese students rose in Beijing, the May 4th Movement; it sparked a cultural and political nationalism dedicated to bringing down the old elites. It fragmented to irrevelance in the turbulence of Chinese History.
On April 27, 1989, a massive student protest breached a police cordon and occupied Tienanmen Square in Beijing. They stayed there until June 4, 1989, when the Chinese Communist Party sent in the PLA (People’s Liberation Army) to crush them. The protestors were mowed down, with an absurd brutality reminiscent of a Garcia Marquez novel.
No one knows how many died; after the blood bath, trucks were sent in, and the dead bodies were piled on, like cords of dead wood. The bodies were taken to a secret location and cremated by prisoners of the state; who were then shot.
In the face of all that bloody history of bloody suppression, the Hong Kong protestors have come out again and again to pit their hopes against mean reprisals.
China has one of the great world cultures, five thousand years old. The upshot of all that longevity is a worm in the soul; China does not believe in FAIR PLAY.The concept of FAIR PLAY is alien to Chinese culture and, even more disheartening, perhaps anathema to Chinese culture.
The Chinese Communist Party is the alpha organization honed by scorn of FAIR PLAY.
THE DOG THAT HASN’T BARKED-This Blogger and his friends debate as to why the Chinese Communist party, under President Xi, the most authoritarian Chinese Communist leader since Mao, has not called in the PLA to crush the Hong Kong protestors.
Some of this Blogger’s friends believe that the Chinese Communist restraint is caused by their fear that if they did call in the PLA, the world's approbation would be overwhelming.
This Blogger disagrees; this Blogger has had some experience with Communists; they are never interested in public opinion as a moral factor to be weighed outside of their grasp on obtaining or holding power. Communism is a Mafioso for intellectuals; they never care about public opinion because they believe that they are above public opinion.
So why hasn’t the PLA been called in for suppression, as it was in 1989?
This Blogger believes that President Xi and the Chinese Communist Party has real fears, REAL FEARS, that the PLA will not fire on the Hong Kong protestors; and calamity of calamities would perhaps even join them.
To consternation, mockery and scorn, this Blogger, on August 7, 2012, published: Omens Predicting the Demise of Communist China In 2021
The following is excerpted from that Blog:
“….Communist China is close to the Soviet shelf life expiration. They can manufacture every damn product known to God and Man, and it still won't matter; they have a maximum of 9 years left before imploding, like Communist Yugoslavia, and the Soviet Union....…THE MAXEY CHRONICLES.
The Hong Kong protestors, in all the glory of their bravery, are keeping that Doomsday Train on track.
For their impact on future world history, the MAXEY CHRONICLES name them, the 2019 PERSON OF THE YEAR.
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