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 suspend