A social movement in any country/region must remain peaceful and non-violent. This is not a matter of “hope” or “expectation” but a “must” and an “absolute necessity.” Once someone crosses that line, the government is bound to increase pressure to deal with terrorist attacks that might develop towards extremes.
If the leaders of both sides cannot reach a consensus, it will only end with both sides being unable to back down, especially now when even demands and negotiations have been infinitely weakened.
The Hong Kong 🇭🇰 government has now completely withdrawn the extradition bill, causing the main suspect, Chan Tong-kai, who murdered his girlfriend in Taiwan, to have to fly over to surrender himself (though the Tsai Ing-wen government dares not or is unwilling to accept him). So why are the protesters still on the streets?? And why is the situation getting more and more intense??
Hong Kong 🇭🇰 has now become a place where expressing an opposing opinion leads to being doused with oil and set on fire by protesters. These people are no longer just simple protesters but a sum of terror and violence. If the government still cannot step forward, how can it protect the most basic life and property safety of the general public??
Sometimes we see news clips intercepted on social media or specific media outlets, and when we see the police using excessive methods to arrest Hong Kong citizens, everyone feels it exceeds the principle of proportionality.
But why, out of a group of people, only that one person is arrested?? Don’t you ever wonder if that person did something before, or do you simply believe that the police shouldn’t arrest people?? Is this considered hypocritical benevolence or burying one’s head in the sand??
As for the principle of proportionality?? It’s an old saying: when you are at the scene of the incident, you’d better not try to slowly analyze the principle of proportionality before dealing with a perpetrator who might harm you immediately. Especially since police are already frequently in high-risk environments. You think your occasional use of violence is like a grain of sand that cannot be tolerated in an eye, but for the police, it’s a matter of life and death!!
The duty of the police is to protect the overall order of society; this is beyond doubt. Therefore, we can see that current news reports in Western societies, as the Hong Kong incident heats up, are actually tending more and more towards neutrality, reporting only the process of each incident rather than taking a sympathetic stance for the protesters.
I also believe that police shouldn’t counter violence with violence, but for my protesting friends in Hong Kong, can you proactively restore the original peaceful and non-violence??
Perhaps this is why Mr. Gandhi, who stubbornly guarded peace and focused on the issues, is Gandhi…
However, the Sunflower Student Movement in the Republic of China 🇹🇼 was an exception, because once the election was over, no one wanted to continue playing, and the few leaders lived quite smoothly during the comfortable period. 迫