The government has been such total liars. One moment they are saying they want to talk, next moment they are ordering the police to clear the roads. Their whole attitude seems to they want to show them who is "boss." Except they seem to forget when this is over, these students remain in Hong Kong, remain alive, remain thinking living individuals that still they have to convince to live under their rules. And somehow miraculously they will "fook" like listen with acceptence? I don't think so.
Why are they creating a generation, and probably more than one that will directly oppose, hate, and not trust them. These people probably plan to have another ten, 15 more years of working. They are so power hungry otherwise, they would like most sensible civil servants of the British era retire quietly in 1997, if they could afford it, and if not, keet their head down, and worked until they could.
Trust me, Ip had the worse reputation even then for being a very unplesant woman.
But honestly, each day I watch, each day I wonder if the government officials actually think these student and people who support them will miraculously vaporise when they finally go home and don't live in Hong Kong, ready to make their lives difficult at every point.
You can see they don't think like politicians, they think like dictators.
Yan Sham-Shackleton Online 