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Five Demands of the Hong Kong people:

Full withdrawal of the Extradition Bill (a.k.a. the Evil Law)

Retraction of the characterisation of the protest as a “riot”

Release of all the arrested protesters (especially the students and the wounded)

Accountability for police brutality

We want justice for the murder victim too, and we’re definitely not trying to protect the murderer. The thing is, the murder happened in Taiwan, outside of Hong Kong, and HK currently doesn’t have any extradition agreement with Taiwan, so we can’t give the man to Taiwan for legal proceedings right now.

Now, HK can certainly work out some sort of special agreements with Taiwan to make it happen for this murder case, and that’s what a reasonable top HK leader should do. But no, the current Chief Executive (i.e. the top political leader), who’s actually elected by mainland China but not democratically elected by the people of HK and thus doesn’t really care about our opinion, decided not to work out a special arrangement for the murder case. You know what she did?

She decided to make a blanket change to the current HK extradition law, so that it allows everyone who lives or even just passing through HK to be handed over to places we currently don’t have extradition deals with. Sounds good, right?

Wrong! Taiwan doesn’t want to go down this route and it has explicitly stated that if that’s the route HK takes, Taiwan will not request for the murderer to be handed over to Taiwan. For one, it’s not the most time efficient way for HK to hand over the man to Taiwan and get justice for the murdered girlfriend.

The most important and underlying reason is: the proposed changes cover handing over people to mainland China, which we all don’t trust bc of its “legal” system that frequently forces people to “confess” their “crime” without real proof of crime and the main victims are human rights activists. The proposed new extradition bill can’t guarantee people turned over will be assumed innocent until proven guilty in the legal systems they’re sent to, which is the foundation to protect people wrongfully charged of crime. And the HK court doesn’t have enough power to overrule sending anyone to mainland China for any “crime”.

Tl;dr:

HongKongers want justice for the murder victim, but not through the proposed changes to the law currently put forward by the HK government. If the proposed changes are passed, mainland China can bully the top HK political leader into handing over anyone who disagrees with mainland China to be sentenced in mainland China under any “crime” it can make up.

“You’re protecting the murderer if you don’t support the proposed new extradition bill” is exactly the kind of rhetoric the mainland China-appointed top HK political leader uses to try to make protestors fighting for freedom look bad.

Is that what you want for Hong Kong? To be turned into the express line for punishment in mainland China for fabricated crimes?

These freedoms (such as freedom of speech, the right to protest, etc) have been slowly being removed by the Communist government of mainland china. 

The current leader of Hong Kong Carrie Lam was not democratically elected by the people of Hong Kong. She was placed as leader by the Chinese Government. 

The people of Hong Kong want a continuation of the rights promised to them in 1997. The people of Hong Kong want democracy! The people of Hong Kong who I personally know want to be free of interference from mainland China and actually want independence! I grew up knowing that Hong Kong and China were separate countries. Mainland China takes offence to that idea. 

I lived in mainland China for 2 years, I know first hand how hard it is for anyone in China to get their hands on anything that is not first heavily vetted by the communist party. It is brainwashing at an unbelievable level. 

Thousands of protestors singing “Do You Hear The People Sing” in a Hong Kong international airport. This is part of a 3-day sit-in and is only one example of the many marches, rallies, and sit-ins that are occurring daily.

Hong Kong’s huge protests, explained by Vox.

Now, there’s a nightly tourist attraction that uses these lasers, sized up multiple times. There is nothing inherently offensive or dangerous about these tiny laser pens, mainly used for stargazing.

So what do the people do?

They come out, to the planetarium (another popular use for these lasers) and they all shine a spectacular laser show to:

1). show their dissatisfaction for baseless arrests

2). display that there’s nothing dangerous about these lasers

3). they try to set the entire planetarium on fire with the very vicious glare of multiple lasers (it did not work)

4). also to satisfy the urge to shine a flashlight at a planetarium and make shadow dogs out of their hands

5). they’ve also turned it into an impromptu disco with song requests being taken, neon beachballs being tossed around, a public karaoke session

6). They also attempt to set a newspaper on fire via the sheer offensive firepower of multiple lasers singled upon one target. Newsflash, it didn’t work.

7). They also attempt to light a cigarette, to no avail.

The other day I saw a story where a woman was asking why her dogs had suddenly started growling at her boyfriend whenever he was in the same room as her son.

And my immediate thought was ‘that boyfriend has hurt the kid somehow.’

Spoilers: that was exactly the case.

Fast forward about six months when I went north to visit my family. My sister walked into my parents’ house and pupper ran to greet my sister. Stopped dead in her tracks and started growling and barking. Hackles raised, full protection mode. My sisters husband had just walked in behind her.

My precious puppy wanted NOTHING to do with him. She barked, growled, ran away, and sat between him and my sister. Y'all my dog had spent maybe a weekend a half around my sister but protected her like this was her flesh and blood.

Eventually, my sister filed for divorce on grounds of “Extreme and repeated mental, emotional, and sexual abuse.” Divorce was final in less than a month because her claims were substantiated.

There was this one horse I worked with named Tonto. He was a doll. He followed me like a puppy, snuck treats out of my pocket, he was the sweetest thing. We were practically inseparable.

A guy I was considering dating came to visit me one day, and Tonto wanted NOTHING to do with him. Normally well behaved, he shoved himself between us and would NOT let this guy near me. He was stomping, acting really aggressive, and tried to bite the guy. This horse was practically dragging me back toward the barn. At that moment, despite being like, 17, I knew something was up, and ultimately things didn’t pan out for guy and me.

A year later I found out he had lied about his age (he said he was 18 but he was actually 27) he was arrested for sexually assaulting an 11 year old girl.