Did Beijing Hear

While taking the ferry over to Macua I read some of the HK’s newspapers reports on yesterdays protest. As usual the tally of protesters was miles apart, the government claims 90,000 and organizers 250,000. From my view I got to go with the organizers give or take 30,000 marchers. Most interesting marcher was 86-year-old Chak Nuen-fai who strangely enough was jailed for three years in 1967 for printing seditious pro Beijing articles.

Most telling however was the quote from Basic Law expert Xu Chongde from Beijing. “If what you do is not the truth, no matter if it is tens of thousands of people, or even hundreds of thousands of people, it is still not the truth”.
Expect the birdcage to rattle! This information comes from the South China Morning Post.