The CBC’s reporting on Hong Kong:

“The anti-government protests present one of the biggest challenges facing Chinese President Xi Jinping since he came to power in 2012. And with the ruling Communist Party preparing to mark the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic on Oct 1, the crisis in Hong Kong has come at a sensitive time.

Beijing has struck an increasingly strident tone over the protests, accusing foreign countries including the United States of fomenting unrest.

Scenes of Chinese paramilitary troops training at a stadium in the city of Shenzhen, which borders Hong Kong, gave a clear warning that mainland intervention by force is possible.”

These protests are not going to end well.

China is a world power and has the political and economic clout to do whatever the hell it pleases in Hong Kong.

I foresee an abrupt media black out coinciding with the military going into Hong Kong and reestablishing the correct type of order for the area.  It will be bloody and ruthless, but necessary from the government of China’s point of view.  Real democracy is a threat to the status quo and is intolerable state of being for the elite classes.

The protesters must be prepared for this eventuality and decide whether they are willing to pay the price in blood for their freedom.  There is no other way to purchase liberty.