Protesters face off with riot police in a tunnel on Lung Wo Road in Admiralty on Oct. 14 (Laurel Chor/Coconuts Media)
The police said yesterday that the Umbrella Movement appears to have “no end in sight” and that their illegal occupation of roads around Hong Kong has created a “sense of lawlessness” and is eroding the rule of law in the city.
Hui Sir, the police’s PR guy who gives a daily press conference on the protests, again pointed out that protesters continue to ignore the court orders to clear certain roads in Mong Kok and Admiralty.
He noted that the Law Society of Hong Kong has expressed its “deep concerns over the open defiance of court injunctions”.
The Law Society released a statement on Monday claiming that anyone refusing to comply with court orders would be “seriously threatening [Hong Kong’s] judicial system and undermining our core values”.
The police rep believes that “society would agree” that the Umbrella Movement was no longer peaceful and non-violent, and that only criminals would benefit from the open defiance of the law.
Hear that, people? Keep illegally blocking the roads and you’re also indirectly abetting other crimes, like theft and murder and stuff!
Hui Sir finished his speech with a thinly-veiled threat: “We have been adopting a very tolerant and restrained approach in handling the illegal occupation protesters. We do not want to see a large number of persons getting injured, especially students, during large-scale confrontations.”
Reminds us of Canadian comedian Russell Peters’ bit about his father’s warning before he’d get disciplined for misbehaving: “Somebody’s going to get hurt real bad… Somebody. Not going to say who.”
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