I'm very disappointed with the video. I was hoping to see the PLA cavalry charging to the rescue, striking down the evil Occupy Central perpetrators as they went.

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There's a book describing that scenario in great and frightening detail:
"High Degree of Atrocity" by ex-Lammaite Jay Scott Kanes, still available.

It's fiction, for now...

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I thought it was slightly racist, with a the narrator speaking with a mock Chinglish accent. It was also designed to damage the credibility of the Government by pretending to be the work of a pro-Government mouthpiece. Either that or it was a very poor parody. Since most of the people I have spoken to did not see it as a parody it probably falls into the first category.

Now I am well aware that the Government does not need any help to lampoon itself, but personally I would never categorize political propaganda as hilarious. Clever, maybe.

You think the video was a parody??
I heard interviews with the "Silent Majority" people, they stand behind it.
It's completely nuts but also completely sincere.

See
http://hongwrong.com/anti-occupy-central/


So, you think Robert Chow has a "mock Chinglish" accent?
There's an audio clip of him on Radio 3 talking about the video on the above page.



Now I'm wondering if you're parodying yourself with this conspiracy theory paranoia.

Lol. OK you got me there. Then it was, I suppose, hilarious.

The "most people you have spoken to" know the Truth when they see it! It was no harmless parody.

Those cheeky shameless racist democrats really are out of control damaging The Highly-Esteemed Government with their evil designs! Someone needs to put them in their place before we can have a Harmonious Society like in Mother Russia and Mother Middle Kingdom.

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Pit, didn't you see my second post? I took back my words. In fact it is so awful that it does indeed look like a parody. But yes, it appears that the pro-Government camp have lampooned themselves.

I was telling the truth when I said a few people I had spoken to (Chinese) thought it was an attempt to discredit the Government. I guess that's what makes it hilarious.

Oh right. Sorry shapogung. It is indeed hard to tell sometimes whether those pro-regime loyalists are serious or not.

Seriously though, what I do find funny is the PRC regime's requirement that any valid CE candidate must "love China". Love? China?

I feel that anyone daring to put themselves on the line for democracy and civil liberties in this corner of China is a genuine patriot.

The problem obviously lies with the unelected PRC government's rather self-serving interpretation of what patriotism and loving China (or Hong Kong) actually means. To the ruling regime it simply means being loyal to and serving the established dictatorship under Communist Party's rule.

Case in point: under the CCP-written loose guidelines also known as the "constitution of PRC", the military and para-military forces aren't charged with protecting the people, the constitution or the state, but the Communist Party itself. "Loving" the former three counts for nothing and can in fact be considered criminal unless one puts the interests of the CCP dictatorship above all else.

People's right to have a say in their own affairs, i.e. democracy, is effectively the PRC's biggest enemy.

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