The total contrast with nearly every other protest of recent memory is so stark and telling.
These people have been planning this for probably years, they were just waiting for Beijing to openly say that the open elections wouldn't be open (which knowing China was inevitable) and then boom a handbook is "suddenly" published and widely distributed and there is a clear sense of self and "don't f*$& with my life" sentiment by all the protesters who are the most trained protesters in the world. If any of the protests happened like this one does movements would've won.
These people have been planning this for probably years, they were just waiting for Beijing to openly say that the open elections wouldn't be open (which knowing China was inevitable) and then boom a handbook is "suddenly" published and widely distributed and there is a clear sense of self and "don't f*$& with my life" sentiment by all the protesters who are the most trained protesters in the world. If any of the protests happened like this one does movements would've won.