Alex Lo, a South China Morning Post columnist who is a reliable shill for government interests (and was admiringly quoted in the New York Times by Thomas Friedman, an idiot) calls for a total closure of the MTR to punish people for protesting.https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3031775/shut-down-mtr-until-further-notice …
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This weekend a bunch of playgrounds, parks and public spaces were also padlocked. The closures spark physical retaliation against subway entrances, which is then used as a pretext for further closings. They help to unite Hong Kongers, but not in the direction the authorities want
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The guy who wrote this column calling for the MTR to be shut down lives in Canada, a sad example of foreign interests attempting to meddle in internal Chinese affairs.
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The chief threat to passengers and MTR staff has come from triad thugs who attacked people on July 21 while police did nothing, and from police who rampaged through a station on August 31. In an amazing coincidence, you can find those dates spraypainted on a lot of MTR entrances
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