This place has a special significance for me. I flew into Hong Kong hours before the first airport protest in August. I knew nothing. I remember wondering—is it safe to go into town and check in to my hotel? Will I be able to get back here? (Narrator: it was safe)
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During the airport protests, for a brief moment the whole place was a Lennon wall, full of earnest young people greeting bemused arriving passengers. They sounded like a cult! They wanted to explain the five demands! Today there are literal jack booted thugs wandering the place.pic.twitter.com/OqIbQw4Bnl
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I wonder what Hong Kong must look like to someone arriving after a long absence. They are in for a surprise when they get off the airtrain. I hope they recognize the physical change to the city it for what it is–the mark of a desperate struggle for freedom and dignity
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wow can’t believe they’re still doing that oO
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You know where I have seen this kind of insane level of paranoid disguised as security measure before? In PRC at every major airport of theirs. The first of National Security Measures of the PRC might have started to be implemented in HK right under our nose, without us noticing.
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I've come to favor the stupidest possible explanation for stuff like this. There's zero incentive for anyone to roll back the scrutiny, so it stays in place.
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