There was very little police presence at this rally at all (except for cops posing for pictures with their admiring fans). But this event would have been a natural target if there were actually a radical bombmaking gang operating in the city. Something is not adding up here.
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My conclusion is that the police know there is no credible threat to the public from the gang of gun-toting, drone-flying bombmakers they claim to have been rounding up over the last two weeks. Either that, or they're very confident they got everyone!
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@lazyyyyyyyy points out, there was another parallel universe bomb story in Hong Kong in July, with two kilos of TATP, a notoriously dangerous peroxide explosive, being seized in a "bomb lab".https://twitter.com/Lazyyyyyyy/status/1206350484291895297 …Show this thread -
For non-chemistry people, making KILOGRAM quantities of anything in a home lab on what is apparently your first try, would be enough to raise eyebrows. If that 'something' is an unstable peroxide explosive, your eyebrows climb to the top of your head and stay there.
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It's like never having cooked and then reading a recipe and successfully making ten chocolate souffles in a row, except if you screw one up it explodes your apartment.
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Here's a humorous and informative article by a working chemist about why you should talk to your roomates before synthesizing large amounts of TATP at home (and why the Hong Kong police claims are so hard to believe)https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2017/02/16/how-not-to-do-it-tatp …
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In July, the police also claimed to have foiled HK's LARGEST-EVER bomb plot and seized 2kg of "extremely powerful and highly unstable explosives" which could have blown up the whole flat to bits, before they went on and detonated the same explosive on the rooftop of the building.
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HKPF been watching Breaking Bad again
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DOUBLE STANDARDS. SO TOTALLY AGAINST ANY PRINCIPLE OF A SAFE SYSTEM. CHINESE COPS ARE THE TOOLS TO KEEP SAFE A ROTTEN SYSTEM. IT WILL NOT LAST TOO LONG.
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