Was Hong Kong once free? Well, I have never heard of a democratic #colony.

Under British rule, Hong Kong residents were second-class citizens and rebelled against the rulers on several occasions.
See:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six-Day_War_(1899)
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1967_Hong_Kong_riots

Now you may be able to quietly guess how bad the #regime in #Beijing really is when Hong Kong felt freer as a British colony. While voter participation is falling here, in Hong Kong people even get themselves beaten up in order to be allowed to vote. The Western hemisphere believes it has a duty to export freedom to countries such as Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan but only those have a faint idea of what freedom really is who have hopelessly lost it. We should all be aware of how many people have to live in unfreedom so that we can even think about the eternal mantra of freedom.

Source for the image: https://www.deviantart.com/cellar-fcp/art/Umbrella-Revolution-514342256

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