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Hong Kong protests: Demonstrators in vow not to be intimidated by ‘hired guns’

An uprising needs energy. It needs a kick-start. Hong Kong’s initial burst of energy came not from within but from outside, when police last Sunday used tear gas to try to break up a demonstration. That spark of brutality ignited the anger which produced the biggest revolt in the ex-colony’s history. Then, today, just as the whole thing was starting to flag badly from exhaustion and indirection, came a new burst of negative energy from outside. An organised gang of hundreds of outsiders, most of them much older than the student-age demonstrators, descended on the remaining occupiers of a protest site in the busy and congested shopping district of Mong Kok. They chanted at them to “clear the…


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