Summary

 This article is about the tension between protesters, police and the masked men in Hong Kong. Protesters opposed to the idea of restriction on the first-ever direct election. Protesters want to stop the plan of screening the candidates so they built a barricade in the center of Hong Kong. Police took out a dawn operation to relieve traffic. Protesters demanded the authorities to accept the demands. The masked men arrived to destroy the barricades because they are anti prodemocracy-demonstrators. So we could say that this article’s title could be “protesters VS police and the masked men”.

Reaction

 As I read through this article I thought these kinds of actions are meaningless. It could be effective but causing trouble to an innocent people is not the way to demand something. By using barricades, people could not go through by car and even by foot. In anyway if you want to convince someone you should not rely on those violent actions.

 If I were to challenge the government I would use internet media. These day people tend to use internet. People inside their home often use “2ch”,”nikonikodouga” etc. By using them we could change people’s thoughts. In this way we won’t be an obstruction to anyone.

 What I wanted to say is that trying to change something in a violent way may be effective sometime(not always) but will be disliked by the citizens who form the city.