//Times亞洲版編輯 Richard Lloyd Parry。
「我地西方憑咩譴責對抗暴政嘅人好暴力」
"We in the West have no right to condemn the violence of protesters facing tyranny"
「你唔可以將理大向警察掟汽油彈嘅示威者，攞嚟同西方嘅反戰呀、環保呀呢類示威者比較……」
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For all the visible trappings of civilisation, this is not London, New York or Tokyo. The protesters throwing firebombs at the police at the Polytechnic University are not to be compared to anti-war protesters or climate change demonstrators, or any of the activists on the streets of western cities. People in those places have no cause to resort to violence. Whether or not they get what they want, they have multiple means of articulating their grievances in print, on television, via the internet, as well as at the ballot box. In Hong Kong, unlike mainland China, people can express themselves freely but have no means to choose leaders who reflect the popular will.
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當我地話「對暴力深表遺憾」，我地當然自我感覺良好……」
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All of us of the right-thinking persuasion pride ourselves on “deploring violence”. But very few of us are true pacifists. In extreme circumstances, faced with a direct threat to the physical wellbeing of ourselves or our loved ones, many of us would raise a fist or something worse. Most people agree that against a threat like that posed by Nazi Germany, for example, even war can be a dreadful necessity.
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「……如果同樣嘅壓迫發生喺英國，掟磚根本只係最低消費。
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Many of us too would compromise our habitual respect for the authority of police and government if it were wielded in an oppressive and undemocratic way. Imagine some fantasy version of Britain, without genuinely elected leaders, in which a one-party state was encroaching on already limited freedoms. Faced with such a reality, thrown bricks would be the least of it.//
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