On Ejinsight I had the fortunate (or rather, unfortunate) experiences of coming across this so called ‘article’ on why the boycott of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements in China’s gathering tonight at Victoria Park is somehow equivalent to forgetting on masse the events of that fated night on the 4th of June, 1989.

What a complete and total farce of an article. Simply because we’re boycotting the event hosted by the Alliance doesn’t mean we’re altogether forgetting what we learned from the Tiananmen Square Massacre, but to the contrary, that we’re driving home the message that what we’re dealing with is a regime that is capable of massacring its own people for the protection of its own rule. We see how futile it is to simply cry and wish for a democratic China when right now Hong Kong is experiencing an invasion in everything but name.

Learning from a different light is not the same as forgetting it ever happened (Source: Reddit)

Such nonsense and lies being repeated, as though hosting our own events to remember the massacre and gain our own wisdom from it is equated to forgetting such a thing having ever occurred or to even dare that we are standing on the ‘wrong side of history’. For 27 years the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements in China has done nothing, absolutely nothing, other than to raise money for the same gathering in the following year. Of all the possible means of action against the Communists, from approaching the Hague for human rights violations or starting a case in the ICC, they simply hope that the Communists will realise their faults and take the initiative in starting a process of reconciliation and democratisation. Seems like they’re the ones who are forgetting what the Massacre has taught us.

Besides, is a democratic China really in the best of our interests or what we all need right now? At risk of sounding like Trump, a strong border, an enforced border and a constitution, whether in the Basic Law or otherwise, are the things that will be able to protect Hong Kong and her interests, not a futile attempt at trying to achieve the near impossible of trying to completely destroy the Communists, even though that would obviously be the best outcome. But if we were to entertain the idea of a democratic China and how it may theoretically free Hong Kong of the current crisis she is in, the sheer time investment in creating a democratic China becomes utterly useless in lifting Hong Kong from the dire straits she is in currently.

Years of waving a candle at Victoria Park has done nothing other than divert us away from what matters (Source: Getty Images)

And yes, we are exercising our liberties to commemorate an event that is deeply censored in China. We are doing that exactly by hosting our own events away from the centralisation and blatant hijacking of what the Massacre means by the Alliance and taking it back into our own hands. Hong Kong has wasted enough time trying to think of itself as some sort of obligated part of China, it is this exact line of reasoning that has plunged us into the situation we are in right now. We waste our time and effort away from protecting our rule of law, away from our judicial independence, away from establishing a functioning legislature, away from ensuring the safety of Hong Kongers from being kidnapped away into China, and poured them into the false dream that is creating democracy in China.

For someone who keeps peddling the line about history, tell me one instance where it was an outsider that toppled an oppressive regime and gave it democracy in a timely manner. The Americans have occupied Afghanistan for over two decades and not even now is there a functioning government for them. Does Hong Kong have the resources or the power to perform such a top-town maneuver? We both know we don’t.

And please, for the love of all that is sacred and holy, stop trying to portray it as though the less people there are in Victoria Park tonight the happier the Communists will be. It is quite in fact the opposite. The more that go to Victoria Park the more please they will be, for the simple reason that we can all collectively waste more of our time and energy into a dead end goal and give them a greater window in the colonisation of my beloved homeland. But don’t take my word for it, take CY Leung’s. For when even he wants people to be going to Victoria Park, even the blind man can see something is up.

Anyone still perpetuating these lies from above are directly responsible for the problems that are currently happening in Hong Kong. They tie down the fate of two countries that need not be done so in such a way, and in the process kill Hong Kong with their bare hands. Stephen Vines, I encourage you to stop being naïve and think of the actual problems Hong Kong is facing today before going on a verbal diarrhoea. I’m not quite sure who it is who is on the wrong side of history.