The HKers are not gong. They have balls. They deserve our respect. The protesters are all well-educated youth who happened to fall in love with the land that they lived in. The HK government could have easily put out the fire in the beginning but Carrie was just too scholarly-stubborn to listen to the ground. Now the Chinese and HK government focus on blaming everyone (including foreigners), except listening to the ground, because they are in denial of the bleak future facing their youth. Tiananmen incident featured the best-educated youth from China when I was young. Today, I saw similarity in HK.