Occupy Central, HK business district

This morning I took Hong Kong's famous Star Ferry across Victoria Harbor to explore Hong Kong Central, the city's wealthy business district. Due to Occupy Central, things are definitely not business as usual, and the demonstration here is even bigger than the one across the harbor in Mong Kok. Today Hong Kong's South China Post reported that the police will soon be moving in to move out the protestors, and a young Hong Kong dissident is quoted as saying that no matter how the protest movement turns out, "we will reclaim the democracy that belongs to us." Stirring words for sure, but if and when China gains full control of Hong Kong, there will be zero tolerance for pro-democracy movements like Occupy Central, and they will be promptly snuffed out, as evidenced by the 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre.