May 1 Firing

There was a very good RTHK TV program tonight on TVB Jade, discussing the issues on the recent Macau "May 1st" conflict and the overall social environment in the last couple of years. The hot topic recently, of course, is the "five firing" by one of the policemen during the demostration. Personally, the way some of the local workers speaking out, especially like throwing things to the policemen and attacking officials, did not seem to be a much civilized act. Maybe you may be think I'm not condsiderate enough toward the reduced circumstances of the local workers, but actually I do understand that their situation is not that satisfactory. My point is, I'm sure there were also some other remonstrators who did not hope the demonstrations to turn out into a fight, or any form of tragedy. They simply want to be listenend. Those people who inflamed local workers' anger and encourage them to take emotional steps were irresponsible. When a lot of people gathered together, they could be really powerful in terms of strength in fighting - and destruction. A person alone cannot do much, but many people together could created a different atmosphere that might make individuals losing their self-consciousness and be aroused to perform inappropriate actions - and that is what happened in May 1st. Some of the LegCo members also said things that was politically incorrect, but I'm not commenting on it here.

On the other hand, the policeman who fired was kinda unlucky. He seemed like a siner now: people are blaming him as if he did something really bad - and the coincidence of hurting one of the motorcyclist who was 300 meters away could only prove that May 1st was definitely not his day. People are spreading email with modified pictures - like the one shown here. I sorta sympathized him, but what I'm saying here is, THINK before you fire next time.


I'm ending here and I will be talking about casinoes and macau outlook in the next entry.