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EleanorR

(2,393 posts) Thu Oct 29, 2020, 09:40 AM Oct 2020

Hong Kong teen activist Tony Chung is charged with secession

This is tragic. The US did nothing to help these kids who fought long and hard to hang onto a little Democracy. Trump just didn't think there was anything it for him. This kid is 19.

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Hong Kong teen activist Tony Chung is charged with secession (Original Post) EleanorR Oct 2020 OP

The stain of Trump on this country will last for generations Docreed2003 Oct 2020 #1

Pretty sure they meant sedition. bluedigger Oct 2020 #2

Like Barr, who asked that protesters be kept in prison despite a judges rec to release them EleanorR Oct 2020 #3

Docreed2003

(16,868 posts)

1. The stain of Trump on this country will last for generations

Reply to EleanorR (Original post)

Thu Oct 29, 2020, 09:48 AM

Oct 2020

Between abandoning the Kurds and the complete indifference towards the democracy protests in Hong Kong, the Trump regime has abdicated any claim America may have as a moral leader in the world

bluedigger

(17,087 posts)

2. Pretty sure they meant sedition.

Reply to EleanorR (Original post)

Thu Oct 29, 2020, 10:11 AM

Oct 2020

EleanorR

(2,393 posts)

3. Like Barr, who asked that protesters be kept in prison despite a judges rec to release them