Despite its generally pro-Beijing editorial stance in recent years, on the whole the South China Morning Post has done a fair job of covering the Occupy movement. However, one sentence in
today's account of the clearance of the Mongkok protest site defies the laws of physics:
Since Portland Street and Nathan Road run parallel to each other, they can only intersect at infinity!
Another thing I noticed in the Post's latest online poll - 3 of the responses here are favourable to the police, and only 2 unfavourable; there is no neutral choice on offer. And while I don't believe most cops are bad, "Poor" is a very mild description of the stupidity, incompetence and brutality we have seen from a a few of them in the past three weeks. "Bloody awful" should have been one of the offered choices.
I suspect the results (54% negative, 46% positive) owe more to attitudes towards the protests than directly towards the police. There are some sociopaths on the pro-government side who would be perfectly happy for them to replicate the Tiananmen massacre on Hong Kong soil (well, tarmac). If the police cut off Joshua Wong's and Benny Tai's heads and paraded them around Central they would consider it an excellent performance.
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