I cried today....

I cried today....

During the Olympic torch relay today, I witnessed a young guy standing next to me, silently holding up a half-A4 sized human rights poster.

When the crowd discovered him and his poster, they attacked him immediately, poking at and trying to destroy his poster with their red flags or umbrellas.

During that whole time, the innocent guy was just repeating "Freedom of Speech" in Chinese and English.

He then got taken away by the police, got interrogated and was finally forced to leave the site after the police recorded his ID and other personal information.

In the midst of that kind of blind patriotism and violence, I couldn't stop my tears.

I haven't cried like that for years... since my grandma passed away.

I am not ashamed of admitting that I cried in the street out in the public (got eyed on by many passers-by), but I am ashamed of my own country, of the city that I have always loved so much...

Where did the freedom of speech in HK go....?