HK needs to restore public order, now

There is a dreary dismal familiarity to me in watching the progression of the continuing Hong Kong riots. They could be following exactly the same script as the protests that rocked the West in the late 1960s.

At first, the protests begin as apparently peaceful, orderly and dignified, but they never stay that way for too long.

For the protesters are never satisfied by reasonable concessions and dignified compromises on the part of the authorities. Instead, slowly but inexorably, the protests descend into the primeval language of bestial hate and emotional hysteria.