'Two systems' does not grant freedom to ignore the law

To those claiming the rioters in Hong Kong are peaceful protesters, the question is how violent do the rioters need to be for them to describe things as they really are, rather than how they try to portray them.

The US administration on Sunday once again condemned the "unjustified use of force" against the rioters in Hong Kong and called on Beijing to protect Hong Kong's "freedom".

By this it presumably means the freedom to attack police officers with bows and arrows, gasoline bombs and dangerous chemical materials stolen from the city's university labs. Freedom to attack and kill a sanitation worker while he was doing his job. Freedom to set a man on fire when he argued with some of the rioters. Freedom to brutally assault others who had the courage to question their actions. And freedom to disrupt the city's transport arteries, destroy businesses and damage people's livelihoods.