The voice of Hong Kong's silent majority must be heard

It should not come as a surprise that more than 300,000 Hong Kong residents, from all walks of life and from different nationalities, participated in a rally convened by over 70 civic leaders on Saturday.

That the organizers represented the business sector, student groups, civic organizations and police associations shows they've had enough of the radical youths, who for weeks have made headlines for resorting to violence supposedly to oppose an amendment to Hong Kong's extradition law.

These radical youths have attacked police officers, stormed the legislature, and laid siege to the police headquarters, all carried out in illegal and violent fashion, which the silent majority of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region could no longer remain mute spectators to.