The Silent Majority for Hong Kong () is an anti- Occupy Central

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political group in Hong Kong. It was founded on 8 August 2013 by members of the pro-Beijing alliance including former

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radio host

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and Professor of Economics at

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Ho Lok-sang. The group, which opposed the Occupy Central with Love and Peace movement, released a video on YouTube predicting deaths and chaos if the Occupy Central protests were to proceed, and organised numerous activities opposing the Occupy Central movement under the name Alliance for Peace and Democracy, such as a signature campaign and a march.

Objectives

The Group claims to strive for "democracy without chaos", and to support peace and the implementation of

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in Hong Kong, but to oppose violence and the Occupy Central Movement. It also supports the

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, but support the reform proposal to exclude the

pan-democracy camp The pro-democracy camp, also known as the pan-democracy camp, is a political alignment in Hong Kong that supports increased democracy, namely the universal suffrage of the Chief Executive and the Legislative Council as given by the Basic La ...

to join the race.

Connection with Chinese government

Chow is quoted as saying "China will not deal with people ... it will only deal with oliticalparties”. Chow's statement that political parties supporting the occupy movement risked "fading into political obscurity” led some media and individuals, especially from the pro-democracy camp, to denounce the group as pro-establishment Hong Kong "mouthpiece" for the

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. As a result of its alleged close connection with the Chinese government, the group has been called by the pro-democracy camp as "Help the hinese CommunistParty to speak out" ().「公民提名小圈子選舉」
(in Chinese) Retrieved 17 August 2014.

YouTube video

On 17 June 2014, the group posted a video on YouTube entitled "They can kill the city!", depicting possible repercussions of the Occupy Central movement.佔領中環 --- They can kill this city! (Eng)
/ref> The video shows total chaos in Hong Kong should an occupation of Central take place, such as territory-wide traffic jams, automatic weapons and people dying of strokes. Members of the pro-democracy camp and supporters of the Occupy Central movement criticised the group's use of

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tactics and exaggeration in an attempt to scare Hong Kong people from participating in the

civil disobedience Civil disobedience is the active and professed refusal of a citizenship, citizen to obey certain laws, demands, orders, or commands of a government (or any other authority). By some definitions, civil disobedience has to be nonviolent to be cal ...

movement.

References

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