Reply #35: There has been no crackdown of the students

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The WSJ is just plain propaganda all around, The first few days there was violence and police used tear gas and rubber bullets consistently, but recently things have calmed down and such events are remote, now police and NG just carry shields.

The student protests are dying down as well, as a matter of fact they are more or less over. Classes resume on monday (not to mention summer vacation and they would NEVER miss that) and they did the most idiotic thing in a while: They asked to speak in Congress, they were told they would be given a chance to debate their peers, they mildly protested (they wanted no debate) but went nevertheless, BUT after their initial speech they heard only one rebuttal and left in the most spoiled manner possible, lets say it was a severe blow to their national credibility with rational people, and are now considered a joke.