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Library Wars live version

Library Wars: Love & War, Vol. 1 - Kiiro Yumi, Hiro Arikawa, Kinami Watabe

This is happening in Hong Kong.

 

5 Hong Kong books stores owners/publishers were enforced disappeared, probably by the ML China government. 

 

The Hong Kong people are now demanding for their release, and the Hong Kong police to investigate on their kidnapping. 

 

The local Hong Kong government CE is appointed by the shitty ML China government, aka a completely useless jerk,

 

And now, we are comparing to a Japanese manga and films, "The Library Wars". 

 

The plot for Library Wars: 

 

"The background of the plot is based on the Statement on Intellectual Freedom in Libraries that went into effect in Japan in 1954 (amended in 1979), and the terms are a little different from the Freedom of the Library Law that appears in Toshokan Sensō.

The simplified declaration:

 

It is the most important responsibility of libraries to offer collected materials and library facilities to the people who have the Right to Know as one of their fundamental human rights. In order to fulfill their mission, libraries shall recognize the following matters as their proper duties, and shall put them into practice.

 

  1. Libraries have freedom in collecting their materials.
  2. Libraries secure the freedom of offering their materials.
  3. Libraries guarantee the privacy of users.
  4. Libraries oppose any type of censorship categorically." 

 

Freedom of printing books and selling books are comparable to booksellers as many Hong Kong people buy books than to borrow them from libraries. 

 

See the trailer: https://youtu.be/8Bqgn4icG5M

 

Back to reality.


The books sellers that "disappeared" by the ML China government, were selling banned books in Hong Kong.

 

 

From a pocket of people targeted to be eliminated, it is sad thing to experience and witness it in everyday life. 

 

Update on 7 Jan 2016 news: http://thinkprogress.org/world/2016/01/06/3736302/hong-kong/