There’s no silent majority in Hong Kong, only a terrified minority while the rest are fine with mob rule and anarchy

A Hong Kong MTR employee tries to stop protesters causing further damage at the Tai Wai station. – SCMP/Sam Tsang

I was stranded in our Causeway Bay office with my late-shift colleagues after putting the paper to bed on Friday night, thanks to democracy.

The company had arranged emergency hotel accommodation for us, but we all wanted to go home after a particularly hard day at work. Only, there were no vehicles on the streets, and complete chaos had taken over as the freedom fighters on the front lines of the great "revolution of our times" went about "liberating" Hong Kong in an orgy of unfettered violence, vandalism and anarchy.