Silent Majority for Hong Kong

The Silent Majority for Hong Kong (Chinese: 幫港出聲; lit. 'Help Hong Kong to speak out') is an anti-Occupy Central pro-Beijing^[2][3] political group in Hong Kong. It was founded on 8 August 2013 by members of the pro-Beijing alliance including former RTHK radio host Robert Chow^[4] and Professor of Economics at Lingnan University Ho Lok-sang.^[5]

Silent Majority for Hong Kong 幫港出聲
Convenor	Robert Chow[1]
Founded	8 August 2013
Ideology	Chinese nationalism Anti-Occupy Central
National affiliation	Pro-Beijing camp
Colours	Black
Slogan	"Democracy without Chaos"
Website
www.silentmajority.hk
Politics of Hong Kong Political parties Elections

Silent Majority for Hong Kong
Traditional Chinese	幫港出聲
Simplified Chinese	帮港出声
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Bāng Gǎng Chūshēng Yue: Cantonese Jyutping bong1 gong2 ceot1 seng1

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,^[2] and organised numerous activities opposing the Occupy Central movement under the name Alliance for Peace and Democracy,^[6] 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 universal suffrage in Hong Kong, but to oppose violence and the Occupy Central Movement. It also supports the 2014 Hong Kong electoral reform consultation, but support the reform proposal to exclude the pan-democracy camp to join the race.^[7]

Connection with Chinese government

Chow is quoted as saying "China will not deal with people ... it will only deal with [political] parties”. 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^[6][8] Hong Kong "mouthpiece" for the Chinese Communist Party.^[9] 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 [Chinese Communist] Party to speak out" (Chinese: 幫黨出聲).^[10]

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.^[11] 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.^[12] Members of the pro-democracy camp and supporters of the Occupy Central movement criticised the group's use of fearmongering tactics^[13] and exaggeration^[9] in an attempt to scare Hong Kong people from participating in the civil disobedience movement.