For those who have been reading my posts, you know I've tried to take a relatively neutral stance in what has been happening in Hong Kong.

After walking around ground zero and witnessing everything these last few days,I make this plea to protesters, student leaders, and Occupy Central organizers: PLEASE ALLOW EMERGENCY VEHICLES THROUGH THE STREETS YOU OCCUPY.

People (students and police) alike are getting hurt but ambulances have been unable to reach hospitals. (There's an ambulance depot by my office in CWB and from the siren sounds, I can tell they are not able to move because of traffic congestion.) Is this humanitarian? In the coming days, as temperatures remain hot, as passions rise, and as your fellow Hong Konger (again, students and police) get tired, more and more people will get hurt either through unfortunate violence or by sheer accident. Could you PLEASE at least leave enough of a lane for ambulances, fire trucks, and first response emergency vehicles to pass through?

You lose nothing by this humanitarian gesture. Imagine -- if it were someone in your camp who got hurt (picture your best friend, your girlfriend, your father), would you not want help to arrive in a timely and efficient manner? BE SENSIBLE. BE KIND. DO THE RIGHT THING. AND THANK YOU!

Please share this message (better yet, translate it) and hope that it reaches organizers of the protest. Benny Tai Yiu-Ting #hkprotesters #scholarism #occupycentral