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In another perspective, cases of anti-protest protestors have shown. There have been fightings and violence between the two groups, where anger spurs anger.
This picture portrays a Taxi Driver worker union's protest against Occupy Central. The event greatly reduced their businesses, and thus their wage and payments. On their signs, it says "Need to work" and "Cannot tolerant any more". These activities are well captured by state sponsored medias and were used as a tool to against the Occupy Central itself.
Some argue that this is not due to the action of Occupy Central but due to the differences in ideology. Maybe Beijing government paid these people to go against Occupy Central. However, the slogan of the biggest anti-occupy central campaign "Alliance for Peace and Democracy" states: Support the Universal Suffrage, Against the Occupy Central. This demonstrates that it is not due to political ideology that the disagreement of the action takes place.There are substantial amount of
citizens who are against the Occupy Central action itself.