Can Hong Kong people get their democracy?

Democracy in it's true form allows people to decide and be responsible to their decisions, however democracy in a modern world is a politician's word to derail other forms of social model and always it was full of distortion at it's own best interest at the expenses of the mass.

Hong Kong today see 10 thousand people marching on the street fighting for their democracy from Mainland China. Do they really able to get it? I always been an admirer of Hong Kong with the amount of freedom given to each and every Hong Kongers the chance, the freedom to speak for themselves before the take-over period. And even merging back to China, every Hong Konger still seek the greater freedom, because this freedom is something that cannot be taken away from them. Sadly, every Singaporean do not able to grasp the true meaning of freedom and democracy, for many who did, left for the greater land. For those who forsaken, left to enjoy the best they could afford knowing that ignorance is a bliss. The political stalemate we had now is the very own making of Singaporean who unable to stood on it's ground, who unable to voice it's inner desire to build a better society than to leave to some eliteist who what 's good for the nation is what's good for the people. Apathetic as it seemed.

Here are some comment taken from BBC's forum

Hong Kong is a modern world city with a very well educated, well travelled, peaceful and astute population. To insist - as its pro-China hacks do - that people are too 'immature' for democracy is highly insulting.
Of course 'mature' in China's eyes means subservient to the whims of the CCP. 'Mature' for Hong Kongers means able to exercise informed, independent, well-balanced judgement.

Phil Glenwright, Hong Kong

I attended the amrch. i am so proud of Hong Kong and its people. - We do deserve universal suffrage. But reality tells us what we fight for will not easily be given.

BUt I would like to say firmly to those who propose "HK dependence" that the majority people, while disapproving measures implemented by Beijing, also DETEST the idea of independence - there is no doubt that HK is part of China. What we fight for is what we have been promised in the Basic Law, NOT INDEPENDENCE.

Chris Lo, Hong Kong

Is the british governor in Hong kong elected by their people before 1997?

william chow, nottingham

I support you Hong Kong protestor! I am so proud of you all. I am so proud to be born and raised in HK, a place in which its future should be decided by its own residents, the HK people! I fully support universal suffrage in HK; HK people deserve to be given at least a timetable of when it will happen. Democracy in HK is inevitable! Way to go protestors!

JJ, Vancouver

I feel pride with the courage shown by my fellow countrymen in Hong Kong.

For those who said it's a "mob's politics" to press the government for universal suffrage, please stage a street demonstration of such a comparable scale to substantiate this statement for me to be convinced of.

The message from the members of the public cannot be more clearer now. Pleas listen to the voice of the Hong Kong people who have acquitted themselves with flying colour this afternoon.

E. Ng, Singapore