Not all Hong Kong citizens approve of the protests. A few who oppose the so called "Umbrella Revolution" have started to speak out and disagree with the protests.

Students and organizers of Occupy Central With Love and Peace continue to demonstrate, demanding that Hong Kong chief executive C.Y. Leung step down and renounce the decision of limiting the nomination process of executive candidates.

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"It's nice to be dubbed an Umbrella Revolution, but we all know we can't have a revolution," said Robert Chow, a veteran Hong Kong journalist and the founder of Silent Majority for Hong Kong, which opposes the Occupy Central movement. "So what is going to happen? They're pushing for a confrontation, they're pushing for something that will lead to the world condemning Beijing? They want bloodshed?" he added.

The Hong Kong University Public Opinion Program released the results of a telephone survey among 1,006 Hong Kong residents done from September 17 up to September 22; the results say that 57 percent disapproved of C.Y. Leung and only 21 percent approved of him.

According to Michael DeGolyer, an experienced pollster at the Hong Kong Baptist University, maintaining the support for the side of the protesters may prove to be difficult. Mr. DeGolyer warned that China may take punitive measures that may result to damaging the economy. One example would be limiting the number of tourists coming there.

It may already be happening, according to Regina Ip, a pro-Beijing lawmaker. According to her, the tourism, restaurant, and retail industries are already hurt by the protests.

"I think very severe damage is being done not just to the tycoons, but also to the ordinary people in the streets," she said. "So many popular tourist areas are being shut down - Canton Road, Causeway Bay. Clearly a lot of economic damage is being inflicted, and also very severe damage to our image overseas."

More and more sentiments about the protests are being voiced out. 

"They're living in their own dreams, totally detached from reality," said Mr. Lau, a businessman who helped draft the Basic Law in Hong Kong. 

What the protest organizers ultimately want, he said, is "a replay of June 4" - the Tiananmen Square massacre of 1989 in which hundreds and possibly thousands of pro-democracy advocates and protesters were killed in a crackdown by the Chinese Army, which resulted to the worldwide condemnation of China.

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