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At 9am, about twenty members of the Alliance In Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China chanted "Vindicate June 4th" and "Go China" outside the Peninsula Hotel in Tsimshatsui. Several hundred mainland travellers countered with "Go China" and "Go Beijing." When the Alliance members attempted to follow the torch to continue their protests, they were blocked by fenqing holding five-star flags. Someone swung their fists and others used umbrellas to hit them. It was a chaotic scene. The police sent reinforcement to open the way, but thousands of fenqing followed the Alliance members and cursed them out for being running dogs for the west and traitors.

Alliance vice-chairman [Lee Cheuk-yan] said that this was the most difficult march that he has ever seen. He thought that cultural diversity was an important Hong Kong value and that there is no need to use violence to express different opinion. The mainland fenqing say that they respect freedom of speech, but they used tactics such as a sea of flags and blocking passage to stop the Hong Kong protestors from expressing their opinions.

At around the same time, more than a dozen members of the Civil Human Rights Front assembled at the intersection of Nathan Road and Haifong Road to raise banners such as "One dream, one human right; return governance to the people and improve livelihood." Several hundred angry patriotic people surrounded them and cursed them out. Dozens of police deployed in a human chain to protect the members of the front. But these patriots kept shouting: "Go away! Shameful!" Someone yelled: "We have enough people here that we can stomp them to death with one stomp per person." The police eventually removed the ten or so peaceful petitioners from the Civil Human Rights Front.

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Ms. Zhang and Ms. Li came from Shenzhen to watch the sacred flame. They carried homemade posters to protest the inaccurate reports from CNN and they wore mouth masks with the words "Stop Lying." She did not explain what the inaccuracies were but she kept saying, "It was unforgivable for CNN to insult the Chinese people." Another fenqing was unhappy with a 72-year-old Hong Kong taxi driver holding a placard in support of the Dalai Lama. He charged up and cursed: "How old are you? Do you know history? Do you know who feeds the people of Hong Kong?"

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Yesterday, the mainland young people behaved politely; when they bumped into someone, they apologized in English. But when it comes to Tibetan self-determination, the vindication of June 4th and human rights violations in China, they would yell with their veins popping questions such as "Are you Chinese?" "Have your been to Tibet?" "You don't know Chinese history!" and accuse others of being unpatriotic.

Xiao Yin came to Hong Kong from Shandong as a tourist. His first target is the Alliance In Support of Patriotic Movements Of China which he accused of separatism and treason. He waved a five-star flag which almost hit members of the Alliance. He also stood next to Hong Kong University student Christina Chen and used five-star flag to cover her snow lion flag.

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