This was the final announcement Thursday morning in Hong Kong before workers moved in to dismantle a pro-democracy protest site that's been occupying the city's financial district for over two months.<br/> <br />Slowly, methodically, and over the course of the day barricades were removed, plastic was sawed off, and sandbags were emptied.<br/> <br />Police stood guard over the workers, and onlookers recorded the scene from inside a building as tents in the iconic Admiralty District were picked up and moved off the street.<br/> <br />The removal was generally peaceful, with most demonstrators choosing to pack their belongings well ahead of the planned clearance.<br/> <br />Others though vowed to remain until physically picked up and removed by police, who hauled them off, one by one.<br/> <br />Despite the clearance, the occupy movement has been a social watershed on the fringes of greater China, with people standing up to Beijing to preserve democracy largely denied on the mainland.<br/> <br />At their peak the prot
