Occupy Central's flawed strategy

Occupy Central is not the same as the movement which was led by Mahatma Gandhi in India, nor is the Beijing government the Brits of the 1940s.

Advocates of the controversial Occupy Central campaign have climbed a false moral high ground.

The Gandhi civil uprising analogy is not only wrong, but a dangerous one. First, it is the wrong target.

Central is the robust and innocent heart of capitalism, where global financial institutions, led by HSBC, contribute to the prosperity of Hong Kong, with the Bank of China keeping a watchful eye over the goings on.

If they want to mimic Occupy Wall Street, at least the rebellious academic organisers should show some logical sense: CEOs in Wall Street were held responsible, with their greed for lucrative salaries and bonuses, for the credit crunch in 2008 that swept across Europe and Asia with recession in a domino effect.

HSBC and other business occupants in Central have nothing to do with the reluctance of proposing a popular 2017 universal franchise package. That is the duty, if not the guilt, of the Leung Chun-ying administration, which is situated in Admiralty, where the open ground outside could house more than 100,000 sit-in demonstrators, as was successfully tested by those families against the threat of the brainwashing national education last year.