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.
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.
Demanding that C. Y. Leung listen to public opinion on democracy could be like flogging a dead horse, but flogging the wrong living horse is both cruel and unfair.
It takes about 10,000 to block the traffic on Queen's Road Central, and another 7,000 to paralyse Des Voeux Road Central.
Heavy deployment of police, as indicated by a hardline police commissioner, Andy Tsang Wai-hung, is useful good news for jihad terrorists outside Hong Kong who could be tempted to plan or plant something at a pub in Lan Kwai Fong while the heart of Hong Kong stands still in a state of anarchy.
The chief executive might believe that calling in the PLA is the best way to settle the crisis. Hong Kong avoided it once in 2003 when we defused the possible disaster of Article 23. Hong Kong is unlikely to be that lucky again.
