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Update: As I predicted, the UK, now Australia, Canada, the USA and others are all offering specific programs to Hong Kong citizens to leave HK after the Security Laws were enacted and now are being implemented. So the answer is; not what should they do but they are now doing. This is a game changer for Hong Kong which will go down unfortunately but it will save up to 3 million people. Australia also cancelled the extradition law with HK so that any HK people in Australia can now feel safe.Having lived in Hong Kong for a long time, invested there and still work with the Hong Kong people on everything from local to China to global projects, I can unequivocally state that ANY COUNTRY THAT WOULD OPEN ITS DOORS TO HONG KONG RESIDENTS WOULD BE REWARDED WITH SOME OF THE HARDEST WORKING, MOST DILIGENT, RESPECTFUL, UPSTANDING, COMMITTED CITIZENS IN THE ENTIRE WORLD.I highly recommend the USA and UK to open their doors to as many as can qualify and to help them set up businesses so that they can prosper and bring their fantastic work ethic to their new countries.Despite the nonsense that the CCP puts out and its many delusional rewrites of history, 95% of Hong Kong Chinese which is most of the people there, are the descendants of refugees who came to Hong Kong with nothing. Who walked or swam or took boats escaping from the mainland in 1949 and for years thereafter.They built a life for themselves. They built Hong Kong. They went to work every day. They have strong family values. They respect authority if authority is legitimate and if their rights are respected. They protest by and large peacefully. They are passionate in their pursuit of justice and they dont give up. Never give up..They have candlelit vigils honoring those who have fallen for democracy. They remember the past, their ancestors. You dont have to tell them to take care of their parents and grandparents, they know their duty. They understand and live filial piety every day. They would never be a burden on society, they have no idea what that even means, they always are ready to go to work, they always are out there making a life for themselves, starting a business no matter how small, they can and will do it.And they still have time for fun, for creativity. For the entire Canto pop and other genres and the amazing movies and music and art they have created. They travel the world with zero support from anyone and they make it happen in business, finance, manufacturing and in every way that economics can be measured.You want a great group of hard working wonderful loyal people to join you that will make you a lot of money, have great values and do the right thing every day while bringing the remnants of a great culture thousands of years in its most wild and yet purest form while adapting to the modern world, then invite the Hong Kong people as many as you can get.You wont be disappointed.

V for Vendetta.Evey Hammond: Who are you?V: Who? Who is but the form following the function of what and what I am is a man in a mask.Evey Hammond: Well I can see that.V: Of course you can. I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is.Evey Hammond: Oh. Right.V: But on this most auspicious of nights, permit me then, in lieu of the more commonplace sobriquet, to suggest the character of this dramatis persona.V: Voilà! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of Fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a by-gone vexation, stands vivified and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin vanguarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition.[carves "V" into poster on wall]V: The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta, held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous.V: [giggles]V: Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose, so let me simply add that it's my very good honor to meet you and you may call me V.Evey Hammond: Are you, like, a crazy person?V: I am quite sure they will say so. But to whom, might I ask, am I speaking?Evey Hammond: I'm Evey.V: Evey? E-V. Of course you are.Evey Hammond: What does that mean?V: It means that I, like God, do not play with dice and do not believe in coincidence. Are you hurt?The Lord of the Rings"Alas, eleventy-one years is far too short a time to live among such excellent and admirable hobbits." [cheers abound.] "I don't know half of you half as well as I should like, and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve."

Sorry to give you the bad news: it won't.The movement is flawed in both its objectives and the path to achieve it.[1] A flawed conceptAnna Hazare and his team has reduced the fight against corruption to a single project - the Lokpal (ombudsman) Bill.a. Let's look at some of the specifics of the Jan Lokpal Bill (surprisingly, the latest version is missing from the public domain - if you find one, please paste the link in the comments) There have been many versions floating around and I'm still not sure if the version I have is the latest one.i. It aims to create a parallel bureaucracy to control the existing bloated system. It's said that India's progress has been blocked by the North Block and the South Block. Adding another layer would not yield a better system, but a more complicated one.ii. Anna seeks to bring CBI's anti corruption wing under the Lokpal. With the transfers and postings of top CBI officials (the IPS cadre) still under strong political control, it's difficult to fathom how anti corruption investigations would improve.Proof: The Supreme Court had once given a CBI director near absolute freedom (almost unheard of in independent India) in investigating a corruption case. Still the case got completely butchered.Even if the anti corruption wing of the CBI started functioning independently, without clear support from ED, IT and other departments, it will be difficult to build a strong anti corruption case.iii. Seeks to bring the judiciary and PMO under lokpal's purview. Dangerous and not going to happen.iv. Opens a pandora's box through filing frivolous complaints. Will be a nightmare as a risk averse bureaucracy will completely stop taking any decisions. Recall that at the time of the Commonwealth Games, many departments simply stopped functioning as they knew any work they do would be seen as an attempt to make money. The officials also knew that a corruption inquiry is in the air and it made no sense to work on something that damages their ACR. It's for precisely this reason that our anti corruption laws take a strong view of such complaints.v. Blanket approval for phone tapping. Government proposed approval from the Home Secretary, but Anna's team says "this will compromise investigations."Some ideas are beyond comprehension.Take one - The Lokpal's appointment committee should include a judge in the Supreme Court ... in fact, the juniormost judge. Anna's team has put forth the logic that as your tenure increases, your chances of being corrupt are higher; showing a lack of understanding of the appointment process of Supreme Court judges.b. Instead, they could have chosen an issue where there's a broad consensus on the path forward.I'll give just one short example - take the case of police reforms. Reforming India's policing system and making it independent from political influence is necessary in curtailing both abuse of power and corruption.The Supreme Court has been pushing in the right direction.In 1979, the National Police Commission (NPC) was set up to report on policing and give recommendations. It produced dozens of recommendations and a Model Police Act. However, none of the major recommendations were adopted.After nearly 15 years, two former police officers filed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) in the Supreme Court for directions to implement the Police Commission recommendations. (see Prakash Singh and others vs Union of India and others)In 2006, after a decade long struggle, the Court delivered its verdict. It ordered the states and union territories to comply with binding directives that would kick start reform. The Court required immediate implementation of its orders either through executive orders or new police legislation. It set up a monitoring committee and asked states to file periodic status reports.In late 2010, it took serious note of the lack of compliance and issued notices to the errant states. The Court has stated that "it does not want its judgment to lie in the courtroom and has also asked for a timeline from these states for the separation of investigation from law and order duties of the police."With (a) very clear directives on what needs to be done based on decades of deliberations and recommendations(b) a sympathetic Supreme Court(c) a supportive police force(d) broad civil society consensus on what needs to be done(e) clear visible impact of proposed reforms,the team should have picked this or a similar issue for getting the movement startedThe Lokpal Bill falls short of (a) - (e)[2] Anna is not GandhiGandhi became a towering figure during India's freedom struggle and exhibited a lot of patience. He understood that to crush imperialism, mass mobilization was extremely important. And only non violent methods could be sustained for a long time. Recall that it took him over 2 decades before he gave the rallying call for Quit India movement.Anna, on the other hand, decided that blackmailing India's parliament was the best way forward in getting a dubious law passed. His approach has been extra constitutional in a representative democracy and reeks of handing power to a rowdy mob.Tomorrow if Anna decides that all Indians should wear dhoti, would you still support it? Or if there's a movement to get honor killing legalized?Recall the Gurjar agitation of 2008 when Rajasthan was brought to a halt on the issue of reservations. If Anna can bring the Parliament to its knees, the gujjars have every right to do so. After all, over three dozen died for the reservation cause and which, in their opinion is perhaps more important than the Lokpal Bill.[3] Anna's biggest sponsorSome may disagree, but there was an inherent conflict of interest when IAC started taking donations. The biggest donor (~30% of total collections) was Jindal Aluminium. It is run by the Jindal family, which has close ties with the Congress. In fact, Naveen Jindal is a Congress MP from Kurukshetra.[4] Mass appealWith its volunteer force and an ability to pull crowds, support from the right wing and especially the RSS was a key reason behind the movement's success in Delhi.However, as Anna and team distanced themselves from the right wing and without a disciplined cadre backing them, Mumbai was a flop show. No wonder, Anna has decided to tie up with Ramdev and stage a rally in Delhi for the next phase of the movement.The Mumbai rally - morning scene[5] OK, is there a way forward?A. One man, Subramanian Swamy has shown the way.It's a fascinating story of how a $30 billion theft was caught. To give you the scale of the scandal, here's a comparison of expected losses from 2G allocation to India's budgetary allocations. In short, the losses would have dwarfed India's health, education, water, infrastructure, power spend combined for entire FY 2011.However, unlike Anna, Swamy followed the due process, patiently.The lynchpin of the case was A. Raja, a powerful minister from a strong regional ally. Since the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 mandates that "No court shall take cognizance of an offence .... alleged to have been committed by a public servant, except with the previous sanction ... of the authority competent to remove him from his office." [Ch IV, Cl 19], Swamy had to approach the Prime Minister for sanction to remove Raja. However, his complaints fell on deaf ears.With no response from the Prime Minister to his incessant requests, Swamy moved the Delhi High Court for a direction to the Prime Minister. However, his petition was dismissed. Undeterred, Swamy then moved the Supreme Court and his petition became part of the long litigation that was now building up against Raja.On January 31, 2012 after a period of over two years of heated arguments, the Supreme Court of India delivered a historic judgement, quashing the 2G licenses. They noted -"Before concluding, we consider it imperative to observe that but for the vigilance of some enlightened citizens who held important constitutional and other positions and discharged their duties in larger public interest and Non Governmental Organisations who have been constantly fighting for clean governance and accountability of the constitutional institutions, unsuspecting citizens and the Nation would never have known how the scarce natural resource has been grabbed by those who enjoy money power and who have been able to manipulate the system." [Pg 91, SC judgement]Moreover, the Supreme Court ruled that it is the constitutional right of a citizen to move to prosecute any public servant. And effectively has directed that the authority from whom prosecution permission is sought, has to take a decision within three months. And if, within four months, no decision is taken, the permission shall be deemed to be granted...Narashima Rao, one of modern India's architects, made an interesting speech in 1995. A short quote -"An ideal public servant is one who doesn't have a past, who quietly does his work, and when his job is over, he moves out without worrying about leaving behind a legacy."B. The change has to come from withinJP was instrumental in translating raw anger into votes through the Janta Party. On the other hand, the Anna movement has been working on "sab neta chor hain" (all politicians are thieves) concept and instead of working with the opposition, they have tried to bypass the entire parliamentary system.To bring effective change, Anna and his team needs to channel their energies through the electoral system. A small urban middle class lighting candles at India Gate cannot force the government to take action that fundamentally alters the system.They should instead learn from a man working tirelessly right across the border. Imran Khan has caught the popular imagination in Pakistan and has terrified both PML and PPP. Come next election, and there's a high chance that his party will form the government.C. FocusThey need to have a clear vision and deep analysis when they propose a fundamental change to a system. Piecemeal work and speeches make for interesting soundbites but cannot bring real change.Ramnath Goenka and Arun Shourie were able to bring down AR Antulay's government through a targeted crusade that relied on a huge fact base.Sadly, this movement is high on style, but lacks substance.