FADE IN:
INT. CHAMBERS - DAY
Reception. PETER is chatting with a SECRETARY (40s)
PETER (V.O.)
She poses a lot of questions
to me about the current Hong
Kong turmoil. I can feel her
fear induced by perceived
threat.
INT. SITTING ROOM - NIGHT
Having just sit down and turned on the TV, Peter's phone rings.
CALLER (O.S.)
Peter, which side are you on?
I've enquiries to make and
would like to hear your views
as to what we can do to help
resolve the Hong Kong
problem.
PETER
(To phone)
...I'm going to send you a
link to my main website. If
you're interested, just read
my blog posts for the past
several weeks.
INT. SLEEPING ROOM - NIGHT
Peter taps a bedside radio button before going to sleep. We hear late night news...and then an interviewee's remark:...White Terror!
PETER (V.O.)
What a familiar label!
FLASHBACK
INT. OFFICE - DAY (2012)
Peter reads newspaper cuttings and incoming emails.
PETER (V.O.)
In opposing the Copyright
(Amendment) Bill, the
netizens are accusing me
that I'm deploying White
Terror.
Pausing.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd)
Copyright is an economic
right. If they want to use
others' works, they've to
seek consent or pay
royalties. Copyright works
made available on the web
doesn't mean that their
owners have waived
copyright.
Pausing.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd)
What the netizens are against
isn't the Bill, but the existing
law. They've the desire to
use others' works and fear
that they'd be prosecuted.
Pausing.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd)
Without blatant copying,
it seems that netizens
can't exercise their
freedom of expression.
Pausing.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd)
But it's unfair to free-ride
on the results of others'
intellectual efforts. The
legal standards being
applied in Hong Kong are
international ones, the
US applies them and so
is Mainland China.
Pausing.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd)
Everything is shared is
basically a communist's
value.
END FLASHBACK
Peter researches with his mobile device.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd) "White Terror" originally
refers to a movement
against the French
Revolution (1794-1795).
White was the colour of
the Bourbons and their
kings ruled France from
1589-1792. "White Terror"
was an attack launched
against the individuals/
terrorists, and all those
who did well since the
French Revolution 1789.
Pausing.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd)
In Hong Kong these days,
I just take "White Terror"
as a convenient label for
anyone who wants to
badmouth something but
running out of reason.
Peter investigates further.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd)
"White Terror" was
essentially a series of
uncoordinated attacks
by local activists who
shared common fear
and desire but no central
organisation.
Pausing.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd)
If defined in the way it was, the structure of
Hong Kong protests
isn't dissimilar from the
"White Terror" movement.
While activists of opposing
camps attack each other,
the silent majority in Hong
Kong suffers indirectly
as Hong Kong might die.
EXT. SWIMMING POOL - DAY
Peter practises strokes in a corner.
PETER (V.O.)
Why there're so many
people claiming noble
beliefs than is the case?
Don't they have moral
conscience? Do they
really love Hong Kong?
Pausing.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd)
Whenever I hear people
say: "...to be honest..."
I know his/her moral
conscience is at work.
I'd listen to the part that
immediately follows.
Pausing.
PETER (V.O.)
One of the root causes
of Hong Kong's current
turmoil is obvious: the
practice of dishonesty
and the use of violence
gain the day.
Pausing.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd)
It's high time Hong Kong
turned around against the
such anti-Hong Kong
culture.
Pausing.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd)
But changing beliefs or
or waking up the mass-
hypnotized 15% of
Hongkongers through
re-education by allaying their perceived fear and
suppressing their wild
desire is only a long-
term strategy.
INT. CLUBHOUSE - NIGHT
Peter reads a newspaper report with a feature photo.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd)
What's this Policy Innovation
and Co-ordination Office? The Office has a Lennon
Wall of post-it notes? Did
the Office innovate it as
a Government policy?
INT. STUDY - NIGHT
BBC news reports some airline staff are sitting in at the Arrival Hall of the Hong Kong International Airport.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd)
Everybody seems excited
to jump on the bandwagon
and share some limelight.
Do they want to turn the
current White Terror into
a Red one?
Pausing.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd)
History records lots of
violence and persecutions
in "White Terrors". The
latest and longest one
was in Taiwan (1947-
1987). During the period,
around 3000-4000 were
executed and 140,000
were imprisoned.
Peter sighs.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd)
There's a lot that Hong
Kong can learn from the
White Terrors. For the
common good of Hong
Kong, we should stop
supporting the anti-Hong
Kong "White Terror"
movement now!
FADE OUT. The End