What really would be the value of those opinions anyway, when there is simply no way to tell if they are being offered under duress or not?
If people like Dixon Seeto are under the duress of a crippling downturn in tourism, and they are not allowed to say anything else about it anyway, then what else are they going to plead with the Commonwealth? They just want to get out of the current crisis ASAP.
But to accept the military's way out of this one would be to give them carte blanche to do the same deceitfully cynical thing again ANY TIME in the future. So it is just like taking a hit of cocaine to relieve the craving for it. All you do though, is just strengthen your habit – so the real solution is just go "cold turkey" and kill it off for good once and for all!
Frank's coup to end all coups will only be so therefore if his post-coup reform order comes to naught. So just like the Commonwealth, none of us is gonna play ball either – no matter how many mannequins and glove puppets he produces to mouth the worn out regime line.