by thenewgreen

"If this was me, I would just drop off the grid for a while," says former FBI counter-terrorism special agent Mark Rossini. "Take the battery out of my phone and throw the phone away. Get as much cash advance on credit cards and stop using them too. He's in a bind since he can't travel anywhere without a passport and going to Hong Kong was not a strategic move if he wanted to be free. He would have been better off going to any European country, and then just traveling via public transportation to remote areas and using his cash to stay in hostels/small inns and eat cheaply."