Be careful what you wish for
Given that the Singapore government doesn’t think universal human rights can be truly universal (moral relativism ahoy!):
Singapore’s attorney general warned that the concept of human rights must not be allowed to become a religion for fanatics to achieve political goals such as gay marriage, the Straits Times reported on Saturday.
(Aside: Can’t you just see a bunch of queens setting themselves on fire in order to force a government to pass laws legalising same-sex marriage — er, I think not! Interesting how the government is trying to link universal human rights to fanaticism in the public’s mind; don’t fall for it, people!)
This former Singapore citizen must be feeling pretty fucking stupid for taunting the government on his blog:
In the blog, Nair strongly criticized the conduct of a three-day hearing last week at which Singapore founding father Lee Kuan Yew and his son, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, testified.
In another post on his blog Saturday, Nair taunted authorities, saying he was in Singapore at a particular hotel, and also gave his phone number.
“I am now within your jurisdiction… What are you going to do about it?” Nair wrote.
Um, they’re gonna arrest you and possibly send you to jail and sue you for defamation once you’re out? Is this guy too young to remember Michael Fay (American knobhead who was sent to prison for vandalism in the mid-90s)? The fact that he gave up Singapore citizenship can only be another strike against him.
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Hey, literal flaming queers! Unfortunately some people might think that is a good idea.
They could ‘bang him up’… but he might enjoy that… ’shower time boys, oops dropped my soap!!!’
no freedom of speech here- perhaps racial comments could be banned [prevents social unrest] but we should be able to voice our disapproval of our current government’s methods. Then PAP could improve based on feedback etc, rather than bash criticisers down.
Anonymous (sad that you posted as Anonymous, BTW, I don’t think you need to be that paranoid), I think it’s wrong to say there is no freedom of speech - what you say in private is fine, but you can’t say anything PUBLICLY.
‘Racial comments’ can be interpreted lots of ways, which is a slippery slope, IMHO. If you want freedom of (public) speech, you can’t cherry-pick which bits you like best.
I think we should start a campaign asking the PAP government and Singaporeans to start respecting each other - that might help. Respect and thoughtfulness can go long way in building trust.
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