The Diary of a Singaporean Mind blog has a very interesting article about last Sundays incident in front of the Parliament House and the following arrest of the peaceful protestors around activist Chee. It questions why there is such a discussion and mostly symphatizing movement especially online going on, but when it comes to actions, like demonstrations, speeches or public activities, there is a widely silencing “looking to the floor attitude” and he gets support by merely 30 people (out of approx 4M living here). Where is the rest might one ask himselve?
The whole idea is to highlight to Singaporeans that these laws exists and are somewhat ‘unjust’ and ‘undemocratic’. See the problem with this approach is Singaporeans already know these laws exist and have accepted them. Singaporeans are obedient people, all you need to do to keep them constrained is to draw a yellow line and ask them to stand behind it – they will do so without asking why. It is alot safer to stand behind the yellow line then to cross over and see what happens…CONTINUE READING
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