Is our social peace come from a real peace or is it a
manufactured one?
If it is a manufactured one then we ought to be woken from our
slumber.
Who are the ones dishing out the lawsuits?
Are political films bad for the nation? The fact that our own
govenment lifted the ban on it seems to indicate your opinion of it
is quite different from theirs.
Anti-government sentiment? Is it created by them or are they
simply ressonating with a sentiment that already exists?
Why are they rebels?
Last I checked they haven't violated any tenets of our pledge
and are in fact awarded these rights by our pledge.
Can't speak for foreign elements, but from what I know in other
established democracies a true patroit is not a person who stands
up for his government, but for his NATION.
Are they really a minority? Note that the "majority" only has a
66.6 percent mandate. 33.4 percent is a significant amount of the
population.
Social peace is always manufactured/created. There can be no
real social peace that isn't manufactured/created. As long as
people are living in a country governed by a government, the social
peace that they enjoys will always be a manufactured/created.
People who desires real social peace can always buy themselves an
island and live there alone with their loved ones, and that's real
social peace. And who are you to decide for the people if they
should be denied this manufactured/created social peace created by
the government. This behaviour is no different from a Dictator.
Political films are FILMS, they are subjective materials which
are often abused for propaganda usage. A real political film should
be NEUTRAL, and should portrayed both achievements and failures. I
have yet to see a real political film which adopts a neutral
stance. And political films are bad if they were being used as a
sword to slash the social peace which were enjoyed by the
people but also manufactured/created by the government. You
also need to understand that even ban have been lifted on political
films, they still need are still subjected to censors
under censorship laws.
These people are considered Rebels because they have disregards
the power of choice in the people. People have chosen
to preserve and treasure peace through their votes. These
Rebels claimed to support Democracy but their actions spite on
Democracy chosen by the people. People like you may think that
you are just being assertive and doing for the good of the people.
But ask yourself which age group were you being assertive for?
Which age group of the people would benefits from the results of
your assertiveness? The elderly? The children? The
young families? OR Single people like yourself?
Anti-government sentiments has always been
resonating majority from the young adults group. Some elderly
and young families may shared anti-government sentiments too, but
that is nothing more than just complaints about their own
situations in their lives. People hate to admit their fault when
they are in any situations. To those people, I would've told them
"YOU SHOULD KNOW BETTER!". People demanded the government to
babysit them, but yet they are unwilling to reward their
babysitters when they are doing well. It's easy to start a fight
but who can say it is easier to go up to someone close to you and
give them a well-deserved HUG?
For people who are brave enough to chu "The Pledge" should also
understands the meaning of having one and the reason we have a
Singapore Pledge. Is the ultimate aim of the pledge not to achieve
happiness, prosperity and progress for our nation? How are those
actions/behaviours of the Rebels going to achieve BETTER happiness,
prosperity and progress for the nation?
A True Patriot is one who abides the Nation's Pledge and
PROTECTS the Nation based on the Pledge. The true patriot does
not owns the Nation, but the true patriot protects and serves for
the best interests of the Nation.
Let us know how you got your 33.4% and 66.6%, they looked too
rounded to be accurate.
These Rebels should gather together and liberate North Korea for
the sake of their own Democracies. And China was right to use
military force on those Student Rebels in Tiananmen Square Protest.
Look at the social peace enjoyed by the Chinese in China right
now.
I suggest Singapore should do the same to filter out those
rebels for the sake of the future of Singapore. 