Originally posted by freakass:
I realise
that many forumers in sgForums always try to find fault with the
Singapore government without really thinking...
This article is based on the views of ONE reporter. I urge all of
you to keep in mind the [b]POWER OF THE PEN. Reporters are
very well versed in this. Some reporters can write that they saw a
Tarantula spider in their chicken rice when in fact they saw only a
small fruit fly...
To those of you who agreed that those activists should be let in,
wait till they start a riot just outside your house.... set a fire
to your main door.... overturn your car... kill your family members
during the chaos etc etc etc.... Well, the Singapore police may be
able to put a stop to the riot, but there will definitely be damage
done once a riot starts...
Please bloody use your brains to think first before you talk,
people...[/b]
'Many forumers in sgForums always find fault
with the Singapore government wihout really thinking....' -
or are the critics of such sgForumers doing their bit to support
the Singapore Government - with their eyes blindfolded, ears
stuffed, and mind hollowed ?
It has been a bar room joke that 'The Pen-is mightier than the Sword',
and towards this end it has been the Singapore Government goal to
have more educated, but unfortunately the educated are the ones
that have created a situation where the 'pen-is deflated' and is the cause of
the shrinkage in our population growth.
The Singapore Government continue to live in a paranoia of the
events of the 1950s and 60s - where Singapore Society of the 60s is
as alien as Vietnam society today is to many of us.
The Singapore Society of the 1960s were largely uneducated and
unsophisticated, largely susceptible to Communist ideology.
Are the same set of circumstances serving as a backdrop of
Singapore Society today, and make the situation to be in any way
volatile ?
The World Bank-IMF 2006 venue at the Suntec City is like a
fortress, secured with razor blade wires, and high link fence, and
steel barricades that makes it even tougher than the new Changi
Prison; or even Guantanamo.
With the entire Singapore Island practically locked down, and
intensive Immigration screening at all immigration entry points,
with all back-packers gathering points and domitories being
monitored for would-be disguised CSO trouble-makers - can the
feared scenario actually occur on the same scale as the WTO meeting
in Hong Kong ?
Hong Kong is an Open Society, and not quite a Police State with a
Police Force that is trained to be more tolerant to civil
dissenters; surely our stronger Police Force in this well know
Police State can do a better job in preventing any violent
breakouts similar to that which occurred in Hong Kong ?
What was the cost of damage to Hong Kong from that WTO riots; and
what is the cost of damage to our reputation and honor in not
keeping the good faith of an agreement signed with the World Bank
?
