I'm from the US and working in Sing for a few years. I had
visited here before, but living here has been an entirely different
situation. Over the year+ that I've lived here I've come to really
thing Singapore is "perfect." Little pollution, great public
transport, low crime and what appears to be an American-like "do
whatever you'd like as long as it doesn't hurt anyone else" type of
attitude. However, I can't help but feel that I'm wrong and what
I'm seeing as perfect might just be a well controlled illusion. So,
can someone tell me what the deal is? What are some problems in
Singapore that most of us outsiders aren't aware of?
In short, the strict laws. Appears to be "do whatever you like
as long asit doesn't hurt anyone else" ???? No way, try
protesting....over some thing like price hike, inflation or Union
strike, the govt will send you back to your home country at the
first chance.
No spitting, no chewing gum, no loittering. Punch somebody you
get a $3000 fine plus risk being jailed for months. If Mel Gibson
had been here and uttered those apparently reported remarks, he
would have been jailed and fined. What a fine country !
And don't play play with drugs. Mandatory death sentence. You
carry 10gm also can die. In a sense this is good because the
country is almost drug free not like in the USA, where drug trade
has killed thousands of people and many hollywood stars, crime is
high with the Mexican gangs, Black gangs, Mafia and White
Supremacists groups that ply the drug trade. In Singapore, crime
related to drugs is significantly lower and prisons are less
crowded thanks to the mandatory death sentence for drug smuggling.
That is something positive to look to.
Prison is the worse place for reform, most Americans enter jail
only to come out to be even more hardened criminals and likely to
break the law. Prisons are places where prisoners get their network
and recruit new gang members for the outside world. Now, American
taxpayers are burdened with 2 million prison population, of which
30% are drug related criminals. Mandatory death sentence would have
solved the problem. Not to mention, drug smugglers should not be
spared because they kill so many innocent people, mafias and
gang-bangers kill so many innocent people in Mexico and USA. In
Colombia millions of people get displaced and become refugee no
thanks to FARC, the main exporter of the world'sheroin. Taliban is
using the drug trade to finance its operations. So if one thinks
its cool to take drugs, think again, think of how many people you
kill in other countries, in order for the drug to be sent to you.
Get high so that many people in Colombia, Afganistan and Mexico get
killed.
