Amos Yee is now full of regret, and now wants to protest against
the US Govt policies he feels victimized by.
After languishing in American jail for now a total of 24
days, according to my pro bono human rights lawyer, Sandra Grossman
(who’s been doing a tireless and absolutely fantastic job on my
case, by the way), she was in contact with the immigration officers
and was hoping that after they heard that the nature of my case,
would release me in a few days. However, that did not happen. I
just got a letter that said that my court date (not release day) is
scheduled for 30th January. Yes, you heard that right, fucking 30th
January. What the fuck?!
That means I will literally have spent a total of 50 days in
American jail, that is longer than anything that the Singaporean
government has sentenced me for, for criticizing religion and the
government! Someone escaped his country to prevent being sent to
jail for exercising his free speech and has to spend time in jail
in the country that he escaped to that is longer than if he was
imprisoned for exercising his free speech from the country he was
escaping! If he rescinds his political asylum claim, he is deported
back to the country he is trying to escape from and gets
permanently banned from coming to the US.
What the fuck? What the fuck?! This is bullshit! This is
fucking bullshit! And the worst part is nobody really knows about
these kinds of awful immigration policies existed in America.
Fortunately, because I have a high profile case, we’re finally
highlighting these wretched policies. Tens of thousands of people
have already suffered from these policies and we didn’t know about
it. What the hell? What the fuck? This is like the premise of some
dark comedy novel. And yet, here it is, happening in real life.
This needs to end. We have to speak up about this garbage. We can
start by demanding my immediate release from American jail. Fuck
the oppressive court date. Lawyers who have been passive slaves to
the status quo would probably say that speaking against the set
court date would be futile. I don’t give two fucks.
After observing these authoritarians (ie. Singapore and USA)
for 2 years, the very important lesson I’ve learned is that no
matter how much they make it seem like the people aren’t able to
change a law or affect a judge's decision, they do, they just want
you to think they don’t in the hope that the people will think
their actions are worthless so they won’t fight against the tyranny
of the status quo. Friends, do not be fooled, we must stand
together and fight.
Read the hundreds of (both Singaporean and American) Facebook
visitor comments here :
https://www.facebook.com/amosyeebanana/posts/1349987581714509
