The problem with not reading the news is, by the time something everyone's been talking about reaches you, it's become sort of... Olds. And you can't possibly comment without looking like a bandwagon-jumper either way.
But yes, I've just heard two bloggers here have been arrested and charged with sedition, for posting racially inflammatory comments online. They're out on $10,000 bail, now. If convicted, they face up to three years in jail, or $5,000 in fines, or both.
Interesting, on several counts.
"Bloggers", as we know the term, have been in focus so much and so often for...well, getting into shit, that it seems anyone who gets into trouble for saying something online is now a Blogger. One of the arrested duo did post his worthless thoughts on his weblog, but the other one was posting in a forum. A doggie forum. So convenient, though. Got in trouble for saying something online? Must be a Blogger.
I have trouble enough finding time and things of sufficient interest to you three people and small yappy-type dog to write about. Well, fine, just about anything can be made interesting and I'm just lazy. But these people are of a different breed altogether. Stirring up racial angst on a frickin' dog-lover's site?
You would think. You would. That people learn. Our superior cognitive ability is supposed to be what distinguishes us from the monkeys, our closest cousins. How many times have people been shot down for this or that involving their Blogs, for chrissake. The last I wrote about it wasn't that long ago, and there've been plenty since then.
But these people are still of the HAY I M ON D INTARNAT NO 1 KNO WHU I M HUR HUR mentality.
They deserve it. Yes, they do. I'm with the gah'men on this one. We all get angry with other people. Some of us more often than others. And then we pick up whatever we can to justify that anger. In a state of rage, a lot of name calling, mental or not, can happen. But we don't really mean them, and apologize afterwards to have great make-up sex.
There really is no way to have emotions run that rampant when you're typing something. Or to have great make-up sex, but let's stay on topic here.
Screw the fines. Lock them up, I say. I think quite enough has been done to champion this "freedom of speech" thing. Amazing place, America, and some damned fine things come from it. But the sheer number of things people can get away with there, under "freedom of speech". It is nothing Singapore needs.
They can have freedom of speech when they learn how to behave like a human being. I'm not even asking them to be good company, you know. Just shutting the fuck up about their perceived superiority would be good.
Nicholas Lim Yew, 25, and Benjamin Koh Song Huat, 27. Part of the ethnic majority in Singapore. Surprise, surprise. Not so tough now, are we? Too bad you'll probably be able to pay the fines - and that the judge probably will give you pricks a fine.
Would be lovely to see what the Malay and Indian community in prison think about your witty, witty comments online. I'm sure they'd want to...exchange views.
1 comment:
It's a shame that it has to come to that for some persons in this world. Though there are those that can seemingly express their resolute biases in a tasteful manner, such as yourself.
Funny thing is, I commented back to you on my tagboard, giving you a URL to an interesting blogger that you may find intriguing.
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