Showing posts with label Amos Yee. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Amos Yee. Show all posts

Saturday, May 23, 2015

Our Self-policed Democracy

Disclaimer
This post may contain insensitive and inappropriate remarks. This is due to the author's propensity for sarcasm. He harbours no ill will or ill intention. As such, he is not liable for any emotional relapses and pettifogging outrage you might experience, nor could he care less. 

He also does not speak for any of the writers he quotes and he acknowledges that his sources may not be completely trustworthy. He does, nonetheless, promise information and honesty. 

This post is mildly long. If you can bear with the author 'till the end, he probably owes you a drink.

This blog post may be modified and/or updated whenever the author deems fit.

Read at your own risk.


 I choose to start from the latest news to its preceding events, and may interweave them when necessary. 

Updates 2
Amos Yee has been released from his remand. Just take a look at his forlorn expression. I have no idea why some people are so satisfied about having gagged a boy and probably traumatised him for life -- just for making a fool out of himself. Let's be honest. We know not to take sh!t like this seriously, yet we are so damn adamant about flaunting justice to feed our shallow hunger for control.

Amos leaving the State Courts on 6 July with his family. Photo by Terry Xu for The Online Citizen.
Source: http://spuddings.net/?p=8519
This is the best example of the worst kind of marginalization in Singapore. More than maintaining freedom, tolerance and forgiveness, it's important to put down anything in the way of a transparently f**ked up peace. 

Here's some food for thought to chew on: If he had posted something of the same nature about LGBTs, would he have had to undergo the same thing?