PAP regime to tighten laws against peaceful protests
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Singapore to launch tougher public order law
By Nopporn Wong-Anan
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore, which already has tough restrictions on freedom of assembly, plans to tighten them further ahead of a major Asia-Pacific summit in the city-state.
The Public Order Bill, introduced in parliament on Monday before the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in November, was needed to "squarely address gaps in the current framework to enhance the ability of the police to ensure security during major events," the Ministry of Home Affairs said.
Under the proposed law, police could prevent activists from leaving home if they knew they were going to a political rally. It would also allow police to order a person to leave an area if they determine he is about to break the law.
All outdoor activities that are cause-related will need a police permit, no matter how many people are involved. That is a change from the current law requiring a permit for gatherings of five or more people.
Opposition politicians and activists were quick to criticize the proposed law. "Even in communist China, peaceful protests are tolerated," said Chee Siok Chin of the opposition Singapore Democratic Party.
The bill allows police to stop people from filming law enforcement if it could put officers in danger. The bill cited live media coverage of Indian police trying to rescue hostages in the Mumbai attacks last November as posing risks to the officers.
Police could stop small peaceful protests against unpopular visiting government leaders, such as from Myanmar, if the law was introduced, activists said.
Last week, three Singaporeans tried to present a bouquet of orchids to visiting Myanmar Prime Minister Thein Sein for him to give to detained Myanmar opposition leader Aung Sann Suu Kyi.
Thein Sein was having an orchid named after him at the Botanical Gardens, a Singapore tradition for visiting heads of government.
The law is certain to pass, since the ruling People's Action Party (PAP) has an overwhelming majority in parliament.
It also passed an amended law on Monday to ease a decade-long ban on political party documentary-like films, but introduced restrictions on dramatized political videos.
"These two sets of amendments should be viewed as part of the longstanding periodic adjustments the PAP has made to limit politics to tightly controlled electoral contests conducted in the absence of a meaningful civil society," said Garry Rodan of Murdoch University in Western Australia.
Others said the two laws were pre-emptive measures for the government to prevent a repeat at the APEC meeting of confrontation between police and protesters that took place during the World Bank/IMF meeting in 2006, and also to deal with potential social unrest during Singapore's worst-ever recession.
"As long as the government feels a threat, it needs greater measures to deal with greater problems," said Terence Chong at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore.
(Editing by Neil Chatterjee and Bill Tarrant)
http://in.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/
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"Even in communist China, peaceful protests are tolerated,"
said Chee Siok Chin of the opposition Singapore Democratic Party.
I don't want to live in a vast prison you know, ah dog.
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What's the point of bolding half the text?
i always support people to migrate. go to malaysia or china than.
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go to malaysia or china than.
"Even in communist China, peaceful protests are tolerated,"
said Chee Siok Chin of the opposition Singapore Democratic Party.
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“I would say the generation of the ‘50s and ‘60s took the plunge into politics without ever calculating the costs of the risk and the benefits to be gained.
They were driven by ideology. Today’s generation has no culture and averse to taking political risk. Really, an interest in politics is very necessary for the future.
But I cannot blame the present generations, because they see the heavy-handed response by the government to dissenting views, even though they know that these matters involve their daily lives.
So the result is that we have produced a younger generation who are meek and therefore very calculating.They are less independent-thinking and lack in initiative.
It does not bode well for the emergence of future leaders in politics and business.
Robots and computers can be programmed or if you like, can be trained.
But the trouble, of course, is that computers lack soul and what we need in Singapore is soul. Because it is soul that makes society.”
http://singaporegovt.blogspot.com/2006/02/
police could prevent activists from leaving home if they knew they were going to a political rally. It would also allow police to order a person to leave an area if they determine he is about to break the law.
All outdoor activities that are cause-related will need a police permit, no matter how many people are involved.
Police could stop small peaceful protests against unpopular visiting government leaders,
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These cursed despots just want more and more power to take as much of the people's money as possible and be able to put as much into their own pockets as possible...
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I give up... now you have increased the bolding to 90%.
whatever you are posting, you win. have fun debating with yourself.
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These cursed despots just want more and more power to take as much of the people's money as possible and be able to put as much into their own pockets as possible...
More and more people despise PAP regime and the old dog, that is why they are increasing the repression.
Turn the whole island into a big big prison for them to control.
police could prevent activists from leaving home if they knew they were going to a political rally.
Police can prevent me from going out of my house?
You mean I am under house arrest?
Insane.
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I am so happy.
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Originally posted by AndrewPKYap:
These cursed despots just want more and more power to take as much of the people's money as possible and be able to put as much into their own pockets as possible...
Uncle, i bought yr medicine liao,..wha! line up so long at IMH outpatient dispensary for your medicine...remember to take hor -
Originally posted by Ah Chia:
These cursed despots just want more and more power to take as much of the people's money as possible and be able to put as much into their own pockets as possible...
More and more people despise PAP regime and the old dog, that is why they are increasing the repression.
Turn the whole island into a big big prison for them to control.
police could prevent activists from leaving home if they knew they were going to a political rally.
Police can prevent me from going out of my house?
You mean I am under house arrest?
Insane.
no, u can still go to the garden, wash cloths, eat and sleep, why?? no good meh, got free security guards mah -
Originally posted by Worldlybusinessman:
I am so happy.
I believe my dog is happy too.
Gary: He said to me at the lift lobby 90% of the exact words - ”Mr Tan,if you walk out of here tomorrow,you might get killed.You might meet with a mysterious accident,you might disappear and nobody will know what happened to you! Mr Tan, some things and people in this country you cannot offend! Some people are above all things! You better make sure you know this! Mr Tan,we can arrange for things to happen to you.You understand or not!”
FUCK YOU AND FUCK THEM -
Originally posted by angel7030:
Uncle, i bought yr medicine liao,..wha! line up so long at IMH outpatient dispensary for your medicine...remember to take horWhy were you at the IMH outpatient dispensary? To find a cure for your "" After all, I am an Angel of God"" insanity? " 05 Feb `09, 6:04PM"
When you visit IMH next, ask them to help your fixation with licking the despots assholes. It is very smelly and dirty to lick assholes even if they are the assholes of the despots.
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"dogs could prevent activists from leaving home if dogs knew they were going to a political rally. It would also allow dogs to order a person to leave an area if dogs determine he is about to break the law."
Highly trained dogs. Can identify a good or bad person.
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Since when did we even have peaceful protests?
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Originally posted by Ah Chia:
Singapore to launch tougher public order law
By Nopporn Wong-Anan
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore, which already has tough restrictions on freedom of assembly, plans to tighten them further ahead of a major Asia-Pacific summit in the city-state.
The Public Order Bill, introduced in parliament on Monday before the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in November, was needed to "squarely address gaps in the current framework to enhance the ability of the police to ensure security during major events," the Ministry of Home Affairs said.
Under the proposed law, police could prevent activists from leaving home if they knew they were going to a political rally. It would also allow police to order a person to leave an area if they determine he is about to break the law.
All outdoor activities that are cause-related will need a police permit, no matter how many people are involved. That is a change from the current law requiring a permit for gatherings of five or more people.
Opposition politicians and activists were quick to criticize the proposed law. "Even in communist China, peaceful protests are tolerated," said Chee Siok Chin of the opposition Singapore Democratic Party.
The bill allows police to stop people from filming law enforcement if it could put officers in danger. The bill cited live media coverage of Indian police trying to rescue hostages in the Mumbai attacks last November as posing risks to the officers.
Police could stop small peaceful protests against unpopular visiting government leaders, such as from Myanmar, if the law was introduced, activists said.
Last week, three Singaporeans tried to present a bouquet of orchids to visiting Myanmar Prime Minister Thein Sein for him to give to detained Myanmar opposition leader Aung Sann Suu Kyi.
Thein Sein was having an orchid named after him at the Botanical Gardens, a Singapore tradition for visiting heads of government.
The law is certain to pass, since the ruling People's Action Party (PAP) has an overwhelming majority in parliament.
It also passed an amended law on Monday to ease a decade-long ban on political party documentary-like films, but introduced restrictions on dramatized political videos.
"These two sets of amendments should be viewed as part of the longstanding periodic adjustments the PAP has made to limit politics to tightly controlled electoral contests conducted in the absence of a meaningful civil society," said Garry Rodan of Murdoch University in Western Australia.
Others said the two laws were pre-emptive measures for the government to prevent a repeat at the APEC meeting of confrontation between police and protesters that took place during the World Bank/IMF meeting in 2006, and also to deal with potential social unrest during Singapore's worst-ever recession.
"As long as the government feels a threat, it needs greater measures to deal with greater problems," said Terence Chong at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore.
(Editing by Neil Chatterjee and Bill Tarrant)
http://in.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/
they must have learned something from the myanmar pm during his recent trip here.
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So the result is that we have produced a younger generation who are meek and therefore very calculating.
meek and therefore calculating? I don't see how that works out
Angel buying medicine for andrew's fixation with assholes? awww
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Originally posted by Ah Chia:
Singapore to launch tougher public order law
By Nopporn Wong-Anan
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore, which already has tough restrictions on freedom of assembly, plans to tighten them further ahead of a major Asia-Pacific summit in the city-state.
The Public Order Bill, introduced in parliament on Monday before the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in November, was needed to "squarely address gaps in the current framework to enhance the ability of the police to ensure security during major events," the Ministry of Home Affairs said.
Under the proposed law, police could prevent activists from leaving home if they knew they were going to a political rally. It would also allow police to order a person to leave an area if they determine he is about to break the law.
All outdoor activities that are cause-related will need a police permit, no matter how many people are involved. That is a change from the current law requiring a permit for gatherings of five or more people.
Opposition politicians and activists were quick to criticize the proposed law. "Even in communist China, peaceful protests are tolerated," said Chee Siok Chin of the opposition Singapore Democratic Party.
The bill allows police to stop people from filming law enforcement if it could put officers in danger. The bill cited live media coverage of Indian police trying to rescue hostages in the Mumbai attacks last November as posing risks to the officers.
Police could stop small peaceful protests against unpopular visiting government leaders, such as from Myanmar, if the law was introduced, activists said.
Last week, three Singaporeans tried to present a bouquet of orchids to visiting Myanmar Prime Minister Thein Sein for him to give to detained Myanmar opposition leader Aung Sann Suu Kyi.
Thein Sein was having an orchid named after him at the Botanical Gardens, a Singapore tradition for visiting heads of government.
The law is certain to pass, since the ruling People's Action Party (PAP) has an overwhelming majority in parliament.
It also passed an amended law on Monday to ease a decade-long ban on political party documentary-like films, but introduced restrictions on dramatized political videos.
"These two sets of amendments should be viewed as part of the longstanding periodic adjustments the PAP has made to limit politics to tightly controlled electoral contests conducted in the absence of a meaningful civil society," said Garry Rodan of Murdoch University in Western Australia.
Others said the two laws were pre-emptive measures for the government to prevent a repeat at the APEC meeting of confrontation between police and protesters that took place during the World Bank/IMF meeting in 2006, and also to deal with potential social unrest during Singapore's worst-ever recession.
"As long as the government feels a threat, it needs greater measures to deal with greater problems," said Terence Chong at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore.
(Editing by Neil Chatterjee and Bill Tarrant)
http://in.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/
Our gahmen seems to be getting more and more paranoid as seen from its more and more repressive laws. This is one of the results from being in power for too long; it just too afraid to lose the control. -
http://statutes.agc.gov.sg/non_version/cgi-bin/cgi_retrieve.pl?&actno=Reved-CONST&date=latest&method=part
Freedom of speech, assembly and association
14. —(1) Subject to clauses (2) and (3) —- (a)
every citizen of Singapore has the
right to freedom of speech and expression;
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all citizens of Singapore have the
right to assemble peaceably and without arms; and
- (c)
all citizens of Singapore have the
right to form associations.
F**K LKY and the PAP. Play with elections. Play with constitution rights. Despots!
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Our gahmen seems to be getting more and more paranoid as seen from its more and more repressive laws. This is one of the results from being in power for too long; it just too afraid to lose the control.The PAP regime is quite obsessed with power and control.
In our ASEAN region, they are one of the more repressive regimes.
They want to control every aspect of Singapore life.
I think one reason could be due to the minority status of the old dog.
He is of minority hakka/baba group, but Singapore majority is hokkien group.
He feels insecure ruling this hokkien group as they won't truely follow him, an anglo dog.
The only way to control this group in the dog's mind is through repression and mass propaganda.
That is probably one of the factors why the dog destroyed the chinese schools and imposed ang moh on hokkiens.
He wants to weaken the dialect groups as he feels that they are a threat to him.
Turn all the hokkiens to become anglo dogs like him, weaken their culture, so that they will more easily follow him.
A bit like the policy of Russification:
Russification was the name given to a policy of Alexander III. Russification was designed to take the sting out of those who wanted to reform Russia and to bind all the Russian people around one person – the tsar.
Russification was first formulated in 1770 by Uvarov. He defined three areas of Russification – autocracy, orthodoxy and ‘Russian-ness’. Of the three, Russian-ness was the most important. Before Alexander III, Russification meant that all the tsar’s subjects, whatever their nationality, should be accepted by the tsar as being ethnic groups in their own right provided that they acknowledged their allegiance to the Russian state, which included the government and the church.
Under Alexander III, Russification took a new turn. He believed that all cultures and nationalities within the empire should be wiped out (though not physically) and that all the people within the empire should become ‘Great Russians’. Russification had no time for small ethnic groups that were more concerned about their culture at the expense of Russia’s as a whole. To be loyal to Russia and therefore the tsar, you had to be a Russian first rather than, for example, a Kazak or Cossack.
http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/russification.htm
Turn all the hokkiens, teochews, hainan, cantonese etc, westernise them, make them study ang moh in school, destroy their dialect culture, turn them into anglo dogs.
All cultural morale become weak, so easy to control, won't rebel, go follow anglo dog regime.
One flaw in this plan is that by weakening and destroying local culture, the local identity becomes very weak, no roots, so the migration rate will increase.
If so, it would appear that the dog's way of solving this problem is to import more foreigners which leads to more destruction of local culture, so the cycle continues.
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that was only at the early independent days. it is no longer valid today. the pap is now addicted to power and will die die not let go.
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Technocratic dictatorship? I like!