A group of bloggers is organising a protest against the new regulations on social media licensing and control. The event will be held this Sat 8 Jun at 4 pm at Hong Lim Park.
This protest is about defending the rights of citizens to freedom of speech as enshrined in the Constitution and any legislation that is against freedom of speech is against the Constitution. Singaporeans are encouraged to support this protest for their own good, to be allowed to speak freely, read freely and listen freely, not only of the RIGHT thing but all things.
Singaporeans are smart enough to know what is the RIGHT thing, wrong thing and the neither right nor wrong thing, and do not need any demi gods or immortals to tell them so.
There is an internet Blackout Day on 6 June and all bloggers supporting the protest can blackout their blogs in their own suitable manner.
There is also a petition and all supporters can visit and sign at http://www.petitions24.com/petition_for_the_immediate_withdrawal_of_the_licensing_regime
“Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their illusions destroyed.”
ReplyDelete— Friedrich Nietzsche
Well, when JBJ talks about civil rights, did anyone bother about him....Serves all Singaporeans to be "fools and draft."
ReplyDeleteAll these protests no use. Petitions no use.
ReplyDeleteWe should start civil disobedience.
I'm not talking about illegal. And most certainly NOT bombing or terrorist type!
I'm talking about not contributing to PAP charities, you know, President Star thing. Not returning tray. Crowd around the bus entrance. Rush into MRT and Lifts.
Yah! Make this country unbearable. Because the more you make it bearable, the more foreigners will come in. And your jobs will be taken away by them.
They treat citizens like enemy, we treat it as war!
Your points are so confusing.
ReplyDeleteRB, I expect only about 200 will show up as expected in such gathering. Sinkie just don't bother
ReplyDeleteAlamak, protest again. Shake head.
ReplyDeleteIn Matland, even 120,000 protested also no use, so what is 6,000 or even 10,000 in Hong Lim Park, tio bo?
Must form a party better and stronger than WP or even PAP lah, and then win at least 60% seats from PAP at the next election.
This is what really matters, whether in Matland, Sinkieland or whatever land.
So can those bloggers do it? Of course not lah, if I were PAP. Or else why would I dare to set those licensing rules?
Get this right, PAP being the elected govt with a 93% majority in Parliament, has the absolute right, power and legality to set those new regulations on social media licensing and control.
ReplyDeleteYou want to deny PAP their rights and power?
Then win over 60% seats from PAP in the next election lah. This is the one and only way.
Why still got daft Sinkies who still don't know or refuse to know?
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ReplyDelete>> All these protests no use. Petitions no use.
We should start civil disobedience.
Agree 110%. Protests and petitions are of no use UNLESS they are concurrent/ followed up by MASS CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE.
However I don't agree with physically disrupting the lives of the citizens to the point where you rush the buses and trains.
Civil disobedience should be humorous ridicule, disrespectful but funny. Think "levity". Keep it fun. Don't neglect your humanity or you will end up being the same type of ASSHOLE like those in the government.
We need to come up with alternative means. Here are a few of my ideas. The local artists and creatives need to play a significant role to develop "material" needed :
1. Slogans on T-shirts, Caps and Stickers
2. The making of certain "hand signs" which connote anti-government sentiments. (cannot be any of the established "fuck you" signs )
3. Flash mobs
4. Songs and chants to be sung at flash mobs.
Example scenario: When a minister or MP goes on constituency walkabout:
1. Organise a flash mob
2. Everyone wears T shits, caps, hands out stickers
3. Sing and chant songs
4. Record and upload to YouTube, your blog
5. Invite foreign media. Since they already paid the 50 grand, they can report the "goings on" in SIngapore.
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I like "guerrilla theatre" (disruption of events like minister's speech), "laugh-in's" (turn up to speech and laugh at the fucker), and "mock funerals" (allow your mind to go wild on this one)
Too many unnecessary protests over such petty things will make HLP meaningless.
ReplyDeleteSpent a more meaningful day with your family or love one ,bring your children to visit your elderly parents ,Ah Kong and Ah Mma,who are neglected,the chek kong sim pohs,Ah Koo and Ah Kims...or if really boleow,like me,go hug Geylang mei mei more meaningful.
Give me a break.
go hug Geylang mei mei more meaningful.
ReplyDeleteAgongkia June 03, 2013 1:26 pm
Jus remember to take precaution.
Or sometimes, prevention is better than cure, if it is incurable.
The Sinkies are relearning what a protest is like and having a few dry runs. Who knows when the real big one will come, like the tsunami?
ReplyDeletePeaceful protest is really useless. Must have more vocal protest like very heavy metal music protest.
ReplyDelete>> Must have more vocal protest like very heavy metal music protest.
ReplyDeleteExactly. Let's go!
The little fish in the croc's mouth on the wall paper is the state of the press freedom, vulnerable and helpless.
ReplyDeleteWhen I drove pass the area, especially the sea just outside Kranji Reservoir next to the WW2 battle site, many people are still waddling in the sea, women and children.
ReplyDeleteNot sure if they have put up signs of crocodiles. If not they better do so quickly before a child is mauled and carried away.
For thousands of years, children playing in the water near their villages have been taken by crocs -- just as nature intended it.
ReplyDeleteSo I say, fuck the signs. Let's those reptiles have a nice treat now and then.
Part of the problem here is the change in language.
The word "wetlands" is a neologism. Invented by the environmental Nazis to be "sikit atas". Before that, we all knew it as a SWAMP.
If you put up the sign Sungei Buloh SWAMP, I guarantee you they'll be less manifest idiocy from parents, and definitely more caution when it came to looking after their children.
But oh no, they have to use "wetlands", becasue Singapore is a 1st world cuntree. You only have swamps in shit-bucket cuntrees in like those in Africa, Vietnam, Indonesia etc.
1st world snobbery...fuck it, let those crocodiles eat someone lah.
Would it be nice to throw this bugger in the swamp when he is stoned dead?
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ReplyDeleteI know. I've always chided these fuckers -- you're too polite lah. A protest must have "pizazz". You have to be awesome going in, and several orders of magnitude more awesome coming out.
Gotta have music, and sexy chicks lah. Plus maybe some booze, a bit of mess and chaos...cannot be too "orderly".
It must be EXPLOSIVE ...please...not literally ok, you ISD fuckers ;-)
How to save the poor fish (internet/maintream media) and put it back into the ocean so that it can swim freely again ?
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