The police have completed their investigation and 28 foreign workers had
been charged in court for rioting. Another 53 are waiting for
deportation. Some were given warnings. This is the end of the first
chapter of this nasty incident. Hopefully there is no need to open a few
more chapters and followed by a sequel. The accident that caused the
death of the foreign worker by a bus is still under investigation and
this would ensure the story would not end just yet.
There were comments that our laws may not have been fair for not giving
the foreign workers due for deportation a fair hearing. But our laws do
not provide that comfort. The arrival of foreigners to work here is on
their free will, like someone accepting a job offer voluntarily. The
owner of this land has the same right to ask the foreigner to leave
without the need to give a reason, or like an employee resigning from a
company without the need to give a reason.
Under the Immigration Act, we do have a provision ‘that someone has
acted contrary to our interest or public security or safety, to ask them
to leave.’ Throwing the book to the foreign workers may appear to be
harsh as these are people from different countries, different culture
and different socio economic background. They could be behaving normally
as rioting is normal to them in their country. But this does not mean
that we have to accept their normal and to tolerate their wildness and
lawlessness. They have to accept what is normal to us, to be civilized,
to learn what modernity is all about and the social norms of a developed
country. We must not go down to their level.
This also does not imply that people in developed countries, like ours
or the west, would not behave like animals. The aggressive and boorish
behaviour of some foreigners that are in the PME levels have been in
display many times, with Sinkies on the receiving end. The Law Minister
should make use of this same Immigration Act to send those unruly and
uncouth animals home as well. We must apply the Act fairly across the
spectrum of people regardless of their income and appointments.
Send them home if they are nasty to Sinkies. This is our right ya? We
need to make an example out of some foreigners that think they own this
country. Start by sending the cyclist in Vivo City home. No reason is
needed. That will send a message to the hooligans in suits that they are
also hooligans and will be dealt with like hooligans. We do not have to
live with monkeys.
spontaneous decisions ???
ReplyDeleteknnccb ... my spontaneous response
lidat also can
ReplyDeletewitnesses deported when investigations on the alleged mayhem causing accident not over.
knnccb ... toddy, toddy , need toddy to stay alert
Send them home really?
ReplyDeleteOur kind hearted leaders will want to bring in more. After all they have a 6.9 million population target to meet.
See lah, one small riot only and these FWs got so much attention.
Ministers and High Commissioner visited their dormitories to sweet talk them and made promises of more and better amenities and facilities.
400 rioters were reported. only 28 faced charges and 53 to be deported.
What happened to the other 300+ rioters?
Yesterday afternoon, group of Ang Mohs cyclists, about fifty of them cycling in five or six abreast on Neil Road to Kampong bahru on the way to Mount Faber or Sentosa.
ReplyDeleteBuses, slow down and have to keep a distance from them before reaching our bus stop.
Think they are riding on their countryside cuntrees.
Pui!!!!!!!!
@December 18, 2013 9:04 am
ReplyDeleteangmoh tuakee .... lah
they are papigs master ...
knnccb ... me, a daft citizen
thus a subject of these golden hair monkees
Send them home?
ReplyDeleteWhat is the cause of the problem?
1. The alleged people who rioted?
2. Or the alleged Millionaires whose immigration policies created this mess?
3. Or the alleged daft Singaporeans who voted for the Millionaires who formulated the immigration policies which created this mess?
"The Law Minister should make use of this same Immigration Act to send those unruly and uncouth animals home as well"
ReplyDeleteRB
Foreign PMEs use their brains and not their muscles, unlike those foreign workers.
So how can send them home? Where to find an equivalent brainy Sinkie replacement so easily? If can find, PAP would not have approved those foreign PMEs to come here in large numbers in the first place, tio bo?
@ December 18, 2013 9:13 am
ReplyDeleteWhen in doubt, vote Opposition to investigate and ask questions.
If Workers' Party don't want to do, then vote SDP.
Where to find an equivalent brainy Sinkie replacement so easily?
ReplyDeleteAnon 9:13 am
Agree. Not easy to find.
Already there are not even enough Sinkies, let alone brainy Sinkie talents.
@ December 18, 2013 9:13 am
ReplyDelete/// So how can send them home? Where to find an equivalent brainy Sinkie replacement so easily? If can find, PAP would not have approved those foreign PMEs to come here in large numbers in the first place, tio bo? ///
If PAP government cannot find the brainy Sinkies to do the job, then let's sack the PAP government.
If PAP cannot do, then Sinkies will have to find another government who can.
No more blank cheques for the PAP government.
That's right. Send 53 home and bring in 530,000 more. After all, we need to meet the target population of 6.9 million. Or, according to the Indian FT, 8 to 10 million.
ReplyDeleteNo need jail or cane? Singaporeans peacefully protest must be sued, jailed or cane. Foreigners have special treatment?
ReplyDeleteForeigners are human beings.
ReplyDeleteSingaporeans are slaves.
That is why there is different treatment.
But one day, once every 5 years, we are not slaves.
But unfortunately, we are too stupid to use that vote wisely.
Why Michael Fay vandalize car got caned but little India rioters only deported and not caned? Why ah?
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