7/09/2014

Occupy Central – A subversive dimension


The streets of Hongkong erupted with Occupy Central when more than 10,000 protestors put on a show of people power to challenge the centre of power in Beijing. The call or civil disobedience came from an unassuming law don, Dr Benny Tai. Dr Tai was propelled to stardom with his article ‘Civil disobedience, the most lethal weapon’ in his otherwise not very well read weekly column in the newspaper. He is now a household name in Hongkong with the pro democracy movement.
 

The 10,000 strong march, to break the law, came after a mock referendum held to vote for the right to determine who should be the CEO of Hongkong. According to Hongkong correspondent, Li Xueying, Dr Tai was trying to spur democracy by turning to subversion. Could such a tactic be applicable to Sin City? Would any blogger or columnist dare to incite subversion and challenge the govt in its policies?
 

What could be certain is the publicity and politicial stardom, like Roy Ngerng, to be bestowed on the subversive writer. Maybe he/she could be another household name like Roy Ngerng. But that is not all.
 

I doubt there will be anyone who would be tempted or encouraged by Dr Tai to gain publicity in this manner and to spur democracy by calling for a break the law protest like Occupy Raffles Place. Hey, it was done before but there were no 10,000 protestors, not even 10 turned up at Raffles Place. And no one gained instant fame. And the state of democratic movement remains the same as before. There is no tolerance for democractic movement in a democracy. Or is a democracy to start with?

Kopi Level - Green

4 comments:

  1. Sinkie spf members saw the indian mob, they rn and taje covers.

    Even their chief do not dare to go there in uniform.

    Sinkie NSF operationally ready just discharged SAF men celebrating their ORD went to City Square in JB to celebrate.

    Was confronted by a daze drug addict in the mall itself welding a razor blade in front of young school girls willingly surrendered their wallets to this guy.

    You ask them to occupy what Government building or malls or what Raffles city???

    That's when Germany beat Brazil 8-1 in the next rematch.

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  2. arze bassoOnly 200 people bother to show up to say "LHL is not fit to be PM".
    The rest of Singaporeans don't even care if PM LHL is PM or not.
    They have already made up their minds.

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  3. “I don’t think many Singaporeans would want to see more chaos, demonstrations on the street disrupting their daily lives and also taking up resources which can be used for other purposes.”
    TEO CHEE HEAN

    I agree.
    Instead, most Singaporeans prefer bad PAP policies "disrupting their daily lives and also taking up resources which can be used for other purposes.”

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  4. Most sinkies will only try to migrate rather than try to change the pap because it is so much easier to get a pr than to change the pap mentality on average sinkies are subhumans. Thus, it is better to spend the weekend afternoon studying for a course that will meet migration skills requirement rather than attending all these protests.

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