‘The US Supreme Court will consider a ground breaking case today about
whether those who post death threats on Facebook are liable to
prosecution or whether threatening comments are protected by
constitutional rights to free speech.’ AFP article in the mypaper on 1
Dec.
The case was about a Anthon Elonis who posted this in his Facebook about
his wife. ‘There’s one way to love you but a thousand ways to kill you.
I’m not going to rest until your body is a mess, soaked in blood and
dying from all the little cuts. Hurry up ad die, bitch.’
was charged in court and sentenced to 44 months in prison. He
appealed but the appeals court upheld the conviction. Now the case is
taken to the US Supreme Court. The Supreme Court will decide if what
Elonis wrote ‘constiture a “true threat” or were harmless because he did
not intend to act on his words.’ According to US law, a threat is a
statement that a reasonable person would interpret as a serious
expression of intent to do harm to another person.
This case is interesting and I would like to point to the similarities
of the threat against me by Raymond posted in my blog and I quote:
As for who I am, don't worry. We'll meet some day--at your funeral. Please make sure your obituary includes a mugshot of your ugly face.
October 29, 2014 1:22 pm
As a reasonable man, I feel threatened, that my life is being threatened
by this blogger called Raymond. And he even dared me to make a police
report. He refused to apologise or explain what he meant by his posts.
And he added this post to my demand for a clarification on his intent.
Raymond said...
LOL! Go ahead, you crazy old wanker. I dare you.
October 30, 2014 8:31 am
I am still waiting for this Raymond to explain his intent. The case is now with the police.
Now who is being ungrateful? When a party controls the media and the
msm, it can keep on drumming whatever that suits its agenda and no one
is likely to dispute or even has the chance to dispute whatever it is
saying. The people are ungrateful. This is the accusation heard all over
and utter by many jokers. The PAP has built this country from a 3rd
world to a 1st world, raised the quality of life of the people to Swiss
standard, but the people are so ungrateful. Without the PAP and the
founder of modern Singapore, Singapore would still be a fishing village
and the people would still be coolies and maids. Sinkies better be
grateful and thankful to the govt, the PAP and the political leaders for
the good life they are having.
Who are having the good life? The people that must be grateful must be
those that are having a good life, not the losers. Why should losers be
grateful? Definitely not all Singaporeans are having a good life. The
people who are having the good life are the so called foreign talents
here. They are given all the opportunities to lead an exceptionally good
life that their countries could not provide them. An average mid
executive Pinoy could be earning more than their ministers back home. A
maid could be making more than their Pinoy PMEs in Manila. And this is
applicable to all the 3rd world PMEs here. Even those from the western
economies are also having a party that they could not dream of at home.
These are the people that must be grateful. They did not build Singapore
but coming here at the right time to enjoy the fruits of Sinkie labour.
But they are dreadfully ungrateful, thinking that they built this
country and we owe them a living.
The Sinkies that should be very grateful to the rest of the Sinkies that
built this country, it cannot be built by a few men talking and walking
around, are those that are living the Swiss standard of living,
emasculated and emancipated from the squatters and public housing to
live in landed properties and mansions. The people that should be
grateful should be those that are paid millions in public office.
Remember, it is the people that are paying for their good life. They
must not take the people for granted and called them losers, daft and
lazy. It is exactly the daft and losers and the lazy that are footing
their multi million dollar income and the good life.
Be grateful, be very grateful. The people’s tolerance has a limit. The
people are not daft just because you called them daft. If you choose to
remain recalcitrant, arrogant and ungrateful, the people will take your
multi million dollar income away. Your good life and well being and the
big salaries you are getting come from the grace and kindness and
sacrifices of the people. And the people are the Sinkies whom you have
chosen to kick aside in favour of foreigners. Keep taking away the jobs
and opportunities from the very people that feed you, keep biting the
hands that feed you, keep being ungrateful…the day of reckoning is near.
The foreigners are also here participating in the buffet spread but
would flee when the daft Sinkies wake up from their ignorant and
helpless slumber. The daft Sinkies will take back the buffet for
themselves. They will take away from those enjoying the multi million
dollar incomes and the good life but did not contribute to it, just
inheriting the good fortune and pretending that they did it or created
it for the people. Just keep believing that the daft will forever be
daft. Don’t be ungrateful to the people that are paying for your good life.
PS. This is what Tsai Ingwen, chairwoman of DPP, Taiwan said, 'We will
start from the local level and win back Taiwan. If a govt doesn't stand
on the side of the people, the people can take away its power.
When I saw the headline of a Taiwan paper with the words ‘KMT trounced’,
the first thing that came to my mind is “PAP trounced’. I think quite a
significant number of people are cherishing this magical moment, that
this will be the headline in the next GE, a refreshing change from the
suffocating political environment of fear, threats and a man named Sue.
It has happened in Taiwan with the KMT losing so badly that they would
just bend their heads in shame. KMT lost Taipei, its stronghold, and
also Taichung, not to say Tainan and Kaoshiung. It is as good as over.
Such a devastating defeat is rare, exceptionally rare in the history of
KMT.
History is predictable but often also throws up exceptions in the most
unexpected way. Would this scenario happen in Singapore? Would the PAP
be trounced, and the ST splashed it across its front page? Highly
unlikely. Many of the experts and apologists have already predicted PAP
would be unbeatable for the next 15 years, that is 3 more GEs. And PAP
is likely to remain in power for the next 50 years.
For those hoping for such a front page earth shaking headline, well,
shall I say fat hope? It will not happen, it cannot happen. The
political experts and pundits said it would not happen. At best it is a
wet dream.
Singapore is going to transform itself into a Smart Nation. Note the
difference between a Smart City and a Smart Nation. Got it? Ok, we are
drumming to build Smart Cities in India but promoting a Smart Nation for
ourselves. You need to be a bit smart to notice the difference. Simply
put, Smart Cities are simply Smart Cities, all wired with gadgets and
fibres. Smart Nation involves making the people smart. The only problem
is whether this is so easily said than done. My proposal is to input a
smart computer chip into every Silver Hair to interface with all the
smart computer devices in the same way C3PO and R2D2 related to each
other. This will make the Silver Hair ‘computer smart’ at a jab.
There was an article in the ST on 29 Nov by a Calvin Soh on the topic of
Smart Nation and the Silver Brigade. The concept of a Smart Nation as
proposed by Hsien Loong is all inclusive. The seniors, many illiterate
or computer illiterate, will be trained or educated to benefit from a
Smart City. The lonely old folks would be the first beneficiary as
computer and electronic devices would be installed in their homes to
monitor their movements to protect them. This is only a small step in
the whole process.
Training and education and high tech devices would be the natural follow
ups in this Smart Nation process. The people, Silver Brigade included,
would be made smart to use all the smart equipment. And I believe,
though no one is saying it, there will be a compulsory scheme to make
sure that no one is left out of this smart programme.
Where to find the money, it is not free you know. Who is going to pay
for it? The users, including the Silver Hair for sure, will have to pay
for it. Nothing is for free mah. There is no free lunch.
In the future, instead of buttoning my own shirt or making my own cup of
coffee, a computer gadget would to that for me while I lie down in bed.
Now all these must cost money right? Not to worry, did anyone suggest
another compulsory scheme to set aside some money from the CPF for this
Smart Nation Scheme? Don’t ask me, I can’t afford it no matter how
affordable they are going to drum about it.
I think I am smart enough not to be duped into paying for things I do
not need. The sad part is when they make it compulsory. But there is a
way out of these compulsions.
Over the last few decades followed by daily repetitive drumming, the
people have becomeso used to the false premises and false truths used to
barricade their minds that they are now literally prisoners of this
imaginative box. And the joke, they kept telling themselves to think out
of the box when the box is inside their heads. Think about it, how many
barriers have been erected around the Sinkie mind that have become
permanent attachments to prevent them from thinking freely though they
think they are thinking freely?
What are the artificial walls that the Sinkies are living with but not knowing and not seeing them?
1. Only the PAP can rule the island successfully.
2. Only the PAP has the talents to rule the island. The oppositions have no talents.
3. You want growth you must have an ever increasing population.
4. Singaporeans are daft.
5. Foreigners, no matter how shitty, are better than Sinkie talents.
6. We are a rule by law country. Think about it again.
7. We are a meritocracy and everyone is where he is by his own merit.
8. We are a free economy, free trade, free immigration, in other words a prostitute den. And these are good and necessary.
9. PAP will rule this island forever or at least another 50 years.
10. Extraordinary salaries for politicians are good and would prevent corruption.
11. We are a democracy.
12. High income inequality is good.
13. The fear of political masters.
14. Money is the determining factor for success and for everything.
15. Everything has a price and can be bought. The more expensive the better.
16. We are a country but more like a hotel in reality.
17. Our country is everyone else country, like a public toilet.
18. Everyone is equal but some are more equal than others.
I could go on with more walls. And these walls are there, inside the
heads, and very effective in restraining the thoughts and activities of
the citizens, controlling and moderating what they say or do,
transcending all levels of society. All thinking processes and
activities evolved behind these unseen walls. We are free in a deluded
way. Our creativity and ingenuity are also restrained by these walls
and you can see how creative or lack of it by our works and how we solve
problems and their solutions.
Please make sure your obituary includes a mugshot of your ugly face. 