Amos Yee – a most serious crime in Sin City

How does one rate a crime as serious or not serious? The police have some definitions like seizable or not seizable offence that would give one an idea of how serious the crime is. Another way is to look at the resources and time allocated to the case.

Look at this Amos Yee’s case and look at the number of law enforcement officers involved, the number of prosecutors and judges and their time, and the time of the courts, my god, this is no small crime when money and talented resources are involved. For such a serious crime committed by a ranting 16 year old boy it is definitely unpardonable. The boy must be punished. Punish is the word. If he is not stopped now, imagine how bad he could be when he grows up? More time must be devoted to educate and rehabilitate this bad boy.
 
Putting him in jail for 2 weeks would not help him. He is hardcore stuff, dabbling in hard core porn, incorrigible and could mislead the young into porn stuff. He is more dangerous than Alvin the scholar porn artist. The next best thing is to put him under the guidance of angels. Yes, angels will do him good a lot of god. But since there are no real angels around, 12 months or 18 months of reformative training look about right. He will come out a good boy, just like NSman spending 24 mths and changing from boy to man. Jack Neo must be beaming of his new movie.
 
Now isn’t this a damn good idea? Keep him under watch for 18 months! Actually 18 months is too short for such a serious and unforgiveable crime. Wait, not to worry, after 18 months it would be just nice for NS for this bad boy. That would mean Amos would have been under some form of regimentation for more than 3 years. It is sure to work. And Amos and his parents would be so grateful for the special treatment and care given to him. No one deserves such attention, but under such a caring govt, it can be expected. It is for the good of the boy. Amos is in good hands.
 
Wonder what would happen to him if someone is to brand him as devil reincarnate? He is so lucky that the people here are so sensible and thinking individuals and would not go to that extent. Did anyone say daft?
 
Now which is more detrimental to Amos Yee’s well being, 2 weeks jail or 18 months of reformative training? Shit, let me rephrase this. Which is more beneficial to Amos Yee’s well being, 2 weeks jail or 18 months of reformative training?
 
What do you think?

Reckless Americans are extremely dangerous

What the Americans are doing in the South China Sea and what they are planning are extremely dangerous and naïve. The war game today has changed so much, and so have the combatants and their arsenal that a war between two super powers is beyond description. China is no Iraq, North Korea or any small powers that the Americans can bully, can attack knowing very well that the other party would not be able to hit back. China is no pushover and will hit back and as hard as the Americans could.
 
The stake is what China described as its core interest. This means China will go to war with the Americans if pushed. What would be the Americans’ game plan to think it could push China around, take a big stick to whack China and can walk away unscathed? The days when it could bomb the Chinese Embassy with China turning the right cheek are over. Today would be blow for blow. If not, just try another Chinese Embassy and see what would happen?
 
The only stupid reason for the Americans to think it could kick the Chinese with impunity is to do a quick surgical attack to destroy whatever China has built in the islands and walk away leaving the Chinese gasping for air but afraid to fight back. The strategy is for a quick and limited strike on Chinese territory, like in Libya or Iraq, and go home like heroes. This time the Chinese have calculated all the moves and checked all the odds and prepared for it. China would hit back. It cannot do nothing if the Americans are to take the first strike again. China cannot afford not to hit back.
 
China must hit back real hard at the Americans to prove that it can take on the Americans if it wants the Americans to stop its bullying. The Americans cannot expect the Chinese to let them invade China like the burning of the Summer Palace. So, what would the Chinese do, turn the other cheek again? If China could not bring down the attackers, it would have to go for the nearest American targets to mean business. You hit me I hit you. That is the only defence strategy to deal with the evil Empire. And to prevent the Americans from reacting, China has no choice but to remove all the threats in Japan and South Korea, even in the Philippines. The Americans and the Japanese would not take a counter strike quietly. And there goes your escalation to beyond control on both sides. Both countries would activate all their weapons of war on stand by and ponder over the pushing of the red button.
 
This is the end all scenario that the daft and cranky in Washington and the Pentagon are fooling around with. It will be game over for both China and the USA and its allies. Stop deluding that an open war with China can be contained, limited and would not blow up into a full scale nuclear war.
 
The Americans should stop thinking that they can still stir shit in China’s backyard with impunity by carrying a big stick.

Singapore going down under

Singapore is so desperate for space and land. Every inch of the island is already built up or designated for something. There is no more land for anything. And Singapore is scrambling for more space by reclamation from the sea. There is not much sea left to reclaim. We are just so small, a red dot. No, we can bring in more people, 10m no problem? The problem is that wherever and whenever a piece of land is created, it would be taken up quickly and nothing is left.
 
The new and desperate measure is digging underground. I am wondering which is more expensive, reclamation from the sea or digging into the ground? I am not sure which is more risky or dangerous to live in, highrise on reclaimed land or living inside the bedrock. Have faith in the engineers and architects doing their wonder acts to make sure these newly created space are safe to live in, no cave in, no flooding, 100% sure. For a mistake of such a nature it is unpardonable when thousands of lives are inside them.
 
And again, as soon as a hole is dug, or even before it is dug, it has already been assigned to some uses. And you hear people kpkb for more land. There is a grave shortage of usable land. And you have people crying we are going to bring in more people and more people. What the hell for? We are running out of land and there are people planning to bring in another few millions of foreigners to take up all the scarce land and space left.
 
It seems that this one trick pony has only one trick in their mind. Bring in more people, foreigners. Or is it their mission in life, to bring in more and more foreigners here? Or are they testing how many people can be squeezed into this piece of rock? And are they testing how fragile is the rock we are sitting on, when will it break apart from the bottom and bring down everything above it?
 
Do we owe the world to provide jobs and accommodation to their citizens that we have to work so hard, make space for them to squeeze with us until we are not able or cannot afford to build roads so that we can own and drive cars around, so that we have a little more breathing space? And we have to con the daft Sinkies that no car is good and public transport is better?
 
Seow! Yes, the psychiatrists would have many sickness related to such megalomaniac aspirations. Send them to the psychiatrists please.
 
Sin City's mission is to bring the population of the whole world to live in the island continent.

Chuan Jin – logically speaking

“Even without the IRs, people will find a way to gamble if they want to gamble — like going on online gambling sites, or going to neighbouring countries,”
Chuan Jin was at a forum in Ngee Ann Polytechnic and a question thrown to him was whether the two casinos at the Integrated Resorts (IRs) have brought more social ills into the country. The above statement was his answer to the question.
 
Does this look like going with the flow? Or is it like, since they would do it, why not let them do it here, and we can control the numbers? And since people are going to Batam and Bintang to spend their CPF savings, why not convert some southern islands to be like Batam and Bintang? Stretching this kind of logic further, since people are going to take drugs, why not?
 
Can there be a better explanation for the existence of the two IRs here when some quarters of the population were against them for the social ills that they would cause? Don’t bet on it that the two IRs would be closed. Like the CECA, no chance of turning back the clock, no chance to unwind as there are legal implications and cost involved. You cannot simply strip away a multi billion dollar set up with thousands of jobs at stake even if many are foreigners, directly or indirectly.
 
When a decision is made on a difficult basis or difficult to defend premises, the more one tries to explain it away, the more ridiculous it will look. It is best to take it by the horns and tell the hard truths and be less embarrassing explaining something by using funny logic, or is it power logic at work?

Hostile acts in peace time

China fired a cruise missile into the America Embassy in Tokyo, blowing it up and killing a few American personnel. China sent a note to Obama claiming that it was a mistake and would pay compensation for the damages and loss of lives. Would the Americans accept the apology?
 
China flew its spy planes, called surveillance planes, closed to the 12 nm territorial limits of Hawaii or American bases in Japan. Or China flying its nuclear bombers, carrying no bomb under its belly, but heading straight to California. How would the Americans react to such threats and show of force? The nuclear bombers came within range where they could fire its nuclear weapons.
 
These are hostile acts, acts of war. Any of such acts could force the defending country to activate its defensive mechanism, and strike down the attackers. And these were the hostile acts that the Americans have committed against China, in peace time. China, being militarily weaker, took the aggressive and hostile acts quietly, allowing the Americans to bully them and got away with it.
 
China is stronger today, though still unable to match the Americans in numbers of nuclear weapons and military might. But China is now able to destroy as many Americans as the Americans could do to them. The Americans are continuing to push the boundaries, crossing the Pacific Ocean to provoke the Chinese with their air intrusions into Chinese airspace. A point has been reached and the Chinese would not take it anymore. The Chinese would allow the Americans to bully them, to provoke them, to humiliate them and do nothing. You want the Chinese dead, the Chinese would bring the Americans along, dead.
 
The American provocations are increasingly dangerous, highly irresponsible, and China would have to put a stop to them if it wants to protect its sovereignty and territorial integrity. If the Americans refuse to back down, China would have no choice but to take the Americans by the horns. China would have to shoot down the American planes in its air space or nuclear bombers heading straight to China. It has no choice.
 
China would have to go to war. It cannot run away with the Americans at its door and pointing the guns at them. War is inevitable with the bully standing there with guns drawn. Who is the aggressor? Who is the bully? Who is starting a world war? The Americans are asking for a World War that they cannot control.
 
When China talks about war with the Americans, it is ready for it. It would not win in this war, but it would set New York, Washington and all the major American cities burning. China would be flattened, so would the USA. Would the ordinary American boys and girls and families want to risk being evaporated because a few evil men and women in Washington and Pentagon thought it is fun to travel a few thousand miles across the Pacific to poke their fingers in someone’s backyard and a few pieces of rock that have nothing to do with their good life?