'An outlier in criminal law regime'
Section 377A doesn't criminalise gay sex and its purpose no longer exists, argues former Chief Justice
Writing in a 72-page article in the Singapore Academy of Law Journal, Mr
Chan Sek Keong said: "Section 377A was enacted for the purpose of
dealing with the mischief of male prostitution and its associated
activities (which involved male homosexual conduct) which were rife in
1938, and not because homosexual conduct was not acceptable in Singapore
society in 1938."
The above quote is from Today online. Reading Chan Sek Keong’s comment,
it appears that this 377A is no longer relevant and should be repealed.
The case for this to decriminalize same sex sexual activities in today’s
context is to some extent justifiable from the non religious point of
view. The morality issue from the secular viewpoint has changed and same
sex activities are now tolerated. The religious tribes may still have
their own reservations in view of their unflinching religious doctrines.
Assuming that the secular thinking rules the day and 377A is repealed,
the law must not forget that the young must still be protected and not
fall prey to sexual assault of the same sex, with or without their
consent. As long as the young are protected until they become adults, I
think there should be lesser resistance and opposition to repeal this
Act.
We are going to be more advanced and progressive on this relative to
Malaysia, I think. Anyone knows if Malaysia has such an Act since we
inherited the same judicial system from the British?
What do you think?
10/24/2019
10/23/2019
Evil American Empire finding new excuses to keep soldiers in Syria
Trump declared he is pulling American soldiers out of Syria, at least the Northeastern Syria where they were training and arming the ISIS aka SDF aka the Kurds. The troops being pulled out were not going home, They were deployed in other parts of Syria. The evil Empire would not move out of Syria, would not move out of the Middle East. They are there to protect the interest of the evil Empire, not the rubbish claim of fighting ISIS. They bred ISIS, trained ISIS, funded ISIS and armed ISIS.
Now with the war in Syria losing to the Russians, they wanted out, not wanting to be driven out by the Russians. But they just cannot leave. Protecting the ISIS aka Kurds is failing and futile. But they can regroup in other parts of Syria in American strongholds. They are looking for new reasons to stay back.
They have found a new reason. Though they have claimed that ISIS has been defeated, they are claiming that the ISIS would attack Syria oil fields, so they must stay to protect Syrian oil fields! What is wrong with this claim? What the hell do the Syrians need the Americans to protect their oil fields? Is Syria a state of the USA, a protectorate? Did Syria ask the Americans to stay and protect their oil fields?
No, the Americans unilaterally invited themselves into Syria, into Iraq and other Arab states under the fake claims of fighting ISIS, a monster created by them and to be used as the reason to be there. The Americans did not respect the rights of the Arab states. They run wild in the region, invading these countries at will. They run around like these states belong to them. They went around bombing and killing the Arabs like subhuman beans. They don't care a damn what the Arabs think or feel. They own the Arab countries and their land. They are the Empire, the evil Empire that would not go away.
And the Arabs have got use to the invading American forces but unable to do anything about it. Yes, the whole of the Middle East belongs to the evil American Empire. They are staying in Syria to protect not the Syrian oil fields, but the Empire's oil fields. The Syrians and Syrian govt and soldiers did not exist. The Iraqis and Iraqi govt do not exist.
Now with the war in Syria losing to the Russians, they wanted out, not wanting to be driven out by the Russians. But they just cannot leave. Protecting the ISIS aka Kurds is failing and futile. But they can regroup in other parts of Syria in American strongholds. They are looking for new reasons to stay back.
They have found a new reason. Though they have claimed that ISIS has been defeated, they are claiming that the ISIS would attack Syria oil fields, so they must stay to protect Syrian oil fields! What is wrong with this claim? What the hell do the Syrians need the Americans to protect their oil fields? Is Syria a state of the USA, a protectorate? Did Syria ask the Americans to stay and protect their oil fields?
No, the Americans unilaterally invited themselves into Syria, into Iraq and other Arab states under the fake claims of fighting ISIS, a monster created by them and to be used as the reason to be there. The Americans did not respect the rights of the Arab states. They run wild in the region, invading these countries at will. They run around like these states belong to them. They went around bombing and killing the Arabs like subhuman beans. They don't care a damn what the Arabs think or feel. They own the Arab countries and their land. They are the Empire, the evil Empire that would not go away.
And the Arabs have got use to the invading American forces but unable to do anything about it. Yes, the whole of the Middle East belongs to the evil American Empire. They are staying in Syria to protect not the Syrian oil fields, but the Empire's oil fields. The Syrians and Syrian govt and soldiers did not exist. The Iraqis and Iraqi govt do not exist.
10/22/2019
Singapore having 5G network by next year
It was in the news that 4 telco companies, SingTel, Starhub, M1 and TPG
Telecom will be offering 5G services next year. There was no mention of
who is going to provide the 5G infrastructure that could increase
surfing speed by 20 times and connection to 1,000 devices at the same
time.
5G is the system for the future and no country aspiring to be a modern and futuristic economy can afford not to have 5G. In the USA, after lying after security threats of Huawei, the Americans are digging in not to have Huawei system and technology and bluffing themselves with fake 5Gs that were barely faster than the existing 4G system while the rest of Europe and Asia are running ahead with the implementation of 5G as their main telecommunication platform
Who would be providing the equipment and system for Singapore’s 5G network, fake American 5G, slow Nokia or Ericsson, or the real stuff, Huawei? I think Singapore has no choice but to go for the real thing and engage Huawei but keeping quiet not to embarrass the Americans. The Americans have been pressuring all its allies, including Singapore, not to use Huawei, not just influencing mind you.
How long can the Americans hide behind their mischievous attack on Huawei and how long can they stand by not embracing 5G technology and return to the past as a backward country? The longer and harder they take the anti Huawei stand, the more difficult would be for them to use Huawei. A lot of face saving to change track and to kneel down to beg Huawei to provide them the technology that they don’t have and badly want to have that no one else could provide.
Still sticking to your guns cowboys. You are no longer the only tech country when others have caught up and overtaken you. Your bullying and threats against the world would only make you look uglier than before.
5G is the system for the future and no country aspiring to be a modern and futuristic economy can afford not to have 5G. In the USA, after lying after security threats of Huawei, the Americans are digging in not to have Huawei system and technology and bluffing themselves with fake 5Gs that were barely faster than the existing 4G system while the rest of Europe and Asia are running ahead with the implementation of 5G as their main telecommunication platform
Who would be providing the equipment and system for Singapore’s 5G network, fake American 5G, slow Nokia or Ericsson, or the real stuff, Huawei? I think Singapore has no choice but to go for the real thing and engage Huawei but keeping quiet not to embarrass the Americans. The Americans have been pressuring all its allies, including Singapore, not to use Huawei, not just influencing mind you.
How long can the Americans hide behind their mischievous attack on Huawei and how long can they stand by not embracing 5G technology and return to the past as a backward country? The longer and harder they take the anti Huawei stand, the more difficult would be for them to use Huawei. A lot of face saving to change track and to kneel down to beg Huawei to provide them the technology that they don’t have and badly want to have that no one else could provide.
Still sticking to your guns cowboys. You are no longer the only tech country when others have caught up and overtaken you. Your bullying and threats against the world would only make you look uglier than before.
10/21/2019
How to make American homeland safe?
This is the main consideration that determines American foreign policies
and strategies around the world. There must be no wars or military
activities in the American homeland. Any war and violence must be in
other continents, other people’s countries. What many countries would do
is to develop a strong defensive force to protect their countries’
territories and at the same time build good relations with its
neighbours to keep wars and military confrontation at bay.
The American strategies are very simple. Make every country very busy with their problems, with wars and domestic instability. On the first account, the Americans are starting wars and raising tension in every corner of the earth to keep countries very busy fighting each other and have no time to think what the hell they were doing, have no time to think or to threaten American homeland. And if war is not a solution, invoke sanctions and economic blockades to keep these countries poor and destabilized. When countries are facing hunger and poverty, they have to time or resource to cause problems to the Americans and definitely unable to attack American homeland.
The third strategy, make sure the Americans have all the weapons and nuclear weapons and others not allow to have them except close American allies. This superiority in nuclear and military weapons would allow the Americans to threaten and attack others, not others threatening or attacking the USA. This is the main reason why North Korea and Iran must not be allowed to have nuclear weapons while the USA can have thousands of nuclear weapons that can destroy every country on earth.
The fourth strategy is to have a very destructive interventionist force in the CIA and covert operators all over the world to destabilize other countries. All the problems facing the security and stability of countries are the works of the CIA and their operatives.
Another role that is played very effectively by the CIA is conducting psychological, propaganda, biological and chemical warfare against other countries without anyone knowing who did it. Diseases, sickness, things like ebola, swine fever and even earthquakes or climatic change are part and parcel of the arsenal of the CIA to destabilize other countries.
The CIA is the biggest and vilest American monster that needs to be destroyed before it destroyed every country and people. It is a destructive machinery created just to do that, to destroy the world to keep Americans safe.
There are other strategies that the world would not know of, but basically all to serve the objective of keeping every country so busy and weak that they cannot be a threat to the American homeland. It is so peaceful in American homeland except for the works of God, fire everywhere, tornadoes, floods that they could not control. Starting fire everywhere, one day the fire shall return.
The American strategies are very simple. Make every country very busy with their problems, with wars and domestic instability. On the first account, the Americans are starting wars and raising tension in every corner of the earth to keep countries very busy fighting each other and have no time to think what the hell they were doing, have no time to think or to threaten American homeland. And if war is not a solution, invoke sanctions and economic blockades to keep these countries poor and destabilized. When countries are facing hunger and poverty, they have to time or resource to cause problems to the Americans and definitely unable to attack American homeland.
The third strategy, make sure the Americans have all the weapons and nuclear weapons and others not allow to have them except close American allies. This superiority in nuclear and military weapons would allow the Americans to threaten and attack others, not others threatening or attacking the USA. This is the main reason why North Korea and Iran must not be allowed to have nuclear weapons while the USA can have thousands of nuclear weapons that can destroy every country on earth.
The fourth strategy is to have a very destructive interventionist force in the CIA and covert operators all over the world to destabilize other countries. All the problems facing the security and stability of countries are the works of the CIA and their operatives.
Another role that is played very effectively by the CIA is conducting psychological, propaganda, biological and chemical warfare against other countries without anyone knowing who did it. Diseases, sickness, things like ebola, swine fever and even earthquakes or climatic change are part and parcel of the arsenal of the CIA to destabilize other countries.
The CIA is the biggest and vilest American monster that needs to be destroyed before it destroyed every country and people. It is a destructive machinery created just to do that, to destroy the world to keep Americans safe.
There are other strategies that the world would not know of, but basically all to serve the objective of keeping every country so busy and weak that they cannot be a threat to the American homeland. It is so peaceful in American homeland except for the works of God, fire everywhere, tornadoes, floods that they could not control. Starting fire everywhere, one day the fire shall return.
10/20/2019
Chinese diaspora - Lack of pride and confidence
There were a few articles in the Sunday Times last week discussing the sensitive issue of Chinese identity in Singapore and in the region in general. One feature stands out glaringly from reading the comments in those articles and the comments by prominent Chinese, including intellectuals, is the lack of confidence and pride in being Chinese. They are afraid to express their views, particularly views that are pro China or Chinese Civilisation, they want to be known as Singaporeans not Chinese. They fear being seen as a Chinese. They fear they would not be accepted by other races for being Chinese as if being Chinese is a disease, maybe even killed like in some parts of SE Asia in the recent past.
It is understandable that after nearly two centuries of living under the western world order, reading anti Chinese literature and distorted news, when China and Chinese were demonised, smeared and bad mouthed as bad, poor, untrustworthy and everything negative, that even the Chinese, including supposingly thinking Chinese, highly educated and highly regarded Chinese, are still living under this western evil spell that Chinese are lesser and undesirable beans. To be Chinese is bad and inferior and better not to be identified, or to stand out as a loser Chinese. Just bend your head and go about your life, not as a Chinese, never call yourself a Chinese.
The instinctive negative bias against China and Chinese can be read in the article by Tee Zhou actually should read Zhou Tee, but he chose to write his name dismissively under the western structure though he is Chinese, titled 'Chinese influence : A political business'. I am quite sure his family name is Zhou and not Tee. I stand corrected. Zhou is a common Chinese surname. Tee is rare.
The article started with these few paragraphs, "Concerns over Chinese influence in Singapore have surfaced from time to time, most recently in a report published in July by United States think tank The Jamestown Foundation.
The report, written by Global Taiwan Institute executive director Russell Hsiao, asserted that the Chinese Communist Party was using Chinese associations here to influence Chinese Singaporeans.
In June last year, retired Singapore diplomat Bilahari Kausikan had also warned of China's covert 'influence operations', and asked Singaporeans to be wary of being manipulated."
The underwritten mindset in the above comments is that China and Chinese are bad, their influence is bad, they are the ones that are conducting covert influence, the rest of the big powers are good and are not conducting covert influence in Singapore, not on the people, not on the govt. The starting point is so bias and one sided, China and Chinese are the bad guys doing the bad things. And Chinese of other nationalities should hide their Chineseness, don't talk about it, pretend to be different, better speak up against China and Chinese like you are non Chinese.
Not all Chinese leaders and intellectuals with some dignity left in them are going to accept this kind of nonsense in silence especially those in the Chinese media and those in the Chinese clans and associations. Lim Jim Koon, former editor of Lianhe Zaobao was quoted saying this, "We cannot stop others from viewing us through tinted lenses or a distorted mirror, deliberately manipulating public perception and causing misunderstandings about the Chinese community in Singapore, especially to those less familiar,"
The article went on to quote some ethnic overseas Chinese academics and with one describing that raising the Chinese identity to a higher profile is unfortunate. Why is this unfortunate? Why is being proud of one's civilisation and success seen as unfortunate while glorifying and adoring the success of other civilisations as second nature, as a good thing? Inferiority complex?
The 100 years of humiliation and oppression of the Chinese Civilisation is over. China and the Chinese Civilisation have regained their positions as respectable country and people of the world. There is no more the need to feel ashame of being Chinese and of China as a poor and downtrodden country. This is the time to stand up, whether you are a China Chinese or the Chinese diaspora in other parts of the world, to walk proudly as equals of the rest of the world. The days of bending your heads low, talked softly and go about meekly as a defeated and bankrupt Civilisation is passe.
There is no need to apologise for being a Chinese and the growing influence of China and the Chinese Civilisation in Singapore and across the world. It is a natural thing that great and successful powers would have influence over other countries. And the influence of China and the Chinese Civilisation is not necessarily bad and in many cases are good, very good indeed. Look at what is happening in Central Asia and Africa and even Latin America? Compare to what happened to them when they were colonised by the evil West that the unthinking bananas chose to admire blindly.
If China and Chinese influence are bad, Singapore and the rest of the world should not be doing business with China. Why are the rest of the world rushing into China? Why is the Singapore govt gloating about good relations with China and wanting to do more business with China if China is a devil?
On the contrary, look at the behaviour of Australia, a white regime that stole a continent in Asia. They would not disguise where their sentiments and loyalty are. They are whites and would side with the white countries and would consistently choose to regard China as their enemy for the simple reason that it is China and not white. They did not have to be ashamed of themselves for identifying themselves as whites. Why should the Chinese diaspora be so ashamed of themselves as Chinese, afraid to be known as Chinese even in a Chinese majority Singapore? Where is the pride and dignity of being what you are as a people?
Do not be an apologist to say that Singapore is in a dilemma because it has a majority Chinese population and cannot choose to be friendly with China and less friendly to the Americans. It is about national interest. What is good to our national interest?
One professor Leo Suryadinata commented in the article, "...PM Lee is "fully aware" of recent developments on the issue of Chinese influence. In order to resist foreign influence, Singaporeans have to strengthen our own national identity. If we are weak or have no national identity, it is impossible for us to defend our national interest," he says, adding that this could be the "underlying message" behind PM Lee's remarks at the Rally."
Reading between the lines, the so called 'foreign influence' is bad and who is the country behind this foreign influence? I take issues with this kind of banana thinking, China and Chinese bad, western influence good, coming from an ethnic Chinese. It is disgraceful.
By the way, what is our identity? At best it is a chap cheng identity and getting worse with more third world wildlife becoming citizens to dilute our already 'no identity' identity. Our present identity is that of a rootless people with no culture and history but accepting and apeing the West as our root and culture. The only thing that these rootless people are proud of is the colonial heritage and their colonial masters. We do not know who we are, refuse to know who we are, especially the bananas who think their ancestors are white and Chinese are bad. Obviously they did not have a mirror in their homes. Sad isn't it?
There is no shame to be Chinese. There is no fear to be Chinese be it overseas Chinese, born out of China and taken different nationalities. A Chinese is just a tribe, an ethnic identity, a Civilisation, not necessary a national identity for the Chinese diaspora. A Chinese is a Chinese wherever you are. Be proud being a Chinese.
PS. Is Singapore's anti China mindset prevalent in the govt? If so, is this due to American pressure and influence or is it second nature to those in govt, to be anti China? Are those in Singapore govt inherently anti China and the gloating of good relations with China just hypocritical?
Did Trump ask our leaders for quid pro quo or else, or like George Bush Jr said, you are with us or against us, no pressure, no interference on our govt? Or is it that we quai quai say, just tell us what to do, if you want us to be enemy of China we will?
It is understandable that after nearly two centuries of living under the western world order, reading anti Chinese literature and distorted news, when China and Chinese were demonised, smeared and bad mouthed as bad, poor, untrustworthy and everything negative, that even the Chinese, including supposingly thinking Chinese, highly educated and highly regarded Chinese, are still living under this western evil spell that Chinese are lesser and undesirable beans. To be Chinese is bad and inferior and better not to be identified, or to stand out as a loser Chinese. Just bend your head and go about your life, not as a Chinese, never call yourself a Chinese.
The instinctive negative bias against China and Chinese can be read in the article by Tee Zhou actually should read Zhou Tee, but he chose to write his name dismissively under the western structure though he is Chinese, titled 'Chinese influence : A political business'. I am quite sure his family name is Zhou and not Tee. I stand corrected. Zhou is a common Chinese surname. Tee is rare.
The article started with these few paragraphs, "Concerns over Chinese influence in Singapore have surfaced from time to time, most recently in a report published in July by United States think tank The Jamestown Foundation.
The report, written by Global Taiwan Institute executive director Russell Hsiao, asserted that the Chinese Communist Party was using Chinese associations here to influence Chinese Singaporeans.
In June last year, retired Singapore diplomat Bilahari Kausikan had also warned of China's covert 'influence operations', and asked Singaporeans to be wary of being manipulated."
The underwritten mindset in the above comments is that China and Chinese are bad, their influence is bad, they are the ones that are conducting covert influence, the rest of the big powers are good and are not conducting covert influence in Singapore, not on the people, not on the govt. The starting point is so bias and one sided, China and Chinese are the bad guys doing the bad things. And Chinese of other nationalities should hide their Chineseness, don't talk about it, pretend to be different, better speak up against China and Chinese like you are non Chinese.
Not all Chinese leaders and intellectuals with some dignity left in them are going to accept this kind of nonsense in silence especially those in the Chinese media and those in the Chinese clans and associations. Lim Jim Koon, former editor of Lianhe Zaobao was quoted saying this, "We cannot stop others from viewing us through tinted lenses or a distorted mirror, deliberately manipulating public perception and causing misunderstandings about the Chinese community in Singapore, especially to those less familiar,"
The article went on to quote some ethnic overseas Chinese academics and with one describing that raising the Chinese identity to a higher profile is unfortunate. Why is this unfortunate? Why is being proud of one's civilisation and success seen as unfortunate while glorifying and adoring the success of other civilisations as second nature, as a good thing? Inferiority complex?
The 100 years of humiliation and oppression of the Chinese Civilisation is over. China and the Chinese Civilisation have regained their positions as respectable country and people of the world. There is no more the need to feel ashame of being Chinese and of China as a poor and downtrodden country. This is the time to stand up, whether you are a China Chinese or the Chinese diaspora in other parts of the world, to walk proudly as equals of the rest of the world. The days of bending your heads low, talked softly and go about meekly as a defeated and bankrupt Civilisation is passe.
There is no need to apologise for being a Chinese and the growing influence of China and the Chinese Civilisation in Singapore and across the world. It is a natural thing that great and successful powers would have influence over other countries. And the influence of China and the Chinese Civilisation is not necessarily bad and in many cases are good, very good indeed. Look at what is happening in Central Asia and Africa and even Latin America? Compare to what happened to them when they were colonised by the evil West that the unthinking bananas chose to admire blindly.
If China and Chinese influence are bad, Singapore and the rest of the world should not be doing business with China. Why are the rest of the world rushing into China? Why is the Singapore govt gloating about good relations with China and wanting to do more business with China if China is a devil?
On the contrary, look at the behaviour of Australia, a white regime that stole a continent in Asia. They would not disguise where their sentiments and loyalty are. They are whites and would side with the white countries and would consistently choose to regard China as their enemy for the simple reason that it is China and not white. They did not have to be ashamed of themselves for identifying themselves as whites. Why should the Chinese diaspora be so ashamed of themselves as Chinese, afraid to be known as Chinese even in a Chinese majority Singapore? Where is the pride and dignity of being what you are as a people?
Do not be an apologist to say that Singapore is in a dilemma because it has a majority Chinese population and cannot choose to be friendly with China and less friendly to the Americans. It is about national interest. What is good to our national interest?
One professor Leo Suryadinata commented in the article, "...PM Lee is "fully aware" of recent developments on the issue of Chinese influence. In order to resist foreign influence, Singaporeans have to strengthen our own national identity. If we are weak or have no national identity, it is impossible for us to defend our national interest," he says, adding that this could be the "underlying message" behind PM Lee's remarks at the Rally."
Reading between the lines, the so called 'foreign influence' is bad and who is the country behind this foreign influence? I take issues with this kind of banana thinking, China and Chinese bad, western influence good, coming from an ethnic Chinese. It is disgraceful.
By the way, what is our identity? At best it is a chap cheng identity and getting worse with more third world wildlife becoming citizens to dilute our already 'no identity' identity. Our present identity is that of a rootless people with no culture and history but accepting and apeing the West as our root and culture. The only thing that these rootless people are proud of is the colonial heritage and their colonial masters. We do not know who we are, refuse to know who we are, especially the bananas who think their ancestors are white and Chinese are bad. Obviously they did not have a mirror in their homes. Sad isn't it?
There is no shame to be Chinese. There is no fear to be Chinese be it overseas Chinese, born out of China and taken different nationalities. A Chinese is just a tribe, an ethnic identity, a Civilisation, not necessary a national identity for the Chinese diaspora. A Chinese is a Chinese wherever you are. Be proud being a Chinese.
PS. Is Singapore's anti China mindset prevalent in the govt? If so, is this due to American pressure and influence or is it second nature to those in govt, to be anti China? Are those in Singapore govt inherently anti China and the gloating of good relations with China just hypocritical?
Did Trump ask our leaders for quid pro quo or else, or like George Bush Jr said, you are with us or against us, no pressure, no interference on our govt? Or is it that we quai quai say, just tell us what to do, if you want us to be enemy of China we will?
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