Say whatever you like about Baey Yam Keng, he is indeed a first class PR
man. Just for a $2.50 nasi padang meal, he is able to arouse enough
publicity to himself that no one or organization could attract even
after spending several million dollars on a top notch PR agency to do
such a job.
Baey Yam Keng’s name is in everyone’s lip. His photographs, selfies, are
everywhere, in the main media and social media. His facebook is hot. He
outshines everyone, even the PM and the President as the most talked
about guy in town. He even out done the Little India riot. No one is
going to forget him. He monopolises the news for a whole week and still
counting.
After this term in office he could go back to PR and will be the most
sought after guy in the industry to carry any advertising job. You just
have to give it to him when generating publicity is concerned. Well done
man.
The whole publicity stance costs him $2.50, meals and drinks included.
Oh, he added another $3.70 for another meal to extend the publicity
campaign and raise it to a higher pitch. Can any PR agency do it, all
$6.20 to be in everyone’s lips and in every media?
Baey’s the man.
12/19/2013
Time to say a few good words for the men in blue
Never in any country had the police run away from rioters without
hitting back. Never in a riot that the only people injured or got beaten
up were the policemen. What happened in Little India is uniquely
Singapore.
Over the years, with a more educated and well disciplined people that are law abiding, the law enforcers too have gradually adopted a new doctrine that is more people friendly. The police and the people are the same people of the country. And this fact is made more pertinent by the number of NS men in the force. The men in blue and the people do not see each other as the opposite and people felt very comfortable with the men in blue, often making themselves a nuisance in police posts and burdening the police with their silly idiosyncracies.
When the traffic accident happened, the police and civil defence officers rushed to the ground to render help and first aid. Never would they imagine that they would be set upon by a mob and became victims themselves. The attack must have shocked the officers who could not know how to react except to run for safety. They forgot that their role was to keep peace and control the rowdy crowd. I would not claim that officers were complacent. It was just out of the normal.
When the police cars and ambulance were overturned and torched, they were more in awe of the events exploding in front of them. Most of the young officers would not have seen such violence in their life time. Everything had been peaceful in Little India. It was only a traffic accident. How come like that?
There were no thoughts of retaliation, to whack the rioters. This in a way helped not to escalate the rioting, or it could encourage the mobs to be more brazen, depending on how one looked at it. The aftermath is that no one can accuse the men in blue of police brutality. If there was, it was mob brutality against the policemen.
When reinforcement finally came, the officers went in only with one purpose, to arrest the rioters. The baton was never used. In one video clip that was circulating, the officers were just escorting the rioters to the police van. The pedestrian spectators were more worried for the policemen than them. The rioters could run or turn violent. And many of the spectators were shouting to the men in blue to cuff the rioters. The policemen were so civil to disbelief. They were treating the rioters just like any other Singaporeans, friendly and without any sense of anger. In most countries, the rioters in the hands of the police or in the process of arresting them would be rewarded with several whacks of the baton to let them know the heavy hand of the law.
Not in Singapore, not our men in blue. Fortunately this was a small version of a full scale riot. Our men could be in bokok or in the emergency wards if the situation blossomed into a pandemonium. Actually it was just like the exercises the men in blue held as part of their training. No undue force needed or applied.
The proof of the civility of our men in blue was a total absence of wild accusations against them, that the rioters were brutally bashed up. The home policemen of these rioters would have had a whale of a time teaching the rioters who was the boss.
It was a happy ending for both parties though the men in blue took all the blows and all the injuries, including the embarrassing torching of their vehicles and ambulances. The last figure tossing around was 16 vehicles. Ouch, quite some money to be burnt and really pai seh.
Now what? The police really need to revise their doctrines in handling a mob, especially a foreign one when rioting is normal in their country. And the police must know that they would get violent and could maim and kill. The police need to indoctrinate into their officers that this is not wayang kulit. This is the real stuff and they need to be more exertive and even teach the rioters with their brand of violence to keep them in check. Rioters only know the language of force. They used force to intimidate and to achieve their goals. A civilized and nice nice police force is going to look not very nice at the end of a riot in the truest sense.
Let’s be prepared in case more violence came their way. The men in blue cannot be too nice to a mob or they could get themselves killed. And they were able to escort the bus driver and his female attendant to safety but not before they were bashed by the rioters. At least they got out of it alive. There was bravery and the commitment to protect and save lives. Kudos to the men in blue. This called for a medal for the few brave guys. It was so lucky none of them ended in black plastic bags.
PS. I read in the main media this morning that some rioters are accusing the men in blue of violence during custody. Now there is a big investigation going on and the police deputy commissioner has said that if the allegation is false, the accusers will see justice in return. This is like a murderer accusing the authority of violation of human rights when his back is whipped. The rioters cannot be expecting to be escorted around by pretty nurses do they?
Over the years, with a more educated and well disciplined people that are law abiding, the law enforcers too have gradually adopted a new doctrine that is more people friendly. The police and the people are the same people of the country. And this fact is made more pertinent by the number of NS men in the force. The men in blue and the people do not see each other as the opposite and people felt very comfortable with the men in blue, often making themselves a nuisance in police posts and burdening the police with their silly idiosyncracies.
When the traffic accident happened, the police and civil defence officers rushed to the ground to render help and first aid. Never would they imagine that they would be set upon by a mob and became victims themselves. The attack must have shocked the officers who could not know how to react except to run for safety. They forgot that their role was to keep peace and control the rowdy crowd. I would not claim that officers were complacent. It was just out of the normal.
When the police cars and ambulance were overturned and torched, they were more in awe of the events exploding in front of them. Most of the young officers would not have seen such violence in their life time. Everything had been peaceful in Little India. It was only a traffic accident. How come like that?
There were no thoughts of retaliation, to whack the rioters. This in a way helped not to escalate the rioting, or it could encourage the mobs to be more brazen, depending on how one looked at it. The aftermath is that no one can accuse the men in blue of police brutality. If there was, it was mob brutality against the policemen.
When reinforcement finally came, the officers went in only with one purpose, to arrest the rioters. The baton was never used. In one video clip that was circulating, the officers were just escorting the rioters to the police van. The pedestrian spectators were more worried for the policemen than them. The rioters could run or turn violent. And many of the spectators were shouting to the men in blue to cuff the rioters. The policemen were so civil to disbelief. They were treating the rioters just like any other Singaporeans, friendly and without any sense of anger. In most countries, the rioters in the hands of the police or in the process of arresting them would be rewarded with several whacks of the baton to let them know the heavy hand of the law.
Not in Singapore, not our men in blue. Fortunately this was a small version of a full scale riot. Our men could be in bokok or in the emergency wards if the situation blossomed into a pandemonium. Actually it was just like the exercises the men in blue held as part of their training. No undue force needed or applied.
The proof of the civility of our men in blue was a total absence of wild accusations against them, that the rioters were brutally bashed up. The home policemen of these rioters would have had a whale of a time teaching the rioters who was the boss.
It was a happy ending for both parties though the men in blue took all the blows and all the injuries, including the embarrassing torching of their vehicles and ambulances. The last figure tossing around was 16 vehicles. Ouch, quite some money to be burnt and really pai seh.
Now what? The police really need to revise their doctrines in handling a mob, especially a foreign one when rioting is normal in their country. And the police must know that they would get violent and could maim and kill. The police need to indoctrinate into their officers that this is not wayang kulit. This is the real stuff and they need to be more exertive and even teach the rioters with their brand of violence to keep them in check. Rioters only know the language of force. They used force to intimidate and to achieve their goals. A civilized and nice nice police force is going to look not very nice at the end of a riot in the truest sense.
Let’s be prepared in case more violence came their way. The men in blue cannot be too nice to a mob or they could get themselves killed. And they were able to escort the bus driver and his female attendant to safety but not before they were bashed by the rioters. At least they got out of it alive. There was bravery and the commitment to protect and save lives. Kudos to the men in blue. This called for a medal for the few brave guys. It was so lucky none of them ended in black plastic bags.
PS. I read in the main media this morning that some rioters are accusing the men in blue of violence during custody. Now there is a big investigation going on and the police deputy commissioner has said that if the allegation is false, the accusers will see justice in return. This is like a murderer accusing the authority of violation of human rights when his back is whipped. The rioters cannot be expecting to be escorted around by pretty nurses do they?
The creepy Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP)
The last negotiation for the TPP was held in Singapore with the
Americans having very high hope that Singapore as the Chairman of the
talk would deliver to Obama an agreement before the end of the year.
Somehow the Americans have this very loyal and diligent ally to do its
bidding in getting things done when the Americans are no longer able to
do so with so much distrust it has built up over the years. No one
really trusts the Americans anymore, not its western allies. And the
most remarkable thing is that the American Congress was also suspicious
of this TPP. In the words of Nancy Pelosi, she urged the Congress to
approve the TPP as time was the essence and once it is signed, Congress
would then have a chance to know what the TPP is all about.
Can you believe that? The American Congress was asked to sign a blank cheque without knowing what they were signing? And if the American Congress refused to sign something they did not know, why would any country feel so confident and so good that they should blindly sign on the dotted line? Are these people stupid or crazy or being bribed or under a spell?
The TPP has aroused intense suspicion and much opposition in the US Congress but not from some of the loyal American cronies who think of nothing but to go along. At the Singapore session, the Asian negotiating partners too have refused to bow to Washington’s pressure to conclude the deal before the end of they year so that Obama can celebrate Christmas with this Christmas present.
One important feature of the TPP that is sending cold sweat down the spines of the negotiating parties is its secretive nature. Many things are concealed and the parties negotiating it have no clue whatsoever. It is really amazing, really bizarre that the Americans could proposed a trade pact with secret terms that the signing parties have no privy to and are expected to sign, or presumably stupid enough to do so. And there are some parties who pretended to be so intelligent and so knowledgeable to sign the pact without knowing the secretive parts of the pact. Or maybe these few insiders knew what were the non disclosed terms in the pact. But this is very unlikely. How could they be so privileged to know when the American Congress was not allowed to know?
‘This secret treaty gives the public no chance to examine the contents,
and even govts have no right to comment.’ From the look of it, this treaty is going to be hundreds of times more dangerous than the CECA Singapore signed with India. Should Singaporeans allow the govt to go ahead and sign this TPP when the American Congress is also feeling uncomfortable and insecure and signing it would only make them look like fools?
There must be more transparency and the parties signing the agreement must know what they are signing. This is basic. The Americans are as good as saying, trust us, no need to worry, it is good for you. My God, how many govts are willing to be treated like naïve little children, offered a lollipop and happily impress their thumb prints on a piece of paper that may sign the lives of their citizens away?
If the Singapore govt is going to sign this TPP, should the Singaporeans object to it and demand to know what the govt is signing? We did not ask what the govt was signing when the CECA was signed. Now we know and the citizens would want to tear it to pieces. Are Singaporeans daft enough to allow the govt to sign another sweeping agreement that they did not know and neither does the govt?
Is this fiction or is this real? This signing of the TPP is like something the British colonialists made the Temengong signed in the early 19th century. But then the Temengong did not have any option as the offer could not be resisted At the moment the Singapore govt seems to be the most comfortable with the TPP and is behaving like the pipe piper. It is so scary.
Can you believe that? The American Congress was asked to sign a blank cheque without knowing what they were signing? And if the American Congress refused to sign something they did not know, why would any country feel so confident and so good that they should blindly sign on the dotted line? Are these people stupid or crazy or being bribed or under a spell?
The TPP has aroused intense suspicion and much opposition in the US Congress but not from some of the loyal American cronies who think of nothing but to go along. At the Singapore session, the Asian negotiating partners too have refused to bow to Washington’s pressure to conclude the deal before the end of they year so that Obama can celebrate Christmas with this Christmas present.
One important feature of the TPP that is sending cold sweat down the spines of the negotiating parties is its secretive nature. Many things are concealed and the parties negotiating it have no clue whatsoever. It is really amazing, really bizarre that the Americans could proposed a trade pact with secret terms that the signing parties have no privy to and are expected to sign, or presumably stupid enough to do so. And there are some parties who pretended to be so intelligent and so knowledgeable to sign the pact without knowing the secretive parts of the pact. Or maybe these few insiders knew what were the non disclosed terms in the pact. But this is very unlikely. How could they be so privileged to know when the American Congress was not allowed to know?
‘This secret treaty gives the public no chance to examine the contents,
and even govts have no right to comment.’ From the look of it, this treaty is going to be hundreds of times more dangerous than the CECA Singapore signed with India. Should Singaporeans allow the govt to go ahead and sign this TPP when the American Congress is also feeling uncomfortable and insecure and signing it would only make them look like fools?
There must be more transparency and the parties signing the agreement must know what they are signing. This is basic. The Americans are as good as saying, trust us, no need to worry, it is good for you. My God, how many govts are willing to be treated like naïve little children, offered a lollipop and happily impress their thumb prints on a piece of paper that may sign the lives of their citizens away?
If the Singapore govt is going to sign this TPP, should the Singaporeans object to it and demand to know what the govt is signing? We did not ask what the govt was signing when the CECA was signed. Now we know and the citizens would want to tear it to pieces. Are Singaporeans daft enough to allow the govt to sign another sweeping agreement that they did not know and neither does the govt?
Is this fiction or is this real? This signing of the TPP is like something the British colonialists made the Temengong signed in the early 19th century. But then the Temengong did not have any option as the offer could not be resisted At the moment the Singapore govt seems to be the most comfortable with the TPP and is behaving like the pipe piper. It is so scary.
12/18/2013
We are immigrants!!!!???
Thomas Cook posted this in TRE on the riot in Little India..
‘I summarize it in few points below & hope you take note it and pass to as many friends & citizens as possible:
Today’s America prosper due to the early immigrants arrive there.
Today’s Germany prosper due to the early immigrants arrive there.
Today’s Australia prosper due to the early immigrants arrive there.
Today’s Singapore prosper due to our fore parents arrive here.
Need I say more?’
What this Thomas Cook was implying is that we are immigrants and forever immigrants and we must open our arms to welcome more immigrants. I am not going to deal with the size of this little piece of rock we called a country. Anyone who cannot imagine how small we are and still keep calling for more people to settle here is not only mad but dangerous to the well being of the citizens of this island.
My main point is that our fore fathers or our parents are immigrants. We are not immigrants. We are born here, built a modern city on the sweat on our backs. We own this place. We are not immigrants anymore.
Our forefathers came to a place that was hardly a country. The early Americans and Australians went to different lands as immigrants. Their roots were immigrants, but the present Americans and Australians are no longer immigrants.
What many people are spouting is that we are forever immigrants and we have no right to this land. We must share it with whoever that comes along and wears a badge, ‘I am immigrant’. How foolish can these people be? They do not understand what is ownership? They stupidly want to share whatever they have with foreigners and they believe that they owe it to the foreigners. The homes or properties that you bought and owned, you want to share with anyone that comes along?
Sinkies must start to get rid of this silly immigrant mentality. That is history. Today you are owners of this island. You want to invite foreigners here to kick you out of this island? You believe the foreigners have the same equal rights as you to be here?
Now which twit is implanting this silliness in the minds of daft Sinkies? Sinkies who believe in this nonsense deserve to be boat people one day. PMEs deserve to lose their jobs to foreigners. Our children deserve to be deprived of university places. Sinkies don’t deserve to be owners of this island…coz you are immigrants. Damn it!
‘I summarize it in few points below & hope you take note it and pass to as many friends & citizens as possible:
Today’s America prosper due to the early immigrants arrive there.
Today’s Germany prosper due to the early immigrants arrive there.
Today’s Australia prosper due to the early immigrants arrive there.
Today’s Singapore prosper due to our fore parents arrive here.
Need I say more?’
What this Thomas Cook was implying is that we are immigrants and forever immigrants and we must open our arms to welcome more immigrants. I am not going to deal with the size of this little piece of rock we called a country. Anyone who cannot imagine how small we are and still keep calling for more people to settle here is not only mad but dangerous to the well being of the citizens of this island.
My main point is that our fore fathers or our parents are immigrants. We are not immigrants. We are born here, built a modern city on the sweat on our backs. We own this place. We are not immigrants anymore.
Our forefathers came to a place that was hardly a country. The early Americans and Australians went to different lands as immigrants. Their roots were immigrants, but the present Americans and Australians are no longer immigrants.
What many people are spouting is that we are forever immigrants and we have no right to this land. We must share it with whoever that comes along and wears a badge, ‘I am immigrant’. How foolish can these people be? They do not understand what is ownership? They stupidly want to share whatever they have with foreigners and they believe that they owe it to the foreigners. The homes or properties that you bought and owned, you want to share with anyone that comes along?
Sinkies must start to get rid of this silly immigrant mentality. That is history. Today you are owners of this island. You want to invite foreigners here to kick you out of this island? You believe the foreigners have the same equal rights as you to be here?
Now which twit is implanting this silliness in the minds of daft Sinkies? Sinkies who believe in this nonsense deserve to be boat people one day. PMEs deserve to lose their jobs to foreigners. Our children deserve to be deprived of university places. Sinkies don’t deserve to be owners of this island…coz you are immigrants. Damn it!
Send them home
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.
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.
12/17/2013
US gangster behaviour in the South China Sea and the PACIFIC OCEAN
Communication key to avoid sea incidents
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The US
media has reported, citing sources from the American military, that on
December 5 the Cowpens, a US guided missile cruiser, was forced to take
evasive action to avoid a collision with a Chinese warship when the
Cowpens was near the Liaoning aircraft carrier in the South China Sea.
Anonymous sources from the US side called it a "dangerous maneuver" and said the US has made protests to China through diplomatic and military means. A statement issued by the US Pacific Fleet said that the State Department has taken the issue up with China and thinks the acts of both "not uncommon." As of last night, the Chinese military has not responded. This is not the first time that Chinese and American warships have confronted each other in the South China Sea. Airborne confrontations have also occurred often.
It is a fact that China has already announced three regions in the South China Sea as its military areas. The outside world knows that they are used for scientific research and training of the Liaoning aircraft carrier. Meanwhile, many areas in the South China Sea are China's exclusive economic zones. Clearly, the US missile cruiser has come to China's threshold and posed a threat to China's military security.
If the American navy and air force always encroach near China's doorstep, "confrontation" is bound to take place. In 2001, the collision between an American spy plane and a Chinese fighter jet was such an accident resulting from constant confrontation between the two.
The US side demands the Chinese navy and air force abide by "rules." Such rules are only served at American convenience to conduct inspections and show off its military strength. They do not belong to international laws. With its overall strength as the backing, the US forces the world to abide by them.
But the US should not go too far. Especially, it should show respect for China's legal interests and concerns for its own security and should not harm China's security at will.
We don't think the South China Sea is a stage where the US 7th Fleet flaunts its prowess. We try to avoid friction because we wish for a new type of major power relationship with the US rather than being pressured by this fleet.
The China-US crisis management system should be based on past rules on the one hand. On the other hand, China should also participate in rule-making. American leaders have welcomed China's peaceful rise, but they didn't actually respect the fact that as China's interests expand and its strength increases, its concern for security also deepens.
As China's strength grows, the US should learn to communicate with and respect China if it doesn't want a collision on the sea or in the air.
China should speed up empowering itself. Only when the US feels China is a well-matched adversary, will it deal with China in a reasonable way. China is trying to avoid friction with the US. But it should also be firm about safeguarding its own interests.
This has nothing to do with the "China threat" theory. Only when the world acknowledges China's deterrence, could the South and East China Seas stay in peace. We will bear every risk involved in this process.
Anonymous sources from the US side called it a "dangerous maneuver" and said the US has made protests to China through diplomatic and military means. A statement issued by the US Pacific Fleet said that the State Department has taken the issue up with China and thinks the acts of both "not uncommon." As of last night, the Chinese military has not responded. This is not the first time that Chinese and American warships have confronted each other in the South China Sea. Airborne confrontations have also occurred often.
It is a fact that China has already announced three regions in the South China Sea as its military areas. The outside world knows that they are used for scientific research and training of the Liaoning aircraft carrier. Meanwhile, many areas in the South China Sea are China's exclusive economic zones. Clearly, the US missile cruiser has come to China's threshold and posed a threat to China's military security.
If the American navy and air force always encroach near China's doorstep, "confrontation" is bound to take place. In 2001, the collision between an American spy plane and a Chinese fighter jet was such an accident resulting from constant confrontation between the two.
The US side demands the Chinese navy and air force abide by "rules." Such rules are only served at American convenience to conduct inspections and show off its military strength. They do not belong to international laws. With its overall strength as the backing, the US forces the world to abide by them.
But the US should not go too far. Especially, it should show respect for China's legal interests and concerns for its own security and should not harm China's security at will.
We don't think the South China Sea is a stage where the US 7th Fleet flaunts its prowess. We try to avoid friction because we wish for a new type of major power relationship with the US rather than being pressured by this fleet.
The China-US crisis management system should be based on past rules on the one hand. On the other hand, China should also participate in rule-making. American leaders have welcomed China's peaceful rise, but they didn't actually respect the fact that as China's interests expand and its strength increases, its concern for security also deepens.
As China's strength grows, the US should learn to communicate with and respect China if it doesn't want a collision on the sea or in the air.
China should speed up empowering itself. Only when the US feels China is a well-matched adversary, will it deal with China in a reasonable way. China is trying to avoid friction with the US. But it should also be firm about safeguarding its own interests.
This has nothing to do with the "China threat" theory. Only when the world acknowledges China's deterrence, could the South and East China Seas stay in peace. We will bear every risk involved in this process.
Samurai in the train
A man or was it a boy, dressed up in a samurai attire complete with a
samurai sword boarded a train in Paya Lebar and went to town. Some
passengers were wondering if he was involved in some cosplay event until
he unshielded his sword which looked very real. Then panic struck.
Apparently the men jumped over the gate at Paya Lebar station and the MRT staff alerted the police. Inside the train the passengers kept a safe distance from the man while the police stood in front to protect them. After the man left the train, the police went into pursuit and eventually arrested him after a struggle. Presumably the man was of unsound mind at this moment.
There is a photo of the man in the train in the ST. His face and hand were blurred, very likely he is a juvenile and there is a need to protect his identity. It cannot be a case of the media protecting a potentially dangerous criminal or too shy to show who he was.. It is a practice to protect the identity of young people caught in violation of the law. This guy must be very young. It is so thoughtful of the media.
Apparently the men jumped over the gate at Paya Lebar station and the MRT staff alerted the police. Inside the train the passengers kept a safe distance from the man while the police stood in front to protect them. After the man left the train, the police went into pursuit and eventually arrested him after a struggle. Presumably the man was of unsound mind at this moment.
There is a photo of the man in the train in the ST. His face and hand were blurred, very likely he is a juvenile and there is a need to protect his identity. It cannot be a case of the media protecting a potentially dangerous criminal or too shy to show who he was.. It is a practice to protect the identity of young people caught in violation of the law. This guy must be very young. It is so thoughtful of the media.
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