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[h=1]I AM DONATING TO AMOS YEE AND HERE IS WHY...[/h]
Post date:
21 Apr 2015 - 3:31pm
[Pic Credit: CNA]
The following also applies to my stance on the charges against TRS, Roy Ngerng and Han Hui Hui.
1. On principles of free speech. Free speech allowed LKY and the PAP to openly challenge the British colonialists. It has given us a nation, with labour, economic, education and housing rights. Free speech, exercised in defiance, paved the way for the formation of Singapore.
2. Every cent that Lee Hsien Loong and his ministers earn come from the people. As a taxpayer, I shall not allow my money to go into putting a 16 year old into jail for exercising his right of expression, a right guaranteed under the Singapore Constitution.
3. Amos Yee has done me no harm. He did not raise my cost of living, put my sons in NS, open the floodgates to cheap foreign labour or censored my speech.
4. Amos Yee has been factual. He did not lie, cheat or distort. You may not like the way he expresses it, but all that he said has been repeated many times before in online forums. It was probably not his words but his presentation, his hair, his accent, his cockiness - that offended you. Don't like the way he talks? Turn it off. But don't forget there are many others who DO AGREE with him.
5. He is a precocious 16 year Singaporean with a strong interest in justice, equality, democracy and the happiness for our nation.
6. To send Amos Yee to jail is to narrow our own space. The same right that was accorded to you to insult him and his parents without the threat of arrests should be accorded to him. Why should insulting LKY be more criminal than insulting a fellow Singaporean, a fellow human being?
7. I will not be part of any lynch mob to harass, beat up and imprison a 16 year old boy with the moral courage to stand by his political views. That should be a criminal offence far worst than the 8 minute video he produced.
Amos Yee has made his video and blogpost public again. He is ready to defend the charges and I applaud him for taking a courageous stand. He has put many adults and even generals in the SAF to shame. I will be donating $100 to him via his paypal account. It is a small price to pay for my children to live in society where free expression is countered by free expression, not by handcuffs, harassment and law suits.
Benny
TRS Contributor
Post date:
21 Apr 2015 - 3:31pm
[Pic Credit: CNA]
The following also applies to my stance on the charges against TRS, Roy Ngerng and Han Hui Hui.
1. On principles of free speech. Free speech allowed LKY and the PAP to openly challenge the British colonialists. It has given us a nation, with labour, economic, education and housing rights. Free speech, exercised in defiance, paved the way for the formation of Singapore.
2. Every cent that Lee Hsien Loong and his ministers earn come from the people. As a taxpayer, I shall not allow my money to go into putting a 16 year old into jail for exercising his right of expression, a right guaranteed under the Singapore Constitution.
3. Amos Yee has done me no harm. He did not raise my cost of living, put my sons in NS, open the floodgates to cheap foreign labour or censored my speech.
4. Amos Yee has been factual. He did not lie, cheat or distort. You may not like the way he expresses it, but all that he said has been repeated many times before in online forums. It was probably not his words but his presentation, his hair, his accent, his cockiness - that offended you. Don't like the way he talks? Turn it off. But don't forget there are many others who DO AGREE with him.
5. He is a precocious 16 year Singaporean with a strong interest in justice, equality, democracy and the happiness for our nation.
6. To send Amos Yee to jail is to narrow our own space. The same right that was accorded to you to insult him and his parents without the threat of arrests should be accorded to him. Why should insulting LKY be more criminal than insulting a fellow Singaporean, a fellow human being?
7. I will not be part of any lynch mob to harass, beat up and imprison a 16 year old boy with the moral courage to stand by his political views. That should be a criminal offence far worst than the 8 minute video he produced.
Amos Yee has made his video and blogpost public again. He is ready to defend the charges and I applaud him for taking a courageous stand. He has put many adults and even generals in the SAF to shame. I will be donating $100 to him via his paypal account. It is a small price to pay for my children to live in society where free expression is countered by free expression, not by handcuffs, harassment and law suits.
Benny
TRS Contributor
