You talked based on the view that the person who protest and fight against his right is doing it by one or a few person. As PAP has used Dr Chee as an example to show others what will happen to a person who goes against the govt.
If sinkies are sincerely in wanting to get their rights and the belonging of their country back, they should not do it alone. support has to be gathered by the masses.
I must say, the sad truth is.. the laws that you mentioned.. have worked too well in putting at bay, any thought of action one might have of doing the civil disobedience thing.
You say to me "your country", so I guess you are not here.. and if you are not here, then you perhaps can't see the way the people here live. It is sad, but most seem to have given up on any social activism.. as the ruling party doesn't seem to tolerate it.
If you want to try, and get yourself in legal suits or worse, getting detained or under house arrest.. then who can you call to for help? The media? The international community? USA?
I agree, to start, there has to be some to affect the many. But even the some, or few.. don't want to directly go "against" what is in place now. Power and authority is in the hands of ONE party.. and until that changes.. then laws will change.
It is just incredible that the young in sg, are so not politically aware of what is happening. I worked with some over 16+ and all they can talk about is food, ghost stories, facebook. I injected some of the topics like foreign cheap labour taking up the jobs here, but none is actually aware, or even interested to talk or even think about it.
They say that when you are young, you are fearless and feel invincible. But when I interact with youths from PRC, Taiwan, HK, and even USA (I studied there when I was 30), they were well aware of the employment situation, the employment laws and also how changes in the economic scene could affect them. It was a REAL thing to them, and they actively sought info on such matters when they were in the Uni or for some, when they were in high schools.
Sg? I see them still tinkering with their Iphone, Ipad, still happily chatting away on Kpop.. it's ilke the FT invasion doesn't affect them.
Then I realize.. nobody that is affected is telling their stories.. and who can blame these PMEs who have lost their jobs? Would you (heaven forbid that you be one of them) think so much of standing out to "educate", or "inform" the masses.. while your income remains... ZERO?
Or do you scurry around to get that income flowing in again.. then.. and only maybe.. think about doing anything..?
Everyone needs to live.. and if the rare few and some.. who are not standing out to form the masses.. be it because of laws or whatever.. then nothing can be started. And this.. I would seriously attribute to what pappies have done. They have laid out so well the way the past few generations of sg people to grow up.. that the whole lot is not inculcated with any penchant for social or political activisim. And when I hear pappies say that getting new recruits into their party is so hard.. I snigger.. cos.. it is THEY who have done it so friggin well.. that THEY themselves find it hard to find people.. or so they claim.
But seriously.. if you think that something has to start.. then I implore you to light the fire.. and I will be your first convert. typing here is like what the Chinese saying goes, "discussing war on paper"