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- Switching from this site to Sampler Two
- An ill-judged and irresponsible scoop
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- Shoes take me places
- What 'secular state' should mean
- Detainees' poetry launched in Kuala Lumpur
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- Parliament now faces "gay test"
- AWARE, steeplejackers and pink durians
- Archiving J B Jeyaretnam's papers for posterity
- A great city? Making it, failing it
- Pink dot, 16 May 2009, 4:30 pm
- Education Ministry suspends AWARE's sexuality educ...
- Lessons for the PAP from the Aware EOGM
- The rosary woman and other head-shaking tales
- Fundie exco booted out of AWARE
- Flyers and flying laws
- John Dorhauer on the steeplejacking of AWARE
- Feminism is important for men too
- Church of Our Savior supports gay marriage
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"We first rape the concept of democracy by passing all sorts of laws that choke off free speech and assembly. Then when the laws themselves don't specifically cover certain situations that the government dislikes, we interpret the laws any way we please. Frankly, it is disgraceful."
To break this vicious circle of abuse, we as concerned citizens, must deny the ruling Party any more Parliamentary majority, so that they cannot pass legislation any old way they please.
It is indeed disgraceful.
Thank you for speaking up for the SDP, the only party that supports gay rights.
We owe it to them.
To the anonymous above,
"To break this vicious circle of abuse, we as concerned citizens, must deny the ruling Party any more Parliamentary majority, so that they cannot pass legislation any old way they please."
I am afraid that your statement is just wishful thinking of most who prefer an easier way out of this vicious circle.
As the way things are now, PAP's being denied the parliamentary majority will never happen.
How can you have criminal laws that are not available to the public?
I hope the court is going to throw this case out. If the police aren't sure why they should arrest you then you're probably not committing an offence.
I love the contradictions you see in Singapore - wealthy and highly developed but with a draconian legal system.
We first rape the concept of democracy by passing all sorts of laws that choke off free speech and assembly. Then when the laws themselves don't specifically cover certain situations that the government dislikes, we interpret the laws any way we please. Frankly, it is disgraceful.The starting point to overturn this disgraceful position is the Judiciary -- i.e. the judges -- now.
They certainly can, even under the current law, make such charges unlawful. The real question is whether the judges are prepared to do so or are they going to go by the standard excuse that their hands are tied.
I have my feeling what the outcome would be but I certainly hope to be surprised.
The outcome would as you would expect from our Judicial system. The Judges have to toe the line or get demoted to Traffic Court. Action speak loud than words. If we really have a fair court system, then, the outcome will reflect this. Sad to say, disappointments after disappointments is going to be the norm for our Judicial system especially when it involves politics.
Seriously, do we expect anything different?
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