Posted on 03/30/2015 7:13:29 PM PDT by BenLurkin
The Singaporean police confirmed on Monday that a teenage video blogger was arrested[1] a day earlier for an obscenity-laced tirade posted on YouTube that celebrated the death of Lee Kuan Yew, the country’s founding father, and disparaged Christians.The blogger, Amos Yee, 17, is due in court on Tuesday and could face more than three years in prison on charges of violating laws against offending the feelings of a religious group, harassment and sharing obscene material
(Excerpt) Read more at dailyme.com ...
“The blogger, Amos Yee, 17, is due in court on Tuesday and could face more than three years in prison on charges of violating laws against offending the feelings of a religious group, harassment and sharing obscene material”
Just think if he had had some chewing gum!
Been there. A wealthy enclave, but few people seemed happy. Strange place.
Of course, 8 bucks for a beer, and 10 for a Whopper didn’t help me love Singapore, either : )
Was just reading up on all that last night. The real estate prices are ... extraordinary.
If you have been to Beverly Hills, the prices pretty much mirror it.
I’d wash my son’s mouth out with soap and give him a well-deserved lashing.
That kind of behavior is inexcusable, period.
You may jest, however, LKY ‘created’ a jewel in the Far East from the chaos that was multicultural Singapore. I lived there when it was ‘wild’ enuf... YES, certain measures were taken to ‘curb’ the ‘animals’... one could not go into a housing elevator without the smell of urine because that is what they DO. Ammonia detectors/cameras were installed and culprits were pictured and arrested.
The mix of cultures there were a hot bed of calamity if not for LKY. YES, he was a dictator in a sense, but a far seeing business oriented (no pun intended) CONSERVATIVE who wanted Singapore to be a safe harbor for all. He created ORDER under the law.
NO slippery slopes (again, nothing intended!) allowed; if you broke the law, you were punished. There and then.
They'd cane his butt in ths Singapore sling!
First I’ve ever heard of a conservative dictator.
Seems that Singapore reaches for the future by going medieval.
maybe even a compassionate conservative dictator no less.. unique for his time,, so was ho chi minh.
one led his nation back from destruction, the other toward it.. both in a quest for freedom for their people.
I enjoyed my time their last fall.. I can only imagine it 70-75 years ago.
I don’t know the kid. . . and yet I would be tempted to curb stomp him simply because of his whiny voice!
Park Chung Hee was a conservative and benevolent dictator. Just the Malaysian Muslims weren’t well organized as North Korea.
“Conservative dictator” is an oxymoron.
At least as far as any American conservative’s concept of conservatism.
And, there is nothing benevolent about a dictatorship with draconian laws.
Lee Kuan Yew was not religious.
Christianity is tied with Islam in Singapore for third place, behind Buddhism and agnosticism.
It's silly to imprison this clown, especially since his goal was to be imprisoned.
He would fit right in over at Salon.com
Heck, they might make him an editor.
maybe he can plea bargain them down to 100-smacks with a bamboo cane?
In a very crowded city-state, of course they are. I think I have read that about half the people in Hong Kong, another city-(semi)state, live in some kind of subsidized or public housing.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.