Originally posted by caramon.:
People are telling me unlawful restraint is a serious offence in the Penal Code. I quickly look to the straits times for answer and they explained that what they are doing it was not wrongful restraint but stopped from doing (further)wrong. Imagine your kid joining bad company and wanted to go out after midnight. As parents, you lock the doors and prevent them from going as you know nothing good will come out of it. Yes! government are somewhat our parents and its only right that they protect us from harm.
40 years of the PAP system can never go wrong base on the millonaire salaries. With our world class government holding world class pay, we will definitely do our best to hold this world class event.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDEnNAqpia8
I do agree with your analogy of parents and kids, but in this case, the parents are extremely wealthy given their huge paychecks, while the kids are starving, and the kids wanted to know why, instead of an open communication, the parents sent hooligans to barricade them from having a fair judgement. I believe this is so wrong, it just gives other countries a bad impression of poligans in actions, oh and that's intentionally mispelt poligans.
They are doing things peacefully bear in mind, they are not violent at all. If there is anyone trying to be violent, it's the poligans here, preventing them from moving around. I have some high traffic websites and blogs and when the video is posted up, people asks me why the police in singapore treat their citizens that way... I really don't know, although I am happy to be a Singaporean, but I feel sorry about what SOME people do to suppress freedom.