Edit photo of minister and get arrested
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Dear ppl, don't anyhow super impose pictures of ministers, ex ministers, ex ex ex ministers. gahmen will catchu. can be liable for inciting violence. not I say one. they say one.
Edited photo of former minister lands man in court
In what is probably the first case of its kind in Singapore, a man is standing trial for posting an edited photo of a soldier pointing a pistol at a former deputy prime minister, reported The Straits Times (ST).
Gary Yue Mun Yew, 36, allegedly doctored a Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph taken by Eddie Adams showing a Vietnamese general executing a Viet Cong officer in 1968 by superimposing the head of former DPM Wong Kan Seng onto the Viet Cong’s body then used the image as his Facebook display picture in mid-2010, said ST.
[See the original photo]
Today newspaper wrote that Yue, a former assistant principal engineer for ST Kinetics, is accused of inciting violence on Facebook for posting the photo, as well as for putting up a link to a video of the assassination of an Egyptian president. He allegedly indicated that the video should be re-enacted at a National Day Parade.
ST said that a member of the public made a police report in September 2010 after the video link apparently appeared on the Temasek Review Facebook page, which included a comment that said, “We should re-enact a live version of this on our own grandstand during our national parade!!!!!!”
Today said Yue told the court on Wednesday that he had no intention to incite violence, and that he only made the posts as satire aimed at reducing his stress at work. It was also during that time when many were unhappy about terrorist Mas Selamat Kastari’s escape from a Singapore prison.
When contacted, Yue’s lawyer, N. Sreenivasan, declined to comment on the case.
District Judge Low Wee Ping will deliver his verdict on 16 February. If found guilty, Yue will face a maximum of five years in jail and also be fined for both charges. -
The "re-enact a live version of this on our own grandstand during our national parade!!!!". Actually I think we also have a similar comment in sgF.. don't know is it the same person anot.. -
Originally posted by Darkness_hacker99: The "re-enact a live version of this on
our own grandstand during our national parade!!!!". Actually I
think we also have a similar comment in sgF.. don't know is it the
same person anot..
where where where?
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was posted like during the GE or PE..
very hard to find expired threads in sgF.. -
This is Singapore!!!
He should be glad they didn't put him infront of a firing squad.
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Reminds me of this event which took place two years back:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everybody_Draw_Mohammed_DayEverybody Draw Mohammed Day was an event held on 20 May 2010 in support of free speech and freedom of artistic expression of those threatened by violence for drawing representations of the Islamic Prophet Muhammad. It began as a protest against censorship of an American television show, South Park, "201" by its distributor, Comedy Central, in response to death threats against some of those responsible for two segments broadcast in April 2010.
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Norris said that if people draw pictures of Muhammad, Islamic terrorists would not be able to murder them all, and threats to do so would become unrealistic. Within a week, Norris' idea became popular on Facebook, was supported by numerous bloggers, and generated coverage on the blog websites of major U.S. newspapers.
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This is really absurd. The government should be working hard to catch people like Mat Selamat and strengthen their prisons and police lockups to prevent another escape instead of wasting time and public money to prosecute an enginner who thought of doing something funny aimed at a former minister.
In USA, hollywood actors and actresses like Jessica Alba, Ashley Tisdale, Angelina Jolie and Jennifer Lopez get their pictures doctored into porn pictures depicting them in sexual intercourse, yet no action is taken by the stars themselves nor the authorities. So is it fair to say that the singapore government is wasting taxpayer's money to take action against small small nuisance for the sake of defending a former minister's reputation whose job is to serve the people not himself?
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can oni PS them to look nicer?
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ahhhh I have a question...
If this case is brought to a criminal court, whose money are they spending to press charges on this guy?
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Ten thousand people should do something like that and see how they can arrest all.
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They can they can! But have to use more resources to arrest all. It's all taxpayers' money only mah. no big deal one.
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Mean Singapore is still conservative country. NOt open at all. Obama picture kanna humtum also no one sue them. Najip picture kanna edited also no one sue them.
Singapore government do not have board shoulder. Petty government. Edit picture sue people. The more they sue. We will go against them and join the opposition.
I feel nothing. Singapore must learn more human right from the western nation.
