Singapore - a land of succinct differences
Very succinctly different when it comes to money and politics, mind you.
Lesson One
Man selling kidney due to poverty and circumstances - this one gets two weeks jail plus one more week for not being able to pay his fine, the loser.
Man buying kidney because he has the money and “had no intention to exploit the poor and socially disadvantaged.” - now Mr Tang who of course has no problem paying a measly fine of S$17,000 gets to walk away after only one day in jail - and even that is discounted to three hours.
Lesson learnt - if you are rich in Singapore, you can get away with anything, even someone else’s kidney. Money talks, bullshit walks.
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Lesson Two
When it comes to politics, there is a big difference between EAST and WEST. And it’s all WP’s fault for not applying to have the cycling event in WEST Coast Park. Tsk.
Of course it has nothing to do with double standards, dictatorship, oppression and suppression.
Professor Ho (Senior Minister of State, Ministry of Law & Ministry of Home Affairs) said to Mr Low Thia Khiang of WP, ‘You may be well-behaving, but there may be other people whom you come across when you cycle who may stop you, may want to debate with you and that may attract a crowd, and therefore will result in problems the police want to avoid.’
Of course, people will not do this to the PAP team! Who, in their right mind, would debate with people who simply 1. do not listen and 2. do not accept any other views except their own?
Conversely, following the same line of argument, it is correct of Professor Ho to assume that Singaporeans would then love to engage with WP . So astute, this Professor Ho. 
buried deep within the straits times today - a man was jailed 7 months for opening an unlicenced massage parlour. He has end stage cancer too and was probably desperately at wits ends trying to make a living. Ah hell, that is Singapore - one country, 2 systems. Bet you in that case, there were no 50 family members, no Jannie Tay speaking up for that poor sod.
Becoz some people more ‘equal’ than others.
I don’t need politicians to talk so much. Talk is cheap. Just walk the talk (eg gracious society, openness, etc). It hurts whenever I see this injustice.
What to do? Let’s move on.
*still shaking head in disbelief*
Kaffein
An emotional Jannie Tay, President of Singapore Retailers Association, appearing outside Court House, as captured by Channel News Asia, remarked “Why should he be jailed at all?” It was an exceptionally shameful outburst! Didn’t she know the law at all? Must the law be bent to suit the rich? Didn’t she know that the Indonesian donor who received not a single cent but was sentenced to 2 weeks’ jail? I sympathized more with the Indonesian. What a world of difference- poor and helpless versus rich and powerful!
‘If you are rich in Singapore, you can get away with anything’
Really? Then I would like to be rich.
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