Let me write a fictional story, a horror story.
It’s fake and it may become real if we let our intolerance & hate get spiral out of control.
It may or may not happen but I sincerely wish it won’t but I hope we should be more tolerant to stupid people & just click the block button instead of screenshot & spread to the media (stomp).
December 21, 2012 Singapore
10:00 AM: A few hundreds of racist commenters in facebook, twitter & youtube got their account suspended.
11:00 AM: A few thousands of new accounts created with a few million racist comments got published.
9:00 PM Local Singapore authorities issued a statement in the media (news, stomp.com.sg) that in view of wide spread hostility in the cyberspace they will discuss a new law in the next emergency parliament discussion.
December 22, 2012 Singapore
Singapore government decided to put forth a new law to protect people online from hostility & bullying in all social networks. All ISP will hand over private internet user’s details if there’s a complaint to the new governmental hotline.
Users will first get an email warning & their social network account suspended, 2nd warning is an suspension of internet services with early termination penalty. Third strikes will be fines or jail time.
Any users in Singapore that falls within the legal frame work will lose all their internet freedom and will be monitored for all activities.
December 23, 2012 Singapore
Riots started in the streets between different races, religion & FT with stones thrown…flags of different races shooting make shift flame throwers.
Riot police join in the riot after one of the riot police thrown down their uniform and join in the riot…as all of them are of different races & many are not even born here.
Soldiers deployed with many are PR status too…
December 24, 2012 Singapore.
Angry riots caused severe property damage to cars, shopping centers and thousands are killed or injured and thousands loses their jobs.
Police shoot to kill for anyone with a weapon.
This day will be remembered as the day we die for no good reason but ourselves to blame.
Stop spreading hate.
Everyone have to do their part in not spreading hate, even in the official media. I question their intention to reveal their race or nationality.
There should be a disclaimer in every such news: All race & nationality are changed due to the sensitivity of the news with respect to the Singapore multi-national environment.
I feel a sense of anger in local community and that sense is growing, the only way to reduce that is for the government to promote equality treatment to both FT & Locals for everything from housing, education, grants, loans, and more.
We are singing our national anthem with pride about equality and harmony and our government should promote that and not be misguided in the name of growth.
Without peace & harmony, there will be no growth.
