“Singapore is a “Fine” Place.

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Bingo. I’m going to act right and I expect you to do the same.

Singapore is not oppressive until you screw up.

Warner Todd Huston, Singapore is not a “police state” in the true sense but it is a benevolent dictatorship. The problem with them is the ‘benevolent’ and at which point that part can/will drop off. It all depends on when the benevolent ruler dies, is incapacitated or suffers a change of mind.

I saw there the oddest of real-life pictures – a young Japanese executive, speaking fervently on a cell-phone, being drawn in a rickshaw by a very old Chinese man.

Singapore is more than a good friend of the US – it is a highly significant strategic/military partner. Many, many good things going on there, especially in the new rearranging of decks (distancing somewhat from Europe and forming better Asian alliances).

Although the population of Singapore is 98.5 times less than that of the U.S., making it a comparative societal test tube, the U.S. would be much better off were it to incorporate some of Singapore’s no-nonsense, homeland-bashing-intolerant, “love it or leave it,” policies.

From personal observation: Singaporean’s don’t drop gum or throw trash on the street because they fear capture and caning by fascist government agents (favorite canards of the “we’re better than anyone bashers), but, because, as a national culture, they believe doing so would be simply wrong. What a novel (universally commendable) concept.

Those who take comfort in bashing Singapore have (obviously) never been there. Athough the government of Singapore is not immune to the pressures of global liberalism (nor is it perfect), Singapore remains one of the most beautiful and successful nation states on the planet, by any measure.

Bashers need find another target (or a mirror).

Paris-based Reporters Without Borders (RSF) press freedom group had criticized police

Bloody french. Do they not ever mind their own… oh, wait a minute. Sorry.

It being surrounded by Muslim countries, I can understand why the government does not want people stirring up ethnic and religious tensions at this moment in time. Singapore is also a model of assimilating ethnic groups, e pluribus unum, into a national identity, as opposed to what we stupidly are doing in the U.S. right now, which is encouraging ethnic groups to assert their independence and not assimilate, thus balkanizing our population.

Singapore is a strange choice to be picking on.

The blogger could have been jailed for up to three years or fined 5,000 Singapore (3,150 US) dollars or both if convicted under the Sedition Act.

I’m glad I live in this country.