Tag: Singapore

Amos Yee: A Dig At TOC – Media Free Of Manipulation Required

Now I also feel compelled to judge the journalistic integrity of my friends at TOC.

This happened before I wrote that lengthy blog post revealing how I was victimized by Vincent’s sodomizing hands.

In lieu of my Facebook post, which they quoted in their own article, I did not apologize to Vincent, I just said I was going to.

But yet, TheOnlineCitizen so boldly put as a headline, ‘Amos Yee apologises for molest allegation against former bailor’

It’s a small difference, but significant nonetheless. A blatant claim that I had already apologized, seems much more convincing than he is about to apologize soon, now doesn’t it?

So you add that little pepper that thestraitstimes commonly use to attempt to salvage your actions, and not lose a huge part of your outreach because you spoke up for him.

Because you don’t want people to feel that the boy whom you so boldly put up on a pedestal to advocate freedom of speech, might be a fucking dick for falsely accusing his bailor of molestation for no good reason, and is not especially remorseful for it.

We’re all capable of twisting the truth a little when things don’t go our way now aren’t we? And with the moral quandary of having both Amos and Vincent on your side, Terry (The writer of TOC), got a little bit flustered, which constituted to that little fuck-up.

So let’s all not choose whether or not to criticize someone just because somebody is on your side, but instead choose to criticize them, because they are wrong.

And from there, we can perhaps more effectively create a political climate and a media, that is honest, and isn’t constantly rife with manipulation.

Source: Amos Yee

May 18, 2015
Amos Yee – A Response To Francis Micah Law

So Vincent’s son, Francis Micah Law, wrote a Facebook post, trying to validate the emotional abuse that his father had caused me:

Most of the post is blatant pandering to his father, constant repetition of how what Vincent was doing was borne from kind-hearted intentions, most of which I have refuted extensively in my previous blog post, coupled with little ramblings of how he tried to attain his inner chee, attempting to give the impression that he’s a deep thinker, without actually being one.

I’ll respond to some selected sections of the post.

Amos claimed that nobody but himself knew what was going on? Well, now there’s me.

No, you never knew what was going on. We had one conversation at your home, and the one-sided reasons your father gave to you on why he so kind-heartedly bailed me, and you claim that you knew exactly what he did to me?

You knew that he intimidated me? You knew that he threatened to discharge himself 9 times? You knew I was completely miserable when I had to meet him every day?

Wow… I see we have a psychic in the family.

In many ways, my dad treated Amos almost like a son

Wow, so like me, you experienced emotional abuse every day? Damn… you gotta speak up man.

My dad did it because he saw a brilliant boy who needed a second chance. He didn’t care for the publicity, he wasn’t “jealous” that Amos was getting all the attention. All he wanted was to help Amos out of his predicament

It’s so arrogant, that whenever you disagree with someone’s views, or their approach in doing things, you imply that they have some sort of problem that needs to be fixed, and they are in a ‘predicament’.

So your father went in bailing me with such condescension, wanting to be the dominant one that gave advice. I can see why your father is now acting particularly insecure, now that he’s the one that is submissive.

Part of my father’s conditions as a bailor was to keep in contact with Amos every 24 hours

And yet Vincent told me initially, that he only intended to meet me once a week. Hmmm.. so suspicious.

which, I must add, Amos wasn’t very compliant to.

Yeah, no fucking shit I was not compliant, you do not need to ‘add’ anything. I’m sure that if you are absolutely miserable and experiencing emotional turmoil every day, you wouldn’t be considered ‘compliant’, now wouldn’t you?

‘There was once Amos came over to my place, he stared long and hard at a luggage tag in the shape of those green aliens from Toy Story 2. Convinced that Amos really liked it, my dad would look through every shop he passed by that might sell the luggage tag’

I have not seen a luggage tag at Vincent’s house, I have absolutely no recollection of a luggage tag at his house, I am absolutely confused and shocked that there is a story about me seeing a luggage tag at his house. This is an absolute lie.

I still remember his first words to me after we introduced ourselves to each other.

“Hey Francis, your father is a great man. He bailed me out of jail!” With a wide grin on his face.

Ahh.. you were seeing the manipulation at work.

After-which we all sat down and had a chat about his plans for the future as well as our personal thoughts on education and film. I would say we all had a pretty good time. In that space, we all respected each other’s opinions which I was something I really appreciated.

Ok this has absolutely nothing to do with Vincent, but it’s getting kind of distracting so I have to mention, please proofread your post. Like a few times before posting. Because it’s very clear that you didn’t.

‘wanted to fulfil is role as a bailor’, ‘which I was something I really appreciated’?

I know there’s like a 40-minute time limit whenever you have to write an English composition, and you never have time to proofread your writing. But this is an internet post, you have all the time in the world.

I see comments on your post and one of them was ‘brilliantly written’, what the fuck are they talking about? Can the prose be any blander? Does this phrase sound grammatically correct to you?

‘look through every shop he passed by’

I mean I know I’m guilty of making spelling and grammar mistakes all the time, but regardless, I’m interested in how one can ‘look through’ a shop. Is the entire shop made of glass?

You can tell why we are behind in the arts scene when people considers this ‘brilliant writing’.

And no I didn’t, I completely disrespected your opinions, they were absolutely horrible.

You were taking this thing called ‘Mass Commmunication’ in polytechnic where there was some kind of film course included.

And I argued that especially with the availability of the internet, film schools are an absolutely inefficient and awful way to study filmmaking. If you did it by yourself, you are not constrained by a syllabus and can learn the techniques of filmmaking, from the movies that not your film professor, but you like, and make your independent film whenever you want. And people from Rodriguez, to Linklater to Paul Thomas Anderson, have already proven that.

But then you were like ‘No! No! There are so many things that you can only learn in school, that you can’t learn anywhere else.’

And yet you were never able to identify one.

And concerning the fact that several film students have complained about how they were absolutely bored when they had to study the films their film professors put in the curriculum (Citizen Kane, Casablanca. God damn.. I wanna see some pulp fiction dude)

You replied with one of the stupidest things that I’ve ever heard in my life:

‘Most of the time, you can’t learn things that you like, that’s part of learning’

Ladies and gentleman, that’s basically the mindset that school teachers hold when they try to validate their horrid job, not feeling any remorse that they are spending 8 hours a day teaching material to kids that don’t give a solitary fuck.

And when people come up to me and ask, ’Amos! How do you know so much stuff?’

Well, not wasting my time on shit that I’m not interested in, and learning things because I want to instead of scoring well for an exam, kind of helps.

And that is why, despite several people’s claims that I will have a much brighter future if I went back to study, and their enticements of students visas overseas, I will not accept it, because I am not going back to school.

Just before he left (and stared at the luggage tag),

What fucking luggage tag?

he turned around and said, “You know Vincent, I wasn’t so sure about this before, but this was quite nice. We should do this again sometime.”

Wow I was really good wasn’t I?

let me quote two passages in the Bible that explains my reaction to his allegations.

Matthew 5:44 “But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you”

Mark 12:31 “The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”

But your dad instead decided to uphold these other 2 passages:

Fear him, which after he hath killed hath power to cast into hell; yea, I say unto you, Fear him. -Luke 12:5

Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written … him only shalt thou serve. – Matthew 4:10

As a Christian myself, I believe that responding in love instead of hatred would not only be a more peaceful solution, but a more constructive one as well.

So if Vincent rapes me, I should respond with love?

I could take legal action against him,

Go ahead

get him and the media to apologise

No you can’t.

or I could just forgive him and find an alternative solution to protecting my father’s reputation.

Your father emotionally abused a child, I don’t know how much ‘protecting’ you can offer.

my father’s choice in bailing Amos out was not a mistake.

Tell that to Jolovan.

I firmly believe that he was right to offer Amos a second chance and I fully support my father in this matter.

You fully support your father emotionally abusing a 17-year-old boy. Wow… like father like son eh?

If anyone has any questions regarding what I said above, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Oh hi I have a question, what the fuck is wrong with you?!

So it seems that in a stunning display of nepotism, Francis has so boldly came out of the shadows, validating his father’s actions and advocating child pedophilia as a method of showing ‘care and concern’, I am so fucking fearful for Francis’ future kids.

And I would also like to point out the fact that Francis did not even mention the evidence that really proved that his father was a dick.

He didn’t mention the frequent threats his father made to discharge himself, he didn’t mention still pushing himself in my line of vision at court, even when I and many people had made it clear that I never wanted to see him again. He didn’t mention his father advocating freedom of speech and the release of me and then afterwards threatening to sue me for defamation.

You know because I want to portray my dad as the victim of the situation, so don’t mention all that stuff and hopefully nobody will noticed. Well I noticed. Ah hah, I got you there Francis, you might be able to fool everyone, but you can’t fool me.

So I’m sure Francis has read my blog post concerning his father’s molestation. So that means that in Francis’ view, threats, intimidations and emotional abuse are now considered ‘counselling techniques’ and an expression of ‘love’ and ‘care’.

And unfortunately Francis isn’t the only who thinks that way, because looking at the comments on the ‘My Abusive Father’ blog post, my father hitting my head on the ground, almost killing me, that is validated as the actions of a parent, done simply because he ‘cares’ for me. They coin that method as the ‘chinese way’.

So we live in a society, where emotional and physical abuse, is a form of showing one’s care and concern. Wow…. For me and everyone out there, I am terrified.. I am really fucking terrified….

Source: https://amosyee.wordpress.com

May 18, 2015
SDP: Our MPs Will Run Town Councils Full-Time, Not Engage Managing Agent

The main objective of an SDP-managed Town Council (TC) is to maintain a clean and well-kept housing estate while keeping expenditure down so that Services and Conservancy Charges (S&CC) can be kept to a minimum.

The statement was made today at the launch of A Promise To The Residents: The SDP Town Council Management Plan this afternoon.

Presented by Party Secretary-General Chee Soon Juan and Vice-Chairman John Tan, the paper said that SDP MPs will run the TC on a full-time basis rather than engage a managing agent (MA).

Currently, most TCs engage MAs except for the Bishan-Toa Payoh TC. MAs are profit-driven private companies and charge an additional fee for managing the TC. This is an added layer of cost to the residents.

The SDP will, instead, hire qualified and experienced professionals to assist the MPs in running the TC. The savings of not engaging an MA will be passed on to the residents through lower S&CC.

Dr Chee said that while there have been suggestions that MPs be allowed to focus on legislative work in Parliament while leaving the management of TC municipal matters to others, the SDP’s stand is that we relish the challenge of doing both.

In government, lawmakers, especially cabinet ministers, are not only responsible for making laws but also for running their ministries.

Similarly, being able to effectively manage TCs while performing our parliamentary roles such as debating legislation, proposing alternative policies, tabling amendments are part and parcel of our duties.

Managing TCs will provide SDP MPs the necessary platform to excel in management and give the public confidence that we will be able to eventually takeover as government. Dr Chee said: “We welcome the challenge and are confident that we will surpass it.”

Mr John Tan presented some of the initiatives spelt out in the document, including how SDP will effect the transition from an outgoing PAP TC administration for the first 3 days, 7 days and 30 days.

“We have also listed the milestones that we will have hit after the 100-day mark,” Mr Tan said. Some of these include an established TC with fully integrated management teams, a clear budgetary plan, the first interim financial report, etc.

“We’ve laid out these measures and initiatives so that the voters in the coming elections know exactly what to expect when they vote for the SDP,” Dr Chee said. “We invite residents to track our performance.”

This is the only way that we can raise the standard of transparency and accountability in governance in Singapore.

For the full document of A Promise To The Residents, click here.

Source: http://yoursdp.ucoz.org

May 17, 2015
Mohammed Jufrie Mahmood: Foreigner Employed By LTA Overzelaous On Enforcing Laws And Shows No Compassion

This conceited looking officer employed by the LTA must be worth his weight in gold, making tons of money for his employer.

Though he does not admit that he is a foreigner (Malaysian) like most of his colleagues on motorbikes, his attitude betrays his nationality.He neither has any compassion, nor consideration for Singapore road users who may have parked their vehicles, albeit illegally, only for short while. Just take a good look at his arrogant face.

He goes pouncing around akin to raids normally conducted by CNB officers when he goes to his favourite hunting grounds snapping away with his mobile phone camera and skoots off. No grace whatsoever is given. He does not entertain any explanation or pleadings. LTA must be very pleased with his performance.

The lorry below was issued a parking summons for causing obstruction though it was delivering goods and parked within a private property. The overzealous SOB just hantam only. Even cars parked with their drivers in the vehicles are not spared.

Sadly this is the kind of fereigner the PAP loves so much, causing added misery to the long suffering Singaporean motorists.

Keep it up PAP, we motorists will not easily forget. We will hit you hard with a vengence not too long from now!

Source: Mohamed Jufrie Bin Mahmood

May 17, 2015
Francis Micah Law: Not A Mistake For My Father To Bail Amos And Offer Second Chance

So in the recent weeks I’ve been bombarded with many questions about Amos Yee in regards to my father, Vincent Law.

“Why did your dad do it?” “Have you met Amos?” “How do you feel about the allegations that Amos made against you dad?”

Not wanting to jeopardise my reputation for fear of my future, I had decided to stay silent. However, after reading Amos’ latest post, I feel it is time my selfishness came to an end. Amos claimed that nobody but himself knew what was going on? Well, now there’s me.

So let’s begin with “Why did you dad do it?”

My dad did it because he saw a brilliant boy who needed a second chance. He didn’t care for the publicity, he wasn’t “jealous” that Amos was getting all the attention. All he wanted was to help Amos out of his predicament.

In many ways, my dad treated Amos almost like a son. While he may have seemed hard on Amos in front of him, my dad stood up for Amos in more ways than one. Whenever the press questioned him, he would never put Amos down, always painting a positive portrayal of Amos in hopes that that would improve the public opinion of Amos. I’m not saying that my father is right in raising his voice at Amos, but he did it because he cared for him and wanted to fulfil is role as a bailor. Part of my father’s conditions as a bailor was to keep in contact with Amos every 24 hours, which, I must add, Amos wasn’t very compliant to.

There was once Amos came over to my place, he stared long and hard at a luggage tag in the shape of those green aliens from Toy Story 2. Convinced that Amos really liked it, my dad would look through every shop he passed by that might sell the luggage tag. While he did manage to find and purchase a figurine, he never had a chance to give it to him because Amos had already gone and broke his bail terms.

Which leads me to the next question, “Have you met Amos?”

It was about 9 in the morning on the first Saturday after my father had bailed Amos out. I was awoken by loud discussions coming from the living room. Annoyed by the noises I opened my door, and, lo and behold, it was Amos Yee in his pyjamas sitting on my couch.

I still remember his first words to me after we introduced ourselves to each other.

“Hey Francis, your father is a great man. He bailed me out of jail!” With a wide grin on his face.

After I had brushed my teeth, I returned to the living room to see that my brother was receiving the same greetings I had just a few minutes ago.

“Hey Frederick, your father is a great man!” he repeated.

After-which we all sat down and had a chat about his plans for the future as well as our personal thoughts on education and film. I would say we all had a pretty good time. In that space, we all respected each other’s opinions which I was something I really appreciated.

Just before he left (and stared at the luggage tag), he turned around and said, “You know Vincent, I wasn’t so sure about this before, but this was quite nice. We should do this again sometime.”

So yes, I have met Amos.

And of course, “How do you feel about the allegations Amos made against your dad?”

I would be lying if I said I wasn’t angry. In fact, I had half a mind to take legal action against him as well. That’s my father he was defaming!

Then again, no one makes the best decisions when they’re angry so I decided to calm down before taking any further action.

Disclaimer: Before reading this next portion, I would like you to know that I am not using this post to promote my faith. Everything I’m writing is merely my opinion and you have every right to disagree with me.

After I taken a step back and looked at the situation in its totality, I decided there really was no point in me retaliating in anger.

In his post, Amos referred to Mark 3:29. Well, let me quote two passages in the Bible that explains my reaction to his allegations.

Matthew 5:44 “But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you”
Mark 12:31 “The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”

As a Christian myself, I believe that responding in love instead of hatred would not only be a more peaceful solution, but a more constructive one as well. I could take legal action against him, get him and the media to apologise and so forth, or I could just forgive him and find an alternative solution to protecting my father’s reputation.

Once again, I’d like to stress that I’m not trying to impose my faith on the reader through this post, I’m merely stating my side of the story that wouldn’t be complete without including my beliefs.

At the end of the day, no man is perfect, my father included. We all make mistakes and bad choices. However, my father’s choice in bailing Amos out was not a mistake. I firmly believe that he was right to offer Amos a second chance and I fully support my father in this matter.

I hope that this post clears the air up a bit on the issue pertaining to my father’s tenure as Amos’ bailor. If anyone has any questions regarding what I said above, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Source: Francis Micah Law

May 17, 2015