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escape chapel party

 

Singapore continues to anally rape its nonreligious citizens with its syphillic brand of multireligious “tolerance”, one that strangles our civil freedom to opinion and expression. Singaporeans are brain freezed into glazing only at the Disney channel when it comes to religion (and politics) while nonreligion is open market and can be AXNed by anyone at any time.

 

Many of us are now frostbited to be self-censoring and hypocritically respectful, tickling the scrotums of religious “sensibilities” even if some of us would rather be fingering the heathen. It is just not right. It is immoral.

 

Advertiser Creative Insurgence has for more than a week red-carpeted its campaign for the coming Escape Chapel Party to be held at the Chijmes Chapel this Saturday at 9pm onwards. The party is a spur to promote UK-based “Escape” nightclub brand to the region.

 

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Even this one is as benign as my cheeky daughter playing peekaboo under the bed covers. It is as holy as stupid sheep. But many Singaporeans seem to disagree, most of them, I reckon, bleeting among the local roman catholic community. They claim these visuals of beautiful nuns are “offensive” and “in bad taste”. Many even filed reports to the police (!!??) and the various local ministries.

 

Creative Insurgence is perhaps trying to give a tongue-in-cheeky humour to the party, since it is held in a former religious convent and that coincidentally, this week is the fucking holy week. The organisers originally wanted the party to be held over the Spring Festival weekend in January but due to circumstances postponed to the next public holiday, namely the coming Bloody Friday cum Walking Dead weekend.

 

As expected, the organisers promptly apologised to the phallus-crowned supremo of the catholic diocese in Singapore, a Mr Nicholas Chia, whose office is devilishly located a few nun-jiggle steps away at the Cathedral of the Good Shepherd. They also recycle-binned the nuns from their main website.

 

This is Singapore, and this is how the pasteurised version of the blasphemy law is enforced in this peaceful and loving multireligious country. The absence of criminalisation does not make it any less vile. What if vice versa? Can freethinkers and atheists file reports to the police if we find posters about evangelistic meetings and christian outreach programme to the non-christians offensive? We have a right to be offended, don’t we? Can the LGBTQ community squeal their offence over schools that promote anti-gay agendas in their sex education programmes?

 

The above pictures are already so mild. I think I shall leave you with these:

 

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There are more fucking nuns, literally, out there, but I shall have the christian virtue of self-control and just stop here.

 

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my apologies…

 

Parental hormones must have egg-yolked my cerebral cortex yesterday as I threw the Bush-ian shoe at the Singapore Police Force. It turns out that the supposed successful childnap in Tampines was a cruel boyish wolf cry. I am not feeling very bright now.

 

Tampines Child Kidnap rumour a Hoax

 

It may or may not be one of those societal mythologies we call urban legends on the urge of evolving. And at my age, I did not realise that yesterday was the first of April.

 

Still, the Ang Mo Kio incident rattles on, with the police currently investigating. We also do well if we can be vigilant with our children at all times. Singapore is getting a bit too tight around the collar these days.

 

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email to some friends

 

Hey guys,

 

The recent revival in chinese nationals attempting to steal our sweet young darlings in Singapore is as fist-clenching as they are testicle-squeezing. One woodpeckers the head at the apparent dimwittedness of our particularly and uniquely Singaporean,which is to say, world-class, numero uno, the incredible and fabuluso Singapore Police Force – in allowing these 21st century genghis apes into our peaceful, low crime-rated, pseudo-democratic shopping heaven of a country.

 

Big Brother, to use the deliciously orwellian phrase, has only begun to nod to the will of the common Singaporean by blabbering bull about immigration policies, which in the first place, is supposed to be the One Ring that rules our wonderfully manpowerless economy. It seems that the highbrow-loving People Action Party is now bedevilled to fling this Ring into the ashes of Mount Doom.

 

It will be, to use a theological term, one hell uva effort to hold back the chinese barbarians as they invite themselves into our country. Sinophiles, or the self-proclaimed butt-kissers of chinese culture, often pontificate, albeit very wrongly, of China’s very ancient and thus must be good, historical legacy. Any discerning bloke can tell these racial fanatics that countries like Greece or Egypt too have very antiquated histories – but look at them today. The goodness or rightness of a thing is never determined by the mould on its history books. A country that imprisons its own people for simply opening their mouths against its government, or worshipping in house churches, or participating in activist art; a country that murders its own for the most peculiar of “crimes”; is not a country I will want to associate with. Let us remember how its power-lustful leaders arrested every and any journalist or writer it could locate around Beijing during the day s prior to the 2008 Olympics, just so that they can silence any investigative reporting and deceive the world into kowtowing to China’s olympian spectacle. More like a chimera.

 

Animal lovers too, cringe at how the monsters cull the more than a few thousand doggies and kitties just so that the Beijing streets could be childcare, disneyland-clean for the world to see.

 

It fools no one that its people who are trying to wring a living in sardine-canned Singapore is now trying to steal our sweet young things for money. There was an attempt in Ang Mo Kio several weeks ago. Thank goodness the mother pinched a glancc in time to behold a strange woman walking her son away.

 

There was another, reported in Simei. And probably a couple more of which I am clueless.

 

And recently, a chinese thug grabbed a malay darling off the bench and dump the lass into the back of a van. This took place in Tampines Street 20-something. There were even police roadblocks in the area.

 

It does not take an einsteinian brain to realise there is something amiss on our clean-and-green low-crime streets – yet the Singaporean police is shutting its orifices and playing dumb. Concerned parents receive no answer from the PAP-puppet. Singaporeans have the right to know so that young parents can take the necessary precautions. It is flamboyantly stupid for Singapore to play the nanny all the time by censoring truth so that it can be more palatable to the public. Singaporeans are brighter than that. Besides, since we cannot hold strikes or protests in democratic Singapore, don’t worry – we will be goody goody and not create a ruckus if the police just come out and make the childnappings prime time news.

 

Anyhow, just remember to hold your young darlings close to you at all times.

 

Oh dear, I am getting paranoid again. ;)

 

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a shrewd political move?

 

Some have lauded the recent expulsion of the Hougang MP by the Workers’ Party (WP) as a brave and shrewd political move. They have “taken, boldy, the moral high ground”, to quote Nominated Member of Parliament (NMP) Eugene Tan, the assistant professor of law at the Singapore Management University.

 

The expulsion was carried out in response to a very immature Singaporean society which still holds on to very quaint ideas of public civil service and its supposed moral standards. The media cannot seem to keep their partisan hands off the poor gentleman and his personal life. It was also his mistake to remain silent amid the media silliness…he should either reaffirm his innocence, if he is, or come out in the open and confess to his indiscretions and apologise to the residents of Hougang.

 

The latter would indeed place him on the moral high ground. I will applaud him for the moral courage and the strength in humility to be transparent to the people.

 

UNLIKE the schemes of the ruling regime…which only “appears” CLEAN because they are craftier and more skilled in covering up their tracks. I always believe in the adage that there can be no senseless smoke without fire…and the disparity is so obvious for any discerning individual – the media is so quick to pick up on any rumour of moral indiscretion on the part of the political opposition but if it comes to the ruling party, ALL IS SILENT.

 

Of course, the testicle-squeezing silence can be attributed to the classic Singaporean fear of being legally sued by the ruling regime if there is any sign of criticism (think of Joshua Benjamin Jeyaretnam, Chee Soon Juan and Alan Shadrake). The capacity to sue has nothing to do with moral innocence but with resources and power, full stop.

 

We are not fooled, though. Until the day when the Internet is cruelly and senselessly censored and squashed (thank goodness for twinkles of humanity in our current PM) by the powers that be, netizens in Singapore would always be the watchdog against a government that is constantly suppressing our civil rights to free speech and expression.

 

Are Singaporeans so naive as to think that the PAP (People’s Action Party) is really that CLEAN and FREE of moral indiscretions? Have you ever wonder why the people of Singapore are in the dark when it comes to the families of the ruling regime, apart from the Lees? We are hardly acquainted with the kin of most of our parliamentarians, let alone MPs and those on the ground.

 

A very good strategy, if you ask me. If the public knows next to nothing about the personal life of their leaders, there is no way we could hold them to account for any moral indiscretion, if they exist.

 

Contrary to propaganda, the truth is really out there. In the worldwide web.

 

While there is still hope for a liberal society, and a fairly liberal internet, please traverse far and wide for the truth.

 

Before even the Internet is unjustly censored.

 

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