tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12908820.post112108585351572351..comments2024-03-14T22:55:24.426+08:00Comments on Mr Wang Bakes Good Karma: Terrorism in SingaporeGilbert Koh aka Mr Wanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01027678080233274309noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12908820.post-1121737941622306512005-07-19T09:52:00.000+08:002005-07-19T09:52:00.000+08:00Gee, I thought you had let it rest. Nice try at i...Gee, I thought you had let it rest. <BR/><BR/>Nice try at irony, but do you really fail to see how different the circumstances are? San Francisco is one of the most liberated cities in the US and they celebrate that liberation in harmless costume partying. <BR/><BR/>Your goons at Abu Ghraib on the other hand clearly relish the lack of consequence (or so they perceive) in acting out their Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12908820.post-1121505978013558672005-07-16T17:26:00.000+08:002005-07-16T17:26:00.000+08:00As for the treatment of minorities, what I know is...As for the treatment of minorities, what I know is what I've learnt in class and through research, but also through interaction with people in school (I'm sure you've gathered by now that I'm a college student) and from observing the community in the working-class neighborhood I've lived in for the past year. <BR/><BR/>Discrimination tends not to be overt, because in a state like California, Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12908820.post-1121505116297747042005-07-16T17:11:00.000+08:002005-07-16T17:11:00.000+08:00Speaking of Georgie, I decided to take a second lo...Speaking of Georgie, I decided to take a second look at Fahrenheit 9/11. It's been oft commented that it's a biased movie. However, both times I've seen it, I'm left thinking that if you leave the clever editing aside, this film is essential viewing for anyone who wants a balanced perspective on the war in Iraq. It brings up many issues, which in the collective post-9/11 grief and anger, many Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12908820.post-1121470159626323802005-07-16T07:29:00.000+08:002005-07-16T07:29:00.000+08:00Actually, if you really want to look at history to...Actually, if you really want to look at history to see how Americans treat minorities and such, the most compelling example of course is slavery.<BR/><BR/>But perhaps we're going too far back in time. If you ask Muslims how they feel about being in the US today, then I think you'll get a more realistic picture of America today. Actually, you don't even have to be Muslim. You just need to have Gilbert Koh aka Mr Wanghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01027678080233274309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12908820.post-1121444243954736102005-07-16T00:17:00.000+08:002005-07-16T00:17:00.000+08:00"They followed the system which is designed to con..."They followed the system which is designed to control the numbers so as to accomodate assimilation."<BR/><BR/>The same system that legislated the Chinese Exclusion Act in 1882? The one that restricted entry into the US by Chinese men to just enough of them to build the railroads and virtually denied entry to Chinese women? I guess it delayed the onset of the "Yellow Plague", at least until Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12908820.post-1121395838837917692005-07-15T10:50:00.000+08:002005-07-15T10:50:00.000+08:00Hi Muns and Ben,Feel free to carry on here. I'm st...Hi Muns and Ben,<BR/><BR/>Feel free to carry on here. I'm still reading. :)<BR/><BR/>I wanted to say something here, but I thought I'd wait and hear what Mun has to say on your latest comment first.Gilbert Koh aka Mr Wanghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01027678080233274309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12908820.post-1121391494945232022005-07-15T09:38:00.000+08:002005-07-15T09:38:00.000+08:00Well muns, I give credit where it's due. But befo...Well muns, I give credit where it's due. But before I continue, Mr Wang, if you're reading this, I hope you don't mind that we're having an exchange here. If you preferred, we could take it somewhere else, like muns' blog. <BR/><BR/>Back to you muns. Nice to see you think my posts are "clever and articulate". I can also be a little candid. Maybe too much for some tastes.<BR/><BR/>A stroke Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12908820.post-1121307393164531432005-07-14T10:16:00.000+08:002005-07-14T10:16:00.000+08:00So, dear muns, GW must have been about what, 40, w...So, dear muns, GW must have been about what, 40, when he visited Europe for the first time in his life. Europe, a continent of varied language and culture, which hopefully you've seen. As an avid traveller who believes in the axiom that the world is a book and without travelling, you've only read one page, GW's preference to remain in the United States disappoints, to say the least. Clearly, Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12908820.post-1121303866837253612005-07-14T09:17:00.000+08:002005-07-14T09:17:00.000+08:00That's your view. In my view, there are MANY serio...That's your view. In my view, there are MANY serious defects about Singapore as a society and as a country. And I never allow my citizenship and roots here to blind me to that simple fact.<BR/><BR/>I have visited your country too. Down the West Coast. From Seattle (actually, from even further up north - Vancouver in Canada) down to Las Vegas. Nearly made it to Tijuana, Mexico too.<BR/><BR/>That Gilbert Koh aka Mr Wanghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01027678080233274309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12908820.post-1121290771046519652005-07-14T05:39:00.000+08:002005-07-14T05:39:00.000+08:00Look, the US isn't really on my mind that much. Re...Look, the US isn't really on my mind that much. Read the title of my blog, ok. It's Commentary <I>Singapore</I>. <BR/><BR/>If you want to argue about how marvellous America has become nowadays, why not go pick your own fellow citizens to argue with. After all, many of them disagree quite violently with you. Look, here's an American's blog - I visit it now and then. <BR/><BR/>http://Gilbert Koh aka Mr Wanghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01027678080233274309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12908820.post-1121239970760514402005-07-13T15:32:00.001+08:002005-07-13T15:32:00.001+08:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Gilbert Koh aka Mr Wanghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01027678080233274309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12908820.post-1121239968387662632005-07-13T15:32:00.000+08:002005-07-13T15:32:00.000+08:00Heh heh. Ben, somehow I don't think Muns is going ...Heh heh. Ben, somehow I don't think Muns is going to be terribly struck by your anecdote about GW. That's because many Americans have no clue how widely many non-Americans typically travel around the world.<BR/><BR/>If you tell a Singaporean that story about GW, the reaction you'd get would be something like:<BR/><BR/>"Golly, that's amazing! You mean, he never ever visited Canada or China or Gilbert Koh aka Mr Wanghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01027678080233274309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12908820.post-1121234605522868332005-07-13T14:03:00.000+08:002005-07-13T14:03:00.000+08:00I am not American, but have lived there for the pa...I am not American, but have lived there for the past 2 years. I have made enough American friends to know that while there is much I can learn from them, they know jackshit about what goes on outside of their country. Heck, they don't seem to know much about what goes on outside their state.<BR/><BR/>Pardon my French.<BR/><BR/>muns, the first time GW visited Europe was when his daughter was in Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12908820.post-1121174148243889132005-07-12T21:15:00.000+08:002005-07-12T21:15:00.000+08:00Look, I know you're American, so you would like to...Look, I know you're American, so you would like to believe your own version of the truth and thereby enable yourself to sleep well at night.<BR/><BR/>So no, DON'T click on this <A HREF="http://truthout.org/docs_03/041203A.shtml" REL="nofollow">link</A>. DON'T read what the chief UN weapons inspector Hans Blix had himself said in April 2003, even without the hindsight that we all have in the year Gilbert Koh aka Mr Wanghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01027678080233274309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12908820.post-1121124916991308572005-07-12T07:35:00.000+08:002005-07-12T07:35:00.000+08:00Sure. Here is the false pretext -Iraq has weapons ...Sure. Here is the false pretext -<BR/><BR/>Iraq has weapons of mass destruction.<BR/><BR/>By now, even Bush has stopped pretending that this is true. Will you, please?Gilbert Koh aka Mr Wanghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01027678080233274309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12908820.post-1121107732349404492005-07-12T02:48:00.000+08:002005-07-12T02:48:00.000+08:00...invade a Muslim country on false pretexts?Can y...<I>...invade a Muslim country on false pretexts?</I><BR/><BR/>Can you justify your assumption, Mr Wang? Why do you assume that the US invaded Iraq on false pretexts?<BR/><BR/>Iraq has now in place a democratic leadership. Bush is pushing for democracy in the middle east and I think it is a good thing.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12908820.post-1121099044695344232005-07-12T00:24:00.000+08:002005-07-12T00:24:00.000+08:00Do you think Singapore is important enough to atta...Do you think Singapore is important enough to attack?<BR/><BR/>I guess if terrorists can bomb a Bali nightclub, they could easily bomb zouk. But where would they hide?tscdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12333076217095349503noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12908820.post-1121098773560442042005-07-12T00:19:00.000+08:002005-07-12T00:19:00.000+08:00imagine a phrase "home-grown terrorist" ...imagine a phrase "home-grown terrorist" ...tausarpiahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08084789924628142089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12908820.post-1121096713449579672005-07-11T23:45:00.000+08:002005-07-11T23:45:00.000+08:00Good guys or not, I think the point of this post i...Good guys or not, I think the point of this post is that the littlest actions can result in unforseen and amplified circumstances; even if the initial (and supposedly noble) objective was to remove a dictator from power. <I>It must also be said that lack of foresight is not necessarily linked to a "strong and decisive" use of authority</I>. The fact that terrorism is here to stay, has greater andEllipsishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02049398922122006782noreply@blogger.com