Sedi-what?!!

On a sidenote, I read with great interest about 2 bloggers being charged with sedition in court for inciting racial hatred. I'm not in any position to judge but my two cents worth, they deserve what they get if racism was involved in their malicious posts whatsoever.

Racist bastards should live in the era of apartheid and perhaps if they became the oppressed, they might know how it feels like to be in the shoes of the people they hate so much. And to think the whole hullaballoo was about a question regarding dogs in taxis. A simple enquiry via the ST Forum page in the papers and it got some goons all flustered.

Funny that these goons also happen to be supposed "dog-lovers" who took offence at the comments of a lady who asked the question based on religious grounds. I'm not sure how that question would offend a normal person but these hotheads just had to shoot their mouths off without thinking of the consequences that might arise from their half-witted attempt at a barb against the lady's community and religion. Whatever pet peeves they might have with others, they simply had no right to denigrate a race or religion.

Under SG's laws, I'm not sure what the punishment for sedition is but I hope its big and nasty enough to deter other pea-brained attempts by others who might want to tread that same malicious path as those two.

Oh yeah, the charges on those two fellas really sent shockwaves in the blogosphere. Even the resident SG "king" of the glob.. not blog, (nick with-held since everybody or somebody knows him anyways..) himself, had some comments to make on the case on TV no less.. champion lah.

Free speech on the web is pretty free, but when it runs into murky waters and starts involving race and religion, rest assured that the authorities will not hesitate to come in like vultures and pick away at the nutjobs that thought they would be free to shoot their racist rhetoric online.

Parting Shot:

To the racists, whoever you may be, I hope that from being the perpetrator of racial hatred, may it backfire on you and turn you into the victim instead. Only then will you and your fellow goons understand how racism can affect a person deeply, and hopefully, affect you enough to change your ways.