Uncivil Liberties (link goes to Singapore Windows, so those with ultra-conservative bosses/parents/uncivil servants monitoring your comps do beware)

(okay, this is probably going to be the title of one of my Political Science theses in future when I finally Escape From (Not-So)Paradise, so do not plagarise either title, or content. Hell hath no fury as an academic plagarised.)
1ST DRAFT, and hence messy. 2nd draft will be sometime next year, judging from my schedule.

I haven’t seen (or rather heard) any of BBC’s other HARDtalk interviews before. Maybe, as the name suggests, they love to grill their guests every bit as thoroughly as they did our good PM.

Let me say this: (addressed generally to Western thinkers of the school of thought best portrayed by William Safire, or even Amnesty International)

Just because we don’t whip our government upside down everyday doesn’t mean we’re don’t have rights.

Just because we do not lampoon or otherwise denigrate our public leaders does not mean we fear them. Has it actually occurred to some of your inch-wide minds that respect also achieves the same effect? And yeah, I know you used to find it cool to draw caricatures of authority figures and laugh about their single-digit IQs, but you know what? Fourth grades’ over, kids. Sheesh.

Just because we have laws to protect all 3-point-something million of us doesn’t mean we are a shackled people.

Just because we are us doesn’t mean you are free, either.

(Ironic, that human/civil rights and liberties were first created out of a desire to uphold moral integrity, and in today’s the post-modern society are the sole undermining agents of it.)

If anything, by your wussy whimpering, clamouring, and badgering on our behalf (so you think), you deprive us of one of our human rights as well: the right for a man to be respected. Pleading on our behalf implies us to be your (distant) inferior. One pleads for one’s idiot brother, not for one’s equals.