freedoms?

Today, another case of youthful bravado clashed head-on with common sense. From what I gather, this isn’t the first for this kid.

So, let’s start with the question. Who is Amos Yee? Do you know? If you don’t spend much time, on the internet, the likely answer is – who? But I guess, he will shoot to infamy soon. By the time you read this, you probably would have heard his name once or twice on the news.

If you haven’t seen his video, here is the link - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dD4y3U4TfeY . I am slightly surprised that the efficient men in blue have not taken it down. By the time you read this, it might be a dead link.  Just for the record, I haven’t seen the entire video. After approximately 2 minutes in, the rants of a little kid acting beyond his years for whatever attention his parents haven’t given him is too much for me to take.

He starts with declaring he is not afraid to be sued by the government. I wonder how much he understands with his threats. I bet you that his parents would be shaking in fear; maybe they might even have bought tickets out of the country. If they haven’t they really should consider. One-way tickets are good enough, don’t bother with the return. I do hope the government sues this kid. Amos, you deserve it.

Amos, you don’t know shit. For someone who speaks in a fancy accent, I seriously wonder what you know. You declare you are happy that the man who built up this country is dead, because you call him a tyrant. If he didn’t do what he did, you wouldn’t have the time to be an internet ‘star’. Singapore might still be stuck in the third world. Kids your age might be slogging away in a factory working long hours for minimal pay. You definitely wouldn’t be sitting in your OWN room, and using your FREE time to film yourself saying such degrading things. If LKY didn’t make some of the decisions he did, you might still be illiterate at 17. Your life expectancy might be 38 instead of 83. You might not even be able to speak any English.

You think that you can get ‘freedoms’ in another country that Singapore cannot afford to accord to you? Then I challenge you to go find that country. You will never find that country because that country doesn’t exist. For whatever freedom you think makes your life that much better, you have to have some (in the words of the western media) trade-offs. Personally, there are really any in Singapore? Is cleanliness a trade-off for gum? Is the ‘liberty’ to own guns a trade-off for personal safety? For your information, people feel the need to own guns because other people own guns. How does that solve a problem? 

Your exercise in your ‘freedom’ of speech is the very thing that can easily break the delicate nature of our country. The very thing LKY worked so hard to prevent. I am glad he is not alive to see this. I think he would have been very sad that you benefitted so much from the country and yet CHOSE to be an ingrate. Yes. Amos, you are an ingrate. You cannot see what has benefitted you because your selfish ambition has blinded you. Unless you have lived in many other countries with a wealth of experience, you are just repeating what you want to believe in – a blind faith in your own selfish hopes.

Lastly, I just want to tell you that the part about Christianity is worse than what you said about LKY. This is another thing that LKY worked his entire life to prevent and you managed to not just be a selfish ingrate, but a bigoted selfish ingrate. As a fellow Singaporean, I am ashamed of you. I am ashamed the education system has allowed you to turn out this way.

You have chosen to stand with the others. Now you have to learn that your ‘freedoms’ come with responsibility. 

You think you are something just because you have a youtube channel with 3257 subscribers? You don't know anything. When you have half the world coming at the drop of a hat to attend your funeral, then you are something.