The rest of us will have a laugh.

You increase the quota for foreign migrant workers, residents, yet you refuse them the right to perform a harmless song about what it means to live in Singapore.

And if that’s not bad enough, you screw with us citizens and the international image of Singapore by playing such kindergarten games in inter-department turf wars.

It has happened before during the IMF-World Bank meetings, and it has happened again.These double-standards reek really bad of incompetency, lip service and hypocrisy when it comes to the macrocosm of national interests.

Have you fellows actually thought of the damage and costs that such childish actions have brought upon Singapore? You think you’re doing good, but in fact, you’re just bringing shame to the world.

We feel ashamed and aghast at headlines of every major news agency covering something so puerile as this.

If this is the kind of unsophisticated attempts at managing creativity and managing our grand narratives of national history, we don’t need your talents and can kindly do without them. then I have only two words to say.

Bugger off.

I applaud MDA for allowing the choir to perform but thumb down to them in not fighting for the choir performance to continue. What is the point of having going to different channels just to ask for permit ? Is MDA just really function as a expensive censorship board with no power to authorize approval for performance ? Isn’t this the world class government who claim efficiency ? So next time, you have to seek approval from MDA, and police or whatever department that has any stake at risk. This only discourage people from trying thing because of so many red tapes and bullshit.

So is there a law to forbid a foreigner to participate and collaborate in ART work ?
If not, why are we emphasizing foreign talent so much and yet treat them no more than ‘shit’ ? Any foreigner who work and contribute to the economy should be given voice and be allow to complain because it is human right. Complain forms the basis of needs. Without complain, do you think the government will buck up or even bother ?

Ask yourself, isn’t some policies like increment of financial support the result of complain due to the poor ? Be constructive and it could takes years instead of weeks/months to implement help. This is how gracious our govt is.

Be mindful that this money-faced government is reactive and only respond to complain. It is only proactive if it makes and saves money for them. If there is no complain, they will assume the public agree to their policy. This is Singapore, land of Voiceless, therefore at least it is Land of Complain to keep thing under control to public.

People can choose to disagree but so far this is what I observe all along.

I bet what happened here was quite possibly an individual within the Police who’s a bit over-zealous, because he wants to be seen as “on the ball”. someone who wants to score points? who has nothing better to do, and uses this to show he/she is doing something?

why we dont hear anything from MDA or MITA(or whatever dept that looks into Arts and Media)about this situation? why the police?

I remember reading Cherian George’s book: Air-Conditioned Nation – a lot of rules and regulations in Singapore are quite vaguely written.

So much so that it’s very open to different interpretations and the Police can simply shut things down and make interpretations that suit their needs.

Yes, we can see it happening already. Gahmen wants robots…because robots don’t ask questions. In this aspect, Gahmen only relys on its far-sightedness to recruit gd people…in this aspect they are engineering their own downfall. You just have to see the scholarship selection criteria to know already. All you need is good results, good CCA, leadership positions.

Assuming people are good then ok lor. But megalomaniacs/charismatic dictators also have these qualities…

While the illegal cigarettes peddlers from a kampung of South Sulawesi are smarter. They don’t ask for permit. The just swim into Singapore undetected, stayed in Singapore for months in the drain in Woodlands area to sell illegal cigarettes without being caught by our elite security forces.

If foreigners are in a crowd concerned, would the police still be able to use their usual modus operandi on the locals with alternative views?

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The police are just staving off a potential international PR disaster.