Report from the Straits Times:
POLICE yesterday arrested a man in his 40s for vandalism, after a wall outside Parliament House was defaced at lunch hour.
Scribbled in black marker on the top right corner of the wall were the words: ‘Hi Harry Lee. I love you.’
Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew is called Harry by some of his family and old friends.
The wall, located at the junction of North Bridge Road and Parliament Place, is about the height of an average man. It serves as a signboard and has the Singapore Crest and the words ‘Parliament’ and ‘Singapore’ on it.
At about 1.30pm yesterday, uniformed guards were seen running out of Parliament House to nab the man while he scribbled on the wall.
They wrestled to the ground the medium-built man, who was wearing a red T-shirt and brown trousers.
It took three guards to subdue him as he refused to be pinned down and tried to wriggle free.
Read the full report in the Straits Times.
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Interesting. I am sure he also will be sent to IMH for “psychiatrict examination”.
What an eventful start to 2009.
We had fire to kick start the new year, now we have ink.
Think harder PAP! There are problems and there are problems.
Some tips for you:
a. see who the targets are?
b. why these targets?
c. see the ages of these people?
d. why this age group? <40yrs.
e. see the messages they are trying to convey?
f. why such unhappiness in paradiso Singapoor?
Think harder Mini$tar$. There are problems and there are problems.
well at least we can say this time the enforcement is rather fair. :P… you will still face punishment even if you write compliments.
That is the problem with this PAP govt. Why allow markers and then keep all the papers. Where do you think these people are going to write their love notes?
Showing love for leader(s) is dangerous in Singapore,
luckily he was arrested.
There was and is always a very likelihood that others might not agree with your love for the leader which may then result in affray and injury.
BUT SHOWING PUBLICLY THAT ONE LOVES HIS/HER COUNTRY AND LEADER(S) SHOULD BE ENCOURAGED AS THIS PUBLIC DISPLAY ONLY GOES TO SHOW HOW GREATLY RESPECTED OUR LEADERS ARE.
NO ?
patriot
What? serve him right..i will have being a little more sympathetic if he has written some expletives to greet that person!
Woa, we have seen 2 extreme case within a week!? ! splash and burn a MP, the other vandalize to tell mr LKY he loves him. and both get arrested. What does these means? don’t love and don’t hate
too early for valentines
I guess LKY promised a lot of things to these people when he was PM, SM and now MM. Did he keep his promises? I guess what we learn here is use the government & don’t let the government use you.
… and the worst thing is that he is a MAN!
Reminds me of these two other scribblings in public:
NS for Singaporeans, Jobs for foreigners: http://files.lesterchan.net/photos/jobs4Fts.jpg
Elite pianist gets fine only:
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/71/154809428_a9f98c40c8.jpg
Agree with blackfeline, the least he could have done was to write something that speaks up for the marginalised; then he will surely become a National Hero.
Sounded like a citizen’s intense admiration for his Great Leader.
If he is charged for vandalism, he could be caned. That would be ironic – to express love for the MM and then be caned for it.
Remember Michael Fay? I am curious about what the authorities would do.
“Love No Man Except God”
“Trust No Man Except God”
Who love LKYism and his Elistist Idea!
This man must be jobless and nothing to do!
God bless him!
Personally I think this particular piece of Street Art is dripping with sarcasm
He might be a very smart man. Now the authorities will look stupid for punishing someone who seems to be patriotic and loves the Leeder.
#18) black kettle on January 15th, 2009 12.01 pm
Before you go shooting at TOC, I belive MSM was the first to break this news.
TOC just posted a link here for its readers to comment about this incident. Since when did TOC incite anything anti-PAP in its post?
Did he write that in honesty or irony? ;-) Harry Lee exudes a lot of love alright.
Some tripod MP will suggest erecting a public wall for peasants like us to scribble our love notes to our leaders, free from arrests.
The best person for the job would be Seng Han Thong but unfortunately, he received an act of love of a more fiery kind recently.
You are right that the news has been reported. Then why post it here? What is TOC’s agenda of posting it here if not to bait ant-PAP anti-LKY readers?
Why did ST jumped to conclusion that he is referring to MM?
No where did he say that. That guy may be referring to his father, brother or somebody elese
If this guy is really refering to MM, then I think he is one hell of a brainwashed
sucker who is mostly likely exposed to the works of local MSMs and nothing else.
ST referred to MM to show it’s readers that someone actually *LOVES* the founding father.
Love LKY also cannot?!
I would do it too if he would consider me replacement for his wife in near future.
Anyway, why is posting this news in TOC anti-PAP? I thought it’s all about LOVE and HARRY LEE.
Manupilating readers; sigh.
It’s high time readers gets manipulated with alternative views after 43 years of MSM and PAP manipulation.
Such audicity! Some people can keep quiet for 43 years and suddenly come out from their enclosure to censure others. How come this type of people never found it necessary to censure the MSM and PAP?
Bark! Bark! Woof! Woof!
Writing cannot ah? Yeah, vandalism is bad.
What if someone arranges vegetables on the ground to form that message?
Will he be fined for littering?
Why so aruge so much! Most of us will be live pass LKY’s life,
let time tell us LKYism will pass the next decade or not . Didn’t he said
he will get out of his grave if something wrong with Singapore.
Aren’t he going to be cremenated like ordinary Singaporean or his
life much worth than our Former President ” Wee Kim Wee”.
He had to answer to God and his soul!
An educated IMH patient.
He really shows his LOVE in writing
OK citizens, this show that expression of love is forbidden in S’pore. And so that uncle who burned that MP must have love him very much, thats why kena caught.
You expect perfection from TOC and not from MSM or PAP, why?
“Why did ST jumped to conclusion that he is referring to MM?
No where did he say that. That guy may be referring to his father, brother or somebody else”
If that’s the case, it is actually ST that is carrying balls rather than that whacko.
Funny hehehe,
I wondering this man has nothing to do.
So, he’s expression of love to Herry Lee.
Now he knows, being the good man also kenna.
May be he will be sent to IMH.
LKY doesn’t believe in Fairness! He believe some people are more equal than other. So where the level playing field! Hasn’t he comment that top 5% of elite in boeing 747 crash, all us will die with them without good government.
He believe the Stupids will give birth to Stupids Babies and the Intelligents will give birth to Intelligents Babies. An Graduate will produce Superior Babies. But see what today, Graduates also out of Jobs and in the end we don’t have babies. How we want to educate future generation of LKY’s belief, a muslim can’t be President of USA. Always believe You CAN!
Sooner or later Singpore is just hotel or company for international residents nothing else!
You know it’s funny that so many events are happening and it’s not even the end of January yet. This year promises to be a very interesting one. As more and more people feel tired of being led around by the nose by a paternalistic, over-paranoid government, more and more people will figure out they have nothing to lose by protesting or breaking rules about assembly and speech.
While there will be some martyrs, let’s hope it leads to a society where the government is scared of the people, not the other way round.
http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking%2BNews/Singapore/Story/STIStory_326274.html
http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking%2BNews/Singapore/Story/STIStory_326409.html
I believe everyone has been misled and was not told the whole truth..
Apparently this guy was charged for 3 counts of vandalism.
Graffiti No 1. ‘Go sue me Lee Kuan Yew…’
Graffiti No 2. ????????
Graffiti No 3. ‘Hi, Harry Lee. I love you’
Please note that Graffiti No 1 was incomplete.
Wonder what else were written that cannot be revealed!
There was completely a blackout on Graffiti No 2.
Really curious!
So this is our MSM.
Two reportings and we are still groping in the dark.
Sounds so fishy we might as well wrap them up in newspapers (The Straits Times) and serve them with chips (Integrated Resorts).
As I predicted in comment #1, “Koh, clad in a red T-shirt and light brown trousers, was remanded for psychiatric assessment at the Institute of Mental Health.” (Straits Times http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking%2BNews/Singapore/Story/STIStory_326409.html )
So many “mad” people nowadays.
Set MP on fire, go to IMH for “psychiatric examination”.
Scribble graffitti, go to IMH for “psychiatric examination”.
But sue people until bankrupt, no need to go IMH for “psychiatric examination”.
Yeah right! the pressure faced by so many singaporeans under this familess can even affect those who are already ‘regulars’ in IMH, just imagine what kind of stress level those outside IMH like you and me hah?
The ST’s journalistic rhetoric is particularly effective towards groups that are more or less, constrained by their speech codes and behavioral/value systems.
Talking about manipulation, MSM and PAP know best. You might recall that 18 out of 27 AIMS proposals was accepted, yet there was hardly any mention that the 9 rejected proposals were the meat of the AIMS proposals in MSM.
Do Singaporeans like or dislike LKY?
This reminds me of a joke. During the days when people were fearful of President Brehnev of USSR, an American visited a Russian friend in an restaurant in Moscow.
The American asked the Russian. “Do you like your President, Breshnev?”
The Russian looked around, saw people in the restaurnt, and asked the American to go outside.
In the street, the American asked again, “Do you like Brehnev?”
The Russian look around and saw many people walking up and down the street. He took the American up a bus to a deserted part of Moscow.
The American said, “Okay, there is nobody around. Can you tell me. Do you like Breshnev?”
The Russian said, “Actually, I like him a lot! “.
TKL, I don’t understand the joke. Does the Russian really, really like the president or is he still afraid of announcing his dislike?
Why is everyone assuming who Harry Lee is? It could be someone else entirely ;)
hahaha.
achuallly, if the admirer had completed his sentence with….very much. he might hv been spared.
Maybe there are more loonies out there these days due to the economic crisis.
Let’s hope this the mental cases have more access to healthcare thancurrently is available.
I wonder if the vandal has to pay his IMH fees with his CPF
Sorry, i take back my last paragraph of post 61. never saw his other post. I must eat my words
Dear singapore brother, we all love LKY did for Singapore since Independence.
But we dislike LKY ideas and his anti-democratic idea and since his son taken office since 2004 what has his done for Singapore!
26) X on January 15th, 2009 1.05 pm
SO WHAT? TOC is somewhat an anti-government establishment since it features what the States Times would never dare publish. What’s the point of telling anti-LKYers that the site they’re visiting is advocating anti-LKY ideals?
Please don’t label TOC as anti-government establishment .
I think it is more appropriate to see TOC as a Pro-Singapore site.
It offers a meeting place for diverse views to be aired so the public can ponder on and decide what is the better direction for Singapore to move forward.
Don’t mistake diverse views that happen to be heavy on criticizing government as anti-government establishment . The government better ask if what they see here reflect the general feelings the official government channel failed to reflect.
Is our government leaders and officials lost touch with the ground?
who is being manipulated by who?
“The Russian said, “Actually, I like him a lot! “.”
Mr Tan, that’s a good one.
Even in the safest place, the Russian still fears.
He may even have the fear of his own shadow squeaking on him…