Five cctvs in total have been mounted at Speakers’ Corner at Hong Lim Park. The Singapore Democratic Party first reported on this on its website here. TOC will have a report on it soon.
Pictures by Andrew Loh. More pictures on TOC Facebook.
Workers installing the cctvs on Tuesday. (Picture by the SDP)
Camera near the entrance of Clark Quay MRT station
Camera near the Kreta Ayer Police Station
Camera near the stage at Hong Lim Park
Camera near the carpark
CM LEw
////on July 25th, 2009 9.07 pm Something BIGGGGGGG is coming !!!////
like transparency & accountability?
lol…
why worry about the CCTVs if our actions are legal and above board?
in any case the CCTVs are open and not hidden. We will have more to worry if the CCTVs are hidden from view.
Would singaporeans even dare to THINK, CHALLENGE and QUESTION this installation?
I mean 1st world singaporeans.
“Would singaporeans even dare to THINK, CHALLENGE and QUESTION this installation?”
I doubt any Singaporeans has the gut to show the middle finger at the installation, let alone THINK, CHALLENGE and QUESTION it.
It looks like I need to teach my dog some new tricks like identifying Camera post … Is there any rule that condemn my dog into SPCA due to some extraordinary act like peeing at the installation post ?
Imagine IF all singaporeans Come together in HLP.
What kind of picture will the camera show?
Singaporeans, its really in your hands also.
Dun complain.
104) Daniel on July 25th, 2009 10.35 pm
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It looks like I need to teach my dog some new tricks like identifying Camera post … Is there any rule that condemn my dog into SPCA due to some extraordinary act like peeing at the installation post ?]]]]]
Hey natday is coming. we can come together.
so, dun you think this is progress?
I mean singaporeans are so cooperative.
what a FINE country.
….. is that despite several criticisms on the net,
no one dares to step forward and complain about it
in HLP.
not say i say wan.
u say u say wan.
u proved it.
not me.
So lucky I did not get my singtel mio cable for next season championship league can watch from this tv ma. two way effect.
Time for change. I keep saying this but no one pays attention. SO i give up.
Maybe it’s meant for next year NDP to be held there.
Talk to the birds in the park, ask them to sh*t on the camera lens.
85) Sing
//////Soon like motorcycle helmet banned in bank – – umbrella & sun-glasses etc BANNED in HLP///////
you brought up an interesting point.
the helmet and sunglass ban by banks, although not a law (I think), was implement by banks after some bank robbery umpteen years ago by robbers who don helmet and sunglass
wonder how many of the banks peolpe remembered why the rule was put there in the first place, and if it is still relevant today
The Monkey Experiment:
Start with a cage containing five monkeys. Inside the cage, hang a banana on a string and place a set of stairs under it. Before long, a monkey will go to the stairs and start to climb towards the banana. As soon as he touches the stairs, all of the other monkeys to be sprayed with cold water. After a while, another monkey makes an attempt with the same result, and all the other monkeys are sprayed with cold water. Pretty soon the monkeys will try to prevent it, to prevent any monkey from trying to reach the bananas.
Now, put away the cold water. Remove one monkey from the cage and replace it with a new one. The new monkey sees the banana and wants to climb the stairs.
To his surprise and horror, all the other monkeys attack him. After another attempt and attack, he knows that if he tries to climb the stairs he will be attacked.
Next, remove another of the original five monkeys and replace it with a new one. The newcomer goes to the stairs and is attacked. The previous newcomer takes part in the punishment with enthusiasm!
Likewise, replace a third original monkey with a new one, then a fourth, then the fifth.
Every time the newest monkey takes to the stairs, he is attacked. Most of the monkeys that are beating him have no idea why they were not permitted to climb the stairs or why they are participating in the beating of the newest monkey.
After replacing all the original monkeys, none of the remaining monkeys have ever been sprayed with cold water. Nevertheless, no monkey ever again approaches the stairs to try for the banana.
Why not? Because as far as they know, that’s the way it’s always been done around there.
110) doctorwho
///////Talk to the birds in the park, ask them to sh*t on the camera lens./////
then they will bring in the crow shoooters
we should not drag in the birds lah, spare their lifes lah, the are innocent bystanders
they do nothing but bird talk : )
Bravo! The return of 1984! I love you very much PAP! You have turn this wonderful first world free speech country into a third world totalitarian police state! Outrageous! Spying on legal protesters! Wheres the freedom that PAP promises?
The Authority worries and fears that the citizens will gather at Honglim Park for political activities that are damaging to it. And the installations of monitoring devices by the Authrity frightens the citizens.
Why are the Authority and the citizens so suspicious and fearful of each other ???
QUEER !!!
[i]Hum Dowager Pinkleton on July 25th, 2009 10.37 pm Imagine IF all singaporeans Come together in HLP.
What kind of picture will the camera show?
Singaporeans, its really in your hands also.
Dun complain.[/i]
and withour a doubt
chengsan opposition preelection gatherin was a failure right
take a peek @ the chengsan opposition gatherin compared to the pap held ones
you would be amaze
why did gohchoktongue placed his head on the choppin block?
because his wife is doin with a kileng perhaps?
#115) FUNNY
‘Why are the Authority and the citizens so suspicious and fearful of each other ??’
……………………………………………..
Fear is a useful medium to control the people. Shi Huang Ti, Ghengis Khan and Mao Tze Tung and many other emperors have transformed a race that is now disciplined and fearful of authorities so much so that a biography stated that LKY
believes that if an ‘Ang Mo’ were to become an Emperor of China the Chinese people would still kow tow to him and obey him.
How many in Singapore is not fearful when Chia T P was imprisoned for 23 years and under house-arrest for another 9 years? Longer than Mendela of South Africa. After his release, Chia T P said, “At least, he became the President of South Africa.”
The fear of the PAP is losing more than 10 seats in parliament, anything more than that would not be manageable for LHL, as mentioned by him at the rally at Raffles Place during the 2006 GE.
They said that it’s for safety and security reasons? Safety and security for who? Old man, familees or PAP are feeling unsafe and insecure?
the police post nearby for what har? wayang? :)
Hi Edward, thank You for the response #117.
“How do you keep a system which delivers an outstanding quality of leadership and government, and yet at the same time, have free play and the opportunity for people to say, ‘I want this government, but I do not like this policy or the other’?… [Singapore’s system] is a system that has worked well and one that has not let the people of Singapore down…”, unquote.
PM Lee Hsien Loong said the above quote which seemed to indicate that the leadership and the people are liked one people, one nation and the same party having ruled Singapore for over 44 years must have won over the people with their sincerity, integrity and ability mah, why does the Authority suspect its’ citizens ?
PM Lee had said that ‘[Singapore's system] is a system that has worked well and one that has not let the people of Singapore down.’ Did he or is he misreading or unable to read the people ?
119) mice is nice
There is also a Police post near President’s residence, in fact just few houses away only
And another inetersting observation I noted 2 years ago in a diff location was a pirate CD shop operating directly across the street in full view of the PP
: )
another example of taxpayers money gone to waste. :(
CCTV shouldn’t be put on the speaker corner, it a place for expression of speech. It should be put on all the Lorong in Geyland to track on those illegal AYAM! I came to notice one CCTV was put up only in Lorong 17 . If I am not mistaken One of the civil “s” sibling was staying in that Lorong. Wuan Wuan Lai
what is the use of any article , any comment?
u all think the majority bother?
if so, long ago the sun risen from the north-south.
yes, there is no such thing as north-south direction also.
u people fail to realise the TRUTH.
the holiday must come. then only then…. nothing else works.
New Law on July 24th, 2009 2.30 pm
“A “Hong Lim Park by-law” will be passed: “with the above two clauses plus everyone must not try to avoid the camera…they must at least twice look towards the cameras (must be at least two different cameras in case one of them is not working) so that it can capture the face clearing. Also no glasses must be wore when you look at the camera…must last for at least 5 seonds and must not smile or laugh..just be still like taking a passport or prisoner’s photograph.”
HAHAHAH that made me LOL for a while. Good one. And frankly speaking, not too far fetched considering the frantic back pedalling and ridiculous face saving the goondus in blue and WKS had to do when Mas Selamat was apprehended largely without their help.
Oh and the 1-man is an assembly law too.
‘Did he or is he misreading or unable to read the people ?’
May I add, or is he misleading the people by saying only the nice thing and hiding the ugly facts and realities of Ruler and Citizen Divide ?
Get a life ppl!
Install cctv create a big ho-ha. How come when Boat Quay and some other places install never make noise. So typical of Singapore.
London and some US states every corner you see camera also what!
If you have done nothing wrong why scare of the cctv? 问心无愧 get it??
[i]London and some US states every corner you see camera also what! [/]
YOU get a life
YOU think you are the only bloke livin in london?
how long you lived there?
even done a court jury services as well?
london is big dark and dangerous
it cannot afford to have every bobbies in every dark cornors
singapore is bright and safe
the cameras wasn’t meant to deter crimes
used YOUR brain
IDIOT
if you have any………….
[i]If you have done nothing wrong why scare of the cctv? 问心无愧 get it??[/]
and tanglianhong must have done something very very serious
right?
who is compensatin tanlianhong life and properties
whi is his familly sufferin
when his wife and daughter done nothin?
I suggest to those who want to go HLP to attend rally to put on mask to prevent getting virus W1K1S1
“I suggest to those who want to go HLP to attend rally to put on mask to prevent getting virus W1K1S1″
Anyone know where to buy the mask for “V for vendetta” ?
http://images.buycostumes.com/mgen/merchandiser/21136.jpg
Look like my dog need one too. … haha
The day Singapore is liberated is the day majority wear the mask of Freedom
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDEYxL7LBZQ
Point your middle figure to the camera each time you pass by HLP … to tell them how tu lan we ground people feel
1. I do not know what laws that exists but is usually not enforced… until the moment it is enforced on me.
2. ‘Wrong’ is subjective… as in subjective to certain powers interpretation. You may not think what you did is ‘wrong’, but it doesn’t matter, so long as certain power interprets it to be wrong.
Bring lots of mosquito coils … put them right under the CCTVs when there is an event. lol
CCTVs ARE EVERYWHERE!!!
Newton hawker, Little India, Boat Quay and Geylang all have cctv leh.
To date still alot of people go what. That day I just went to chiong at BQ. Somemore got commotion then mata come down quite fast leh.
I believe it helps to ensure that such places are safe lah. Same like those cameras installed at those lift lobby to catch tiko-pek and thief but sadly cannot record sound else it will be like porno with surround sound. I think my neighbour also have cctv installed to catch vandals.
[i]ChiangYK79 on July 27th, 2009 5.05 pm CCTVs ARE EVERYWHERE!!!
Newton hawker, Little India, Boat Quay and Geylang all have cctv leh.[/i]
and you can go to the above places
with an empty crate
stand on it
with a loudhailer
and shout
friends singapooriums and country bumpkins
lent me your ears……………….
perhaps?
127) Don Trisnan: “London and some US states every corner you see camera also what!”
- London & US have no political assylums (people who flee from persecution by their ruling party for speaking up). So their people have no problem with ‘fear’ of reprisal but problem with loss of privacy.
“If you have done nothing wrong why scare of the cctv? 问心无愧 get it??”
- Tell you what, try saying this to a group of people: “If Singaporeans want a better qualify of life, they must be rid of nepotism & legal corruption, they must vote out this Govt” with your face or name & IC number revealed. Tell me if you dare!
Sorry I mean London & US have no political assylum seekers.
Alamak wrong again, I mean there are no political assylum seekers from London or US.
I wonder … is the government afraid that terrorists will bomb Speakers’ Corner?
So, these cameras shall be there until the end of time?
what happens when new holiday installed?
I heard that MRT circle line, at least, got cctv can be viewed centrally far away.
Gan: Thats good. LTA can now fine ppl for eating and drinking from the cameras.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Hope Singaporeans will enjoy the government opening up.
Majula Singapura everyone !