Blogging for Change

There's quite a bit of navel-gazing and meditation going on as bloggers asks, "What is the point?" This after all the sound and fury did nothing to change the govt's plans to proceed with the Minister's pay hike.

One suggestion is to stake out your battleground and build up your support:
http://theonlinecitizen.com/2007/05/16/the-next-step-proactive-blogging/

But that's just tactics. The lessons just doesn't seem to catch.

Bloggers and political critics don't seem to get it.

For years, the govt did not agree to casinos. It was only when the casino option was seen as being necessary for Singapore's economic success that the govt reversed its position.

The govt had stopped motor racing, and even rejected a bid to host the F1 in Singapore. It reversed that decision when it saw how much Malaysia was benefitting from the F1.

The anti-gay laws on our law books have been there for years and the govt is still defending their anti-gay stance. But there are some evidence linking creativity to the "gay index".
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Southeast_Asia/IE17Ae01.html

And Singapore sees creativity as a major ingredient for Singapore's future success, so that means we may be reversing those laws soon.

So go ahead and blog about man's inhumanity to man (or PAP's inhumanity to man), and human rights, and freedom, and justice, and human dignity, and ideals, and nobility, integrity, and sentimentality. It will make for great reading.

But if you want to get the attention of the government, you got to show them the money.

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New laws

Singapore's penal code is being revised to better reflect current social mores. So anal and oral sex between heterosexuals will now be decriminalised. However, homosexuals are still in jeopardy. This reflects the changing social mores.

In addition it will now be a crime to engage in sexually penetrative acts with a corpse. Apparently this is now such a prevalent and pervasive (and perverse) act that society now frowns upon this hitherto legal act. It was not a crime in our parent's times. How times (and mores) have changed.

So if you are thinking of sexually penetrative acts with a corpse you are advised to exercise restraint and restrict yourself to just heavy petting. There's no law against that. Yet.