New class! Fear!
I am officially in 07s22 IN PJc now! wow my class has like 28 students with like 6 girls(only) and a huge massive 22 boys intake. Sigh why so little girls. All the boys look like they want to pick a fight and the retainee looks like hes very BU Shuang with the class. Reminder to self, it is only the first day and things will turn out fine. My civics tutor is Mrs angie ng or was it ang....Shes really strict about grooming and she tried to speak to us in perfect english though she is a chinese teacher, good effort i would say. However when writing down the timetable, for mother tongue she happily wrote (chinese) beside it not realising we have an indian in our class. Gee teachers nowadays, outright discrimination. Bad.
I would like to voice my opinion on someones opinion from the straits times forum in home today which is the 19 of march 2007. Dear mr joel chia ze hong wrote that he is disturbed by the fact that a rapist could own a pet shop. let me type out his concerns.
I was disturbed by the article, "rapist gets 16 years, 10 strokes' (st march 10) not only because of the young age of the victim and the offender's lack of remorse, but also because of the fact that someone with such a history of crime, violence and gang activites could be allowed to own a pet shop. the clientele of a pet shop would definitely include young people and children. furthermore, no one knows what hurt or harm he had done the the animals under his care. in some countries, former offenders are not allowed to own businesses. although i belive that we should give ex-offenders a chance to turn over a new leaf and encourage them to be gain fully employed, we should not aloow those with such violent past offences to own businesses like pet shios, where they are very likely to come into contact with young people, and can use their " gang connections" to instil fear in thier customers, in addition to having defenceless animals at their mercy.
Those were his exact words published in the newspaper. after reading it, i felt a need to do justice to the rapist owning a pet shop though i have no connections with him whatsoever. Firstly mr joel said, rapist blah blah blah.. to pet shop the first sentence.For a rapist to get 16 years in jail and 10 strokes of the cane is not something to joke about, okay he has made a mistake and raped a young victim but how does the author know that he shows absolutely no remorse over the matter? surely after the 10 strokes of the cane, your remorse will spill out like the blood on yr backside liao. So he has history of crime violence and gangster activities, does that give Mr Joel the right to blacklist him in society? Has Mr Joel done nothing wrong in his life? I dont mean killing or burning people's houses but little things like lying and cheating? If His life is so perfect that he has no wrongdoings too, i can accept it that he openly accuse and points his finger at such a man. But if he has wrongdoings too, should he be blacklisted in society too? For there is no greater wrong or lesser wrong, wrong is wrong and he who has no sin can cast the first stone.
secondly, he said that the pet shop would like clientele of young children, this i can agree, as more pet owners are indeed getting younger, but what was he trying to hint? that he would rape his young customers? for when you read on you can see that he didnt explain that point until the last part when he said that they are likely to come into contact with young people. So what does Mr joel want the rapist to do? lock himself in insolation and avoid all contacts with young children for he will instantly feel the urge to rape them? i think Mr joel is being very narrow in his viewpoint by saying this sentence.
thirdly, he said, no one knows what hurt or harm he had done to the animals under his care. Again what is his point in making this sentence? stirring up suspicion and doubt in the readers heart? or just proving that he is making such an assumption that when you look at it deeply, you can see the naiveness in the writer?ponder upon that
next point would be he said" in some countries, former offenders are not allowed to own businesses" By saying that, he is blantantly trying to discourage the chance of letting offenders start afresh again, he is trying to say that hey, other countries are doing it, so why not in Singapore. It was a very weak point as he did not list out the countries,making him lacking evidence in his argument.Singapore cane ppl on the backside, does that make other countries follow suit? no! if Mr Joel is not happy with the policies that the government has drawn up, he can jolly well pat his backside and go north.
Next Ironically he says that he believes that ex offenders should be given a chance to turn over a new leaf and that they should be employed. Now it is hard enough trying to employ offenders giving the kiasi situation in Singapore. So why not make them employers? will there be such a vast difference if i withheld them from being employers and only restrict them to being employees?
The best part of his argument comes " we should not allow ......can use their "gang connections"
to instil fear in their customers , in addition to having defenceless animals at their mercy"
THis is pure BULLSHIT! when i read this, i was wondering if the person who submitted his feedback had a mind of a dimwit. he has made a sweeping statement that all rapist have gangster power and can force the customers to fear them. what the hell is that man, if you are a customer in a pet shop, would you buy a dog just cause the shop owner uses his gangster stare or his connections to threaten you? If he wanted to do that, he would have became a loanshark and not a pet shop owner right, what the hell is wrong with you Mr joel? were you ever afraid of the shop owner before? more likely it was the other way round. Last part to sum it up, havint defencless animals at their mercy, so the rapist owns a pet shop, and what does he do? sell pets right? so if he mutilates his pets, would anyone be sane enough to buy? wont he be making a loss? Mr joel says as if he owns a pet shop so he can toy with the animals and abuse them. Does mr joel know that animals can attack back if provoked? just hit a stray cat on the road and see what happens, and i would say that defenceless is not suitable anymore.
SO the bottom line is, if you have a weak argument and screwed up imberciles mind, dont put yr name to shame by writing on the forum in ST, for it will just be an object of humiliation for others like me
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