🇸🇬 Journalist, writer and activist. Champion of clauses. Author of The Singapore I Recognise: Essays on home, community and hope (Ethos Books, 2023)
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In 2019, before POFMA was passed, a question was brought up about how the legislation’s broad provisions could be abused by a future rogue government. In response, K Shanmugam, the Minister for Home Affairs and Law, said, “I cannot vouch for how a future government will act.” Ji
It’s bullying & gaslighting—designed to coerce while maintaining plausible deniability, cloaking oppression in legalese/bureaucracy, making things convoluted so the public is left with confused impressions that deter them from exercising their own political agency.
“The Government only seeks to correct falsehoods,” MHA says in its Correction Direction to @ADPANetwork. It’s my opinion that that is itself a falsehood, and that POFMA has been thoroughly weaponised as a political tool to ensure that only PAP narratives are allowed to prevail.
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