Kirsten Han

@cremieuxrecueil I’m not sure the caning is so you can be rapidly released. There’s also caning with life sentences and other long sentences.

Three polls. Background first: In Singapore, they use corporal punishment so that captured criminals can be rapidly released. When criminals are caned, kidney pads are attached to them, they're tied to a trestle, and then they're struck with a hard rod. Graffiti? Eight strikes.

“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.

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.

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