How to counter a protest?
Some posts back, I blogged about Singapore’s “guideline to protest”. In this post, we shall look at how the Singapore Police Force counter a protest led by Chee Soon Juan, a civil rights activist/opposition party leader. When I read on YawningBread that he was prevented from marching towards the IMF convention, I started wondering what exactly does he mean by “prevented”.
This is one of the most surreal pictures I’ve seen – whether in terms of its background context, or just the picture itself. So Dr. Chee & his supporters (total 4 of them – 5 would have been “illegal gathering) wanted to march to the international press, IMF delegates etc. And Singapore Government wouldn’t have that. How did they do it? By physivally forming a human ring around the protestors! How creative!
- Priceless Expression on Miss Chee: Check.
- Bored policewomen having to do surround-stand duty: Check.
- Officer looking stern and uncompromising supervising: Check.
- Symphathetic man holding up umbrella through the circle: Check.
- Police filming all these down for evidence: Check.
- Photographer to capture all these: Check.
Man, this sure is surreal.
More pictures here, and some personal accounts here and here.
这简直是行为艺术了。。。呵呵。不过警察也要拿video cam?
Of course! Or else there won’t be evidence should you need to sue somebody for defamation!
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