Wednesday, July 02, 2008

We increasingly trade freedom for wealth or security

Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
The model for this is Singapore, where repression is highly selective. It is confined to those who take a conscious decision openly to challenge the authorities. If you do not, you enjoy freedom to travel, to live more or less as you wish, and – perhaps most important – to make money.
Wonder if the government will respond to the above article, like it did for this WSJ article.

[Update: 7th July 2008] TODAY has reproduced the above commentary piece, in my opinion, as if to "challenge" the Singapore government to respond to it. Kudos to them.

[Update: 10th July 2008] The Prime Minister's Office has responded to the article.

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