{"id":3502,"date":"2016-04-21T17:41:52","date_gmt":"2016-04-22T00:41:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=3502"},"modified":"2016-04-21T17:41:52","modified_gmt":"2016-04-22T00:41:52","slug":"guardian-cities-how-singapore-became-the-most-meticulously-planned-city-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=3502","title":{"rendered":"Guardian Cities: How Singapore Became the Most Meticulously Planned City in the World"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"guardian<\/p>\n

On 12 May 2015, a Singapore<\/a> court sentenced Amos Yee, an outspoken 16-year-old video blogger who had been tried as an adult, to four weeks in jail.<\/p>\n

Yee had been hauled up six weeks earlier<\/a> on charges related to materials he had posted online: one for violating Section 298 of the country\u2019s penal code by making \u201cremarks against Christianity, with the deliberate intention of wounding the religious feelings of Christians in general\u201d; another for obscenity; and another for violating the Protection from Harassment Act 2014 by making \u201cremarks aboutMr Lee Kuan Yew<\/a> which were intended to be heard and seen by persons likely to be distressed\u201d.<\/p>\n

Most of this came as a result of Lee Kuan Yew Is Finally Dead!<\/a>, a video posted four days after the death of the first prime minister of Singapore. In it, Yee offered a withering assessment of the independent city-state\u2019s founding father, which was in stark contrast to the laudatory tributes pouring forth from elsewhere.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn the surface, he seemed quite successful,\u201d says Yee in the video. \u201cHe turned Singapore from a small seaport into a bustling metropolis, rife with skyscrapers and its own casino. World leaders seemed to like him, most notably Margaret Thatcher, and many foreigners and millionaires wish to invest in Singapore. But you look deeper, and you find out what the true nature of Lee Kuan Yew\u2019s Singapore is.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read the whole thing at the Guardian<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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