Amos Yee flees to US

[Depraved]

He accepted liao.

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/...meland-9253728


I'm a little jealous to be honest. Now he gets to collect welfare checks and probably live in government assisted housing while doing nothing productive but shit-blogging. What a world we live in.

[Chamberlian21]

Looks like new way to escape NS .

[danny888]

Hope that this teen learn to post constructive criticisms, if have to.
Better is to make full use of his new found life.

Probably never going to set foot in Singapore again. Can imagine the jail term that await him.

[skyleon]

The Amos Yee saga: 3 lessons for Singapore

Published on 2017-09-27 by The Online Citizen


by Khush Chopra

Amos Yee is finally a free bird.

He finally gets the asylum he wanted in the United States but what has the debacle surrounding his persecution by Singapore authorities taught us?

For me, there are 3 major learning points to take away.

First and foremost we should learn from this experience and not prosecute children for holding an unacceptable opinion. He was a 16-year-old boy at the time of the material offenses he was charged with; let the children be.

Amos Yee was a 16 years old child when he was persecuted and remanded in prison for 53 days pending his trial for maintaining and articulating an unacceptable opinion.

He refused to give up his controversial views on religion though it was clear to me at least that it was his political views and in particular his condemnation of Lee Kuan Yew that rankled the powers that be the most.

Some naughty boys grow up to be successful men. Take a most relevant example that was pointed out to me in the American TV personality Seth MacFarlane who was raised a Catholic just like Amos Yee and just like Amos Yee turned against his religion and mocked it at a very young age.

Seth is today the creator of the highly successful American animated sitcom TV series "Family Guy", a show that airs in Singapore that routinely mocks Christianity that has been the target of numerous taste and indecency complaints in America.

Alas, Amos Yee was not allowed the same privilege Seth MacFarlane was as a boy. Amos Yee the boy was imprisoned in Singapore under our sedition laws.

Nothing will ever change the fact that a 16-year-old boy was remanded for 53 days for airing his unacceptable views in Singapore. How can this have been right?

His eventual prison sentence of four weeks was backdated to start from his remand and he therefore in fact served almost twice the sentence time he eventually received!

Singapore has lost a vexatious and obnoxious kid who should have been reprimanded and counseled not prosecuted and jailed.

The takeaway here is that boys will be boys and they need space and time to grow not persecution and prison time.

Secondly, it has been found that he was persecuted for his political views in the guise of a prosecution for wounding religious feelings and disseminating obscene material online.

The fact of the matter is that sedition is inherently intertwined with politics. The crime of sedition is highly politicised and the Government's prosecution of Amos Yee was doomed to be construed as a political enterprise.

Two US immigration courts have now called a spade a spade. Pinky our dear leader was upset with Amos Yee for denigrating his father but did not have the balls to call him out and instead unleashed the full venom of the organs of State up his tender ass using the cover of religious sensitivity and the arsenal of the land's sedition laws.


continue reading here : https://www.theonlinecitizen.com/201...for-singapore/

Originally Posted by skyleon

The Amos Yee saga: 3 lessons for Singapore

Published on 2017-09-27 by The Online Citizen


by Khush Chopra

Amos Yee is finally a free bird.

He finally gets the asylum he wanted in the United States but what has the debacle surrounding his persecution by Singapore authorities taught us?

For me, there are 3 major learning points to take away.

First and foremost we should learn from this experience and not prosecute children for holding an unacceptable opinion. He was a 16-year-old boy at the time of the material offenses he was charged with; let the children be.

Amos Yee was a 16 years old child when he was persecuted and remanded in prison for 53 days pending his trial for maintaining and articulating an unacceptable opinion.

He refused to give up his controversial views on religion though it was clear to me at least that it was his political views and in particular his condemnation of Lee Kuan Yew that rankled the powers that be the most.

Some naughty boys grow up to be successful men. Take a most relevant example that was pointed out to me in the American TV personality Seth MacFarlane who was raised a Catholic just like Amos Yee and just like Amos Yee turned against his religion and mocked it at a very young age.

Seth is today the creator of the highly successful American animated sitcom TV series "Family Guy", a show that airs in Singapore that routinely mocks Christianity that has been the target of numerous taste and indecency complaints in America.

Alas, Amos Yee was not allowed the same privilege Seth MacFarlane was as a boy. Amos Yee the boy was imprisoned in Singapore under our sedition laws.

Nothing will ever change the fact that a 16-year-old boy was remanded for 53 days for airing his unacceptable views in Singapore. How can this have been right?

His eventual prison sentence of four weeks was backdated to start from his remand and he therefore in fact served almost twice the sentence time he eventually received!

Singapore has lost a vexatious and obnoxious kid who should have been reprimanded and counseled not prosecuted and jailed.

The takeaway here is that boys will be boys and they need space and time to grow not persecution and prison time.

Secondly, it has been found that he was persecuted for his political views in the guise of a prosecution for wounding religious feelings and disseminating obscene material online.

The fact of the matter is that sedition is inherently intertwined with politics. The crime of sedition is highly politicised and the Government's prosecution of Amos Yee was doomed to be construed as a political enterprise.

Two US immigration courts have now called a spade a spade. Pinky our dear leader was upset with Amos Yee for denigrating his father but did not have the balls to call him out and instead unleashed the full venom of the organs of State up his tender ass using the cover of religious sensitivity and the arsenal of the land's sedition laws.


continue reading here : https://www.theonlinecitizen.com/201...for-singapore/

wow, the Seth MacFarlane background makes for interesting read.

I am not impressed by Amos but have to say the treatment he received is indeed too heavy handed for a 16yrs old.

[moontory]

Originally Posted by Chamberlian21

Looks like new way to escape NS .

Seems like it .

[skyleon]

Amos Yee defiant as hell fresh out of US detention

His experiences in Singapore and US will add firepower to his criticisms.

By Belmont Lay | 11 hours



As predicted, Singapore’s most infamous teenager Amos Yee will go back to making videos that will more likely than not make Singapore his whipping boy, now that he is officially a free person in the United States.

A visibly plumper Yee, 18, who spent his allowance on junk food while in detention, is also still as defiant as ever.

Locking him up hardened him

Yee’s experience with various forms of incaceration has not only failed to dissuade or reform him, but has hardened his resolve.

He specifically told The Straits Times upon getting out of detention: “The plan is to make more and more videos. I came here to escape the horrible anti-free speech laws in Singapore. Now I can get back to work, get back to my life.”

His rebuke of Singapore, phrased in another way, was reiterated and quoted by other international media.

In a separate interview, Yee told Reuters after his release: “Now I can criticise the Singapore government without being sent to prison.”
US vs Singapore comparisons

Criticise he sure will.

Posturing and harsh words for Singapore aside, his short-term game plan would appear predictable enough.

Given his experience in Singapore and savouring his newfound freedom in the US, Yee is able to make not unjustified comparisons of both countries, which can lend weight to his criticisms of his country of birth.

Free speech provisions, or the lack of any, were not the only things being derided by Yee within a day of being able to shoot his mouth off freely.

According to ST, when asked what his time in an American jail had been like, Yee thought for a moment and said: “It was manageable. It was far better than the experience in the Singapore jail.”

He also said he spent his time talking to people, playing chess and reading books — besides being robbed by a fellow inmate and thrown into solitary confinement.


continue reading here : https://mothership.sg/2017/09/amos-y...-us-detention/

[phelps]

Originally Posted by skyleon

Amos Yee defiant as hell fresh out of US detention

His experiences in Singapore and US will add firepower to his criticisms.

By Belmont Lay | 11 hours



As predicted, Singapore’s most infamous teenager Amos Yee will go back to making videos that will more likely than not make Singapore his whipping boy, now that he is officially a free person in the United States.

A visibly plumper Yee, 18, who spent his allowance on junk food while in detention, is also still as defiant as ever.

Locking him up hardened him

Yee’s experience with various forms of incaceration has not only failed to dissuade or reform him, but has hardened his resolve.

He specifically told The Straits Times upon getting out of detention: “The plan is to make more and more videos. I came here to escape the horrible anti-free speech laws in Singapore. Now I can get back to work, get back to my life.”

His rebuke of Singapore, phrased in another way, was reiterated and quoted by other international media.

In a separate interview, Yee told Reuters after his release: “Now I can criticise the Singapore government without being sent to prison.”
US vs Singapore comparisons

Criticise he sure will.

Posturing and harsh words for Singapore aside, his short-term game plan would appear predictable enough.

Given his experience in Singapore and savouring his newfound freedom in the US, Yee is able to make not unjustified comparisons of both countries, which can lend weight to his criticisms of his country of birth.

Free speech provisions, or the lack of any, were not the only things being derided by Yee within a day of being able to shoot his mouth off freely.

According to ST, when asked what his time in an American jail had been like, Yee thought for a moment and said: “It was manageable. It was far better than the experience in the Singapore jail.”

He also said he spent his time talking to people, playing chess and reading books — besides being robbed by a fellow inmate and thrown into solitary confinement.


continue reading here : https://mothership.sg/2017/09/amos-y...-us-detention/

This Amos Yee will be strong man with steel balls once he grown up.

[iluvbreast]

Originally Posted by Depraved

He accepted liao.

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/...meland-9253728


I'm a little jealous to be honest. Now he gets to collect welfare checks and probably live in government assisted housing while doing nothing productive but shit-blogging. What a world we live in.

I don't know why are you jealous?

The boy broke the law in Singapore, he went to prison as a result. He finished his jail term and was out a free man. After that he continue to make videos and bought a ticket and flew to US where he asked for political asylum.

You only said you are jealous after he succeed; if he failed and was deported back here?

All in all, he 'worked' for it, it is not as if he did not pay a price for this. None of us knew exactly what happened to him the US prison or Changi Prison for that matter.

Amos Yee is only a teenager, his story has just began, it is not the end.

[nitecrawllerr]

Originally Posted by phelps

This Amos Yee will be strong man with steel balls once he grown up.

Well he can badmouth miw. But better refrain from insulting one religion or race. Try badmouth the negros, Muslims or the supreme Whites in US.

[stardawn]

For sure he will badmouth the PAP government but I do hope he will stay away from race and religion . If he badmouth hope he will support it with facts and proof .

[sionglim]

he dare to say abt christian in amerca'?his
Parent had to praynhard he become a good guy.

[jacky43]

Maybe 30 yrs later liked all "rejected" Singaporeans, he choose to return to this red dot. Of course he is prepare to eat meals at Changi Resort. Meantime I wish him all the best, he need to carry ang mo balls.

Actually, a group of "able body" people think highly of this young man. Because they believe USA will feed him well, no need to earn a living. I told one of them there is only one Amos Yee. He could walk his path if he wish to.

[nitecrawllerr]

Originally Posted by sionglim

he dare to say abt christian in amerca'?his
Parent had to praynhard he become a good guy.

He should. Afterall thats what he believe freedom of speech.