The Personal Is Political III

Me: Are you handling the Case of The Seditious Bloggers?

Mr Veins: You can go to the Court on the hearing day to find out yourself. I’m not in a position to confirm or deny anything.

(oh bother, what else is new, forever in limbo and thus impossible to confirm or deny. But that’s personal feelings getting into the way of the possibly political, never mind that the personal is political, and that the political is always personal)

Anyway, plodding on –

Me: Fine. So when’s the hearing?

Mr Veins: You may find out the date from the newspaper articles that reported the case.

How irritating.

Then again, not everyone can be both a prosecutor and a poet, and a prize-winning one at that, for the latter especially. Wouldn’t you so agree, Mr Wang?

Mr Veins is an impossibly (and deplorably) secretive person. But it’s okay. I have a Mr Wang to enlighten me on the inner workings of the AGC now. Slightly dated perhaps, but given the government’s standpoint is not to change fundamentally for the sake of its supposedly conservative citizens who may be overwhelmed, traumatized, and go into shock and comatose at mutation of any sort at the core, it’s highly likely that they remain mostly valid if not entirely.

I have nothing new to add that has not been blogged to death, except to iterate that I find a disturbing similarity in this to the A*Star incident. High-handed response to a rippling; what has been written is not revealed, so far, for no one (apart from those directly involved and the fortuitously few to have come across the incriminating online text) has any knowledge/proof just how damaging and seditious the remarks were to have invoked The Act; is there a proper context surrounding the furore that led to the charge – that it can be established reasonably if not conclusively that the bloggers meant what they say; likewise, can the bloggers claim their remarks were taken out of context, and blown out of proportion.

We can only speculate until the contents of what were written are published and circulated for more constructive debate.

For now, I will say to stay cynical.

An open mind open to possibilities is always a good thing to have.

Wait, I may have something new to share on the subject. New in the sense, it may be a little known fact (supposing it is indeed factual), but nevertheless an interesting one that messes things up further, if sources are reliable (Qualifier: And I stand to be corrected).

I'm given to understand that the two bloggers could be gay, and rather prominent ones too in the circle.

If that were true, then, well, theories abound huh. Conspiracy theories, persecution of the minorities, social minority against social minority…

Let me go back to the personal. It's always less complicated when we return to the personal.

Remember that the personal is always the root of the political and we are most unlikely to go off tangent when we approach and understand problems from the personal standpoint. The political part can seem too daunting and impossible to handle when evolved and matured, so strip it down to its elements, its earliest form before it got corrupted and conformed to a cesspit of lies and deceit. And so. It's really elementary, my dear. Always go back to the personal.

As I said, let me go back to the personal. Ironically, I am leaving Mr Veins.

Adieu.