Entitlement

There is no rights unless it is enforced. There’s no law unless it is enforced. There is no state unless it is governed.

Thus the idea of liberty and rights will always be a struggle. A perpetual dynamic struggle of ideas in the people’s mind and then in their practical day to day life.

It can be robbed, destroyed, denied or protected and ensured.
It’s all up to the people consent whether they want to abdicate those rights and social contracts or they want to demand them to be held up.

In other words, constitution, rule of law, and rights all fall under the category of political ideas. They are intangible and not real. Of course they are the product of enlightened minds but they can be appreciated only by other enlightened minds as well. And that is a big ifs, generation in and generation out.

And this is what’s happening in Singapore along with many other places. Their citizens are denied fairness in court ruling, the constitution is blatantly violated for all to see, the laws are perverted to serve the ruling elite and rights is an unappreciated alien idea.

To be fair the people who let themselves to be deprived of their rights and liberties deserve neither. That the people who are cowed into fearfulness deserve a life of servitude and zombie like existence. I’d rather die. The Bahrainis agree with me, The Libyans agree with me, the Egyptians agree with me, the Syrians agree with me. But it is true that Singapore is unique. So unique that they deem evil good and vice versa, so unique that they have forgotten how to live so that a few elite can live their wildest dream in Singapore on Singaporeans expenses and at their expense. If that is not slavery I do not know what else it is.