A burly Australian cook, Aaron Jeremicjezyk, punched a petite young Singaporean lady for telling him off for scolding a limousine taxi driver. Our pathetic taxi drivers are mostly whimps and are often set upon by their passengers, and many got beaten up. They are unable to defend themselves from the thugs, mostly foreigners. So this brave young lady stood up for one of them and got punched in the face. Did the whimpy taxi driver returned the courtesy to defend this young lady?
The story is now in the courts of law and the thug is being charged for causing hurt. And this is not the first time. The sad thing is that it has happened many times and it seems that the law is not having any real effect. To the thugs, what is a fine of a few hundred dollars when they could get their thrill of beating up the taxi drivers for fun. And now this lout even punched a small and petite young lady by the name of Dawn Ho, a musician. What a shameless and cowardly thug.
What would the punishment be? Would the court hand him a deterrent sentence to send a signal to all the foreign thugs and louts that they would be put behind bars for at least 6 months or the maximum of 2 years in jail? Or would it be another light tap on the wrist.
Would there be any politician standing up to defend the docile Sinkies like they stood up to defend foreigners running foul of our laws? When would the law be seen to be protecting the Sinkies from being bullied and beaten up by foreigners? Is this country own by foreigners or the citizens?
In the past there used to be gallant local men standing up to teach all these thugs a good lesson. Even commandos offered their services to give them a good beating for behaving roughly to locals. Sad that such things would not happen again and the small and docile law abiding citizens are left to themselves, to be punching bags for the foreign thugs to practice on.
Sad, sad, sad. Should we advertise this island as one where foreigner can come here and use the locals as punching bags? $1000 for a couple of punches?
What is going on? What is the point of spending so much money to beautify the island with more and more infrastructure to attract the thugs here when the safety of citizens is at risk?
Chua Chin Leng AKA RedBean
*The writer blogs at http://mysingaporenews.blogspot.com/