I refer to the article reposted on TRS, "Mr Brown: On the #ReturnMyCPF Protesters disrupting the YMCA event"
Mr Brown, the way you wrote this article just purely shows that you are one sided man. Were u at HLP that day? Did you witness it? Did you read all the comments, videos and articles regarding what actually happening at HLP?
It was sad to see the special needs kids having to perform during such a difficult situation, but YMCA is also to be blamed to some degree. Why did they organise for the timing to be at the same time at the CPF protest? And Why didn’t the organisers of the YMCA event come to negotiate more peacefully with the protesters and explain to them that there are special needs children going to be on stage?
Ultimately, the children who were on stage were likely to be hurt by everything that has happened. I believe it is good that Roy Ngerng has also acknowledged this and offered to reach out to them and talk to them and make sure they are ok. It goes to show that clearly, the protesters had no intention to ‘heckling’ the children.
Despite this, the media the Ministers, MPs and even you, Mr Brown have clearly just gone to attack the CPF protestors for what has happened without getting the full story. For all those who have attacked the protestors, they also failed to show any real sympathy for the special needs children who were affected.
At least Roy had acknowledged and wants to fix any harm he caused mentally and emotionally. Everyone else seems happy to point fingers and blame the protesters.
NParks should have known that the protestors would be passionate as they have seen three previous protests to know what the mood is like.
Mr Teo who has only now come out to attack Roy and the protesters, did nothing during the actual event to spare the children from the protest noise. It seems more like Mr Teo was happy to let the protesters cause trouble and then later join in the bandwagon to condemn them.
Now, Mr Brown is also joining the bandwagon and attacking the protestors and is being opportunistic. He is using the situation to show the world how much he loves his daughter but he failed completely to show his readers the full, unedited video of the event which easily shows that the protesters were not aiming at the children at all.
I did not see any sort of behaviours from the crowd that remotely resemble heckling of the children from all the videos I saw online.
Mr Brown probably didn't know that half of the group here he just pissed off with his untrue remarks were his ex-fans whom he had scratched their backside for.
Mr Brown, you can do better.
I used to respect you until now. You are not any better than the PAP-controlled mainstream media and PAP ministers. You are just like them, doing character assassination and anyhow jumping to conclusions just for your own fame and gain.
Mr Tan
TRS Contributor