AWARE

A few points I wanna make:

1) It is sad that the EGM seems to have become a numbers game but it will be interesting to see much many people which side can gather. Will be a good indication of the relative levels of organization and support for the liberal and conservative camps

2) Even if the new Exco wins the battle, they will lose the war. They have lost in the court of public opinion, they do not have a broad support base. What they have done by hijacking AWARE is they have totally alienated liberals as well as moderate christians who think they are giving the religion a bad name. The govt too, for questioning AWARE's seuxality programme that was endorsed by MOE

3) I get a sense of deja vu reading how the new exco view and handle media. TT Durai no. 2 - lack of transparency, defensive, thinking the whole world is out to get them. I thought the media gave them a fair amount of coverage, but they will be totally slaughtered this time and the media will have a field day coz

i) they were in the wrong in the first place for sneakily hijacking AWARE rather than starting their own organization, firing staff at will, and denying the conspiracy (do they take us for idiots?). Their principles and AWARE's are also like oil and water. They are standing on very shaky ground when defending their position.

ii) when else can the media fulfil their noble journalistic ideals? They can't report objectively on politics and the govt (See how they brushed through the discovery that PAP MP Ong Seh Hong took loans from Ren Ci coz the righteous men in white can't be tainted with any scandal) , but stuff like NKF and the AWARE are right up their alley man!

4) Government shouldnt interfere unless the situation deteriorates into a Thailand sort of case. Let people in the community sort it out for themselves. I hope this saga will raise political awareness and activism among abysmally apathetic Sporeans, particularly liberals

5) The best outcome and what the conservatives should have done in the first place - start their own bloody organization and programme as an alternative and let the community decide for itself which one it prefers - a free market of ideas and beliefs. They have not done so coz they know they will lose as they are in the minority, yet they think they are morally right and have the god-given right to unscrupulously impose their will on others. Sounds like the Taleban?

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