It is amusing that the police state is going a round-about way of investigating its citizens right of speech and assembly at Hong Lim Park's Speakers' Corner via a letter to "Today".
Well is the state interested in the flourishing of speech or not? So why a Speakers' Corner in the first place?
The recent police investigation into the human rights day celebrations organised by the Open Singapore Centre and the Think Centre is a reflection of the state's confusion on the concept.
A Speakers' Corner without free speech and assembly? A little human rights education to the police would be in order. The next round of speeches at Hong Lim should address the issue of police investigations of a peaceful assembly at the Speakers' Corner. Do we or do we not have that democratic space?
F Rahman
