How Can One Love? Singapore Politics?

I am XenoBoy. I am the Political Savant.

When the first arrests of the racistious bloggers were made known to the public. There was a hue and cry. Opinions were many, bloggers were defiant, legion some said, akin to a horde of independants.

This was Before. Before the accused were subjected to the investigative-juridical process. When the precedents were sentenced, the shout became a whisper. When the youngest was mentioned, the whispers died away into a mute. This is the After.

In the Between, the State Machinery hummed along efficiently. Investigate, meet the regulations, set the dates, prepare the case and wait the End of the sentencing.

In the Between : "how much can one love, the efficient process?" (Gilbert Koh, 'Changi International Airport, readerseye.blogspot.com)

Multiple pathways of efficiency are initiated by the Singapore State Machinery in the Between. Bureaucratic efficiency. Political efficiency. Messaging efficiency. The Law begins its efficient process not de-linked but neither bonded to the other efficient processes. An efficacious Web of State ministrations in which to fatigue, programme, calibrate, efface, a sterile Silence.

In the Between there exists an efficient process. Behind this process are efficient people. Honest people whose objective is to ensure the efficiency of the process. Speeds thing up. Smooth things along.

The Poet that sees this efficient process, feels for the Soul of this process. But in so seeing, he becomes deficient. Defeated by the efficiency. Because it is a Soul placed on a sushi conveyor belt, without even the different colored plates.

The State's Apparatus, (Police, Legal) stands by the efficient process. It gets to Justice quickly. Proven, swift, decisive, effective. Mean(s) End. The State's Apparatus does not stop at only one process. Compartmentalization is the sublime level of a perfect bureaucracy. And other efficient processes are initiated. Not de-linked, easily linked, but neither Bonded. Subtle Systems.

To re-capture : Three Internet users were arrested and charged for Sedition. In the [They were subjected to the efficient process] Between. They have been sentenced.

In the Between is this efficient process. It is carried out every day. when a crime is committed, justice is subverted. It puts away the Guilty efficiently. When a policy is introduced, opinion divided. It smoothes away the Doubts efficiently.

And how much can one love? The efficient process? Children of the State Apparatus?

I am XenoBoy. I am the Political Savant.

Quote of the Day,

"Who, if I screamed, would hear me among the angelic orders? And even if one of them suddenly pressed me against his heart, I would fade in the strength of his stronger existence. For Beauty is nothing but the beginning of Terror that we're still just able to bear, and why we adore it is because it serenely disdains to destroy us." -- Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino Elegies