Dear William Wan of the Singapore Kindness Movement,
I heard your plea for empathy. It is indeed a call worthy of your lengthy essay.
In this regard, I hope you will speak up for me when the police harassed me again for making a political film, organising a political forum or any such activity.
I hope you will make a similar plea to the government to exercise empathy for cartoonists, artists and bloggers whose homes get raided and computers confiscated by the police for merely expressing their views.
I hope you pen 10,000 word essays on behalf of the JB Jeyaretnams, the Chee Soon Juans, the Yaw Shin Leongs and all the bankrupted, exiled and vilified politicians and activists whose only crime was to oppose the very people who fund and supports your organisation - the PAP Government.
I hope you extend your call for empathy towards the Chia Thye Pohs and the Said Zaharis, and for the thousands who suffered decades of stigmatization and deprivation by the detention without trials of their family members.
And finally, I hope the Singapore Kindness Movement embarks on a nation-wide empathy campaign for the working poor in Singapore, whose tolerance, goodwill and hard work has enabled the Anton Caseys to prosper in an environment for which we build on the back of stagnant wages, long hours and rising inflation - but only to have it rubbed onto our faces.
Yours sincerely,
Martyn See
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