Brownian Movement

The internet is abuzz regarding the suspension of Mr Brown's aka Lee Kim Mun regular column in the Today newspaper. It all began with his recent article entitled S'poreans are fed, up with progress!. It prompted a swift and harsh response from K Bhavani, Press Secretary to the Minister for Information, Communications and the Arts. Today,in response suspended Mr Brown's column indefinitely.

Of course the show of support for Mr Brown has been unanimous in the bloggosphere. Mr Brown is considered by many to be the Grandfather or Godfather of Singapore Blogging. I was reading his site long before blogging became 'In' here. As such I do not see how anything on his site can be considered remotely dangerous. It is all satire dumbos! And Mr Brown has the uncanny ability to be on the pulse of what Singaporeans think. That has been the secret to his longevity and the reason he got his column space in the first place.

Blogs are considered the last bastion of free speech in Singapore despite all the recent actions to clamp down on partisan political commentary in the wake of the General Elections and the charging of bloggers for sedition. And until the government realises that there are many voices that need to be heard and that the more they suppress us,the more of us will sprout in place of those who are gone.

On a lighter note here is a music video...