Progress

A guy pissed off with the current Odex vs young kids saga decided to stage his own protest...using toys and tiny placards for a photoshoot.

It seems harmless, right? I mean, what harm could a nerd and his anime compatriots do?

Well, the police activated four anti-riot vehicles to the scene, to supervise the entire going-ons. They even filmed the processed and took down all the participants' particulars.

It scares me to think of how authoritarian Singapore can be.

Four anti-riot vehicles for a small gathering of geeks? What were the police thinking? That the kids could somehow cause a rift in our society with their awesome manga-reading super powers? Is this our so-called progress, where the fabric of our peace and posperity is so fragile that "disturbances" should be contained to such a large extent?

I don't know. It just seem so frickin' ridiculous that it's laughable and sad at the same time.