I SELDOM read Kevin Sinclair's articles, but as I am like lots of people caught up in the Michael Fay flogging business, I did read his lesson about how a good dose of Singapore justice was plain good for the lad (South China Morning Post, April 18).
Mr Sinclair tells his readers that he could walk a couple of miles or so into the Singapore night, the only worry possibly being sore feet.
The message here is that Singapore is crime-free (which at a murder a week isn't crime-free at all).
Kevin Sinclair will nonetheless feel reassured that he can walk another thousand miles in Singapore and not be challenged by anything that hasn't been completely sanitised for him - not a play, a break dance session, a film, an art exhibit.
By local standards, he may regard the reading of a restaurant menu as living on the intellectual edge.
Singapore is not a country to be compared to another country. It is a boarding school, at its most wily and reckless a branch plant of Intel Corp.