As Bloggers, good thing we don’t live in Singapore..

This article jacked my jaw..seriously it did. As a blogger, I was taken aback by this news. From the AP writeup:

A U.S. lawyer was charged in a Singapore court on Monday for allegedly insulting a judge in an email and on his website, court documents showed.

Gopalan Nair, who runs a law firm in California and was previously a Singapore citizen, was arrested last Friday and charged on Monday for “threatening, abusing or insulting a public servant” in an email he circulated and posted on his blog, singaporedissident.blogspot.com, official documents showed.

We value our ‘freedom of speech’ here in the good ole US of A. We sometimes need to be reminded that we enjoy these types of freedoms because the majority of the world does not.. even though George Bush has tried to take these freedoms from us..they are still in place. Amen to that.