A Singaporean In Australia

I received several messages from friends regarding The Mesiah, who claimed to be part of the Anonymous collective. So far The Mesiah had caught the attention of many Singaporeans by turning some government-linked websites upside down and promised more drama on the 5th of November if their demands are not met.

Two of my friends even asked me if I was The Messiah. You guys gotta be kidding. If I have the ability to twist and turn programming codes to do my bidding, I'll hack myself a few zeroes at the end of my bank balance, withdraw the money and retire in a house by beachfront full of ripe coconut on trees.Only then I will have all the time in the world to deface government websites for fun. If you guys know me well enough, I will call myself Mee Siam instead, which has became our national dish after Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong highlighted it with such grace in his 2006 National Day Rally.

 If you do not already know, all the target websites would have already been hacked and sychronised for a whipping long before they even announce of their intentions to the public. The announcements were done to keep the public excited so that they could spread the word a little and kept the government guessing which hole they should be looking at for patching in the meantime.

While I appreciate The Messiah's countless nights of cracking websites to help us not just to send a message but to make sure it was definitely received, his approach would make things worse for the same people who wished things could be better. As expected, the government used the attack threats to create a siege mentality among the people and urged them to fight against what they portrayed as cyber-terrorism. Most importantly, they made the people accept the fact that it would be war at all costs - at the cost of the people like you and me to be specific. 

Thus The Messiah can deface, deny-of-service of government websites or can even open a chain of porn sites in Lee Hsien Loong's laptop just about the time when Ho Ching is looking over his shoulders, it doesn't change a thing except to provoke a reaction from the government opposite to what we all hope for.

The Messiah should not try to deliver any message to the government on behalf of the people. In our situation, the people are the ones who need a proper message injected into their indoctrinated heads so that we can think again. We, the people of Singapore, are the rightful bearer of the message and we will deliver it to the government ourselves, to be heard again.