Day by day, incident by incident, the credibility of the government sinks ever lower. Two wild boars wandered into Bishan-Ang Mo Kio park and apparently charged at a security guard and a child. A perfect cover and EXCUSE to justify an already desired government action.
Wild boars bad right? Actually this is what is called being economical with the truth. We are not told WHY the wild boar charged. What did the security guard do? Was he just standing there silently? Or did he more likely try to scare the animal away by shouting at it, or even throwing sticks or stones at it?
Faced with an aggressive human, the wild boar was within its rights to charge at the security guard since it was being harassed. The security guard likely moved away to avoid the boar and the child was unfortunately in the wrong place at the wrong time and was targeted by the boar instead (as another human). That the child's life was endangered was likely due to the actions of the security guard. This is more likely the more complete version of what happened.
"My priority is to protect our babies". Please Mr Khaw, what do you take us Singaporeans for? Idiots? Using potential dangers to babies to justify culling the boars? Unprovoked, the tendency for wild boars is to flee from humans. They have been living for years in Singapore. If they have a natural instinct to hurt humans, they would have done so many times in the past and there would have been numerous such incidents. You might want to ask the "two university professors" if humans are a natural target for wild boars. I can tell you the answer is no.
Since Mr Khaw is SO concerned about the safety of our babies, perhaps his ministry should make it compulsory that all windows in highrise apartments be permanently sealed shut. Quite a few children have fallen out of them when left unattended. It will also save quite a few maids from toppling out as well when they clean the windows or hang out the washing. How about that, Mr Khaw?
Actually, Mr Khaw, your ministry is directly responsible for this incident. You are destroying our ever shrinking wild and green spaces, the habitat of the wild boars, to build more and more HDB flats, private condos etc to house more and more foreigners. By reducing their habitat, you are forcing their population densities to go up in the remaining green areas and when the population pressures get too high, they spill out into our parks. Can we blame them?
No, we blame you, first for not speaking up and standing up to your cabinet colleagues on their flawed economic growth strategy based on ever increasing imports of foreign workers and secondly, for building ever more housing on our remaining green areas. It is the human population that needs managing. Killing off every single last wild boar would not solve our housing/elderly/jobs situation.
Singaporeans got attacked by greedy shoebox apartment developers and Minister Khaw says: "I'll monitor the situation." CEO of CapitaLand says shoebox apartments are "inhuman" and several weeks later, steps down, apparently to pursue personal interests. A likely provoked wild boar charges some humans and it's: We've got to kill them! Wow...so decisive! Yes, it may be necessary to reduce the size of the wild boar population, but please, don't use "protecting our babies" as justification. That's just insulting!
In the meantime, the Gardens by the Bay is opening. I don't think there are any wild gingers or seeds of primary forest trees there to destroy. Why don't we relocate some wild boar there? It will help to attract more visitors!
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