Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/12/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]wvl wrote: > I felt secure and unaware of government. I even walked around with > the Leica around my neck, something I was not willing to do in many > parts of Europe. I did not even see a uniformed policeman for five > days. Policemen don't always wear uniforms in Singapore. That's what makes it a real police-state: it's all around you. I was there, and it was a nice place to be, I must say. Perhaps all police states are not what people make of them. The USSR wasn't all that horrid a place to be, either. I was in Turkey when that was military-ruled. The press hated the country, but it was very nice to me. And certainly a lot safer than before the military took over; I could actually hear the gunshots each night, before the military coup. And then you'd read in the papers, the next day, who got killed. B