You Need To Suffer For Political Change
Public protests are perfectly legal in all other countries in the world with actual freedom of expressions. Yet when Singaporeans do something so basic in democracy, they are handcuffed, harassed and attacked by the police, might have thousands of dollars of items from the house confiscated and will have to spend months in prison.
Yet, it's because you get arrested which is precisely why that's more of a reason to do it. People who otherwise wouldn't care about politics will start to care once there are protestors getting attacked in the streets constantly. Suffering is the most effective way to change people's minds. And, it's why weakass legal protests in Hong Lim Park where they need a government permit to be granted a small plot of land for demonstration, those don't count.
Not every one should do something illegal and be arrested, there needs to be people outside of prison for certain tasks. But, historically, it's essential for many people to break unjust laws, risk their lives and go to prison, for political change to happen.
It's also important that protests should strictly be non-violent. Violence is unacceptable, because the more suffering happens to your enemy and the less of it happens to you, then the public will feel less sympathy to your cause.
Whether you decide to protest or not, you should be willing to suffer. You should not let the fear of suffering stop you. The more people suffer now, the less people will suffer in the future, not only for the millions now in bondage, but for the unborn millions to come.