In a Facebook post simply titled “Eggs”, Minister of Law and Home Affairs K Shanmugam mentioned that he wasn’t really too worried that a young individual joked about wanting to smash an egg on his head.
Rather, the minister expressed a bigger concern that Edmund Zhong — the 20-year-old who’s being investigated by the police for his eggy edgy Facebook comment — is all about the dank kush.
Wait, what is this about again?
Okay, so Zhong and a 47-year-old man are currently being probed by the cops in relation to the comments they left on Facebook about Shanmugam. In a Facebook post of a Channel NewsAsia report about the Egg Boy shenanigans (a teen smashed an egg onto the head of a racist Australian senator), Zhong commented that he would want to carry out the same stunt on Shanmugam. The other man provided details on the minister’s upcoming Meet-the-People Session, implying that Zhong could do so then.
“When I was told about it, I laughed it off — the somewhat exaggerated words of a young man,” wrote the minister, adding that the authorities would be interviewing Zhong to make sure that he won’t really carry out the Egg Boy-style deed.
In an eggs-clusive interview with The Straits Times, Zhong insisted that he only wrote it as a joke with no malicious intent, other than for entertainment.
“To be honest, I don’t feel much regret. I feel it’s a matter of freedom of speech, and that we have a right to voice such opinions,” he told ST.
Joke or not, the police are treating it seriously enough. Zhong and the other dude are being investigated for the offense of communicating an electronic record to incite violence under Section 267C of the Penal Code. A conviction could land them up to five years in jail.
“I understood (the Singapore Police Force’s) concerns. I can laugh off these comments, but understandably, (the police) can’t,” Shanmugam noted.
Rapper, hustler, stoner
Though the minister could shrug off the egg comment, he could not let go of his concern about Zhong’s declaration to be a serious cannabis advocate in Singapore. On his Facebook page, the man proclaims himself to be associated with the Singapore Cannabis Awareness — hell, his SoundCloud page says “Edmund iz high”.
Shanmugam, a hardcore anti-drug statesman who repeatedly expressed his disdain over the legalization of soft drugs like marijuana overseas, doesn’t like it one bit.
“I am much more concerned about his public comments, on his (Facebook page), on his attitude to narcotics,” the minister wrote.
“I hope he does not actually experiment further with cannabis, regardless of how desirable he thinks drugs are.”
