The Void Deck, 25 Aug 2008, Zheng Hu"The loosening up of Speakers' Corner into a Protest Corner is juxtaposed with the recent charging of the usual suspects SDP members and diehards for an illegal assembly during the 2006 IMF meeting in Spore. Next week when the protest corner is officially opened, the SDP gang might be there just to test it out for a while as a novelty, like they did when Speakers' Corner opened to much fanfare by the govt as the next big democratic move. But it is unlikely that the Chees' more activist-group-than-political-party would be rooted like trees in Hong Lim Park as it defeats the idea of civil disobedience and being in-your-face."
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