Remember the international incident surrounding Michael Fay? In 1994, Fay, an American citizen attending boarding school in Singapore, went on a 10-day vandalism spree, stealing road signs, spray painting and vandalizing 18 cars that did not belong to him, and generally acting as though he could do no wrong. In that, he was wrong. Fay was arrested and tried under Singapore’s Vandalism Act. The Singaporean authorities threw the book at him, and Fay received the sentence of six lashes with a cane. The entire documented affair was not pretty and reportedly scarred Fay for quite some time. Despite the hue and cry from Fay’s parents, American diplomats, and the legacy media, Singapore carried out their punishment against him, as was their right. It was a stark lesson for Fay and others that jurisprudence is different in an Asian country, and if they are determined to make you an…
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