https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_P._Fay#Theft_and_vandalism_in_Singapore
This handsome neighbor vandalized 50 cars and trains. The US media pressured Singapore but instead received thousands of letters supporting flogging.
the Singapore government via Ong Teng Cheong, then the country's President, announced that the number of cane strokes would be reduced from six to four out of consideration for President Clinton
>In April during a local television program, Lee Kuan Yew, then Senior Minister, said that the U.S. was neither safe nor peaceful because it did not dare to restrain or punish those who did wrong, adding, "If you like it this way, that is your problem. But, that is not the path we choose".
Then when he returned to America he did more crime and beat up his dad.
>When I hosted Clinton to dinner in Singapore in 2002, he mentioned Michael Fay in a light-hearted moment. He quipped, “You should have caned him more” and added that Fay’s father should also have caned him earlier.
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He was a neat fella, he did not perpetrate an offense
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