Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore forces foreigners to become
citizens
Ladies
and Gentlemen,
In Singapore's state controlled newspaper the Straits Times online
edition of Sept 9, 2010, there is the shocking story, "SM clarifies
PR (permanent residence) renewal".
Lee Kuan Yew's Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong, who does not have any
full time position, but whose job it appears is to make periodical
speeches which take his fancy, for which by the way, he is paid
$3.7 million dollars a year, is reported to have said "In the past
we could just give you permanent residence without taking up
Singapore citizenship. Moving forward, we are going to approach
some of them to take up Singapore citizenship. If they don't then
their PRs (Singapore permanent residence) will not be
renewed"!
Only in Singapore where nepotism and corruption rules with
draconian punishment for critics in a fear ridden society will a
man who has no full time government position, and nothing to do, is
paid $3.7 million dollars a year, but that story is for some other
day.
But coming back to this story of forcing people to becomes
Singapore citizens, what this man is saying is that Singapore is
going to force people to become citizens. If you don't want to be a
citizen, you would be booted out. They are not going to allow you
to work there unless you become their citizen!
Frankly this is the first time I have ever heard any country doing
this, and it smacks of desperation. Mostly it is the other way
round. People living in foreign countries may like it and apply for
citizenship. The host country would accept qualified applicants and
reject others. Citizenship should be at the request of the
applicant, not the country forcing you to be one!
No country, not even Iraq or Afghanistan who have seen an exodus of
people escaping the war, have forced anyone to become their
citizens. This threat by Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore upon foreigners
is not only desperate, it is pathetic.
Of course you know why they have stooped so low. Singapore's name
has been internationally discredited as a country that hangs
teenagers with the highest execution rate in the world. A place
that brutally beats petty criminals (they call it "caning"). A one
party state with no rule of law, and where defamation court actions
is the preferred instrument to destroy political
opponents.
As a result, the city state with a greatly limited land area of
only 16 miles by 26 miles, has the lowest fertility rate in the
world, the lowest marriage rates and a population which has been
found to the unhappiest in the world. It also has one of the
highest suicide rates in the world, with between 1 and 2 people
taking their lives daily, the preferred method being jumping off
the ubiquitous high rise apartments or by jumping onto oncoming
trains and being crushed.
So it is not surprising that no one wants to become a citizen of
the country preferring to spend some time there to earn some money
and get the Hell out of there.
Of course there is this blog that further aggravates the situation
for those in power in the island, as well as the Internet which on
a daily basis tells it as it is.
Finally, this man Goh Chok Tong should realise that even if anyone
became a citizen of that Alice in Wonderland island, having
succumbed to the threats of deportation, what sort of citizens
would they become? Not very good ones, I don't think.
I suppose I should finish by saying you can take a horse to water,
you cannot make him drink.
Gopalan Nair
http://singaporedissident.blogspot.com/2010/09/lee-kuan-yews-singapore-forces.html
Well written post,LKY,LHL n that sheep GCT should read this.It
is totally contradicting with what they n their propaganda said
about Singapore.And it states the ugly truth that those cowards
dont dare to face.
