Your cynicism towards politics is most pathetic, and it is
amazing that you will even want to involve yourself with
politics even in this Speaker's Corner.
Is you cynicism due to your own dismal performance in
making things happen, or is it an admission of your own political
impotence ?
Can you learn anything from History, when you prefer to stand on
the side-lines, and prefer to be a seemingly impassionate
observer ?
The French Revolution was an uprising of the common
folks in the throes of a bankrupt royalty that had been
self-indulgent in pomp and pageantry and neglected the country and
the citizenry.
Can the French Revolution be of any relevance
to the Singapore's circumstances in this day and age of the
21st Century, or is your cynical mind still as violent and
volatile as a neglected village peasant ?
Did the Iranians overthrow the Shah of Iran in some spontaneous
uprising without any leadership directive, and which allowed
the Ayatollahs to take over the revolution subsequently ?
Or did you muddle the historical facts about the
Iranian Revolution of 1979 – otherwise also
known as the 1979 Islamic Revolution
(*1) - to suit your own agenda in being negative
towards political change in Singapore ?
Was it not a fact that the Shah of Iran was overthrown by a
revolution that was long in the making and had its
origin hatched from the Islamic pulpits in Iran - even
when the venerable Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini was exiled,
and returned a hero ?
If Mao didn't have a clue and
went on his Cultural and whatever revolutions - did LKY
have any clue with his own failures in
his revolutionary Family Planning Schemes and parallel
activities at encouraged abortions (especially from those in
the lower income families) - all of which had caused Singapore
to still suffer from the effects of his failed policy
of the late 1960s ?
What about GCT with his revolutionary fantasy of creating a
SWISS Standard of Living for Singapore, which left Singapore with a
SWISS Cost of Living by the end of his 14 year term ?
Is LHL any better with his economic blue prints for the
future when it is developed around the IR schemes ?
What social and economic impact will this have for the future of
Singapore, when calls for such IR facilities have been
resisted since independence in 1965 ?
Are you encouraging that the despots in Cuba should
continue to exist despite their failings towards Cuban
Society ?
Are the present Cuba's economic failures due
to its own incapablities, or is it not due more to the
US economic and trade embargo placed over Cuba ?
How big is the African continent ?
Which parts of the African continent are you looking at when
brushing indiscriminately with your generalised statement ?
Are there no success stories to quote, or is your superficial
ignorance due to your fear in drawing on the success of those
States that managed to be better in their new found
political environment ?
It is easy to generalise by simply sitting on the fence,
and it is similarly foolish to cut all those that exist on both
sides of the fence - which had kept your fence upright.
Did anyone complain that building is hard or can be harder ?
The hard part is bringing the cynics who preferring to be
inactive to even save itself, let alone the larger
community, even as it knows that the ship is sinking.
The cynic will not even think of what its own contribution
can be, but to blindly trust the captain -who himself has no clue
and is experimenting as the situation develop - without anyone
knowing what is being done or how bad the situation is
developing.
Did CSJ and the late Jeyaratnam fail dismally due
to the absence of any plan or clue of where to go after
they "happen to defeat the MIW" ?
Was it not a fact that their failure was due to their inability
to break the abusive grip of LKY and the PAP
in manipulating the entire three branches of Government
that was supposed to independently exist in a Democratic
Society ?
Unless you are determined to be totally dishonest, and
will prefer to ignore the facts that LKY had manipulated his
own political position since entering politics in 1957
till this day, you may as live a lie as a disenchanted hermit
on the moon.
It is obvious that your own prejudice towards the Alternative
Political Parties have led you to close yourself from even reading
their books on various subjects that range from social, economics,
justice and politics.
Your statement that CSJ has no clue or plan has clearly showed
either your deliberate dishonesty on this subject, or your
complete complete ignorance of the many books that he had
written about the very issues that you are seeking answers for.
Can you differentiate the Civil Service from your 'gabrament'
?
With LKY's method of politicising the Civil Service and every
aspects of government in what LKY determine as "symbiosis" between
the "mind" and the "body" - can one differentiate where the PAP
begin and where it ends ?
It is this present set up that is stifling the development of
alternative views - that if and when the PAP is removed from office
- LKY has created a backdoor for the PAP to remain in control of
the machinery and tools of government.
This is the legacy of built-in instability that LKY has
deliberately put in place as an insurance of the continued monopoly
of a monolithic political party that has its hand and fingers on
every pulse of Singapore's heart beat.
As long as the present system that has been put in place by LKY
and the PAP to ensure their narrow political interests,
instead of the interests of Singaporeans - the voice of the
Singapore Citizens will never be heard.
As long as the present PAP system that has been prepared as a
Time Bomb that is to be remote controlled by the PAP in the event
of their own irrelevance, the political future of Singapore will
always be in jeopardy.
Even the intellect of the retired Senior Civil Servant Ngiam
Tong Dow has also made similar observations in several studies that
appeared in the local press, one special feature was
entitled : Is Singapore ‘bigger than PAP’
(*2)
Can the intellect of the Bear match Mr Ngiam's ?
My eyes! My eyes!
Sigh....
As a reader, I thought your post might be interesting, after all
the bashing to shape you up, but am disappointed.
Initially, I had high hopes, and dont mind long posts, for perhaps
some would take a longer time to explain themselves more
CLEARLY.
But my hopes were dashed. It was nothing more than another long
tirade, with no solutions, but full of criticisms and even make
belief fantasies of what people had to do under the circumstances
that they had to live with, to ensure the survival of a nation.
I would have loved to bring to light each and every fallacy in
every single sentence you wrote, but then, it would not be worth
the effort, simply because you are deeply rooted in your hate
filled perceptions and devious agenda to create discord and then
place your beloved outlaw on the throne, without a thought on the
sufferings of the peole.
Thus, this post in acknowledgement of your pathetic long
winded efforts.
It's ok to ask questions, but your kind of questions only reflect
your own doubts with even what you write. How thus can anyone take
you seriously? Worse is when you present your point of views,
displaying a lack of understanding, with is still ok, but when you
attempt to twist other's efforts as something more devious, WITHOUT
ANY SHRED OF EVIDENCE, it becomes nothing more than a tirade.
Even more undesirable is your contempt and continued hideous
attempts to smear another poster for offering his insights. Its ok
to criticise another, but quite another thing to spend a lengthy
post to wack. It only shows your personal vendetta, and deserving
yourself to be equally repulsed vigoriously back.
Take me on instead, if, and only if, you are up to it, deceitful
one.
