Does LKY need to make any admission on specific issues to
have anyone feel better that he had admitted his wrong doings ?
From the very beginning, LKY had imposed his will onto
Singaporeans even by the most dishonest methods at a high
profile public event as a REFERENDUM - when such an exercise is
normally conducted to gather the honest views of
Singaporeans on important issues that affect our lives - (as is the
practise in Switzerland).
He had to make sure that the one and only Referendum ever
conducted in Singapore will produce the results that his
ambitions needed, and skewed the referendum with three choices that
were worded differently but will produce the same end - Merger with
Malaysia.
His ambitions of merging with Malaysia went against those who
knew better those minds filled with political
intrigues that characterise the Peninsular Malay Political
Leadership, even as LKY was ignorant to the
many political demands and accomodations that the Malays
imposed onto the other ethnic groups.
Still he forced his own ambitions in a skewed Referendum, and
even arranged for Operation Cold Store to arrest his own
Singaporean Politicians - whom he pretended to befriend - as
shown in the information made available from the released archives
of the British Colonial Office and from recent memoirs.
After being booted out of Malaysia, his personal doubts about
Singapore's future with a population of less then 1.6 million gave
him nightmares of jobless graduates who will challenge his
political position, even as he had already incarcerated hundreds
from those who dared to oppose him - conveniently branding all to
be communist, when the British Colonial Government had found no
evidence and referred to them as Nationalists.
To stem the population growth, LKY insisted on population
control - to STOP at TWO - so as to allow himself more time to
manage Singapore's Future.
To stem the potential challenges from jobless graduates,
LKY had an unheard of system implemented - when all countries
will encourages the young to pursue higher learning
- instead LKY had all applicants to Tertiary Educational
Institution to apply for a special "Suitability Certificate" that
is issued after background checks were made by the ISD.
Hundreds from families with doubtful "Communist" links, or to
"Red China" - were given the lowest clearance, and with this policy
intended to root out any Communist ideas from infiltrating into the
tertiary institutions of learning.
To confront any likelihood of Malaysia's Tunku from
changing his mind and return to arrest LKY and Cabinet and retake
Singapore, and also to prepare for Indonesia's
Sukarno changing his fickle mind to re-open Konfrontasi
campaign - National Service was introduced for those born from 1949
onwards.
"Mexicans" from the Middle-east were brought in to train the
first batch of NS men, and those born before 1949 working in the
Civil Service - were recruited to provide the mature leadership
role and to be trained by these "Mexicans".
The trainees that endured the "torturous training" under the
"Mexicans" were tasked to train the later batches of NS
Singaporeans, and served their own form of "Mexican torture" onto
the early batches.
Despite the best of intentions given the rush to build up a
credible defense force, many amongst the early batches that began
training in 1967 to 1970 - had endured the garbage that LKY and his
cabinet dished out as they prosyletized to justify for their
actions taken seemingly for the benefit of Singapore and
Singaporeans, when the real beneficiaries of a strong defense
force were to protect themselves.
Even as LKY admitted his mistake, did he forgot to tell the
truth for his insistence on Bilingualism to be imposed on
Singaporeans ?
It looks better when the reasons given are said to be in
preparation for the rise of the China Dragon - as it enhances LKY's
image as a wise man with foresight.
Unfortunately, Singapore was burdened with a Second Language
that had no use in the 1980s, and which was poorly thought through
in its implementation, and executed by a bunch of technocrats
interested in time lines then the finer art of teaching.
When the truth is told it will make the entire Bilingualism
exercise as no more then a personal event in idiocy that caused
tears and anguish to thousand in at least three generations.
If only LKY had relived his speech about the necessesity of
Bilingualism as a result of the poor dialect skills of LKY's
own daughter working as a trainee doctor in SGH - when she could
only speak Mandarin, the patient a Cantonese, and the
Nurse was a Hokkien - so it was a confused state of affairs as he
had once related - as if there could not be a Cantonese speaking
nurse in the ward.
How many more admissions of mistakes will Singaporeans get to
hear before his lights dimmed ?
It seems that he admitted his mistake to arrange for the
passing of the Charter that protected Women's Rights, and
regretted that this had affected the continued success of
strong family genes - when ‘LKY
express views on polygamy’ (*1).