Utimately, no society is perfect and it takes us citizens, to
work together to find solutions to our crisis, no matter what form
it takes, be it health or economics.
Yes, while no society is perfect - can an imperfect society like
Singapore allow the citizens any free-hand to find solutions to a
crisis - when it is dominated by a culture of Elitist
dominance - ?
Has it not been a fact that the PAP Government conduct
meet-the-people sessions as avenues to propagate their policies
prior to implementation - more than as avenues to gain and
consolidate views from Singaporeans ?
Do Singaporeans have any free-hand to find solutions to the
crisis that was poured onto us in some careless manner - like oil
splashing off a frying pan ?
The hallmark of the PAP Rule has been the insistence on the
population being single minded in towing the official sanctioned
thinking of the day, and any alternative views are seen as a
challenge and clear opposition to the PAP rule.
With the Singapore Government being the largest single employer
of Singaporeans - is there any free opportunity for Singaporeans to
be politically independent from the PAP dogma ?
Will any Singaporean dare to risk breaking his rice bowl that is
dependent on keeping the good grace of the PAP Government ?
Minister Mentor Lee K. Y is but a politician, and dependant on
votes which we citizens hold the right and full freedom of choice.
Whatever that had happened in the past and policies that will
happen in the future, we as citizens will have to take the
responsibility for the choices made, for we have only ourselves to
depend on, unlike you and other ex-singaporeans who are dependant
on the goodwill of your pledge loyalty to your adopted
countries.
While Singapore Citizen has the right and supposedly full
freedom of choice - are there any real choices when the PAP starve
any person of ability from entering politics with the Alternative
Political Parties ?
Do Singaporeans possess the power of the ballot - when the PAP
Government has full control in manipulating with the electoral
boundaries that can neutralize or disperse the concentration of
political dissenters that will vote for the Alternative Parties
?
Are there any choices for Singaporeans - when legislations are
regularly changed and updated to serve the agenda of the Ruling
Party that can only serve to handicap the Alternative Political
Parties ?
This refers in particular to the GRC concept that allow a losing
candidate to benefit from the success of his fellow GRC
members.
The political parties are kept in a state of being wrong footed
at each election - when the numbers that form the GRC has seen
increases in size over the last 20 years. The GRC had begun with a
3-member Grouping and now we have the 6-member GRC.
With financial contributions to all political parties being
monitored and the amount of political contribution being limited by
legislation, the Alternative Political Parties are stymied in their
efforts to grow in financial strength.
We may fail, or we may succeed, as a society, believing more we
will succeed, for we are the generations of hardworking winners who
had created a reality seen with our eyes, even for you as a child
when you were still a citizen. Failure will never be an option for
us.
Is this not obvious that failure can never be an option in
Life ?
However, can Singaporeans prevent failure when the
self-acclaimed Elitist political leadership insist on having things
done their way - with policies already settled while debate and
approval is but a formality ?
The reality is that after 52 years of PAP rule with LKY at the
helm, life today in Singapore continue to be a struggle, and the
future as uncertain as our forefathers were in 1957.
Life then was less hard, as inflation was much lower and the
currency values then had real meaning compared to the worth of the
Singapore currency today.
In the 1950s, those who were 60 years of age would have retired
- compared to those who are now expected to work till 70 or
more.
Many of these 70 year olds are now eking out a living from
collecting cardboard cartons, newspapers, tin cans and plastic
bottles - and has become such a common sight that one can only ask
if this is the hallmark of a First World a'la Singapore style ?
We citizens will find our way, just as our forefathers had
and given us what we had today, in the complexities of life under
the brutual regimes of China, groveling before Malaysian kings,
being treated as dogs by the brits before finally founding our
freedom. Freedom from starvation, freedom from poverty,freedom from
diseases. and freedom from illiteracy.
Cheers and farewell.
Is the regime in China brutal towards its population - when PM
LHL will tell Singaporeans that it is NOT the Government
responsibility to look for jobs for Singaporeans - while China's
Premier Wen Jia Pau can tell China's displaced workers that the
China Government will ensure that workers will find employment
?
Both statements were made in 2004 - and only one day apart.
If that is brutality - then it is the ironical quality between
both ONE-Party State.
In place of groveling before any Malaysian Kings, we have as
many carpet beggars in Singapore that grovel for crumbs at the
tables of the Political Elites.
Why do you think that the PAP Government cannot have the
Government divesting itself from being involved in industries and
commerce - which should have been the space reserved for
Singaporean private entrepreneurship ?
Is it not obvious that all the PAP faithfuls have been duly
rewarded for their years of patient groveling, and now rewarded
with senior positions that pays them annual remunerations topping
the $1,000,000 mark and more ?
Do you seriously believe yourself that Singaporeans are free
from starvation, free from poverty, free from diseases and free
from illiteracy ?
Looking into this Speaker's Corner alone - do you seriously
believe that Singapore is free from illiteracy with the fair number
of educated illiterate present ?
Do you dare to hold your position when LKY is more cautious now
in repeating the same boast that he made before - and now made
by you ?
