The great Victory (A total fiction)

skythewood SG

The opposition has won! They have scored a decisive victory! The people could no longer stand the tyranny of Lee Hsien Long and overthrew the government by

Choose one

1) A riot and seige of the Istana, the parliament house similar to thailand protest

2) Winning more votes than PAP in an election in a peaceful manner

Choose and replace X with the new PM's name

X has declared a cut in the salary of all the government officials of Singapore! the presidents salary now matches that of the US president. likewise, the cut in salary rippled through the ranks of the civil servent, with entry salary of these jobs to fall by 30%, and the salary increment to drop further more. Still, people are motivated to enter into civil service to work as they are motivated by X to make Singapore a better nation.

Choose one

1) The quality of people who want to enter into politics improved as those who are only after the money are weeded out.

2) The quality of people who want to enter into politics decrease as monetary incentive is low

X ruled Singapore in peace, abolishing ERP, allowing peaceful protest, remove the 3/4 tank rule to enter malaysia, give the people subsidy on petrol, unbans chewing gum, captures Mas Selamat. GST and CPF is also abolished, and all the money is is given back to the people. The HDB is not pegged to market rate and is now cheap enough to afford.The people of Singapore rejoice and all is well.

Also, the opposition to this new government is treated very kindly, and can slander X freely with no fear of legal law suit.

Just a fairy tale for now. Any points to improve?

skythewood SG

should i throw in abolishing NS too?

crimson soldier SG

Ah Chia, Andrew, Fantagf and a few others form X's ministerial cabinet

Singapore's economy grows by 10% in 2010 even though the rest of the world still lingers in recession

jgho83 SG

Let all sgreans have a shares in temasek and gic.

Give gst money every month.

jgho83 for president.

skythewood SG

Let all sgreans have a shares in temasek and gic.

Give gst money every month.

jgho83 for president.

where will that money come from?

jgho83 SG

where will that money come from?

money will come from investments profits made by temasek and gic lor.

skythewood SG

money will come from investments profits made by temasek and gic lor.

ok. your glc have to make alot of money every month than.

alwaysdisturbed SG

all in wonderland.

jgho83 SG

skythewood, isnt this suppose to be a total fiction? LOL. relax lah, jus let my imagination run wild ok or not????

hahahahaha

skythewood SG

skythewood, isnt this suppose to be a total fiction? LOL. relax lah, jus let my imagination run wild ok or not????

hahahahaha

yup, so i said your glc will have to make alot of money every month than. yay

Rock^Star SG

Lee Hisen Loong becomes the opposition. Hurray!! Ho Ching goes for plastic surgery to improve her public image!!

Gattlinggun2000 SG

dont u need machineguns and rocket launchers for these victories??

Chin Eng SG

Ah Chia, Andrew, Fantagf and a few others form X's ministerial cabinet

Singapore's economy grows by 10% in 2010 even though the rest of the world still lingers in recession

and maybe andrew will publish his book.....

crimson soldier SG

No lah, I think by then Andrew will be in IMH for his fetish about assholes

Chin Eng SG

No lah, I think by then Andrew will be in IMH for his fetish about assholes

but the new garmen will release him and thank him for his support, promote him to be minister of foreign affairs because of his tactfulness and diplomatic skills.

or minister of finance because of his financial savviness.

crimson soldier SG

He will find some bones to pick with the new administration. If growth is 10% then how come not 15%? If President earning 50000 a month then why not work for free?

Man!x SG

i doubt it will come true... i was thinking of Jackie Chan comments about Chinese and freedom and i think it should be applyed to us instead.

Ah Chia SG

i think it should be applyed to us instead.

It had been applied to us for 50 years already, which is why you think like that.

i was thinking of Jackie Chan comments about Chinese and freedom

Did he mention the chinese in Singapore?

Final Message to the Singaporean Youths
In a rare public interview in 1997 Radio Corporation of Singapore, Dr Toh passionately bemoaned the lack of idealism and creativity among the young and its implications for the future of Singapore. He said:

“I would say the generation of the ‘50s and ‘60s took the plunge into politics without ever calculating the costs of the risk and the benefits to be gained. They were driven by ideology. Today’s generation has no culture and averse to taking political risk. Really, an interest in politics is very necessary for the future. But I cannot blame the present generations, because they see the heavy-handed response by the government to dissenting views, even though they know that these matters involve their daily lives.

So the result is that we have produced a younger generation who are meek and therefore very calculating. They are less independent-thinking and lack in initiative. It does not bode well for the emergence of future leaders in politics and business. Robots and computers can be programmed or if you like, can be trained. But the trouble, of course, is that computers lack soul and what we need in Singapore is soul. Because it is soul that makes society.”

http://singaporegovt.blogspot.com/2006/02/part-ii

Ah Chia SG

Lim Hock Siew to pen memoirs
James Wong Wing On
Malaysiakini
11 Jul 07

Encouraged by the determination of fellow former political prisoner Said Zahari to unveil the other side of history, Singapore's Dr Lim Hock Siew has also decided to publish his memoirs.

"Although I have told my story in a documentary film many years ago, I have decided to write it down myself in the form of memoirs like my ‘good brother' Said," he told malaysiakini during an exclusive interview in Kuala Lumpur.

"I am now conducting research to find out more newly declassified materials in London to link up more dots," added the 76-year old founding member of Singapore's now ruling People's Action Party (PAP).

Lim was detained without trial for almost 20 years from 1963 to 1982. (Which makes him the second longest-held political prisoner in Singapore after Chia Thye Poh)

According to him, although he was alleged to have participated in the activities of the so-called ‘Communist United Front' in Singapore from the mid-1950s to early 1960s, he was never formally charged in any open court of law for the allegation.

"I still remember even my police interrogators told me that they knew I had never been a member of any communist party or group," said Lim who was a central committee member of the opposition Socialist Front in Singapore at the time of his arrest.

He was detained during the 1963 Operation Cold Store, which saw more than 130 leaders of opposition parties, labour and student unions and journalists deemed to be left wing held as well.

Serving British interests

"Now, from all the already released records in London as well as other historical researches, it is clear that in launching Operation Cold Store, Lee Kuan Yew was serving the then strategic interests of Britain which wanted Singapore to continue to provide a forward military base in Southeast Asia," said Lim

"It is also now an undeniable fact that Lee worked earlier for the Japanese military during the Occupation making Britain's English materials available in Japanese-language for the occupiers," he added.

Lim was a graduate of Singapore's prestigious Raffles College and a medical doctor trained in University of Malaya, which was then located in Singapore.

"I was also a founder of University of Malaya's Socialist Club which became the cradle for many politicians and intellectuals in both Malaysia and Singapore who fought for independence," he recalled with a sense of pride.

"In those days, anti-colonialism was a very powerful and popular sentiment even in Singapore … I helped found the People's Action Party (PAP) to fight for the freedom of Singapore from British rule and to reunite it with Peninsula to form an united, non-communal and progressive Malaya but when Lee turned right wing and started serving British interests, the party split and I left to join the Socialist Front," he explained.

"We certainly opposed to Singapore being maintained as a military base for Britain and that was why Lee had to crush the Left in Singapore at all cost … The Left in Singapore also opposed to the 1963 merger because we thought it was an opportunistic adventure on the part of Lee who wanted to exploit Tunku Abdul Rahman's anti-communism to suppress the Left in Singapore … we wanted merger but not in the 1963 version which proved to be an utter failure just two years later in 1965.

"I was completely English-educated," stressed Lim, which was obviously a sarcastic and subtle rebuttal to the now stereotyped and widespread notion that the Left in Singapore in the 1950s and 1960s was a "Chinese-educated" phenomenon.

Political conviction

As for his detention, Lim said he did not suffer any physical torture.

"But, detention without charge or trial for an uncertain period of time is itself a form of torture, albeit a psychological one," Lim said.

"When I was first arrested in February 1963, my son was only five-months-old but when I was released in 1982, he was already studying at the Cambridge University in Britain.

"I wish to thank my wife Dr Betruce Cheng for her understanding, fortitude and solidarity for the entire period of my 20-year detention and also for bringing up our boy," he added.

Quizzed on what helped him preserve his sanity during his detention, Lim replied: "Political conviction, intellectual integrity and moral conscience".

"I certainly have no regret for my involvement and participation in politics although I had to pay a heavy price for it. I am still a socialist who believes in democracy for the people and social justice for the working classes," he stressed.

[video]: Dr Lim Hock Siew's introductory speech at Said Zahari's recent book launch of 'The Long Nightmare - My 17 Years As A Political Prisoner'.

http://www.singaporedemocrat.org

Fantagf SG

Bravo, skywood, nice, interesting thread! How I wish it will come true. If it really comes true, let's just do away with SM, MM, and so on. No need so many MPs to run the tiny island. No GRCs please. Must monitor the hopeless lee hsien loong and the shitty old senile dictator.