Objection sir,
USA got much more population than us and not merely 22 times
only.
We do hv election every 4 to 5 years, but unlike USA who has
more talent peoples due to it population and education, they are
more enlighted with human rights and not so fragile, we singapore
is a small country with no potential oppositions of the right
talent to wins over the peoples of Singapore, yet without natural
resources, we are a fragile nation, any wrong move in electing the
wrong person could be total disaster for the whole nation.
The whole scenrios of politics is different between us and USA,
it cannot be an apple to apple comparison, there are culture,
history, populations and many others differences to consider.
Excuse me, mei mei...
Even if the USA has more population than Singapore by another
factor of 3x of what I had stated earlier - it still put
Singapore's democratic practices to be laughable based on the
standards of LKY and the PAP.
If facts are to be stated accurately, the USA has a population
of 307,212,123 (est 2009 - while Singapore's
population is only 4,657,542 (est. 2009).
Despite the larger size in population and land, the USA has the
ability to allow almost 98 percent of the population to participate
in the Electoral Process.
With talents like you, why do you believe in the propaganda
espoused by LKY and the PAP that there are few or no
talents in Singapore ?
Despite the supposed dearth of talent, every 5 years or so - the
PAP is able to recruit new faces whom they claim to be talents.
In other words, should we believe that only the PAP has the
ability to find the rare Singapore Talents, while
everyone not in the PAP are "untalented" ?
Surely, you are too modest about your own talent, considering
the views that you have published in this Speaker's Corner alone
?
If we compare the difference in population ratio
- young Singaporeans have been stated to have
excelled the students in the USA in Mathematics and
Sciences; and in so many other fields, Singapore has boasted to
have even pip the USA in World Ranking.
Yet, when it comes to Talent - why should this Government insist
that we have less talent than the USA ?
We could allow some correctness in the statements made
by LKY and his Government - only insofar as the
physical numbers of talented Singaporeans when compared to the
USA.
However, by the same token of ratio in population
size, Singaporeans would have the same ratio of talents that
this Government refused to allow Singaporeans to know and to
believe that we have a sizeable Singapore Talents
amongst us.
Singapore is about the size of New York City, but with a much
smaller population than the "Big Apple" - estimated to be 18
Million.
Yet in Singapore, we have more mayors and MPs running this
Island City that has a population smaller than New York City.
Should we then conclude that :-
either the claim made by LKY and the PAP is false - that
they have all the available talents but still need so many
talents to run a smaller Singapore City;
or that the ONE MAN MAYOR of New York City is smarter and
more efficient than all the PAP Mayors and MPs that are needed to
run all the Town Councils in Singapore?
Yes, culture, history, population, education, circumstances are
all different - but politics remains as politics - even as issues
may differ.
The Principle of Democratic
Practices remains the same, even as variations may exist in
one form from the other.
Can our Democratic Practices in having an Election every 5 years
amount to being democratic - considering the manipulation that
exist to prevent Singaporeans from fully participating and engaging
on the issues ?
Given the track record of what LKY has said and done, it is
obvious that he will not submit himself to the vagaries of a fair
and open election system that allow Singaporeans a free and open
election - that is to hold one without the broadcast and print
media being muzzled, without the election boundaries being
manipulated, without the GRC becoming ever bigger, without further
increase in rules and regulations that handicap the Alternative
Parties, and with the ballot boxes closely guarded by volunteers
and properly marked to prevent any claims of tampering by any
political parties.
To put it more simply - can you honestly say that a Blue
Label Whisky served in a bar in Singapore is different in
taste from a similar Blue Label served in a New York bar ?
The bar in a Hard Rock Cafe in New York may take on a
different decor and present a different atmoshpere from one in
Singapore or Hong Kong, but the drinks from the bottles should all
be familiar to those who have tasted it.
The standards of a Hard Rock Cafe should be the same throughout
the globe.
Politics as practised in a Democracy should reflect a certain
minimum standard of decency, accuracy, transparency, and honesty -
which unfortunately does not exist in the democratic practices seen
in Singapore since 1957.
