LKY and the PAP are simply too insecure to allow any better
person to stand shoulder to shoulder with him to offer any ideas
that are as superior and creative as his or that of the PAP.
Since the 1950s, LKY has seen many talents whom he feel are more
capable then himself, and have praised them publicly.
One such person was Lim Chin Siong, whom LKY introduced to then
Chief Minister David Marshall as the most able Singaporean to lead
Singapore into independence - being a great orator able to convey
ideas and motivate the masses, especially the Chinese educated.
When LKY had to tussle for political power in the in-fighting
between LKY's Western-educated political philosphies against Lim
Chin Siong's Eastern-ideas of people's welfare, LKY attempted
to use the British Colonial Government to exercise the ISA to
arrest Lim Chin Siong's group on the pretext that they were
Communist agents.
Amazingly, the British Colonial Government declined to be used
in LKY's politics - and had instead allowed the "Free Competition
of Political Ideals" to flourish in Singapore in the 1950s.
It was during the competition of political wills during
Singapore merger with Malaysia, that saw the Lim Chin Siong's Group
split from the PAP, to establish the Barisan Socialis
Party.
In order to prevent the Lim Chin Siong's group from
derailing LKY's ambitious plans in the merger process
that Operation Cold Storage was put into effect, and almost the
entire top echelon of the new Barisan Socialist Party were all
put into detention without trial. This time the Internal Security
acted on the instructions of the Internal Security
Council - {formed by representatives from the UK
Government, Singapore self-ruled State Government, and the
Malaysian Government Representative, and with the Council being
dominated by the PAP members}.
After a few years languishing uselessly in ISA confinement, Lim
Chin Siong negotiated for his own exile from Singapore - without
being forced to sign any declaration that he was a Communist
propagating armed revolution to overthrow the legitimately elected
government of Singapore.
The other leaders of the Barisan Socialists were jailed for over
ten years, each being released when the political environment
stabilised for LKY and the PAP - and with the World's longest
Political Prisoner Chia Thye Poh being released after 32 years
of ISA imprisonment that created an anomaly and a
political embarrassment to LKY and the PAP Government in the 21st
Century.
This insecure political philosphy of self-preservation and
self-centredness has been developed by LKY and the PAP -
putting themselves above Singaporeans - resulted in countless other
politicians being struck down. Since the politics of
the 1960s, these included Dr Lee Siew Choh,
J.B.Jeyaratnam, Francis Seow, Tang Liang Hong, and Chee Soon
Juan.
There were also many others who were younger and had the
potential to have developed as leaders in the political scene for
the Alternative Parties, but these were incarcerated and persecuted
based on dubious charges.
These included tertiary educated persons from the NUS - and not
from the supposedly hotbed of communist infested Nanyang
University claimed by LKY to one during the 1950s. These
included Tan Wah Piow {the NUS Student Union President}, Ms Teo Sur
Lung {a trained lawyer from NUS, a keen social worker}, Ms Tang
Hong Har {trained lawyer from NUS} - both ladies being part of the
"Marxist Conspiracy" in 1987 - and there must be
countless others who are capable but had their political interests
turned off.
Can there be any Communists in Singapore, when the tools of a
Stalinist-Communist state is firmly in the hands of a State firmly
in the grip of LKY and the PAP ?
In such a political environment where Stalinist-Communist
politics is shamelessly and unapologetically practised by
LKY and his PAP, while constructing a thin veneer of Capitalist
style open market economy - can Singapore ever hope to grow
into a full fledge mature First World that LKY can only dream off
in his remaining years ?
‘Marxist Plot :
Catholic Church vs LKY’
‘The 1987 ISA Arrests and International Civil Society responses to
political repression in Singapore’
‘Singapore
Founding Fathers – Part 1 : History of PAP’
‘Lim Chin Siong vs Lee Kuan Yew : The true and shocking history’
‘Lim Chin Siong – A comet in our sky’
‘Was Lim Chin Siong really a Communist ?’
‘Singapore : Road to
Independence’
‘Marxist Conspiracy’ – 20 years on