i tell you what.. be active, be aware..
mostly, be aware..
and know that democracy is spelt with a "c" near the end, not
"z"
CSJ is an attention whore.. he doesn't give a shit about you,
your child, the people, the citizens, our country, or
democracy...
he's just a fucktard who destroyed the opposition with his
bullshit, attention whoring, backstabbing fiasco of a party which
he stole from CST...
and don't forget that..
your enemy's enemy may not be your friend..
and before the rest of the fucktards who infest SC start calling
me a MIW whatever, i have no love for politicians as a whole.. i do
not give my loyalty to mere political parties.. my only loyalty is
to my country.. and it pains me to see people falling for
charlatans like CSJ... as much as it pains me to see the MIW
squeeze people for all they are worth...
be aware.. get in the know.. live your life... make politics and
politicians a mere afterthought.. they don't deserve your
attention.. and if they screw up, throw them out with your vote..
and if they do well, give them your vote.. no matter if it is
whatever the hell party or MIW or WP or whatever..
now.. THAT, my friend, is democracy... the power of the people..
not whatever the hell that attention whore CSJ says... he
prostituted his party and politically sodomised the one who brought
him up politically... you think he'll even hesitate to throw you,
those whom he doesn't even know, to the dogs?
again, i reiterate: your enemy's enemy may not be your
friend...
the best gift you can give to your child is to have a mind of
his own and the courage to make the right decisions.. THAT is what
democracy is dependent on.. not whatever airy-fairy things you've
sprouted
If this is not another dishonest post from the Bear in
desecrating a Member from the Alternative Parties by back-stabbing
him without giving that person any course to defend
himself.
Over the last one year, if you have the gall to press home your
insulting views towards CSJ, why will you not hit the headlines by
doing it in his face at a Public Forum ?
If deriding CSJ as an ''attention whore'' - does it make
you any better as a cute and cuddly harmless Bear
?
Or should the truth be said that you are no more then
a dishonest lying political whore - acting as a fifth
columnist - lurking between the threads to insert your sly
remarks that suggest it is useless to be
anti-establishment, and at the same time making
sly disparages at the image of the Alternative
Parties.
Against your own advise, you will occassionally inject some
hypocritical dosage of anti-establishment remarks that you
hope will keep your image as a political neutral.
In robbertteh's thread - “Political control stratagem to
depoliticize the people”. you made a sly effort at
attempting to deflate robbertteh's piece to arouse the political
interest of participants in this SC - which under most
circumstances anyone will see it as innocuous act from an
inocuous commentator, until and unless one is concious to the
trend in your consistent mischief.
you're doing a great job trying to
politicise everything, causing fatigue in the people.. pissing
people off... showing that between the MIW and the opposition is
like choosing the Iron Maiden and the Torture Rack..
so people tune out..
the same way as CSJ is doing
damned well pissing people off and making them not want to have
anything to do with politics
now.. think about it..
With your analogy of
choice described as ''between the MIW and the
opposition is like choosing the Iron Maiden and the Torture
Rack'' - have you considered your position as a
''Third Instrument of Discouragement'' to be selected from the
vast array of tools in the Ancient Chinese Torture Chamber
?
Do we need your 'Wet
Blankets' around to stifle the new ambers, when you are
only capable of wetting yourself in bed at the sight of the ambers
?
now... think about
this.
What is it with you with your continuous effort
- done with such consistent diligence - to perpetuate a
lie about CSJ, CST and the SDP - even when you have
been debunked on at least two previous occassions in
2007 ?
Did CSJ backstabbed CST and hijacked the SDP from CST ?
Was CST acting as a mentor to CSJ - and groomed CSJ -
or was CSJ recruited by SDP Chairman Ling How Doong in 1991 as
a result of being pushed by the general dissatisfaction
from the SDP Execo with CST's lack lustre performance -
in being reluctant and ineffective - in Parliament since he
won his first election in 1984 ?
“History
of Singapore Democratic Party”.
The
SDP was founded in 1980
by Mr Chiam See
Tong,
a British-educated lawyer who had contested several elections as an
independent candidate since the mid 1970s.
The party had originally wanted to contest the Anson constituency
by-election in 1981
but for the sake of
opposition unity, gave way to the Worker's Party candidate
J.B.
Jeyaretnam. It paid off, as the opposition
won their first seat in parliament for the first time since
Singapore's independence in 1965. The party's first success came in
the 1984
General Elections, when
their former secretary general Chiam See
Tong won the Potong
Pasir's seat. Chiam's election victory
came about despite some negative
campaigning by the People's Action
Party, which had at one time urged
voters not to vote for Chiam because his O-level
results were poorer
than those of the PAP candidate, Mr Mah Bow Tan.[citation
needed]
In
the 1988
general elections,
following the dismissal of J.B.
Jeyaretnam from parliament in 1986
after a financial
conviction, the party managed to defend its sole and only
opposition seat. As a result, Chiam See Tong became the opposition
leader in parliament. A moderate, Chiam claimed that he was not
opposing for the sake of opposing. He also said: "But if they (the
government) do the wrong things which are not good for Singapore,
then we will oppose fearlessly" (Business Times: Dec. 15,
1980)
In
the 1991
general elections, in
its biggest success ever, probably as a result of the by-election
strategy employed since then in which opposition parties would
agree to contest less than half of the seats in parliament,
allowing the PAP to be returned to power on nomination day thus
reassuring Singaporeans of a PAP government, the SDP won 3 seats
at Potong Pasir
SMC, Bukit Gombak
SMC and Nee Soon Central
SMC.
The victory at Nee Soon Central was very close as the winning
candidate Cheo Chai
Chen only won by 168 votes against the
PAP incumbent Ng Pock
Too. Apart from Chiam See
Tong and Cheo, the other winner was
party chairman Ling How
Doong.
Together with one seat won by
the Workers' Party of
Singapore in the same election, the
opposition won a total of 4 seats. Though this was still very small
compared to the 77 seats won by the PAP, the results were
considered as a grave setback to the ruling party and the then
prime minister Goh Chok
Tong,
who was only in his first year in office. It was also the best ever
opposition performance since 1963,
when the Barisan Sosialis
Party managed to win 13 out of 51
seats.
Buoyed by the results in
1991,
the SDP decided to contest the 1992
Marine
Parade Group Representation Constituency
by-election. The GRC
was held by none other than the then premier; Goh Chok
Tong.
Nonetheless, the SDP decided to put up a good fight by recruiting
Dr Chee Soon
Juan,
a university lecturer, for the election. The PAP won 72% of the
votes and the SDP, led by Chee, won 25% and other smaller parties
won the rest of the vote.
However the rise of the SDP was not
to be, as differences soon emerged between Chiam and Chee. In 1993,
three months after joining the SDP, Chee was accused of using his
research funds to send his wife’s PhD dissertation to the
United
States. Dr Chee had asserted, and still
does, that this was not the case as his wife was an employee in the
same department at National University
of Singapore at that time and was working with
him, sharing and collaborating in their research, and that the
funds were legitimately used. The National University
of Singapore decided to sack Chee.[3]
Chee
claimed this was a
political vendetta plotted by the ruling party as his supervisor
Mr S.R. Vasoo
was a PAP
MP.[citation
needed] The PAP had, however,
denied the accusation and insisted that the offence was
real. Chiam
wanted to censure Chee
but the former was not supported by the Central Executive
Committee and they voted to oust him as
general secretary and to replace him with Chee. Supporters of Chiam
left the party and formed the Singapore People's
Party in 1994,
which Chiam took over from Sin Kek
Tong as the secretary-general in the
1997 general election.
The
SDP decided to strip Chiam See Tong's membership after the latter
had gone to the Singapore Press Club and denounced the SDP and
the Central Executive
Committee.[4]
Had he lost his
membership, under the law, he would also have to lose his seat in
parliament. The courts ruled that his dismissal was unfair and that
he should be allowed to remain as a member of the
SDP.
In the 1992 GRC By-Election at Marine Parade - CSJ led the
SDP in increasing the popular vote to 27.8% - {the PAP GRC
took 72.9%} - when in the 1991 General Election the SDP had only
received 22.8%, and the PAP took 77.2%}.
This startling result from Goh Chok Tong's constituency was seen
as a potential threat if a University Lecturer can destabilise the
constituency of a PAP Stalwart - and if more lecturers or similar
professionals should follow CSJ in taking a political plunge.
This 1992 By-Election shock started the wheels in motion to
cut CSJ down to size, with his NUS Faculty Head - Dr Vassoo, {who
is a PAP elite and whom CSJ decline an invitation from Vassoo to
join the PAP} - digging up a one year old transport claim for taxi
fare reimbursement to CSJ's field trip as part of his NUS research
work.
Dr Vassoo had already approved the reimbursement one year
earlier, but after the 1992 By-election - took issue with the
amount that CSJ had claimed in his travel voucher, with the
disputed amount being less then $2.00 - between the
amount paid and the amount that Dr Vassoo claimed should have been
the correct fare.
One will have to question the brilliance in Dr Vassoo retracting
his approval one year later to dispute a fare difference of less
than $2.00 - which in all circumstances will have to be different
fares considering the taxi route taken, the
condition of the traffic at different times of the day, or
different days of the week.
Still the charges of dishonesty was pushed, and Dr Vassoo sued
CSJ for libel - from his statements that
suggest Vassoo was dishonest in making the charges at CSJ.
The second charge of dishonesty levelled at CSJ was also
from an reimbursement already paid some time prior
to the 1992 By-Election, when CSJ claimed for postage costs in
mailing his dissertation to an approved US
University that had also included research papers done by
his wife - which CSJ claimed is partially contributing to
his total work - and was approved by the receiving US
university as this was common practise at that tertiary level
of research work.
The dispute was over Dr Vassoo claim that he was not
advised of this matter by CSJ, and resulted in the charges of
dishonesty being raised for spending NUS funds to mail his wife
dissertation for assessment overseas.
As a neutral observer, one need only ask 'how did Dr Vassoo come
to know of the contents after the 1992 By-Election, when the
parcel had already left Singapore, and CSJ had already been
reimbursed for the postage costs ?
The rest is history as printed in the Wikipedia, and Chiam
See Tong has all the rights to make amendments if he has any
dispute with the recorded events.
With the picture straightened, one will need to ask
what your agenda as the Bear - in consistently
maulng CSJ dead body, as well as sabotaging the efforts
of everyone by pouring cold water on any efforts to widen
the political experience in this SC ?
Have you contributed anything of substance when you
have been observed to be devoid of any thoughts, except
to sneakily shoot your silent torpedoes and lay your contact
mines to disparage others who have more courage than you in
speaking their minds openly.
A whore has at least done a more honest service, what have you
done except to become a political carpet beggar.
