Rhonda, is this the kind of society we want, whereby the top man
resigns or be censured, for mistakes not of his own?
Hasn't our society been the kind that 'if it was my mistake, i
accept full responsibility, but hell if i am gonna take the rapt
for someone's else mistake!'?
What other nations do is their wish, and what we do is ours. We
need not 'ape' anyone just to look good. We want pragmatic
solutions, not theatre acts where real lives are concerned.
If you feel DPM Wong is to take the blame for the officers
who had been negligent, then with equal measure, shouldn't DPM
Wong take all credit for the safety and security, and low crime
rate here in Singapore we had enjoyed during his tenure? And
you want his head for mistakes made by others, operator fault
and not systemic, in this single episode of Mas's escape?
Hadn't a remorseful and contrite DPM Wong give a full public
apology, even when it was not his fault, but for his
department, to all in print and the media? Are you still
human? And how many actually want his head? Must a fully
functioning society bow before the irrational minority asking for a
side-show?
During the Election 2006 - James Gomez bungling nomination
papers saga - he did also gave his apology in a very public manner
to the Staff at the Election Office and to the general public.
Did MM LKY accepted the humility of James Gomez with his
apologies and actions taken to make amends towards the Election
Office ?
Surprisingly, MM LKY led hsi MIW Team in driving the screws
deeper to get a reaction from the WP Leadership - despite the fact
that WP Low Thia Kiang had proposed that what needs to be done had
been done and ''Let's move on.."
Yet, a dissatified MM LKY will not allow matters to rest and
further questioned how the WP leaders could call for
everyone to ''Let's move on'' when he believed that the erroneous
statements made by James Gomez surrounding the missing papers had
implied the Election Office to be inefficient and the
Staff being dishonest.
There was no room in MM LKY's intelligence for honest human
error - and his skill at extending a superficial injury into a
deeper self-inflicted wound based on his art of extreme exageration
never fail him in his skills to extract maximum mileage
from the mistake of a political opponent.
He insisted on the WP Leadership to do more then just an apology
from James Gomez.
By his own standards, should we not expect an even higher
standard from his Elitist Group of Super-Human Talents - the
'creme de la creme' from what little talent that Singapore
has ?
MM LKY had once lamented the lack of personal responsibility
from the local culture compared to the Japanese, when the Top
Leader of its Corporate World will accept FULL and UNMITIGATED
responsibility for the mistakes made by the upper, middle
or lower rank staff of the corporation that he head.
Such a culture is also part of the Japanese character in its
Political Establishment, in which we have time and again observed
the changes in the Political Leadership of political parties, as
well as Ministeries.
Why will MM LKY expect Singaporeans to consider following such
high standards of principles from the Japanese, but will not follow
suit in his own standards or that of his own MIW Super Talent Team
?
