Lee Kuan Yew's First World Country. Or Alice in
Wonderland.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
Lee Kuan Yew wrote a book "From Third World to First" meaning
Singapore. This is what Singapore is. Is it a first world
country?
The Singapore constitution guarantees freedom of speech and
expression. In fact none exist. Dr. Chee is presently undergoing a
trial in court for doing just that. That is for allegedly making a
speech. To speak you need a license. He did not have it.
The Constitution of Singapore claims there is rule of law. There is
none. All judges are appointed at the pleasure of Lee Kuan Yew and
removed if he is displeased. In order to please Lee Kuan Yew and to
keep their jobs, they always punish Lees opponents. Regardless of
any law.
All newspapers and news media is wholly owned and controlled by the
Lee Kuan Yew government. Therefore they publish only politically
correct news or rather propaganda. The head of the executive
committee in the Straits Times, the largest newspaper is Miss Chua
Mui Hoong. She is an intelligence of officer with Internal Security
Department, the government intelligence agency in Singapore whose
main job is to arrest and convict political opponents and detain
them indefinitely without trial. As well as her job as intelligence
officer, she doubles as an editor of the paper.
The Singapore government claims that their GDP is several millions
or billions and that the per capita income is US$20,000 or more.
This gives the impression that Singaporeans are rich. Nothing is
further from the truth. Singapore has a few millionaires from
abroad, who are parking their money there. Most of it is illegal
money. Singapore is a money laundering center used by Burmese drug
lords and Indonesian criminals who defrauded banks in Indonesia.
These have placed their illegal millions in Singapore banks.
The money of these criminals inflates the GDP of the country as a
whole. In fact about half of Singaporeans can barely survive and
many are unable to pay even their utility bills. Many of these
people are just above the poverty line or below. Since Singapore
does not provide any reasonable welfare payments for the
underprivileged, they are given a few hindered dollars a month and
asked to fend for themselves. The government is not interested in
these people. Lee Kuan Yew believes that it is their own fault that
they have not succeeded in life.
As most Singaporeans live in high rise government built flats, it
makes it convenient for suicides. All they have to do is to jump
off their high rise apartments. By this method, suicide is
guaranteed. Recently with the government having built the Mass
Rapid Transport rail system, people have been jumping onto oncoming
trains to kill themselves. At the latest figures, there are at
least 2 suicides a day. Most of those who die this way come from
the half of Singapore who lives in poverty or just above the
poverty line. The government is not bothered by these suicides.
They may even be glad these people have gone. Lee Kuan Yew only
wants successful people. In his thinking, mediocre people have no
right to live anyway. Hitler too thought that way. Hitler killed
disabled people.
Singapore has CPF. It stands for Central Provident Fund. It is
meant to give you retirement savings when you reach 55. Lee has now
declared that it is no longer going to pay anything when you reach
55. Lee wants people to continue working until they die. He
believes retirement is a bad thing. Retirement he says, kills
people. He has stated he does not intend to retire. He expects
others to follow his example. Yesterday, he said in a Straits Times
interview that at his age of 84, he still cycles, swims and does
rock climbing among other vigorous feats on a daily basis. Although
he has not said that he intends to run the marathon in under 2
hours, he may very well be planning that! But looking at his
picture he looked more a frail old man. Whether it was a case of
dementia or other mental illness, it is hard to say. The report did
not make clear whether he wanted Singaporeans to exercise like
him.
There is no minimum wage law or anti discriminatory laws in
Singapore. Any employer can discriminate against Malays and Indians
in employment by a simple expedient. By requiring them to have
knowledge of Chinese. There was one case where an Indian knew
spoken Chinese. He was still refused the job when the employer then
required a new qualification, knowledge of written Chinese! I have
heard another case where even though the non Chinese knew both
spoken and written Chinese he was still refused the job! He did not
know the principles of Confucianism and Taoism by heart!
Older people even though fit and well are still refused jobs. They
are told they are too old. There was one case where the man was 60
and very fit. He was still denied the job. He could not run the
mile in under 4 minutes!
These older people in Singapore who are kicked out of their jobs do
not have any retirement. The CPF is not given to them. In any case,
the do not have any CPF funds anyway. The government makes house
prices so expensive that they have used all their money in CPF to
pay for the house. When they are old, they have no retirement, no
savings and no job. So the older Singaporeans end up as toilet
cleaners and food stall table cleaners. You can see them every
where in Singapore. Their ages range from 65 to 95. Even if they
can hardly stand, they must work. Otherwise they starve. According
to Lee Kuan Yew, if they are suffering, it is their own fault for
not becoming an offshore banker!
In Singapore you can hardly hear anyone talking politics. They are
silent. Government informers are everywhere and are all ears. It
has been known that simple people who have been discovered
criticizing the government have suddenly descended into all sorts
of problems. They suddenly lost their jobs and their promotions.
Many of them have had no choice other than the only job available
to such cases. Toilet cleaners. So when you see a younger man who
is a toilet cleaner, you can probably guess why. He must have
criticized the government and was found out.
In Singapore you cannot chew gum. If you did, it will be
confiscated and you will be punished. I do not know whether the
police will use the gum in your mouth as evidence. If so, how do
they compel you to spit it out? And if you refused, can Singapore
cop use force to pry open your mouth, stick their finger in it, to
force it out! I do not know how they do it, in this first world
country! I shudder to think.
Singapore claimed recently that it has become a more liberal
country. And to prove it they have now allowed bar top dancing. It
is like this. Girls or young women are first required to remove
their upper garments. As for lower garments, they can keep them on,
but it has to be flimsy. In other words, not too much clothing.
Something like a bikini is preferred. They then are asked to stand
on top of a bar and to dance. As to what kind of dance is not
specified. I do not believe that ballet is one of the acceptable
dances but other kinds are permissible. Dances like the samba, the
gig, salsa or disco is fine I think. But I am not too sure. I think
bars may hand a list of acceptable dances. I am not sure.
The dancing is accompanied by music. Men are encouraged to surround
the bar and admire the women. Also perhaps their dancing
proficiency. I am not sure if the men are allowed to touch the
women but I understand that different establishments have different
rules. Someone had asked what this bar top dancing had even
remotely to do with the government's claim of liberalizing the
country; but the question remains unanswered.
I understand that recently Dr. Vivian Balakrishnan, who is a
minister in Lee Kuan Yew's government, had discouraged this rather
unusual trick of bar top dancing. He correctly pointed out the
women may fall off the bar table and injure themselves, as well as
others in the fall; the boyfriends of the women on the bar top may
start fighting with each other and murder and mayhem may ensue; and
all other manner of untold problems may come about. I understand
that the women in Singapore, have decided to take the advice of the
minister, like they always do in Singapore, and have stopped the
practice altogether. I do not know whether Lee Kuan Yew will have
any other equally unconventional means of liberalizing Singapore,
but we will have to wait and see...
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