A made-in-Singapore coup detat25Sep06
I found this story on thestar.com.my, and strangely not anywhere
else.
Last week, Spores Lee Kuan Yew said that in the event of a freak
defeat of the PAP in Spore, the Opposition may plunder the
US120billion reserves. Then, he added that the Spore military will
intervene to stop the plunder.
There are so many points-of-discussion I dont know how to
start.
1. The Opposition, once they win an election to become the
ruling-party, will have the mandate of Sporeans. If plundering
means that they use Parliament to give themselves the highest
ministers salaries any where in the world, then the precedent has
already been set, and theres nothing to worry about.
2. Lee Kuan Yew paints the current Opposition as being
untrustworthy and incapable. Well, if that were true, the PAP would
have done an excellent job in sidelining the Opposition after
decades of intimidation. So, if indeed a weak Opposition comes to
power in Spore, we would have the PAP to thank.
3. There are also black-sheep amongst the lofty-PAP MPs (such as
Kahlid, which I blogged about) so does this paralyse the PAP? If
not, why would it not be normal to expect a few bad-hats in the
Opposition?
4. The Spore Military reports to the Prime Minister in power.
Which means if the Opposition wins power, the Military will obey
them, and not the PAP (who would be the Opposition, wouldnt
they?). So why is Lee Kuan Yew so sure the Military will listen to
him, the Opposition? Not to forget that, Spores military is
largely made up of citizens, and in the case of the Opposition
winning, it would mean that a majority of the citizen-soldiers
voted for the Opposition and NOT the PAP. How pompous of the PAP to
assume that their influence would still be intact after losing the
election.
Whatever Lee Kuan Yew says, this is the PAP scaremongering that
they have been feeding Sporeans about the dichotomy between the
benevolent PAP and evil Opposition. Letting the democratic
process take its course, the people of Spore will choose the
Government that leads it. Hopefully, Sporeans will vote for the
most capable, as opposed to voting for the others to spite the
most capable.
However, as voting trends go, the PAPs popular vote has been
ever-sliding to reach just over 66.6% in the last election in May
2006. PAPs grip on Spore politics is surely slipping with each
election. There is no guarantee that Sporeans would keep voting
for the PAP if the economic growth they bring is overtaken by
escalating costs-of-living and a stifiling climate of overbearing
paternalism.
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Will you stand up and go against the Lee Kuan Yew if he really send
in the Army to crush the Opposition if the Opposition party really
win the mandate in the election?I wonder will U.S.A send in their
Army to liberate us from the Lee's regime if this day really
come!!!