Governments have changed through different ways, the rise of a
opposition leader, the power of the people, internal strife (normal
in coalition government, but there can also be from within the same
party), revolution by the military.....but it only involved people
of the countries, whether the changes are right or wrong, the
process legal or illegal, the people bear the consequences. Iran
welcomed a new leader Ayatollah Khomeini; Marcos toppled by the
"people's power" of the philippines, Thaksin sent into exile in a
military takeover......are the people happier ever after, some are,
some are not, but they have to live with it.
american cannot go into Iran and support a new leader to topple the
islamic government, no matter how evil they say the government is;
chinese who left Taiwan and became US citizens cannot go back and
vote for Ma Ying Jiu, no matter how corrupt they think ah bian is;
Singaporean cannot in anyway have any part in any attempt to change
the Thai military government, no matter how illegal they think it
is and how much money they lost because of them.....because they
ARE FOREIGNERS, changing government is the affair of the citizens,
the people of the country.
Foreigners, even if they reside within the country, have no right
to meddle, if they have the conscience they think they have.
Foreigners who live outside the countries can criticise the
government as much as they like, but they don't have the moral
ground to criticise the people of Singapore, whether they are for
or against the government, and most Singaporean are in between.
People who give up Singapore citizenship are foreigners. The fact
that they were here for many years, would hopefully give them the
background to comment constructively and criticize relevantly. Many
expats live in Singapore for over 10 years, know more about
singapore than many singaporeans. They don't going around and say
that all Singaporeans are PAP supporters. 
The problem in Singapore will have to be faced by Singaporeans, not
by foreigners. Foreigners are welcome to give comments and
criticism, but don't criticise singaporean for what we do or what
we don't do, for in the end, it is we, the Singaporean who have to
live with the changes, or the 'no change'.
The present government is a mountain, a damn big mountain, it used
to block the tyhoon from hitting my home, its streams used to
provide the water we needed, but now mud is flowing down the
mountain to contaminate my drinking water, my family is threatened
with landslide, we have to do something to the mountain. Move it
completely? no, we don't want typhoon to hit us 20 times every
year. May be just shaping it is good enough, a lot of work has to
be done.
How hard, how long, we don't know, but changkol by changkol, spade
by spade, we will move, 'yi gong yi san'? the modern version. All
we need and all we have are those with us.. . to those who are only
able to move some luggages, von voyage, good luck, but please don't
tell us how much to changkol, how to dig, for we don't tell you how
far you should go and what you should do in your new home. Thank
you. 
