continuation:
3.LKY fought smart with British---played by the rules.
i dunt think he would miss any dead line for submission
or filing appeal of cases,or accused small civil servant
wrongly.
i means he fought clean with British.If he fought clean with
opposition is another issue.
read how ex-President of Sg C.V. Devan Nair wrote in 1994:
quote
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[quote]Indeed, my fellow detainees and I had as legal counsel a
brilliant lawyer and vocal freedom-fighter by the name of Lee Kuan
Yew, who has publicly borne witness to the comfortable
circumstances in which we lived under detention, and how he was
able to visit us, without supervision, to discuss, among other
things, strategies for bringing the colonial rule of our jailers to
an end.
After the statutory period of 21 days' solitary confinement, my
fellow detainees and I were allowed to live together in camp
conditions, whether in Changi or, even better, on salubrious St.
John's Island. Our
lawyer, Lee Kuan Yew, was freely allowed to visit and talk to us,
without Special Branch supervision, and to plan with us the
downfall of the British colonial power. So free were we as
political detainees to pursue our own interests and studies that we
light-heartedly referred to our places of detention as "St. John's"
University and "Changi" University.
4.
Lee was central to this combination, since his work representing
unions and radical students had provided a bridge.
This work had rapidly increased in 1954 to 1955. This work included
helping:
· leftwing (see below) students who had been arrested in May 1954
because of their protest against National Service
· University of Malaya socialists accused of publishing seditious
Fajar article, and
· legal advice for leftwing unions such as the Singapore Bus
Workers Union.
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5.u think Special Branch or the Government then dunt want LKY
disappear or caught him making mistakes?or course they
wanted.
all communist or their supporter,incl LKY,must be kept under
control.
LKY,unlike mr Ravi,fought for his clients carefully.what
would happened to LKY if SP knew his activities,plotted to
overthrow the government?LKY just settle in Mount Pleasant
for good if he get caught.No joke.
Unlike Mr Ravi in 2006,just write a letter to AG,cc media,if he
made
a mistake.
To be fair to Mr Devan Nair,
perhaps you could also have quoted the following :
Former
President criticise suppression of dissent
But as Singapore grew prosperous and
stable and the communist threat faded, Mr Nair began to have doubts
about his captain's iron-fisted methods. Perhaps sensing his ally's
doubts, Mr Lee asked Mr Nair to leave his power base as head of the
trade union congress and move into the presidential palace. As Mr
Nair puts it, "He kicked me upstairs."
Being president, he says now, was "the silliest job in the world.
All you had to do was cut ribbons." His frustration grew.
But before he could speak out, Mr Nair found himself at the centre
of a rumour-mongering campaign that labelled him a drinker and
womanizer. He says he was neither, and he suspects that Mr Lee had
government doctors slip him hallucinatory drugs to make him appear
befuddled. "Lee Kuan Yew decided: This man is going to be a threat,
so I'd better begin a total demolishment of his character. He's
very good at that."
Why didn't Mr Nair challenge his leader at the time? That question
has haunted him ever since. "I was prone to hero worship and he was
our captain," he says, lowering his head. "Even when I began to
feel uneasy, loyalty to the captain superseded all other feelings.
That was my weakness."
Mr Nair is not bitter. He gives Mr Lee credit for making Singapore
a wealthy, stable place, an accomplishment in which he is proud to
have shared.
But how much greater that accomplishment would be if
Singapore were a wealthy stable democracy. To him,
Singapore today is a soulless place whose
only ideology is materialism. Whether he could have changed that, Mr Nair wishes
now he had spoken up earlier
MM LKY seems to have a colorful
history of working with partners and dumping them after they are no
longer of any use.
Where could LKY picked up such ruthless leadership ideology, other
then his admitted admiration while working as an interpreter for
the Japanese Imperial Army during WW-2 ? Is it amazing to learn of
the common thread that bind LKY so closely to a trusted
SR Nathan - who performed so well in the ISD
?
With the British, LKY was working with the Left Wing PAP members to
gain the support of the larger Chinese educated population, while
at the same time plotting with the British Special Branch to have
these men arrested.
Do we need younger Singaporeans like Ravi to learn from such a
Mentor ?
u think ur grand/parents
voted for pap for no reasons or
just voted for oppositions?
LKY and his commrades hv done many things.read more
lah.
yes,i am pro pap.i just support party which have done
good
for sg or the party show it will do good for sg.
u can call me running dog of pap etc.
but i and my kids just hope to be running dogs of
stable lifes.
Yes, LKY and his comrades - Devan
Nair included - have certainly done many things; and here is an
admission of two who have served as LKY's faithful Servants,
before finding themselves at the other ends of the ropes held by
LKY.
Is the Singapore
Way so unique and a creation of MM LKY's thinking, or
is a left-over from the Colonial Past, which we are supposed to
have freed ourselves from since Independence ? Could we have gone
to a higher level of political, social and economic development -
if we allowed ourselves the opportunity to Freedom ?
Back in 1979, others in the
International Community - whom we had proudly
identified ourselves with - have seen the shortcomings of the POWER
OF ONE, and have decided to expel us. In the usual calculated way,
in order to pre-empt local public discussion, the situation was
cleverly turn around to make ourselves look better then the real
outcome.
Singaporeans were told a convenient 'white lie', and the lie
continues.
Dogs are supposed to be intelligent animals, well trained, and can
even attend to the needs of the handicapped.
What use are a pack of dogs that run aimlessly at useless commands
to entertain the Master's Voice ?
