quote from Nelstar:
I don't sympathize with his cause and I don't connect with his
sentiments when he goes namecalling, shouting, losing his temper
etc.
I sympathize with JBJ though, feeling that he demonstrated the
civilised fight against PAP.
He contested with them, and apparently he accepted the eventual
outcome and showed that he can live with whatever hardships caused
by fighting for politics through more civilised methods. He is a
civilised testament of how we should let the people decide who to
support instead.
While some of you might not like not like his behaviour of
shouting and losing his temper e.t.c, why not look at it from
another point of view? he might be very passionate abt Singapore,
which would explain the above behaviour you mentioned. Its
important that we have passionate ppl to work for the country
instead of the PAP, whose impression to me is to leach our money
and our labor, while treating us like slaves. Singapore, to me, is
in a bad shape. Honestly, i feel our opposition isn't doing much
simply because only 2 seats in parliament is being occupied at the
moment. Chiam See Tong is old, so is JB Jeyaratnam. Opposition
figures are few in Singapore simply because of the fear of
defamation lawsuits, which some ppl see it as being lopsided. Not
to mention their livelihood. At times like this, we cannot afford
to lose more prominent opposition figures. The consequences of not
having enough opposition is dire. GST has already rise to 5 per
cent, electricity bills have gone up, but definitely not our money.
Do we want to see GST rising to 7 per cent after the upcoming
elections, water/electricity bills going up and yet we are unable
to do anything? So instead of condemning CSJ, which might be seen
as the weakest link among opposition figures, why not give him a
chance and see what he do and view his argument from another
perspective? if there are more opposition figures in parliament,
the ppl, we could be sure that our views are not being treated like
dirt, like the casino thing, where the PAP suka suka decided on the
casino even tho there are a lot of ppl that are against it.
