http://forums.delphiforums.com/sammyboymod/messages/?msg=65199
Those balless Charlatans from the Worker's Party give all kinds of
hogwash and bullshit about taking on degenerate Scum Lee Kuan Yew
BUT it takes an NUS student to call degenerate Scum Lee Kuan Yew a
DESPOT.
Quite clearly the Worker's Party is not really fit for its
Opposition role, which is not surprising given the fact that it is
just a PHONEY Opposition.
To Low Thia Khiang & Sylvia Lim,
It is to the disadvantage of the WP to allow your Charlatan Cadre
and his fellow Charlatans from the WP like SGLoyalist and
EmptyCage111 and that low degenerate who uses an expletive in his
nick to sully the Party's image.
http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/sub/singapore/story/0,5562,298700,00.html?
Feb 1, 2005
THE KENT RIDGE MINISTERIAL FORUM
How to rein in a 'despot'? Form a party
If you have different views, go into politics and air your ideas,
MM Lee tells young
By Lynn Lee
A STUDENT argued for less government control and remarked that even
the 'most enlightened despot' could turn into a tyrant if his
powers were left unchecked.
The comment led Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew to throw this gauntlet
down to the young: If they believe they have a better point of view
to 'stake' their lives, organise, form a political party and win
people over.
'There is nothing to prevent you from pushing your propaganda, to
push your programme out either to the students or with the public
at large... and if you can carry the ground, if you are right, you
win. That's democracy. We're not preventing anybody,' he
said.
The exchange took place last night during a question-and-answer
session he had with university students at the Kent Ridge
Ministerial Forum held at the NUS University Cultural Centre.
NUS history student Jamie Han had asked for the Internal Security
Act and newspaper laws to be reviewed. This was when he made his
comment on despots.
Furthermore, he said, channels to offer different views 'were
either directly or indirectly controlled by the Government'.
Mr Lee first asked him if he had written to the newspapers, such as
The Straits Times Forum page.
Yes, he replied. But only one letter was published.
Why not start a publication then, asked MM Lee.
The laws made it 'very difficult', the student said.
No, he could register it, said Mr Lee.
Mr Han was not persuaded.
To laughter, Mr Lee replied: 'Well, you have the Internet - put up
a website. You know how to put up a website? If you don't, I know a
friend who can help you.'
He returned to the point about 'despots' only later, in reply to
another question.
This time, another student asked about the coming General
Election.
Mr Lee said the election did not have to be held until 2007 and
between now and then, it was unlikely any group could form a team
that can declare it will do better than the current Government. All
it could offer was to be a 'different voice'.
He asked: 'Those of you who really feel strongly that you got a
better point of view, I say organise yourself - as I did. I took my
life in my hands and said I stand for this.'
He recalled how when he met the Plen, or Fang Chuan Pi, in Beijing
in 1992, the communist leader had told him that he had saved his
life when he could have ordered him killed for taking on the
communists in the 1950s.
Said Mr Lee: 'I said 'Thank you'. He could have shot me. But I told
him, 'You are not a fool and you knew that if you had assassinated
me, your organisation would have been crushed because I was not
unpopular.'
'Had I been unpopular, then you have got rid of despot... but I was
no despot. That generation knew that I fought for them.'
At this point, Mr Lee asked the student who prompted the response:
How old was his father?
'50-plus,' said the student.
MM Lee said: 'If he's 50 plus, then he will remember. You don't put
your life at risk in calling me a despot. Well, in order to have
your views heard, if you profoundly believe that you have that
passion, I say stake your life, take on with your duties, come out,
put your programme, sort it out.'
He said too that the current leadership had proven its mettle,
having seen the country through the Asian financial crisis in 1997
and the Sars outbreak in 2003.
Its team of 'resourceful and quick-witted, well-organised' leaders
had responded to these problems methodically and
systematically.
'If you believe that a vociferous opposition with good ideas would
have responded in that way, you are wrong,' he said.
He added that the People's Action Party had remained in power by
delivering results and getting good people to be with the
party.
'That's how we stay in office, not by monopolising... but by
co-opting, incorporating and moving forward. So my message to you
is a simple one. Remember how we got here. And before you make
fundamental changes, make sure that your alternative is
viable.
'This is not an ordinary country. You have two election terms of a
dud, lousy, incompetent government and you will set Singapore back
so badly, it may take you decades to recover, and maybe never. If
you dismantle the organisation that brought us here, don't believe
it will come back.'
