What Toh Chin Chye really did for Singapore?
A few days ago, former PAP minister cum co-founder Toh Chin Chye
kicked the bucket. From the MSM, I gather the impression that other
than holding the most insignificant portfolio like Minister for
Science and Technology and Minister for Health, Toh basically did
nothing.
Among the 1st generation PAP leaders, we all knew Rajaratnam
spearheaded foreign affairs. Goh Keng Swee destroyed Singapore
well-being in the long run by ruining domestic capital and set up
the abominable GIC with Jewish Rothschild shylock. We knew Lim Kim
San put Singaporeans into debt by forcing us to stay in HDB. That
given a choice, most would prefer to stay in the worst slum than
PAP's HDB barrack. We knew Kuan Yew cannot do any good things but
ISA, FT polices, property ponzi....etc.
But what did Toh Chin Chye did, that make him stand side by side
with Raja and Goh, and even ahead of Lim Kim San?
Toh Chin Chye was the kingmaker
Toh was beholden to Kuan Yew because he re-created PAP modelling
after tyrannical Lenin's Communist Party. This helped Kuan Yew to
consolidate power by suppressing grassroot democracy.
According to wikipedia, The election of the CEC through the PAP
cadre system has been described as a "closed system" in which "the
cardinals appoint the pope and the pope appoints the cardinals. The
PAP's organisational structure has Leninist roots whereby a group
of elite PAP members known as cadres elect 18 CEC members from a
list of candidates. Originally when this structure was organised in
1957, the outgoing committee recommended a list of candidates for
the next CEC. This has been changed recently so that the CEC
nominates eight members and the party caucus selects the remaining
ten.
The cadre system was started in 1957 by Toh Chin Chye, in an
effort to prevent the popular leftist faction of the PAP, which
dominated the early Party at the grassroots level and many of its
committees, and composed much of its early membership, from ever
taking control of the CEC again.
Before 1957, every party member could vote in CEC elections.
However on August 9 1957, the leftists took control of the CEC, and
the original founders (the "Peranakan Circle") lost control. After
Lim Yew Hock, cracked down on many of the leftist leaders in the
CEC in 1957 (as well as many non-PAP leftist leaders in general),
the Peranakan Circle regained control of the CEC.
CNA today wrote that, in a tribute years later, Mr Lee Kuan Yew
said without Dr Toh holding the fort in the PAP, the party might
never have held together. Lee was wrong, without Toh, the party
would still exist but Kuan Yew would most likely not become the
PM.
Toh had few occasions to become PM but he supported Kuan Yew. He
supported Kuan Yew in all the inflexion points.
To conclude, Toh did nothing for our country, or rather his
works were mostly destructive. He has such a high standing in PAP
because without him, Kuan Yew would almost certainly not ascend to
power. And his destruction of party democracy means Kuan Yew is
able to have a iron grip of the party for as long as he like.
Toh was spurned by Kuan Yew
He was not given any significant portfolio. He watched and saw all
his PAP buddies rotating in and out of prestigious appointments
such as defence, finance, foreign affairs....etc.
After doing running dog for Kuan Yew, he was kicked out
mercilessly, in all major projects of nation building. This is the
reason till this date, no one can tell what Toh really does. He was
just a spent stepping stone.
http://veritas-lux.blogspot.com/2012/02/toh-chin-chye-what-toh-really-did-for.html