Ladies and Gentlemen,
Singapore's
state controlled newspaper the Straits Times online edition of Nov 02,
2009 has this rather unusual article "PM Future leaders ready.
Committed candidates-including potential office holders-already
identified".
It is true that Singapore has some unusual
practices, one being the criminalizing of chewing gum. It also appears
to have a penchant for blood and killing, because they officially
brutally beat criminals convicted of offenses (this is called caning)
and hang hundreds of people every year, even teenagers, even for petty
drug offenses. I understand this government has lately refused to
release the actual numbers of people caught with chewing gum or
executed by hanging, but there is anecdotal evidence that it is the
highest in the world. As someone once said, "Singapore is the beating
and hanging capital of the world"!
One other weird practice that
goes on is this. Despite its claim to be a democracy with political
parties and a Parliament, the Lee Kuan Yew family, that is Lee Kuan Yew
the 86 year old man who has appointed himself the Minister Mentor and
his son, whom he has placed as Prime Minister, go around the island
each year, looking for suitable Singaporeans they like and anoint them
as Singapore's leaders. This is what this state controlled newspaper is
referring to. It says "The ruling PAP (Lee Kuan Yew's party) will have
the next generation of leaders in place by the next general election in
2011 or 2012, said Lee Hsien Loong (Lee Kuan Yew's son) on Sunday".
The
son said, at a PAP convention on Sunday, some candidates have already
been identified but the full team is not ready now! He has also said
"the hunt for successors has been a constant PAP agenda"
You can
see why this is astonishing of course! Lee Kuan Yew's son, although we
know this is the case anyway, speaks as if Singapore belongs to him,
and he will decide who will govern Singapore. But wait a minute!
Surely, it is supposed to be a democracy is it not? And if so, should
not the electorate be deciding who the leaders are supposed to be? Why
is he assuming that only his chosen candidates will be future leaders?
Are there not opposition political parties like the SDP? What makes him
think that Singaporeans would not vote for them at the elections? Is he
not being too presumptive?
No, he is not. He is not being too
presumptive at all. If you knew Singapore, the elections mean nothing.
It is a some screen. A charade. First because there are no real leaders
among it's people anyway, because they are all sued or bankrupted or
jailed; and there are no real elections because no one dares to run for
office. The only ones who do are those selected by the father Lee Kuan
Yew and son, and they will naturally be elected into office since no
one dares challenge them. It is as simple as that.
So in this
dictatorship (that is what it is), Lee Kuan Yew and his son will
appoint the next leaders like they have always done. And to accomplish
that task, they are, as they have always done before commenced their
"hunt" for candidates as the article correctly says.
In truth
Singapore is no different from Communist China which renews itself at
each election by nominating new leaders which the people will rubber
stamp their approval.
Interesting is it not? That is why Lee Kuan Yew's family members have coined the phrase "Uniquely Singapore".
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White Paper on repression in Singapore circulated worldwide
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White Paper on repression in Singapore circulated worldwide
Friday, 06 November 2009 00:15
Singapore Democrats
A
White Paper written by law firm Amsterdam & Peroff about repression
in Singapore is receiving extensive attention across the world. More
than 160 online media organisations and news agencies have picked up
the press release of the White Paper.
Entitled: The Repression of Political Freedoms in Singapore: The Case of Opposition Leader Dr. Chee Soon Juan, the document traces the years of oppressive measures taken by the PAP to silence its critics in Singapore.Mr Robert Amsterdam, a prominent international human rights lawyer as well as an expert in corporate disputes, spearheaded the project.
The press release was picked up by major news organisations like MSN (which boasts of 25 million visitors a day), AOL (18 million), National Examiner (half a million) and Reuters (quarter million).
Apart from these giant news networks, the statement was also featured by global investment and trade organisations like Forbes, Breitbart, EuroInvestor and Bizjournals.
The news was, perhaps, carried most extensively in the US by scores of local news networks all across the country. From Boise, Idaho to El Paso, Texas; from Tucson, Arizona to Spokane, Washington; from Reno, Nevada to Shreveport, Louisiana website after website featured the news. Even Honolulu carried the statement.
All in all, an incredible 160 news websites, big and small, published the press release. Many of these media outlets are affiliates of major TV networks like ABC, CBS, Fox, and NBC.
Because of the upcoming APEC meeting many of the websites posted the news on its business and money sections.
The statement talks about the Government's use of "unconstitutional domestic laws" to silence dissent and highlights the recently passed Public Order Act that has "consolidated further the authority of the ruling PAP over the political opposition."
The release also mentions the judiciary and media. It says that the threat of defamation and libel suits have "created a climate for the suppression of political freedoms."
It also calls for APEC leaders to meet with civil society and opposition leaders in Singapore, for ASEAN to establish a viable human rights commission, and for charges against Dr Chee and colleagues to be dropped.
Robert Amsterdam
Mr Amsterdam met Dr Chee when he attended the International Bar Association conference held in Singapore in 2007. The IBA subsequently published a paper that was critical of the judicial and legal systems in Singapore.
The lawyer had gone to the Istana where Dr Chee was protesting against Singapore's investments and arms deals with the military regime in Burma.
The London-based Canadian lawyer agreed to become the SDP's and Dr Chee's lawyer in 2008 and has assisted the parties in their on-going trials in Singapore courts.
Mr Amsterdam's clients include Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky who has been in jail for the last six years for supporting the Russia's opposition.
Mr Amsterdam writes a high-profile blog here. -
It is true that Singapore has some unusual practices, one being the criminalizing of chewing gum. It also appears to have a penchant for blood and killing, because they officially brutally beat criminals convicted of offenses (this is called caning) and hang hundreds of people every year, even teenagers, even for petty drug offenses. I understand this government has lately refused to release the actual numbers of people caught with chewing gum or executed by hanging, but there is anecdotal evidence that it is the highest in the world. As someone once said, "Singapore is the beating and hanging capital of the world"!
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Originally posted by Stevenson101:
Well now, for a moment there i thought this was a bad thing.
Can you be more specific with your remark ?What is the "this" in your statement which you had "thought this was a bad thing" ?
It is dangerous for you to make statements that are unclear and can leave anyone to interprete it in any way.
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i would like to contribute to this topic. I do have are a very particular set of skills; skills I have acquired over some time in NS ( not the regular NS units). Skills that make me a nightmare for people like Mas Selamat or anyone who works against the people of s'pore,
But i dont do Innocent people
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Originally posted by ☃®:
i would like to contribute to this topic. I do have are a very particular set of skills; skills I have acquired over some time in NS ( not the regular NS units). Skills that make me a nightmare for people like Mas Selamat or anyone who works against the people of s'pore,
But i dont do Innocent people
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If want to use your set of skills against those who are working against the people of Singapore you do best by using them against the PAP. Start with either lky or lhl.
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and I let one of those henchmen go at one point I should have yelled murderer on the street and pointed towards that murderer. You know people can smell murderer from more than 30 feet away better be careful if they assign you abroad.
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I would like to add that Singapore is worse than China as China doesn't have a ruler dynasty while Singapore is strictly lky's and China is not trying to put itself in an image of democracy while Singapore has been trying to put forward a facade of democracy and rule of law while in truth both are not available.
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Originally posted by Miracles&Prophecies:
Your statement implies that you are the regime henchman aka murderer. PAP only kills innocents LOL.
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its not the system. . The law and order system is there. it works efficiently for anyone utilizes it. Also note that the system also prosecutes those within the ruling party, civil service itself, that of the opposition and the general public as well. its not fair to equate the law and order system to that of one individual.
I think its fair, because our president appointed was previously a national security worker, the same breed as me. So in the even when the ruling party is gone, he takes over.
its people like me which the country will depend on. We cannot fail the people. We wont. Our duty is to the people of Singapore
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Originally posted by Miracles&Prophecies:
and I let one of those henchmen go at one point I should have yelled murderer on the street and pointed towards that murderer. You know people can smell murderer from more than 30 feet away better be careful if they assign you abroad.
I can smell a rat a mile away.
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Originally posted by ☃®:
I can smell a rat a mile away.
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Originally posted by ☃®:
its not the system. Its because of 1 individual. The law and order system is there. it works efficiently for anyone utilizes it. Because of one individual who decides on economic policies also has its disadvantageous effects on the law and order system because of that persons skewed one sided perspective.
The solution is easy, Once this individual is gone , its people like me which the country will depend on. We cannot fail the people. We wont.
WHAT LAW AND ORDER. THOSE COULD BE AND HAVE ALREADY BEEN SKEWED BY LKY and FAMILEE! -
Originally posted by Miracles&Prophecies:
WHAT LAW AND ORDER. THOSE COULD BE AND HAVE ALREADY BEEN SKEWED BY LKY and FAMILEE!
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Originally posted by Miracles&Prophecies:
WHAT LAW AND ORDER. THOSE COULD BE AND HAVE ALREADY BEEN SKEWED BY LKY and FAMILEE!U r missing the point here. The system know nothing nor any family nor individual. It only knows how to hunt like a predator. Like i said there have been many within the establishment itself hunted down by the system and prosecuted. Things are fair and square.
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Singapore is run by despots there's no such thing as fairness.
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Originally posted by Herzog_Zwei:
Because you like to change the government via illegal means!
What??! I'm merely trying to expose this corrupt regime as what it is a despotic nation. But then again I suspect that this lky govt came to power through cheating hence even this govt may not hold legitimacy at all. -
And just how do you protest in funny Singapore anyway? Even a one man peaceful protests are made illegal. That old man is paranoid. He dare to criticize Singaporeans through his media while not allowing Singaporean or anybody else to critize his ruling much less through his media. And what fairness is that? So everybody needs to clench their mouth and keep to themselves and suffer the curtailment of civic liberties while this despot can say whatever he wants through the media?
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Very childish I must say. Laugh the circus is being played every single day in the mobster run familee island.
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Common senses tell u that whatever u cannot do on the streets can be done online. In this light i see that doing in public show a law and order problem and potential undesirable consequences.
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Originally posted by Miracles&Prophecies:
What??! I'm merely trying to expose this corrupt regime as what it is a despotic nation. But then again I suspect that this lky govt came to power through cheating hence even this govt may not hold legitimacy at all.
But then again, you hold that your god is the only being you need to answer to. Your god being CSJ. -
Wasting paper.
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Originally posted by Herzog_Zwei:
But then again, you hold that your god is the only being you need to answer to. Your god being CSJ.
Isn't lky and lhl and lee familee the ones consider themselves above ALL??! So it's clear who consider themselves god. Pretty fucked up people I must say. And the stupid follow these kind of people. -
Originally posted by Smokingman:
Wasting paper.
That needs to be done because lky is wasting lives.
It's not like communist China as the communist China doesn't recognize family dynasty in it top leadership while Singapore has lky family members put in strategic places. Father to son as PM too and will be son to grandson in the future there's no doubt about it if things don't change.
Renaldi
Dear Mr Nair,
It is unfair to put China together with Singapore.
1. Everyone know that China is a one-party communist-rule state. But, not many people realise that Singapore is a one-party state. Singapore is masquadering as a .... well, you remember the Singapore Pledge. The opposition parties and elections are for show as well. Tell me another freely elected leader who is handpicked by the current leader.
2. China has no history of democracy and freedom. But Singapore is borned out of the ashes of the British colony, and like the political peers from Africa, Lee Kuan Yew managed to school himself in the UK and made the choice to be a dictator.
3. Singapore inherits the British common law and made a mess of it during its peace time.
China does not have this luxury. After the last monarchy, China was sucked into wars and revolutions.