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Singapore - The Reign of A Mutated Dictatorship
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Author: nobody@REPLAY.CO
Date: Thu, 09 Oct 1997 00:00
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"Simon"  wrote:
>Anonymous <nobody@REPLAY.COM> wrote in article
>> (snip)
>>From the lies and half-truths that the PAP have shown us and the greed
>>they have displayed, they are anything but honest.Their desperation in
>>preventing at all cost that worthy eloqant people from standing in
>>opposition and checking what they are doing is far too suspicious.
>Honest or not, it is the PAP leadership that lays the foundation of our
>economic success. (snip)

That is the view pounded into us incessantly and for far longer than
I can remember.  If that is indeed the case, we should give them
credit where credit is due.  But as we have seen that the PAP is
anything but trustworthy and know better for their shouting out
half-truths and disinformation until it became accepted as the
'truth', that line should be examined thoroughly.

Singapore is largely Chinese and looking at places of similar nature
like HongKong, Taiwan , S. Korea and Japan, we can clearly see that
the economic success of those countries as well despite their lack of
resources.  An especially telling case of economic success will be
Hongkong where the government have taken a 'hands off' approach.

We can see if there is reasonable stability in that country  and if
those countries are tied in to the Western trading world, economic
progress is inevitable.

Looking at our neighbouring countries, we can also see that they are
not doing that badly as a whole. Taking the average, they may not be
doing as well as Singaporeans.

But when we look into their specific details and the wealth
breakdown, the Chinese and Indians of those countries control a much
higher proportion of the wealth.  Consequentially, that particular
group in their countries enjoy a living standard as high if not
higher than the average Singaporean.

I cannot see the hand of PAP in those places I mentioned.

Those countries and people came up because of their hard work .

We in Singapore are little different from them and we are as good if
not better.  When we factor in our prime geographical location, our
present personal prosperity and living standards are much less than
what it could have been.

Our economic success is due to our own efforts and we acheived that
NOT because of the 'leadership' from the PAP, but despite that
handicap and burden on us.

The PAP recognised it but in their twisted minds, they went on to
rationalised that it was 'due to their leadership'.

They went on to command the media to keep pounding it to us day after
day, year after year to justify their grip on power and our money.
They continue this drumming to make us Singaporeans feel helpless and
dependant on them for their own political schemes.

They continue to sit at the top together with their families and
cronies to milk us all for all it is worth.

We are turned from being citizens in our own country to being their
subjects to be terrorised and controlled by them and their
underlings.

>But I do hope that now the election is over, they will
>spend more time on economic policies instead of opposition bashing.

They spend more time in dividing the cake among themselves.  Their
economic policies have been geared more towards their own political
and personal benefits  than towards the country.

They will continue to bleed us all as much as they can to keep
Singaporeans weak financially so we will feel hapless and fearful of
offending them.

Our money we made from our hard work is constantly sucked away
deliberately by them through their policies and high prices for the
HDB hole in the sky.  The biggest problem HDB has is how to 'turn'
the staggering profits that they make year after year into 'subsidy'
from the government.  They went on to encourage conspicious
consumptions as the start of their 5/6/7/8 Cs.  People who do not
care to spend much or who cannot spend much are made to feel
demoralised by the media trying to whip us into a frenzy of spending.

We are are deliberately propagandised to become materialistic and
self-centered.  We are kept in a state of fear that we lose that.
This 'kiasu-ness' is a result of their deliberate policies.

You then have to keep hard at it to 'upgrade' yourselves by taking
night courses and working harder to have your own homes and more
money to spend.  We must put all our energies to those 'approved'
pursuits so that you will be too tired to think about life and where
we are heading as that will be political.

When people have their 'hole in the sky' paid up and seemingly out of
their crutch, the PAP then introduced 'subsidized upgrading' so that
we all have to continue to pay and pay. Check the tenders from the
contractors and what we have to pay and you will find the so-called
subsidy is feeding more money into the PAP coffers to dispense to
themselves, their families, their toads, their kangaroos and running
dogs.

The PAP knows and wants to maintain that pressure on us all to work
harder and harder as the money will go to them and that pressure will
keep us compliant and subservant to their further manipulations.

Whenever they felt we are making more and able to stand financially
independant, they will scheme up something else to bring you down
again and make you worry about the money for tomorrow.

Singapore as a country has a huge foreign reserve especially in
relation  to the number of people.  We, Singaporeans find it
difficult to make ends meet on the other hand.

AS A COUNTRY CANNOT MAKE MONEY AND AS IT IS THE PEOPLE OF THAT
COUNTRY WHO MAKE THE MONEY, the money Singapore has is our money
robbed from us by the policies of the regime to keep us weak
and used for themselves and their own purpose.

The regime has the audacity to say we are no capable of handling our
own money and change their rules again and again such that our money
in CPF is further and further from us.  They proceed to use our money
to pay themselves, sink that into Soochow project, bail out LHL's
wife in buying obsolete companies, blow $6 million to trumpet how
good LTA is and to cover their other mistakes.

Those money in our hands would have been used far more wisely as seed
money for countless other companies like Creative Tech.  All of us
would have benefited.

But as that will make us Singaporeans independant and blow away the
lies of the PAP that they are indispensible, they will not allow us
that option.  They rather see us struggling and cowering before them
than to lose an inch of their pompous political face.

That is why they stooped so low in the last General Elections.  That is why even after that GE, they still indulge in orgiastic feeding frenzy on the carcasses  of opposition members already beaten by the PAP lies and their brutal use of terrorist threats to turn our homes into slums.

That is to underline their key message to Singaporeans not to oppose
them like the wild dogs that they are.

>Well, lets face it. If the PAP is as good at governing the country as
>putting down the opposition, we are in good hands. But of course,
>this is an entirly different ball game, and team.

It is a statement to the good that Singaporeans still have deep
underlying doubts as to whether PAP is good at governing the country
despite their pounding via the media on how good they are.

Your subconscious gut feeling is correct.  The PAP are not good for
us and not good for governing our country.

They are not good for themselves either as they have set out our
country  to be run not on true democratic principles but on the
Fuehrer principles.

That whoever be the Fuehrer will make the principles.

The top echelon is packed with would-be and wannabe Fuehrers
(including GCT) bidding for the time when the old Fuehrer passes on.

Hopefully, the fight those greedy bastards will have will tear only
their PAP apart but not Singapore but I doubt that.

We have only ourselves to blame for voting them in and voting out the
checks and balances and accountability to us.

We can only stand back and watch the prices of everything rise to
bleed us further and watch them all get richer and more pretentious
in the meantime.



Re: Singapore - The Reign of A Mutated Dictatorship
#99819
Author: "beng"
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 1997 00:00
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Anonymous <nobody@REPLAY.COM> wrote in article
<199710080849.KAA05643@basement.replay.com>...
: mail2news@replay.com
:
: "Simon"  wrote:
: >Anonymous <nobody@REPLAY.COM> wrote in article
: >> (snip)

sorry, but your long-winded rhetorics don't deserved to be
quoted here.
when you say 'us' you're including me and i don't like that.
i don't share your sentiments.

i believe the current lot of opposition politicians just don't
have what it takes.  i certainly don't wish to vote for people
who, at a drop of a hat, would run to foreigners for help.

i strongly support the present ruling party's method of not
giving any quarter to the oppositions and if against all odds,
an opposition party can make it thru' the election with a
majority, then, and only then will i say it deserves to rule the
country.

this is the only way to prove their worth...



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