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17-08-2013, 04:30 AM
An honorable member of the Coffee Shop Has Just Posted the Following:
I refer to Yahoo article “Workers’ Party’s Chen Show Mao not so brilliant: Lee Kuan Yew”. [ link ]
Of late, press coverage in the mainstream media has given free publicity to ex MM Lee Kuan Yew’s latest book, “One Man’s View of the World”. Readers should take his comments with a pinch of salt because they are irrelevant and belong to the dinosaur age.
Sylvia Lim was a law lecturer when she ran for elections in 2006. Lee commented that there were “hundreds” of lecturers around. Maybe he is regretting his comments now as Sylvia has proven to better understand the concerns of ordinary citizens, resulting in the constituents of Aljuneid GRC booting out PAP’s team which included 2 ministers. If a run-of-the-mill Sylvia Lim could send ministers scampering to their proper places in the private sector, doesn’t it imply the PAP’s standard to be lower than that of any lecturer’s standard?
Lee’s negative comments on Malaysia’s political system is unproductive. He could have devoted his energy to resolving the issues created by his party, and himself, instead of leaving them to present leaders.
Since his judgement of Sylvia Lim was way off the mark, Chen Show Mao may likely turn out to be PAP’s greatest fear in 2016.
Powerful as the PAP may be, it is also extremely insecure. It is totally reliant on running opposition figures down through the press and challenging them with lawsuits. There is really no contest of ideas.
On an international level, the PAP emphasises the shortcomings of other countries in order to elevate Singapore, using cherry picked data.
In the article, Lee also asked: “Can the opposition produce the likes of the younger generation of PAP ministers, never mind the likes of Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong or Deputy Prime Ministers Teo Chee Hean and Tharman Shanmugaratnam”?
A very frank answer would be we really hope the opposition better not produce the likes of PAP MPs and ministers. The problems they have created so far are almost insurmountable, requiring the massive use of state resources merely to listen to our concerns (Our Singapore Conversation) which were seldom highlighted in Parliament.
As much as Lee Kuan Yew has dismissed the views of Singaporeans on the internet, his views are similarly irrelevant to netizens.
Phillip Ang
http://www.tremeritus.com/2013/08/15...-singaporeans/ (http://www.tremeritus.com/2013/08/15/lee-kuan-yews-views-becoming-irrelevant-to-singaporeans/)
Click here to view the whole thread at www.sammyboy.com (http://www.singsupplies.com/showthread.php?160147-LKY’s-views-becoming-irrelevant-to-S’poreans&goto=newpost).
I refer to Yahoo article “Workers’ Party’s Chen Show Mao not so brilliant: Lee Kuan Yew”. [ link ]
Of late, press coverage in the mainstream media has given free publicity to ex MM Lee Kuan Yew’s latest book, “One Man’s View of the World”. Readers should take his comments with a pinch of salt because they are irrelevant and belong to the dinosaur age.
Sylvia Lim was a law lecturer when she ran for elections in 2006. Lee commented that there were “hundreds” of lecturers around. Maybe he is regretting his comments now as Sylvia has proven to better understand the concerns of ordinary citizens, resulting in the constituents of Aljuneid GRC booting out PAP’s team which included 2 ministers. If a run-of-the-mill Sylvia Lim could send ministers scampering to their proper places in the private sector, doesn’t it imply the PAP’s standard to be lower than that of any lecturer’s standard?
Lee’s negative comments on Malaysia’s political system is unproductive. He could have devoted his energy to resolving the issues created by his party, and himself, instead of leaving them to present leaders.
Since his judgement of Sylvia Lim was way off the mark, Chen Show Mao may likely turn out to be PAP’s greatest fear in 2016.
Powerful as the PAP may be, it is also extremely insecure. It is totally reliant on running opposition figures down through the press and challenging them with lawsuits. There is really no contest of ideas.
On an international level, the PAP emphasises the shortcomings of other countries in order to elevate Singapore, using cherry picked data.
In the article, Lee also asked: “Can the opposition produce the likes of the younger generation of PAP ministers, never mind the likes of Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong or Deputy Prime Ministers Teo Chee Hean and Tharman Shanmugaratnam”?
A very frank answer would be we really hope the opposition better not produce the likes of PAP MPs and ministers. The problems they have created so far are almost insurmountable, requiring the massive use of state resources merely to listen to our concerns (Our Singapore Conversation) which were seldom highlighted in Parliament.
As much as Lee Kuan Yew has dismissed the views of Singaporeans on the internet, his views are similarly irrelevant to netizens.
Phillip Ang
http://www.tremeritus.com/2013/08/15...-singaporeans/ (http://www.tremeritus.com/2013/08/15/lee-kuan-yews-views-becoming-irrelevant-to-singaporeans/)
Click here to view the whole thread at www.sammyboy.com (http://www.singsupplies.com/showthread.php?160147-LKY’s-views-becoming-irrelevant-to-S’poreans&goto=newpost).