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21-08-2013, 04:10 AM
An honorable member of the Coffee Shop Has Just Posted the Following:
Not quite the Sermon on the Mount (http://www.tremeritus.com/2013/08/20/not-quite-the-sermon-on-the-mount/)
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PM at National Day Rally 2013
The original Sermon on the Mount was delivered by Jesus Christ to a massive
audience which included his followers and disciples. So is it not appropriate to
equate the National Day Rally speech delivered by the beleaguered PM Lee Hsien
Loong to an equally massive captive audience at the Institute of Technical
Education’s new Ang Mo Kio campus on Sunday 18 August 2013 with Jesus Christ’s
Sermon on the Mount? Whilst Jesus Christ discourse was on humanity and how to
save the world from iniquity, our PM Lee’s audience was regaled with a bombastic
discourse on how to avert the PAP from sliding into political oblivion in GE
2016, which even worried the befuddled ESM Goh Chok Tong who called it “mid-life
crisis”.
So whatever sweeteners the gallant PM Lee offered in his rally speech could
only be with the ultimate aim of restoring public confidence in a decadent PAP
Government in time for GE 2016. While there could be no demur from the captive
audience, it was quite a different reaction from the discerning Singaporeans
outside, especially the netizens, who viewed his discourse with trepidation and
scepticism. No doubt some of his offers went down well with some affected
Singaporeans like the extension of the housing grant of $20,000 to middle-income
buyers of four-room flats, for example.
Discerning Singaporeans are confounded by the so-called removal of the age
limit of 90 for Medishield Life. How many Singaporeans will live up to 90 like
PM Lee’s pompous father Lee Kuan Yew who is obscenely affluent and well looked
after without Medishield Life? Is this not a political gimmick as Singaporeans
likely to benefit from this unrealistic scheme are minuscule. Netizens slammed
it as a madman’s scheme void of commonsense.
PM Lee touched on Health, Education and Housing in his rally speech but had
scrupulously avoided the intractable transport problem which the harassed
commuting public would only be too eager to hear his solution. Obviously this
distressing subject will not score point for the beleaguered PAP Government as
PM Lee will be at his wit’s end trying to assuage the wrath of frustrated
commuters whose voting power is relatively decisive and was therefore astute
enough to avoid it. PM Lee would have found it hard-pressed to avoid the subject
of nationalisation of the transport industry which would be an answer to the
transport woes experienced by commuters under the present privatised transport
system. A very cogent case for nationalisation of the transport industry was
circulated on this website on 20-7-2013 which was also carried by the website TR
Emeritus but the inexplicable attitude of PM Lee and his Transport Minister not
to take cognition of it was incomprehensible. Why the PAP Government is so
adamant against nationalisation is mind-boggling.
According to the Straits Times, liberal-minded Singaporeans were also
disappointed that PM Lee spoke about getting the politics right, but said
nothing about political change. No concessions were made on issues liberals care
about, such as the Internet and media freedom or giving more space to dissenting
voices. Opposition supporters noted that every sentence uttered by PM Lee was
predicated on the assumption that the PAP will remain the dominant party in
Singapore. But they will be living in a fool’s paradise to think that the
political situation will not change to their detriment in GE
2016.
Yoong Siew
Wah
* Mr Yoong Siew Wah was the Director of
Singapore’s Internal Security Department (ISD) from 1971 to 1974. Before his
stint with ISD, he was the director of the Corrupt Practices Investigation
Bureau (CPIB). The SPH book “Men in White”, alleged in page 441 that Mr Yoong
was asked to quit CPIB in 1971 after he was “suspected” of using his personal
influence to assist his friend Mr Francis Seow, then the ex-Solicitor General of
Singapore in a case. Mr Yoong rebuked the allegations as baseless on his blog.
The Straits Times on 16-10-09 published a correction by the authors of the Men
In White who apologised for not getting back to Mr Yoong to verify the report.
Mr Yoong is now retired and blogs at http://singaporerecalcitrant.blogspot.com (http://singaporerecalcitrant.blogspot.com/).
Click here to view the whole thread at www.sammyboy.com (http://singsupplies.com/showthread.php?160467-Ex-ISD-Director-Ass-Loon-Assumes-Business-As-Usual-After-GE2016&goto=newpost).
Not quite the Sermon on the Mount (http://www.tremeritus.com/2013/08/20/not-quite-the-sermon-on-the-mount/)
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http://www.tremeritus.org/wp-content/themes/WP_010/images/PostDateIcon.png August 20th, 2013 | http://www.tremeritus.org/wp-content/themes/WP_010/images/PostAuthorIcon.png Author: Contributions (http://www.tremeritus.com/author/contributor/)
http://www.tremeritus.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/LHL_rally_2013-300x281.jpg
PM at National Day Rally 2013
The original Sermon on the Mount was delivered by Jesus Christ to a massive
audience which included his followers and disciples. So is it not appropriate to
equate the National Day Rally speech delivered by the beleaguered PM Lee Hsien
Loong to an equally massive captive audience at the Institute of Technical
Education’s new Ang Mo Kio campus on Sunday 18 August 2013 with Jesus Christ’s
Sermon on the Mount? Whilst Jesus Christ discourse was on humanity and how to
save the world from iniquity, our PM Lee’s audience was regaled with a bombastic
discourse on how to avert the PAP from sliding into political oblivion in GE
2016, which even worried the befuddled ESM Goh Chok Tong who called it “mid-life
crisis”.
So whatever sweeteners the gallant PM Lee offered in his rally speech could
only be with the ultimate aim of restoring public confidence in a decadent PAP
Government in time for GE 2016. While there could be no demur from the captive
audience, it was quite a different reaction from the discerning Singaporeans
outside, especially the netizens, who viewed his discourse with trepidation and
scepticism. No doubt some of his offers went down well with some affected
Singaporeans like the extension of the housing grant of $20,000 to middle-income
buyers of four-room flats, for example.
Discerning Singaporeans are confounded by the so-called removal of the age
limit of 90 for Medishield Life. How many Singaporeans will live up to 90 like
PM Lee’s pompous father Lee Kuan Yew who is obscenely affluent and well looked
after without Medishield Life? Is this not a political gimmick as Singaporeans
likely to benefit from this unrealistic scheme are minuscule. Netizens slammed
it as a madman’s scheme void of commonsense.
PM Lee touched on Health, Education and Housing in his rally speech but had
scrupulously avoided the intractable transport problem which the harassed
commuting public would only be too eager to hear his solution. Obviously this
distressing subject will not score point for the beleaguered PAP Government as
PM Lee will be at his wit’s end trying to assuage the wrath of frustrated
commuters whose voting power is relatively decisive and was therefore astute
enough to avoid it. PM Lee would have found it hard-pressed to avoid the subject
of nationalisation of the transport industry which would be an answer to the
transport woes experienced by commuters under the present privatised transport
system. A very cogent case for nationalisation of the transport industry was
circulated on this website on 20-7-2013 which was also carried by the website TR
Emeritus but the inexplicable attitude of PM Lee and his Transport Minister not
to take cognition of it was incomprehensible. Why the PAP Government is so
adamant against nationalisation is mind-boggling.
According to the Straits Times, liberal-minded Singaporeans were also
disappointed that PM Lee spoke about getting the politics right, but said
nothing about political change. No concessions were made on issues liberals care
about, such as the Internet and media freedom or giving more space to dissenting
voices. Opposition supporters noted that every sentence uttered by PM Lee was
predicated on the assumption that the PAP will remain the dominant party in
Singapore. But they will be living in a fool’s paradise to think that the
political situation will not change to their detriment in GE
2016.
Yoong Siew
Wah
* Mr Yoong Siew Wah was the Director of
Singapore’s Internal Security Department (ISD) from 1971 to 1974. Before his
stint with ISD, he was the director of the Corrupt Practices Investigation
Bureau (CPIB). The SPH book “Men in White”, alleged in page 441 that Mr Yoong
was asked to quit CPIB in 1971 after he was “suspected” of using his personal
influence to assist his friend Mr Francis Seow, then the ex-Solicitor General of
Singapore in a case. Mr Yoong rebuked the allegations as baseless on his blog.
The Straits Times on 16-10-09 published a correction by the authors of the Men
In White who apologised for not getting back to Mr Yoong to verify the report.
Mr Yoong is now retired and blogs at http://singaporerecalcitrant.blogspot.com (http://singaporerecalcitrant.blogspot.com/).
Click here to view the whole thread at www.sammyboy.com (http://singsupplies.com/showthread.php?160467-Ex-ISD-Director-Ass-Loon-Assumes-Business-As-Usual-After-GE2016&goto=newpost).