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03-01-2014, 03:50 AM
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Happy New Year! SDP’s message of hope (http://www.tremeritus.com/2014/01/02/happy-new-year-sdps-message-of-hope/)
http://www.tremeritus.org/simages/dmca_protected_sml_120n.png http://www.tremeritus.org/wp-content/themes/WP_010/images/PostDateIcon.png January 2nd, 2014 | http://www.tremeritus.org/wp-content/themes/WP_010/images/PostAuthorIcon.png Author: YourSDP (http://www.tremeritus.com/author/yoursdp/)
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With a New Year comes new hope, the hope that things will change for the better. But hope without effort cannot change anything.
Yet, change is what Singapore desperately needs – change from the way the government responds to our aspirations. Unfortunately, it seems that the more we call for change the more intransigent those in government get.
Instead of becoming more responsive, our leaders have chosen to continue to take punitive action in misguided attempts to bring back the political silence of years past.
We have reason to be angry with the recent raft of threats and actions against our activists and bloggers. But even though we have every right to be bitter about such intimidation, let us not retaliate in vengeful anger.
Instead, let us re-dedicate ourselves to work in a spirit of forgiveness and constructive action. Let us demonstrate to our rulers that we cannot be intimidated and that every act of administrative aggression will be met with an even more determined will to overcome injustice – not with spite but with reason and peaceful resolve.
Let us help our nation’s leaders see that change is to be embraced, not feared, because change – democratic change – cannot be avoided. It is an idea whose time has come. In fact, it is the only way that Singapore can remain relevant in this fast-changing world.
We are at a crossroads and the choices we make now will determine how we live in the future. If we allow anger to be the captain of our actions, if we – because of our own oppression – lash out by victimising foreign workers in our midst, or if we retreat into fearful and silent cynicism, then our future will be lost.
I have never been more hopeful about our future, a future where political power is used to better the lives of all, starting with the weakest among us.
But such change will need the courage and dedication of all of us who care to come forward and make it happen. It will need foresight to recognise that there are alternatives and that we are not forever wedded to an out-moded form of governance. We have the ability to take this country in a different direction, to a better place.
We must take care of our own people and invest in them. We must make their happiness and well-being, not profit, our priority. To achieve this, my colleagues and I have drawn up alternative policy plans which we offer our people.
I know that many of you believe in the same things we do. We invite you to share this vision with us and, more important, work with us towards that Singapore which we all want to see.
And so here’s to a New Year, my fellow Singaporeans, may it be filled with courage and compassion.
Chee Soon Juan
Secretary-General
Singapore Democratic Party
Click here to view the whole thread at www.sammyboy.com (http://sammyboy.com/showthread.php?171810-Happy-New-Year!-SDP’s-message-of-hope&goto=newpost).
Happy New Year! SDP’s message of hope (http://www.tremeritus.com/2014/01/02/happy-new-year-sdps-message-of-hope/)
http://www.tremeritus.org/simages/dmca_protected_sml_120n.png http://www.tremeritus.org/wp-content/themes/WP_010/images/PostDateIcon.png January 2nd, 2014 | http://www.tremeritus.org/wp-content/themes/WP_010/images/PostAuthorIcon.png Author: YourSDP (http://www.tremeritus.com/author/yoursdp/)
http://yoursdp.org/Party/General/2014.jpg
With a New Year comes new hope, the hope that things will change for the better. But hope without effort cannot change anything.
Yet, change is what Singapore desperately needs – change from the way the government responds to our aspirations. Unfortunately, it seems that the more we call for change the more intransigent those in government get.
Instead of becoming more responsive, our leaders have chosen to continue to take punitive action in misguided attempts to bring back the political silence of years past.
We have reason to be angry with the recent raft of threats and actions against our activists and bloggers. But even though we have every right to be bitter about such intimidation, let us not retaliate in vengeful anger.
Instead, let us re-dedicate ourselves to work in a spirit of forgiveness and constructive action. Let us demonstrate to our rulers that we cannot be intimidated and that every act of administrative aggression will be met with an even more determined will to overcome injustice – not with spite but with reason and peaceful resolve.
Let us help our nation’s leaders see that change is to be embraced, not feared, because change – democratic change – cannot be avoided. It is an idea whose time has come. In fact, it is the only way that Singapore can remain relevant in this fast-changing world.
We are at a crossroads and the choices we make now will determine how we live in the future. If we allow anger to be the captain of our actions, if we – because of our own oppression – lash out by victimising foreign workers in our midst, or if we retreat into fearful and silent cynicism, then our future will be lost.
I have never been more hopeful about our future, a future where political power is used to better the lives of all, starting with the weakest among us.
But such change will need the courage and dedication of all of us who care to come forward and make it happen. It will need foresight to recognise that there are alternatives and that we are not forever wedded to an out-moded form of governance. We have the ability to take this country in a different direction, to a better place.
We must take care of our own people and invest in them. We must make their happiness and well-being, not profit, our priority. To achieve this, my colleagues and I have drawn up alternative policy plans which we offer our people.
I know that many of you believe in the same things we do. We invite you to share this vision with us and, more important, work with us towards that Singapore which we all want to see.
And so here’s to a New Year, my fellow Singaporeans, may it be filled with courage and compassion.
Chee Soon Juan
Secretary-General
Singapore Democratic Party
Click here to view the whole thread at www.sammyboy.com (http://sammyboy.com/showthread.php?171810-Happy-New-Year!-SDP’s-message-of-hope&goto=newpost).