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Most sinkies associate Singapore's success with PAP's decisive victory over the Barisan Socialists, Communists and other anti-PAP elements. As such, most sinkies were glad people like Lim Hock Siew and Chia Thye Poh were locked away for decades. Trying to force open the National Archives, the British Colonial Office declassified documents or making revisionist videos aren't going to change anything.
Look at the crowd outside SGH for Mr LKY. Nobody would give a shit if Lim Hock Siew was near deathbed.
Vast majority of sinkies, including opposition voters, are glad that PAP did all that shit to the Barisan Socialists and bankrupted Chee and JBJ. If these jerk offs were allowed to interfere with PAP years ago, Singapore would have gone down the slippery slope. You may scream and curse at me. You may disagree with me. But you know in your heart that is how most sinkies still think today, both the older and younger generation.
PAP will win big in this coming GE. Low Thia Khiang and gang should get ready to roam the streets once they get booted out by Victor Lye's team. My grassroots buddies and I would make sure the WP wouldn't even get a void deck to do any more of their silly grassroots shit in order to sway the people.
And the likes of Mr. LKY would never need to apologize to the likes of Lim Hock Siew. Most of us are in agreement that locking the BS people was in the best interests of Singapore. Even Roy Ngerng is full of praise of the Old Guard. If not for the Old Guard supporting Mr LKY in uprooting the BS, Singapore would be in a much worse state today.
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I'll forgive Lee Kuan Yew if he admits to his error and apologises to me : Lim Hock Siew
A cub reporter has achieved in a month what his superiors in the Singapore Press Holdings could not do in six years (see link here and here) - secure an interview with former political detainee Dr Lim Hock Siew. In a two-page feature published yesterday, journalist Cai Haoxiang wrote what is likely to be the highlight of his journalistic career with the political bureau of the Straits Times - a rare and uncompromising re-examinaton of history, detention and the PAP from Singapore's 2nd longest-held political prisoner.
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_j5BotyyITFg/S3-AEhvyoLI/AAAAAAAAAxg/zBsqrRX5_RY/s400/Lim+Hock+Siew+Straits+Times+Feb+19,2010.jpg
Feb 19, 2010
Still dreaming of a socialist Singapore
From student activist and PAP campaigner to Barisan Sosialis leader and second longest-held political detainee, Dr Lim Hock Siew's story mirrors Singapore's tumultuous history. Now 79, he bares his thoughts and feelings about his political past.
By Cai Haoxiang, Straits Times, 19 Feb 2010
IT IS a sweltering day as you walk by the row of repainted shophouses along Balestier Road.
As you push open the glass doors and duck inside for a welcome draught of air-conditioning, you meet a group of elderly patients waiting expectantly to see their family doctor.
The name on the door plate of his office may not ring a bell for the young but to older Singaporeans, it jumps right out of Singapore’s turbulent political history: Dr Lim Hock Siew.
Enter his simply furnished room, and you see him at a desk stacked with books, stationery and newspapers.
An eye chart is pasted on a glass cabinet displaying photos of him as a dashing young man.
The 79-year-old doctor, in his white long-sleeved shirt, greets you with a soft, occasionally wheezing, yet otherwise firm voice. He is not in the best of health, having suffered kidney failure last year and taken a six-month break to recuperate.
As he is undergoing dialysis three times a week, he would have preferred to extend his break except that his clinic partner, Dr Mohd Abu Bakar, 76, was overwhelmed by the patient load.
So he returned to half-day work last month, seeing around 30 patients every morning, and plans to do so as long as his health permits. ‘It’s kind of an ethical obligation to look after them, and I can keep myself mentally occupied,’ he says.
The name of his clinic harks back to his socialist days as a political activist, first with the People’s Action Party (PAP) and then with its arch rival, Barisan Sosialis. It is called Rakyat, which means ‘people’ in Malay. It was set up by Dr Lim and fellow Barisan Sosialis leader Dr Poh Soo Kai in 1961.
Its consultation fees are no different from other clinics’ – $20 to $30. But Dr Lim charges a reduced rate for poorer patients and gives free treatment to the neediest. ‘I don’t deny help to those who need it,’ he says.
Dr Lim’s sense of compassion and empathy for the poor is well known. At a time when the unprofessional and unethical practices of some doctors are hogging the headlines, the mere mention of Dr Lim’s name evokes hushed respect among his peers.
Even pro-PAP Singaporeans who would be horrified by the prospect of a Barisan Sosialis government admit to having a grudging admiration for Dr Lim as a man who has the courage of his convictions.
Dr Vivian Balakrishnan, Minister for Community Development, Youth and Sports, once singled out Dr Lim as a politician he admired for his strength of character and ability to sacrifice for his beliefs.
Like many of his former leftist colleagues, Dr Lim feels compelled to give his side of the story before time runs out.
In recent years, a cottage industry has sprung up providing alternative histories of Singapore. Books included memoirs by former communist underground leader Fang Chuang Pi, former Barisan Sosialis leader Fong Swee Suan and former Parti Rakyat Singapura leader Said Zahari. Just three months ago, the Fajar Generation, a book on the University Socialist Club (USC) of the then-University of Malaya, was launched.
In a nutshell, Dr Lim’s is a story of how an idealistic student activist joined and campaigned for the PAP in the 1950s and then fought against the ruling party in the 1960s and paid a very heavy price for his beliefs and convictions.
In 1963, he was arrested under Operation Cold Store and detained without trial for nearly 20 years before he was released in 1982.
A Home Affairs Ministry statement on his release had said that he was arrested under the Internal Security Act for his involvement in Communist United Front (CUF) activities.
Dr Lim refused to agree to any conditions that would have granted him early release and ended up in the record book as the second longest-held political prisoner after his leftist colleague Chia Thye Poh, who served 23 years.
Today, 28 years after his release, he still dreams of a socialist Singapore in which there is no exploitation of workers and the oppressed.
http://singaporerebel.blogspot.sg/20...he-admits.html (http://singaporerebel.blogspot.sg/2010/02/ill-forgive-lee-kuan-yew-if-he-admits.html)
Click here to view the whole thread at www.sammyboy.com (http://sammyboy.com/showthread.php?203006-Unrepentent-Commie-Demands-For-Apology-Woh!-If-Not-Won-t-Forgive!!-LKY-Hurt!&goto=newpost).
Most sinkies associate Singapore's success with PAP's decisive victory over the Barisan Socialists, Communists and other anti-PAP elements. As such, most sinkies were glad people like Lim Hock Siew and Chia Thye Poh were locked away for decades. Trying to force open the National Archives, the British Colonial Office declassified documents or making revisionist videos aren't going to change anything.
Look at the crowd outside SGH for Mr LKY. Nobody would give a shit if Lim Hock Siew was near deathbed.
Vast majority of sinkies, including opposition voters, are glad that PAP did all that shit to the Barisan Socialists and bankrupted Chee and JBJ. If these jerk offs were allowed to interfere with PAP years ago, Singapore would have gone down the slippery slope. You may scream and curse at me. You may disagree with me. But you know in your heart that is how most sinkies still think today, both the older and younger generation.
PAP will win big in this coming GE. Low Thia Khiang and gang should get ready to roam the streets once they get booted out by Victor Lye's team. My grassroots buddies and I would make sure the WP wouldn't even get a void deck to do any more of their silly grassroots shit in order to sway the people.
And the likes of Mr. LKY would never need to apologize to the likes of Lim Hock Siew. Most of us are in agreement that locking the BS people was in the best interests of Singapore. Even Roy Ngerng is full of praise of the Old Guard. If not for the Old Guard supporting Mr LKY in uprooting the BS, Singapore would be in a much worse state today.
Quote:
I'll forgive Lee Kuan Yew if he admits to his error and apologises to me : Lim Hock Siew
A cub reporter has achieved in a month what his superiors in the Singapore Press Holdings could not do in six years (see link here and here) - secure an interview with former political detainee Dr Lim Hock Siew. In a two-page feature published yesterday, journalist Cai Haoxiang wrote what is likely to be the highlight of his journalistic career with the political bureau of the Straits Times - a rare and uncompromising re-examinaton of history, detention and the PAP from Singapore's 2nd longest-held political prisoner.
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_j5BotyyITFg/S3-AEhvyoLI/AAAAAAAAAxg/zBsqrRX5_RY/s400/Lim+Hock+Siew+Straits+Times+Feb+19,2010.jpg
Feb 19, 2010
Still dreaming of a socialist Singapore
From student activist and PAP campaigner to Barisan Sosialis leader and second longest-held political detainee, Dr Lim Hock Siew's story mirrors Singapore's tumultuous history. Now 79, he bares his thoughts and feelings about his political past.
By Cai Haoxiang, Straits Times, 19 Feb 2010
IT IS a sweltering day as you walk by the row of repainted shophouses along Balestier Road.
As you push open the glass doors and duck inside for a welcome draught of air-conditioning, you meet a group of elderly patients waiting expectantly to see their family doctor.
The name on the door plate of his office may not ring a bell for the young but to older Singaporeans, it jumps right out of Singapore’s turbulent political history: Dr Lim Hock Siew.
Enter his simply furnished room, and you see him at a desk stacked with books, stationery and newspapers.
An eye chart is pasted on a glass cabinet displaying photos of him as a dashing young man.
The 79-year-old doctor, in his white long-sleeved shirt, greets you with a soft, occasionally wheezing, yet otherwise firm voice. He is not in the best of health, having suffered kidney failure last year and taken a six-month break to recuperate.
As he is undergoing dialysis three times a week, he would have preferred to extend his break except that his clinic partner, Dr Mohd Abu Bakar, 76, was overwhelmed by the patient load.
So he returned to half-day work last month, seeing around 30 patients every morning, and plans to do so as long as his health permits. ‘It’s kind of an ethical obligation to look after them, and I can keep myself mentally occupied,’ he says.
The name of his clinic harks back to his socialist days as a political activist, first with the People’s Action Party (PAP) and then with its arch rival, Barisan Sosialis. It is called Rakyat, which means ‘people’ in Malay. It was set up by Dr Lim and fellow Barisan Sosialis leader Dr Poh Soo Kai in 1961.
Its consultation fees are no different from other clinics’ – $20 to $30. But Dr Lim charges a reduced rate for poorer patients and gives free treatment to the neediest. ‘I don’t deny help to those who need it,’ he says.
Dr Lim’s sense of compassion and empathy for the poor is well known. At a time when the unprofessional and unethical practices of some doctors are hogging the headlines, the mere mention of Dr Lim’s name evokes hushed respect among his peers.
Even pro-PAP Singaporeans who would be horrified by the prospect of a Barisan Sosialis government admit to having a grudging admiration for Dr Lim as a man who has the courage of his convictions.
Dr Vivian Balakrishnan, Minister for Community Development, Youth and Sports, once singled out Dr Lim as a politician he admired for his strength of character and ability to sacrifice for his beliefs.
Like many of his former leftist colleagues, Dr Lim feels compelled to give his side of the story before time runs out.
In recent years, a cottage industry has sprung up providing alternative histories of Singapore. Books included memoirs by former communist underground leader Fang Chuang Pi, former Barisan Sosialis leader Fong Swee Suan and former Parti Rakyat Singapura leader Said Zahari. Just three months ago, the Fajar Generation, a book on the University Socialist Club (USC) of the then-University of Malaya, was launched.
In a nutshell, Dr Lim’s is a story of how an idealistic student activist joined and campaigned for the PAP in the 1950s and then fought against the ruling party in the 1960s and paid a very heavy price for his beliefs and convictions.
In 1963, he was arrested under Operation Cold Store and detained without trial for nearly 20 years before he was released in 1982.
A Home Affairs Ministry statement on his release had said that he was arrested under the Internal Security Act for his involvement in Communist United Front (CUF) activities.
Dr Lim refused to agree to any conditions that would have granted him early release and ended up in the record book as the second longest-held political prisoner after his leftist colleague Chia Thye Poh, who served 23 years.
Today, 28 years after his release, he still dreams of a socialist Singapore in which there is no exploitation of workers and the oppressed.
http://singaporerebel.blogspot.sg/20...he-admits.html (http://singaporerebel.blogspot.sg/2010/02/ill-forgive-lee-kuan-yew-if-he-admits.html)
Click here to view the whole thread at www.sammyboy.com (http://sammyboy.com/showthread.php?203006-Unrepentent-Commie-Demands-For-Apology-Woh!-If-Not-Won-t-Forgive!!-LKY-Hurt!&goto=newpost).