Totally shameless.

He has NO HONOUR for failing to resign to take responsibility for the totally reckless collision of the RSS Courageous resulting in its total write off and the death of 4 SAF(NAVY) personnel while he was the Chief of the Singapore Navy.

Very sad indeed, instead of listening to the ground and lead, they want to do things their way, things are changing very very fast, support for the PAP is not eternal, for their own survival they better listen hard.

For instance, stop making statements like making a foreign roadsweeper in
Singapore sound like a FOREIGN TALENT. We need to pay Ministers high pay because they got higher pay outside previously, well, not all Ministers were high paying officials before they went into politics, only a few. People are no longer as gullible as before.

Stop pushing people to accept things and policys. People do not like to be cornered or walled in.

They told me if they had more balls, they would do it too.

Unfortunately, they had kids who had families. ” I die never mind, but u know PAP lah, they will make life difficult for my children and grandchildren…”

Mr Lui should visit more kopitiams to regulate this sort of sentiments.

Or perhaps pur civil servants like Ah Lui are really that dumb?

Simply outrageous is how Lui assumes all Singapreans would come out in support of SHT and roundly condemn Mr Ong for that violent act.

Although I am deeply sympathetic towards Mr Seng, the beauty of internet blogging is that a wide range of views and opinions can be expressed. and not all may be in support for the government of the day.

This to me is REAL politics, not what our ‘leaders’ so sneakily attempt to portray as requiring ’self-regulation’, as with any democracy, freedom of expressing one’s opinion is a fundamental right, and Lui’s self-serving attempts at using his moralistic stance in condemning those who do just bristles of his contempt of democracy in Singapore!

rightly so i guess, since the version of democracy we get is what our ‘leaders’ want us to follow, and this is the latest govt attempt at shaping how we should view things…

democracy in Singapore! simply amazing…

The clamping down on peaceful protests too extremely and forcefully could be the contributing factor that turns individuals to physical violence as a form of protest. It is just like crimes of passion. At an instant of provocation, a screw simply went loose and uncontrollable rage took over, resulting in unimaginable consequences.

We know that most of us will not condoned such violence. But let us take a pause and look at the case of the Israelis vs the Palestinians recently. What have they been doing? They simply went berserk. If at the national level, people can collectively express their frustrations and unhappiness by using unimaginable violence, can we than be 100% sure that at the individual level such violence will not occur?

In the famous words of our beloved PM: “It has happened….what to do? Lets move on …”

Should we move on? I think not.

We can only move on after we have taken remedial action. And that remedial action is to open up more and allow people to hold peaceful protests to vent their frustrations and unhappiness. Because too much pent-up feelings kept too long would lead to a tsunamic explosion in the future. And that would be even more painful, horrible and unthinkable.

It is just like playing a guitar. If the strings are too loose, they won’t sound nice; but if the strings are too tight, they will simply burst.

Is it to find out what is wrong on the ground. Whether he had angered and provoked the people on the ground.

MM must feel that he has to go all out to patch up the ground and restore it so that is friendly and supportive of pap.

The ground is beyond repair.

Gone are the days when people will listen and obey MM and the other big names of pap.

People will wonder what had driven this man, Ong to do the burning deed and be prepared to face the all the punishment that will be targeted at him.

Then they will ask what has this MP and pap done to Mr Ong.

The answer for the Ah Seng, Ali and Maniam is that this man had been driven to the limit and he had reacted according to the basic human instinct. Fight back and killed or be killed.

As one of Singapore’s newly-poor sandwich class, I see the the anger and lack of sympathy over the SHT incident as an expression of discontent at anyone who represents the ruling class. I wonder why our super-intelligent, best-in-the-world, most-expensive-in-the-world government can’t see as far as their noses and acknowledge the anger for what it is – not directed at SHT personally but at their entire cohort. It is an expression of the helplessness of ordinary Singaporeans to self-determine.

Being a MP and a Senior Minister of GRC not the choice the majority but nevertheless place there to serve the people should not dictate what the people can or cannot do

Respect must be earned not force upon.

If there are discontent among the people, it is in the interest of the ruling party to find out the reasons behind all this unhappiness.

Blogs thrive on the subjective and the passionate. If they were not extreme…no one will read them…then why blog?

I remember attending a talk by a well known internet guru, I think it was Steven Pierce, he said about blogs, “you either kick ass, or you kiss ass”

Twitter a micro-blog is probably more frightening…its thrives on what our minister mentor often accused Jeyaretnam of “innuendos” The people who are effective in this can spin powerful mental suggestion with their 140 words to stir people to action..

So there is a whole lot of activity, science and art developing of how people, organizations, and governments monitor what been said about them or about issues….and how they react to counter and manage these “statements”

Its the new PR activity that individuals and organization have inevitably got to manage in the new media world. You can actually deploy twitter as one of your monitors…get a bigger crook to catch a smaller one!.

As Singaporeans, pragmatic as we are…we often react by saying, “what a waste of time” …”just get rid of it..or regulate it”

Well …I don’t know if that line of thinking will work in this case.

Blogging in the larger Blogsphere have created new paradigms in the management of communication…which have led to new types of business activities, new jobs….and so on.

Change for the better? I don’t know….but its change that I see as inevitable….and as sooner we are able to attain the maturity of the larger blogsphere, the better equipped we will be to cope with New World Media.

Will be nice to know how Singaporeans feel, thus far arrogant and boastful are the the most common descriptions.

patriot

Mr.Lee, I know you are coming to realisation of true sentiments and that’s why you are suggesting relaxation of rules. So, please, I’m begging you, educate your people and try your very best to pass them some wisdoms.

Haiz.

regulate the internet?

try it and we shall see how stupid policies affect Singapore’s GDP when every country started treating Singapore with mistrust like North Korea.

given the response of the netizens, we should expect the downfall of the PAP in the next election.