KJ
Fulfilling the ideals of the Pledge that we hold so dearly is also a brazen act of high treason. No wonder then, we dare not pledge ourselves too seriously.
There was a time not too long ago, when we clenched our fists upon our hearts, and pledged ourselves as one united people. Regardless of race, place, and united by Time, 8:22 was a rousing moment towards the sublime. Across the country, a fusillade of imagined community. An image so rare, of Singaporean unity. Imagine, a nation. An imagination. An image, a magic, coming true at 8:22.
But Singapore won’t make it, a wise man said. And he duly rose up from his living grave, to bring his highfalutin flock back down to earth. And how swiftly that vertiginous paradise disappeared. The tenets of our Pledge, the wise man said, are grandiose ideals that, if undemolished, would demolish Singapore.
And from the highest office of the land came this lowest living lie. That a democratic nation would destroy Singapore. It was a wonderment how a nation’s founding father would fight so forcefully against the founding of a nation.
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There was a time when people said that Singapore won’t make it. But we did.
***
When we think of nations, Benedict Anderson’s classic formulation often comes to mind, where a nation is a ‘deep, horizontal comradeship’ that only exists in a people’s collective imagination.[1] Nations as imagined communities. Might MM Lee be right that our nation is really a fantasy.
But Anderson’s treatise is not the final word. Nations are European inventions, one of many forms of political organizations, of creating communities. But what about us?, the political theorist Partha Chatterjee wondered – the once-colonized, the bastard children of Empire who have no choice of nations other than from those bequeathed by Europe – what do we have left to imagine? Europe has already written for us our colonial and postcolonial scripts of victory and failure, resistance and destiny. ‘Even our imaginations must remain forever colonized.’[2]
A nation, conjured by one’s imagination. More important for a nation, the freedom of imagination. And freedom, in PAP parlance, an abomination. Unsurprisingly, we remain colonized subjects. It’s Empire once more.
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It is this connection between nations and the freedom of imagination that allows us to understand MM Lee’s outburst. It has little to do with the Constitutional sanctity of the Malays’ indigenous rights.
Examine closely MM Lee’s well-documented eugenicist views on the ‘superiority’ of the Chinese ‘race’, his political intervention in the Association of Muslim Professionals’ (AMP) in 2000, as well as the various frank academic writings about the Malay community, and we’ll notice how his supposed Constitutional considerations evaporate. In any case, parliamentary dominance ensures that the Constitution can be arbitrarily amended, as it has been. And we wonder if Singapore really has a ‘Constitution’. We might well pay MM Lee a backhanded compliment when we say that he is above parliamentary and Constitutional powers, but that’s merely typical of tyrants and their regimes. Can there be harmony in the race between freedom and tyranny?
Rather, the true Pledge of our nation, as desired by NMP Viswa Sadasivan, strike right into the heart of the PAP’s strategy of divide and rule. The sociologist Chua Beng-Huat offers a perceptive reading: instituting multi-racialism enables, no – compels, the Singapore state to ‘set itself structurally above race’, giving the state enormous political leverage. A multi-racial Singapore would then necessitate the enactment and enforcement of racial harmony. This is a masterstroke that corrals Singaporeans into the paradoxical logic of deterrence: ‘it is because of deterrence that misdeeds are kept low, if not entirely erased – thus, deterrence must continue; however, since deterrence is never lifted, the validity of the assumption that, if lifted, misdeeds will indeed break out is never tested – thus deterrence continues.’[3]
‘Racial harmony’, like most other PAP political strategies, serves two simultaneous functions. First, a regime of power surveilling a compartmentalized citizenry. Its elaborate walls surreptitiously woven into discriminatory legislation, housing quotas, NS deployment, education trajectories and traps – the major institutions that govern the state, control the populace, and shape our assorted fates. Second, every strategy, invariably self-serving, cumulatively strengthens and entrenches its political dominance. That we don’t even notice how the necessity of ‘racial harmony’ conveniently requires a GRC system, is testament to MM Lee’s brilliance. ‘Racial harmony’ is not just that. It institutionalizes gerrymandering, legitimates control, and perpetuates a Chinese-dominated political party/-country/-nation.[4] Thus, to pledge a Singaporean identity regardless of race is already to position oneself politically against the state.
Among the plethora of contradictions in Singapore politics, the cruelest must be this: The regime’s control is so complete that even displays of patriotism, like fulfilling the ideals of our Pledge that we hold so dearly, is also a brazen act of high treason.
No wonder then, we dare not pledge ourselves too seriously. For the freedom of imagination is to imagine a nation free from the PAP.
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The late S. Rajaratnam is now well-known for having penned our Pledge. What is less-remembered, is his disappointment, publicly expressed in 1990, with how Singapore had turned out: our materialism, philistinism; and how we have become a soulless, unthinking flock. A people reduced to waged labour.
But his greatest disappointment was with the PAP’s insidious strategy to racialize Singaporeans. He believed the CMIO policy would end our quest for a united nation, a Singaporean Singapore: ‘At this rate there will be a long ethnic queue of Singapore citizens proclaiming Sikh identity … Ceylon Tamil identity … Indian Tamil identity … Cantonese identity … Hokkien identity – and goodbye Singapore identity.’[5]
For us, Rajaratnam’s hard-hitting speech illuminates how the PAP that had led us in the first decades is no longer the PAP that is leading us now. Passion, conviction, and that roaring fire have been replaced by a cold-hearted elitism and the rampant profiteering of Singapore Inc.
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Our National Day celebrations are resplendent affairs. Clothed in fascist irrationalism, luminous in their silken totalitarian complexion, they’re our annual thanksgiving to Fatherland’s only son, dear supreme leader. Tightly-scripted and controlled, these celebrations’ surging militarism overwhelm our senses, appealing to our basic instincts for survival, for war, their pomp and pageantry paced to perfection.
But underneath these grand gestures, there are some realities that we overlook. For most of us, the words of our national anthem remain a foreign mystery – a mystery we’re in no hurry to resolve. We recite our Pledge; it is fluent, but empty. The significance of our flag – the five stars and the crescent – is gazed past with ignorance, with diffidence. Sometimes it is hung backside-front, upside-down (although that is not necessarily a bad thing). If we were honest with ourselves we would admit that our nationalism rings hollow, our patriotism shallow.
I am no nationalist, but I share Rajaratnam’s 1990 sentiments: ‘…after nearly 20 years of growing prosperity, peace and better education, a Singapore identity must be even more deeply-rooted and indelible than in 1971. If not, there must be something seriously wrong with our nation-building process.’[6]
Yet another twenty years have passed, and little has changed. Our nation remains imagination-free.
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National Day Rallies: images and stories of yore, again and again, Time past and Time future. Reminders of how we came, from Third World to First, and who had brought us here. But this arrival is a mirage. If our existence is dependent on PAP rule, without whom…, then arrival will always be a mirage. And our government and its nation-building press would have failed our people. A Singapore that cannot survive without the PAP is a failed Singapore. And Time would have passed us by.
That Rally night, a glossy, contrived theatre, puppets and marionettes coming with strings attached, everybody performing perfectly to canned laughter. That Rally night, a treat to fabulous fantasies, foreign islands in a faraway time. But ask, here and now in our Singapore for a democratic society…, and see how the lights go out, the curtains come down, and how hearty laughter takes a bow. See how fear, timeless fear, is invoked. The fear of racial riots. The fear of our perdition. The fear of a Singapore without the PAP. Those faded, black-and-white photographs of old Singapore coming alive in their rowdiest kaleidoscopes. Unrealistic, unpragmatic, ungracious, irrational fear, ruthlessly untouched by Time.
So we haven’t arrived. Time exploded, and we remain in 1965. The chimera of skyscrapers and the reality of slums.
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After four decades of nation-nothing and wasted years, perhaps we do have to start over. Rebuild our own nation, on our own terms, on our own earth. The story of Singapore cannot be told by just one man. It cannot be just one story, where we live on one man’s island, one man’s vision, while our imaginations remain colonized, forever trapped in his time, living our lives as voiceless people in a lifeless story. A nation is possible, and it is already in our thoughts. Remember our Pledge, and remember 8:22.
There was a time when people said that Singapore won’t make it. But we did.
And we’ll imagine better. We have to imagine truer, in fragments, in freedom. To MM Lee our deepest gratitude, who has given Singapore the best as well as the worst, and so whose rightful name shall always come to be our messiah and curse. But the lovely night can only last so long.
An age has passed, and time belongs to a new day now. For us to render a Singapore that is not the fraudulent Pax Singaporeana built on money, exploitation, appearances, and fear. But a nation that is forged from our own hands, hearts, and dreams. Just like how it was, once upon a time in Singapore.
[1] Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism, London, Verso, 1983.
[2] Partha Chatterjee, The Nation and its Fragments: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories, Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1998.
[3] Chua Beng Huat, “Multicultiralism in Singapore: An Instrument of Social Control”, Race & Class, 44:3, 2003, pp. 58-77.
[4] For more on the structural disadvantages that the non-Chinese minorities face as a result of PAP policies, see Michael D. Barr and Zlatko Skrbis, Constructing Singapore: Elitism, Ethnicity, and the Nation-Building Project, Copenhagen, NIAS Press, 2008; Lily Zubaidah Rahim, The Singapore Dilemma: The Political and Educational Marginality of the Malay Community, Kuala Lumpur, Oxford University Press, 1998; Christopher Tremewan, The Political Economy of Social Control in Singapore, New York, St. Martin’s Press, 1994. It is unsurprising that most of the trenchant analyses of Singapore politics are conducted by foreign academics and not local ones.
[5] The Straits Times, “Raja Wants Revival of ‘Singaporean Singapore’”, 11 March 1990.
[6] ibid.
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“A Singapore that cannot survive without the PAP is a failed Singapore. ”
That would be a report card summary of LKY’s performance.
“Perhaps we should take our chances with Dr Chee Soon Juan … ”
Any donkey will do, just to make the point that it is a rational, thinking, deliberate and preferred choice over the status quo …
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Beijing has the largest number of wealthy people in China, according to the report.
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There are 116,000 multimillionaires and 7,000 billionaires in Shanghai.[/i]
leekuanyew must be advisin the bejing government right?
how many billionaires in singapoor may 1 seek?
I just need people with a “heart” for the betterment of fellow Singaporeans to run this country – oh, and those without “heart” better be prepared to pay the price of “wayang”.
Ever noticed the tyranny of the WordArt title that flashes on history documentaries – “THE Singapore Story”, then MM Lee speaking?
Why is his /the/ definitive, definite, and authoritative Singapore Story?
25/8/09
Good article but is a dream and in the real world of our Modern Singapore we have three main races ie Chinese, Malays, Indians and others ie Sikhs, Eurasians, and it is impossible telling ourselves and misleading ourselves we are Singaporeans regardless of races. We have seen this when we had an Education Minister who was an Indian,the majority Chinese and their education were nearly neglected, and now we have a Finance Minister who is an Indian. I can live with a Law Minister who is an indian (since our independece, correct me if I am wrong).
The same for Singapore Opposition leader and he must be a Chinese and not from the minorities.
*I am not a racist and I firmly believe that the Chinese being the majority and must hold important portfolios in these Ministries ie PM, Finance, Trade & Foreign Affairs, unless there is really Blue Chip or very calibre Chinese to hold these positions. I can live with tit ie he President being Indian, Malay or Eurasian.
Regards
Andrew Chuah
Andrew Chuah
Correction-unless there is really no Blue Chip or very calibre Chinese to hold these positions.
Regards
Andrew Chuah
I remember Geroge Orwell’s classic novel ‘ANIMAL FARM’. ha!ha!ha!
56) Andrew Chuah on August 25th, 2009 3.48 pm
Good article but is a dream and in the real world of our Modern Singapore we have three main races ie Chinese, Malays, Indians and others ie Sikhs, Eurasians, and it is impossible telling ourselves and misleading ourselves we are Singaporeans regardless of races.
You have fallen prey to PAP’s divide and conquer strategy.
more KJ in opposition will be good. else, solo strength is no enough.
Excellent work by KJ. Seems like we are risng to the challenge for the next General Election already. Momentum can be build here and this site has to reach more Singaporean. Maybe, its time we help to rope in more readership here and I am sure participation will multiply too. Let’s all help build the momentum forward to the betterment of our little island home.
Poor Rajaratnam
singaporeans future is in his hand and he has gone away
LKY will sh#t his pant if anyone like rajaratnam appear again.
already here. viswa sadasivan!
long life viswa!! pls bring us singaporeans out of this dirty LKY hand!!
we don’t want PAP anymore and LKY and his FAMILEE!
61) Ak on August 26th, 2009 4.16 pm
yes lets past the message around
we have been printing all this and talking to alot singaporeans on the lower side as they don’t have computers and even affort to buy one.so we print out and post it every where and let us hope they read it too and those who doesn’t know about this blog we will spread in other sites.
post on all the classifieds and more. go singaporeans
27/8/09
Hi Oxford Dude
Good to hear from you and this is definitely not a PAP divide and rule. We have seen in some small nations in the ocean where one minority race became the government of the day and abused power and the local indegenous in the Military have to overthrown the government and this must never happens in our Modern Singapore. As I said earlier postings ie I can live with minorties being the President a post which is largely ceremonial but the Executive Powers must be in the hands of the majority race ie the local born Singaporean Chinese and I pray that our future government will be made up of local born Ordinary Singaporeans.
Regards
Anderew Chuah
Ordinary Singaporean
Andrew,
I have never believed in categorising myself by race, so under your system, people like me who believe in being Singaporean first, will be marginalised, isn’t it?
I believe in caliber first, the race of the person be damned. We’re all Singaporeans here, and the more we choose to see ourselves through racial lenses, the further we will get from proper integration.
This article has brought tears to my eyes.
Tiny idea: I suppose the elections are not far off. After all these years of frustration would some of you like to do something? Maybe its crazy but what if each one of us prints just enough copies of this article for each mail box in our blocks and the 2 nearest blocks around our home? At the very least more people will get to read a meaningful article and who knows, the more Patriots start thinking the better yeah.
64) Andrew Chuah on August 27th, 2009 9.16 am
but the Executive Powers must be in the hands of the majority race ie the local born Singaporean Chinese and I pray that our future government will
you are one sick f#cking chinese b@stards!!
everything must be in chinese hands you fu@king racist and yet you pray?? we pray you will die soon.
Good idea #66. disseminate far and wide using all media tools. We can start by forwarding to all our email lists.
“The ruling party has betrayed the people over the past four years, driving the economy to the edge of a cliff, building up more than 6 trillion yen ($64.1 billion) in public debt, wasting money, ruining our social security net and widening the gap between the rich and poor,” the Democratic Party said in a statement as voting began Sunday.
“We will change Japan,” it said.
Time for Change Singapore?
1/9/09
Hi Loyola and We, Singaporeans,
I have noted your postings (65) and (64), my reply to Loyola is there are more very capable Singaporean Chinese than those from the minorities who would tend to abuse power should they come to power ie Executive Powers in their hands, and this must never happen in our Modern Singapore, and my reply t0 We Singaporeans is my life is in God’s hand and not in your hands (perhaps you are from the minority and this is very dangerous).
Since Modern Singapore independence, there is an implied Social Contract ie the Prime Minister which holds the Executive Power must be a Singaporean Chinese.
Regards
Andrew Chuah
1/9/09
Hi We Singaporean
We have seen in Fiji, the minority Indians who controlled the government and there were wide spread of abuse of power and corruption and the Military had to overthrew them. This must never happen in our Modern Singapore and the majority Singaporean Chinese must hold the Executive Power ie Prime Minister and the Executive Powers (plase don’t tell me the minorities are better qualities and calibres than the majority Singaporean Chinese ie local born).
Regards
Andrew Chuah
Re: (71) (72)
1) Since Modern Singapore independence, there is an implied Social Contract ie the Prime Minister which holds the Executive Power must be a Singaporean Chinese
Comment: PROVE IT !
2) ( Please don’t tell me the minorities are better qualities and calibres than the majority Singaporean Chinese ie local born ).
Comment: RACIST !
Punishemnt for racist: send to district 9 to live with prawns
6/9/09
Hi Chiang Hai Din
I am not a racist and I am part of the majority of Ordinary Singapore Chinese (Singapore born) and this is what we all see. Why must we disturb the present status quo and making way for the Minorities to be PM with Executive Power when we already have Indian DPM, Indian Ministry of Law and Indian Minister of Finance, and Indian President.
Regards
Andrew Chuah
6/9/09
Hi Chiang Hai Din
I am not a racist and I am part of the majority of Ordinary Singapore Chinese (Singapore born) and this is what we all see. Why must we disturb the present status quo and making way for the Minorities to be PM with Executive Power when we already have Indian DPM, Indian Ministry of Law and Indian Minister of Finance, and Indian President.
Regards
Andrew Chuah
Andrew Chuah
You are good to avoid question on your unfounded statement
Chiang asked you to prove:
1) Since Modern Singapore independence, there is an implied Social Contract ie the Prime Minister which holds the Executive Power must be a Singaporean Chinese
Do you have an evidence ? Which part of constitution written on this and any newspaper report on this ??
Please be responsible in your writing, you are the one playing with fire ..
7/9/09
Hi Lee Yock Seng
I thank you for your posting.What evidence when I wrote it has been “implied Social Contract” since our independence from Malaysia (we were kicked out because we were majority Chinese and if continued, we would had been ruling Malaysia).
I am not playing with fire and I am one of those belonging to the silent majority who wants to maintain present status quo when we already have so many minorities epsecially Indians in the PAP Government ie Indian DPM, Indian Minister of Law, Indian Minister of Finance and many junior ministers besides Indian President.
Andrew Chuah
You may have a fork tongues.
When u can’t produce evidence of your claim, you use history which u know little, to prove.
TOC should be a place with free speech but not a place for self fabricated story.
If we believe on equality, i.e. the redundance of article 152 in constitution ( you are one who strongly called it to be scarpped ) then we must also allow all capable men and women to get into PM job.
I m not keen to reply you any further, as i can see the deep scars of UMNO inflicted on you, so be it, this discussion is about fair political environment of the “modern” Singapore ( your favorite clause *-* ) , pls do not put narrow and biased views, over and over again.
You surely can do better if you use your intelligence to write message with fresh ideas. We hope you could.
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33) Impossible on August 24th, 2009 9.03 am
… And now Shanmugaratnam has thrown the APEC meeting terrorist threat over Singapore – you dare to move?
All signs point to a snap election in Dec this year after a “successful” APEC meeting in Nov, the starits times will publish praises from foreign leaders, especially Sg’s master USA in the APEC, as a tesimony to gain votes.
TOC must shoudler the heavy mission of nuetralising such propanganda with impartial reports….
Re:
33) Impossible on August 24th, 2009 9.03 am
… And now Shanmugaratnam has thrown the APEC meeting terrorist threat over Singapore – you dare to move?
All signs point to a snap election in Dec this year after a “successful” APEC meeting in Nov, the starits times will publish praises from foreign leaders, especially Sg’s master USA in the APEC, as a tesimony to gain votes.
TOC must can help Singaporeans in neutralising such propanganda with impartial reports….
8/9/09
Hi Lee Yock Seng
Good to hear from you. I don’t have fork tongues. History is my evidence. There is equality in Singapore orelse, how these Indians have these positions in the PAP government ie DPM, Law, Finance and President plus junior minister position,and you add up the other minorities ie Malay, Singhs etc, more than the Singaporean born Chinese, and you can find no such things in other nations even Australia. Please don’t twist history and change our present status quo ie the Prime Minister who holds the Executive Powers must be in the hands of the minority race (you are asking for trouble-the silent majority Singapore Chinese will not like this especially the Ah Kau, Ah Too, Ah Hiangs, Ah Chiam & Ah Pek,these people who may not be educated but they will exercise their votes come next General Election)
Regards
Andrew Chuah
8/9/09
Hi Lee Yock Seng
Further to my posting today, there are far more capable men from the majority Singaporean Chinese to fill Prime Minister with Executive Powers than from the minority races who already holding many ministerial positions-DPM, Ministers, Junior Ministers and President.
Regards
Andrew Chuah
Andrew,
You don’t have fork tongue, we are sure.
Seems that you crow after sun rise, using History to prove your point, where is your own intelligence ?
If not due to lack of intelligence, u may have 3 tongues, a new creature that don’t find in world record :) :) :)
Andrew,
I certainly hope your views are one of the minority within the “chinese majority”… it is just the sort of mentality that the ruling party may want you to have. I have to agree with oxford dude on his comments 59). A country cannot possibly move forward if there are deep seated divisions within its society… If only all of us are able to see pass our differences/ethnicity/religion and just view ourselves as Singaporean citizens who all have equal stakes in the development of our nation. Things will be so very different. It is hard to believe that you are what you say you are not… We all have a right to our own views, even you… I just hope and pray that you are again just one of the minority who has such views.. being a “Singaporean born majority Chinese” myself, I hold the opinion that anyone (Singaporeans only of course..) regardless of race, language or religion can be my leader so long as he/she has only the best interest of the nation and its people at heart and not his/her own self interests.
And in moving forward, lets all agree to disagree… and Andrew, I totally disagree with your pathetic excuse for a cogent argument that only the Chinese should hold executive powers… why should we? And yet again, that is just my opinion. I cannot force you to change yours as it is your right to have a opinion and voice it. And as you did before in your other replies, you are allowed to disagree with me.. This should be the way democracy should be in Singapore and not the one way gibberish that is emanating from our parliament.
And again with reference to your post in 81);
“Please don’t twist history and change our present status quo ie the Prime Minister who holds the Executive Powers”
I would like to reiterate a point that I brought up on other forums…
I believe singaporeans in general have become too comfortable with the status quo and are afraid if it changes everything will cease to work. Xenophobia is what we are afflicted with…. After all we have only been exposed to 1 government. What will happen if the PAP falls? we won’t know. Will the country collapse when the ruling party loses power? That is what I feel, many of us are afraid of, and they are using it to their advantage. However, the truth is, if the current government were to lose it majority, Singapore will still continue on. Only its leaders will change, all its civil services/statutory boards and its related machinery will remain… ( I give it to the ruling party for building up a solid bureaucracy) Singapore will continue chug along with or without the PAP. So as long as there are credible enough alternatives, I say give them a chance. Bring diversity to parliament, and not the dreary white wash we see today. I believe Singaporeans are a truly resilient lot, but we are just being stifled and caged. We need a little more freedom. And for that to happen, something has to change…
And with that I would like to conclude by saying…
We all have to have a stake in our future, A stake in Singapore. Believe in Change.
We can change…but first, we must want change, 1 vote at a time at the upcoming elections.. :-) That vote is your stake in our future.. vote wisely.
There is always hope.
P.S. some of you well read people might remember the head of MIW saying that if a “freak” result would occur, they would call in the SAF… I assure you as a member of the SAF… we will not harm our own… we are not puppets nor robots to be controlled.
referring to Andrew’s comments…I believe majority of ppl here disagree with him.Facts do not lie here…Every1 is shooting his comments down..and that includes me…I am a minority…and I dont have any problems with the Chinese here coz education brought us together….to be civilised and be a proper Singaporean…thats why..I am a Singaporean first,,,then followed by my race..
We do need a change…with due respect,MM Lee…learn to let go…
this is shitting all over the place It requires some reorg of its
content for clarity There no thread to runtro all its themesTime
to consolidate……
To Singaporeanns (62)
I am not sure when did Mr Rajaretnam, the original author of our National Pledge, start expressing his misgivings openly on fundamental issues like the setting up of divisive ethnic bodies like CDCA, Mendaki and Sinda – when he was still in the government or after he retired. If it was later, it was definitely much sooner after his retirement, I believe. Compare him to his ex-colleagues like Messrs Toh Chin Chye and Ong Pang Boon, who have much more to speak against but dare not do so because they know that MM would take the day light off and crush them to pulp.
To Mr. Andre Chuah (64)
Your implied message that a nation is more safe and secures being ruled by the majority, that too by an overwhelming one like in Singapore, is very sound and valid except for the fact that power can be abused by anybody running the government whether by the minority or majority. Leaving the African countries aside (I don’t know much about them), I can’t think of any country in this part of the world being or having been ruled by a miniscule minority lording it over the majority (leave out the Colonialists). The nearest that comes to my mind is Fiji, where the government run by an alliance of minority Indians along with a splinter party comprising native Fijians, was overthrown by the military. Even there the Indian population was nearly 40%, an overwhelming minority indeed! If you take the Malay and Indian population here they don’t even make up 22% combined. Hence a minority led government here is a non-starter.
20/9/09
Hi Seah Mei Kok,Sean,Eddie & K Das, I have noted all your postings,Please don’t destroy what we have built up and Modern Singapore must always remain in the hands of the majority Singaporean Chinese. I will not tolerate minority rule on the so called platform Singaporean First which is a myth.
Modern Singapore was founded on the basis of unwritten Social Contract and obtained her independence from Malaysia and this unwritten Social Contract must continue. Please don’t tell me what we have right now ie in the PAP Cabinet so many minorities especially Indians ie President, Senior Minister, DPM and Minister of Finance and many minister of state-junior ministers plus MPs, and these are not enough and we must have a Singaporean Indian as Prime MInister with Executive Power.
Please don’t let the opposition especially those half baked and quarter baked mislead us (they are Runnig Dogs of foreign NGOs).
Regards
Andrew Chuah
Hey Andrew…probably,U r looking after your own rice bowl if u insists that a majority race shd hold important porfolios.As a meritrocatic citizen,I believe in the system where a person shd hold the responsiblity based on his just,loyalty and right person.It could be anyone,be it a Chinese,Malay,Indian or Others.Dont tell me if ur minority colleague is promoted to be ur boss,U r going to ditch the company for a reason…”Argghh..he is not a chinese…not fit to hold as my boss”…? Do a self reflection…Not all chinese are gold and not all minorities are shit….is this what u hv been taught at home and in school? Shame on you!!!
22/9/09
Hi Eddie, Good to hear from you. First, what shame and I maintained that in Singapore there is an unwritten Social Contract where the majority must be in total control of the Government and holding the Prime Minister post with Executive Powers.
I am not protecting my rice bowl as I am working with a boutique investment advisory firm. I am writing as a concerned Ordinary Singaporean born Chinese and my stand is there are still very highly qualified Singaporea born Chinese for the Prime Minister post with Executive Powers, besides being just, loyal and right persons. Yes, at home and in school, we are all taught that Singapore is a multi racial nation and the majority is Chinese.
Regards
Andrew Chuah
Andrew….
u and ur unwrittten..bla bla bla bla….
unwritten mean not written…so there is no agreement black and white….or whatever such…so stop championing ur unwritten clause…till u hv it,show it…do not just talk here and there…
23/9/09
Hi Eddie
Good to hear from you and please read K Das posting and I fully agreed with him ie minority government is a non starter. Please go back and read your history books and then revert back to me. Correct me if I am wrong, you came from the minority races and perhaps having very big ambition ie wanting to be Prime Minister of Singapore with Executive Powers.
Regards
Andrew Chuah