Allow me to explain.

Why does a person openly attack / troll the YPAP website? Let us examine a few likely possibilities.

1) He is an unstable and radical moron.
- No one is the right mind would keep posting vulgarities at the YPAP.
- His NS records shows that he is either unstable and rash, which leads him to DB. Who would want to get into trouble in this manner during NS?
- He rather spend all the time trolling YPAP rather than taking care of his sick mother.
- His radical behaviour reminds us of CSJ who is remembered by many for causing opposition to lose credibility after the elections which oppositions had the best showings.

2) He is part of PAP or setup by PAP.
- He did not declare to be member of any opposition. Its not surprising. No credible opposition would want to associate with someone who behave so rashly and opening declare bringing down the government.
- His posts were not deleted on the YPAP website. Why? Is the moderators not working or is there a reason his posts are kept?
- He attacks LKY and PAP government openly. Urging people to bring down the government? Why was there no strong condemnation/reaction against him but the YPAP people seems contended to keep entertaining him by responding his posts?
- Very little is known about this person until now which is near election time.
- By engaging in rash and mindless trolling, he is indeed the ‘perfect’ example of ’senseless’ opposition that PAP always like to portray. The type of opposition behaviour that could turn off majority of the rational and mature voters.

3) He is a tool for certain opposition members
- His young age of 22 and immaturity and rashness allows certain people to use him as the mouthpiece/proxy to advocate their agenda.

4) He has a personal axe to grind against PAP.
- For reasons unknown, why so personal that a 22 year old can be so obsessed with radical idea of bringing down government and spending so much time attacking PAP in various ways?
- Other than wanting to bring down PAP, he doesn’t seem to have specific agenda/plans to share with the rest of Singapore

Looking into these possibilies, it can be safely concluded that whichever it is. His antics at the YPAP website can only cause greater harm to opposition than PAP.

If the above possibilities are speculations, one thing is not. He has succeeded in bringing much publicity and bring to YPAP more ‘facebook fans’ and in the trolling process brings ‘apathy’ to YPAP! Any credible opposition party would be wise to not allow this person as a member, as his ongoing online antics would be more of liabilities and provide wonderful ‘ammo’ for PAP to use during election time.

It has been proven again and again in elections, that Singaporeans seek a better opposition (the likes of Chiam and Low) – somewhat like PAP e.g. people with good credentials and education/intellectual, well-liked but hopefully a more humane front and less elistist. They want a balance parliament but not a radical change of government. Singaporeans flatly rejected confrontational approach (the likes of CSJ) whose bizzare behaviour Alex seems to be taking onto and this is hurting opposition at a crucial time!

As you can see, it is without doubt that you have gathered much support from online netizens.

If we remember that the original intention for causing all this furore, i assume, was for the ultimate benefit of Singaporeans, then let us not lose sight of the aim.

We seem slightly to be going around in circles, commenting and debating on your credibility, on PAP and NMPs, CHANGE, etc.

Many used to be just sitting ducks. Now many have become quacking sitting ducks. The question is whether or not we can take flight to avoid being shot.

The dust has been unsettled, now, then what is next?

This will be the next test of the substance of your claims and your intentions. Misunderstand me not, I do not doubt you, but simply, if you managed to consistently achieve and maintain these, most definitely would you be better able to engage your opposition.

(I have a query: For what are we voting against, in the name of Change?)

&my thoughts echo SirWilliamWallace’s.

Cheers.

If Taiwan faced with greater n mightier China can end military conscription, surely Singapore can do the same too……

http://www.chinapost.com.tw/editorial/taiwan-issues/2009/03/13/199883/End-of.htm

I agreed with Alex that 2 years NS is a total waste of time.
Who are we actually protecting?

vote for Change, vote the PAP out

Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely. The younger generation of PAP members have failed to connect with the people. This is can seen from the numerous holier-than-thou / insensitive comments by them.

leave the battle to the young man and stop stalking him again and again. thanks.

GE2010 will say it all.

I feel a lot of desperation in you. Cool it, young hero. Rome wasn’t built in a day, didn’t anyone tell you? History is not created within a lifespan. If you are frustrated and desperate, then think about your forebears who do not have the luxury to decide whether to stay or to leave. All they could do was fight. So please, do not belittle their pain and effort by exalting your chivalry. There is nothing to crow about for one so ready to throw in the towel at the loss of one battle. This is not the spirit of fighters, young chap.

When you grow wiser in a year or two, and with one or two battles under your belt, you will realized that what you have done has created more damage to the cause you are pursuing.

Let me share with you one lesson I learnt here in TOC – to always go into battle with a smile on your face and in your heart. You will fight better with this. Trust me.

You asked for help in fighting the YP in facebook, I volunteered and asked you questions but you did not answer me.

trot down Shenton Way and Paya Lebar during peak hours, what we see is a typical Singaporean:
frustrated, stressed, angry and most importantly: helpless.

drop by old towns like Eunos’s circuit road, Chinatown’s waterloo street, Toa Payoh’s lorongs…we’ll see countless elderly peddling tissues, arching their back picking up recyclable items, pushing loads of “trash”, and the handicapped and poor in the streets performing, begging…what retirement? what first world country and GDP progress? all the GDP percentage has nothing to do with them!

look at our local tertiary students. the PAP rather fund some foreign students with worse-than-PSLE English than to subsidize Singaporean students university and polytechnic fees.

look at the blank faces of the NSFs: underpaid, tamed and have no freedom.

their resigned faces say it all.

Singapore today is a sad sad place.
there is no Hope and no signs of life here. work and work…
we have degraded into a callous and meaningless society because of PAP.

the PAP know it, but they want to have their cake and eat it too. thus they resort to propagandas: telling Singaporeans to smile, to be gracious, to be accommodating of foreigners, to appreciate what we have…faking happiness.
sometimes i wonder if the PAP members are faking it too.

does the PAP as a ruling government understand?

this place gives me heartaches, which is also the reason why i will choose to leave Singapore if PAP wins the next GE.

i will give it all i’ve got for the next GE, am considering to join the Opposition and hope to get socio-civic bloggers like me to be in for this too.

Singapore have all the talents to form a better government. i will approach them and hopefully pursuade these talents to concentrate together in one party and stand for elections.

will visit Reform Party’s open house next tuesday and the Worker’s Party headquarters the week after.

the people is waiting for a Change, a new Hope.
i have decided to stop waiting and seek the team who will be the Change. i hope readers will at least do their part by educating their families and friends about the sad state PAP has put us in.

p.s. i thank you all for the emails and messages of encouragement i received from the TOC interview. Change is about the people’s effort. lets give it all we’ve got for this country this General Elections.

This is exactly the same as YPAP forum before it got removed.

I foresee that the YPAP facebook is going to suffer the same fate as its forum. Haha.

Good job, Alex!

you are damn right. but who cares anyway about those fairy tales that have been spinned by the other side..

ultimately, words (however eloquent or logically convincing picking only selective variables as usual) can only say so much and it is your own reality or “reality” that you have to take a deep closer look and measure up in relation to the larger scheme of things administered in this goonduland.

90) Norman, im not gonna make you believe me or not, whatever. focus your attack on the PAP please.

Or maybe it’s just because it’s a quick interview, so Alex didn’t really have the room to elaborate. =|

Alex are you there?

Remember always we are always BEHIND you.

SD