if you so smart, why u never run for election as opposition candidate to try to unseat these people u complaining?

18) Where can I find a list of GPCs?

GPC is the acronym for Government Parliamentary Committees. These Committees are not set up by Parliament. Members of the GPCs belong to the Government Party. You can find out more about GPCs through useful links .

What type of logic is it that says that introducting the study of comparative political systems means blurring the lines between political and party organ?

The GPC is not a party organ. It is set up by Parliament  and can include opposition members. But memnbers must presumably have knowledge of the subject and if not, are at least willing to spend the time to master it. Its task is to examine a matter sweriously and not to score points.

DT then goes on to complain that Shanmugan enphasized maintining the political hegmony of Singapore. In fact, Shanmugan says otherwise, that the concusion that PAO would continue to be the dominant political force is not so clear cut even if the PAP remains true to its principle. How this translates to maintaining political hegemoiny is beyond me. Even if what DT interprets is correct what is so wrong with wnating to be the dominant political force?  How else can want exercise political power unless one wins electiosn in the first place?
I really do not undertand this rambling. I got tired after 4 paragraphs and gave up. Please, please…think logically. There are many areas to improve in Singapore. Come up with good, weel-thought out  suggestions instead of writing infantile rambling. 

I reckon that he is eyeing the PM’s chair!

Remember the grapevine chatter several moons ago as to whether Singapore is ready for a non-Chinese PM???

Well, I’m still curious as to what answer a political education can give to the question: “What form of government best serves a small resource-poor city-state on an island blah blah blah…”

Talk so much, but you have yet to address the author’s point. I really doubt your substance in addressing this topic.

As I’ve pointed out, the only two other remaining city-states in a world that used to be full of them are Monaco and Vatican City. Neither is intended to convince anyone of anything, except perhaps that city-states tend to be absorbed by surrounding states if not maintained by some kind of web of agreements or other source of stability.

What would you suggest Singapore do that is fundamentally (as opposed to incrementally) different from what it already has?

lmao….

post #25 on January 15th, 2010 3.06 am

////If the Ministry of Education made such a subject as compulsory, any student who failed it should not be promoted to the next level. You have problems with such a fair and logical practice?////

define fail.

////If, at the time of his writing in the examination, the PAP continues to perform as well as today, then he ought to be failed since his answer indicates to majority of the voters that he has no bloody clue of what is politics!////

a constant harping of a party’s success = education? PAP’s good or bad performance in part is due to luck heard “if we’re lucky…”? :P

“What if a child gets ban from secondary school or university because he fails the politics module?”

If the Ministry of Education made such a subject as compulsory, any student who failed it should not be promoted to the next level. You have problems with such a fair and logical practice?

“What if he failed because he wrote that he thinks PAP or 1 party system is bad for Singapore?”

If, at the time of his writing in the examination, the PAP continues to perform as well as today, then he ought to be failed since his answer indicates to majority of the voters that he has no bloody clue of what is politics!

What if he failed because he wrote that he thinks PAP or 1 party system is bad for Singapore?

Have PAP done something like that?

YEs! People used to be disallow from attending university because of his parents were communists or something like that.

PAP is stepping further and further backward.

Not only that, so many laws not right are ignored and yet Mr Sham spends time thinking about how to ‘educate’ our kids.

aiyoh as part of a dry-run, y not show it on mainstream so that everyone can “benefit” lah, y only restrict only to schools leh. aunties & uncles surely would like to feel the depth of such political education. also, parents would be interested to know also what they been missing all these years which were never introduced to them in the past leh.

ah ha, school kids are more impressionable & malleable in front of more dominant superior power like teachers right ?

sample of the lyrics in that song : “we don’t need no education, ”
“we don’t need no thought control ”
………………………………………………….
” teacher ! leave those kids alone !
” all in all, were’re just another brick in the wall ”

it makes a lot of sense when we edit those lyrics for Spore’s political scenario.
” we don’t need no politicians, ”
” we don’t need no thought control ”
…………………………………………………..
” PAPies ! leave those kids alone ! ”
” all in all, were’re just another brick in the wall ”

Brainwashing school children to serve a political party’s agenda is going to be unforgiveable and deserves only one outcome.

The law is fundamentally party neutral.

Last I check, WP’s application for a cycling event was denied by the police while PAP MPs are allowed to cycle in a public event. The administration of the law is not party neutral.