tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8081742307252789733.post3440676533021990201..comments2024-02-14T04:53:18.295-08:00Comments on Singapore Dissident: Waiting for the Singapore dictatorship to collapse.Gopalan Nairhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15399145588654603667noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8081742307252789733.post-62543376601316721992010-10-12T16:45:04.501-07:002010-10-12T16:45:04.501-07:00To Mycroft,
Surely the 1950s were different from ...To Mycroft,<br /><br />Surely the 1950s were different from 2010. Then Singapore was a bunch of coolies satisfied with some food alone. Freedom was a luxury they did not understand. If nothing happened then, it is understandable. Surely today is different. Lee Kuan Yew's arrogance today is difficult to sell. <br /><br />Today the dictatorship is crumbling by default. All you have to do is wait.Gopalan Nairhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15399145588654603667noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8081742307252789733.post-61042700566449235802010-10-12T03:09:34.191-07:002010-10-12T03:09:34.191-07:00Your article reminded me of a poster of two skinn...Your article reminded me of a poster of two skinny Buzzards sitting on a branch with one saying to the other: “Patience My Ass I’m Gonna Kill Something!”<br /><br />There are times when waiting more than 50 years for the return of the freedom we once had as our birthright does seem pretty hard to bear for us Singaporean vultures. Our Great Leader has now so overstayed his welcome that most of his contemporaries and siblings and now his wife have left, or are about to leave, the scene of the crime ahead of him.<br /><br />Perhaps those are the wages of sin - to be condemned to linger on in this world and watch helplessly as all the things you care about crumble away and turn to dust. Mercifully for him Mother Nature always has the last laugh, without exception.<br /><br /><i>`My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:<br />Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!'<br />Nothing beside remains. Round the decay<br />Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,<br />The lone and level sands stretch far away".<br /><br /> - Percy Bysshe Shelley</i>mycroftnoreply@blogger.com