tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8081742307252789733.post1570162085666649573..comments2024-02-14T04:53:18.295-08:00Comments on Singapore Dissident: Singapore Lee Kuan Yew's prime minister son insults European youthGopalan Nairhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15399145588654603667noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8081742307252789733.post-7930258880129104122013-07-09T15:04:21.161-07:002013-07-09T15:04:21.161-07:00Words from the mouth of a PAP shill.
Jerome Lee, ...<br />Words from the mouth of a PAP shill.<br /><br />Jerome Lee, Washington spokesman for Singapore’s embassy to the United States.<br /><br />"Since its independence, Singapore has had regular, free and fair general elections with high turnout rates." Yes we have regular elections. Yes we have high turnout. All of us were trying our best to get rid of a dictatorship the legal way. However, it is stretching the definition of "free and fair" to claim Singapore's elections fall into this category.<br /><br />And a wonderful reply:<br />"The press is controlled. And recently the government decided to control the Internet as well. Election time is shortened to as little as one or two weeks at most for campaigning. And there are all sorts of rules and regulations to ensure any campaigning is restricted one way or another. Gerrymandering is almost a national sport for the ruling party. If there is a competition they will win the world championship at it."<br /><br />http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/singapore-is-no-autocracy/2013/07/08/30aa2bd4-e5b5-11e2-bffd-37a36ddab820_story.html<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8081742307252789733.post-2767144918389110592013-07-09T13:09:16.989-07:002013-07-09T13:09:16.989-07:00To Anonymous,
Your analogy to Korean culture in ...To Anonymous, <br /><br />Your analogy to Korean culture in commercial flying and Singapore is indeed correct. I recall another instance in the case of Korean jumbo cargo 747 where immediately after take off, the Captain side of the horizon indicator was faulty showing the aircraft banking to the left while the instrument on the co-pilot side showed straight and level flight. While the captain continued to bank the aircraft to the right hoping to level the aircraft, the co-pilot just sat there doing or saying nothing, in deference to the captain. Of course the aircraft banked too far to the right and simply crashed killing both pilots and anyone else on board. I suppose this is Asian Confucianism or more correctly, stupidity. Singapore is no different. Gopalan Nairhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15399145588654603667noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8081742307252789733.post-50798168304142599082013-07-09T11:34:13.992-07:002013-07-09T11:34:13.992-07:00driven by respect to authority and fear of upsetti...<br /><br />driven by respect to authority and fear of upsetting their superior, the co-pilots ultimately contributed to the plane crash as they allowed the pilot to start a visual landing without an alternative. <br /><br />Any lessons for S'pore?<br /><br />A Korean Air plane flying from Korea to Guam was going through bad weather and stormy clouds. The captain had committed the plane to visual landing, which meant that he had to be able to see the airport runway. Here is some of the conversation among the pilots. Pay close attention to a couple of comments from the supporting crew to the captain and to how the captain responds to them, or doesn’t:<br /><br />First officer: Do you think it rains more in this area?<br /><br />Captain: (silence)<br /><br />Flight engineer: Captain, the weather radar has helped us a lot.<br /><br />Captain: Yes. They are very useful.<br /><br />What the first officer is trying to do is warn the pilot that it may not be safe to do a visual approach without a backup plan for landing, in case the runway is not visible. Such communication of hinting from first officer to pilot is not uncommon in Korean culture. However, driven by respect to authority and fear of upsetting their superior, the co-pilots ultimately contributed to the plane crash as they allowed the pilot to start a visual landing without an alternative. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8081742307252789733.post-19829174857360357462013-07-09T11:30:28.767-07:002013-07-09T11:30:28.767-07:00What Malcolm Gladwell said in his book, Outliers, ...What Malcolm Gladwell said in his book, Outliers, on Korean air crashes.<br /><br />"You are obliged to be deferential toward your elders and superiors in a way that would be unimaginable in the U.S." he added. That's dangerous when it comes to modern airplanes, said Gladwell, because such sophisticated machines are designed to be piloted by a crew that works together as a team of equals, remaining unafraid to point out mistakes or disagree with a captain.<br /><br />Is the airplane called Singapore, Inc. going to suffer the same fate.<br /><br />Because no one dares to question LKY - e.g stop at 2, speak Mandarin, graduate mothers, 6.9 million, ...<br /><br />No one questions him when he appoints his son Prime Minister - look at LHL's list of bad decisions.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com