tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8081742307252789733.post1606620716952062927..comments2024-02-14T04:53:18.295-08:00Comments on Singapore Dissident: The boring spiritless, dull and compliant Singaporean.Gopalan Nairhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15399145588654603667noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8081742307252789733.post-91343182972198406682011-07-22T19:20:04.832-07:002011-07-22T19:20:04.832-07:00Mr Nair can you give us the latest update on the h...Mr Nair can you give us the latest update on the high court hearing? Are you taking the risk to come here and make a laughing stock out of the judges and then they will have no choice but to disbar you and subsequently frame you for something you did not do?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8081742307252789733.post-27516817771100614842011-07-22T16:02:45.505-07:002011-07-22T16:02:45.505-07:00I just feel sorry for the sorry state in Singapore...I just feel sorry for the sorry state in Singapore. No basic freedom of expression or assembly. People endure ripoffs all the time; People still fear, in this day and age, an old frail person. The younger and better educated do not or will not (for selfish means) revolt, thus the entire island will just hv to wait for what no one has an idea; maybe China. Hope things get better for them when the dictator and son goes.Jessie Tannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8081742307252789733.post-12322266505361866652011-07-22T13:40:13.254-07:002011-07-22T13:40:13.254-07:00To Anonymous July 22, 0930,
What you say is true, ...To Anonymous July 22, 0930,<br />What you say is true, but that fear is they every thing that he relies on to keep you always in line. <br />Chee's popularity today is the result of his past disobedience. Had he not acted that way, he would be considered no better than Wong Meng Seng who has now disapppeared from the scene. <br />JBJ's popularity was precisely becase he dared to challenge. Had he been alive today, I am sure he would be in Parliament now, and a very different animal from Low thia Khiang and his ilk. <br />Standing up to these tyrants takes some sacrifice, just as it was necessary all over the world. But this father and son team, cowards as they are, will fold and there are innumerable reasons for it especially in Singapore. <br />Remember, whether I speak or not, the days of the Lee Kuan Yew team are over. No babies, huge rates of emigraiton, and insufficient quality immigrants. All I am trying to do here is to precipitate the inevitable. <br />As for my situation, true I don't have any assests or family left in Singapore. They are spread out in the USA, England, Russia and India.Gopalan Nairhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15399145588654603667noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8081742307252789733.post-51914579885944716002011-07-22T10:07:53.725-07:002011-07-22T10:07:53.725-07:00His most revealing moment was when he volunteered ...His most revealing moment was when he volunteered his admiration of Singapore, calling it the most "open and clear society in the world." Its leaders are so lavishly paid, he said, that "there's no temptation, and it is the cleanest society you'd find anywhere."<br /><br />It was instructive that Murdoch chose to praise a polished, deeply authoritarian police state. Maybe that's how corporations would live if they didn't have to believe in people.<br /><br />Read more: http://www.stltoday.com/news/opinion/columns/maureen-dowd/article_033958f9-37c3-5cbf-971c-ba83c8d8e188.html#ixzz1Sr3heGpXAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8081742307252789733.post-36667137628900770352011-07-22T09:30:51.286-07:002011-07-22T09:30:51.286-07:00Gopalan, you said "If you did challenge him, ...Gopalan, you said "If you did challenge him, he would probably throw you in jail. But the moment you hold your ground and remained defiant, he will back off as he always does, just like any other coward behaves."<br /><br />WRONG! You will repeatedley be harassed, bankrupted, career runied, and life totally destroyed and prevented from running any elections. So, unlike a playground bully, just continuous definance will NOT cause Lee Kuan Yew and cronies to "back off."<br /><br />The only time he will "back off" is if you are overseas like you and have NO assets or relatives in Singapore. If you have relatives in Singapore, prepare for them to suffer punishment by default, for opposing him from abroad.<br /><br />So, I am sorry Gopalan, you are wrong. Rather than backing off, he will harass you unto death, as the late JB Jeyeratnam was....<br /><br />So, now you undertand don't you? So why do you keep askign people to defy when it will do them no good? Also no one will support them openly as JBJ and Dr. Chee found out. So, bottom line, why bother, is the Singaporean mindset. Can you blame them?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com