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FAP regime is a continuation of colonial rule

makapaaa

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August 25th, 2014 |
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Thum Ping Tjin: PAP regime is a continuation of colonial rule
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(Photo and transcript courtesy of Martyn See, who posted them on his Facebook.)

Video link here: http://youtu.be/31b8WeqasQs

Historian PJ Thum exposes the 3 Myths of Vulnerability, Development and Meritocracy and calls the PAP Government an “imperial government and a continuation of colonial rule”
Excerpts.

“So if you’re the first Prime Minister of Singapore. You have just been handed power by the British. Where does your legitimacy come from? You’re not an indigenous people. You’ve won an election under very dubious circumstances where you put your political opponents into cold storage. So what do you do? You take a leaf out of the previous colonial government. You reject democracy, you suspend individual rights, you continue to cripple all sorts of safeguards against your exercise of State power etc. by arguing that Singapore is an exceptional case, by arguing for Singaporean exceptionalism. Why? You use the three myths of development, vulnerability and meritocracy.”

THE MYTH OF DEVELOPMENT

“By 1950, Singapore was the richest country in Asia. The only country in Asia that was richer than Singapore was metropolitan Tokyo. It was famous then for everything that we are famous for today – tall buildings, wide boulevards, clean drinking water. We had more cars per capita than anywhere in Asia. We were famous for being a trading port, an offshore financial centre, a specialised commodities futures centre, world market for rubber and tin, an oil distribution centre. Lee Kuan Yew himself in 1960 as his electoral fortunes declined as he got more and more unpopular, kept going around saying, “Look, Singapore has the highest income in Asia.” If you read the Straits Times in 1960 he kept saying this to point out how good we were doing.”

THE MYTH OF MERITOCRACY

“The PAP’s first generation, the Old Guards as we celebrate so much, was an example of how great leadership and talent can be found from people of all backgrounds regardless of education and upbringing. But after the party split several times in the 50s and early 60s, the leadership needed people they could trust to fill the ranks and so they turn to people who are like them – friends, colleagues, relatives – people with talent and who were smart but who thought very much like the leaders of the PAP. So power became concentrated in the hands of a narrow elite. And over time this has meant homogenity of thoughts, values and experiences. They think alike, they feel alike, they believe the same things. Multiple studies on Singapore’s elite have shown that the strongest determinant of elite status in Singapore is the proximity to the PAP leadership. The elite is overwhelmingly male, overwhelmingly ethnic Chinese, overwhelmingly upper class; they attend a narrow range of schools, something like 90% of scholarship holders come from just 4 schools. Because a majority of them were male, most of them would have actively served in the military as scholar officers. Don’t get me wrong. Within this elite, competition is very fierce and is meritocratic. But to get in there is an accident by birth and the rest of Singaporeans are excluded by definition from the very beginning. So you have a pre-selected elite who don’t know that they are the pre-selected elite, who within the competition of this pre-selected elite, believed that they have gotten to where they are through hard work and therefore they owe nothing to the rest of society for their position..”

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The PAP has abandoned attempts to restore democratic normality and instead have reasserted Singapore’s exceptionalism.

Singapore’s vulnerability was emphasised. Legislative authority was used to legitimise regulatory oppression. The media was suppressed and a monopoly was asserted over public discourse. Opposition has been depicted as subversive and detention without trial has been used to remove the leadership of the political opposition.

To maintain the three myths, the PAP, like the British, have used instruments of intellectual and legislative control. Over the decades the PAP has gone further than the British in implementing colonial policies in destroying Chinese education, shutting down Nantah, ending all Chinese schools.

To me the really sad thing is Singapore democracy really worked from 1955 to 1963 when Singaporeans went to the polls on an average of once a year. And out of this short period emerged policies that made Singapore world-famous today – HDB, CPF, industrialisation, a tri-lingual education system that produced a reasonably talented second generation of PAP leadership. But after the PAP’s absolute control in 1968, what do we have? We have Stop At Two, the second industrial revolution where GDP dropped 10% in just one year, we have a CPF that’s constantly being fiddled with.. And that is a product of a lack of democracy, a lack of debate, a lack of dissent and a lack of new ideas in the government.

The nature of our governance in Singapore today is an imperial government. It is a continuation of colonial rule.”

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Physiocrat

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The fact that Winsemius is sent here from UN kinda reveals partly what kind of forces/interests are behind the scene.
"Schemers with strategic plans trying to control their little worlds."
 

escher

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LANGJEOW!


Singapore was a tropical paradise under British colonial rule.
We were treated with dignity and very fairly by the British.

UNDER SMEAR OF SHIT ON SOLE OF SHOE LKY AND HIS FUCKING PAPs, SINGAPORE BECAME A LIVING HELL
WHERE THE PEOPLE HERE VOTED THE MOST MISERABLE PEOPLE ON EARTH

HOW CAN IT BE ANY CONTINUATION OF COLONIAL RULE
SINGAPORE BECAME A TRANSMOGRIFIED PARODY OF DICTATORSHIP WHEN LKY STOLE AND SCREW AND TIEW HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS OF OUR MONEY FROM US





They continue to laugh all the way to their banks
And all the way back from their banks

HA HA HA HA
HEE HEE HEE HE HEEEE
HOO HO HOOO HO HO



Hang those PAP maggots cockroaches with piano wires from lamp posts to make them dance before it is too late and we have no more CPF to get back.
BBQ those PAP maggots cockroaches before it is too late and we have no more CPF to get back.
Cut a few more arseholes into those PAP maggots cockroaches to let out their shit before it is too late and we have no more CPF to get back.
Make those PAP maggots cockroaches eat joss sticks and candle wax before it is too late and we have no more CPF to get back.
 

escher

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LANGJEOW!


Singapore was a tropical paradise under British colonial rule.
We were treated with dignity and very fairly by the British.

UNDER SMEAR OF SHIT ON SOLE OF SHOE LKY AND HIS FUCKING PAPs, SINGAPORE BECAME A LIVING HELL
WHERE THE PEOPLE HERE VOTED THE MOST MISERABLE PEOPLE ON EARTH

HOW CAN IT BE ANY CONTINUATION OF COLONIAL RULE
SINGAPORE BECAME A TRANSMOGRIFIED PARODY OF DICTATORSHIP WHEN LKY STOLE AND SCREW AND TIEW HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS OF OUR MONEY FROM US





They continue to laugh all the way to their banks
And all the way back from their banks

HA HA HA HA
HEE HEE HEE HE HEEEE
HOO HO HOOO HO HO



Hang those PAP maggots cockroaches with piano wires from lamp posts to make them dance before it is too late and we have no more CPF to get back.
BBQ those PAP maggots cockroaches before it is too late and we have no more CPF to get back.
Cut a few more arseholes into those PAP maggots cockroaches to let out their shit before it is too late and we have no more CPF to get back.
Make those PAP maggots cockroaches eat joss sticks and candle wax before it is too late and we have no more CPF to get back.





They continue to laugh all the way to their banks
And all the way back from their banks

HA HA HA HA
HEE HEE HEE HE HEEEE
HOO HO HOOO HO HO




Hang those PAP maggots cockroaches with piano wires from lamp posts to make them dance before it is too late and we have no more CPF to get back.
BBQ those PAP maggots cockroaches before it is too late and we have no more CPF to get back.
Cut a few more arseholes into those PAP maggots cockroaches to let out their shit before it is too late and we have no more CPF to get back.
Make those PAP maggots cockroaches eat joss sticks and candle wax before it is too late and we have no more CPF to get back.
 

da dick

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makapaa, sam's maid> what talking u? if we're still brit colony, we would real socialised medicine and real pension like brunei! and free speech, so we dun have to hang out with a bunch of tiko peks on boss sam's forums! i wished sinkie was still a brit colony. angmoh is power!
 

mojito

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Thum be right. Singapore is a country in name, and a colony in reality with a different master. Poor landless serfs don't even get it.
 

escher

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makapaa, sam's maid> what talking u? if we're still brit colony, we would real socialised medicine and real pension like brunei! and free speech, so we dun have to hang out with a bunch of tiko peks on boss sam's forums! i wished sinkie was still a brit colony. angmoh is power!

ang moh the BEST!
Not the bastard smear of shit on sole of shoe LKY who should be dragged from his wheel chair to be necklace with burning tyre and dangled with piano wire from lamp post


TOGETHER WITH ALL THE REST OF THE FUCKING PAPs AND THEIR COLLABORATORS
 

escher

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ang moh the BEST!
Not the bastard smear of shit on sole of shoe LKY who should be dragged from his wheel chair to be necklace with burning tyre and dangled with piano wire from lamp post


TOGETHER WITH ALL THE REST OF THE FUCKING PAPs AND THEIR COLLABORATORS



They continue to laugh all the way to their banks
And all the way back from their banks

HA HA HA HA
HEE HEE HEE HE HEEEE
HOO HO HOOO HO HO


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Hang all those PAP bastards from piano wires, upside down or right way up.




Hang those PAP maggots cockroaches with piano wires from lamp posts to make them dance before it is too late and we have no more CPF to get back.
BBQ those PAP maggots cockroaches before it is too late and we have no more CPF to get back.
Cut a few more arseholes into those PAP maggots cockroaches to let out their shit before it is too late and we have no more CPF to get back.
Make those PAP maggots cockroaches eat joss sticks and candle wax before it is too late and we have no more CPF to get back.
 

escher

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Go read the last chapter of George Orwell's Animal Farm. In the end the pig were no different from the humans.

http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks01/0100011h.html

ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL
BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS

In the case of Stinkapore, smear of shit on sole of shoe LKY and the fucking PAP pigs and maggots turned out to be much more worse than the original ang mohs

HANG ALL THOSE FUCKING PAP BASTARDS DANGLE THEM HIGH FROM LAMP POSTS TO DANCE AWAY
 

Papsmearer

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Thum be right. Singapore is a country in name, and a colony in reality with a different master. Poor landless serfs don't even get it.

thum is wrong. Singapore is worse off under the PAP than they were under the Brits. At least, the Brits did have a fair sense of justice and you could always appeal to the Privy council in UK is you felt justice was not done. The Brits would never have imprisoned Chia Thye Poh for 23 years. Civil rights activists in the UK would have forced the colonial govt to release him long ago. Also under the Brits, there was no NS as all foreign policy was handled by them, and they provided the security for singapore. I can go on and on, but there was certainly much to be desired under the Brits. Therefore, when Thum says PAP is a continuation, its not, its actually a worsening.
 

Asterix

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................. Civil rights activists in the UK would have forced the colonial govt to release him long ago. ................


Yeah right there were no such activists in Sinkieland
More likely sabotaged or left hanging by gostan Sinkies


[video=youtube;KTsg9i6lvqU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTsg9i6lvqU[/video]

English translation of French national anthem is here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIQSEq6tEVs
 
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