Protesters conduct is abhorrent to the public conscience

Madam Regina Aun, 55, manager of Y Stars, said: "While they have the right of expression, it was an event for people with special needs. They could have shown a little more compassion."

Scholar and author, Dr Derek da Cunha, wrote on facebook:
"Some special needs kids took to the stage to perform at Hong Lim Park yesterday. But the kids were subjected to organised barracking by a group of protesters involved in another event. A video clip of that ugly incident is circulating widely online. What occurred is completely abhorrent to the public conscience."

https://www.facebook.com/DerekdaCunha

Pappy Tan The Temasek Review

The only PAP 'B' Team Singaporeans witness past 20 years is SDP and Dr Chee.

Dr Chee broke up a perfectly growing SDP under Chiam See Tong and lost all 3 seats at GE1997 that was won at GE1991 under Chiam See Tong's SDP.

This is because Chee's SDP decide to focus on making as much inaccurate noise in Parliament, being aggressive in Parliament, exposing SDP to lawsuits , conducting civil disobedience and getting arrested rather than running town councils and bonding with residents via grassroots.

The loss caused Singaporeans to lose faith in Opposition for 20 years untl GE2011 when WP made a difficult breakthrough. PAP kept harping Opposition cannot run a SMC let alone a GRC because of SDP's loss at GE1997. SDP almost destroyed Opposition Cause with their antics.

Civil disobedience, bankruptcy, arrests, lawsuits etc gave Opposition a bad image and reminded Singaporeans to fear PAP even more. SDP actually made PAP more feared and more powerful instead and Singaporeans felt more hopeless.

Many good people wanted to join Opposition but seeing Dr Chee's situation decided not to. This lack of good people joining Opposition gave many Walkovers to PAP for 20 years in every elections. SDP only gave Walkovers to Singaporeans at elections because CSJ and gang kept getting barred from elections because of their antics.

What choice, what democracy, what rights, what hope, what change, what impact and what freedom did SDP gave Singaporeans past 20 years ? Nothing at all.

Democracy is not just freedom to have civil disobedience but democracy is also about giving people choice to change governments in elections, not change Opposition parties.

Now PAP once again wants to unleash the Kraken in CSJ to confuse and disrupt alternative parties progress from GE2011 by agreeing to give discount from $500,000 to $30,000 so that CSJ can take part in elections. Destructive, disruptive and history repeats itself.

SPP at least kept one seat in Parliament for 15 years after GE1997 and never got voted out and lose seats before GE2011. SPP was already small and weak when Chiam started it. 15 years down the road under different political landscape, SPP did contest one GRC at least. One less than SDP only who under Chee did not grow much too despite having longer time of brand name.

It took Chiam and SDP 15 years to win 3 seats at GE1991. So how can you say SDP would not have grown under Chiam when SDP did grew under Chiam at GE1991.

Not even WP lost seats before. JBJ was disqualified from Parliament after being charged and Yaw Shin Leong was sacked by WP. None was voted out.

SDP under Dr Chee after GE1997 past 15 years got voted out of Bukit Gombak and Nee Soon Central, never grow but got smaller and did not even win any seats. You call this good record ?

It is not grandmother's story but true facts. No Singaporean Opposition Supporter want to sacrifice another 20 years and see no result from any Alternative Parties.

Technically and officially, somebody here said there is only one Opposition in Parliament which is WP because the rest are either NCMPs or alternative parties with no seats. Even to be Opposition, political parties need to win enough seats to be Opposition.

I still believe in growing only WP to be Government as fast as possible base on Hougang and Aljunied platforms. This is irregardless what other alternative parties try to pull off, antics and plans. Every party have its own style, voters will decide.

No point running down each alternative parties now. You can run down WP all you want ONLY after WP is government and be blamed for WP government policies.

No more Alternative Parties Musical Chairs we seen last 47 years.

I hardly see you commenting on negative PAP threads but comment on every negative WP thread and pretending to be SDP supporter and NSP supporter. I can only conclude you are a PAP IB.

All political parties have positives and negatives. Each wants to try their own style so let it be. Voters shall decide. SDP is free to continue to stage protest etc. WP is free to use its own tactical style. PAP is free to continue to run down anybody that gets in its way. NSP is free to continue to state the obvious. RP is free to continue to piggyback on whatever other parties started.

I dont think I am running down anybody here. I am just stating history and SDP's output last 20 years. I did not wish to do it but if people like Robox, TTR and Sam Lim continue to run down WP in all possible and petty ways instead of focusing on PAP which is the main reason for ruining Singaporean's lives, then I wish to join in the fun too.

TTR's record until BE2012 was normal, you seldom see people posting negatives about SDP and WP too and everyone were attacking only PAP. But BE2012 onwards, turn its focus on WP more so the negatives about WP, SDP, RP, NSP etc started appearing too. TTR is the root culprit for everything.

Yes, all political parties have its negatives but we leave it to Singapore Media to dig it out as tradition and Internet is more the opposite direction. All Opposition supporters understood all Alternative Parties have bad points as well but like Singapore Media for PAP, we help each other out by minimising these negatives for Alternative Parties.

Now TTR wants to upset the equilibrium and test all Alternative Parties supporters patience and confuse them. The Anti-WP and pro-SDP stance had upset the Balance and tilt into PAP's favour.

Then more and more people will join in the fun, end result could only be disaster for all alternative parties at GE2016 and glee for PAP as every alternative party supporter rather see each other die and drag each other down than let any alternative party beat them to beating PAP.

I hardly see you commenting on negative PAP threads but comment on every negative WP thread and pretending to be SDP supporter and NSP supporter. I can only conclude you are a PAP IB.

All political parties have positives and negatives. Each wants to try their own style so let it be. Voters shall decide. SDP is free to continue to stage protest etc. WP is free to use its own tactical style. PAP is free to continue to run down anybody that gets in its way. NSP is free to continue to state the obvious. RP is free to continue to piggyback on whatever other parties started.

I dont think I am running down anybody here. I am just stating history and SDP's output last 20 years. I did not wish to do it but if people like Robox, TTR and Sam Lim continue to run down WP in all possible and petty ways instead of focusing on PAP which is the main reason for ruining Singaporean's lives, then I wish to join in the fun too.

TTR's record until BE2012 was normal, you seldom see people posting negatives about SDP and WP too and everyone were attacking only PAP. But BE2012 onwards, turn its focus on WP more so the negatives about WP, SDP, RP, NSP etc started appearing too. TTR is the root culprit for everything.

Yes, all political parties have its negatives but we leave it to Singapore Media to dig it out as tradition and Internet is more the opposite direction. All Opposition supporters understood all Alternative Parties have bad points as well but like Singapore Media for PAP, we help each other out by minimising these negatives for Alternative Parties.

Now TTR wants to upset the equilibrium and test all Alternative Parties supporters patience and confuse them. The Anti-WP and pro-SDP stance had upset the Balance and tilt into PAP's favour.

Then more and more people will join in the fun, end result could only be disaster for all alternative parties at GE2016 and glee for PAP as every alternative party supporter rather see each other die and drag each other down than let any alternative party beat them to beating PAP.

from TR Emeritius

Sperm:
September 30, 2014 at 12:09 am (Quote)

Workers' Party is a fake opposition party.
WP is PAP 'B' Team
PAP is like BN and WP is MCA

Worker's Party, you have bitten the hands that fed you.
Never assume you got to where you are by your own efforts.
Its the bloggers who did most of the educating of sinkies.
YOu have done little in contrast.
Now you behave like pap and condem roy even while police investigation ongoing.
You are interferring with police investigation for jumping to conclusion.
What have you achieved for the people in terms of cpf policy failure issues ?
Its Roy that has cornered pap with the cpf expose. He did that for us for free. You each cost us tax payers a hefty $16k plus per pax.
What have you achieved for opposition voters except nothing ?

PoliticalDialogue said:

Madam Regina Aun, 55, manager of Y Stars, said: "While they have the right of expression, it was an event for people with special needs. They could have shown a little more compassion."

Scholar and author, Dr Derek da Cunha, wrote on facebook:
"Some special needs kids took to the stage to perform at Hong Lim Park yesterday. But the kids were subjected to organised barracking by a group of protesters involved in another event. A video clip of that ugly incident is circulating widely online. What occurred is completely abhorrent to the public conscience."

https://www.facebook.com/DerekdaCunha

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Talking cock.

Why use Hong Lim Park for such an event where performance is done? If it is speaker's corner, then keep it true to its objective.
This shows clearly the gabrament is not fucking serious about having a speaker's corner and it is just for show only.

Why is the YMCA event encroaching on a space that was originally gazetted for speakers to air their views?

NSP member Ravi Philemon has provided an insight into the issue. Many cannot but be moved by what he has written. It will prick the conscience of many people.


Understanding special children
September 30, 2014
By Ravi Philemon

Some years ago when I was teaching in a special needs school, I had a teacher assistant (TA) with Asperger’s Syndrome. She was very motivated in wanting to help the children with disabilities that she and I were teaching.

However, everything had to be the same routine every day.

But we all know that in life, everything cannot be the same every single day and most people will be able to adapt to the prevailing situation, when there are variations. But my teacher assistant had great difficulties in this area.

I especially remember one incident which happened soon after my TA started helping me.

I had to rearrange my regular timetable a little because of double-booking of the resource room. When my TA came in I told her about it and she started hyperventilating. I soon realised her anxiety, got her to sit down and explained to her in detail how the schedule was going to be on that day. When she was more certain of the sequence of events and the role she is expected to play in it, she calmed down.

My TA was a high-functioning person with special needs, and yet she needed a routine, a structure that she was sure of, to help her cope with the day. Now, can you imagine why structure and routine are important for most persons with disabilities (PWD)?

This is the reason why caregivers and teachers of PWD go to great detail to provide these to their children. From the Picture Exchange Communication System, to the Multi-Sensorial Approach, to Skills Task Analysis, to Storytelling, great thought is put into creating a sense of routine so that these children can learn and grasp concepts better.

For example, for many of us, if we think that our hair is unkempt, we just pick up a comb and start putting our hair back in place. But for some PWD with more severe intellectual disability it is not so simple a task.

You would first have to get him or her to pick up the comb, and then to move the comb which had been picked up to the head, and then to bring it into contact with the hair… It is a long process, which has to be repeated numerous times before the skills are picked up by the PWD.

Here’s another example.

For a person with Down Syndrome who has sleep problems and don’t know how to go back to sleep when he or she wakes up in the middle of the night, the caregiver may have to use story-telling to modify that behaviour.

“The clock on the wall shows 10pm. John goes to bed at 10pm. John wakes up from sleeping. He is not sure if he must go back to sleep. He goes to his window and sees that the sky is dark. John must go back to his bed to sleep.”

That’s just the type of story which a person with Down Syndrome may need to cope with his or her sleeping difficulties.

And that’s one reason why I feel troubled by the protestors of Return My CPF disrupting the performance of PWD at the YMCA’s Proms @ the Park.

I can imagine the hours of training the volunteers at Y Star must have spent, practising the routine with the children of special needs, to prepare them for the performance at Hong Lim Park.

The fact that their child is performing in a public space despite his or her disabilities would also bring tremendous joy and pride to the hearts of their parents.

But all these could have been spoilt by the careless actions of the protesters.

And if they had to restart their performance after the disruption, how did it affect the self-confidence of the performers who are disabled? Did they realise that the performance had to be restarted not because of any fault of theirs?

The Online Citizen has reported that the organisers of the carnival come charity event have responded to Roy Ngerng that the PWD and their caregivers are not in favour of meeting Roy to receive his apology.

I can certainly understand why.

http://www.theonlinecitizen.com/2014/09/understanding-special-children/