Former NMP Calvin Cheng and PAP member wrote a commentary for the Straits Times on Friday (‘The myth of trade-offs’, 27 Mar).
In his article, he attacked the Western press for trotting out opinions that Mr Lee Kuan Yew had built Singapore’s undeniable economic success while trading off fundamental civil liberties.
“Much as I understand that it is in the West’s fundamental DNA to assert certain inalienable freedoms, as a Singaporean, I strenuously object that there has been any such trade-off,” Mr Cheng said.
He ridiculed some of the Westerners for saying that they could never live under the “stifling and draconian” laws that Singapore has.
In answering his Western friends, Mr Cheng asked them these questions:
http://www.tremeritus.com/2015/03/30/ex-nmp-attacks-western-media-for-writing-against-lky/
In his article, he attacked the Western press for trotting out opinions that Mr Lee Kuan Yew had built Singapore’s undeniable economic success while trading off fundamental civil liberties.
“Much as I understand that it is in the West’s fundamental DNA to assert certain inalienable freedoms, as a Singaporean, I strenuously object that there has been any such trade-off,” Mr Cheng said.
He ridiculed some of the Westerners for saying that they could never live under the “stifling and draconian” laws that Singapore has.
In answering his Western friends, Mr Cheng asked them these questions:
http://www.tremeritus.com/2015/03/30/ex-nmp-attacks-western-media-for-writing-against-lky/
