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Singapore's military all focused on on NDP

xpo2015

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are we a military state? how come only dictatorships have military parades during National Day?
 
laksaboy

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xpo2015 said:
are we a military state? how come only dictatorships have military parades during National Day?
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Propaganda.


http://www.nzasia.org.nz/downloads/NZJAS-Dec01/Leong.pdf


For thirty years, National Day parades have been dominated by
militaristic elements (an issue which I will elaborate below). Military music
tends to be solemn, very much like the background of a funeral procession,
and military marches are deadly serious in the emphasis on drill, regimentation,
discipline and order. By contrast, modern consumption practices centre
around the pursuit of pleasure (Campbell 1995: 117). Elements of play and
entertainment lie at the heart of popular culture. The consumption imperative
obliges state élites to make concessions in order to win popular consent. In the
modern age, hegemony is achieved not just through efficiency (by an élite
skilled in the business of government administration), but also by appeasement
(élites, however stoic they may be, must concede something to the hedonism
of their subjects).
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By far the most significant part of National Day celebration is the
parade, significant in terms of the numbers involved, visual spectacle, media
focus and extent of preparation. And the parade is overwhelmingly military in
emphasis. Indeed, all National Day parades have been a military enterprise,
planned annually by colonels and lieutenant-colonels, led by sergeant majors,
marched, staged, performed and de-staged by soldiers. Even the glossy
souvenir programme is produced by the Ministry of Defence.
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The military emphasis of the parade dramatizes the power dimension of the state,
particularly with reference to violence.
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The military drill and march symbolize the nation in its orderliness,
discipline and obedience under a controlling center. In the parade, everyone
has to obey the commands of the grand marshal, everything has to be
coordinated, every soldier must march or move in turn with the music,
following choreographed steps and sequences. Their unique identities
submerged and drowned in uniform, the soldiers assume the psyche of a
collective conscience as they parade in a series of formations that are artfully
coordinated.
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The militaristic elements, the rank-ordered hierarchy, and the orderliness
and regimentation of the event render the National Day parade similar to the
May Day ceremony in Moscow’s Red Square before the Kremlin, Nazi
Germany’s military processions, and official rituals in Beijing, Hanoi and
Vientiane under communist rule.
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The resemblance of Singapore’s National Day parades to state rituals in fascist
and communist regimes is in large part a consequence of the military
dominance of the parade. The military presence has been clearly felt since the
first anniversary of Singapore’s independence when the theme was ‘national
pride and confidence in the future’ .
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Why does the defence force occupy center stage in National Day
parades? The answer to this question depends very much on the intended
audience of such spectacles. Devashayam (1990: 50) argues that National Day
represents a symbolic dialogue with Malaysia. In a sense, National Day in
Singapore does not connote independence or liberation from colonial rule.
The 9th of August 1965 was the day Singapore was expelled from the
Malaysian Federation. Given this inauspicious expulsion, the display of
military might in National Day parades calls Malaysia’s bluff.
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While boasting the strength of its weaponry and defence forces to
neighbouring countries signals the viability of the Singaporean nation in the
face of adversity, and conveys the message that Singapore is like a small but
poisonous fish in the Southeast Asian seas, such military exhibitionism is also
targeted to the local population, not only as visual entertainment of the Top
Gun and Star Wars epic film variety, but also as reassurance of safety under
the current political leadership. How far this reassurance is realistic or not is a
moot point, but military exhibitionism usually indicates anxiety rather than
security.
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eatshitndie

eatshitndie

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just like one ring rules them all, one medal trumps them all.

congressional medal of honor.....
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sinkie national day medals.....
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Force 136

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Singaporeans from all walks of life, who like to take the MRT train because cars are for rich people, are feeling apologetic and sincerely sorry.
This after they caused the North South MRT Line to break down again this Monday morning during peak hour as they all got ready for work and school at the same time at 7am.

One Singaporean, Jin Soh Lee @ John Tan, said he would like to personally apologise to SMRT CEO Desmond Kuek for causing him inconvenience: “I’m sorry Desmond Kuek. I caused your MRT system to break down again. Please forgive me and my fellow commuters for making you work harder to oversee that there is no more train faults even when all of these problems are not your fault.”

Another Singaporean, Gei Ni Qian aka ZEROO, went beyond apologising and insisted on doing more on his part to ensure the quality of MRT trains improve: “I would like to give myself and my fellow commuters the B grade for our performance as the paying public.”
“If we paid more for our fares every year, none of these would have happened.”

More medals for the CEO, please.
 
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Sideswipe

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I agree with having a grand military parade to mark the special 50th years of Singapore. it is however needless to have the military parade for the national day yearly. no country except North Korea and Singapore does that. so let's take the army out of the national day and leave it to the civil organizations. that is how a normal country celebrates its national day.
 
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