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[TD="class: msgtxt"][h=2]NYT columnist: Singapore is a ‘polished’ police state[/h]
July 31st, 2011 |
Author: Temasek Review
Despite the best efforts of the repressive PAP regime to market itself as a ‘modern democracy’ to the world, some astute foreigners are not deceived by its PR gimmicks.
In an article published on the New York Times a week ago, prominent columnist Maureen Dowd lashed out at Singapore for being a polished police state, a harsh, but rather accurate description of the PAP rule in Singapore.
Ms Dowd was writing about Australian media baron Rupert Murdoch’s shameless praise of Singapore during a parliamentary hearing in the United Kingdom about the phone hacking scandal engulfing his company News Corp.
Mr Murdoch reportedly 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.”
Ms Dowd was certainly not impressed and retorted:
“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.”
Singapore is not only a police state, but a fascist state as well like North Korea where a single ruling party controls all institutions of the state such as the media, police, army, bureaucracy, grassroots and religious organizations.
Though their civil rights are guaranteed under the Singapore Constitution, Singaporeans do not enjoy the basic human rights of freedom of speech and assembly in real life with draconian laws put in place to suppress them such as the Public Orders Act enacted last year which outlaws a ’solo protest’ anywhere on the island.
PAP supreme leader Lee Kuan Yew corroborated Ms Dowd’s observation when he proclaimed proudly during a recent interview with China’s CCTV that the PAP and CCP have ‘comparable cultural backgrounds’ and both countries work on the basis of pragmatism, not dogmatism.
[URL]http://www.temasekreview.com/2011/07/31/nyt-columnist-singapore-is-a-polished-police-state/[/URL]
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[TD="class: msgtxt"][h=2]NYT columnist: Singapore is a ‘polished’ police state[/h]
Despite the best efforts of the repressive PAP regime to market itself as a ‘modern democracy’ to the world, some astute foreigners are not deceived by its PR gimmicks.
In an article published on the New York Times a week ago, prominent columnist Maureen Dowd lashed out at Singapore for being a polished police state, a harsh, but rather accurate description of the PAP rule in Singapore.
Ms Dowd was writing about Australian media baron Rupert Murdoch’s shameless praise of Singapore during a parliamentary hearing in the United Kingdom about the phone hacking scandal engulfing his company News Corp.
Mr Murdoch reportedly 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.”
Ms Dowd was certainly not impressed and retorted:
“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.”
Singapore is not only a police state, but a fascist state as well like North Korea where a single ruling party controls all institutions of the state such as the media, police, army, bureaucracy, grassroots and religious organizations.
Though their civil rights are guaranteed under the Singapore Constitution, Singaporeans do not enjoy the basic human rights of freedom of speech and assembly in real life with draconian laws put in place to suppress them such as the Public Orders Act enacted last year which outlaws a ’solo protest’ anywhere on the island.
PAP supreme leader Lee Kuan Yew corroborated Ms Dowd’s observation when he proclaimed proudly during a recent interview with China’s CCTV that the PAP and CCP have ‘comparable cultural backgrounds’ and both countries work on the basis of pragmatism, not dogmatism.
[URL]http://www.temasekreview.com/2011/07/31/nyt-columnist-singapore-is-a-polished-police-state/[/URL]
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I doubt he's got much time left until he get to face judgement
