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In the end, at the heart of Singapore’s existence and survival must be the young man from MacPherson Lane.
Not a skills-for-sale foreign talent from India or China in whom the government seems to have so much faith, frequently at the expense of locals who have to struggle to find a job and juggle their civilian existence with their heavy NS liabilities. Not another artificially contrived “Singapore-born” girl or boy who is so very far away in Australia or the US, a world totally disconnected with our lives here and whom we seem eager to glorify to make a rather dubious point about our allegedly widespread diaspora. Not so-called activists who absconded their NS responsibility, lost all credibility and still have the audacity to want to participate in local politics at a safe distance from places like Britain. And certainly not another PR citizen-pretender who would not wish to have his or her sons spend a second in conscription, probably looking down on all Singaporeans as suckers.
Ultimately, the burden of national duty lies with men like the late Aloysius Pang who died on Wednesday Jan 23 from an accident during his reservist training in New Zealand. He was the true-blue son of Singapore. People like Pang are often taken for granted by a ruling regime who time and time again show a reluctance to categorically pledge their loyalty to true-blues as they open our gates to foreigners and fortune-hunters from around the world. Men in the prime of their lives such as NSF Gavin Chan, 21, who died after he was ejected from a Bionix infantry fighting vehicle at the Shoalwater Bay Training Area in Queensland, NSF Dave Lee, 19, who died nearly two weeks after suffering a heatstroke following an 8km fast march and NSF Liu Kai, 22, who died after a Bionix vehicle reversed into his jeep during a field exercise.
More at...http://theindependent.sg/aloysius-p...e-foreign-talents-you-can-open-your-gates-to/
In the end, at the heart of Singapore’s existence and survival must be the young man from MacPherson Lane.
Not a skills-for-sale foreign talent from India or China in whom the government seems to have so much faith, frequently at the expense of locals who have to struggle to find a job and juggle their civilian existence with their heavy NS liabilities. Not another artificially contrived “Singapore-born” girl or boy who is so very far away in Australia or the US, a world totally disconnected with our lives here and whom we seem eager to glorify to make a rather dubious point about our allegedly widespread diaspora. Not so-called activists who absconded their NS responsibility, lost all credibility and still have the audacity to want to participate in local politics at a safe distance from places like Britain. And certainly not another PR citizen-pretender who would not wish to have his or her sons spend a second in conscription, probably looking down on all Singaporeans as suckers.
Ultimately, the burden of national duty lies with men like the late Aloysius Pang who died on Wednesday Jan 23 from an accident during his reservist training in New Zealand. He was the true-blue son of Singapore. People like Pang are often taken for granted by a ruling regime who time and time again show a reluctance to categorically pledge their loyalty to true-blues as they open our gates to foreigners and fortune-hunters from around the world. Men in the prime of their lives such as NSF Gavin Chan, 21, who died after he was ejected from a Bionix infantry fighting vehicle at the Shoalwater Bay Training Area in Queensland, NSF Dave Lee, 19, who died nearly two weeks after suffering a heatstroke following an 8km fast march and NSF Liu Kai, 22, who died after a Bionix vehicle reversed into his jeep during a field exercise.
More at...http://theindependent.sg/aloysius-p...e-foreign-talents-you-can-open-your-gates-to/
