FAP = communism?

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March 29th, 2013 |

Author: Contributions

Does PAP operate like a Communist Party? Let Singaporeans judge for themselves.
From the book “A Heart For Freedom” [Chai Ling (2011), USA: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.]

In this China, the power, the law, the government, the army, the economic system, the country, the media, and the people are all controlled by one Party. The Party system and the legal system are one and the same. The Constitution can’t reflect the people’s will … it is simply a chapter of the Party. And the National People’s Congress formed under this Constitution does not reflect the people’s will either. Why in the past thirteen years, since the ending of the Cultural Revolution, do people not voice their opinions through the People’s Congress or the Party organization or the government? The answer is very clear: The ruling Party, the government, and the People’s Congress do not reflect the people’s will. This is the result of corrupt politics, corrupt politicians, and a corrupt legal system. Can lies go on forever? To make the National People’s Congress truly represent the people, the one Party monopoly must end!” (p. 114)
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Doesn’t this sound like Singapore’s PAP party, the PA and NTUC?

23 years after the Tiananmen massacre, the leaders of China continues to ignore and do not bear responsibility for the event that shocked the democratic world. Political prisoners from June 4, 1989 are still in prison and the blacklist and arrest warrants for students leaders of the event are still in effect and it still had not given the truthful history of the massacre (p. 278)
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Doesn’t this sound similar to how the government is treating our political prisoners of the Cold Store and other operations to silence those who dared to speak up against the PAP and its bad policies over the decades, even up to now (e.g. PAP ministers’ lawsuits and threats of lawsuits against political opponents)?

One child policy and forced abortions are still happening today (in China). A woman needs a birth permit to give birth and without one, the woman is giving birth illegally or if discovered, will be forced to abort the child. Women under 25 will not be granted a birth permit (p. 287).
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Not too different from LKY’s population engineering though to a lesser degree of cruelty, is not less trying to play god in the lives of its citizenry.

500 women commit suicide each day due to the helplessness, brutality and pain, sadness, guilt after going through a forced abortion. 16 million abortions in China each year (Chinese government statistics for 2009 and 2010 (p. 298) of which 70% i.e. 11.2 million for unmarried women who could not give birth legally as they would not be given birth permits.
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The despair of these Chinese women is great and today, not too different from pockets of Singaporeans living the “lesser” life in Singapore: the husbands / fathers struggling to put food on the table and keep a roof over the heads of his family; the students facing seemingly insurmountable expectations and pressures to excel at every subject in school so as to get into “good” schools, into University and into choice courses; the sick and poor not daring to seek treatment for their illness because they cannot afford medical care; and the old who continue to have do back-breaking manual labour at the ripe old age of 70s and 80s so as to have one square meal a day.
On a lighter note, taken from the final scene in the movie The Dictator, 2012 starring Sacha Baron Cohen:

“Why are you guys so anti-dictatorship?

You could let 1% of the people have all the nation’s wealth. You could help your rich friends get richer by cutting their taxes and bailing them out when they gamble and lose. You can ignore the needs of the poor for healthcare and education. Your media would appear free but would secretly be controlled by one person and his family. You could use the media to scare the people into supporting policies that are against their interests.”
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Doesn’t this sound familiar?
(Words in italics are quoted from book/movie source)
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Cass