What an idiot. The moron at first questioned how could LKY declare indep under the nose of the Brits and I provided him tons of proof. He even cited the Falklands islands and how it could lead to war. Instead of conceding quietly and fucking off as promised, he twisted and turned and shape shifted using silly arguments.
After Japanese occupation, almost every Asian leader worth his salt was dreaming and clamouring independence. India proved a great inspiration under Nehru, and in fact in no small measure gave Lee and his cohorts no small impetus to hang out Singapore's own flag. Successive internal self-govts under Marshall and Lim Yew Hock failed in their London talks to get UK to grant us independence. The Communists and the malayan Emergency and the Indonesian confrontation were obstacles to assuring that Singapore and Malaya would not go down, and making it hard for the Brits to extricate from the region honourably. As events developed, an UMNO govt stabilised in Malaya much to Britain's relief, whereas in Singapore, the only moderate faction of the PAP that the Brits could rely on was rifed with suspect left wing pro-Communist elements. The only way out was to subsume Singapore into Malaysia so that the KL govt could control the Communist faction. In a way, this would save LKY's neck and the British Empire's face. In the ensuing years, as momentum accelerated, the British handed control of defence and external affairs to then self-governing S'pore, thus making it a full fledge independent state, governing itself without kowtowing to London's memos.
what we have here is an idiot who cannot understand the notion of being independent. Your life and freedom are at stake when you shout Merdeka any old how, and in those heady times, it was seditious and not to be taken lightly, esp for a political leader. Instead, the idiot asked for proofs of ad verbatim newspaper headlines, UN recognition, flag waving hordes, a National day parade and a NDR, generally silly little ornamentations for psychological comfort (like a baby with a pacifier) before accepting that we were indep on 31st August 1963, as declared by LKY.
It is clear now that concepts, notions, and ideas are way too much for his intellectual capacity, and such momentous events in history are beyond his grasp, so it is no use to continue arguing with a simpleton with the utmost dismal cereberum, who is simply arguing for arguing sake.
His identity is becoming clear to me, and I know he is someone's clone, proxy and bitch. There is no need to praise LKY and it is clear to all borthers here I am no PAP stooge or LKY supporter. My threads and posts have been abundantly crystal clear.
Facts are facts, and where credit is due I gave it.