Prominent blogger Alex Au predicts ‘disaster’ if Singaporeans took to the streets one

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[h=2]Prominent blogger Alex Au predicts ‘disaster’ if Singaporeans took to the streets one day[/h]Posted by temasektimes on April 30, 2012
The recent Bersih 3.0 protest (pic left) in Malaysia has led to some Singaporeans desiring for change asking if something like that will happen in Singapore one day when long muzzled Singaporeans finally muster the courage to let their feelings known on the street.
Prominent socio-political blogger Alex Au doesn’t think that anything similar to the Bersih demonstrations will happen anytime soon in Singapore, but warns of disaster if it happens eventually:
“I don’t think anything similar will happen here any time soon. But when it does, it may end in worse disaster.”
Mr Au opined that the authorities are likely to employ heavy-handed measures to crush any sizable demonstration which might arise in Singapore:
“But in Singapore, even one sizeable demonstration may be viewed as an intolerable affront to the authority of the government. The response may not be calibrated for containment, but tend towards crushing the movement.”
He added that when that happens, Singapore’s revolution will resemble more like Bahrain than Malaysia.
“In other words, when it does happen here, we are more likely to get it wrong than right. I fear that Singapore’s revolution will look less like Malaysia’s rumbles, and more like Bahrain in 2011.”
Like Bahrain, Singapore has a widening income between the rich and poor, is heavily dependent on foreign labor and has an non-existent ‘opposition’ in parliament which dare not hold the ruling party accountable.

 

[scroobal]

Re: Prominent blogger Alex Au predicts ‘disaster’ if Singaporeans took to the streets

I can assure Alex that it will never occur ever if the present structure of control exists.

Every potential agent of change, people and area of discontent and dissent are monitored. Part of the reason why racial quotas were introduced were not only political but to avoid a security issue. The system also has multiple redundancies. PA is there to control RCs and all grassroots organisations and activities. The reward system is such that an RC Chairman will immediately report any unusual activity or comment. ISD is highly compartmentalised and some areas are monitored by more than one team to ensure coverage. It even starts at school and tertiary level. Singapore students even in Perth and other overseas locations are recruited to be eyes and ears. Former Malay MP was detained when he was an RI student and was turned.

The authorities also have the advantage of the small size of the country, control over infrastructure likes phones, internet and SMS etc.

It will easier for a Singaporean to have sex with a Ms Universe than to start anything that even resembles Bersih. Our best hope is at the polls. I think the PAP is beginning to realise that the polls are its weakess link.

 

[Cruxx]

Re: Prominent blogger Alex Au predicts ‘disaster’ if Singaporeans took to the streets

I can assure Alex that it will never occur ever if the present structure of control exists.

Every potential agent of change, people and area of discontent and dissent are monitored. Part of the reason why racial quotas were introduced were not only political but to avoid a security issue. The system also has multiple redundancies. PA is there to control RCs and all grassroots organisations and activities. The reward system is such that an RC Chairman will immediately report any unusual activity or comment. ISD is highly compartmentalised and some areas are monitored by more than one team to ensure coverage. It even starts at school and tertiary level. Singapore students even in Perth and other overseas locations are recruited to be eyes and ears. Former Malay MP was detained when he was an RI student and was turned.

The authorities also have the advantage of the small size of the country, control over infrastructure likes phones, internet and SMS etc.

It will easier for a Singaporean to have sex with a Ms Universe than to start anything that even resembles Bersih. Our best hope is at the polls. I think the PAP is beginning to realise that the polls are its weakess link.

Why couldn't they just rig the polls? After all, they could do so unencumbered by the inconvenience of a First World electorate clamouring for transparency.

 

[scroobal]

Re: Prominent blogger Alex Au predicts ‘disaster’ if Singaporeans took to the streets

They might just do that. Their attempt to offer 9 places for the opposition if they do not win at the last GE failed. The NMP pacifier years ago also failed. Until 2010, they never expected to lose a GRC. They might go back to old man's style of discrediting the opposition before the polls.

Unless they do something desparate the East Coast is in jeopardy and Joo Chiat is a certainty to fall as Yee is performing beyond expectation. He has become a champion of the small businessmen.

Why couldn't they just rig the polls? After all, they could do so unencumbered by the inconvenience of a First World electorate clamouring for transparency.

 

[GoldenDragon]

Re: Prominent blogger Alex Au predicts ‘disaster’ if Singaporeans took to the streets

I can assure Alex that it will never occur ever if the present structure of control exists.

Every potential agent of change, people and area of discontent and dissent are monitored. Part of the reason why racial quotas were introduced were not only political but to avoid a security issue. The system also has multiple redundancies. PA is there to control RCs and all grassroots organisations and activities. The reward system is such that an RC Chairman will immediately report any unusual activity or comment. ISD is highly compartmentalised and some areas are monitored by more than one team to ensure coverage. It even starts at school and tertiary level. Singapore students even in Perth and other overseas locations are recruited to be eyes and ears. Former Malay MP was detained when he was an RI student and was turned.

The authorities also have the advantage of the small size of the country, control over infrastructure likes phones, internet and SMS etc.

It will easier for a Singaporean to have sex with a Ms Universe than to start anything that even resembles Bersih. Our best hope is at the polls. I think the PAP is beginning to realise that the polls are its weakess link.

My bet is, by the time such a plan reaches the ears of the 10th person, ISD would have it well-covered. For this, I am willing to bet my kidney.

 

[Leongsam]

Re: Prominent blogger Alex Au predicts ‘disaster’ if Singaporeans took to the streets

I have real problems when it comes to taking a homosexual seriously.

 

[LeMans2011]

Re: Prominent blogger Alex Au predicts ‘disaster’ if Singaporeans took to the streets

It will easier for a Singaporean to have sex with a Ms Universe than to start anything that even resembles Bersih.

Really? You mean the likes of Ris Low ?

 

[zeddy]

Re: Prominent blogger Alex Au predicts ‘disaster’ if Singaporeans took to the streets

Sporeans don't have to take to the streets to show their discontent to the Govt.. Bro Leepotism was right in his post a few days ago.. Sinkies can't even lift a pen to vote against the PAP, let alone hold a mass street protest.. Just a vote against them in a GE.. But most Sporeans can't even do a simple thing as that..

 

[nato33]

Re: Prominent blogger Alex Au predicts ‘disaster’ if Singaporeans took to the streets

Unless they do something desparate the East Coast is in jeopardy and Joo Chiat is a certainty to fall as Yee is performing beyond expectation. He has become a champion of the small businessmen.

The residents of Joo Chiat are ready but sadly there won't be a Joo Chiat SMC by 2016.

 

[GoldenDragon]

Re: Prominent blogger Alex Au predicts ‘disaster’ if Singaporeans took to the streets

Sporeans don't have to take to the streets to show their discontent to the Govt.. Bro Leepotism was right in his post a few days ago.. Sinkies can't even lift a pen to vote against the PAP, let alone hold a mass street protest.. Just a vote against them in a GE.. But most Sporeans can't even do a simple thing as that..

Some S'poreans love being struck by lightning.

 

[BuiKia]

Re: Prominent blogger Alex Au predicts ‘disaster’ if Singaporeans took to the streets

"Risk" Low is Ms Singapore not Ms Universe lah.

Really? You mean the likes of Ris Low ?

 

[Fook Seng]

"Risk" Low is Ms Singapore not Ms Universe lah.

Is she still Ms Singapore or has her title been revoked?

 

[ckmpd]

Re: Prominent blogger Alex Au predicts ‘disaster’ if Singaporeans took to the streets

Is she still Ms Singapore or has her title been revoked?

Ris Low surrendered her title after much controversy

 

[BuiKia]

Re: Prominent blogger Alex Au predicts ‘disaster’ if Singaporeans took to the streets

yah yah...I forgot.

Ris Low surrendered her title after much controversy

 

[aurvandil]

Re: Prominent blogger Alex Au predicts ‘disaster’ if Singaporeans took to the streets

Unless they do something desparate the East Coast is in jeopardy and Joo Chiat is a certainty to fall as Yee is performing beyond expectation. He has become a champion of the small businessmen.

The PAP HQ is in Bedok South Ave 3. If you have had the time to pop by for a look, you will find that a 500m radius from PAP HQ has been transformed so that it looks like one of those model North Korean villages. There are plenty of quaint like HDB shops selling anything and everything. NEA has gone into overdrive to ensure that the wet market is sparkling clean and you will be hard pressed to find litter anywhere. There are an abundance of coffee shops and eating places that make this a makan paradise if you are looking for a good, inexpensive meal. Strangely absent from this model village are the ever present elderly poor clearing tables or scavenging for cardboard/cans to make a living.

This model HDB village was probably constructed as a showcase for PAP elders who do not do much MPS. In the off chance that they need to pop by PAP HQ for meeting, there is therefore the need to create the fiction of just what a wonderful heaven the PAP has made Singapore to become.

500m beyond this model village, the real HDB heartland beckons. If the PAP elders will just go there once in a while, they will see what the real Singapore is like. They will then understand why Singapore is so against them.