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2) Next, PAP had in the past, employed two other strategies, by rigging the electoral model (i.e. reducing the time period between nomination day and polling day, introducing GRCs etc) and by crippling the opposition management of the estate (i.e. through the introduction of the town councils which the Aim episode has unravelled and the appointment of the PAP representative as the grassroot leaders, even if PAP did not win in the constituency and the residents on the constituency rightfully pay their taxes and they should be the one deciding on who they want representing them – and they’ve voted for the opposition – and how their money should be used.) Now, question is, will PAP further develop systems to remodel the electoral model and cripple the opposition local government without Singaporeans, and the opposition themselves, knowing? We need more anal-retentive probers to do the job and from what the Aim-AHTC episode had exposed, Singaporeans might actually do a better job than Koh when it comes to that.
3) Finally, watch what PAP will do after the review of the town councils. PAP had said that they will review the relevance of the roles of the town councils. And so, how will they review it such that we will ‘dumbly’ accede to their recommendation to remodel it, as we had done so when they introduced the town councils in 1989. Will we allow them to whitewash over us again? Will we let them? Will you let them? If anything, this by-election and the ongoings months prior, beginning from the incident of the SMRT bus drivers, the Aim-AHTC episode and then the by-election, should have awaken many more Singaporeans politically, who should realise now that if they want change to happen, they need to make their voice known, by making their vote useful – as they had just did, by speaking up (and we can only do so freely online for now because our rights to demonstrate peacefully are curtailed) and by rummaging through all information and evidence and putting together a coherent picture of how we might be systematically lied to or marginalised. We have shown ourselves to be capable of doing that, and we will and must continue to do that.
- http://thehearttruths.com/2013/01/27/punggol-east-by-election-2013-the-aftermath-and-the-analysis/
3) Finally, watch what PAP will do after the review of the town councils. PAP had said that they will review the relevance of the roles of the town councils. And so, how will they review it such that we will ‘dumbly’ accede to their recommendation to remodel it, as we had done so when they introduced the town councils in 1989. Will we allow them to whitewash over us again? Will we let them? Will you let them? If anything, this by-election and the ongoings months prior, beginning from the incident of the SMRT bus drivers, the Aim-AHTC episode and then the by-election, should have awaken many more Singaporeans politically, who should realise now that if they want change to happen, they need to make their voice known, by making their vote useful – as they had just did, by speaking up (and we can only do so freely online for now because our rights to demonstrate peacefully are curtailed) and by rummaging through all information and evidence and putting together a coherent picture of how we might be systematically lied to or marginalised. We have shown ourselves to be capable of doing that, and we will and must continue to do that.
- http://thehearttruths.com/2013/01/27/punggol-east-by-election-2013-the-aftermath-and-the-analysis/
