Yeah that time, when policeman wear shorts,,Singapore was a more democratic place under the POMs and David Marshall,,,we can go on strike, have demonstrations etc...and that was what LKY was doing,,he was the biggest 'Democrat' saying free speech and all that shit. When PAP won, the locked up his political opponents with the help of the POMS in operation cold store etc etc. And the rest is history.
If LKY was in LTK shoes today,,I bet that LKY would even be more quiet than WP now...as LKY would be whacked left right and centre by the Gahmen of that day....