Should the police investigate the PAP poison pen fliers incident?
Since a branch chairman of the People’s Action Party (PAP) led a group of party activists to distribute anti-Workers’ Party (WP) fliers in Aljunied, questions have been raised asking if the Singapore Police Force (SPF) should investigate the matter.
Briefly, the PAP branch chairman for the Bedok Reservoir area of the constituency, Victor Lye, together with his group of activists, had apparently distributed perhaps thousands of fliers to the flats in the area, urging residents to query the WP on issues pertaining to the running of the town council.
Are the actions of Victor Lye, who is also the chairman of the non-political grassroots organisation, the Citizens Consultative Committee (CCC), of the area, setting a precedent, or is he simply following one, when he distributes political literature to the public?
Incidents in recent years, particularly in 2009 and 2010, are instructive in viewing the issue.
In May 2009, several not-so-flattering posters of Member of Parliament for Nee Soon, Lee Bee Wah, were posted at some blocks in the area.
The posters had pictured Ms Lee’s face on the cover of a toilet seat, and called on her to resign her position as the president of the Singapore Table Tennis Association (STTA).
This was “around the time the STTA refused to nominate former national head coach Liu Guodong, who led the women’s team to a historic Olympic silver medal in 2008, for the Singapore Sports Awards” then. (New Paper.)
This was the poster which was put up in the area:
https://andrewlohhp.wordpress.com/2015/03/17/poison-pen-fliers-a-virulent-kind-of-sneakiness/
Since a branch chairman of the People’s Action Party (PAP) led a group of party activists to distribute anti-Workers’ Party (WP) fliers in Aljunied, questions have been raised asking if the Singapore Police Force (SPF) should investigate the matter.
Briefly, the PAP branch chairman for the Bedok Reservoir area of the constituency, Victor Lye, together with his group of activists, had apparently distributed perhaps thousands of fliers to the flats in the area, urging residents to query the WP on issues pertaining to the running of the town council.
Are the actions of Victor Lye, who is also the chairman of the non-political grassroots organisation, the Citizens Consultative Committee (CCC), of the area, setting a precedent, or is he simply following one, when he distributes political literature to the public?
Incidents in recent years, particularly in 2009 and 2010, are instructive in viewing the issue.
In May 2009, several not-so-flattering posters of Member of Parliament for Nee Soon, Lee Bee Wah, were posted at some blocks in the area.
The posters had pictured Ms Lee’s face on the cover of a toilet seat, and called on her to resign her position as the president of the Singapore Table Tennis Association (STTA).
This was “around the time the STTA refused to nominate former national head coach Liu Guodong, who led the women’s team to a historic Olympic silver medal in 2008, for the Singapore Sports Awards” then. (New Paper.)
This was the poster which was put up in the area:
https://andrewlohhp.wordpress.com/2015/03/17/poison-pen-fliers-a-virulent-kind-of-sneakiness/
