Respond?
Cpt Brandon , wake the fuck up lah.
During good times the Pappies and their cronies take your hard earn money and wine and dine.
During SARS time and haze time, you respond to clear the SHIT?
What are you defending for?
For the Elites and the FTs to continue to suck your Sinkie BLOOD? LOL
I am not defending the elites.
However in times like this, when our health is being threatened, I think it is necessary to stop the talking and take action. It is Indonesia's problem to settle but when they refuse to take action (as they can't be seen to punish their own business cronies) then we should take matters into our own hands.
It is in fact the government's job to settle this issue using diplomacy. However, as you have seen, the likes of Shanmugam, Vivian and LHL have all failed to get the Indonesians to take action. Our response has been too weak as our ministers are all unwilling to offend the Indonesians.
Hence, in such an event, my proposal of having the SAF move in to secure the area while RSAF and SCDF puts out the fires is the best way to quickly end the haze in the short term. The entire operation would be completed within 1 week. The culprits would be arrested and court martialed. The fires would be extinguished and the haze eliminated. Then we peacefully withdraw and hand back the area to Indonesia. the UN will not condemn us for such actions. They might even respect us more.
Obviously LHL would never have the balls to execute such an order, which is why this is purely a hypothetical scenario.
I am just saying that I would willingly take up arms and serve in such an operation.
I would also willingly take up arms to ensure the peaceful transition of power to a new government in the event that the PAP were to lose control.
However I do not think MINDEF will ever activate SAF personnel to overthrow the PAP, that would be ridiculous wouldn't it? Unless the Defence Minister wants the top job for himself?