Matilah Singapura says CPF is a form of tax

Chuan Jin said CPF is your money. Matilah Singapura, one of my loudmouth extremely opinionated fans in mysingaporenews disagreed, and for many years had been scolding everyone for thinking or believing that the CPF money is their money and not a tax. So, who is right, the minister or Matilah Singapura?

If I believe in authority, I must agree that a minister must be right. How can a minister be wrong or be telling lies? And I must naturally disagree with an opinionated foul mouth blogger that he is wrong. A blogger simply has no credibility when put beside a minister.

Another way of deciding who is right is to draw up a list of criteria to give one an objective way of comparison. When the money is your money, the criteria to support such a conclusion are very straight forward. You can take the money anytime you like and put it into your pocket. You can buy anything you like, anytime you like without having to ask anyone for permission. Another simple test, you can hold the money in your hand to touch and enjoy the smell of money. This is definitely different from looking at a piece of paper saying you have so much money but cannot touch or see the money.

Let’s look at the money in the CPF that Chuan Jin is your money.

Can you take back your money anytime you like when you feel like it?

Can you spend on anything you like at your fancy?

Or can the person holding your money for safekeeping be allowed to spend your money without your consent or even force you to spend your money because he said so?

Can the person keeping your money decide when and how much to return to you?

KNN, looks like this foulmouth blogger called Matilah Singapura is right leh. The money is not your money when you can’t spend it as you like. But is it a tax like what Matilah Singapura called it? This one is a bit technical. Must ask a legally trained professional to explain. But such professionals are likely to say yes and no subject to this and that and you end up not knowing what they are saying. And so far none of them want to say anything. Maybe no one ask them or no one pays them to say something. Mahathir once said, fishing in Malaysia very easy. In Singapore, very difficult as the fish would not open their mouths.

So, is CPF your money?

Kopi Level - Green

Roy Ngerng needs your help

Hello everyone, thank you for your support and well-wishes. It has been an arduous two weeks. I am doing well so far.
 
Last Sunday, the Singapore prime minister issued a letter of demand to me for defamation. I have thus far acceded to the requests of the prime minister to remove several of the articles that I had written and a video that I made. I have also offered the Prime Minister my apology…
 
Raising Funds
 
My lawyer, M Ravi, will be leading a team in preparation for the hearing. As most of you know, he champions many Human Rights causes, most of which he undertakes without charge. However, he only has a small practice with finite resources. In view of the magnitude of the matter, the amount of resources required and the likelihood that it will last almost a year, I need to raise the legal fees required.
 
I expect the legal fees would amount to at least $70,000 and this would include:
• Filing fees
• Research
• Lawyer’s fees
 
If you would like to help me with this, you can make a deposit to the following accounts:
 
• POSB Savings Account Number: 130-23068-7 Name: Ngerng Yi Ling
 
Any amount will be much appreciated.
 
The actual amount of damages, which is separate from the legal fees I am trying to raise, will only be known after the court case is over.
 
Redbean: Roy needs your help, however small does not matter. It is a show of your moral support. And don’t forget to made a date with him at Hong Lim Park, 7 Jun at 4pm to hear him and Han Hui Hui speaking for your CPF savings.

MH370 – Time to press criminal charges

The Australians have wrapped up their search for the black boxes in the south India Ocean. After weeks of submarine mapping they have concluded that the black boxes were not there. The Americans too announced that the MH370 could not be there and added that the pings that misled all the countries that the aircraft could be in the Indian Ocean was hoax, man made sound that had nothing to do with the aircraft equipment. What about the other pings that all the expert analysis and commentaries about handshakes between the aircraft and the Immarsat satellite? Were they also man made?

How could so many govts and experts be made to believe that the aircraft crashed into the Indian Ocean and so much effort and valuable time and resources were wasted in a wild goose chase fabricated by someone or parties who deliberately produced or created fake evidences to point to that direction? Let’s revisit the sequence of events that led to this farcical and cruel theatrical event.

From the very beginning, someone had been trying very hard to direct the search parties towards the Indian Ocean by all means and all kinds of ruse. Mad pilot, suicidal pilot, terrorist pilot, dead pilot, all had one common destination, to fly the aircraft to the Indian Ocean. No one smelt a fish? These mad and unbelieveable fictions could be exposed quite easily by any inquisitive mind if not for a few other conjured findings and confirmations.

First we had the Immarsat satellite company coming up with their ‘pings’ recording and their ‘clever never been used’ Doppler Theory deduction to prove that the aircraft crashed in the Indian Ocean. Other than the Immarsat, no other agencies could offer more technical information on the MH370. The findings of the Immarsat company were endorsed by the Australian PM Abbott who confidently told Najib that that was where the aircraft was. And he was so convincing, as if he had inside information, that Najib believed his story wholly to even declaring the search was over and the passengers were as good as dead.

Now we have this revelation that everyone was being deceived. The aircraft was not there and could not be there and the pings were fabricated to lie. After nearly 3 months of the aircraft’s disappearance, there is no need to keep on with the pretence. Someone decided to tell the truth.

So, what’s next? It is about time that an inquiry be conducted to determine who started the hoax, were the Immarsat ping data also fabricated, who fixed the analysis of the ping data to lie that the aircraft was in the Indian Ocean, and who told Abbott of the location of the crash site? It is time to start arresting some of these evil bastards and burn them on the stake. The conspiracy to deceive the search effort is pretty obvious by now. And it looks like there is a big party of people or nations involved in this wicked scam. If found guilty, they must be punished severely as 274 lives were at stake.

Kopi Level - Green

Has Inderjit Singh submitted his resignation letter?

The lengthy letter by Inderjit on what he felt had gone wrong with the PAP and its policies was like him submitting his resignation letter to Hsien Loong. It was as good as saying ‘I disagree and you can do anything you want with me’.
 
Many readers are applauding the things highlighted in Inderjit’s letter and could feel that it was written from his heart. He just had it too much and could not hold back anymore. Yes, this is the first time an incumbent PAP MP is kpkb while still with the Govt, while still in Parliament. This is a clear break from the past when elites or ex PAP stalwarts would only talk after they have left the corridor of power.
 
How many PAP MPs or ministers out there are sharing the angst of Inderjit Singh and would want to do the same, or have the guts to say it while still an active member of the house? Would anyone feel excited enough, invigorated enough and encouraged by this act of Inderjit to say, ‘I agree with Inderjit and here is my resignation letter?’
 
For any MP or minister to take such a stand, it would demand a lot of courage and conviction to do the right thing, to go with the heart, to go against the head, or like Ngaim Dong Dow had said, go against the money.
 
Are we seeing the first breakaway? Are we seeing the first sign of rebellion in Fortress PAP? What Inderjit had done is unprecedented. It is like a public dress down. Anyone wanting to read what he said can go to this link, http://www.tremeritus.com/2014/05/27/mp-inderjit-singhs-critical-analysis-of-pap-govt/.

Kopi Level - Green

Low Thia Khiang turned into a tiger in a cul de sac

The whole weight of the PAP and the Prime Minister bore down on Low Thia Khiang in Parliament. Hsien Loong gave him a lashing in the most ‘constructive’ way after this term was made famous by Tony Tan in his Presidential Address. Hsien Loong could not make it any more constructive than what he did to Low Thia Khiang. This shaken Low’s confidence for a brief moment but he recomposed himself and stood there bravely to rebut everything Hsien Loong threw at him. He would not let any unwarranted remarks go unanswered and he took his time to rebut every one of them, not missing any.
 
Low Thia Khiang has shown his mettle expected of an opposition leader. He was not going to buckle under the spotlight. He held his ground and even Hsien Loong had to turn on a little smile on and off from his lecturing posture. Mind you, you had a Cambridge trained scholar speaking in his ‘mother tongue’ Queens English that he was most comfortable with and with a full vocabulary of choiced words in his finger tips. On the other side of the bench was a Chinese educated Nantah graduate, born and bred in Teochew and Mandarin but retorting in English, a language that was as good as alien to him. Low Thia Khiang not only spoke well and in good grammatically correct English, he fought back like a tiger. Imagine if the debate were to be conducted in Mandarin, the result would be quite different even though Hsien Loong is also a Mandarin speaker. Maybe next time Low Thia Khiang shall speak in Mandarin when taking on Hsien Loong (or anyone in Parliament) and let Hsien Loong have the choice to reply in English or Mandarin.
 
I think many who have glued to the TV to watch the drama would have stood up and gave him a standing ovation. Despite all the handicaps, underrepresented, 7 against 80, despite having to struggle with an alien language, despite having only limited resources, and in the face of a hostile and cynical dominant party whose candidates have occupied Parliament like their familiar living room, Low Thia Khiang stood tall, alone to face them. He did himself proud, did his party proud. And I am sure many of the PAP MPs must be quietly admiringly the way Low ‘articulated’ his positions without any fumble.
 
Many who watched the debate are giving Low Thia Khiang the nod as a worthy opposition leader in Parliament. His performance was a good example for his MPs to emulate and must have shown them that that’s the way to stand up against the hostile stares of intimidating opponents without having to give an inch, like a tiger. At least that was the impression Hsien Loong had of the WP leaders, turning into tigers and heroes. When your worthy opponents like the mighty PAP acknowledged your worthiness, you deserved it.

Kopi Level - Green