6/05/2014
CPF Protest Rally – 2 days to go
Roy Ngerng has made a difference. With several million CPF members with their money held back by moving goal posts and ingenious new schemes and totally hapless about it, Roy Ngerng has come along to take up their case with the Govt. In the course of doing so, Roy is now facing a defamation charge connected to this cause and may face bankruptcy and an obliteration of his career choices here. And Roy is only 33 years old.
Many Singaporeans have come forward to put money into Roy’s hands to defend his lawsuit. Many Singaporeans felt that they owed it to Roy to make a stand, to back him up financially, to protect him from bankruptcy. Many will be at Hong Lim Park this Saturday with their Ovaltine and biscuit tins of money to hand over to Roy. They knew that the damages can be prohibitive and more money is needed to help him ride over this rough chapter of his life.
On record, about 1,200 people have contributed to Roy’s legal fund. That is a small drop compared to the millions of CPF members affected by the changing rules of CPF to their dissatisfaction and detriment. Would these Singaporeans step forward to show Roy that they appreciate what he is doing by attending the protest rally this Saturday? Or would they be the pathetic Sinkies, none of my business, let someone else fight for them and pay the heavy price by being on the wrong side of the political equations?
Professor Christopher Balding, a foreigner, acknowledged that he was writing from the safety of being afar. Roy is here challenging the Govt and will risk facing whatever the Govt can throw at him. There is no shelter or protection. The only thing that can protect Roy is the people, the people that Roy is trying to speak on their behalf. The saddest thing to happen is for the people to leave Roy in the lurch, it is Roy’s battle with the Govt. Nobody asks him to do so.
How many people would be obligated to Roy to want to go to Hong Lim this Saturday? How many would just ignore Roy and go about life as if it does not concern them? Would the people, the CPF members, close rank with Roy? Or would they abandon Roy when he needs their support and confirmation that he is doing the right thing and they appreciate it? It will be a sad day and a big disappointment if the grounds of Hong Lim were half empty this Saturday afternoon.
Would the Singaporeans help Roy to make a difference to their CPF savings? I am not sure how many CPF members will be there. But the international media would be there for sure.
Kopi Level - Green
Tiananmen – Digging up the ugly past
The US and of course the UN, demanded that China gives an account of
this ugly incident that happened 25 years ago, June 4, 1989. Many
students died in a student uprising in Tiananmen Square when the army
and tanks moved in to quash the protest for democracy in China. The
memories of the dead students are deeply etched in the minds of those
affected and involved in the protest. This chapter of China’s history
would always be remembered with a heavy heart in the political struggle
of a new nation rising on its feet after centuries of decadence.
What would happen to China today if the student uprising was successful is a moot point. Would China be more prosperous or thrown back many years in turmoil is any body’s guess. No Chinese would speak kindly of this event, not even those in power in the CCP. It was nothing to be proud of even though it was deemed necessary given the dire situation. Who is good enough to judge this incident?
Such incidents of violation of freedom of the people and the mass killing of innocent civilians would and must bring shame to the perpetrators. Tianamen is an old would and some people may ask why should people be harping about the past? Let the past be history and let the wounds heal.
No, the Americans, the most righteous nation, the defenders of human rights, freedom and democracy, would never allow such acts against human beings to go unforgotten. It must be brought up for an airing annually no matter how long to embarrass the Chinese leaders and to put pressure on them.
What about the atrocious act of fabricating a false charge of WMD against Saddam Hussein’s Iraq that let to the murder of Saddam Hussein and his families, and the killings of hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqis? Are these violent and wicked acts to be condoned? Should the US and the UN be demanding for a proper account of why the US, the UK and the Coalition of the ‘Willing’ invaded a country, destroyed its infrastructure and economy and killing and wounding hundreds of thousands of innocent people based on a lie? Should those evil leaders, under the pretext of freedom, democracy and human rights, be allowed to go free, no need to answer to their crimes against humanity? And this event happened only 12 years ago, not in the historical past. Why are the Americans and UN completely quiet about such atrocities?
There is a more evil event in the not too distant past, during the Second World War. The abominable crimes associated with 731. Unit 731 was a Japanese concentration camp tasked with the job of testing and developing chemical and biological weapons of mass destructions. Thousands of Chinese, Koreans and Russians were used as guinea pigs by the Japanese monsters to test biological and chemical agents. Many were cut up alive, with no anaesthesia, to gauge the tolerance of human suffering from pain. Pregnant women were dissected in the same way to remove the babies and subsequently dumped into the rubbish heap to die. Chemical and biological agents were injected to the human guinea pigs and released to the cities to infect the population as experiments.
What did the Americans say about it? What did the UN say about it? The US was in fact the biggest beneficiary of the experiments conducted in Unit 731. They made a deal with the chief scientists and Unit Commander for his freedom from war crimes in exchange for all his knowledge of chemical and biological warfare information. The evil scientists were set free and the US kept all the records of the cruel experiments. Should the UN and US demand the US to account for this drastic deal and for the Japanese to pay for this crime? NO! They happily kept quiet about it, not to be spoken again.
The recalcitrant Japanese monsters went one step further. Instead of regretting their sinful and criminal acts against humanity, instead of apologizing for the crimes conducted in Unit 731, instead of bowing in shame and remorse, they did the opposite. They were proud of Unit 731. The rejoiced what they had done in Unit 731.
In a recent photograph of PM Abe visiting the Japanese Air Force, he was seen sitting in the cockpit of a fighter aircraft, smiling widely and jubilantly. And the aircraft had 731 markings in bold on its side, together with the proud face of Abe. The Japanese never regret their barbaric acts of WW2. They cherished those moments, those cruelties against their suffering victims.
Would the US and UN demand Japan to account for their crimes in Unit 731? No? No need to dig into the past? The crimes against humanity conducted by Unit 371 were many times more brutal, savage than Tiananmen, crimes against human rights, freedom and democracy!
The UN and US cannot be so hypocritical to demand China to account for Tiananmen when their shameful invasion of Iraq and the murder of Saddam Hussein and his families go unnoticed. They cannot keep silence about Unit 731 and support Japan as a country of peace and to be the peace keeper in Asia and ignore such horrific cruel acts against the human kind.
Don’t dig up the past? Why Tiananmen and not Iraq or 731?
Kopi Level - Green
What would happen to China today if the student uprising was successful is a moot point. Would China be more prosperous or thrown back many years in turmoil is any body’s guess. No Chinese would speak kindly of this event, not even those in power in the CCP. It was nothing to be proud of even though it was deemed necessary given the dire situation. Who is good enough to judge this incident?
Such incidents of violation of freedom of the people and the mass killing of innocent civilians would and must bring shame to the perpetrators. Tianamen is an old would and some people may ask why should people be harping about the past? Let the past be history and let the wounds heal.
No, the Americans, the most righteous nation, the defenders of human rights, freedom and democracy, would never allow such acts against human beings to go unforgotten. It must be brought up for an airing annually no matter how long to embarrass the Chinese leaders and to put pressure on them.
What about the atrocious act of fabricating a false charge of WMD against Saddam Hussein’s Iraq that let to the murder of Saddam Hussein and his families, and the killings of hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqis? Are these violent and wicked acts to be condoned? Should the US and the UN be demanding for a proper account of why the US, the UK and the Coalition of the ‘Willing’ invaded a country, destroyed its infrastructure and economy and killing and wounding hundreds of thousands of innocent people based on a lie? Should those evil leaders, under the pretext of freedom, democracy and human rights, be allowed to go free, no need to answer to their crimes against humanity? And this event happened only 12 years ago, not in the historical past. Why are the Americans and UN completely quiet about such atrocities?
There is a more evil event in the not too distant past, during the Second World War. The abominable crimes associated with 731. Unit 731 was a Japanese concentration camp tasked with the job of testing and developing chemical and biological weapons of mass destructions. Thousands of Chinese, Koreans and Russians were used as guinea pigs by the Japanese monsters to test biological and chemical agents. Many were cut up alive, with no anaesthesia, to gauge the tolerance of human suffering from pain. Pregnant women were dissected in the same way to remove the babies and subsequently dumped into the rubbish heap to die. Chemical and biological agents were injected to the human guinea pigs and released to the cities to infect the population as experiments.
What did the Americans say about it? What did the UN say about it? The US was in fact the biggest beneficiary of the experiments conducted in Unit 731. They made a deal with the chief scientists and Unit Commander for his freedom from war crimes in exchange for all his knowledge of chemical and biological warfare information. The evil scientists were set free and the US kept all the records of the cruel experiments. Should the UN and US demand the US to account for this drastic deal and for the Japanese to pay for this crime? NO! They happily kept quiet about it, not to be spoken again.
The recalcitrant Japanese monsters went one step further. Instead of regretting their sinful and criminal acts against humanity, instead of apologizing for the crimes conducted in Unit 731, instead of bowing in shame and remorse, they did the opposite. They were proud of Unit 731. The rejoiced what they had done in Unit 731.
In a recent photograph of PM Abe visiting the Japanese Air Force, he was seen sitting in the cockpit of a fighter aircraft, smiling widely and jubilantly. And the aircraft had 731 markings in bold on its side, together with the proud face of Abe. The Japanese never regret their barbaric acts of WW2. They cherished those moments, those cruelties against their suffering victims.
Would the US and UN demand Japan to account for their crimes in Unit 731? No? No need to dig into the past? The crimes against humanity conducted by Unit 371 were many times more brutal, savage than Tiananmen, crimes against human rights, freedom and democracy!
The UN and US cannot be so hypocritical to demand China to account for Tiananmen when their shameful invasion of Iraq and the murder of Saddam Hussein and his families go unnoticed. They cannot keep silence about Unit 731 and support Japan as a country of peace and to be the peace keeper in Asia and ignore such horrific cruel acts against the human kind.
Don’t dig up the past? Why Tiananmen and not Iraq or 731?
Kopi Level - Green
6/04/2014
Where are the political parties when the people needed them?
The Hong Lim Park protest this Saturday is led by a young man with no
political affiliation yet but with the support of many CPF members who
want their money back. Would there be any political party showing up
with their leaders and supporters to stand side by side with the people
in this protest? Would any political party think they should seize the
opportunity to champion the cause of the people?
Would it be funny that no political party thinks they should be supporting the people when the people needed them most? Or would it be a case that since it is not the initiative of any political party, then they don’t have to show their support. Let the people go and fight for themselves?
What would the people say when these political parties come knocking at their doors asking for their votes in the next GE? What would the people say to these political parties and their leaders? Would they simply ask, ‘where were you when I need you most?’ Or would they just show them the middle finger and slam the doors?
What are the political parties thinking? Would they be seen to be abandoning the people?
Kopi Level - Green
Would it be funny that no political party thinks they should be supporting the people when the people needed them most? Or would it be a case that since it is not the initiative of any political party, then they don’t have to show their support. Let the people go and fight for themselves?
What would the people say when these political parties come knocking at their doors asking for their votes in the next GE? What would the people say to these political parties and their leaders? Would they simply ask, ‘where were you when I need you most?’ Or would they just show them the middle finger and slam the doors?
What are the political parties thinking? Would they be seen to be abandoning the people?
Kopi Level - Green
Japan is worthy to be peace keeper?
Chris D Nebe, a senior German gentleman, a film producer, has made a film on the truth of Diaoyu Islands. ‘Diaoyu Islands: The Truth’, is made by Nebe using his own money. He was not financed by anyone to produce this film but out of a sense of justice and fair play, to tell the truth.
Anyone thinking that the Japanese are decent people must watch this short movie by Nebe, the link, http://youtu.be/7w7rgl95Ft4 , before making up his mind. Look at the historical facts, the millions of Chinese that were killed, the hundreds of thousands of Koreans, Pinoys, Indians, Australians, British and the Americans that were massacred by the Japanese.
View this movie and help yourself to make an informed judgment. People ignorant of history will only make a fool of themselves.
Kopi Level - Green
The biggest protest rally at Hong Lim
This Sat, 7 Jun, a massive rally is expected at Hong Lim to protest against the retention of the people’s life savings in the CPF. “Return our CPF” or "Return Our Money" is the war cry of many grandpas and grandmas and also from the young. For the grandpas and grandmas, they have not much left in their CPF but still money to them. For the young, the fear of a few hundred thousand dollars of their savings being retained by the scheme is sending shivers down their spines.
The CPF issue gained prominence after a young blogger blogged about it and is being sued by the Prime Minister for defamation for his allegation of mismanagement. Roy Ngerng, an otherwise nondescript health worker, is now in front page news in the social media. International media have also picked up the trails and are likely to be present in force this Saturday as well.
The furious effort of the people in pumping money into the pocket of Roy to pay for his legal fees and damages has taken everyone by surprise. The initial shock of facing a lawsuit from the island’s top defamation lawyer representing the Prime Minister must have put on a lot of stress on this young man. The surge of support by the masses has in a way alleviated his fear and renewed his confidence in his cause to tell the story of the CPF savings scheme.
More than $80,000 has been raised in 5 days through crowd funding and with more coming in. It is a cause that affects every citizen, young and old, and touches their hearts. They are going to turn up in full force this Saturday at Hong Lim.
Would other political and non govt organizations stand up to support this cause kickstarted by a young blogger inadvertently? The issue is not political and transcends all political parties and non political parties. Would they rally their supporters to support a young man championing the aspiration of the people to want their money back? Or would these organizations stay away as if it is none of their business?
Political parties in particular would strike out to the estates and walk the streets to ask the people for their support and votes during election campaigning. The people now need their support in this case. The people may not be knocking at the doors of the political parties. But they are expecting the political parties to come forward to support them. Political parties that failed to answer this call, thinking it is none of their business will have no reason to ask for the people’s support in the coming GE. This is a reciprocal act. It is also something that political parties have been shouting, to fight for the people’s interests. Now it is time for them to show that they are indeed fighting for the people and to come forward to stand, not behind the people, but with the people on this cause.
When the political parties called for support from the people, the people answered. The people are now calling, would the political parties answer or would they hide in their little corners and ignore the people?
Would there be a massive turnout this Saturday when the people are marching in front in the protest, leading the protest? Where are the political parties and the politicians? So far not a whimper is heard from them except for KJ Jeyaratnam who would be one of the speakers on Saturday. Would the political parties fail the people?
Kopi Level - Green
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