Case against forgiving

My previous post discussed the pros and cons on forgiving the wrong doers. The generous and kind would want to forgive and let the asshole go in peace with a lesser sense of guilt. Those who were hurt badly would find it difficult to forgive and would not want to forgive. It would be too easy for the asshole after what he had done to the victims.

Is there a case against forgiving? Forgiving a child is easy for the child did not know what he has done. Ignorance or innocence could be a reason to forgive when there is no intent or not knowing the harm that could be inflicted on the other party.  But when the asshole is a smart ass, knowing very well what he was doing and the pain inflicted, why should the asshole be forgiven? Why must the victim be the generous and kind one, to take the whacking and to let the asshole go free?

There are many instances of assholes bullying, taunting and torturing their victims right before our eyes. And the arrogance, the abuse of power and position and wealth to oppress, to hurt, to ridicule, to bankrupt or to put people behind bars, all done with a clear intent to harm the victim, why should the asshole be forgiven? There is another way of looking at this. A politician is like a man in ‘Jiang Hu’,  人在江湖，生不由己，he just had to do it knowing very well the consequences or it is ‘you die or I die’. So be it. I think this is bull. Modern day politics in a civilized society should be civil.

Another point, why forgive when the asshole did not see anything wrong in what he did? And why forgive when the asshole did not even ask to be forgiven? When the asshole is repentant, remorseful, and regretted for what he had done, and come begging for forgiveness, there is a case to forgive, to be kind and generous.
 

Why forgive an asshole that may even call you daft or silly to forgive him and may want to shit on you one more time if given the chance and walk away strutting around like a vain cock, telling the world how clever he is?

And for those assholes that are still cocky like hell, and seeing all the pleas to forgive but still go about bullying others, ridiculing others and harassing their victims, let there be no forgiveness when their turn come. They know, they knew what they were doing and what they are in for. Live by the sword die by the sword, like a man. There shall be no mercy to the evil and wicked, especially the very clever ones.

God also believes so. He said he would come, one day, to judge and would judge fairly. The evil ones would be burnt in the sea of fire. No amount of confession or forgiveness would save him. Many clever ones do not believe in such nonsense or they would not be doing what they did.

There is another big reason not to forgive when politicians are wicked. They are not supposed to, and there is no good reason to be so. The first premise of going into politics is to serve the people, to do good for the people. Another person or party too has the same idea, to do good and to serve the people. What is so wrong, so objectionable and unforgiveable for another person or party to step out to want to serve the people that they must be destroyed? They may have different ideas and ways to serve the people and it is up to the people to choose or reject them.

There is no good reason to what them dead, to want to crush them like cockroaches at every opportunity.  What is there to be so cruel and wicked, to adamantly want to harm them for wanting to serve the people, to want to fix them? They are just like you, to serve the people. They are not gangsters out to kill. Politicians are not gangsters, right?

Going into politics is an altruistic endeavour. Going into politics is not about grabbing power, for personal glory and interests, to destroy other people who want to do the same and not allowing them do serve the people. Why is it necessary then to destroy other people who also want to do good? It simply means that the intention is not altruism but personal, about protecting selfish interest, power and glory.

For this reason, there should not be forgiveness as the intent is not good, not about serving the people but self serving. You are depriving the people from being served by better men and women with better ideas.

PAP’s achievements in the last 15 years

Many people are very angry with the new PAP and like to compare them with the first two generations of PAP leaders. They claimed that the earlier leaders did a lot for Singaporeans and made life better. And the new PAP leaders all only know how to collect millions but ‘jiat leow bee’.

Let me put the record straight, and be objective, look at the real numbers, quantifiable achievements of the new PAP leadership. I just do it in point forms, short and sharp to show you how great are the achievements of the new PAP.

1. In 15 years they were able to increase population by 1.5m. Old PAP with stop at 2, no population growth, a complete failure. See, clever or not?
2. They created jobs for at least 1.5m foreigners with at least 500,000 in PMET jobs. Nevermind the few local losers that ended up as taxi drivers and security guards. The good thing is the 500,000 good jobs, some even being paid in the millions. Foreign countries are so thankful of the opportunities that they flew their national flags half mast when our leeder died.
3. This one everyone can see, two world class casinos, beautiful and pleasing to the eyes, and very profitable by world casino standards, and provide very good jobs too.
4. This one also everyone can see, world class and biggest aircon garden for temperate plants. Oh, one olive tree bears fruits. It’s a miracle to have olive trees bearing fruits in the equator. Great scientific feat and achievement.
5. This one also cannot miss. The world’s most expensive under water stretch of road. How many billions, can’t remember, but know it is mind blowing.
6. Another two great monuments coming out in Changi called the Jewel and Terminal 5.
7. And 6 great world class universities, filled with foreign lecturers and foreign students on govt scholarships. In the last15 years, the estimate is at least $1b spent on these foreign talented students.  Dunno how much was spent on the foreign lecturers and professors. Small change, no need to worry. We can afford it. The old PAP where got the money to spend on foreign students and academic staff? Had to rely on cheap on poor quality local students and lecturers. Oh, they don’t guarantee you a job or that you get the right skills set to be employed after graduation. Not able to find a job is your problem. But you can boast of a world class degree. Hang it up in your bedroom or toilet if you got no office to show it because you can’t find a job with it.
8. This one every Singaporean owning a property, private or HDB, sure happy. The prices of their properties are worth millions. Even HDB flats are worth half a million or more. Never mind when the leases expire the value will be zero. Happy buying and investing. It will last more than a life time.
9. And a world class medical service that you have to pay world class prices, that is fair right. Nevermind if one is bankrupt after one serious illness. You enjoy world class facilities and world class doctors and nurses to take care of you. Think already shiok.
10. Oh, another world class achievement, in the Guinness Book of Record that can never be broken, the world’s 30 or maybe 50 by now, the highest paid politicians in the whole wide world. A junior minister would be paid more than the President of the USA. Our PM’s pay is more than the combine salaries of the top 10 world leaders.
11. This one is linked to the taxi drivers. We have the highest qualified pool of taxi drivers, mostly ex PMETs, many with post graduate degrees and management experience and war stories to tell. How to beat?
12. We have the most mayors per sq km in the world. 4 in 770 sq km.
13. A few million people from the 3rd World and 1st World countries have been made very rich by the PAP govt for the right to work in this island paradise.

Ok, I think the above is suffice. I could go on and on. The achievements are endless and it could fill the whole library if I were to list them all out. Now who dares to complain that the new PAP did not achieve anything, did not do anything good for the people. The motherhood statement, they are taking care of the people from cradle to grave, and they make sure the people will have money in their CPF for the rest of their lives and still got balance to pass over to their children and grandchildren. This one no bluff one.

Say thank you please, and be grateful. Count your blessings. And if you happen to be one of the abject poor, you will still be the richest poor in the world and would live a very good life. How much do you need? You want to eat in the hawker stall, food court or restaurant, just name it. No need to be shy about it.

They deserve another pay hike for a job well done. Worth every cent paid. Anyone wants to disagree with my findings? Anyone wants to challenge my conclusions?

Alvin Tan – I like him

Anyone remember this name? Oh if you don’t, let me give you a clue. He was a foreigner given a scholarship to study free and provided with accommodation and allowances to make him feel comfortable in Singapore, without having to work but to study in this very expensive city. Ok, another clue, he is famously known as the sex blogger. He did law and was expelled from law school, not sure if he completed the law degree. Now you remember who is this Alvin Tan? He is a Malaysian now living in exiled in the US for his insensitive jokes during Hari Raya in Malaysia.

Now why did I say I like him? You see, he made a lot of people here looked very stupid and foolish. And because of him, maybe more Singapore children will now have a chance to study in our world best universities, and maybe even get a scholarship like Alvin Tan to spare their parents from selling their homes. How so?

Read Alvin’s latest post in the TRE, ‘Sex blogger Alvin Tan: I was offered SPR in 2007’.  See how good they thought of him as someone with great talent and to be a Singaporean to contribute or to help make Singapore a better place for daft Sinkies.

In brief he said a few things that would make some people feel very angry and malu, with red faces. And I quote,

‘Alvin slammed the cramped quarters that Singaporeans called housing, saying their flats were “smaller than even the upstairs area of your terrace house…. about how tough it was to own a car and how Singaporeans had to depend on “riding trains that break down” despite the fares being pricey… He said many became “bitter, cynical individuals early on in life” due to the compulsory national service they attended in Pulau Tekong and spent their working lives “competing fruitlessly” with foreigners who stole their jobs.

Noting that monthly commitments were sky-high, he said many simply resigned themselves to their corporate lives and paid chunks of their salaries into a “compulsory saving scam” called CPF that he likened to a Ponzi scheme.’

And if the above did not rile anyone from his comfort zone, read this, ‘I was offered Singaporean Permanent Residence (status) in 2007. I tossed the letter into the rubbish bin. I had no intention of becoming a cog in the wheel to fund the CPF, Temasek Holdings, and your ministers’ million-dollar salaries.’

Now you understand why I like Alvin Tan? He made those silly people who thought throwing money at people like him would make them grateful and would want to be cog to pay their fat salaries. Any one of these intelligent young men and women would easily see through the whole farce and would take them for a ride.

Would those silly buggers realize how stupid they were and stop wasting public money on these foreigners and, instead use the money to repay the citizens for paying taxes and helping to build this country and to pay their fat salaries? Hopefully they would not be so thick and stubborn and continue to throw our taxpayers money to these ungrateful foreigners that are too smart for them to handle.

Thank you Alvin Tan, for giving them a piece of your mind on their stupidity. Singaporean parents would be grateful to you and maybe lesser Singaporean children would have to become financial burdens to their parents who have to pay for their tertiary education in Singapore or forced to pay even more for their overseas education.
Alvin Tan is an angel in disguise.

China and US initiatives in the world stage

The creation of AIIB is fresh on everyone’s mind as a major initiative from China, often accused of not doing its part and responsibility to play a bigger role in the world stage. And when it is doing exactly what the Americans demanded it to do, the Americans throw all kinds of brass tacks on its path and put up a Berlin Wall to prevent American allies from joining. Many Asian countries would benefit greatly from this initiative to obtain cheap loans for their nation’s infrastructure developments.
 
Another major Chinese initiative is the two prong Silk Road to promote trade in Asia, one overland and one through the oceans. The infrastructure development that goes with it and the facilitation of trades can only be good for Asia and the world.
 
The other Chinese initiatives like liberalizing the renminbi as an alternative world currency against the highly dangerous greenbacks with the Americans printing them like toilet papers to exchange for goods and services from the hardworking people across the world. And China is also offering an alternative lesser manipulation and HFT/computer free stock broking system to the world against the highly manipulated and flawed western system originating from New York and London.
 
These are not counting the cheaply prized products that China is selling to the world to benefit the whole world without having to pay a hand or leg for consumer products.
In the meantime what are the Americans doing? What are the American initiatives? Signing defence pacts, renewing defence agreements, pivot to Asia to rebalance is military and political dominance. Even the Trans Pacific Pact, supposedly a trade pact, is described by the new Defence Secretary as an aircraft carrier.
 
In his first visit to Asia, Ashton Carter is bragging about how powerful is the American military forces and where the Americans are spending their monies, and let me quote an AGENCIES’s report today, ‘But Mr Carter appeared to relish it, claiming that “passing the TPP is as important to me as another aircraft carrier”….the Obama Administration is opening a new phase of its strategic “rebalance “ towards Asia and the Pacific by investing in high end weapons such as a new long range stealth bomber, long range anti ship cruise missile, rapid runway repair and refreshing its defence alliance with Japan….”the rebalance is working”, citing the deployment to Asia of advanced weapons systems such as Virginia class fast attack submarines, missile defences and F22 fighters and rotations of US Marines form Okinawa, Japan, to the Japanese mainland, Guam and Australia.’
 
Now, who is promoting trade and economic growth and who is preparing for war and warmongering? According to Washington and the western media, China is the aggressive country with belligerent intent and the Americans and their allies are the peaceful ones, the peace loving ones. One is sending out a whole list of economic and trade development initiatives and the other is preparing for war, sending out all its military weapons and forces and beefing up on military alliances.
 
What should you believe? Got to thank the AGENCIES’s reports for showing the hypocrisy and cynicism of the American ‘peaceful’ intent in Asia in its pivot and rebalancing in Asia.
 
PS: Why is the TPP an aircraft carrier? And the Americans are accusing the China of causing an arms race and raising tension in Asia.

Edz Ello – A deeper understanding of the case

There are 2 million foreigners here, mostly working and enjoying jobs and income they can never think of if they were to remain in their home countries. Aren’t they grateful? They live in the comfort and security of a clean and green cosmopolitan city with all the trappings of modern day comfort instead of the villages and the slums they were used to at home, except for those from the developed western countries. The hospitality extended to them, the kindness and generosity shown to them by the Singaporeans and govt are what we called in the uniform services, ‘beyond the call of duty’. Many will go home very rich, feeding their families very well and providing a better life simply because of their employment in the city state.
 
Have the Singaporeans been unkind to the foreigners? And if you hear the complaints of PMETs being sacked and discriminated by foreigners into losing their jobs and ended up as taxi drivers and security guards, nevermind if some idiots think it is untrue, a misunderstanding, some foreigners even ganged up to bully the locals, it is the foreigners that are being unkind to the daft Sinkies in the home country of the Sinkies. Can you beat that?
 
Now this is what this Ello wrote in his facebook., ‘, ‘In Jan 2, Ello allegedly called Singaporeans “loosers” and vowed to “evict” them from their country. He prayed that “disastors” would strike Singapore and “more Singaporeans will die” and he would celebrate. The post ended with “Pinoy better and stronger than Stinkaporeans”. He also allegedly commented in another post that evening that he would “kick out all Singaporeans” and this country will be a new “Filipino state”.’
 
Can you detect the hatred, the unhappiness, the anger, the contempt against his host, the Singaporeans and country that offered him very good job and very good pay? How widespread is this anti Singaporean disease among the foreigners? What have the Singaporeans done to deserve this kind of hate speech? The govt and ministers and MPs are bending backwards, going about everywhere using public fund to organize functions to feast the foreigners, telling the daft Sinkies to embrace them while many Sinkies lost their jobs to them, their parents were made redundant by them, some being raped or molested by these foreigners, some were beaten up for their pleasure.
 
What is going on? How serious are the foreigners against the Singaporeans? Singaporean xenophobic or foreigners anti Singaporeans? Singaporeans do not deserve to be hated by these foreigners. If the anti Singaporean feeling is so widespread, should the govt need a rethink on how they treat the foreigners, to limit the number of foreigners here, that in spite of being so kind and generous to them, they hate us more? Or is it because some fools have been praising these ungrateful foreigners sky high that the foreigners really believe that they are here to help the daft Sinkies and daft Sinkies should be grateful to them instead, and it is their right to be contemptuous to the daft Sinkies? And since the Sinkies are so daft, they should take over the country, chase out the daft and useless Sinkies?
 
Why is the govt throwing away billions to these foreigners, giving them good jobs and good pay, even scholarships aplenty and depriving the children of citizens of them, only for them to hate the Singaporeans? The thinking and feeling of this Ello is not an isolated case. Check out Anton Casey and all the Sinkie bashers.
 
Should Singaporeans continue to be nice to the foreigners, hold parties for them, integrate with them, embrace them and make them feel at home here?
 
What do you think? I recommend the ministries do a serious study on this very serious matter of having so many unhappy and ungrateful foreigners here. But if daft Sinkies are to be grateful to them, then there is no need for any study. Just tell the daft Sinkies to open their legs to the foreigners that are here.
 
PS: Rotten Papayas (a blogger in TRE) asked how about the Pinoy with the ‘moniker “Topher Yakuza” who threatened to kill all Singaporeans who go to the Philippines. He said, “fxxk you all Singaporeans, go to philippines and I will kill u all.” He went on to label Singaporeans as faggots’.