Cynical Investor wrote on Amos Yee being detained in the USA for 11
months and still under detention for seeking political asylum in the US.
The article is posted in TRE.
'SgDaily’s Buzzfeed story (from March) reminded me that Amos has spent
11 months in a US jail. And there’s still no end in sight....
And taz not all. In jail he kanna robbed.
What an ass to believe that America is the land of the free for
scroungers. He should have tried Europe but taz the trouble with a
stupid boy. He didn’t research or analyse enough the topic. No wonder
he’s a hero of the TRE cybernuts. Stupid people like stupid people.'
I posted this not because of Amos Yee or neither do I agree with the
disgusting tone of Cynical Investor on Amos Yee. The important point
here is that Amos Yee escaped to the land of the free, the beacon of
freedom called the USA. Instead of getting his freedom, he is being
locked up in jail and suffering the humiliation and abuses not different
from a black suspect or convict in American jail.
Why is he held for so long and what is his attorney doing? Nothing
because it was pro bono or Amos Yee is not a case attractive enough to
fight for? And it is ok for this young Singaporean to rot in an American
jail forever, who cares?
I think Amos Yee would stand a better chance to be walking free in the
streets of Toledo if he disguised himself like the terrorists as someone
escaping from the wars in the Middle East.
America, where is your conscience, where is your human rights, where is your freedom and justice? Or you are just a farce?
Shame on you for treating a political asylum seeker this way.
9/12/2017
9/11/2017
EP - Why the stony silence
The PAP has been vigorously defending this controversial concept of a
reserved EP for the Malays. Oops, let me correct my statement. The non
Malay PAP ministers and what else have been working overtime standing up
to defend this EP reserved for the Malay race that Chan Chun Sing said
would cost a heavy political price. Hope the PAP still have some
political capital to squander away.
Chok Tong was also very careful in his criticism of this reserved EP for the Malays and was quoted to have said, “The reserved election this year is quite unpopular with a large proportion of the population because it goes against the principle of meritocracy.” Is that all?
What is strange about this reserved EP for the Malays is the stony silence. Did anyone notice this? The defenders of this reserved EP for the Malays that is good for the Malays are mainly the non Malay PAP ministers and MPs.
Why are the Malay ministers and MPs so quiet about this sordid affair? Do they have anything to say to support and defend this reserved EP for the Malays? Or are they afraid or not sure that this thing is really good for the Malays? And this goes to the rest of the Malay community, the Malay community not defined by the PEC, out there. They too seem to be avoiding talking about it. As for the Malay ministers and MPs, is it a case of better not say anything than to say something and get condemned by the Malay community?
So it is now left to the magnanimous and charitable non Malay PAP ministers and MPs to champion this Malay cause. The Malay community must be very grateful for this unsolicited support from the non Malay PAP politicians and would definitely vote wholeheartedly in the next GE for the PAP for changing the Constitution to give them a Malay President. Otherwise, the system would not allowed the PAP to appoint a Malay as the President like they used to during the time of President Yusoff Ishak under the old system.
What heavy political price was Chan Chun Sing talking about when the Malay votes would now all go to the PAP? Isn't this the main objective of this constitutional change for this controversial reserved EP for the Malays? The Malays are going to have a Malay President with the blessing of the PAP.
Chok Tong was also very careful in his criticism of this reserved EP for the Malays and was quoted to have said, “The reserved election this year is quite unpopular with a large proportion of the population because it goes against the principle of meritocracy.” Is that all?
What is strange about this reserved EP for the Malays is the stony silence. Did anyone notice this? The defenders of this reserved EP for the Malays that is good for the Malays are mainly the non Malay PAP ministers and MPs.
Why are the Malay ministers and MPs so quiet about this sordid affair? Do they have anything to say to support and defend this reserved EP for the Malays? Or are they afraid or not sure that this thing is really good for the Malays? And this goes to the rest of the Malay community, the Malay community not defined by the PEC, out there. They too seem to be avoiding talking about it. As for the Malay ministers and MPs, is it a case of better not say anything than to say something and get condemned by the Malay community?
So it is now left to the magnanimous and charitable non Malay PAP ministers and MPs to champion this Malay cause. The Malay community must be very grateful for this unsolicited support from the non Malay PAP politicians and would definitely vote wholeheartedly in the next GE for the PAP for changing the Constitution to give them a Malay President. Otherwise, the system would not allowed the PAP to appoint a Malay as the President like they used to during the time of President Yusoff Ishak under the old system.
What heavy political price was Chan Chun Sing talking about when the Malay votes would now all go to the PAP? Isn't this the main objective of this constitutional change for this controversial reserved EP for the Malays? The Malays are going to have a Malay President with the blessing of the PAP.
9/10/2017
A reminder of the Evil Ones and their evil works
https://youtu.be/6au6Yj8KF9k
The above is a short clip of the legacy of the Americans in Vietnam. More than 40 years after they were driven out of Vietnam, their evil deeds continue to plague the Vietnamese, to destroy the lives of many innocents.
The same story went to North Korea that the Americans and the West like to gloat about, famine and poverty 5 or 6 decades after the Korean War. They would not tell you that the famine and poverty were the result of their evil deeds by destroying all the infrastructure for economic activities, the water and irrigation system and the land. They even boasted about nothing that was humanly made was left standing after their carpet bombing in that country.
The Vietnamese could suffer a worst fate than the Koreans if they did not chase them out in 1975. The Americans were conducting carpet bombing in a scale many times more than in North Korea and with napalm and chemical agents, the most famous of all, Agent Orange and Purple Rain. Many parts of Vietnam are still contaminated by these chemicals and leftover unexploded bombs.
Take a good view of the video and ask yourself, are the Americans the angels that they made the world to believe in and that you choose to continue to believe in their lies.
Today they are bent on starting another war in Korea just because the North Koreans are developing weapons to protect themselves from an attack by the Americans. The Americans are lying to the world that the North Koreans are a threat to the Americans. How could that be? How can boy scouts be a threat to the American mafia?
The Americans are in possession of the world's largest nuclear arsenal and chemical weapons, all weapons of mass destruction, WMD. Their war expenditure is more than a trillion US dollars a year. And in every war that is happening today, the Americans are involved and had a hand in starting the war. They are now pushing the North Koreans to another war and dragging the world into it, particularly their stupid and very eager allies.
Stop the Americans from starting more wars and conducting more wars.
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asiapacific/north-korea-urges-nuclear-build-up-on-founding-anniversary-9200536
Watch the picture in this link and ask yourself, are the North Koreans a poor people, suffering from famine and stricken poverty as the west would want you to believe? The picture is produced by AFP/STR, western media, and a recent one, a few days old, reposted in Channel News Asia.
9/09/2017
Chan Chun Sing - Govt prepares to pay a high political price
Below are parts of an article in Channel News Asia on what Chan Chun
Sing had said at the Institute of Policy Studies forum on Sep 8. If you
ask me for my view on it, I will say no comment. But I would like to add
the phrase that was often used by the local politicians, 'If it ain't
broken, don't fix it', to describe what this govt has been doing most of
the time, especially on the appointment of a head of state, the
President. It is one thing about fixing things, it is another thing when
the fixing is about fixing a symptom and not the cause. And as for the
real reason for this fixing of the EP, everyone has his own view on
this. I am not sure how many of you agree with Chan Chun Sing, but I am
sure many of you don't. Here is the article.
SINGAPORE: It will be a “hard journey” to convince people about the need for changes to the Elected Presidency and the Government will pay a political price but it is prepared to, said Minister in the Prime Minister’s Office Chan Chun Sing on Friday (Sep
.
Speaking at an Institute of Policy Studies forum on the Reserved Presidential Election, Mr Chan stressed that as a young nation, Singapore had to evolve its systems to adapt to its circumstances – not just to meet the “here and now” but also to anticipate and pre-empt challenges that may arise in the future....
“If we are all good politicians, we won’t and we shouldn’t do it,” he said. “No good politician would sacrifice his political capital for a problem that may arise in future generations. Most good politicians in the world would try to preserve their political capital for themselves to manage their current problems.”
“There are many conspiracy theories out there,” he added. “But for every conspiracy theory that is out there, I have a very good answer for you.
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“If it has to do with an individual, then there are many other ways,” he said. “And if it is for political gain, then surely we are not achieving it as you have rightly pointed out.”....
“We asked ourselves - PM, do we need to do this now? Because we had anticipated it would be a hard journey to convince people and we would pay the political price, at least in the short term,” said Mr Chan. “PM Lee’s answer will forever be etched in my mind, and that distinguished a politician from a political leader.
“He said 'Yes, we are likely to pay a political price. Yes, we may not have a problem here and now, but what if we have a problem 20 or 30 years from now? Will the fourth, fifth or sixth generation of leaders have the liberty, and the luxury of time and space for them to put in place a system?'” said Mr Chan.
Mr Lee, he added, had taken it upon himself to put in place a system to pre-empt potential issues from arising in the future. “Not for himself, not for his political capital, but always thinking about what this country needs,” he said. “We are prepared to pay the political price, because we think the future of our country is much more important than any political capital that we may have.”....
Read more at http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/govt-prepared-to-pay-political-price-over-changes-to-elected-9199326
SINGAPORE: It will be a “hard journey” to convince people about the need for changes to the Elected Presidency and the Government will pay a political price but it is prepared to, said Minister in the Prime Minister’s Office Chan Chun Sing on Friday (Sep
.
Speaking at an Institute of Policy Studies forum on the Reserved Presidential Election, Mr Chan stressed that as a young nation, Singapore had to evolve its systems to adapt to its circumstances – not just to meet the “here and now” but also to anticipate and pre-empt challenges that may arise in the future....
“If we are all good politicians, we won’t and we shouldn’t do it,” he said. “No good politician would sacrifice his political capital for a problem that may arise in future generations. Most good politicians in the world would try to preserve their political capital for themselves to manage their current problems.”
“There are many conspiracy theories out there,” he added. “But for every conspiracy theory that is out there, I have a very good answer for you.
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“If it has to do with an individual, then there are many other ways,” he said. “And if it is for political gain, then surely we are not achieving it as you have rightly pointed out.”....
“We asked ourselves - PM, do we need to do this now? Because we had anticipated it would be a hard journey to convince people and we would pay the political price, at least in the short term,” said Mr Chan. “PM Lee’s answer will forever be etched in my mind, and that distinguished a politician from a political leader.
“He said 'Yes, we are likely to pay a political price. Yes, we may not have a problem here and now, but what if we have a problem 20 or 30 years from now? Will the fourth, fifth or sixth generation of leaders have the liberty, and the luxury of time and space for them to put in place a system?'” said Mr Chan.
Mr Lee, he added, had taken it upon himself to put in place a system to pre-empt potential issues from arising in the future. “Not for himself, not for his political capital, but always thinking about what this country needs,” he said. “We are prepared to pay the political price, because we think the future of our country is much more important than any political capital that we may have.”....
Read more at http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/govt-prepared-to-pay-political-price-over-changes-to-elected-9199326
9/08/2017
Nice Singapore story on taxi drivers
Copied this story from All Singapore Stuff.
A taxi driver shared this funny but sad encounter during one of his trips from Singapore's iconic Marina Bay Sands to their condominium.
"One day I fetch a well dressed lady with her son in my taxi from MBS to their condo.
The lady told her son "You better study hard and go to University. Or else you will end up driving a taxi like this uncle."
I reply, "Excuse me madam, I actually got a law degree from University of London. But I like to fetch people home."
The boy said "Cool, when I grow up I want to be like uncle."
The lady said "Son, today we took the wrong taxi."
- More at AllSingaporeStuff.com https://www.allsingaporestuff.com/article/woman-tell-son-study-hard-or-he-will-become-sporean-taxi-uncle-his-reply
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It is good that the taxi driver clarified to the mother that driving taxis is an honourable job even for a law graduate. And it can be a passion like this law graduate, to love driving people home. In fact Singaporeans love to drive people home in their taxis or private cars using the Grab or Uber system. They especially loved to drive the foreign talents that took their jobs home and also the maids working here after a night out.
And the little boy was smart enough to tell the mother that he too would like to be a graduate to drive taxis.
PS. Not sure if this is fake news or the hard truth.
A taxi driver shared this funny but sad encounter during one of his trips from Singapore's iconic Marina Bay Sands to their condominium.
"One day I fetch a well dressed lady with her son in my taxi from MBS to their condo.
The lady told her son "You better study hard and go to University. Or else you will end up driving a taxi like this uncle."
I reply, "Excuse me madam, I actually got a law degree from University of London. But I like to fetch people home."
The boy said "Cool, when I grow up I want to be like uncle."
The lady said "Son, today we took the wrong taxi."
- More at AllSingaporeStuff.com https://www.allsingaporestuff.com/article/woman-tell-son-study-hard-or-he-will-become-sporean-taxi-uncle-his-reply
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It is good that the taxi driver clarified to the mother that driving taxis is an honourable job even for a law graduate. And it can be a passion like this law graduate, to love driving people home. In fact Singaporeans love to drive people home in their taxis or private cars using the Grab or Uber system. They especially loved to drive the foreign talents that took their jobs home and also the maids working here after a night out.
And the little boy was smart enough to tell the mother that he too would like to be a graduate to drive taxis.
PS. Not sure if this is fake news or the hard truth.
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