Still Under Warranty" but Entropy already setting in

RH:

1. I once mentioned that almost all of Singapore's physical structures were built only in the last few decades and a quick wit shot back that "Oh, so everything's Still Under Warranty!"

2. Today, let us see how this relative newness explains much of Singapore's reputation as a 'well managed' place and thus, inexorably, when these structures age, Singapore will slowly become the same as all the other cities everywhere in the world, especially Asia, and will no longer look spic and span. In other words, the PAP is NOT special or extraordinary, OR [as they always say directly as well as imply] TALENTED. Neither is the present Cabinet "as good as it gets" [LKY parroting as usual], which implies that LKY himself is 'as good as leaders get' which therefore implies that he is some sort of genius! [The worst thing about propaganda is not that it fools people but that it fools yourself]. After reading nothing but adulation and worshipful articles in his controlled media since 1959, he has come to believe what they wrote and it is only recently, with the Internet, that he, and we, are beginning to read the real truths, which being truth, rubbishes his image totally, which explains why he and his Govt are going to such extremes to suppress it. Thus, Singapore's reputation is simply that, at this moment, it is mostly NEW and therefore, everything works. It is certainly not due to an able mastermind, abetted by an able Cabinet, as we are made to believe. [There is also the "economic efficiencies of tinyness" I have written about. As well as my "3 waves of labour" of a very young population that boosted Singapore's economy up till now, but ageing rapidly and therefore, changing from asset to liability, and a matter of time before the aged population drags down Singapore's economy and everything else. Currently, 1:12 Singaporeans are 65+ in age; by 2030, this will be 1:5, thus totally changing the very nature of society and economics].

3. From 1936 to 1941, the SIT [the British forerunner of the HDB] built the first public housing satellite town of Tiong Bahru. Construction activity was slow until after World War II, when over 20,000 units were built between 1947 and 1959, mainly in the Alexandra and Queenstown areas.

4. Then, LKY unscrupulously 2-timed his PAP party leaders, especially LIM Chin Siong, and traitorously persuaded the British PM to manoeuvre him into power and thus seized control in 1959. He set up the HDB as a statutory board on February 1960. It built 700,000 flats over 35 years to house 86 per cent of the population. THUS, PRACTICALLY ALL THE FLATS HOUSING 86% OF THE POPULATION NOW, ARE NO MORE THAN 47 YEARS OLD, INDEED, MOST ARE MUCH YOUNGER THAN 47 YEARS OLD. Parallel to this frenetic building pace were other physical structures, including roads, office buildings and factories, shopping malls, etc, all being built in around the last 3 decades or so, THUS ALSO PRETTY NEW. Of course, the MRT is also new, so there are [no surprise] fewer breakdowns and service disruptions but these stoppages and even accidents will increase with the years, thanks to the inevitable Entropy that governs everything in the Universe and whose immutable Law encompasses such things as MRT trains and tracks and all their myriad parts, each of which can and will fail and hence bring everything to a halt. Our few power stations, also all new, are not exempt from Entropy and there will be more and more power outages in our future.

5. Since practically all the structures are new, being built in the last 20-30 years or so, Singapore at the moment does look spic and span, thanks to the intrinsic qualities of sheer newness. There are few crumbling houses, blocks or estates except for the areas the HDB has yet to develop, including Serangoon Road 'Little India' and areas here and there outside of the HDB towns. Even the very important shopping malls are mostly new.

6. Thus, we are living in a very new city. Quite impressive to visitors from crumbling, aged cities like London, New York, to cities in India, China, etc, and especially from neighbouring cities in the region which could not undertake the same frenetic building simply because they are too big in size and population to do so.

7. The interesting point then arises. What happens when Singapore ages as inevitably it must, since Time is unstoppable and the resultant decay and crumbling processes continue even as the minutes tick away? Look around you in some of the older estates in Tiong Bahru, Toa Payoh and elsewhere to see the future of Singapore. There is only Decay in our future. And we won't look so nice any more. We'd become exactly like old cities everywhere in the world. No longer spic and span.

8. If you cannot be bothered to look in the old estates, look in our most prestigious area, Orchard Road. Yes, Orchard Road.

9. Here, even as some of the swanking new malls boast ubiquitous airconditioning and even fountains and gleaming marbled floors, there are slightly older malls that look very like the down market malls in many Asian cities. For example, Lucky Plaza looks like it could be in some other Asian city instead of Orchard Road. And there are many other shopping malls like Lucky Plaza even along Orchard Road. Singaporeans and tourists flock to the new malls like Ngee Ann City, leaving the Lucky Plazas of Orchard Road to the cheaper trinket shops and other down market stuff almost like the kind of goods you'd see in a pasar malam.

10. The point of this little essay is to point out that if Singapore looks spic and span now, it is because it is Still Under Warranty. But this cannot last. No amount of the sporadic en bloc redevelopment or SERS can slow the march of time. Decay and crumbling continues even as you read this. If you look carefully, there are many parts of Singapore where Decay is already quite advanced. So, for the average Singaporean who may feel proud of physical Singapore, enjoy it while it lasts. We are all growing old, same as Singapore. Same as the decrepit aged man who refuses to die.

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11. To add a postscript or epilogue to the above, let me say that the above is mostly about the EXTERIOR structures. In the INTERIOR of these structures, even a decade can age the interiors enough to look and feel rundown. Lucky Plaza and the other older malls in Orchard Road still look good Outside but it is Inside that is rundown.

12. In the heartlands, in all the HDB towns, the same. Outside, they still look quite good, repainted every 6 years or so. But Inside is another matter. I have walked, and invite you to make the same discovery, along the common corridors of HDB blocks in the evenings and seen HDB life at close range [the corridor is narrow, hardly enough for 2 abreast, and the main doors of the flats open right to the corridor so you can literally poke your hand through the main door grille into each flat as you walk. Each flat cubicle is separated from the next by a few inches of concrete wall]. Walk in the evenings because in the day, most main doors are closed. In the evenings, everyone is back home and the hot, humid evenings open most main doors for wind or breeze, leaving only the grille locked. Here, a few minutes of saunter lets you look into many cubicles and their teeming inhabitants.

13. You will notice their dreary sameness. Not only are all the cubicles made the same, often in a factory and then lifted into place, they often have similar cheap furniture and fittings OFTEN IN EXACTLY THE SAME POSITIONS. This is not surprising. The living rooms of the cubicles have their central TV antenna socket in exactly the same place [central TV socket is to control what inhabitants may watch -- satellite dishes are banned except for the PAP and the rich-- but that is another story]. When the TV must be placed in the same corner in all the flats, this then determines where the sofa must be, and these in turn, determine the position of the remaining furniture. Also, because all the flats are the same tiny size, identical, this also forces almost the same type of furniture and limits any unusuality. So, voila, the same dreadful sameness in all the flats! To the bureaucrats [sometimes praisingly termed 'technocrats' although Singapore Math & Science types and engineers are usually stupid and make the most stupid administrators], this is OK. They don't see it as a problem or how it can be otherwise.

14. The newer, more-roomed [and a lot more expensive] HDB flats are somewhat better. But the funny trend is that for every category of flats, that is, from the 1-room to 5-room, etc, EACH SUCCEEDING CATEGORY FLAT IS BUILT SMALLER AND SMALLER. [Check the HDB website or email them]. Instead of catering to the rising aspirations of every man, woman, child and family in the city, which are indeed, the same impulse in the entire human race for bigger and better living quarters, our wonderful geniuses have been building flats that are smaller and smaller, proving my point about Singapore Math & Science types. So much so that those with some savings buy second-hand [more expensive] flats on the Resale market SO AS TO HAVE JUST A BIT MORE SPACE].

15. LKY and his technocrats defy logic mostly because they don't have any. As Singapore modernises and people become more literate and educated, they naturally want more space. Space is the premium in all cities. At home, you crowd with your family. In the bus or train, you rub shoulders with strangers. In the office, you are lucky to have a cubicle bigger than your desk. At lunch, you rub shoulders and jostle. This hunger for personal space is the key psychological reason why people buy cars, even when they can ill afford it. [Singapore cars are the most expensive in the world thanks to a multitude of taxes and the humongous COE that costs tens of thousands]. Your car gives you that 2-1/2 cubic metres of PERSONAL SPACE. All yours. No need to share it unless you give others a ride. It is about the only time in each day when you have such a big space all to yourself, to do as you like. The converse, that is, overcrowding, has big detrimental effects on humans and even rats, as proven in experiments. Much ill health is caused by simple overcrowding. And our HDB flats are mostly very overcrowded. So some couples decide to have only 1 or 0 children as a result. But that is another story.

16. So LKY's HDB keeps building smaller and smaller flats while extorting and scamming more and more money in ridiculous over-prices. Truth is, with the kind of prices the HDB pays to its contractors to build a typical, say, 4-room flat [about S$30,000 according to published tender notices in newspapers] and the prices they sell to Singaporeans [about S$300,000+], they could have graciously given us bigger flats AND STILL MAKE ALMOST THE SAME ASTRONOMICAL PROFITS. But logic seems to have fled entirely, replaced by GREED. The flats get smaller and smaller, probably so that the already astronomical profits can be squeezed higher a bit more.

17. CONCRETE BLOCKS LAST FOREVER, PRACTICALLY, SO IT IS IMPORTANT TO BUILD THE NICEST, BEST HOMES POSSIBLE WITH THE PRICES HOME OWNERS PAY OR CAN PAY. It is totally, and typically, shortsighted, STUPID, and short termed to force smaller and smaller homes upon the people. Sheesh! As to how much LKY and his HDB profiteered, when asked in Parliament, the Ministers, who all live in grand mausoleums and have cavernous offices, refused to clarify or produce numbers, as usual. To this day, the HDB and PAP insist that HDB flats are "subsidised" [the bigger the lie, the easier to believe] but not an actual 'subsidy' they explain, but a "market subsidy" meaning a lower price than what a market price would be, ignoring the fact that the HDB, being a monopoly and the largest home builder housing almost the entire population, CONTROLS the market prices as well.

18. These astronomical prices for HDB cubicles is probably the single biggest inflationary factor in Singapore economics. I paid about S$150,000 for my 5-room HDB flat and sold it after about 15 years for S$460,000. Even Warren Buffet or George Soros cannot do better. But if, like most sellers, I had to again buy a new HDB flat to live in, I would have had to pay the huge new price HDB sells for and thus gain little from my sale. SO, THE HUGE PRICE INCREASES DUE TO THE POLICY OF "ASSET ENHANCEMENT" BENEFITS SOME, PROBABLY FEW, BUT GIVES THE MAIN BENEFICIARY, THE HDB, MANIFOLD PROFITS IN THE BILLIONS EVERY YEAR, WHICH ARE HIDDEN IN ENRON-TYPE ACCOUNTING.

19. To delve a little in amateur economics, this means that for the vast majority of Singaporeans, the Asset Enhancement policy simply means they pay a lot more from their compulsory CPF salary deductions each month until they have little money left for old age, which was the original purpose of the CPF. However, this is somewhat complicated by the fact that inflation has probably soared so much that IN NOMINAL VALUES, their salaries and everything else would also have gone up, so MOST PROBABLY DON'T EVEN SEE THIS OVERPRICING AS A PROBLEM. They also, typically, cannot do anything or even complain effectively, about it. However, even though it may be in Nominal Values, the HDB does hand over EXTRA tens of billions to the Govt every single year. This single factor alone explains why the Govt coffers have swelled so much since the Asset Enhancement policy. This gives the Govt huge clout in international plays, as we are seeing, and explains why everybody is so nice to LKY, chair of GIC, from the Morgan Stanleys to the Thaksins, etc. [It may be State monies nominally, but if you can use it any way you like, without having to account for anything, or report to anybody, it is as good as your own personal monies].

20. But the typical Singaporean who pays for his overpriced flat is thus kept poor, even though most pay using their monthly CPF [if employed]. Although he pays no cash, using only his CPF, this is deferred damnation because when he reaches 'retirement' [which keeps being pushed and legislated further and further back to now 62, with calls for 65, then 67!], the vast majority have insufficient CPF money for old age, hence the constant exhortation, pressure and of course [this is Singapore] propaganda to keep working till you drop dead [because cleaning tables and toilets keep you hale and healthy]. Since the CPF takes 20% of your salary [of say, typically, S$1,501 a month], and most of it goes to pay for your overpriced flat, THE STUPIDITY AND GREED OF THE GOVT IS DIRECTLY CREATING A CRISIS OF OLD AGE POVERTY. Old Age Poverty will, in turn, create many other crises from nursing homes to hospital beds to doctors and medicines to ambulances to social workers. This is also compounded by the very low interest rates given by the CPF for your locked in CPF monies, which are invested by the Govt for far higher returns WHICH IT THEN KEEPS and not give to you. Some years, we even lose money and not gain, with the low interest, that is, an "implicit tax" by the PAP. Professor Mukul Asher has warned of this "implicit tax on our CPF" and called for a total overhaul of the CPF system in : http://www.google.com.sg/search?hl=en&q=END+IMPLICIT+TAX+ON+CPF+PROFESSOR+MUKUL+ASHER&btnG=Search&meta=

21. But words like "Overhaul" or "Reform" or "Big Ideas" are anathema to LKY. All his life and career, LKY has never had an idea and gotten along just fine by copying the West, Hongkong and Japan. He even once told his Cronies "If you come across a problem, don't try to re-invent the wheel. Go to the advanced countries and see how they solved the problem and copy it exactly." Thus, like everybody else, LKY pays lip service to being receptive to other people's ideas but not if these differ too differently from what he thinks or is capable of thinking. In other words, not if they are truly Big Ideas. I have covered this some time ago in : http://i-came-i-saw-i-wrote-it.blogspot.com/search/label/Incrementalist%20or%20Infinitian

22. There are many things wrong with Democracy, as you can see in Bush's America [the rot set in many Presidents ago]. And quite some things right with authoritarians like in China, which is honestly working very hard to give its people a better life, and not strive after self-glorification like LKY, or indulge in frivolous pastimes such as the inflicting and enjoyment of cruelty as entertainment like the Americans. The main virtue of democracies is that the people, or rather, the voters, are placed first in the system, and this generally enables their interests to be placed first, correspondingly. But in America and elsewhere, this theoretically noble system can and has been, subverted. On the other hand, authoritarians are usually self-serving and place THEIR own interests first, as in LKY Singapore. But in China, the Govt does place the peoples' interests first, thereby being as good and moral as any democratic Govt. So a communist Govt of honest men that places its peoples' interests first is better than a democratic Govt of dishonest, power-crazy men who lie their country into disastrous wars. In authoritarian Singapore, the LKY brand of despotism has quickly, soon after 1959, degenerated into a vicious abuse of power, corruption, nepotism and self aggrandisement. Some say he has done quite well but that is purely because LKY found it fun and egoising to decide EVERYTHING, from HDB toilet Squat bowls to bus fare increases. The fun of being a dictator is that you get to decide EVERYTHING. Who to live. Who to die. Who to jail for how many decades without charge or trial. Who to beat senseless by the ISD. How many mandatory strokes of the cane for overstayers and those caught in possession of small amounts of banned substances, etc. It is like playing SIMcity before SIMcity was invented. Where to build the power station. Where to build the airport. How many flats to build a year and sell at what prices. So fun! Almost like playing GOD. Powerful men often believe they are Gods because of their power of life and death over us. Especially when they have totally bypassed or corrupted the true Rule of Law. LKY has indeed put his stamp on everything but sadly, did not have the brains or sagacity to do it all well. Those things he has done well are all copied solutions. He not only copies the solutions, but also the debates from the advanced countries, apparent in such issues as stem cells ethics debates to euthanasia or organ transplant acts. He has indeed proven an adept copycat in both the solutions as well as the debates and rationales, including even the propaganda to push the various agendas. He has also been lucky, having Hongkong as twin to copy and match, progress for progress, from their MTR to our MRT, from their financial centre to our less successful copycat attempt, heck, even our pathetic Chinese tv programmes are almost entirely directed and crewed by second-string or third-string [cheaper] Hongkong directors and crews.

23. LKY's successes come from copying, from Singapore being tiny, from being able to wield absolute control, even to suppress reality and facts, from having a shining jewel British Crown Colony cum fortress to build upon. His failures, many of which have yet to become apparent, like the multi-crises Old Age Poverty problems, are only beginning. Like him, Singapore is growing older by the day, soon decrepit. There are many problems associated with old age. Old people need doctors and hospitals. They can't work. Their monies have all gone into their crumbling cubicle flats. Vast sums of money will soon be needed to build new, or rebuild, infrastructure, from power plants to MRT tracks. Old equipment will soon give too much trouble to keep or repair and will have to be replaced. All these costs money. A new city works without a hitch. An old city is a bottomless pit sucking up unceasingly, humongous money and effort, all just to keep going to the barest minimum standards. So the hubris that demands S$3+ million plus a similar sized pension a year is totally misplaced. Come back in 50 years and see the difference. You are ordinary, after all. Not special, not unique, and certainly not talented.

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RH: MY ACQUAINTANCE, A FORMER POLICE INSPECTOR, AND HIS LAWYER FRIEND, EYEWITNESSED LEE KUAN YEW RIGGING THE 1997 CHENG SAN GRC ELECTION. READ MORE AT MY BLOG ENTITLED "I CAME, I SAW, I SOLVED IT" :

http://i-came-i-saw-i-solved-it.blogspot.com/

[ALSO AT THE ABOVE BLOG, LIE KUAN YEW's LIES, WRONGFUL JAILING, TORTURE AND BEATING TO DEATH OF INNOCENT POLITICAL PRISONERS]

READ ALSO MARTYN SEE's INTERVIEW WITH ME AT:

http://singaporerebel.blogspot.com/

MY ARCHIVE OF WORKS AT:

http://i-came-i-saw-i-wrote-it.blogspot.com/

Not nominated for a Nobel so LIE KY gives himself many others

http://www.google.com.sg/search?hl=en&q=LEE+KUAN+YEW+AWARD+PRIZE+BOOK+MEDAL+SCHOOL&btnG=Search&meta=

1. There are at least half a dozen [url above] "LIE Kuan Yew" Awards, Medals and Prizes that the Great Man has given himself to honour himself, just in case his PM son cannot stay on long enough to honour him. Never take chances when it comes to idol worship. Must make sure you enshrine yourself while still alive. A kind of Living God Singaporeans can only speak of in hushed, reverent tones and worship the very grounds he walks on. [To criticise or even doubt the GM is blasphemy].

2. So, let us try to name some of these:

LIE KUAN YEW SCHOOL OF ELECTION-RIGGING POLICY WITH SPECIAL EMPHASIS ON STUFFING BALLOT BOXES

LIE KUAN YEW AWARD FOR SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS FOR THE ALSO RAN [LEE HONG YI GOT ONE -- AS USUAL, UNDESERVEDLY, THAT IS, RIGGED]

LIE KUAN YEW WATER PRIZE FOR THE HYDROCEPHALUS

LIE KUAN YEW LAW AWARD FOR COMPLIANT, CORRUPT, JUDGES

LIE KUAN YEW LAW AWARD FOR TOTALLY BYPASSING AND CORRUPTING THE RULE OF LAW, REPLACING IT WITH RULE BY CRIMINAL METHODS

LIE KUAN YEW JURISPRUDENCE AWARD FOR ESTABLISHING THE LEGAL PRINCIPLE OF TIT FOR TAT BY VANDALISING MY TYPEWRITER, FAX MACHINE[S], AIRCON[S], FRIDGE, WASHING MACHINE[S], COMPUTER[S], CAR -- PUNCTURING TYRES, SCRATCHING THE PAINTWORK, SMEARING SHIT INNUMERABLE TIMES, ETC, ALL FOR MY WRITING CRITICAL ARTICLES OF HIM ON THE INTERNET

LIE KUAN YEW BIOTECHNOLOGY AWARD FOR PLANTING VICIOUSLY VIRULENT VIRUSES INTO OUR FOOD AND DRINKS SO I, MY SON AND MY LITTLE NIECE BECAME EXTREMELY SICK, MANY, MANY TIMES IN THE LAST 15 YEARS

LIE KUAN YEW EXCREMENTAL AWARD FOR MAKING ME AND MY LITTLE NIECE SO CONSTIPATED I BLEED AND SHE CRIED IN PAIN AND AGONY

LIE KUAN YEW EXPECTORATION AWARD FOR MAKING MY LITTLE NIECE COUGH SO BADLY FOR SO LONG, MUSCLES WERE TORN IN HER CHEST, CAUSING CHEST PAIN

LIE KUAN YEW COLLECTIVE AWARD FOR COLLECTIVE PUNISHMENT OF MY WHOLE FAMILY WITH TORTURE BY TELEVISION EVEN THOUGH I AM THE ONLY ONE CRITICISING HIM

LIE KUAN YEW HOME SANCTITY AWARD FOR GOING WAY, WAY, OUT OF HIS WAY TO TORTURE ME AND MY FAMILY USING TAXPAYERS' MONIES, INCLUDING BUYING THE FLATS ABOVE OURS, EACH AND EVERYONE OF US, EVERYWHERE WE LIVED SO AS TO HAVE ROTATING TEAMS OF SECRET POLICE ABUSING US 24 HOURS A DAY, USING VERY EXPENSIVE AND EXTENSIVE EQUIPMENT

LIE KUAN YEW COURTESY AWARD FOR HAVING HIS MEN FOLLOW ME WHEREVER I GO, TO PASS HOKKIEN OBSCENITIES AT ME, AS WELL AS OTHER DEEPLY OFFENSIVE PERSONAL ATTACKS

LIE KUAN YEW EXEMPLARY AWARD FOR PERSONALLY SETTING THE EXAMPLE AND EGGING ON PERSONAL ATTACKS ON ME BY HIS MEDIA AND 15,000 PAP MEMBERS AS WELL AS ENTIRE GOVT MACHINERY

LIE KUAN YEW ENERVATION AWARD FOR 15 YEARS OF MODERATE TO VICIOUS SLEEP DEPRIVATION THAT TURNED MY URINE DARK BROWN FROM STRESS AND SLEEPLESSNESS AND OFTEN RENDERED ME TOO TIRED TO DRIVE SAFELY, ONCE EVEN FALLING ASLEEP WHILE DRIVING VERY FAST ON AN EXPRESSWAY

LIE KUAN YEW NERVE AWARD FOR RADIATING MY RIGHT UPPER ARM NERVE TO CAUSE SHARP PAIN EVERY NIGHT AND PROBABLY PERMANENT DAMAGE REDUCING THE EFFECTIVE USE OF MY RIGHT ARM

LIE KUAN YEW PSYCHOLOGY AWARD FOR SURROUNDING ME WITH HOSTILE SOUNDS EVERY DAY FOR 15 YEARS IN A TOTALLY ENVELOPING WEB OF PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE STRESS TO DERANGE MY MIND, THEN DELIBERATELY ADDED PSYCHOTIC ELEMENTS INTO MY MEDICINAL TABLETS TO CAUSE EVEN DEEPER DISTRESS AND PHYSICAL SIDE EFFECTS

LIE KUAN YEW CHOREOGRAPHY AWARD FOR MOST PERSISTENT BUT MOST USELESS CHOREOGRAPHY OF INFANTILE PANTOMIMES DIRECTED AT ME USUALLY WHEN I DRIVE, NOW IN ITS 15TH YEAR

LIE KUAN YEW LOSER AWARD FOR LOSING A FIGHT WHICH NO ONE ELSE WOULD HAVE LOST, AGAINST ONE ISOLATED MAN UNDER 24 HOUR OBSERVATION AND WHO CAN BE HURT ANYWHERE AT WILL WITH JUST A PUSH OF A BUTTON

LIE KUAN YEW LOSER AWARD FOR GOING FROM HERO 15 YEARS AGO TO -100 AND HEADING FOR ABSOLUTE 0 NOW WHILE I WENT FROM 0 TO HERO IN THE SAME TIME

LIE KUAN YEW PARLIAMENTARY AWARD FOR THE MOST STUPID, UNREASONABLE AND VICIOUS LAWS IN THE WORLD

LIE KUAN YEW FINANCE AWARD FOR THE MOST EFFECTIVE KLEPTOCRACY IN HISTORY

LIE KUAN YEW FINANCE AWARD FOR AIDING, ABETTING AND CO-PROFITING FROM LAUNDERING DRUG MONIES FROM MYANMAR DRUG LORDS LIKE LO HSING HAN, WITH WHOM HE CO-INVESTS IN MANY VENTURES

LIE KUAN YEW PUBLIC RELATIONS AWARD FOR THE BEST PR IMAGE PRACTICES OF ANY GOVT IN THE WORLD SINCE 1959

LIE KUAN YEW POLITICS AWARD FOR THE MOST EFFECTIVE SUPPRESSION OF POLITICAL OPPONENTS

LIE KUAN YEW JUSTICE AWARD FOR THE BEST USE OF COMPLIANT JUDICIARY TO BANKRUPT POLITICAL OPPONENTS

LIE KUAN YEW POLICE AWARD FOR THE BIGGEST USE OF THE SECRET POLICE TO ENTRENCH HIS REGIME

LIE KUAN YEW TERMINATION AWARD FOR POLITICAL MURDER [AT LEAST ONE, MR CHAN HOCK HUA]

LIE KUAN YEW HANGING AWARD FOR HAVING HANGED THE MOST PEOPLE DURING HIS REIGN [THOUSANDS HANGED ALREADY, MOST FOR POSSESSING SMALL AMOUNTS OF BANNED SUBSTANCES]

LIE KUAN YEW CANING AWARD FOR INSTITUTING THE MOST MANDATORY CANING SENTENCES FOR THE MOST OFFENCES, INCLUDING MANY VERY LIGHT ONES LIKE OVERSTAYING

LIE KUAN YEW LONG-SERVICE AWARD FOR STAYING IN POWER THE LONGEST TIME, AND STILL CONTINUING

LIE KUAN YEW LONG-SERVICE AWARD FOR LONGEST POLITICAL JAILINGS WITHOUT TRIAL OR CHARGE

LIE KUAN YEW HUMANITARIAN AWARD FOR EXTENDED, EVEN FATAL, BEATINGS AND TORTURE OF POLITICAL OPPONENTS WITHOUT TRIAL OR CHARGE

LIE KUAN YEW CIA AWARD FOR HOSTING CIA ABDUCTEES FROM "RENDITIONS" IN SINGAPORE JAILS FOR TORTURE AND IMPRISONMENT

LIE KUAN YEW AWARD FOR BEST PRACTICES IN NEPOTISM

LIE KUAN YEW AWARD FOR BEST PRACTICES IN CRONYISM

LIE KUAN YEW INSTITUTIONAL AWARD FOR CORRUPTING EVERY SINGLE INSTITUTION IN THE STATE

LIE KUAN YEW HYPE AWARD FOR HYPOCRISY AND BEST FALSE IMAGE OF ANY PUBLIC FIGURE

LIE KUAN YEW INTERNATIONAL AWARD FOR SERVING BRITISH [TO BECOME PM] AND AMERICAN INTERESTS [STILL CONTINUING]

LIE KUAN YEW PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION AWARD FOR CREATING THE MOST DOCILE, MOST FEARFUL, POPULATION

LIE KUAN YEW INTEGRITY AWARD FOR TRUTHFULNESS IN MEDIA [CURRENTLY RANKED ALMOST BOTTOM AT 154th IN THE WORLD]

LIE KUAN YEW GYMNASTIC AWARD FOR BENDING OVER FORWARDS TO AMERICANS

LIE KUAN YEW HUMAN RESOURCES AWARD FOR SYCOPHANCY AND NO REAL FEEDBACK LEADING TO STUPID POLICIES

LIE KUAN YEW RESPONSIVENESS AWARD FOR TAKING THE LONGEST TIME TO REVERSE FAILED POLICIES

LIE KUAN YEW I.Q. AWARD FOR BEING THE MOST INTELLECTUALLY ARROGANT WHILE BEING THE LEAST DESERVING OF IT

LIE KUAN YEW POKER AWARD FOR TELLING THE BIGGEST LIES WITH THE LEAST EFFORT

LIE KUAN YEW HONESTY AWARD FOR TOTAL DISHONESTY

LIE KUAN YEW DO GOODER AWARD FOR ARRESTING 22 TOTALLY INNOCENT ALLEGED 'MARXISTS' 1N 1987 WHILE ADMITTING THEY WERE MERELY "DO GOODERS" CATHOLICS AND SOCIAL WORKERS

LIE KUAN YEW PUBLICITY AWARD FOR THE WORLD's BIGGEST AND LONGEST PUBLICITY STUNT

LIE KUAN YEW PERSONAL AWARD FOR SELF AGGRANDISEMENT

LIE KUAN YEW ORATORY AWARD FOR SAYING ONE THING WHILE DOING THE OPPOSITE

LIE KUAN YEW FICTION PRIZE FOR HIS 2 NOVELS IN MEMOIR FORM

LIE KUAN YEW WRITING PRIZE FOR BEST GHOST-WRITTEN MEMOIRS

LIE KUAN YEW ORATORY PRIZE FOR BEST GHOST-WRITTEN SPEECHES, ESPECIALLY THOSE BY ALEX JOSEY

LIE KUAN YEW EUGENICS PRIZE FOR GRANDFATHERING 1 ALBINO AND 1 AUTIST

LIE KUAN YEW FATHER IN LAW PRIZE FOR CAUSING THE SUICIDE OF HIS DAUGHTER IN LAW

LIE KUAN YEW EDUCATION PRIZE FOR BREAKING THE RULES TO ALLOW LIE HSIEN LOONG TO TAKE 3 YEARS TO PASS HIS A LEVELS, TAKEN OVER 2 EXAM YEARS, AND STILL GOT MEDIOCRE RESULTS

LIE KUAN YEW SCHOLAR PRIZE FOR GIVING ALL 3 OF HIS CHILDREN, PRESIDENT'S SCHOLARSHIPS, THOUGH THEY NEVER TOPPED ANY COHORT, SCHOOL, STANDARD OR EVEN CLASS

LIE KUAN YEW GENETIC PRIZE FOR PASSING ON HIS STUPIDITY TO ALL HIS CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN

LIE KUAN YEW MERITOCRACY PRIZE FOR TOTALLY CORRUPTING THE INSTITUTION OF MERITOCRACY, LIKE EVERYTHING ELSE

LIE KUAN YEW COSMETIC PRIZE FOR LOOKING GOOD FOR SO LONG THANKS TO TOTAL MEDIA CONTROL

LIE KUAN YEW PRIZE FOR LONGEVITY THANKS TO VAMPIRIC REGULAR BLOOD TRANSFUSIONS FROM HIS BROTHER-CONTROLLED BLOOD BANK

LIE KUAN YEW HEALTHCARE PRIZE FOR BLOOD AND ORGAN PRIORITY, OVER ALL THE REST OF THE WAITING LIST

LIE KUAN YEW FOREIGN AFFAIRS PRIZE FOR BRIBING FOREIGN LEADERS TO BE NICE TO HIM, ESPECIALLY SUHARTO AND THAKSIN

LIE KUAN YEW STRATEGY PRIZE FOR DOING AMERICA'S DIRTY JOBS IN THE REGION

LIE KUAN YEW GEOPOLITICAL PRIZE FOR SECRETLY SENDING MONEY, TRAINING AND WEAPONS TO SOUTHERN THAILAND MUSLIM INSURGENTS TO KILL, MAIM AND BLOW UP INNOCENTS

LIE KUAN YEW COPYCAT PRIZE FOR CONSTRUCTING AN ECONOMY AROUND GOVT COMPANY MONOPOLIES INSPIRED BY SOUTH KOREAN CHAEBOLS

LIE KUAN YEW MENTORING PRIZE FOR TEACHING AND INSISTING THAT HIS SON AND CRONIES ALL COPY LIKE HIM

LIE KUAN YEW RIGHTNESS PRIZE FOR DISALLOWING HIS SON AND CRONIES FROM DEVIATING EVEN SLIGHTLY FROM HIS LONG LAID DOWN POLICIES

LIE KUAN YEW OPENNESS PRIZE FOR DISALLOWING HIS SON AND CRONIES FROM EVEN QUESTIONING HIS POLICIES

LIE KUAN YEW CONFIDENCE PRIZE FOR DISALLOWING HIS SON AND CRONIES FROM EVEN DOUBTING HIS POLICIES

LIE KUAN YEW SME PRIZE FOR SUPPRESSING SMEs TO PREVENT TOO MANY ECONOMICALLY AND THEREFORE POLITICALLY INDEPENDENT, SINGAPOREANS

LIE KUAN YEW POPULATION CONTROL PRIZE FOR THE MOST NUMEROUS AND MOST EFFECTIVE SCAMS TO IMPOVERISH SINGAPOREANS WHILE ENRICHING GOVT COFFERS

LIE KUAN YEW REAL ESTATE PRIZE FOR CORRUPTLY ACCEPTING ILLEGAL DISCOUNTS IN BUYING MULTIMILLION DOLLAR LUXURY CONDOs

LIE KUAN YEW PRIZE FOR GENEROSITY FOR GIVING THE AMERICANS US$3 BILLION IN 2005 FOR 'NUCLEAR COVER', THAT IS, FOR NOTHING, TO BE INCREASED AND REPEATED EVERY OTHER YEAR OR SO

LIE KUAN YEW PRIZE FOR GENEROSITY FOR GIVING OUR VERY FEW QUALIFIED WELFARE RECIPIENTS S$290 A MONTH, ENOUGH FOR ONLY 2 MEALS A DAY

LIE KUAN YEW PENSION PRIZE FOR GIVING HIMSELF, HIS SON, etc, STATE MINISTERIAL PENSIONS ON TOP OF REGULAR MULTI-MILLION PAYS

LIE KUAN YEW LINGUISTIC PRIZE FOR THE TERM "MARKET SUBSIDY" TO EXPLAIN WHY WE ARE STILL 'SUBSIDISED' WHEN WE PAY S$300,000 FOR A HDB FLAT THAT COSTS ONLY S$30,000 TO BUILD

LIE KUAN YEW MILITARY MEDAL FOR SPENDING THE MOST MONEY PER CAPITA TO BUILD THE BIGGEST REGIONAL ARMED FORCES TO EXTEND HIS CLOUT AS A POWERFUL ALLY OF AMERICA TO DO ITS BIDDING

LIE KUAN YEW HISTORY MEDAL FOR THE MOST DISTORTED LIES IN STUDENT TEXTBOOKS

LIE KUAN YEW CONFIDENTIAL MEDAL FOR HAVING THE MOST STATE SECRETS AND ALLOWING ONLY THE MOST FAVOURABLE INFORMATION ON HIMSELF AND HIS GOVT

LIE KUAN YEW TRANSPARENCY MEDAL FOR RELEASING THE LEAST INFORMATION ON HIMSELF AND HIS GOVT, EXCEPT THE MOST COMPLIMENTARY ONES

LIE KUAN YEW I.T. MEDAL FOR THE MOST SUCCESSFUL SUPPRESSION AND CONTROL OF INTERNET CRITICISM

LIE KUAN YEW GHOST WRITERS MEDAL FOR HAVING THE BIGGEST TEAM OF GHOST WRITERS PENNING HIS SPEECHES AND MEMOIRS

LIE KUAN YEW RESEARCH MEDAL FOR READING THE MOST THINK TANK REPORTS, MOSTLY AMERICAN, AND REGURGITATING THEM ENDLESSLY, BACK TO AMERICANS WHO DON'T READ THEM

LIE KUAN YEW ANALYST MEDAL FOR THE BIGGEST POSTURING AS A CHINA EXPERT WHEN HE IS MOSTLY QUOTING CHINA ANALYSTS

LIE KUAN YEW IDEAS MEDAL FOR NEVER HAVING A SINGLE ONE IN HIS ENTIRE LIFE

LIE KUAN YEW DISTINGUISHED VISITORS PROGRAMME HAS SPENT US$63 MILLION ON 63 VISITORS WHO ARE DISTINGUISHED ONLY BY THEIR MEDIOCRITY.

LIE KUAN YEW WORLD CITY PRIZE FOR THE BEST APPROXIMATION TO OUR EASIEST-TO-MANAGE 650 SQUARE KILOMETRE [230 SQUARE MILE] ISLET.


3. So, dear Readers, do take the trouble to remember LIE Kuan Yew, alleged to be Singapore's Founder. Which cannot be. How could he Found Singapore when it was never Lost in the first place?

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RH: MY ACQUAINTANCE, A FORMER POLICE INSPECTOR, AND HIS LAWYER FRIEND, EYEWITNESSED LEE KUAN YEW RIGGING THE 1997 CHENG SAN GRC ELECTION. READ MORE AT MY BLOG ENTITLED "I CAME, I SAW, I SOLVED IT" :

http://i-came-i-saw-i-solved-it.blogspot.com/

[ALSO AT THE ABOVE BLOG, LIE KUAN YEW's LIES, WRONGFUL JAILING, TORTURE AND BEATING TO DEATH OF INNOCENT POLITICAL PRISONERS]

READ ALSO MARTYN SEE's INTERVIEW WITH ME AT:

http://singaporerebel.blogspot.com/

MY ARCHIVE OF WORKS AT:

http://i-came-i-saw-i-wrote-it.blogspot.com/

Public transport another SCAM by LIE KY

RH:

1. One would have thought that on such a tiny island of 650 sq km, it would be easy and quick to develop a decent bus and MRT system, given that Singapore has probably the highest density of people in the world to patronise such a system. I have written that 'buses can come every 15 min or so [as alleged] to every bus stop and still collect enough boarding passengers to make a tidy profit'. Yet the entire screwed-up system is testimony to typical PAP stupidity and greed.

2. Why stupidity? On such a tiny island, just 42 km x 23 km, it should not take more than an hour to travel from anywhere to anywhere, even by bus, let alone dedicated-track MRT trains. Yet the geniuses in the PAP have developed a system of Bus Interchanges where you have to take a Feeder Bus from your home or office, after waiting at least 15 min, that goes NOWHERE -- except to the nearest Bus Interchange. This ride typically takes 10-20 min depending on where you board, as it goes circuitously in circles to collect more fares [as in money] and NOT straight to the Bus Interchange.

3. At the Bus Interchange, you wait another 15 min or so [I am relying on the officially given average waiting time of 15 min or so but experience says it can be a lot longer -- 1 blogger recently complained of a 25 min wait -- all along the entire experience of getting from A to B]. Then you board your bus that travels out of your estate. This is thought by the geniuses to be a 'long' journey, hence this Feeder-Interchange-Interchange-Feeder System. Although we must try to remember that Singapore island is at maximum, 42 km wide, this arrangement means that any 'LONG' [ha, ha, ha, but it's no laughing matter to the poor daily commuters] journey is thus done from Bus Interchange to a slightly further Bus Interchange, typically, in the next town or estate. Which may be as near as just 10 km way! On this tiny island.

4. Then, from that second Bus Interchange, you again wait another 15 min for the last ride in a Feeder to your home or office. Thus, the entire journey, which, by car or any wheeled vehicle, would take no more than 30-45min, TAKES OVER 90 MIN, or even up to 2 hours. You wait a] for the Feeder, then b] at the Interchange c] at another Interchange, before finally boarding the last Feeder home.

5. Such F-I-I-F commutes mean not only more waiting time, but also more ride time on each and every bus as each bus must go along profitable routes, meaning it must pick up the maximum number of paying commuters, and, of course, not straight to where you want to go. Also, more commutes inevitably mean more bus fares, as even the geniuses must recognise. [But this is so profitable to the 2 Govt Companies running this scam that this is not considered a problem and so, never mentioned or even thought of as a problem].

6. In the old days, before PAP stupidity became paramount and overriding, before there was the MRT that must be made into a success, meaning -- in Singapore -- profitable, [so the MRT may even be a bad thing the way the PAP does it!] there were a whole panoply of buses running from place to place and you could usually take a SINGLE bus, so much cheaper and faster, to wherever you want to go, especially if you start from a dense estate and travelling to a popular place, like an office in the city. Only if you are from a sparse estate and travelling to an unpopular place would you have a problem, in which case, you'd probably take a taxi, or exercise your ingenuity and initiative to hitch a ride or share cabs or cars -- solving your transport problem without needing recourse to an Almighty Nanny Govt. This 'sparse' problem doesn't exist any more today because there aren't any estate that is sparse, except the rich areas like Holland Road and Bukit Timah, but then, there, they all drive big Lexus and so have no public transport problem, except, maybe, their maids, who usually cannot command the use of the second or third family BMW!

7. This 'direct to destination' efficiency is the case in Hongkong today. Hongkong has, all along, free competition even in buses. So the system that evolved there became so good that you could always hail a mini-bus from your estate and go to any popular place direct, in just one cheap, direct trip. And because the mini-buses are small in passenger capacity, and not allowed to have passengers standing, the mini-buses need not go on long, circuitous routes to pick up maximum passenger load to be profitable. No standing also means that each and every passenger has enough nice PERSONAL SPACE, very important in modern, crowded living. Another taxi-like advantage -- the Hongkong mini-buses need no bus stops. So you hail the one you want from the kerb, which may be just outside your block. Then ask the driver to drop you right at your destination kerb. Thus, almost door to door like a taxi! This is a huge, advantageous feature in public transport. To see just how huge, compare with our PAP geniuses' system in Singapore where buses MUST STOP AT BUS STOPS ONLY. This means a walk of 10-15 min to the bus stop in blistering sun or bucketfuls of rain. Then a repeat at your destination bus stop. Often, during traffic crawls, when you are driving behind a bus, the bus and you inch along, taking minutes to travel the say, 10 metres to the bus stop whereupon the bus then stops and take another minute or 2 for passengers to alight, while you wait impatiently behind until the bus moves off. In Hongkong, passengers wanting to alight during such a crawl would immediately get off and the mini-bus wouldn't then need to stop at a bus stop for another minute or so.

Note that mini-buses are small, so alighting of passengers is very quick and do not hold up traffic behind. While at Singapore bus stops, each of which serves several bus services, [all big capacity buses] buses keep 'bunching' [another problem] so may queue back up OUT of the bus bay onto the road lane and thus hold up traffic coming along behind. This 'bunching', very serious during peak hours, means that commuters waiting at the bus stop often cannot see the bus service numbers of the buses queueing further back and so have moments of anxiety of missing the bus -- they often do, when the bus they want have no alighting passengers and simply zoom past. And since buses may not alight passengers except strictly at the bus stop itself, and the buses are big capacity, buses further back queue some time for the front ones to move off [which is not easy especially during peak hours as they have to filter onto the next lane, thus slowing everything down and therefore hold up traffic, even creating jams]. Comparing free Hongkong and dictatorial Singapore, see how genuine competition, putting commuters' interests first, and intelligent profit-making can evolve such a superior system? Whereas central planning in Singapore, putting profits first and commuters last [they are just really there to be milked for all they are worth] have resulted in a system that would have cost votes except that Singaporeans are intimidated [fearocracy], the PAP Govt gives out thousands in cash every election, blackmails [to leave Opposition-won constituencies out of national housing estates upgrading] and even rigs elections outright when they lose, by stuffing fake ballots, as witnessed by Mr David DUCLOS and his lawyer friend.

SO, IN EFFECT, HONGKONG MINI-BUSES ARE MORE LIKE TAXIS, GOING DIRECTLY TO THE DESTINATION, UNLIKE OUR HUGE, MEGA BUSES THAT MUST GO CIRCUITOUS ROUTES TO MAXIMISE LOADS. [We have huge Bendy Buses that combine 2 buses in 1, joined in the middle; plus huge Double Deckers. The stupidity of equating BIG with BETTER is plain. And typically PAP. Which is why LIE is so determined to make BIG Govt companies, to the detriment of SMEs, which are despised as "small" and being "unprofessional" and thus "unimpressive". This is one reason why LIE has wiped out SMEs and prevented their growth. Another reason is, of course, political, as is everything in Singapore. Too many successful SMEs will mean too many citizens who are no longer under the economic yoke of the PAP. Horrors! Cannot allow that. So wipe out SMEs and discourage too many independent entrepreneurs. Every time a small business succeeds, like the small handphone shops, the PAP Govt companies immediately launch their own copycat chains to compete UNFAIRLY with the originals, thus reducing their space and thus keeping them small. Oh, why is it that LIE Kuan Yew could copy so many things from Hongkong, from high rise public flats, to financial centre to MTR, etc, and yet does not have the brain or rather, the HONESTY to see all this?]

8. There is more LIE KY stupidity [believe me, he is involved in every single decision in Singapore. Former Minister LIM Kim San even related to the Straits Times that the early Cabinet even discussed the kind of Squat or Sit toilet bowls to have in HDB flats. As usual, LIE and Cabinet got it all shortsightedly and stupidly wrong -- typically -- and chose Squat. (50-50 and got it wrong!). So for about 20 years, HDB dwellers had to squat. No problem for the young, fit, healthy and unpregnant but if you are weak from sickness, age or disability, or pregnant, squatting can be dangerous even. Only when after about 2 decades, when the geniuses realised that residents were spending hard earned money to change the Squat bowls to Sit bowls did they finally realised that this must mean something, and only then did the HDB started putting in Sit toilets in their new flats.

9. While I'm on the HDB, let me relate how, typically, my mother-in-law's Block 29 in Havelock Road has no less than 5 lifts in the very long block. BUT 4 OF THE 5 LIFTS OPEN AT THE SAME 1; 5; 9; AND 13 FLOORS ONLY. Ha, ha, ha, lucky for those living on the 1, 5, 9 and 13 Floors for they can choose any of 4 lifts to take. But, ha, ha, ha, all the rest living on the unlucky floors have NO lifts but must walk up or down. Note that there is absolutely NO cost savings in this stupid arrangement. It would have cost EXACTLY the same money to have say, 1 lift doing Even Floors, another Odd Floors, etc, or some such arrangement SO THAT EVERY FLOOR IS SERVED. The fact that there is 1 Central Lift there that goes to Floors 1; 6; 10; 14; shows that someone must have considered this. BUT TRUE TO CENTRAL PLANNING, THE PAP GOVT DOES WHAT IT THINKS BEST -- "NEVER MIND WHAT THE PEOPLE THINK" [LIE KY] -- AND HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO REGARD FOR THE USERS' NEEDS OR INTERESTS AND THIS REMAINS TRUE TO THIS DAY].

10. Coming back to our 'world-class' Feeder System, how did the Feeder System come about? The system of Bus Interchanges was deemed to be critical in PROVIDING PASSENGER LOADS TO THE MRT! When the MRT was first built, some bus commuters preferred to take the buses because they were cheaper and sometimes even faster. So, in typical LIE KY PAP fashion, the Govt decided that they must be FORCED to take the MRT, in order for it to be profitable. SO THE SYSTEM OF FEEDER BUSES WERE REALLY TO "FEED" [OFFICIAL TERMS, "FEEDER", "FEED", etc] RELUCTANT BUS PASSENGERS INTO TAKING THE MORE EXPENSIVE MRT! [Note: all Bus Interchanges are also MRT stations]. Today, the MRT has expanded to become so convenient that it would be profitable even without such 'forced feeding' BUT THE DICTATORIAL NATURE OF THE REGIME MEANS THAT IT IS PAINSTAKINGLY SLOW TO RECOGNISE THIS, WHICH TO THIS DAY, IT HASN'T. Dictators never admit mistakes so never reverse them until forced to. Since LIE KY is an Absolute Dictator, nobody dares tell him he screwed up and so he never reverses policies until the examples of other countries force him to.

11. And because the long-suffering Singaporean commuters have been cowed into a totally uncomplaining, unthinking lot, fearful of even seeming to criticise the almighty PAP, with GodLEE powers and wisdom who cannot be wrong, and the PAP media did such a brilliant job of impressing on every impressionable mind that LIE can never be wrong, nor his Govt, and that Singapore is the epitome of efficiency, things could not even be questioned and therefore, could not be changed. And thus, the status quo.

12. The greed of the 2 Govt bus companies also kept the whole system stuck in the rut. Why change when you can -- without objection except for some easily suppressed and censored or ignored, commuter grumbling -- raise bus fares and MRT fares every year or so? [7 fare raises in 8 years]. The Govt regulator, like all Govt regulators regulating Govt companies, cannot and will not question any fare increases, since the top honchos in both regulator and regulatee are the same PAP men, all very cosily incestuous, known to each other and often moving from one body to the other, and of course, all drawing obscene pays for not thinking at all, let alone out of the box. Let the poor commuters suffer. Just "manage their expectations" [PAP MP].

13. LIE KY's wife is also said to have huge shareholdings in 1 of the 2 Govt bus companies. So may others of the LIE famiLEE, their Cabinet and PAP cronies, including even top judges, who draw Ministerial-level salaries and are very much part of the Elite, plus all THEIR families. Thus, these Govt company cash cows are not to be trifled with, regulator or no. Just keep doing the same old thing. Just keep raising fares so that the Govt companies will continue to be very profitable, so that they return big dividends to the LIE KY wife and others, so that the share values keep rising so that LIE KY and others' shareholdings keep increasing in capital gains, which will be very profitable should they sell off. This is true of all the GLCs. Why invest in other stocks or overseas when these are so uncertain? In Singapore, the PAP Govt can really CONTROL the profitability of the GLC monopolies and so, investing in these is a sure bet. A total no-brainer.

14. There is a term for this kind of no-risk investment. It's called SCAM. Or even CORRUPTION. Or CHEATING the people. A cosy arrangement of the Govt companies commanding monopolies, having huge shares held by LIE KY and cronies, who are assured of no-risk dividends and capital appreciation, ABSOLUTELY NO RISK because these companies are not so much COMPANIES as SCAM STRUCTURES, that can keep raising fares and profits and fees and charges at will, regulator or no. THIS IS THE STORY OF SINGAPORE AND THE ABUSED SINGAPOREAN. For other scams, read Mr LEONG Sze Hian's polite but excellent analyses of the CPF scam or some other bloggers' postings on the HDB flat pricing and Healthcare scams, etc. Even the taxi companies [and their fare prices], also Govt companies, are part of all this 'invisible hand of the central planner'. In short, almost every organisation or institution set up by LIE is a scam of some kind. LIE can be said to be operating a Govt TO ENRICH THEMSELVES THROUGH A MULTIPLICITY OF GOVT AND GOVT COMPANY MONOPOLIES.

And, as Machiavelli taught, whose lessons LIE KY and his Cronies have all learnt only too well, 'the tightest control of a population is when the govt is kept rich while the people are kept poor'. So this deliberate impoverishment of the people, except for a small, necessary Elite, serves for an iron grip political control as well. Migrate? LIE KY had it all worked out. He boasted that over 80% of Singaporeans CANNOT migrate. [Although surveys prove that almost every young Singaporean WANTS to migrate!]. Thus, most are captives to his regime, whose longevity he ensures with crooked election procedures, harassment and bankruptcy of able opponents, and outright stuffing of ballot boxes when he loses, as in the 1997 Cheng San GRC ward of 5 Parliamentary seats. LIE has absolutely no scruples, remember? He cannot afford a single one because scruples require moral and ethical currency and he hasn't any.

15. Thus, between PAP stupidity and PAP greed, the Singaporean commuter is truly screwed. He pays 4 bus fares in the F-I-I-F system when he should have paid just one. His bus trips take 2 hours when it should have been 30 min. He pays bus and MRT fares that rise almost every year, inexorably, without being able to complain or take an alternative. Since the 2 Govt bus companies also own the MRT system and they arrange it such that he really has no alternative but to pay and pay, every time the fares are raised. He has no choice. He has no alternative. [Every time an MRT route is established, all the bus services that could provide an alternative to the MRT are discontinued, so that the MRT would be profitable and have no bus competition. This is central planning at its best].

16. It would not be so bad if the above is just applicable to public transport. BUT IN EVERY SINGLE GOVT AND GOVT COMPANY SERVICE, THE SAME SCENARIO IS REPEATED. GOVT MONOPOLIES, WHETHER DIRECTLY BY THE GOVT OR BY GOVT COMPANIES, THE SAME THING REALLY, ENJOY COSY MONOPOLIES, DEVELOP STUPID POLICIES AND STUPID SYSTEMS, ALL WITH THEIR HANDS DEEP INTO EVERY SINGAPOREAN's POCKET, TO LOOT AT WILL, THE SINGAPOREAN DISENFRANCHISED AND VOICELESS, A VICTIM WITHOUT ANY RECOURSE OR ALTERNATIVE, NUMBED BY PROPAGANDA INTO QUIESCENCE, ALLOWING THE LIE REGIME TO DO ANYTHING ANY WHICH WAY THEY LIKE. THIS IS THE REAL SINGAPORE STORY. A STORY LIE KUAN YEW WILL NEVER WRITE. BECAUSE HE IS TOO STUPID, ULTIMATELY, TO SEE ALL THESE GREAT OCEANS OF TRUTH WASHING UPON HIS ISLAND.

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RH: MY ACQUAINTANCE, A FORMER POLICE INSPECTOR, AND HIS LAWYER FRIEND, EYEWITNESSED LEE KUAN YEW RIGGING THE 1997 CHENG SAN GRC ELECTION. READ MORE AT MY BLOG ENTITLED "I CAME, I SAW, I SOLVED IT" :

http://i-came-i-saw-i-solved-it.blogspot.com/

[ALSO AT THE ABOVE BLOG, LIE KUAN YEW's LIES, WRONGFUL JAILING, TORTURE AND BEATING TO DEATH OF INNOCENT POLITICAL PRISONERS]

READ ALSO MARTYN SEE's INTERVIEW WITH ME AT:

http://singaporerebel.blogspot.com/

MY ARCHIVE OF WORKS AT:

http://i-came-i-saw-i-wrote-it.blogspot.com/

Pt 5: SOME RECENT LIES BY PAP GOVT LED BY LIAR KY OF COURSE

Home > Free > Story
Aug 4, 2007
INSIGHT
MM may write third volume of memoirs
By Peh Shing Huei

MINISTER Mentor Lee Kuan Yew may write a third volume of his autobiography.

In response to Insight's e-mail queries, he wrote: 'If I live long enough and have enough energy for several hours a night to write up my thoughts, I may write to cover the big events since 2000, such as Muslim fundamentalists and terrorism, the different world order and balance with the emergence of China and India, and the opportunities and challenges these developments pose to Asean and Singapore, and how Singapore can adjust to this globalised world.'

Mr Lee has published two best-selling volumes. The first, The Singapore Story, on his younger days and pre-Independence struggles, came out in 1998. The second, From Third World To First, tracing Singapore's transformation, hit the bookstores in 2000.

His memoirs are among the first by politicians here. Since then, a growing pool of Mr Lee's comrades, as well as adversaries, are also penning their life stories.

He had welcomed the effort in a letter to The Straits Times Forum page two weeks ago. [RH: Pasted below in its pristine originality so that the world can see for themselves how cunningly he puts up a false front while his actual 'hidden' meaning IS THE EXACT OPPOSITE OF WHAT HE WRITES, AS USUAL, TYPICAL VINTAGE LIE KUAN YEW. I only need to point out in just a few new paragraphs, numbered 53 to 60 below to point out his signature TOTAL DISHONESTY, the hallmark of his character, so total it is not just a character defect, but his whole character altogether].

He tells Insight that 'unless they do so, historians will not have much corroborative material from principal actors of that period when studying the past.'

And if there are differing accounts, it is not a great problem. 'We each will have supporting evidence and researchers can decide where the truth lies,' he said.

While the National Archives reveals that it has about 830 hours of interviews with key players of Singapore history since 1979, autobiographies are making a belated appearance here.

Insight documents the trend.

FRAMING THE S'PORE STORY WITH MANY DIFFERENT VOICES


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LIE Kuan Yew's first and only letter to the Straits Times Letters Page. As for WHY he wrote this groundbreaking letter, see my new paragraphs 53 to 60.

(From ST Forum, July 17, 2007, http://www.straitstimes.com/ST%2BForum/Story/STIStory_139732.html)
July 17, 2007
MPs should tell it like it is when writing memoirs

I READ ST, July 11th 2007, the views of Dr Chiang Hai Ding and former PAP MPs on their writing of their memoirs .

They would refresh their memories if they read up old written materials, speeches, press cuttings, notes, letters and photos. It is worth the effort.

MPs are important actors in determining Singapore's history. I encourage all MPs, including those who opposed the PAP, to give their accounts of the past.

They will give a multi-dimensional view of past events and provide richness and texture to the story.

World War II accounts, whether in books, on TV or on film, that draw on sources from all parties, the Allies, Germans, Russians and Japanese, make fascinating reading because they give a three-dimensional depth to past events.

When writing memoirs, you are talking to posterity. Among them will be historians who will check what you write against the accounts of others. So do not shade the past.

I read Chin Peng's memoirs in English and the Plen's (Fang Chuang Pi) unfinished memoirs in Chinese.

I respected Chin Peng, so I asked to see him when he was in Singapore.

However, the Plen was a disappointment. He avoided the facts. Chin Peng did not.

Lee Kuan Yew
Minister Mentor

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Pt 5: Some recent lies by PAP govt, led by Liar KY, of course

53. In the just-below Paragraphs 41 to 45, I have pointed out LIE Kuan Yew's first and only letter to the press. He has had such total power and control over everybody and everything in Singapore, especially the media, that he had hitherto never had any problem [note singular] having everything his way. Editors and reporters know exactly what to write and what not to write, having been helmed by ex-Ministers and ex-ISD chiefs till today, so the loyalty to LIE and his famiLEE firstly, and to Singapore's national interests distantly, are so famously, if apologetically termed "self censorship".

54. So why couldn't LIE get his way this time? Why did he have to resort to the unimaginable, unthinkable [even just a short few years ago] resort of having to write to his blowjob media as just a letter-writer, albeit official MM titled? Ah, this is a reflection of how times have changed. More accurately, it is not so much TIME that has changed [since he held sway so rigidly since 1959 without the slightest let up in all those decades] but EVENTS that have changed. Meaning the Internet. The Internet has shoved a new Age of Truth and Honesty upon the whole world, more powerfully in closed, dictatorships like LIE's than in the more open Advanced Countries, where Truth and Honesty have been widespread.

55. And with this Internet Age of Truth and Honesty upon Singapore, LIE has no longer the same total grip of his PAP peoples' minds. He knew that many of his very own PAP MPs and, to a much lesser extent, his own Ministers [who are bribed and corrupted with plum retirement jobs after leaving the Cabinet so they wouldn't talk] are now more likely to write more freely, which is a lot more freely than he wants. In the process of writing THEIR memoirs, if they are honest, they will contradict most of his versions of events. LIE is in a dilemma. He could not contact each and every one of these intending memoir writers to warn them to toe the official version line, obviously. He doesn't even know who would write, and therefore, who to frighten into toeing the official line. THUS, THE ONLY WAY TO REACH THESE INTENDING MEMOIR-WRITERS IS A PUBLIC LETTER IN THE STRAITS TIMES. He could have his ISD surveil every single one of these people, as the ISD still reports to him personally and loyally. But this is getting complicated and some will slip through the net.

56. So he was forced to write an unprecedented, totally unusual, public letter to the Straits Times. I have pointed out how the letter is signature LIE. If you read it without knowing him, you would be totally fooled, which is the idea. However, all those intending memoir-writer would instantly know what he means, no mistake. Read his letter again with my explanation in mind. First, read it like any ordinary letter, and be fooled. Then read it like you are one of the former PAP MPs intending to write your version of memoir. Then you feel the fear. The same fear that LIE has so ruthlessly instilled into every single mind in Singapore.

57. If LIE is so enamoured of the Truth his very own PAP people may write, then he should release all the non-critical public documents that his govt is still hiding from public view. Even though all these secret documents have already been compiled with his interests and lies in mind in the first place, some may point to the truths his regime has hidden for so long. So if LIE is serious about HELPING his own PAP people write better memoirs, more accurate memoirs, then he should make all non-critical documents available to them for their research and memoir writing. To make this point even more irresistible, LIE need not open it like other countries Freedom Of Information Acts. Just give permission for the memoir writers to access these hidden files and documents. LIE actually has little to lose. He has censored every document since 1959 and there is little truth left to uncover.

58. We have been, for so long, living lives of LIES. From little lies to huge, whopping lies like the 'Marxist CONspiracy'. LIE has perfected not only Fearocracy, but also Govt By Lies. The 2 go hand in hand. Worse, lying has become a way of life for every single institution in the city state. From the courts and judicial apparatus, who write lying verdicts to frame and imprison innocents, who may just be some Falungong practitioners, to political opponents like JBJ and Dr CHEE. To the civil service, police, HDB, MOM [varnished unemployment statistics], etc.

59. LIE's famous media is necessarily a huge part of this Govt By Lies. Just a note: His media not only publishes his lies but ALSO MAKE HIM LOOK FAR BETTER THAN HE REALLY IS. In other words, the editorial blowjobs are not just to print his lies but to embellish them, sometimes to totally fake the news. Examples: LIE, during some of his National Day Rally Speeches, would go off the ghost-written speech and speak off the cuff on some matters that he suddenly thinks of during the speech. When these ill-thought out remarks are embarrassing, ONLY THE OFFICIAL VERSION OF THE SPEECH IS PRINTED THE NEXT DAY, USUALLY WORD FOR WORD. In reported versions of the speech, all the embarrassing remarks are edited out. This way, LIE looks far better than he actually is. More intelligent. More perspicacious. Genius.

60. LHL, in one speech, made a small gaffe when he tried to be colloquial, in saying "mee siam, mai hum". When the editors realised this gaffe, they quickly, without him even knowing this blowjob, changed it to "mee siam, mai HIAM" which would not be a gaffe. This was true to Straits Times blowjob tradition practised since 1959. But this time, the Internet Age of Truth and Honesty quickly pointed this out and podcasts proved exactly what he said. It is getting harder and harder to blowjob and lie, with the Internet. But in many other ways, the blowjob media continue to make the LIEs look far better than they are. Embellishing here and there. Writing fake letters to the media, like the PAP members are now busily writing comments to blogs. All a vast effort to restrain the rising tide of Truth and Honesty that threatens to wash away regimes that depend on LIEs.


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Pt 4: Some recent lies by PAP govt, led by Liar KY, of course

41. Since this 'very private email' to a tiny group [<50 recipients] deals largely with LIE KY lies and the lies of his PAP govt, I shall include LIE KY's latest lie, published recently in his favourite blowjob media, The Straits Times, which is followed closely by the free Today, even though the latter has slightly better pretensions, but the LKY blowjobbers are too numerous there as well.

42. In The Straits Times Letters Page, LIE KY wrote, "They would refresh their memories if they read up old written materials, speeches, press cuttings, notes, letters and photos. It is worth the effort." This important paragraph coming immediately after the short, obligatory, introduction most letters have to begin with, says it all. For the full letter, click on: http://singaporerebel.blogspot.com/

43. This paragraph, coming immediately after the standard letter-writer's introduction, IS A WARNING TO ALL MPs, INCLUDING AND ESPECIALLY HIS PAP MPs, TO STICK TO THE 'OFFICIAL' VERSIONS OF EVENTS AND NOT WHAT THE MPs MAY HAVE EXPERIENCED, HEARD OR KNOWN OF EVENTS, WHEN AND IF THEY ATTEMPT TO WRITE THEIR MEMOIRS.

44. "old written materials, speeches, press cuttings, notes, letters and photos" means practically all the public material LIE KY has controlled since 1959, all the rest having been censored and suppressed or deleted or not even compiled or printed anywhere. Thus, with this admonition to his MPs and any others, LIE KY is attempting to continue to force only his version of history on the world. Since LIE KY has controlled his media and govt from 1959, with such tight control that today, at least 90% of any widely available source materials are favourable to him, and only about 10% are inadvertent facts and figures that could not be censored out of existence.

45. You wouldn't know that from reading his letter. If you read his letter, it seems that he is a decent, honourable, honest, statesman mentor who is guiding his lessers to writing better memoirs. His letter is instructive and typical. It conforms to his pattern of saying one thing while doing another. It underlines his paranoid determination to be seen as a decent, honourable, honest, statesman mentor, worthy of the love, admiration and respect of the world, and not just Singapore. It is such a convincing act that the stupid former PM Thatcher wrote gushingly in his memoir "He is always right." How could the world be so fooled? For the answer, read the new book by Rodney KING, 500 pages, available from Amazon.com. And the others by Francis SEOW, CHEE Soon Juan, etc.

46. When you read those books, almost all of which are directly or indirectly the products of the Internet era, which has birthed a new Age of Truth and Honesty, you see a different man. A LIE KY who betrayed his PAP leader, LIM Chin Siong, whom he once introduced to a dignitary as the "next PM of Singapore" and manoeuvred the British PM Harold MacMillan into arresting him and all his majority faction in the PAP so that LIE KY could then take over LIM's position and party, by promising to serve British interests in a way LIM would not. Proving totally unscrupulous. LIE KY is a billionaire but till today, he cannot afford a single scruple. Because scruples have to be paid for in ethical and moral currency, of which LIE hasn't any.

47. Lying in court is perjury, a very serious jailable offence. But lying in Parliament? Ah, LIE has done plenty, there. For example, during the HPL scandal, when it inevitably became public, LIE KY and LHL admitted that they both bought many units of multimillion luxury condos in Nassim Jade and Scott 28, together with many of their family and relatives, at huge, illegal discounts, FOR INVESTMENT PURPOSES. For "investments" can only mean one thing: buy low, sell high. This means that to make a profit, which is the meaning of "investment", they must have known the purchase price AFTER DISCOUNTS, AND WHAT THE MARKET PRICE WAS. So as to turn a profit by selling shortly after buying, that is, speculating in property, or holding onto longer in the hope of profiting even more later.

48. Yet, both men claimed they didn't know they had been given discounts. Believable? The whole purpose of the exercise was to make profits, that is, "for investment", yet they claimed they didn't know the discounted and market prices and the difference. LIE KY's daughter, who bought 2 units, immediately sold 1 for a huge profit. This is documented in Singaporeans For Democracy, now taken offline by LKY sympathisers. Money is never enough, it seems. Greed is self-feeding and never stops growing.

49. But if the MPs toe the line and write only the LIE KY version of history, they would be doing themselves and their descendants a disservice. The Internet has produced a new Age of Truth and Honesty. Lies are quickly exposed and publicised, no matter how carefully spun. It is almost impossible to lie and get away with it. This is something LIE KY doesn't seem to understand. He does not understand the dynamics of the Internet. And none of his cronies seem to dare to tell him so. Perhaps, they, too, don't understand the dynamics of the Internet.

50. There is a simpler explanation, perhaps. His Cabinet cronies, all handpicked by him to be blowjobbers, cannot think. This is not surprising. LIE KY's so-called "meritocracy" has always been just an empty, nice-sounding, impressive, slogan, like all the others. The Cabinet is just another rubber stamp, like Parliament. Packed with men and women who cannot think or reason through an issue. This inability to think and reason, coupled with the imperious manner in which LIE KY conducts himself, his peremptory and often insulting putdowns of even his own Ministers and MPs for less than intelligent positions or utterances, [often this means only that they do not agree with him fully and trying to be slightly different, for various reasons] result in an obsequious pandering to the Great Man, fawning on his every utterance, in short, blowjobbing.

51. LIE also maintains such strict discipline and the Parliamentary Whip that there has never been a minister or MP who disagreed publicly on an agenda pushed by LIE KY or LHL. This lemming-like single front means that once the Great Man has articulated a position, nobody dares to intimate otherwise. So, when he is wrong, nobody dares tell him so either. That is why it takes the Great Man so long to reverse a mistake. In the case of the Stop At 2 population-control policy, in which women were forced to sterilise themselves to qualify for HDB flats, LIE took about a decade to reverse it while the South Koreans, who had a similar policy, democratically debated and reversed it in just a few years.

52. LKY's claim to greatness is that his methods work. The ends justify the means. Do whatever it takes [to achieve your goal]. Forget scruples, like his Judge Sinnathuray told TAN Wah Piow, "Forget justice!" when trying him on framed charges. LIE KY calls it "Pragmatism". What is Pragmatism? It is NOT a Principle but a TOTAL ABSENCE OF PRINCIPLES. Just like the term, "colourless" is NOT a colour but a total ABSENCE of colour. Like an albino is NOT a white man but a man totally WITHOUT colour. Thus Pragmatism is not some principle or other. Or an ideology. It is the ABSENCE OF, principles, ideology, ideals, etc. It is a NOTHING. It is an EMPTYNESS, a VOID. The total absence of principles thus justifying anything you want to do, any crime you want to commit. Thus, Pragmatism cannot justify any policy or action. It is an euphemism, at best. It is an excuse for the most evil of actions and the worst excesses you may want to commit. Instructively, Pragmatism is often held up as the guiding philosophy of the PAP and Singapore. Any wonder why the PAP and Singapore and its people are so EMPTY? We are a void.


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Robert HO < robert.ic019@gmail.com>
Date: Jul 18, 2007 5:12 PM
Subject: Pt 3: Some recent lies by PAP govt, led by Liar KY, of course

29. Further to Paragraph 15, in which I briefly mentioned the political prisoner Mr CHAN Hock Hua being beaten to death, there is indirect proof of this. Mr CHAN died in 1978. LKY got his doctors to fake his death as "liver cancer" although Amnesty International found indications that he died from a "lacerated liver" from beatings and direct assaults to his body organs. However, the Amnesty International reports embarrassed LKY and it is probable that his ISD then toned down their beatings of political prisoners.

30. So, by 1987/8, when the now infamous so-called "Marxist CONspiracy" saw LKY arresting a total of 22 totally innocent men and women, mostly Roman Catholics, social workers and even theatre professionals [LKY is paranoid about film and theatre exposing his carefully built-up image because these can], the beatings were largely meted out by the open hand rather than closed fists, as reported by victim lawyer Ms TANG Fong Har. LKY had also by then, totally consolidated his grip on the island and so the whole charade was a simple 'Cultural Revolution' [which he once described in positive terms] to continue his reign of terror and to maintain his 'fearocracy' in the fearful minds of a new generation.

31. LKY is a Cambridge-trained lawyer. He is also a thug. Of his early political prisoners, he jailed and tortured them and practically threw away the keys. Mr CHIA Thye Poh was jailed 32 years without trial. Dr LIM Hock Siew did 20 years. Mr Said ZAHARI did 17 years. As for the rest of the 130 political prisoners jailed in Operation Coldstore, little is known because LKY controlled to this day, the release of facts and figures.

32. Today in LKY's ISD prisons, from what little LKY allows us to know, most are Malays. They are alleged to be terrorists. Just like the 1987/8 22 arrestees were "marxists out to overthrow LKY by violence". [LKY used the term "marxists" because he dared not use "communists" as by then, he was angling for, maybe had bought, China atom bombs and better relations]. Arresting Malays in this time of history, given the US, UK and even Western preoccupation with Islamic terrorism, is another useful political ploy for LKY and LHL. Singapore is surrounded by 224 million Indonesians, predominantly Malay, plus, even nearer, just a kilometre away, Malaysia, with 27 million people, majority Malays. LKY's little island has 4.5 million people, mostly Chinese.

33. With the US and other Western powers becoming more clearheaded about Muslims, becoming slightly better at differentiating Muslim jihadists from the Indonesian and Malaysian Malays, and even beginning to forge better ties with both, LKY clearly has a vested interest in portraying Indonesians and Malaysians, and thus, Malays, as Terrorists. He cannot arrest Indonesian or Malaysian Malays into his ISD prisons because that would cause international rows and glaring publicity. So he arrests his own Malays, hoping the stupid Americans, British and other Westerners would not know the difference. In truth, Singapore Malays are very close to their Indonesian and Malaysian cousins, so this is a clever move. By arresting his own Malays, no international embarrassments will happen, no need to justify to other countries. So the Malays in LKY's ISD prisons serve to reinforce the impression that Malays = terrorists = Indonesians and Malaysians = bad, even dangerous jihadists. So stay away from Malaysia and Indonesia because they are mostly Malays. So stay in the embrace of LKY LHL PAP because we are Chinese and totally opposed to Malays and will further your interests in subjugating them.

34. Of course, LKY also uses his ISD on critics and dissidents. When they are not busy staging elaborate theatricals involving Roman Catholics or Malays. In truth, LKY is so overwhelmingly in control of his little city that nothing can even move in the breeze without him knowing it. It takes a lot of taxpayers monies but then LKY is not paying for it. I have estimated that there are only about 5,000 HDB blocks housing 85% of the population, the richer ones living in private properties. Thus, it is very easy to put a ISD family in every one of the 5,000 blocks, which all have central telephone and internet access points, thus very easy to monitor all communications. Also, Through The Wall Surveillance Equipment [Google] allows the ISD to look into and monitor every flat. Also, police families are given priority by the HDB and this ensures that every single block has at least 1 police family.

35. LKY treats different critics and dissidents differently. For those critics who succeed in drawing blood [this means merely that they managed to paint him in a truthful but negative light], he is the most vindictive and venomous person alive. He will pursue you to the ends of the earth and give you no rest. For you have succeeded in reducing his god-like, saint-like image so carefully and painstakingly put together since 1959. Thus, Mr Jeyaretnam was sued more times than I can count, bankrupted, sacked from Parliament seats he rightfully won with the peoples' mandates. Mr TANG Liang Hong is similarly bankrupted and driven into self exile by kangaroo courts, like in Mr Jeyeratnam's cases. So, too, Mr Francis SEOW, exiled in America. There, LKY sent his ISD to hound Mr SEOW and once, even triumphantly showed photos of Mr SEOW with a causasian woman, to his rubber stamp Parliament, which LKY's ISD and expensive PIs took. What that proves, I don't know, except that LKY is the most vindictive and venomous person alive. Dr CHEE Soon Juan is the current recipient of LKY's attention and kangaroo court injustices.

36. But if you took care to criticise but not draw blood, you could even be invited to tea. That is, if you criticised only govt policies and took great care not to offend LKY's thin-skinned sensitivity. This is not surprising. LKY's pretended 'meritocracy' had always been just another of his scams. So it does not matter who he puts into his Cabinet or Parliament, since he is not interested in having the best and brightest in Cabinet or Parliament. Both are just rubber stamps. As one foreign author wrote, it is all "thinly disguised rule by decree". Since it does not matter who sits in the Cabinet or Parliament Rubber Stamps, LKY thus plays to his whims and ego.

37. If you have wounded him, drew blood, by bloodying his image, he hates you with all the ferocity of a castrated animal. He will never let you off. He will hound you to the ends of the earth, to the end of your life. But if you took care to mildly criticise his policies only, while praising him lavishly while doing so, he may invite you into Cabinet or Parliament. This is because he has far too many blowjobbers already, having encouraged them since 1959. Thus blowjobs from the Straits Times are a daily occurrence, same from all the other media, same from the 15,000 PAP members who often write, disguised, to the media, same from all the various branches of govt and the civil service, same for all the govt companies controlling some 60% of the economy, same even for foreign publications and media. Thus he gets more than enough blowjobs from everybody. So it not longer feels good.

38. So if you are smart and ambitious, you play his game. You lavish praise on LKY while gently CRITICISING some unimportant policies. That gets his notice. He notices you. If you have the right basic qualifications, and are lucky enough to teach him something, you get called to tea, maybe even Cabinet or Parliament. One example was the case of CHAN Heng Chee. LKY had just suffered a huge "swing" in votes after a general election. It heralded the beginning of the end of his total grip on power. LKY characteristically scolded the voters, accusing them of 'brinkmanship' in voting opposition. Then CHAN wrote an article in the Straits Times pointing out that it was LKY who was playing brinkmanship with the voters by arrogantly instituting several unpopular policies just before the elections. As he was wont to do, always pushing his luck and expecting to be loved even when acting against the voters. LKY knew she was right. He had learned something. So she became Ambassador to US. Thereafter, LIE never introduced unpopular polices just before elections. Instead, he gave every voter big sums of money, called by various guises, just before elections and that is continued to this day.

39. Many clever writers know this. They know that blowjobbing LKY doesn't get them anywhere because the whole country is doing it. So the trick is to criticise gently on some unimportant policy while lavishing praise on LKY. That gets noticed and sometimes rewarded with a Cabinet post or Parliament seat. But why does LKY do this? Ah, when a man has money and power unlimited, what else does he want? He wants to be proven right. He wants to have critics grovelling to him on bended knees, in effect, recanting their past criticisms of him, to now say that he was right all along, which means that he was never wrong, cannot be wrong, which by their action in joining him proves it all. Thus, it is all ego play and more arrogance and conceit. Satisfying egoistic whims. So satisfying and orgasmic.

40. And that is one of the many reasons why LKY is not the man he has so painstakingly portrayed himself to be. It is one of the reasons why Singapore is not what it seems to be. It is like the film, "Matrix". All illusions. A brilliant and consistent PR project since 1959 that would have succeeded were it not for a new social, political, economic and technological wonder called the Internet. Rodney KING has written a 500-page tome exposing much of this PR publicity stunt, so brilliantly executed and consistently developed over so many decades. Which would have succeeded were it not for the new Age of Honesty and Truth the Internet has ushered in.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Robert HO < robert.ic019@gmail.com>
Date: Jul 17, 2007 4:44 PM
Subject: Pt 2: Some recent lies by PAP govt, led by Liar KY, of course

17. Further to Paragraph 2, I have written about how brutal LKY LHL PAP politicians are in writing brutal laws [laws are made by politicians, who are invariably corrupt, self-serving, self-righteous, dishonest and even stupid. Law is not one of the better inventions of humankind, obviously, and particularly so in the case of despotic dictators like LKY] in which the poor victim was caned an extra 3 strokes. His offence? All the PAP media are very careful to publish the official PAP govt very vague version: "abetting an illegal moneylender to harass a debtor". The PAP media did not check, ask or elaborate on this very vague but somehow, seemingly very 'serious crime' phrase.

18. If you are born and raised here, and know the PAP media's role in always portraying LKY LHL PAP in the best possible light and always careful to minimise any potential negative publicity, you would have noticed that the PAP media did not say that the poor young man had used violence or any threats whatsoever. If he had, this would have been clearly reported by the PAP media. The fact that through several iterations of the news story in several PAP media, all could only cite the same "abetting an illegal moneylender to harass a debtor" means that the poor 20 year-old was probably only trying to ask the debtor to pay up. He did not use violence or threaten violence, hence the PAP media could not publish it as that. So, the carefully worded phrase means simply that the poor victim was simply trying to collect a debt, which is legal, [debt collection is a legal industry used by many financial institutions] for which the brutal LKY LHL PAP system sentenced him to 9 months jail and 5 strokes of the cane. Laws are made by politicians, and they are invariably corrupt, self-righteous, self-serving, dishonest and often, even vicious, especially in LKY's utopia paradise.

19. Yesterday in Parliament, Law Minister and DPM Jayakumar lied again, not the first time he has been caught lying, [are there penalties for lying in Parliament? If so, LKY would have much to answer for, since he habitually lies even in Parliament] that the poor overcaned victim's letter to his parents about being wrongly caned 3 extra strokes, which he wrote shortly after the wrongful caning, was not sent and probably destroyed by the Prison Police. Why not let the poor victim take the lie detector test as he asks for? That would prove who is lying. It is shameful that a Law Minister would lie in Parliament. It is perjury. But Hitler LKY is right. The bigger the lie, the easier to believe. If some Opposition Parties can afford a lie detector, together with the services of an expert, this could allow many aggrieved victims of LKY LHL PAP crimes to surface the truth. I would certainly volunteer to take the test on all of my allegations, especially the one in my blog [see below] about LKY rigging the 1997 Cheng San GRC election to cheat Mr Jeyaretnam and his colleagues out of a win of 5 Parliamentary seats, with the salaries, stature, dignity, respect, that go with it, over the entire 5-year term.

20. Further to Paragraph 11, I have mentioned that Singapore's hyped up PR image as an excellent medical city benefits only the rich few, mostly the famiLEE and PAP cronies shareholders of private hospitals, some doctors, some tourism facilities like hotels, even the govt hospitals [which are allowed to take in rich paying foreign patients as well] which thus therefore reduce their services to local patients who cannot pay the amounts rich foreign patients pay -- for example, foreign and local patients who pay the full rates get appointments earlier and wait shorter times to see these govt hospital doctors while the 'subsidised' [another much abused PAP term but I cannot write on this today, just Google for "market subsidy HDB" to see how the English language has been abused in Singapore] patients wait many months for appointments and usually wait half a day to see the doctors [huge shortage due to poor planning and policies], who are very hardpressed and stressed accordingly, which is efficient, profitable, but lower standards tremendously. People do die or are maimed by medical mistakes but we never get to know or read about them in our 154th ranked media, almost at the bottom of the world's media ranked for honesty and truth. See: http://www.thinkcentre.org/article.cfm?ArticleID=2859

21. The ongoing dengue epidemic has also thrown into public relief the dire shortage of hospital beds. The occupancy rates are in the 90s%, which is crisis level, and many patients are discharged long before they recover fully, and doctors are reported to daily beg patients to leave, even before they are ready. Rich foreign patents are thus being put back to health while our citizens are jeopardised, both in health and money terms. Rich foreign patients are allowed to stay as long as they like [as long as they pay] in order to maintain Singapore's hype as a medical hub. You cannot shortchange or ask to leave, someone who can pay, period. Money is king in PAP Singapore. LKY never antagonises money. He has no qualms about "managing the peoples' expectations" however, so that they cannot expect free lunches, free or even 'subsidised' medical care, or anything, etc.

22. There is also the issue of who gets the blood and organs. In Singapore, there are several organ transplants every week or so. Rich foreign patients [374,000 in 2005 or >1,000 a day] have no problems getting all the organs and blood they need to be put back to health but locals are another matter. Rich foreign patients simply pay and they get. Locals, as proven yet again in the poor widower's case in which his wife bled to death after delivering twins, have to donate blood for every unit their family members get in transfusion. I have long known this policy from my own personal experience with govt hospitals.

23. While rich foreign patients simply pay and they get organs and blood, citizens wait 6-8 years for an organ. Many die before they get one. I have written in my blog about how, if LKY needed an organ, he would get one immediately, while commoners die during the 6-8 year wait. Indicative of how the entire country exists for the pleasure and benefits of one man and his family, relatives and cronies, LKY's wife had the honour of having a huge SIA jumbo jet outfitted into a flying hospital, with medical consultants and equipment, to whisk her back from London because the British medical system is not advanced enough to treat her stroke, despite former British PM Blair forcing a British hospital to allow her to jump queue on the strenuous string-pulling protestations of LKY and his ambassador to Britain. Over the waiting queue of British citizens. If LKY can do that to British citizen queues, what more in Singapore, over whose every citizen, LKY has the power of life and death, jobs and happiness? Any doubt that LKY and his famiLEE will get their organs and blood even if it deprives you of your life? The cost of jet fuel to London and back is probably at least a quarter million. The cost of chartering a jumbo to London and back is probably at least half a million. The cost of crew and medical consultants, and the off-time to remove sections of seats to fit the beds and medical equipment, etc, and to refit them all back, is probably hundreds of thousands. In all, the exercise must have cost SIA well over a million. Expensive blowjob.

24. LKY did not need to use an ordinary flying ambulance service because SIA and the Singapore medical service were ever so eager to please him. And what better way to show exemplary service to blowjob him than to outfit a public listed company jumbo for the service of one aged woman? Who is not even a public official? Thus, there is no doubt that if LKY or his aged family and relatives need an organ, they will get it over the long waiting list of commoners, many of whom will die before they get one. In Singapore, because once LKY sets the example, his cronies will automatically get the same privileges. This means that between LKY and his family, relatives and cronies; and the rich foreign patients, all getting organs immediately [after all, a rich foreign patient who phones up from overseas for an organ transplant cannot be made to wait, can he?], the citizens of Singapore are more likely to die first and have THEIR own organs harvested for foreigners than to have one to enable them to stay alive! You won't find the Straits Times or Today or any other PAP newspapers and media publishing any hint of these unspoken policies to treat the Royal FamiLEE and Relatives and Cronies first in all instances.

25. Recently, there was an ugly case in which the desperate need for organs was spotlighted. A family had a young man patient who was declared brain dead by doctors in a govt hospital. His family swore that they saw signs of life still, probably hand movements and twitching, etc, and pleaded with the doctors not to switch off the life support equipment but to wait another day, all very understandable and human, which is unimportant in materialistic moneyed PAP Singapore that believes that this is the only reality and the only life possible and that after death, there is nothing, so no need to consider anything other than the here and now. The hospital got 9 policemen to restrain the family while hospital staff ran off with the body out the back door. Probably, a very rich foreign patient was waiting. Or one of LKY's famiLEE or relatives. I cannot imagine this being done for a local, 'subsidised' patient. For more, click on:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Sim+Tee+Hua%27s+family&btnG=Google+Search

26. There is another aspect to PAP Singapore. This is one whereby if a commoner has an altercation with the govt or govt company or even a big, private company, the commoner is always in the wrong, never in the right. This is part of the LKY LHL PAP policy of commoners never having any rights, none whatsoever, while LKY LHL PAP and cronies have more than equal rights and they are accorded treatment by all as "princelings", an apt term used by bloggers to describe the LEE family, relatives and cronies system of special privileges.

27. An example of this was a recent complaint by a woman passenger against her taxi driver [from a govt taxi company]. She had asked to be dropped off at Ngee Ann City Shopping Mall in Orchard Road. He asked her to get down at the bus stop opposite the drop off lobby. She refused. He refused. She then asked to be driven to the Land Transport Authority office a few km away. There, she reported to an LTA officer who immediately, automatically, said she was wrong and the govt taxi company right. She then wrote to higher officers in LTA who then confirmed she was right to insist the taxi driver drop her off at her drop off lobby. What this proves is that in any dispute between an ordinary person and the govt, a govt company or even a big, famous private company, the ordinary person has no rights in Singapore.

28. Although this is stupid because we are all ordinary citizens most times [except the Royal FamiLEE and cronies] and should be careful to protect our rights when other ordinary citizens complain, LKY LHL PAP have so engineered society that the ordinary person has absolutely no rights whatsoever. And this is believed by most and shrugged off. Thus, Singaporeans are constantly abused and taken advantage of and lied to, all without complaint or protest. It is a sad reflection of a population that has otherwise so much intelligence, ability, knowledge, understanding, literacy, etc. We are socially engineered mice. Under the LKY LHL PAP system, we have no rights. We are mice.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Robert HO < robert.ic019@gmail.com>
Date: Jul 16, 2007 5:36 PM
Subject: Pt 1: Some recent lies by PAP govt, led by Liar KY, of course

1. Of late, there have been quite a few whopping lies told by the PAP govt, led by, of course, Liar KY, the MM. [He lies so ably that the chocolate doesn't melt in his mouth, only in his hands].

2. The first was the poor prisoner [jailed and caned for some simple loan sharking, which is another shocking indictment of the primitive nature of the politicians' brutality in making such laws] who was caned 8 strokes instead of the judge-ordered 5. Follow the stories here: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=caned+3+extra+strokes&btnG=Search

3. At first, the prison authorities, the police and the PAP govt all insisted that the poor prisoner victim had no less than 3 chances to protest this mistake of additional strokes but didn't. This is unbelievable as each stroke is so painful it splits the buttock skin usually leaving a permanent scar. Who would knowingly take 1 extra cane let alone 3? The whip lashing is so ferocious that the genitals have to be blocked and protected from being accidentally hit [while the victim is strapped naked to the frame] otherwise very serious injury will result, including the entire genitals being cut off.

4. The PAP police and govt kept insisting, and the Straits Times kept publishing as usual, without checking, that he had no less than 3 occasions to protest the mistake, but didn't. "The bigger the lie, the easier to believe -- Hitler". So, the PAPs kept saying the victim kept quiet on no less than 3 occasions, not just 1, which made it sound so 3 times more convincing.

5. Then the victim's mother, in frustration at her son being portrayed a liar in addition to being wronged, insisted that her son be given a lie detector test to prove he was telling the truth and the PAP govt is lying [as usual]. The PAP govt stopped insisting on the 3 convincing lies and asked the family to settle for money talks [still ongoing].

6. If the mother had not insisted her son be given a lie detector test, we would all have believed the Straits Times and believed that her son was stupid enough to take 3 extra strokes without protesting. On 3 different occasions.

7. Also recently, another victim was portrayed by the PAP and Straits Times as a liar. This case involved a pregnant woman who went to a hospital to deliver, then bled to death. Read more here: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=raffles+hospital+woman+twins+bled+to+death&btnG=Search

8. After she delivered twins, she continued bleeding. The doctors ordered extra blood units for transfusion but this was disallowed by the hospital managers [as all extra blood units must be authorised by hospital managers in a stupid policy written by stupid policymakers]. Worse, the husband was told by hospital staff clearly that until he gets enough people to donate blood, his wife wouldn't be given extra blood transfusions. So he desperately SMSed and got 200 family and friends on a Sunday to turn up at the Blood Bank, only to find it shut as they were too early, and the staff within refused to open the doors any earlier. The poor man and his 200 relatives must have been panic-stricken, desperate, frustrated at this bureaucracy so common in Singapore. Meanwhile, his wife bled to death.

9. The Straits Times, in its earlier reports, threw in so many unpronounceable medical terms that no one, not even most doctors, knew what she died of. This is easily explained. Singapore is hyped as the most medically advanced city in the world or something like that. Remember that Liar KY has controlled every release of facts and figures since 1959 when he seized power and so it follows that there now exists only a huge body of false knowledge, 90% positive for Liar KY, that we have access to. Even the 10% negative news of Liar KY and his PAP govt is obtained only through inadvertent release or by the occasional well-researched book by some academic and therefore remains in obscure academia rather than common knowledge. So take it that almost everything you know about Liar KY and his PAP are all positive. Negative news and facts and figures have long been suppressed and censored. They don't exist.

10. An example is the recent decision of the Ministry of Manpower to stop giving statistics separating citizen unemployment figures from PR unemployment figures. Because the unemployment figures for citizens were embarrassing, it was stopped. The new figures give only unemployment figures for Residents, which combines Citizens and PRs. Hey presto! The unemployment figures for Residents is less embarrassing. So once again, Liar KY and his PAP look good. Every time LKY looks good, the Truth doesn't. Worse, sometimes the numbers include Foreign Workers so the numbers look even better because foreign workers, once they lose their jobs, are deported, and so this brings down dramatically, the unemployment figures. Check the MOM website to confirm what I have written. Or call them or email them. I have a bad habit of always telling the Truth, being somewhat unable to lie. A character defect. LKY has a venomous hatred of being negatively portrayed and he resorts to torture to stop it. That is why I am still suffering nightly sleep deprivation, a deliberate tactic to reduce my immune system so I develop a cancer or some other fatal disease as a result of reduced immunity. That is why for months now, it is not just nightly sleep deprivation to reduce my immunity, but also a sharp pain in my nerve in my right upper arm so bad I have lost the use of my right arm in certain positions. Simply cannot move or carry things in certain positions. Anyway, I have a compulsion for the Truth and shall continue. This is the only way I keep up my morale, my sanity and my immunity system. If I had not done this during 15 years of torture and mental and psychological stress and abuse, I would have died by now.

11. The Straits Times is always anxious to lie for Liar KY and his PAP. By lying that the patient died from some 'bureaucratoxicolosis' or other, Singapore's reputation as the best medical city in the world remains intact and thus, more rich foreign patients will come here for treatment and some will get rich from this, though not the common man and woman who will suffer the inevitable higher medical costs, shortage of affordable hospital beds, even lose priority for supplies like blood and organs for transplants, none of which are provided by these rich foreign patients, who only buy their blood and organs while we have to donate them, forcibly in the case of organs. It is precisely the fact that foreign patients can buy their blood from hospitals that resulted in the stupid rule that caused the Singaporean woman to bleed to death. Clearly, blood is always in short supply. Rich patients do not give blood as they can pay for it. So local patients like the poor woman and her husband were denied blood by hospital managers in order to conserve it for rich and other patients. If she were given all the blood she needed, the blood stocks may be insufficient for another patient, probably a rich foreign patient, and this would collapse Singapore's false reputation as the best medical hub in the world. So the policy for hospital managers to authorise any 'excess' requirements, in this poor woman's case, it was clearly refused, unless the husband was lying. From my analysis, the hospital, the govt and the Straits Times are lying. Since they are all hyping the agenda that Singapore is the best medical hub in the world.

12. The lying by the hospital, govt, Straits Times is expertly done. For several times now, the hospital had its PR person, a doctor, to write rebuttals to the media on what happened. We are told that she suffered some 'whatever' or other and would have bled to death no matter how much blood was transfused to her. It seems quite medical. Quite possible. But remember the joke that "lawyers' mistakes hang, while doctors' mistakes are buried". We will never know. But even if the woman would have bled to death anyway, no matter what, this still does not absolve the hospital managers from not giving her all the blood available to save her life. The 2 issues are separate. Just because she would have bled to death anyway doesn't mean it is right to refuse to give her all the blood available.

13. There were other excuses. The Straits Times published copiously about how the Blood Bank would always provide blood for emergencies 24/7 though it is open only during office hours and so the poor husband and 200 relatives should not have been told that his wife would only get blood if they donated theirs first. So some doctor and other staff gave the husband the wrong advice and instruction. Or was it the right one, at that time, now falsified?

14. I said the lying was expertly done. I surmised this from the fact that all the several replies from the hospital came from the one single doctor PR person. She never quoted higher management nor did any higher hospital authority even made a squeak of noise on the issue, a serious issue in which a woman bled to death under their care in dubious circumstances. Why did no higher hospital authority speak up? All are keeping a guilty silence. They are probably guilty.

15. It is easy for a higher manager to simply tell a PR officer to 'deal with it' and wash his/her hands off the matter. Very convenient if guilty. It is very easy to tell half-truths or even whole lies to the PR officer so that she will do a good and convincing job of fooling the public, in turn. If the PR officer really thinks the truth is on the side of her hospital, she will indeed do a good job of convincing the world. Thus, she could have been told half-truths or even whole lies. The silence of the higher hospital authorities and the govt must be deemed guilty. The govt is involved because this is a case of possible manslaughter. Death by negligence is manslaughter and despite the bad press for Singapore as the best medical hub in the world, the govt must pursue this to the end. If only to appease the soul of the dead woman. Here, I must add that LKY LHL PAP have acted and proceeded as though this is the only reality and the only life possible and that there is no afterlife or survival of the soul. This belief and assumption allow LKY LHL PAP to act in a totally materialistic manner as if this life is all we've got and there is nothing after. They thus act totally materialistically and put all their eggs in this one basket, to scheme, connive, commit crimes, beat to death [Mr CHAN Hock Hua by LKY's ISD], etc, believing that once they die, they do not have to answer for their actions in this world. What if they are wrong? They will have all eternity to regret.

16. Lying once or twice is all right. Every politician does it. But LKY goes further than simple lying. Since 1959, he has built an artificial reality of himself and Singapore, all through controlled release of facts and figures. So this is the only reality we know of him and Singapore. It is not one we all feel at ease with, because it is one big lie. Like his memoirs. Recently declassified British documents prove that he sold himself to the British so that Harold MacMillan would make him PM by decimating the popular LIM Chin Siong majority faction entirely by arresting them under the ISA. LKY not only bought his PMship by serving British interests, nowadays he serves US interests, even acting against China's interests to do so. His whole life and career is a lie. He is a lie.
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RH: MY ACQUAINTANCE, A FORMER POLICE INSPECTOR, AND HIS LAWYER FRIEND, EYEWITNESSED LEE KUAN YEW RIGGING THE 1997 CHENG SAN GRC ELECTION. READ MORE AT MY BLOG ENTITLED "I CAME, I SAW, I SOLVED IT" :

http://i-came-i-saw-i-solved-it.blogspot.com/

[ALSO AT THE ABOVE BLOG, LIE KUAN YEW's LIES, WRONGFUL JAILING, TORTURE AND BEATING TO DEATH OF INNOCENT POLITICAL PRISONERS]

READ ALSO MARTYN SEE's INTERVIEW WITH ME AT:

http://singaporerebel.blogspot.com/

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