Sgpolitics.net
8 Jul 2008
This is my response to Mr Syu Ying Kwok’s letter to the Straits Times Forum page published on 08 July 2008 (print edition).
In the letter entitled “Five years? MM Lee’s estimate was optimistic”, Mr Syu argues that with modern telecommunications and banking infrastructure which allows trillions of dollars to be transferred out of Singapore in an instant if the current leaders and their policies change overnight, Singapore’s success might be undone within “within weeks”.
He says emphatically that “it is naive to assume that all human beings can be trusted to do the right thing, and that we should appeal to the public by their conscience and sense of fairness.”
But isn’t this precisely the reason why we need a strong, credible Opposition to check on the Government in Parliament, or even a Opposition that is ready to form the next Government should the current one become corrupt and/or complacent?
>>>> More
