Theonlinecitizen.com
8 Jul 2008
The Straits Times Forum published a letter by a certain Mr Syu Ying Kwok today, July 8. The letter was titled, "Five years? MM Lee's estimate was optimistic."
In his letter, Syu gave his thoughts on MM Lee Kuan Yew's earlier remarks about how it would take only 5 years for Singapore to be 'unscrambled' should the opposition come into power.
There is nothing unusual about Syu's letter – until this part where he made reference to Mr Tan Lead Shake's "tragic event in his family".
Recently, opposition politician Tan Lead Shake made headlines after a tragic event in his family. But what chills the bones is the fact that in the past three elections, an average of more than 20 per cent of the electorate voted for him or anyone else who stood for election with little consideration of his credentials or abilities.
We fail to see how the two are linked or can be linked – a personal tragedy in the family and the electorate voting for him. It is a cheap shot at a person whose family tragedy is used here to question the number or percentage of voters who voted for him in the elections.
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