Singapore Democrats, 14 Oct 2008
For decades freedom of assembly, aka protests, have been taboo in Singapore. Any call for demonstrations is met with words like "chaos" and "destruction" being thrown about will-nilly.
Mr Lee Kuan Yew, the ultimate scare-monger, said that when people are allowed to protest in public, there'll be “pandemonium” and insists that “we are not that kind of society.” Really? What kind of a society are we then?
The kind that says not a word when the Government lacerates us with hike after excruciating hike in prices?
The kind that keeps heads bowed when millionaire ministers like Mr Lim Swee Say demonstrate their idiocy by taunting that he “feels so rich” whenever he looks at his CPF account even as free-food lines lengthen?
The kind that pretends that nothing untoward is happening when the the Government increases the GST, public transport fares, and electricity rates (and by a whopping 22 percent) even as the economy dives into a recession?
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