Malaysia Star, 4 May 2013
In 2006, the Prime Minister said: “I want to involve Singaporeans more in building our country, to create more room for you to express yourself and try out your own ideas. They are all making a better Singapore.”
It is a sentiment that Lee – just as predecessor Goh Chok Tong – has generally pursued but on a three-step forward two-step backward manner.
The recent government measures seem to be aimed at defending the integrity of the judiciary and the police, even if he is charged with taking two steps backward. Lee blames it on the social media itself.
The tightening appears to run counter to the economic left-turn ideology that DPM Tharman recently referred to.
It is obvious the ideological shift does not apply to politics. Full story
