Balderdash! - Comments
You mentioned:
"The mission of the Education Service is to mould the future of the nation"
I think there's a typo - there should not be a letter "u" in the word "mould". :P
http://www.moe.gov.sg/about/
"The mission of the Education Service is to mould the future of the nation,"
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/mould
mould
n. & v. Chiefly British
Variant of mold.
I am not a fan of the PAP or the opposition but your take on SM's speech is quite biased. He did not say that opposition MPs should not question --- he just said that they should do more than that, and to be fair, even PAP MPs have praised LTK for his work in Hougang. Reading the entire report, SM also said that he understood why people wanted credible voices.
As for Tharman, it is disingenuous to equate his actions with those of a convicted murderer (admittedly I know nothing about the latter case). if you read the reports in 1994, you will see that most people in the financial sector were shocked that what Tharman, Patrick Daniel et al did was considered illegal and there was considerable sympathy for what was seen as an honest mistake. In fact, most people saw it as a positive that the people who were convicted went on to build very successful careers.
"Low Thia Khiang, believes his job is just to ask questions and check the ruling party, but not to offer solutions to problems."
The implication is that asking questions and checking the ruling party is not a solution to any problem. And what problems he does not offer solutions to are not stated (though that might be the fault of the person who wrote the speech summary masquerading as a news article).
As for criminal records, SM said very clearly that we cannot have "MPs with criminal records", not that we cannot have "MPs who are convicted murderers". And "the Senior Minister hopes the opposition too would look for good candidates so voters will be given a real choice" seems to be a jibe at them.
The murder bit seems to have been brought in to tar all MPs with criminal records with the same brush. Yet according to data, there are MPs convicted of "crimes like cheating, fraud, forgery, giving false oaths to public officials and so on".
Most political analysts are shocked that speaking in public without a permit without a license or what would be considered non-criminal defamation in other countries are offences, let alone criminal offences, here, and see it as a negative that such people are ruined.
It's so easy
Happy go lucky
Yatta! Yatta!
send my regards to Many Teddies, they have finally tracked him down
After reading your post, I thought SM's speech would be a typical rabid anti-opposition rant. But if you read the actual article, and the one in ST, it is much more balanced than the portions you have extracted or your comments suggest. Given that this was at the PAP Hougang National Day dinner, one would expect more incendiary language to rally the troops.
I think that there are many PAP speeches that one could level your accusations at but not this one.
bounty: ???
Chua: http://theonlinecitizen.com/2008...e-than-the-pap/
http://www.sgpolitics.net/?p=347
http://mollymeek.livejournal.com...com/
196324.html
http://singaporemind.blogspot.co...ck-
hougang.html
http://www.mrbiao.com/blog/sm-go...l-
accounts.html
lets start a war. A nuclear war.
let's start a war, a nuclear war. That's funny. Very funny indeed.
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