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Coffeeshop Chit Chat - “Vote PAP out” has more than 4K members!</TD><TD id=msgunetc noWrap align=right> </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><TABLE class=msgtable cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="96%"><TBODY><TR><TD class=msg vAlign=top><TABLE border=0 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%"><TBODY><TR class=msghead><TD class=msgbfr1 width="1%"> </TD><TD><TABLE border=0 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0><TBODY><TR class=msghead vAlign=top><TD class=msgF width="1%" noWrap align=right>From: </TD><TD class=msgFname width="68%" noWrap>kojakbt_89 <NOBR></NOBR> </TD><TD class=msgDate width="30%" noWrap align=right>9:14 am </TD></TR><TR class=msghead><TD class=msgT height=20 width="1%" noWrap align=right>To: </TD><TD class=msgTname width="68%" noWrap>ALL <NOBR></NOBR></TD><TD class=msgNum noWrap align=right> (1 of 2) </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR><TR><TD class=msgleft rowSpan=4 width="1%"> </TD><TD class=wintiny noWrap align=right>30056.1 </TD></TR><TR><TD height=8></TD></TR><TR><TD class=msgtxt>“Vote PAP out” Facebook has garnered more than 4,000 members in support of change
March 13, 2010 by admin
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Written by Our Correspondent
In a sign that the winds of change may finally be arriving in Singapore, the ” Vote PAP out” Facebook started barely three months ago by a 22 year old project engineer Alex Tan has garnered more than 4,000 members so far in support of change.
A quick glance at its members show that the majority of them are young Singaporeans in their 20s and 30s including a 15 year old teenager Kenneth Lin who started a petition a few weeks back calling for an apology from Singapore’s octogenarian leader Lee Kuan Yew for his callous remarks made about Singaporeans during an interview with the National Geographic magazine.
Its membership has already far exceeded that of the YPAP Facebook which has only 2,600 plus members despite being in existence for a far longer period of time.
With public sentiments against the PAP at an all-time high due to some disastrous and unpopular policies it forced down the throat of Singaporeans over the last few years, the party is facing an uphill task repeating its 2006 performance again in the next general election.
According to some online pundits, the PAP is expected to obtain less than 60 percent of the popular vote and may end up losing one GRC in addition to a few single seats.
It is quite obvious from the postings made on the “Vote PAP out” Facebook that an increasing number of young Singaporeans are becoming peeved off with the PAP and are dying for genuine change.
Despite being one of the most economically advanced nations in the world, Singapore has an archaic if not oppressive political system dominated by the PAP which has governed the nation since 1959.
The entire electoral system is engineered to keep the PAP in power forever with rampant gerry-mandering done to the electoral boundaries to dilute bases of opposition support, the use of the mass media discredit the opposition and implementation of repressive laws to curtail the civil and political rights of Singaporeans.
It remains to be seen how much longer Singaporeans, especially the younger generation, are willing to put up with the PAP’s repressive rule which led Human Rights Watch to comment lately that Singapore is a “textbook example of a politically repressive state.”
As the Chinese saying goes “Family wealth will never pass beyond three generations.” Change will eventually come to Singapore sooner rather than later. Resistance is futile.
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March 13, 2010 by admin
Filed under Headlines
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Written by Our Correspondent
In a sign that the winds of change may finally be arriving in Singapore, the ” Vote PAP out” Facebook started barely three months ago by a 22 year old project engineer Alex Tan has garnered more than 4,000 members so far in support of change.
A quick glance at its members show that the majority of them are young Singaporeans in their 20s and 30s including a 15 year old teenager Kenneth Lin who started a petition a few weeks back calling for an apology from Singapore’s octogenarian leader Lee Kuan Yew for his callous remarks made about Singaporeans during an interview with the National Geographic magazine.
Its membership has already far exceeded that of the YPAP Facebook which has only 2,600 plus members despite being in existence for a far longer period of time.
With public sentiments against the PAP at an all-time high due to some disastrous and unpopular policies it forced down the throat of Singaporeans over the last few years, the party is facing an uphill task repeating its 2006 performance again in the next general election.
According to some online pundits, the PAP is expected to obtain less than 60 percent of the popular vote and may end up losing one GRC in addition to a few single seats.
It is quite obvious from the postings made on the “Vote PAP out” Facebook that an increasing number of young Singaporeans are becoming peeved off with the PAP and are dying for genuine change.
Despite being one of the most economically advanced nations in the world, Singapore has an archaic if not oppressive political system dominated by the PAP which has governed the nation since 1959.
The entire electoral system is engineered to keep the PAP in power forever with rampant gerry-mandering done to the electoral boundaries to dilute bases of opposition support, the use of the mass media discredit the opposition and implementation of repressive laws to curtail the civil and political rights of Singaporeans.
It remains to be seen how much longer Singaporeans, especially the younger generation, are willing to put up with the PAP’s repressive rule which led Human Rights Watch to comment lately that Singapore is a “textbook example of a politically repressive state.”
As the Chinese saying goes “Family wealth will never pass beyond three generations.” Change will eventually come to Singapore sooner rather than later. Resistance is futile.
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