In a speech made yesterday at Foreign Correspondents’ Association of Singapore, PM Lee said that a human rights commission and independent elections department are not priorities for Singapore, the prime minister said Friday.
He said whether Singaporeans have jobs, security and a future are more important than the number of commissions in the country.
While liberals and human rights advocates like us will cringe at his shallow remarks, it is unfortunate that many of our brethen subscribe to PM Lee’s beliefs.
For over 4 decades, public discourse has been tightly controlled and dominated by the ruling party PAP and the state media.
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We have become a nation of digits, a figure on the census, a contribution to our GDP to be used to adjust the pay of our leaders and a human machine to be replaced by a foreign “talent” or “thrash” when our usefulness have been outlived.
40 years later, the PAP continues to corrupt the ideals of human rights in order to save its own skin.
Young Singaporeans who are concerned about their jobs, livelihoods and future must pay more attention to their rights as citizens of Singapore.
Without human rights, there can never be political or economic rights. Instead of waiting for the PAP to throw us crumbs of “rights”, why not fight for it and demand an equal share of what we truly deserve ?
Read full article here:
http://wayangparty.com/2008/12/06/40-years-of-human-rights-corruption-by-the-pap/
He said whether Singaporeans have jobs, security and a future are more important than the number of commissions in the country.
While liberals and human rights advocates like us will cringe at his shallow remarks, it is unfortunate that many of our brethen subscribe to PM Lee’s beliefs.
For over 4 decades, public discourse has been tightly controlled and dominated by the ruling party PAP and the state media.
XXX
We have become a nation of digits, a figure on the census, a contribution to our GDP to be used to adjust the pay of our leaders and a human machine to be replaced by a foreign “talent” or “thrash” when our usefulness have been outlived.
40 years later, the PAP continues to corrupt the ideals of human rights in order to save its own skin.
Young Singaporeans who are concerned about their jobs, livelihoods and future must pay more attention to their rights as citizens of Singapore.
Without human rights, there can never be political or economic rights. Instead of waiting for the PAP to throw us crumbs of “rights”, why not fight for it and demand an equal share of what we truly deserve ?
Read full article here:
http://wayangparty.com/2008/12/06/40-years-of-human-rights-corruption-by-the-pap/
