The Alternative View
If what you say and write is a reflection of your own character, then the words and comments that are starting to come out from the mouths of PAP ministers surely are an attestation to all what kind of people they are: Hypocritical, juvenile and excessively self-righteous belying a perpetual failure to look at the log in their own eyes.
Two weeks ago, in the midst of trumpeting the ethos of "unity" and "one people" during the SG50 frenzy, Ng Eng Hen said that he hoped that there would be "less of that personal attacks" in the coming GE and that we will guard against "negative politics".
"Negative politics", he explains, means:
"...you try to claw each other down, try to find personality flaws, you attack each other, amplify them on social media, all just to rile up emotions for that short period of intense campaigning."
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/…/upcoming-ge-w…/2008566.html
Fast forward to Thursday and you have his fellow colleague, a Deputy Prime Minister, Teo Chee Hean taking the photo of Sylvia Lim and making a mockery out of it, alluding that The Workers' Party chairman Sylvia Lim wants to add Fengshan to "the pot" and "swallow it".
Teo's comments expose him as a juvenile and self-righteous person.
We all know that the AHPETC issue was clearly set up by the PAP starting with the lack of proper handover of accounts by the previous PAP team under millionaires George Yeo and Lim Hwee Hwa to the drastic reduction of grants by HDB.
And oh, didn't Teo preside over the Little India Riot and the multiple security breaches of our borders which exposed the inadequacies of his Home Team?
What is more damning, the Commissioner of Police had to use a public inquiry to tell him that the police was under-resourced and that Geylang was becoming a dangerous power keg.
As a Deputy Prime Minister, one would have expected him to observe some decorum and set an example to the millions of young internet users on civil behaviour on the Internet, which his Party made such a big deal of to the extent of setting up a Media Literacy Council.
But he didn't.
And by the way, where's Ng Eng Hen? Didn't he call for less personal attacks and negative politics?
Or maybe by that he was expressing his hope that there will be no personal attacks against his own Party's candidates like the Son of Punggol and Mr Always Here for You but then Again Not Really?