Manpower Minister Tan Chuan-Jin:
"I am appalled. We now heckle special needs children? Vile. Total and absolute disgrace."
Suggested retort: We are appalled that the organizer of the event would use such poor judgment to stage that event in a location where a political protest was being held and to hold at the specific time of the protest. Was the event used to diminish the protest? If it is, it shows that political operatives are willing to put special needs children to achieve their goals.
Social and Family Development Minister Chan Chun Sing:
"To cause alarm and distress to special needs children, and disrupting their routine cannot be right no matter how righteous you think your own cause may be. "
Suggested retort: The junior minister in attendance is a scholar ...surely he is aware that special needs children would be affected by the noise of the political protest. Why didn't he do anything except to take a selfies of himself and his fans?
MP Janil Puthucheary:
"No excuse for bad behaviour, but especially not directed at kids."
Retort: Definitely no excuse for the event organizer who arrange for the event to coincide with the timing of the protest.
MP Zaqy Mohamad:
"A pity that special needs children were heckled by protesters at event by YMCA at Hong Lim Park."
Retort; It is a pity that our overpaid elected politicians and the government-controlled press do not know the meaning of 'heckle' and thus have been misusing it.
MP Ang Wei Neng:
"There was no good reason for the bloggers to heckle children with special needs and hurl vulgarities."
Retort: As a well-paid politician, you should know better than to take information from the news as fact.
MP Denise Phua:
"I heard while the kids were not physically harmed, many were alarmed, confused and disturbed by the unexpected unruly turn of events."
Retort: Since when hearsay is taken as truth?
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P Tin Pei Ling:
“What have these special needs children done to deserve being heckled down?”
Retort: What has these special needs children done to be used by the politicians as ammo to attack critics of the government?
You know brains have left the building when "Return our CPF" is construed as a phrase to "heckle" special needs children - unless the folks withholding our CPF are certified retards in the medical sense. Why did MP Teo Ser Luck, supposedly a "fixture" at the YMCA event (or NParks director Chia Seng Jiang who set the stage for a potent mix), insert the vulnerable kids into a crossfire of political ploy? A bit of history is enlightening:
http://singaporedesk.blogspot.sg/2014/09/suffer-little-children.html
Lay out the facts and show sinkees that it is the PAP that did harm to the special needs children. The PAP will even eat your children up to perpetuate its rule.