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From: tansooku 11:00 am
To: ALL (1 of 1)
30076.1
Talking Point :
Come on Sylvia, you can do better than that!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHfCBQbD77U
I like Sylvia and appreciate what she does - it takes time, dedication and some amount of courage to do what she is doing. Also, I'm just a blogger while she is in parliament and has her views heard nation wide on various policies. Overall, I think she has done well. The Worker's Party has taken a strategy that is different from, say, the SDP. As a weaker force, there are many ways to play the game. SDP has chosen direct strikes and taken the direct hammering that comes along - you can believe there are nothing but brave and determined souls in the SDP. The WP has taken a different strategy lying low, rising to make take shots when the case is clear and there is significant support for the alternative viewpoint e.g. standing up against the GST hikes, Minister's pay hikes, etc. The idea is they can win at elections when conditions are right and they need to avoid trouble until they get there. There are problems with both strategies. The SDP will find it very hard to recruit people until something goes very wrong with Singapore....the risk of joining them is just too high for most people. The WP's problem is if they play too soft, people will start to wonder what is the difference between them and some of the PAP backbenchers. I think while Sylvia clearly expressed some of the differences she had with with the ruling party on those system tweaks, she played it too soft....and I think she missed the big elephant in the scheme of things...
First, Sylvia should be an angry woman. She is the chairwoman of a political party which was denied a permit to host a cycling event a few months back[Link]. The PAP frequently uses such tactics to limit the activities of its political opponents. There is no level playing field and there is nothing in the recent tweaks that levels the playing field. The PAP govt links the estate upgrading to votes which is blatant pork barrel politics. Doesn't Sylvia feel disadvantaged when she cannot offer the $500M upgrading that the PAP candidates can? ...and what about those repressive laws like printing presses act, public order act, film act, broadcasting act, OSA, ISA etc that stifled the citizens freedom to gather and exchange ideas..and created a climate of fear. The lack of a freedom of information act? The lack of respect for human rights?
Come on, Sylvia, the system has been unfair and unjust to the Worker's Party and the ordinary citizens of Singapore. We want to vote you in to change the system not to support it and perpetuate it.
CNA should ve invited chee soon juan and interview him instead. does chee like sylvia?
:p
To: ALL (1 of 1)
30076.1
Talking Point :
Come on Sylvia, you can do better than that!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHfCBQbD77U
I like Sylvia and appreciate what she does - it takes time, dedication and some amount of courage to do what she is doing. Also, I'm just a blogger while she is in parliament and has her views heard nation wide on various policies. Overall, I think she has done well. The Worker's Party has taken a strategy that is different from, say, the SDP. As a weaker force, there are many ways to play the game. SDP has chosen direct strikes and taken the direct hammering that comes along - you can believe there are nothing but brave and determined souls in the SDP. The WP has taken a different strategy lying low, rising to make take shots when the case is clear and there is significant support for the alternative viewpoint e.g. standing up against the GST hikes, Minister's pay hikes, etc. The idea is they can win at elections when conditions are right and they need to avoid trouble until they get there. There are problems with both strategies. The SDP will find it very hard to recruit people until something goes very wrong with Singapore....the risk of joining them is just too high for most people. The WP's problem is if they play too soft, people will start to wonder what is the difference between them and some of the PAP backbenchers. I think while Sylvia clearly expressed some of the differences she had with with the ruling party on those system tweaks, she played it too soft....and I think she missed the big elephant in the scheme of things...
First, Sylvia should be an angry woman. She is the chairwoman of a political party which was denied a permit to host a cycling event a few months back[Link]. The PAP frequently uses such tactics to limit the activities of its political opponents. There is no level playing field and there is nothing in the recent tweaks that levels the playing field. The PAP govt links the estate upgrading to votes which is blatant pork barrel politics. Doesn't Sylvia feel disadvantaged when she cannot offer the $500M upgrading that the PAP candidates can? ...and what about those repressive laws like printing presses act, public order act, film act, broadcasting act, OSA, ISA etc that stifled the citizens freedom to gather and exchange ideas..and created a climate of fear. The lack of a freedom of information act? The lack of respect for human rights?
Come on, Sylvia, the system has been unfair and unjust to the Worker's Party and the ordinary citizens of Singapore. We want to vote you in to change the system not to support it and perpetuate it.
CNA should ve invited chee soon juan and interview him instead. does chee like sylvia?
:p
