GMS the next time you want to put words in my mouth, you quote my entire paragraphs and read properly
Qte
In short, the man is an opportunist, but there is nothing wrong with that since everyone of us is one. What i find disturbing is that after the end of his PAP/NTUC days he suddenly transformed himself into a demagouge crusading for the affected Singaporeans after toeing the line for 30 plus years. Many of my friends who voted for the opposition during this year's GE have the same vibes as i do, his agenda seems to be taking revenge for whatever grievances and ignominiy done to him during his men in white time and me and my friends need not even read someone else's blogs to arrive at this conclusion.
Unqte
The theme is still the same. Even before I approach him, he has already started a blog writing about issues and answering questions about investment and insurance. You are saying you don't know him prior to now but the truth is, you don't know doesn't mean he is not doing anything publicly. That's the point. He is providing a public service on his blog.
He got involved in Minibond saga basically because a lot of those victims wrote to him via his blog. He then decided to act on it. There is really nothing "opportunistic" about it.
To tell you the truth, when I approached him prior to the Minibond saga to talk about the possibility of standing as an Elected President candidate, he wasn't that keen at all. But he shared his values with me and agreed with me that something has gone wrong with the PAP's approach in governance. He declined to contest the EP but we became friends.
When the Minibond broke out, he actually requested help from some of his PAP friends first but all of them declined to help out in the Minibond campaign. It is only thereafter, he approached me to help him out with the Mandarin speeches.
In return, Kin Lian put up his promise to support me in terms of standing on my rally stage to speak for me if I ever contest for elections again (yes, I haven't decide to stand for GE at that time). Now, at that moment, he still held the view that he will not stand for EP. Another key reason for his decline on standing for EP is that he knew his wife will object. There is absolutely NOTHING OPPORTUNISTIC about speaking on my rally stage.
The Minibond saga might have influenced his initial thought of not contesting the EP. When I talked to him again about this issue later, though he is still not convinced about the merits of contesting the EP, I suggested why not we try out the will of the people by starting the petition campaign? That's how it gets started. But apparently, the response wasn't exactly good apart from the support from some of the Minibond victims. On the other hand, his wife is still resistant to that idea. Thus, we just shelved the idea aside.
A lot of things happened since then, issues of competency of PAP governance and policy issues emerged. Kin Lian started to feel the need to come forward as a candidate for EP. Though his wife is still reluctant to support his idea, he just make his first step. Subsequently, his wife began to support his move to go for candidacy.
Thus I would say that those who see Kin Lian's involvement in my campaign as "opportunistic" I feel that is doing injustice to his good will. He kept his promise which he made during the Minibond Saga as a return of my goodwill support of him. He didn't call me to ask to speak on my rally stage before or during the GE. Nope. He didn't take that initiative at all. I was the one who called him up to request his presence and support. That is why I think it is unfair for people, especially Scroobal, to insinuate that he was manipulative or opportunistic in speaking on NSP rally.
My apology to Kin Lian to cause such misunderstanding and aspersion due to my request of him helping me out during the campaign. He didn't utter a word of blame upon me for this matter but I feel that I will need to clarify here.
Goh Meng Seng
