Relax, Mr Marcus Yap, we will give your Holland Drive shop a free publicity blitz pretty soon !
Didn't your monkey friend Andrew Loh tell you the big "present" he received from us ?
I don't issue empty threats. I MEAN every word I say. If I said it, it will happen sooner or later.
LOL !!!
In the 50s and 60s, unlike with MCP in Malaya, there're no armed communist insurgency in Singapore. The only "communists" are those that were branded as "communists" for political dissent. Though yes, the prevention of armed insurgency spreading into Singapore was important. The movement in Singapore was democratic socialism, not communism or marxism or armed insurgency, as with Barisan Socialis and WP (the party you've joined, and both parties have since merged). The practice of branding continued into late 80s when the brand "communist" was replaced with the brand "marxist".
I do admire Lee Kuan Yew too, but for different reasons than yours. I admire how his skills in playing up and instilling fear in the populace, leveraging on whatever powers at hand to brand and quash opponents. Not how he fought communists, for there was hardly any then.
Dear Ramseth
I refer you to the memoirs of the MCP leader :_)) the name of which escapes me at the moment. If you want a read I can lend it to you. In the book he admitted to an armed struggle in the fifties and sixties in Malaya and in Singapore. He also did not deny CPM influence from a very early day in the unionist and other political parties in Singapore though he tried to downplay it in a manner which left more questions said than answered. Given the fact that the CPM was playing for keeps with armed revolution I seriously do not believe that they would have left Singapore out of the equation without some form of control over the political movement there.
Locke
Like I've said, the prevention of the spread of armed insurgency to Singapore was important, as CPM considered Singapore to be part of Malaya and therefore under their "jurisdiction". However, it never happened. The pre-emption was a credit to Lee Kuan Yew, I've admiringly conceded, but not him alone. My point is, whoever opposed him politically thereafter till he relinquished his premiership in the early 90s, he branded them as communist or marxist. Do you really believe Lim Ching Siong, Tan Wah Piow, Chia Thye Poh, Vincent Cheng, Francis Seow et al are communits or marxists? Last twist some 10 years ago was the branding of Tang Liang Hong as "Chinese chauvism" since the "brand-names" of communist and marxist have fallen out of vogue and credibility with the collapse of the USSR and the opening up of the PRC. You admire him for that?
I now believe after my recent readings that Lim Chin Siong was probably a communist or under communist influence. Both Devan Nair and the Plen apear to have confirmed as such. Chin Peng seems to suggest that Tan Wah Piow was not a communist. Vincent Cheng appeared to fall under the liberation ideology category that LKY was perturbed over after observing what happened in the Philippines. I don't think LKY claimed that Francis Seow was a communits/marxist. I think Francis fell under the category of being influenced by USA to form an oppo.
You supposedly opposition guys keep arguing about who has more access to a PAP surrogate. DAP was PAP in Malaya until 1965.
*sneer*
I now believe after my recent readings that Lim Chin Siong was probably a communist or under communist influence. Both Devan Nair and the Plen apear to have confirmed as such. Chin Peng seems to suggest that Tan Wah Piow was not a communist. Vincent Cheng appeared to fall under the liberation ideology category that LKY was perturbed over after observing what happened in the Philippines. I don't think LKY claimed that Francis Seow was a communits/marxist. I think Francis fell under the category of being influenced by USA to form an oppo.
Devan Nair was a self-declared communist, then a self-declared rehabilitatant. Francis Seow was arrested under ISA for defending the "marxist conspirators". Anyway, we're drifting off topic.
Devan Nair was a self-declared communist, then a self-declared rehabilitatant. Francis Seow was arrested under ISA for defending the "marxist conspirators". Anyway, we're drifting off topic.
Sorry for going off the record again but I think Francis was detained under the ISA over the Hank Hendrickson affair.
Back to your trip, is there a simultaneous translation service in the M'sian parliament since Bahasa is mandatory? Oh and is it now a foregone conclusion that Anwar really does not have the numbers for now since if he had he should have tabled a no confidence motion?
Dear Locke,
You will soon EAT YOUR WORDS tomorrow.
You can contact me if you need help as PKR's Tian Chua is our personal friend. He is very interested to know more about Singapore's No 1 WAYANG PARTY too.
Don't play punk with us. We have connections in Malaysia as well including DAP and PKR.