Singapore Democrats

This sort of programs by right should be on TV, but they are absent in the state TV.
This SDP web site has certainly raised the standard of the meaning of TV in Singapore.

What is important to me is not whether I've made any changes, but when I wake up in the morning I ask myself what is it that I have done? At least in my lifetime, I have tried, and that is the most important thing.

Hello, keep up the good work guys.
Only BBC HardTalk can offer you such mind blowing stuffs, the real deal
The closest you get from programmes with substance, maturity of thoughts is right here

Get Real and I say is just kids stuffs

This was an elegant, inspiring interview. Ravi carries a torch for human decency and compassion in Singapore. Singapore should be proud to call him one of its own. Ravi is correct in saying that change may not always be possible. Intentions, however, are the measure of a man.

Yes, there are world class Gems in Singapore, if you care to dig.

I first became aware of Ravi and his work during the late Shanmugam Murugesu's case in 2005, a couple of months after I joined the online political community.

If I had developed respect for Ravi then, it has grown exponentially in the last few weeks in Yong Vui Kong's case.

The death penalty is - currently - the most extreme expression of the low regard that the PAP government has always held the lives of the people that it purportedly works to benefit; there are many other expressions of that same disdain for human life as well as human-ness in other PAP initiatives if we care to examine further.

Ravi is the only lawyer, at least the only prominent lawyer, who is placing himself at that most extreme end and saying:

"STOP!. STOP RIGHT HERE! Because you haven't done the job that you were tasked to do."

Can Singapore do without him?

What a great interview. It's wonderful to see Ravi alive and well continuing his precious work.

In his interview he asks why he keeps on doing - I have a couple of answers for him:
if he doesn't who else will?
everything he has done has made a difference to others,
the returns for such much work are worth more than what money could ever buy.

Well done Ravi - we are with you!

Keep up the good work SDP!

It looks like we have an SDP wannabe on our hands, an SDP wannabe that makes grandiose claims about Opposition Unity at its first anniversary dinner but will nevertheless actually foster disunity.

I'm talking about none other that the Reform Party.

This one right after pretending that Minimum Wage is a policy initiative of the RP.

In the same vein as the so-called 'mainstream' media bias against the SDP, the so-called "non-partiasn" TOC has gotten into the same act as the fascist media by decoupling SDP initiatives and giving credit to the wrong party, it's favoured party I might add:

http://theonlinecitizen.com/2009/12/reform-party-to-release-open-letter-requesting-reduced-punishment-for-yong-vui-kong/

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Singapore’s newest political party will be putting out an open letter calling for drug trafficker Yong Vui Kong’s death sentence to be reduced, said Kenneth Jeyaretnam at the party’s discussion session on the economy held last Saturday...Before this, none of the other opposition parties in Singapore have officially spoke out against Yong’s death sentence. The closest party to do so would be the Singapore Democrat Party, which featured a video interview with Ravi Madasamy, who is Yong’s lawyer, as well as an article by ejected news correspondent Ben Bland condemning the death penalty."

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It would seem that both RP and TOC are only interested in the POPULARITY of issues, and especially long after the SDP doses all the grunge work for it; RP and TOC can after that claim full credit for the current level of support for the abolishment of the death penalty once the issue gains traction.

Before that, they will not hesitate to either stigmatize the SDP by distancing themselves fro it or worse, demonize it for standing for issues that are not POPULAR.

Frightened Monkeys or what?

Very good to see Ravi in good health and spirit. Like Dr Chee and everyone deeply involve within SDP, the activists and their families, he fights for what he believes in and for the sake of others, with undying and unselfish passion. Something which most of us are sadly lacking. Pray that everyone in SDP and the activists be rewarded with many blessings for their good works, and pray that all of us would eventually have such kind of passion and courage that they have.

Is it possible for the opposition to write a book: "After the PAP"? Just a suggestion.

Ravi, you are an inspiration and example to us to live courageously and generously, guided by conscience and compassion. You may not have changed anything yet, but you certainly have made a difference.