Singapore Democrats

Is he implying that those who are NOT ignorant, are also the most corrupt?

i wonder which camp does he (a Singaporean) belongs to - the "ignorant bunch" or the "non-ignorant bunch"?

A telling remark?

Years ago, when justifying retricting electioneering to only two weeks (used to be some two months}, he said it was to prevent the people becoming "confused".

"Confused" through knowing other voices than the PAP?

Keep them "ignorant" of other views and then they remain "reliable"? So, therefore all the bans and restrictions?

Maybe we should give allowance for his advancing age and obvious senility.

We learn from history that when a wicked despot after ruling his people for many decades, becomes an octogenarian,......many wicked things start to happen. Hence we see the banning of you-tubes, publications, peaceful assembly of even ONE person, etc. Dying despots also concentrate their wrath and cruel persecution on their most vocal Opp leaders.

LKY's sins are slowly but surely catching up with him. The many he detained under ISA are being released and they have come together now to point their fingers at him for the misery and torture they suffered under his orders.

LKY made a mistake....he should have banished them somehow or even eliminated them. Because he didn't and they are still alive and kicking after release, they have risen now to confront him of his evil past.

What does'nt kill you makes you stronger.

1) Singaporeans are ignorant
2) Lee Kuan Yew is a Singaporean.
What does it imply?
Anybody has information about his investment in Suzhou?

On careful reading, his saying is ambiguous.

Did he mean Singaporeans, being ignorant, are reliable and not corrupt? Or that they, being ignorant, are not corrupt and not reliable?

The latter seems to fit better, for, obviously, you are unreliable when ignorant. And grammatically, this is the meaning in his quoted statement.

But I think he meant it more subtly, that it takes knowledge and expertise to be corrupt, and therefore you are more reliable to be uncorrupt when ignorant.

So he should have said that Singaporeans, being ignorant, are not corrupt BUT (not "and") reliable.

Riddiculous! 100 000 more foreign migrants to join our workforce?? I am a singaporean and have been struggling to find a job since. This is outrageous!!

CSJ, where have you been these days? Come out and fight for justice!

Re: "If Singaporeans are ignorant, who made us this way? After all, didn't we live under PAP for more that half-a-century?"

That's the truth in JB Jeyaratnam's statement, "Lee Kuan Yew is like a Banyan Tree under which nothing will grow".

Elections are coming, the SDP is trying not to get into any more trouble at the moment which will decrease their chances of winning at the constituency they're contesting at. Please be patient and wait until after the elections before the SDP embarks on more exciting campaigns :)

I heard that PAP cadres' compulsory readings is Skinner's "Beyond Freedom and Dignity", which says that people don't really choose, but repond only to "conditioning", like a rat opening the right door to get the cheese via the mere mechanism of habituation. (So, why bother about freedom and human dignity? It's only a longwinded way of effecting the same "conditioning".)

Now, whether LKY believes Skinner's conception of the human mind, he certainly adopts his recommendation that changing behaviour via "conditionong" is poltically more efficacious. But conditioning and habituation are more effectively done the less mind, awareness and knowledge come into play.

So,it has been PAP strategy to keep people "ignorant"?
So, Singapore has become a "fine" and "reward" society for the habituation and mindless conditioning of Singaporeans' behaviour?

But then, leaving aside crucial moral issues, the mindlessness that conditioning results in ill-suits people for "creativity", etc. So, hence our crash programs to generate that artificially?

Ultimately, the responsibility still lies with Singaporeans, and not the political environment or the political leaders. They make their choice, they exercise whatever imaginations they have, they use their conscience if there is any and they cannot blame anybody else later for any consequence, whatsoever. In other words, you reap what you sow.

I will only vote for the party that can provide me with a job. By pumping in 100 000 more foreign workers won't benefit me in any way.

I don't know what will happen to the MRT trains during peak and off peak hours after bringing in 100,000 more foreign workers.