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Late Lee Kuan Yew 1951年 开始在政治部服务 那时我们的部门已经监视李光耀的活动 他在英国求学时已经很激烈的参加英国共产党组织 的活动 他毕业后回国辅政司已经有一份拘留令等着他 不知道他那里修来的福 忽从政治出现一位他的贵人 是一位 高级英国藉警官 他说服辅政司把李光耀的拘留令取消. 薪加坡那个时期是在紧急法令统制下 一切公开政治活动都受到牵制 马共在进行它的武装斗争 李光耀还没有他可能发挥他的政治野心的空间 他最大的缺点是缺乏群众基础 在1953尾一个大政治暴风拫横扫薪加坡 一夜间一百多间左翼工会，铜锣剧社，校友会，妇女会以及其他左翼组织出现在政坛上 从幕后出来领导这些左翼团体是一位未经传的林清祥 这是不是马共的新政策 陈平在1951年召开一个中央会义讨论如何挽回很糟的战场损失 会义决定开第二阵线来补充战争 马共发出一份政策指示名十月决义（October Resolution） 政治部有看过这份决义 这第二联合阵线是不是马共所指导的共开组织不言而喻. 林请祥是受过训练而他的领导表现非常杰出 他有一种魅力能吸引他的群众 他的群众基础非常广 他讲一流的福建话 他的福建话演讲没有人能比 李光耀几乎完全没有群众基础 林请祥好像是从天降的贵人 从那时侯起李光耀 就当林请祥是神仙而紧紧的贴近他 但是很矛盾的他也当林清祥是他的政敌 是他的政治野心要当总理的拌脚石 在任何选举他都不是林请祥的对手 如果历史可以自然的发展而政治部不採取行动李光耀可能成为林清祥的階下囚. 1959年薪加坡在新的宪制下举行大选 林清祥在1956年尾暴乱中与他的联合阵线的领袖被拘留还没有释放 所以不能够竞选 这正反映着李光耀的野心 林清祥是他的克星 林不能竞选而李光耀现在全无敌手的情况竞选 行动党得到压倒性的胜利而李光耀成为总理 林清祥与几位一齐被拘留的联合阵线也被释xia放 从此是官民关系而李光耀利用他的权力紧紧的监视他们 李光耀的确对新加坡的民生与繁荣有很大的贡献 但他对他的政敌的残忍手段有良知的公民都不敢恭维 这有可能是心理有一种对共产党的恐惧感 他可能会在幻想中感到有一天会落在共产党的手中 有可能在保护他本身的安全作出残忍的决定 这些都是我所观察而没有證据来证明的. 李光耀虽然智慧很高但的人格差得很 我在1961年的美国中央情报局的间谍案中所给他的贡献 把他在美国人面前的身价高高提起 反过来他在国会大厦以电视直播国内外謊言诽谤我 不可思义 他的谎言荒谬到不攻可破 我可能採取法侓行动吗？ 你認为新加坡有法官有胆量判李光耀有罪 我快要跑完我人生的路途 我要政府还我一个清白 我要求李显龍向我公开道歉 他保持缄默 可能给我吓到 没关系如果他要摆架子 我已经与他有过交量 我有邀请他与我在智慧和政治上博弈 他是剑桥大学优秀生 我是中四毕业但我是经过火的洗礼. 李显龙这样嚣张怎么可以为民服务 他与他的贪婪同僚把百多万人民的钱饱入私囊为人民服务 你们有没有听过这种耻辱和滑稽的言论？   Yoong Siew Wah * The author was the Director of Singapore’s Internal Security Department (ISD) from 1971 to 1974. He was Director of the Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau (CPIB) in the 1960s, and had a distinguished career in the Singapore Special Branch in the 1950s. ** This is his maiden attempt at writing an article in Chinese. There were some need for more appropriate punctuations, but we have decided to leave the article verbatim to avoid losing its intended meaning.              Read More →

One of the biggest news stories to come out of the USA in the last month was the leaked memo that stated that the Supreme Court was planning of reversing “Roe vs Wade” the landmark legislation that guaranteed the right to an abortion. In the aftermath of this piece of news, a host of states started to pass anti-abortion legislation. As with much what comes out of America, the reactions were instantaneous and predictable. Conservatives and evangelical proclaimed victory while liberals decried the rolling back of basic rights. As this America, the world’s only hyperpower, the rest of us can only watch what happens and decide how we go from there. My experience with abortion is personal. I had to send my then girlfriend for an abortion because she got pregnant and it was clear that despite her efforts to tell my parents that we’d get married and raise the child, that we were in no position to raise a child. Having seen her through the abortion period, I am aware that abortion is not a pleasant experience no matter how you slice and dice it. However, it was a blessing for us to terminate the pregnancy. We wanted different things and she turned violent during the marriage. There was no way for us to last as a couple and when we left each other, we did so cleanly – it was just us separating. There was no kid in between and we could walk away from each other. Sure, one could say that I’m being punished for that since at the age of 47, it looks unlikely that I’ll never father my own flesh and blood. However, I prefer to think that I was opened up to the blessing of adopting the evil young woman and having Yooga (Joyce’s son) in my life. My views on abortion are in line with Lee Kuan Yew’s on prostitution. It’s an unpleasant thing but better for it to be legal, in the open and under proper medical care. My old English teacher (a woman) said that although she didn’t believe in abortion, the alternatives were inevitably worse and we’d probably have less healthy young women around as quite a few would have died or damaged their ability to reproduce from illegal abortions. The problem with the issue of abortion is like the problem of the real estate dispute in the Levant – namely the fact that too many people have assigned themselves as agents of God and too many of those people have decided that God has given them the exclusive to police what other people do in the bedroom. It should be telling that an NBC poll found that the majority of people who believed that abortion should be illegal are evangelical Christian. [LINK] This is the same community that believes that teaching school children of the existence of contraception is to encourage them to have pre-marital sex. It is clear that this community lives in a world where people are saints and have the ability to behave according to the rules imposed on them by the rest of society. It would seem that the evangelical community is living in paradise where no poverty, war and pestilence exist. However, as was said by Benjamin Sisko, the head of Deep Space Nine, a run-down space station in the Star Trek franchise – “it’s easy to be a saint in paradise,” and the reality is that most of us do not live in paradise. [LINK] Let’s start with the fact that many of us who don’t live in paradise have normal sexual urges and despite the advances in birth control and knowledge, this can go out of the window when the happy hormones of a sexual encounter get into play. I should know. Whenever the topic of my first marriage comes out, my mother will inevitably ask “Why wasn’t birth control in your hands?” Well, as it stupid as it sounds, I didn’t believe it would ever happen to me. This was not a “Geylang Girl,” but someone who had been a virgin at the age of 28, which was a fact that she’d remind me of whenever I tried to suggest that her going for an abortion was not my sole responsibility. Accidents do happen. Unplanned an unwanted pregnancy happen. So, what can be done? Angelina Jolie has shown us that adoption does allow children that are not wanted to find a wanted home. However, not everyone is prepared to give up their kids to a stranger and let’s not forget that a woman will have to carry the child for nine months before then, something which can be traumatic if the mother in question has a psychological precondition against seeing the pregnancy through as in the case of incest and rape (things that apparently don’t happen in evangelical paradise) Then there’s the link between unwanted pregnancy and poverty. It was found that in 2014 some 49 percent of abortion patients lived below the federal poverty line: [LINK] Why would women living in poverty seek to have an abortion? Since this is not evangelical paradise, the logical answer would be that they are simply not in the position to support another mouth. If one were to dig into the poverty figures even further, one might find that these were women whose partners bailed on them the moment the foetus started to take shape. How do children usually turn out. Well, according to a World Bank report, [LINK] Abortion is not something nice. It should never be a substitute for proper contraception. A condom and contraception pills can ensure that unwanted pregnancies don’t happen. It is better to pay $10 for a packet of condoms than $4,000 for an abortion. Having said all of that, mistakes will happen and it is better to have an unpleasant procedure done in a hospital with proper hygiene than to have women dying in back allies or unwanted children growing in environments where criminalities are normal. Just because something is not nice doesn’t mean that it should be illegal.   Tang Li *Although I’ve been based mainly in Singapore for nearly two decades, I’ve had the privilege of being able meet people who have crossed borders and cultures. I’ve befriended ministers and ambassadors and worked on projects involving a former head of state. Yet, at the same time, I’ve had the privilege of befriending migrant labourers and former convicts. All of them have a story to tell. All of them add to the fabric of life. I hope to express the stories that inspire us to create life as it should be.      Read More →

I read this interesting news about the change of leadership in Australia and the same sentence repeated, "Leave no one behind." The new Australian leader Anthony Albanese background, from a poor humble teenager rising to leader of Australia. I tend to trust his words more than what Pinky would say every year about leaving no one behind. The reason is if you don't deliver your promises or treated your citizens poorly, your outcome would be same as Scott Morrison. This is the beauty of true democracy where citizens are really the master, outcome of GE is pending who deliver the promises. Whether new or old citizen or PR, is this what you are looking for? Work till your last breath? Singapore is a place that you cannot count on CPF to retire and yet you are constantly reminded to top up to pay this and that. And this island after 40s, you are considered old to be in corporate and reminded to be retrain yourself as security captain or hawker. There is no real job for qualified professional after certain age and there is no safety net for all. In addition, we are paying world highest not just for politicians but almost any other thing. Coming back to leave no one behind. Now the MSM seems to be promoting that Singaporeans should continue to work till 90s, showing so many articles about 80 plus to 95 year old woman working and smiling suggesting to Singaporeans to continue to work till advanced age. As you go into any coffee shops, hawker centres and even malls, its a common sight many old and even sickly looking frail are working. As you know there are so many "new shields" in the CPF constantly asking you or your kids to top up, there are many reasons to why old folks in Singapore cannot retire but continue to labour to feed the high cost of living and various kind of CPF schemes. This is the so called leave no one behind story???!!! So whether you are new or old citizen, you need to think clearly where your votes are going, how this is going to benefit or impact you or your children. Would you agree?   WuJi      Read More →