Quote of the day
“The new media age of Web 2.0 is threatening only if you believe that an excess of democracy is the road to anarchy.” ~ Richard Stengel, Managing Editor of TIME.
Tag Archives: democracy
A chronology of authoritarian rule in Singapore
Oct 1994 : In connection with a commentary he wrote in the International Herald Tribune stating how judiciaries in some Asian countries are compliant to ruling powers, American academic Dr.Christopher Lingle was questioned for 90 minutes by the Singapore police for possible contempt of court and criminal defamation. Within a week, he returned to the… Read More »
Kangaroo court in Singapore
Read this article and determine for yourself whether the line of questioning was irrelevant. Related posts: Singapore must be a damn safe place Straits Times lies yet again Police shocker: No difference between PAP and Government
Singapore must be a damn safe place
A recent event provided testimony that Singapore is one of the “safest” places in the world. It has few disturbances to social harmony, and when it does, the agitator is swiftly put behind bars. The event also showed that the Singapore police force must have very few crimes to solve and very few law breakers… Read More »
More of the same?
Before we get carried away by the inroads made by the opposition parties in the recently concluded general election in Singapore, here’s a cautionary analysis of the election results by Law Sin Ling:Reflection on General Election 2006(The following observation is made under the assumption that the polling process had not been perverted by widespread fraudulent… Read More »
Straightening the Straits Times (12)
“The signal we want to send to the electorate is we want you to speak and debate, we want a good election in which the issues are raised and joined and we discuss the serious matters which face Singapore.” Those are the words of PAP’s Lee Hsien Loong before the party went on to sue… Read More »