Posting from Singapore

Monday, October 11, 2010

Waiting for the Singapore dictatorship to collapse.

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Waiting for the Singapore dictatorship to collapse is like waiting for an old man to die, both literally and metaphorically.

In the case of Lee Kuan Yew, who is synonymous with the one party city state itself, he is 88 years old and will die any minute. Although he presently lingers on, one thing we know is that he will die very soon, and when that happens there will be a political tsunami of change.

It is the same with the city state itself, if looked upon as an old ailing man on the throes of death.

The island's population is almost entirely alienated; the government now rules with fear and violence alone; the state controlled newspapers can only come up with propaganda, since true news is all bad; you have massive brain drain and those leaving are being replaced with half witted non English speaking foreigners who are reducing standards and quality of government; all signs of total collapse.

But for the moment the city state continues to trudge along but collapse it will and must since with these insurmountable difficulties, Lee Kuan Yew simply has no answers.

So like an old man who is terminally ill, the Singapore one party city state and it's master limp along while we, like vultures wait. We know it has to collapse, but what we do not know is when. Will it be next week, next month a year ahead? I don't think it will be more than that, as long as the present trends continue with mounting emigration and dissatisfaction all around.

It was George Orwell who said in his novel 1984, that as long as people are free to openly declare that two and two are four, everything else falls into place.

In Singapore more and more people are beginning to have the courage to say just that, and that alone is the harbinger to the dictatorship's demise.

Like a hungry vulture, I am waiting patiently next to that terminal half living corpse, the Lee Kuan Yew PAP government, on the throes of death.

Gopalan Nair
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