Self-censorship: Singapore’s Shame and me, ten years on

I first came across the book Self-censorship: Singapore’s Shame by James Gomez, sometime in late 1999, in a sundry shop at an MRT station. I was curious enough to get a copy. I read the book and found that it helped crystalise what I was feeling and thinking about for quite sometime before I bought [...]

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One Nation Under Lee hits 40,000 views on YouTube….and still counting!

Go here for the film’s website. Read also an article by Singapore Democrats, Banned film hits 40,000 views on Internet.
See also my post on amendments to the Films Act and the new Public Order Act.

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We won’t pull punches because some government threatens us – Melanie Kirkpatrick

Singapore court holds Kirkpatrick ’73 in contempt
By Ameena Schelling, Contributor
The Daily Princetonian
Published: Wednesday, March 25th, 2009
Melanie Kirkpatrick ’73, a deputy editor of The Wall Street Journal’s editorial page and a member of its editorial board, was found in contempt of court by Singapore High Court Justice Tay Yong Kwang on March 19. Kirkpatrick was also [...]

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Judgment in Singapore – Dow Jones statement

Judgment in Singapore
Mar 24, 2009
Dow Jones will continue to report and comment on matters of international importance.
From today’s Wall Street Journal Asia.
With a Singapore court’s ruling last week, the case is now closed on the latest legal action brought by the city-state’s Attorney General against this newspaper. The legal action was over two editorials and [...]

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PAP govt’s use of laws as tools for repression ensures rule ‘by’ law instead of rule ‘of’ law

First they “liberalize” the Films Act, then they tighten the screws on freedom of assembly (see Reuters & AFP reports below).
The PAP government has done so to address the “problem” – as they view it in their ever-paranoid state of mind (due to prolonged exposure to power) – of individuals/groups who have pushed the political [...]

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‘Operation Spectrum’ was political rape

I borrowed a phrase from Vincent Cheng’s chapter, Persecuted for justice’s sake, for this blog post.
His chapter is from the book titled that we may dream again. Its edited by Fong Hoe Fang and was  published this year by Ethos Books. The latter also published Our thoughts are free.
About ‘that we may dream again’

In 1987, [...]

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Video: Candidate-centric model in General Election – Dr James Gomez

See here for James Gomez’s blog.

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A very long wait in a multi-racial country

In a post last year, I talked about Vasantham Central having its own channel after 45 years.
Now comes the news that Singapore after a 30-year hiatus is producing its first Malay feature film since the Cathay Keris and Shaw Brothers era.
Singapore’s a country in which the government has had a hand, finger & fist in [...]

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The Singapore Democrats in their own words…

These are links to three articles from the Singapore Democrats. Read together, they are counterpoints to what one usually sees; hears and/or reads via the government-controlled local media,
The media agenda against the Singapore Democrats – Mar 9, 2009
Why we do what we do – Mar 5, 2009
Misconceptions about the Singapore Democrats – Feb 3, 2009
Blogpost updated Jun [...]

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So what sort of Division One Government is the PAP?

Singapore is a first world country that can’t produce and nurture talents
Statement by Mr Ng Teck Siong, Chairman of the Reform Party
10 March 2009
On 14 August 2008, Mr Lee Kuan Yew said: “They (the young generation) say, oh, let’s have multi-party politics. Let’s have different parties change and be in charge of the government … [...]

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