Political an eye for an eye between the Government and WP

In ST today, we get informed of the back story to the story. Indeed and not surprising it was just simple old fashioned, an eye for an eye. Of course going further back, the PAP government had fixed it to their advantage first. You might say this is the practice all over the world, but Singaporeans would prefer that our politicians are exceptional. Similarly our multiracial society is unique.

It takes a rare character to be like Gandhi, Mandela or Martin Luther King. To be practical, it is more realistic to assume we will not produce them. Because as Gandhi said, "an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind".

First World Parliament, First World Government? It is a strain.

We are today because we could not reproduce and appropriately evolved from our sterling beginnings. Failure provides the opportunity for alternatives. Successful self renewal from within the PAP is a busted myth.

How many times have I blogged that Singapore is gradually becoming like any other first world city. We are getting less special and our premium is eroding.

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  Ravi Philemon

  ‎"The PA is leveraging on HDB to enable PAP candidates who lost at the last elections to re-emerge as advisers to PA...The move to let PA control the sites previously managed by the tc would give PAP candidates an advantage and in preparation for the next elections...opposition candidates who lost at general elections will never ever have similar leverage..." - I totally agree with Yaw Shin Leong.

  
  

  Leasing land for activities in Hougang difficult grassroots adviser - Channel NewsAsia

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  The adviser to the Hougang grassroots organisations, Desmond Choo, shared with the media some difficulties faced by grassroots volunteers there in leasing land managed by the town council of Hougang.

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And truly giving to each deemed opposite as good as each get! Who set these unwritten rules of engagement that yielded such outcomes?

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  theonlinecitizen

  ‎"Applications to the Hougang Town Council for use of land, which has been run by the Workers' Party since 1991, were often either rejected without reason, ignored, or approved - but only a day before the event was supposed to take place, he said." Sounds like how applications for permits for public protests or screening of 'sensitive' films/plays were rejected just a day prior to the event.

  
  

  Desmond Choo wishes to transfer 6 plots of land to PA

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  Hougang SMC grassroots advisor Desmond Choo is applying for the transfer of the management of six plots of land from the opposition-run Hougang Town Council to the Peoples Association (PA).

  
  

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Update: August 25

Got this from ST forum discussion thread. If it disappears, I believe the substance of it can be found at WP website. See http://forums.asiaone.com/showthread.php?t=42260 Low Thia Kiang gave a point by point rebuttal of Desmond Choo's allegations. I wonder how Desmond is not going to lose credibility.

The PAP's moral capital is diminishing. When that is finished, other forms of corruption will appear.