The WikiLeaks fallout: PAP getting a bitter taste of its own medicine?

As Singapore appears to be embroiled in a protracted diplomatic spat with its neighbors following a series of damning releases by WikiLeaks, one cannot helping wondering how a small country has become so maligned and vilified at least in the region after the United States of America.

The shocking releases of Singapore diplomats making unflattering remarks about Malaysia, Thailand, Japan and India by two Australian papers last Sunday was followed swiftly by another diplomatic cable leaked on WikiLeaks a few days later with PAP strongman Lee Kuan Yew calling Burma’s generals “stupid” and “dense” and expressing his reservations about Laos, Cambodia, Burma and Vietnam joining ASEAN.

Poor George Yeo must have a busy time of late trying to contain the damage from the diplomatic fallout.

It doesn’t matter if MFA comments on the leak, less so if they are really mere “gossip” and “cocktail talk” as Mr Yeo will want the world to believe. The fact remains that Singapore’s reputation has taking a battling with even the Japanese media giving extensive coverage on Tommy Koh’s remarks on them being a “big fat loser.”

Does it surprise us or anybody that our diplomats and leaders are capable of making the most callous, disrespectful and yes, undiplomatic comments about their purported friends and allies within diplomatic circles?

Singapore officials have acquired a reputation of being condescending and arrogant with a “superiority complex” over its neighbors, noted a Malaysian diplomat which is why Malaysia Foreign Minister Anifah Aman said quite frankly that he did not expect an apology from Singapore when he handed a protest note to the Singapore’s High Commissioner in Kuala Lumpur.

The “holier-than-thou” attitude displayed by our leaders has peeved off quite a number of countries over the years though they may not have expressed it explicitly out of courtesy, coupled with their propensity to sue the foreign media, doesn’t make them exactly popular among some countries in the region.

While Australia has maintained friendly ties with Singapore for a number of years, the same cannot be said of the Australia media whose coverage of Singapore is always less than favorable.

Nearly 1,000 cables were leaked by WikiLeaks exclusively to the two Australian papers – why did they choose to pick on Singapore only and not on others?

Consider the following headline carried on the Sydney Morning Herald:

Big fat red faces for Singapore leaders

Though the comments were made by Singapore diplomats, the Australian paper chose to shift the focus to Singapore’s leaders instead.

When PAP strongman Lee Kuan Yew visited Australia in 2007 to receive a honorary doctorate from Australia National University, he was ”welcomed” by some 150 placard-holding students protesting against the award and calling him a “dictator”. (source: smh)

An obviously peeved Lee later had a run-in with the waiting Australian journalists:

“If I allowed you to run my country, we would spiral down to rock bottom,” he ticked them off in his usual condescending tone.

Many years ago, when he was the Prime Minister of Singapore, Lee had run down Australia as the “white trash of Asia“, an insult which is still not forgotten by the Australians to this very day.

Had Singapore’s leaders shown more humility and respect to others, we may not find ourselves in such a predicament now. There are many ways the foreign media can “fix” us and there is no way our litigious PAP leaders can seek legal recourse.

Wait, let us not forget that the founder of WikiLeaks Julian Assange is an Australian too. We can expect more such damaging diplomatic cables from Singapore to be released and cooked up by the Australian press in the next few weeks ahead.

 

Jay

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78 Responses to “The WikiLeaks fallout: PAP getting a bitter taste of its own medicine?”

  • No hope:

    @Jay and TR,

    That should be “white trash of Asia”.

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  • PAP Sucks:

    Most countries in the West have a dimmed view of Singapore, particularly in respect of its lack of political maturity and lack of freedom and respect for the individual.

    Typically, the West usually tone down its disdain of Singapore when the West needs a foothold in South East Asia.

    Most Australians dislike Singaporeans. It is a matter of fact.

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  • Alan Tang:

    Since the ‘Cocktail’ has accidentally spilled out, we must endeavour to quickly clean up the cock and tail to contain any unpleasant fallouts which may lead to a full blown ‘Cocktail Gate !’ Langgar Tiang dah !

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  • Alan Wong:

    Maybe it’s a kind of sweet revenge for unjustly sending one of their fellow journalists to jail. Since you are such a bully, why would we spare you any shame either ? A kind of tit for tat.

    Our Singapore PAP leaders just simply has a long way to learn to be more accomodating and less arrogant towards others, especially starting with its own citizens.

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  • Jimmy phua:

    I hoped the countries mentioned , is the diplomats not the singaporeans who are making those gossips and cocktails. Singaporeans can assured u we are not like that.

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  • Muhamad Nur:

    Or is it because the 50 thousand Singaporeans living in Australia now are not glorifying Singapore the way we thought they do? :-P

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  • Good Medicine:

    When pastor Rony made some bad remarks, the ISD invited him for tea.
    The ISD should invite these leaders for a wild party.

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  • jacpot:

    Respectable piece of writing!

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  • Bob the builder:

    Dude, its not “Australia National University”.
    Its “The Australian National University”.

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  • Ryan T:

    I think you’re right when you say that Australian media coverage of Singapore “is always less than favorable”, and that they seem to be picking on Singapore specifically. I think we need to ask, who are the gatekeepers in this release of confidential information? We know that Wikileaks passed the information on to SMH, which later published it. But so far things are one-sided. We do not know what other countries say about Singapore. Why? Because these ‘leaks’ simply haven’t been published. For all you know, Wikileaks never passed whatever controversial comments other countries might have said about Singapore on to SMH. Or Wikileaks may have done so, but SMH simply didn’t publish them. I wouldn’t be surprised if Malaysia, India, Japan, etc., said equally nasty things about Singapore. A newspaper with a certain agenda may simply screen the information it has, releasing or withholding certain information for a particular agenda. And then we have MPs in these countries calling on Singapore to explain such remarks when their own ambassadors might have said equally controversial things. We would never know, either because Wikileaks didn’t have that info, or had that info but didn’t pass on the info, or had the info and passed the info but the newspaper that received it didn’t pass it on.

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  • eaglefly:

    leenasty is not wrong when he said australia was the white trash of asia, during gough whitlam days, when all whites were given citizenship but not others and there were plenty of racism those days, even the natives suffered,healthy babies claim to be dead on arrival, is that not playing, GOD.

    yes white australia is not good those days, 1970’s and until 1985, when sydney is overrun by viet and chinese, the face of white aust changes to that of yellow asia, not good either.

    anyway, because of asx, the need to prevent singapore from taking over aust is very REAL, and i can’t blame the aussies, look at what is happening here, poor became poorer, middle class became lower class and the rich became SUPER RICH, at the expense of SLAVE LABOR, what a crap way to go…….

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  • WikiLeaks is the answer to arrogance:

    not too long ago, quite a number of netizens mentioned about the internet being god’s gift, predicting it will expose the arrogant PAP leadership and their Straits Times propaganda mouth piece. with the way things have unravelled for the PAP at light speed, i must say those netizens certainly had the foresight.

    simply put, without the internet, no WikiLeaks.
    No WikiLeaks, no exposure…and most deserving has to be the arrogant PAP leadership.

    i hope WikiLeaks becomes better and ‘betterer’, providing monetary reward to encourage more whistle-blowers to expose the PAP leadership, starting with the father and son.

    come to think of it, WikiLeaks has kicked start the GE campaign for PM Lee and his ministars…

    or perhaps it’s time for PM Lee to make his trade mark disappearing act a permanent one. LOL

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  • Bernard CHAN:

    “Poor George Yeo”? Excuse me “poor”?

    $3 million per year plus bonus, poor?

    All he needs now is to sue the WikiLeaks in the world-class court and sue all those who dare to publish in their website.

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  • eaglefly:

    Or is it because the 50 thousand Singaporeans living in Australia now are not glorifying Singapore the way we thought they do?
    =======

    are you VERY sure there are 50k locals in aust, its not one of the numero uno dest for locals in the 70’s, 80’s or 90’s lah…

    in fact its only for those with low cheap education and work wise, not attractive lah, compared to london and ny.

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  • Lee Kuan You:

    Australia as the “white thrash of Asia“, but Lee Kuan Yew forgot to mention that Lee Kuan Yew is the SCUM of Singapore.

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  • sad singaporean:

    Is it becoming clear that in the eyes of certain leaders here, that everyone is stupid to them?

    Arrogance?

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  • Patriotic Indonesian:

    Wakakakka.. Haven’t I told you stupid Singaporeans not to mess around with me?? See what you guys have gotten into.. All thanks to your leaders.. And many thanks to my friends in the Human Rights Watch, UN & WikiLeaks.. Hehe.. What a satisfaction !!

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  • YEO-MAN:

    ummm,the only politicians who will benefit from all these’wikileaks’ would be those WHO DO SERIOUS WORK FOR THEIR CITIZENS AND THEIR COUNTRIES AND WHO DON’T WASTE TAXPAEYERS’ RESOURCES BY UNPRODUCTIVE COMPLACENT GOSSIPPING.

    who among the MIWs are serioulsy working for th citizens and not wasting time gossipping?

    could someone enlighten us all?

    ..maybe an MIW or BETETR STILL,A GOOD AND HARDWORKING MINISTER HERE???

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  • darius:

    hey people, can you guys stop insulting lee kuan yew,,he is the founding father of singapore.can u imagine u insulting ur own father.

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  • Matilah_Singapura:

    Do you think Lee Kuan Yew is “worried” about what he (allegedly) said?

    Fucking get real lah, children. The guy and most of his cronies have THICK SKIN. You cannot survive politics if you don’t have that pre-requisite, because everytime you get “caught out” or “insulted” you act like the cry babies you find posting on sites like the Temasek Review — wailing ans screaming for their mother’s nursing breasts.

    Waaaaa!

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  • insulting ...:

    when the leadership in Singapore calls it’s own citizens lazy, daft, not driven enough without spurs, it is hard to see how they will respect another country’s leadership, citizens.

    arrogance in the PeeAPee is not new, it is in their DNA, because of all the inbreeding within. C how many of them are related to one another, and not forgetting the Eunuchs media that continue to blow their trumpet for them day in and out. They head is stuck so deeply in their asshole, it is impossible for them to hear anything other than their own fart.

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  • bert:

    to the foreign trash: lee kuan yew is a traitor to singapore just like mao tze tong is a dictator to china.

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  • James:

    Let more of the fire and brimstones rain on the arrogant pappies! More! More! More!!!

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  • BarkingDog:

    @darius

    Stop barking! Your father has adopted kids to replace you and you are nothing but a dog! Do back and do some reading on history please.

    Mod: please guys, no need to attack the person if you don’t agree with him…

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  • The Repubican guy I recommend AsianCowgirl:

    Arrogant- yes indeed, any country that is NOT losing be enough deals are “FAT LOSERS” Materialism is the KING of the day

    Immoral- aggressive and pernicious, why the rush??? Vietnam must developed fast, China must developed fast, let be pushy, let open up Africa & Latin American. Materialism is the KING of the day. Enivroment is not important, Social issue is not important.
    Ah Beng:”your younger sister so pretty, why waste her youth, come & sell lah, work in factory can paid her how much, make money must be fast, time and season wait for no one
    Ah Benh:”your mother sit at home watch TVB drama, got money to make you don’t want meh, mamasan

    Greedy: Yes indeed, thick gold necklace. Vietnam had arrived, show off to the Western World. China every year the landscape changes, show off to the Western World. India don’t know how to make money, she is STUPID hor. Japan is not making those kind of money anymore, she is the FAT LOSER, why now become so blur sotong.
    Like money so much!!! Every country in the eyes of Singapore is a Money Making Machine. You make money we like you, you don’t make money you are stupid

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  • James:

    Darius, the son of the running dog – you are whom you have identified yourself. lky served as a translator for the Japanese military occupiers that makes him a TRUE BLUE RUNNING DOG, and YOU, THE TRUE BLUE SON OF THE TRUE BLUE RUNNING DOG.

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  • The Repubican guy:

    Immoral, Greedy and Arrogant is the best description, Singapore had become cocky, behaving like big shot, very sobbish, only the European had nose in the air, now we are becoming like one.

    Europeans what the rush ???
    The Europeans push their cars so fast, it crash into the wall.

    We shall see how China car moves faster & faster…inflation is creeping. India should follow China footsteps or you become STUPID

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  • God Help SG:

    Thanks to WikiLeaks, Retribution has finally arrived. Now is their turn to swallow the bitter medicine created by themselves to purify their body and mind.

    But on the other hand, the bitter medicines we are forced to swallow over the last few decades are far more poisonous and it has toxicant our mind and soul.

    We need antidote!

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  • sitting bull:

    darius:
    December 16, 2010 at 1:36 pm darius(Quote)

    hey people, can you guys stop insulting lee kuan yew,,he is the founding father of Singapore.can u imagine u insulting ur own father.

    >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

    My father , would not lock up my hard earn money .
    My father would not charge me sky high 99 years pigeon coop.
    My father when i am sick will take care of me .

    You and others brain wash , clueless Singaporean is what cause
    the problem we are facing now .
    Please wake up your fucking idea .

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  • watuwan:

    @darius

    Please dun associate MY father with Lee Con U, its an insult to do so. My father is a kind hearted honorable gentleman.

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  • WesternUnionBand:

    It is a open secret that the Singapore government are arrogant towards Malaysia…but with the wikileaks..now we know that they are arrogant towards everybody.

    Every weekends I see Singaporean coming to mersing, Cherating to have a great rest there as if they just came out from prison.Poor Singaporean, we do pity you. DAP is modeled after PAP thats why we do not want them in Malaysia, they measure success with only money and statistic and couldnt care less about living in harmony.

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  • anonymous:

    @darius:
    December 16, 2010 at 1:36 pm
    HEY I THOUGHT YOU SAID YOUR FATHER IS HU JIN TAO. You claimed you are from PRC.

    http://www.temasekreview.net/2010/12/12/wikileaks-lee-kuan-yew-on-anwars-sodomy/

    darius: hey people, can you guys stop insulting lee kuan yew,,he is the founding father of singapore.can u imagine u insulting ur own father.

    Could YOUR founding father be the late Mao Tze Tung instead? Or did you come out from different “factory” and you still unsure which one?

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  • The Repubican guy Don't upset people in the name of pursing Economcial Success:

    Our Government is obsessed in making money, we had taxi driver punching MP, we had a youth throwing chair at MP, we had another taxi driver pour flammable liquid on MP and set fire
    Our Goverment may think that those cannot make a living must be STUPID or FAT LOSER

    What a upset person, a angry person do in USA ???
    He is jobless, and the board just sack his wife
    In the end his took his own life
    http://newsone.com/nation/newsonestaff2/clay-duke-facebook-suicide-note-v-for-vendetta-school-board-shootin/

    The board promise to give his wife a jobs but it came too little too late, he spray V For Vendetta, a reworking of the famous Anarchy symbol, though the red paint is indicative of the film for SOCIAL JUSTICE.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3gUyeFqAbw
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbIk6RvZI7A

    This is stark remainder to any Govt. who push your citizen to the limited, before they do something really to stupid. Our Govt. is greedy for materialism, kept pushing the cars until it crash onto the wall. When the bubble burst, real people lose their jobs, this really upset people!!!

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  • Ah Gong:

    The other Countries may not have so much to report to USA that caused the leak in Wikileaks simply theyare not “Agent” or “Watchdog” for USA.

    Singapore GOV looks more like serving the secret service of USA, reporting too many things to them.

    Ryan T: I think you’re right when you say that Australian media coverage of Singapore “is always less than favorable”, and that they seem to be picking on Singapore specifically. I think we need to ask, who are the gatekeepers in this release of confidential information? We know that Wikileaks passed the information on to SMH, which later published it. But so far things are one-sided. We do not know what other countries say about Singapore. Why? Because these ‘leaks’ simply haven’t been published. For all you know, Wikileaks never passed whatever controversial comments other countries might have said about Singapore on to SMH. Or Wikileaks may have done so, but SMH simply didn’t publish them. I wouldn’t be surprised if Malaysia, India, Japan, etc., said equally nasty things about Singapore. A newspaper with a certain agenda may simply screen the information it has, releasing or withholding certain information for a particular agenda. And then we have MPs in these countries calling on Singapore to explain such remarks when their own ambassadors might have said equally controversial things. We would never know, either because Wikileaks didn’t have that info, or had that info but didn’t pass on the info, or had the info and passed the info but the newspaper that received it didn’t pass it on.

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  • sturmtruppen:

    To The Repubican guy Don’t upset people in the name of pursing Economcial Success: December 16, 2010 at 4:52 pm

    …and we have this PAP diplomat Bilahari Kausikan stating the below in the past -

    “We have to be realistic. There is a limit to how much re-training we can do for some workers, so we have to look overseas. Look at my generation, more than half of them didn’t even complete primary school education. What are we going to do? They are not going to conveniently die off…”

    Shows how much they [group thinking] want the citizens of singapore to died off or be replaced…and they still dare to call or even sill think of themselves as human beings with a conscience?

    yeah…i know it is all about context…just like reading between the lines…and seeing the “words coming out of the mouth” to see the actions claimed to be done/doing matches the words in the end!

    Haiz.

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  • OurVoice:

    WikiLeaks: Big trouble when truth becomes treason

    The question that should be uppermost in the public’s mind is can they trust their governments to give them a straight and honest answer? If not, then WikiLeaks fills an indispensable role that ordinary journalists can never fill despite all their best efforts at giving us the news without fear or favour.

    The leaked documents tell us what the politicians really think behind the diplomatic niceties and duplicitous misleading of their own citizens.

    WikiLeaks is indispensable in a world where lying is considered patriotism and exposing the lie treachery. When governments paint it white when they think and act black, then we are all in serious danger of being misled and misinformed.

    The leaks may seem unethical but how else can ordinary citizens get the truth when their governments misrepresent the facts?

    So far in 2010, forty-two journalists have been killed and most of them were covering political and corruption cases. WikiLeaks in contrast is the repository of leaks from various whistleblowers that covers a wide range of topics in the public interest. Many journalists volunteer their services to the organization which does not solicit for leaks.

    ‘Without fear or favour’ is a cliché for many who bring us the news but WikiLeaks has proven it is not afraid to tread on big toes with promises to release corrupt business dealings even in Russia. No wonder some feel Julian Assange should be eliminated in a world of collapsed morals.

    http://www.malaysianmirror.com/homed…ecomes-treason

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  • 47 MP:

    darius: hey people, can you guys stop insulting lee kuan yew,,he is the founding father of singapore.can u imagine u insulting ur own father.

    He is your Father? Try going to his home on Chinese New Year or during his Birthday…..Tell the guards at the gate that you are paying respect to YOUR Father…….See what they will do to you……..

    Pls understand the meaning of a Founding Father……

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  • Be Fair To All:

    I think some form of international conspiracy has been in the working to topple this highly successful country called Singapore. They can’t topple Singapore from ‘within’ because its people are well known to be strong supporters of their government and are prepared to go into fire with the government anytime. So they have to topple Singapore from ‘outside’.

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  • Dawn:

    PAPigs tasted their own bitter medicine from Wikileaks fallouts.

    More “bitterer” medicine coming from us with “freak” election results.

    Vote PAPigs out!

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  • PAP is PRO ALIEN PARTY. SINGAPOREANS GO JUMP.:

    Founding father my ass. The only thing he founded was a multi billion corporation(ie. Chinapore) for his son asshole loong.

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  • Em:

    No doubt abt the ripe harvest tm for PAP to reap wht it sow.

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  • Muhamad Nur:

    eaglefly> QUOTE
    are you VERY sure there are 50k locals in aust, its not one of the numero uno dest for locals in the 70’s, 80’s or 90’s lah…
    in fact its only for those with low cheap education and work wise, not attractive lah, compared to london and ny.
    ——————————————————————–

    About 150,000 Singaporeans are today studying or living overseas, according to officials.

    Last year, 2,703 Singaporeans emigrated to Australia, and about 1,000 each to Canada and the US, according to news reports. More than 10,000 Singaporeans are living in Hong Kong.

    –It seems to me Australia is the numero UNO now. ;-P

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  • MelayuJB:

    nevermind guys.
    i agree with what anifah aman said,we aren’t expecting an apology from singaporean leaders.LKY insulting our country was not new.many of us knew it already.very recently he made disdainfully remarks to US media.

    Having carefully read a transcript of the 1 September Seth Mydans interview with Lee Kuan Yew for the New York Times and International Herald Tribune, I haven’t been able to find where Lee calls Malaysia a “failed state”.

    What he actually said when asked if he had any disappointments in his career was, “Well, first I regret having been turfed out of Malaysia. I think if the Tunku had kept us together, what we did in Singapore, had Malaysia accepted a multiracial base for their society, much of what we’ve achieved in Singapore would have been achieved in Malaysia. But not as much because it’s a much broader base.”

    PAP made singapore very racist country.
    i refer this to big-fat-greedy singapore politician,
    not to the commoners.

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  • Repubican I recommen Asian Cowgirl she will love it bite her lower lips tilt her head back:

    darius:
    December 16, 2010 at 1:36 pm darius(Quote)
    hey people, can you guys stop insulting lee kuan yew,,he is the founding father of singapore.can u imagine u insulting ur own father.

    Gee, I never Lee Kuan Yew was your dad, sorry dude. Are you sure he is your dad, have you check your DNA, lucky b@stard, you don’t need to work for the rest of your life, liao

    Here are the New Trends of the World
    CCTV 4 温家宝:”印度永远是的朋友,永远不是的对手”
    China is shift her position in the World
    Before I start, I thought I seen “an american in disguise”
    Mr Wen spoke of promoting Free Trade, Globalisation, Common Interst, Region Stability, History of 2 countries, Anti-protectionism…

    1) North Korea = China is keeping a arm lenght from this spoil child
    2) Pakistan = China is moving away from Pakistan towards India
    Mr Wen spoke of supporting India a permenant seat in United Nation
    Mr Obama also support India a permenant seat in the United Nation

    Noticed: Pakistan used to make an income from growing terrorist with thousands of religious school, we can fight terrorist but you had to give us MONEY. Pakistan used to make an income, China & India fought a boarder war, Pakistan took the opportunity to support China.
    Well, conlcusion this is a Game Changer. Pakistan had to find a “New Way Of Making A Living” both USA and China want to friendship with India. (The World as we know it, she is changing again)

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  • Leak Kong Yaw:

    LKY Remarks on Burma:

    http://wikileaks.ch/cabrle/2007/10/07SINGAPORE1932.html

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  • Repubican Inverted Missonary she will love it too she will bite her lower lips and tilt her head back:

    Be Fair To All:
    December 16, 2010 at 5:57 pm Be Fair To All(Quote)
    I think some form of international conspiracy has been in the working to topple this highly successful country called Singapore. They can’t topple Singapore from ‘within’ because its people are well known to be strong supporters of their government and are prepared to go into fire with the government anytime. So they have to topple Singapore from ‘outside’.

    You watch too many James Bond movies liao. Singapore is not part of the chess game, The reason why Japan during WW2 wanted to capture Singaore because of our sea port. Japan was running out of raw materials Philipness, Indonesia, Malaysia, Burma is plentiful. The only guy in town that can sink their cargo ship is USA ships station at Hawaii, that is why Peral Habour is attack but USA was spare.
    I don’t remember any country interested in Sngapore in the history

    You know Hillary Clinton recently said:”We are walking away from the Road Map” Many countries believe USA can do everything and anything she like, but we can’t impose or force a solution. It had to be substainable. (The Isreal & Palestine talks is DEAD) so is with the (Six Party Talks) China had no influnce over that spoil child (nuclear underground testing) just as USA can’t stop North Korea from testing an underground nuclear bomb. Geopolitics is very complicated want lah

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  • sperm:

    Singapore became the SPG? Pinkerton syndrome ?

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  • darius:

    kwa geok choo is the founding mother of singapore. hsien loong is the son of the founding father of singapore. we must respect him, hsien loong was from cambidge. he is the smartest.

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  • LKYjelly legs.:

    Screw that bro, he is a dictator and an arrogant big mouth little guy. I bet he got picked on in school. He need to do a permanent disappearing act. I’d like to break his nose.

    darius: hey people, can you guys stop insulting lee kuan yew,,he is the founding father of singapore.can u imagine u insulting ur own father.

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  • amy:

    darius: hey people, can you guys stop insulting lee kuan yew,,he is the founding father of singapore.can u imagine u insulting ur own father.

    Hey Darius, can you stop the brainwashing and stop insulting TR readers intelligence, people here know who is the real founding father, can you imagine your own father selling you out.

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  • wang:

    I would like to see foreign leaders make remark on our leaders like this:”LKY and his fellows keep thinking that Singapore is the adopted son of America.”

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  • The Repubican Guy Ex-President Pervez Musharraf the angry old man of Pakistan:

    darius:
    December 16, 2010 at 1:36 pm darius(Quote)

    Hey Darius, how about fishing information from your Daddy his perspective on the future of North Asia???

    I watch an intervew of Ex-President Pervez Musharraf the angry old man of Pakistan. As usual his behavior is almost like North Korea.
    His threat are (if they) want to befriends with India having a closer relationship. Don’t be surprised if Pakistan is overtaken by the Taliban.
    (if they) must be refered to China and USA moving closer to India. Both agreed to support India with a permenant seat in United Nation.
    Can we the international community take “Pakistan Threats” or just brush it off as Blackmail for for economical assistance???
    Try to find out MM Lee perspective on this matter, Pakistan and North Korea had nuclear materials

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  • darius:

    to all MM lee’ critics:

    you guys are just champion grumblers who whine non-stop.

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  • Vote For Change:

    Hey People!

    All must never, never, never spoil your votes!

    Vote for change!

    The Puppies in white sure lose!

    Google for “British Union of Fascists” and you will see a very familiar logo!

    We do not want fascists in Singapore!

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  • SPERM:

    The founding fathers and mothers of Singapore are Singaporeans and not a single man… so dont confuse yourself with your own words, you know what they say, if you keeping repeating your rubbish,eventually you will believe it

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  • msg for darius:

    To darius,
    you sound like a person who mindlessly adore LKY and his family members, and i will not be surprise you actually dream of becoming Lee Hsien Loong’s or Ho Ching’s underwear.

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  • The Big Boss:

    @darius: I don’t think you were born in Singapore, were you?? You sound so fake..
    My guess is you are an imported item..

    Well, you can say whatever you want.. but PAP is dead..

    I SAY, VOTE FOR CHANGE!!! YES, WE CAN!!!

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  • anonymous:

    darius:
    December 16, 2010 at 10:22 pm
    And you are the lowest grovelling a*selicker that wags your tail when your “PRC” master bark. Farting of falsehoods is as natural to you as we breathe oxygen, right?

    Are you descendant of PRC or PRC national or PRC Dayak from the Borneo jungle or still confused of your origin as with your bearing of truths and falsehoods?

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  • darius:

    PAP must stay in power. otherwise singapore will be dead. People wake up. Opposition leaders are not as competant as PAP leaders. Dun VOTE for change. it will only change for the worst.

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  • Jack:

    I hope the stupid so call leaders can think before they babble…..

    They are the trash of our community!

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  • Big PAP Hypocrites:

    Notice how hypocritical PAP are.
    The do exactly opposite of what they preach.

    PAP (especiall old man) sue literary anyone for saying anything that damage their characters. Yet they go around and say trash to damage other peoples character.

    PAP wants absolute soverignty and does not want anyone to mess with their own internal affairs. Yet they go around advising other nations and messing with other peoples internal affairs.

    Time for us to open our eyes to the big PAP hypocracies, that the MSM is trying to cover up.

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  • Han:

    The article mentioned “The fact remains that Singapore’s reputation has taking a battling ………etc.”

    I think what you were treating to say was “The fact remains that Singapore’s reputation has been taking a beating……..etc”

    =)

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  • Han:

    Hehe, made a typo myself.

    I meant, “I think what you were trying to say was “The fact remains that Singapore’s reputation has been taking a beating……..etc”

    =)

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  • doctorwho:

    darius: PAP must stay in power. otherwise singapore will be dead. People wake up. Opposition leaders are not as competant as PAP leaders. Dun VOTE for change. it will only change for the worst.

    hey darius, wake up your idea, if another term of ass loong and monster mouth, we be all be living dead. Of course, the small elite group will be drinking their cocktail while the majority going to work like zombie. In the majority minds, only these words “where to get money to repay debt. why more debts”?

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  • lan jiao:

    darius:
    December 16, 2010 at 1:36 pm darius(Quote)

    hey people, can you guys stop insulting lee kuan yew,,he is the founding father of Singapore.can u imagine u insulting ur own father.

    >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

    he is your father ? do you mind tell me how many father you have ?

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  • LKY:

    darius:
    December 16, 2010 at 11:40 pm darius(Quote)
    PAP must stay in power. otherwise singapore will be dead. People wake up. Opposition leaders are not as competant as PAP leaders. Dun VOTE for change. it will only change for the worst
    Dear Darius
    Please tell me you are kidding. You are either a PAP stooge or you are hoping to be accepted as one. Good luck to you.

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  • Douchebag:

    Vote For Change: “British Union of Fascists”

    Wah lan neh…PAP with nazi colours!

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  • anonymous:

    PEEPING-AT-PANTIES whitey jerks are the most COMPETENT in peeping women panties of all colours than anyone else. Who can dispute that??

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  • peter hsieh:

    lan jiao PAP kah lan por lam par vote opposition

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  • Good Medicine:

    Retribution has certainly come. God is repaying them for the way they have abused Pastor Rony. They have used their mass media, esp the Straits Times, to stir up hatred against the church. The pastor’s comments was blown out of all proportion and they used a few students to camouflage their attack. Now let them be punished for their remarks.

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  • Nonya & Baba:

    darius: December 16, 2010 at 8:26 pm

    ‘hsien loong ….. we must respect him, hsien loong was from cambidge. he is the smartest.’

    So smart eh? In Prime Minister’s Office got 1 Minister Mentor, 2 Senior Ministers, 2 Deputy Prime Ministers, 3 Ministers Without Portfolios (one of whom is a primarily engaged as a parliamentary jester).

    Which country got so many DPMs, SMs & MWPs? Which country got MM? Also got one Elected President. This Elected President got one key. Dunno key for what?

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  • sturmtruppen:

    To darius: December 16, 2010 at 10:22 pm darius(Quote)

    LOL…you mean LKY is not a champion grumbler himself…he did say singaporeans are champion grumbler…indirectly stating he is one too…

    Or you are too obtuse to see it? Or you are one of the “qouted” sheep which was quoted by GCT of PAP’s leedership style of singapore and of its people which is that “A lion leading a flock of sheep is better than a sheep leading a pack of lions!”….

    The ONLY “lion” i can see here is LKY….all the rest like GCT and including you are just so much sheep after all.

    Now go somewhere and do the usual bleating for your “masters” you little bleating heart of a sheep!

    Nuts.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-u0uhTGGfc

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  • Hades:

    Darius is a troll and we are falling for his trolling.

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  • anonymous:

    @ Hades:
    December 17, 2010 at 5:24 pm
    Give him credit. He has so far been splashing TR with his verbal diarrhoea.

    Hades: Darius is a troll and we are falling for his trolling.

    That is his outstanding achievement of no credibility posting. Up till now he is unsure if he is a descendant of PRC or a PRC or morphed into some Dayak mixture of PRC of wild claims on another TR thread.

    Just don’t take him seriously.

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  • RDB:

    PAP… IS GETTING BITTER TASTES OF… WHAT they ARE NOT! Meaning WHAT Lee Kuan Yew NEVER was, is and nevr will be!!! Here’s the proof for all in wanting like him…

    1. 1956 – ON Repressing And ILLICIT Love-Making!

    “Repression, Sir is a habit that grows. I am told it is like making love – it is always easier the second time! The first time there may be pangs of conscience, a sense of guilt. But once embarked on this course with constant repetition you get more and more brazen in the attack. All you have to do is to dissolve organizations and societies and banish and detain the key political workers in these societies. Then miraculously everything is tranquil on the surface. Then an intimidated press and the government-controlled radio together can regularly sing your praises, and slowly and steadily the people are made to forget the evil things that have already been done, or if these things are referred to again they’re conveniently distorted and distorted with impunity, because there will be no opposition to contradict.” – Lee Kuan Yew as an opposition PAP member speaking to David Marshall, Singapore Legislative Assembly, Debates, 4 October 1956

    2. 1982 – NO Apologies as he is “king” even if he wins GEs by default with his UNFAIR & UNJUST laws!

    “I make no apologies that the PAP is the Government and the Government is the PAP.” – Lee Kuan Yew, 1982, Petir

    3. 1987 – ON His “Greatness in Interfering in Private Lives and HE decides as Never Mind what WE think. Only his matter”!

    “I am often accused of interfering in the private lives of citizens. Yes, if I did not, had I not done that, we wouldn’t be here today. And I say without the slightest remorse, that we wouldn’t be here, we would not have made economic progress, if we had not intervened on very personal matters – who your neighbour is, how you live, the noise you make, how you spit, or what language you use. We decide what is right. Never mind what the people think.” – Lee Kuan Yew, Straits Times, 20 April 1987

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  • gutenberg:

    http://enigmafoundry.wordpress.com/2010/11/30/how-to-donate-to-wikileaks/

    donate to wikileaks and ask them to leak more on singapore

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