must read...blogger's post to MP Michael Palmer
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from sammyboy Alfresco Coffee shop forum.
http://forums.delphiforums.com/sammyboymod/messages/?start=Start+Reading+%3E%3E
Dear Michael and everyone,
Hopeless. Inept. Pathetic. Wayang.
I am sorry but I think mincing words now will give you guys the fake ego-trip that the media is giving you all. (When are we ever going to see a media that truly reflects the views form the ground? When, Michael? In the 30th Century?)
But I digress.
Two things:
One, with the public disdain (to put it mildly) for such exorbitant salaries for public servants, I wonder if real, truly altruistic, capable people will now join the PAP or the govt in a rush. It makes me wonder whether the govt has made the task of capable people joining the govt even harder. Would a TRULY altruistic, selfless, capable person now want to join the civil service when they are aware that they will and are perceived as money-grabbers by the public?
Has the PA govt shot itself in its own foot?
It wonÂ’t be the first time.
Two, I am truly ashamed at the standard of debates and speeches by the likes of you in parliament.
You guys have missed the whole point totally. You have missed the woods for the trees - all seduced and hypnotised into stupidity and narrow-mindednesss by the likes of LHL and LKY.
You think money is the panacea to this problem - but you have missed the REAL cause of the problem.
And what is that?
A political system in the throes of malfunction.
And yet, all you guys can do is to advocate more money be thrown at it to keep it going. I am not talking about partisan party politics.
I am talking about the entire system that the PAP govt has created, installed and faked.
You have created sideshows disguised as “political engagement” in our schools, particularly our tertiary institutions.
You have perverted our elections process through circumscribed coercion - where the sacred vote is reduced in value to one of using it just to decide if one wants HDN upgrading.
You have engaged in bribery, vote-buying. All well-timed with the support of a lapdog media and lapdog MPs who, as long as it benefits them, defend it with ill-logic and ignorance.
You have banned films, publications, circumscribed OB markers - all invisible. You have given yourselves the “discretionary power” to decide what is “not in the public interest”.
You have installed new rules and laws, amended them, as and when you feel the people are beginning to have real power. You curtail opposition growth - through perversions and abuse such as the GRC system, the perverted use of discretionary and “well-timed” electoral boundary re-drawing. You use tax payers money to buy votes.
You use the security forces to threaten, coerce, frighten and punish those who go against your dictates.
All these you do.
And the results are spectacular.
Half of you - and more than half of you in the past - men and women dressed in white waltz into parliament under the fake sign of victory.
And there you stay secure - knowing that all the apparatus of the state is at your disposal to use and abuse, to keep you in power.
And there also is where you dictate, pronounce and decree how the commoners must live.
And so, Michael. You think money is the problem.
It is not.
The problem, and it is a deep-seated, entrenched one, the problem is the perverted, corrupted, corroded and self-serving political system we have in place.
Self-serving to the PAP, of course.
And of course, again, you have to believe that this serves Singapore, the Nation. How else would you justify it?
How else would you justify your not being able to win a single vote and yet be in there in parliament for many terms and even decades (witness Koo Tsai Kee, for example.)
It is a problem with our political problem where passion, empathy, altruism, confidence and altruism is battered and bruised into submission and made to bend its knees at the altar of and in the name of “economic progress” - at all cost.
So, please donÂ’t keep your eyes on your navel and donÂ’t be a frog in a well.
None of you inspires.
None of you can move hearts.
None of you deserve to be in parliament with the present system as it is.
Thus, none of you can understand why weÂ’re upset.
You think you do - but in reality, you donÂ’t.
You really donÂ’t.
Now, which one of you can grasp what I am trying to say?
More importantly, how many of you, which one of you, has the gumption, the courage, and the passion to stand up, be different, be true and demand change to a system that is the fundamental reason why no one wants to serve without first a big paycheck stuffed in his face?
Which one o you will do what is right, what is true and do what you are there to do?
Which one of you will represent the people of singapore?
And do right by our Nation?
Which one of you, Michael?
Sincerelt, Singaporean. -
Michael Palmer got pwned by the post...This one was posted in hardwarezone forums too and they said there was no response from michael palmer...Originally posted by scarletfever:from sammyboy Alfresco Coffee shop forum.
http://forums.delphiforums.com/sammyboymod/messages/?start=Start+Reading+%3E%3E
Dear Michael and everyone,
Hopeless. Inept. Pathetic. Wayang.
I am sorry but I think mincing words now will give you guys the fake ego-trip that the media is giving you all. (When are we ever going to see a media that truly reflects the views form the ground? When, Michael? In the 30th Century?)
But I digress.
Two things:
One, with the public disdain (to put it mildly) for such exorbitant salaries for public servants, I wonder if real, truly altruistic, capable people will now join the PAP or the govt in a rush. It makes me wonder whether the govt has made the task of capable people joining the govt even harder. Would a TRULY altruistic, selfless, capable person now want to join the civil service when they are aware that they will and are perceived as money-grabbers by the public?
Has the PA govt shot itself in its own foot?
It wonÂ’t be the first time.
Two, I am truly ashamed at the standard of debates and speeches by the likes of you in parliament.
You guys have missed the whole point totally. You have missed the woods for the trees - all seduced and hypnotised into stupidity and narrow-mindednesss by the likes of LHL and LKY.
You think money is the panacea to this problem - but you have missed the REAL cause of the problem.
And what is that?
A political system in the throes of malfunction.
And yet, all you guys can do is to advocate more money be thrown at it to keep it going. I am not talking about partisan party politics.
I am talking about the entire system that the PAP govt has created, installed and faked.
You have created sideshows disguised as “political engagement” in our schools, particularly our tertiary institutions.
You have perverted our elections process through circumscribed coercion - where the sacred vote is reduced in value to one of using it just to decide if one wants HDN upgrading.
You have engaged in bribery, vote-buying. All well-timed with the support of a lapdog media and lapdog MPs who, as long as it benefits them, defend it with ill-logic and ignorance.
You have banned films, publications, circumscribed OB markers - all invisible. You have given yourselves the “discretionary power” to decide what is “not in the public interest”.
You have installed new rules and laws, amended them, as and when you feel the people are beginning to have real power. You curtail opposition growth - through perversions and abuse such as the GRC system, the perverted use of discretionary and “well-timed” electoral boundary re-drawing. You use tax payers money to buy votes.
You use the security forces to threaten, coerce, frighten and punish those who go against your dictates.
All these you do.
And the results are spectacular.
Half of you - and more than half of you in the past - men and women dressed in white waltz into parliament under the fake sign of victory.
And there you stay secure - knowing that all the apparatus of the state is at your disposal to use and abuse, to keep you in power.
And there also is where you dictate, pronounce and decree how the commoners must live.
And so, Michael. You think money is the problem.
It is not.
The problem, and it is a deep-seated, entrenched one, the problem is the perverted, corrupted, corroded and self-serving political system we have in place.
Self-serving to the PAP, of course.
And of course, again, you have to believe that this serves Singapore, the Nation. How else would you justify it?
How else would you justify your not being able to win a single vote and yet be in there in parliament for many terms and even decades (witness Koo Tsai Kee, for example.)
It is a problem with our political problem where passion, empathy, altruism, confidence and altruism is battered and bruised into submission and made to bend its knees at the altar of and in the name of “economic progress” - at all cost.
So, please donÂ’t keep your eyes on your navel and donÂ’t be a frog in a well.
None of you inspires.
None of you can move hearts.
None of you deserve to be in parliament with the present system as it is.
Thus, none of you can understand why weÂ’re upset.
You think you do - but in reality, you donÂ’t.
You really donÂ’t.
Now, which one of you can grasp what I am trying to say?
More importantly, how many of you, which one of you, has the gumption, the courage, and the passion to stand up, be different, be true and demand change to a system that is the fundamental reason why no one wants to serve without first a big paycheck stuffed in his face?
Which one o you will do what is right, what is true and do what you are there to do?
Which one of you will represent the people of singapore?
And do right by our Nation?
Which one of you, Michael?
Sincerelt, Singaporean.
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but why directed only at michael palmer?Originally posted by Trump_Card:Michael Palmer got pwned by the post...This one was posted in hardwarezone forums too and they said there was no response from michael palmer... -
guess you didnt hear or read about his speech during the debates.Originally posted by lotus999:but why directed only at michael palmer? -
totally agree.
i doubt whether it is michael palmer or whatevert Sh*& from the men in white can answer this question. -
Yes ...They may not answer this question...But they can remind u of their proud achievements in the 40 years of independence ...Originally posted by reyes:totally agree.
i doubt whether it is michael palmer or whatevert Sh*& from the men in white can answer this question.
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there was some write up about Micheal (and some other MIWs) being an officer in the army too.
wonder how Micheal can serious tell his men to die for singapore regardless of race, religion etc etc... yet support a policy that denies men in potong pasir and hougang from enjoying the benefits they are told to defend with their lives.
shit... guess if even ministers of defence can sell their men for political benefits... so can MPs.... -
What if some of his soldiers under his command lives in Potong Pasir or Hougang ah?Originally posted by playtime:there was some write up about Micheal (and some other MIWs) being an officer in the army too.
wonder how Micheal can serious tell his men to die for singapore regardless of race, religion etc etc... yet support a policy that denies men in potong pasir and hougang from enjoying the benefits they are told to defend with their lives.
shit... guess if even ministers of defence can sell their men for political benefits... so can MPs....
Will he then tell them, don't link upgrading to defending and dying for your country? -
shhhhh!!! you're spilling the beans.. isn't the REMF handbook contents a "State Secret" or something?Originally posted by charlize:What if some of his soldiers under his command lives in Potong Pasir or Hougang ah?
Will he then tell them, don't link upgrading to defending and dying for your country? -
Does this moron for an MP go to those forums?
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Guess what? I bet you he's probably laughing at the letter rather than feeling pwned.Originally posted by Trump_Card:Michael Palmer got pwned by the post...This one was posted in hardwarezone forums too and they said there was no response from michael palmer...
Haven't we met people who insist that black is white, when white is obviously white? And they preach so much about the wrong till they right it.
There are lots of deluded people in this world. -
Which is unfortunately the case for bigots. They only see the world as black and white and no grey. They are the worst sort of politicians one can get, which is why the US currently has a jack ass for a president at the moment.Originally posted by Rock^Star:Guess what? I bet you he's probably laughing at the letter rather than feeling pwned.
Haven't we met people who insist that black is white, when white is obviously white? And they preach so much about the wrong till they right it.
There are lots of deluded people in this world. -
no no.. you have only half the story..
black is white and white is black
there are no shades of grey
there's a blurring of lines
call a spade a spade
there is no such thing as black and white.. only shades of grey
they can say these things these things WHEN the occasion suits them.. whether they believe their own words or not, it doesn't matter... not to themselves, and lately, not to us anymore.. -
Yeah.Originally posted by Rock^Star:Guess what? I bet you he's probably laughing at the letter rather than feeling pwned.
Haven't we met people who insist that black is white, when white is obviously white? And they preach so much about the wrong till they right it.
There are lots of deluded people in this world.
You can bet he is laughing.
After all, MPs are the ones getting tonnes of money to be yes-people. -
too bad this can only come in the form of blogs.. neevr published in the newspaper to force a reply.
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Someone can send to ST lor. Below there is 'email this page to'
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Now why would ST want to print these replies?Originally posted by Darkness_hacker99:Someone can send to ST lor. Below there is 'email this page to'
Why?