There is little justification for GRC in the context of advancement to a more mature democracy which will motivate every citizen to work together with a more accountable governing party - through participation of every citizen in selecting the best individuals to form the most accountable government for the best of the country.
If GRC must be maintained, for racial harmony in recognizing the above-mentioned democratic principle, which is universally recognized today as the most effective system of government then GRC if adopted should be symbolic and not used as an excuse to tweak the voting system to favor the incumbent through bending the constitution or electoral boundaries or group entrenchment devices and it should be balanced and not be island-wide.
Cut down GRC drastically to four zones to represent our culture to accommodate minority races to have representatives in parliament. In all other areas let the minority candidates fight on their own merit which they need to have if they want to represent their minority races as majority race candidates do not have the privilege to be elected if they just enter the ticket of election except too by their own personal qualities and appeal to voters.
Let us grow up and let people have a fair chance to elect the kind of leaders they want openly without being controlled or constrained by political tweaking of the constitutional right to elect their best individual candidates of any race in any area.
If a minority race is elected by the majority race like Obama in US that will show we have naturally matured politically as a society. Cooking of GRC is narrow-minded and selfish and should be disbanded or at most tempered to prevent the whole country's being controlled by any incumbent single party.
Originally posted by robertteh:There is little justification for GRC in the context of advancement to a more mature democracy which will motivate every citizen to work together with a more accountable governing party - through participation of every citizen in selecting the best individuals to form the most accountable government for the best of the country.
If GRC must be maintained, for racial harmony in recognizing the above-mentioned democratic principle, which is universally recognized today as the most effective system of government then GRC if adopted should be symbolic and not used as an excuse to tweak the voting system to favor the incumbent through bending the constitution or electoral boundaries or group entrenchment devices and it should be balanced and not be island-wide.
Cut down GRC drastically to four zones to represent our culture to accommodate minority races to have representatives in parliament. In all other areas let the minority candidates fight on their own merit which they need to have if they want to represent their minority races as majority race candidates do not have the privilege to be elected if they just enter the ticket of election except too by their own personal qualities and appeal to voters.
Let us grow up and let people have a fair chance to elect the kind of leaders they want openly without being controlled or constrained by political tweaking of the constitutional right to elect their best individual candidates of any race in any area.
If a minority race is elected by the majority race like Obama in US that will show we have naturally matured politically as a society. Cooking of GRC is narrow-minded and selfish and should be disbanded or at most tempered to prevent the whole country's being controlled by any incumbent single party.
Rejected, reason, remove of GRC will incurrs higher costs which will ultimate put on to the citizens who are suffering now. And also, more MPs to pay, we should therefore, remain conservative and get the economic of scale by grouping satelite town to reduce cost and confusion.
We should not compare our politic with the likes of US or other countries, it a different game in each country. eg the minority in a small US town is already more than the singaporeans here. So it is a different ball game.
And furthermore, in cutting down to each individual minority group will increase disunity and non belonging, so let us keep up with our harmonious relationship among us and stop the division of citizens, thank you.
With this kind of controllogy or legalistic tweaking of the election process to fix the electoral voting to stay in power using racial harmony as excuse we could consider the voting as voting for king who will could at will stop people from exercising their voting right with obstacles to the free electoral one-man-one-vote subject to finding of racial candidate to offer for election. Isn't this an artificial device to fix the one-man-one-vote voting system so that when one one is able to vote because of such artificially created impediment to candidature the whole GRC was taken by default by the ruling party.
Let the power that be who chance on such artificial device to win by such default created by him sit on the throne forever and call this little red dot the Republic of GRC because unless some one form a mini-government called GRC citizens will lose their voting right.
This is confistication of voting rights of citizens has another name - called racial harmony.
Originally posted by angel7030:
Rejected, reason, remove of GRC will incurrs higher costs which will ultimate put on to the citizens who are suffering now. And also, more MPs to pay, we should therefore, remain conservative and get the economic of scale by grouping satelite town to reduce cost and confusion.
We should not compare our politic with the likes of US or other countries, it a different game in each country. eg the minority in a small US town is already more than the singaporeans here. So it is a different ball game.
And furthermore, in cutting down to each individual minority group will increase disunity and non belonging, so let us keep up with our harmonious relationship among us and stop the division of citizens, thank you.
Even if we really need GRCs, we don't need to have 6-member GRCs (headed by the likes of LKY, GCT, LHL) to do so.
This is confistication of voting rights of citizens has another name - called racial harmony.
The bloody stupid election policy is that you need to have a certification of being a minority race
It's like duh.... The government doesn't want racial discrimination, yet requires the minority races to apply for a certificate so that a GRC contesting group can be meets the requirement of having at least one minority race. This rule just shows that there's still some racial discrimination involved. Why do minority races need to do this extra work? For what purpose?
Do they really think that Singaporeans are so stupid that they cannot see who's the minority race that a certification is required?
GRC charade should be abolished.
I don't see many governments in the world implementing this nonsense.
http://www.sgreview.org/index.php?q=node/24
http://www.aceproject.org/ace-en/topics/bd/bdy/bdy_sg
http://www.thinkcentre.org/article.cfm?ArticleID=359
http://www.yawningbread.org/arch_2006/yax-615.htm
When it comes to elections system, a lot of bullshit from PAP regime.
They are bent on holding on to power.
Was it Lee Kuan Yew who came up with the GRC bullshit?
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html
I think Lee Kuan Yew can take his GRC bullshit and go and die.
Old fucker already still want to contest.
I know Lee Kuan Yew doesn't like people to criticise him.
But people will still do it after he is dead.
So isn't it futile?
The floodgates of criticism will open up against you Lee Kuan Yew.
Now you sue sue sue, no one dare criticise.
But after you die how?
How you tell me?
How?
After Lee Kuan Yew dies, will people praise Lee Kuan Yew or will they criticise Lee Kuan Yew?
The answer is obvious.