Don't be taken in by Tan Chuan Jin's half reply

Some quarters are already celebrating as if MOM has taken a firm stance against discrimination in the workplace. I have yet to be convinced. Tan Chuan Jin's words are to be taken with a dose of salt. He NEVER claimed that there would be legislation against discrimination at workplace. He simply implies that it is a possibility. If you know PAP well, it also means that there's a possibility they won't take any action to have legislation. So they are actually buying time.

The issue of discrimination was brought up by employment watchdog Tripartite Alliance for Fair Employment Practices (Tafep). Half of the 300 over complaints against employers last year was about how they prefer to employ foreigners over Singaporeans.

Here is Acting Manpower Minister Tan Chuan-Jin's non-answer - Government 'does not entirely reject' workplace anti-discrimination laws

Tan Chuan-Jin's claim that govt 'does not entirely' reject workplace anti-discrimination is a half-hearted display of the govt's non-commitment to eradicate work discrimination. Imagine the govt says something like "we do not entirely reject anti-terror efforts." Doesn't that sound like the govt rejects some forms of anti-terrorism? Duh.

Extract from the above report from ST Online:

Office workers arrive for work in the central business district of Singapore, on Thursday, Feb 18, 2010. The Government does not entirely reject implementing workplace anti-discrimination laws to protect Singaporeans, said Acting Manpower Minister Tan Chuan-Jin. -- FILE PHOTO: BLOOMBERG

The Government does not entirely reject implementing workplace anti-discrimination laws to protect Singaporeans, said Acting Manpower Minister Tan Chuan-Jin.

But the experience of some countries showed that laws in themselves do not change employers' mindsets so the Government still prefers to use persuasion to tackle workplace discrimination for now, added the minister.

Mr Tan said: "At the end of the day, we should aim for a balanced approach which can serve Singaporeans well in the long run."

Of course laws themselves do not change mindsets of the wrongdoers. It is the enforcement of the laws and education that works. We need BOTH laws to deter, and education to create awareness.

So if at all, the minister is saying that the govt is too lazy to enforce those laws. Otherwise, what he means is that PAP is just buying time to delay legislation. I can't think of any other reason why the PAPpy guys are so slow, pussyfooting on the issue of anti-discrimination laws.

Anti-death penalty campaigners, so what's the status on Yong Vui Kong?

Yong Vui Kong, Singapore's most publicized death row inmate, seems to have disappeared from the anti-death penalty lobbyists' radar. Once upon a time, he was the famous face so often used to demonize the Singapore death penalty system. Today, he is a nobody.


Yong Vui Kong, Singapore's most well known death inmate. Suddenly, all news about him disappears. Anti-death penalty campaigners who have been so noisy then, are now deafeningly silent. So what is his status?


Ever since the Singapore govt has amended certain parts of the law to relook into death inmates' cases, including Vui Kong, all the hoo-ha and hypocrisy of the anti-death penalty campaigners has evaporated. With the amendment, Vui Kong stands a big chance to escape the gallows. There's only one big problem - Vui Kong has to talk. He has to talk about his boss, Chia Choon Leng and send him to the gallows in his place.

In order for Vui Kong to escape the wrong end of the noose, he has to make sure he gives substantial amount of evidence that leads to the conviction of his boss. Now why doesn't those who have campaigned for Vui Kong seize this opportunity? Very simple indeed. That's because they are not interested in Vui Kong's life. They are interested in abolishing the death penalty. It does not serve their purpose to save Vui Kong, only to hang another guy. So poor Vui Kong is now left in the lurch.

So, has these anti-death penalty activists deserted Vui Kong? There's no further news since the govt amended certain parts of the law on the death penalty and mandatory death penalty. Why the silence? The public has a right to know the latest status. The anti-death penalty campaigners created a lot of publicity then. Even to the point to get the public to support Vui Kong.

The least these activists could do now is to give an update. The fact that they have done nothing to even give an update shows that they have been using Vui Kong all along. They were not interested in saving his life. They are only interested in abolishing the death penalty.

Vui Kong has been used. And the public deceived. These anti-death penalty campaigners have cheated society - and Vui Kong.

PAP brainwashing the young

It is known that what is taught in schools, especially Social Science, is about propaganda for the PAP govt. So much so that almost every young mind that graduates out of school believes in the pack of lies PAP has been dishing out for the last half century.

Here is a typical product of our education system, as far as the PAP propaganda is concerned. From ST (Youth) Forum dated 22 May 2013.
National Education key to racial harmony

WE HAVE come a long way since the 1964 racial riots.

Recently, MP Hri Kumar Nair recounted in Parliament his backpacking trip to Bangkok in 1991, and how a street vendor there, noticing him walking together with two Chinese friends, said: "Different colour, walk together, must be Singaporean."

This quote generated a lot of positive comments on social media. I believe this is the result of the Education Ministry's efforts to cultivate a multiracial and multi-religious society through National Education.

Another PAP yes-man fails to deny Sinkiepore harbours dirty funds

The PAPpies and their gang have strenuously tried to clean up the image that we are tax-dodgers' and money-launderers' haven for dirty money. So they come out with all their guns, firing that we have done no wrong. However, if you look at what is said, there really is no attempt to deny that we have been keeping dirty funds.


Gurbachan Singh from KattarWong, tax expert. He sees no wrong in Singapore's current opaque system, which is the very central point of contention in which many have said is the very reason why it is so easy to park dirty funds here.

Chan Chun Sing sees only enemies and no friends

Once an SAF man, always an SAF man. You will think like one, act like one, talk like one. You can't change that because you have been drilled to obey your bosses, not your instincts - that is if you have any instincts left in you after all the military drills and programmes to dehumanize you.


Chan Chun Sing (right), like a military trained robotic attack guard dog, sees only enemies in our neighbours. He does not see friends or allies who can help us progress together economically. As a former top SAF guy, his glass is always half empty, when opportunistic businessmen and foreign investors, who are the economic backbone of Singapore, see it as half full.

The wars US wage is all about OIL $$$

John Bolton, explaining that it is oil interests that Americuh is after. This was Oct 2011.

Did John Bolton Just Admit All These Wars Are For Oil?
Listening to Bolton's words, he sure did!

" The critical oil and natural gas producing region that we fought so many wars to try and protect our economy from the adverse impact of losing that supply or having it available only at very high prices "

All the hypocritical talk that US is out to fight terror and install democracy in the region is a big fat piece of bovine excrement. Americuh wouldn't have cared two hoots if the region grew cabbages instead of pumping crude.

Oooh... did you see that black gold oozing from those pipe$?

'Left vs Right' is a construct by politicians to control your feeble minds

Intro -

Politicians are known to be dirty. They control the minds of the people to remain in power. They will create and construct fear in the people that if they don't get elected and/or re-elected, calamity will come to the masses and nation. The 'right-left-centre' construct has been the most used tool to control people's minds for more than half a century.


What this article is about -

This article discusses how the 'right-left-centre' construct is used by politicians and their yes-men to control minds of citizens. We will take a look at the Singapore context, as well as the regional and global contexts.


Left-right-centre view in Singapore context today -


Kishore Mahbubani. Complicit in the construction of the govt's single dimensional argument in the Left-Right divide, to force you to support govt policies, so that if you don't, you are seen as anti-govt. That's how the single line dimension argument works. There's no middle ground.

Another anti-motherhood message from Aware for Mother's Day

I wrote about Aware's anti-motherhood just before Mother's Day last week - Aware's Alamak own goal - sending out an anti-motherhood statement

Below is another anti-motherhood article from Aware. Makes you wonder why are these feminists working against the interests of women.

Happy mothers are willing mothers!

On Mother’s Day, we celebrate those who have chosen to be mothers and enjoy motherhood. To have or not to have children – that is a right that everyone should have.

That's a thinly veiled criticism against motherhood. The real intent is to tell everyone that your personal choice ranks higher than the idea of being a mother.

Kishore Mahbubani shows the typical top PAP civil servant can't think outside the box

When Kishore Mahbubani was serving Singapore, I had high respect for him. My respect for him, since his retirement, has evaporated. He now sounds like any other PAP lackey, repeating dinosaur stories. His latest article is so PAP like. Outdated, irrelevant and so one dimensional. Every point made is from the same old box. There's no out of the box view.


Kishore Mahbubani. In typical PAP fashion, he repeats outdated ideas and opinions from the last century that only those who were born before 1975 can relate to. Anyone born after that won't have an inkling what the heck he is talking about. They just can't relate to the dinosaur stories.


Kishore's one dimensional article -

Here is a reproduction of Kishore's one dimension article. He argues the often debated "right-left-centre" issue of the 1980s, and correlates that to income gap, equality and the usual stuff. Heck, that's the one dimension I am talking about - Are Singaporeans ideological prisoners?

As if this "right-left-centre" is the only thing that exists that affects the economy and distribution of wealth. No other factors have been taken into account - like the the Afghan and Iraq wars draining Americuh's wealth, the huge debts in Europe pulling their economy down, or corruption found in many govts that's creating more wealth for the rich and powerful while the poor are living in constant poverty. Didn't I say he is just as one dimensional as any other PAPpy?

Khaw cawing like an arrogant crow on AIM issue

You know when PAPpy leaders loose their cool. They will, like a particular Old Man, become very patronizing, arrogant and self-righteous in their words.


"This is self-righteous and - pardon me for saying so - arrogant. Many of us in this House have been serving Singaporeans for decades, long before she entered this House... Please, don't behave as if you're the only patriot in this House."

- Khaw cawing like a crow, responding to Ms Sylvia Lim's charge that the PAP was not concerned about residents but its own political interest.


Hey, Khaw, cut your darn bird crow crap. Your words sound very hollow indeed. You are there for the money and your career, not for the residents. Didn't the PAP leadership proudly justify that ministers need to be paid highly to prevent them from being corrupted? Now you claim it is dedication? Stop cawing nonsense and stop contradicting your bosses.