"I guess it's right to be nervous now that everybody's happy nowadays."
"If you believe in democracy, you must believe in it unconditionally. If you believe that men should be free, then,
they should have the right of free association, of free speech, of free publication." -- Lee Kuan Yew, 1955.
"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
"Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression ... to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive
and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers." -- Article 19, Universal Declaration of Human
Rights
"Come writers and critics
Who prophesize with your pen
And keep your eyes wide
The chance won't come again
And don't speak too soon
For the wheel's still in spin
And there's no tellin' who
That it's namin'.
For the loser now
Will be later to win
For the times they are a-changin'." -- "The Times They Are A-Changin'", by Bob Dylan
Links
Alliance for Reform and Democracy in Asia
Singapore: New Media, Politics & The Law
Handbook for Bloggers & Cyber-dissidents
Reviews
mtvasia.com
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Here are some comments on the last presidential election (or rather, non-election) in this fair, balmy (barmy?) isle from yawning bread at the yahoo group, Singapore Review:
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