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Wednesday, 13 May 2015

[Press Release] The Threat of Democratic Legal System, Democratic Development and Future of Singaporeans

"The threat of democratic legal system,  democratic development and the future of Singaporeans"  

PAP government does not even require a court order application or an open court hearing to be able to order the closure of a group of social media sites. This is a serious threat to the democratic legal system, freedom of speech, democratic development and the future of the country Singaporeans .

We understand that irresponsible remarks may cause serious social and religious conflicts, and could threaten the security and economic development of the country. Therefore, some restriction is necessary; unless there is any organization or individual making irresponsible remarks posing a threat to the security and stability of the country, then it is necessary to take legal action.

We cannot accept those who for their own party political or other personal purpose to undermine social harmony and stability, ethnic and religion, and affecting of security and economic development of the country. Therefore, any person or group of social media sites promoting national and social stability with harmful remarks should not be tolerated. Our party’s position is that freedom of expression is a universal value, but must be based on facts and not illegal. Our party does not agree with the party’s ordering of the closure of the “The Real Singapore” website.

We think if PAP government party can order a ban in the absence of a trial, or even shut down any social media site, a move similar to the exercise of the Internal Security Act - it may also apply to the court to arrest any citizen without an open trial. This would  not only violate the constitutional freedom of speech of the people, but is also against the spirit of democracy and freedom and the rule of law. PAP government applied to the court in the absence of a court order, even when waiting for the results of the trial court has ordered the closure of “The Real Singapore" website, leading to the citizens questioning the political wisdom and judgment. This makes one wonder if the PAP government is going back to the high pressure rulership with an iron fist? If the PAP is really back to the high pressure and iron-fisted political line, we cannot sit back and ignore this, because it will develop a serious threat to democracy and legal system to a democratic country and the interests of the people. Therefore, we call on everyone to urge the PAP government to respect the constitutional power of democracy and freedom of speech of the people. When they wish to close any group or individual social media sites, they must apply to the court for a court order and court hearing so that it is fair and just. The future of Singaporeans lie in the people’s political participation and as well as democracy and freedom of speech in Singapore people.

 

For and on Behalf of the Central Executive Committee 

of Singapore Democratic Alliance 

 

Lim Bak Chuan Desmond 

Chairman of SDA



"胁了民主法制建设、和国家民主的发展和新加坡人的未来

 
动党政府未经申请庭令,或是在法庭公开审理之下,就可以下令关闭个团体的社交媒体网站,这严重的威胁了民主法制建设、言论自由、国家民主的发展和新加坡人的未来。 

 
们理解不负责任的言论,可以造成严重的社会与宗教冲突、以及可能威胁国家的安全和经济发展。所以在必要时受到一些约束,除非有任何组织或是个人发表不负责任的言论,确实威胁到共和国的安全与稳定时,才能采取必要的法律行动。 

 
我党不能接受为自己的政治或是其他个人目的来破坏社会,民族与宗教之间的和谐与稳定,以及影响国家的安全与经济发展。 所以当任何人或是团体的社交媒体网站,推广有害国家和社会稳定的言论,是不能容忍的。

 
论自由是普世价值,但必须有事实根据,也不违法这是我党的立场。但是我党却不认同新加坡媒体发展局下令关闭"实新加坡"网站的程序。

 
我党认为行动党政府在没有向法庭申请或是经法庭审理就可以随意的下令禁止,甚至关闭任何社交媒体网站,举相似于行使内安法,时可以逮捕任何国民而不需经法庭公开的审理,这不只违背了宪法给予人民的言论自由也 违背了民主自由与法制精神。

 
动党政府在没有向法庭申请庭令,甚至等待法庭开庭审理的结果之下就下令关闭"真新加坡"网站的做法,不只质疑新加坡人的政治智慧和判断力。令人质疑行动党政府是否要走回高压与铁腕政治路线?

如果行动党真是走回高压与铁腕政治路线,我党不能坐视而不理,为它将严重的威胁民主法制建设和国家民主的发展以及人民的利益。

因此我们呼吁大家一起要行动党政府尊重宪法给予人民的民主与言论自由的权力。在关闭任何团体或是个人的社交媒体网站时,必需向法庭申请庭令并即以他们公平与公正的审理。

新加坡人的未来取之于新加坡民众的政治参与以及民主与言论自由

 

 

谢谢!

 

林睦荃

主席

代表新加坡民主联盟全体中委

 

Tuesday, 12 May 2015

Foreign Talent or Fake Talent?

Previously, a Minister remarked that a degree is not important for career advancement. Then fake degrees from foreigners began sprouting up in the local job market - degrees which can be bought with money. Another minister then remarked that MOM will disregard these qualifications completely. However, MOM will still assess the application of an S-pass based on a combination of factors and not solely based on academic merit. Do you agree with the way this matter is handled?

We have a large number of locals with a wealth of experience but lack the academic qualifications to get promoted. Some senior citizens with higher salaries were unfortunately dismissed. After that, they can no longer find another comparable job in the same position and have to accept lower salaries.

Besides, we have a number of local university graduates who have to compete with their peers and foreigners with fake degrees from degree mills.

We cannot see the government's resolve in clamping down on foreigners with fake degrees, who eventually took over some of our locals'  jobs. If we condone the import of such "foreign talents", our local university degrees would then be really worthless.

What is the government's responsibility to the people? What is the stand of the trade union on foreigners who have used such fake degrees to apply for S-passes?

The government's incessant excuses in the defence of foreigners and vacillating between conflicting statements would not be able to convince the public. Confucius once said, "If your title / degree is not accredited, then your speech will be improper. If your speech is improper, then your tasks will not be accomplished. If your tasks cannot be accomplished, there would not be harmony in society. If there is no harmony in society, then rewards and punishments will be unjust. If rewards and punishments are unjust, then the people will be at a loss as to what to do. If the people cannot guarantee their livelihood, there will be more resentment and the government will ultimately lose the trust of the people."

Lim Bak Chuan Desmond 


之前一些部长说大学文凭不重要?现在市场出现不用上课,付钱就可以买到大学文凭,而部长说只是把它当成没有认可的文凭,劳工部还是会以他们的经验和薪金来鉴定再决定发"S准证"给他们,你们认同这样的做法吗?

我们的一些老员工经验丰富却因为没有文凭升不了级,有一些更可悲因为年高龄和工资高过外来人才而被裁员。之后找不到相同收入或是同样的工作岗位,而委屈接受比之前低的工资。

还有每年我们有那么多大学生毕业,不只要跟自己人争取就业岗位,现在还要跟那些没有学历却用钱买大学文凭充当外来人才的外国人竞争。

我们却看不到政府有决心停止这些以所谓的"外来人才",跟我们枪饭碗。如果继续有大量的让这些"假外来人才"入侵,我们的大学文凭真的会如部长所说的那样不重要了。

政府对国民的责任在那里?对于外来人才采购文凭还能申请到"S准证",职工总会的立场又是什么?

政府一味为外国人开脱,立场摇摆不定,是很难让人民信服的。子曰:名不正,则言不顺;言不顺,则事不成;事不成,则礼乐不兴;礼乐不兴,则刑罚不中;刑罚不中,则民无所措手足。政府的刑罚不中,不只让人民不知所措,最终必遭选民所唾弃。

林睦荃

More private Rides, more Ricebowls shattered

Photosource: http://www.straitstimes.com/news/singapore/transport/story/taxi-apps-singapore-20141217


Yesterday, a Bill had been passed to regulate third-party taxi booking apps. While Minister Lui addressed some minor concerns regarding the third-party apps, he neglected to address the more important concerns regarding private limousine services provider like Uber Executive, Uber X, GrabCar etc. This makes it rather apparent that the only point that Minister Lui brought across is that, all limousine providers like Uber and GrabCar are allowed to operate in Singapore!
 
Have the government stopped to consider the dire consequences of allowing them to operate in Singapore?

The Pioneer Government successfully wiped out the pirated taxi services in the 1960s and 1970s, only to have Minister Lui reverse the good work done by the Pioneers now!

Passengers have always been voicing their confusion about the local taxi fare. Now with the introduction of these private Limousines that set their own pricing, wouldn't it be more confusing to the passengers? For instance, Uber had their price surge when their limousines were in demand; the fare for a single trip could cost as high as $200. While Grabcar, with their complicated formula, charges different prices at different timing; this is not transparent to passengers at all. All these services are theoretically using metered charges, but they are easily tampered with so this casts doubts on the accuracy of the metered charges.

These days, any app provider is able to create meter apps on mobile phones, so does this mean that the government deems this to be legal?

Whenever someone witnesses a taxi getting involved in an accident, the first thinking would tend to be, “Taxi at fault again!”  Actually, with the constant watchful eyes of the public and in-car video recorders these days, most of the drivers will behave while driving on the roads. This cannot be said for those limousine drivers as the public does not know if they are transport service providers or private-owned cars.

While taxi drivers are worried that the “Feedback” given to LTA or their companies would result in them losing their rice bowls, it is unknown how these “Feedback” will improve the service standard of the drivers overall.

Due to stringent safety standards set by LTA to the taxi companies (for example, the taxi companies are not allowed to exceed the number of accidents per 10,000km travelled), the taxi companies are to comply with higher maintenance, while no rules are set for the Limousine operators.

Taxi vehicles are allowed to be used up to a maximum of 7 years with one year optional extension, upon which the taxis have to be scraped; whereas the limousine vehicles are allowed for use up to the end of the COE expiry date, and worst yet, the COE may be renewed to extend the life of the limousines!.

It is foreseen that a trend might emerge such that people buy their own vehicles under a company, using them to fetch passengers as and when they like without being subjected to any form of regulations at all.

This will in turn flood the industry with excess of transport providers, posing potential serious threat to the rice bowls of the full-time transport providers.

Taxi industry has been allocated to Singaporeans. With the introduction of the private transport providers, PRs are now allowed to drive, so the taxi industry is losing its original grounds of being an industry reserved for Singaporeans only.

Taxi fares are set by taxi companies; and any increase in fares need to be approved by PTC. Ironically, fare adjustments by private transport providers do not require seeking of the same approval, hence fares may be adjusted at the providers’ whim and fancy.
 
Certainly, a bad bill has been tabled and throngs of taxi drivers will soon be out of a job soon!

 

 

Yours sincerely,
William Lim

Constituency Secretary, SJP

Monday, 11 May 2015

Three weeks of justice served

对他的提控以及判监三周是维护国法威严以及保护个人安危的最佳做法。





To prosecute him to be jailed for three weeks is the best way to maintain the country's dignity and for the purpose of personal safety.


Who bears the brunt of increased costs?


为了怕司机被挖角,私人巴士公司可能会提高司机的薪金来保留他们。这么一来,家长是否必须承担这些格外的开销呢?

把合约发给高投标者,使后者有条件以高薪挖角。为什么在解决公共交通品质问题的同时,却制造了另外一个问题给人民来承担。为什么政府不可以直接管理公共交通运作,而必需假手于人呢?




Due to fear of the drivers being poached away, private bus companies may raise salaries to keep their drivers. This way, do the parents have to bear the extra cost of it?

Contract is awarded to the highest bidder, hence the rest need to resort to poaching drivers with higher salaries. Why is it that the citizens have to shoulder the brunt when the government is resolving the issue of the quality of our public transport? Why can't the public transport be managed by government instead of private operators?








Wednesday, 6 May 2015

Trapped between Train Doors again

之前已经发生过同样的意外,为什么还是没有多大的改善?

难道不能改进现有的地铁车厢的门口加一片伸缩版吗?



 
There was a similar accident that occurred before, why aren't there more massive changes to improve the situation?

Why can't they improvise the current train cabins by adding another platform / board between the gaps?

Monday, 4 May 2015

[Recap] Profits over Predicaments-Solving

这么多年来政府不注重提供社会福利网,把我们的公积金当投资资源拿去发展经济,只关注赚钱,以丰厚的储备以及高薪养贤为理由,发高薪给认同他们的精英。而社会所累积起来问题确推给社会团体自立处理,变成后果一些国人自己来面对和承担。
 

Photosource: http://www.todayonline.com/singapore/government-urged-review-cpf-holistically
 

 

For so many years, our government has not paid attention to providing our community with economic welfare. They use our CPF contributions as resources for investment and developing the economy, only paying attention to profits and using its as justifications to reward themselves, by paying high salary terms. Meanwhile, accumulated social problems which require time to be resolved have been pushing back to community for self reliance. Thus leaving most Singaporeans the burden of having to solve their own predicaments.

 

 

 

 

 





Friday, 1 May 2015

Crossing the border for Convalescence?

为什么新加坡老弱需要这么辛苦过海去邻国的疗养院疗养呢?

难道是我们的疗养院床位不够,应付不了需求?

我们的疗养院不是有政府津贴吗,难道津贴之后,低中收入的家庭还是承担不起吗?

政府推广建国一代,为什么却不能够满足老弱低中收入家庭的需求吗?

 
 
Why do elderly Singaporeans need to spend so much efforts to cross the borders to neighbouring countries for convalescence?
 
Could it be that we do not have enough infirmary beds to cope with the demand for it?

Our nursing homes do not have government subsidies; even after the allowances, the low and medium-income families are still unable to afford it?
Government are promoting the founding generation, but why are they not able to meet the needs of elderly and low income families?

Refrain from Violence!


新加坡是法治社会,我们绝对不能容忍个人自我当判官以暴力来对付任何被提控的新加坡人。
我们必须严厉打击这种不文明行为,希望警察能够立刻采取逮捕行动把这为"暴力判官"绳之以法。
 
Singapore is a society ruled by law, we absolutely can not tolerate those who play judge and resort to violence against any prosecuted Singaporeans.
We must crack down on this uncivilized behaviour; we hope that the police will take immediate action to arrest this "violent judge" and bring him to justice.
 
For more information on the case on Amos Yee being assaulted, read here

Monday, 20 April 2015

Presidential treatment for Mr. Ong!

还他尊严,让他享有总统最高的葬礼,把他的遗骸重新葬在克兰芝国家坟场





Return him his dignity, let him have the highest Presidential funereal services , shift his remains to Kranji’s National Cemetery!



Wednesday, 15 April 2015

Losing Our Footing


如果有一天,我们失去了地理位置的优势,我们是否能继续的繁荣与稳定?

中国为了自己的战略利益,一直会往外开发以及控制运输航道,这将使我们的水道受到严重威胁,我们的港口受到严重的威胁并将失去了优质的地理位置。

我们必须识时务,认清目前的形势,保障我们自己的未来利益。

我个人认为我们必须采取以下措施:

从国会选举制度开始,必须更改现有的选举制度,废除集选区,管委和非选区议员制,再以各政党得票率来分配席位以确保国会有不同政党轮替,以及多元化的政治理念参与拟定国家政策,

, 再还没有强化国民教育和认同感,国家与社会为先的意识之前,暂时停止接纳新公民,

, 历史虽然不可忽略,但是我们已经跟共产国家有着密切政治,文化,经济与军事交往,因此必须去除矛盾思想,行为和策略。政要要有人性,多注意他国领袖的感受,因此没有必要再高调的提倡反共产主义

, 开始逐步减少对美国的依赖,身为小国应该保持中立,

五, 设立中华文化研究中心,

六, 恢复南大校名,恢复以华语为主流,并以华语教科目以及考试,来拉近跟中国的关系

, 加强跟马来西亚的经济合作,共创经济圈,

, 设立马来文化与语言研究中心,以拉近跟马来西亚的关系

, 让新马两国公民自由出入境,废除两国公民的工作准证,房屋税,入境税等等,

, 全面改革我们的教育制度,注重自由创意,独立思考能力,公民道德等等

 
 
 
What if one day, we lose the advantage of this geographical location, would we still be able to continue this prosperity and stability?

We are not only faced with the strategic interests of China because if the development and control of transport routes, so that our waterways are seriously threatened and we might lose our quality geographical location.

Who is our country going to depend on for survival in future?

Singapore is a country with no natural resources. We are able to have today's achievements due to our geographical location, the previous fine planning, strict management of the society, economy and autonomous education. As such, the Government could, through education, economic needs and self-discpline, penetrate the sub-consciousness of the citizens to create a high-quality and superior people, because it's the only way the ruling party may efficiently develop our country's economic direction in accordance to the international situation to enable us to have today's prosperity and social stability.

If one day, we lose the advantage of this geographical location, and the ruling party can not create a national model for its own benefit, would we still be able to continue this prosperity and stability?

What worries me about the commnity today is this - because the ruling party has opened the doors of Singapore widely, attracting in a lot of foreign population, so that the citizens of our community doping different nationalities of the world, different cultures and social attitudes.Some of them were not even educated in Singapore during their childhood, hence have not been instilled with the self-discipline of our ruling party's educational system; this is also to say that the ruling party would have great difficulty controlling the thinking of these new citizens to reach the desired effect of our economy and disciplinary system.  On top of that, advancement in communications technology has seemed compress the space in this world, our autonomous educational system has been thoroughly defeated by influence of external parties via the Internet.  The ruling party is not able to monitor all the information on the Internet nor ban it, so now even some of our own young and middle-aged citizens have their own political ideology, outgrowing the economic and disciplinary subconsciousness implanted into them since young by the ruling party to form their own set of opinions and ideas that do not waver. This forms two of today's problems faced by the community.

These two social problems have caused the ruling party to feel the need to attach great importance to their own interests and votes. Therefore they must always take into account the public interest and public sentiment in response to certain policies that may invoke dissatisfaction.

As the ruling party can no longer maintain a tough stance as before, or to implement some policies that may be undesirable, It makes it more difficult to meet the challenges of the flexible international situation. In this way, our country is not able to get rid of the risk of facing opposition in its democratic, freedom and economic development.

This also results in the ruling party not being able to be like before - formulating a fine and long-term development policy and planning education and training budget

It is necessary to have talents to achieve national economic development goals, so we are not only faced with the strategic interests of China because if the development and control of transport routes, so that our waterways are seriously threatened and we might lose our quality geographical location. Even our only resouces - Human Capital, due to network technology innovation, change of thinking, people are demanding for more freedom and democracy, following the degradation of social consciousness, we may ultimately have to leave our home territory in order to have a better life.

We must understand the times, and understand the current situation, to protect the interests of our own future; Personally, I think we need to take the following measures:

Let us first start with the electoral system. The existing electoral system must be changed with the abolition of GRCs, management committees and members of non-constituency system, and then to vote for political parties to allocate seats in Parliament to ensure that there are different political parties in power, and political pluralism concepts involved in the formulation of national policy;

Secondly, before we are able to strengthen the national education and identity of the state and society, we should suspend the admission of new citizens;

Thirdly, although history cannot be neglected, we already have close ties with communist countries in political, cultural, economic and military exchanges, it is necessary to remove the contradictions of thoughts, behaviour and strategy. Politicians need to have humanity, showing concern towards the feelings of his country's leaders, so there is no need to advocate anti-communism;

Fourth, begin to gradually reduce dependency on the United States, as a small country we should remain neutral;

Fifth, the establishment of the Chinese Culture Research Centre; to enhance the relationship with China;

Sixth, to restore the reputation of the Great South, a return to using Chinese language as the mainstream, and teach courses and exams in Mandarin;

Seventh, to strengthen economic cooperation with Malaysia, to create economic cycle;

Eighth,  to set up the Malay culture and language research centre; to enhance the relationship with Malaysia;

Ninth, establish Singapore-Malaysia bilateral civil liberties, immigration, the abolition of the citizens of the two countries work permit, housing tax, entry tax, etc.,

Lastly, a comprehensive reform of our education system, focusing on freedom of creativity, independent thinking, civic morality, national philosophy and psychological qualities etc.