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6.9M population: Does Govt have the people’s consent?
January 11th, 2014 |
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Leaders should respect their people, work to get their support and fulfill their needs, said Myanmar’s democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi today (22 Sept 2013) at the Singapore Management University.
The 6.9m issue is not what 77 MP/ministers think they are big enough to decide. It affects every Sinkie today and into the future. Do they have the consent of the people? Definitely a big NO. Do they want to ask the people for their consent? Another big NO. Do they think they have been given the right to decide for the people on this issue. They want to think so.
The people are saying NO. Would they listen? NO. They are simply snubbing the people, an act of defiance against the people. They know the people are against it and they stubbornly and arrogantly want to go ahead with their decision against the will of the people. Why? Why would they want to go against the people? Is this 6.9m something that must be done and if not something very serious will happen, more serious than losing the vote and confidence of the people that the PAP rather offend the people than not doing it? Did they know something that the people did not know?
This is a democracy, mind you. And a democratically elected govt thinks it can ignore the people, disregard the people’s wishes and still believes confidently that the people will elect them to power, to rule the people, no need to listen to the people, to control the people and to snub the people.
This is definitely uniquely Singapore.
What can the Sinkies do? Absolutely nothing. Come election they will still elect the same people to power and pay them out-of-this-world’s salary and can only pray that the same people will be kinder to them. It is like the govt knows that no matter what, they will continue to be in power somehow. Very eerie.
Chua Chin Leng aka redbean
* The writer blogs at http://mysingaporenews.blogspot.com.
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12-01-2014, 04:10 AM
6.9M population: Does Govt have the people’s consent?
