All gone quiet on the Senior Minister/Alpa-S front hasn’t it? Well no need to worry - all is as normal – it’s just that Rebecca Lee of the Straits Times is excluded from the ongoing “talks” that the Senior Minister is concluding personally with the Alpa-S President and Exco members.
We are, of course, left to speculate as to the style of these “talks” but SM’s track record to date would indicate that less than subtle references will be being made to the imminence of exhaustive personal Internal Revenue audits for this by now highly nervous group, trawls through past utterances for possible “defamations”, leading to legal actions designed to personally bankrupt the individuals plus possible investigations of ongoing “competence and merit” to continue in the technical crew job with SIA.
As further “inducement” to compliance with the great man’s vision for the future, the group will, in similarly unsubtle style, be invited to recall SM’s threat of the early eighties when the association leaders faced the decision of themselves and their families being summarily shipped to Changi gaol, or them instantly calling off mild industrial action designed to induce an arrogant and complacent “management” to the negotiating table. Readers are invited to spot any changes that have evolved in Singapore in the intervening years, similar to those wrought worldwide by the historic events of the past two decades.
Similarly, “freedom and democracy lovers” around the world, allied in the “war against terror” are also invited to spot any similarity between their own fair, open, accountable styles of democratic government and that which prevails in "modern day" Singapore.
Last edited by Insider107; 25th Jan 2004 at 17:42.