tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-54487212011-04-22T05:09:41.570+08:00Is Singapore a police state?What characterizes Singapore's political system is the constant query, worry and anxiety among the majority of the citizens, foreigners and observers that individuals and groups will get into trouble with the police and the political authorities for challenging the political status quo. Such anxiety is based on repeated examples of political challengers consistently being found guilty of contravening the system of tight and restrictive laws that govern people in the city-state. Yoyohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07019545458322186868noreply@blogger.comBlogger111100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5448721.post-1168171588025100932007-01-07T19:54:00.000+08:002007-01-07T20:07:50.906+08:00"You can get anything you want in Singapore. You can travel, you can bring it in. You can - you can organize what you want. You can say anything you want, and all sorts of things are said and debated in Singapore."- Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, interview with Charlie Rose, Aug 2005"No group is oppressed, suppressed or depressed. Instead we have a political culture that values integrity, Yoyohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07019545458322186868noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5448721.post-1122262398862916932005-07-25T11:18:00.000+08:002005-07-25T11:44:18.616+08:00Life in a police statePolice harassment at non-violence book launch11 Jul 05Police seized a CD and demanded the particulars of two young activists who spoke at Dr Chee Soon Juan’s launching of his latest book The Power of Courage: Effecting Political Change in Singapore through Nonviolence.Several police officers in plainclothes had attended the event and filmed the proceedings (see photos). At Yoyohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07019545458322186868noreply@blogger.com33tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5448721.post-1099819100681656922004-11-07T17:10:00.000+08:002004-11-09T17:39:38.530+08:00Police State arrives in Singapore : Singapore installs CCTVs in schools and on street corners
Saturday November 6, 6:17 PM
All Singapore schools to have CCTVs and security guards
SINGAPORE : Education Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam said all schools would get 10 to 12 closed circuit TVs on site and two security guards each.
The move to boost security in schools and junior colleges will cost Yoyohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07019545458322186868noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5448721.post-1097991650933312502004-10-17T13:37:00.000+08:002004-10-17T13:40:50.933+08:00Singapore Enlists Taxi Drivers to Foil Terrorists
Oct 15, 2004 11:47 AM ET By Fayen Wong
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore has enlisted its 40,000 taxi drivers to foil terrorists, telling them to be on alert for nervous or restless passengers and distributing pamphlets describing what militants might do or ask.
As part of a campaign, drivers have been told watch out for people who wear "thick orYoyohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07019545458322186868noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5448721.post-1095609287356870592004-09-19T23:37:00.000+08:002004-09-20T13:24:54.976+08:00SINGAPORE'S POLICE STATE STRENGTHENS AFTER 911
The ‘War on Terrorism’ and Regime Implications
Following the end of the Cold War, the lack of an obvious security imperative had directed US foreign policy in ways that had emphasised economic policy and placed a limited but important emphasis on particular liberal political values. This was especially the case during the Clinton presidency (Nye Yoyohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07019545458322186868noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5448721.post-1055579937684073532004-07-22T07:38:00.000+08:002004-09-20T00:06:51.680+08:00THE WISDOM OF LEE KUAN YEW
"If we are to survive as a free democracy, then we must be prepared, in principle, to concede to our enemies - even those who do not subscribe to our views - as much(sic)constitutional rights as you concede yourself." - Lee Kuan Yew Legislative Assembly Debates Sept 21, 1955
"But we either believe in democracy or we not. If we do, then, we must say categorically, Yoyohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07019545458322186868noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5448721.post-1054871955207099832004-07-21T11:59:00.000+08:002004-07-21T18:57:41.413+08:00Singapore: The Modern Police State(Think Centre)
of politics and policing in the city-state.
http://www.thinkcentre.org/article.cfm?ArticleID=1356
Always Watching The existence of "the police", a separate force designed entirely for enforcing the criminal law, is a product of modern urban society. The establishment of a metropolitan police force in London in 1829 is usually seen as the Yoyohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07019545458322186868noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5448721.post-1078578263992061072004-07-18T21:04:00.000+08:002004-09-25T18:31:01.793+08:00SINGAPORE - MOST SUCCESSFUL DICTATORSHIP ON EARTH
Great arguments on Singapore Inc from Kerry Stokes
Kerry Stokes .
Seven Network controller
This is the excellent submission that Kerry Stokes's Seven Network has made to the Foreign Investment Review Board arguing that Sing Tel should be blocked from buying Optus.
15 July 2001
This supplementary submission is made on the basis of further Yoyohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07019545458322186868noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5448721.post-1090074105874063162004-07-17T22:14:00.000+08:002004-07-17T22:21:45.873+08:00Lee Kuan Yew's Betrayal of PAP and Singapore by C.V. Devan Nair
C.V Devan Nair
Foreword to To Catch A Tartar, Francis T. Seow
Published 1994
Before reading Francis Seow's manuscript, I had decided that I would decline his request for a foreword. My political days are definitely over - and more reasons than either friends or foes imagine. Apart from a series of reflective essays (in preparationYoyohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07019545458322186868noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5448721.post-1054619567131873102004-07-17T13:52:00.000+08:002004-07-21T18:54:05.310+08:00Govt Ownership Of Singapore Media - Facts & Figures Revealed
http://jmsc.hku.hk/students/jmscjournal/critical/elainandmargaret.htm
CHAPTER I OVERVIEW
"Freedom of the press, freedom of the news media, must be subordinated to the overriding needs of the integrity of Singapore, and to the primary purposes of an elected government," said Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew, who ruled Singapore from Yoyohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07019545458322186868noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5448721.post-1054782507792156882004-07-17T11:08:00.000+08:002004-07-21T18:42:38.326+08:00Murderous dictator in Singapore
Mugabe goes shopping in Singapore
http://www.google.com.sg/search?q=cache:vWp7BD6qkbwJ:www.mfa.gov.sg/sections/fp/africa.htm+mugabe+singapore&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
AFRICA
Bilateral Relations
Singapore maintains cordial and friendly relations with African countries.
The following visits took place in 2002:
The Minister of Foreign Affairs and Co-operation ofYoyohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07019545458322186868noreply@blogger.com