Singapore Democrats

How is your recruitment of Singapore to join your party? Are you able to get good candidates?

Dear SDP

Isnt it clear?

These people had it good; and are afraid to lose their jobs. If a minority thinks like this, it works for the dictators.

If the majority acts what is right and in their conscience not to deny others of their say in politics and as guaranteed in the Constitution, then these people would not behave like the meek, frightened, lost souls.

Look what have the years of dictatorship made these people so meek and over-cautious in their pursuits of their happiness/also known as keeping their jobs!

I wish I could laugh it off. But instead I cringe.

/hk

[quote=anon]How is your recruitment of Singapore to join your party? Are you able to get good candidates?[/quote]

Just my own opinion, PAP has almost monopolized the entire "ELITE singaporean".

They are captured and given government scholarship right from the start. Following their education, they are given jobs in government sector and "brainwashed" to make way for them to proceed on to political platform.

How can other Party attract similar talent when they do not have the financial means and capabilities to secure these talent like PAP does right from the beginning.

Those that are scholar and not bonded to the government, probably left the country as foreign talent to others.

The few good talent who are in oppositions party are those who have seen thru the PAP system and wanted to do something different.

I feel that it will not be easy to recruit good candidates to join the opposition.

Correct me if I am wrong

Officials, especially at our education institutions, have the moral obligation to exemplify honesty.

Despite that everybody knows the real reason for their refusing SDP's relating with their students, they still put up a pretence that it is only a matter of institutional policy applied to all equally.

And all that, at the expense of the potential for a true-to-life experience of legal education SDP's visit would have provided for their students.

It has been reported that most of the so-called scholars come from the rich, those living in landed properties. These are from the the minority five to 10 percent who are ready to serve the authoritarian regime for money, not for a cause.

Scholars doesn't mean good candidates. Good candidates are those who feel empathy, concern and passion towards the majority who live in HDB flats.

What the PAP attracts are yes-men and yes-women who are prepared to obey orders of the authoritarian regime and protect the interests of the ruling Lee clan. For this, they are rewarded with multi-million-dollar salaries, directorships in GLCs and TLCs.

If you want graduates to be successful in global economy yet prevent undergrads to be exposed to alternative views, NUS is only going to have graduates with tunnel vision. Don't treat your students like idiots. They are smart enough to tell truth from fiction.

It's rightful that a school shouldn't just allow a group to come in to the campus to freely promote books and shirts together with "democracy" ideals. Only charitable organisations should be given free booths to promote their causes.

TOKYO Former TV anchorwoman Yuriko Koike launched a bid Monday to become Japan’s first female prime minister, as a buoyant opposition vowed to cut short the next leader’s tenure.

Koike, 56, is the first woman ever to seek the premiership in Japan, which has one of the world’s lowest rates of female representation in politics.

“I have received the enthusiastic support of my colleagues,” Koike told a news conference. “In order to break through the deadlock facing Japanese society, I believe the country might as well have a female candidate.”

The long-dominant Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) will vote on September 22 for a replacement for Yasuo Fukuda, who abruptly resigned a week ago as public support dwindled and Asia’s largest economy faltered.

Koike is expected to face a tough challenge from Taro Aso, 67, a flamboyant former foreign minister who is making his fourth bid for the country’s top job.

Some LDP heavyweights want to hold a snap election soon after the next prime minister takes charge, hoping to seize on the new leader’s initial popularity.

Koike said that the keyword of her campaign would be “reform” — drawing a contrast to Aso, who supports government spending to boost the economy despite a ballooning public debt.

Koike, who is fluent in English and Arabic, is a foreign policy expert who has served as defence and environment minister.

She said she would introduce an environmental tax, such as one on carbon emissions — an idea unpopular with businesses but which green groups say is needed for Japan to fight global warming.

“I believe this is necessary to make a shift in the structure of Japan’s energy consumption,” Koike said.

As the LDP prepared for a showdown, the main opposition Democratic Party re-elected its leader, Ichiro Ozawa, unopposed.

The Democratic Party was set to hold its own election on September 21, but no candidates had filed by Monday’s deadline to oppose Ozawa, a 66-year-old former LDP heavyweight with a love of bare-knuckles political battle.

Ozawa outlined a platform that includes scrapping an unpopular medical plan for the elderly and diluting the power of Japan’s bureaucracy.

“I will do my best, considering this is my last chance to put an end to the LDP-led government and bring about a government that puts a priority on people’s lives,” said Ozawa, a former heavy smoker with a history of health problems.

The LDP has been in power for all but 10 months since 1955 with strong support from big business and the countryside. But Ozawa led the opposition to a landmark victory last year, seizing one house of parliament amid a backlash over LDP scandals and free-market reforms.

The Yomiuri Shimbun said that Aso may propose this week to lower taxes — contrary to economists’ conventional wisdom that Japan needs a tax hike.

Kaoru Yosano, 70, the current economic and fiscal policy minister, announced his candidacy Monday with an appeal to explain to the public the need to rebuild the government’s finances.

“I believe politicians should never mislead the public by showing some rosy pictures,” Yosano said.

“The LDP is facing the biggest crisis since its creation,” Yosano said. “I will contest the election with high spirits and the courage to lead Japan.”

A weekend poll of 1,000 voters by the private Asahi network showed support for the LDP has risen amid interest in the contest to replace Fukuda.

Nearly 43 percent of people polled backed the LDP, up from 37 percent in August, while support for the main opposition sagged to 26 percent from 29 percent, according to the survey aired Monday. why cant we have in singapore a female prime minister in opposition party

[b][quote]The Singapore Democrats pointed out that it was important for students to be aware of national issues and counter proposed that the SDP be allowed to visit students on campus and interact with them to raise political awareness.[/quote][/b]

[color=red][b]Dear SDPs this take is totally against Lee Junta's Ruling!

You are stepping on their toes -Beware![/b][/color]

[color=maroon][b]LKY has no single ounce of integrity in his blood left![/b][/color]

[b]NO FAIR PLAY!!!!!!!!![/b]

[b]A MAD COW GOVT!![/b]

[color=blue][b]All big PAP Bull Shit---- Pretend to liberalize and let people protest in order to trap them. [/b][/color]

[quote=NOT MY SDP]Only charitable organisations should be given free booths to promote their causes.[/quote]

NKF under T.T Durai? Please clarify.

Who says lawyers are our "Elites" or future leaders? Remember the number of lawyers who absconded with clients' money throughout the last decade? Have we forgotten lawyer Durai so soon?
Let's get real and down to earth for once! It's the integrity and altruistic qualities that we seek in leaders not paper qualifications or lawyers who can distort laws to favour some people in power.That's why PAP has always exploited the voters by likening "scholars" to "saints".
It's time for "conscience searching" rather than reaching out to the "apathetic lot" who in actual fact are just selfishly turning a blind eye to political abuse of democracy.

Those students interested in SDP can read its website.

why must go and distribute flyers? how many can you give to?

PDF your flyers and anyone interested can read..

[quote=Mike]Those students interested in SDP can read its website.

why must go and distribute flyers? how many can you give to?

PDF your flyers and anyone interested can read..[/quote]

GREAT IDEA!! PDF it and email students at their faculty email addresses. Finally!

dear SDP, please come down to other faculties in NUS as well!!

sdp, you are barking up the wrong tree. the educated and elites will NOT vote for you.

go target your disenchanted, disillusioned and dislocated whining uncles and aunties.

[quote=Mike]Those students interested in SDP can read its website.

why must go and distribute flyers? how many can you give to?

PDF your flyers and anyone interested can read..[/quote]

Why not, Mr. Mike?

If one wants to put across a message, he may use all types of media available and effective. Distributing flyers is only one medium.

The website is another.

The MSM is also another. But sadly,
SDP has been denied the use of the MSM to put across their messages.
Think about it (if you are capable)- SDP might not even have to distribute flyers if MSM were made available to them. On the other hand, they may continue to do so to reach people without internet access.

Please lah .. be more interested in the message.