[DEFINITIVE & UNCOMPROMISED] : THE LONG, LONG, LONG NIGHTMARE : THE HISTORY OF MY 36 YEARS AS A "POLITICAL INFANTILIST" -- ON PAPER ! (1972 - 2008)

THE LONG AND BIG PUBLIC

MASQUERADE -- AS AN "AGENT"

(OR "EMPLOYEE") OF

THE SINGAPORE GOVERNMENT --

BUT ONLY ON PAPER !


ADVICE TO THOSE WHO ARE INVOLVED :

NOW IS THE MOMENT FOR YOU ALL

SURVEILLANCE OFFICERS

TO ACT, THINK, DECIDE AND DO --

AS I SAY AND PLEASE ! WHY?


THESE ARE MY REASONS :


(1) I've Had Enough (Of Such Scenario-Thinking and Story-Telling);


(2) It's Time For Me To Be Real, Realistic and Tough !



(3) IT'S TIME FOR THE MILITARY TOP BRASS,

WORKING IN SAFTI IN 1972, TO ADMIT, CONFESS, APOLOGIZE

AND BE CONTRITE NOW -- IF

THEY STILL HAVE ANY SEMBLANCE OF HONOUR, SELF-

RESPECT AND DECENCY !!!


Readers of my entire series of postings in my 3 blogs : especially http://thenon-romanticloverandwriter.blogspot.com/ -- which is the most currently active and constantly updated blog now -- and also the more familiar and bitter articles in : http://afighterandalovertoo.blogspot.com/ , will now be the first to know the TRUTH about why there are so many discrepancies, contradictions, inconsistencies and illogicalities in the many accounts which I've had given to readers of these blogs about myself and my life in the past 36 years or so.

I've had enough ! (as the title of this entry indicates) : announcing my entry into the world of "above-ground" or "on-the-ground" professional writing (and blogging), beginning from many months back (IN THE YEAR 2008), and which has given me so much power as a no-longer-underground thinking writer! It's time, yes, for me to be TOUGH -- and disclose, passionately and with a renewed sense of immediacy and urgency (for I am no longer still young), the reasons for my inexplicable and unjustifiable EMOTIONAL sufferings, HUMILIATION and INTELLECTUAL impoverishment THROUGHOUT MORE THAN 36 years now.

I have recounted then in my blog entries, including the latest ones -- my plight and predicament as a near-candidate for CONSIDERATION and, eventually, PUBLIC HIGHLIGHTING -- BY THE INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS ORGANISATIONS -- OF MY BASIC HUMAN RIGHTS (PARTICULARLY THOSE OF MINE AS A MAN) BEING MORONICALLY AND IDIOTICALLY ABUSED BY THE FUCKING SINGAPORE GOVERNMENT! As someone WHO IS CLEARLY AND EVIDENTLY TARGETTED by the local INTELLIGENCE and SECURITY authorities (in a case of human rights abuses), and as one who indomitably and forcefully resists all attempts by the security and intelligence authorities to force one into a position of ZERO (so that one would have no other alternatives but to accept the sole and undivided leadership of the Singapore Government), I will forever insist on finding out the truth behind or underneath our highly compromised and, expectedly, very commercially successful print-media "writers"! Considering the quality, strength, range and standard of my, so far, electronically published writings, as reflected in my numerous blog articles or essays; and keeping in mind the psychological and emotional "long-sufferings" (and also physical loneliness, socially isolation, and love-starved and yet unmarried status and lifestyle -- but certainly not of a man who is totally sexually deprived or frustrated) of a man who has had plenty of long-time and varied experiences patronizing adult female prostitutes, especially those wonderful Chinese girls working in Geylang); and, lastly, viewing his less than "model citizen" status, and also considering the relentless and merciless pressure applied by the "good" and "able" (but certainly NOT caring) surveillance authorities, for far too long now, it is not difficult to understand now why I have sunk or descended into my lowest level of inhuman and pitiful existence -- even as a stubbornly thrifty consumer! That is why I have been seeking -- oh, goodness! gracious! -- public FINANCIAL assistance from the Singapore Government -- in such a humiliating way, at more than 55 years of age, and hence, as a thinking Senior Citizen who, no less than any other "highly qualified" professionals in the same trade, business, art, or activity, and probably encountering the same financial problems as mine, could have been so motivated enough by his own causes, principles, ideas, values, goals and beliefs, to go in search of ladies of the morning, afternoon and night, in order to satisfy his basic sexual needs, as a still-vigorous horny man, with the greatest of ease! So why has he become so poor?


The whole issue of my plight is centred around this question: Why am I -- or, why have I become -- so politically "untouchable", so financially unrewarded, and professionally unsuccessful as a WRITER? WHO are the people responsible for inducing in me such "untouchability", such "incapacity", such lack of intellectual excellence, such lack of assuredness in personal and professional achievements? Why have I become so unsuccessful -- as a writer of serious, quality essays, articles and books?

UNVEILLING THE PUBLIC MASQUERADE -- AND THE COVER-UP ( ADOPTED OR CONSTRUCTED BY THE EX-OFFICERS IN THE OLD MILITARY SECURITY DEPARTMENT (1976) -- AND THEIR SUPPORT OF, AND ASSISTANCE TO, THESE FUCKING SAFTI MILITARY OFFICERS (THE TOP BRASS) WHO MADE THE ERRONEOUS DECISION TO "IMPLANT" ME IN 1972, AFTER I HAD GONE AWOL AND LATER RETURNED TO "KILO" COMPANY (SAFTI), WHERE I WAS UNDERGOING SECTION LEADER TRAINING:


OF PAPER CERTIFICATES, PAPER DOCUMENTS,

AND OTHER PAPER "EVIDENCES" ON

MY SUPPOSED "INCAPABILITY"

TO WORK AS A PROFESSINAL WRITER :


MILITARY SECURITY DEPARTMENT (MINDEF), in 1976, is a partner in supporting and in covering up this crime of "implanting" me (COMMITTED in 1972 BY SAFTI MILITARY AUTHORITIES). I was directed to seek medical attention by my Officer Commanding, KILO COMPANY and was warded at the Medical Centre in SAFTI for clinical observation by military doctors. I have had disclosed my personal reasons for going AWOL in many of my previous blog entries. But I have yet, up until now, yes -- at this particular moment in time [readers, please be patient and calm : just read on, and hopefully if my mother is blessing me now, and while I am trying very hard to remember -- yes, to locate with accuracy and detail and honesty -- the nature of the missing pieces to this huge puzzling aspect of my troubled and disturbed life (resulting from the crucial life-changing "implantation" of my being, as an enlisted but reluctant and ill-adapted soldier who had gone AWOL in the year 1972); and also, its effects on, and implications for, my dull and boring and unhappy life in the last 36 years or so. What, and who, had influenced and even determined -- in mostly negative, destructive and undesired ways -- the course of my life so far -- including all the petty-minded and cruel violations of, and disrespect for, my human rights! Hence, it is not difficult now to understand all the bizarre outcomes, unexpected "loony" behaviour and dismal (and moronic and idiotic) consequences of almost all of my attempts to realizel my cherished goals and ambitions -- as a man, human being, citizen and, still, UNPUBLISHED (though not electronically, in the Internet) writer of PRINTED BOOKS)!

Why The Silence (From Those Surveillance Officers)? Stunned, Once Again!, By My Honesty, Truthfulness, Self-Awareness and Power -- and "Stubborness"

The Predictable Official Response

To My Application

For Financial Assistance

To :

The Acting Deputy General Manager,
North West Community Development Council,
Singapore.

Dear Ms Crystal Teng,

Do You Really -- Truly and Sincerely -- CARE, SHARE AND BOND (With Those You Serve?)

PLEASE REFER TO YOUR REPLY, on 14.11.08 (Case Ref: 010657/03), to my humble application for FINANCIAL assistance from the Singapore Government -- through your highly esteemed social welfare agency.

Your response to my need for FINANCIAL assistance is to offer me, yes!, Food Vouchers for 3 months (worth S$30.00 per month)! How totally pathetic! What is your understanding of my situation? What compassion is shown by the authority? Let me tell you -- clearly, loudly, distinctly and logically : I WILL collect my entitlement of Food Vouchers from your NWCDC -- and still remain fully aggrieved and angered by your refusal to help me FINANCIALLY -- but instead, to give me such a miserable token "gift" from your immense wealth and high salary?


Are these Singapore Government officers trying to placate me with such token small gestures of "assistance" and "support" -- knowing all-too-well about my FEW needs and their easily-satisfied nature? Are they trying, for the satisfaction of witnessing my humiliating concession to the Singapore Government, to exchange such placation for, to wit, my willingness to concede my rights to live my own life in my own way?


Such a lame, odious and ultimately infantile -- not to mention insulting and deceiving -- response from the authorities will only serve to harm the PAP's next re-election campaign, when it will, once again, seek to win even more electoral votes from even more constituents in the next General Elections. It will be the most crucial and important GE among them all -- in our short national history! (Don't worry, the preparations of the Opposition Parties this time -- right from the very beginning, involving the selection and nomination of contesting candidates -- will NOT be like the kind of afore-said response which the PAP Government and its surveillance officers have given me so far -- in responding, precisely, to my attempt to seek FINANCIAL help to extend my ability to live a dignified and self-respecting and hopefully long life.


I'm a very lonely man and citizen (despite having numerous contacts, every day, with people from all walks of life -- regardless of age, sex, race, language, education, religion, and nationality -- in the course of my work as a writer).

And I'm being constantly harassed and derided by the Singapore Government's surveillance officers, who have driven me to a "loony" state of FINANCIAL destitution -- and blaming me for such a personal crisis by claiming that my regular patronization of prostitutes (yes, but how many a month, in the first place?) is the cause of my FINANCIAL problem! But do I have to apologize for my attempts, as a still healthy 55-year-old man -- in spite of suffering from diabetes, high blood pressure and high cholesterol (whose regular treatment by polyclinic doctors HAVE SO FAR absorbed a substantial amount of my limited FINANCIAL resources) -- to satisfy my sexual needs?


Honourable men and women, I am still a single, a man -- a physically strong bachelor -- at the age of 55 -- a Senior Citizen no less, and I have the right to patronize the services of prostitutes -- even with my limited FINANCIAL resources!

I've already withdrawn, upon reaching the age of 55 this July, a sum of more than S$3,000.00 from the Special Account of my CPF -- there is no more money left in my Ordinary Account . I've already used part of it to pay for my outstanding and current HDB loan instalment -- and about most of the remaining money to buy a Personal Computer (ACER Brand) on 5.8.08 -- to help me in my work as a writer. This PC, however, had already been sold recently, in order for me to pay my outstanding bills.


As I've sold my PC (at a really great loss!), I'd to terminate my internet service account, run by STARHUB, which then billed me an additional sum of $400.oo (for early termination of service -- agreed upon in our contract) -- to bring my current debt to STARHUB to more than $660.00! (And that for just a few weeks of usage of my PC!)


I've also sold the 2 Nokia handphones that I'd bought this year , on two separate occasions (0n 21.6.08 and on 30.9.08), to facilitate my communication with publishers. Both handphones had since been sold, again on two separate occasions (on 12.9.08 and on 18.11.08), unwillingly and desperately, to help me buy essential food items for my daily consumption.

My DEPENDANTS PROTECTION SCHEME policy will soon be terminated if I can't renew it by paying, in full, the annual premium of $260.00 to the insurer, NTUC Income.


I had to sell off my entire vast collection of my treasured CDs and DVDs -- in order to pay for my monthly bills.

I've even contemplated selling my only portable radio receiver left in my sparsely-furnished flat, which would truly deny me the opportunity to listen to my favourite BBC news and current affairs programmes (the only source of information about the world for me now, since I've long stopped buying the local dailies for both financial and political reasons).

As a Senior Citizen, I'm, however, unable even to enjoy the special movie-going concession of paying only $4.00 flor a ticket to watch a movie at the local cinema.

On another related but seemingly insignificant matter: Why can't I, a Senior Citizen at the official age of 55 (plus a few months) who, to at least the kind operators of local cinemas, can enjoy a cinema show for S$4.00, be also allowed to qualify for the similar use of concessionary tickets when travelling on our buses and MRT trains? Why can't the bus transport operators and the MRT auhorities follow the same age ruling or requirement for consideration as a Senior Citizen -- at age 55 instead 0f 60! -- to be allowed, yes, as an officially-declared Senior Citizen, to travel on our buses and MRT trains?


I've also considered selling off my 3-room HDB flat in an eventuality -- so as to solve all my FINANCIAL problems, caused primarily by my inability to service, fully and regularly, my monthly instalment payments (whose settlement every month is needed in order for me to repay, progressively, the entire loan given to me by the HDB, upon my purchase of my flat in 1997).

Publishers have also been rejecting my writings for publication as books, for fear of offending the authorities with their support, business-wise or commercially speaking, for my sensitive and provocative socio-political writings. How am I supposed to earn a living as a writer then?

My siblings have also stopped helping me FINANCIALLY. Without their monthly contributions to my monthly "income", I have only my loyal tenants to rely on, FINANCIALLY, for sustaining my livelihood. (My tenants pay me S$400.00 every month for renting my bedroom. And that is the only source of my monthly income now.)

I've already reached the lowest point of my FINANCIAL situation: I'm so destitute that I'm forced to sell off all my valuable personal items or properties in order to have enough money to buy food daily. (Don't even mention my need to pay all those troubling and unsettling household bills.) And I've been wearing mostly the same old clothes for more than 10 years now. I'm also unable to contribute to charitable and religious organizations -- although I'd like to.


I was so downright poor at one time -- reaching a point in my life when I' had to seriously persuade myself -- rationally (in others words, against my personal convictions) -- that I'd need to to sell, illegally, pirated VCDs and CDs, in order to have any money to buy food for myself at all! (Was it how I should have lived, worked and played -- all through the last 36 years -- as a "model" or "good" citizen?)

There are no more grey areas left in my life now. All personal items which are deemed worth selling at all, and which I consider dispensable, have mostly been sold. That is how desperate -- and how economical -- I have become, yes, you fucking bastards from MSD, ISD, SPF and the power-hungry and affluent members of the PAP leadership! (There are certain aspects in my being and in my life, let me remind them, that I will never try to convert into cash! Do you hear me?)

As a poor and helpless writer, my most important problem is still, to re-emphasize once more, to settle my outstanding and current HDB bills (amounting to S$1,577.25). With this in mind, on 13.11.08 (Thur.), I approached and met, in person, Mr Tan Wee Liat (Tel: 63985934), Estate Officer in HDB Yishun Branch Office, and spoke to him for about half-an-hour (between 2.30 pm and 3.05 pm) about my inability to pay my outstanding and current HDB bills. I asked him to help prevent the possibility of my being heavily indebted, in the long term, to the HDB. Even now, my seemingly insignificant debt to the HDB has been troubling and de-stabilizing me for a long time now -- affecting negatively my work and my ability as a writer. (Such tight FINANCIAL situation had even forced me to pawn my precious gold pendant and gold chain -- given to me for remembrance by my late mother -- so as to allow me to pay, partially, my household bills and also for the purchase of food items and other groceries.)


But what can Mr Tan Wee Liat do?

What will he, with due respect to his authoritative and responsible position, do?

Surely, the highest authority in the land can show him some initiative and cooperativeness -- as a problem-solver -- by letting Mr TAN WEE LIAT do what he can possibly do (from a sense of my truly difficult plight)? Perhaps, and I am speaking as an uninformed citizen, Mr Tan can grant me a TEMPORARY REPRIEVE FROM PAYMENT OF MY OUTSTANDING AND CURRENT HDB BILLS (lasting for an initial period of 6 months -- and involving an amount of money every month which, had I been compelled to use it for the payment of my HDB bills, would have prevented me from better utilizing it for the payment of all my essential household expenses and basic needs (such as food) -- in order to help me achieve a long-enough period of mental repose and, hence, of intellectual fertility and vibrancy, so as to ensure greater success for me as a serious, quality writer (a writer whose ability to satisfy his basic needs is presently undermined by the surveillance authorities)?

After all, to succeed as a writer, whose work is time-consuming and extremely demanding -- of the utmost effort, application, concentration and mental energy, one needs to be more than hardworking and merely capable of writing grammatically and interestingly.


I used to maintain 2 different bank accounts and had several Fixed Deposits and also yearly subscriptions to savings and insurance schemes in my "better-off" adult working years, when for financial reasons, I had to, as an unsuccessful writer not earning any money at all, I was forced, reluctantly and unhappily, to work in other unrelated non-writing (and quite boring, unchallenging and even menial) occupations and jobs in order to survive -- in jobs such as factory production work; clerical work; sales work; cleaning work; contract renovation work; shop assistance work; security (guard) work; delivery work; and waiter's work.

But now, I've just about slightly more than one Singapore dollar left in my only (POSB) bank account. I also have many outstanding household bills to settle with the various authorities. With almost no cash -- yes, no MONEY -- in my possession, how am I going to even try budgeting my spending activities and plans? I don't have the economic freedom to pursue my own money-making opportunities -- in my own way as a "stubborn" and "loony" writer! (Stopping me from eating chickens regularly is not the solution to my problems, dear!)


Surely, our "good" and "able" Singapore Government is not totally heartless? Surely, it can't ignore my calls and pleas for FINANCIAL assistance -- as mounted by my personal presence at the NWCDC (located at Woodlands Civic Centre) on 2 occasions now [the first on 12.7.08, which turned into an official rejection of my application, as confirmed to me by Ms Chin Tong Mui, Deputy General Manager, in a letter on 7.8.08 (Case Ref: 10657/03); and the second (and latest occasion) on 28.10.08, when I duly presented many of my important personal and "public" documents, including printed copies of my relevant blog posts (http://afighterandalovertoo.blogspot.com/), to my interviewing officer -- a Malay woman by the name of Mazlaina -- for her own report and presentation to the higher authorities, so that they can refer to them and, of course, take urgent action or apply effective solution (after giving them their utmost attention)!


Unlike the first occasion, when I was interviewed by a seemingly concerned (and admittedly utterly charming) "socially working" executive officer -- with seemingly impeccable academic credentials and a listening ear, I was very emotionally charged and intellectually focused this time -- on my second appearance inside the NWCDC Interview Room -- where I pleaded for FINANCIAL assistance from the government by giving the equally attentive and genuinely concerned Senior Manager (a woman called Mazlaina), a comprehensive and honest account of my troubling plight and unsettling predicament as an oppositionist writer, working unsuccessfully to write and to publish my writings as books of collected essays. Mazlaina, after listening to my call for help, promised to refer my case to the senior authorities for further consideration and approval. I had, presumably then, managed to impress upon Mazlaina the SEVERITY and GRAVITY of my unenviable and de-stabilizing predicament.


I expect the highest authorities at the Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports (MCYS) to show more initiative and co-operativeness -- and not merely a "careful" assessment of my situation (by just following the ministry's policy guidelines)! After all, there is indeed A CHANGE IN MY CIRCUMSTANCES AT THE PRESENT MOMENT -- VASTLY DIFFERENT FROM THOSE IN EXISTENCE AT THE TIME OF MY FIRST APPLICATION FOR FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE!


Please do undertake genuine actions -- and thereby show serious, high-level and high-standard CONCERN for my plight and predicament as an unsuccessful writer who is unable to earn a living -- yes, to earn any income at all! -- in his role and capacity as a professionally serious and quality writer. It is a situation caused, in no small or insignificant manner, by the efforts and activities of the very same government surveillance officers who are spying and snooping on me, with their aim of controlling me and turning me into an obedient, uncritical, unthinking, apathetic and even cynical SUBJECT -- without any soul, heart, mind and (unviolated) body of his own -- without, yes, any INDIVIDUALITY of MY own!

To conclude, I demand a genuine -- not a cosmetic and temporary -- solution to my FINANCIAL predicament at the highest level -- from the highest authorities in the country -- and certainly not from some sorry pathetic, miserable and low-level "problem-solvers" like you, sorry Ms Teng -- a mere government functionary!

I want the Singapore Government to show more genuine understanding of the GRAVITY andf SEVERITY of my FINANCIAL situation -- as a poor, helpless and unfortunate writer under immense, constant and relentless pressure from the very same heartless government -- yes, from which I am trying, perhaps foolishly?, to seek FINANCIAL assistance (in order to alleviate, or better still, to resolve my FINANCIAL problems once and for all)!

Don't you realize the sheer IRONY -- is THAT the correct word? (you see? I have been suffering, and am still suffering, from 36 years of continuing interruptions, disruptions and corruptions of my language-using ability!) -- of IT all? I rest my case!

Addendum:

But I'm a man of rectitude. I'm a fearless individualist who believes I can make a difference to the world. To those who are on the right (and bright) side of history, I want them to realize this:

Historical truth will out!

And:

Principles are potent!

Through my incessant efforts as an uncompromising oppositionist (and now so-called "loony") writer, I'll light up the world; I'll lighten the load of those oppressed and victimized by the authorites; I'll light up their lives; I'll enlighten them; I'll be the light of their life; and, when lightning strikes (as it always will -- often unexpectedly too), I'll tell them not to take it lightly!


Let me now tell you more about my sacrifices as an oppositionist writer and individualist living and working in a postmodernist globalized and surveillance society like ours.

Firstly, I've not been to any foreign countries for the past 10 years -- until recently, that is (on a short trip to Malaysia) -- with the aim of expanding my intellectual horizons as a curious writer.

I had to terminate my Internet Account with the National Library Board just recently (because I was unable to pay for my usage of its services) -- although, as an industrious writer, I need to use the public library's PC daily in the course of my work.



VITAL NOTES (NUMBER ONE):

INDICATING PRECISELY

WHAT I MEAN -- AT AGE 55

1. YOUR ERRORS OR MISTAKES INDICATE THAT THEY ARE NOT ACCIDENTALLY COMMITTED BUT THE RESULT OF A CALCULATED DECISION-MAKING BY THE PARTY LEADERS;
2. THE CONSTANT CALCULATIVENESS OF THEIR ACTIONS INDICATE THAT THEY ARE BASED ON LONG-TERM PLANNING AND GOALS -- AND NOT ON SHORT-TERM AIMS AND GAINS;
3. MY INDEPENDENT MEMORY INDICATES TO ME THAT THOSE "ABLE" AND "GOOD" LEADERS ARE NOT TO BE TRUSTED;
4. MY FUNCTION AS A COMMANDER AND MASTER (OF MY OWN RESOURCES) IS TO OPPOSE MY ENEMIES -- INDICATING THAT I AM AWARE THAT THEY ARE JUST OUT TO EXERT THEIR AUTHORITY AND POWER AND TO IMPOSE THEIR CONTROL OVER ME;
5. MY PRESENT RESIDENCE (AND ITS OFFICIAL ADDRESS) IS NOW MY BASE FOR BOTH MY LONG-TERM PLANNING AND MY CURRENT DAY-TO-DAY OPERATIONS -- AS A "RECLUSIVE" WRITER, COMMANDEERING MY UNIQUE AND ORIGINAL RESOURCES -- AND ATTEMPTING TO MASTER MY OPPONENTS;
6. I'M NOW THE "RECLUSIVE" COMMANDANT -- OF MY OWN VALUES AND PRINCIPLES; OF MY IDEAS AND BELIEFS; OF MY ATTITUDES AND IDEALS -- AS A FULL-FLEDGED, FULL -TIME, AND PROFESSIONAL "STUBBORN" AND "LOONY" WRITER -- IN OUR POSTMODERNIST SURVEILLANCE SOCIETY!

VITAL NOTES (NUMBER TWO) :

INDICATING PRECISELY

WHAT I WANT OUT OF LIFE --

AT THE AGE OF 55


THIS WILL BE MY LAST -- PROVISIONALLY, TEMPORARILY AND TENTATIVELY --ATTEMPT TO PUBLICLY HEIGHTEN MY IMPACT ON MY FELLOW READERS AND CITIZENS (NOW AND IN THE FUTURE); TO STRENGTHEN MYSELF IN ALL ASPECTS OF MY BEING; AND TO HAVE MAXIMUM PUBLICITY FOR MY EFFORTS IN REVEALING THE INEPTITUDE (OR DISHONESTY?) OF THE SINGAPORE GOVERNMENT -- AND ITS SURVEILLANCE OFFICERS -- IN THEIR DAILY DEALINGS WITH ME.

THERE OUGHT TO BE SOME PROGRESS IN MY LIFE -- NO? ALL I NEED TO CONTINUE LIVING AND WORKING, AS A WRITER -- POSITIVELY, FRUITFULLY, AND FULLY -- IS THE CONSTANT POSSESSION AND AVAILABILITY OF THE FOLLOWING 5 BASIC (PERSONAL) PROPERTIES:

1. A HIGH-QUALITY DICTIONARY;
2. A HIGH-QUALITY THESAURUS;
3. A HIGH-QUALITY ENCYCLOPEDIA;
4. A HIGH-QUALITY REFERENCE "TEXTBOOK" ON POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT; AND, LASTLY,
5. ENOUGH CASH (IN SINGAPORE DOLLARS, DEFINITELY!) -- AFTER ALL MY MONTHLY HOUSEHOLD BILLS ARE SETTLED AND AFTER ALL MY BASIC NEEDS (SUCH AS, YES INDEED!, SEXUAL INTERCOURSE WITH PROSTITUTES) ARE SATISFIED -- TO ENABLE ME TO CONCENTRATE AND FOCUS ON MY WRITING.

To conclude, I'd like to repeat here some of the important messages sent out by a fellow writer from the West -- so as to inform; to enlighten; and to educate us all who would care to listen:

1. History to the defeated can still make some amends.
2. The masses are not fashioned for manipulation or drudgery but are made up of autonomous individuals.
3. Justice is ordinary, though not quite in the way that an unrepentant Western thought culture to be, because it is NOT latent or innate but needs to be decided by struggle and by irony too.

Cornered, cheated, exhausted and despondent -- under the relentless pressure mounted by the surveillance authorities, I have actually even considered emigrating, permanently, to the U.S. (the Mother of Democracy!) -- to, at last, set my proferssional ambition and aims, as a serious, quality writer, on a hopeful, rightful, meaningful and productive path!

On Mass Surveillance In Singapore

On Why I Travel On

A "Normal" Route

To Counter

Governmental &

Corporate Snooping


Those of us who are harshly and reluctantly entrapped in the system of political control undertaken by our elected government -- through its employment of modern surveillance techniques and technologies --often try to escape from its ensnaring and suffocating restrictions by thinking in terms of fighting the authorities through legal means -- namely, by employing, certainly foolishly, the official services of our compromised and beholden Members of Parliament (elected lawmakers), and by making use of the professional services of our timid and equally compromised lawyers (trained specifically to understand the intricacies -- and also vulnerabilities -- of governmental actions responding to, and confronting the challenges and criticisms posed by opponents and critics of the government, with reference to universal principles of human rights and to international laws and regulations guiding precisely such governmental actions and behaviour).

Such official methods of legal recourse, admittedly, may prevent some of the worst excesses of a surveillance society, but such solutions also DO NOT WORK if THE POLITICAL WILL TO IMPLEMENT SUCH SOLUTIONS -- EFFECTIVELY AND NOT JUST COSMETICALLY -- IS NOT PRESENT.

Without detailed public knowledge of surveillance techniques and technologies, and of the EXTENT to which they are being deployed, the groundswell of public opinion necessary to drive a DEMAND for such solutions will remain lacking.

The main concern of dissident bloggers like me, who write outside of the intellectual and political (and "systematic") confines set by mainstream snoopers and manipulators of targetted victims in our surveillance society here, is to learn as much as we can about (and to reveal bravely and publicly about the results of such learning) the AMOUNT and EXTENT of data (not data collection itself) that are being collected by the authorities and their COLLATION within ever-more-massive databases!

Question: What are the safeguards (will they be observed and followed in the first place?), should our society ever demand them, to ensure privacy principles are respected and to allay other important privacy concerns? Thus, citizens who are dissident bloggers like me, have a real concern, and it is about widespread INSTITUTIONAL surveillance of individuals and/or groups in a society!

Such massive surveillance efforts by the government is the result of The Party's desire to collate and form national databases -- and this is extremely disturbing.

The system of "due process of law" is long embodied in the laws of the United Kingdom, the United States of America and Canada (and in the systems of jurisprudence derived from them). Such a system is relied upon by most citizen-victims of governmental surveillance to protest against such humiliating and oppressive forms of control over their lives -- including their moments of privacy.

That is the reason why non-mainstream bloggers and political critics resort to other (shall we say, un-systematic?) forms or methods of countering the restrictive or constraining influences from the ubiquitous surveillance officers who, normally, with an unknowing, unknowledgeable and unaware -- and hence supine and acquiescent -- citizenry at their feet, will exploit their advantages (in terms of logistics, finances, and knowledge and information -- based precisely on the formation of national databases, etc.) and also their awesome, comprehensive legal and juridical powers, to subjugate and suppress the controlled population (although they would never admit to doing so openly!).

Dissident bloggers like me have this part of a bigger picture of covert control over the population by stealthy and manipulative surveillance officers in mind when we blog or write about corporate or governmental snooping and manipulation (which are never discussed or covered here -- and also never denied either -- by journalists, editors and commentators in the obsequious local mass media).

As Mark Weiser, Chief Technologist at Xerox Palo Alto Research Centre (PARC), said (in 1991), on the danger of an ubiquitous technological environment:

"The most profound technologies are those that disappear. They weave themselves into the fabric of everyday life until they are indistinguishable from it."

Fellow citizens and attentive readers, you have now been duly informed and fore-warned.

Please do take care!

Surveillance Officers: We Don't Express Ourselves -- We Only React and Respond!

Intrusive, Disrespectful and

Upsetting

Surveillance and Control

by Intelligence and Security

Officers

of the PAP Government




Personal Testimony of A Citizen and Witness :

My Private and Public Life Has Been Turned Upside Down by the PAP Government. It Uses Images and Voices From People I Know Closely (Or Am Familiar or Acquainted With -- Such As Family Members, Friends, Ex-colleagues and Ex-classmates and Relatives) -- In Order To Control and Turn Me Into, By Turns An Enforcement/Security Agent and By Others An Obedient Subject. I Have Become One, After More Than 36 Years As A Reluctant, Poor, Unfortunate and Helpless (and Sexually Frustrated and Deprived -- Not to Mention Socially Unhappy and Love-starved) Victim of Governmental Manipulation and Control. These Surveillance Officers All Try To Exert Maximum Control Over My Own Mind, Heart, Soul and Body -- With the Practised Cunning, Determined Intention and Long-term Plan (For Such Implementation of the Deliberate Use of Often Illogical and Misleading Words, Images, Messages, Suggestions, Hints and Many Other Tricks and Methods of Communication -- Including, Quite Often, Downright Abusive Verbal Communication Techniques)!


Yes, instead of presenting and identifying themselves -- seriously, openly and clearly -- in order to respectfully and honestly make their own intentions known, and to express their own needs and desires, these surveillance officers (both male and female, whether separately and individually or as a combined unit), just contribute to my perturbation as a man, human being, citizen and writer!

Yes, these human monitors, censors, spies, agents, snoopers and controllers -- with the help of the latest and the most advanced scientific equipment and technological inventions and electronic/electrical products -- have been, day-in and day-out, second-after-second, minute-after-minute, hour-after-hour, day-after-day, week-after-week, month-after-month, year-afer-year, WORKING (real hard indeed!) to disturb me!

They have been insulting me -- my intelligence and my respect for myself; they have been controlling me -- to hide their own inadequacies and hang-ups. They have been expressing their grievances and complaints; they have been humiliating me -- while I am taking a shower, changing clothes, urinating, shitting, masturbating, and fucking women (and there were, and will still be, plenty of such women in my life as a resistant and dissident citizen)! They have been issuing "challenges" to me, knowingly or not; they have been pretending to be what they are not (and never will be!); they want to impress upon me that they are likely "winners", that they can achieve victories (moral?, intellectual?, what else?), that they can obtain "permanent" (sexual, especially) satisfasction, enjoyment, pleasure and success!

These surveillance officers (men and women) want to please themselves (in so many different ways that are -- secretively or not -- best known only to themselves); they want to react or to respond (to my expressions and self-expressions); yes, they want to ejaculate (how many times per week?); to avenge their "sufferings" (caused by me?) -- by making me suffer in turn. They want to avenge Lee Kuan Yew's humiliation under my deliberate, insulting and provocative verbal dismissiveness; and to avenge themselves on me -- their long-time (but long-suffering) nemesis! They want to punish me for daring to insult their modesty, saintliness, prudery, prudishness, holiness, religiousity, purity, perfection, infallibility, uprightness, goodness, ability and everything worth their while to mention (in support of their "feel-good" factor: yes, to feel "good", "able", etc., etc., etc.).

But, dear fellow citizens and readers, these surveillance officers NEVER want to admit to their own mistakes; they NEVER want to -- thus and accordingly -- CORRECT or REMEDY their own grave mistakes!

Instead, they choose to EXPLOIT such mistakes of theirs -- committed from the highest level of governmental authority to the lowest level of official subordination -- and turn them to their own advantage (and to gain farther advantages of whatever kinds) -- ALL IN THEIR OWN FAVOUR!

Finally, a word of reminder to these conformists who lack (STRONG) minds of their own: How can they continue to insult me, repeatedly -- and to "take me on" in things or subjects which I CAN commandeer? (and, further, in areas where I am the absolute and undeniable MASTER and COMMANDER -- the COMMANDANT, in effect?)!

I am a self-confident blogger, dissident, writer, manly lover, and, unarguably, a unique and original human being. I, namely: David Chua Chuan Seah, can never be "helped" to "enjoy" myself by these surveillance officers when their only motive for such "help" is to APPEASE their own guilt-ridden complex! For, as a writer, I must be asked (and be FULLY respected for my sincere and honest reply) : What are my own intentions? Are they noble and magnanimous? Or debased, degrading and abusive?

AND THIS IS MY REPLY : It is time for these surveillance officers to find out whether or not I am a liar (a pathological one?), a "mental defective", a "psychopath", or ... (what else?, you idiots!).

ADDENDUM:

This is my request: Do not exploit my weaknesses (e.g. for women and girls), including my soft-heartedness, my obsession with good hygiene, comfort, my meticulousness, my confidence, my resourcefulness, my urge to get close to women and girls (again!, but why not? : what, really or exactly, can I do, Sir?).

Please do not take advantage of my ignorance about many scientific facts, matters, inventions and technological advances -- whose knowledge or awareness of many people simply take for granted.

Please do not exploit my "stubborness"; please do not abuse my humility. Please do not corrupt and contaminate my precious thoughts (which are many indeed!) and also my few, perhaps too few indeed -- but nonetheless sensitive (sometimes very much so !) feelings!

That is all.

NOTES ON THE SINGAPORE GOVERNMENT'S WORLD OF SURVEILLANCE ACTIVITIES

WHAT IS WRONG WITH

THESE SURVEILLANCE

OFFICERS AND AGENTS?

(ARE THEY NUMSKULLS

OR DIRTY-MINDED NUTS?)



In Singapore, massive surveillance efforts, practices, planning and activities carried out by the MSD/ISD officers have replaced almost all forms of police enforcement work!

A man surely needs a WILLING maid -- for the satisfaction of his sexual NEEDS and social WANTS. Why, then, are the MSD/ISD officers preventing me from satisfying my sexual NEEDS and social WANTS by stopping me from meeting AND PHYSICALLY CONTACTING women who are NOT prostitutes?

Do MSD/ISD officers hold that a man is guilty until proven innocent? Why do they, for instance, assume that I am guilty of "immoral" behaviour (MOSTLY by patronizing prostitutes?!) without having ever proved that I am indeed so? AND on what grounds, may I ask precisely, am I "immoral"?

MSD and ISD officers have breached principles of privacy which are lawfully protected elsewhere in the world.

What is "surveillance" but another name for spying? To watch individuals covertly, to film them, to listen in to their conversations or communications, to know where they are at any given moment, to amass data on every aspect of their lifestyles -- this, surely, is precisely what a spy is paid to do! And this is exactly what our government and large corporations are doing, and attempting to do, to every individual in this nation!

However, it is worth contemplating a single question: What is the difference between "surveillance" and "spying"?

In Singapore, all Internet Service Providers are operated by government-controlled or related organizations;

Article 17, U.N. International Covenant On Civil and Political Rights, Ratified by the General Assembly (and the U.S.) in 1984:

No one shall be subjected to arbitrary or unlawful interference with his privacy, family, home, or correspondence, nor to unlawful attacks on his honor and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.

Brad Jansen, Deputy Director for Technology Policy at the Free Congress Foundation:

Massive surveillance is a poor substitute for real law-enforcement and intelligenvce work. It is an after-the-fact method of crime-fighting. It is not designed to to prevent crime.

MASSIVE WIRETAPPING DOES NOT EQUAL SECURITY. INSTEAD, WE HAVE ELECTED TO JEOPARDIZING OUR NATIONAL SECURITY in exchange for poor law enforcement.

Dollars and Sense

Not American should blindly accept
reduction of his liberty simply because a government official says so.
The choice is a nation of laws or a nation of whims. No liberty is possible
with the latter, no matter how important the cause.

-- Tom Deweees (Commentator)

Computer/Phone Privacy

Congressman Ron Paul:

In the last few decades, much of our
privacy has been lost. And it's not only computers that deserve the blame. They
have only been useful magnifiers of what the prying eyes of Big Brother have wanted to see all along.

A Thinking Senior Citizen In A New World

Of Electronic Surveillance, Postmodernism and Globalization -- In The Life of Singaporeans

I'm getting poorer and poorer in my finances. But I'm becoming richer and richer in my mind. As my recent and latest blog entries/posts have shown, I'm also acquiring more and more power in my writing! In my love/sex/social life, I've achieved greater potency in my fucking of women. Yes, I'm more and more in almost complete control of my own life -- as a man, human being, citizen and writer/blogger! I'm in ascendancy!

And why am I in such a glorious state of mind, heart, soul and body? Well, it is simple: I'm becoming more and more well-informed and knowledgeable -- about the new world of electronic surveillance (especially in regard to politics, sports and education), postmodernism (especially in regard to literature and the arts), and globalization (in regard to trade, finance and commerce) -- with a clear and wide-ranging intellectual framework and reference to authoritarian and autocratic governments (like Singapore's)!

I now know more and more about postmodernist use of surveillance technologies -- and its application to, and influence on, the latest developments in the study of history, philosophy, literature; and in academic scholarship, scientific research, psychological studies, political practices, sexual relations, parenting, and yes, the writing (or authorship) of BOOKS!

Yes, the whole population of Singapore -- a global city -- is under electronic surveillance by the authorities (corporate and governmental)! We are all interconnected with one another -- poor, rich, not-too-poor and not-too-rich -- by the PAP Government's use of electronic surveillance technologies and techniques!

This is not a flippant, trivial, superficial and inconsequential article to put the Singapore Government in a bad light by offering supposedly "unobjective" comments and "twisted" or "distorted" facts! The PAP Government has to prove such an intentiion on my part in the first place. Facts are free -- if you seek them out conscientiously and intelligently; but my opinions and reflections are sacred. And I'm not just trying to promote serious, quality reading!

As an individualistic oppositionist and writer, who finds many aspects of our cosmopolitan city -- with its world-class companies and the best talents around, engaging in postmodernist, globalized and electronic surveillance activities, practices, methods, behaviour and lifestyles -- very unacceptable. I'm unapologetically defiant and totally "unorthodox" in my persistent exposure and scrutiny of such disturbing manifestations of UNEQUAL POWER RELATIONSHIPS between corporations and the government on the one side and the helpless, poor and unfortunate citizen-victims on the other side. I'm certainly justified in having such anti-PAP and anti-LKY (and hence, pro-opposition) attitudes! I'm, after all, a progressive VOICE of REASON! And I will scrutinize and expose in the name of FREEDOM -- man's most important and perhaps greatest idea!

I cannot remain silent and neutral. I know too much already. I must speak up and out -- and even scream and shout, if necessary! I'll pilot my little airplane, from now on, with a unified, well-rounded and well-balanced vision of the more benign and humane new world that is to come in the future -- if we keep believing in, and fight for, the TRUTH!

My Recent Times And Experiences With Various Asian Beauties -- As An Oppositionist and Critic of the Surveillance Authorities

My Overdue "Sexual" Contacts

(Countless!), Social Relations

(Countless!) and Penetrative Sexual

Intercourse Sessions --

With Good (!) Women and Girls

( From 28th June 2008

To 29th October 2008) :

1. 28.6.08 (Sat.) -- With "Fei Fei" (young, cheerful & lovely); satisfaction: 100% !;
2. 20.7.08 (Sun.) -- With "Yeh" (attractive); satisfaction: 80% !;
3. 30.7.08 (Wed.) -- With "Fung Fung" (mischievous but loving); satisfaction: 50% !;
4. 13.9.08 (Sat.) -- With "Yan" (25, cheerful, pretty, Indonesian); satisfaction: 90% !;
5. 19.9.08 (Fri.) -- With "Huey Bin" (young, cheerful & beautiful); satisfaction: 90% !;
6. 20.9.08 (Sat.) -- With "Jenny" (mercenary but totally obliging); satisfaction: 70% !;
7. 21.9.08 (Sun.) -- With "Xiao Fung" (simply, adorably lovely); satisfaction: 100% !!!;
8. 27.9.08 (Sat.) -- With "Xiao Chang" (loving & lovely); satisfaction: 100% !;
9. 29.9.08 (Mon.) -- With "Linda" (pretty); 90% !;
10. 1.10.08 (Wed.) -- With "Hantu" (pretty, sexy and, yes!, money-minded!); satisfaction: 55% !;
11. 19.10.08 (Sun.) -- With "Xuan Xuan" (22, attractive, charming, loving, irrepressible, responsive, interested, sexy, amiable, companionable, considerate, sociable, friendly, genial,helpful, kind, obliging and solicitous; terrific!); satisfaction: 100% !;
12. 22.10.08 (Wed.) -- With "Xuan Xuan" (again! -- still charming, loving, irrepressible and passionate; lots of foreplay; wonderful!); satisfaction: 100% !;
13. 29.10.08 (Wed.) -- With "Xuan Xuan" (yes, once again! -- my darling lover, new-found girlfriend, honey and babe! I love her with all my heart, soul, mind and body! My major success in my love, sex and social life after 36 years of being under governmental surveillance and manipulation! Rock on, Sweetie!); satisfaction: 160% !!!!!!!

COMMENTARY:

The PAP bastards think I can't stop THEM from undermining and spoiling my love, sex and social life -- probably due to the fact that I can't see them in person! But really, I don't give them a fucking recognition or acknowledgement!

So I don't bother about these surveillance officers. I know the PAP's TOP SECRET! Openly and publicly! It is: Domination Over Its Subjects! I just do what I please! All it takes is for someone I trust to enhance my life -- sexually and hence intellectually. Yes, this is how I live my life on my own terms and conditions -- as a reluctant "implantee", an "agent", a critic, a writer, a "schizophrenic", a "pervert", a lover, a "molester", a "prisoner", a blogger and a socio-political commentator and essayist. And I just need the perfect accompaniment -- a nice, pretty girl whom I love with all my heart, soul, mind, and body -- for such a multi-various life. And do you know who that lucky girl might be? Well, she is my latest girlfriend and lover, Kelly. I, an individualist, feel lucky to have met Kelly. Say good luck to me -- for I am under surveillance by the authorities and my rights as a man, writer, citizen and human being are being infringed upon and cruelly violated by these ubiquitous authorities. I, too, am an ordinary human being after all: I need conveniences, accessibilities, accommodation, advantages, amenities, appliances, appropriateness, availability, benefits, chances, comfort, ease, enjoyment, facilities, fitness, handiness, help, leisure, opportuneness, opportunities, satisfaction, services, serviceability, suitability, timeliness, uses, usefulness and utilities!

Nowadays, I'm in greater control of my life and personal being and my career as a writer is in ascendancy! (Yes! Yes!)

I'm loving, responsible, liberated, natural, versatile, provocative, sensual, quiet, commanding, attentive, modern, notable, intriguing, ingenious, captivating, deep, mysterious, daring, confident, friendly (except to the MSD/PAP officers), honest, wild (sometimes!), resourceful, cultivated, well-read, high-brow (most of the time), low-brow (sometimes), handsome (still!), individualistic, sexy, manly, notorious, sincere, bold, assertive, independent, sharp-minded, intelligent, thoughtful, intuitive, forceful, self-educated (mostly) and, yes, FREE (determinedly, insistently, persistently and potently!). I am the star in my own blogs -- for I write not as a team of group-thinking composite bloggers but only (and only) as myself, an independent authorial voice (of reason and compassion).

I'm getting poorer and poorer in my finances; but I'm becoming richer and richer in my mind. I'm more powerful now as a writer, citizen-leader and critic. The PAP bastards can torture me in any way they want. But as long as I am alive, I will always be an oppositionist (in this post-modernist, globalized world), a writer and critic who loves women and girls (especially when they are pretty and shapely)!

If there is only one idea of freedom, and only one, then the PAP will win! But the PAP has not won, not yet! If it has, then it would not repeat this word "freedom" over and over, again and again! It wants to, with such repetition, change not only people's minds but also their very BRAINS!

If the PAP has succeeded in getting its own version or idea of "freedom" into the BRAIN of every Singapore citizen, then it could simply have taken freedom -- as it has defined it -- for granted! Did it? Does the PAP still? Even today?

QUOTES FOR THE TIMES:

Deprivation and impotence sanctify the "mindless", the most humble!

-- George Steiner, ERRATA: AN EXAMINED LIFE (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1997)

Untold personal destitution, ridicule, isolation, obscurity, not to speak of persecution on ideological-political grounds, has attended on the production of great art, literature or philosophic investigation....the evidences of suffering and solitude remain overwhelming. In the midst of the inhumanity and indifference of history; a handful of men and women have been creatively possessed by the compelling splendour of the "useless"! This constitutes the eminent dignity, the "princeliness" of our "brutal" kind.

-- George Steiner, ibid

None are more enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

-- Goethe

But who will guard the guardians themselves?

-- Juvenal (c. 60 -- 130 AD)

The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.

-- Edmund Burke (1729 -- 1797)

Postmodern Politics

Postmodernists maintain that society is incoherent and that no single perspective can grasp the complexity and fluidity of current conditions.

Society, to them, has fragmented into so many conflicting knowledges, identities, needs, and views--it is not possible or desirable to see the human race as "one big fmily"!

This situation arises out of the fact that socieites arebecoming multi-cultural and our lifestyles are becoming cosmopolitan. It also means that there is no agreement about what is worth believing (or knowing) any more! That social conditions are in a frightening state of disrepair! Postmodernists--some of them--see it as far more constructive to push the fragmentation as far as it will go--and use it to your advantage!

diversity and disagreement are part of political discourse. To generate new ideas and experiences, postmodernists--many of them, yes!--propose that we should activitate the differences between people and between the cultural spaces they inhabit.

Possibilities for creativity are contained in this activation. (It also contains the potential for violent conflict; some postmodern thinkers would rather see violence than flabby tolerance. But it is our responsibility to ensure that the activation will only encourage possibilities for creativity--and nothing violent, conflicting, flabby or tolerant!)

Political Commentary by David Chua Chuan Seah

My MILD Political Comments In

The Singapore Democratic Party

(SDP) Website,

Singapore Democrats

(http://www.yoursdp.org)


Titles of My Posted/Published Socio-Political Comments

(Including Dates of Publication/Posting)

and The Respective Titles of

Main Reports/Articles in

Singapore Democrats:

1. PAP Ball-Carriers (27.4.08)--in: "Chee Siok Chin calls on EU not to sacrifice human rights for trade";
2. Press Deprivation (30.4.08)--in: "SDP invites Straits Times for a meeting";
3. Goodbye To The Naive Eighties (2.5.08)--in: "Guess who's presiding over LKY's lawsuit hearing?";
4. Opposition Parties in Singapore (3.5.08)--in: "The people drives us on";
5. My Thanks To The SDP (4.5.08)--in: "Activists protest against media control outside SPH";
6. The Poor, Helpless and the Unfortunate (5.5.08)--in: "Free meals salvation for poor in wealthy Singapore";
7. I Declare (6.5.08)--in: "Why are Courts coy about deciding to hold hearing in open court?";
8. Replies To Fellow Singaporeans (7.5.08)--in: (same as No. 7);
9. The Law Is Unjust (7.5.08)--in: "Registrar: 'Almost certain' hearing will be in open court";
10. The Power and Economic Elite (8.5.08)--in: "Why was the late High Court Judge Lai Kew Chai at a 'political dinner'?";

11. When Will Lee Ever Admit Them (16.6.08)--in: "CSJ walks from QRP";

12. Why I Left Military Security Department, Mindef (17.6.08)--in: "Confusion over charges, but harassment of Nair continues";

13. Opposition To The Autocratic and Authoritarian PAP Goverment (17.6.08)--in: "Thank you message from CSJ";

14. On Lee Kuan Yew's Worry (27.6.08)--in: "Opposition would ruin Singaopore: Lee Kuan Yew";

15. Lee Kuan Yew's "Communists" (29.6.08)--in: "Tearing down the facade";

16. Let Us Work For A New Government (5.7.08)--in: "Transcript confirms Yeong's dishonesty";

17. Thought Control in a Democratic Society (7.7.08)--in: "A protrait of love, honour and courage";

18. On Voters and Leaders: An Updated Review (9.7.08)--in: "Chee calls for hearing to be reconvened on IBA matter; press dead silent";

19. Power versus Truth (11.7.08)--in: "Singapore's Minister Mentor slips up under oath";

20. Lee Kuan Yew's Untruths (11.7.08)--in: "Davinder Singh: Lee's IBA-letter reference only an 'inaccuracy'";

21. Saluting Our Political Activists (11.7.08)--in: "Because we love Singapore";

22. Champion of the Underdog (15.7.08)--in: "Another of Chee's trial starts tomorrow";

23. Elite Opinion in the Mainstream Press (16.7.08)--in: "Judging Singapore's Judiciary";

24. Conflicts, Differences and the PAP Government (17.7.08)--in: "Activists call for Law Society's involvement";

25. Pragmatism Without Principles (23.7.08)--in: "Asean must move on human rights";

26. On The Value Of Freedom (23.7.08)--in: "Southeast Asia begins negotiations to set up rights body";

27. The Supreme and Great Leader (24.7.08)--in: "No credible people in the opposition?";

28. To Be The Gardener Of Your Own Life (24.7.08)--in: "Govt. bans Chee Siok Chin from attending leadership program at Stanford";

29. But Some Are More Equal Than Others (25.7.08)--in: "Chee asks for meeting with Law Society";

30. The Cold War and Governmental Paranoia (28.7.08)--in: "Democrats Chairman in Cambodia to observe elections";

31. Political Change in Singapore--How Gradual? (29.7.08)--in: "Law Society has 'no views' on freedoms of speech and assembly";

32. The New Economy & "Asian Values" (30.7.08)--in: "Govt.'s excuse banning Chee Siok Chin's travel exposed";

33. The Current Situation in Singapore (4.8.08)--in: "Calling all lawyers";

34. On Civil Disobedience, The Internet & Political Change in Singapore (7.8.08)--in: "Law must not be applied selectively";

35. Western Critics, the PAP and Singapore (13.8.08)--in: "SDP calls on activists not to exploit Ravi's situation";

36. Would Satire and Wit Ruin Singapore? (16.8.08)--in: "One Nation Under Lee to be screened in Malaysian cities";

37. Return to Myself (23.8.08)--in: "Singapore's Temasek says assets worth $131 bln.";

38. My Version Or ISD/MSD Version? (23.8.08)--in: "Singapore's Temasek says assets worth $131 bln.";

39. A NEW BOOK BY DR CHEE SOON JUAN (26.8.08)--in: "Chee to launch new book at SDP dinner";

40. Power To Those Fearless, Daring Citizens (27.8.08)--in: "When the police becomes politicians";

41. What It Means To Me: Being anti-PAP? (11.9.08) -- in: "One Nation Under Lee seizure to be raised at U.N. meeting";

42. The Politics Of Retreat (6.10.08) -- in: "Get involved";

43. Towards Effecting Political Change (11.10.08) -- in: "Chia Ti Lik in London to meet with lawyers and lawmakers";

44. Why Should Foreigners Shut Up? (22.10.08) -- in: "The myth of Singapore democracy";

45. Freedom From Fear (3.11.08) -- in: "Asian democracy at "tipping point"?

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