On Meeting the Wise (And Invisible) Leaders of the Singapore Establishment/Government

WHERE I LIVE,

LIFE GETS BETTER!


(Even though these invisible "people" up there -- always listening and othen talking -- are going to continue to be so intrusive, invasive and maybe even abusive...)

QUESTIONS FROM

THE ESTABLISHMENT

(AND MY CONFIDENT REPLIES):


ISD/SPF/MSD/PAP/SG:

Fucker, you're feeling so safe and secure -- ensconced inside your writer's "office" -- your "mountain-island hide-out" -- filled with various documents and evidences (paper ones!) of governmental lies, misdeeds and crimes -- do you know that your old relative also knows about your "plight"? -- yes!, I urge you to share this knowledge of government excesses and criminalities with the Singapore public!

I don't count on your preserving our dignity, self-respect, honour and self-image (yes, to let us NOT be deflated -- in terms of our fuckingly BIG, BIG EGOs)!

Well, let the public READ what you will reveal in your blogs, you blockhead and numskull! But what else can they do?

It's just coffeetable talk!

Let them overstuff themselves with all your "revealing" fuckshits! [For that is what they really are -- all your "important revelations"! For we'll prove, beyond all reasonable doubts, that you are just an ex-psycho who is also, yes, only a bitter ex-MSD employee (hmm...) out to create trouble and mischief for the PAP Government, by resurrecting old events and old "criminal" cases of what you, a registered psycho at Woodbridge, are going to tell the public about -- the so-called "truth" behind all this VENEER of Propriety, Goodness and highly-trained Ability -- by framing the PAP Government for its so-called abuses of power and for misleading the public with its attempt to disguise and cover up its past misdeeds!]

David Chua Chuan Seah :

Hey, you buggers! I fuck the PAP and SG leaders with a clear and good conscience -- just what you idiotic and moronic bastards deserve! That's why I'm resisting you people!

PAP/MSD/ISD/SPF/SG :

Why do you NOT support ex-Preident Bush of the United States?

My Damning Answer:

To quote Winston Churchill, the great British Statesman (of war-time Great Britain): "The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that, once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events."

Sirs, with due respect, isn't that what was exactly happening in the War in Iraq?

PAP/SG/ISD/SPF/MSD :

Why do you still insist on being a dissenter?

My Honest, Refined, Manly, Gentle and Intelligent Reply:

To quote Edward R. Murrow (pioneer Western TV journalist): "We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition (and that includes dissenters who aren't political opponents from a political party -- my own comment...) dies, I think the soul of a country dies with it." Think about it!

Members of Singapore's Arts, Culture, Literary and Academic (and Journalistic) Community:

Should one's ENERGY (assuming one has that kind of exuberance and infectious ENERGY in the first place) -- yes, should one's enthusiastic energy, as a writer (or as a member of the Arts, Culture, Literary, Academic and Journalistic Community), be MOSTLY, or if at all, DRIVEN by one's INTELLECT primarily?

My Artistically Challenging (Because Unlicensed) Reply:

Primarily, of course! The trouble with the local press is that it is a supine and acquiescient part of the government-controlled mass media in Singapore!

PAP Government Leaders/Postmodern Members of the Establishment:

Hey, you fucking bastard! Be realistic! We can't tell people the truth! Get that into your fucking head!

David Chua Chuan Seah :

I dispute that claim: I can still tell the truth -- yes, to tell it like it is! I am not one of you people! I know which side I am on. Otherwise, we will all become mad!

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.

In Defiance Of Government Orthodoxy

It's A Rich Man's World

(For The Benefit of the Government)

Policies are therefore often formulated solely towards achieving material gain.

[CHEE SOON JUAN, Your Future, My Faith, Our Freedom (Singapore: Open Singapore Centre, 2001)]