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Worst thing you did besides being an apologist for the one-party PAP authoritarian state that has been fostering crony capitalism besides industrialism (but an economy at the crossroads) is to put words in my mouth. That’s an act of cowardice. I don’t hate Singspore per se but I detest PPP dictatorship, its lies and hoodwinks. Now we know Singapore Inc is possibly quite corrupt, as your neighbour Malaysia is. But you are free to be in denial, remain an apologist for uour illiberal regime and pedal its holy propaganda.

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And the Singapore one-party, predominantly Chinese PAP dictatorship used to boast for years and years that corruption was impossible in Singapore, that Singapore and its people held the moral high ground and, unlike its neighbour Malaysia (and Indonesia) were incorruptible. What utter rubbish and state-organized propaganda the PAP regime used to spread and still spreads. As if Singapore capitalism for greed and corruption and Singapore's nonsense "Asian Values" are inviolable. The case of the two -- the businessman and the minister from the Lee dynastic regime -- clearly proves otherwise. And it only, in my view, scratches the surface in Singapore. For a long time Singapore investigators have sat on their hands or closed a blind eye to corruption, like the authorities do routinely in Malaysia and Indonesia, where corruption and greed run amok. What the matter in Singapore does is seriously question -- as if it hasn't been the case before -- the political and moral legitimacy of the ruling PAP dictatorship. It is time for Singapore to be much more democratic, allow more democratic voices to be publicly heard and practised, fairer elections instead of PAP's gerrymandering and institutional bullying antics and lies against opposition (with the help of its plaint judiciary), and bring an end to near-exclusive Chinese racial dominance of politics in the city-state. In many ways Singapore's racialist politics is no different to Malaysia's and Indonesia's racist politics of exclusivity to and by one race. Just shows, yet again, Singaporeans don't have the spine to speak up.

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