An honorable member of the Coffee Shop Has Just Posted the Following:
I present a quote from LKY himself:
“He took over, and he said: 'If I have to shoot 200,000 students to save China from another 100 years of disorder, so be it.'"
- Recalling how former Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping dealt with the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests”
And this is what LKY thinks of elections:
“I ignore polling as a method of government. I think that shows a certain weakness of mind - an inability to chart a course whichever way the wind blows, whichever way the media encourages the people to go, you follow. If you can't force or are unwilling to force your people to follow you, with or without threats, you are not a leader.”
All of the above quotes are found in his books, The Singapore Story and From Third World To First.
I think he has made his stand clear. So let's stop speculating. Anyone who is claiming that the PAP will lose power in 2016 (or at any other time in the future) is being unrealistic.
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04-06-2013, 06:20 AM
Those still debating whether SAF can be called in if PAP loses power...
