Vote for WP, Punggol East!

In May 2011, the Patriarch of the PAP, Lee Kuan Yew, issued a threat to voters of Aljunied:

"If Aljunied decides to go that way, well Aljunied has five years to live and repent. We accept the verdict of the people, but they must also accept the consequences of their actions. You must expect the PAP to look after PAP constituencies first."

"The only way people learn", he added, "is when they have to pay a price. From time to time we may lose, and the voters pay the price."

72,165 or 54.71% of voters in Aljunied rejected the threat, chose freedom from fear, and took a decisive first step towards making Singapore a genuine pluralistic democracy.

Today, with only 6 members in the Parliament, the non-PAP parties remain a weak force, their voice neutered by the constant barrage of unfavourable propaganda and skewed reporting by the mainstream media, the bullying by quasi-government agencies like PA, and antics of PAP-controlled companies like AIM Pte Ltd.

The PAP also promised to change but has done little to demonstrate that. The year has barely started and already at least three lawsuit threats have been issued to critics of the PAP.

Worse, LKY's threats resurfaced last week in the words of one newbie who has never walked the ground or been in politics before until this By Election.

In his walkabout that violated the campaigning rules of the Parliamentary Elections Act, the PAP candidate Koh Poh Koon issued the veiled threat to Punggol voters:

"I think it’s a fallacy to believe that you can have the best of both worlds – choose the person to make a statement but hope that the other person who’s voted out is going to be having all the resources, all the authority, to get the work done for you.

It is baffling for Koh to cite that the PAP candidate who is voted out may not have all the resources. In fact, invariably, the losing PAP candidate is always appointed the Grassroots Advisor under the auspice of the PA which in turn sets the rules on what can or cannot be done in the estate. Even issues like estate upgrading requires the Advisor's approval whose words ironically carry more weight than that of the elected MP.

The inability to "get the work done" for the PAP hence is really a matter of will, not a matter of resource constraints.

To cut to the chase, therefore, what Koh was saying is: do not expect the PAP to step in to continue to help you should you vote for the Opposition.

So Punggol East residents, Koh is effectively saying: if you vote in WP, SDA or RP, you will have 4 years to repent and regret.

It is time now for you to stand up for all Singaporeans who pay tax and who reject the PAP's practice of using our own money to hold us hostage.

Stand up and be counted.

Stand up with Aljunied.

Stand up for Singaporeans and a just and fair Singapore.