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Vote PAP Out” Facebook garners over 100 friends in less than 3 days
December 23, 2009 by admin
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A Facebook page dedicated to voting Singapore’s ruling party PAP out of office has garnered over 140 friends in less than three days.
Set up by young vocal PAP critic Alex Tan, who embarrassed two PAP MPs with his point-blank criticisms of the government during a YPAP forum held a week ago, it aims to be a discussion forum for “propaganda news from the 141th Singapore media”.
Under its “descriptions” is a list of sensitive issues seldom discussed in the mainstream media such as the influx of foreigners, disadvantages of National Service, sky-rocketing property prices, low dispensable income and shortage of subsidized university places for qualified Singapore students.
Among its first few friends are Mr Desmond Lim from the Singapore Democratic Alliance, Mr Goh Meng Seng from the National Solidarity Party and Mr Jarrod Luo from the Singapore Democratic Party.
Mr Alex Tan said he will be focusing his “anti-propaganda” effort on his facebook page to urge Singaporeans to vote out the PAP.
He had been posting on the YPAP Facebook for the last few months before being banned ostensibly for “indulging in name-calling and vulgarities.”
Mr Alex Tan had earlier challenged YPAP members for a public debate on national issues at Speaker’s Corner, but has yet to receive a reply from them.
The YPAP has been trying hard to reach out to young Singaporeans who will form an increasingly influential voting bloc in future elections.
Unlike the older generation of Singaporeans, they do not owe any allegiance to the ruling party and are more politically aware and educated.
The inability to woo young Singaporeans to its side is a constant worry for the PAP, after seeing how incumbents in Japan and Malaysia (state governments) were unseated by rookies in their national elections.
Law Minister Shanmugam proposed “educating” Singaporeans on “politics” to warn them of the perils of “liberal democracy” which was greeted with derision by the online community.
The state media is most careful not to report on any online or public display of displeasure against the ruling party by ordinary Singaporeans not belonging to any opposition parties.
Even the SDP, which was much vilified and demonized by the media for the “civil disobedience” of its members, has received little or no publicity of its protracted court cases of late probably not to evoke public sympathy for it.
Faced with dwindling support from the local populace, the ruling party is turning to new citizens to keep them in power.
Singaporeans now make up only 64 per cent of the population out of which a significant proportion are new immigrants.
At the rate the ruling party is “mass-importing” foreigners and offering them PRs and citizenships, it will only be a matter of time before Singaporeans lose their numerical superiority to vote the PAP out.
Join the “Vote PAP Out” Facebook here
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December 23, 2009 by admin
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Written by Our Correspondent
A Facebook page dedicated to voting Singapore’s ruling party PAP out of office has garnered over 140 friends in less than three days.
Set up by young vocal PAP critic Alex Tan, who embarrassed two PAP MPs with his point-blank criticisms of the government during a YPAP forum held a week ago, it aims to be a discussion forum for “propaganda news from the 141th Singapore media”.
Under its “descriptions” is a list of sensitive issues seldom discussed in the mainstream media such as the influx of foreigners, disadvantages of National Service, sky-rocketing property prices, low dispensable income and shortage of subsidized university places for qualified Singapore students.
Among its first few friends are Mr Desmond Lim from the Singapore Democratic Alliance, Mr Goh Meng Seng from the National Solidarity Party and Mr Jarrod Luo from the Singapore Democratic Party.
Mr Alex Tan said he will be focusing his “anti-propaganda” effort on his facebook page to urge Singaporeans to vote out the PAP.
He had been posting on the YPAP Facebook for the last few months before being banned ostensibly for “indulging in name-calling and vulgarities.”
Mr Alex Tan had earlier challenged YPAP members for a public debate on national issues at Speaker’s Corner, but has yet to receive a reply from them.
The YPAP has been trying hard to reach out to young Singaporeans who will form an increasingly influential voting bloc in future elections.
Unlike the older generation of Singaporeans, they do not owe any allegiance to the ruling party and are more politically aware and educated.
The inability to woo young Singaporeans to its side is a constant worry for the PAP, after seeing how incumbents in Japan and Malaysia (state governments) were unseated by rookies in their national elections.
Law Minister Shanmugam proposed “educating” Singaporeans on “politics” to warn them of the perils of “liberal democracy” which was greeted with derision by the online community.
The state media is most careful not to report on any online or public display of displeasure against the ruling party by ordinary Singaporeans not belonging to any opposition parties.
Even the SDP, which was much vilified and demonized by the media for the “civil disobedience” of its members, has received little or no publicity of its protracted court cases of late probably not to evoke public sympathy for it.
Faced with dwindling support from the local populace, the ruling party is turning to new citizens to keep them in power.
Singaporeans now make up only 64 per cent of the population out of which a significant proportion are new immigrants.
At the rate the ruling party is “mass-importing” foreigners and offering them PRs and citizenships, it will only be a matter of time before Singaporeans lose their numerical superiority to vote the PAP out.
Join the “Vote PAP Out” Facebook here
for more comments,click on this link...
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