Comments on: A Protest and Petition in Singapore

By: Burma Protests/13th ASEAN Summit, Singapore « San Oo Aung’s Weblog

Burma Protests/13th ASEAN Summit, Singapore « San Oo Aung’s Weblog — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:45:03 +0000

[...] LaLaLand: When a permit is required for compassion – disgusting – Chemical Generation Singapore: A Protest and Petition in Singapore – The Online Citizen: Free Burma! Give your support to this event – The Online Citizen: Police [...]

By: Chee Soon Juan’s ‘Exploitation’ of the Burma Situation? « theonlinecitizen

Sat, 06 Oct 2007 10:00:27 +0000

[...] that Chee Soon Juan was exploiting the Burmese situation to make a political point. Here’s one typical interpretation of the petition he held recently outside the Burmese embassy. Here’s [...]

By: JTC

JTC — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 06:44:03 +0000

The SDP should be protesting in front of Tamasek, Istana or the Parliament House instead of the Myanmar Embassy.

They can’t do much with the Burmese military junta, but they can pressure the PAP government to withdraw its investment with the Burmese druglords (Singapore is the 3rd largest investor in Myanmar after China and Thailand) and stop its profitable arm sale to the murderous regime.

By: Daily SG: 3 Oct 2007 « The Singapore Daily

Daily SG: 3 Oct 2007 « The Singapore Daily — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 04:12:28 +0000

By: chemgen

chemgen — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 03:17:41 +0000

Hi Trina – SDP probably cares about the situation in Burma and is using it for their agenda. It is the same thing more or less in terms of its political slant. For SDP, it is important that they champion such issues and do not stick to Singapore only so that the West can pay attention to SDP. If you notice, SDP and Chee Soon Juan are so effective in wooing the Western media et al that they describe him as the Opposition Leader usually rather than an Opposition Leader.

By: chemgen

chemgen — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 03:11:23 +0000

Hi Ponder Stibbons – SDP benefits from such stunts at some level – maybe least in terms of votes from locals looking at election results, probably more in terms of its stature as a party focused on human rights and liberal democracy in and out of Singapore e.g. SDP is a member of the World Forum for Democratization in Asia. Why is the benefit of international stature more important than local votes for a local political party? That is open to interpretation.

By: Katrina

Katrina — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 13:12:37 +0000

Dear Trina,

I noticed that you have been everywhere writing the same comments about Dr Chee’s ’sickening’ motive and ‘personal’ agenda. Why do yo care so much about him and are you so sure of his ‘real’ intention?

By: Ponder Stibbons

Ponder Stibbons — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 07:20:44 +0000

By the way, Worker’s Party politicians were at the vigil as well (and I have no doubt they also signed the petition). Are they ‘exploiting’ the Burmese too? Or is it only exploitation if you organise a petition rather than just signing it? If it is, does that mean that opposition parties should never organise petitions regarding foreign affairs?

By: Ponder Stibbons

Ponder Stibbons — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 07:15:21 +0000

Trina’s comment is exactly the kind of reaction I think most people have.

For what it’s worth I don’t see what he has left to gain from supporting such events, so I give him the benefit of the doubt. It should be clear by now that his stunts don’t help his party at all.

By: Trina

Trina — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 06:27:51 +0000

Does Chee really care about the situation in Myanmar?

Or was he just simply making use of the terrible situation for his own personal agenda?

I’m more inclined towards the latter, and for that, he doesn’t have my respect.

In fact, it’s downright sickening.