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11-09-2014, 10:30 AM
An honorable member of the Coffee Shop Has Just Posted the Following:
The most astounding part of this sorry episode is the language used by the MDA/government in the press release. The language is almost from a different planet. To begin with, take the sentence quoted at the top. The MDA is taking issue with the interviewees being presented as “victimised”. I have news for you, MDA: Most thinking Singaporeans have long ago concluded they were victimised. Trying to assert otherwise only makes you look foolish. The statement continues:
The individuals in the film have given distorted and untruthful accounts of how they came to leave Singapore and remain outside Singapore.
The humongous assumption behind a sentence like that is that if the government says something is ‘untruthful’, people will accept it as so. If there were ever such people in Singapore, they are dead. Most are by now literally dead. Cremated. The few still coughing have been brain-dead for decades.
For all the otherwise bright people we have in government, does no one realise that Singaporeans — and I am not referring to the younger generation, I am referring to the great majority of all age groups — no longer defer to the government as arbiters of truth? For the government to even try to assert a right to determine truth convinces no one; it only raises hackles and further erodes what little standing it has.
Continuing with the MDA statement...
http://yawningbread.wordpress.com/20...icial-records/ (http://yawningbread.wordpress.com/2014/09/11/dont-tell-us-what-is-true-let-us-judge-by-opening-official-records/)
Click here to view the whole thread at www.sammyboy.com (http://sammyboy.com/showthread.php?189821-Alex-Au-Don’t-tell-us-what-is-true-let-us-judge-by-opening-official-records&goto=newpost).
The most astounding part of this sorry episode is the language used by the MDA/government in the press release. The language is almost from a different planet. To begin with, take the sentence quoted at the top. The MDA is taking issue with the interviewees being presented as “victimised”. I have news for you, MDA: Most thinking Singaporeans have long ago concluded they were victimised. Trying to assert otherwise only makes you look foolish. The statement continues:
The individuals in the film have given distorted and untruthful accounts of how they came to leave Singapore and remain outside Singapore.
The humongous assumption behind a sentence like that is that if the government says something is ‘untruthful’, people will accept it as so. If there were ever such people in Singapore, they are dead. Most are by now literally dead. Cremated. The few still coughing have been brain-dead for decades.
For all the otherwise bright people we have in government, does no one realise that Singaporeans — and I am not referring to the younger generation, I am referring to the great majority of all age groups — no longer defer to the government as arbiters of truth? For the government to even try to assert a right to determine truth convinces no one; it only raises hackles and further erodes what little standing it has.
Continuing with the MDA statement...
http://yawningbread.wordpress.com/20...icial-records/ (http://yawningbread.wordpress.com/2014/09/11/dont-tell-us-what-is-true-let-us-judge-by-opening-official-records/)
Click here to view the whole thread at www.sammyboy.com (http://sammyboy.com/showthread.php?189821-Alex-Au-Don’t-tell-us-what-is-true-let-us-judge-by-opening-official-records&goto=newpost).