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22-12-2014, 09:20 PM
An honorable member of the Coffee Shop Has Just Posted the Following:
http://www.tremeritus.com/2014/12/22...s-a-communist/ (http://www.tremeritus.com/2014/12/22/does-it-matter-if-lim-chin-siong-was-a-communist/)
Editor’s note: Ms Teo is right. Being a member of a group does not necessary mean the person endorses the actions of the group.
For example, Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong revealed in his interviews for the SPH publication “Men in White: The Untold Stories of the PAP” that former National Development Minister S. Dhanabalan left the Cabinet in 1992 because he was not comfortable with the way the PAP had dealt with the “Marxist Conspiracy” in 1987.
“At that time, given the information, he was not fully comfortable with the action we took… he felt uncomfortable and thought there could be more of such episodes in the future… he’d better leave the Cabinet. I respected him for his view,” Mr Goh said.
Mr Dhanabalan said his reason for quitting some 12 years later, was one of conviction. “My philosophy is one where I need to have complete conviction about some key policies and if I have differences, it doesn’t mean I am against the group……but I have to try and live with myself if I have some disagreements on some things,” he said.
So, who to say that Mr Lim Chin Siong did not fall out with the CPM later over the ways to bring Singapore forward?
Click here to view the whole thread at www.sammyboy.com (http://sammyboy.com/showthread.php?196361-Teo-Soh-Lung-Does-it-matter-if-Lim-Chin-Siong-was-a-communist&goto=newpost).
http://www.tremeritus.com/2014/12/22...s-a-communist/ (http://www.tremeritus.com/2014/12/22/does-it-matter-if-lim-chin-siong-was-a-communist/)
Editor’s note: Ms Teo is right. Being a member of a group does not necessary mean the person endorses the actions of the group.
For example, Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong revealed in his interviews for the SPH publication “Men in White: The Untold Stories of the PAP” that former National Development Minister S. Dhanabalan left the Cabinet in 1992 because he was not comfortable with the way the PAP had dealt with the “Marxist Conspiracy” in 1987.
“At that time, given the information, he was not fully comfortable with the action we took… he felt uncomfortable and thought there could be more of such episodes in the future… he’d better leave the Cabinet. I respected him for his view,” Mr Goh said.
Mr Dhanabalan said his reason for quitting some 12 years later, was one of conviction. “My philosophy is one where I need to have complete conviction about some key policies and if I have differences, it doesn’t mean I am against the group……but I have to try and live with myself if I have some disagreements on some things,” he said.
So, who to say that Mr Lim Chin Siong did not fall out with the CPM later over the ways to bring Singapore forward?
Click here to view the whole thread at www.sammyboy.com (http://sammyboy.com/showthread.php?196361-Teo-Soh-Lung-Does-it-matter-if-Lim-Chin-Siong-was-a-communist&goto=newpost).