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Weekly Roundup: Week 34
Posted by singaporedaily on 22nd August 2009
“So, what about the real important issues? What of the income disparity, wanton import of foreign labor, Temasek’s financial fiasco etc? What did the government, through the rally speech, say about them? Absolutely nothing.”
Not the 1st Pirate
“People do want to know, there is curiosity, it is a matter of public interest. That is not sufficient reason to disclose information. It is not sufficient that there be curiosity and interest that you want to disclose information.”
Tharman Shanmugaratnam
“Accountability requires the government to go beyond lip-service in addressing the call for greater democracy, civil liberties and choices.”
Viswa Sadasivan
“In any other democratic country, what happed in Singapore’s Parliament on Tuesday is unthinkable..”
Leong Sze Hian / Andrew Loh
“..when the highest paid elder statesmen and first generation political leader of independent Singapore categorically states that The Pledge is an aspiration and not ideology, I have to ask myself.. The wedding vows- “I pledge that I will honor my wife”.. [Are] vows taken merely aspirations? That I may hold on to the claims made and discard them at personal leisure and whim?”
Percevale
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