The Minister for Home Affairs, DPM Teo, prohibited public speaking at the Speakers’ Corner with effect from 5.30 a.m. 23 March 2014. (Details below).
The registration page of NParks’ website [Link] explained that this is because Hong Lim Park is one of the “designated community sites” to be used for remembering LKY.
I would like to think that the real reason is that someone in the PAP administration tot that this would be
— a fitting tribute; and
— what this would be what he would have wished for.
He had little confidence in the ability of Singaporeans to listen to different points of view, evaluate them and form correct opinions, which is to say, his opinions.
“Many people are uncritically imitative,” Lee said in an address in 1971 to the International Press Institute in Helsinki. “A report of an airplane hijacking leads to a rash of hijackings in other unexpected places. A report of a foreign diplomat kidnapped for ransom by dissident groups is quickly followed by similar kidnapping in other countries.” He pointed to examples in Singapore, where in his view press reports sparked riots, which led to deaths.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/melanie-kirkpatrick-lee-kuan-yew-vs-the-news-1427064934
To put it another way, he had no time for the the masses:
“If you can select a population and they’re educated and they’re properly brought up, then you don’t have to use too much of the stick because they would already have been trained. It’s like with dogs. You train it in a proper way from small. It will know that it’s got to leave, go outside to pee and to defecate. No, we are not that kind of society. We had to train adult dogs who even today deliberately urinate in the lifts.”
LKY on Singapore society, The Man & His Ideas, 1997
If Ah Loong wants to show his filiality, he should make the revocation order permanent. No more opportunities for Roy Ng, New Citizen H3, S/oJBJ, Tan Kin Lian and Goh Meng Seng to mislead the masses. Anfd rename the spot, “Harry’s Corner”.
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A COMMUNITARIAN CRITIQUE OF AUTHORITARIANISM –The Case of Singapore
DANIEL A. BELL University of Hong Kong
I evaluate Lee’s communitarian argument against democracy by imagining
a dialogue on the pros and cons of democracy in Singapore between Lee
and a Western democrat named “Demo” (after Robert Dahl’s character in
chapter of Democracy and Its Critics, a dialogue between a democrat and
a defender of rule by paternalistic guardians) who has a good understanding
and sincere respect for Singaporean society. “Demo” will thus make his case
for democracy not by relying on the abstract and unhistorical universalism
that often disables contemporary Western democrats but, rather, “from the
inside, from the specific examples and argumentative strategies that the
culture itself uses in everyday moral debate.” The hope is that such “culturally
sensitive” proposals for political reform are both more respectful of “decent” non-Western societies and more likely to be effective.
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