Your
Letters
03 Dec 07
Dear
SDP Members,
I am from Myanmar and I have been actively
studying the movements and events regarding the affairs of
Myanmar inside and outside of the country. The core value of all
these events is based on natural rights of being human. This
aligns to the values of democracy.
I and many other
people in Singapore and Myanmar wish to see our countries to be
a full democratic countries which we have freedom of speech,
movement, and living as long as we abide to guarding laws. We do
support heartedly of any movements done by your organization to
promote the true democracy within your country, which intends to
benefit Citizens of Singapore and also to support Democratic
reforms in Myanmar.
As I have been living under
dictatorship for my life, I am hungrily looking for the True
Freedom where I can speak my mind, and do my fair acts. The 55
million people in Myanmar have been living in dark life that
many taking bitterly of life with no rights. They feel life is
to be lived depressed as similar as chickens are lived to be
culled. I have total hatred of unjustified and unfair practices
of any government to their own citizens using power, no matter
in Myanmar or in Singapore.
As much as I see Myanmar
Junta as unfair government, I am starting to see existing
Singapore Cabinet as politically injustice group from the
lighter stance. They are named democratic government yet
prohibiting people's common rights and allied with
gun-ruled-gangster-style junta.
I condemn the illegal
detention of 2 SDP leaders while doing trip to their meal on
20th Nov 07. I condemn the interrogations and forced asking to
disperse peaceful protesters who are protesting of ASEAN summit.
These are total violations of basic human rights. I have doubt
if they wanted to steer up a scene of violence so that they can
have reason to suppress the people opposing them?
I
agree with SDP's movements and tests to existing Singapore
Government how fairly they treat its own citizens. I agree with
SDP's persuasions of Government's unfair acts to be justified,
which is for the betterment of Singaporeans and those living in
Singapore. I also am overwhelmingly agree of your active
member's movements regarding the quests for democratic reforms
in Myanmar.
Although I am not a political person, I am
sensitive of infringing my basic rights, and know which
government is doing wrong with my limited capacity of knowledge.
I condemn the Singapore Government's supports of military junta
which rule by gun against the people's will.
This shows
that Singapore Government accepts the unlawfulness, inhumane,
illegal power acquisition. I am hopeful that one day the
Singapore Government will not turned into unjustified regime.
With those reasons, I would like to show my gratitude to
the brave roles of SDP members and supporters transforming
Singapore into the True Democratic Country, and promote the
values of Democracy to the region.
ZEY
SDP's
Reply:
Dear
Zey,
Thank you for your words of support
and encouragement. Like the Burmese, we too are victims of a
repressive regime, albeit without the bullets.
The
Singapore Government is already an unjust regime. Lee Kuan Yew
once threatened that if ever PAP lost an election, he would
bring out the army.
So, before he rolls out the tanks,
while we can, we do our best to speak up for others who cannot,
such as Daw Aung Sung Suu Kyi and all your Burmese friends.
We
hope the very best for you and your country.
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Dear
SDP,
Kudos to the SDP duo (Ms Chee and John Tan) for what
they did. Keep up the good work SDP!
Crew
__________________________________
Dear
Dr Chee,
Recently, I attended your seminar at the Quality
Hotel and had also attended some of your other events – I
remembered there was another seminar at Sheraton Hotel and then
some other places. I also enjoyed surfing your SDP website. I
have some thoughts to share.
SDP had been very vocal
about the Myanmar issue compared to the other opposition
parties. I feel that the Myanmar issue may not really help to
secure more votes in future because the Myanmar issue is more of
a foreign affair and most Singaporeans do not really care much
about it. Notwithstanding the aforementioned, I do support your
party to capitalize on the Myanmar issue because it helps to
raise your profile among the masses.
I feel that
Singaporeans care more about bread and butter issues. Recently,
public transport fares went up. Due to the sky-rocketing oil
prices, petrol prices continued to climb.
A few days
ago, I observed that the price of some food items had gone up.
One piece of plain roti prata used to cost 60 cents but it costs
70 cents now. The roti prata stalls all raised their prices at
the same time. Recently, noodle prices also went up and my
favourite Char Kway Teow stall at Amoy Street Hawker Centre now
cost $2.5 instead of $2.
A few weeks ago, there was a
documentary in TV that the price of noodles had gone up. If we
can harp on the high costs of living, maybe we can pull more
people towards the SDP and then raise some funds as long as more
people get involved.
I remembered fondly that SDP had a
few good initiatives recently. Your idea of getting the other
opposition parties to meet and discuss on how to present a
united front is a good one.
Your party's attempt to
raise funds during events and through your website is a positive
one because more funds means that you can do more things.
Ultimately, financial backing is very important for an
opposition party.
Just some of my thoughts and
suggestions. May SDP gain more votes in the next General
Election.
CHUA Y T
SDP's Reply:
Dear
Mr. Chua,
Thank you for your feedback and concern. Of
course, as a political party, we are very interested in getting
votes. At the same time, however, there are other matters and
issues we are concerned about.
Take the Burmese event
for example, while some might think that we are speaking up for
the Burmese merely publicity, the truth is, we are truly
concerned for them as just we are concerned with many other
human right issues. If that raises our profile, we take it as a
bonus.
We agree with you that many Singaporeans cared
about the recent rising cost of living. They should, and so do
we. Speaking up for bread and butter issues isn't new to the
SDP. We have done that in the past and we are still doing it as
a matter of routine.
In fact, it was over bread and
butter issues that Dr. Chee and our friend, Mr. Yap, are
currently on trial for speaking in public.
You may be
pleased to know that, despite being bogged down by the many
trials, we are presently researching to see how we can best
frame this issue. Let us know if you have any ideas.
You
can probably guess that our resources are limited. Why not join
us? We can use all the help and contribution we can get.
Archive
of your letters from 12 Nov 07 here
