Let it be as you have said...

the other day me and my wife was discussing about the GE, paticularly the media coverage and the ernomous turnout at Opposition parties rally.

I was telling her that the turnout are so fantastic but it does not necessary translate into votes as we have experienced during past few elections. The turnout are inversely proportionate to the aomunt of media coverage. PAP rally only saw thousands of people at most while Opposition parties easily attracted tens of thousands. On the other hand, our media coverage of PAP is never lacking. On TV, you get to hear what the PAP ministers have to say to the voters. Opposition will be lucky to get 1 or 2 sentences broadcast to the whole of Singapore. On the newspaper, lagi best. Out of 10 pages, 9 will be reporting on what PAP ministers have said - many a times word for word. All the Opposition parties, no matter how many candidates they fielded, will get to share that 1 pathetic page.

Of course, there are exception. But you have to be on the wrong side of the law. Like Mr. James Gomez. He got plenty of coverage for 3 days because he did not submit the minorities certificate application form and yet went back to question the election department staff when he did not received his minorities certificate. All the ministers took turn to bombard him and the election department, under Ministry of Home Affairs, presented the media with their side of the story using CCTV footage and their conservation contents. The media dutifully printed all of them in their papers and I must say that the CCTV footage was shown so many times over the TV news, I thought they are asking the public for assistance to help identify the man in the CCTV.

But the biggest issue is that our so-called "founder of modern Singapore" as referred to by the media has also opened his mouth for the first time during this GE to give his thoughts on the "liar" James Gomez. And after him, many copy-cats ministers also started questioning his integrity and calling him names.

I told my wife that it's time the "founder of modern Singapore" let go and move on. Not only on the James Gomez issues but from Singapore politics too. It really time that he retired and stop interfering. I don't understand why many people were so angry about the youngsters who were "rude" to him during the live open debate aired over TV recently.

Yes, we should respect him for what he did to transform Singapore. But that respect doesn't means that we should allow him to "But from time to time when they’re out of bounds, I put them down."

Did he make single-handedly built Singapore from a third world country to (so called) first world country? Please don't forget that our grandparents and parents are the ones who sweat and toiled in contributing to Singapore progress as well. He did not built Changi Airport by himself, he did not served in the army as part of the National Service, he did not have a HAND in the building of the HDB flats, roads, expressways, drains, etc... He only lead a group of highly competent ministers to catapult Singapore into what it is today.

So please don't mind us being "rude" if you think that we are "out of bounds" cos you are past your time. Please learn to let go and stop interferring in our times. Thank you.