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http://theindependent.sg/saving-papa-lees-legacy/

Saving Papa Lee’s legacy
By The Independent -  April 12, 2016 4 6997
   


By: Kumaran Pillai

Lee Wei Ling is no stranger to politics in Singapore and in the past she has written so fondly about her papa, Lee Kuan Yew in numerous articles in the Straits Times that she gained a following here. But her political fortunes and influence changed with the death of her beloved father on the 23rd of March 2015.

Unknown to most of us in Singapore, trouble was looming in the first family in Singapore and to Wei Ling’s astonishment she was denied from expressing her views in the national newspaper, Straits Times when she wanted to say how the excessive hero-worshiping of LKY’s first death anniversary was abundantly over the top.

To her utter disgust and through the unfolding of the recent family feud in the wide spectre of public eye, she found out that she was no longer in the inner circle of the most powerful family in Singapore. Having lost her say and political clout, she resorted to social media to make her point.

She is strong willed like her father and she said in one of her past articles in ST, that she is the closest to papa in temperament – probably in intellect too considering her achievements in her career.

All she wanted was to protect the honour and legacy of her papa, she says. For what she saw as a blatant misuse of her papa’s political goodwill, which was being squandered by a bunch of political elite led by her brother Loong for his own “dynastic” ambitions.

Lee Kuan Yew once famously said that he’ll rise from the grave to protect Singapore from peril. What we saw in the last two weeks is no LKY. But, it is his daughter that has stepped forward to protect Singapore, and protecting her papa’s legacy.

In her numerous Facebook posts, she writes passionately about how her father wanted to selflessly build a better Singapore, how her father had the welfare of his people in mind and about how her father championed democracy and freedom of speech in Singapore. The irony, as she puts it, the powers that be, used the very power that her father build, on her, on LKY’s own flesh and blood.

Yes, Singapore has done this to our first daughter – the editors of ST have repeatedly shamed her, for her ‘bad writing’ and ‘incoherence’, according to Janadas Devan, former editor of ST.

An assistant sports editor also called her an “unfunny sourpuss,” for saying that the excessive hero-worshiping would have made her late father cringe. Like as though saying all that about our first daughter was not enough, they said she resorted to plagiarism. A low blow to someone her stature.

Despite the raining down of insults from ST Editors, past and present, under the charge of Janadas Devan, Wei Ling, went to social media once again on Sunday to reveal the full exchange of emails between the ST editors and her. This time sending a sharp message to her brother, Hsien Loong, drawing him out in the open.

Other opinion leaders have joined the fray, with PN Balji, a veteran journalist calling her a dissident for her snide remarks on Facebook. How does standing up for one’s right and protecting the very institutions that the founding fathers have painfully built, make her a dissident? Have we lost our ability to see the wood from the trees? Perhaps, it is the years of conditioning under LKY that has made him, this particular journalist, lose the plot.

Joining in the chorus of insults, Bertha Henson, another veteran journalist cut from the same ST cloth, chided Wei Ling for standing up against those who abuse their position of power. Hansen reckons Wei Ling needs help and Alfred Dodwell, a prominent lawyer in Singapore thinks Hansen’s remarks are defamatory.

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Does ST think that they know Lee Kuan Yew better than his daughter? Has ST lost its journalistic integrity? Whatever happened to the factual reporting standards that LKY wrote about in his book Hard Truths? Lee Wei Ling has a point that her father would have cringed with all that hero-worshiping – what’s wrong in publishing her opinion openly in ST?

And while all this was happening, Ho Ching, the wife of Lee Hsien Loong posted a picture of a monkey giving the middle finger on Twitter, which appeared on her Facebook page.  She has apologised for her demeanour.

Some political observers say that this is more than just a family feud or about an article in ST. We do not know how deep the rift is and its impact in the political spheres here. Hsien Loong is the anointed successor of LKY, and some say that the iron lady is grooming her own son, LKY’s grandson, to carry the mantle.

All we know is that Wei Ling is hot on the heels to put an end to this passing of baton and it is going to take more than a picture of a monkey showing its middle finger to stop her in her tracks. Only time will tell if she’ll be able to surmount her political adversaries and fill in the shoes left vacant by her father or whether she has a permanent place marked for her beyond the blue gates.

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Kumaran Piilai is the publisher of this publication.

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人亡政息？

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http://m.ltn.com.tw/news/world/breakingnews/1667032

       
新加坡李光耀子女互槓 被疑與第三代接班有關
2016-04-17 08:59


〔即時新聞／綜合報導〕亞洲政壇最受到矚目的八卦之一，就是新加坡強人李光耀兒子總理李顯龍與女兒李偉玲，在臉書互嗆，一別過去保守形象的新加坡政壇，而根據最新的一份報導分析，這兩兄妹的衝突，很可能跟李顯龍之子李鴻毅是否進入政壇接班有關。
李光耀一手創建新加坡，兒子李顯龍接班，媳婦何晶更一手掌控新加坡淡馬錫主權基金，即使新加坡有在野黨，但在李家強勢控制之下，幾乎不成氣候。
但是，這次李家兄妹在網上隔空叫陣，李偉玲在臉書上用「濫用權力」、「建立王朝」等字眼指責，但李顯龍隨後也在臉書上否認，駁斥該指控，最新一期《亞洲週刊》認為，李偉玲的指責不是無的放矢，且懷疑是跟「民間傳聞良久的李家第三代問題」有關，直指「李家是否計劃找時機讓李顯龍與何晶之子、二十九歲的李鴻毅進入政壇？李瑋玲是不是知道些什麼」。

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李家第三代？
真的假的？

記得在某處看過蔣經國曾禁止他的後人參政。
這也是為什麼蔣家後人之後都不在權力核心了。
儘管有的幾個卡哩菲。。。
老李不知有沒定下這家規呢？

binson

如果是有才能的不妨捧他上位的...反正怎样都轮不到我来做....

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binson 发表于 17-4-2016 09:43 PM
如果是有才能的不妨捧他上位的...反正怎样都轮不到我来做....

蔣家也只是兩代而已。
李家要三代？
金家也是三代了！

binson

NewFuture 发表于 17-4-2016 09:48 PM
蔣家也只是兩代而已。
李家要三代？
金家也是三代了！

特地培养出来的领导人可能会更加好......

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素不素他？

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binson 发表于 17-4-2016 09:50 PM
特地培养出来的领导人可能会更加好......

金家也是有其他的孩子。
但特地培養出了當今在位的這個。

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那麼下一位總理又是暖席的？

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binson 发表于 17-4-2016 09:43 PM
如果是有才能的不妨捧他上位的...反正怎样都轮不到我来做....

只要不是白痴，
任何人被力棒都能成為總理。
比如內閣裡的任何一個部長都可能。
問題是，為什麼會被力棒？
是能力還是父蔭？