BN's National Day Message 9 Aug 2013

Dear fellow Singaporeans,

It is a privilege to be able to address my fellow citizens in the Golden Era of our country.

Singapore has never been so prosperous. As mentioned by PM Lee last night, unemployment rate is kept low and the country's community has been very cohesive.

During the Haze attack in June, we can see how we as a nation come together to put the N95 masks in the community, for the needies. The Haze is an example of a National Emergency. We must always stay vigilant and prepared by attacks of the nature.

Today as we celebrate our 48th National Day, I would like to highlight an important aspect of Nationalism.

There is a time to support the ruling party and there is a time to support your own belief.

You must always ask yourself, is the ruling Party still in touch with the ground? Or are we as a community more cohesive among ourselves instead?

Let me give you an example:

The MDA new ruling on licensing the online news websites.

Are we having a government that is over-regulating the community, to the extent of even the netizens? Is this a sign that the government is worried of people sharing information in the cyberspace?

The government warns us against DRUMS - Distortions, Rumours, Untruths, Misinformation and Smears. They are thus trying very hard to clean up the social media. Are they actually insinuating that people have no brains to discern what is true and what is false?

How about the newspaper that we read everyday? Or the TV and Radio? Is every word spoken or written through these mainstream media always FACTS? Or are they just OPINIONS?

If you read the night papers, you would find it easy to read speculating news by the reporters about celebrities. Should we thus ban them ALL AT ONCE??

Ladies and Gentlemen, we are Singaporeans and if you are reading my message, I bet you are likely to be an active Netizen. When the country first started in 1965, the media was controlled by Kuan Yew with an ironfist.

Today, Hsien Loong is doing the same thing.

I wonder if silencing his critics online will help him prevent the loss of another GRC in GE2016.

We have three more precious years to anticipate the outcome.

Last but not least, let us netizens STAND TOGETHER AS ONE, and we share not DRUMS but TRUTH and LIGHT.


HAPPY NATIONAL DAY.


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BN