LKY On Life Support

The Singapore Straits Times this morning reported in a fairly vague small column that Mr. Lee Kuan Yew had been hospitalized.

Lee Kuan Yew is in fact on life support and in a coma with mechanically ventilated breathing.

The Singapore government's sudden implementation of taxation increases is somewhat unusual for this country.

It is a largely pointless exercise, given the way all of the Western media has done nothing but philoxenize this individual, to explain to the otherwise unsuspecting, exactly who and what sort of person this person was.

Hoi An Festival -
a celebration of the return of divine illumination
into a dark world. Mark me down as this kind of 'Illuminati.'

And I am not going to expand on what I have already indicated about him, short of saying that he was radically astray of what the general public assumed him to be. It would be instructive to all those who are skeptical about what I am saying, to give a thought to the recent revelations about the so-called 'entrapments' of Jack Straw and Malcolm Rifkin. Only very much later on in people's public careers, can one often get to really see what had been going on under everyone's noses all along.

Lee Kuan Yew was never the man people think that he was. And I frankly doubt that you will ever get to hear or see what he really was like - certainly not in their gory details; especially not with respect to his personal history as a 'translator' for the Japanese Secret Police against local ethnic Chinese, which he seems to think was something worthy of including in his own Wiki encomium.

You should realize, that even with something as close to recent history as Guantanamo is/was, the things that actually went on in there have already started to become blurred and disowned by those who did it all.

But I will tell you this, in days of yore, torture was quite a bit different by quality and degree, than it is now, even under the hands of nutcases like Cheney. The permanent leer on the face of Mr. Lee, was on account of what he got away with and what he thinks of you as a member of liberal open democracy...

Or rather, what he thought of you.