Why It's important

You'll see a phrase like this in Wikipedia:

"a relatively underdeveloped Colonial outpost." This is in reference to Singapore before World War II, in the entry about Mr. Lee Kuan Yew and his life and times.

Or you'll read this kind of thing: "many local Muslim Malays were sympathetic to the Japanese concept of liberating their country from colonialism."

And so a lot of you young pups will never comprehend the insidious villainy of these types of sentences. 

Yet, Malaya and Singapore were as much 'Colonies' back then as they are national sovereigns today - they simply are not in any strict sense. They are leased lands with independent political systems legally owned by various Sultanates - none of which were originally Muslim at all - they sprang from the massive expansion of a Hindi King many many centuries ago, and all of his royal offspring became the 'Sultans' that owned and ruled over those places in the Far East and South East Asia.

It's all very well to call Singapore 'a relatively underdeveloped Colonial outpost,' but you would have had difficulty explaining that to someone from J. Paul Getty's Socony (Standard Oil Company of New York) Corporation, which had its refineries there, or to Wrigleys, or to Castrol, or Burma Oil, or to the Vesteys - who continued to install refrigerated air-conditioners in the barber and hairdressing salons and cafe bars in Robinson's and John Little's Department Stores (that were there BEFORE the war) that were the envy of even Parisian Department Store tycoons!

When Armand Hammer sent his Russian trading ships out to Singapore and Penang (and got bombed by the Nazi 'Emden' for their trouble) it wasn't because he viewed either Singapore or Penang as 'a relatively underdeveloped Colonial outpost.' 

The Sarkees Brothers hotel buildings were the envy of the entire hotel world.

And I do love how Lee claims to have decided to 'buy' a farm in Cameron Highlands. That would have been interesting as such a thing could have set you back the entire GDP of a small European nation - seeing as how they were among the best tea-growing lands in the world. Racism is this ignorant idea that because, for instance, Indians and Chinese also owned tea and rubber plantations this must have meant such things were cheap - not. There were then, as there are now, Indians and Chinese who are not only among the wealthiest and most well-educated people on earth, some of them, yee gods, even have it off with white women don't you know.

I see that yesterday's Guardian Newspaper calls Lee the first hardline government leader in Asia. 'Hardline -' what does that mean? 

It means someone who has to go out of their way to cover over criminality. 

And that is all that 'hardline' ever means when it comes to politics. Always has since the Greeks invented the word, and always will. Don't be a dummy and suppose that you are being 'tough' or 'tough on crime' or 'tough on budgetary discipline' and all of this when you support some politician who is 'tough.' Because they're not being tough for your benefit. 

The Left has its own stunning inadequacies and in today's politics it is regularly impossible to tell between the two flanks.

People who seek power... when they have the choice of immersing themselves in a computer game instead... are problematic which ever way you look at it. 

You see, if a Colonial - or say for instance today - some CIA operative sticks bamboo slivers up the fingernails of a young girl, then you prosecute them or hunt them down and arrest them. 

Or if they stuck chopsticks through the brains of the girls' fathers via their eardrums in front of them. You don't just blithely say 'I was an interpreter for the Japanese (Secret Police).'  People today do not have the stomach for the truth while they easily fall for financially-sponsored lies and propaganda. All the local Chinese other than those directly within Lee's circle knew what he was about. 

You don't say something like: 'oh, these guys were just trying to liberate young girls from old men.' Do you? Lee Kuan Yew was a criminal swine who cut the throats of anyone who stood in his way - and bribed and corrupted many many politicians, bankers, and media organisations in order to give this feted impression about him that far too many naiive people have of him.

It's a bit like saying that Sunni Muslims are helping Jihadi John because he's liberating them all from a wicked Western infidel path of unrighteousness. That's just a fucking lie.

There is no 'Singapore economic miracle.' And there never was.

Ask Getty, the Vesteys, Hammer, or the Teow Chew Chinese gold merchants Lee stabbed in the back regularly.

A Cambridge educated lawyer? My god. What a nerve. Mind you - now you know why there are many Oxford, Cambridge, and Inns Of Court people who have thrown their 'bits of academic paper' into the bin.

Not for many a long year has entrance and qualification to and from these places been for anything but money.