Who
would expect The Black Irony? By Goh Meng Seng, 27 June 2016.
Some
call it Straight Instant Karma, some would just call it Black Irony.
"The dead are at the mercy of the living" - Jean-Paul Sartre, French existentialist philosopher (1905-1980).
Once a powerful man on the island, feared even by his own
political minions in the party, has eventually suffered great humiliation and
disrespect, only to become a puppet political tool for his own son and party to
milk to the fullest.
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| Patrick Lee Song Juan (SDA) celebrates Mr Lee's resignation from cabinet |
Who would imagine that such a great
shrewd politician of his time, who was exceptionally street smart to milk the
political capital of his contemporaries like Lim Chin Siong, would end up
nothing more than a "sacred political cow" to be milked eternally by
his own party, against his own will after his death?
Who would imagine that a ruthless
politician like him, who locked up thousands of his detractors and
dissidents, breaking their families and soul in solitary confinement, forcing
many others to run road as well, would end up with the very machinery, or
rather the Monster he created, instilling that same fear in his own son, forcing
him to consider the Run Road option?
Who would expect a man who had
undaunted will-power that created Singapore after his will and preferences,
couldn't even get that little respect from the very party he created, to grant
him that simple wish to demolish his own house?
Who would expect a man who had
used his expertise in law, to create draconian laws which were deemed necessary
for forceful land acquisition for urban renewal, could possibly end up at the
end of this huge stick, to have his own Minister openly declare that his own house
and property could be forcefully acquired by the government against his will?
Who would expect the mantra
"for the greater National good", which he created to justify all bad
policies against the people, be used against his will eventually?
Who would expect that a man
renowned as the First among equals, top lawyer graduated with top grades from
Cambridge, could be so blatantly insulted to be a senile fool who couldn't even
understand this own Will he signed?
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| Mr Goh Meng Seng |
Who would expect a man who had
preached about Confucianism all his life ended up with the filial piety concept being treated as
trash while his children fought among themselves under his name?
For all his life, he diligently
worked hard and created his dream system of semi dictatorship and Asian
authoritarian rule, but in the end, he was so helplessly turned into the victim
of his own pet monster, under the control of his own son.
For those who are in the system
enjoying every bit of that power of tyranny, don't be too happy yet. What can
happen to him, could well befall upon you one day.
That is Black Irony of the Day
[This post is shared with the kind written permission of Goh Meng Seng. Mr Goh is Secretary-General of the People's Power Party (PPP) and a former Secretary-General of the National Solidarity Party (NSP).]
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