raining leh
wear white later will give free show
Originally posted by laurence82:
OVerwhelming.
I have never expect this size of crowd to turn up. I could only forsee a few turnout before the event started
tts how we will look like when we have 7 million
If you dare to wear all white and shout the party name, your face will be appear on TNP tomorrow.
It will be swollen like Pig Head and you will get MC for one week.
Originally posted by Summer hill:
wow! I like this " Stop selling membership. We are not a country club!I
If PAP still wins the 2016 election their winni9ng percentage will guarantee to continue to drop. Hope they win only 50 percent
turnout is more than some party's rally.
That crowd indicates MIW has incurred the wrath of the nation.
Originally posted by Medicated Oil:If you dare to wear all white and shout the party name, your face will be appear on TNP tomorrow.
It will be swollen like Pig Head and you will get MC for one week.
which party?
jnp! jnp! jnp! jnp! jnp! jnp! jnp! jnp! jnp! jnp!
cute kids
who are going to suffer during that time
Power to the People!
2030 i will be 50ish years old
we all suffer anyway
Originally posted by laurence82:2030 i will be 50ish years old
we all suffer anyway
I will be 32.
Everyone suffers. Maybe you are working in Macdonals because you can't get your CPF or remain in your previous job.
the press at work
Election time coming, MIW carrot carrot ............... then all or most will vote them again.
That is very typical ks ks style of sinkingporeans.
so fun
finally we have a proper protest
i like this guy.
Originally posted by Summer hill:
I really like this one.
This kids will grow up into a FT environment in their home soil.
They have every right to protest and "be heard".
I am already 50, by the time the Foreign Trash comes in,
probably I alraedy half way to Heaven.
Love the two of you.
Originally posted by FireIce:raining leh
wear white later will give free show
Ha ha, you got things to show meh?
Let me QC pass what you have to show.
I like the above.
Suddenly all the good news start coming in for the new year. Huat Ar! lol.
February 16, 2013 06:00
More than 1,000 Singaporeans attended the city-state's biggest protest rally in recent memory Saturday, amid growing public indignation over predictions of a surging foreign population.
The peaceful rally, held at an officially designated protest zone, was staged by a civic group after the government said foreigners could account for nearly half of the densely packed island's population in less than 20 years.
Organisers estimated the crowd at 3,000, but AFP reporters on the scene said between 1,000 and 1,500 people had taken part despite afternoon downpours, making it the biggest protest in Singapore in recent years.
Rally leaders, who used Facebook and other online platforms to draw support, openly attacked the People's Action Party (PAP), which has been in power for more than 50 years, over its immigration and other policies.
"The large crowd here shows the PAP government that they are not afraid any more, they don't want to hide behind a moniker on Facebook to show their displeasure," said chief organiser Gilbert Goh, a former opposition candidate for parliament.
"They are showing their deep displeasure with the white paper," he told AFP, referring to a controversial population projection issued last month.
A spokesman for the Singapore Police told AFP that it was not monitoring the size of the crowd, which was largely clad in black, armed with clappers and clutched a sea of umbrellas.
There were no signs of riot police in or around the rally venue, a grassy park where protesters are allowed to address the public in a spot known as Speakers' Corner.
A government policy paper last month said the population could range between 6.5 and 6.9 million by 2030, with foreigners making up 45 percent because Singaporeans are not producing enough babies to sustain economic growth.
Citizens currently make up 62 percent of the current population of 5.3 million, of whom more than a third are foreign-born.
A banner at the rally read: "Save Singapore - Say NO to 6.9 million."
"Stop selling memberships. We are not a country club," read a handmade poster, referring to naturalisation.
Protests are rare in Singapore, a wealthy island republic known for strict security and social controls, but Facebook, Twitter and other social media have set the tone for political debate in recent years.
Rallies of more than a few dozen people are unusual.
In October 2008, about 600 angry investors gathered in the same spot, urging the Singapore central bank to help them recover money they lost from investments linked to collapsed US bank Lehman Brothers and other institutions.
Saturday's rally came less than two years after the general election of May 2011, when the ruling party suffered its worst ever performance, with immigration already a sensitive issue.
Foreigners have been blamed for stealing Singaporeans' jobs as well as straining housing, transport and medical services.
Goh, the rally organiser, ran unsuccessfully for parliament in 2011 under the opposition National Solidarity Party.
On the eve of the rally, Goh issued a public apology to foreigners living in Singapore for an earlier posting in which he listed racial profiles and social habits of various Asian nationalities as well as westerners.
"It's rude and insensitive to their feelings," Goh wrote, adding that he did not want to "stir up unpleasant xenophobic sentiments within the country".
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