December 7, 2011
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Freedom comes during a Price: The Case of Singapore's Dr. Chee Soon Juan
Dr Chee Soon Juan's Acceptance Speech of LI's Prize for Freedom 2011
A few years ago, after picking up his children from a well-to-do friend's birthday party Dr Chee Soon Juan's eldest child incited to him as great as asked if they were rich. It took him a while prior to he answered, "Yes you have been abounding as great as you know why? Because you have you."
Dr Chee, who is additionally Secretary-General of a Singapore Democratic Party (SDP) shared this story towards a end of his acceptance debate after being awarded a Prize of Freedom 2011 by The Liberal International (LI) upon November 3, 2011.
Past recipients embody Sam Rainsy of Cambodia, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, as great as former president of Ireland as great as UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson. Dr Chee was given a award for his work in "tirelessly advocates for democracy in Singapore, engaging civil multitude as great as campaigning for democracy as great as a right to speak freely", according to LI.
Speaking to a packaged room comprising of members of a SDP, Presidential candidate (and former SDP member) Mr Tan Jee Say, member from LI as great as distinguished members of Singapore's civil society, Dr Chee gathering home a point which a real cache which mattered many cannot be measured by element wealth, though "by a series of minds which you unfetter, a series of young lives which you give goal to as great as a series of a bad whom you empower."
Unfortunately, a Singapore Government had adopted a worst which a West offers in conditions of fervour as great as exploitation though ! rejects a great which it espouses in a values of human rights as great as democracy, he said. These disastrous values fosters Singapore's office of riches, consumerism, as great as materialism, though have additionally done a multitude bankrupt in morality.
"We pursue everything except which which creates life worthwhile," he added. Citing two examples upon a non-reaction of Singapore allowing a entrance of Robert Mugabe as great as Burmese generals to shop, rest as great as distraction regardless of their bloody actions in their homeland, Dr Chee resolved which "as long as there is income to be made, zero else quite matters, does it?"
However Dr Chee was quick to point out which a SDP is not opposed to wealth, though "wealth inequality." Singapore's widening income opening will harm a usual great as great as create a highly polarized society. In sequence to denote which egalitarianism is a some-more effective way to organise mercantile society, there is a need for a "national review upon morality."
"The box for a some-more egalitarian system where a laws have been not stacked in favour of a abounding as great as where multitude is reduction economically polarised must be vigorously advocated," he continued.
But in sequence to achieve that, Dr Chee said, people must be willing to speak out but fear of marginalization as great as being seen as confrontational or worse, destructive."We have sufficient politicians in Singapore, what you need now have been leaders," he added.
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