The honour that Lee Kuan Yew had bestowed upon us

 When I joined the Special Branch in 1951 Lee Kuan Yew had already been under close  monitoring by Special Branch.  A Detention Order by the then Colonial Secretary was waiting for him as he was on his journey back to Singapore after completing his outstanding law studies in Cambridge University in 1950. It was quite mystifying that out of the inner sanctum of Special Branch emerged a benefactor in the person of Richard Corridon, a senior British police officer who called upon the Colonial Secretary and convinced him to rescind Lee Kuan Yew's detention order.  Corridon was in later years to play an important part as a tacit benefactor in Lee Kuan Yew's internecine struggle to achieve his lofty ambition to become prime minister.

Singapore was under emergency law and open political activities were strictly restricted and the Communist United Front had not yet sprouted so the scope for Lee Kuan yew to flex his muscle was circumscribed. But more important he had no mass base for a politician to succeed.  The Malaya Communist Party's armed struggle in Malaya was suffering severe casualties and in October 1951 Chin Peng, the MCP Secretary -General convened a central committee meeting to discuss what steps to be taken to rescue the dire situation. They decided to open up a second front to complement the armed struggle and so issued a directive which they named October  Resolution which had been seen by Special Branch.

By the end of 1953 Singapore was suddenly overwhelmed by a massive plethora of commuunist united from unions and organisations like the  Brass Gong Society and Chinese Old Boys'  Associations etc which almost alarmed the Special Branch but not daunted.  Out of nowhere emerged a dynamic personality in the person of Lim Chin Siong to lead the CUF. That he had the imprimatur of the MCP to head the CUF was never in doubt. And to show his eminent leadership he had highly intellectual political activists like Devan Nair and James Puthucheary who showed absolute obesance to his leadership. Lee Kuan Yew saw at once that Lim Chin Siong was his answer to his lofty ambition and ingratiated  himself so obsequiously to Lim that no decent individual would condescend to do.  But that was Lee Kuan Yew's destiny which he would hold dear to his life. 

The contradiction was that Lee Kuan Yew hauntedly regarded Lim Chin Siong as the biggest obstacle to his ambition.  Lim Chin Siong had a unique charisma with the Chinese masses and Lee Kuan Yew was simply no match to him in any electoral contest.  So Lim was a constant fear in his mind and if history were to allow to take its  natural course without Special Branch intervention Lee Kuan Yew would have ended up languishing in prime minister Lim Chin Siong's gaol.  However as history turned out Lim Chin Siong and his revolutionary cohorts were detained in a communist-inspired riot in October 1956 and so the coast was clear for Lee Kuan Yew to achieve his ambition.

In the general election in may 1959 under the new constitution Lee Kuan Yew led the PAP to a landsllde victory  and he, as expected, became the prime minister. In my mind I considered him as both a titan and a tyrant. He brought Singapore from a third world to a first world status on the flip side he was quite inhuman in treating his political opponents whom he regarded as communist.  He had been perpetually haunted by the spectre of communists whom he believed one day he would perish in their hands.  So subconsciously to secure his personal safety he dished out his abhorrent treatment of his political opponents. This is just a conjecture and has no legal basis.

He was highly intelligent but was badly flawed in his character. He could utter a blatant lie which amounted a a libel without batting an eyelid against a defenceless civil servant like me and thought nothing about it. No Singapore  judge would have the courage to convict him so taking him to court was self-defeating. Now that I am nearing the end of my life journey I want to clear my name.  I wrote to his prodigal son Lee Hsien Loong to make a public apology for his father's grave sin but he maintained a reticent stunt. It means he will not make a public apology and he expects me to take the grave injustice with me to my grave.

The point I want to make is how a conscienceless homo sapien like Lee Hsien Loong be a prime minister and vowed to serve the public?  He and his equally venal cohorts are pocketing millions of people's money ostensibly to serve the public.  What public service?  It's disgustingly disparaging.  Is it not the most disgusting form of shenanigan? I invited the erudite Lee Hsien Loong to have an intellectual and political discourse with me despite out great disparity in education and social standing. He was a top law scholar in Cambridge Universiity and I merely passed my o level but I was imbued with a baptism of fire.

He and his avaricious cohorts sit on their fat asses and wallow on the perks and luxuries of their high office.  Do they realise that that are enjoying all these perks and luxuries on the sacrifices made by civil servants like us in the past. When we were fighting the communists he was still sucking his mother's milk.