A modicum of patriotism and justice

 lee_hsien_loong@pmo.gov.sg                   10-10-2202

My dear Honourable PM Lee Hsien Loong,

It is not without trepidation that I address you on this issue. You may think that I am a brazen retired civil servant out to disconcert the government, especially the Prime Minister on some imaginary grievances. Whether the grievances are imaginary only your conscience can tell.

It may be so unimaginable and humanly impossible for me to tell you that with all  the injustices and hostility that your late father Lee Kuan Yew and not unlikely you yourself have inflicted on me, I have been for more than three years and continuing making a modest contribution to the ISD which is responsible for national security. How modest? You may enlighten yourself by the ISD on its ramification and security potentiality. Why am I doing this? I have a humble make-up and with God's guidance a humble inspiration to make a modest contribution back to the ISD what I had learnt from them. My stint in SB/ISD was a magnificent one with camaraderie with the staff like a big harmonious family. I am not looking for any adulation from you Mr. Prime Minister because it will not be unlike wringing water from a stone. Ir will be a blessing if I could get a civil acknowledgement from you for the injustice and an entitled vindication. I am the only officer of my era with the expertise knowledge still standing and if I take it with me to the grave, would it be a boon to ISD?

Another humble contribution of mine was my role in the 1961 CIA Spy adventure to recruit me. It was a life and death situation when I was confronted with whether I would be forced to go through a lie-detector test. If I had succumbed to their allurement of becoming their agent, don't you think that Singapore would have been going through quite a different history with CIA manipulation. Do you think you  or any of your money-minded ministers will be able to emulate such a patriotic performance?

Civil servants like me of my era went through a baptism of fire by fighting the communists in the front line at the risk of our lives. You think any of your softie ministers or you will  be able to survive such a death-defying experience? You and your ministers are just non-practical theorists who just simply ignored the sacrifices we went through to make it possible for your bunch of mercenary jokers to enrich yourselves and wallow in the luxuries of your high office.

Is this what you describe as a democratic and egalitarian Singapore?

I think it will be my fate that I will take my injustice with me to the grave. But my soul will rest in peace knowing that I have vindicated myself.

May God bless you.        Yoong Siew Wah