THE POWER OF TRUTH -- AGAINST THE POWERFUL ESTABLISHMENT

MAJOR OBSERVATIONS, REMARKABLE REMARKS AND KEY POINTS TO REFLECT ON --FOR THOSE EASILY-PACIFIED AND WELL-CONTENTED MEMBERS OF OUR POPULACE -- INTELLECTUALLY SPEAKING! : WHAT ARE THE GENUINE ALTERNATIVES TO A PAP-CONTROLLED MASS MEDIA? ALL THE AVAILABLE -- AND AWFUL! -- ALTERNATIVES (SUCH AS PRINT MEDIA, BROADCAST MEDIA, AND ONLINE SOURCES OF NEWS AND INFORMATION) ARE STILL EXPOSED TO, AND EXPLOITED BY, THE GOVERNMENTAL SURVEILLANCE AUTHORITIES (WITH ALL THEIR INTELLIGENCE AND SECURITY AGENTS). THERE ARE NO MORE GREY AREAS IN MY LIFE NOW. IT HAS NOW BECOME A FORMLESS BODY OF FRAGMENTS AND REMNANTS OF MY BROKEN AMBITIONS AND OF MY DISORGANIZED (AND HENCE UNPRODUCTIVE) LIFESTYLE -- FOR MOST OF THE PAST 36 YEARS. IN MY SOMETIMES RUEFUL ATTEMPT TO LIVE, WORK AND PLAY -- AS MEANINGFULLY AS I CAN -- AS, UNFORTUNATELY, A MAN, HUMAN BEING, CITIZEN AND WRITER WHO IS UNWILLING AND UNHAPPY TO ACCEPT THE REALITY OR FACT OF HIS UNACCEPTABLE STATUS AS AN IMPLANTEE OF THE GOVERNMENT, I CAN STILL, SOMEHOW, IN SPITE OF EVERYTHING THAT HAS BEFALLEN ME, END UP AS THE EVENTUAL WINNER! HEY, HEY, HEY!

ADDENDUM :

ON THE DUPLICITY OF THE PAP GOVERNMENT:

1. ILLEGAL SURVEILLANCE ACTIVITIES;
2. "WHISTLE-BLOWING" BY CIVILIAN EX-MILITARY OFFICERS/PERSONNEL;
3. "DISCLOSURES" BY DETAINED DISSENTERS;
4. CIVIL RIGHTS AND CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTORS;
5. HUMAN RIGHTS, PRIVACY AND CIVIL LIBERTIES;
6. (MIS)TREATMENT OF DETAINEES (POLITICAL OR OTHERWISE);
7. "TRUTH-TELLING" ABOUT MY AWOL CASE (IN 1972);
8. NEO-CONSERVATIVE INTELLECTUAL DECEIT.

A QUESTION FOR, AND A REMINDER TO, MY DETESTABLE AND DETESTED "CONTROLLERS"

ON THE UNDENIABLE ART

OF SURVEILLANCE

TECHNOLOGIES

AND TECHNIQUES :



HERE IS MY CHALLENGE TO MY CURRENT "CONTROLLERS" [WHO CAME INTO THE PICTURE -- OF MY TREASURED OWN LIFE -- ONLY LATER (AFTER MY IMPLANTATION IN 1972 AND MY EARLY OR INITIAL "CONTROL" BY THE ESSENTIALLY MILITARY SECURITY AND INTELLIGENCE PERSONNEL DURING, AND FOR A TIME AFTER, MY TWO-AND-A-HALF YEARS OF NATIONAL SERVICE -- INCLUDING MY PERIOD OF EMPLOYMENT AT MILITARY SECURITY DEPARTMENT BETWEEN DEC. 1975 AND OCT. 1976)] -- THOSE FORMER MILITARY SECURITY DEPARTMENT (MSD) AGENTS/PERSONNEL RESPONSIBLE FOR TURNING ME INTO AN, AT THE PRESENT MOMENT, (STILL) FINANCIALLY IMPOVERISHED STRUGGLING WRITER, SEXUALLY DEPRIVED MAN, CONCERNED HUMAN BEING AND NOW SELF-KNOWING AND POLITICALLY-AWARE (AND, TO CAP IT ALL, A CONSISTENTLY THINKING) SENIOR CITIZEN :

MY ONLY CHALLENGE, NOW, TO YOU :

SHOW ME THAT YOU CAN BE AS ACTIVE AS I HAVE BEEN (AND STILL WILL BE) IN PUBLISHING (OR POSTING) MY ARTICLES IN MY SOCIO-POLITICAL BLOGS ( http://afighterandalovertoo.blogspot.com/ AND http://trainofmypresence.blogspot.com/ ) -- BY POSTING A SERIES OF ARTICLES OR STORIES (WRITTEN BY YOURSELF) IN MY VERY OWN BLOG (BUT UNDER YOUR OWN REAL AND ACTUAL NAME AND IDENTITY, SURELY AND CERTAINLY!). YOU KNOW YOU CAN EASILY DO THIS -- WITHOUT MY KNOWLEDGE WHATSOVER. YES, THE MOMENT YOU IDENTIFY YOURSELF AS THE AUTHOR OF ANY ARTICLE OR STORY THAT YOU ARE POSTING OR PUBLISHING IN MY BLOG, IT WILL BE, OPENLY AND PUBLICLY, ESTABLISHED AND CONFIRMED, AS A FACT, THAT I HAVE PERSONALLY APPROVED AND ACCEPTED YOUR APPEARANCE IN MY BLOG -- AS A MEMBER OF AN UNOFFICIAL TEAM OF BLOGGERS (CONSISTING OF YOURS TRULY, AS THE ORIGINAL OWNER OF THIS BLOG AND ALL THE REST OF THE TEAM MEMBERS, WHO WERE, AND STILL ARE, OFFICIAL MEMBERS OF THE SURVEILLANCE GROUP OF AGENTS WHO HAVE BEEN CONTROLLING ME FOR MORE THAN 36 YEARS NOW).

YOU WILL BE WRITING AS A NON-POLITICAL (WELL, CAN YOU REALLY?) AND NON-ROMANTIC (PERHAPS A LITTLE BIT TRYING FOR THE WOMEN?) BLOGGER IN MY OTHER NEWLY-CREATED (YES, NOT TOO WELL-ESTABLISHED OR HIGHLY-INFLUENTIAL YET) ALTERNATIVE BLOG -- http://thenon-romanticloverandwriter.blogspot.com/ .


THEN, AS AN UNDENIABLE CONFIRMATION OF YOUR WRITING ABILITY -- AS A REAL WRITER, AND NOT JUST AS A BLOGGER -- YOU MUST AT LEAST WRITE AND PUBLISH (IN PRINT) ONE BOOK ON ANY TOPIC OF YOUR OWN CHOICE. THIS IS TO PROVE THAT YOU ARE JUSTIFIED IN EXPECTING ME TO WORK AT THE HIGHEST LEVEL AS A PAP AGENT OR GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEE (WHEN I WAS, AND STILL AM, REALLY AND ONLY INTERESTED IN BEING A PROFESSIONAL WRITER -- ALBEIT A WRITER WITH AN INTELLECTUAL BENT) -- DURING THE PAST 36 YEARS OR SO, WHEN I WAS LIVING, WORKING AND EVEN PLAYING AS AN UNWILLING AND UNHAPPY IMPLANTEE. (IN OTHER WORDS, FOR THE SAKE OF FURTHER EXPLANATION OF MY INTENTION : I WANT YOU TO BE AS GOOD IN SOMETHING WHICH YOU HAVE NO INTEREST -- AS I WAS TRYING TO BE, AT MY ABSOLUTELY MARVELLOUS BEST, WHEN I WAS -- WELL, TO PUT IT SIMPLY NOW -- UNFAIRLY AND UNJUSTLY AND EVEN INHUMANELY EXPECTED, AND INSTRUCTED (AND OFTEN ADMONISHED) TO BE AS GOOD IN SOMETHING WHICH I HAVE NO INTEREST WHATSOEVER, ABSOLUTELY!

IS THAT TOO MUCH TO ASK FOR -- TO EXPECT FROM YOU PEOPLE, AS MY POWERFUL CONTROLLERS -- A FACT THAT I JUST CAN'T SIMPLY CAST AWAY AND HOPE THAT IT DISAPPEARS?

YES, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN OF THE UBIQUITOUS INTELLIGENCE AND SECURITY AGENCIES OF SINGAPORE (THE NAMELESS MEMBERS OF OUR POWERFUL SURVEILLANCE AUTHORITIES) : NOW YOU CAN SHOW TO THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD JUST HOW GOOD -- EVEN BRILLIANT -- YOU PEOPLE REALLY ARE (OR ARE CAPABLE OF) -- YES, EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU, OUR GOOD AND ABLE AND CARING LEADERS OF THE INTELLIGENT AND SECURE GOVERNING AUTHORITIES! REALLY, YOU CAN BE AS GOOD AS, IF NOT BETTER THAN, ALL THOSE WESTERN WRITERS AND ARTISTS AND THINKERS AND AUTHORS WHO FORM THE FORMIDABLE INTELLECTUAL TRADITION OF THE WEST (YES, A TRADITION WHICH I MYSELF HAVE BEEN FOLLOWING KEENLY AS A FAITHFUL READER -- AND ASPIRING WRITER -- FOR MORE THAN 36 YEARS NOW -- IN SPITE OF BEING AN UNHAPPY AND UNWILLING IMPLANTEE!)

YES, YOU PEOPLE CAN FINALLY PROVE, OFFICIALLY, OPENLY AND UNDOUBTEDLY, THAT YOU PEOPLE ARE REALLY SUPERIOR -- OR AT LEAST EQUAL -- TO DEAR OLD ME, IN TERMS OF NOT ONLY NATURAL AND/OR LEARNED WRITING ABILITY BUT ALSO, AND MORE IMPORTANTLY -- TO ME AT LEAST -- OF NATURAL AND/OR ACQUIRED THINKING POWER AND ABILITY! HOW ABOUT IT/THAT?

YES, SHOW ME YOUR ARTISTIC SENSITIVITY AND YOUR GREAT SKILL IN WRITING!

DO YOU PEOPLE (AS I STILL DO NOW, AND AS I HAVE ALWAYS BEEN, AS A WRITER), LOVE TO EXPERIMENT AND TO EXPLORE THE LIMITS OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE -- WITH REGARD TO ITS USAGE -- AS IN THE IMAGINATIVE AND CLEVER USAGE OF WORDS, PHRASES AND SENTENCES TO MAKE A POINT, TO CREATE AN IMPRESSION, OR EVEN TO POST A REBUTTAL TO AN INSULT?

ARE YOU CAPABLE OF BEING INSPIRED BY YOUR PASSION (PROBABLY NON-EXISTENT BY NOW, NOTING HOW JADED YOU ARE NOW?) FOR THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE? AND ALSO BY WHAT IS AROUND YOU -- YES, BY THE PEOPLE AND CITIES (BIG AND SMALL), TRAVEL AND YOUR CONNECTION TO THE LANDSCAPE AND THE VIBRANT ENERGY OF OUR PLANET EARTH?


AS AN IMPORTANT AFTERTHOUGHT :

DON'T JUST GET TOO CAUGHT UP WITH OR BY MY, WITHOUT QUESTION, STRANGE, MYSTERIOUS AND INEXPLICABLE (SEXUALLY SPEAKING) SUBDUED PERFORMANCE
AS A PATRONIZING LOVER OF PROSTITUTES (THEN AND NOW, IN GEYLANG AND ELSEWHERE) -- ESPECIALLY NOT AFTER ALL THIS INACTIVITY (FOR MOST OF THE PAST TEN YEARS -- SURELY A LONG PERIOD OF TIME IN WHICH I WAS FREQUENTLY DENIED BY YOU PEOPLE FROM HAVING SEXUAL FULFILLMENT, FUN, DELIGHT, JOY, RENEWAL AND REVITALIZATION, EXCEPT BY ENGAGING IN UNDESIRED, UNDESIRABLE AND REALLY POINTLESS ACTS OF MASTURBATION!) -- UNTIL NOW IN THIS MOST MOMENTOUS AND ACTIVE YEAR, 2008 -- YES, AMONG SO MANY OTHER UNEVENTFUL AND FRUITLESS YEARS GONE BY?


THAT IS ALL!


ADDENDUM:

YOU PEOPLE HAVE WORKED HARD TOGETHER AS A TEAM FOR MORE THAN 36 YEARS NOW! HAVE YOU PEOPLE EVER CREATED ANY WORKS OF ART -- AS WRITERS -- THAT HAVE EARNED YOU PEOPLE INTERNATIONAL RECOGNITION? (IN NEW YORK? CHICAGO? NEW ZEALAND? AUSTRALIA? GERMANY? SWEDEN? DENMARK? U.S.A.? HONG KONG? (SINGAPORE? YES!) DUBAI? THAILAND? INDONESIA? TAIWAN? CHINA? JAPAN?

HAVE YOU, DEAREST -- EVER? YET?

YOU FUCKING IDIOTS!

Reflections On My Need To Adopt Convenient "Solutions" For Myself In The Way I Live, Play And Work

In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.

-- George Orwell

There are times when, to achieve short-term goals (at the micro-level), I have to disregard my need to be specific or particular in what I choose or decide -- in what, in other words, I have to do, say or think (in order to achieve such short-term goals)!

And this neccessity to disregard my need to be specific is forced upon me -- mostly on many such occasions, yes!, by the crucial factors in existence at those times and in those places -- in my own environment!

It is NOT, I admit, a genuine or bona fide solution to my problems and needs as a man -- as a lover.

But, dear readers, was my own implantation (to which I had not given my approval, consent, agreement or acceptance in any way or in any form -- and even now, in retrospect, never will!), in that momentous year 1972, a genuine or bona fide solution in the first place?

If it was, why then do I, in my effort to satisfy my needs, become reduced to such an unbearable state of FINANCIAL destitution that I have, and need, to seek FINANCIAL assistance from a governmental social welfare agency -- North West Community Development council -- in such a desperate manner?

Am I not publicly acknowledged, openly recognized, now, and widely supported too, yes, and even admired -- through my distinctive and distinguished BLOGS -- as an oppositioniost critic of the Singapore Government -- as an indomitable and individualistic writer of serious and thoughtful but also interesting, informative, enlightening and educational articles or essays of a very high quality and standard?

Did, yes!, those loving, lovable and lovely dear lonely-hearted military officers at SAFTI in 1972 -- and now officially retired -- really CARE, SHARE and BOND with me, in the first place (and even now?) -- with, in other words, my values, principles, ideas, ideals, convictions, beliefs, interests, goals and needs?

Definitive Notes Towards The Re-affirmation of Myself As A Discerning and Independent Working-Class Writer

What I Believe, As A Writer,

(From This Very Moment --

Until I Die, Hopefully, In Peace) :

(a) My aim, now, as a writer, is still not to be popular -- not, at least, specifically with people who don't matter to me -- by trying to, precisely, be a writer who matters to himself) -- and not to the masses generally; to have access to the conveniences of modern living; to be highly appealing to more-demanding readers; yes, even to be commercially successful; to earn (much) more money; and to be happier, richer, and more satisfied with my life (and, yes!, and with my achievements as a man -- sexually, socially, and love-wise)!

(b) In order to achieve (a), my essays, articles, pieces, reports, confessions, attempts, etc., are to be written, or expressed, in the same or usual manner or way that can only be described as highly artistic -- in other words, in an interesting, highly readable, conversational, attractive, intuitive, enjoyable and emotionally expressive style!

Addendum :

In other words, I still now aim, as a writer, to be highly influential and very important; to strive to be someone who matters (to those who are themselves persons who matter); to be critically acclaimed as a classy, honest, truthful, distinguished, fine, serious, organised and detailed writer (who values harmony, beauty, tidiness and neatness in his written prose expression)!

Hence, readers will still continue to witness the same highly personal style of writing that both they and I have been used to -- involving, as it always does, a well-tuned approach towards the art of writing -- in my own self-adopted art or way of writing, as described in (b) -- in order to enable me to achieve my aim as stated in (a)!