…. blatant and brazenly rigging elections including the stuffing of ballots and utterly falsified turn-out figures, encouraging supporters to take up arms against opponents supporters, boiling to death political opponents, making it impossible for people to speak their minds even in private, using the army to seize power….

From this colourful description, how much of harm caused is enough to qualify for ‘dictatorship” and where is its starting point – by your measurement??

I cannot see a difference between locking up someone for 18 years of solitary confinement for political thoughts than one that could have the victim cut up and deep fried in oil for pleasure.

Give us your objective measure of justifiable quantification to give your post a hint of credibility, will you???

Japan and South Korea, two of US closest allies. are no longer assisting the US political interests there and OBAMA needs as many foreign flags flying his dead shit sure lose cause in either client states, so his human rights options are constrained by US geopolitical self-interests – whatever his private feelings may be.

Even human rights agenda in China has downgraded of valued discussions with the Chinese in his visit to Beijing. Singapore is less strategically relevant to Obama’s political mapping, so he probably treated Singapore ( and his coincident visit) as politically “non-existent” except as a necessary host to APEC and a part-time loyal faithful dog of at least some use in supporting his war prosecution in Afghanistan.

We want change, we have to vote for change.

After that, he might clap, clap, clap us and still benefiting from our military assistance in Afghanistan. At least, he can cite Singapore as NON-NATO but NATO-like of loyalty and demanding more from his trans-atlantic alliances.

He’s got to be a realist. Singapore for all it’s ills is a relatively liberal country in the grand scheme of things – you might be made bankrupt if you take Mr Chee’s position but you aren’t going to be carted off in the middle of the night to your certain death for merely speaking out. The Singapore election system whilst heavily skewed is clean in terms of vote counting and does allow the possibility to vote out the PAP (although of course it would need a massive public mobilisation) and the Singaporean government isn’t getting MORE repressive – if anything very very very very small changes are happening such as at Hong Lim Park. You’ve got to try and find ways to take down the biggest abusers of human rights first (and that requires a number of tools) Singapore is too small, too liberal and too loyal for Obama to cause a row. Sorry but it’s up to Singaporean’s to vote out the PAP. I’m sure Obama sympathises behind closed doors.

Look at Cambodia for an example of a country where I’d be getting seriously worried if I was a democracy-activist. Singapore’s government is not stupid enough to ever try and pull any of that sh*t – it knows if it started acting up like Hun Sen the U.S would be forced to make public criticism which would be bad for Singapore’s tourist and business reputation. There’s an unspoken pact there that is unlikely to ever get broken – the U.S refrains from criticism because Singapore ‘ain’t that bad’, and Singapore avoids embarassing the U.S (and also protecting it’s own reputation) by using ‘clever’ and what would be semi-legal tactics in the U.S to maintain it’s rule. People should realise this and stop fearing the PAP – they’re never going to shoot you down in the street for all the rhetoric.

And even if he did say… those words will probably not be mentioned in our mainstream media. In other words… we can only rely on ourself.

Hence it is of no interest that Barack Obama will address the human rights issue in Singapore as US needs Singapore’s incumbent government to extend its influence in the Asia-Pacific region and so far the Singapore’s incumbent government has never failed to serve the US interest.

where got mood to say bad about singapore gov..?

It is just a pack of sand