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Old 12-09-2014, 12:35 AM   #21
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http://freedomfilmfest.komas.org/film/singapore-love/

A documentary on the past and present lives of several key Singaporean political exiles that fled during the 1960s to escape detention for their beliefs and activism. Most have not been permitted to return and have moved on to create extraordinary second lives in adopted homelands. Despite being so far away from Singapore for so long, it is moving that their love for their country and sense of belonging has never wavered. The film also sheds light on the history of formation of the Singapore that we know today.

The full programme for FreedomFilmFest 2014 in Johor Bahru on 19th September 2014 is as follows:

Session 1


2:30-3:00pm Registration/Ticket Sales

3:00-3:15pm Introduction/Opening by Komas and Engage

3:15-4:25pm Film 1: To Singapore with Love

4:25-4:35pm Q&A and Discussion

4:35-4:55pm Film 2: Lebuh Agraria

4:55-5:05pm Q&A and Discussion

5:05-5:55pm Film 3: Di Ambang

5:55-6:05pm Q&A and Discussion

6:05-6:10pm Announcement


6:10-7:10pm Break for Dinner

Session 2


7:30-8:00pm Registration/Ticket Sales

8:00-8:15pm Introduction/Opening by Komas and Engage

8:15-8:35pm Film 4: Anur Nak Sekolah

8:35-8:45pm Q&A and Discussion

8:45-10:15pm Film 5: Wukan

10:15-10:25pm Q&A and Discussion

10:25-10:45pm Film 6: Fight Through Cartoon

10:45-11:00pm Q&A and Discussion, Closing.

6 Sep 14 4:30pm - 6:30pm
PJLA Theatre, PJ Live Arts, Petaling Jaya MAP
19 Sep 14 3:15pm - 4:35pm
11@Century Hotel, Johor Bahru MAP
11 Oct 14 7:00pm - 11:00pm
G C Curry House, Kuantan MAP
25 Oct 14 2:00pm - 10:00pm
Auditorium A, Menara KOMTAR
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Old 12-09-2014, 09:35 AM   #22
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even if they admit.....it doesn't change anything at all, they will still be in power....who dare to voice out against them?

50yrs ago they already act like a gangster liao.....50yrs later....they still can act like one too.
Sad to say they will still in power for the next 50 years…..All those Big or small company belong to them play a important role in sg …. we cannot escape from them…. we still kena from them….
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Old 13-09-2014, 09:14 AM   #23
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Like the radio ad "listen only to the good things".
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Old 13-09-2014, 09:46 PM   #24
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Default Who is threatening Singapore ‘national security’? – Tan Wah Piow

How very strange. Despite the billions spent on military hardware to protect the island state, Singapore is apparently so fragile that it has to ban an internationally acclaimed 70-minute film featuring interviews with exiles in order to “protect the national security and stability of Singapore”.

Before I venture further, allow me to declare my interests. I am one of the six who is featured in Tan Pin Pin’s To Singapore, With Love and, therefore, by implication, is alleged to have undermined the “national security” of Singapore. My views of past events which led to my exile in London, and my current views on the PAP are already in the public domain. In particular, they appear in more cogent forms in the following books: Escape from the Lion’s Paw (2012), Smokescreens & Mirrors (2012), Let the People Judge (1987) and Frame-Up (1987), which are available in Singapore.

If those books and publications did not undermine the national security of Singapore in the last 24 months, why all of a sudden, did my image and words in the 70-minute film become a national security threat?

This question relates equally to my fellow exiles in London – Dr Ang Swee Chai and Ho Juan Thai – who also appear in the film, and whose accounts of their exile are also published in Escape from the Lion’s Paw.

The film also features the lives and views of former left-wing Barisan Socialist assemblymen Chan Sun Wing and Wong Soon Fong, and some of their comrades who now reside in southern Thailand.

They fled Singapore in the 1960s to avoid persecution and later joined the communist guerilla movement at the border area. Since the 1989 peace accord between Malaysia and the Communist Party of Malaya, they have settled in southern Thailand.

The objection to the screening, as expressed by the Minister for Communications and Information Yaacob Ibrahim, is equally perplexing.

Yaacob said: “Individuals who have chosen to leave and remain outside Singapore, and refused to account for their past actions, should not enjoy a public platform to purvey distorted and untruthful accounts to mislead the public, absolve themselves or deny their past actions."

Yaacob did not appear to be aware that the late Chin Peng, secretary-general of the Communist Party of Malaya, had in the 1990s visited Singapore on two occasions.

He met with Lee Kuan Yew and Goh Chok Tong, and addressed academic seminars and his interviews were subsequently published.

If Chin Peng’s visits to Singapore, and his autobiography His Side of History, a book which is available in Singapore, did not undermine the security of Singapore, how could the images and words of the associates of Chin Peng do so?

It is blatantly clear that by no stretch of imagination could a film of this nature be said to undermine the security of Singapore.

The argument put up by the Media Development Authority, followed immediately by the stamp of approval of the minister, is an insult to the intelligence of the population of Singapore. Consequently, the current outcry is predictable.

Yet, why did these highly paid, supposedly highly intelligent individuals, some highly senior army personnel, make or acquiesce to such a decision which, to a common man, is either plainly foolish or extremely stupid?

Why is the perverse assessment of security threat an affront to common sense?

The plain answer is that the powers that be can tolerate only one narrative for the history of Singapore – the PAP story.

The film sets out to present the lesser-known aspect of the Singapore political fabric and, in the process, inadvertently presents an alternative version of history.

A well-crafted film, which To Singapore, With Love is one, becomes a potent challenge to the established views.

To ban the film would be an infringement to Article 14 of the Singapore Constitution which protects the freedom of expression.

The only way to circumvent Article 14 of the Constitution is to invoke the security threat mantra. This would be implausible in any democratic country where the rule of law interprets “security threat” only in the strictest and narrowest sense.

But Singapore is a different story. That is why the Cabinet has to be very highly paid, because our ministers and prime minister are very clever.

But the people are not stupid either. One day, the people will know who is the serial abuser of the Singapore Constitution.

To Singapore, With Love. – September 13, 2014.
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Old 14-09-2014, 07:43 AM   #25
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"The individuals in the film have given distorted and untruthful accounts of how they left Singapore and claimed that they were unfairly denied their right to return to Singapore," said Dr Yaacob.


The government can come out and give facts and figures to the public why they left and not what they claimed in the movie.

diew gau hui.

transparency meh

the hard truth sucks right.
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Old 14-09-2014, 10:24 AM   #26
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No wonder with idiots like the above, Singaporeans are unable to think for themselves and remained numbed and easily satisfied just earning a living and robotic in mindset. The government continually sedated the citizens with their own propaganda, unable to make their own judgment. I believe the main purpose of many of the government's organs, PA, MDA, NTUC, MOE and CC's are put in place to ensure as many citizens as possible go through this mind control process. There are a few here in AF who probably are success stories of this government program, sad to say.
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Old 14-09-2014, 06:27 PM   #27
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you tell sillyaporeans to xxx, must xxx loh;
you tell sillyaporeans to stop at 2, stop at 2 loh;
read this cannot read that, all must read this;

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Old 15-09-2014, 12:22 PM   #28
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Yaacob said: “Individuals who have chosen to leave and remain outside Singapore, and refused to account for their past actions, should not enjoy a public platform to purvey distorted and untruthful accounts to mislead the public, absolve themselves or deny their past actions."

But the people are not stupid either. One day, the people will know who is the serial abuser of the Singapore Constitution.
So this Yaacob thinks wer are like children, who shd be taught what they want us to know only. To him, public platform is just a movie, printed news, gov medias? Internet, social media, humans' memories, all doesn't ammount to a platform of knowledge?

Absolve and deny their past actions? Let's than take each and every past actions of ALL individuals in power and see what has been accounted, what has been kept from us?

Mr Yaacob is very good... must respect him for helping to open up a can of worm. Yaacob for PM! Yaacob for Presidency!
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Old 15-09-2014, 12:25 PM   #29
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Of course must respect Mr yaacob.

He is the one create ponding.

He is the one said orchard flood is 50 yrs once.
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Old 15-09-2014, 12:25 PM   #30
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say NO to censorship.
it's not just about porn or protecting our young.

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