the mrbrown show: SHDHP
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Podcast: the mrbrown show 16 October 2007: SHDHP Download MP3 (MP3, file size: 1mb, Time: 00:02:09)
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October 16th, 2007 at 9:08 am
Dear Mr Brown,
Great podcast! It’s really sharp.
I hope the people of Singapore will realise soon that we cannot afford to SHDHP for too long. LET THERE BE ACTIVE CITIZENRY TO VOICE OUR CONCERNS ABOUT UNFAIR POLICIES!!!!
Thanks for this special podcast.
Cheers!
DOM
October 16th, 2007 at 12:51 pm
“We’ll treat even Hitler…” hahaha! how very true!
In SG, money talks… even if it’s laundry money! It’s all about one dictator helping another… no amount of wayang can hide the fact!
Remember this?…
“If I have to shoot 200,000 students to save China from another 100 years of disorder, so be it.” - Lee Kuan Yew endorsing the Tiananmen massacre, Straits Times, 17 August 2004
October 16th, 2007 at 5:40 pm
It’s constantly interesting to read the papers to get one convincing perspective, and listen to podcasts to get another.
Two points:
- “junta” ( I heard “… junta delegates …”) is more commonly pronounced “hoon-tuh” these days, according to Dictionary .com, rather than “joon-tuh” as it originated from Spanish centuries ago.
- I heard “I was able to return … to _quench _ an uprising …”
– “quench?” Thirsty? Or quash? Quell? Crush?
October 16th, 2007 at 6:45 pm
A mis-representation of the issue here,
its not as though Singapore allow the junta to seek medical treatment just so that they will spend money on health care and on consumer goods at Orchard road.
Rather, its to establish ties with the junta, support them to preserve the stability of the region - which makes the government more evil…
October 16th, 2007 at 7:07 pm
I have frequently agree with the underlying views expressed in mrbrown show, but not this time.
Medical treatment should not be refused to anyone. Otherwise, where do we draw the line? Should we also refuse medical treatment for convicted murderers, robbers, drug peddlers, man-slaughters, gang members, petty thieves etc. Let history and judicial system be the final judge of a man’s deed, and leave medicine out of the picture.
October 16th, 2007 at 9:40 pm
well done, a country of greed without integrity.
October 16th, 2007 at 10:47 pm
Let history and judicial system be the final judge??? If u haven’t noticed, history = HLBR, and the judicial system = PAP.
October 16th, 2007 at 11:47 pm
GIC, i believe if you maintain that view then by the same token, the poor should also not be refused critical medical treatment. yes?
October 17th, 2007 at 9:44 am
its a good political point, however i just wonder if by saving this life of a person who will murder thousands. Are you not also murdering thousands indirectly?
saving one to kill thousands and kill thousands to save one life. well, i am not that great of a person to judge in this situation.
October 18th, 2007 at 1:32 am
The correlation between healing/treating a person and the person returning to his inhuman way may be flawed here.
If we refuse to treat him, will that mean that he will die and we can save a thousand more souls? Are we assuming that he is the sole person responsible for it?
One moral issue which the podcast brought up is that our medical service should not accept money stolen from the poor or suppress. This may be a grey area, but there are ways to check and find out. In the case of treating this General, it’s simply ignorant(or deliberate suppression) from our medical sides.
October 18th, 2007 at 1:34 pm
haha, that’s a good one!
Where is Chairman Hu? The Old Man and he pat each other’s backs.
Why bother to ask the question of refusal to treat an idiot?
Is our first world health as ‘first world’ as United States? Burmese generals can try getting first world health care over in the states and let’s hear what they have to say. We can save our breath and take care of our senior citizens first. Now, I’m asking: “Who’s asking our dying senior citizens to die at home?”