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Lee Kuan Yew’s strategy was far more sophisticated: allowing the populus to forget his opponents. Not by hiding them away — for that only stirs the imagination — but by showing them to be completely irrelevant in full view of the public. The classic case would be that of his long-time rival, the late Joshua Benjamin Jeyaretnam. By systematically bankrupting him through a series of legal battles— turning the very system that the lawyer and judge Jeyaretnam stood for against him — JBJ was eventually reduced to selling his books on the street-corner: thus, turning him into a very public example of the financial risk of being a dissident; the perfect deterrent to any budding rebel in a state where wealth is the religion.
Posted on: Fri, 12 Sep 2014 07:57:40 +0000

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