National Day Rally 2005

Hi.

My name is Abdul Rahim. I would like to congratulate PM Lee Hsien Loong for his wonderful rally and the stability since he took over from SM Goh Chok Tong. Sincere thanks too to SM Goh Chok Tong, MM Lee Kuan Yew and all the leaders who had contributed into turning Singapore into what it is today.

My sincere best wishes to the current leadership that they will steer our beloved country to greater heights.

I would like to post a comment on the recent National Day Rally.

PM Sir, I do not remember your goodself touching on the moral state of our country. You dwelled quite at length on material achievements. That is undeniably necessary in helping build a society with good moral practices but material chase without a touch of moral teachings can be detrimental to the hard werk put in to build the economy. A country where the economy is on tenterhooks may cause rioting, looting and whatever u have.

Presently, being gay is something acceptable. Premarital sex is no crime. Gambling, as to the casino, had become a mean to be a catalyst in spurring economic growth.

I am not advocating apuritannical society but I am of the opinion that propagating good values is necessary. We can't be trying to stop Aids but at the same doing nothing concrete to curb casual sex.

The second point I'd like to share is our law enforcement here. Right now, people who do not pay their traffic fines are sent to jail. Money is spent to house and feed them. I would like to suggest that the government make use of them to do more community work, like cleaning the NKF etc etc.

They can still work and at the same time have to contribute. If they still fail to observe the sentence, then only custodial sentence.

I would like to take this opportunity to declare that I am proud to be a Singaporean, proud of my leaders now and look forward to be a more productive Singaporean.

Best Wishes again

Abdul Rahim