Criticising criticism

“I want a world-class opposition, not this riffraff,” said Lee Kuan Yew, a former Prime Minister who now holds the Cabinet title of minister mentor.

And then he went on to add that he would not engage in a preelection television debate with Singapore’s political opposition because it would give them unwarranted publicity.

Riff raff... *rolleyes*

Singapore’s iron-willed founding father Lee Kuan Yew said he will not allow the foreign media to tell his country what to do on domestic issues.

Nice one. When you keep making it difficult for people to do certain things, if the demand is real enough, people are going to find other ways to do them.

Think cigarettes and uncensored VCDs.

Come to think of it, he's as afraid as the Opposition is. They're afraid of each other.