16/11/14
作者/来源：陈华彪
亲爱的山姆
对於你能拨出时间阅读最近在TOC发表的两篇针对封禁《星国恋》而写的文章，我感到鼓午。
不过令我疑惑的是你並沒有充份捍卫政府的立场。虽然你落力地将你的看法写下来，你提出的论调却令我相当失望。
你应该记得在我第一篇文章《谁威胁了新加坡国家安全?》中，明确提出以“国家安全“来封禁陈彬彬有关流亡者生活的电影违反了第十四章新加坡人言论自由的权力。这论奌完全站不住脚。我肯定许多新加坡人和我一样 ，都很想听听你的看法。你对这课题的沉默就是装聋作哑。
我在第二篇文章《星国恋編织新政治传承》，对被封禁影片在伦敦成功放映做了评述。在文中，我察觉到: 封禁《星国恋》突然地激发出要知道这段失落政治历史的渴望。现在这“精灵“已被释放了出来，接下来为独立五十週年在新加坡的庆典中就再也避免不了提起那些在政治过程做了供献却遭受压迫者。彬彬已把流亡者的故亊重新输入国家的脉络。
虽然你是在评论我的文章，却似乎有选择性忽略重奌或者根本就无法对我提出的论奌加以驳斥。很遗憾的，这两种作法都不能令人信服。
对於你落力的与我过招，我到又惊又喜，你的论奌必须和反对你的人所书写的有一定的关连。不然的话，你的反驳就像重覆炒冷饭的声明，对目前的争论完全无辅助的价值可言。
你应注意到我在两篇文章中，避开谈论本身流亡的问题。这么做是因为问题的中心是政府完全无视公民宪法权力。我不想与你们这样的玩弄下去，我本身流亡的问题只不过是被利用来偏离问题的实质。
我也不想像破损的錄音帶重播往年的不公平遭遇。新加坡人热烈讨论憲法权的权利不应该被“煙幕与镜子”(恰好是我另一本书的标题)手法加以转移。如果你想知道我如何反驳你的无稽指责，请读《狮爪逃生》中的《“不法分子“是怎样炼成的》这一章。与阁下不同，我是无薪的参与这永无休止的重覆争论。
山姆，如果你或是你的同僚要对我发动另一轮的攻击，至少先找副总理尚达曼萨姆甘勒南谈谈。如果你想要读者们相信我正如你所说的，他年轻时就不会成为我府上的常客。
请再读一读我的文章，山姆。
陈华彪
编注：
两篇相关的报道：
By Sam Tan Chin Siong
Minister of State (Prime Minister’s Office)
Just read this letter by Mr Ho Juan Thai defending his decision to run away from Singapore in 1976. In the letter, he did not explain why the Police wanted to question him.
Please allow me to set the context on Mr Ho’s leaving Singapore: Mr Ho had made inflammatory speeches in GE 1976 as a Workers’ Party candidate. He had said that the Government was out to “exterminate” Chinese education in Singapore and “wipe out” the Chinese language, and that the achievement of the Government was the “killing of Chinese education”. These statements are on public record.
In multi-racial Singapore, such allegations were reckless and irresponsible then as they would be now. Mr Ho’s remarks could have caused divisions in society and sowed distrust between the English- and Chinese-educated. This could have torn apart our fragile social fabric then.
Mr Ho also makes contradictory claims: on the one hand, that he was a victim of police intimidation, and on the other, that he was willing to turn himself in for questioning. These are contradictory and unconvincing reasons for him absconding to Malaysia, from where with the help of Tan Chay Wa (a Communist Party of Malaya cadre later sentenced to death in Malaysia for possessing firearms), he ended up in London.
Mr Ho had forged his passport to enter the UK. He himself had proudly said so in another open letter in 1982. Yet Mr Ho now expects to be issued a new Singapore passport.
Mr Ho’s flight from Singapore is remarkably similar to Mr Tan Wah Piow’s. (TOC has published Mr Tan’s letters too.) Mr Tan ran away from Singapore on a similarly flimsy excuse: his alleged fear that “accidents” would occur to him in National Service. Mr Tan fled with the help of comrades, some of whom were involved with the CPM. He entered UK using his expired Singapore passport with a forged extension endorsement. His British friend, Malcolm Caldwell — a far left activist and staunch supporter of Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge (a ruthless regime that killed millions of innocent Cambodians) — helped him obtain a student visa. While in London, he continued to agitate for his communist compatriots, including Tan Chay Wa. These facts are also on public record.
It is also revealing that after Mr Ho absconded to London, his WP colleagues then did not make much fuss on his behalf nor did they similarly abscond to other countries. Why did they not do so, or run away like him, if there was such a pervasive climate of intimidation?
Mr Ho’s actions, as well as the Workers’ Party’s inaction on his behalf, speak louder than Mr Ho’s open letter.
陈振泉：何元泰离开新加坡说辞矛盾欠说服力
Publication: ZaoBao
Tuesday, 11 November 2014
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被禁公映影片《星国恋》的受访者之一何元泰，日前在政论网站发表公开信解释当年离开新加坡是为了保障个人安全。总理公署兼文化、社区及青年部政务部长陈振泉回应时指出，何元泰未在信中交代警方要盘问他的具体原因，并提供何元泰离开新加坡的背景。
由担任政治职务者直接向社交网站回应言论，至今相对少见。政论网站“网络公民”（The Online Citizen）说，上周收到陈振泉针对何元泰公开信的回应，昨天上载这封信。
何元泰在1976年全国大选代表工人党出征武吉班让，隔年离开新加坡到英国。陈振泉说，警方要盘问何元泰是因为他在竞选期间发表煽动群众的言论，例如政府要“消灭”华文以及政府的一大成就是“扼杀华文教育”等。
陈振泉说：“不管是过去还是现在，在多元种族的新加坡提出这样的指责是罔顾后果和不负责任的。何先生的言论可造成社会分化，并在英校和华校生之间制造猜疑。这在当时可撕裂我们脆弱的社会结构。”
“网络公民”本月2日上载何元泰题为“一个新加坡逃亡者所说的真相”的公开信。目前居住在伦敦的他说，当年离开新加坡是因为相信个人安全受到威胁，并声称内部安全局在1976年大选过后逮捕他，一名内安局人员甚至掏出枪械。他强调离开新加坡是个痛苦决定，也指出没有记录显示他在竞选期间或之前参与暴力活动或鼓吹暴力。何元泰重申，政府应该公开审理指控他的罪行，只有这样他才会回国。
不过陈振泉认为，何元泰的说辞前后矛盾，他认为受警方威胁却又说愿意接受警方盘问。此外，何元泰1982年也在另一封公开信中坦承伪造护照以进入英国，“现在却希望取得新的新加坡护照”。
陈振泉说，何元泰逃离到伦敦，其他工人党党员却没有代为陈情或像他一样逃走，这说明当时的环境不如何元泰所说的让人感到受威胁。“何元泰的行为以及工人党的无动于衷，比何元泰的公开信更具说服力。”
陈振泉指出，何元泰逃走的方式与另一名流亡者陈华彪相似，两人都在其他人的协助下离开，当中一些人 涉足马来亚共产党。
导演陈彬彬的新片《星国恋》刻画上世纪60至80年代，基于各种政治原因离开新加坡、多年来旅居国外的前学生领袖、活跃分 子及共产党人。片子因内容“有损国家安全”，两个月前被列为“任何分级均不许可”的评级。影片上月在伦敦艺术节上公映，何元泰和陈华彪出席其中一场放映会。
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