TKL: Does TKL Knowingly Allow GMS to "Smear" Other EP Candidates.... on TKL's Blog?

TKL: Does TKL Knowingly Allow GMS to "Smear" Other EP Candidates.... on TKL's Blog?

by Bryan Ti on Thursday, June 30, 2011 at 10:02pm

  

"All my statements on the other candidates are positive. … There's no need to blow up their negative points, take their action in a most negative way. There's no need to." – TKL, in an interview with Yahoo News Sg

... but we know TKL’s sheepish tactic.

Although he may not make those statements himself, TKL has been posting articles by others which are critical of the other candidates on his own FB/blog.

Examples of postings attacking the other candidates that TKL has linked on his blog are as follows:

• http://tankinlian.blogspot.com/2011/06/foreign-students-policy.html
• http://tankinlian.blogspot.com/2011/06/cpf-cut.html
• http://tankinlian.blogspot.com/2011/06/track-record-of-dr-tony-tan.html
• http://tankinlian.blogspot.com/2011/06/candidates-for-presidential-election.html
• http://tankinlian.blogspot.com/2011/06/president-who-will-speak-up.html

With others blow up the other candidates’ negative points on his behalf, of course TKL can pretend to be honourable.

But is he?

I now suspected TKL practises an underhanded tactic too!

Most of these articles listed above are written by a blogger who goes by the nomenclature “Aurvandil”, a fervent SBF forummer.  Often, I have read of forummers who openly declare that Aurvandil is Goh Meng Seng’s alternative monicker.

Of course, it would not surprise you guys that GMS also hangs around those cyber-quarters very often.  He is quite infamous there.

Notice that Aurvandil’s first blog entry was on 14 May, after the GE. I suppose GMS was quite free by then.

This suspicion that they are the same person is reinforced by how Aurvandil seems to be often praising GMS or reminding people of what GMS has done or said.

These can be seen in Aurvandil’s comments at TOC, Sammyboy forum and even on TKL’s blog as follows:

• http://theonlinecitizen.com/2010/02/hdb-95-per-cent-happy-with-their-flats-–-really-or-just-half-the-story/
• http://theonlinecitizen.com/2010/03/breeding-a-subsidy-mentality-in-housing/
• http://theonlinecitizen.com/2010/05/nsps-sec-gen-will-not-take-up-ncmp-seat/
• http://theonlinecitizen.com/2010/08/gulfstream-jet-for-yog-flame-at-what-price/
• http://www.sammyboy.com/showthread.php?78293-MBT-Admits-Tampines-Is-Very-Dirty/page3
• http://tankinlian.blogspot.com/2010/04/affordable-housing.html

And need I mention that GMS has stated that he will “try to help Mr Tan Kin Lian out in his Presidential Campaign as much as possible.”

Acting as TKL's venomous mouthpiece is a way to help TKL and hopeful appear as a political angel.

Although what I have presented above are not conclusive proof that Aurvandil and GMS are the same person, one should wonder at the high degree of coincidence.

Should we now question TKL whether he knows who Aurvandil, the person doing TKL’s dirty work, really is?