By excerpts from then-Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew’s speech at NUS Political Association forum on 23rd July 1990:
Mr Lee Kuan Yew says that Mr Goh Chok Tong and team were responsible for the arrest of the ‘Marxist Conspirators’ and for restricting the circulation of the foreign press.
“But if all of you think so (to abolish the ISA) and influence the younger generation of workers, eventually they will elect a government that says ‘right let’s abandon it’, then I say ‘good luck to you’, Mr Lee Kuan Yew.