Close, he established "Disneyland with the gallows".
It was
Disneyland with the Death Penalty, but still a great article I like to drop during conversation.
Here's
a postmortem by Philip Bowring, the journalist who was sued by LKY for mentioning Singapore's current Prime Minister is the elder Lee's song. What makes it good is its focus on the part of Lee's tenure that mattered: the decade or two when he had to lead a country that shouldn't exist, but does exist in the wake of the Malaya expulsion.
Most of us here won't have lived through that, seeing Lee only after he took the pedal off the wheels. Trading competence for theorizing, he has tried in his last years to convince others he actually created a new economic model (in contrast to just market arbitrage and capital accumulation), and that his "Confucian values" rubbed off on his subjects. And it's our problem that he didn't totally fail.
