Racist Gopalan Nair withdraw apology & vowed to fight LKY
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Jealous that he can do smthing that you can't?
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Justice Judith Prakash. Another Kangaroo Judge.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
After my imprisonment in Singapore for 60 days, thanks to Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew, I was let off for 5 days so as to get my things in order before I was banished forever from Singapore on November 26, 2008.The 5 days enabled me to attend the case in the High Court, generally known as the Kangaroo Court T shirt case. On Monday 24, 2008, the Singapore judge Justice Judith Prakash found all 3 defendants guilty as expected.
The sentence was to be delivered on Thursday November 27, 2008 which I could not observe, as I was deported on Wednesday the 26th. There was jail terms for all 3 Defendants, with Mr. Tan having to serve 15 days, and the other 2 Isrizal and Shafi, 7 days each. In addition they were each ordered to pay the government costs of $5,000.00 each.
The facts are that these 3 wore T shirts with the image of a kangaroo in judicial robes, (which means that the court is not impartial but corrupt), to the hearing before Justice Belinda Ang, (which by the way, was the same judge whom I was accused of insulting, resulting in my 3 month imprisonment), from May 26 to May 28 2008 at the Supreme Court Singapore.As you will recall, the case before Judge Ang was for assessment of damages that Dr. Chee and company have to pay Lee Kuan Yew in his successful defamation action brought by Lee against Dr. Chee. For wearing these T shirts to Judge Ang’s court, Justice Prakash found them all guilty and the resultant severe penalties.
None of the 3 deserved any punishment. The Singapore constitution allows every citizen the freedom of speech and expression. And wearing T shirts with the image of a Kangaroo is the exercise of that freedom which the Constitution guarantees. Secondly it cannot amount to a contempt to say something which is true.
Everyone knows that the Singapore judiciary is complaint to the wishes of Lee Kuan Yew and his government as can be seen from the series of politically motivated court cases from as early as the 1960s up till today against the late JB Jeyaretnam to Dr. Chee Soon Juan, Lee's victims, who have been imprisoned and impoverished. How then can saying something that is true, that the Singapore courts are kangaroo courts and Singapore judges’ kangaroo judges, amount to contempt of court?
Justice Judith Prakash just as all her fellow judges in Singapore has once again disgraced herself, her office as judge and let down Singapore by shamelessly doing the bidding of her master Lee Kuan Yew by convicting and punishing these brave young men, who are in fact the pride of Singapore. They unlike the masses who live in fear of Lee Kuan Yew, had the courage to speak the truth and do what had to be done, which is to stand up to their convictions and say what has to be said, come what may.
These politically motivated cases, intended to break the will of good upstanding men and women of Singapore is difficult to endure. The jail terms of 15 days and 7 days is bad enough but endurable. But what is crippling is not the jail terms. It is the court costs of $5,000.00 (about US$4,000.00) each that they have to pay. This is a huge crippling amount of money for an average wage earner in Singapore.
If they find the money to pay, it will be a lesson to them never to criticize Lee's courts again. On the other hand, if they cannot pay, they would be made bankrupt, which means they cannot travel outside Singapore and the requirement that they report each month to the Bankruptcy office to explain their financial standing. Either way it is a debilitating crippling punishment, intended to send a clear signal both to them and everyone else that they should not, ever, dare to criticize Lee Kuan Yew or his courts, regardless of whatever dishonesty he or his courts perpetrate.
And if they ever do what they did again, they will be sent to jail for longer periods as well as suffer even heavier financial burdens.
With Lee Kuan Yew abusing the law courts to stay in power, and with unprincipled shameless judges such as Judith Prakash, what then is the answer to make this fascist dictatorship of Lee Kuan Yew accountable to the people? It is easy for me to say from the safety of the United States that more and more Singaporeans should pick up the courage that these 3 admirable young patriots had, and do what is right.
But that is easier said than done. During my 6 months forced stay in Singapore, with my passport held by Singapore police, waiting for my trial 4 months later, I had ample time to meet many Singaporeans. Each time I told Singaporeans to stand up to this dictatorship by open protest, I have always been faced with the same expected answer.
They tell me that they are all ready to speak up against the dictatorship, but they cannot because they would lose their jobs and their children would suffer; they and their families would be ruined financially at the hands of these corrupt compliant judges. This, you would well see, is a hopeless situation, forcing them to suffer in silence in fear of Lee Kuan Yew and his courts.
I do not have an answer to this question. Dr. Chee Soon Juan and his sister Chee Siok Chin have paid gravely to stand up to their convictions. Dr. Chee has lost everything and so has his sister. In history, there are only a handful of men like Dr. Chee, like Nelson Mandela and Gandhi. It is unreasonable to expect ordinary people to be martyrs like them.
Lee Kuan Yew as you can see has a grip on power. And his principle instrument to stay in power is his law courts with his compliant judges which he uses to destroy and demolish his opponents, by bending and breaking the law outright when necessary.
But I know certain truths painful about the country. One is that it is imposable to change this government through parliamentary elections. The Singapore Parliament is nothing more than a rubber stamp. As Christopher Lingle, the NUS professor who was charged with contempt of court and managed to flee the country had written, "Singapore is a one party Leninist state".
Although outwardly Lee Kuan Yew portrays Singapore as a Parliamentary democracy, nothing is further from the truth. It is Lee Kuan Yew, the 86 year old dictator who controls everything, the courts, the trade unions, the media, everything. Parliament has no powers at all. Members of Parliament are mere stooges who would be quite prepared to say 2 plus 2 is 27 or any number Lee Kuan Yew wishes, to take the example of Orwell's 1984.
Therefore the only way to change this government and to make it accountable is for people to be able to say that 2 and 2 are 4 and not any other number of Lee's choosing. And the way to do this is not through the elections of 2010, the next general elections in Singapore, but through peaceful protest on the street.
But peaceful protest means unbearable hardship to the protestors. It would mean 15 days jail and $5,000.00 court costs liability, if not more, to take the recent example of the Kangaroo T shirt case.
With the crippling and terminal nature of these punishments, who among Singaporeans will be prepared to embark on this dangerous adventure? George Orwell in 1984, said correctly that the proletariat will not be the ones with the daring to do it; because they do not understand the need for such abstract values such as freedom and democracy, being content with the hope of getting a an extra $1,000.00 in pay or a better TV set.Neither will members of the elite with the knowledge of such values as freedom; the Inner or Outer Party in his novel 1984, be prepared for that sacrifice, as they would have too much to lose financially.
The answer lies with the young men and women with a tertiary education, citizens who are armed with a good English education, who know that they can succeed anywhere in the world, who would care 2 hoots to what Lee Kuan Yew can do to them. If they protest and get arrested, so what? They can take the next flight out to Australia where they will be welcomed with open arms, where they and their families can live as free men and women, able to speak their minds without fear of Lee Kuan Yew or anyone else.
It is these young men and women who should take courage and join Dr. Chee Soon Juan and his noble fight to seek freedom for his people. And I call upon them not to remain silent and do what is right and noble. Stand up for Singapore and stand up for the truth. You have nothing to lose and everything to gain.
Leaving Singapore for a life overseas is itself the greatest form of protest against Lee Kuan Yew and his politically motivated courts. In effect, by leaving, you are telling Lee Kuan Yew that you are not prepared to live as a slave in his island and the ability to live a free man is worth more than any amount of riches that corrupt judges such as Judge Judith Prakash can earn in her entire lifetime by playing second fiddle to Lee Kuan Yew, her master.
At present, I understand that as many as 1000 Singaporeans emigrate from Singapore’s shores annually for countries such as Australia. I have read that Lee Kuan Yew himself has gone to cities such as Melbourne begging overseas Singaporeans to return with no success whatsoever. Why should they return to a fear infested island where the slightest criticism of Lee or his courts will result in crippling financial ruin! By the way, I understand that the numbers of those leaving has been steadily increasing above 1000 each year!
As for the likes of Justice Judith Prakash, she will continue to live her life in luxury for the dirty work she does to please her master Lee Kuan Yew. Her income for being an agent for Lee Kuan Yew to silence and destroy his critics, I understand is several millions of dollars a year.
But I am sure that she loathes each time that she has to look at herself in the mirror, because what she sees is the face of a dishonorable unconscionable and unprincipled human being who lives by prostituting her position as a judge to please her master Lee Kuan Yew, who finds no other way to stay in power other than abusing the law to silence his critics.
May I say the same thing that I said about her fellow Singapore judge, Judge Belinda Ang, which landed me in prison for 2 months? Judge Judith Prakash of the Supreme Court Singapore has prostituted herself in her capacity as a judge hearing the Kangaroo T shirt case on November 24, 2008 by being nothing more than an employee of Lee Kuan Yew and his son, whom he appointed Prime Minister. By her actions in sending these young men to prison and making them pay crippling court costs of $5,000.00 each, she has shamelessly disgraced herself, her office of a judge, disgraced the Singapore Constitution and disgraced Singapore.
Shame on you, woman.
Gopalan Nair -
why did he run away to another country and start to utter rubbish
If he stay here and fight than this is another story
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An appeal for donations
Ladies and Gentlemen,
As you are aware, my forced stay in Singapore for 6 months by the Singapore government by their holding my passport and preventing me to travel, has resulted in severe financial burden to me. I have to get my law practice back into swing and get all other small matters taken care of. I am therefore badly in need of financial assistance. Your donations at this time will be greatly appreciated.
If you can donate, please send the moneys through Western Union which is available at any post office in Singapore. Same applies to those in other countries.
Any amount will be appreciated.
When sending the funds, please email me the reference number to nair.gopalan@yahoo.com. Payable to "Gopalan Nair".
Many thanks
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Nair begs for money from Calif,a soon to bankcrupt state.
Read how he was very happy to waste 18 days of SG court
but court fine him only S$3,000!!
How much the salary of Judge,DPP's,police,laws clerk,
air cond fee and delaying other cases!
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AGC shall add a laws to forbide SG citizens to donate money to foreigners
for SG domestic affairs and foreign affairs!!
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Monday, December 1, 2008
An appeal for donations
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http://www.sgforums.com/forums/10/topics/330163
Convicted: Gopalan Nair Speaker's Corner
This case, which I shall call the disorderly case, took 18 days of trial in court. I defended myself. After all I am a lawyer. So if I have been fined $3,000.00, you may say that I got my money's worth. I have made the court and the Singapore Attorney General to work very hard for 18 days of court time. In return the fine I have to pay them is only $3,000.00. If you look at from a financial standpoint, you could say that I have ripped them off. What, for 18 days of court time, they get only $3,000.00!
Saturday, September 6, 2008
Convicted
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Sunday, November 30, 2008
Justice Judith Prakash. Another Kangaroo Judge.
wow.Does He want to eat curry at QRP again?
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Gopalan is a coward and a clown. Now Uncle Yap is asking for donations for him. Clowns clowns.
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send him RMB one dollar.or send him some curry powder.
u get his address?
i also need $$ badly .pl donate Euro or pound sterling or yens!!
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Originally posted by lionnoisy:
send him RMB one dollar.or send him some curry powder.
u get his address?
i also need $$ badly .pl donate Euro or pound sterling or yens!!
You're really not making sense.
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Strait Times seems learn a lesson from Kangaroo Trio case.
The trio blamed STimes publise the kangaroo image!!
In today report about Nair retracting apolgies,STimes dared not
quote what Nair posted in his blog:
Sunday, November 30, 2008
Justice Judith Prakash. Another Kangaroo Judge.
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Nair retracts apology
Straits Times - 03 dec 2008
By Zakir Hussain FORMER Singaporean lawyer Gopalan Nair, now back home in the United States, has retracted apologies and statements he made in court here ...
'The only reason for my apology was a desire to get out of prison as soon as possible,' said Mr Gopalan Nair. -- ST PHOTO: SHAHRIYA YAHAYA
Will u be seeing him in SG soon?
The ball is now in AGC's court!!
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They are reading his blogs!!
On the two postings he agreed to remove, and which he did delete from his blog, he 'will be re-posting those two blog posts and stand by every word that I had written in them'.
He has yet to re-post them, a check last night showed.
Asked for comments on these developments, a spokesman for the Attorney-General's Chambers (AGC) said it is 'currently looking into the matter'.
Mr Nair came to Singapore in May to attend a hearing to assess damages in a defamation suit that Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew won against the Singapore Democratic Party, its chief Chee Soon Juan and his sister Chee Siok Chin.
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Nair retracts apology : Singabloodypore
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The continued need to expose this dictatorship.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
An appeal for donations
Ladies and Gentlemen,
As you are aware, my forced stay in Singapore for 6 months by the Singapore government by their holding my passport and preventing me to travel, has resulted in severe financial burden to me. I have to get my law practice back into swing and get all other small matters taken care of. I am therefore badly in need of financial assistance. Your donations at this time will be greatly appreciated.If you can donate, please send the moneys through Western Union which is available at any post office in Singapore. Same applies to those in other countries.Any amount will be appreciated.When sending the funds, please email me the reference number to nair.gopalan@yahoo.com. Payable to "Gopalan Nair".
Many thanks Gopalan Nair
Ladies and Gentlemen,
Every Singaporean, yes, I mean every Singaporean, knows that Lee Kuan Yew rules through fear.That the payment he calls salary of $3.7 million is in fact corruption by another word.
The same applies to all his Ministers who are thieves just like him.
Everyone knows that he may in fact be taking even more money without telling it.
Everyone knows that if any Singaporean were to question him about it, he will be destroyed.
And everyone knows that the method he uses for the destruction is his courts.
And we all know that his courts are his tools to silence and destroy his opponents.
Everyone knows this.
He too knows that everyone knows this.
So my purpose is to say it as it is. Call a rat a rat, and not rabbit, because it is not. So saying this publicly; publicly calling his judges corrupt is necessary. As with more people publicly saying this, his control weakens, because he only stays in power as long as the people believe in him.When, as is now, the entire public treat him and his courts as a pretence, and the office holders pretenders; consequences damaging follow.
Singaporeans leave the country. Those remaining in Singapore live in a unhealthychildren's futures. state of self denial. It makes them lose interest in what they do, lose interest in their jobs, and they worry about their futures. Their
So my purpose is quite clear. I say these things publicly. Yes it is true, I now write from the protection of the United States, but that makes no difference to my object. Which is to publicly expose this dictatorship. Which I believe is bad for Singapore, it's people and it's children.
Needless to say, you in Singapore face unimaginable hardships if you were to write like me. You will suffer the wrath of the dictator. But I say this. What choice do you have? Would you rather continue to live in silence and in fear and shame, or would you rather stand up like a man, and live like a man.
I have made my choice as you can see. I live in America. But it is you that has to make this choice as to how you live. I may be criticized for saying that living like a man is preferable anytime to living like sheep, because I live in America, but I cant help it. This is where I am.
I have not said much more than you already know, but it still has to be said. And I said it.
Gopalan Nair -
Adventure
Ladies and Gentlemen,
Can I share some stirring words with you. I had lunch today in Chinese restaurant and the fortune cookie had this
"the only people who never fail are those who never try"
While in Queenstown Prison Singapore for 60 days for writing a blog post in this blog, which the Lee Kuan Yew government calls insulting a judge, I read a novel, which name I forget which had this, of which I am guilty,
"self delusion is a pre-condition for any act of consequence".
Someone who died rounding Cape Horn in the BOC Round the World Single Handed Yacht Race, his name was Harry something, which I forget. He was washed off his deck trying to round the Horn in the Roaring Forties in 70 knot gale. His life line saftey harness snapped. The Chilean Navy tried to search but had to leave because they could not operate at night. The Australian navy came later. Harry was never found. His words,
"life should be one long adventure, or it is nothing"
When I look back at my ordeal in Singapore, it is true that at the time it was hard.But now when I revisit it in my mind, it was one of the greatest adventures of my life. And to come back to shambles in California and having to pick up from where I started, is another adventure.
You can say this again, my life has been a roller coaster. But you know what, I wouldn't have it any other way. I agree entirely with Harry.
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can good fren of Nair tell him dunt depend too much on the vague freedom and
democracy of USA!!
There are too many things that AGC can do ,shall do and most probably
will do,thanks to the road paved by Nair himself after landing
in USA!!I already told u in this thread and other threads that Nair will
point his middle figure to SG once he lands in USA.
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I dunt want AGC waste their time to deal with this guy.
But he just challenges SG laws too much.He gave ammo to AGC to fire
to him.What to do?I think he and his many learned frens can read much
better than me on laws,SG and USA~!~!
http://statutes.agc.gov.sg/
MUTUAL ASSISTANCE IN CRIMINAL MATTERS ACT
(CHAPTER 190A)
Requests for attendance of person in Singapore
9. —(1) Where the Attorney-General is satisfied that —- (a)
there are reasonable grounds to believe
that a person in a foreign country is capable of giving evidence
or assistance relevant to a criminal matter involving a Singapore
offence; and
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the removal of the person to Singapore;
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the return of the person to the foreign
country; and
- (c)
other relevant matters.
further reading--i cant locate this order:
[PDF]PRE-PUBLICATION NOTICE 2003 REVISED EDITION (JANUARY) OF ...
http://www.agc.gov.sg/publications/docs/SL_Jan_2003.pdf
(20) Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters Act $5.04
(Chapter 190A)
(a) Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters (International)
Criminal Tribunals) Regulations (Rg 1) (S 368/2001)
(b) Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters (United States
of America) Order (O 1) (S69/2001@@@@@@@
The learned Judges of USA also understand what is Kangaroo court or Judge!!
Nair shall weigh carefully the risks and benefits to scandalise,annoy and insult
SG gavaman and people further!
Nair said non--graduate cant migrate.
Nair shall know many non--graduate can migrate.
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O$P$!!Nair still owe people of Singapore S$380,000!!
Nair still owes SG gavaman $170,000 and he dunt intend to pay!!
Why SG gavaman is so generous to release him back to USA?
163,000 has been outstanding for almost 17 years!!How much is the interest
compounding?
FYI.For outstanding Estate Duty(now abolished),12 % pa interest payable
for period 18 months after the date of death.
lets say 5 % interest pa compunding for 17 years.
1.05 to power of 17=2.29 x 163,000=S$373,270.+ recent 6k.=380,000.
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will US Judge allow application of SG to extradict Nair back to SG?
My guess is possible.
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
The Singapore Straits Times Report "Nair retracts apologies" Wednesday December 3rd 2008
The newspaper report states that the Singapore attorney general is looking into my turn about. My advice to the Attorney General of Singapore is to do all he can and whatever he wants. But the sad fact, for him that is, I am on American soil. America is a free country.
If he determined to make a fool of himself, extradition is what he has to consider. To do that, Singapore has to apply through diplomatic channels to register the claim in a US court. A US court would then have to consider whether what I did would be a violation of the laws in Singapore. In considering the question, they will have to look into the question whether what I did would tantamount to a crime in the United States. It is here that Singapore would find themselves in a bind. America is a country of laws. And their judges are proud to defend those laws. Not like Singapore which uses its courts as their principle tool to silence dissent. There is no way that Singapore can even hope to succeed. But I would be glad if they tried, which would make me an even greater celebrity than what they already have made me.While I was in prison, a day before my release, Francis Lim, police officer from Central Police Station came to prison and gave me a letter from the Attorney General demanding that I pay about $6,000 (inclusive of their expenses) by November 26, 2008, which was the date of my banishment from Singapore Changi Airport. You would like to know that I have not paid this and I don't intend to pay this ever. And they made no attempt to stop me from leaving!
"I was ordered to pay the Attorney General $13,000.00 which I have refused to pay, as I was already in the US by the time they worked out the figures. And not just that, about that time, I was suspended from practicing as a lawyer in Singapore for 2 years for writing a letter to the then Attorney General demanding that he explain himself on a matter relating to the late JB Jeyaretnam, another shameful political action, in which they worked out my liability for costs in access of, believe it or not, $150,000.00. I have not paid that either".--end of quote
O$P$!!Nair still owe people of Singapore S$380,000!!
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UK High Court also accepts kangaroo court is not a good word!!
recent and relevant cases:
"In Clark v Chief Constable of Essex Police 2006 EWHC 2290 (QB), published at bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/QB/2006/2290.html, # the British High Court of Justice appeared to accept the description of kangaroo court in the context of a disciplinary proceeding "because those attending jumped from the accusation to the condemnation without pausing to find out what the accused person had to say about it.""---end of quote
http://www.duhaime.org/LegalDictionary/K/KangarooCourt.aspx
# http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/QB/2006/2290.html
England and Wales High Court (Queen's Bench Division) Decisions
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The Singapore Straits Times Report "Nair retracts apologies" Wednesday December 3rd 2008
Ladies and Gentlemen,
The state controlled press, the Straits Times of Singapore of Dec 3, 2008, reports that 2 days after I reached American soil, I retracted any apology given in the Lee Kuan Yew controlled courts of Singapore, Court 15, Subordinate Courts, before Judge Leslie Chew.This is correct. All apologies are retracted. So is my undertaking not to write my mind on the dire lack of human rights, the shameful lack of independence of the courts and everything else that need to be addressed. I shall also be reposting the blog posts which I was required to remove of Sept 1 and Sept 6 of 2008 in this blog.
The newspaper report states that the Singapore attorney general is looking into my turn about. My advice to the Attorney General of Singapore is to do all he can and whatever he wants. But the sad fact, for him that is, I am on American soil. America is a free country.
If he determined to make a fool of himself, extradition is what he has to consider. To do that, Singapore has to apply through diplomatic channels to register the claim in a US court. A US court would then have to consider whether what I did would be a violation of the laws in Singapore. In considering the question, they will have to look into the question whether what I did would tantamount to a crime in the United States.It is here that Singapore would find themselves in a bind. America is a country of laws. And their judges are proud to defend those laws. Not like Singapore which uses its courts as their principle tool to silence dissent. There is no way that Singapore can even hope to succeed. But I would be glad if they tried, which would make me an even greater celebrity than what they already have made me.
Dictatorships all over the world use dirty tactics to stay in power for as long as they can. I say for as long as they can, because sooner or later they all collapse. One of these tactics is to unjustly condemn a man and then repeat that lie over and over, hoping that the lie will eventually take root.
The state controlled press report mentions that "In writing about the case on his blog, he insulted High Court judge Belinda Ang". This is a deliberate lie. This refers to my arrest and conviction for what I had written in my blog post Thursday, May 29, 2008 Singapore. Judge Belinda Ang's Kangaroo Court. The material words which the Singapore Court relied on to convicted me before Justice Kan Ting Chiu of the Supreme Court were
"The judge Belinda Ang was throughout prostituting herself during the entire proceedings, by being nothing more than an employee of Mr. Lee Kuan Yew and his son and carrying out their orders. There was murder, the rule of law being the repeated victim."
The state controlled Singapore court with its complaint judge Kan Ting Chiu found that the words "prostituting herself during the entire proceedings", among other parts of the blog post, was an insult to her.
This is completely untrue. According to Webster’s Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary, other than the usual meaning of a prostitute being a street walker, it also means
a) to devote to corrupt or unworthy purposes, debase, e.g. to prostitute one's talents b) devoted to corrupt purposes c) a person who (as a writer or painter) who deliberately debases himself or his talents (as for money).
And this was exactly what Judge Belinda Ang did during those 3 days of May 26 to May 28, 2008 in the High Court of Singapore. Reading the blog you will see that my accusation is factually correct. She unashamedly, throughout the proceedings permitted her position of a judge to be used for Lee Kuan Yew and his son's advantage; not the not the interests of the law.
And I repeat those words I said again here. She undoubtedly "prostituted herself in her position as a judge" to serve the interests of Lee Kuan Yew and his son, the Prime Minister of Singapore.
Therefore there was no insult at all. My claim is factually correct. I am lawyer and I choose my words with discretion. But whatever the truth was, did not matter to Lee Kuan Yew's agent, Judge Kan Ting Chiu that day. He finds that I insulted the judge when there was no insult at all. And now, the state controlled Straits Times picks it up and repeats that defamation again and again hoping that people will believe that I had in fact insulted the judge.
And then another lie. The report reads " Separately in July he behaved in a disorderly fashion and hurled expletives at police officers". I did no such thing.
I was accosted by 5 men claiming to be police officers who demanded to see my particulars in Little India on the July 4th 2008 at about 8.30 pm in Race Course Road, Little India, Singapore. Not knowing who they were I refused. And a little later, I was arrested. Of course, I being Gopalan Nair, and a former Singapore opposition politician, they pressed charges and came up with anything they can imagine which included an accusation that I called one of the police officers "A Malay bastard" and that I was gesticulating with my hands.
The trial took 18 days. The police officers in an orchestrated fashion recited the same lies. In fact they could have said anything they wanted, even that I had tried to kill them and the Lee controlled court of Judge James Leong presiding, Court 16, Subordinate Court would have accepted it.
But the judge James Leong having accepted the lies, and convicts me of disorderly behavior and hurling expletives at police officers, the Singapore state controlled paper picks it up and repeats that lie again and again, hoping that somehow the Singapore public would believe that I am a man who goes around hurling abuses at police officers and being disorderly in public.
The Singapore government in their eagerness to tarnish the name of anyone that criticizes them is going about this entirely the wrong way. They should realize that they have chosen the wrong man to defame and punish. I denied both the Judge Belinda Ang case and the disorderly case, which took 18 days and 8 days of trial.They spent a great deal of money and effort. Perhaps they hoped that I would have pleaded guilty and left the country without much fuss. But my refusal to admit the charges and go to trial meant my staying in Singapore for 6 months, which was much more damaging to them.
During this long stay in Singapore, I was able to associate with Dr. Chee Soon Juan and members and activists of their party, understand the political situation in Singapore better and even assist in their political activism.
It increased awareness of may case among the Singapore public, where strangers used to come up to me and shake my hand with appreciation, my picture being on that paper almost everyday. My case received international attention with world bodies calling for my release and for the charges to be dropped. This blog overnight began to be read by almost everyone in Singapore who knew English.
All this, was not in the interests of Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore. If they had given it some thought and found out the sort of person I was, they would have done well to deport me the very day I wrote the blog. But they seem adamant to continue in their folly by their continued interest in me with their newspaper report of Dec 3, 2008.
If someone could advice the Singapore authorities and their state controlled newspaper that it is best to leave me alone for their own good. Of course I hope they would continue with this vendetta against me, because it greatly serves my purpose of exposing this regime of Lee Kuan Yew in Singapore.
The report also states "Mr. Nair was admonished, warned against launching future attacks on the judiciary and had to pay the AGC (Singapore Attorney General) $5,000.00 in legal costs."
While I was in prison, a day before my release, Francis Lim, police officer from Central Police Station came to prison and gave me a letter from the Attorney General demanding that I pay about $6,000 (inclusive of their expenses) by November 26, 2008, which was the date of my banishment from Singapore Changi Airport. You would like to know that I have not paid this and I don't intend to pay this ever. And they made no attempt to stop me from leaving!
By way of parenthesis, you would like to know that in an earlier politically motivated case which partly resulted in my leaving Singapore in 1991 for good, another contempt of court case, an election rally speech in Bukit Merah where I stood as a Workers Party candidate in that by election, I was ordered to pay the Attorney General $13,000.00 which I have refused to pay, as I was already in the US by the time they worked out the figures.And not just that, about that time, I was suspended from practicing as a lawyer in Singapore for 2 years for writing a letter to the then Attorney General demanding that he explain himself on a matter relating to the late JB Jeyaretnam, another shameful political action, in which they worked out my liability for costs in access of, believe it or not, $150,000.00. I have not paid that either.
No other government would sit idly by when an individual mocks their court orders in this fashion. They would take every effort to go after that individual no matter where he was. But you see, the Singapore government is not any other country. All their bravado and their arrogance is only in that small island where they rule by intimidating people by abusing the law.They leave alone anyone outside their borders because they know that they are a morally bankrupt country which will not command the respect of anyone else. Not to say that Singaporeans respect their government or their legal system, but because of fear there is nothing they can do in that prison which is called Singapore.
I would have been satisfied even if a single human being had read this. But with the wide coverage that this blog gets, and with the grapevine, Singapore will hear this and will hear my side of the story.
Many thanks.
Gopalan Nair -
Does anyone think that there is any value in extracting a statement to retract all that had publicly been stated due to one's political ideology, and more so when the methods employed have been keeping an accused person under duress and harrassment for a period of more then six months ?
It must have been expected that Gopalan Nair will do what he must do when he is released, as the dishonorable methods used can only cause dishonorable reactions.
When no efforts were made to change the political ideology and engage the accused that his views are wrong, can anyone expect his long held views to be made hollow by showing him to be dishonorable by retracting his public statement ?
Those falsely accused as the 'Marxist Conspirators' in the Singapore Catholic Church had similarly retracted their "forced confessions".
Unfortunately some of these honorable people were within the reach of dishonorable people who simply forced them to retract their statement and stick to their original forced confessions.
Worst still, these honorable people continue to exist without their political rights to participate in the political life of Singapore.
Good for Gopalan Nair to be smart enough to escape the lion's den, and expose the methods of the dishonorable cats that pretend to be nothing more then noisy pussies.
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his letter always have words like "everyone" & "everybody" "knows" but in actual fact if this kind of thing is "everyone and everybody knows" people would start rioting liao. its like arguing over whether "legal corruption" is corruption.
Therefore there was no insult at all. My claim is factually correct. I am lawyer and I choose my words with discretion. But whatever the truth was, did not matter to Lee Kuan Yew's agent, Judge Kan Ting Chiu that day. He finds that I insulted the judge when there was no insult at all. And now, the state controlled Straits Times picks it up and repeats that defamation again and again hoping that people will believe that I had in fact insulted the judge.even if he's factually correct he still insulted the judge and he can't even prove himself factually correct unless someone directly involved in the "prostituting" comes up to admit it in court or at least have some undeniable evidence for the "prostituting"
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Originally posted by Atobe:
Does anyone think that there is any value in extracting a statement to retract all that had publicly been stated due to one's political ideology, and more so when the methods employed have been keeping an accused person under duress and harrassment for a period of more then six months ?
It must have been expected that Gopalan Nair will do what he must do when he is released, as the dishonorable methods used can only cause dishonorable reactions.
When no efforts were made to change the political ideology and engage the accused that his views are wrong, can anyone expect his long held views to be made hollow by showing him to be dishonorable by retracting his public statement ?
Those falsely accused as the 'Marxist Conspirators' in the Singapore Catholic Church had similarly retracted their "forced confessions".
Unfortunately some of these honorable people were within the reach of dishonorable people who simply forced them to retract their statement and stick to their original forced confessions.
Worst still, these honorable people continue to exist without their political rights to participate in the political life of Singapore.
Good for Gopalan Nair to be smart enough to escape the lion's den, and expose the methods of the dishonorable cats that pretend to be nothing more then noisy pussies.
"I am re-posting it now. I am now in contempt of the court order of Judge Leslie Chew, Court 15, Subordinate Court, Singapore."Nair.
He is struggling to be removed back to SG!!read how he invites
AGC of SG to apply extridaction order to bring him back to SG.
The new AG is very proactive.
Few poor guys may kiss this long weekend to draft extradiction document!!
USA Dept of Justice will probably receive a request very soon.
US Marshal will knock on Nair'd door in the near future.
U will see Nair to eat curry in QRP very very soon.
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i advise Nair dunt play play.
REMOVE these reposted postings NOW!!
If he appears in SG soil,the old debts will surface.
He admitted in his latest posts.
I calculate the sum of principal and interest is well over S$300,000,
yes three hundred thousand sing dollars !!
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he challenged AGC again,as he promised!!
Saturday, September 6, 2008
Convicted
Post deleted(lion note--but now reposted)
This post was deleted in Queenstown Prison, Singapore, where I was serving sentence, on November 13, 2008, one day after my court hearing. The police brought a laptop computer to a table outside my cell A422, Cell Block A, Queenstown Prison, at about 11 am in the morning. There was a Chinese policewoman in plain clothes, probably a computer expert with them. I was ordered to remove this post by the prison warden, Assistant Superintendant of Prisons, G Savier, a Tamil, to comply with my undertaking to the court. I am now defying that order as I had earlier indicated. I am re-posting it now. I am now in contempt of the court order of Judge Leslie Chew, Court 15, Subordinate Court, Singapore.Monday, September 1, 2008
Another classic case of trying to use the courts to silence dissent
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This post was deleted in Queenstown Prison, Singapore, where I was serving sentence, on November 13, 2008,............I am re-posting it now. I am now in contempt of the court order of Judge Leslie Chew, Court 15, Subordinate Court, Singapore.----end of quote
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Will frens of Nair pl pull him back from the road to hell!!
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Haiz, what do people like Gopalan expect Singaporeans to do? Take to the streets, set up barricades like Paris?
Like Edmund Burke, I believe change should come gradually, as needed...
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Like Edmund Burke, I believe change should come gradually, as needed...
That's why we should support opposition to get into parliament.
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Originally posted by Poh Ah Pak:
That's why we should support opposition to get into parliament.
are you refering to opposition politicians who are in line with public wishes or must we vote in an imbecile just to give trouble to the PAP govt?
what should be done now is to give a face to the opposition that would attract voters.
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Nair is digging deeper and deeper into QRP!!
He is insulting more Judges,ie provide more ammo to AGC !!
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Sunday, February 1, 2009
A call to every decent human being---tourists,businessman,students. Stay away from Singapore.