Has Dr Chee been arrested yet?
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The more the Police arrests him, the more progress he will have made, in highlighting to International eyes, what sort of gov we have.
Under ordinary times without IMF and WB around, he will have been cuffed and driven off for another round of court caes by now.
Why suddenly so tolerant? Afraid of more questions and criticisms from the world this time??
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CSJ will win against "glorified evils". I support him cos not a lot of ppl will be like him, stand out and find for a needed cause.
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Personally, I look at him as a daredevil - going out there in the political arena with a red cloak and challenging our bullish PAP.Originally posted by NUS_Superst@r:CSJ will win against "glorified evils". I support him cos not a lot of ppl will be like him, stand out and find for a needed cause.
The whole point as I can see of him, is to get our gov to react to his actions in all the WRONG ways so that the entire world can see just what sort of DEMOCRACY our gov advocates.
So hence, I believe that his every prosecution and or persecution, are actually leaps of progresses in his every liberalizing endeavour, however oppressive they may appear. He may look wrongful, but not everything Illegal is wrong, depending on how the Law was made - and especially if they want to (and wants you to) view it as illegal. But if you go read up on YOUR Constitutional Rights, you know what he's harping about out there.
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...Originally posted by NUS_Superst@r:CSJ will win against "glorified evils". I support him cos not a lot of ppl will be like him, stand out and find for a needed cause. -
It is amazing what one man willing to lay down his life can do... CSJ against the PAP, the Singapore Military and the SPF... not in my wildest dream did I think that it was possible in Singapore. Bravo to the man... made it all worthwhile to be alive in Singapore at this time.
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yesterday while taking a bus back,saw a group of around 15 policemen surrounding about 10+ people who are sitting down,all those 10+peeps were wearing the same t shirt with some slogan or something b4,i wonder if that is CSJ's group
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Sunday September 17, 8:17 AM
SDP chief Chee Soon Juan addresses crowd at Speakers' Corner
SINGAPORE : Singapore Democratic Party (SDP) chief Chee Soon Juan and his supporters turned up at the Speakers' Corner for a planned march on Saturday.
Dr Chee addressed the crowd at Hong Lim Park and asked them to join him in a march to the Parliament House.
He walked to the junction of North Canal Road and South Bridge Road where he was advised by the police not to proceed with the march as outdoor demonstrations were not allowed.
Dr Chee and his supporters had been standing at the junction since Saturday morning.
The incident attracted the attention of passers-by and the media.
Police said they are investigating the matter.
They added that Dr Chee was still at the Speakers' Corner at 10.15pm, accompanied by his group of associates with a crowd of 20 bystanders.
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i fail to see the need for the law and a constitution as its backbone when the judiciary is biased, the executive is corrupt and the legislative is nothing more than a rubber stampOriginally posted by ShutterBug:Personally, I look at him as a daredevil - going out there in the political arena with a red cloak and challenging our bullish PAP.
The whole point as I can see of him, is to get our gov to react to his actions in all the WRONG ways so that the entire world can see just what sort of DEMOCRACY our gov advocates.
So hence, I believe that his every prosecution and or persecution, are actually leaps of progresses in his every liberalizing endeavour, however oppressive they may appear. He may look wrongful, but not everything Illegal is wrong, depending on how the Law was made - and especially if they want to (and wants you to) view it as illegal. But if you go read up on YOUR Constitutional Rights, you know what he's harping about out there.
Is it Rule by Law, or Rule of Law? The two makes a lot of difference.
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Hey bro ,dunt call taxi for me.I'll stay here overhight.
Buy me a Ta Pau--Mee Sim Mi Ham.Can??About 30 police formed a human barricade for more than nine hours around Chee Soon Juan, secretary-general of the tiny Singapore Democratic Party, and six other activists after Chee tried to lead a march from Singapore's Speakers' Corner to the Suntec convention centre where the meetings are being held.
--Saturday September 16, 11:40 PM,2006,''Singapore police, opposition in park standoff''Reuters
2.i hope IMF/WB big shots will not join CSJ rally amid their 'busy'
schedule.Thay have 1000 reasons to do this
----teach sg a good lessons to ban the entry of endorsed
.....CSO members initially
---show to the woorld they were supporting democracy/freedom
of speech
3.Police will dare to detain any big shots if they break any laws.
Dunt expect the photo of Big shot hand in hand with CSJ marching
to Istana and signing ''We shall over come''appearing in Times Magazine.
4.
Does Sg police
have good reasons to block this rally?Lets revisit historyWashington(DC) police say that a number of people suspected of planning riots have already been arrested.
-Thursday, 13 April, 2000, 23:25 GMT 00:25 UK,IMF woos protesters
More than 700 pieces of pipe, as well as rolls of chicken wire, gas masks and other items have been confiscated, they said.
"What we are trying to do is to avoid what happened in Seattle with its widespread disruption. We do not want to have things get out of control," Washington police Chief Charles Ramsey said.
1999 Seattle
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Those who wants to "silently" support CSJ at Parliament House, drive by and blast your horns 3 times.
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Originally posted by ShutterBug:Those who wants to "silently" support CSJ at Parliament House, drive by and blast your horns 3 times. who say one?
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First time i see SPF can do nth ... sad. This is so stupid. Either u go by the book as usual or just let them be. Just because foreigners are here, u dare not enforce ur law, what will ppl think of ur law ???
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I think its for show only.Originally posted by gd4u:First time i see SPF can do nth ... sad. This is so stupid. Either u go by the book as usual or just let them be. Just because foreigners are here, u dare not enforce ur law, what will ppl think of ur law ??? -
Singapore politician-police standoff continues
Sebastian Tong
Reuters
17 Sep 06
http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=1375212006
A downtown stand-off between Singapore police and an opposition politician over the right to hold a protest march entered its second day on Sunday, after the overnight encirclement of Chee Soon Juan and several supporters.
Chee, who heads the tiny Singapore Democratic Party, had planned to hold a rally in a city park on Saturday, followed by a protest march to parliament past the convention centre where thousands of financial big shots, bankers and journalists are attending the IMF-World Bank meetings.
But Chee, his sister Chee Siok Chin, and five supporters, were never allowed to leave the park. About 30 police formed human barricades around the Chees, at times linking arms and pressing in close to them to prevent their movement.
"They are physically preventing us from walking to the parliament. But they won't arrest me," Chee said. "We need to send a message to be firm, to continue to insist on freedom of speech."
Chee had wanted to protest about the city-state's restrictions on freedom of speech and its widening income gap. Under Singapore law, public gatherings of more than four people require a police permit.
Throughout the night, changing shifts of police kept guard over Chee and his sister on a corner of Hong Lim park, close to Singapore's Speakers' Corner.
Supporters brought the Chees and the other activists food and water, and the pair slept briefly on the pavement. Puzzled passers-by, among them party-goers on their way home, the odd cyclist and early-morning joggers, stopped to stare or chat.
Area Cordoned Off
British tourist Christopher Osborn, 27, who saw the stand-off as he walked by on Saturday, decided to stay the entire night.
"I'm astounded by the police preventing the legitimate movement of people. The manner in which they are implementing it would be classified as intimidation. There's a disproportionate reaction and it shows another side to Singapore," he said.
While U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and other Group of Seven finance ministers and central bankers discussed the Chinese yuan at the convention centre on Saturday, the Singapore police were busy interviewing those people who had gathered at the park to find out who they were and why they were there.
About 200 people, including media, had gathered for the rally.
Police with video cameras filmed Chee, his supporters and journalists present for several hours. Several plainclothes policemen and women mingled among the reporters and supporters.
"Police are at the scene and are engaging Chee Soon Juan and his associates. We advise them not to commit any offence or pose a threat to public order," a police spokeswoman said on Saturday.
Soon after Chee arrived at the park with his supporters on Saturday morning, police cordoned off the area. Speaking through loudhailers, they told the crowd of supporters and journalists not to participate in the protest march as this would be breaking the law.
As Chee Siok Chin tried to walk to a nearby public toilet, police stopped her. Only after much argument was she allowed to use a bathroom -- in the nearby police station.
Chee, an acerbic critic of the government, has had several run-ins with Singapore's leaders. On Tuesday, the High Court ruled that Chee and his sister had defamed Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and his father, Lee Kuan Yew. No damages have been announced yet. -
Those who oppose CSJ blast 4 times ... hey we are very democratic and fair...Originally posted by ShutterBug:Those who wants to "silently" support CSJ at Parliament House, drive by and blast your horns 3 times. -
Mr brown need to get his ass down there n do a live podcast!
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i kinda agree with you.....Originally posted by kopikid:Mr brown need to get his ass down there n do a live podcast! -
False information of rally and march
Empower Singaporeans @ Speakers' Corner
17 Sep 06
The PAP controlled media is engaged in a campaign of false information on the ongoing Empower Singaporeans March & Rally.
The government-owned Straits Times falsely claimed in its report today that the standoff between the police and Dr Chee Soon Juan & the activists ended 'last nightÂ’. This is a blatant lie to mislead the readers while the standoff is still continued on at the SpeakersÂ’ Corner at Hong Lim park.
Similarly, the afternoon tabloid, The New Paper, for its part said, Dr Chee was flanked by fewer than 10 supporters. What the newspaper didnÂ’t report was that despite police harassment, more than one hundred people showed up to support the event.
The police had turned people away at the entrance to the Speakers Corner, warned supporters to leave the Speakers Corner, took down their NRIC numbers, and even confiscated the fliers that the organiser was distributing.
The standoff was deliberately created when the police refused to allow Dr Chee and the activists to march towards the Parliament House, then to Suntec City, and ending up at the Istana, as previously planned.
Dr Chee and activists are still held up at Speakers' Corner and the standoff with the police will only come to an end on Tuesday, 19 Sept 2006, when PM Lee Hsien Loong makes his opening address to the WB-IMF meetings.
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they are encircled there for the entire night !!!
whole day till night and then up to this morning they are still there !!!
imgaine the rain !!! out in the open !!!
you guys better show some respect to this man.
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many images of CHEE SOON JUAN ,click here
1 and 2 photo taken in AA2006.
rest taken 17.09.2006 Sunday at noon at Speaker's Corner
of Singapore and nearby.
CHEE SOON JUAN and his party stand off with police since
Sat 16 Sept noon time.
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Sounds very similar to 'dao bain huo dong', but is the other way round ... lol. Monday still got bo?? I tml exam finish can go there ka jiao ...
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Do not know whether i shld love or hate Chee? Love because he dare to stand up. Hate because sometime his actions are a little overboard.
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was at the speaker corner with dad at 3:30pm. the police had to escort chee to the toilet. the policemen outnumbered the people watching.
what a waste of resources looking out after this guy.
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below taken 17.09.2006 sunday
images from speak's corner---click here
note the police video cam
added 18.09.2006photo taken 17.09.2006 Sunday,noon time,1200H
view fr NPP
car park talk to who??
talk talk
u are under the camera every second
lonely siblings
curious looker much more than supporters
spore style protest---waiting games.bloodless,just sweat
red car--anti riot police vehicles----stand by near by
do CSJ and party obstructing phblic activities??
No freedom/democracy?I can post so many photos here proves
otherwise.
2.sure CSJ will be mentioned in US State Dept Human Rights Report.
Chee Soon Juan and others ,Go Home Now
We have freedom and democracy long ago.
If not,how u still can talk,pod casting,standoff 36 hours etc.
CSJ stand off at least 24 hours and more than enough time
to tell his messages to medias all over the world.
He waste police man power.He can sleep,but not the police.
Nothing new were told by him in the Speaker's Corner.
i spent one hour there 17.09.2006,not more than 5 directly in the stand off.
Supporters,where are they?
CSJ,u dunt have too much supporters here in Spore,
not just Speaker's Corner.
Spore going to break the records of IMF/WB meetings,ie
NO riots in Spore,unlike violence happened in Seattle,Washington,
Prague and HK.
Police has shown extreme patience in the past 48 hours.
u have obstructed pedestrian way.Your action make us walk in roads.
But foreign medias must thanks for your actions.
Otherwise they have nothing interesting and nothing to report.
Enough is enough.GO HOME NOW.
Pl drag all non--Sporean out of this stand off.
This is our domestic affairs.If police restrict Sporean join this
stand off,they should also do so to foreigners,even Spore PR.Area Cordoned Off
British tourist Christopher Osborn, 27, who saw the stand-off as he walked by on Saturday, decided to stay the entire night.
"I'm astounded by the police preventing the legitimate movement of people. The manner in which they are implementing it would be classified as intimidation. There's a disproportionate reaction and it shows another side to Singapore," he said.
SLIDES SHOW
the beginnings
dunt obstructing public ways
JUST TALK and talk
look at Gurkha,first time seen tempoary OP tower,new anti--riot vehicles,
of coure police everywhere.Taken Raffles City,City Hall,etc
Fortress Singapore
added 18.09.2006 evening
18.09.2006
the lonely seven
observed at 4 pm today,only 7 wearing T shirts there,very clear cut,
either T shirts,police(not more than 20)and reports.
Police near them wearing T shirts while those 20 meter away or
across the road in uniform.About 5 anti riot white vehicles near by.
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Originally posted by lionnoisy:
Drag foreigners out of this stand off?... mindless sheep don't forget your gods told you to welcome foreigners... let them screw you and say thank you to them now... repent now or else... well you know better what you must do, they are your gods...
No freedom/democracy?I can post so many photos here proves
otherwise.
2.sure CSJ will be mentioned in US State Dept Human Rights Report.
Chee Soon Juan and others ,Go Home Now
We have freedom and democracy long ago.
If not,how u still can talk,pod casting,standoff 36 hours etc.
CSJ stand off at least 24 hours and more than enough time
to tell his messages to medias all over the world.
He waste police man power.He can sleep,but not the police.
Nothing new were told by him in the Speaker's Corner.
i spent one hour there 17.09.2006,not more than 5 directly in the stand off.
Supporters,where are they?
CSJ,u dunt have too much supporters here in Spore,
not just Speaker's Corner.
Spore going to break the records of IMF/WB meetings,ie
NO riots in Spore,unlike violence happened in Seattle,Washington,
Prague and HK.
Police has shown extreme patience in the past 48 hours.
u have obstructed pedestrian way.Your action make us walk in roads.
But foreign medias must thanks for your actions.
Otherwise they have nothing interesting and nothing to report.
Enough is enough.GO HOME NOW.
Pl drag all non--Sporean out of this stand off.
This is our domestic affairs.If police restrict Sporean join this
stand off,they should also do so to foreigners,even Spore PR.
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