Gopalan Nair to report to Central Police Station every day
Former Singaporean lawyer 58 year old Gopalan Nair will have to report to the Central Police Division daily at 9am from tomorrow.
This is to help officers in their investigations into his alleged insults against two High Court judges, Justice Lai Siu Chiu and Justice Belinda Ang.
Previously, he only had to report as and when required by the authorities.
Nair will have to report to the authorities every day until his presence is no longer required.
That's because the Deputy Public Prosecutor, Francis Ng said, Nair had failed to turn up at the division at 3pm last Friday even though he was supposed to do so.
DPP Ng said no explanation was given for Nair's absence.
However, Nair's lawyer Chia Ti Lik refuted this.
Mr Chia said, he informed the Investigating Officer that Nair was unable to turn up that day.
"Due to the short notice, Mr Nair was unable to attend at the appointed time that the IO wanted him to. The prosecution took the position that they had difficulties contacting him over Thursday, Friday and Saturday. And because of that, they applied to court to have one of the conditions of bail varied."
Nair is currently out on a five thousand dollar bail and he also had to surrender his passport to the police.
The prosecution has also amended one of the two charges faced by Nair.
Mr Chia said, it now states that Nair had allegedly insulted Justice Ang on his blog.
"The prosecution seems to be taking the position that there was no email being sent to the judge, Belinda Ang as originally alleged in the first charge."
Justice Ang presided over the recent defamation suit that Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and Minister Mentor Lee Kwan Yew won against the Singapore Democratic Party and some of its leaders.
It's believed Nair had stated in his blog that Justice Ang was "nothing more than an employee" of PM Lee and the Minister Mentor.
Nair's other charge alleged that he had sent an insulting email to Justice Lai in 2006.
It's believed he stated that Justice Lai as well as her fellow judges are " corrupt" as they are "misusing the law for personal gain".
Nair gave up his Singapore citizenship in 2005 and is now a citizen of the United States.
The case will be mentioned again on 14th July. - 938Live
Fine anybody can pay but will he go to jail? I think he might get both
i have amended this morning posting.
Dunt blame AG wrongly
Have AG officially charged GPN in court for sending insulting e mails
to AG and another person ,and charge him under Sedition Act?
If not,GPN and SDP cant say DPP drop their charges and
The question therefore arises as to who sent them!
Would GPN dunt hint Police do this?
Silence is golden
His famous two blogs sent in SG soil are more than enough
to make him a involuntary stayer.
If AG find that it is within SG jurisdiction to prosecute him for
his about 300 not--so --SG--friendly blogs ,although sent from USA ,
he is in deeper troubles.
I would like reading his new blogs.But for the sake of his family
to see him sooner in USA,pl ask him shut up.
This will be beginning of the end of SG if AG look at
the color of passport before AG prosecute.
The improper attentions of US Department of State,
Ambassdor and US President will not help him
return sooner to USA.
My 2 cents advice--
Silence is golden
The real question I believe, is how did they even get the charges wrong? The difference between a blog and e-mail is very obvious.
The charge against you lionnoisy, has not been changed though... do you not admit you were using clones in the case of makepeace?
1st it was charge him and kept him in remand (police jail) for sending emails... then it is not....
despots!!!! flip-flop, how unbecoming, reminds me of the Anwar trials.....
despots bring the country into disrepute!!!!!
Why change the charge
well.i support u guys to query why DPP changes the charge from
sending e mail to insulting by posting on blog.
I have one theory.To charge him sending e mails ,and he denys,
just make a impression that police frame him up.
To Charge him on blogs make the evidences open
to public.
From CEO of MNC and layman in AMK can be the
Judge whether the 2 blogs sent in SG and
the 300 plus blogs sent in US are offenses.
If so,is it within SG juridictions to prosecute him?
Justice is in one's heart.
U can say SG court belong to so and so.
But at the end,people in the world can see who is right
or wrong.I like the cases heard in High Court.
CSJ said
While the prosecution is keen for the trials to take place at the Subordinate Courts, the defence is insisting that they be heard at the High Court so that the final judgment could find its way into legal publications.
Does he hint DPP afraid the case go into law report?
I dunt think so.
I think SG gavaman just want this case to promote
SG as a hub of Justice!!
Has GPN thrown away all his law text book?
I cant believe this is written by him.
The Judge Ang charge is that I had offered an insult to Judge Belinda Ang, a civil servant, on May 29, 2008 by what I had written on my blog of the same date. As to how I could have possibly insulted this Judge by writing something on my blog is no doubt mind boggling. I had not invited the Judge to read my blog and neither did I go to her court and insult her personally. I had merely written a blog post and nothing more.
Whether he had not invited or gone to her court to insult her are irrelevant.
For example,SG court also accepts SDP 5000 copies of Democrats
are serious enough to defame Lees.Readers would spread the words
and people post in Internet,among other things.I cant recall what are the exact
contents.Pl read the relevany documents.
His confessions prove his blogs are widely read in SG!!
21.05.2008 blog and many other blogs
proves he excites readers to distribute his blogs
And if you like what I write, please tell your friends. You will be helping democracy by distributing this widely. This blog not only gives information, it dispels government propaganda put out by this dictatorial regime.
before he came,there were messages in forums to announce his
arrival.So,i think he has a no. of readers here.
Look like he is also a player
Sunday, February 24, 2008
A call for protesters, Malaysian Indonesian Australian New Zealand Burmese and International for both March 15, 2008 and March 16, 2008, Singapore
Ladies and Gentlemen,
Caveat: Please note that I have neither the consent from the Singapore Democratic Party of Singapore nor the authority to call upon supporters to give support to this. However as a private citizen and a free man, I have the right to say what I want and to do what I want, which includes this.
Objective: This is a call for protesters in Malaysia including Hindraf, Indonesia, Burma, Australia and anywhere who are sympathetic to the cause of freedom in Singapore to join a proposed peaceful protest on either or both days, namely March 15, and/or March 16, 2008 which will hopefully be organized by the Singapore Democratic Party of Singapore to commemorate World Consumer Rights Day which is March 15, 2008 by holding a peaceful protest either in front of Singapore Parliament House and/ or at Merchant Loop, Liang Court Orchard Road Singapore on the said days. As for the time of protests including further details, please contact the Singapore Democratic Party website http://www.singaporedemocrat.org/ or Google Singapore Democrat
Background: Singapore is a dictatorship that does not allow freedom of speech or expression. Although the Singapore Constitution expressly...
Does SDP keep GPN at an arm's length ?
1.It seem SDP never announce his arrival before ,during and after the trail.
His name only appeared in SDP site after his arrest.
It is contrary to CSJ characters that he posts whatever
favourable to him.A US lawyer purposely flys to SG to support
him and CSJ dunt announce in SDP site!!
I cant believe it.
2.He seems not sat with SDP supporters most of the time in
public gallery in Supreme Court in Chees 3 days hearings.
3.CSJ and CSC did not attend his first mention on 02 jun 2008.
Chees only went into jail on 04 june.(Lion note:My mistake.
Chees had to attend their own hearing for contempt of court.)
On 16.jun, CSC arrived around 11am.
CSJ did not appear on 11 am mention.
Only Mr. Chia Ti Lek, lawyer ,his bailor Mr. Jeffrey George,and Mr. Gandhi Ambalam, SDP Chairman were seen attending 16 june mention.
If Nair didn't come back,the govt can't prosecute him whatever he wrote in his blog.So i call the govt to be lenient.
this summary looks good:
Here is the sequence of high-profile flip-flops thus far:
- 02 June: Gopalan Nair is charged for using insulting words towards High Court judge Belinda Ang in an email that he was alleged to have sent to the judge last week. Nair is also alleged to have copied the same email to many people, including the Attorney-General. Nair was charged under Section 13D (1) (a) of the Miscellaneous Offences (Public Order and Nuisance) Act.
- 05 June: Gopalan Nair is further administered a Section 122(6) caution statement under the Criminal Procedure Code which paves the way for a sedition charge under Section 4(1) of the Sedition Act. However the Sedition charge itself is not administered on the day itself.
- 09 June: Gopalan Nair is further administered two Section 122(6) caution statements under the Criminal Procedure Code for two further charges under Section 228 of the Penal Code relating to sending insulting emails.
- 12 June: Gopalan Nair faces yet another charge, under Section 228 of the Penal Code, of insulting a public servant sitting in a judicial proceeding. This time, he is alleged to have sent an e-mail to High Court Justice Lai Siu Chiu in 2006 which, among other things, accuses her of being corrupt. At a press conference on Thursday afternoon, Nair said he would be claiming trial to all charges tendered when his case is mentioned again on Monday 16 June, and he denied sending any emails to Belinda Ang or the Attorney-General in the most current case.
- 16 June: Gopalan Nair’s charge for insulting Belinda Ang under Section 13D (1) (a) of the Miscellaneous Offences (Public Order and Nuisance) Act is replaced with a charge under Section 228 of the Penal Code. The amended Penal Code 228 charge now alleges insulting High Court Judge Belinda Ang on his blog rather than through an e-mail. The Sedition charge is never tendered.
http://www.sgpolitics.net/
Posted by admin
16 June 08, Monday
To charge him sending e mails ,and he denys,
just make a impression that police frame him up.
To Charge him on blogs make the evidences open
to public.
So you are saying that our vaunted police force and justice system cannot go by the system and have to resort to such things just to nail him?
Originally posted by DeerHunter:
When you have to resort to insults to back up your facts, everyone else will know you are talking nonsense and twisting the truth to prove your over-inflated ego right.
Is your guilty conscience leading you to feel insulted by the truth of the statements made, or are you jumping to the wrong conclusions based on your own narrow reading of my reply ?
Which statement, or sentence, or word have I used that cause you to feel pricked by feelings of being insulted ?
Why will you persist with your own vanity with the need for others to know what is going on in this ongoing exchange ?
Are you so certain that anyone is paying attention, if not will you feel your position being less defensible for the weak arguments that you are depending on ?
You claim to speak on behalf of the citizens of Singapore, but yet you want our former colonnial masters to have a final say in our affairs, more so our political ones. M MLKY did right to kick the final vestiges of colonnialism out of our lives. Espacially those whom publish laws such as 'Dogs and Chinese are not allowed'.
How did you so brilliantly arrive at your statement that I "claim to speak on behalf of the citizens of Singapore" ? If you wish to play to a wider audience, I certainly do not indulge in this kind of vain fantasy that is so characteristic of your replies.
Did you not mention that "Chia TP was a relic of our turbulent past during our infant independence days" and that we are now in the "in the 21st century" ?
The reference piece that you brought up about the "Dogs and Chinese are not allowed" was an issue that occurred in 1917 - when China was divided; and also with your reference piece being a dissertation written in 1997.
Are you not being hypocritically dishonest by denying Chia Thye Poh's situation as being a relic of the past when his situation had occurred far more recently in the History of Singapore then your ''Dog and the Chinese" incident that had occurred more then 91 years ago in China ?
Is the ''Dog and Chinese" issue more relevant to Singapore History then the injustice that Singaporean were forced to witness with the incarceration of Chia Thye Poh ?
Is this the kind of value and culture that is a Singapore Identity ?
You had offended billions of the chinese when you derogatively twisted it as a myth in another thread to support your atrocious views when it was an actual ordinance by our ex-masters in China.
http://www.polonews.info/documenti_originali/Repubblica%20(1912%20-%201949)/Dog_shanghai.pdf
This study is an attempt to be objective, but still, written by a Western foreigner.
Have I offended the Chinese with my honest statement on a situation that has no connection to Singapore's History ?
If at all, the uncalled for preposterous remarks made by MM LKY that he "will shoot 1000 Chinese if it is to keep law and order in China" has hurt the sensitivities of the families who have lost their loved ones in the Tian-An Men incident - which was a struggle by the Chinese to gain more space for themselves in their society that is rife with corruption and nepotism.
Has that referenced piece that you claimed to be an objective study meant to serve the Chinese, or merely to serve the interest of the authors to gain 'guan-xi' with the Chinese Governent - in the same preposterious manner in LKY's statement that his approval of the armed and violent response by China's Government ?
Chia TP was a relic of our turbulent past during our infant independence days. The authorities had good reason for his incarceration, which was to protect innocent men, women and children from the volatile and dangerous communists stirring up the population, to turn SEAsia into a communist zone.
Chia Thye Poh was a physics lecturer in the University of Singapore, and a loyal Singaporean who is not afraid of his personal political values that is more honest then what you can even claim to possess.
For his beliefs he had the option of signing a false statement admitting to the false charges that LKY had insisted Chia had committed - i.e. that Chia is a Communist, advocating for the armed overthrow of a legitimately elected Government of SGP.
Chia's principled stand stood the test of time for 32 years of incarceration - 24 years in prison followed by 8 years of restricted movement on Sentosa Island - when he refused to submit to the tautings of the ISD officials that cruelly brought him on infrequent tours of Singapore - simply to show what he is missing.
Why will LKY and the ISD not bring Chia to trial if there are evidence to prove his guilt ?
Was it not a fact that Chia was an elected Member of Parliament and walked out of Parliament in protest to LKY and his PAP methods of passing legislations ?
It was to fulfill LKY's own desire to have Singapore merged with Malaysia without any active political opposition that got Operation Cold Store into motion, with all the leading members of the Barisan Sosialis being arrested with the help of a Colonial Legislation known as the ISA.
This arbitrary colonial relic remains to this day, when the Privy Council is thrown out while it has its usefulness to protect the interests of Singaporeans against the autocratic political abuse of the Ruling Party.
Is there any neutral and equally powerful body to provide some semblance of checks and balance to the Ruling Party that dominate a Parliament and able to pass legislations at will that are detrimental to Singaporeans ?
Such people are akin to terrorists of today, who hides amongst us to kill and achieve their political agenda. Thus the need for ISA to clamp down on such persons. In the 60s, the terrorists were communists.
Where are the evidence that the ISA and LKY could not produce and avoided any open trial, and preferring to incarcerate Chia for 32 years, letting him free without even a statement of assurance from Chia for Singapore's security.
Are concientious persons who object to Singapore's entry into Malaysia akin to terrorists ?
Surely those conscientious political objectors have now been fully exonerated based on the political baggage that Singapore and Malaysia is left with - after the petulant insistence of LKY in designing a Referendum that only force Singapore into a single Merger option ?
You had conveniently or suffer from selective amnesia on the things Chia did. The govt will not simply arrest anyone and throw him in jail. You had failed to mentioned:-
a. He studied and was a lecturer in Nanyang Uni of the 60s, the hotbed of communism activists.
a. He was a member of the fiery Barisan Sosialis
b. He was banned permanently from entering Malaysia in the wake of a political speech he delivered to the Perak division of the Labour Party of Malaysia on 24 April 1966
c. He was convicted for publishing a seditious article in Jul 66
d. He was arrested for unlawful assembly with 25 others in Jul 66 to protest the Vietnam war.
e. He declared war on our govt by stepping up street demostrations, protest meetings, and strikes.
Unfortunately, you have been fed with the horse-shit from the sycophantic droning sound of a single voice that drummed up the ''half-truths'' and conveniently "left out the more substantial embarrasing facts - for those who are too dumb to digest the truths.
Was Chia Thye Poh a threat to society then, or did he not believe in LKY - who had advised the unionists of their Rights as individuals - and LKY's public statements in the mid-1950s ?
"But we either believe in democracy or we not. If we do, then, we must say categorically, without qualification, that no restraint from the any democratic processes, other than by the ordinary law of the land, should be allowed...
If you believe in democracy, you must believe in it unconditionally.
If you believe that men should be free, then, they should have the right of free association, of free speech, of free publication.
Then, no law should permit those democratic processes to be set at nought, and no excuse, whether of security, should allow a government to be deterred from doing what it knows to right, and what it must know to be right... "- Lee Kuan Yew, Legislative Assembly Debates April 27, 1955
Are you suffering from selective amnesia, or simply too juvenile to even know the early History of Singapore ?
{Correction made to an incomplete sentence posted earlier}
Incidentally, the British Colonial Government had - in the 1950s - suspected that LKY was a possible Communist considering his active work with the Trade Unions as their legal adviser.
It was to the credit of the British ISD for being honest in their dealings that LKY was not falsely labelled or charged for his vociferous participation in union work - something which is not tolerated LKY by towards any Singaporean Lawyers in the same circumstances in these present oppressive days even as we are independent.
Are Singaporeans not treated as Dogs by LKY in an independent Singapore and not allowed to enter or gather in public places ?
Are you not selectively blind to the present day abuse by LKY derogatory remarks and actions towards Singaporeans but will carry the flag for China's citizens degrading treatment by neo-Colonialists in 1917 ?
Now in the 21st century, with communism as a lost cause, he can deny everything and blame everyone else for his incarceration. No one needs to fear him anymore, because China now is only paying lip service to idealogy and more concern with giving its citizens a better life through capitalism, thus his final freedom from jail.
Chia Thye Poh has denied the false and baseless accusations against him from the first day he was arrested, and throughout his 32 years of incarceration.
If Chia is denying the charges after he was released, why has the ISD not re-arrested him - in the same manner that the ISD had re-arrested those accused as Communists in the Catholic Church of Singapore - when they retracted their statements of confessions and had claimed that they had to make such admission due to torture ?
You can re-interprete History in any way you like, the fact remains in the events that transpired, and in the public statements printed by Chia Thye Poh - which you can read if you will Google his name with the ISA following.
But in the 60s, many civilian lives would have been lost ( had he not been jailed,) and for purpose? Would our lives had been better if he was allowed to destroyed what MM LKY had planned for our People - freedom from hunger, freedom from poverty, freedom from illiteracy, freedom from disease, freedom from discrimination, and so much more?
Were there not lives lost during the 1960s - even with Chia being incarcerated ?
Chia was part of the Barisan Sosialis exco-members who were vociferous in objecting to LKY's idea of gaining independence for Singapore through merger with Malaysia; and LKY depended on the British Colonial Masters to neutralise the Barisan Sosialis - whom the Colonialist had viewed as Communists, but not Singaporeans - by arresting the leadership.
With Singapore's merger with Malaysia, were the problems lessened for Singaporeans ?
Or was it not a fact that problems had exacerbated with racial politics being the order of the day - with the constant strife that LKY had with the Malay Politicians from Malaya ?
The lives that were lost in the 60s were a result of racial clashes from the fiery speeches and political debates between LKY and the Malay politicians.
Has selective amnesia stepped in after the sycophantic sound cannnot change the course of historical events ?
Try the clicking on this for a quick reference of history - if you cannot absorb long dissertation that is disadvantage to your own agenda.
‘Events leading to Merger – 1950s onwards’
Go on, Atobe, twist facts, lie and present half truths to serve your attention whoring dishonest political commentating master. At least 70% of our People are discerning enough to know you and your master's cunning ways to gain power, which offers nothing to citizens except perhaps 'glucose water' to solve our hunger. problems.
Pray tell me which statement, or sentence, or word is a twist of the Fact - according to your understanding of what you see as Facts ?
Which statement, or sentence, or word in my response is seen to be ''Half-truths" - according to your understanding of what the Truth is that has been fed to you ?
Is a "Half-Truth" not part of the "entire Truth" ?
Or are you considering "Half-Truth" as not worthy of being considered part of the entire Truth - then are you being dishonest even to your own understanding and not calling the "Half-Truth" as a ''Lie" ?
Are you decidely capable of any intelligent debate except with your understanding of what "a glass of glucouse water" can do ?
Surely you know how far a crutch can help the lame walk ?
Singaporeans certainly know how lame the excuse was in LKY's dependence of the Million Dollar Wages as a ''crutch to prevent Ministerial corruption" .
Surely the million dollar crutch will help the Ministers go a long way for their retirement.
Only the fool will believe that 70% of the Singapore population of 4.5 Million support the Ruling Party - when only about 2 million are eligible participants in the political process, and from which less then half actually participate in any elections due to the continued shifting of the rules and boundary lines that are changed in favor of the incumbent Political Party.
Originally posted by Atobe:Is your guilty conscience leading you to feel insulted by the truth of the statements made, or are you jumping to the wrong conclusions based on your own narrow reading of my reply ?
Which statement, or sentence, or word have I used that cause you to feel pricked by feelings of being insulted ?
Why will you persist with your own vanity with the need for others to know what is going on in this ongoing exchange ?
Are you so certain that anyone is paying attention, if not will you feel your position being less defensible for the weak arguments that you are depending on ?
How did you so brilliantly arrive at your statement that I "claim to speak on behalf of the citizens of Singapore" ? If you wish to play to a wider audience, I certainly do not indulge in this kind of vain fantasy that is so characteristic of your replies.
Did you not mention that "Chia TP was a relic of our turbulent past during our infant independence days" and that we are now in the "in the 21st century" ?
The reference piece that you brought up about the "Dogs and Chinese are not allowed" was an issue that occurred in 1917 - when China was divided; and also with your reference piece being a dissertation written in 1997.
Are you not being hypocritically dishonest by denying Chia Thye Poh's situation as being a relic of the past when his situation had occurred far more recently in the History of Singapore then your ''Dog and the Chinese" incident that had occurred more then 91 years ago in China ?
Is the ''Dog and Chinese" issue more relevant to Singapore History then the injustice that Singaporean were forced to witness with the incarceration of Chia Thye Poh ?
Is this the kind of value and culture that is a Singapore Identity ?
Have I offended the Chinese with my honest statement on a situation that has no connection to Singapore's History ?
If at all, the uncalled for preposterous remarks made by MM LKY that he "wil shoot 1000 Chinese if it is to keep law and order in China" has hurt the sensitivities of the families who have lost their loved ones in the Tian-An Men incident - which was a struggle by the Chinese to gain more space for themselves in their society that is rife with corruption and nepotism.
Has that referenced piece that you claimed to be an objective study meant to serve the Chinese, or merely to serve the interest of the authors to gain 'guan-xi' with the Chinese Governent - in the same preposterious manner in LKY's statement that his approval of the armed and violent response by China's Government ?
Chia Thye Poh was a physics lecturer in the University of Singapore, and a loyal Singaporean who is not afraid of his personal political values that is more honest then what you can even claim to possess.
For his beliefs he had the option of signing a false statement admitting to the false charges that LKY had insisted Chia had committed - i.e. that Chia is a Communist, advocating for the armed overthrow of a legitimately elected Government of SGP.
Chia's principled stand stood the test of time for 32 years of incarceration - 24 years in prison followed by 8 years of restricted movement on Sentosa Island - when he refused to submit to the tautings of the ISD officials that cruelly brought him on infrequent tours of Singapore - simply to show what he is missing.
Why will LKY and the ISD not bring Chia to trial if there are evidence to prove his guilt ?
Was it not a fact that Chia was an elected Member of Parliament and walked out of Parliament in protest to LKY and his PAP methods of passing legislations ?
It was to fulfill LKY's own desire to have Singapore merged with Malaysia without any active political opposition that got Operation Cold Store into motion, with all the leading members of the Barisan Sosialis being arrested with the help of a Colonial Legislation known as the ISA.
This arbitrary colonial relic remains to this day, when the Privy Council is thrown out when it has its usefulness to protect the interests of Singaporeans against the autocratic political abuse of the Ruling Party.
Is there any neutral and equally powerful body to provide some semblance of checks and balance to the Ruling Party that dominate a Parliament and able to pass legislations at will that are detimental to Singaporeans ?
Where are the evidence that the ISA and LKY could not even produce and avoided any open trial, and preferring to incarcerate Chia for 32 years, letting him free without even a statement of assurance from Chia for Singapore's security.
Are concientious persons who object to Singapore's entry into Malaysia akin to terrorists ?
Surely those conscientious political objectors have now been fully exonerated based on the political baggage that Singapore and Malaysia is left with - after the petulant insistence of LKY in designing a Referendum that only force Singapore into a single Merger option ?
Unfortunately, you have been fed with the horse-shit from the sycophantic droning sound of a single voice that drummed up the ''half-truths'' and conveniently "left out the more substantial embarrasing facts - for those who are too dumb to digest the truths.
Was Chia Thye Poh a threat to society then, or did he not believe in LKY - who had advised the unionists of their Rights as individuals - and LKY's public statements in the mid-1950s ?
Are you suffering from selective amnesia, or simply to juvenile to even know the early History of Singapore ?
Incidentally, the British Colonial Government had
Chia Thye Poh has denied the false and baseless accusations against him from the first day he was arrested, and throughout his 32 years of incarceration.
If Chia is denying the charges after he is released, why has the ISD not re-arrested him - in the same manner that the ISD had re-arrested those accused as Communists in the Catholic Church of Singapore - when they retracted their statements of confessions and had claimed that they had to make such admission due to torture ?
You can re-interprete History in any way you like, the fact remains in the events that transpired, and in the public statements printed by Chia Thye Poh - which you can read if you will Google his name with the ISA following.
Were there not lives lost during the 1960s - even with Chia being incarcerated ?
Chia was part of the Barisan Sosialis exco-members who were vociferous in objecting to LKY's idea of gaining independence for Singapore through merger with Malaysia; and LKY depended on the British Colonial Masters to neutralise the Barisan Sosialis - whom the Colonialist had viewed as Communists, but not Singaporeans - by arresting the leadership.
With Singapore's merger with Malaysia, were the problems lessened for Singaporeans ?
Or was it not a fact that problems had exacerbated with racial politics being the order of the day - with the constant strife that LKY had with the Malay Politicians from Malaya ?
The lives that were lost in the 60s were a result of racial clashes from the fiery speeches and political debates between LKY and the Malay politicians.
Has selective amnesia stepped in after the sycophantic sound cannnot change the course of historical events ?
Try the clicking on this for a quick reference of history - if you cannot absorb long dissertation that is disadvantage to your own agenda.
‘Events leading to Merger – 1950s onwards’
Pray tell me which statement, or sentence, or word is a twist of the Fact - according to your understanding of what you see as Facts ?
Which statement, or sentence, or word in my response is seen to be ''Half-truths" - according to your understanding of what the Truth is that has been fed to you ?
Is a "Half-Truth" not part of the "entire Truth" ?
Or are you considering "Half-Truth" as not worthy of being considered part of the entire Truth - then are you being dishonest even to your own understanding and not calling the "Half-Truth" as a ''Lie" ?
Are you decidely capable of any intelligent debate except with your understanind of what a glass of glucouse water can do ?
Surely you know how far a crutch can help the lame walk ?
Singaporeans certainly know how lame the excuse was in LKY's dependence of the Million Dollar Wages as a ''crutch to prevent Ministerial corruption" .
Surely the million dollar crutch will help the Ministers go a long way for their retirement.
Only the fool will believe that 70% of the Singapore population of 4.5 Million support the Ruling Party - when only about 2 million are eligible participants in the political process, and from which less then half actually participate in any elections due to the continued shifting of the rules and boundary lines that are changed in favor of the incumbent Political Party.
Fwaaahhh..Uncle Atobe.. you know so much History !!
Originally posted by DeerHunter:
Your insults put me off in giving you a decent reply. The only reply i will give you is crawl back into your rubbish bin and mouth your rubbish to the banana peel next to you.
Can I depend on you to have any sense of decency as a DeerHunter - when you will have the indecency to hunt and kill any innocent deer - that does you no harm; and all done to statisfy your vain entertainment to prove your own impotency is not affected by being constantly castrated ?
Before that, you have yet to reply to:-
"If at all, Gopalan was seeking to create a publicity to the high handed manner in which MM LKY treat the Singaopre Judiciary system - as LKY is famous for using the judiciary as his proxy.
MM LKY has admitted as much in claiming that "if no one fears me, I feel I am nothing!!"
It is common knowledge that MM LKY use the judicial process as a political tool to threaten those who are professionals in the Singapore Citizenry - that they will have to endure similar fate as CSJ, if they enter politics on the side of the Alternative Parties"
There you go again, lies and half truth to push your bigoted alternative agenda.
There you go again too - which one of the paragraphs, or sentence, or statement, or word is considered a 'Lie' ?
Do you subscribe to the word 'half-a-truth' ?
Are you certain that you are not compromising yourself that there is 'half-a-truth' in my statement ?
- "Between being loved and being feared, I have always believed Machiavelli was right. If nobody is afraid of me, I’m meaningless." - Lee Kuan Yew, 6.10.1997
You can be forgiven for your juvenile inadequacies since you were still an infant when LKY made his statements for the record published by the ever obliging Straits Times.
However, can you be forgiven for blindly accepting everything said by LKY to be the honest Biblical word of God ?
Famous for using...? - to you alone or everyone else?
With the ease in castrating your arguments, do I need the approval from anyone to what I have posted as rebuttals to your juvenile views ?
Common knowledge that ....threaten? - common to you alone?
Are you in a self-denial mode, or simply being dishonest in protecting your own Master - the Great Mentor Shepherd ?
Are you too dishonest to face the truth that it is common knowledge even if the Singapore Government make its best effort to isolate Singapore Politics as an internal affair - in the same mind-set as the ''stupid Myanmar Generals" ?
Try clicking on the following if you have no interest to find out the truth from googling:
‘Amnesty International – The use of defamation suits for political purposes ’
‘Pseudonymity: Judiciary has not moved to check the Executive’s misuse of the law ’
Is MM LKY not a citizen of Singapore and entitled to justice of our courts to clear his name?
Has LKY given the same rights to those Political Prisoners whom he had imprisoned using the ISA ?
Has he given his Political Challengers the rights to a trial by a judicial system that is free from the oppressive interference from the Government to the conduct of the judiciary ?
Are you depriving him of this right?
From the preceding response - is LKY entitlred to those rights that he deny other from having ?
Are you claiming anyone can just slander against another freely and get away with it?
Has this not been a privilege that LKY had reserved exclusively for himself - as only he is above the law by blatantly insulting and slandering the reputation of any political challengers that dare to take him on ?
And a more serious charge, are you casting aspersion on the independence of our judiciary? You better have facts to back it up.
Is this what your 'alternative politics' should be - freedom of speech to slander without facts or evidences, such as the despicable Gopalan and you are doing, even before you clowns gain the mandate to rule?
Do I need to cast any aspersion on this subject when LKY's conduct is plain for anyone to see ?
You may be selectively blind, or dumb, or retarded, or wilfully gullible - others are not necessarily as compliant as you, and surely have the independent intellectual ability and initiative to find things out for themselves ?
Do you seriously believe that others are like you - needing the food to be chewed, digested and regurgitated to suit your hunger for processed food ?
Does everyone need to be spoon-fed like you ?
Since you are interested in the writings of western authors to historical events in China, will you be similarly impartial to researches made on the Singapore political and judicial systems ?
‘Asia Sentinel: Singapore’s two faced judiciary ’
Why these reports not reported by the Straits Times ?
Are we not supposed to be an open society, where information is supposedly freely available ?
Is it any wonder we have juvenile-like mentality of a pseudo-DeerHunter ?
If you cannot even reply to these simple questions, but to evade them, then please return to your bin. Don't even attempt to talk about rule of law, because the only law you will ever recognise is your own laws you and your whoring master sets or interpretes.
Have you been honest with yourself in claiming that you "will not give any decent reply" - and had instead contradicted your stated position with this remarkable piece of decently juvenile effort at delivering anything but zero caustic potency ?
With your known political idiotlogy, you should try not to be lividly sore after clicking on the given referenced site.
If you are still capable to bee objective in your response - without becoming an extension of your Master's vocal cords - perhaps the argument maybe even more masochistically enjoyable for you.
Originally posted by Atobe:Can I depend on you to have any sense of decency as a DeerHunter - when you will have the indecency to hunt and kill any innocent deer - that does you no harm; and all done to statisfy your vain entertainment to prove your own impotency is not affected by being constantly castrated ?
There you go again too - which one of the paragraphs, or sentence, or statement, or word is considered a 'Lie' ?
Do you subscribe to the word 'half-a-truth' ?
Are you certain that you are not compromising yourself that there is 'half-a-truth' in my statement ?
- "Between being loved and being feared, I have always believed Machiavelli was right. If nobody is afraid of me, I’m meaningless." - Lee Kuan Yew, 6.10.1997
You can be forgiven for your juvenile inadequacies since you were still an infant when LKY made his statements for the record published by the ever obliging Straits Times.
However, can you be forgiven for blindly accepting everything said by LKY to be the honest Biblical word of God ?
With the ease in castrating your arguments, do I need the approval from anyone to what I have posted as rebuttals to your juvenile views ?
Are you in a self-denial mode, or simply being dishonest in protecting your own Master - the Great Mentor Shepherd ?
Are you too dishonest to face the truth that it is common knowledge even if the Singapore Government make its best effort to isolate Singapore Politics as an internal affair - in the same mind-set as the ''stupid Myanmar Generals" ?
Try clicking on the following if you have no interest to find out the truth from googling:
‘Amnesty International – The use of defamation suits for political purposes ’
‘Pseudonymity: Judiciary has not moved to check the Executive’s misuse of the law ’
Has LKY given the same rights to those Political Prisoners whom he had imprisoned using the ISA ?
Has he given his Political Challengers the rights to a trial by a judicial system that is free from the oppressive interference from the Government to the conduct of the judiciary ?
From the preceding response - is LKY entitlred to those rights that he deny other from having ?
Has this not been a privilege that LKY had reserved exclusively for himself - as only he is above the law by blatantly insulting and slandering the reputation of any political challengers that dare to take him on ?
Do I need to cast any aspersion on this subject when LKY's conduct is plain for anyone to see ?
You may be selectively blind, or dumb, or retarded, or wilfully gullible - others are not necessarily as compliant as you, and surely have the independent intellectual ability and initiative to find things out for themselves ?
Do you seriously believe that others are like you - needing the food to be chewed, digested and regurgitated to suit your hunger for processed food ?
Does everyone need to be spoon-fed like you ?
Since you are interested in the writings of western authors to historical events in China, will you be similarly impartial to researches made on the Singapore political and judicial systems ?
‘Asia Sentinel: Singapore’s two faced judiciary ’
Why these reports not reported by the Straits Times ?
Are we not supposed to be an open society, where information is supposedly freely available ?
Is it any wonder we have juvenile-like mentality of a pseudo-DeerHunter ?
Have you been honest with yourself in claiming that you "will not give any decent reply" - and had instead contradicted your stated position with this remarkable piece of decently juvenile effort at delivering anything but zero caustic potency ?
With your known political idiotlogy, you should try not to be lividly sore after clicking on the given referenced site.
If you are still capable to bee objective in your response - without becoming an extension of your Master's vocal cords - perhaps the argument maybe even more masochistically enjoyable for you.
Finish with your rant?
The more you rant, the less credible you become. What you wrote is nothing more than words not backed up with facts, but continued twisted lies, half truths and half baked theories.
You do have a masochistic joy in putting down sane persons who would not agree with a clown like you. But then, your insults do not bother me, for only in your salivating rants will others see the mad incredibility you lend to your flawed reasoning of every statement.
You can enjoy the despicable Chia TP all you want in your bedroom behind close doors, but nothing will change the fact that back in 1966, he was a dangerous man to society, who would lead innocent lives to their doom in his attempt to declare war on society. You mentioned he only taught in University. Why did you not mention which? Fear readers would know it was Nanyang U of the 60s, the breeding ground of fanatic communists?
Make him a hero all you want. He is no longer a threat to society. All his supporters had either fled or had turned capitalist, enjoying the good life our society can offer without his brand and your brand of rubbish, twisting history to suit your agenda.
Luckily I had digested my breakfast, otherwise i would have puked and throw out at you hiding in your rubbish bin with the twisted history you presented here.
You way of replying to my question is to ask more questions. Despite all your loud braggadio, you are no more than a wimp if you dare not answer directly to my questions posed. Why fear? You loudly proclaim no one else shoud fear MM LKY and his politics, yet you dare not even answer these questions directly.
I give you another chance.
There you go again, lies and half truth to push your bigoted alternative agenda.
Famous for using...? - to you alone or everyone else?
Common knowledge that ....threaten? - common to you alone?
Is MM LKY not a citizen of Singapore and entitled to justice of our courts to clear his name?
Are you depriving him of this right?
Are you claiming anyone can just slander against another freely and get away with it?
And a more serious charge, are you casting aspersion on the independence of our judiciary? You better have facts to back it up.
Is this what your 'alternative politics' should be - freedom of speech to slander without facts or evidences, such as the despicable Gopalan and you are doing, even before you clowns gain the mandate to rule?
If you cannot even reply to these simple questions, but to evade them, then please return to your bin. Don't even attempt to talk about rule of law, because the only law you will ever recognise is your own laws you and your whoring master sets or interpretes.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
I attended court 26 Subordinate Court at 9 am today as required by court order.
Mr. Chia Ti Lek, my lawyer appeared together with other supporters including my bailor Mr. Jeffrey George, Mr. Gandhi Ambalam, SDP Chairman. I am very grateful for the support shown to me by these
supporters without whose help, life would have been infinitely more
difficult in the already difficult circumstances.
I am also
grateful to the representatives of the US Embassy who have continued to
maintain their presence in court. I understand the US State Department
is being briefed daily on my situation.
I am an American blogger who had intended to remain in Singapore only from May 25th 2008 to no later than June 3, 2008. My being charged for criminal
offenses for writing a blog criticizing a Singapore Judge on May 29,
2008 is forcing me to remain in Singapore much longer than I had
expected. This is causing me untold misery by my inability to attend to
my law practice in the US and other financial difficulties including my
inability to attend to my house mortgage and other financial affairs.
Regardless of what I have to undergo, I refuse to surrender to this
punishment by the Singapore authorities. What I had said in my blog is
what I had witnessed during the 3 days of the hearing before the High
Court Singapore in the case of Lee Kuan Yew vs Dr. Chee Soon Juan from May 26 2008 to May 28, 2008. I strongly believe it is
the right of every free man to speak freely without fear or favor,
without which he no longer is a man but a coward. This right is a right
enshrined in the Constitution of Singapore as well as constitutions
throughout the world as well as the Universal Declaration of Human
Rights. Money can be had today or tomorrow but once a man loses his
freedom, he loses everything. This has always been my belief which I
will cherish till the end.
In court today, the prosecution took
another U turn. Call it flip flopping if you like. You will recall from
my last post the tortuous course these proceedings are taking. During
my time in custody in solitary confinement from May 31, 2008 to June
05, 2008 (6 days) the following occurred. First they charged me with
sending an Email to Judge Belinda Ang, alleging that I insulted her. Second they charged me with sending an Email to Judge Lai Sui Chu more than 2 years ago alleging the same. Third they withdrew all
charges and charged me under the Sedition Act of Singapore for what I
had written on my blog of May 29, 2008. Fourth, they withdrew the
Sedition charge and wanted to proceed on the earlier Email charges.
Today in court there was a further U Turn. Now they are no longer proceeding with the Email charge to Judge Belinda Ang or the Sedition charge and have instead charged me with having insulted Judge Belinda Ang on May 29, 2008 by reason of what I had written on my blog as well as the 2 year old matter with Judge Lai. I cannot remember whether I did or did not send the 2 year old Email.
The Judge Ang charge is that I had offered an insult to Judge Belinda Ang,
a civil servant, on May 29, 2008 by what I had written on my blog of
the same date. As to how I could have possibly insulted this Judge by
writing something on my blog is no doubt mind boggling. I had not
invited the Judge to read my blog and neither did I go to her court and
insult her personally. I had merely written a blog post and nothing
more.
I am not surprised why the Singapore authorities have decided not to proceed with the charge that I had sent an Email to Judge Ang.
I had all along claimed that the police had seized my note book which
contained my Email password. I had all along maintained that if anyone
had sent any Emails to this Judge, it wasn't me. It appears that the
police have finally accepted my claim that I had not sent any Email to
this judge or anyone else on May 29, 2008.
During the time I was in custody, the police had shown me Emails with my Email address which had purportedly been sent to Judge Belinda Ang,
the Attorney General of Singapore and one other person in authority
whom I cannot recall. This was after my notebook containing my Email
passwords were seized by the police. I had all along denied ever
sending any of these Emails. The question therefore arises as to who
sent them!
So the latest position as regards the charges now is firstly, an accusation that I had insulted Judge Belinda Ang on May 29, 2008 by reason of the contents of my blog post of the same date and the accusation that I had insulted Judge Lai in an Email to Judge Lai more than 2 years ago in March 2006, keeping in mind that I had
travelled to Singapore more than once during the last 2 years without
incident. If indeed I had sent any Email to Judge Lai, which I deny; why Judge Lai should now be suddenly offended by an Email which may or may not have
been sent to her more than 2 years ago from California, is puzzling.
Not
satisfied by keeping me in solitary confinement for 6 days from the
time of my arrest, the court had today ordered that I am to report
everyday at 9 am at the Cantonment Police Station for interrogation
until further notice. The police have claimed that despite my
incarceration for 6 days in a police station cell since my arrest in
solitary confinement where I was interrogated at least twice each day,
they claim that they still have not completed their investigation and
therefore the need to interrogate me each day, and every day, until
such time they finally decide that they have had enough. One would have
thought that I had killed 20 people in cold blood! For Heavens sake, I
only wrote a blog.
I do not know the purpose of this all but
perhaps they had miscalculated my reaction. Perhaps they thought that I
would buckle under at the first opportunity and grovel as other
Singaporeans are expected to do. Well, I am not guilty. I wrote a blog.
I wrote what I saw. I was exercising free speech. Free speech is
essential for good governance. If the Singaporean authorities are
unwilling to accept this, it is time they did.
After all they
claim Singapore to be a first world country. With international banking
trade and commerce. All of this requires free speech. The sooner they
realize this the better.
I have to get some sleep now so as to report to Cantonment Police Station to be interrogated in the morning.
Good night.
Gopalan Nair
Singapore
http://singaporedissident.blogspot.com/2008/06/singapore-another-day-in-court.html
Originally posted by DeerHunter:
Finish with your rant?
The more you rant, the less credible you become. What you wrote is nothing more than words not backed up with facts, but continued twisted lies, half truths and half baked theories.
Is this not characteristic of a DeerHunter to crawl back into his indefensible $27 garbage bin with the usual defensive remarks that others are ranting - when the DeerHunter is simply unable to argue against the rebuttals to issues raised ?
Thanks for admitting that there are some truths - even if it exist by 'half' - now pray tell where lie the "lies" and "half-baked theories" that you constantly take this posture without even giving any references to the statements, or specific sentence, or the exact words in my replies ?
You do have a masochistic joy in putting down sane persons who would not agree with a clown like you. But then, your insults do not bother me, for only in your salivating rants will others see the mad incredibility you lend to your flawed reasoning of every statement.
My deer juvenile DeerHunter - do you know the differenece between masochism and sadism ?
Did I hurt myself with sheer delight, or have I not had the sadistic pleasure of castrating every single one of your indefensible positions that lead you to keep returning with more impotent and irrelevants issues ?
Have you decided to abandon the "Dogs and Chinese do not enter issue" - after your irreverant treatment of Chia Thye Poh's circumstances ?
Have you not considered LKY's methods in similar Colonialist treatment of the citizens of an independent Singapore - as dogs - not being allowed to enter or gather in public places in groups of more then five ?
His clearest statement of Singapore being dogs that need training was broadcasted over the BBC - or is this issue also a twisted fact made into a lie and half-a-truth ?
"Mine is a very matter-of-fact approach to the problem. If you can select a population and they're educated and they're properly brought up, then you don't have to use too much of the stick because they would already have been trained.
It's like with dogs.
You train it in a proper way from small. It will know that it's got to leave, go outside to pee and to defecate. No, we are not that kind of society.
We had to train adult dogs who even today deliberately urinate in the lifts."
- Lee Kuan Yew on Singapore society, The Man & His Ideas, 1997
Where is your sense of indignation towards this 20th Century statement of a Talented Elitist method of treatment to the citizens of an independent state, compared to your pseudo effort in carrying the cause for China's citizens treatment by imperialists during 1917 ?
You can enjoy the despicable Chia TP all you want in your bedroom behind close doors, but nothing will change the fact that back in 1966, he was a dangerous man to society, who would lead innocent lives to their doom in his attempt to declare war on society. You mentioned he only taught in University. Why did you not mention which? Fear readers would know it was Nanyang U of the 60s, the breeding ground of fanatic communists?
Was he a dangerous man and by whose standards ?
At least Chia was more honest a character in representing Singaporean's interest to object to LKY's plans to merge Singapore into a Federation of Malaysia, which had also the support of those familiar with the mentality of the Malayan Malays during that period of Singapore's History.
Are you not more despicable in your own dubious knowledge and preference to re-interprete historical events that are based not on recorded facts that transpired, but has shown to be regurgitated information from the sycophantic propaganda machine from the Master Recording ?
Was Nanyang University the breeding ground of fanatic communists ?
By whose standard of recognition and value judgment ?
Do you know that the Nanyang University was built with donations from the Chinese Community in Singapore, with the land donated by Ngee Ann Kongsi ?
Are suggesting that the bulk of the Chinese population in Singapore is Communist ?
Are you now supporting and accepting the Colonial Government judgmental views and assessment of an alien population whom they can hardly understand, and can only broad brush everyone as Communist ?
LKY had conveniently purveyed this Colonial view to suit his own political agenda to remove Chia Thye Poh and his group of Barisan Sosialis from the ongoing political events - so as not to influence the outcome of a political process which LKY had initiated to have Singapore enter a Grand Merger Scheme of an enlarged Malaysia that was LKY's brainchild with the help of the Colonial Government.
Are you not being despicable towards the Chinese Community in Singapore with your derogatory remarks that the Nanyang University was a hotbed of communism - when the students there were more politically concious then the meek and non-chalant youths in the current universities in Singapore today ?
Make him a hero all you want. He is no longer a threat to society. All his supporters had either fled or had turned capitalist, enjoying the good life our society can offer without his brand and your brand of rubbish, twisting history to suit your agenda.
Does anyone need to make Chia Thye Poh a hero ?
Why will you bear such narrow politically juvenile views - that someone has to be a hero and another a villian ?
Are you not a hangover of an outdated political idiot-logy that was started by the Golonial Government, and perpetuated by LKY that all political challengers to the status quo are villians, and should not be treated as NATIONALIST ?
Is this not a sense of insecurity that after 50 over years of nation building, Singapore is yet to be a Nation, so much so that there is no such a term as a 'Nationalist' ?
Is this not reflective of the failure of this autocratic Government that have destroyed all political institutions in Singapore
Luckily I had digested my breakfast, otherwise i would have puked and throw out at you hiding in your rubbish bin with the twisted history you presented here.
Why will you not puke when you are having your breakfast in your $27 garbage bin, and imagined me accompanying you as you read my response from inside your garbage bin ?
How else can you have any clearer picture of the historical events that have been recorded and read by Singaporeans, when you live in a $27 garbage bin and depend on the Great Mentor Shepherd to dump his regurgitated history for your digestion ?
You way of replying to my question is to ask more questions. Despite all your loud braggadio, you are no more than a wimp if you dare not answer directly to my questions posed. Why fear? You loudly proclaim no one else shoud fear MM LKY and his politics, yet you dare not even answer these questions directly.
Have I not answered your questions directly ?
You have shown yourself to be unable to think but depend for your facts the regurgitated information processed by the sycophantic machineries maintained by the Great Mentor Shepherd to keep his flock in a single minded thinking.
Sadly, it clearly shows the juvenile mind - who think himself to be a potent DeerHunter - when he cannot think for himself the answers to the simple questions given.
I give you another chance.
There you go again, lies and half truth to push your bigoted alternative agenda.
Famous for using...? - to you alone or everyone else?
Common knowledge that ....threaten? - common to you alone?
Is MM LKY not a citizen of Singapore and entitled to justice of our courts to clear his name?
Are you depriving him of this right?
Are you claiming anyone can just slander against another freely and get away with it?
And a more serious charge, are you casting aspersion on the independence of our judiciary? You better have facts to back it up.
Is this what your 'alternative politics' should be - freedom of speech to slander without facts or evidences, such as the despicable Gopalan and you are doing, even before you clowns gain the mandate to rule?
If you cannot even reply to these simple questions, but to evade them, then please return to your bin. Don't even attempt to talk about rule of law, because the only law you will ever recognise is your own laws you and your whoring master sets or interpretes.
Is this the best you can manage - to simply cut and paste and repeat the same juvenile sets of issues that are regurgitated from the Great Mentor Shepherd ?
Are you not simply buying more time for yourself to find the straws in the wind to draft another juvenile response ?
I will return you the favor by giving you - Your Chance - in not complicating the issue and stand-by my response given in which you have dutifully quoted for your response.
How much time do you need to make a relevant point-by-point rebuttal instead of hiding in a more vulnerable position of general statements and remarks that my response are lies, half-truths and half-baked ideas ?
Is there any use in this kind of impotent replies ?
One would have thought a DeerHunter will be precise with a "one-shot-one-kill" skills, but it seems that you are hunting with a buck-shot gun that spray impotent pellets hoping that at least one will prick the surface and kill the deer.
This is the act of an impotent and incapable hunter. DeerHunter, I wonder if you can even have any potency being a ''DearHunter" and even contribute a solution to LKY's small talent pool.
Cant we limited every post to just 100 words?
Originally posted by £Ä¬€Ú°:Cant we limited every post to just 100 words?
Is your intellectual capacity limited to only 100 words ?
If history can be limited to 100 words it will surely help make life simpler.
Any protest movement requires money. The government has an unjust law; just as many of their laws are unjust in favor of the government; that disallows local organizations from being funded by foreign sources. If you really think of it, this law makes no sense. I concede it is wrong to use foreign money to further foreign interests. But it is not wrong to use foreign money for the good of Singapore and to bring about democracy. 08 oct 2007
I think Singapore opposition politicians should ignore and defy Singapore law which forbids foreign funding of democratic causes in the country and they should seek the help of foreign organizations, of which there are many, to lend support to the cause of freedom in Singapore. 08 oct 2007 blog
so,i take US$,u take RMB,he take RM..
but the Masters have only one goal:
$$$in Temasek and GIC.
So u think they really care for SG democracy?Stupid!!
GPN blogs are widely read!
In defamation laws,u need not invite the victim to read
then u are liable.Otherwise,many cases
would be thrown out of court.
GPN claimed after the blogs in running for 5 months
that there were severl thousand readers!!
So,u tell me how many have read his infamous Made in Singapore
2 blogs?A no of blogs and forums announced his arrival
before he reached here,except SDP.
DPP take time to read 99.9999% Singapore-- related 300 blogs
Pity the DPP guys!If,and only if ,they need to read the blogs,
i dunt know how long they take to read,summarize,make a conclusion
and make a recommendation on EACH blog!!
Friday, June 8, 2007
This blog "Singapore Dissident" started in Dec 06, has to date more than 1600 hits, just on my profile. The hits on the blog therefore has to be much larger since those regular readers who have already seen my profile would not need to read it again. The conservative estimate therefore has to be since Dec 2006, the readership must have increased to several thousand, not bad for a span of just 5 months.
I can clearly see in the Singapore horizon, more and more protests, by Burmese, by Filipinos, by mainland Indians, by mainland Chinese, by Indonesians and of course by Singaporeans. Dr. Chee by his dogged determination has managed to bring about the culture of protest, which Singapore badly needs. We have to salute him for this.
2 oct 2007 blog
GPN just want police to create more positions to deal with protests,
and riots,better!!
There are two things that have to be done now. First since Dr. Chee is now in jail, he should not be forgotten. His sacrifice must not be seen to be in vain.
Vigils, demonstrations, protests; whether singly or in mass, does not matter; but it must be done. Honest Singaporeans must show that they protest Dr. Chee's illegal incarceration and they will tell the government that this must stop. It does not matter whether or not your protest produces immediate results. What matters is that the signal must be unmistakably sent to this overbearing government now, that what it is doing is wrong; wrong morally; wrong legally; wrong in every way possible. And you have to tell this government that you will not take this lying down anymore. For the sake of Dr. Chee who is now in prison for no fault of his own you have a duty to protest. Do it now.
4 sept 2007 blog.
Sure he is not a peace maker lah....
Saturday, August 25, 2007
Protest against annuities. Sept 8th, 2007 at 4.00 pm at Centerpoint.
http://singaporedissident.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2007-10-23T20%3A26%3A00-07%3A00&max-results=50
The more i read,the more i suspect he was staying in SG or JB when he wrote
so many Singapore--theme blogs!
He wrote 100000% more than Worker Party!!
But in fact,he seems making a wake up call to SG people
for up rising.
GPN seem dunt like make friends in SG Bench.
If u call this freedom of expression,can i spread some stories
in
Fremont, California 94538
USA
that so and so ,this and that...
Woman between 10 to 70 shall not see him wearing in skirt and alone...
Oh yes--Lies will die...
Like Hilter said:Lies when told 1000 times,will become truth.
This post was edited and changed on May 13, 2007 by Singapore Dissident.
In Singapore, as we all know, judges, registrars in all the courts in Singapore are beholden to the Lee Administration. One of their duties as judges is to ensure that they are not seen to side a political opponent lawyer, no matter how much justice is on his side, lest their masters think they are opposition sympathizers, which will invariably result in their falling off in favor, losing out on promotions and perhaps even being dismissed from their judgeships. Any judge wanting his promotions and looking forward to a peaceful and successful career in the Singapore Bench will ensure that all cases brought by opposition politician lawyers are sua sponte lost.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
Just to reassure any reader new to my
case, who may quite reasonably think after reading this blog spot that
I had actually killed 20 people in cold blood and had I not been
stopped in time, I would have butchered another 400 just for the fun of
it; please be reassured I have done nothing of the sort! All I did,
believe it or not, was to write 2 blog posts on my blog the Singapore
Dissident criticizing Judge Belinda Ang, a Singapore High Court Judge
on her conduct of a defamation case recently.
June 17, 2008, Tuesday, Singapore Cantonment Police Station.
The
time is 8.45 am. As required by the Court Order of June 16, 2008, I
appear for interrogation at the police station at 9 am. The court had
on June 16, 2008 ordered that I appear every day at 9 am at the police
station for interrogation until next month because the police claim
they are investigating further unspecified offenses.
3rd Floor of the Police station, Tuesday, June 17, 2008, 8.45 am.
At
9.04 am Assistant Superintendent of Police (officer) Mr. Razak Jakaria,
the Investigation Officer appears and takes me to an interview room.
Another officer sits in the room.
Now the officer says that I am
being investigated for an offense under Sec 4 (1) of the Sedition Act
which he deliberately stresses is a seizable offence, obviously to
threaten me into confessing something or other. He repeats that this
offense carries a maximum jail term of 3 years, to stress it's
seriousness.
The Section reads as follows: Any person who does
or attempts to do or makes any preparation to do or conspires with any
person to do any act which has or which would if done have a seditious
tendency shall be guilty of an offense and shall be liable on
conviction of a first offense to a fine not exceeding $5000.00 or to
imprisonment not exceeding 3 years or both.
After showing me the charge, he begins the questions.
This
is yet another day of U Turns by the police. You will recall the
several changes that the police have made to date on what to charge me
with. First it was an Email to Judge Ang. Another charge that I sent
Judge Lai an Email more than 2 years ago. Then the decision to drop
everything and proceed with a Sedition Charge. Then the dropping of the
Sedition Charge and charging me with insulting Judge Ang though my
blog. Now this latest version of resurrecting the Sedition charge one
more time!
Mind you, from the time of my arrest on May 31, 2008
Saturday and my detention in solitary confinement for 5 days
continuously, and despite my having been brought to court several
times, up till now the police have not formally charged me with any
single offense and neither have they taken any plea from me.
One can only assume that the police are just continuing with their roundabouts.
This
time, the officer goes back and covers the same ground he covered in
the past by showing me Emails which he claims I sent to Justice Belinda
Ang and others. As before, I again deny having sent any Emails to any
of these people.
He then produces an extract of the Criminal
Procedure Code which requires an accused or witness to allow his
computer system (I suppose including Email account) to be looked into,
when a crime is suspected and failing to allow the police to look at
it, itself becomes an offense. He then asks if I am prepared to log
into my Email account to the computer at the police station for him to
inspect the contents of my Email account.
The Singapore police
system clearly, as in this case, does not provide due process to an
accused. Here, once the police had articulated a suspicion that an
offense has been committed, regardless of whether or not they had a
single shred of evidence, they can insist that my Email account be
available for their examination; failing to provide co-operation
becoming an arrestable offense immediately.
In this case, the
police had alleged they were suspecting a crime. Since that was done, I
had no choice but to permit them to have access to my private Emails.
Of course, I did not send any emails to anyone, but knowing that since
my arrest, the police had seized my notebook containing my Email
password, there was no telling what the police would do, such as
tampering with my Emails or implanting offending Emails by themselves.
Clearly
Singaporeans do not have the right to privacy or the right to be free
from unlawful search and seizure or if they did; the police have the
right to just ignore it.
I had no choice but to permit the
officer to have access to my Email account. I had stated in my written
response that I was permitting them to have access to my Email account
under protest since it has now transpired that they or others at their
behest may have tampered with my Email account since they have produced
documents falsely accusing me of sending Emails to Judge Belinda Ang
and others. Therefor since I am to use the police computer, there may
be a strong possibility that they may have implanted offending Emails
into my email account so as to falsely accuse me of having sent them.
I
was brought down to the computer or meeting room of the Cantonment
Police Station. There were 2 photographers there. I was asked to key
into my Email account. I demanded that that they stand away while I
keyed in my password so as to avoid its detection by them. They
complied.
I was asked to open each item in my Email, namely the
Inbox, Sent, Thrash and Bulk. The police photographers took several
photographs of each page of those items. The officer then asked me to
open several of those Emails, which he read. He could find nothing
offensive or suspicious. The Emails that he had accused me of sending
to Judge Belinda Ang and others were not there, and neither were the
undeliverable messages he accused me of having received.
By this
time the interview which had stated at 9.04 am had reached 2.30pm, that
is 5 1/2 hours. Suddenly the officer disappeared and came back with a
letter from the police that I need not attend everyday at the police
station at 9am until the middle of July 2008 as ordered by the court,
and I only need to attend if I was so advised. Another U turn, you may
say.
Finally I must add how the officer uses one psychological
technique to try to wear me down. He gets another officer to sit next
to him at the computer while he works on it. The other officer then
looks at the computer as if he has discovered something incriminating
against me. Then both the officer and this other officer talk in
whispers. All this must be to intimidate me into believing that there
is something highly incriminating against me in the computer, thereby
suggesting that I come clean by confessing at the first opportunity.
This
observation, consultation and whispering between the officer and his
second, at the computer carried on not only at the interview room but
also at the computer room. I realised what they were doing and objected
to the other officer being present but the officer's stand was that it
was his office and he could do what he wanted.
It was quite
apparent to me that this constant U Turns and checking my Emails is
nothing more than a fishing expedition. Not having anything concrete,
they are going over the same ground repeatedly hoping that they will
find some contraditions in my statements; or looking into my private
Emails hoping that they could find something new to charge me with.
This sort of investigation is only done by police forces not intent on
detecting crime but rather to eliminate government opponents. These are
political police forces working for tyrants and despots, not
independent ones.
And so was wasted the whole of a very good
morning at Cantonment Police Station. I have been here now for 25 days,
since my arrival on May 26, 2008, when I should have gone back to
California on June 3, 2008, 16 days longer and still in Singapore. My
law practice is already in serious jeopardy and so is my other
financial situation. But I remain adamant in standing my ground.
Mahatma Gandhi had said, "you may imprison my body, break my bones,
even kill me, but you cannot take my spirit and my resolve. That will
remain with me till the end". Mahatma Gandhi was right.
In the
meantime, I am grateful for the massive congratulatory messages sent to
me asking me to remain strong during this difficult time. I am also
been reviving offers of help from people both in Singapore and
worldwide to whom I remain eternally grateful.
It seems the
longer I remain in Singapore, the greater the worldwide interest in my
case. It truly does appear to me, that no matter what the Singapore
government may or may not think of the right to free speech and
expression; the people of the free world do really take it very
seriously. And if Singapore is at all concerned about its standing
among the free countries in the world then it too should take it
seriously.
So I am clearly not alone in this. Good people not
only in Singapore but worldwide stand with me on this important
question of free speech and expression. And this is reassuring. Very
reassuring.
Gopalan Nair
Singapore
wah lau eh, now kangaroo court want to investigate how how transcripts and audio recordings ended up in cyberspace.
Probe into how recordings landed on SDP website
| Supreme Court says it is 'investigating the facts' | |
| By Li Xueying | |
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THE Supreme Court is investigating how transcripts and audio recordings of a recent court hearing - to assess damages to be awarded to the Prime Minister and Minister Mentor in a libel suit - ended up on the Singapore Democratic Party (SDP) website. Seven audio snippets of the May 26-28 hearing appeared on the SDP website between June 10 and June 15, according to their time stamps. Five of these focused on exchanges between SDP chief Chee Soon Juan and Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew. The other two were exchanges between Dr Chee's sister, Ms Chee Siok Chin, and Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. Also uploaded on the website were transcripts of some of the exchanges that took place when Dr Chee cross-examined MM Lee on the witness stand. Read the full report in Thursday's edition of The Straits Times. |