Ladies and Gentlemen,
The respected Foreign Policy Magazine, Washington DC Magazine of May 07, 2010, has voted Gopalan Nair one of the "World's Top Dissidents". Among others voted are Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma; Simar Samer, Afghanistan; Arnold Tsunga, Zimbabwe; Anwar Ibrahim, Malaysia; Shirin Ebadi, Iran; and Gopalan Nair, Singapore.
This is what Foreign Policy Magazine said about Gopalan Nair, Singapore:
Gopalan Nair: Nair, a former opposition politician, is known throughout Singapore's embattled blogosphere for his fierce promotion of human rights and blunt criticism of founding leader and current "minister mentor" Lee Kuan Yew.
In September 2008, Nair was sentenced to three months in jail for defaming a judge in a blog entry.
On March 6, he published a hoax post on his blog indicating that Lee had suffered a heart attack and had been brought to Singapore General Hospital. Nair's motive?
It was, he says, "a deliberate attempt to highlight how tenuous Singapore really is, with all power in the island vested in one man, and the dire consequences to the island of his parting.
And especially so as [Lee] is 87." Nair lives in California and has been a U.S. citizen since 2004.
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/05/07/the_worlds_top_dissidents?page=0,6
Gopalan Nair
http://singaporedissident.blogspot.com/2010/11/foreign-policy-magazine-votes-gopalan.html
Somehow Goplan Nair doesn't have a good rep with local oppositions, he didn't really endear himself to the public with his infamous LKY hoax, but I would say any helping hands to screw the PAPist should be welcome, especially if he could direct some of that media attention back to local opposition, that would be welcome also.
They didnt report on how he challenged LKY to arrest him and when that happened, his balls shrunk and apologised. Then he fled back to California and started bitching again. CLOWN.