Ladies and Gentlemen,
The standoff between the democracy activists and the Singapore
Island dictatorship of Lee Kuan Yew continues. There are 19 human
rights activists who are now on trial in Lee Kuan Yew's courts for
staging a peaceful protest, the "Ta Boleh Tahan" (meaning we cannot
take it anymore) in 2006 in front of Singapore's make believe
Parliament. Except for 3 of the 19 who pleaded guilty for personal
reasons, the rest remain defiant in their determination not to
succumb and give this government a run for their money.
Lee Kuan Yew's ever willing Attorney General Walter Woon finds
himself in a quandary. With the earlier trials against other
peaceful protesters which had all backfired resulting in the
government getting very bad publicity throughout the world for
human rights violations for jailing peaceful protesters, they find
the prospect of sending these 16 peaceful protesters to jail in
this case would tarnish their already damaged reputation even
further. Lee Kuan Yew's enforcer, Walter Woon would rather let all
these protesters go for damage control if they would only plead
guilty, but they are simply refusing to budge.
In the meantime, with this government not knowing what to do, they
keep postponing the case, as if they rather keep the day of
reckoning as far away as possible. As for these brave young men and
women, they on their part refuse to let up, no matter how long the
government keeps postponing the case. And the one that actually
suffers the most are the island's taxpayers, as their money is
being wasted in this totally unnecessary court case which simply
refuses to end.
The message from this case should be very clear. This dictatorship
has finally realized that there is a very high price to pay in the
damage to their international image if they are seen repeatedly to
throw peaceful protesters in jail. Each time they do it, it is
picked up by the international press who relish the opportunity to
paint this government in as bad a light as they can; not
surprisingly since Lee Kuan Yew repeatedly sues them in his courts
for no rime or reason.
In this standoff between Singapore's human rights activists and Lee
Kuan Yew, Mr. Lee appears now to be suffering from prosecution
fatigue. He is now beginning to realize that abusing the law to
jail peaceful protesters does not appear to deliver the desired
results. Too many of these
prosecutions against these innocent men and women tends to be
counter productive, it angers the general public which see the
government as bullies who go about punishing innocent
victims.
One example is the recent arrest of human rights activist Seelan
Pallay and Kai Xiong who had demonstrated in front of the ministry
of Manpower about 4 months ago, in support of Burmese nationals who
were being deported. It appears that until today, the police have
not taken any action against them, since nothing has been reported
in the press. So finally, this government has seen the light, it
seems. Prosecuting them and sending
them to jail would only tend to show this government even further
as the ruthless intolerant fascist government that it
is.
At the present moment, this government finds itself hard put to
charge anyone for any new peaceful protest incidents. They appear
to have learnt their lesson finally which is, it hurts their image
more to abuse the law repeatedly. There comes a point where
fear turns to hate, and that is the point which this dictatorship
has reached.
So with the standoff now ongoing with these human rights activists
and this dictatorship which relies on fear to stay in power, I feel
that from this point on, Singapore's freedom fighters have the
upper hand in peaceful protests. This government has finally become
powerless. So seize the moment. I think you have the upper hand
now.
Gopalan Nair
http://singaporedissident.blogspot.com/2009/06/
Ladies and Gentlemen,
Singapore Stadium.
Singapore heavyweight boxing match of 10000 rounds. In this
corner weighing 2000lbs the undefeated Singapore island national
champions for the last 50 years:
1. Lee Kuan Yew the dictator who governs through fear
2. His son, the Prime Minister, Lee's sidekick
3. Lee Kuan Yew's minions, Wong Kan Seng, Vivian Balakrishnan
etc.
4. His other minions, the PAP Members of Parliament etc.
In the other corner weighing 10,000 lbs,
1. Dr. Chee Soon Juan, political opposition leader who stands for
truth justice and democracy
2. His supporters and political activists
3. Gopalan Nair from Fremont, California
4. The majority of Signaporeans who oppose the dictator's rule,
standing for freedom and justioce
5. The thousands of Singaporeans abroad who are waiting for the
dictator's regime to collapse
6. The interantional media who are dying for every oppurtuunity
to expose the fascist regime.
7. The thousands of human rights organizations abroad who daily
expose the truth about Siganpore from under the veneer of
respectibility
8. The local and interantional blogging community who fight to
expose this distatorship.
Who do you think will win?
Gopalan Nair
http://singaporedissident.blogspot.com/2009/06/
