Racist Gopalan Nair withdraw apology & vowed to fight LKY

Poh Ah Pak SG

Ladies and Gentlemen,

The state controlled press, the Straits Times of Singapore of Dec 3, 2008, reports that 2 days after I reached American soil, I retracted any apology given in the Lee Kuan Yew controlled courts of Singapore, Court 15, Subordinate Courts, before Judge Leslie Chew.

This is correct. All apologies are retracted. So is my undertaking not to write my mind on the dire lack of human rights, the shameful lack of independence of the courts and everything else that need to be addressed. I shall also be reposting the blog posts which I was required to remove of Sept 1 and Sept 6 of 2008 in this blog.

The newspaper report states that the Singapore attorney general is looking into my turn about. My advice to the Attorney General of Singapore is to do all he can and whatever he wants. But the sad fact, for him that is, I am on American soil. America is a free country.

If he determined to make a fool of himself, extradition is what he has to consider. To do that, Singapore has to apply through diplomatic channels to register the claim in a US court. A US court would then have to consider whether what I did would be a violation of the laws in Singapore. In considering the question, they will have to look into the question whether what I did would tantamount to a crime in the United States.

It is here that Singapore would find themselves in a bind. America is a country of laws. And their judges are proud to defend those laws. Not like Singapore which uses its courts as their principle tool to silence dissent. There is no way that Singapore can even hope to succeed. But I would be glad if they tried, which would make me an even greater celebrity than what they already have made me.

Dictatorships all over the world use dirty tactics to stay in power for as long as they can. I say for as long as they can, because sooner or later they all collapse. One of these tactics is to unjustly condemn a man and then repeat that lie over and over, hoping that the lie will eventually take root.

The state controlled press report mentions that "In writing about the case on his blog, he insulted High Court judge Belinda Ang". This is a deliberate lie. This refers to my arrest and conviction for what I had written in my blog post Thursday, May 29, 2008 Singapore. Judge Belinda Ang's Kangaroo Court. The material words which the Singapore Court relied on to convicted me before Justice Kan Ting Chiu of the Supreme Court were

"The judge Belinda Ang was throughout prostituting herself during the entire proceedings, by being nothing more than an employee of Mr. Lee Kuan Yew and his son and carrying out their orders. There was murder, the rule of law being the repeated victim."

The state controlled Singapore court with its complaint judge Kan Ting Chiu found that the words "prostituting herself during the entire proceedings", among other parts of the blog post, was an insult to her.

This is completely untrue. According to Webster’s Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary, other than the usual meaning of a prostitute being a street walker, it also means

a) to devote to corrupt or unworthy purposes, debase, e.g. to prostitute one's talents b) devoted to corrupt purposes c) a person who (as a writer or painter) who deliberately debases himself or his talents (as for money).

And this was exactly what Judge Belinda Ang did during those 3 days of May 26 to May 28, 2008 in the High Court of Singapore. Reading the blog you will see that my accusation is factually correct. She unashamedly, throughout the proceedings permitted her position of a judge to be used for Lee Kuan Yew and his son's advantage; not the not the interests of the law.

And I repeat those words I said again here. She undoubtedly "prostituted herself in her position as a judge" to serve the interests of Lee Kuan Yew and his son, the Prime Minister of Singapore.

Therefore there was no insult at all. My claim is factually correct. I am lawyer and I choose my words with discretion. But whatever the truth was, did not matter to Lee Kuan Yew's agent, Judge Kan Ting Chiu that day. He finds that I insulted the judge when there was no insult at all. And now, the state controlled Straits Times picks it up and repeats that defamation again and again hoping that people will believe that I had in fact insulted the judge.

And then another lie. The report reads " Separately in July he behaved in a disorderly fashion and hurled expletives at police officers". I did no such thing.

I was accosted by 5 men claiming to be police officers who demanded to see my particulars in Little India on the July 4th 2008 at about 8.30 pm in Race Course Road, Little India, Singapore. Not knowing who they were I refused. And a little later, I was arrested. Of course, I being Gopalan Nair, and a former Singapore opposition politician, they pressed charges and came up with anything they can imagine which included an accusation that I called one of the police officers "A Malay bastard" and that I was gesticulating with my hands.

The trial took 18 days. The police officers in an orchestrated fashion recited the same lies. In fact they could have said anything they wanted, even that I had tried to kill them and the Lee controlled court of Judge James Leong presiding, Court 16, Subordinate Court would have accepted it.

But the judge James Leong having accepted the lies, and convicts me of disorderly behavior and hurling expletives at police officers, the Singapore state controlled paper picks it up and repeats that lie again and again, hoping that somehow the Singapore public would believe that I am a man who goes around hurling abuses at police officers and being disorderly in public.

The Singapore government in their eagerness to tarnish the name of anyone that criticizes them is going about this entirely the wrong way. They should realize that they have chosen the wrong man to defame and punish. I denied both the Judge Belinda Ang case and the disorderly case, which took 18 days and 8 days of trial.

They spent a great deal of money and effort. Perhaps they hoped that I would have pleaded guilty and left the country without much fuss. But my refusal to admit the charges and go to trial meant my staying in Singapore for 6 months, which was much more damaging to them.

During this long stay in Singapore, I was able to associate with Dr. Chee Soon Juan and members and activists of their party, understand the political situation in Singapore better and even assist in their political activism.

It increased awareness of may case among the Singapore public, where strangers used to come up to me and shake my hand with appreciation, my picture being on that paper almost everyday. My case received international attention with world bodies calling for my release and for the charges to be dropped. This blog overnight began to be read by almost everyone in Singapore who knew English.

All this, was not in the interests of Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore. If they had given it some thought and found out the sort of person I was, they would have done well to deport me the very day I wrote the blog. But they seem adamant to continue in their folly by their continued interest in me with their newspaper report of Dec 3, 2008.

If someone could advice the Singapore authorities and their state controlled newspaper that it is best to leave me alone for their own good. Of course I hope they would continue with this vendetta against me, because it greatly serves my purpose of exposing this regime of Lee Kuan Yew in Singapore.

The report also states "Mr. Nair was admonished, warned against launching future attacks on the judiciary and had to pay the AGC (Singapore Attorney General) $5,000.00 in legal costs."

While I was in prison, a day before my release, Francis Lim, police officer from Central Police Station came to prison and gave me a letter from the Attorney General demanding that I pay about $6,000 (inclusive of their expenses) by November 26, 2008, which was the date of my banishment from Singapore Changi Airport. You would like to know that I have not paid this and I don't intend to pay this ever. And they made no attempt to stop me from leaving!

By way of parenthesis, you would like to know that in an earlier politically motivated case which partly resulted in my leaving Singapore in 1991 for good, another contempt of court case, an election rally speech in Bukit Merah where I stood as a Workers Party candidate in that by election, I was ordered to pay the Attorney General $13,000.00 which I have refused to pay, as I was already in the US by the time they worked out the figures.

And not just that, about that time, I was suspended from practicing as a lawyer in Singapore for 2 years for writing a letter to the then Attorney General demanding that he explain himself on a matter relating to the late JB Jeyaretnam, another shameful political action, in which they worked out my liability for costs in access of, believe it or not, $150,000.00. I have not paid that either.

No other government would sit idly by when an individual mocks their court orders in this fashion. They would take every effort to go after that individual no matter where he was. But you see, the Singapore government is not any other country. All their bravado and their arrogance is only in that small island where they rule by intimidating people by abusing the law.

They leave alone anyone outside their borders because they know that they are a morally bankrupt country which will not command the respect of anyone else. Not to say that Singaporeans respect their government or their legal system, but because of fear there is nothing they can do in that prison which is called Singapore.

I would have been satisfied even if a single human being had read this. But with the wide coverage that this blog gets, and with the grapevine, Singapore will hear this and will hear my side of the story.

Many thanks.

Gopalan Nair

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Atobe SG

Does anyone think that there is any value in extracting a statement to retract all that had publicly been stated due to one's political ideology, and more so when the methods employed have been keeping an accused person under duress and harrassment for a period of more then six months ?

It must have been expected that Gopalan Nair will do what he must do when he is released, as the dishonorable methods used can only cause dishonorable reactions.

When no efforts were made to change the political ideology and engage the accused that his views are wrong, can anyone expect his long held views to be made hollow by showing him to be dishonorable by retracting his public statement ?

Those falsely accused as the 'Marxist Conspirators' in the Singapore Catholic Church had similarly retracted their "forced confessions".

Unfortunately some of these honorable people were within the reach of dishonorable people who simply forced them to retract their statement and stick to their original forced confessions.

Worst still, these honorable people continue to exist without their political rights to participate in the political life of Singapore.

Good for Gopalan Nair to be smart enough to escape the lion's den, and expose the methods of the dishonorable cats that pretend to be nothing more then noisy pussies.

oldbreadstinks SG

his letter always have words like "everyone" & "everybody" "knows" but in actual fact if this kind of thing is "everyone and everybody knows" people would start rioting liao. its like arguing over whether "legal corruption" is corruption.

Therefore there was no insult at all. My claim is factually correct. I am lawyer and I choose my words with discretion. But whatever the truth was, did not matter to Lee Kuan Yew's agent, Judge Kan Ting Chiu that day. He finds that I insulted the judge when there was no insult at all. And now, the state controlled Straits Times picks it up and repeats that defamation again and again hoping that people will believe that I had in fact insulted the judge.

even if he's factually correct he still insulted the judge and he can't even prove himself factually correct unless someone directly involved in the "prostituting" comes up to admit it in court or at least have some undeniable evidence for the "prostituting"

lionnoisy SG

It must have been expected that Gopalan Nair will do what he must do when he is released, as the dishonorable methods used can only cause dishonorable reactions.

Those falsely accused as the 'Marxist Conspirators' in the Singapore Catholic Church had similarly retracted their "forced confessions".

Unfortunately some of these honorable people were within the reach of dishonorable people who simply forced them to retract their statement and stick to their original forced confessions.

Worst still, these honorable people continue to exist without their political rights to participate in the political life of Singapore.

Good for Gopalan Nair to be smart enough to escape the lion's den, and expose the methods of the dishonorable cats that pretend to be nothing more then noisy pussies.

"I am re-posting it now. I am now in contempt of the court order of Judge Leslie Chew, Court 15, Subordinate Court, Singapore."Nair.

He is struggling to be removed back to SG!!read how he invites

AGC of SG to apply extridaction order to bring him back to SG.

The new AG is very proactive.

Few poor guys may kiss this long weekend to draft extradiction document!!

USA Dept of Justice will probably receive a request very soon.

US Marshal will knock on Nair'd door in the near future.

U will see Nair to eat curry in QRP very very soon.

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i advise Nair dunt play play.

REMOVE these reposted postings NOW!!

If he appears in SG soil,the old debts will surface.

He admitted in his latest posts.

I calculate the sum of principal and interest is well over S$300,000,

yes three hundred thousand sing dollars !!

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he challenged AGC again,as he promised!!

Post deleted(lion note--but now reposted)

This post was deleted in Queenstown Prison, Singapore, where I was serving sentence, on November 13, 2008, one day after my court hearing. The police brought a laptop computer to a table outside my cell A422, Cell Block A, Queenstown Prison, at about 11 am in the morning. There was a Chinese policewoman in plain clothes, probably a computer expert with them. I was ordered to remove this post by the prison warden, Assistant Superintendant of Prisons, G Savier, a Tamil, to comply with my undertaking to the court. I am now defying that order as I had earlier indicated. I am re-posting it now. I am now in contempt of the court order of Judge Leslie Chew, Court 15, Subordinate Court, Singapore.

Post deleted(lion note--but now reposted)

This post was deleted in Queenstown Prison, Singapore, where I was serving sentence, on November 13, 2008,............

I am re-posting it now. I am now in contempt of the court order of Judge Leslie Chew, Court 15, Subordinate Court, Singapore.----end of quote

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Will frens of Nair pl pull him back from the road to hell!!

lionnoisy SG

refresh his judgement--agc.gov.sg

Please click here for the media background brief.

Please click here to access the AG’s submissions filed with the Court on 7 November 2008.

Shotgun SG

Haiz, what do people like Gopalan expect Singaporeans to do? Take to the streets, set up barricades like Paris?

Like Edmund Burke, I believe change should come gradually, as needed...

Poh Ah Pak SG

Like Edmund Burke, I believe change should come gradually, as needed...

That's why we should support opposition to get into parliament.

oldbreadstinks SG

That's why we should support opposition to get into parliament.

are you refering to opposition politicians who are in line with public wishes or must we vote in an imbecile just to give trouble to the PAP govt?

what should be done now is to give a face to the opposition that would attract voters.

lionnoisy SG

Nair is digging deeper and deeper into QRP!!

He is insulting more Judges,ie provide more ammo to AGC !!

lionnoisy SG

Gedanken SG

Hey idiot, you think Singapore suka-suka can order the US to send Nair back to Singapore on some pissant name-calling case? First, there's no criminal matter involved and second, anybody except a blind MIW ass-kisser would question if Nair's apology was coerced, especially given Singapore's track record.

Just do us all a favour crawl and back up the arsehole you leaked out of, will ya? You're stinking up the place.

parn SG

Sometimes TS need to have a voice of it's own.

Everytime cut and paste people's comments and trying to stir up any anti-government or rebellious emotions among the people in sgforums is super duper lame.

Even if TS acted like he know those people whose comments he has posted, but those people doesn't know TS....and ended up making TS looking like a mad dog barking in a corner without an owner.

This kind of topic have absolutely no value at all, and hopefully TS will behave smarter and post something of credible value so we can all participate genuinely and not waste our time chasing after walls and walls of texts.

TS, get smart please.

Gedanken SG

and ended up making TS looking like a mad dog barking in a corner without an owner.

Whaddaya mean "look like"?

Shotgun SG

I wonder what is LN like in person... hahaha

walesa SG

"I am re-posting it now. I am now in contempt of the court order of Judge Leslie Chew, Court 15, Subordinate Court, Singapore."Nair.

He is struggling to be removed back to SG!!read how he invites

AGC of SG to apply extridaction order to bring him back to SG.

The new AG is very proactive.

Few poor guys may kiss this long weekend to draft extradiction document!!

USA Dept of Justice will probably receive a request very soon.

US Marshal will knock on Nair'd door in the near future.

U will see Nair to eat curry in QRP very very soon.

@@@@@@@@@@

i advise Nair dunt play play.

REMOVE these reposted postings NOW!!

If he appears in SG soil,the old debts will surface.

He admitted in his latest posts.

I calculate the sum of principal and interest is well over S$300,000,

yes three hundred thousand sing dollars !!

@@@@@@@@@@

he challenged AGC again,as he promised!!

Post deleted(lion note--but now reposted)

This post was deleted in Queenstown Prison, Singapore, where I was serving sentence, on November 13, 2008,............

I am re-posting it now. I am now in contempt of the court order of Judge Leslie Chew, Court 15, Subordinate Court, Singapore.----end of quote

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Will frens of Nair pl pull him back from the road to hell!!

Do you for a moment think your beloved regime's AGC's immunity from being able to frivolously carry out nonsensical orders extends beyond its borders?

Or do you actually regard the AGC's jurisdiction encompassing the world?

lionnoisy SG

Do you for a moment think your beloved regime's AGC's immunity from being able to frivolously carry out nonsensical orders extends beyond its borders?

Or do you actually regard the AGC's jurisdiction encompassing the world?

I know AGC cant do much on Nair.

AGC is waiting one day,the aeroplane Nair is travelling is forced to land

in Changi for any technical reason.Then Nair can be detained to pay

for his price,including but not limited to

If he appears in SG soil,the old debts will surface.

He admitted in his latest posts.

I calculate the sum of principal and interest is well over S$300,000,

yes three hundred thousand sing dollars !!

The above refer to his debts to AGC and Law Society!!

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