Do I need to cast any aspersion on
the independence of our judiciary ?
Just put some of the
political decision of our judiciary to any independent legal
panel of international jurist - and we should be able to get a
neutral and indpendent opinion that will clarify this
question.
The 1992 Privy Council decision to
overturn the highest Singapore of Appeal that was presided by the
Chief Justice had found the decision to be flawed, and upheld a
lower court decision by District Judge Michael Khoo to be
correct.
LKY had publicly stated in his
challenge to JBJ that he will seek a Presidential Pardon for JBJ if
the Privy Council were to find him clean of all those political
charges.
The Privy Council did find the
charges and judgment to be in error, and LKY renegaded on his very
public statement to JBJ.
The hypocrisy of it all was that
LKY pushed through a bill to remove the Privy Council from being
the final arbiter in Singapore Judicial System - claiming that
it was out of touch with Singapore's values and culture - when
he was also the very person to INSIST keeping the Privy
Council to ensure high standard of judicial decision and
practices.
What has values and culture have
to do with the sense of justice.
The absurdity of his reason simply
rapes human logic.
Has LKY any respect for the
Singapore Laws or is he above the Laws that he initiated simply to
secure his own political relevance and power in Singapore
?
At his slightest whim he will have
Chia Thye Poh, Lim Chin Siong, and ex-member of the PAP to be
incarcerated for daring to differ and challenge from his
political ideals and agenda.
‘Chia Thye Poh’ - was
incarcerate for over 24 years, and to Chia's credit he managed to
resist the regular taunting by his political tormentors to
withstand their efforts to tempt him with freedom - if only he
will submit an admission to LKY's charge that Chia was
advocating a "Communist armed revolution to overthrow a
legitimately elected government of Singapore".
Yet without getting Chia's written
admission to LKY's accusation, Chia Thye Poh was released from
being incarcerate under the ISA - which was surprising as Chia was
considered to be more potent a threat than the members of the
Social Wing of the Singapore Catholic Church - who were
similarly accused by LKY to be members of an under-ground
Communist cell attempting to inflitrate the Catholic Churhc in
the same manner as the events in the Philippines and Latin America
had developed.
24 years of Chia's life was wasted
and released as a pauper, while LKY lived in the comfort of the
Istana, consolidated his own political position and
passed a legislation for the Million Dollar Wages - that
he need as a crutch to prevent corruption amongst his appointees as
Ministers.
If LKY had given the minimum
justice to his political challengers, he would have been as
deserving as the amount of justice that he dispenses to his
political opponents.
Has he not arbitrarily become the
accuser, prosecutor and judge of all whom he see as challenging
threats to his political fortunes and that of his successors
?
Do I need to slander LKY, or has
the facts of the events that had transpired not true ?
Will LKY dare to submit himself to
an International Court of Justice to redeem himself and the
Singapore Judiciary of wrong doings, wrong judgments - all of which
goes against the grain of human decency ?
it is in such oppressive
circumstance that you have conscientious individuals like CSJ,
Gopalan, Francis Seow, Tan Liang Hong, Robert Ho, daring to butt
head with LKY - and there are similar individuals that appear in
the Communist Soviet Union, China, East Germany, Communist Poland,
Communist Czekoslovakia, Communistg Hungary, Communist Georgia,
Myanmar and all the other societies and communities that are
subjected to oppressive rule.
Their methods maybe disputable,
but their goals remain the same - and that is to seek more space
for the Citizens, and return to the Citizens the dignity of
deciding for themselves their political future - in the same manner
as the First World Citizens of Switzerland.
Then again, what will a juvenile
DeerHunter know, or even attempt to understand when all he sees is
through the narrow myopic vision of his telescope
?
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.
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'.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
