Gopalan Nair in Singapore:Judge Belinda Ang's Kangaroo Court

last SG · 2008-05-30T23:19:24+00:00

First world western countries also arrest bloggers which made racistsremarks etcI quote the case are not to defend SG 's arrests,past orpresent or future.Jus...

maurizio13 SG

Good, now we have one more martyr to expose how dishonorable the despots in Singapore are....

...like one student told me, if people get arrested for insulting public servants, most of the students would be in jail for insulting their teachers....

I think LKY doesn't have facts to win his defamation suit against him, that's why he has to resort to charging him on insults to public servants, next will be jaywalking, littering, talking in public, not flushing toilet after use.

I think as the years weighs down on him, his testicles once descended during his teenage years has ascended back to whence it came from.

maurizio13 SG

My deepest appreciation and salutation to Gopalan Nair, for showing to the world the kind of democracy that is practised here.

Rock^Star SG

When are you going to die huh?

Whose clone is this? Jibberish.

eagle SG

Whose clone is this? Jibberish.

Gazelle's clone

Previous accounts were Love Supreme, TCH05, Chinkara, Gutturosa, Mammalia

This pathetic creature is currently using Aelop to troll around

Rock^Star SG

Gazelle's clone

Previous accounts were Love Supreme, TCH05, Chinkara, Gutturosa, Mammalia

This pathetic creature is currently using Aelop to troll around

lol....Have I lost touch or what? Since when has Gazelle, the brilliant horse wannabe, had to hide in the shadows of clones?

Love supreme....Mammalia....lol.

And who can forget Mat Toro? The one who has perfected the art of tai-ji and he who sweeps all arguments under the carpet like Picasso's deft flick of his brush.

Hats off to them! lol....

eagle SG

ya la... you lost touch

i see him like the filthy, grimy, greedy creature in lord of the rings... forgot the name only...

maurizio13 SG

ya la... you lost touch

i see him like the filthy, grimy, greedy creature in lord of the rings... forgot the name only...

Gollum or Smeagol?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gollum

eagle SG

Gollum or Smeagol?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gollum

yep

Let's call him gollum

HyperFocal SG

source: http://aussgworldpolitics.wordpress.com/2008/06/01/did-goplan-nair-threaten-belinda-ang/

Did Goplan Nair threaten Belinda Ang?
Posted by Charles on June 1, 2008

According to Channel News Asia, the Singapore police has recently arrested a former Singaporean for sending ‘insulting statements to a public servant’ to the Attorney General and the Solicitor General. The allegedly offensive statement has also been posted on his blog (Channel News Asia, 2008).

A quick search online in Singapore Statutes throw up one possible offense that the police might prosecute him under - The Penal Code, Chapter 10 - Contempts of the Lawful Authority of Public Servants - Section 189, ‘Threat of injury to a public servant’ which states that:

Whoever holds out any threat of injury to any public servant, or to any person in whom he believes that public servant to be interested, for the purpose of inducing that public servant to do any act, or to forbear or delay to do any act, connected with the exercise of the public functions of such public servant, shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to 2 years, or with fine, or with both (Singapore Statutes, n.d.).

In his latest post, ‘Singapore. Judge Belinda Ang’s Kangaroo Court’, Nair claims that the court has been misappropriated for political means (Nair 2008). However, any references to the judge, Belinda Ang, cannot be deemed as threatening to the public servant. For the purpose of a closer examination, we have reproduced any references to Belinda Ang which was found in his blog posting:

1. ‘your stooge of a judge, Belinda Ang’;
2. ‘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’;
3. ‘right out of the pages of Alice in Wonderland with Belinda Ang playing the role of the Queen of Hearts before the trial of the Mouse who stole the Tarts very well indeed’;
4. numerous references to her as the ‘kangaroo judge’;
5. ‘and the judge obediently sustained the objection’;
6. ‘ Of course the judge permitted these insults, since after all Lee Kuan Yew and his son owned the courts and the judge as well’;

While it is true that in his posting, he accuses the court and the judge of political persecution, sometimes using language that might be deemed as offensive, there was no hint or openly declared threat to cause any injury to the public servant. This is a clear distinction that one should keep in mind.

While it is true that he had openly declared his address, name and laid down a challenge for the Senior Minister to serve him with a writ of summons, there are still no plausible grounds for the arrests.

Given that the Singapore law society has recently announced its intentions to lobby for the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to be incorporated into the law books, it should seek to represent Mr Nair if the police decides to press ahead with charges. There is no time to be lost given the authorities have said they will put him on trial by Monday.

lionnoisy SG

Is (Was)he currently really a ''Barrister, Inner Temple, London''?as claimed in

http://www.us-immigrationlaw.com/att.html

pl read

http://www.innertemple.org.uk/archive/itad/glossary.html

http://www.innertemple.org.uk/archive/itad/legal_profession.html

http://www.us-immigrationlaw.com/att.html

Did he violate Social Visit Pass?

I assume he was issued a SVP for short term visit.

He said in his blog that he would stay in SG for one week.

But he attended court for 4 days.

He even asked people in public gallery to join SDP and critized

SG gavaman inside court room.

What did he do outside court room besides sending e mails?

What is the purposed of posting phone no.,besides keeping

in touch with old friends?

He blogs after getting US citizenship

He became US citizen in 2005 and started blog at the end of 2006.

http://singaporedissident.blogspot.com/

Is he a quitter or a smart guy in politics?

I think i have more respect on Chees now,

after learning his history.

He just hides behind the Uncle Sam flag and throwing stones

to his ex--country.

Very few US people will pity for him than Michael Faye.

He is an adult and a learned lawyer.

Shall he have to answer to CA Bar Association?

lionnoisy SG

In response to media queries, Police confirmed that we have arrested a person on 31 May 2008 at Broadway Hotel, Serangoon Road for the offence of “threatening, abusing or insulting a public servant”. The person is identified as Gopalan Pallichadath Nair, a former Singaporean who is now a US citizen.

A warrant of arrest without bail was granted by the courts for the arrest.

Nair is believed to have sent an email to the Attorney-General and the Solicitor-General which contained statements amounting to such an offence. These statements were directed against Justice Belinda Ang, a judge of the Singapore Supreme Court. These statements were also posted on Nair’s blog.

Nair is presently in Police custody. He will be produced in court on 2 June 2008 .

lionnoisy SG

He was released on bail for $5K and passport impounded.

can anyone tell me when and where the case will be mentioned?

lionnoisy SG

This man should have regretted that gave up

SG citizenship.He liked develop SG democracy very much.

BUT HE IS AND STILL A QUITTER.

BECAUSE OF HIM,NOW I RESPECT CHEES MORE THAN BEFORE.

Read the front page of his blog:

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.
Posted by Gopalan Nair at

lionnoisy SG

THIS LEARNED LAWYER WAS hand cuffed in front

this morning.He sat inside in dock for one and half hours.

balance_else_complacent SG

This man should have regretted that gave up

SG citizenship.He liked develop SG democracy very much.

BUT HE IS AND STILL A QUITTER.

BECAUSE OF HIM,NOW I RESPECT CHEES MORE THAN BEFORE.

Read the front page of his blog:

Can you define what you mean by the word quitter?

By saying that are you not scolding all those who left?

Can you be sued for defamation?

Just asking lah.

since nowsadays so many sue here sue there.

As you can see, I very innocent about this aspect.

Hope you can enlightenment me.

I guess it depends on who you are and animal farm?

lionnoisy SG

Can you define what you mean by the word quitter?

By saying that are you not scolding all those who left?

Can you be sued for defamation?

Just asking lah.

since nowsadays so many sue here sue there.

As you can see, I very innocent about this aspect.

Hope you can enlightenment me.

I guess it depends on who you are and animal farm?

lion's answer:

A quitter is one who quits from a fight.

Worse,one,like our learned lawyer here,return to arena AND SHOUTS,

''Fight with me!''unforuntely,he is not qualified to fight lah.

2.He will spend a good 7 days in custody to write a scripts for him

to shout in his next trip outside the high wall of arena .

http://sg.news.yahoo.com/rtrs/20080602/tap-singapore-lawyer-c3bb44c.html

The court documents showed Nair's email said "judge Belinda Ang was throughout prostituting herself during the entire proceedings".

lionnoisy SG

June 2, 2008

Gopalan Nair, 58, an ex-Workers' Party member who is now a US citizen living in California, was arrested in Singapore on Saturday and charged on Monday with insulting Justice Belinda Ang, who presided over the libel case brought by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew against Singapore Democratic Party (SDP) leader Chee Soon Juan and his sister, Siok Chin.

He is being remanded for one more week as the authorities said they needed to investigate further, Nair's lawyer Chia Ti Lik told told reporters on Monday.

He is due back in court next Monday.

'We can confirm that Gopalan Nair, a US citizen, was arrested on May 31,' a US embassy spokesman said, adding that 'we are monitoring the case closely'.

According to a court document, Nair is charged with insulting Justice Belinda Ang Saw Ean last Thursday by sending an email.

Mr Chia said the comments in the email essentially repeated those Nair made in a recent blog about a defamation case filed by PM Lee and MM Lee against the Chee siblings and SDP.

In the blog, Nair strongly criticised a three-day legal hearing last week to assess damages in the defamation suit.

In another post on his blog on Saturday, Nair taunted authorities, saying he was in Singapore at a particular hotel, and also gave his phone number.

'I am now within your jurisdiction...What are you going to do about it?' Nair wrote.

If convicted, Nair faces a fine of up to S$5,000 or one year in prison. -- AFP.

http://www.straitstimes.com/Latest+News/Courts+and+Crime/STIStory_243607.html

lionnoisy SG

This US lawyer was charged under:

http://statutes.agc.gov.sg/

Threatening, abusing or insulting public servant
13D. —(1) Any person who in a public place or in a private place —(a) uses any indecent, threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour towards a public servant in the execution of his duty as such public servant;

Why he always get into trouble with law society/bar association in SG and US

Found guility in 1992 in SG for serious mis-conduct.He went to Calif,US before suspended from practice for 2 years.He had fore sight lah...

Pl read my posting in this thread for his little disciplinary action by

CA Bar Association .

Twist and turn in Bail gave him a bigger blow than NO Bail at all

I cant say Prosecution played him.This twist and turn of

deny of bail in the end sure gave him a bigger blow

than No Bail from the very beginning.

This false hope just take away a portion of his will.

Who asks him to challenge and test the efficiency of SG judiciary system?

THis system have been always rated one of the top in the world and improved

a lot since he left.

His Catch me if you can challenge land him in jail.

One blog sent in SG soil is more than enough.But two blogs....

I still think he never think SG use the national judiciary machine

to fix or catch him.

How can a ex--Singaporean,with a colorful history here.

createa blog ''Singapore Dissident'' after he became US citizen,calling people

http://singaporedissident.blogspot.com/

Hey.It is SG domestic affairs?Has he been paid to do all these things?

2.He just keep talking in SG court room

The court video recordings will show his political speech

in the public gallery in The Supreme Court of Singapore!!

He was stopped by Police in public gallery at least once.

3.I respect CSJ 100 % more after i know of this quitter story

lionnoisy SG

here is his history in SG:

sources:

http://presspedia.journalism.sg/doku.php?id=cases:1991

today 03 jun 2008 STime shard copy reported he faxed

his letters and AG's reply letters to law officers in SG,among other

things,and get suspended after he migrated to US.

$21,000 could get u half of a new HDB 90 m2 or called 4 --room flat

(3 bed roms and 2 baths, ) in early 1990's.

lionnoisy SG

This news report told u what did he do in court:

TODAY 02 jun 2008 on line news has limited life span.Therefore,i post here.

http://www.todayonline.com/articles/257269.asp

Former S’porean Gopalan charged

2.HE IS JUST TOO STUPID AND OVER--ESTIMATE

HIS US CITIZENSHIP

he wrote in below:(dunt sue me,these words are not defamatory)

FYI,SG police press release of his arrest timed 11.30pm Saturday.

i dunt know if SG official will bear his one blog.

But i think they cant bear 2 blogs.

AG and SG and other officials wil face music if they receive the mails

personally and they dunt look into it.

They can just pretend not aware of his blogs if no mail sent to them.

Did he think SG dare not take action against him in SG soil

just because he is a Yankee?

Did he think SG just send him Writ of Summon after he reachs US?

In his 2 blogs,he just challenged Lees to sue him,

but not arrest him.May be he think he is UN--TOUCHABLE!!

May be he just expect to receive Writ of Summon,but never think

of receiving handcuffs!!

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