Just to keep you all known of this issue. In SG, we usually
listen to one sided stories but did it occur to you to listen to
another side so as to be fair? As you all know, our news media,
SPH, is controlled by the govt. Do we have minds so shallow as to
listen to whatever it was reported in our local news?
Below is the blog of Gopalan Nair. He attended the court session
between CSJ and LKY+SON. And also, his "dared" with LKY and the
issues with Belinda Ang.
http://singaporedissident.blogspot.com/
Letter to challenge LKY
Ladies and Gentlemen,
I am Gopalan Nair. Today is May 31, 2008 at
10.40am Singapore time. I am at present in Singapore at Broadway
Hotel, Room 708, 195 Serangoon Road,
Singapore, 218067. The hotel telephone number is is 62924661. My
local SingTel telephone number is
83764236.
In my last blog post, I had narrated the shameful spectacle of Lee
Kuan Yew and his Prime Minister son abusing
the legal system for their political ends through their lawyer
Davinder Singh and a compliant judge, both
compliant and suppliant to Lee Kuan Yew's
demands to abuse the law, Belinda Ang, to
punish his political opponents Dr. Chee Soon
Juan and Chee Siok
Chin.
I repeat the threat that Lee Kuan Yew had
made on day two of the show trial during the last 3 days in the
High Court. When asked by Dr. Chee whether he
will sue those who write on the Internet
defamations against him, I mean defamations in the Singaporean
sense, his definitive unequivocal answer was that he will sue them.
There is no doubt in the Singaporean sense, I have defamed him and
his Prime Minister son, not only in my last blog post but in almost
all my blog posts since my blog's inception in December 2006.
My posts have attracted great popular interest throughout Singapore
and has been repeatedly and widely re-posted throughout the island
in other blogs and political forums. A wide section and spectrum of
Singaporeans have read them and interest in them increases daily.
And as Lee Kuan Yew has himself said with
both bravado and gusto, a lie has to be nailed because otherwise
through dissemination
people who matter, Singapore citizens, will begin to take it
seriously.
Mr. Lee Kuan Yew, you have called Dr.
Chee a liar, a cheat, a scoundrel, a criminal
and various other abusive epithets. Let me tell Mr. Lee
Kuan Yew that these words that you have
uttered apply to you and your son, not to Dr. Chee Soon Juan.
Not only in my mind but in the minds of countless Singaporeans, Lee
Kuan Yew and his Prime Minister son are men
so weak that the only way they can stay in power is through fear
and intimidation of their citizens through the abuse of legal
process and other shameful means.
Mr. Lee Kuan Yew, look here. I am now within
your jurisdiction and that of your corrupt police and your corrupt
judiciary who will do anything you want of them, however criminal
and illegal.
What are you going to do about it?
Gopalan Nair
Broadway Hotel
Singapore
May 31, 2008
Issues with Belinda Ang
Ladies and Gentlemen,
This is Gopalan Nair in Singapore today, May 29, 2008. I have been
in Singapore since May 25, 2008, and staying now at Broadway Hotel,
Room 708, 195 Serangoon Road, Singapore 218067.
I am deliberately stating my identity and my present exact location
for a definite purpose. On day 2 of the trial in Singapore, day
before yesterday, in the Lee Kuan Yew and son verses Dr. Chee Soon
Juan case, Lee senior had said in answer to a question by Dr. Chee,
that if he, Lee Kuan Yew, knew the identity of bloggers in
cyberspace who defamed him (defamation being used of course in the
Singaporean sense), he will sue and bankrupt them.
He had earlier sidestepped the question by saying, that he had
difficulty suing critics of his in the Internet because their
identities were not usually known. When pressed, he categorically
and deliberately stated that he will sue if they made known their
identities.
Well, what you are going to read should be without question
defamatory of Mr. Lee and his son, that is in the warped and hare
brained Alice in Wonderland meaning of the word "defamation". It
will be interesting to see if this Singapore strongman, Lee Kuan
Yew and son, who strut around the small island of Singapore
bullying everyone who so much as criticized, will sue me now for
calling him nothing more than a small time street bully; since now,
we have myself Gopalan Nair who has the temerity to identify
himself and state his presence with full address in
Singapore.
Mr. Lee Kuan Yew, see here. I am now within the jurisdiction of
your courts; I repeat, "the jurisdiction of your courts" because
literally they are your courts, willing to commit any crime or
injustice you will demand of them.
During the last 3 days of the court hearing, up till yesterday, in
the High Court, before your stooge of a judge, Belinda Ang in Court
4, you and your Prime Minister son conducted yourselves as
expected, no better than cowards hiding behind the coat tails of
your equally cowardly counsel doubling up as a PAP politician in
court; who managed with the full co-operation of the said judge to
ensure that you came to court merely for form, refusing to answer
almost all questions that went directly to your integrity or rather
the lack of it.
After the end of the 3 days in court, it left no doubt in my mind
that you and your son are indeed what international human rights
organizations say you are, nothing more than tin pot tyrants who
remain in power by abusing the courts to eliminate your political
opponents. You are clearly corrupt, as is your government, because
paying yourself $3.7 million is corruption pure and simple and in
the end you have lost all credibility and moral authority to govern
Singapore.
The following transpired during the last 3 days in court. 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 issue in the said court was the determination of the quantum of
damages payable by the innocent victim, Dr. Chee Soon Juan who had
earlier been found liable by this judge for defamation of character
of Mr. Lee and son, where the law was once again abused through the
contrivance of a process known as summary proceedings, thereby
disallowing Dr. Chee to produce any witnesses or to cross-examine
those of Mr. Lee because there were none.
The said 3 day of hearing before the court was nothing more than a
mockery of justice; a charade, a make believe that appeared 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. It almost appeared that she was
going to dispense with all testimony and come straight to the
verdict of guilty so as not to waste her valuable time!
It would be fair to say, in fact an understatement, that in effect
she disallowed Dr. Chee any effective cross examination of either
the father Lee Kuan Yew or the son, as Mr. Singh, their counsel was
almost having a workout like in a gym; standing up to object, and
sitting down after almost each and every question that Dr. Chee put
to his father and son clients. In fact Singh was popping up and
down almost without let up during the several hours of the hearing
so much so, that someone suggested to me that it would have been a
good idea if he remained standing throughout the case to facilitate
his expected objections at each and every question of Dr.
Chee.
If Dr. Chee did manage to ask even one question, it was because he
went ahead and asked it despite the objection of both Mr. Singh and
the judge because if he did not, he would not have been able to ask
any questions at all!
Dr. Chee has asked Lee's son how much he was being paid, that is
$3.7 million, 6 times what George Bush is paid! Question disallowed
and the son shamefully just sits there, protected by his counsel
Mr. Singh and the kangaroo judge.
Chee asks whether it is just for him to corruptly steal this amount
of taxpayer's money while the poor in the 1 room flats starve
without any financial assistance! Question disallowed and the son
shamefully just sits there, protected by his counsel Mr. Singh and
the kangaroo judge.
Chee asks why the GIC and HDB function under a shroud of secrecy
without any transparency, when the moneys in them is taxpayers
money? Question disallowed and the son shamefully just sits there,
protected by his counsel Mr. Singh and the kangaroo judge.
Chee asks whether he knew that those who read the Internet
overwhelmingly hated him as a tyrant and a bully and the only ones
singing praises in his name are the Singapore state owned and
controlled media? Question disallowed and the son shamefully just
sits there, protected by his counsel Mr. Singh and the kangaroo
judge.
Chee asks whether the international community looks at him no
better than a despot and a father's son? Question disallowed and
the son shamefully just sits there, protected by his counsel Mr.
Singh and the kangaroo judge.
Chee had asked this Lee Kuan Yew's son why he said in the 2006
elections that " if there were more opposition candidates at
elections, he will have to "fix" them and bribe his voters to win
elections"? Question disallowed and the son shamefully just sits
there, protected by his counsel Mr. Singh and the kangaroo
judge.
There were many more questions put to him just as the above
questions, all very relevant, which, had they been answered, would
have shown that he had no integrity or reputation whatsoever, and
since integrity and reputation are the issues in deciding quantum
of damages, Lee Kuan Yew's son should have been awarded no damages
at all; that is provided we have an independent judiciary, which we
have not.
Any honest spectator in the court's gallery would have come away
with one opinion alone, that is, this man is Prime Minister only
because he happens to be the son of his father. If he really wanted
to show that he was in fact in control, he could have easily told
his lawyer to stop being the Jack in the Box and stop popping up
and down with his objections and let him handle the questions. At
each question, he was looking meekly at his counsel to see whether
he has to answer it. If I could put it in a simple way, he was
nothing more than a helpless boy.
The following refer to Lee Kuan Yew's testimony or rather the lack
of it.
Chee asked him whether he came to power through unfair means in
1959, as shown by declassified British Colonial Office documents in
London? Question disallowed and the father shamefully just sits
there, protected by his counsel Mr. Singh and the kangaroo
judge.
Chee asks about his throwing Lim Chin Siong, his political
compatriot, in jail under the ISA in solitary confinement for
several years in the 1960s and whether this was a sign of a man
with a reputation and integrity? Question disallowed and the father
shamefully just sits there, protected by his counsel Mr. Singh and
the kangaroo judge.
Chee asks about the Operation Cold Store in the 1960s where he
jails political opponents because he fears he might be overthrown?
Question disallowed and the father shamefully just sits there,
protected by his counsel Mr. Singh and the kangaroo judge.
Chee asks about Chia Thye Poh, Zaid Zakaharia and Lim Hock Siew,
his political opponents whom he imprisons without cause for many
many years? Question disallowed and the father shamefully just sits
there, protected by his counsel Mr. Singh and the kangaroo
judge.
Chee asks whether the only people who have a good opinion of him
are his state owned and controlled Singapore press, whereas
everyone else in Singapore as well as the entire list of
respectable foreign organizations and countries including the
entire European Union consider him as a thug and small time street
bully? Question disallowed and the father shamefully just sits
there, protected by his counsel Mr. Singh and the kangaroo
judge.
Other than the dubious Transparency International Kula Lumpur
Chapter (not to be confused with Transparency International of
Berlin Germany) he was asked whether anyone else considered him in
high regard other than the local press which he controls? His
answer was that PERC and a Swiss organization, both of whom cater
for businessmen thought highly of him. But when asked whether
highly respected Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Lawyers
Without Borders, Reporters without Borders, ILRW and several other
international bodies considered him a crook; he had nothing to say,
because as usual the Jack Rabbit Davinder Singh stood up once again
to object and the judge obediently sustained the objection.
Then Lee Kuan Yew went on to insult Dr. Chee with impunity, that he
is a liar, a cheat a charlatan, a criminal and what not. Of course
the judge permitted these insults, since after all Lee Kuan Yew and
his son owned the courts and the judge as well.
These court proceeding were nothing more than a sham, a charade and
a mockery of justice. It was very clear that both father and son
had no integrity or credibility whatsoever. They were ruling
Singapore through fear and those who are able to leave the country
leave it in droves, only to be replaced by Mandarin speaking
immigrants from the Peoples Republic of China who speak no English
at all.
If there was one result of these proceedings it was this. Dr. Chee'
impeccable reputation was vindicated. He came out of these
proceedings truly as the statesman that he is, and he demolished
these two petty thugs Lee and his son, perhaps not in this
Singapore kangaroo court, but truly in the court of truth and
conscience.
And in fact despite the objection of Mr. Singh and Belinda Ang, Dr.
Chee Soon Juan did manage to say to both father and son, that
regardless of what the court decides, in the court of natural
justice, in the court of truth and in the court of moral
conscience, they had that day lost all moral authority to govern
Singapore.
I believe, not only me, but every single person who walked away
from that courthouse yesterday came away with that same
judgment.
As the Lees know, I am a lawyer practicing in Fremont California
and a member of the California Bar. My question to Lee Kuan Yew and
his son is this. Are you going to stand by your threat and sue me
for defamation as well? I am presently physically within your
jurisdiction and the jurisdiction of your kangaroo courts. Are you
going to going to send your process server to me with your writ of
summons? Or are you, as expected, all talk and no action, when you
meet those not afraid of you, just as how a petty street thug would
behave?
Gopalan Nair
Broadway Hotel,
Serangoon Road, Singaproe
May 29, 2008
