Lee Kuan Yew's government falsely imprison Singapore
citizens.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
The reader is directed to watch 2 videos on the Singapore Democrat
Website where the Singapore police blatantly and shamelessly abuse
their powers to falsely imprison detain and abduct 2 Singapore
citizens, Miss Chee Siok Chin and Mr. John Tan outside Shangri La
Hotel, Singapore on Nov 20, 2007. They do this with total impunity,
answerable to none. Yet again they show what sort of cowards they
are.
Yet again, the Lee Kuan Yew Singapore administration has shown that
they and their police force are nothing more than that expected in
any third rate dictatorial lawless banana republic. Yet again we
see that Singapore is a country run according to nothing more than
Lee's dictates. There is no rule of law at all. When the Singapore
government goes around claiming that it is a first world country
with the rule of law, it would be like saying that North Korea is
the bedrock of democracy in East Asia.
On the 20th of November 2007, sometime during midday, 2 citizens of
Singapore, Miss Chee Siok Chin and Mr. John Tan were walking just
like any other ordinary pedestrian along Orchard Road, heading
towards Shangri La Hotel in Orange Grove Road to have lunch.
Nothing wrong with that at all. The hotel was open for business to
the public as usual that day. There was nothing extraordinary at
the Hotel that day at all, except that it so happens that the ASEAN
conference of South East Asian Countries was having their annual
meeting there and the Burmese Generals who were guilty of the
murder rape and brutal suppression of thousands of Burmese
protesters recently in Burma were also present.
The only difference to these facts are that these 2 pedestrians
heading for lunch to Shangri La Hotel happen to be members of a
Singapore opposition party, the Singapore Democratic Party. In any
other country, the fact of these 2 people being opposition
political party members, would have made no difference at all since
these 2 were just walking and there was no evidence that they had
with them bombs, bazookas and weapons of mass destruction. No, none
at all. These 2 people were peacefully just going for lunch. But
you see, things are different in this self proclaimed first world
country. Joining an opposition political party alone is sufficient
without more to be targeted for harassment, intimidation, and in
this case, false imprisonment. As you will see below.
In order to stop any protest peaceful or otherwise, at or near the
Asean Conference, presumably not to embarrass the Burmese generals
of that military junta with blood on their hands, who were
attending; the Singapore government, passed the Protected Areas Act
to include the Shangri La Hotel. This is, as you can see, a clear
violation of the Singapore Constitution which guarantees right of
assembly.
This Act permits the police to remove anyone from the vicinity of
the Hotel whom they deem to be trouble makers.
Regardless of what the wording of the law, any law to be legal must
have at least a rational purpose on the face of it and secondly, it
has to be exercised fairly and without discrimination. Therefore
since the Constitution guarantees the Freedom of Assembly to
Singaporeans, any attempt to remove anyone from the protected area
must be based on a reasonable finding that the person is about to
engage in illegal activity. Secondly, as is said, it must be
exercised without singling out any particular individual for unfair
treatment.
As can be seen to the permanent shame of Singapore and it's police
force that day, the police surrounded these 2 pedestrians without
any lawful reason, letting everyone else pass without let or
hindrance. Just these 2 persons were waylaid, manhandled,
surrounded and prevented from going along their way to lunch. When
asked by Chee Siok Chin on what charge were they being detained,
the police had no answer. When asked why others were permitted to
pass except for them, the police had no answer. The police could
only say like a stupid parrot, over and over again that 1) that it
was a protected area 2) that they were ordered to leave 3) that
they were advising them to leave and this was protected area, again
and again ad nausem.
As a Singaporean I was ashamed to see, yet again, the Singapore
Police Force permitting themselves to be used as Lee Kuan Yew's
political agents to crush political opponents; ashamed to see the
lack of any courage on the part of these police officers to do the
right thing and refuse their orders to intimidate peaceful
Singaporeans; ashamed to see that these police officers had so
little if any, knowledge of the law they are asked to
enforce.
The actions of the police were clearly illegal. Illegal because
these 2 pedestrians were not seen to be engaged in any criminal
activity and therefore should have been treated like any other
pedestrian and permitted to go the Shangri La Hotel just like
anyone else.
It is quite clear that these police officers have no shame. None at
all. This event will bring Singapore one further notch down the
scale of countries lacking freedom and bring it now, on the level
of their strong trading partner Burma and North Korea.
In this case, the police had committed the offense of false
imprisonment, kidnapping, assault and battery. Had this outrageous
events happened in any other democracy, the Minister for Home
Affairs would have had to resign and the victims of these crimes,
Chee Siok Chin and John Tan would have been paid several million
dollars in compensation by the government. Not in Singapore or
Zimbabwe. The Singapore courts after all have openly said that they
are agents of the Singapore government.
Congratulations Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore in succeeding in becoming
another Zimbabwe in South East Asia. With the world watching and
the Godsend Internet, your time is running out.
Gopalan Nair
http://singaporedissident.blogspot.com/2007/11/singapore-nov-20-2007-lee-kuan-yews.html
