Note: The Below Article is reproduced from Asiaone forum. It do
not have anything to do with the views of "Ionlytalknoaction" in
any ways.
Thank you
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June 21, 2007
Ex-steward cleared of molestation charges
A FORMER flight steward was cleared on Tuesday of two counts
of
molesting a woman colleague after the court allowed the matter
to
be compounded.
Mr Francis Gerard Han Khai Meng, 34, now an
assistant director with the
People's Association (Now I know what people meant
when they say,
" I am making a 'strategic career move' "...), was charged in March
this
year with two counts of outraging the modesty of the 24-year-old
woman
on board a Singapore Airlines flight on April 26, 2004.
On both counts, he was said to have grabbed her right hand and
placed
it on his private part. He had also earlier been accused of
insulting her
modesty twice that day. It is not known why he was charged only
this
year.
His case was originally fixed for a three-day hearing before
District Judge
Roy Neighbour.
Yesterday, Assistant Public Prosecutor Simran Toor told the court
that the
alleged victim and the accused had agreed on terms for composition
of the
two molestation charges, and the prosecution had no
objection.
As part of the settlement, Mr Han gave $10,000 to the victim
as
compensation, apologised to her in open court, and will publish an
apology
in The Straits Times. He was given a warning on the two charges of
insult
of modesty.
Mr Han was acquitted of these charges after the prosecutor
withdrew
them. The alleged victim, who was in court yesterday, declined
comment.
Outraging of modesty, voluntarily causing hurt and criminal
intimidation
are charges that can be compounded. Composition is the same as
an
acquittal. The alleged victim and prosecution must agree to this
but the
judge has the final say.
This Han Khai Meng was a Returning Officer in
GE2006.
http://www.elections.gov.sg/gazette/20060420f.pdf
So, I think he must have some very good connections.
May be, he is one of the PAP inner circle people?
Who really knows?
Does BigCannonKing's MP knows? Good to have friend, hah?
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From this point forward, ionlytalknoaction is going to explain his
views.
As read from the above article, I presume that Mr Han is from
PAP(Correct me if I am wrong).
Recent Cases of MP WEE(PAP) and his daughter being targeted by
bloggers to step down since bloggers do not accept the insincere
apologies in the straitstime.(modified extracted from xia xue
blog). The local media are not allowed to broadcast exclusively on
this issue.(Correct me if I am wrong)
There was no public media(excluding the internet) debating about
the insincere apologies written by MP WEE in the
straitstimes(Correct me if I am wrong).
Only bloggers on the internet start to bloomblast the MP WEE's
insincere apology, citing a prosposal for MP WEE to step
down.
People/Bloggers are starting to question why we vote for such
people who call themselves the uncaring face of the elite(phrase
extracted from MP Wee's daughter's offensive blogs).
My conclusion is this, PAP has gripped an alarming stronghold and
POWER on the system.
The proof for my conclusion is an extract from another
website.
(Italknoaction's view stopped here)
Another extract from
http://www.yawningbread.org/arch_2006/yax-634.htm
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Section 24 creates another classification called "declared foreign
newspapers". The wording in the law is messy, because unlike
Section 23, which uses the term "offshore newspaper", here it uses
the term "foreign newspaper".
Whether "offshore" is the same as "foreign" is left unclear.
However, "declared foreign newspaper" is defined in the law as "any
newspaper published outside Singapore which has been declared by
the Minister under section 24 (1) to be engaging in the domestic
politics of Singapore".... which omits the qualification that it
has to be at least a weekly, based on the Section 23 definition of
"offshore newspaper".
What does Section 24 empower the minister to do? It empowers him to
impose whatever conditions he likes, without assigning any reason,
before granting the permit.
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(Ionlytalknoaction's view starts again at this point onwards)
PAP maybe a sc** ( Description was adopted by another replier in
the forum),
however,
Without PAP, Most of us won't have the prosperity we had
today.
No peace from communist party, racist riots.
PAP do have a credible background.
I believed Singapore cannot do without PAP. However, Singaporeans
should not give too much POWER to PAP. In order for true democracy,
there should be at least 2 governing parties in the parliament.
Other wise, there will be only 1 party agenda governing 1 party's
interest.
Hopefully, in the next general elections, Singaporeans can still
vote to keep PAP in the parliament.
However, we should also look out for credible and
strong opposition party to be voted into a
parliament too.
In that way, 1 party do not govern 1 party's interest because they
will be competing with each other to win the interest of common
singaporeans like you and me.
Win~Win Situation.
The problem singapore faced now is that ONLY PAP has a credible
background and is a strong party.
There is non other party more powerful than PAP as to date.
(Correct me IF I AM WRONG)
