Y WP not hammered in '99?

lionnoisy SG

Legal Action: Tamil Article Published in "The Hammer"

In November 1995, the (Workers' )Party and the whole of its Executive Council found itself the object of two defamation suits filed by five PAP Tamil MPs and eleven members of the Organising Committee of the Tamil Language Week arising from an article published in the Party organ, "The Hammer". The Plaintiffs' complaint in both suits was that the article implied that their efforts to promote the Tamil Language had been less than sincere.

Judgment: Tamil Article Published in "The Hammer"

By the said judgment given at the High Court on the 30th November 1998, Jeyaretnam, A Balakrishnan and Workers' Party were collectively and severally ordered to pay ten of the plaintiffs in the said suit a total sum of $265,000 for damages and costs to be taxed.

The Worker's Party's appeal against the said judgment was dismissed on 21st April 1999. By then the total sum had snowballed to close to half a million dollars, inclusive of legal costs.

1999: Winding Up Petition Against the Party

In September 1999, the plaintiffs commenced bankruptcy proceedings against Jeyeratnam and initiated a winding up petition against Workers' Party, which had been unable to pay the sum. That action invited international attention and criticisms and was widely reported in both the local and international media. Eventually the plaintiffs did not proceed the action to the end.

2.The plaintiffs applied in April 1999 adjourned the hearing
of winding up WP indefinitely and withdrew the petition of
winding up WP in 2001 Jan.Read 18.05.2006.www.zaobao.com
-----singapore section.

3.Why WP was not winding up in this golden opportunity
----international pressure,mercy fr PAP,giving face to JBJ...etc?

4.Will SDP be hammered this time?

Nelstar SG

You're finding fault with WP again?

Rolling Eyes

kaka_22 SG

Question Rolling Eyes

lionnoisy SG

what fault? Gomez is not prosecuted by law.just wonder he feel
guilty at night?compared with SDP,WP is ,almost,perfect.

the no.1 rule of opposition party in every country is
play by the rules of game---no fault to be found
and stay inside the game.so simple?

just want to know how WP survive the Hammer saga.
Why PAP forgave them?

countdracula SG

but the rules of the game should be fair…you can’t win if you’ve got the refrees, regulators all aligned to served your opponent’s interests only….

lionnoisy SG

Ask Gomez and Chairman Lim is it fair to accuse ELD wrongly
and intenionally?Will they come out to say sorry without
the CCTV footage?

Gomez said sorry after good 72 hours after footage released.

So far the Chairman Lim never spoke a word directly.

Of course,she is a lawyer and know what to speak or
not speak.

A liar(s) is a liar(s).Judge for urself.

no need to truth WP nor PAP.

ditzy SG

What a yawn, bring it out 5 years later k? Laughing

countdracula SG

he's been judged already, he didn't lie, just that he has too long a finger.

^MaRcUs^ SG

COM'on,
if he's really at fault,
would the department let him off so easily?
Would our dear MM let him off so easily??
IT WAS NEVER AN ISSUE IN THE FIRST PLACE.

kopikid SG

lol its not that they dont wanna sue/charge him man….they CANT…

ObviousMan SG

Hmm.... Good work, Sherlock!

I suppose CPIB and CAD should bring PM LHL in to drink kopi for a few days over his remarks "to fix" the opposition and "buy his supporters votes". This is very worrying since he is BOTH PM and Finance Minister -- with both power and wealth to carry out his threat.

Anyway, he is also caught on video:
http://video.channelnewsasia.com/newsvideos/election/pmlunchrally.html

Also, our media should have also devoted a few pages of news on his conspiracy "to fix and buy" over a few days (similar to JG case).
Why no one mention about it har?

So what the conclusion, Sherlock?
What comes from PAP is bitter medicine, what come from others are time bombs and poison?

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His apology?

PM says sorry if his "fix" oppostition remark offended anyone

By Ahmad Osman
May 05, 2006
AsiaOne Special Political Correspondent

Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong proferred his apologies today (May 5) if he offended anyone with the words he used at the Peoples Action Party lunch-time rally at UOB Plaza on Wednesday to describe what he would need to do if there were too many Opposition MPs in Parliament.

He had told the audience that day that if the opposition were to hold 10 to 20 seats in Parliament, he would have to spend much more time thinking what was the right way to fix them.

A statement today from his press secretary clarified that what he meant by his remark was that if there were many more op position MPs in Parliament, the government and opposition would spend all their time and energies countering each other, and Singapore would be worse off for it.

He used direct language to get this important point across to a mass rally crowd, the Prime Ministers press secretary Chen Hwai Liang said in a statement.

If the exact words he used offended, he is sorry."

Speaking at a Workers Party (WP) rally on Thursday night, WP chief Low Thia Khiang asked the Prime Minister how he proposed to fix the opposition MPs.

He also asked if the Prime Minister was unable to govern in the presence of 15 to 20 opposition MPs, and whether he was worried by the challenge mounted by the opposition, particularly the WP.

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PM apologises if 'fix' comment offended

May 5 2006
PMO Press Statement

At the lunchtime rally in UOB Plaza on Wednesday, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong addressed the issue of opposition MPs in Parliament. He said that if the opposition were to hold 10 to 20 seats in Parliament, he would have to spend much more time thinking what was the right way to "fix" them. What PM meant by his remark was that if there were many more opposition MPs in Parliament, the government and opposition would spend all their time and energies countering each other, and Singapore would be worse off for it. He used direct language to get this important point across to a mass rally crowd. If the exact words he used offended, he is sorry.

Chen Hwai Liang
Press Secretary to Prime Minister
5 May 2006

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furnaces SG

Lol. Think further ahead ok? If the election department can sue gomez, u think they wont sue him? Given their track record of sueing oppositions( Yes im linking election department and PAP), u think they will let him off easily? And who is the prosecutor to make a judgement that gomez is guilty and letting him off with a stern warning. Is he the judge? Its kinda obvious already.