Should laws transgress the constitutinal rights of citizens?

robertteh SG

Here are some food for thought for many right-thinking loyal Singaporeans.

Why are the MPs keeping silent over passing so many laws which transgress the constitutional rights of citizens. Who can look after citizens' interests in this respect?

Can we allow passing of laws for the benefits of the ministers and their own party members e.g. paying themselves the highest amounts of salaries and bonuses.

Should we allow laws to be passed which reduce the one-man-one-vote system to a farce.

Should we continue to pass laws which give discretionary powers to our judges or politicians to decide on what to penalise and how much to penalise based on some presumed wrongs like seditions over the blogs where the greater danger may not be sedition but overriding power of interpretation of what constitute seditions.

I recall there was an instance as reported in the press about handcuffing of a motorist simply because he had failed to top up his petrol tank in his vehicle at the check point to three quarter mark probably for arguing with the check point custom officer.

It appears that citizens do not even have the right to argue with the custom officer in the above-stated example for they can be instantly interpreted as disorderly leading to handcuffing like animals.

Is this the kind of civil servant we want to bring up and is it the kind of treatment we want to mete out to citizens for some minor civil oversight like forgetfulness or failure in topping up of petrol.

Do our Judiciary and Chief Justice possess the independence to comment on likely transgression of citizens' constitutional rights or over-bearing laws or punishments in some ways to balance against overzealous overreactions by politicians in passing of any laws.

After so many instances of discretionary powers being granted to our civil servants will such power not eventually lead to abuse and undermining the fabric of society and the ultimate Rule of Law as well.

This weakness in our judiciary and the legislature should be addressed by genuine MPs which can only be fielded by oppositions.

Government is actually about conduct and human nature and the conduct and human frailty happen to our politicians as well and not just the people.

In the wrong hand, any passing of more laws to give civil servants more such power like control over seditions over the blogs in internet borderless age may seriously lead to darker forces taking over rein of our whole sociosphere.

Let there be growing up of our leaders who may be too childish to presume that they can conduct themselves better over fellow human beings. In fact it may be unconstitutional to stop people from spending their own monies to buy petrol in JB - an infringement of Constitutions and human right.

If government leaders care about openness and inspirational leadership and genuinely want to open up to bring about a gracious and cosmopolitan society, then it should disband the GRC immediately to allow more oppositions to come to with new ideas on how to check on arrogance and abuses in use of such discretionary power which inevitably happen because of NKF within the party.

SG,LauBaiXing SG

The current leaders self-proclaimed of their self-righteous ways had been torlerated in many years by the peoples, and now it is getting into self-deception with the peoples of our self-fulfilling brighter futures.
Just because our leaders had succeeded self-perpetuating with their inconsiderate behaviours.

ShutterBug SG

You know Robert, with 90% of the population largely tied down by career, family, and property commitments, do you think ANY ONE of us would dare risk all that we've been working so hard for just to PROTEST against what our good old government is doing? However "wrong" it may seem?

In the first place, I already stated earlier last year, THEY have a firm grip on all of our testicals.

One wrong move, and they will SQUEEZE!

SG,LauBaiXing SG

Dear Mr.Robert Teh,
I've always read Atobe and yours comments with greatest concerns and deepest appreciations.
There is somehow a mix feelings in me with having great hope that Singapore will be able to renewing Noble Leaders to prove to our peoples what PAP had done in the last 40 years is actually more for their own political party and superior power, rather then putting the peoples interests as they've always promised in every General Elections.
Thanks for your efforts in putting such good messages, and I shall looking forward to read more from all the others caring Singaporeans.