lau lee is now saying its our fault mas selamat escaped from
toilet, and not wong kan seng or the isd's.
http://mrwangsaysso.blogspot.com/2008/04/very-poor-service-by-straits-times.html
looks like someone's blasting the Mini-star of Hobbit Affairs,
our Dwarf Puny Mini-star.. 
they guy started out with a bit of "oh.. it's not the gabrament
to blame" but then, with a backhand, he slapped the short guy..
ST – 9 Apr 2008, pH7
JI DETAINEE'S
ESCAPE
Govt has to
take some responsibility too
I REFER to
last Saturday's article 'Guards were negligent, says MM'. Like MM
Lee, I very much agree that the Government is not to be blamed for
the escape of Mas Selamat Kastari.
The good
track record of the Singapore Government should not be diminished
by this unfortunate incident. However, there should be some level
of accountability by the Home Affairs Ministry and not only by the
guards who were in charge of the Jemaah Islamiah (JI) detainee who
had once planned to crash a plane into Changi
Airport.
The ministry
had a role to play in ensuring all this did not happen in the first
place.
But none of
the statements from the ministry suggested that it was apologetic
over the incident and there was no admission that there could have
been an oversight on its part. Ironically, an Insight report in The
Straits Times on the same day cited Dr Michael Benoliel, an
associate professor of organisational behaviour at
the Singapore
Management
University,
as saying 'All the great corporations collapsed because they
underestimated the competition'.
Is it fair
that accountability lies only with certain strata of staff members
of a corporation?
Let us all
ponder this since we have often compared our Government to a large
corporation.
Mohd Rashed
Badarudin
