Hanging in there, the Judges Belinda Ang, blogging case and Lai Sue Chiu EMail case

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Yes, I am hanging in there as best I can, but it is difficult. It has been 3 months since I came to Singapore intending to stay 10 days!

The situation up till now is this.

The blogging case, Judge Belinda Ang case

The Charge:

" Gopalan Nair are charged that you on or about May 29, 2008 in Singapore, did intentionally offer an insult to a public servant namely Justice Belinda Ang Saw Een, a Judge of the Supreme Court of Singapore while the Judge was sitting in judicial proceedings namely Notice of Assessment No. 23 of 2008 in Suit No. 261 of 2006 and Notice of Assessment No. 24 of 2008 in Suit No. 262 of 2006 by posting the following words on your blog at http://singaporedissident.blogspot.com/index.html:

"The following transpired during the last 3 days in court. The judge Belinda Ang was throughout prostituting herself during the entire proceedings by being nothing more than an employee of Mr. Lee Kuan Yew and his son and carrying out their orders"

and you have thereby committed an offence punishable under Section 228 of the Penal Code (Chapter 224).

On August 1, 2008, the Preliminary Inquiry was held in the High Court at 9 am. There are 2 cases here. One the Judge Belinda Ang case where I am accused of having insulted her in my blog post in May of 2008. Then there is another charge that I insulted Judge Lai Sui Chu on March 17 2006, 2 years ago, by an Email, for having called her "corrupt", at which time I was physically in the United States.

The purpose of the Preliminary Inquiry was to decide whether the prosecution has made out a sufficient case to make me stand trial for these charges.

The main prosecution witness was Assistant Superintendent of Police Razak Jakaria (ASP Razak) who was both the arresting officer, among others; as well as the Investigating Officer in this case. The judge was Magistrate Tan Wen Hsien, a woman; the prosecuting counsel was Francis Ng Yoong Kiat assisted by Jillian Koh Tan.

The evidence of ASP Razak was as follows. He claims he received a letter from the Attorney General that someone claiming to be Pallichadath Gopalan Nair, using the email address nair.gopalan@yahoo.com had sent Emails to a number of people including Walter Woon the Attorney General, Judge Belinda Ang, her secretary, among one or two others attaching the blog posts that I had posted about Judge Belinda Ang.

As a background, you will recall that when I was arrested on May 31, 2008 by ASP Razak, his first job while interrogating me was to confront me with these Emails and accusing me of having sent them. During the repeated interrogation by him, while I was in custody in Cantonment Police Station for 5 days in solitary confinement, I consistently maintained that I had never sent these Emails; that I had stopped using the name Pallicahdath Gopalan Nair as of 2004 when I became an American citizen and that I have ever since used the name Gopalan Nair only. ASP Razak had seized my blue note book when he arrested me on May 31, 2008, in which was written my password for this Email account. In fact, when the court ordered that the police permit me to have copies of this notebook, which I collected from him about 2 weeks ago at Cantonment police Station, I found the page that contained my email password missing. When I asked him whether he had taken it, his answer was "no". When I asked him to put it in writing that he did not take it, he refused, asking me instead to tell it to the judge!

As a result of the numerous attempt to pressure me into admitting that I sent these Emails to these people during interrogation, and after even more pressure by threatening to charge me under the Sedition Act where the court could have sent me to jail for 3 years, ASP Razak finally realized I suppose that no matter what, I am not going to admit to something that I did not do. I am not going to admit sending these Emails to any of these people even though the Email account was mine; simply because I did not send them.

I do not know who sent these Emails. Perhaps ASP Razak could have sent them himself after he got my Email password and blame it on me. Perhaps the Singapore government could have sent it. Or even someone else not connected to the Singapore government could have sent it. But I did not. But anyone who sent it had made one major mistake. The Emails carried the name Pallichadath Gopalan Nair, a name that I had not used since 2004, being now known only as Gopalan Nair. But mistake or not, the fact remains that I did not send them.

Coming back to the Preliminary Inquiry of August 1, 2008, the principle prosecution witness was ASP Razak. His testimony was that he received a notice from the Attorney General that someone claiming to be Pallichadath Gopalan Nair had sent Emails to the above mentioned people attaching the blog post in which I had accused Judge Belinda Ang, the subject of my charge.

Based on this request, his testimony was that he got a Magistrates Warrant to arrest me. He and 4 other police officers kept watch for me at Broadway Hotel on May 31, 2008 and arrested me there. He claims that immediately thereafter he took possession of the computer that I had used from the hotel lobby and sent it to the Criminal Investigation Computer Crime department for examination. He then outlined the various times he interrogated me while in custody and the various statements taken from me.

I cross examined him. I asked him if he was Muslim and does he realize that he will suffer terribly if he lied under oath. In fact Malay Muslims take the oath to Allah very seriously. They believe that if you lie before God under oath, not only you will suffer God's wrath, but also your entire family and generations thereafter will be under a curse and suffer terribly.

When a true Muslim lies under oath, the guilt in him is indelibly imprinted in his mind, and subconsciously whenever something untoward happens to him or to his family thereafter he subconsciously attributes it to God's retribution. And this is done by asking him whether he is a Muslim and from that moment, whether he answers the question or not, what he says will carry a painful price if untrue.

This is what Muslims believe.

ASP Razak Jakaria, chose not to answer the question.

The judge immediately told me that I was not to make reference to a person’s religion again to which I answered that "once was enough". It was enough for ASP Razak to know that lying uttering the name of God comes with terrible consequences and he will have to face it if he is guilty of it; if that is what he did.

I asked him if he examined the blue note book, which contained my Email password to which his answer was, believe it or not, that he "glanced through its pages very quickly". I countered his response by saying that instead of "glancing through the pages very quickly, I suggested that he would have instead "gone through it with a fine tooth comb" to which his response to the judge was that he did not understand how a "fine tooth comb" had any application in this case! As he did not understand the expression, I rephrased the question by saying that he would have gone through the book very carefully and in great detail; to which his answer was, believe it or not, he quickly went through that book and did not see in it anything very important!

Very convenient answer indeed! That book was crucial evidence. In it contained the password for my Email account nair.gopalan@yahoo.com to which was attributed these various Emails that he alleges that I had sent to Attorney General Walter Woon, to Belinda Ang and the others! Very convenient for him therefore to say that he only "glanced though the notebook quickly"!

Even though, as you are aware, having failed to make me admit that it was I that sent these Emails, the statement of ASP Razak still makes reference to the Emails. I then pointed out to the Judge that as I am not being charged for sending these Emails, that the charge against me was for writing a blog post, and as I have all along admitted that it was I who published the blog post for which I am being prosecuted, why then is there the need to even refer to these Emails. The astonishing answer from the prosecutor Francis Ng Yong Kiat was that it was necessary as a background to this prosecution! As to why there is any need to lay a background by referring to the Emails, which I had not sent, and upon which they are not relying to prosecute me, is amusing.

The Email case, Judge Lai Siu Chiu of March 17, 2006

This case relates to an Email, which accuses me of sending an Email to Judge Lai more than 2 years ago, the words being

"Your Judge Lai Siu Chiu has no shame. The reason why she and her fellow judges punish and silence PAP critics are because judges are well paid and have comfortable lives. They are selling their souls and their conscience for money. They are misusing the law for personal gain. Your Singapore judges including Lai are corrupt judges".

The charge is the same, Section 228 of the Penal Code, namely insulting a judge.

The curious thing about both these charges is that a reading of the charge tends to imply an instance where the defendant had gone to court while proceeding were under way, and there, in the court, insulted the judge. You can imagine a scenario where, for instance, a disgruntled litigant whose case had earlier been thrown out by a particular judge, and is now angry at him, goes to court and insults him.

In my case, I had done no such thing. In the Belinda Ang case, I wrote a blogpost. I did not go to court and insult her. Neither did I invite her to read my blog. I never sent any Emails to her. How in heavens can a court even suggest that I had insulted Belinda Ang "while she was sitting in proceedings" with a blog post is incredulous.

And in the Judge Lai case it is even more so, because in March 17, 2006 I was not even in Singapore! I was in California. Should not a man be within the jurisdiction for criminal law to attach?

The magistrate as expected, no surprises here, found there to be sufficient evidence to have me stand trial. The case comes up in the High Court on Sept 08, 2008.

Wish me luck. Although it is a nightmare, I am learning even more about Singapore, Lee Kuan Yew's first world country.

Gopalan Nair
Singapore

Singapore. Another day in court.

Ladies and Gentlemen,

I attended court 26 Subordinate Court at 9 am today as required by court order.

Mr. Chia Ti Lik, my lawyer appeared together with other supporters including my bailor Mr. Jeffrey George, Mr. Gandhi Ambalam, SDP Chairman. I am very grateful for the support shown to me by these supporters without whose help, life would have been infinitely more difficult in the already difficult circumstances.

I am also grateful to the representatives of the US Embassy who have continued to maintain their presence in court. I understand the US State Department is being briefed daily on my situation.

I am an American blogger who had intended to remain in Singapore only from May 25th 2008 to no later than June 3, 2008. My being charged for criminal offenses for writing a blog criticizing a Singapore Judge on May 29, 2008 is forcing me to remain in Singapore much longer than I had expected. This is causing me untold misery by my inability to attend to my law practice in the US and other financial difficulties including my inability to attend to my house mortgage and other financial affairs. Regardless of what I have to undergo, I refuse to surrender to this punishment by the Singapore authorities. What I had said in my blog is what I had witnessed during the 3 days of the hearing before the High Court Singapore in the case of Lee Kuan Yew vs Dr. Chee Soon Juan from May 26 2008 to May 28, 2008. I strongly believe it is the right of every free man to speak freely without fear or favor, without which he no longer is a man but a coward. This right is a right enshrined in the Constitution of Singapore as well as constitutions throughout the world as well as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Money can be had today or tomorrow but once a man loses his freedom, he loses everything. This has always been my belief which I will cherish till the end.

In court today, the prosecution took another U turn. Call it flip flopping if you like. You will recall from my last post the tortuous course these proceedings are taking. During my time in custody in solitary confinement from May 31, 2008 to June 05, 2008 (6 days) the following occurred. First they charged me with sending an Email to Judge Belinda Ang, alleging that I insulted her. Second they charged me with sending an Email to Judge Lai Sui Chu more than 2 years ago alleging the same. Third they withdrew all charges and charged me under the Sedition Act of Singapore for what I had written on my blog of May 29, 2008. Fourth, they withdrew the Sedition charge and wanted to proceed on the earlier Email charges.

Today in court there was a further U Turn. Now they are no longer proceeding with the Email charge to Judge Belinda Ang or the Sedition charge and have instead charged me with having insulted Judge Belinda Ang on May 29, 2008 by reason of what I had written on my blog as well as the 2 year old matter with Judge Lai. I cannot remember whether I did or did not send the 2 year old Email.

The Judge Ang charge is that I had offered an insult to Judge Belinda Ang, a civil servant, on May 29, 2008 by what I had written on my blog of the same date. As to how I could have possibly insulted this Judge by writing something on my blog is no doubt mind boggling. I had not invited the Judge to read my blog and neither did I go to her court and insult her personally. I had merely written a blog post and nothing more.

I am not surprised why the Singapore authorities have decided not to proceed with the charge that I had sent an Email to Judge Ang. I had all along claimed that the police had seized my note book which contained my Email password. I had all along maintained that if anyone had sent any Emails to this Judge, it wasn't me. It appears that the police have finally accepted my claim that I had not sent any Email to this judge or anyone else on May 29, 2008.

During the time I was in custody, the police had shown me Emails with my Email address which had purportedly been sent to Judge Belinda Ang, the Attorney General of Singapore and one other person in authority whom I cannot recall. This was after my notebook containing my Email passwords were seized by the police. I had all along denied ever sending any of these Emails. The question therefore arises as to who sent them!

So the latest position as regards the charges now is firstly, an accusation that I had insulted Judge Belinda Ang on May 29, 2008 by reason of the contents of my blog post of the same date and the accusation that I had insulted Judge Lai in an Email to Judge Lai more than 2 years ago in March 2006, keeping in mind that I had travelled to Singapore more than once during the last 2 years without incident. If indeed I had sent any Email to Judge Lai, which I deny; why Judge Lai should now be suddenly offended by an Email which may or may not have been sent to her more than 2 years ago from California, is puzzling.

Not satisfied by keeping me in solitary confinement for 6 days from the time of my arrest, the court had today ordered that I am to report everyday at 9 am at the Cantonment Police Station for interrogation until further notice. The police have claimed that despite my incarceration for 6 days in a police station cell since my arrest in solitary confinement where I was interrogated at least twice each day, they claim that they still have not completed their investigation and therefore the need to interrogate me each day, and every day, until such time they finally decide that they have had enough. One would have thought that I had killed 20 people in cold blood! For Heavens sake, I only wrote a blog.

I do not know the purpose of this all but perhaps they had miscalculated my reaction. Perhaps they thought that I would buckle under at the first opportunity and grovel as other Singaporeans are expected to do. Well, I am not guilty. I wrote a blog. I wrote what I saw. I was exercising free speech. Free speech is essential for good governance. If the Singaporean authorities are unwilling to accept this, it is time they did.

After all they claim Singapore to be a first world country. With international banking trade and commerce. All of this requires free speech. The sooner they realize this the better.

I have to get some sleep now so as to report to Cantonment Police Station to be interrogated in the morning.

Good night.

Gopalan Nair
Singapore

Law Society of Singapore vs Gopalan Nair, August 18, 2010

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Just a reminder.

My disciplinary proceedings in Singapore which will have me disbarred there will be held from 20 to 24 September 2010 at 10am at Court 2A, High Court, Singapore.

I understand these hearings are in camera, meaning there won't be any spectators.

Subsequent to the finding of guilty in the disciplinary proceedings, which we all know, the matter will be heard before Judges in open court who would of course have me disbarred in Singapore island.

Since my return to California from my Singaporean adventure in 2008, I have committed various additional crimes (by Singapore's reckoning) such as repeating the remarks I made about Singapore Judge Belinda Ang Saw Ean and others in this blog.

I have also, under Singapore law committed contempt of court by withdrawing the apology I gave to Singapore Judge Leslie Chew not to criticize the Singapore government or their courts anymore.

Of course, I stand by my actions and believe none of them is a crime or improper conduct under normally accepted laws of countries around the world.

Since my returning to Singapore to defend these charges in court would mean exposing myself to re-arrest and imprisonment again, I have repeatedly asked for a guarantee from the Singapore authorities, the Disciplinary Tribunal, the Singapore Attorney General and Singapore Immigration, that I will be given safe passage in and out of Singapore and not arrested.

They have all chosen not to respond to my request.

In the light of this, since my re-arrest is almost a certainty if I ever return to Singapore, I would not be able to return to Singapore to defend myself in court. I believe, knowing Singapore, this is exactly what they want, as they obviously fear the consequences of my testifying in court there; even more publicity and embarrassment for them.

The charges against me, as you know are the following:

1. In May 29, 2008 blog post in this blog, titled "Singapore. Judge Belinda Ang's Kangaroo Court" I had said "The following transpired during the last 3 days in court. The judge Belinda Ang was throughout prostituting herself during the entire proceedings, by being nothing more than an employee of Mr. Lee Kuan Yew and his son and carrying out their orders." The blog post described in detail the repeated bias of this Judge in favor of Lee Kuan Yew and Son, in effect denying Dr. Chee Soon Juan and Chee Siok chin any meaningful opportunity to defend themselves.

The dictionary meaning of the words "prostituting oneself" is to misuse one's authority or office for a dishonest purpose such as what Judge Belinda Ang clearly did for all to see.

In September of 2008 I was charged and convicted by Judge Kan Ting Chiu for insulting a judge because of these words "prostituting herself". I vigorously defended myself at trial but despite every dictionary meaning that tells this, I was sent to jail for 3 months.

I have no hesitation and will say again that Judge Belinda Ang Saw Ean did "prostitute herself" by behaving in the despicable corrupt way she did in court from May 26, 2008 to May 28, 2008.

The Singapore Disciplinary Proceedings are attempting to have me disbarred for having said these words in my blog.

2. In the second charge, since my return to the United States, I used words to the same effect, against Singapore Judge Judith Prakash for sending 3 Singapore men to jail merely for wearing T shirts emblazoned with the picture of a Kangaroo in judicial clothes. Their intention of course was to proclaim that Judge Belinda Ang Saw Ean was a Kangaroo Judge and the Lee Kuan Yew vs Dr. Chee Soon Juan was kangaroo court proceedings. Please be reminded that the 3 were not even caught within her courtroom.

Please refer to my blog post of Thursday, February 26, 2009 "Singapore's High Court Judge Judith Prakash shamelessly abuses the law in the kangaroo T shirt trial". In this blog post in describing her bias I used the words "This Singapore judge Judith Prakash has completely abused the law obviously to terrorize Singaporeans into not criticizing the Singapore judiciary, to please Lee Kuan Yew, the Singapore strongman who cannot stand any criticism, either of his corrupt courts or his dictatorial government" among others.

These words aptly describe the shameful conduct of this judge and I stand by my actions as correct.

3. Then there is a charge that I had misbehaved by yelling at police officers and behaving in a disorderly manner in Singapore on July 4, 2008. I deny the charge as a total fabrication. I went to trial which lasted many days. I was convicted and fined $3,000.00.

4. Then there is a charge that I committed contempt of court during my trial in the above case that I made such statements to the judge such as "I have no respect for this court", "these are politically motivated charges" etc. These accusations were correct and I stand by them.

5. Then there is the charge that I committed contempt of court by withdrawing my apology to Judge Leslie Chew in Singapore and retracting my promise that I will not criticise Singapore and their judges. After I returned to the US, I did exactly that.

I have no doubt as you would as well, that I will be disbarred in Singapore. Singapore laws have lost all credibility in the free world and are seen as a political tool to silence dissent in the island. But there is nothing they can do if you are outside their island as I am.

My purpose of continuing to provoke the Singapore authorities to take these actions which I then expose as repression, is deliberate on my part. By my ongoing writing of their actions in this blog, their repression exposed and they are being hurt; highly damaging to their claim of rule of law and democracy.

So far they are unable to stop this blog being read in Singapore because it is Internet based in USA. If they wished to do so, they would have to do as China did by demanding the outside agencies to block it in Singapore. To do this would mean of course admitting Singapore to be a closed society which for practical purposes they cannot do. So Singapore Dissident continues while the Singapore dictatorship boil with rage.

The reader is aware that I am also a Barrister at Law admitted to practice in England and Wales and in California. Any act that is improper in any part of the world, can render me subject to disciplinary proceedings in England and in California.

Since my disbarment is a forgone conclusion in Singapore, I would challenge them to file the necessary complaints to the English Bar as well as to the California Bar demanding that I be disciplined. If they do that, it would serve my purpose of giving even greater publicity to the abuse of legal process in Singapore and will add one more proof of what most people believe to be the case, that Singapore abuses the law to silence dissent.

I have no doubt that the Singapore Legal profession which is in effect an accomplice of the Singapore government in this dirty business, will not dare to do it, simply because they know they are abusing the law in this case.

In no country in the world other than Singapore or perhaps North Korea or Burma, will I be disciplined for my actions under these circumstances. That much I am sure.

But I would certainly hope they do, and help me in my work in exposing this corrupt regime and their corrupt legal system.

Gopalan Nair
39737 Paseo Padre Parkway, Suite A1
Fremont, CA 94538, USA
Tel: 510 657 6107
Fax: 510 657 6914
Email: nair.gopalan@yahoo.com
Blog: http://singaporedissident.blogspot.com/

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Law Society of Singapore vs Gopalan Nair, the players

Ladies and Gentlemen,

The Disciplinary Hearings against me for criticizing the Singapore Judge Belinda Ang Saw Ean in this blog, other Singapore judges, among other charges has begun in Singapore. It began yesterday Sept 20, 2010 and will go on for the next 4 days to Sept 24, 2010.

As you are aware, I had asked for a guarantee from the Tribunal and the Singapore Attorney General among other government organizations, that I will not be arrested again if I went there to attend. To date no guarantee has been given. As you are aware from my blogs written since my return to the US in late November 2008, I would have have committed various other crimes under the Singapore understanding of the law and therefore returning to the island now would mean certain arrest and imprisonment.

I have lately received voluminous boxes of documents from the Law Society Counsel and the Tribunal in regards to this case, but I have not bothered to read them. It is a waste of time. These are Kangaroo proceedings which should be shown the contempt they deserve.

I have already written here what they are charging me with, which in any other jurisdiction would have been reason for applause and praise rather than for discipline. In democracies, political dissidents are respected instead of punished. The point of this exercise by Singapore is puzzling, since, if the purpose was to shut me up, they should know by now it will not happen.

On the other hand, if the purpose is to intimidate other Singapore lawyers, it would serve no purpose as well since they have already been intimidated and the only other result of it would be to cause even further attrition from the already dwindling number of lawyers practicing there from the already minuscule figure of 3,000 for the island's population of 5 million!

Moreover, it would be serving my purpose instead of theirs since the world will know of one more instance of the abuse of the law to silence dissent, confirming the 72 page report of the International Bar Association on Singapore; not to mention the huge time, expense and trouble that I put them to in this exercise.

To remind you once again, there are 5 charges against me.

Charges 1 and 2) That on the 4th of July I had used intemperate language against Lee Kuan Yew's police officers and had behaved in a disorderly manner. I have denied this entirely and was convicted solely on the evidence of police officers who parrot like repeated one after the other the same thing well rehearsed and regurgitated.

How distorted the whole trial was is seen in the fact that although the Singapore newspapers reported there to be 25 bystanders witnessing my arrest, not one independant witness was called to testify. In any case even if I had yelled at police officers, for the sake of argument, in no country in the world would I be severly punished, let alone disbarred. The most would have been a warning not to misbehave.

Charge 3) That in this blog dated May 29, 2008 "Singapore. Judge Belinda Ang's Kangaroo court", after explaining various instances of the misconduct of the Judge Belinda Ang Saw Ean, I had written the words " The Judge Belinda Ang was throughout prostituting herself during the entire proceedings by being nothing more than an employee of Lee Kuan Yew and his son and carrying out their orders." The word "prostituted" was a correct use of the English language as meaning "someone who had abused her office for a dishonest purpose". The words were justified in the context of what she had done and what I had described in the blog.

Charge 4) For defying an undertaking given to judge Leslie Chew not to criticize the Singapore judges again in contempt of court charges brought against me. I had given that undertaking while I was incarcerated in Singapore for criticizing judge Belinda Ang Saw Ean, and threatened with a longer prison term if I did not give in. My undertaking was not given freely and voluntarily. I had no intention of keeping that promise once I was outside Singapore. Accordingly once I landed in California, I withdrew my undertaking and apology and repeated the criticisms.

Charge 5) The same thing as what was said about Judge Belinda Ang in the case of Judge Judith Prakash when she sent to jail 3 young men for contempt of court merely for wearing Tshirts with pictures of Kangaroos in robes.

The procedure which the system adopts in Discipline cases there is firstly these Disciplinary Tribunal hearings are held. They are conducted in private meaning the public are not present. After that the report of the Tribunal, which we know in this case will be guilty, will be forwarded to a 3 Judge Panel of Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew's judges. That hearing is open to public where predictably I will be disbarred from the Rolls, not because of what I did, but because of who I am. That will be some time in the future.

At present, because of my writings, I am unable to return to Singapore not to mention practicing there. In any case these entire proceedings are moot, since it is mind boggling why they spend so much time and energy going against a lawyer who cannot even step foot in Singapore.

I am not surprised why this oligarchy in Singapore do this sort of thing, since you see the entire history of the island as a series of stupidity which has finally resulted in the present day Singapore, an island almost bereft of native Singaporeans who are hurriedly leaving the island in droves, being replaced by foreigners who know nothing of the country.

If you want to call this entire exercise an opera, the following are the key players:

1. Peter Cuthbert Low (Singapore native ethnic Chinese) Lawyer representing the Law Society who is prosecuting me. On the outside, it would appear that it is the Law Society which is doing this. But as in any other fascist government, the Singapore Law Society works at the behest of the Lee Kuan Yew government. You can therefore safely assume he is carrying out the orders of the government to punish the troublesome meddler, Gopalan Nair. Of course, this dirty work comes with it's rewards. He can look forward to more lucrative government contracts and in future perhaps even a judgeship. He works in the law firm Colin Ng and Partners LLP, 36 Carpenter Street, Singapore 059915, Tel: 65 6349 2373, Email: peterlow@cnplaw.com.

2. The Tribunal President, the judge hearing the case is Toh Kian Sing. He works in the firm Rajah and Tann, 9 Battery Road, #25-01, Straits Trading Building, Singapore 049910, Tel: 65 6232 0614, Email: kian.sing.toh@rajahtann.com. He is the other opportunist in this opera performed under the direction of Lee Kuan Yew and his Singapore government.

3. The Tribunal Judge, hearing the case with the Tribunal President is Tan Jee Ming. He works for Straits Law Practice LLP, 36 Robinson road, #18-00, City House, Singapore 068877, Tel: (65) 6514 1203. This firm does not have dedicated Emails for their lawyers. The general Email is mail@straitslaw.com.sg. Another opportunist pleasing Lee Kuan Yew in Lee Kuan Yew's island.

4. Then there is the mysterious Audrey Lim. Initially when these proceedings started, it was she writing to me on behalf of the Disciplinary Tribunal. Her letters were signed Audrey Lim, Deputy Registrar High Court. I did some research and found out from the Supreme Court web site that Audrey Lim has another full name, Lim Yoon Cheng. In order to ensure that this woman is not trying to conceal her true identity and also for the simple purpose of knowing who we are dealing with, I asked Angela Chopard of the Law Society who was signing some letters whether she knew the real name of Audrey Lim and if it was Audrey Lim Yoon Cheng. It was not altogether surprising, since concealing the identity of government personnel with nicknames is a normal practice there, almost predictably she claimed that she did not know the real name of Audrey Lim. Thereafter I elected to deal with Chopard instead.

I wonder why Chopard was protecting Audrey Lim Yoon Cheng, was it a default mechanism not to reveal real names in Singapore or something else I do not know.

The reader would be reminded that this woman Audrey Lim Yoon Cheng, instead of being an impartial officer in these proceedings was adamant not to provide any assistance to me at all. For instance, I had written to her, in her capacity of representing the Tribunal, asking for transcripts of the court records of my cases in Singapore, documents that were crucial to my defense. Her reply was that it was not her responsibility to arrange any of it and I should write to the relevant authorities for anything I want. The same when I asked that arrangements be made for me to enter Singapore since I was banned from entry.

The reader would agree that in jurisdictions all over the world, when proceedings are commenced against an individual such as myself, especially when he is not living in the country, the Tribunal has to ensure that the Defendant is provided with the necessary material and assistance so as to enable him to defend. Countries do this because they do not want to be seen as deliberately obstructing the Defendant. Obviously Singapore does not care about it's image on this score.

I guess in her eagerness to please the Singapore government in this exercise of disbarring a troublesome lawyer, she was determined to be seen as obstructive and obnoxious as possible.

She is Audrey Lim (full name Audrey Lim Yoon Cheng) ethnic native Chinese Singaporean, works as Deputy Registrar, Singapore Supreme Court, 1 Supreme Court Lane, Singapore 178879, Tel: (65) 6557 7541, Email: audrey_lim@supcourt.gov.sg.

There are of course the usual junior clerks and workers who do not have much education or understanding of much, which the former Devan Nair referred to as Lee Kuan Yew's "department store dummies". Among them is such like Angela Chopard of the Law Society who has been communicating the bad news to me on behalf of the Singapore Law Society, the proxy of the Lee Kuan Yew government. They can be ignored without more as the product of 50 years of brainwashing under one party rule. You find them in any fascist government including that of Hitler and Mussolini. They merely consider this their job, nothing more. They are so afraid and helpless, they would go along with anything.

If you are outraged by what is happening, please contact the above parties with a piece of your mind.

Gopalan Nair
39737 Paseo Padre Parkway, Suite A1
Fremont, CA 94538, USA
Tel: 510 657 6107
Fax: 510 657 6914
Email: nair.gopalan@yahoo.com
Blog: http://singaporedissident.blogspot.com/

Your letters are welcome. We reserve the right to publish your letters. Please Email your letters to nair.gopalan@yahoo.com And if you like what I write, please tell your friends. You will be helping democracy by distributing this widely. This blog not only gives information, it dispels government propaganda put out by this dictatorial regime.

If Lee Kuan Yew is determined to publicise the absence of the rule of law in Singapore, he is succeeding handsomely.

Ladies and Gentlemen,

The Singapore Democratic Party's website http://www.yoursdp.org/ of Monday April 28th 2008 in the astonishing story "Guess who's presiding over LKY's lawsuit hearing" reports that Judge Belinda Ang, High Court Judge will be presiding yet again over Lee's defamation case against Dr. Chee on May 12, 2008.

You will recall, in the earlier case brought on by the same Plaintiffs Lee Kuan Yew and son, this same disgusting political judge, in what was nothing more than a show trial before her, denied the Defendant Dr. Chee even the most basic right of a litigant; that of being allowed to present his case.

You will recall, in the most egregious case of judicial injustice ever imaginable, this shameless judge denied Dr. Chee any possible right to defend himself, by awarding judgement to Lee Kuan Yew without even a hearing! By the method called summary judgement, she delivered her verdict from her chambers without hearing a single witness!

Further you will recall, she refused any adjournment of the trial to permit Dr. Chee's lawyer to appear due to illness. Not only that, in violation of all judicial tenets of fair play, she engaged in a long private conversation with Lee's lawyer privately in Chambers in the absence of Dr. Chee; where she deliberately and repeatedly insulted and abused the honor and integrity of Dr. Chee, all of which was captured in the verbatim tapes of the court proceedings, which is presently in the physical possession of Dr. Chee.

Moreover, the entire case took only a few minutes after which she claimed she was satisfied that Dr. Chee had seriously maligned the reputation of Lee Kuan Yew and his son and awarded no less than one half million United States Dollars and promptly bankrupted him.

By no stretch of imagination can this woman Belinda Ang be considered a judge. She is, to borrow a phrase from JB Jeyaretnam, the hatchet man or woman for Lee Kuan Yew and his son. She prostitutes herself to be used by Lee Kuan Yew to demolish his political opponents using the guise of the law. Although we already know that Singapore does not have any rule of law, Belinda Ang and her master Lee Kuan Yew appear as if they don't want us to forget it.

But what is astonishing is this. After this woman has brought even more shame to the legal system of Singapore, why is it necessary for Lee to use her again as the presiding judge in the upcoming case? It is as if Lee Kuan Yew is determined to remind Singaporeans and the world that Singapore does not have any rule of law.

Of course even without any hearing, we already know the verdict. Dr. Chee is yet again going to be found guilty. Yet again this woman will order him to pay another one half million US dollars to Lee Kuan Yew which he does not have. And yet again he will be made bankrupt. And all for nothing. All for merely exercising his constitutional right of freedom of speech.

In many ways Judge Belinda Ang is benefiting the Singapore opposition. With this news that it will be her hearing the case, another 400 lawyers will leave the profession which is already languishing for the lack of it; not wanting to practice in a country which abuses the law. New lawyers will be discouraged from entering the profession for the same reason. And foreign lawyers will not come to Singapore, not wanting anything to do with a lawless dictatorship. And Singapore will be shunned for any international legal work, the world preferring instead Sydney, Melbourne and Hong Kong.

Another 1000 educated Singaporeans will leave Singapore for Australia becoming more alarmed by the decline in the rule of law and what impact it will have on theirs and their children's futures.

The Western, European and Scandinavian countries are beginning to put pressure on other European countries and America to boycott Singapore in trade and commerce in order to punish them for their human rights transgressions. A large Swedish telephone company has indicated that they will not deal with Singapore, or have any plants there, as long as these human rights violations persist. I understand that other Scandinavian countries are similarly clamouring to punish Singapore's leaders Lee Kuan Yew comparing him to the dictator Robert Mugabe and some even saying that Robert Mugabe is a saint compared to him.

It is further expected, after reading this news, even more young people will leave for Australia before their national service and refuse to return, not wanting anything more to do with Singapore.

I expect several top European Members of Parliament, the Swedes, Norwegians, Danes and Finns, to condemn the Singapore government in their sittings urging further trade and economic sanctions against it to express their disgust.

If Lee thought even for a moment that he could use Belinda Ang, this dishonest woman to punish Dr. Chee and silence him, he cannot be more wrong. Going by Dr. Chee's indomitable stand against these bullies, never wavering, it will be another slap in the face of this woman Belinda Ang and another slap in the face for this government. They do not seem to understand that bullying people cannot make them win. In fact defeat is guaranteed.

And with that I thank Lee and his government for appointing this woman as the presiding judge in the forthcoming Lee defamation case. It is in fact another nail in the coffin for PAP.

Gopalan Nair
39737 Paseo Padre Parkway, Suite A1
Fremont, CA 94538, USA
Tel: 510 657 6107
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Blog: http://singaporedissident.blogspot.com/

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Law Society of Singapore vs Gopalan Nair, Whats happening!

Ladies and Gentlemen,

In several blog posts here, I have written about Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore Law Society actions to have me disbarred for criticizing their judge Belinda Ang Saw Ean's shameless exhibition in Singapore High Court in May 2008 by deciding Lee's defamation case against Dr. Chee Soon Juan in Lee's favor in nothing more than a Stalinist show trial.

Even though the incident was way back in May 2008, up till now, nothing much has happened. I am still waiting for the matter to come to court after more than 2 years! I suspect the government now finds itself in a bind. The fact that Singapore's Law Society which is supposed to be independent is in fact an extension of the one party state government is already well known and these proceedings which were intended to intimidate me to keep me silent, is simply not happening.

What is more, internationally respected organizations such as the United Nations, Reporter Without Borders, Committee to Protect Journalists and numerous other organizations and state governments have taken an interest in my case, which Lee Kuan Yew knows is untenable, because in nowhere in the world can you discipline someone for something such as this. It would only be seen as repression of critics who dare challenge Lee's one party state.

With the recent imprisonment of Alan Shadrake which has attracted universal denunciation from the free world for punishing free speech, Lee Kuan Yew finds that going after me now is untimely, and a bad mistake. I think that is the reason why he has not ordered his Law Society to proceed just now.

Only a cowardly government would stoop to such cowardly tactics to try to preserve their fast diminishing credibility in the eyes of the world.

I can assure you the one party state apparatus is reading every word that is written here, as you have seen how fast they arrested me in Singapore for writing that fateful Belinda Ang Saw Ean blog post in May 2008.

My question to the Singapore Law Society is this. What are they afraid of now? If you feel that I should be disbarred do it now. Stop this playing hide and seek. Let me remind you that you are losing your credibility by the minute for having waited this long since May 2008. Any other respectable Law Society in the world would have proceeded against me within a month or at most 2 months. If you haven't already, you are going to lose all your credibility if you wait any longer.

If it helps you to speed these proceedings I will repeat what I said about your Judge Belinda Ang Saw Ean in my May 2008 blog post which got me arrested here:

"The judge Belinda Ang was throughout prostituting herself during the entire proceedings, by being nothing more than an employee of Mr. Lee Kuan Yew and his son and carrying out their orders".

The words "prostituting yourself" means someone who is in authority abusing her power for a dishonest or base purpose. This is what Belinda Ang Sew Ean was doing so shamefully that day in court. She was disgracing the office of a judge in public by publicly abusing the law to benefit herself and Lee Kuan Yew her master.

So perhaps since I have repeated the objectionable words again in this blog (even though I have done the same numerous times before), will the Singaporean Law Society and the Singapore one party state government who are reading this please proceed to have this case fixed in court for hearing without any further delay.

You have got yourself in this fix through your own actions. Now I am going to hold you to account.

Gopalan Nair
39737 Paseo Padre Parkway, Suite A1
Fremont, CA 94538, USA
Tel: 510 657 6107
Fax: 510 657 6914
Email: nair.gopalan@yahoo.com
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Judgement at Nuremburg and the trials in Singapore Courts

Ladies and Gentlemen,

The backdrop is the brilliant 1961 move "Judgement at Nuremburg". It is a fictional story based on the Nuremburg Trials after World War 2 where Nazi war criminals were tried and convicted of crimes against humanity. 6 million Jews as well as thousands of Gypsies, other minorities and disabled persons were deported, an euphemism for transportation and execution at concentration camps.

This gripping movie is a military court martial where 4 Nazi judges, Chief Justice Dr. Ernst Janning, Emil Hahn, Werner Lampe and Friedrich Hofstetter are being tried for having issued orders of deportation against Jews.

Nazi Chief Justice Ernst Janning is played brilliantly by Burt Lancaster. During the trial despite excellent representation by Hanhs Rolfe, played by Maximilian Schell who won an academy award for his role, Janning decides to confess. The rendition is excellent.

The prosecution's case against Janning was based mainly on the Feldenstein case, where an old Jew, Feldenstein was ordered to be executed by Janning for allegedly having defiled the morality of a 16 year old German girl on false charges.

I quote the ending of the confession of Janning:

" I had reached my verdict on the Feldenstein case even before I ever came into the courtroom. I would have found him guilty whatever the evidence. It was not a trial at all."

" Emil Hahn, Werner Lampe, Freidrich Hofstetter.......... and Ernst Janning, worse than any of them, because he knew what they were and when he went along with them, Ernst Janning made his life excrement because he walked with them".

This is a gripping movie. I strongly recommend it.

Now the backdrop in Singapore. Not players in a movie but real life. Dr. Chee Soon Juan was sued for defamation of character by Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew and his son, the Prime Minister of Singapore.The case was heard before High Court Judge of Singapore Belinda Ang on Sept 11, 2006. M Ravi, a former attorney represented Dr. Chee. Mr. Singh, the usual defamation lawyer of the Lees, father and son, represented them. Mr. Ravi, Chee's lawyer was taken ill. Dr. Chee asked for a continuance. It was denied. He asked for a short 2 week adjournment to find another lawyer. That too was denied. To add insult to injury, this Judge went on to hear the case in her chambers, without hearing any witnesses and not only that, without the even presence of Dr. Chee and ordered him to pay the Lees half a million dollars. Not having the money, he has since been made a bankrupt.

On July the 31, 2007, Dr. Chee's appeal before the Court of Appeal in Singapore against this decision was heard. He had no lawyer, as usual, not because he did not want one, but because all lawyers in Singapore are afraid to defend Lee's political opponents for fear that they too would be bankrupted like Dr. Chee for having the audacity to represent Dr. Chee.

So Dr. Chee represents himself. This time the parties are the Judges VK Rajah, Andrew Phang, and Woo Bih Li. Dr. Chee, even though not a lawyer does the best he can. Dr. Chee explains the injustice done to him by Belinda Ang. The judges ask a few perfunctory questions and retire promptly to their chambers, only to return after 15 minutes to deny the appeal of Dr. Chee.

I was then thinking then, of this movie Judgement at Nuremberg and the confession by Ernst Janning which appears equally applicable to these Singapore judges. So let me put it in quotations.

" Judges Belinda Ang, VK Rajah, Andrew Phang and Woo Bih Li had reached their verdicts against Dr. Chee even before they came into the courtroom. They would have found him guilty whatever the evidence. It was not a trial at all".

" Judges Belinda Ang, VK Rajah, Andrew Phang and Woo Bih Li made their lives excrement when they knowingly unjustly found against Dr. Chee to please their master Lee Kuan Yew, just as Nazi Judge Ernst Janning had deported innocent Jews to please his master Adolf Hitler".

"The lives of Judges Belinda Ang, VK Rajah, Andrew Phang and Woo Bih Li became at that moment EXCREMENT."

I strongly recommend this movie. You will find stunning parallel with the Singapore political courts of the Lee Administration. Very similar to the Nazi courts. And by the way, you can see the faces of these Singapore judges in the Singapore Democratic Website http://www.singaporedemocrat.org/.

Gopalan Nair
39737 Paseo Padre Parkway, Suite A1
Fremont, CA 94538, USA
Tel: 510 657 6107
Fax: 510 657 6914
Email: gopalnair@us-immigrationlaw.com

Gopalan Nair's impending lawyer disbarment in Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore.

Ladies and Gentlemen,

As there is no need to take any bets whether I will be disbarred from the Rolls of Lawyers in Singapore which is a forgone conclusion; for persistently criticizing Singapore’s bully boy Lee Kuan Yew, his corrupt judiciary and his "unique" legal system; and since my date for disbarment is fast approaching, with my trial set for May this year in Singapore, which by the way I cannot attend since I have been denied entry into Singapore; it is time to re-visit it's cause and effect so as not to forget what this is all about.
There are 5 charges against me as follows.

Charge 1 and 2, are for the allegations that on July 4, 2008 I had had used abusive language against Lee Kuan Yew’s policemen in a Singapore street, and had behaved in a disorderly manner.

I denied these charges and went though an 18 day trial in Lee’s court totally refuting the incredulous claims of 5 policemen who dutifully repeated the same accusation that I behaved in this way.

As to what motive I would have to do this while my passport was held by them prohibiting my leaving the island was never explained.

Neither was it proven that I was mentally of unsound mind as only someone unsound would want to be doing this for no motive at all!

The evidence of the chief witness, a policeman was so incredible; it was more apt for the pages of Alice in Wonderland.

If alcohol was an issue, which too was demolished since the amount, was less than a tenth of the limit even for driving a motor vehicle!

And finally what crowns it all is the Singapore state controlled newspaper the Straits Times reported earlier that as many as 25 bystanders had witnessed my unacceptable behavior but strangely not a single one of them, an independant witness, was called at trial.

All we have is policemen repeating the same thing after sufficient coaching. In any case, even in the assumption that I did it, which is not the case, these charges are not something which requires a lawyer to be struck off the rolls in any law abiding country.

Charge 3 relates to this blog Singapore Dissident. It states that in this blog, on May 28, 2008, while in Singapore, I had written the following words about Lee Kuan Yew's judge Belinda Ang Saw Ean following her corrupted biased and totally unjust court decision granting her master Lee the sum of over $400,000.00 against Dr. Chee Soon Juan for criticism which was completely acceptable and normal in any democratic society in the world.

I had said: "The Judge Belinda Ang (Belinda Ang Saw Ean) was throughout prostituting herself during the entire proceedings by being nothing more than an employee of Mr. Lee Kuan Yew and his son and carrying out their orders".

I had said these words of the Singapore strongman's judge and I would gladly repeat it again. It was a correct usage of the English language to indicate a total abdication and corruption of her role as a judge in her thoroughly denying Dr. Chee Soon Juan a fair hearing between May 26 and May 28 2008 in Singapore at which time I was present.

The reader is invited to read my blog post again as well as perusing the correct dictionary meanings of "prostituting" in the circumstances in this case.

This is not a case where any lawyer in any respectable democracy would be disbarred.

Charge 4 refers to my retracting the assurances I gave in Lee Kuan Yew's courts just before I was released from Lee's jail and permitted to leave the country.

The circumstances are as follows.

On or about August of 2008 I had already been convicted and sentenced as relating to Charges 1 and 2 above, “the disorderly case”.

In September of 2008 I was sentenced to 3 months jail for "insulting" Judge Belinda Ang Saw Ean as in Charge 3 above.

While in jail, when I had only about a week to go before my date of release from prison of November 20, 2008, around the 12 of November 2008, I was visited by Lee’s police in the prison and charged this time for contempt of court for statements I made earlier in court during my "disorderly" case as in Charge 1 and 2 above.

The statements included such as “I have no trust in the impartiality of this court” and “this is a politically motivated case”.

If I denied the charges, I would certainly have lost in Lee Kuan Yew's courts; this would also mean my having to stay even longer in Lee Kuan Yew’s prison.

For the sake of getting out of Singapore, I would have even said that Lee Kuan Yew is the same as Mahatma Gandhi if they wanted it; I apologized to the judge several times in order to conform to the terms set down by Lee's prosecutor and promised never to criticize the Singapore judiciary again, ever. Had I been asked to say that the Singapore legal system was the best in the world, I would have said that too.

Of course when saying any of this, I had no intention whatsoever of keeping any of these promises.

Lee's judge, satisfied with my remonstrances of remorse repentance and contrition, for which had there been a Hollywood producer present, I would have received an Oscar for acting, my incarceration was not extended.

After having been relieved from Lee Kuan Yew's prison on November 20, 2008 and leaving Singapore for good on May 26, 2008, after arriving in California, I retracted all apologies given to this kangaroo court of Lee Kuan Yew in this blog and swore to continue criticizing Lee and his judges where criticism is due.

This charge relates to my blog post of November 28, 2008 in California in which I withdrew all apologies given to Lee Kuan Yew's judge in Singapore.

No lawyer in any real democracy in the world would be disbarred for this.

Charge No 5, relates to my blog post of November 30, 2008 in which I repeated the same words that I had used in relation to Judge Belinda Ang Saw Ean in Charge 3, that is, Lee Kuan Yew's judge Judith Prakash had "prostituted herself" in her decision to send 3 Singapore democracy activists to jail merely because they had worn T Shirts emblazoned with the picture of kangaroos outside Belinda Ang Saw Ean's court during the Dr. Chee Soon Juan hearing referred to in Charge 3.

This judge did in fact "prostitute herself" for sending these 3 men to jail because this is not contempt of court and she was acting merely to please her master Lee Kuan Yew.

Again this is not a case where any lawyer would be disbarred from the practice of law.

Every move of Lee Kuan Yew's disciplinary tribunal in this case as well as the arguments of his selected lawyer to carry out his pleasure, will be posted on this blog.

I will of course be disbarred in Lee Kuan Yew's island for this, which will cause the rest of the world to observe another instance of Lee's routine usage of the law to punish his critics.

This will turn out to be an advantage to me for giving me another opportunity to expose the misuse of the law and another confirmation to the International Bar Association’s 72 page finding that Singapore does not have the rule of law.

With Lee’s above charges, it would be impossible to convince anyone in any place other than North Korea, Burma or Cuba that discipline is warranted let alone disbarment.

Of course, one thing Lee Kuan Yew could do is to now create new offences, by accusing me of imaginary crimes.

Why not claim that I had killed 25 people while in Singapore and the only reason they did not charge me earlier was that only now were the bodies recovered!

Why not say that I had burgled 25 houses in Singapore but since the victims only reported the crimes now, they could not have charged me earlier!

Surely with these made up crimes, which you know Lee Kuan Yew is an expert in doing, disbarment will be at least arguable.

But on these present charges as they stand, Lee is going to look silly again.

From now until May 2010, there is still time for him to do this. Can we expect murder charges?

Gopalan Nair
39737 Paseo Padre Parkway, Suite A1
Fremont, CA 94538, USA
Tel: 510 657 6107
Fax: 510 657 6914
Email: nair.gopalan@yahoo.com
Blog: http://singaporedissident.blogspot.com/

Your letters are welcome. We reserve the right to publish your letters. Please Email your letters to nair.gopalan@yahoo.com And if you like what I write, please tell your friends. You will be helping democracy by distributing this widely. This blog not only gives information, it dispels government propaganda put out by this dictatorial regime.

Law Society of Singapore vs Gopalan Nair, absolute boredom

Ladies and Gentlemen,

As I had accurately predicted, since the Singapore elections have just been over, Singapore Law Society have started their nonsense again of trying to have me disbarred.

You can see why they waited for the elections to be over before commencing further action, I hope. These proceedings against me are so nonsensical and clearly a misuse of the law to silence dissent, that a few more thousand votes would have gone to the opposition with a few more seats lost.

So to avoid further shame, they wait till the elections are over. As it is, they have suffered their greatest loss in votes and support since the last 52 years, with a GRC and an SMC lost.

Their lawyer has now sent me numerous files, about 15 or so, through the Email which has reached me all garbled and unreadable. In total they amount to over 10,000 pages!

You know, I don't even want to waste my time reading that nonsense. Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore Law Society thinks, very stupidly, that merely sending out about 10,00 pages or so (in fact that is how long their case is) at me, somehow their case being the idiocy that it is, will suddenly make some sense.

What I am going to do of course is to state among the other defenses that I have against this tomfoolery is to say that I have not been properly served with the papers, since they have all reached me garbled.

For the reader who has been following these pages, let me remind you of what this is all about.

1. In 2008, more than 3 years ago, when I was in Singapore, I wrote a blog in Singapore Dissident (May 29, 2008) after attending Judge Belinda Ang Saw Ean's disgraceful performance as a judge in a court where she disgracefully forgot her job, and punished Lee Kuan Yew's political opponent Chee Soon Juan purely to silence him and destroy his political career, by ordering him to pay several hundreds of thousands of dollars to Lee.

There could not have been a greater travesty of justice than that.

The word "to prostitute" means someone who abuses his position for a dishonest purpose. I said in the blog "Belinda Ang Saw Ean prostituted herself in her position as a judge by being nothing more than an employee of Lee Kuan Yew and his son". I will say that again, thank you very much. In fact I had said it many times. And those words accurately descibe her disgraceful conduct from May 26 to May 28 2008 in the High Court in Singapore, where I was present as an observer.

2. On July 4 2008, in Singapore I was accosted by some strangers, wearing ordinary clothes, claiming they were policemen and demanded to know what I was doing. I refused. I was physically assaulted for that and suffered injuries. I was arrested. It turns out they are policemen. They charged me for cursing at them. I have denied the charges. I did not yell or curse at them. In any case, you don't disbar a lawyer for cursing at policemen.

3. While in court for charge 2 above, I told the court among other things that it was nothing but a kangaroo court and these charges were politically motivated. I stand by what I said. It was in fact a kangaroo court.

4. When they threw me in prison for 3 months for the Belinda Ang Blogging case, I was taken to court again and charged with contempt of court for my statements in para 3. The judge offered to drop the charges if I was apologized and promised to take down 2 blog posts about the judge in para 3, and not to criticize Singapore judges or their government again. In order not to prolong my stay in jail, I apologized and took down the blog posts and gave the undertaking they wanted. However I had no intention of ever keeping my promise to these bullies.

5. After I returned to the US, I wrote in this blog that I was withdrawing my undertaking given to the Singapore judge in para 4 and re posted the the blogs which I had taken down. I have continued my attacks against Singapore's corrupt judiciary and their government.

6. In addition to the Belinda Ang charge and the yelling at police charge, they are also charging me for reneging on my undertaking to the Singapore judge (para 4) and re posting the blogs.

7. Finally there is one more charge similar to the Belinda Ang charge in respect of another Singapore judge Judith Prakash in the Kangaroo Court Tshirt case. She sent 3 activists to jail just because they were found in the vicinity of the courts wearing Tshirts with pictures of kangaroos.

And for the above Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore courts are going to disbar me. And that I tell you is going to be hilarious.

In a way, I am glad Singapore is proceeding with these thoroughly political charges against me now after 3 years since the incident as it will undoubtedly have the effect of alienating even more Singaporeans against this Lee Kuan Yew dictatorship and pushing them to the opposition camp. In that way, I will be doing the Singapore opposition another favor through this case.

Gopalan Nair
Attorney at Law
39737 Paseo Padre Parkway, Suite A1
Fremont, CA 94538, USA
Tel: 510 657 6107
Fax: 510 657 6914
Email: nair.gopalan@yahoo.com
Blog: http://singaporedissident.blogspot.com/

Your letters are welcome. We reserve the right to publish your letters. Please Email your letters to nair.gopalan@yahoo.com And if you like what I write, please tell your friends. You will be helping democracy by distributing this widely. This blog not only gives information, it dispels government propaganda put out by this dictatorial regime.

All dictatorships eventually fall. And so too will Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore. Which will fall sooner than expected.

Ladies and Gentlemen,

We have seen this in history over and over again. Hitler had the most impressive European country with the most impressive economy. It fell. So did Mussolini, so did Franco and so did every single dictatorship that you can think of?

Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore dictatorship, just as all the others, relies on them ordering and the people obeying. It is a one way street. It leaves no room for detraction with just one simple rule. Either you submit or are destroyed. This might be OK in peasant economies where people know no better and are content with 3 meals a day. But Singapore is not like that. Singapore is bustling small city state where English happens to be the business language, where people can travel, and leave if they don't like it.

A society such as this demands a little more than just 3 meals a day. And dictatorships find such people difficult to subjugate.

The only way to succeed in such places is to conform your public image and actions to suit the master. Davinder Singh, Lee Kuan Yew's defamation lawyer is periodically deployed to abuse the law of defamation, with the help of Lee's judges, to eliminate his opponents. Singh knows what he is doing is wrong. He knows there is no basis in law or fact to punish Lee's critics through defamation actions, by sending them to jail or bankrupting them. He knows what he does is thoroughly dishonest. Yet he does it, because in Singapore, this is the only way one achieves high office. Singapore's state controlled media routinely splash his picture in their pages claiming him to be the best lawyer that ever lived. The people know better than this of course. But he does not care what anyone thinks, because in Singapore, as Lee Kuan Yew's personal lawyer he can do anything he wants, say anything he wants and get away with anything; as long he does not criticize his master.

I had criticized Judge Belinda Ang for having prostituted her position as a judge to please Lee Kuan Yew in a defamation case last year, for which he sent me to prison in Singapore for 3 months. I happened to be in Singapore when I said it in this blog. Since he can twist the law any which way he wants within Singapore, I was arrested and sent to prison. This judge, Belinda Ang abuses her authority, prostitutes her office as a judge by abusing the law to punish an innocent man Dr. Chee Soon Juan because he criticized Mr. Lee Kuan Yew. For that she fines him a sum of $430,000.00, no less. She knows Dr. Chee is not liable in law to Lee Kuan Yew. She knows she is prostituting her position as a judge, not to follow the rule of law but to be used as a political tool for Lee Kuan Yew. She knows what she is doing is wrong. But yet she does it, because that is the only way to succeed in Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore.

And like Said Zahari had called Lee Kuan Yew a "political lair" you can see that these 2 are similarly cowardly liars. You see, only a coward will challenge an opponent when he knows that his opponent is helpless, because he can abuse the system. So had I written this blog calling both Davinder Singh and this Judge Belinda Ang Saw Ean dishonest cowards in Singapore, I have no doubt I would be arrested and sent to prison as Lee had done it before. Even though my audience remains the same, since it is Singaporeans who are reading this blog, if both these people had any reputation at all, they should be suing me yet again or have me arrested and sent to prison in Singapore. But you see they won’t. They won't because both these people just as all these minions like them in Singapore are plain and simply cowards.

It is not as if these 2 persons had no recourse against me for the harm I have done, if indeed harm has been done. They can both commence action in Singapore courts, win their cases as surely they will, and then try to enforce their judgments in the Federal Courts in the US. Surely a judge of the Singapore high court, a supposedly respectable office, should not be scandalized in this manner. If indeed I have insulted this judge, and as Singaporeans are reading this blog, like they have done in the past; surely this woman, Judge Belinda Ang Saw Ean should not remain silent. Surely she must take some action to protect not only herself but also the reputation of the Singapore courts. Surely she has to do something.

But you see, they won't. They are themselves ashamed of what they do for a living. They know that other countries have little respect either for Singapore or their administration of justice. The cat is out of the bag. If they did attempt any action, they would not succeed in enforcing their judgments in the US, because US follows the rule of law. Had it been any other country, it would have been different. A British Australian or Canadian court will have the confidence to commence action within their jurisdiction and have it enforced in the US. This is because the laws of these countries are held in respect in the USA. Singapore’s has been the object of ridicule odium and contempt.

In this system, where dishonesty is rewarded with high office and lucrative jobs, the government finds it more and more difficult to find good people to join their ranks. The government has admitted this recently when Goh Chock Tong, the Senior Minister made this confession. It should not come as any surprise to anyone since most people, whether in Singapore or elsewhere are not the type like Davinder Singh or Judge Belinda Ang Saw Ean because they have certain principles. This results in Singaporeans not wanting to join the civil service or any government organization like the police force. As a result, the government has no choice but to rely on lesser and lesser qualified candidates. This has been recently shown by Dr. Chee Soon Juan in his blog where even highly experienced Singapore police officers have no knowledge the law. As admitted by these poorly qualified police officers, all they can do is to follows orders.

Although I have no personal knowledge of this, I would not be surprised if at this very moment Judge Judith Prakash, another dishonest and corrupt judge who permits herself to be used by Lee Kuan Yew for his political ends, is packing to leave for Australia. She knows the prospects for Singapore are not good. She knows that she is being thoroughly used by Lee Kuan Yew for a political purpose. She knows that she has been put to shame before the Singapore public. She finds it is embarrassing to show herself in public. She fears what would happen to her when the 86 year old Lee Kuan Yew, her patron and provider all these years were to die. Will she be held to account? Will she have to answer for her actions? Will she have to spend time in the very prison to which she sent her innocent victims? So she quite naturally wants to leave while the going is good. Perhaps if she was in Australia, she will be safe from Singaporean’s fury when the time comes. I do not know but I won't be surprised of this.

Since Singaporeans know this government to be thoroughly dishonest and corrupt and since many Singaporeans do not wish to earn a living in the shameful way that this man Davinder Singh and this Judge Belinda Ang Saw do, the government has to rely on foreigners who have no loyalty and no meaningful ties to Singapore to fill the vacuum. This is mediocre workers with mediocre skills, incomparable to native born Singaporeans. This lack of good talent again impacts this government's ability to perform well and weakens it.

Then, a desperate government such as this relies on giving scholarships to good students by sending them abroad, and making them serve decades with this government under a scheme which is in fact involuntary servitude. In this area too, the government is failing in getting candidates. Students are aware that if they accept these scholarships, they will have to spend their entire career serving this government to persecute and harm their fellow citizens to please their master. This knowledge has made many capable students either refuse government scholarships or causes them to break their contracts they signed with the government, since it was wrong for this government in the first place to demand this forced labor from them for decades.

And then you have the problem of massive emigration from the island. The problem of insufficient children being born in the country. With abortions reaching astronomical proportions. With suicides increasing. With unemployment escalating. With crime escalating. With people having lost all respect for the administration of justice or the civil service. With all these problems, the Singapore dictatorship has to fall just as all the other dictatorships around the world.

And the biggest problem of all is that Singaporeans are not allowed to participate in the political process of the island, unless it is to sing praises for Lee Kuan Yew's government. This isolates and alienates an entire section of the population who are the very ones that are needed to come up with new ideas and enterprises. Since Lee Kuan Yew only likes to hear praises, the one's who are capable of independent thinking have shut themselves off.

And without them, and these million dollar ministers and sycophants like Davinder Singh and Judge Belinda Ang Saw Ean cannot save Singapore.

Gopalan Nair
39737 Paseo Padre Parkway, Suite A1
Fremont, CA 94538, USA
Tel: 510 657 6107
Fax: 510 657 6914
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An excellent question from Edwin Soh which requires a full answer.

Hello
Sat 2/23/2008 1:45 AM

Mr. Gopalan Nair

I have read your blog webpage, singaporedissident.blogspot.com, and it provided me with some intriguing views on our government. From our history textbooks and media, MM Lee Kuan Yew has been portrayed as a wise man who knows whats best for Singapore, and there is certainly no denying MM Lee Kuan Yew's contributions to Singapore, making Singapore a modern and global city it is today.

But what I wish to ask you is this, if Singapore would do to go through a normal political process where political parties battle it out on a even playing field, instead of the PAP-dominated political elections it is today, would that Singapore be as or more successful than the present-day Singapore?

Your sincerely,
Edwin

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Above I have posted an excellent question raised by Edwin Soh which was Emailed to me; a question that deserves a blog post by itself.

This is the perennial question asked over and over again during the last 40 years of Singapore's history. Could Singapore have achieved the success you see; (that is, if you consider Singapore a success in the first place); without Lee Kuan Yew and his authoritarian government?

As for me, there can only be one answer. Singapore has not achieved any success at all under Lee Kuan Yew. Just because Lee has turned Singapore into a concrete and glass jungle instead of the original natural green one; is not success at all.

In fact Lee has seriously damaged the country, its civil society, its civil institutions and turned Singaporeans into a mindless bunch of sheep unable to think for themselves. Lee has permanently destroyed the ability of Singapore to achieve greatness.

So in answer to Edwin Soh, firstly Singapore is not a "modern and global city" as he claims; it could have been a much greater, more respected, more human place had it not been for the dictator Lee Kuan Yew.

What does Mr. Soh mean by a modern global city? Is it is the skyscrapers at the waterfront in downtown Singapore? If it is, those modern skyscrapers were built by a handful of government connected companies which houses numerous headquarters of foreign companies. The profits from the sale and leases of these modern buildings are pocketed by Lee Kuan Yew, his family members and supporters; a very small portion of Singapore’s population. As for the tenants of these modern buildings, they are all foreigners representing their foreign companies.

As for the ordinary Singaporean, there is nothing for him to benefit from those skyscrapers, be they modern or global. As for the regular Singapore Joe Bloke, it makes no difference whether the buildings were there or not, international or otherwise; since he does not benefit by their presence in any way. To the average Ah Kow, Ahmad or Samy, they are nothing more than white elephants.

Mr. Soh also calls it an international city? Is it really international? Yes, Singapore Airlines flies all over the world giving employment to half starved (because they are so skinny) air hostesses who are paid $3,000.00 or so a year. But they travel the world because they serve food to passengers on board aircraft, no more than waitresses in the sky? As for pilots, most of them are Malaysians anyway and they just fly planes. Singapore Airlines does not make Singapore a global or international city?

As for international trading, all of it is done by a handful of government connected companies with the blessing of Lee Kuan Yew, in the situation of "You scratch my back and I scratch yours"; similar to the situation in Burma where a handful of companies connected with the military junta trade internationally. The rest of the Burmese or Singapore populations have nothing international about them. They may have gone to Bangkok for a holiday but that does not make them international.

Let me now come to the crux of it. The high rise buildings that you see at Raffles Place do not make Singapore an international city. The average Singaporean is a hawker selling mee goreng or laksa at Boon Keng Food Court. The rest of them are civil servants dutifully doing whatever Lee Kuan Yew wants them to do and quietly going home. They have no knowledge of history, no literature, no interest in politics. They are nothing more than automatons. Not the type you normally find in an international city.

What Lee has done over 4o years is this. By instilling fear in everyone, he has managed to build up this concrete jungle at downtown Singapore and invited foreign companies to have their South East Asia headquarters in them; because Singapore has good infra structure, good telephones, transport and cleanliness, not forgetting an unquestioning and compliant workforce. In past years he was able to invite foreign manufacturing but since labor costs have gone up, all these jobs have gone to Indonesia.

In fact what Lee Kuan Yew has done is to destroy Singapore. Singapore with no natural resources has only its people to rely upon, whose minds Lee has permanently destroyed. He has turned ordinary thinking people into robots, a people who are only able to carry out orders but unable to think independently. And he has managed to do this through fear and greed. In fact he has turned an entire section of the population into a population from suffering political schizophrenia, from split personality.

You must have heard of Judge Belinda Ang's shameful judicial judgment in the case of Lee Kuan Yew vs. Dr. Chee Soon Juan in a recent defamation of character action where she found Dr. Chee guilty of defaming Lee merely for what he had written in his political newspaper, the Singapore Democrat, criticizing the government on their handling of the National Kidney Foundation's corrupt activities; in the run up to the 2006 national elections.

Everyone including Judge Belinda Ang herself, knows that there was nothing defamatory about Dr. Chee's article; nothing more than the exercise of free speech guaranteed under the constitution.

But yet this judge finds it necessary to please Lee Kuan Yew by distorting and abusing the law to find Lee's political opponent, Dr. Chee, guilty. She does this because she is required to do it; otherwise she will lose her job. What is more, by abusing the law to please her master Lee, she is amply rewarded by bribes of several million dollars. So it is convenient for her to abuse the law. So she does it.

But outwardly, if confronted with an explanation, she would swear on her grandmother's grave that she is as upright, honest and principled as the statue of Stamford Raffles itself; that stands on Singapore Square!

In other words she leads a double life. Outwardly pleasing her master Lee Kuan Yew by destroying Dr. Chee through the law; but privately knowing that she is doing nothing more than prostituting her profession, her calling and her oath of office as a judge! Shame on her.

But is not only Judge Belinda Ang that suffers from this political schizophrenia, this shameful double life, this lack of integrity. Lee Kuan Yew has managed to turn the entire civil service, the entire judiciary, almost the entire population into living this shameful double life. One life for the outside where it is all praise for Lee and his modern Singapore. The other privately for himself, kicking himself in shame; as he has to stoop so low to make a living in Singapore.

Other than these masses that live such desperate lives, such as that of this disgraced judge, Belinda Ang, there are those others who are educated with skills and talents; who are not prepared to live such disgraceful lives at any cost.

It is this large section of the population that form the Singapore Diaspora; hundreds and thousands of Singaporeans who just cannot stand the sight of Lee Kuan Yew and his minions. They have packed up and left for Australia, New Zealand, Canada, the UK and Sweden. It is these who are the best and most talented of Singaporeans. And unlike the likes of Judge Belinda Ang who will say or do anything for the right price, what I mean is unprincipled souls; the Singaporeans who leave are the upright educated human beings with principles, with honor, with pride; who refuse to dance whenever Lee demands it.

And by the destruction of the minds of Singaporeans who have chosen to remain and driving out the best and most able from Singapore, Lee Kuan Yew has not modernized Singapore, he has destroyed it. Those remaining in Singapore, the likes of Judge Belinda Ang, who is prepared to say that 2 and 2 make 5 anytime; are not the kind of people that can advance a country to greatness. The best have already left the country for good.

And the loss of educated capable Singaporeans is especially damaging to a small country like Singapore with only 3 million people; as the huge numbers of Singaporeans leaving Singapore is disproportionately damaging.

We are seeing hundreds of thousands of capable Singaporeans leaving a small island with a small population of 3 million. The damage that Lee is doing to Singapore by forcing such large numbers out; is debilitating to the very existence of the country.

So to the question, could Singapore have done better without Lee, I would say, of course. At least any other leader would not caused incurable damage to the minds of ordinary Singaporeans like Lee has done.

Second, Lee Kuan Yew has given a bad name to the country internationally. And the bad name means loss of investment opportunities, loss of trade opportunities and loss of prestige.

Take Australia for instance. The mention of Australia is synonymous with the rule of law, honest government, an independent judiciary, human rights, a free press, and freedom of speech and expression. With these perceived qualities, foreigners are prepared to settle in the country, invest in it, trade in it and have children in it.

Singapore on the other hand is known internationally as a place that hangs petty drug mules; beats prisoners with a stick in their backsides until they become bloody, sometimes causing death; where judges like Judge Belinda Ang will happily abuse the law to eliminate Lee Kuan Yew's opponents; where there is no rule of law at all; where there are no civil liberties at all; and where all newspapers are owned and controlled by the government as in North Korea.

This bad name that Singapore has, makes it uncompetitive. Foreigners have no respect for Singapore or its leaders whom they consider a bunch of bullies. Unlike respected countries like Australia, this means a lack of competitiveness; a lack of investments; a lack of trade and the world calling it nothing more than an Alice in Wonderland with the death penalty.

So Mr. Edwin Soh, this is what I respectfully say. Lee was and is bad for Singapore. And what is worse, he is 85 years old and is going to die. And when he dies his son will have an even harder time to keep the place going since we all know that he is nothing more than a fixture, placed there by Lee, his father.

And Lee's major failure is his inability to ensure a strong civil society with strong organs of government. Today in Singapore there are none. Everyone and everything takes the cue from Lee senior, through fear. And when he dies there will be a vacuum, disorder and uncertainty just as is the case when all other dictatorships fall.

As for the office units in the concrete jungle in the waterfront, they too will become empty when the world finally realizes to what extent Singapore has sunk under Mr. Lee Kuan Yew.

Thank you Mr. Edwin Soh.

Gopalan Nair
39737 Paseo Padre Parkway, Suite A1
Fremont, CA 94538, USA
Tel: 510 657 6107
Fax: 510 657 6914
Email: gopalnair@us-immigrationlaw.com

Singapore ethnic Chinese names, Kevin Wong and Platinum Chong reveals insight into their mindlessness

Update 10/28/2012: The words "effeminate looking" in para 11 is removed

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Remember, the Singapore ethnic Chinese woman High Court judge Belinda Ang , who dishes out court awards in Lee Kuan Yew's favor to keep her job? I had written about her disgrace in this blog earlier which landed me in a Singapore court and a Singapore jail. 

This post is to examine her name, Belinda Ang Saw Ean, an ethnic Chinese woman, yellow skin and slit eyes, and the usual Mongloloid features. In her ancestry country of China, there is no such name as Belinda, a Western name. Even though she has no connection whatsoever with the West, she never lived there, and has no roots there whatsoever, yet she prefers to call herself Belinda Ang. In fact her determination to sound American or English is so strong, nowhere is she ever referred to as Ang Saw Ean, which is who she really is. 

It is so with almost every single ethnic Chinese person in Singapore, the island’s majority racial group. There is no more Chinese Tan Ah Kow, a common Chinese name in Singapore anymore. You may still find one in a thousand if you look hard but real Chinese names are fading completely.

In Singapore, with Lee Kuan Yew turning it into a completely Chinese island with plane loads of Communist Chinese coolies being brought in each day to populate and Sinoese (if there is such a word) the island has today only Chinese faces everywhere you turn. Yet they all seem to be American, British or Australian by their first names, even though most of them have never step foot in the United States.

Every where you look these Chinese faces are all Kevins, Allans, Adams, and even Platinums. They appear to like American names that rhyme like a Chinese sing song, like Kevin, which can be split up into Ke-Veeen, Chinese style.

And they usually add a “har” or a “hor”, Chinese expressions at the end, like “Ke-Veen ha”. Quite often they can’t even pronounce the Western names they have chosen but yet want them anyway; for instance you see them saying “Lawlen” for Lawrence, because they have a hard time pronouncing the syllable “R”. It is truly disgusting for a Chinese looking person in Singapore to call himself “Lawlen” for “Lawrence”, truly.  

I wonder why they appear so determined to hide their own ethnicity and are so eager to want to be American although one look at them and there is no similarity whatsoever. Why are they so desperately trying to emulate Westerners?

To me it can only mean one thing. Singapore Chinese are by and large a people without any pride in themselves. They admire the Westerners and are ashamed not to have had the luck to have white parents. So they do the next best thing. They give themselves Western sounding names.

Any Englishman or Australian would have scant respect for an entire society of people, the Singapore Chinese, who are trying so hard to be like them.

But I can tell you this much. No matter how much they try, calling themselves Platinum Wong, they really can never be like an Englishman. You see, no Englishman would want to go out and call himself a Tan Ah Kow because he is proud of being English. An English John Smith is very much proud of being an English John Smith and would have refused to be Tan Ah Kow even if you paid a million.

He has no desire to have yellow skin, stub nose, split eyes and no facial hair as ethnic Singapore Chinese do. And neither is he prepared to live in submission of Lee Kuan Yew or his son in a dictatorship.

Also an Englishman is proud of his rights, his freedom and the principles that he cherishes the right to live as a free man. Whereas the Singapore Chinese who is calling himself Tony Tan has no pride, no principles, no convictions and quite willing to live happily under any dictatorship any time including that of Lee Kuan Yew.

That is where the difference lies. And by the way, I am Gopalan Nair, of Indian descent. And I refuse to be called John, Frank or even Tony even if you paid me a million. This is what differentiates me and the Englishman John Smith from the Singaporean Belinda Ang, Walter Woon, Quentin Loh, and Platinum Chong. Mind you every one of these persons has a Chinese name in full. It is only that they don't want to say it. They are ashamed of their Chineseness and are desperately trying to be someone else.

Gopalan Nair
A Singaporean in Exile
Attorney at Law
Fremont, California, USA
Tel: 510 491 4375

Singapore, simply a sore loser, in disputing "The White Paper".

Updated Nov 15, 2009
Re-updated Nov 15, 2009

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Singapore has indeed reached it's nadir in self respect.

There comes a time, among totalitarian regimes when they have such a bad name, they no longer care what people think.

Just as North Korea a repressive dictatorial regime claiming daily to be the best and most humane democracy in the world!

Just as Burma does; countries that don't care anymore what you know.

Singapore similarly has hit rock bottom in its reputation, and knowing it, they say silly things, regardless even if they are simply nonsense.

After all, with a reputation like that, what is there to lose!

A few days ago, Robert Amsterdam, the renowned Canadian human rights advocate and lawyer stationed in London wrote a scathing detailed account of human rights abuses in Singapore especially about Dr. Chee Soon Juan, Singapore's foremost political dissident.

For the past 18 years Lee Kuan Yew unable to silence Dr. Chee, has continued to persecute him, repeatedly jailing and bankrupting him, yet he refuses to give up.

Instead, of condemnation, he receives international acclaim and praise while this government is detested as authoritarian and intolerant of dissent.

Having run out of ideas on how to deal with him, they have now descended to telling outright lies about him and like small children in a quarrel have started calling him names!

This is surely not the hall mark of any nation worth its salt. It is that of banana republics.

To Robert Amsterdam’s article, they responded now with a 10 page document, headed "Singapore Government responds to the "White Paper on the Repression of Political Freedoms in Singapore" by a Canadian law firm", SG Press Center dated November 11, 2009, rebutting whatever Robert Amsterdam had said.

Singapore’s response did not contain a single truth in its entirety.

Surely, with a government owned and controlled media, they can go on telling any lie they want, any time they want, since there is no one to challenge them in Singapore.

But what is disgusting about Singapore’s action was this.

It is one thing to tell a lie and hope to get away with it.

It is quite another to tell a lie knowing your listener knows it is one.

It says "Singaporeans have repeatedly rejected Dr. Chee and his party" pointing out that in Singaporean elections, Dr. Chee's party the SDP polled the lowest votes among the 2 other parties.

Firstly we do not know whether in fact this is true.

For all you know, the elections themselves which are run, not by any independent body but by the Prime Minister's office itself, may have all been rigged to produce the desired result.

Lee Kuan Yew has of course consistently claimed that his elections are fair, but till today, no independent monitors have been allowed to ensure its fairness.

Moreover if anyone even questioned the impartiality of elections, they will be sued impoverished imprisoned and bankrupted with lightning speed, just as the lightning sign in Lee Kuan Yew's political party emblem!

Moreover, Dr. Chee Soon Juan being a highly qualified and capable individual poses the greatest threat to Lee Kuan Yew and his people, if he ever enters Parliament.

Therefore as he has to be stopped at any cost, the media and every organ of state is used at election time to the maximum to vilify and defame him.

Moreover, because of serial numbers on election ballots, the general fear was that if you voted for Dr. Chee Soon Juan's party, you will be discovered and punished.

Under these impossible odds, it was a miracle that Dr. Chee Soon Juan's party got even the number of votes they did.

So Lee Kuan Yew's argument that "Singaporeans have repeatedly rejected Dr. Chee and his party" sounds rather hollow does it not?

It is as if you tie the hands of your opponent in a boxing match and then say you won hands down!

It says "Singapore is a democratic state with a government that is elected through universal franchise".

But in Singapore, there is no independent press; all of it is state owned and controlled.

There is no independent judiciary; they are all beholden to Lee Kuan Yew.

There is no human rights, no freedom of speech expression or assembly, even though these rights are in the Constitution.

The slightest criticism of Lee Kuan Yew, his government or his courts would either land you in jail or bankrupted.

The average man is terrified of his government and his own mouth.

He goes about like a zombie. In these circumstances, how do you say "Singapore is a democratic state with a government that is elected through universal franchise"?

It says Singapore has a "well established legal framework and has an independent judiciary that has been ranked among the top in the world by World Economic Forum, IMD and PERC.

I am not sure how these organizations said what they are alleged to have said, or whether they even said so in the first place.

But I can tell you this. They are simply wrong.

They are somewhere else and simply have no idea of what goes on in Singapore.

They should come and ask people in Singapore how they rank their judiciary.

They should ask Dr. Chee Soon Juan who has been jailed 7 times simply for making speeches or peaceful protests in Singapore whether there is an independent judiciary.

They should ask me, having spent 3 months in jail for merely criticizing Singapore’s judge Belinda Ang Saw Ean; and only then should they come up with these accolades.

Singapore has a corrupt judiciary; corrupt because they have forgotten what being a judge is, that is to be independent and fair.

They have instead become Lee Kuan Yew's servants to do his bidding.

Singapore it says "has a written constitution that is supreme and which guarantees liberties such as the right to life or personal liberty, right to equal protection, freedom of speech, assembly, association and religion".

Big words. Only if this were true.

How do you say you have a right to freedom of speech, when every single newspaper is owned and controlled by the government and to print and publish any literature, you need a permit?

When you are sued whenever you criticize the government?

When you have to apply for a permit even to hold a one man peaceful protest?
When, even if you apply for it, you will be denied?

How do you say equal protection when a Tamil cannot live in any part of Singapore he wants, since the government housing agency (HDB) will not allow it?

When the Tamil (although a citizen) is required to live only in government designated areas?

When it is a police state where the police can stop search frisk and arrest anyone anytime without any probable cause, even on trumped up charges?

In these pathetic circumstances, what written constitution is Singapore talking about?

Then this shameless government goes on not only to defame Dr. Chee Soon Juan again, it belittles him. Is this really necessary for a so called government of a sovereign nation?

And what is worse, none of what they say is true. It starts with the words "he was sacked by the University for misusing research funds".

This is what you say, but Dr. Chee has denied ever misusing any funds.

And since you control all the newspapers and Dr. Chee Soon Juan was never given any real opportunity to challenge your allegations, what do you expect any Singaporean to believe?

In these circumstances, I tell you what I believe. I believe you are shamelessly lying through your teeth; other wise you would not be using your state controlled press to disallow anyone else to have a word edgewise.

But you fail to realize that people are not as stupid as you think. We all can see that only a government that is trying to hide the truth will muzzle the press and prevent a contrary argument.

Dr. Chee Soon Juan never did any of those things you say.

He was simply framed, playing by your book of dirty tricks for which you are world famous, with these accusations, merely because in 1991, he had the audacity to join the opposition political party SDP, and challenge you at the polls.

Since he was not prepared to be silenced and neutered, like your poodle Chiam See Tong, he had to be removed; which you did in the only dirty way you know; by trumped false charges. It was as simple as that.

And in your desperation to discredit him which is not very successful, you start by calling him names and mock him, hoping this would somehow lower his standing.

No self respecting nation would have stooped so low like you do here by your reference to his hunger strike, accusing him of "eating a hearty breakfast" every morning and "taking glucose" etc.

Your reference to these things is not only disgraceful; it is also embarrassing for a government of a country.

You then argue that Dr. Chee soon Juan was guilty after all because “he could have sued the University but did not".

Isn't Lee Kuan Yew here unashamedly insulting our intelligence? Don't we all know that the Singapore courts are all controlled by Lee Kuan Yew?

And don’t we all know that there was no chance whatsoever of Dr. Chee Soon Juan winning any law suit in Lee Kuan Yew's courts in his entire lifetime?

So does it not seem completely logical that Dr. Chee Soon Juan would do no such thing? This is the sort of argument here that boils the blood of all of us, which is to argue a point which we all know to be completely and entirely untrue.

It then refers to Chiam See Tong, a sort of pseudo opposition politician, as "a respected and honorable man". Surely we are not surprised it says this.

As opposed to Dr. Chee Soon Juan, Chiam See Tong, although not in name, is almost a member of the PAP, Lee Kuan Yew's political party.

Chiam See Tong, as we all know, has been a great asset to Lee Kuan Yew and his PAP.

Lee Kuan Yew knows that for Singapore, it would not look very good in the eyes of the world if every single MP in Singapore were a PAP member, in which case, it would be another Cuba.

So to give it the appearance of a multi party democracy, an opposition member or two in Parliament helps.

So who better to have as an "opposition member" than Chiam See Tong. Chiam never attacks the PAP where it really matters.

He does not question the denial of human rights, of free speech, free press and expression.

He does not engage in peaceful protests.

He would perhaps say a few words on the lack of sufficient parking lots in Geylang, Singapore or some other totally insignificant matter, take his monthly stipend and go home.

He is a tame docile and obedient Lee Kuan Yew lackey, politically impotent and castrated. Surely a man like that for Lee Kuan Yew has to be, in his words, a "respected and honorable man"!

And the lies goes on, such as "Chiam was very unhappy with Dr. Chee's antics", "Dr. Chee maneuvered to oust Chiam" etc etc. In other words, it wants us to believe that Chiam was a good guy and Dr. Chee was a bad one.

What is the point of all this I wonder. Can we not as humans with normal intelligence decide ourselves who is Chiam See Tong and who is Dr. Chee Soon Juan?

And then it says that Dr. Chee Soon Juan fabricated evidence before the Select Committee on health expenditure and was fined.

Frankly we don’t know if this is true and in any case, it has no relevance to Robert Amsterdam's White Paper which claims that Singapore abuses the law to punish political dissidents.

It now talks about the 2001 elections and Goh Chock Tong.

It says Dr. Chee Falsely accused the government of loaning $10 million to Indonesia for which he was sued and found liable.

What Singapore does not tell you here is this. There was ample evidence in Singapore’s own state controlled newspapers that in fact Indonesian President Suharto had asked Singapore for a huge loan during Indonesia's economic crises and there was rampant speculation that in fact the loan was given.

In these circumstances, tell me why it was wrong to question a Prime Minister whether this was the case, since under the rule of law (which Singapore is supposed to have) politicians, especially those in government are required to submit to a wide latitude of public scrutiny, it being in the public interest.

Dr. Chee should never have been sued in the first place and even if he was, the lawsuit should have been dismissed.

In fact not only was Dr. Chee sued and found liable, he was ordered to pay several hundred thousands dollars in damages, an amount which was calculated not to compensate Goh Chock Tong but to permanently destroy Dr. Chee Soon Juan from ever running for political office.

Now the case of Lee Kuan Yew and Dr. Chee Soon Juan in the 2006 lawsuit.

Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore lies when it says "Dr. Chee's articles alleged that Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew and (his son) PM Lee Hsien Loong was corrupt and covered up serious financial wrong doing in National Kidney Foundation (NKF) a major charity".

We know what happened of course.

NKF, a government charity was caught in fraudulent activity.

What Dr. Chee Soon Juan said was something to this effect, namely, that if a government owned charity could be so corrupt, what guarantee do we have that the government itself is not corrupt.

Now a statement like this is normal and acceptable in any democracy, merely raising concern over the need for honesty and integrity in government. It was not defamatory at all.

But we know why Singapore’s Lee Kuan Yew commenced the legal actions that he did.

2006 was an election year.

This fraud in a government charity looked very bad for him.

So, in accordance with his time honored dirty tricks, he sued using his corrupt judiciary.

What we are not told is that Judge Belinda Ang Saw Ean, this shameless woman whose career is primarily running around doing Lee Kuan Yew's errands, denies Dr. Chee Soon Juan even a trial.

She decides the case merely on affidavits privately in her chambers!

Dr. Chee Soon Juan is not allowed to produce any witnesses!

Lee Kuan Yew or none of his witnesses is subject to cross examination.

The case is found in favor of Lee Kuan Yew, to use the pun on his political party emblem, with "lightning speed".

Some time later, this same shameless woman of a judge, Belinda Ang Saw Ean, hears the case to decide the quantum of damages.

If there was ever a more shameless spectacle of a travesty of justice, I am not aware of it.

I went to Singapore specifically to attend this hearing and was present throughout the 3 shameful days in court.

I wrote about it in this blog Singapore Dissident on May 29, 2008 "Singapore Judge Belinda Ang's Kangaroo court" the following words " The judge Belinda Ang was throughout prostituting herself during the entire proceedings by being nothing more than an employee of Mr. Lee Kuan Yew and son and carrying out their orders".

In my blog, I said many other things about this judge of course, but for these words, I was charged and convicted in Singapore and jailed for 3 months.

How shamelessly this judge behaved is written in my blog.

The case was not a case at all.

It was a public lynching of Dr. Chee Soon Juan and Miss Chee Siok Chin.

And why I say that this government has no shame at all to lie is this.

In court, disregarding the Singapore journalists who will shamelessly lie for their state owned newspapers, there were several journalists from free and democratic countries present.

They saw the shameful spectacle.

Yet this shameless government says “they (Dr. Chee and Siok Chin) behaved outrageously throughout the proceedings"!

We know who was outrageous and it was not Dr. Chee Soon Juan or Chee Siok Chin.

What Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore does not say is the amount of damages awarded against Dr. Chee Soon Juan and Chee Siok Chin.

Not surprisingly in Singapore’s unique legal system, and as expected, it was more than $400,000.00 (approximately US$ 300,000.00).

And what is more, at the end of the 3 day hearing, the judge, to please Lee Kuan Yew even more or perhaps directly under his orders, sends Dr. Chee Soon Juan and Chee Siok Chin to jail for 2 weeks for contempt of court!

Then Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore come up with various instances of Dr. Chee Soon Juan breaking the “law” by his civil disobedience.

What law are they talking about?

In all these cases Dr. Chee Soon Juan either spoke or held a peaceful protest on matters of public interest.

There was nothing illegal about his actions.

The Constitution specifically gives these rights to citizens.

Lee Kuan Yew's government had made laws to make these constitutional rights illegal by requiring permits to speak or assemble in public. And what is worse, there is no point in applying for any permit because in Singapore’s entire history, no permits were ever granted the opposition.

Constitutional law under common law specifically disallows the making of laws in violation to the Constitution, which is supreme.

Lee Kuan Yew's laws taking away these constitutional rights are illegal. Period.

Dr. Chee committed no crimes at all in his conducting peaceful protests or public speaking. Lee Kuan Yew' Singapore is simply telling a shameless lie by saying this.

Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore then claims that Dr. Chee Soon Juan committed contempt of court because Singapore has great judges and an "independent judiciary".

I suppose North Korea will say that too. Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore can say all they want of course, it is quite another thing if anyone believes them.

Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore then talks of freedom of assembly, yet restricts that right, by requiring permits, which they say are necessary to, believe it or not, “prevent terrorism”.

Very conveniently said, is it not? Terrorism!

Where in Heavens did the Singapore government get the idea of Dr. Chee Soon Juan being a terrorist! Dr. Chee Soon Juan is no terrorist.

Why then all this talk of terrorism?

Very simply put, Singapore has no excuse to deny the right of citizens the right to peaceful assembly. Lacking any argument whatsoever, you can expect a morally bankrupt country to talk about such irrelevance, would you not?

This government talks of their illegal detention of their citizens without trial under the Internal Security Act.

Their argument of course is totally wide off the mark, since they have no justifiable argument whatsoever.

They defend this illegal practice claiming it was introduced by the British.

What has a law that was introduced by the British more than half a century ago got anything to do with reality of Singapore now, you may to ask.

If the British had introduced the punishment of pulling out fingernails, would Lee Kuan Yew have still retained it?

Does the simple fact of it being introduced by the British somehow give it legitimacy?

And then they claim that the prisoner is allowed visits etc etc. We should tell Lee Kuan Yew and his government that detention without trial of Singapore citizens in their own country is simply wrong.

If you have evidence, then try them. If not, simply shut up.

Don't give us a history lesson of the communist threats. Those things were in the past, many moons ago.

Singapore’s Lee Kuan Yew then goes on to defend his regular use of defamation lawsuits to silence dissent by his subservient judges routinely ordering damages of hundreds of thousands of dollars against Lee’s political opponents merely for commonplace criticism.

Dr. Chee Soon Juan, JB Jeyaretnam, Tang Liang Hong, western newspapers such as the Economist and Wall Street Journal have all been sued through Lee Kuan Yew's favorite weapon, the defamation law suit.

And in all these cases, if you were to examine what they had said, I am sure you would not find a single instance of actionable conduct.

Not a single instance.

But yet in all of them, they were all found guilty, the judgments were all in hundreds of thousands of dollars and they were all bankrupted.

Perhaps the single fact which gives the cat away is that every one of them were politicians and the criticism was against Lee Kuan Yew and his government.

I suppose that very well explains the abuse of Lee Kuan Yew's law and his corrupt judges without more.

Singapore then goes on to defend Chiam See Tong and Low Thia Khiang, 2 miserable opposition members in Singapore's Parliament of 84 members of which 82, mind you 82, are PAP members.

This by itself should tell the inquiring mind a great deal about Lee Kuan Yew's style of democracy.

As I said, these 2 opposition members serve the purpose of Lee Kuan Yew and his government and do nothing for the cause of the opposition.

They are, as I said, lauded and extolled as model opposition politicians. Why, because they do nothing for the opposition.

They may make some quiet noises about something completely irrelevant in Parliament such as the parking lots in Hougang or Potong Pasir, and quietly go home.

And of course they collect their monthly stipends.

And because they are such good opposition politicians, for Lee Kuan Yew that is, they get some government contracts which benefit their private businesses.

Beyond that they don't do much.

Coming to JB Jeyaretnam, not satisfied that Singapore has persecuted and hounded him throughout his political career, they now want; it seems; to defame his name even after he is dead.

I need not defend JB Jeyaretnam.

Singapore knows JB Jeyaretnam, the champion of his people who fought so hard for their dignity and was throughout his career repeatedly sued bankrupted hounded and jailed for no crime whatsoever, except that he was a threat to the continued power of Lee Kuan Yew and family.

I know him personally as a member of the Workers Party from 1984 to 1991.

All I need to say about JB Jeyaretnam is this.

From as early as the 1970s, Lee Kuan Yew was terrified of JB Jeyaretnam as a threat to his position which meant that from that time till he died, Lee Kuan Yew brought a series unrelenting trumped up lawsuits without any basis whatsoever against him which finally ruined and killed him.

JB Jeyaretnam was a great man. And his name will live in eternity.

Now Singapore refers to the case against me, Gopalan Nair.

It starts off with a lie as follows "Mr. Gopalan Nair had sent an email to various people in Singapore (including the Attorney General) making various scandalous allegations against justice Belinda Ang (Belinda Ang Saw Ean)a judge of the Supreme Court."

This statement is a lie, and Singapore knows it.

This is what happened.

I was in Singapore High Court attending the hearing for the assessment of damages of Lee Kuan Yew's defamation case against Dr. Chee Soon Juan and Chee Siok Chin from May 26 2008 to May 28, 2008.

I was seated in court in the visitor’s gallery and observed the proceedings.

I found the conduct of the judge Belinda Ang Saw Ean disgraceful and shameful.

She did not appear to act as a judge at all, but was there only to please Lee Kuan Yew and his son and do whatever they desired.

It was not only a shameful sight, it was almost embarrassing, not just for a judge but for any human being to crawl so low.

On May 29, 2008, I wrote a blog post in this blog entitled Singapore’s Judge Belinda Ang's Kangaroo Court."

In it I detailed to the best of my memory what I remembered to be some of the most shameful instances of bias on the part of this judge.

One of my statements in the blog post was "The judge Belinda Ang, was throughout prostituting herself during the entire proceedings by being nothing more than an employee of Mr. Lee Kuan Yew and his son and carrying out their orders."

I had never sent anyone any Emails as this Singapore report claims.

On May 31, 2009, at about 8.30 pm, I was arrested by about 5 plain clothes policemen as I was descending the elevator in my hotel at the lobby.

I was immediately handcuffed in the elevator, manhandled, taken back to my hotel room on the 7th floor and there my room was ransacked in my presence.

Among the items seized were my passport and a handwritten note book which contained various personal particulars among which was my Yahoo Email address user name and password.

The Arresting Officer and Investigating Officer was Assistant Superintendant Abdul Razak Zakaria of Central Police Station, Singapore.

The Address is

Central Police Station
391 New Bridge Road
#03-112 Police Cantonment Complex, Block A
Singapore 088762

Fax: (65) 62200877
The telephone numbers and Emails are:

ASP Abdul Razak Zakaria, Telephone Office (65) 6557 3361, Telephone Mobile (65) 9756 7953

Commander/ DAC Lau Peet Meng, Telephone (65) 6557 5001 Email: lau_peet_meng@spf.gov.sg

Dy Commander/ Supt Lee Ping Yue, Telephone (65) 6557 5002 Email: lee_ping_yue@spf.gov.sg

Head Investigation/ Supt Abdul Khalik Abdul Latiff Telephone: (65) 6557 3323 Email: abdul_khalik_latiff_@spf.gov.sg

I was taken to Central Police Station.

I was locked up in solitary confinement for about 10 days or so.

I was interrogated day and night several times. Several times in the middle of the night and early morning hours.

They were trying to break my spirit.

This was torture no less.

The interrogations were as many as several times a day. They were unrelenting.

Each time I was taken from the cell, placed in handcuffs and taken to an interrogation room. There my one hand was handcuffed to the bench I sat.

Inspector Abdul Razak Zakaria was a Malay Muslim man in his 40s with a boyish face.

He told me he was very recently promoted Assistant Superintendant.

Almost every day, he showed me several emails which had my Email address. However the sender was Pallichadath Gopalan Nair, a name I have not used since 2004. I have used the name Gopalan Nair only.

These emails had attachments of my blog posts from this blog Singapore Dissident including the blog post about Judge Belinda Ang Saw Ean's about which I wrote.

They were addressed to various important people including Judge Belinda Ang Saw Ean herself, the Attorney General and Solicitor General among others.

I had never sent any of these Emails.

ASP Abdul Razak Zakaria kept insisting that I sent these Emails and I kept repeating that I never sent any of them.

He kept saying that it had my email address on them, therefore I must have sent them.

I kept telling him that I wrote the blog post about Judge Belinda Ang Saw Ean, but I never sent these Emails.

I told him that I did write these blog posts. That Singapore Dissident is my blog and all the blog posts were written by me.

But I never sent any of these Emails. I told him there was no need for me to send anyone any Emails, since I had my blog.

This Malay policeman's interrogation was unrelenting.

He asked me to admit that the Emails were mine.

More than once he said he said he was going to charge me under the Sedition Act threatening me with 3 years in jail, an inducement of sorts, that perhaps if I admitted sending these Emails, he would instead be lenient?

The fact is I never sent any of these Emails that he produced. And I simply told him that I was not prepared to admit to sending any emails, no matter what he did.

Frankly I do not know whether these Emails were in fact sent or by whom, although the suspicion is this man, ASP Abdul Razak Zakaria who got possession of my Email address and password, himself sent it, or got others to send it, I have no idea.

During my trial, the prosecution brought in the secretary of Judge Belinda Ang Saw Ean who said in court that she received Emails to which my blog posts were attached from a sender named Pallichadath Gopalan Nair. So did the private secretaries of other judges.

I cross examined Abdul Razak Zakaria on the witness box for several days.

I asked him if he checked the contents of my notebook to which his answer was "that he glanced through it".

I suggested to him that he must have gone through the book with a fine tooth comb, to which he answered (hilarious) that he did not know what a fine tooth comb had to do with this case! His English was poor.

I had told him and the judge throughout the trial that I admit writing the blog post and I am very proud of it and stand by every word in it.

But I never sent any Emails. In any case, I had no reason to send Emails to this judge or anyone else, since I had my blog and the world will read it.

The judge admitted that there was no evidence that I sent any Emails and I was not being charged for any Emails.

Despite this; despite the fact that it was never proven that I sent any Emails to anyone, this Singapore report shamelessly states categorically that I sent Emails to various people!

Yes, I did write my blog then as I am doing now, but accusing me of sending Emails when this was not proved at all, shows how low this government would go in their desperate attempt to salvage their reputation, which unfortunately has irretrievably sunk rock bottom.

One interesting occurrence during the 8 day trial was this.

I was cross examining Abdul Razak Zakaria on the stand during the Muslim month of Ramadan, the Muslim holy fasting month.

During this time it was particularly important for Muslims not to offend by religious indiscretion, one of which is of course lying under oath.

Zakaria being a Malay Muslim is conditioned by his religious and superstitious beliefs.

The Malay Muslim, by their superstition and beliefs, believe that to take the oath to God and to lie is a mortal sin, which they cannot reconcile during their prayers to Allah, which by the way, I assume Abdul Razak Zakaria does.

So I took very careful care to ensure that he took the oath to tell the truth, which meant in this case to Allah.

I then asked him whether he was a Muslim to which he answered yes.

I then asked him whether it is a sacrilegious and blasphemy to tell a lie under oath and he said "Yes".

I asked this a number of times to drive home the message at which point both the prosecutor and judge objected that I should refrain from reference to his religion.

But the damage was already done. Abdul Razak Zakaria was put on the spot. There he was in front of a court and audience, having taken the oath before God and now he would have to lie. He was uncomfortable. .

Zakaria seemed particularly irritable and discomfit when I asked him if he lied when he said, he did not send any Emails using my Email address; that he did not know anyone who sent these Emails; and that he did not collaborate with the Attorney General or others in stage managing this Email accusation.

I pointed out to him that among the Malay Muslims, when they have committed some offense against Allah as serious as lying under oath, they and their offspring and their descendants would suffer the wrath of Allah.

He was particularly nervous when he acknowledged this before an audience in court.

It might be interesting for the reader to contact the Central Police Station, contact particulars above, and speak to Abdul Razak Zakaria and ask him again whether he lied under oath and as to who it was that sent those Emails.

It might be interesting to ask him whether he or his family members have recently suffered any calamity resultant on the wrath of Allah for lying under oath during Ramadan?

In fact the criminal charge that I was charged with had nothing to do with me. I was charged under Section 228 of the Singapore Penal Code (Lee Kuan Yew’s law) which read "Whoever intentionally offers any insult or causes any interruption to any public servant, while such public servant is sitting in any stage of judicial proceeding shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to one year, or with fine which may extend to $5,000.00 or with both"

This charge clearly refers to someone who was physically present in court and while there, in the presence of the judge, either insulted her in person or caused a disturbance. On the 29th of May 2008, the court of Judge Belinda Ang Saw Ean was not in session hearing this defamation case. And I was not in her court on that day.

I had said nothing to her in her court or interrupted her proceedings. All I did was to write a blog in my hotel a day after the case was over, that is, on May 29, 2008. By any reasonable reading of this criminal provision, I was not guilty at all.

Second, the charge itself was vague and overbroad. It refers to an "insult". What is an insult is never defined. I had argued at the trial before Lee Kuan Yew's stooge of a judge Kang Ting Chiu that what I had said was true. To “prostitute oneself” is according to all the dictionary definitions, to debase one's profession or calling for an improper personal gain. There is no doubt this is what Judge Belinda Ang Saw Ean was doing in the Lee Kuan Yew defamation case.

I argued that if what I said was true, there cannot possibly be an insult. The judge would not accept it. According to him, believe it or not, even if it was true, it could be an insult! According to him, believe it or not, it would be an insult, to tell someone "your father is a drunk". He was not prepared to listen to the argument that in Lee Kuan Yew's case, my comment was perfectly acceptable as it was a case of great public interest and notoriety.

Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore refers in the article that I had said perhaps the word "prostituting" was too strong, and by my saying so, it therefore became a criminal act! Surely there can be no more stupid argument than that!

Yes, the words "Belinda Ang prostituted herself during the entire proceedings....” may be a little strong. Perhaps I could have said that “she shamelessly abused her authority” or even that “she thoroughly misused her position” etc. But using a stronger or more moderated language does not detract from the fact that the words used were factually true in the English language; it was not vulgar or offensive; and it is a phrase that is acceptable in the usual and normal usage of the language.

Nothing that I said mattered to the judge. Perhaps, he already had orders from Lee Kuan Yew that I not only was to be punished, but also the length of the prison sentence.

Now the case of Tang Liang Hong.

Tang Liang Hong merely had the audacity of standing for elections against Singapore’s "Glorious Ruler" Lee Kuan Yew and to correctly accuse him of getting personal favors for himself and his entire family, in the form of discounts for the purchase of Apartment units in Jade Apartments.

These revelations if proven would fly in the face of Lee's claims that he is not corrupt.

So he does the only thing he knows.

He gets his compliant judges to go against Tang Liang Hong. We have heard of that dirty trick before for sure. Nothing more need be said.

In conclusion it says Singapore has grown prosperous because of its rule of law.

We don’t know whether it is in fact prosperous but we do know there is no rule of law.

As for prosperity, in a country where the average man has to eke out a living with a salary of about US$6,000 per year with a very high cost of living; and while the top few like Lee Kuan Yew and his corrupt judges earn several millions a year is hardly prosperous by any yardstick.

What the report does not say is that as many as 5,000 highly educated skilled Singapore citizens leave Singapore permanently for foreign residence; sufficient numbers of children are not being born; one in every 3 Singaporeans is a foreigner and we have very poorly qualified men being made Assistant Superintendants of Police like this man Abdul Razak Zakaria.

Singapore is not doing well at all.

And the reason is the lack of human rights and the rule of law.

Gopalan Nair
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