Redwood City California. Boycott the meeting with Million Dollar Minister (National Service) (Rear Admiral) Lui Tuck Yew on April 24, 2007.

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Introduction

One Mr. Roger Liew, I believe a Singaporean living locally here in the San Francisco Bay Area, has sent invitations to Singaporeans and perhaps others, under an organization called "Singapore Connect” including me, to attend a function on April 24, 2007 at the Sofitel (perhaps a restaurant) at 223 Twin Dolphin Drive, Redwood City (a city near San Francisco, not far from where I am).

The function is supposed to be a "buffet reception cum informal dialogue session with the Minister of State for Education, RADM (NS) Lui Tuck Yew.

For those unfamiliar with Singapore military ranking, RADM means Rear Admiral and NS means this man is still under national service military obligations and he doubles up as an education minister.

Roger Liew I believe is the PAP government's representative in the San Francisco Bay Area who has been commissioned, presumably being paid millions of dollars by the Lee Administration, like the government ministers, to try to stem the growing opposition among Singaporeans overseas against the PAP government by providing free buffet dinners to disgruntled overseas Singaporeans.

My letter is to urge you, Singaporeans, to stay away from this meeting as a sign of protest and boycott against the denial of Singaporeans their human rights and as a protest against the Lee Administration's raising of theirs and their Civil Servants salaries which amounts to daylight robbery of the Singaporeans' hard earned money amounting to embezzlement, no more no less.

Lack of support worldwide among Singaporeans

I can say with confidence that even without this call for a boycott, most overseas Singaporeans stay away from functions organized by the Singapore government abroad, functions such as this, anyway.

I am sure that you are aware of this already.

I have received information that the Singapore governments attempts to get foreign Singaporeans in Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, Toronto, London and Frankfurt to support the organizations set up there by so called Singapore contact organizations have failed miserably. I have been told that the Singapore organization in Sydney recently only managed to get no more than a handful Singaporeans to attend a function organized by the Singapore consulate there, despite the fact that there are scores of thousands of Singaporeans living in Sydney. It is the same low attendance in all cities throughout the world in Singapore High Commissions Embassies and Consulates functions. In an desperate attempt to get more support from overseas Singaporeans, quite often as you know, the Singapore government uses fronts and outside organizations to conceal the fact that it is in fact a Singapore government function, in the belief that this way, they will be able to get more attendees. But frankly these tricks and clandestine methods to gain the support of overseas Singaporeans does not appear to work.

To put it in a nutshell, most overseas Singaporeans have said good riddance to the Singapore government and to their leader Lee Kuan Yew and his son. Why this dislike for Singapore, which was once their country? The reason should be obvious.

Most Singaporeans who emigrate are highly educated motivated people with a conscience and conviction, talent and ability. They see no need to earn a living under circumstances where one has to live no more than a slave in Singapore and what is worse, having to listen daily to the disgusting pomposity and arrogance of Lee, his son and his chosen ministers, who appear to think that it is they and they alone who have heads on their shoulders and no one else has one.

So overseas Singaporeans stay away. What is more, they feel attending these functions give legitimacy to the banana republic regime of Lee and son. This explains the lack of interest in these functions among overseas Singaporeans. I have heard that the dislike and the disinterest among overseas Singaporeans have reached unprecedented highs lately, especially since the recent announcement of Lee Kuan Yew and his son deciding to corruptly pay themselves salary increases of mind boggling unacceptable levels of several millions of dollars. Overseas Singaporeans particularly find this thoroughly unacceptable since great numbers of Singaporeans live in poverty of, believe it or not, less than $300.00 per month. This has debunked the claim of Lee and his son that Singapore is a first world country when it is just a third world country or a classification one notch further down.

Roger Liew

I had said that this is being organized by Roger Liew through an organization that he has put up called "Singapore Connect". Although he has denied it, Roger Liew is a PAP representative in the San Francisco Bay Area, representing the Lee Administration here and whose job, among others is to inform on the activities and the proclivities of Singaporeans living here and to report on who is in favor and who is against the Lee Regime.

In other words, a PAP mole.

Not wanting to waste his time in investigation, I will tell him right now that 99% of Singaporeans here, including myself, have lost all faith whatsoever in his party and his leaders, Lee Kuan Yew and son. He should report that to his masters. Also you might want to ask him how many million dollars of your taxpayer money is being paid to him to carry out this job, in which he has failed anyway. You might want to ask him to return to you the ill gotten gains, the payment he received from the PAP, in which he has failed.

Minister of State for Education, RADM (NS) Lui Tuck Yew.

For those unaccustomed to Singapore military personnel, the title of this man, RADM stands for Rear Admiral. But please don't imagine a salty leathery sea dog, a naval officer with extensive naval experience and leadership qualities and great knowledge and experience in the navy. Don’t compare him with an Indian Naval Admiral, or a British or Israeli Naval Officer.

This man is probably bespectacled, bookish and would appear more comfortable behind a desk than on the quarterdeck of a destroyer hanging on the rails with gale force winds blowing across the bow, standing firm and giving the order, all hands on deck and man the guns with enemy over starboard bow.

His only qualifications would be that he has passed all his exams and he is an unwavering supporter of the Fascist Lee regime.

No, this man certainly is not a man of the sea and like his Prime Minster, Mr. Lee who does not inspire any confidence as a politician, neither does he as a seaman.

National Service means that he is still serving national service and doubling up as a Minister for Education for which he is paid one million dollars a year. You can call him a Million Dollar Minister, literally. Why is he a minister?

Well, both himself and his parents from a very young age had decided, quite dishonorably just as all other Singapore PAP politicians, that the surest way to succeed in Singapore without much effort is to pass all your examinations very well and show unwavering allegiance to the Peoples Action Party and to it's leader Lee Kuan Yew, with deliberate sycophancy and absolute loyalty to the Singapore dictatorship of Lee and Son. (Just as Albert Speer showed unwavering loyalty to Adolf Hitler, but I digress)

Lee will, in turn, reward the loyalty with unprecedented huge salaries of millions of dollars. All the applicant has to do is to obey all orders of Lee however dishonest or illegal they may be. This is what this so called Rear Admiral does for his living as a Minister of State under Lee Kuan Yew. This sort of career success by Mr. Lui Tuck Yew shows that neither his parents or himself had much confidence that he could succeed on his own i.e. without the PAP as a crutch.

Many other Singapore parents who have a sense of integrity, pride and conviction have refused to accept government scholarships even though they were offered them because they did not want their sons and daughters to have to serve a regime that is seen a pariah among other democratic countries of the world, for denying their people free speech, expression and where political opponents are jailed and bankrupted. Their children have gone on to succeed independently on their own right, independent of the PAP government.

It would appear that neither Mr. Lui Tuck Yew or his parents have those high ideals of integrity and he can only succeed in earning his millions by playing double fiddle for Lee and his son.

So I call all of you Singaporeans who have been extended invitations for this Singapore government function to tell Mr. Lui that he can enjoy the buffet himself with Mr. Roger Liew and the San Francisco Singapore Consulate staff themselves. Afterall, birds of a feather flock together.

We self respecting Singaporeans with a spine on our backs and a head on our shoulders boycott the Real Admiral's function.

We boycott the function to show our protest against the universally unacceptable salary increases that they pay themselves.

We boycott and Protest.

We shall not attend your function.

Thanks But No Thanks.

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

Below is the Email invitation sent to me:

FYI

Roger Liew [rogerliew@gmail.com]

---------- Forwarded message ----------From: Singapore Connect <mailto:singaporeconnect@gmail.com>Date: Apr 15, 2007 5:49 AMSubject: Dinner Reception cum Dialogue Session with the Minister ofState for Education

To: mailto:singaporeconnect@gmail.com.

Date: Apr 15, 2007 5:49 AMSubject: Dinner Reception cum Dialogue Session with the Minister ofState for EducationTo: mailto:singaporeconnect@gmail.comDear SingaporeConnect friends:Dinner Reception cum Dialogue Session with the Minister of State for EducationThe Consul General of Singapore requests the pleasure of your company at a buffet reception cum informal dialogue session with the Ministerof State for Education, RADM (NS) LUI Tuck Yew.Venue: The Sofitel, Veranda Room, 223 Twin Dolphin Drive, Redwood City, CA 94065 Date: Tuesday, 24 April 2007Time: 7:00pm (this is a new time)Attire: Smart CasualAs space is limited, please RSVP by Thursday, 19 April 2007 to LeaChan @ Lea_CHAN@sgmfa.gov.sg.Sincerely,SingaporeConnect

Sincerely,SingaporeConnect

How Lee stays in power. He has made you an offer you cannot refuse.

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Please recall the Singapore media report not too long ago when Lee said he has arranged the political system such a way, that it will be silly for the people to vote for anyone else. This is how he does it.

First, he gets absolute loyalty from the judges, top civil servants and leaders of all organs of power. Do you recall the "Godfather" movie when one Mafia gangster forces a rival to sign a contract with a gun pointed to his head, saying "let me make you an offer you cannot refuse". Well Lee has made these judges and heads of all departments "an offer they cannot refuse", this time, not by pointing a gun at their heads, but by paying very large salaries, which most people who lack principals would find it hard to refuse.

Second, with the heads of media and police, again bribed by him with astronomical salaries, he makes sure that any honest opposition politician is promptly removed with defamation actions.

In this sort of a situation, where the public have no real choice among the PAP politicians and the opposition, since the opposition is already silenced, what choice have they but to vote for the PAP?

So Lee has once again made "an offer to the people, they cannot refuse".

Now a stage has finally reached, where he considers you, the people totally irrelevant in running the country. No politician in any democracy will dare to pay themselves millions of dollars when the bottom poor do not even have $300.00 per month to live on. With suicides up. Unemployment up. Emigration up. Birth rate down. Yet in these difficult circumstances for the people, he is not only going to continue taking millions of dollars in pay, but actually going to increase his and his Ministers salaries to even more millions.

You must now realize this. He doesn't care what you think. He will do whatever he wants. That is why I say that you must protest, since not doing anything in these circumstances is to submissively accept anything that he may wish to throw at you.

Now is the time. Protest the impending obscene salary raize. Seize the day. The country is yours.

Carpe diem.

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. Let us not be under any illusions.

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Let us not be under any illusions. Please be forewarned. Lee has said this more than once. If there is a freak election, he will deploy the army to keep himself in power. By the way, to those uninitiated in Singaporean affairs, a "freak" election in Lee's eyes is one in which he lost. Although he has not said so, it can be implied by his language that he will not hesitate to stuff the ballot boxes to make sure he wins, if that is necessary.

I say this now, because there is a lot of talk in the Internet suggesting that the people should vote for the opposition in the next elections, since we can now see, with the salary increases for the Ministers, how bad the present government is. Please, do not raise your hopes. Even if all of you vote the opposition, the PAP will still retain power. That is what is written. That is what will be done. Bad news.

There is good news for the WP, SDA and Sylvia Lim. They will all be returned as MPs in the next election. They are Lee's chosen opposition. They serve Lee's purpose of showing the world, window dressing, that Singapore has an opposition. They on their part will ask harmless questions. They will be promptly defeated in their arguments by the 82 PAP yes-men MPs. Syvia Lim will make some more profound lectures on the Singapore Penal Code. At the end, the WP, SDA and Cynthia Lim will go home after a hard day's speaking. The sun will rise again tomorrow and Lee Kuan Yew and his son will still take their salaries of $10 million. And it will be back to square one again. This is the boring truth.

The only way is to change Singapore, where the power belongs to you, is to follow what Dr. Chee's says. You have to protest. You have to show Lee and the world that you will not tolerate the absence of freedom of speech, you demand the right to expression, you demand the right to peaceful protest, you demand an independent media, you demand your rights.

Unless you do this, Lee will continue to treat you as if you were irrelevant. If you are happy to live that way, neither I nor anyone else can quarrel with that.

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. How Lee manages to stay in power.

Ladies and Gentlemen,

This is how I see Lee manages to stay in power. First, he completely destroys any credible opposition. This serves a two fold purpose. First, the opposition that opposed him is destroyed eg by defamation actions. Second, this destruction sends a chilling message to all others never to try any challenge against him. This way, anyone with any desire to serve his country is dissuaded. This leaves only Lee Kuan Yew and the PAP ruling the country.

For political office, you need experience. The only ones getting political experience is Lee Kuan Yew, his family and the PAP. No one else can can get any, because Lee destroys them. This leaves any possible opposition, completely without any political experience at all.

When it comes to elections, Singaporeans even though they dislike Lee and his authoritarianism, would still vote for him and the PAP because the PAP has experience in government, and the opposition hasn't. So to protect their security and their future, they are compelled to vote for the PAP even though many have a deep distaste for them. This is like a child respecting a schoolmaster even though the child hates him, since the child knows that the dreaded homework that he has to do is good for him. A love hate relationship, you may say.

And the longer and longer Lee stays in power without any check on his actions, he gets emboldened. He begins, like he does now, to take his people for granted. It can be clearly seen by his actions now. He has reached a stage where he has enslaved the entire population. He is fully confident, now that no matter what he does, how outrageous it may be, there will be no opposition to him at all. To Lee, the peoples wishes have become totally irrelevant now. He can do whatever he wants. The people have been thoroughly neutered.

This is seen very well in his action to raise his, his son's and the ministers salaries to unacceptable levels, despite the fact that he knows, every living Singaporean is opposed to it. He is aware that there will be grumbling in the Internet. But beyond that, he knows that he has so thoroughly, so completely weakened the will of the people that they will not go beyond writing on the Internet. He knows that the people have become so consumed through fear that have lost the ability to protest.

What then happens is that many, who feel outraged by this dictatorial rule, just leave the country. This causes the very able, the skilled, the educated, the very ones who need to be in Singapore to lead, to leave it's shores. But Lee couldn't care less. He brings in foreigners to fill the places. This is a net loss to Singapore. The brain drain.

Of course Lee can say anything he wants and all of it will be published in the state controlled press. So he comes up with complete nonsense. He says that skilled foreigners are coming in to the country because they like Singapore. But we all know the type of foreigners that come. These are not the best. They are people who have already heard what Singapore is. Nothing more than a tiny island where there is no democracy, no freedom, no fundamental rights. But they may come for the money temporarily. And then they too will go home to their own countries. And when they do, they go away with an even worse impression of Singapore, only to warn others in their country about the real Singapore, a tyrannical Signapore. They too know that all that glitters is not necessarily gold.

And after saying all this, I say that the fault is yours. It is you who is being trodden upon. It is you who is afraid. It is you who cowardly accept this dictator without protest. Singapore is being destroyed by this one man, Lee. And if you do nothing to stop it, surely, can we assume that you are prepared to live the submissive lives that you now lead.

So then, if you are not prepared to do anything positive, other than just writing letters on the Internet, you shouldn't be complaining about the slavish lives that you lead.

I have said this before. Lee is as afraid of you as you are of him, if not more. The worst thing he fears is a public protest. He has given you enough ammunition, in the threatening to raise his salary to universally unacceptable levels, for you now to take to the streets and say enough is enough. We will not take this anymore.

If you did that, the world will have some respect for Singaporeans. Now at present, Singaporeans are thought of as nothing more than sheep.

Gopalan Nair
39737 Paseo Padre Parkway, Suite A1
Fremont, California 94538 USA
Tel: 510 657 6107
Fax: 510 657 6914

Singapore. My letter to Robert V Chandran, the Indian millionaire with American citizenship who is reported to have taken Singapore citizenship?

Ladies and Gentlemen,

The following is my letter to Robert V Chandran the millionaire who has taken Singapore citizenship. He is said to have also US Citizenship. Question here is, is he still an American Citizen. I thought Singapore does not allow dual nationality. Is the law of nationality in Singapore being bent for millionaires? Or has he really handed in his US Passport to the US Embassy Singapore? Questions you may wish to ask him.

In this letter to Mr. Chandran, I have made references to the Philippines. This is because he spent 2 years or so, in the Phillipines at a university there. You can check his background on his company's website. Mr. Chandran understands the Philippines very well.

And so do I, having been to Philippines on multiple occasions on legal work for my clients here in the US, who are Philippines nationals.

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

From: Gopalan Nair [mailto:gopalnair@us-immigrationlaw.com] Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2007 1:06 PMTo: 'RVC@mex.chemoil.com'Cc: 'vivian_bala@mcys.gov.sg'; 'Singapore Democratic Party'; 'lee_kuan_yew@pmo.gov.sg'; 'lee_hsien_loong@pmo.gov.sg'; 'wong_kan_seng@mha.gov.sg'; 'nazir khan'; 'Manuel Pakianathan'Subject: Your coming to Singapore.

Dear Mr. Robert V Chandran
President
Chemoil Corporation

I have read your deciding to take Singapore citizenship and to live in Singapore. Perhaps you do not know what Singapore really is. It is not a democracy like the Philippines. I left Singapore to avoid the persecution and repression against me just because I was an active member of the opposition party there. Just like me, thousands of others who cherish freedom have left it’s shores made bankrupt like Mr. JB Jeyaretnam, whom I am sure by now you know. In an nutshell, Singapore’s judiciary is corrupt, it is a fascist state with Lee Kuan Yew the sole dictator, the unions are powerless, education is warped so as not to allow students to know their rights, no freedom of speech or expression or freedom of the press unlike the Philippines.

Singapore is not a major trading nation. 70% of the trading is done by the government or government linked companies. The average man there is devoid of any entrepreneur spirit.

The only way to succeed in Singapore is to obey Lee. Many find that unacceptable and leave it’s shores.

I have read a little of your biography. I think you have made a bad choice in selecting Singapore. By doing so you are giving legitimacy to a fascist intolerant dictatorship.

And by the way, Singapore does not permit dual citizenship. If you have adopted Singapore citizenship, under Singapore law you have to relinquish US Citizenship. Have you done that? Or has the Singapore government again corruptly broken the laws for their convenience. If so is Singapore a banana republic? If not what is it?

Thanks.

Gopalan Nair
39737 Paseo Padre Parkway, Suite A1
Fremont, California 94538
USA
Tel: 510 657 6107
Fax: 510 657 6914

copy : Dr. Chee SDP
Vivian Balakrishnan, Signapore Minister
Lee Kuan Yew all Ministers etc. Signapore.
Lee Hsien Loong all Ministers etc. Signapore.
Mr. Nazir Mohammed Khan, Signapore citizen, strong supporter of the Opposition
Manuel Pakianathan, as above.
Wong Kan Seng, all Ministers etc. Signapore.

It's Michael Leong of CIBC.com, Toronto Canada, Te:(416) 980-7089 again!

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Will someone please ring and EMail Mr. Leong who claims to be a Malaysian in Toronto Canada, Tel: (416) 980-7089 and let him know that even from California, I can work for democracy in Singapore. Not necessary for me to be there. Please let him know that. He can be reached at the telephone number given. He can also be reached by EMail.

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


My Dear Mr. Leong,

If that is in fact your name. For the umpteenth time, there are many ways to change political regimes. It can be done from within your country and without from overseas. Everyone can contribute to the progress of democracy in Singapore. I can do it from here, or one can do it from Toa Payoh in Singapore. So stop asking me to go back to challenge Lee. It can be done in more ways than one. I am surprised you do not know this.

I intend to place this Email as well as yours on my blog with an invitation to the reader to contact you at telephone 416 980 7089 and to your company CIBC which is in Toronto Canada which you have admitted, for clarification as to your real identity and the reason why you wrote such an irrational Email.

You have said you read my blogs. With a very weak understanding of reality, such as not knowing that one can challenge Lee and Co from outside Singapore, perhaps you should stop reading my blog as it is probably beyond your ability to understand.

You are of course welcome to write to me, for my pasting your remarks on my blog for my readers’ amusement.

Gopalan Nair
Attorney at Law

From: Leong, Michael [mailto:Michael.Leong@CIBC.com] Sent: Monday, April 02, 2007 10:38 AMTo: Gopalan NairSubject: RE: Article on the Discrimination of the Singapore Worker

Mr Nair,

Please post whatever you want and wherever you want. I am actually sending this e-mail from my office in Toronto and I am Malaysian by the way, no political association to Mr Lee and Family and absolutely nothing for me to be afraid off (the captioned clause you see below is the std clause from my company’s server), I have all the respect for Dr Chee and his comrades. I think you have misunderstood, I am one of many readers on your blog, some of the articles are interesting and my opinions are one of many. The issue on CPF withdrawals are dear to the hearts of many Malaysians who worked in Singapore as well.

Michael Leong
Sympathetic Malaysian


From: Gopalan Nair [mailto:gopalnair@us-immigrationlaw.com] Sent: Monday, April 02, 2007 1:23 PMTo: Leong, MichaelCc: 'Singapore Democratic Party'; 'uncle yap'; 'nazir khan'; 'Manuel Pakianathan'; 'M Ravi'; violetnetto@yahoo.com.sgSubject: RE: Article on the Discrimination of the Singapore Worker

Dear Mr. Michael Leong,

Thank you for your Email. At present, even I if I wanted to return to Singapore to fight the tyranny, I cannot. I came to the US in 1992 and I am now an American citizen. At the time I took American citizenship, my CPF money was being held in Singapore. It was totally unacceptable for them to hold my money, even though I already had a US green Card and I was living in the US permanently. Third point, I already now have a legal practice and clients in the US. It would have been unacceptable for me to abandon them and leave for Singapore or any other country. So, Mr. Leong, if that in fact is your true name, in issues such as this, there has to be some balancing done. And one has to do what is right. What was right was for me to remain in California and attend to my clients to whom I owe a responsibility.

Secondly, I can do even more good for the opposition from the USA than had I been in Singapore. I am protected by the American constitution. I can say what I want and still remain financially and bodily intact. And furthermore, with the Internet, I can do almost the same amount of harm to Lee and his family, just as I had been in Singapore.

I notice that you are not allowing me to disseminate your correspondence. Why is that? Are you afraid? I suggest, if you are afraid, you should not be engaging in expressing any political opinion, unless it is praise for Lee Kuan Yew.

I am going to do just that. I am going to post your entire letter and your prohibition against dissemination on my blog, for my readers for their amusement. And by the way, if you will provide the Email address of Marcus Wong to who you have copied your letter, I will send him a copy too.

Thank you for your letter and please write to me more.

Gopalan Nair
Attorney at Law

From: Leong, Michael [mailto:Michael.Leong@CIBC.com] Sent: Monday, April 02, 2007 5:39 AMTo: gopalnair@us-immigrationlaw.comCc: Marcus WongSubject: Artcle on the Discrimination of the Singapore Worker

Dear Mr Nair,

Dr Chee and Associates and other opposition leaders are waging a courageous war on the Govt in Singapore, by being there on ground zero and risking almost everything they have. I laud their efforts, if you think they should do more and that you can help, why don’t you return and join them there ? If you realise the constraints by which they have to engage themselves in, then you would appreciate that they are not just talking or making speeches, but in many ways pushing the boundaries of freedom in this tiny republic of yours. I have nothing against you or your article, but after watching the films on Dr Chee, I reckon there are only a very few of us that have the guts to go up against such ruthless political tyrants.

Michael Leong
Sympathetic Malaysian

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Singapore. A writer making silly comments. For your amusement.

Ladies and Gentlemen,

The following correspondece is being posted here. As you can see, this is probably a PAP mole, hiding under a false name making these absolutely silly suggestions. I have posted it here especially because he did not want me to do it. Some entertainment for you.

Dear Mr. Michael Leong,

Thank you for your Email. At present, even I if I wanted to return to Singapore to fight the tyranny, I cannot. I came to the US in 1992 and I am now an American citizen. At the time I took American citizenship, my CPF money was being held in Singapore. It was totally unacceptable for them to hold my money, even though I already had a US green Card and I was living in the US permanently. Third point, I already now have a legal practice and clients in the US. It would have been unacceptable for me to abandon them and leave for Singapore or any other country. So, Mr. Leong, if that in fact is your true name, in issues such as this, there has to be some balancing done. And one has to do what is right. What was right was for me to remain in California and attend to my clients to whom I owe a responsibility.

Secondly, I can do even more good for the opposition from the USA than had I been in Singapore. I am protected by the American constitution. I can say what I want and still remain financially and bodily intact. And furthermore, with the Internet, I can do almost the same amount of harm to Lee and his family, just as I had been in Singapore.

I notice that you are not allowing me to disseminate your correspondence. Why is that? Are you afraid? I suggest, if you are afraid, you should not be engaging in expressing any political opinion, unless it is praise for Lee Kuan Yew.

I am going to do just that. I am going to post your entire letter and your prohibition against dissemination on my blog, for my readers for their amusement. And by the way, if you will provide the Email address of Marcus Wong to who you have copied your letter, I will send him a copy too.

Thank you for your letter and please write to me more.

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

From: Leong, Michael [mailto:Michael.Leong@CIBC.com] Sent: Monday, April 02, 2007 5:39 AMTo: gopalnair@us-immigrationlaw.comCc: Marcus WongSubject: Artcle on the Discrimination of the Singapore Worker

Dear Mr Nair,

Dr Chee and Associates and other opposition leaders are waging a courageous war on the Govt in Singapore, by being there on ground zero and risking almost everything they have. I laud their efforts, if you think they should do more and that you can help, why don’t you return and join them there ? If you realise the constraints by which they have to engage themselves in, then you would appreciate that they are not just talking or making speeches, but in many ways pushing the boundaries of freedom in this tiny republic of yours. I have nothing against you or your article, but after watching the films on Dr Chee, I reckon there are only a very few of us that have the guts to go up against such ruthless political tyrants.

Michael Leong
Sympathetic Malaysian

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