Ladies and Gentlemen,
People abroad have a vastly different opinion of Singapore than what Singaporeans themselves know. Whenever I talk to Americans about the pathetic lives they live under a repressive regime, with about a third of the population either at or below the poverty line cooped up in their crowded pigeon hole government owned apartments stacked one above the other, they seem surprised.
Surely they say Singaporeans have no need to protest since they live comfortable lives although with some very strange laws such as chewing gum ban and caning for criminals. By the way the general perception abroad is that you are caned on the spot if you are found chewing gum! But for these rather strange laws, what are they complaining about they say, since there are no beggars on the streets like in Jakarta or Cairo and everyone seems as content as mother hen at her roost.
By the way I have had many ask me whether it is illegal in Singapore to break wind (fart) in public! You may have heard that yesterday, the government of Malawi in Southern Africa had passed such a law and anyone caught doing it will be fined. You know people consider Singapore so strange a place with the ridiculous anti chewing gum law that they reckon if there was ever any other weird laws, Singapore would be the place to have them! I have told them that as far as I know this Malawi law has not been introduced in Singapore but I do warn them that they are dealing with a very strange man there (Lee Kuan Yew) and he may well follow the Malawi example and imprison anyone who farts. Remember it is Unique Singapore!
With Lee Kuan Yew's state controlled newspapers who churn out the never ending good news on a daily basis without fail, no one outside will ever hear the truth as to how the poor suffer, even though it may not be visible to the naked eye.
I have read several reports from non Lee Kuan Yew state controlled sources that as much as one third in the island live in poverty. With the absence of state welfare, many Singaporeans and their children have to go hungry while the income disparity between the rich and the poor is one of the hishest if not the highest in the world.
If such a miserable life is not bad enough, you have Lee Kuan Yew's political repression, such as jailing a blogger like myself in 2008, jailing Dr. Chee Soon Juan for public protests and silencing any criticism in the media through contempt of court charges and crippling damage awards.
But because Lee Kuan Yew makes sure that his punishments never go to extremes such as murdering innocent people, the rest of the world fail to see the terrible repression under which they live and the suffering they have to endure.
As long as there is no spokesmen for the downtrodden Singaporeans which the world can witness, Lee Kuan Yew's repression of his people will continue to go unnoticed. Of course I write this blog and some or even many may read it, Dr. Chee Soon Juan would also write his blog articulating their plight but as long as he does not take real physical publicly visible measures such as public protests on their behalf, the rest of the world would continue to be hoodwinked by the Singaporean despot.
Of course there is no doubt Singapore would completely fail in due course. With the non stop brain drain, national service deserters who refuse to return, the languishing legal profession, falling childbirth and mounting emigration there is no hope for the Tiny Red Dot, a derogatory term coined by a former Indonesian president fed up with the arrogance of the Singapore strongman.
But if you want to see Singapore's distatorship fall a little quicker, then Dr. Chee has to act now. There has to be protests which will alert the world to what is going on there. Without such public displays of civil disobedience, the World will continue to think that Singapore is indeed the Disneyland with the Death Penalty but a Disneyland nevertheless.
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.
Monday, February 7, 2011
Saturday, February 5, 2011
Singapore Straits Times atrocious lack of English proficiency
Ladies and Gentlemen,
With the unremitting brain drain out of Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore, a place discredited through Lee Kuan Yew's dictatorial one party rule, one of the major consequences of this naturally is the dearth of qualified professionals proficient in the English language, since they have the most opportunities of leaving Singapore for settlement in the West. And as expected, they continue to leave in droves.
The need for and the lack of English language competent people in Singapore is particularly acute in the case of an English newspaper, obviously, for reporters journalists and editors, since they have to write in the English language, and not in Mandarin Chinese.
The sad fact that Singapore is hurting very badly in this respect can be seen by the following article in the Straits Times online edition of Feb 5, 2011 by Lester Kok and Grace Chua, presumably both local Singaporean Chinese with English names titled "That predatory hunger for shark's fin".
From the title, we would have obviously imagined the story to be about some other sea creatures of the deep who have a taste for shark fin, perhaps killer whales or some other larger fish than the shark, who have now gone on a rampage to confront sharks and eat their fins; thus the title "That predatory hunger for shark's fin". Sea creatures are of course hunters and predators who hunt and prey on other smaller fish. At least that was what I thought the story was about!
Actually it is nothing of the sort. The story actually, and who would have thought, is about the Chinese people of Singapore who have a customary craving for shark fin soup, which we all know, and despite the latest trend to stop the cruelty against sharks, and save it from extinction, it talks of their unwillingness to forgo the dish.
Anyone with even rudimentary English would have realized that giving a story about Chinese culinary habits the title "That predatory hunger for shark's fin" is surely a mile off the mark! Where are the "predators" in the story! Was he referring to the Chinesse who eat the soup as predators? Surely one need not be a "predator" to enter a Chinese restaurant and order Shark fin soup!
The quality of the work of the state controlled Straits Times with writers such as this has become abysmally poor, not even comparable to that of an American 8th grade school newsletter in California. And with the unabated alarming outflow of even more educated Singaporeans leaving the island and with no one locally capable of writing wanting anything to do with a state controlled propaganda sheet such as this, you are on the slide down the slippery slope to compete incompetence.
I take pride in being at least partly responsible for exposing the rot of what Singapore has really become today and I am looking forward to seeing its major newspaper discredited even further as long as Lee Kuan Yew remains in control of his dictatorship.
Frankly there is no other way to put it. With writers such as this who talk about "predators" who eat shark fins soup, Singapore's Straits Times today is just rubbish, or as the Americans would say, simply garbage.
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.
With the unremitting brain drain out of Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore, a place discredited through Lee Kuan Yew's dictatorial one party rule, one of the major consequences of this naturally is the dearth of qualified professionals proficient in the English language, since they have the most opportunities of leaving Singapore for settlement in the West. And as expected, they continue to leave in droves.
The need for and the lack of English language competent people in Singapore is particularly acute in the case of an English newspaper, obviously, for reporters journalists and editors, since they have to write in the English language, and not in Mandarin Chinese.
The sad fact that Singapore is hurting very badly in this respect can be seen by the following article in the Straits Times online edition of Feb 5, 2011 by Lester Kok and Grace Chua, presumably both local Singaporean Chinese with English names titled "That predatory hunger for shark's fin".
From the title, we would have obviously imagined the story to be about some other sea creatures of the deep who have a taste for shark fin, perhaps killer whales or some other larger fish than the shark, who have now gone on a rampage to confront sharks and eat their fins; thus the title "That predatory hunger for shark's fin". Sea creatures are of course hunters and predators who hunt and prey on other smaller fish. At least that was what I thought the story was about!
Actually it is nothing of the sort. The story actually, and who would have thought, is about the Chinese people of Singapore who have a customary craving for shark fin soup, which we all know, and despite the latest trend to stop the cruelty against sharks, and save it from extinction, it talks of their unwillingness to forgo the dish.
Anyone with even rudimentary English would have realized that giving a story about Chinese culinary habits the title "That predatory hunger for shark's fin" is surely a mile off the mark! Where are the "predators" in the story! Was he referring to the Chinesse who eat the soup as predators? Surely one need not be a "predator" to enter a Chinese restaurant and order Shark fin soup!
The quality of the work of the state controlled Straits Times with writers such as this has become abysmally poor, not even comparable to that of an American 8th grade school newsletter in California. And with the unabated alarming outflow of even more educated Singaporeans leaving the island and with no one locally capable of writing wanting anything to do with a state controlled propaganda sheet such as this, you are on the slide down the slippery slope to compete incompetence.
I take pride in being at least partly responsible for exposing the rot of what Singapore has really become today and I am looking forward to seeing its major newspaper discredited even further as long as Lee Kuan Yew remains in control of his dictatorship.
Frankly there is no other way to put it. With writers such as this who talk about "predators" who eat shark fins soup, Singapore's Straits Times today is just rubbish, or as the Americans would say, simply garbage.
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.
Friday, February 4, 2011
The problem with disbarring Gopalan Nair in Singapore
Ladies and Gentlemen,
I wonder whether the Singapore government and their state controlled Law Society have actually thought out the wider ramifications of disbarring Gopalan Nair in Singapore, for criticizing Singapore judge Belinda Ang Saw Ean in this blog among others.
Gopalan Nair has been charged in Singapore with criticizing judge Belinda Ang Saw Ean over her judgement in awarding crippling large monetary award of several hundreds of thousands of dollars, in the politically based case of Lee Kuan Yew, the Singapore strongman suing his victim, the opposition politician Dr. Chee Soon Juan in 2008.
Additionally Gopalan Nair is also charged with behaving in a rowdy manner in public in Singapore on July 4, 2008, and shouting racial slurs at a Malay policeman in public, accusations which he denies in it's entirety, as well as reneging on a promise he gave to a Singapore judge in Singapore after he returned to California, as well as writing another blog in the same vein as the Belinda Ang Saw Ean blog from the US attacking another Singapore judge Judith Prakash (Kangaroo Judge) for her abuse of the law to punish free speech.
I have no doubt that I, Gopalan Nair, will be disbarred in Singapore, as we all know the modus operandi of Lee Kuan Yew's government which is to use the law to to silence dissent or better described in the ancient Chinese parable of killing a chicken to silence all the moneys, meaning, I am Lee's chicken, and the Singaporeans his monkeys.
We all agree that Lee Kuan Yew can do anything he wants in Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore. But have they ever considered that Gopalan Nair is presently also a member of English and Welsh Bars, being on the Rolls of Barristers of England and Wales; as well as an Attorney at Law licenced to practice in California and the US Federal Courts.
As a licenced California lawyer, are the Singapore authorities aware that I am supposed to report any Attorney related discipline or any other finding of misconduct in any part of the world to the State Bar of California, which renders me liable to discipline in California for misconduct anywhere in the world?
I have no doubt that these proceedings against me will not render me liable at the Bar of England and Wales or the State Bar of California. If ever England and Wales or California were to be pushed to make a finding on these events, it is more than probable that I would be commended rather than punished for having the courage to stand up to Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew and their corrupt legal system and judiciary.
So I wonder what the Singaporean authorities would do in a situation where I am disbarred from practicing law in Singapore, the ultimate punishment for the most egregious conduct on the part of lawyers whereas the legal professions of England and Wales nor California takes no action at all!
How will Singapore justify their finding of guilt and punishment against me? Would they be arguing that the Singapore standard of Attorney discipline is much higher than either England Wales or California and that is why Gopalan Nair is disbarred there but faces no discipline anywhere else? Or would they argue that England Wales or California all have weak discipline rules and their lawyers are all thugs and crooks while Singaporean lawyers are saints?
Also, it would be interesting to see how these proceedings against Gopalan Nair in Singapore will impact Singapore legal system's credibility. Would the world in fact buy Singapore's argument that this is how lawyers should or should not behave or will Singapore once again have egg in their face, as was the case when the International Bar Association humiliated and gave them a categorical beating when they reported in their 72 page decision some years ago that Singapore's courts are merely Kangaroo Courts which put away Lee Kuan Yew's critics to perpetuate his one party state rule?
I would of course be reporting in this blog the arguments put forward by the Singaporean judges for disbarring me which would make interesting reading for anyone interested in the goings on of Uniquely Singapore as they call themselves.
I have a feeling that the Singaporean authorities responsible for commencing these legal proceedings from as far back as May 2008, today regret their actions as they never expected the way in which it has turned out. Perhaps they realize this time, they picked the wrong victim whom they should have best left alone.
After arresting me for writing the blog in Singapore in May 2008, instead of just giving up, which I think they expected me to do, I kept the issue alive for a full six months in Singapore; enough time for the entire world to slowly realize what was being done in Singapore in the name of the law.
Not satisfied with that, after returning to California I have continued to write about their misuse of the law, which I expect prompted them to commence these disciplinary proceedings.
I am not sure but if I can guess, whoever's pea brained idea it was to start this thing against me in the first place, regrets very much starting what they did. Perhaps it would have been much better for them to just quietly deport me in May 2008, the moment I wrote the Belinda Ang Saw Ean blog, without all this, as that way they would have been at least partially saved from the huge worldwide embarrassment they now suffer.
Among others, I wonder whether my impending Singaporean disbarment would have any impact on Lee Kuan Yew's ambition of making Singapore, fist the legal hub of South East Asia, then Asia and then the World!
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.
I wonder whether the Singapore government and their state controlled Law Society have actually thought out the wider ramifications of disbarring Gopalan Nair in Singapore, for criticizing Singapore judge Belinda Ang Saw Ean in this blog among others.
Gopalan Nair has been charged in Singapore with criticizing judge Belinda Ang Saw Ean over her judgement in awarding crippling large monetary award of several hundreds of thousands of dollars, in the politically based case of Lee Kuan Yew, the Singapore strongman suing his victim, the opposition politician Dr. Chee Soon Juan in 2008.
Additionally Gopalan Nair is also charged with behaving in a rowdy manner in public in Singapore on July 4, 2008, and shouting racial slurs at a Malay policeman in public, accusations which he denies in it's entirety, as well as reneging on a promise he gave to a Singapore judge in Singapore after he returned to California, as well as writing another blog in the same vein as the Belinda Ang Saw Ean blog from the US attacking another Singapore judge Judith Prakash (Kangaroo Judge) for her abuse of the law to punish free speech.
I have no doubt that I, Gopalan Nair, will be disbarred in Singapore, as we all know the modus operandi of Lee Kuan Yew's government which is to use the law to to silence dissent or better described in the ancient Chinese parable of killing a chicken to silence all the moneys, meaning, I am Lee's chicken, and the Singaporeans his monkeys.
We all agree that Lee Kuan Yew can do anything he wants in Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore. But have they ever considered that Gopalan Nair is presently also a member of English and Welsh Bars, being on the Rolls of Barristers of England and Wales; as well as an Attorney at Law licenced to practice in California and the US Federal Courts.
As a licenced California lawyer, are the Singapore authorities aware that I am supposed to report any Attorney related discipline or any other finding of misconduct in any part of the world to the State Bar of California, which renders me liable to discipline in California for misconduct anywhere in the world?
I have no doubt that these proceedings against me will not render me liable at the Bar of England and Wales or the State Bar of California. If ever England and Wales or California were to be pushed to make a finding on these events, it is more than probable that I would be commended rather than punished for having the courage to stand up to Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew and their corrupt legal system and judiciary.
So I wonder what the Singaporean authorities would do in a situation where I am disbarred from practicing law in Singapore, the ultimate punishment for the most egregious conduct on the part of lawyers whereas the legal professions of England and Wales nor California takes no action at all!
How will Singapore justify their finding of guilt and punishment against me? Would they be arguing that the Singapore standard of Attorney discipline is much higher than either England Wales or California and that is why Gopalan Nair is disbarred there but faces no discipline anywhere else? Or would they argue that England Wales or California all have weak discipline rules and their lawyers are all thugs and crooks while Singaporean lawyers are saints?
Also, it would be interesting to see how these proceedings against Gopalan Nair in Singapore will impact Singapore legal system's credibility. Would the world in fact buy Singapore's argument that this is how lawyers should or should not behave or will Singapore once again have egg in their face, as was the case when the International Bar Association humiliated and gave them a categorical beating when they reported in their 72 page decision some years ago that Singapore's courts are merely Kangaroo Courts which put away Lee Kuan Yew's critics to perpetuate his one party state rule?
I would of course be reporting in this blog the arguments put forward by the Singaporean judges for disbarring me which would make interesting reading for anyone interested in the goings on of Uniquely Singapore as they call themselves.
I have a feeling that the Singaporean authorities responsible for commencing these legal proceedings from as far back as May 2008, today regret their actions as they never expected the way in which it has turned out. Perhaps they realize this time, they picked the wrong victim whom they should have best left alone.
After arresting me for writing the blog in Singapore in May 2008, instead of just giving up, which I think they expected me to do, I kept the issue alive for a full six months in Singapore; enough time for the entire world to slowly realize what was being done in Singapore in the name of the law.
Not satisfied with that, after returning to California I have continued to write about their misuse of the law, which I expect prompted them to commence these disciplinary proceedings.
I am not sure but if I can guess, whoever's pea brained idea it was to start this thing against me in the first place, regrets very much starting what they did. Perhaps it would have been much better for them to just quietly deport me in May 2008, the moment I wrote the Belinda Ang Saw Ean blog, without all this, as that way they would have been at least partially saved from the huge worldwide embarrassment they now suffer.
Among others, I wonder whether my impending Singaporean disbarment would have any impact on Lee Kuan Yew's ambition of making Singapore, fist the legal hub of South East Asia, then Asia and then the World!
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.
Thursday, February 3, 2011
Singaporeans should act before it is too late
Ladies and Gentlemen,
Is it not enough for Singaporeans to be reminded daily of Singapore's descent into oblivion; that native Singaporeans are dying, there are no children being born, that almost to the man everyone who can is leaving the island, that foreigners will or have already replaced the local population, that very soon there will be no more real Singaporeans left!
For a small island nation like Singapore, you will be surprised how many live outside. There is one if not several Singapore associations in Wellington New Zealand, Auckland New Zealand, Sydney Australia, Melbourne, London, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Frankfurt, Hamburg, and Buenos Aires, Argentina. I won't be surprised if there is a Singapore Association in Vladivostok, Eastern Siberia, Asiatic Russia!
The situation is precarious as anyone with eyes can see. It is so bad, it is now most certainly terminal. Like global warming Singapore's descent into total destruction is now almost beyond salvation, having passed the threshold of no return. Unless Singaporeans do something about it, the island is going to the dogs. It is literally descending into oblivion.
Today, if only you took the trouble to find out, you will know how dire the situation is. In Singapore's civil service, in an island where English is supposed to be the official business language, you have new Chinese immigrant workers incapable of even understanding simple English, because all the English speakers have gone. Can you imagine what this means? Official correspondence and memos are either not being sent or they are being sent illegible, because the civil servants lack sufficient English knowledge. Police officers are unable to write reports for lack of English.
This was not the situation in Singapore even as recently as 15 years ago, when the best and the brightest of Singapore's educated joined the Singapore Civil Service, a service modelled on that of the British. Today in Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore, it has been thoroughly discredited and seen as Lee Kuan Yew's tool to destroy his political opponents, resulting in massive resignations from it's ranks.
With huge numbers of Singaporean educated leaving, Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore finds it hard to replace those who left, given the fact that Lee does not want English speakers from Australia and the Western world for fear they may not be as submissive for his tastes, since Lee's ideal Singaporean is one who timidly submits to his dictates like a slave or an idiot.
With the diminishing talent pool of Chinese with English proficiency to cater for Lee Kuan Yew's political agenda, the point has reached now when there are simply not enough English speaking Chinese anywhere in the world whom he could use in Singapore.
You understand what this means of course. The remaining Singaporeans, who are themselves declining in numbers due to massive emigration and insufficient childbirth leave behind only those unskilled and uneducated who will simply not be accepted anywhere else. Increasing numbers of unskilled and unqualified Singaporeans mean productivity and competitiveness declining and Singapore as what we knew literally dispppearing into oblivion.
And here is my message to Dr. Chee and the others who care for Singapore. If you care for Singapore, do something tangible now. Merely writing the blog Singapore Democrat is all well and good, but that is not enough. Singapore is disappearing before your very eyes.
It is quite clear that the PAP cannot and will not do anything to save Singapore. They are destroying it by bringing in hordes of unskilled foreigners who do not improve the quality of Singapore at all. At the same time, they are doing nothing to stop massive brain drain which is almost completely emptying the island of it's skilled people.
If Dr. Chee did nothing more than writing blog articles and contesting elections for his party members, he knows he is will not get anywhere. Since Dr. Chee, as he himself has stated, wants history to judge him, persisting on doing the same is not going to achieve it. Instead of history crediting him with moving Singapore to democracy, it will say that he did nothing different for his entire political career except to fight elections which he consistently lost, write articles in his blog and to allow Lee Kuan Yew to repeatedly punish him.
Dr. Chee has always blamed Lee Kuan Yew for his inflexibility and inability to move with the times; capable of being Machiavelli and nothing more. It is true Lee Kuan Yew is guilty of that. But Dr. Chee is also guilty of the same mistake. For 30 years or so, all he has done is to contest elections which he invariably loses due to Lee's dirty tricks and nothing else. Surely if what he has done for 30 years has not worked, it is time he changed his game plan.
I do not believe that Singaporeans are so stupid as not to realize how they live as slaves under Lee Kuan Yew. I do not believe that Singaporeans are not aware that Lee Kuan Yew is insulting their intelligence by denying them their fundamental human rights. I do not believe that the entire Singapore population is a spineless gutless society of people like the minions who lick Lee Kuan Yew's boots for a living, such as K Shanmugam, the Tamil Minister for Law.
If Dr. Chee really wants history to look upon him as a man who stood up for Singapore, not just as a man who wrote blogs and contested elections which he knows he will lose, then he has to get off his seat and into some action. He has to publicly protest the injustices under which he and his fellow Singaporeans suffer. Of course there is a possibly that Singaporeans may not accept this and think of him more of a trouble maker than a statesman. But Dr. Chee knows and the world knows that in the present circumstances in Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore, the path of peaceful protest and civil disobedience is the only choice for meaningful change.
I may be wrong but this is what I believe. A man acts not because it produces results, he acts because it was right. When a man acts on what is right, it may not produce immediate results, but I am sure of one thing. It is the fastest path to victory which is absolutely certain.
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.
Is it not enough for Singaporeans to be reminded daily of Singapore's descent into oblivion; that native Singaporeans are dying, there are no children being born, that almost to the man everyone who can is leaving the island, that foreigners will or have already replaced the local population, that very soon there will be no more real Singaporeans left!
For a small island nation like Singapore, you will be surprised how many live outside. There is one if not several Singapore associations in Wellington New Zealand, Auckland New Zealand, Sydney Australia, Melbourne, London, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Frankfurt, Hamburg, and Buenos Aires, Argentina. I won't be surprised if there is a Singapore Association in Vladivostok, Eastern Siberia, Asiatic Russia!
The situation is precarious as anyone with eyes can see. It is so bad, it is now most certainly terminal. Like global warming Singapore's descent into total destruction is now almost beyond salvation, having passed the threshold of no return. Unless Singaporeans do something about it, the island is going to the dogs. It is literally descending into oblivion.
Today, if only you took the trouble to find out, you will know how dire the situation is. In Singapore's civil service, in an island where English is supposed to be the official business language, you have new Chinese immigrant workers incapable of even understanding simple English, because all the English speakers have gone. Can you imagine what this means? Official correspondence and memos are either not being sent or they are being sent illegible, because the civil servants lack sufficient English knowledge. Police officers are unable to write reports for lack of English.
This was not the situation in Singapore even as recently as 15 years ago, when the best and the brightest of Singapore's educated joined the Singapore Civil Service, a service modelled on that of the British. Today in Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore, it has been thoroughly discredited and seen as Lee Kuan Yew's tool to destroy his political opponents, resulting in massive resignations from it's ranks.
With huge numbers of Singaporean educated leaving, Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore finds it hard to replace those who left, given the fact that Lee does not want English speakers from Australia and the Western world for fear they may not be as submissive for his tastes, since Lee's ideal Singaporean is one who timidly submits to his dictates like a slave or an idiot.
With the diminishing talent pool of Chinese with English proficiency to cater for Lee Kuan Yew's political agenda, the point has reached now when there are simply not enough English speaking Chinese anywhere in the world whom he could use in Singapore.
You understand what this means of course. The remaining Singaporeans, who are themselves declining in numbers due to massive emigration and insufficient childbirth leave behind only those unskilled and uneducated who will simply not be accepted anywhere else. Increasing numbers of unskilled and unqualified Singaporeans mean productivity and competitiveness declining and Singapore as what we knew literally dispppearing into oblivion.
And here is my message to Dr. Chee and the others who care for Singapore. If you care for Singapore, do something tangible now. Merely writing the blog Singapore Democrat is all well and good, but that is not enough. Singapore is disappearing before your very eyes.
It is quite clear that the PAP cannot and will not do anything to save Singapore. They are destroying it by bringing in hordes of unskilled foreigners who do not improve the quality of Singapore at all. At the same time, they are doing nothing to stop massive brain drain which is almost completely emptying the island of it's skilled people.
If Dr. Chee did nothing more than writing blog articles and contesting elections for his party members, he knows he is will not get anywhere. Since Dr. Chee, as he himself has stated, wants history to judge him, persisting on doing the same is not going to achieve it. Instead of history crediting him with moving Singapore to democracy, it will say that he did nothing different for his entire political career except to fight elections which he consistently lost, write articles in his blog and to allow Lee Kuan Yew to repeatedly punish him.
Dr. Chee has always blamed Lee Kuan Yew for his inflexibility and inability to move with the times; capable of being Machiavelli and nothing more. It is true Lee Kuan Yew is guilty of that. But Dr. Chee is also guilty of the same mistake. For 30 years or so, all he has done is to contest elections which he invariably loses due to Lee's dirty tricks and nothing else. Surely if what he has done for 30 years has not worked, it is time he changed his game plan.
I do not believe that Singaporeans are so stupid as not to realize how they live as slaves under Lee Kuan Yew. I do not believe that Singaporeans are not aware that Lee Kuan Yew is insulting their intelligence by denying them their fundamental human rights. I do not believe that the entire Singapore population is a spineless gutless society of people like the minions who lick Lee Kuan Yew's boots for a living, such as K Shanmugam, the Tamil Minister for Law.
If Dr. Chee really wants history to look upon him as a man who stood up for Singapore, not just as a man who wrote blogs and contested elections which he knows he will lose, then he has to get off his seat and into some action. He has to publicly protest the injustices under which he and his fellow Singaporeans suffer. Of course there is a possibly that Singaporeans may not accept this and think of him more of a trouble maker than a statesman. But Dr. Chee knows and the world knows that in the present circumstances in Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore, the path of peaceful protest and civil disobedience is the only choice for meaningful change.
I may be wrong but this is what I believe. A man acts not because it produces results, he acts because it was right. When a man acts on what is right, it may not produce immediate results, but I am sure of one thing. It is the fastest path to victory which is absolutely certain.
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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Wednesday, February 2, 2011
Singapore strongman Lee Kuan Yew should look at Egypt now.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
The mass protests for democracy in Cairo and the Arab world should cause the Singapore strongman Lee Kuan Yew some concern. If these popular demands for change has taught us anything, it is that the days of tyrants and dictators having their merry way each time is gone. The Internet and mass communication both nationally and internationally has suddenly empowered the common man across the world from Cairo to Caracas. Now dictators all over the world including Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew should remember that it only takes a few to protest because they may become a million.
Singapore is no different from any other dictatorship anywhere; it does not have a free press; it does not allow it's citizens their fundamental rights of free speech expression and assembly; it jails its citizens without trial under the Internal Security Act; it uses the law as a tool with compliant corrupt judges like Belinda Ang Saw Ean to destroy political opponents and it has one of the largest secret police establishments for a country of it's size.
And Lee Kuan Yew should keep in mind that unless he shuts down the Internet like Egypt has done, Singaporeans are watching every single video coming out of Egypt of courageous Egyptians standing firm in the face of the might of the Egyptian army demanding what is rightfully theirs, their freedom, and they are now asking whether they too should demand their rights from Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore's Hosni Mubarak.
In crowded jam packed sardine can of Singapore where 5 million live in just a few square miles, it really does not take more than a few to start a riot. All it takes is a handful of Singaporeans to say enough is enough and take to the streets, and the next minute you will have another Cairo in the making.
I am waiting and watching just like anyone else interested in the goings on in Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore, as to when Singaporeans would finally stand up like their brave Egyptian friends and demand democratic change and an end to Lee Kuan Yew's dictatorship.
I have every confidence that it not only will happen, it will happen soon. The oppressed of Egypt have finally managed to prise open Pandora's Box and the people around the world including Singaporeans are, I am certain, going to shout Bloody Murder.
Lee Kuan Yew be careful. Your time is coming.
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.
The mass protests for democracy in Cairo and the Arab world should cause the Singapore strongman Lee Kuan Yew some concern. If these popular demands for change has taught us anything, it is that the days of tyrants and dictators having their merry way each time is gone. The Internet and mass communication both nationally and internationally has suddenly empowered the common man across the world from Cairo to Caracas. Now dictators all over the world including Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew should remember that it only takes a few to protest because they may become a million.
Singapore is no different from any other dictatorship anywhere; it does not have a free press; it does not allow it's citizens their fundamental rights of free speech expression and assembly; it jails its citizens without trial under the Internal Security Act; it uses the law as a tool with compliant corrupt judges like Belinda Ang Saw Ean to destroy political opponents and it has one of the largest secret police establishments for a country of it's size.
And Lee Kuan Yew should keep in mind that unless he shuts down the Internet like Egypt has done, Singaporeans are watching every single video coming out of Egypt of courageous Egyptians standing firm in the face of the might of the Egyptian army demanding what is rightfully theirs, their freedom, and they are now asking whether they too should demand their rights from Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore's Hosni Mubarak.
In crowded jam packed sardine can of Singapore where 5 million live in just a few square miles, it really does not take more than a few to start a riot. All it takes is a handful of Singaporeans to say enough is enough and take to the streets, and the next minute you will have another Cairo in the making.
I am waiting and watching just like anyone else interested in the goings on in Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore, as to when Singaporeans would finally stand up like their brave Egyptian friends and demand democratic change and an end to Lee Kuan Yew's dictatorship.
I have every confidence that it not only will happen, it will happen soon. The oppressed of Egypt have finally managed to prise open Pandora's Box and the people around the world including Singaporeans are, I am certain, going to shout Bloody Murder.
Lee Kuan Yew be careful. Your time is coming.
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.
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Singapore insults your intelligence.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
I am not sure about you, but I have a reason why I joined JB Jeyaretnam's Workers Party in 1984 and contested 2 general elections in Singapore; why I wrote to the Singapore Attorney General Tan Boon Teik in the 1980s and got myself suspended from practice for 2 years, why recently in 2008 I wrote a blog criticizing Lee Kuan Yew judge Belinda Ang Saw Ean who misused her judicial office when she punished opposition leader Dr. Chee Soon Juan, and it is this; Singapore insults my intelligence and I refuse to simply take it lying down.
Tell me if these things do not insult your intelligence? Why is it necessary for anyone to have to apply for a permit to give a speech in public? Why is it necessary to have to apply for a permit from Lee Kuan Yew government to peacefully protest in public? Why is it wrong to criticize a judge when she is shamelessly abusing her office? Why is it necessary to be a PAP supporter to advance in your career and punished if you were an opposition supporter?
Why are there no free press in Singapore and every single one is state controlled? Why are we not allowed to read real news instead of being dished out this rubbish propaganda?
It is all these things that makes one's blood boil. It is these things in Singapore that insults your intelligence.
You don't have to take this garbage anymore. Stand up to your rights. Protest, yell scream, do anything you can to make it known that you simply refuse to be insulted by this tin pot dictator any longer.
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.
I am not sure about you, but I have a reason why I joined JB Jeyaretnam's Workers Party in 1984 and contested 2 general elections in Singapore; why I wrote to the Singapore Attorney General Tan Boon Teik in the 1980s and got myself suspended from practice for 2 years, why recently in 2008 I wrote a blog criticizing Lee Kuan Yew judge Belinda Ang Saw Ean who misused her judicial office when she punished opposition leader Dr. Chee Soon Juan, and it is this; Singapore insults my intelligence and I refuse to simply take it lying down.
Tell me if these things do not insult your intelligence? Why is it necessary for anyone to have to apply for a permit to give a speech in public? Why is it necessary to have to apply for a permit from Lee Kuan Yew government to peacefully protest in public? Why is it wrong to criticize a judge when she is shamelessly abusing her office? Why is it necessary to be a PAP supporter to advance in your career and punished if you were an opposition supporter?
Why are there no free press in Singapore and every single one is state controlled? Why are we not allowed to read real news instead of being dished out this rubbish propaganda?
It is all these things that makes one's blood boil. It is these things in Singapore that insults your intelligence.
You don't have to take this garbage anymore. Stand up to your rights. Protest, yell scream, do anything you can to make it known that you simply refuse to be insulted by this tin pot dictator any longer.
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.
Straits Times, Singapore's propaganda department goes into full gear
Ladies and Gentlemen,
Predictably Singapore's propaganda department, Lee Kuan Yew's state owned and controlled newspaper the Straits Times on line edition of Feb 1, 2011 reports "Over 90% of Singaporeans happy with quality of life". Not surprising at all why the very very good news just now. After all the national elections are just around the corner and it is time to ratchet up the good news. This is how all one party state dictatorships like Singapore function around the world.
It says "Singaporeans have higher levels of confidence in the country's future and economy......", "When asked if they were satisfied with the way Singapore was being run, 96% said "yes"', etc etc. All very nice indeed, but the truth is, just as in dictatorships around the world, completely opposite. It is like the former Soviet newspapers Pravda and Izvestia churning out the good news in elephant size portions. In fact there was a joke in Russia those days. Pravda in Russian meant "truth" and Izvestia meant "news". The joke was, there is no truth in Pravda and no news in Izvestia, because when wheat production has dropped rock bottom, they would say there was a bumper harvest; when unemployment was at 50%, they would say there was a shortage of workers; when people were going hungry, they would say they were having holidays in San Tropez!
You could say the same about Singapore's state controlled Straits Times; there is neither any "truth" or "news" in it. What else can you expect from a State Controlled newspaper anyway, except propaganda? This government report is from Reach, Lee Kuan Yew's feedback arm. I wonder what response you would have got from Dr. Chee Soon Juan if he was asked the same questions, not so rosy I suppose.
I am tempted to use stronger language when describing the nonsense being put out but I must refrain.
Let me ask Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew these questions. If indeed 90% of Singaporeans are happy with how things are going on there then can he explain the following?
1. Why are 2 people on average jumping off high rise buildings or jumping onto oncoming trains to commit suicide? Why?
2. Why are Singaporeans having the lowest fertility rate in the world, where Singaporeans are almost disappearing by the day, not by pestilence, not by wars, but because no once wants to bring up a family there. Why?
3. Why are almost every single Singaporean, capable of doing so, leaving the island permanently for settlement in the West. Why?
4. Why are almost 80% of the students surveyed recently said they would prefer to live abroad if given the chance. Why?
5. Why are the children of almost every single judge, civil servant, teacher, businessmen either living or studying abroad and refusing to return to Singapore. Why?
6. Why is Lee Kuan Yew's grandson living overseas and refusing to return to Singapore. Why?
7. Why are the 4 daughters of Singapore Kangaroo Judge Judith Prakash all living overseas and not in Singapore. Why?
8. Why is Gopalan Nair, the Singapore Dissident, living in the United States and relinquished his Singapore Citizenship for that of the USA. Why?
9. Why are the multitude of Singaporean students now studying in New Zealand, USA and Australia simply refusing to return to Singapore on completion of their studies. Why?
10. Why is it that the most talented people in the world prefer to move to the West while Singapore only gets those whom no other country wants, without any knowledge of even English? Why?
Are all these things happening because 90% of Singaporeans simply love Singapore as the state controlled propaganda department so proudly says? Do you take us all for a bunch of morons?
The truth is simply the opposite. The people of Singapore simply detest the lives they live and are all clamouring to get out of that "paradise".
My message to Singaporeans before the elections is this. It is the duty of every person who loves freedom to obstruct baulk harm and disrupt the Lee Kuan Yew government as much as possible.
If you agree, then do anything you can to harm the Lee Kuan Yew government . Place any impediment you can in their way. Vote for the opposition. If not spoil the vote but never vote PAP. If for some reason you cannot do either and since voting is compulsory, simply leave the island before election day so you don't have to vote.
Otherwise send your children abroad for an education and tell them not to return. Don't have any babies at all if you live in Singapore, as the paucity of a population hurts the Lee Kuan Yew government the most. If you can emigrate overseas for your own good and future, as there is no future under Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore. If you are abroad, discredit the Lee Kuan Yew government at every oppurtunity, to your friends colleagues both publicly and privately.
In other words, if you cherish freedom, try and hurt the Lee Kuan Yew government anyway you can, either from within Singapore or outside.
We all want to see the fall of this dictatorship and each one of us, in your own way can contribute to it's fall. What is happening to Hosni Mubarak and his son should happen to Lee Kuan Yew and son. Work at it my friends. We will after all see the back of Lee Kuan Yew one way or another.
We have to make Lee Kuan Yew realize that he cannot run Singapore on propaganda alone. He has to have the co-operation of the people which we should deny him.
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.
Predictably Singapore's propaganda department, Lee Kuan Yew's state owned and controlled newspaper the Straits Times on line edition of Feb 1, 2011 reports "Over 90% of Singaporeans happy with quality of life". Not surprising at all why the very very good news just now. After all the national elections are just around the corner and it is time to ratchet up the good news. This is how all one party state dictatorships like Singapore function around the world.
It says "Singaporeans have higher levels of confidence in the country's future and economy......", "When asked if they were satisfied with the way Singapore was being run, 96% said "yes"', etc etc. All very nice indeed, but the truth is, just as in dictatorships around the world, completely opposite. It is like the former Soviet newspapers Pravda and Izvestia churning out the good news in elephant size portions. In fact there was a joke in Russia those days. Pravda in Russian meant "truth" and Izvestia meant "news". The joke was, there is no truth in Pravda and no news in Izvestia, because when wheat production has dropped rock bottom, they would say there was a bumper harvest; when unemployment was at 50%, they would say there was a shortage of workers; when people were going hungry, they would say they were having holidays in San Tropez!
You could say the same about Singapore's state controlled Straits Times; there is neither any "truth" or "news" in it. What else can you expect from a State Controlled newspaper anyway, except propaganda? This government report is from Reach, Lee Kuan Yew's feedback arm. I wonder what response you would have got from Dr. Chee Soon Juan if he was asked the same questions, not so rosy I suppose.
I am tempted to use stronger language when describing the nonsense being put out but I must refrain.
Let me ask Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew these questions. If indeed 90% of Singaporeans are happy with how things are going on there then can he explain the following?
1. Why are 2 people on average jumping off high rise buildings or jumping onto oncoming trains to commit suicide? Why?
2. Why are Singaporeans having the lowest fertility rate in the world, where Singaporeans are almost disappearing by the day, not by pestilence, not by wars, but because no once wants to bring up a family there. Why?
3. Why are almost every single Singaporean, capable of doing so, leaving the island permanently for settlement in the West. Why?
4. Why are almost 80% of the students surveyed recently said they would prefer to live abroad if given the chance. Why?
5. Why are the children of almost every single judge, civil servant, teacher, businessmen either living or studying abroad and refusing to return to Singapore. Why?
6. Why is Lee Kuan Yew's grandson living overseas and refusing to return to Singapore. Why?
7. Why are the 4 daughters of Singapore Kangaroo Judge Judith Prakash all living overseas and not in Singapore. Why?
8. Why is Gopalan Nair, the Singapore Dissident, living in the United States and relinquished his Singapore Citizenship for that of the USA. Why?
9. Why are the multitude of Singaporean students now studying in New Zealand, USA and Australia simply refusing to return to Singapore on completion of their studies. Why?
10. Why is it that the most talented people in the world prefer to move to the West while Singapore only gets those whom no other country wants, without any knowledge of even English? Why?
Are all these things happening because 90% of Singaporeans simply love Singapore as the state controlled propaganda department so proudly says? Do you take us all for a bunch of morons?
The truth is simply the opposite. The people of Singapore simply detest the lives they live and are all clamouring to get out of that "paradise".
My message to Singaporeans before the elections is this. It is the duty of every person who loves freedom to obstruct baulk harm and disrupt the Lee Kuan Yew government as much as possible.
If you agree, then do anything you can to harm the Lee Kuan Yew government . Place any impediment you can in their way. Vote for the opposition. If not spoil the vote but never vote PAP. If for some reason you cannot do either and since voting is compulsory, simply leave the island before election day so you don't have to vote.
Otherwise send your children abroad for an education and tell them not to return. Don't have any babies at all if you live in Singapore, as the paucity of a population hurts the Lee Kuan Yew government the most. If you can emigrate overseas for your own good and future, as there is no future under Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore. If you are abroad, discredit the Lee Kuan Yew government at every oppurtunity, to your friends colleagues both publicly and privately.
In other words, if you cherish freedom, try and hurt the Lee Kuan Yew government anyway you can, either from within Singapore or outside.
We all want to see the fall of this dictatorship and each one of us, in your own way can contribute to it's fall. What is happening to Hosni Mubarak and his son should happen to Lee Kuan Yew and son. Work at it my friends. We will after all see the back of Lee Kuan Yew one way or another.
We have to make Lee Kuan Yew realize that he cannot run Singapore on propaganda alone. He has to have the co-operation of the people which we should deny him.
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.
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