Singapore. After the elections, George Yeo, who?

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Just as they say Egypt is the Nile and the Nile is Egypt, you can say the same for Singapore.

Singapore is Lee Kuan Yew and Lee Kuan Yew is Singapore. He has made sure that everything is because of him, run by him and accountable to him. Without him, there is no one. In fact without him there is no Singapore. And that should be a frightful thought for any Singaporean, especially since the man is 91 of age, or so, unable to walk, hear, speak and just about to drop!

An example of this can be seen in George Yeo, actually George Yeo Yong Boon, until recently Lee Kuan Yew's foreign minister, bigwig, and local celebrity. All that understandably changed in 2011 when he lost the elections running for his master Lee Kuan Yew at the Aljunied elections. Today, if you turned around and said George Yeo, Singaporeans would have probably asked " George who?" The moment he lost the elections, he became nothing and will remain nothing, except of course if Lee Kuan Yew decides he should be politician again, at which time the same George Yeo will be somebody once again.

If George Yeo, the same bigwig were to walk down Singapore’s main street today, nobody would even care to take a second look!

What this shows us is this. There are no leaders in Singapore except one, which is the dictator, Lee himself. Everyone else takes authority from him and through him. Otherwise they have none and will simply be dust, no more.

It is the same with every other so called Singapore politician in power.  Once they are dropped by the Lee Ruling Family, they are nothing. It even applies to Lee's son himself. If for any reason he is toppled or resigns, no one will give him a second look either, as they know that he is where he is just because of his father. The same applies to every single Minister and person in authority including his Indian Minister for Law K Shanmugam and every other bootlicker you find with the dictator.

Every one of these characters are simply bureaucrats, who have just succeeded in passing exams, obtained scholarships and spent their entire life serving the interests of the Lee Ruling Family. Gorge Yeo for instance has no independent views on the lack of rule of law in Singapore, the lack of an independent press, the lack of free trade unions, the lack of freedom of speech and expression, simply nothing. All his views reflect exactly those of the Lee Ruling Family who pays themselves several millions a year through corruption and run the island as a dictatorship. 

I will take a guess that if George Yeo were to make a speech tomorrow, you will have to pay people handsomely to even listen to him. He has no supporters and he leads no one. After his election defeat, the same George Yeo is simply nothing in Singapore. 

I am raising this point to show the precarious life Singaporeans lead. If Lee, the dictator were to die tomorrow, the island would be without anyone with leadership to lead. Lee Kuan Yew made sure that there are none; because that is the only way he can cling on to power indefinitely. All very good for him, but sadly very bad for Singapore. 

In any other democracy there are thousands of leaders who have grassroots support with myriad different views and ideas who can step in to fill any power vacuum. In Singapore on the other hand, when Lee drops dead, that will be the end.

I don't see anyone rallying around George Yeo or any other of Lee’s bootlickers, to lead them, especially since George Yeo himself does not think very much of himself.  

Gopalan Nair
A Singaporean by birth in exile
Attorney at Law 
Fremont, California
Tel: 510 491 4375 

Singapore's Lee Ruling Family have turned the island on it's head

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Singapore today is full of gleaming skyscrapers, Rolls Royce cars, fancy restaurants and luxury handbags. The question is, has all this glamour and glitter done Singapore or Singaporeans any good? I am sorry, contrary to what one would have expected, the Lee Ruling Family has done Singapore irreparable harm.

2 days ago, Singapore’s state controlled newspaper the Straits Times proudly reports (propaganda) in screaming headlines that the island is rated the 2nd best place to do business in the world. I suppose the newspaper thought we should all be grateful to the Lees for making it such a marvelous place. But is the ranking of a good place to do business necessarily any good for the average Singaporean? I am afraid it is not, and this is why.

This is what Lee has done. In his mad rush to increase the GDP, he has gone out to the world and claimed it is just another Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Anyone can come in and start a business anytime, no questions asked, just as in Dubai, one of the easiest places in the world to do business. And what is more, these foreign companies are free to employ any foreigner they want, bypassing local Singaporeans.

As it is necessary for Lee to become competitive at any costs, there are no minimum wage laws. Thousands of low wage Malaysians are allowed to cross the border each day to work in the multi national American companies. Even more impoverished foreigners are given work passes to work for measly wages, and take away jobs from native Singaporeans. This is the sort of competition that the Lee Ruling Family proudly proclaim.

In their mad rush to increase business and presumably their (Lee Ruling Family’s) wealth they initiate and create entirely new businesses in the island even though Singaporeans have no expertise in them whatsoever. Offshore secretive banking to keep the ill gotten gains of rich Chinese from Communist China are set up.

As Singaporeans themselves have no expertise in this field whatsoever, bankers from Switzerland, London and Amsterdam are flown in to run them, driving their Rolls Royce automobiles on the local streets, while the locals drool at them with their mouths open with envy.

Casinos are built for the first time, using the expertise of Las Vegas with employment passes for Filipinos to run the black jack tables.

Buildings standing perfectly well are demolished and rebuilt with rapid regularity, to energize the construction industry. To man the industry, thousands and thousands of low wage Communist Chinese from the Peoples Republic, India and Bangladesh are flown in for these low wage jobs. That too increases Lee Kuan Yew Singapore GDP.

The question is where is the local Singaporean’s place in all this opulent grandeur? Unfortunately he is nowhere to be seen; he is not in that Rolls Royce; in fact he is at the bottom of the economic totem pole, tragically in his own country. And that is one big difference with Dubai, but otherwise, it is just one big shopping and business center for the whole world.

In Dubai which has a much smaller population than Singapore the top of the pecking order are their citizens, citizens of the UAE. They are paid handsomely by the state to do just nothing, so I suppose they have nothing to complain. Below that is the American, the Englishman or the Australian. They live very well too, just like in Singapore, running the banks and the business houses. Below that comes the other Arabs, those not from oil rich countries, like Egypt. And below that are the Indians and Pakistanis. The local Dubai citizens only make 17% of the population by the way. Dubai is an island where the foreigners far outnumber the locals.

Singapore is not much different except for some minor differences. In Singapore, the Lee Ruling Family, by which I mean Lee Kuan Yew, his son, and his extended family which include several Ministers and business tycoons, are number one. Singapore is simply paradise on earth for them. Each one of them pays themselves millions over the people's objections, and like Kings they do whatever they want. Next come the expatriates, just as in Dubai. They run the banks, and dine and wine in the country clubs. Next below are his bootlickers, like Lee’s judge Belinda Ang Saw Ean who abuses the law to please her master. She does well too, if you can accept such a disgraceful way to make a living. Below them come the foreigners, professionals and ordinary workers of all sorts who are immediately given jobs by local businesses because they can pay less than they would to a local Singaporean. Last of all in the pecking order is the poor local Singapore born citizen. He can't find a job because the foreigner has taken it, and his government has completely ignored him. He finds himself in the worst position in society in his own country! And that is a tragic irony.

Today there is anecdotal evidence that the foreigner population in Singapore island has already exceeded the local Singapore born population as a result of the unrelenting emigration aboard of disgruntled and unhappy citizens, the almost non existent birth rate and a fast ageing population.

Recently President Obama made a hilarious joke about Mitt Romney. He said "Mitt Romney has said he is going to create an 800,000 jobs. There is only one problem to that statement. The jobs are not in the USA. They are in China"!

You could say more or less the same about Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore of today. It may be true that Singapore is the second best place in the world to do business. But business for whom? Not for Singaporeans but for Americans, Englishmen and Australians.

I would have approached it differently. I would have considered Singaporeans first, business or no business. A mad rush to increase the GDP is not the way to go. You don't simply create an industry out of thin air where Singaporeans have no expertise in it whatsoever. I would have allowed Singaporeans to do business, not foreigners. I would have educated Singaporeans, not foreigners. And I would have allowed Singapore to find its own direction for the future, not ramming industries which Singaporeans have no connection or understanding down their throats.

Today the vast number of Singaporeans are only good enough to be clerks and office minders in the lavish offices of Swiss bankers and English industrialists, in industries in which Singaporeans have not the slightest of clue whatsoever.

What Lee has done is simply to make the island attractive only to foreign businessmen. The local born Singaporean is not a factor in that equation. I fear in the end, it will only be the Lee Ruling Family and their cronies running an island full of foreigners doing business, not much different from Dubai. There won't be any local born Singaporeans left except for those foolish enough or incapable to leave to other parts of the world, where they count as human beings.

Gopalan Nair
Singapore born citizen in exile
Attorney at Law
Tel: 510 491 4375

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's Malays and Indians have only themselves to blame

Ladies and Gentlemen,

We cannot forget that before anyone else, Singapore was the home of the Malays as they were in neighboring Malaysia and Indonesia. The British who colonized the island brought the Chinese and Indians to work in the island, but the Malays had more rights to it above anyone else. It was their island.

To recognize this fact, by law the national language was declared Malay although business was better conducted in English.

But come 1959 and the advent of Lee Kuan Yew and the Lee Ruling family, comprised now of father and son, the father being the strongman Lee Kuan Yew and his son the Prime Minister whom he appointed, the island began taking an ethnic Chinese appearance, something which I am sure no one ever intended, let alone the founder of Singapore the Englishman Stamford Raffles.

Remember in the 1950s ethnic Chinese only formed about 50% of the island. Today with planeloads of Chinese immigrants being brought daily from Communist China, it is about 77%.

It appears, Lee Kuan Yew, who is the dictator since 1959, like Fidel Castro’s Cuba, a person of Chinese ethnicity decided that he didn't care too much for the Malays or anyone else and that he will turn it into a Chinese island with ethnic Chinese given preferred status over others.

Today all top jobs in every walk of life and top businesses are all in the hands of ethnic Chinese, while Malays, to whom the island actually belonged, a tragic irony, are relegated to being coolies and street sweepers. The Singapore Indians fare no better.

The Lee Ruling Family claims that the situation is justified because of meritocracy, a lie which rings completely hollow. Malay or an Indian Singaporean is not any inferior to any ethnic Chinese. Their disadvantageous position is not due to any fault on their part. It is because, Singapore’s Lee Ruling family denies them jobs at every opportunity, there is no race relations laws and employers who are almost entirely Chinese refuse to employ them, leaving them only the demeaning jobs which no one else wants.

And this disgusting official policy of racial discrimination has been going on for the last 53 years, ever since Singapore obtained limited self rule form the British.

There is no doubt that the ethnic Chinese Lee Ruling Family's racial discriminatory policies are clearly illegal under the Constitution but they have managed to get away with it because of the indifference of Malays and Indians to their plight.

The Malays and Indians of Singapore have simply done nothing to stop Lee Ruling Family's ongoing racial discriminatory policies. There has been no public protest or any expression of outrage or indignation by them against these illegal government policies which marginalizes and turns them into second rate citizens in an island which had in fact belonged to them in the first place.

Sadly, the Malays who are predominantly Muslim have been simply content living under Lee Kuan Yew's laws which continue to discriminate against them. There are no leaders among the Malay community who care enough to stand up against this abuse of their rights. They are all afraid of Lee Kuan Yew and his threats to lock them up and throw away the key if they openly challenged Lee's unjust laws and policies. The Indians are no different; they have no leaders either and every single one of them is so afraid of Lee Kuan Yew, they dare not even squeak.

It is true that Lee is a dictator who is determined to make Singapore into a completely Chinese city and their race the dominating ruling race. It is also true that what he does is simply illegal. But the fault equally lies with the Malay Muslims and Indians because they can stand up against this abuse and illegal discrimination but they instead choose not to and simply accept whatever life Lee decides for them.

One can only surmise that Singapore’s Malays and Indians are a cowardly people who are so afraid of the Lee Ruling Family to the extent that they prefer a life in submission and acceptance to the danger that may befall them if they fight. A people who simply let some else ride roughshod over them is simply cowardly. No other word can better describe them.

Here is an example of a Malay whom I know. He is Jufrie Mahmood, presently the Chairman of the opposition SDP. He is a good man. I know him personally. He is someone who is clearly interested in Singapore’s politics and the plight of the Malays. He was a long time Workers Party member with JB Jeyaretnam and me. He passionately wants to help his fellow Malays. He sees the injustice being done to them. It cannot be denied that he has paid a painful price for his beliefs at Lee's hands. One cannot fault him for not caring for his people. It is not my intention to criticize him at all. Yet he, except for joining the SDP and writing essays about the injustice, simply refuses to publicly protest or engage in civil disobedience or organize any peaceful demonstration along the streets of Singapore to demand that Lee stops such illegal practices. Without such open protest, which the Malays simply refuse to do, the world is not aware of how shabbily the Lee Ruling Family treat them. Which by the way, conveniently allows the Lees to continue running them down.

Other than him, there are no other Malay leaders in Singapore. A couple of Malays serve in Lee’s government. They are not Malay leaders. They are there only to enrich themselves. They are a disgrace. There is no point in talking about them.

Gopalan Nair 
Singaporean by birth in exile
Attorney at Law 
Fremont, California USA
Tel: 510 491 4375 

Singapore Government's discrimination against Malay and Indian citizens

Ladies and Gentlemen,

The repression and denial of opportunity towards Singapore's ethnic Malay and Indian citizens is blatant widespread and disgraceful. It is very clear that the Singapore Government, also generally known as the Lee Ruling Family comprised of father (Lee Kuan Yew) and his son tag team, which has been ruling Singapore, a totalitarian one party police state, since 1959, for as long as the Castro brothers have ruled Cuba are determined to continue with this shameful policy.  

Singapore is a small island which has today 5 million people but if you counted only native born citizens, it would be no more than 2.5 million or less. It is also the most crowded land space in the world, next to Gaza Israeli occupied territory. Its land area is no more than 26 miles across and 16 miles on the north to south radial.

The Lee Ruling Family, father and son team, have no respect for any laws. Although the Constitution demands equal opportunity to all, they simply ignore it. The island has no race relations laws and the government departments and private companies are free to engage in racial discrimination at will.

20 years ago, the island had just 50% of the population of ethnic Chinese race. Today the island's ethnic Chinese component is about 77% and increasing. 20 years ago the ethnic Malays and Indians formed about 50% of the island population. Today Malays are no more than 13% and Indians a mere 8%, and decreasing.

This huge increase in Chinese numbers is not because they procreate more. In fact it is just the opposite. They have the lowest birth rate in the island and the lowest birth rate in the world, a mere 1% or so. If matters were left alone the ethnic Chinese would disappear from the island first.

Why then, you will ask has their population increased so much. Well, it is because Lee Kuan Yew and his son, who make up the tag team of the Lee Ruling Family, who are themselves of Chinese descent, prefer their own race.

They don't like Malays whom they consider inferior to them and they don't like Indians whom they consider troublemakers. In Singapore at least, the Chinese have the tendency of simply following the leader, as they do in Communist China.

Of course there are exceptions, and of course I will give credit to Chee Soon Juan, an ethnic Chinese who stands out from the rest as one man with more testosterone unlike others of his race, and the courage to stand up to the Lee Family at great cost to himself.

Therefore it is not surprising that, even though the Constitution demands equal treatment of the different ethnicities, they have over the last decade made a determined effort to increase the Chinese population in the island at the expense of the other ethnicities.

This they have done and continue to do to this day by bringing in plane loads of Chinese from the Peoples Republic of China to settle in Singapore and give them instant citizenship, which explains why there are now 77% Chinese extraction population in the island and Malays who by the way are the original inhabitants have been reduced to a mere 13% and the Indians to a mere 8%.

Of course what the Lee Ruling Family is doing is downright illegal and a violation of the Constitution which requires equal treatment. But it won't do you any good complaining to the Lees because they simply don't care for the Constitution, for you for anybody else. Why this is so, is because he has the Singapore law enforcement policemen or attack dogs to arrest you if you are troublesome and his obedient loyal judiciary and courts which will do anything he wants, including bending the law to breaking point.

But wait a minute, is there not the rule of law you may ask. No there isn't in this island. There is the rule of the Lees; that is what it is.

At this rate of massive importation of Chinese immigrants and the Malay and Indian population decreasing fast, very soon there will be only ethnic Chinese in Lee's Singapore interspersed with a few white people who would manage the offshore banks to cater for the money launderers and Indonesian millionaire thieves who have taken up residence there.

We should not forget the Russians, as they are becoming the largest group of millionaires who have become rich on bribes, theft and corruption under Putin who now call Lee’s Singapore home.

Today Malays and Indians are denied jobs because Lee's Chinese employers refuse to employ them. Every job vacancy listed in the island carry the notation "Only Chinese need apply" or "Knowledge of Mandarin required". There was one instance where a an Indian realizing the problem decided to learn Chinese but still did not get the job, the excuse being that the Chinese customers would not appreciate a non Chinese looking person. Of course it was not possible to change the color of his skin from brown to yellow even though plastic surgery to make his nose stub and his eyes squint and smaller like Fu Manchu was possible; but then what good would a brown looking man with squint eyes and a stub nose do, other than a comedy.

Occasionally the government would give some jobs to a few Indians or Malays but usually it is rare and uncommon.

As for the menial jobs, dishwashers, low ranking policemen, drivers and street sweepers, there are ample jobs for Malays and Indians, Lee's plan being to drive home the fact that they are losers in Lee's winning Chinese looking island.

Although these injustices and state sanctioned racial discrimination policies are illegal, complaining about it will do no good there. In Singapore it is legal to racially discriminate as there are no laws against it. It has no race relations laws, no minimum wage laws and the Constitution is totally ignored and non existent.

Without recourse to lawful redress for Malays and Indians, it is becoming increasingly common for them to vent their frustration through violence. You can see a disgruntled Malay citizen who has been refused government housing coming out and giving a good beating to the first Chinese looking person he sees. You can see an Indian who has just been fined the maximum of speeding, when Chinese are required to pay only a few dollars, coming out and beating up Chinese looking people.

This sort of racially motivated violence is going to increase and expectedly so. In countries which have laws in place to prevent this sort of injustice, citizens are content to avail themselves to the law which they can rely on and trust. In Singapore's Kangaroo courts, since there are no laws to protect against racial injustice and in a place where the government itself is engaged in an official policy of racial discrimination, what do you expect a man to do?

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

Singapore. The Lee Ruling Family's plan to keep Malays and Indians marginalized

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Singapore is s tiny overcrowded island with a very low birth rate and an ageing population. Resulting from it's world’s lowest birth rate, with only 2.5 million or so native born citizens, the government has brought in an equal number of Mainland Chinese to fill their places.

Following the practice of the predominantly ethnic Chinese race, the original inhabitants of the island, the Malays, because of the lack of freedom, the rule of law and employment opportunities have themselves reduced their family sizes which in the past were much bigger.

Their population, just like that of the Chinese is also shrinking but at a slower rate, but the difference in their case is this; Lee has no intention whatsoever of bringing in any Malays from outside. This would mean of course that the Malay population would continue shrinking and eventually disappear. 

As for the Indians, they are in the same boat as the Malays. Lee has no plans for them, except that he hopes they would like the Malays, sooner than later disappear for his island entirely. 

The ethnic Chinese population on the other hand would at least hold steady, if not continue growing with the daily plane loads of peasants he brings in from China. 

In fact, to get a place in Singapore, although it is better if one is Chinese, in fact you stand an equally goo0d chance if you are Chinese looking if you know what I mean. For instance, a man from Burma looks no different from a Chinese person, so does a Vietnamese, Laotian or Cambodian; not to mention Hong Kong, Korea or even the other parts of Central Asia like Kazakhstan. In fact there are already a large number of Burmese and Vietnamese who have already come in who you would be at pains to differentiate from a Chinese. 

Lee Kuan Yew racist policies are very clear. He wants a Chinese Singapore, not a multi racial Singapore as he claims. In fact it is no longer a multi racial island in the real sense, since the Malays who form only 13% and the Indians only 8% can hardly qualify as a multi racial island with the Chinese making up the vast majority of over 76%. 

And his plan to keep the Malays and Indians at the bottom of the social and economic ladder is very clear. Already today you find almost everyone in the lowest ranks of the police force Malay.

Why because they usually have the least education among the other citizens, thereby making them perfect individuals who would blindly obey orders, just the sort of mindless people you need to go around arresting any political opponent, Lee orders to put away.   

Anyone who thinks the Malays and Indians have themselves to blame for being at the bottom of Lee Kuan Yew's rung has completely missed the point. Their low economic and social status is precisely because Lee wants them there. And this is very easily accomplished in his one part police state.

Every teacher in any school is ordered to deliberately give low grades to any Malay or Indian child as opposed to an ethnic Chinese. The result of this of course is that Malays and Indians continue to fail their exams in school while the ethnic Chinese are given the best grades regardless of their performances. The weakness of the Malays and Indian children in Singapore schools is not because of lack of trying, it is because of the general government policy of failing them in schools.

As a result, you have this huge numbers, vastly disproportionate to their size, of Malay and Indian children who drop out from school. And this is exactly what Lee needs. You need mindless dummies who will take any orders from the top to run around like dogs to do Lee's dirty work beating up his political opponents, and locking them away. Anyone with some brains would not be so willing for this of work, which is why the under educated and unskilled Malays and Indians neatly fill Lee's plans.

On rare occasions you find one among many Malay students who do well in school and even more uncommonly would get a scholarship. Don’t be fooled here. That was no ordinary Malay. He is very probably the son of a PAP (Lee's party) member and trusted supporter which makes this boy a safe bet for the Lees. Also he could periodically defend himself against the charge that he is racially discriminating against them, by pointing to this one Malay boy who has done well.

Today you see the Malays doing every single menial work in the island you can imagine. They are low ranking minimum wage policemen, motorcycle messengers, office tea boys, road sweepers and errand boys. The average Indian is a security guard, and does similar work that these Malays do.

The Lee Ruling Family has no plans to advance the status of the Malays and Indians who are a fast shrinking and soon disappearing minority in Lee's ethnic Chinese island one party police city state. As far as Lee is concerned, the Malays and Indians can either take it or leave it. He is not bothered either way.

Gopalan Nair
A Singaporean by birth in exile
Attorney at Law
Fremont, CA, USA
Tel: 510 491 4375

Singapore Chee Soon Juan's $30,000.00 folly

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Singapore's state controlled newspaper Straits Times of Sept 25, 2012 has the story, "SDP's Chee Soon Juan raises $30k to settle suit" See http://www.straitstimes.com/breaking-news/singapore/story/sdps-chee-soon-juan-raises-30k-settle-suit-20120925

In Singapore, Lee Kuan Yew's one party totalitarian police state in which Chee is an hapless lone opposition politician single handedly fighting for democracy, he was sued, as expected in that island, through the corrupt state appointed judges for the usual defamation charges for criticizing the almighty Lee Ruling Family in 2001 and bankrupted after an outrageous judgment award of $500,000.00 which he naturally could not pay.

According to this and earlier reports in the state controlled newspapers there, which the Lee Ruling Family orchestrate, he had made an offer to settle this amount in the sum of $30,000 which the Lees have, not surprisingly in the present circumstances in the island, accepted and hence his payment and release from bankruptcy. As a result, he will now be able to contest the 2016 impending national elections.

In my opinion, this whole thing is wrong. Chee should never have agreed to pay one cent let alone $30,000.00.

And the powers to be in Singapore, the Lee Family themselves look silly and their judgment award hollow, when they settle for $30,000.00 when their Kangaroo court's award was no less than $500,000, which begs the question, would they have accepted $10.00!

Tell me would any reasonable person settle for $30,000.00 for a judgment sum of $500,000.00 unless they themselves have no respect for their own judgment award!

Singapore is a country which does not have free speech. It is an island which is literally run by the Lees. No independent judiciary, no free press, no rule of law, no right to free assembly or protest, simply nothing. It is no more than a one party totalitarian police state run by this Family since 1959, more or less when Fidel Castro seized Cuba.

And what has Chee done by paying? This is what he has done. He has by implication, stated in no uncertain terms, that he accepts the validity of this ridiculous court judgment of $500,000.00, that Singapore has in fact the rule of law and that the Lee's have a lawful government there, instead of a banana republic.

By paying this sum, regardless of the amount, he is in fact giving his seal of approval to these totalitarian judges who dispense telephone justice, meaning they pass sentences after receiving a phone call from the Prime Ministers Office (Lee’s Son).

By paying, Chee has compromised his entire position which he has so far admirably and nobly taken which is, that Singapore is just a one party totalitarian police state run by Lee through the courts to destroy the political opposition.

Chee should not have done that. He shouldn’t have paid a cent. If that meant not being able to contest elections in that one party police state, so be it. His should have taken the fight to the streets, in a lawful manner, through peaceful protests and demonstrations, rights which are guaranteed under the Constitution of the island for a complete change in how things are run. Chee should have demanded democracy or none at all. There is no room for compromise when the Lee Ruling Family literally denies every single human right under the constitution of the island.

The Lee Ruling Family is now on the defensive, anyone can see that. The public are overwhelmingly against them. The Internet is overwhelmingly against them. If Lee were going to give a speech today in the island, you would have had to pay a handsome sum to persuade anyone to hear it. The brain drain continues and mounting, there are no children born and the population is ageing and dying in that order. Even if Chee did nothing, this Lee Ruling family as well as Singapore itself will collapse by itself sooner than later. There was no need for Chee to compromise especially at this time in Singapore’s history.

Of course Chee sees things differently and it is up to him. But that is not how I see it. Of course I wish him well.

Gopalan Nair
A Singaporean by birth in exile
Attorney at Law
Fremont, California
Tel: 510 491 4375