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Thursday, 12 June 2008

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Mr Gopalan Nair, who is charged with having fallen foul of the law in Singapore, says he is standing by what he had said in his blog posts about the judiciary in the country.

Addressing a media conference this afternoon, Mr Nair said: "In the US where I come from, the judiciary just as any other government or official body is open to criticism and they accept it as necessary for the advancement and improvement of the administration of justice."


This morning, Mr Nair was charged in the Subordinate Courts with two offences, both under the Penal Code, of sending emails to two different High Court judges. One of the charges alleged that he had sent an insulting email to Justice Lai Siu Chiu on 17 March 2006. The other similar email was to Justice Belinda Ang on 29 May 2008.

No plea was taken at both Court 23 and Court 26. Mr Nair, who is on bail, will appear in court again on Monday.

At the news conference Mr Nair said he is disputing the charges and would claim trial.

"My blog was written as a message to the world about my views of matters of public interest. I have been accused of sending Emails to Judge Belinda Ang and others but this is not true. I did not at anytime send any Emails to Judge Belinda Ang or anyone else as far as this incident is concerned. The police had seized my notebook containing my email password and my blog access," the former Singaporean told reporters.

Gopalan Nair at the press conference this afternoon with his lawyer Chia Ti Lik Earlier, at the court were two diplomats from the US Embassy in Singapore.

According to an observer, the Singapore authorities are not taking up issue with Mr Nair over his blog postings because they don't want to be seen antagonizing the blogging community in the Internet.

Mr Nair came to Singapore for the purpose of observing the three-day hearing of assessment of damages in a defamation suit brought against the SDP and its two leaders by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew. The hearing, from 26 May was before Justice Belinda Ang.

Mr Nair told the news conference that he was upset about what "I saw in the court proceedings".

"I am not apologizing for what I said in my blog posts. We should have the courage to speak up and I'm not afraid for I'm not a slave.

"If I don't do things according to my beliefs, I wouldn't be able to look at myself in the mirror," Mr Nair asserted.

Click here for the full text of Mr Nair's statement at the news conference.

 

Photo credit: with appreciation to Alex Au of www.yawningbread.org

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Comments (47)
  • tunkdon
    where is human right
  • YogiBear - Possible Boo Boo?
    It would be highly embarrassing for the prosecution if it turned out that both the email address and the IP address were spoofed.
  • truth - Fight the dictatorship
    Great. Fight the dictatorship and expose them for the evils they have inflicted on Singaporeans. We are with you.
  • Underdogs - We shall overcome
    :cheer:We all over the world are united with u buddies GN, CSJ, & CSC.
    we are monitoring & watching all the
    dramas that has been unfolding in an out of Singapore very closely.

    Is time for pen to do the talking, Which is mightier then sworld.

    Mental Ah Lee Kayu time is running out very soon with is cronies and donkey singh.
  • Gerald Teo - Evidence?
    So they're not charging him with sedition (PAP definition).
    It'd be interesting to see what kind of evidence the prosecution is going to produce. I don't believe Mr Nair is lying when he says he did not send personal emails to the judges. If he did he would've have just said so.
  • J Moe - We will be with you!
    Dear Mr Gopalan Nair,

    We are so glad to hear that, you have been exercising "Freedom of speech" and "Freedom of the press". You are practically demonstrated on this Island, you have respects the fundamental freedoms of human rights, you have been showing protection of human rights, and also promote of social justice constructively.

    That was what ASEAN Leaders longest dream such as (i) respect for fundamental freedoms, the promotion and protection of human rights, and the promotion of social justice; (Ref: Article 2-2 of the ASEAN Charter) http://www.aseansec.org/ASEAN-Charter.pdf

    Obviously the world could see clearly the ASEAN Charter has failed to implement political and media freedom to members of ASEAN countries.
  • JT - "Power flows from the barrel of a gun."
    Lee Kwan Yew and his PAP thugs have power because they control the police and army who control the guns. They have the power to put any serious opposition behind bars.

    As Mao Tse Tung said, "Power flows from the barrel of a gun."

    As long as Lee controls those guns do you think the opposition is ever going to be able to come to power?

    Now it looks like Lee and Co. may be fabricating evidence: emails.
  • Need for Justice - Spin Doctors at Work!!!
    Here is where the PAP spin doctors are hard at work to demonised GN.

    GN has been posting for years, and stands by what he says. He post everything freely on his blog. Only people who intentionally surfs the blog will come to read what he says, so he is NOT at fault legally of pushing his idea.

    PAP knows that, so SPIN DOCTORS from PAP are coming up with fake charges that he sends email. SPIN DOCTORS from the media reported that he threathens the judges, etc (1st day), and is held without bail for threats. SPIN DOCTORS in the judiciary now add a second charge of sending email some 2 years ago, to make GN look like a habitual offender. To do this, they must have control over GN's laptop. They are smart, and they would probably chose someone that GN has send email to, and perhaps just added a few "insulting" lines into the email. GN is fighting against the entire PAP SPIN DOCTOR machinery, so it is really hard. The media, the police, the judiciary are all lined up against him.

    The only places that speaks GN side of the story is the free internet. Even so, there are not too many sites. Even on the internet, there are many PAP moles and SPIN DOCTORS hard at work on various forums to blacken GN's name. These people are paid just to do that.

    If you look at this site alone, you will notice that there are many weird and unfavorable comments to CSJ, CSC and GN. I am glad that SDP has introduce the + and - rating systems, so we can know that almost all the readers are against the comments put up by the PAP internet SPIN DOCTORS. However, may see comments with like -20 or -30, and know that they are just outrageous.

    So... HOW CAN WE ALL HELP??
    Here's my suggestion.

    In the interet of justice, we can help by disseminating GN side of the story (that he DID NOT SEND THE EMAILS) across the internet. Judging from the number of people who respond to THUMBS UP/ THUMBS DOWN, the number of people that loves freedom easily overshadow the PAP SPIN DOCTORS by 30 : 1!!! If we are willing to help disseminate GN's side of the story, we might be able to change the tide of negative feelings that PAP is trying to generate towards GN. PAP is trying to control the tide of public opinion, and we must overturn it!!!
  • EDMWer
    Ohhh noses....if Gopapa didn't send the email....tat means the authorities are lying????

    Dunch knoe who ish lying wor?!

    :woohoo:
  • Chew
    [quote]Mr Nair said: "In the US where I come from, the judiciary just as any other government or official body is open to criticism and they accept it as necessary for the advancement and improvement of the administration of justice."[/quote]

    US is a First World country, Singapore is not, despite how the delusional Lee Kuan Yew and his clown prince son Lee Hsien Loong so shamelessly and ever-so-often declared.

    One cannot claim that he or she is an A student just because they scored an A in one subject but failed all the rest.

    In the same sense, Singapore is just a mediocre country with an extremely disproportion sense when it comes to minsters' salaries and all benefits entangling with PAP. Two sets of rules exist, one for the peasants and another for those with PAP affiliation.

    Lee Kuan Yew's book, From Third World to First, is a fallacy. We are still third world no doubt, having failed badly in human rights and media freedom among other things. It is not unlike spending $400k to re-brand "Marina Bay", as "Marina Bay".

    :angry: Thumbs down to all of you Lee Kuan Yew, PAP, SPF, SPH, MediaCorp and Court of Singapore.
  • Excuses after excuses - Busy catching inocent oppositions
    Just look a the Botched escape bid by 2 detainees from sub-courts..again and again excuses after excuses

    Complacency only shows top down, if the top is always on-the-ball, will there even have room for the one at the bottom to lapse to this low level?


    [b]How can the top be on the ball when they are busy catching, arresting and instilling fear amongst pp'ple, inocent oppositions! Guarding their own golden rice bowls![/b] :evil:
  • Live as a Human Being or die  - Well Said Mr Nair
    [b]"I am not apologizing for what I said in my blog posts. We should have the courage to speak up and I'm not afraid for I'm not a slave.

    "If I don't do things according to my beliefs, I wouldn't be able to look at myself in the mirror," Mr Nair asserted. [/b]

    [b]Well Said Mr Niar- as a human being if one cannot speak your mind and say what is the reatl thruth -right and wrong - they we might as well be dead or animals! Stupid morons which is what PAP wants us to be![/b] :evil:

    Respect begets respect! We definitely support what you said Mr Nair!

    Give them hell! Bring justice to Sinkapore! You can do it!
  • Call for GE sooner - Iron Rice Bowls for Ministers, Police and top poli
    [b][/b]Big fat salary and big office have soften many of the big-shots up there. Our police force and armed forces and Minister hot-shots are not as tough as before, many manged to climb up there with academic results/contacts.

    People who got iron rice bowls will never improve, never admit mistakes, and only good in pushing away all blames, but yet, still getting fat salaries & enjoy lives year after year!

    [b]Com'on...Sinkaporeans, TAKE ACTION NOW, PLEASE !!! Call for GE and throw them out and their judges![/b] :evil:
  • Lifestyle of Lee Regime - State of affairs in Singapore??
    Lifestyle of Lee Regime:

    They are simply too comfortable with their arm chairs, nice and cooling offices, latest models of police cars and computers that they can never be fast with their hands, legs and brains anymore!
    Don't forget their 52in Plasma TVs.
    Life is so good in the police station.

    blame it on the wrong facing of security door sited in such a way guard can't see -It is a structural fault lah not the men in blue.

    The management is always right and the stupid policeman will be the one getting the stick. Work long hours = Get punished

    [b]It is the scholars who are the real problems...fast promotions and good exit plans when retire-It's about time the gahman realises that some scholars are good only at taping at buttons of computers from their cosy office. Worse still, these literate idiots come from well to do families and have never gone to the ground. No experience![/b]


    One classical good example in Singapore was the introduction of ISO System which suppose to instil quality check to the process, but it ended up becoming a system for transfering the entire fault along if found to the lowest or lower-middle officer and pin-point it is their faults so and then commonly practiced by the Singapore companies big or small.

    [b]So what are we sinkaporeans gonna do? With the exception of a few oppositions fighting so hard and kena jail/sued -

    Think pp'ple! Action is louder than words - how long are you all going to live under their false fear![/b]
  • Well Said Mr Nair - Words of Wisdom
    "I am not apologizing for what I said in my blog posts. We should have the courage to speak up and I'm not afraid for I'm not a slave.

    "If I don't do things according to my beliefs, I wouldn't be able to look at myself in the mirror," Mr Nair asserted.

    Words of Wisdom ; Words of a true valour; Words of an highly talented educated solicitor!

    But in Stinkapore - Lee Regime does not like these words !Singaporeans must be dumb!
  • Mike - Be Responsible for what you wrote
    Don't shrink now...

    Scared already?

    Itchy hands to send defaming emails will land anyone to trouble..!

    This is the drama we want to see.

    A big prize game the government wanted to catch for a long time.

    'Go up to the mountains too often, you will finally meet the tiger.'

    B)
  • not_quite_advocate_n_solicitor
    don't u c, this is a GOOD thing.
    now Gopalan can truly get off NOT GUILTY if he didn't send e emails!
    e govt has shot itself in e foot.
    if they amend the charges in court again, then it'll show the world that the whole legal service is full of shit.
    n if they really "dun wanna antagonize e bloggers", they won't change e charges anyway!
    so Gopalan could get his acquittal.
  • Anonymous
    [size=small]Singapore Dissident Numero Uno (for the year of our Lord 2008) wrote in his blogged reply to a certain Edwin Soh:
    "What Lee has done over 4o years is this ... he has managed to build up this concrete jungle ...because Singapore has good infra structure, good telephones, transport and cleanliness..."[/size]

    [size=medium]Let this be said - if it has not been said before - here and now, once and for all:[/size]
    SINGAPORE WASN'T, WAS NEVER, BUILT UP FROM 1965 ONWARDS - PLEASE STOP HAVING MEMORY LAPSES, GOONS OF THIS WORLD.

    [size=large]SINGAPORE ALREADY HAD IN PLACE GOOD INFRASTRUCTURE OF TRANSPORT AND COMMUNICATION LINES, PROPER LEGAL AND PUBLIC ADMINISTRATIVE SYSTEMS,ETC, ETC, WELL BEFORE THE OPPORTUNISTS (COMPRISING MAINLY THE CHINESE IMMIGRANTS AND SPECIFICALLY THE 'JEWS' AMONG THAT BUNCH) DECIDED TO DO A COPYCAT OF WHAT WAS SO FASHIONABLE BACK THEN IN POST-WWII 60s IN THE WORLD AMONG COLONIAL JURISDICTIONS (I.E. TO ACHIEVE 'INDEPENDENCE', TO CUT THE UMBILICAL CORD, TO BITE THE HAND THAT FEEDS IT, SO TO SPEAK).

    MEN AND OFFICERS OF HER MAJESTY'S EMPIRE PUT UP AND PUT IN WORKABLE AND EFFICENT SYSTEMS IN EACH AND EVERY AND ALL THE LANDS THEY HAD COME TO CALL THEIR OWN - MIND YOU, THEY USUALLY DID NOT HAVE TO FIGHT AND DECIMATE THE NATIVES (LIKE WHAT POLITICIANS DO NOWADAYS, FIGURATIVLEY SPEAKING) BUT PAY DUES TO GREEDY AND MYOPIC, IMPOTENT KINGS AND SHEIKS OF THOSE GOD-FORSAKEN BACKWATERS - AND HAD LEFT SUCH GEMS AND GREAT LEGACIES BEHIND FOR THESE NATION-WANNABEES BUT WHICH WERE ULTIMATELY ABUSED AND PLUNDERED AND LEFT BEREFT OF EVERYTHING RESEMBLING ANYTHING GOOD THAT THE SOCALLED COLONIALS HAD SO PAINSTAKINGLY CREATED!

    SO, YOUNG MEN AND WOMEN OUT THERE, IN CASE YOU DO NOT KNOW YOUR HISTORY - EXCEPT FOR EVENTS LIKE LADY DI DIED IN A CRASH WITH HER MOSLEM LOVER IN 1997 (OR DID YOU NOT EVEN KNOW THAT, AS SUSPECTED?) -
    GO SEEK KNOWLEDGE FROM YOUR WISE OLD GRANNY - IF SHE'S STILL ALIVE AND HAS NOT DEAD YET FROM OVEREXHAUSTION AFTER MONTHS AND YEARS OF PICKING AND COLLECTING OLD NEWSPAPAERS CARDBOARD AND EMPTY DRINKS CANS (PLUS GOD KNOWS WHAT OTHE TRASH IN ORDER TO SNARE THAT TREASUED $2 PLATE OF CHICKEN TO SURVIVE, IN ORDER TO GO ON PICKING UP AND COLLECTING MORE OLD NEWSPAPERS & CARDBOARD, DRINKS CANS AND YES, ALL MANNER OF TRASH) -
    GO ASK HER IF GEORGE V, AND LATER HEIS DAUGHTER QE2, DID NOT TREAT ITS SUBJECTS MORE HUMANELY THAN NOW, OR AT THE VERY LEAST, LIFE WAS SO MUCH BETTER, EVERYTHING AFFORDABLE, NO HOUNDS RUNNING YOU DOWN FOR BLOOD (MONEY) IN EVERY LITTLE THING YOU DID, ETC, ETC.

    AND IF ANYTHING HAD GONE AMISS BACK THEN, AT LEAST YOU COULD TURN UP IN YOUR PIGTAILS AND SAMFOOS OR TATTERED COOLIE CLOTHES AT THE GOVERNOR'S RESIDENCE TO PROTEST (UNLIKE NOW, WHEN YOU CAN'T EVEN GO OUT WITH FIVE OTHER PALS AS THAT'LL MEAN AN ASSEMBLY OF 5 OR MORE) AND MAKE YOUR VOICE AND ISSUES HEARD!

    SO THAT WHEN YOU ELT WRONGED, YOU COULD ALSO AT LEAST PLAY THE BULLIED MIGRANT AND SHOUT: "DISCRIMINATION! RACISM!! INJUSTICE!!!"

    NOW YOU CAN'T DO THAT IF AN WHEN YOU WISH TO SEEK REDRESS FOR UNFAIRNESS AND INJUSTICE.

    BECAUSE IT'S YOUR OWN KIND WHO'S SITING PRETTY RIGHT AT THE TOP :evil: BULLYING YOU :D :lol:

    AND THERE'S NOTHING YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT :whistle: :s EXCEPT TO SHUT YOUR TRAP UP AND KEEP MUM.[/size]

    FOR THE REST OF YOUR BLOODY MISERABLE LIFE :lol: :lol: !

    [size=x-large]BECAUSE YOU AND/OR YOUR FATHERS,M OTHERS, UNCLES, AUNTS - YOUR ENTIRE CLAN - COMMITED THE CARDINAL SIN OF CLAMORING FOR 'INDEPENDENCE' :dry: :confused:

    AND THEN? VOTED FOR MORE GOOD YEARS :D :silly: B) [/size]

    ========================================
    Your posters' comments:

    Great. Fight the dictatorship and expose them for the evils they have inflicted on Singaporeans. We are with you.

    Quote 16 3



    Underdogs - We shall overcome Thu, 12 Jun 2008 5:07 pm


    Oh come on, what else can you do, Mr. Sin Kah Poh, except offer such 'undying support'?

    Every place deserves what it gets - Burma its junta and the cyclone aftermath; PRC and the most unexpected quaker in a most unlikely location and its CCP (but at least even a lowly proletariat farmer could protest! Haha);
    and of course Singapore its elites (plus of course, that one very exceptional family - so said Go-Goh Man (Oh, why is it that even your ah girl didn't even like it here? After all you were holing the reins and life ought to have been even better for her and her white lover but no, she had to exit, make her way to London - just like the rest of The Elites' Sons and Daughters, haha.)

    So, live with it, swallow it, even if it gets stuck in your throat - you people deserve what you wanted (or marked your ballot for, cast or un-cast included).
  • NiceSow
    FOUL !!!!!!

    Moving targets again ....

    Arrested for one reason,
    Investigated for another reason,
    Charged for yet another reason !

    and this is world class ?

    Phew !
  • Ted
    I don't think Singaporeans are dumb at all. We are just afraid that's all. We have no respect whatsoever towards LKY, only fear. But if you take away the fear, there is nothing left but only to despise the Lees. Yes I despise your character LKY.
  • JT - New Weblog for Singapore Democracy
    Hello,

    I have spent the past two days creating a new weblog http://singapore-democracy.blogspot.com that has many articles from Gopalan's site and also your site as well as other articles by myself and others.

    Readers are free to leave coments on the site.

    I think it is important that other sites are mirroring the information in case the PAP shuts down or disrupts the other sites. My site is running out of Canada.

    I don't expect much to change in Singapore until Lee Kuan Yew dies, even then the PAP will continue. They control the press,courts, police and military and have tons of money, it is a tough fight.

    PS... It has been very hard to get onto your site for hours today, you may be under a denial of serice attack. The investment site www.traders-talk.com has had a huge amount of trouble with this problem from an enemy but they solved the problem, you may want to contact them if you think this is your problem. I have no doubt that the PAP have large amounts of IT expertise to do these things.

    JT
  • Bidadari - Well Done
    Nice thought provoking statement seen as a PDF file to substantiate the false allegations that malicious email was sent.

    OMG..what a tangled weave we've woven :angry: bittered human & sons..Uncle Sam is not going to take any bit of your bull crap, as though emails was sent. You stole his laptop, and sneaked and tinkered around..which the Yankee will..It ain't a didley squat to swat a fly to say an email was sent.

    :angry: Bittered human being & son..you're times are up people..Singapore is going to stand up..and you ain't hiding this time.
  • ahlow - Thank you, Mr Gopalan
    At least Mr Gopalan speaks from the heart.

    What went on in the court, i suppose the judge,the plaintiffs, and their lawyer would know.
    Oh, i forget God knows also.

    66% may not know, they only know come GE--it's time for upgrading carrots and some small-man money and THEY READ ST, WATCH MEDIACOCK,&they vote for PAP thus. So you see, elections become a gamble and not an instrument to choose a govt.

    some dogs in the ST talk about hole in the ground for toilet to HDB flats, and they think this is already a divine achievement. How naive these people are !
    If majority local sinkaporeans are really civilised, PAP would be knocked out 2 GEs ago.

    I think the pledge must rewrite once more.

    may I help :--

    WE THE CITIZENS OF SINKAPORE--LOCAL OR NEW.
    PLEDGE OURSELVES UNITED PEOPLE.
    REGARDLESS OF RACE , NATIONALITY, or RELIGION.
    NS is meant chiefly for the locals , and jobs are for foreigners.Accept this fact and be happy.
    TO BUILD A so-called DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY SO AS TO ACHIEVE STUPIDITY FOR THE PEOPLE, AND PROGRESS FOR THE PAP.

    God help sinkapore !
  • Anonymous
    Want to resolve all this mess once an for all?

    Easy.

    Take the fight to where it matters most in the next GE: Tanjung Pagarossa and Tomato New Town.

    End this once and for all; don't take on the little figures in GRCs like Joo Wrong, etc, Ah Jan, you hear me?

    It's pointless!

    (If the Pappies lost either one, especially the Take Glee seat, the Lightning will cease flashing in Singapore - and the people will no longer have to live in fear.)

    Field either the best candidates you have. Or the worst - if you fear being scalped.

    For the best, CSJ, who else but ;) ?

    (In any case, that impotent Mr. LOWly Tio Chiu Nang won't dare take them on - look at how he cowed when pressed for an answer by Short Tongue the Shorty and Boy Boy Ah Loong when he had the very chance to perform superbly in front of Singapore audience during the prime-time show.

    Neither would Old Mr CHARM who's either semi-reTIRED or just very TIRED at this game.)

    For the worst, even one of those ah peks sitting at the kopitiam ranting politics everyday; at least let them go make election speeches at their doorsteps so that the Ah Pa-and-Ah Boy team can't go round lending their support to other Pappies!

    [i]Ah peks are so much better - and more credible - than having that WPee Yaw Yaw See, that half-baked, half-a-shitbucket, neither-here-nor-there type.

    Apa ini "I voted for the better man" statement :s ???

    Yes, you do that when there's real democracy about the place. NOT WHEN IT'S BEREFT OF FAIRNESS AND JUSTICE, AS IS THE CASE RIGHT NOW, YOU DUMB POLITICAL PRESCHOOLER.

    Change the status quo: Fight and win at Take Glee, overturn the situation in Singapore. Then,when you have a true democracy here, you then go vote for "the better man"!

    What a stupid candidate WPeeweedicks put up for a GE - not even remotely aware of the ABCs of politics... :s
    [/i]

    Ah Juan, even you have to stop being so 'calculative' - you can't act like the rest of the Oppos for thinking it's a sure-lose no-hoper trip.

    Think of the bigger prize: Win or lose at TP or AMK, you'll make for yourself a name in the books, go down history as the guy who broke Tat LEE Bank :kiss:

    (Or at least you'll have the chance to cause them worry - make the Ah Pa's BP shoot up again and undergo quadruple bypass, make Ah boy's tumor recur. Amen. Amitabhah. Alla is great. CSJ greater!)

    Just do it B)
  • Dick
    When this country every falls under occupation hands like the Japs in WW2. Only people with true beliefs and courage will stand up and fight. Like Lim Bo Seng.

    66.6% will most likely offer their services to the enemy, just like our LKY with his proven track record.
  • Super-Mega Cowards! - Destroy entire PAP machiners and "kakis"
    Mr Nair told the news conference that he was upset about what "I saw in the court proceedings".
    We should have the courage to speak up and I'm not afraid for I'm not a slave."

    [b]Precisely what the Lee Regime dislikes totally! Anyone who is honest, frank and has the courage! Look at Francis Seow - he was an excellent DPP etc and what did the Lee Junta did to him and many many others![/b] :evil:

    Now they are doing it to you and the Chees!

    They should be destroyed- the entire PAP machiners and thier "kakis"!
  • Born PAP slaves; Die PAP Slave - Not in Comatose- fully awake!
    Cl[b]ick here for the full text Mr Nair's statement at the news conference.

    It was a beutiful, sensible, logical, thruthful speech! Anyone in their right mind would only applaud what Mr Nair had said!

    Mr Nair is not stupid nor in comatose to be blinded by the atrocities of the Lee Courts, Lee Junta and the hypocricies of the PAP Junta!

    He is intelligent and his mental capablilities are full awake unlike some stinkaporeans and Judges!
    Born as PAP Slaves and Die as PAP slaves![/b]
  • Must Read - Very Very Inspiring Speech
    [b]A very very inspiring speech! How do I cut and paste to circulate to frens overseas?[/b]

    Click here for the full text Mr Nair's statement at the news conference.
  • fearful Stinkaporeans who live - Well Said
    Mr Nair is definitely not in comatose state and is fully awake with very very intelligent mental faculties to say what he said!

    Unlike some fearful Stinkaporeans who live in Sinkapore!
  • Thick Skin - Insult
    So what if Nair did sent emails to those two judges.

    Even though the emails are insulting so what. Why can't a civil servants be insulted.

    However Nair did not insult, he only express his opinion over what he saw. Was it not true that baby Lee did not answer most if not all Dr. Chee's questions bec. he was shielded by lawyer Signh and objections upheld by the judge ?

    It is an open court, so we can hear all the recording. What questions did LHL answer?
  • Let us break it down: - Let us examine our pledge.
    based on justice and equality

    [b]I don't see justice and equality in Singapore, do you? What I see is that there are 2 sets of rules, one for us commoners and one for those in power.[/b]

    so as to achieve happiness, prosperity and
    progress for our nation.

    [b]Yeah right.... the only happiness and prosperity I had been seeing is our million dollars ministers dancing hip-hop. Though, they do really need to practice a whole lot more.....as we see more govt lapses...everyday.[/b]
  • Pls be very aware - expect the expected -
    expect the expected -
    [b]they are in power and wagging their tail! Courtroom belongs to them. :evil: [/b]

    MM calls Dr Chee names-liar, cheat, psycopaths, a world class leader setting such a good eg - Dr Chee should sue for defamation in return!
  • PAP fiascos - Pls answer
    How come WKS who made such a big boo boo gets away free and Lees spent our public time and resources on suing and suing ?

    Doesn't anyone question this?? Singaporeans pls wake up?
  • Great website - INformative - Unsurpressed
    [b]This is an excellent website, with a lot of great information that has been suppressed by the super coward local media. [/b]
  • People Power - or End up in IMH
    [b]Ngiam said,"I think our leaders have to accept that Singapore is larger than the PAP. "[/b]

    [b]Go for it Mr Nair! You are on the right track! Settle the score with the Junta or we will all end up at IMH patients![/b]
  • Anonymous
    How can any human beings be beyond reproach? When you become a judge, you have become God? Perfect in every way? Ridiculous. Only in Singapore can this happen. The Singapore judiaciary has become a laughing stock of the world.
  • Tan Tai Wei
    What is particularly disturbing is to charge him, only now, of an "offence" committed in 2006!

    Why now, after two long years of judging that, in the name of justice, that email wasn't important enough to prosecute?

    Is it to pile punishment upon punishment, so as to satisfy some urge for vengeance for what he has lately done?

    But it is "justice and equality" we make our children in school pledge every day to uphold, and not vengeance.
  • Gary Teoh - NS
    2 deaths in 2 days,life of NS boys is cheap,don't tell me no body is to be responsible.At least Teo Chee Hen must apologise,take 2 million salary,just send condolence, I also can send . Somebody must be responsible, this concerns lifes,mas selamat case, no death,so many NS death under Teo C.B.He should answer for it. SDP should pressure them to answer for it.
  • The purpose of "Admiral"?? - Just a title to collect hefty dues
    First of all after all the "noise" about the necessity of having a "Admmiral" in S'pore -

    today first time in PAP Times he only addresses himself as Defence Minister!

    What happen to that golden title "ADMIRAL"?? But off course still collecting dues accordingly!

    2[b] deaths in 2 days,life of NS boys is cheap BUT 87 yrs old lady dying wasting all resources focussing on her![/b]
    Can even change the course of aeroplane??

    Thats what I say "all for themselves!" :evil:

    Yet got underdogs to speak up for them- Morons indeed!
  • Anonymous
    US is a First World Country where people get tortured in Guantanamo Bay

    US is a First World Country which invaded a sovereign nation

    US is a First World Country which gives no care about Climate Change

    US is a First World Country which has never laregly criticised Singapore

    And Please Gopi, you weren't born American Citizen. The best for you is to go back to California and protest at the Naval Base where Singaporean Pilots are trained by your US Navy.
  • ENO - Email Source?
    Think it could have been someone else who sent the email to whoever concerned. Kinda screwed up place... Singapore. If the cops investigating made a mistake, they gonna find some other thing charge him with. Waste so much court time with this kind of cases. Hasn't the PAP learned how "powerful" the people have become with the internet in overthrowing governments who don't listen? The government is the peoples' servent... it shouldn't be the other way around.
  • Papa Al Papa - Bad Year for PAP...
    Time to change the government... this year they make so many mistakes that it's just too hard to forgive & forget. Bibing the people with "Progress" & "Economic" whatever will not work anymore. Wait till the casino comes.. make sure all the poor stay out of Sentosa and surrounding areas. Only for the elite & rich. F1 already here... for the rich famous.
  • Paul - Is there justice in Singapore?
    Singapore has First World infrastructure but Third World democracy. In terms of politics,just look at what is happening in Zimbabwe now and you will feel quite at home. The Lees and Mugabe make strange bedfellows. Having said that, there is one area where even a Third World country like Zimbabwe excels over Singapore and that is the judiciary. Over there, the opposition sometimes has cases found in its favour. In Singapore, never. So, Singapore is top for infrastructure, third rate for democracy, and so bad for justice that the legal placemen do not know what the word means.
  • Joanna
    Who will be Finance Minister if Dr. Chee is in charge? Will they kick out all foreign investors since they hate them?
  • Well Said Mr Nair - Are you a Hypocrite? Where are your values
    [b]Mr Nair told the news conference that he was upset about what "I saw in the court proceedings".

    "If I don't do things according to my beliefs, I wouldn't be able to look at myself in the mirror," Mr Nair asserted. [/b]

    [b]Aren't these very values that we were taught by our parents and we grow up to teach our children?[/b]
    What is wrong with being "honest" "critical"-esp when something is absoluted not right!

    Aren't we human beings or what??

    I for one will never change my values and principles which my parents taught me for the sake of glory, $M salary or power!

    Pls realise what is right and wrong Singaporeans and wake up!Do not split hairs, argue or simply oppose for the sake of it or fear or monies!

    [b]As Mr Nair said at the end of the day its your life infront of the mirror to look at yourself! Are you a hypocrite?[/b]
  • quantum - How to migrate?
    How to migrate?
  • 33.3% - Gopalan Nair
    well done Mr Nair you have proven to us sinkees that you truly practice what you preach by taking on the miw in sg.
    full respect to you; if you manage to walk free from this more sinkees will have the courage to come out and oppose pappy for their crimes but if you crash and burn here.....we peasants probably have to live in even more fear against the pappy oppression

    God help singapore~~
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