Comments on: Home Affairs Minister’s explanation on terrorist escape

By: gemami

gemami — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 23:48:56 +0000

If Mas Selamat, being an unmasked terrorist with plans to bomb Changi Airport, poses no imminent danger; then I think it is also safe for political fugitives like Francis Seow and Tan Liang Hong to be allowed to return home. What else can be more dangerous than an escaped terrorist?

Oh I see. Mas Selamat does not pose a danger to the ruling elites more than he is to the mass population, should he decide to return to bomb a building or two; whereas, political fugitives pose a direct threat to the political survival of the PAP?

By: Gwendolyn Carol Munson

Gwendolyn Carol Munson — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 20:41:49 +0000

I agree that politicians are as dangerous or more so than terrorist. I myself am caught in a political web, better known as a union dispute. My life has been made a hell from 2003 and it still continues. It , meaning stalked, harassed, assaulted, property damaged, and there is no one I can go to for help as the police are dictated to by the regime of unions. I have taken every avenue to file a complaint. Family members are in the dispute for the money. I have become so depressed about the situation that life has no meaning. I am only one person who did not instigate this situation. My family saw an oppourtunity to make a quick buck, so my life was placed on the auction block, chain and all. I can not get a job without peers getting involved, and endangering my life. I am now trying to find a way to escape the united states, in order to find peace. Hopefully, some place that does not have unions. Just honest government. Which is a joke in itself.

By: patriot

patriot — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 16:25:45 +0000

They can be reminded thousand and one times about what they have said, but they will have ten thousand reasons to tell you that they are above everything. With absolute power in their hands, they can even tell you nonsences!

By: theonlinecitizen

theonlinecitizen — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 15:45:32 +0000

Someone should remind the Home Affairs minister that he himself once famously said:

“The PAP Government has always thrived on its ability to anticipate problems.”

- Wong Kan Seng

By: sure or not?

sure or not? — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 10:46:59 +0000

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By: john lim

john lim — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 07:27:47 +0000

it is cases like these that make a mockery of the pay-them-as-much-as-the-private-sector argument.

i’m not saying that wks should resign but if they are paid as much as private sector bankers or CEOS who are paid such crazy salaries for the risks and consequences involved in the job, then based on that often-mentioned mentioned about how they deserve their pay, the repercussions should be the same too.

if not, then stop patronising us with the lame excuse for their high pay, and the same for the scholar-civil servants. and pay those that really matter in the real world of people, like nurses and teachers.

By: Robert HO

Robert HO — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 09:36:40 +0000

RH: Here are 6 KASTARI surnames in Singapore, by roads and telephone numbers :

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By: Robert HO

Robert HO — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 09:15:07 +0000

RH:
1. Martyn SEE may have something. He just SMSed me that it seems that KASTARI’s family was threatening to “go to town” about something just before this impossible ‘escape’.

2. Is there any phone book that can give KASTARI’s family telephone number and maybe even address? KASTARI is a unique surname and probably no similars. So unlikely to mistake unless the almighty LIEgime deletes such data from its databases, which is always possible. [Once, when I was looking up online phone books for fax numbers of all the local law firms to fax them some Truths about LIE KY LHL PAP rigging the 1997 Cheng San GRC election, my online phone directory became unaccessible shortly after I started my searches. Then my fax machine was vandalised].

3. The fact that KASTARI’s family HAS NOT BEEN CONTACTED FOR THEIR VIEWS AND NEWS IS VERY, VERY FISHY. Something stinks to high heavens about this.

4. Also, you would have thought any idiot Minister would IMMEDIATELY INFORM THE PUBLIC, DESCRIBE HIS ATTIRE AND POSSIBLE WHEREABOUTS, POSSIBLE THREAT TO THE PUBLIC, AND SHOW VIDEOs FROM THE CCTV CAMERAS. Not wait till today to show his attire, which is clearly a doctored image with KASTARI’s head superimposed on another body wearing the alleged prison uniform, as in the Straits Times ‘photo’. Why not an original, undoctored cctv image? These are high resolution cameras.

5. He will never be found. The whole incident stinks.

By: Gary Teoh

Gary Teoh — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 06:22:44 +0000

Francis Seow and Teo Soh Lung were not security threat to the nation but they are a threat to PAP.

By: blackfeline

blackfeline — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 03:22:08 +0000

im going to throw in my 2 cents…this case will be classified: Unsolved Mysteries In the meantime, the incumbent minister has lose the moral obligation to take charge…u know who u r..be gracious…step down. He’s lucky, no one is asking him to perform a hara kiri!

By: gpc

gpc — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 21:50:57 +0000

“I had a strange feeling that he was already dead.”

There are persons who are biologically-dead (like the Unabomber) but their legacy of the destruction of life and property lives on to this day. I say they continue to hunt these persons down.

By: supersub

supersub — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 15:03:49 +0000

The point that has yet to be blogged — bloggers pls note! – is this: If everyone assumes that it was right for this Mas Selamat to be held under ISD, how is it that ordinary politicians and activists such as Francis Seow, catholic social workers, Teoh Soh Lung etc were taken in?

Isn’t that a blatant abuse of power?

By: Daniel

Daniel — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 14:16:44 +0000

Seeking Salvation, exactly. The ministers must eat their own dog just like Microsoft did to its products. Wong should enact the whole incident. He should be set free in detention centre and given generous 30 minutes grace, Ezlink card, CashOnLine card for escaping. Once up, all security measurement will be activated, country-wide MMS will be boardcast, dogs will be used (not underdog), gurkhas shoot on sight . And he will try to survive the ordeal and write report on that. That should teach the minister to be humbled and intelligent about security.
And during the operation, he will be given the name Mudi. All the ministers so far can talkcock sing song without themselves experience the any social or security problems.

By: Seeking Salvation

Seeking Salvation — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 13:49:55 +0000

We should put the bumbling idiot of wong kan seng in mas selamat cell until we find the limping terrorist- so wong can ponder and find out how the security was breach. Since the overpaid minister is talking rubbish and does not know what is happening. Such honest mistake should come with a jail sentence, big fine and of course sack the sob.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 12:15:58 +0000

If government doesn’t want the citizen to ridicule or make a joke of them, they should not take citizen for a ride and give limping reasons and non-disclosure attitudes about the whole Boo-Boo. Too much cover-ups have been done in the past, but what did the gahmen really learn ? Really Nothing. The only thing they learn is that they can get away with their honest mistake everytime.

By: Gary Teoh

Gary Teoh — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 03:57:07 +0000

KS Wong from which GRC? Show him the colour when GE 2011 comes.

By: sarek_home

sarek_home — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 03:39:06 +0000

So long they are busy searching, they have an excuse to stall and not answering those tough questions of how the escape happened in the first place.

By: SS Lee

SS Lee — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 03:22:29 +0000

I fail to see how the Inquiry will take 1 mth. Plus their promise to tell only what they want to tell? Cover up right?
Also I cannot understand why they are so adamant that he is still in Singapore – if we don’t catch him here, it will be a another PR Blunder and reaks of desparation! Cos Mas Selamat would have called our bluff or did the forces just Wayang us to believe they are doing all they can for their failure to keep a lame person in detention?
WKS should do the honourable thing and Resign if they dont catch him soon. Then again this is here… I should wake up.

By: Harro!

Harro! — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 01:57:36 +0000

Kevin, you got some sound thinking there. :) The gov should hire you to be their spin doctor. :)

By: Harah Kiri

Harah Kiri — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 15:12:01 +0000

~~Sure way to catch Selamat ~~Offer a modest reward....the salaries of all the ministers plus the PAP MPs for the rest of their lives. After all, they have been telling us nothing is free.~~~~