Comments on: TOC Feature: If one were Dr Choong…

By: antz

antz — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 14:15:39 +0000

I read in M’sian blogs,It seems they are baffled due to Mas selamat escape,they especially the M’sian workers ferry in and out from JB-SIN got to bear the burden of waiting endlessly at the checkpoints.

They wondered how a country with ‘good track’ of high security purchasing first class military weapons can simply let loose a limping man??

By: BlackTeeShirt

BlackTeeShirt — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 09:03:53 +0000

She is the one who will cause heads to roll. All heads to roll but Wong’s.

Like the good Shakespeare would say, “Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”

Not nothing, in Singapore though, the ministers would up their salary in due time

By: worried

worried — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 15:08:02 +0000

I hope the commission will conclude if Mas did escape with actual video footage, or did the authorities misplaced him? I hope the authorities are able to explain to Mas family how they lost him, and pay the family adequate compensation for misplacing him while under their custody. And apologise to the family for this mistake.

By: Gerald

Gerald — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 04:44:10 +0000

Puzzled – This is called Believing your own propaganda. Something one of my perm secs when i was in the civil service used to say.

By: Puzzled

Puzzled — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 02:32:01 +0000

Apparently, the government has again defined something differently / uniquely from what most of us understand / have been taught – in this particular case, Conflict Of Interest.

Sometimes, it makes me wonder. What will they think of next. We must really give the government a 21-gun salute for the rich creativity that they possess and the opportunities to learn from them.

They are just too good in patting one another and they have forgotten that a lot of eyes are looking at them.

By: dan krajicek

dan krajicek — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 11:54:56 +0000

The only way an independent inquiry can be carried out is for Wong Kan Seng to resign first. Whoever replaces him then appoints the COI.

By: Daily SG: 21 Mar 2008 « The Singapore Daily

Daily SG: 21 Mar 2008 « The Singapore Daily — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 06:53:58 +0000

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By: GiinaKiah

GiinaKiah — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 22:30:53 +0000

DY, hell would sooner freeze over before we see a Singaporean civil servant go against a minister’s wishes. If Choong recused herself, imagine what that would mean. The minister would take that as a slap on his face and Choong can kiss her career goodbye.

Choong and the other two, in my opinion, are pawns in this spin game that the minister is engaging in. WKS is not a moron, you know. He knows exactly what he is doing.

Except of course, he doesn’t know how to lock up a limping terrorist.

By: patriot

patriot — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 15:29:58 +0000

Kill me and I would still think that having civil servants and ex civil servants could never provide the people(citizenry) the impartiality.

By: opaque

opaque — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 12:55:48 +0000

This is a persistent problem in Singapore.

When the authority says it’s independent, we are supposed to accept that it’s independent. Despite the fact that in the view of an objective third party, the set up is not independent.

Same situation when the authority claims that Temasek is independent from the government. Husband and wife ?

By: Seeking Salvation

Seeking Salvation — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 12:37:57 +0000

After the COI they would just admit to everyone that

it is a honest mistake

so that everyone had to accept their crap
there is no justice in this administration
1) they gave millions away to Singtel and admit that it was a honest mistake but prosecuted Chee Soon Juan (not vouching for his honesty) for a mere couple of dollars on postage mistake
but nobody was prosecuted for the millions giveaway

By: LifesLikeThat

LifesLikeThat — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 08:53:28 +0000

True. But then again, we can’t expect our civil servants to defy a minister’s order, or ahem* appointing her to do a job. This whole COI thingy is such a scam. I mean, come on, you are appointed by the minister in charge of your ministry to investigate another dept within the same ministry.

I agree fully with the Workers’ Party chairman Sylvia Lim – let the Committee become a Commission under the President’s office. Our president has so far done NOTHING throughout his two terms of office.

It is about time someone got him to do some decent work for the people of Singapore. And it’s also time for WKS to stop spinning.

It’s giving me a bloody headache.

By: Singapore Resident

Singapore Resident — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 08:52:58 +0000

Oops..should be “Hhm” not “Huh” :)

By: Singapore Resident

Singapore Resident — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 08:51:37 +0000

Huh…would we see the same from Dr Choong?

http://www.todayonline.com/articles/243882.asp

While they stressed they “did not want to pass judgement” on their fellow civil servants’ work, ….