Comments on: COI report: Reactions from the Internet

By: tiredsingaporean

tiredsingaporean — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:17:00 +0000

43) National reserves on April 24th, 2008 10.26 pm
Next big thing will be our reserves.

Manager forgot to lock the door
Vault was faulty
CCTV was being upgraded
No audit trail in the past
Guards were playing PSP

Singaporeans can only feel LL even if they really robbed off all our entire reserve, what can you people do to them? even the spf and military who will just follow order blindly is still under their command unless things took a reverse turn upon themselves.

By: tiredsingaporean

tiredsingaporean — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:10:21 +0000

22) Daniel on April 22nd, 2008 7.18 pm Another question is :
Consider that everything happen at board daylight, why isn’t guard at tower notice Selamat climbing the fence (Let’s not kid ourselve, it take time to climb wall and escape from double fence ?) Please be reminded that all prison or detention centre of some sort generally has a high tower to oversee board activities happened at ground. Why hasn’t the tower guard survey the ground ? Is he playing PlayStationPortable ?

WongCantSing , don’t you dare tell us that the guard in Tower is sleeping like you too ?

Frankly, I smell of coverup and false report

Daniel, they still think that all singaporeans are real IDIOTS buying into their story again. There are already too many coverups and falsified reports within this party and why GIC is still kept in the dark from everyone till today?

By: National reserves

National reserves — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 14:26:12 +0000

Next big thing will be our reserves.

Next reporting will be something like this

Manager forgot to lock the door
Vault was faulty
CCTV was being upgraded
No audit trail in the past
Guards were playing PSP

By: shingo

shingo — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 13:32:24 +0000

I don’t really care about their report on toilet rolls , video cams not recording and squeezing out of the window..
The most amazing thing about this escape is
1) Mas selamat has got super navigation skills at the back of his head to know where he wants to go. after being locked up for so long.. no map, no compass, nothing
you can try out to see if you can do it.

2) Nobody actually see anyone like him before. when the media release the news. 4 plus escape.. in broad daylight.,.. with schools around..

3) The dogs probably lost their sense of smell if Mas took off his pants and hung it on the toilet door.

My personal comments is a big “WOW”

By: Observer

Observer — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 10:58:14 +0000

What is the total cost for the whole search for Mas Selamat – both in monetary terms and opportunity costs?

By: Me

Me — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 10:05:12 +0000

The CO of Dave Teo must be feeling really aggrieved right now, with his promotion being held back for “allowing” Dave Teo to escape.

WCS must be be feeling really relieved right now, with nothing happening to him because he has got nothing to do with MS’s escape.

By: kingfisher

kingfisher — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 21:12:03 +0000

WKS should donate his whole year’s salary as a reward for the recapture of Mas Selamas until he is caught.

By: Dingo

Dingo — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 16:11:06 +0000

Thats an interesting (and good) comparison, Celluloid.

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By: CelluloidReality

CelluloidReality — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 12:51:40 +0000

A simple analogy.

Mas Selamat’s escape = Microsoft inadvertently leaked the source code of their upcoming Vista replacement to the public through employee negligence or failure to secure server farms or R&D facilities, leading to industrial espionage and “leaks”.

I’m pretty sure the VP of Development and anyone in charge of data security and oversight would have to take the rap.

By: evad

evad — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 10:26:13 +0000

If it’s the truth that corporate chiefs take the rap for mistakes made, then by all means I think for a mistake of this magnitude the rap should be taken all the way to the top. Except that neither the ISD nor SPF/GC (on the whole more competent than their peers in the security or enforcement line) are actually part of the private sector. Oh ho ho ho…

By: Dingo

Dingo — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 09:00:09 +0000

Yes Tang Li I will visit you too.

By: Zopposition

Zopposition — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 08:33:18 +0000

Tang Li: Oppositioning in Singapore is a volunteer job. The opposition needs a volunteer to get sued and jailed. Dr Chee has been overused already, any more and he will die. You are welcome to take up the offer. Make sure you get sued and I’ll visit you in jail.

By: Gary Teoh

Gary Teoh — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 03:49:16 +0000

The reply from the government made me more worry about our reserves in GIC and Temasex !!If there is one Lee Nikson in Temasex, all hell will go loose !!No body is responsible then

By: KL Lim

KL Lim — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 02:10:19 +0000

I read the news of the COI’s report with shock!
There are many questions still unanswer:
1. How can an important task of national security be sub-
contracted to other?
2. What stupid excuse that the CCTV was not working while work
in progress to upgrade the existing one? We are talking
about high security area and not some shopping complex!
3. ISD was a joke. You can lock up anyone without proof of
misdeed and yet do not provide sufficient security to ensure
that the person will not escape. This seems to me is abusing
of power!
4. Is staying in power for too long breed complacency? Or is
paying high salary too these “talent” civil servants breed
complacency?

5. Private sector will not accept such substandard security
management. The leadership will be sacked immediately.
Does complacency will ensure that the leaders responsible for
Mas Salamt’s escape will continue function as usual?

By: Boy Scott

Boy Scott — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 01:23:29 +0000

A grille is not rocket science. Even a young mother knows that putting a window grille will prevent her little tots from getting out of the window.

Why put a door for the urinals? Even if you want to provide privacy, a half door will do the job of hidding little brother and showing the man.

A converging fence with a stairway shelter to its top is like providing a ladder up the fence.

Why the long chain of ground command – A tells B, B tells C, C tells D, and then D kicks open the door. This is more like a kindergartern passing the parcel game.

How does sawing a window handle off improve security? This one beats me.

Too many questions that are so fundamental that makes the ISD and the WRDC look like boy scotts.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 21:36:52 +0000

Selamat escape from detention centre. No conclusion and no one to blame. Not even Selamat is to blame as the condition is concocted for the perfect escape. The perfect storm.

Billions of dollars escape from Temasek and GIC to aid frailing banks without accountability and responsibility. Same here. No conlusion and no one to blame cos they did it for your own good.

Gosh, care to add anymore example ?

By: Tang Li

Tang Li — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:48:17 +0000

I think the opposition should be shot for not jumping all over this issue and hounding the government until they sued. Seriously, being sued has to be an honour in Singapore – it shows you must be onto something ;).

Anyway, let’s be fair to them. This year SG$100 million will be spent on anti-terrorism facilities, which compares with SG$93 million of prevention of illnesses. And yet, they can’t afford a simple window grill at SG$500 incl of GST and workmanship. It takes talent to work out the arithmetic.

By: patriot

patriot — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:08:35 +0000

Hi;
We all share the same doubts, questions, theories and suspicions of cover-ups, officials shielding each others and lacks of integrity and conscience.

But we must also sincerely ask ourselves how long should we tolerate the above-mentioned flaws and how are we going to rectify their persistent occurrences. We are ranting, cursing and hurting our hearts, heads and spirits and all our leaders do is to treat us like morons and pariahs. They rough-shod over us at will, no regards and concerns of our wellbeings and yet we are powerless and hopeless to take any action to protect ourselves.

At the end of the day, many of us screwed up ourselves thinkng about all the issues without any solution in sight. Many ended up with mental and medical problems and we see people swearing, cursing loudly in buses, at void decks and other public places. Oh! it is so pitiful and soul wrenching. And should they end up in hospitals(mental/medical), their families have to foot the hospital bills.

I am sorry that personally, I am unable to help much. I am an unemployed 57 year old, lower secondary educated folk. The most I could contribute is to lend a voice to confirm that what most have alleged in the Blogoshere are true and also to add my personal experiences. I do believe that there are calibres within the population that are able to call for vote of no confidence or even at least a collective written letter of protest to the Leadership.

There is no need for suggestions in the above Paragraph if only the Opposition Parties are able to perform the task. Unfortunately, they have done nothing so far and I do not foresee them doing it anytime soon. Maybe, I should not go further now.

Yours faithfully: patriot.

By: Wolf-Class

Wolf-Class — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 15:47:46 +0000

When Smart Selamas escaped he must have consulted his God when is the confluence of all factors were working for him then he can limped to freedom, I salute him for his simple faith in his God.

Secondly, a great Smart Selamat had the 6th sense to know (or praise to his God) when he limped to freedom, the 1st class security cameras wont be filming his escape adventure.

This can be entered into the Genius Work Book of Records – a great secretive denetion centre where the PAP’s
strongest opponents who are detained without trial and yet can facilitate the easiest greatest escape of all time in just a moment of toilet piss. And it also can be entered that a Smart Selamat as poor as a church mouse (a detention centre mouse) can outwit million-dollars guardians of his, not one but several, mind you.

Merdeka Smart.