A person who is mentally ill is not liable for what he said. He is not in his right mind, he can’t be sued at all. So this hypocrite MM Lee is the biggest bully in the world. He tried to bully a person who is supposed to be admitted to IMH.

First World Nation, Third World Gutter Politics.

Like it or not, Dr Chee will have to spend the next few years fighting off the tag of “near-psychopath”, as he did with other labels of “cheat, liar, political hooligan” and what not through the years.

Modern propaganda’s golden rule – repeat a lie over and over again until some, if not all of it, sticks with the public, especially those who don’t go online for their information. Give a dog a name and hang it.

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Gary,

This is not the first time that LKY has displayed his bullying nature. This whole episode has only served to show the bully he is rather than the great senior statesman he hopes history will judge him to be.

Zhengxi,

First, I do not get the irony of the positivist interpretation of politics and the supposed conflation of politics and psychiatry. While it is true that the incumbent establishment take pains to separate law and politics, this does not necessarily mean that politics stands alone from any issue. Politics is not really a standalone category, but includes all forms of social issues. Hence, in my view there is really no contradiction if some minister decides to play doctor and pronounce his opponent insane, allegedly or otherwise.

But this minor point aside, I believe that what is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. Surely the government can descend into mud-slinging, petty politics, if the self-proclaimed “leader” of the opposition does this as well? Sure, it may not be dignified, but the issue of dignity should also be raised against the opposition, lest they eventually win and form the new government.

By that same token, what Dr. Chee should do really is to learn from MM and the rest and initiate defamation proceedings. Certainly one can argue that they are too poor to even initiate a court suit, but it seems more meaningful to raise money for this than to raise money to appeal on a lost cause. This also allows this issue to be fully aired, and test the competence and integrity of the judiciary. The reputation of the judiciary would be at stake if it does not “treat like cases alike” and rule for Dr. Chee, presumably if the words uttered by Mr. Charles Chong and others were defamatory in nature (forget about MM Lee; his words have absolute privilege attached to them for they were uttered in court while under oath).

And lastly, I do agree that it is extremely distasteful for the media to round on him like a pack of vultures.

I have seen one of the Youtube videos where one person has called the old man a political coward. Based on whatever standards, isn’t it kind of defamatory to be called a coward or for that matter, any type of coward ?

How come he did not sue that person concerned ?

One further comment to add :

By the old man’s logic, if he did not care to sue, then it must be true.

Id chee is nt ill subject him to mentality tests c whether he dared to take those tests or nt.

In any first world order, such unethical and crude attacks, led by a self proclaimed founder of modern Singapore, would have cause a major public outcry and could well lead to a major setback for the party in power. This marks another major decline in the moral behaviour of the pap government.
Lee Kuan Yew is setting a very bad example for Singaporeans to follow. He could well be creating another ugly Singaporean characteristic. The demanding and pushiness of Singaporean is a result of Singaporean learning from Lee Kuan Yew.

but CSJ was already given a good chance to ’slam’ the Lees..somehow he didnt “make good use” of it..tsk tsk..

Alan, Lee Kuan Yew once said that if Singaporeans don’t fear him then he is meaningless. He also said that to frighten the monkeys, you have to slaughter the chicken. So LKY is practicing what he strongly believed in.

Any capable opposition who emerge will have his head cut off. People like Lim Chin Siong, Chia Thye Poh, J B Jeyaratnam, Francis Seow and now Dr. Chee.

A few years ago LKY also said, “If we considered them serious political figures we would not have kept them politically alive for so long. We could have made them bankrupt earlier.” So people like Chiam and Loh are tolerated to show to the world that there is a semblence of Democracy in Singapore. They are there to create a point of argument for LKY. In fact in the recent court exchanges he made used of these two examples to rebut the points raised by Dr. Chee.

lulu, go read the transcripts of the audios of the verbal exchanges in the court. With interventions from Mr. Singh and the Judge, I think Dr. Chee has done as much as he can.

Everyone who has crossed LKY’s path has been labelled as one thing or another.

For example:

Chia Thye Poh – Communist
Tan Wah Piow – Subversive, Marxist
Vincent Cheng – Marxist, subversive
Devan Nair – Alcoholic
JBJ – Destructive
James Gomez – Liar, Cheat, Dishonest
Sylvia Lim – Dishonourable
Low Thia Khiang – Dishonourable
Tang Liang Hong – Anti-Christian, Chinese Chauvinist

Thing is: Even though such labeling, to me at least, is vulgar, it is nonetheless, effective. But it is no magic as LKY makes use of the media to repeat these labels.

Of course, the labels which the PAP – and LKY – give themselves are totally different, almost as if they’re living in another world. Among the labels they give themselves are:

Extraordinary Government
Unique
Special
World Class

Well, you get the idea.

But for all that LKY has done, to get the media to label Dr Chee as “near psychopath” and “suffering from antisocial personality disorder” is a sign of desperation.

Perhaps they no longer know what to do with Dr Chee. So, lets make him into a mad man so that we no longer have to deal with him. The next time he says something defamatory, we will just say, “Well, he’s certified insane.”

That, I suspect, is the strategy.

But knowing Dr Chee, it is not going to faze him one bit.

The article included this statement: “However ineffective or distasteful one might find Chee’s brand of political action..”

Could it be that a lot of people find what he does distasteful and ineffective is because most of what we know is through the filtered lens of the media. How many people have actually hear him speak in person?

Now becase of the filtered lens of the media, we are going to have more misconceptions about his mental health.

Labelling also used by Hitler and his Nazi party against Jews and elevating themselves to a super race…the wave of anti-semitism resulted in millions of Jews who were massacred..ethnic cleansing..so is LKY and the PAP out to do cerebral cleansing/psychiatric cleaning so that Singapore will remain under the elite chosen by the grand master?

Andrew,

I think you have a point. Despite all that’s been thrown at them, the Chees and the SDP just won’t go disappear and that tactic seems to have irked LKY and the PAP. They just don’t know what to do with them. This labeling of Chee SJ as a mental case seems to be a desperate measure.

Yes, the Chees will not just go away like that. For the moment, they have already made it their career (and they do have the characters / stamina) trying to prove about certain points on the way things are here in our beloved country.

The system has created them and they take on a life (political life or some may want to call it activitist life) on their own. In fact, the Chees have slowly and steadily” stripped down naked the aura of invincibility” of the authority who has unwittingly been drawn into this mess.

I just hope this mess will be kept to a manageable level so that all of us can still concentrate on the real bread and butter issues.

Chua’s comments about “mainstream Christians” are inflammatory and offensive.

To begin with, being a Christian has nothing to do with being “mainstream”. She is marginalising Christianity.

I wonder … If Chee is a mental case then can he should be absolved of any liability for defamation, no?

No, since at the point of defamation, the condition of the person was not used as a defence, subsequent diagnose of a mental case cannot be retrospectively applied. Too bad…

You don’t need to have a medical background to see the personality disorder in a despot. Such as being extremely egoistic, having difficulty telling the truth, living in self denial, lacking in conscience, exhibiting insatiable greed and lust for absolute power. This explains the existence of sheep city.

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qwerty,

CSJ and LKY faced of for the first time ever in Belinda Ang’s court. Towards the end even LKY grudgingly admit that CSJ has eloquence! That’s why he is seen as such a danger to the pap. Would it even bother if CSJ is seen as a harmless gadfly?

I found it so ironic that in a defamation suit, our Minister Mentor would have to call a man “a near psychopath” – which then gets printed on the headlines of the national newspaper. And then officially becomes part of the public record. I am not a Chee Soon Juan fan, but I do wish our statesmen could hold themselves accountable for their own statements instead of creating a situation where they contradict the nature of their suit, and appear somewhat less than dignified. Is the only way for MM and PM Lee to defend their pride by smearing Chee? The Lee vs Chee episode is a total mismatch. There’s no need to call him a psychopath, even if he is unhinged. It’s tit for tat. I found it too ironic for words and no-one bothered picking up on it.

Medical websites are often written by doctors. You can google yourselves, dumb fucks. The source in “medical website” Chua sought verification from is most likely from a doctor.

You see, people believe in doctors. But bloggers are NOT the same as doctors who contribute in medical websites. Bloggers are defined as ANYONE who opens an account with livejournal, blogger, etc. So basically ANYONE from a 12 yr old aspiring porn actor to a 75 year old retiree is a blogger. I mean the definition of a blogger is someone who blogs. And we all know anyone blogs. You people are just no better than Xiaxue, just that you don’t apply as much make up. =)

The ONLY thing that medical websites and blogs share in common is the platform that they exist on- the internet.

The platform does not count for ANYTHING. It’s the power that is vested in someone that gives him/her credit. A doctor is vested with the power by the state’s medical council to practise and the power certifies his opinions with weight. A journalist’s ‘personal opinion’ is vested by the state newspaper, who employed him/her. The letter of employment vests the journalist with a public persona whose opinions have weight.

And as usual, I can see the bloggers who are basically the down and out losers of every society desperately trying to align themselves with ‘dubious non-existent commonalities’ with established ranks of society by saying that their dumb blogs that operate out of their $12 a month internet connection aligns them with doctors who may choose to pen their expert and educated knowledge on the web.

What a bunch of LOSERS. But what’s new?