There are so far a few daring heroes to defy him
:

1. Chia Thye Poh
2. the late JBJ
3. Chee SJ & his sister
4. the 22 Catholic Church members allegedly involved and as yet unproven to this day in a Marxist conspiracy
5. the late Lim Chin Siong
6. Father Joachim
6. the late Devan Nair

What do you think? To me, just reporting the whole episode as it was is already so telling. Need one ask? Look at the forceful dominance of one man over the whole process. Everyone is ruled by fear, through fear. Whoever bucks the system gets the end of his knuckledusters. There is no rule of law. His word is the law. He has thought the 22 “Marxist conspirators” should be detained without trial indefinitely, and there is no law,no lawyer, no institution, no man who would stand up to him who has not been crushed. If he decides that you should die tomorrow, will anybody cometo yr help? The man is more powerful than God. At least for God, your day of reckoning starts after yr death. With LKY, your hell on Earth starts immediately. Is this what Singapore wants?

Years later, you have uncovered the truth and you asked thse fathers to tell the truth or to stand up for the truth. Would they?

Politics is a very dirty game, it is same in almost all Asian countries. What can we do? Just tell me what can you do except to comment in this forum?

The Singapore’s Senior Council was formed after that.

However, the judge has the benefit of time to go back to the comfort of his office to examine in detail, even with the help of technology and assistance from others, everything that has been said and argued in court and come out with a decision or judgment one way or the other, depending on how he thinks and perceives the case “should be”. And he is only human. And a human no matter how intelligent, honourable, unbiased, etc., etc. is never perfect. In other words, he can also err.

In the final analysis, no matter what, one has no choice but to accept, even unwillingly, whatever that has been dished out by the judge. It is unfortunate, that there is no more “trial by jury” and higher courts of appeal such as The Privy Council in the UK, to turn to for any appeal, where a neutral third party can review and examine any dispute from a detached and different angle. Most unfortunate of all is if there happens to be only one single judge to preside over a case.

It would be better if there are at least three judges to preside over any case of national or international interests, or of great importance to the people or to the state.

What can a tiny island state with small-minded (kiasu) and small-hearted (kiasi) people do in order to aspire to follow in the footsteps of the great countries which have great leaders with not only great-minds but also equally great-hearts?

Therefore, the reality of our situation today, and for many more years to come, is that the state will always have the final say in everything that happens within the country. There is no point hitting one’s head against a stone!

In the mean time, until and unless substantial improvements are done to the existing system …. pray, “Help us God!”

Does the old man have good health.

Now is the time to make peace with all.

His karma may come anytime.

The he will be reincarnated.

The old man and myself are two old man.

Though I am pushing to 70.
But, my machine is still good and I need not have to see any doctor for a long time.

In fact I do not even have a doctor.

Not so for our old friend.

He jets around the world to see very expensive doctors. .

I only take vitamin pills and the cost is as little as 10 tablets for 23 US cents. True. Swear in the name of Nirvana.

I am my own doctor.

I take other natural medicine.

My friends say I am a pubau and in the local context it means I can flirt with women.
I do not live in Singapore. I live in a village in Indochina.

for those who would like to have a deeper understanding of the saga, you will find some answers in the article. as stated in the article, the real target of LKY’s action was not Vicent Cheng and the other detainees, they were just the scapegoats.

I don’t know which year Privy Council was struck off also….must have been somewhere around that time..i guess…..if not the appeal court would have been held in Britain.

I do want to add this….the arena the detention argument was going into was what I oppose and not the detention argument itself.

There was an interesting comment by GCT today.
May we live in Interesting Times.

If engagement of QC was started first by the defendant, why was the same defendant denied the use of a QC in the defamation suit filed by LKY and LHL in 2006?

Were there any changes in the law between 1989 and 2006, with regard to use of QCs in our courts?

Why was the plaintiff allowed a QC, assuming the plaintiff was the party who initiated the engagement of a QC, in the 1989 case?

Was it because of the non-engagement of a QC by the plaintiffs in the 2006 case that the defendant was denied the use of a QC, even though the defendant had, more than once, made known their wish to engage a QC? It was with disbelief that I read that Justice Tay Yong Kwang turned down FEER’s request to engage a QC because in his opinion the case was not sufficiently complex to warrant the engagement of a QC. Surely,Justice Tay should have known better than to make a subjective statement like that and then used it as a legal criterion for rejecting FEER’s request. Was he acting rationally or irrationally? Or just being prejudicial, in an unjustifiable or dishonorable way?

Would someone with legal expertise please comment.

It was the time..the time…then..my friend..Singapore and Singaporeans, i doubt would have been able to navigate the uncharted waters….then….

Good piece…keep it up.

But, I still have to take LKY’s words…that he wanted the situation defused.
And the whole world by now knows, that he is certainly 100percent forceful.

I usually don’t side him…but the extra events which happened after the arrest were alittle troubling….if left unchecked…..i don’t wish to speculate……..