Singapore Dissident

Singapore's judges work, instilling fear

2012-01-28T14:23:00.000-08:00

Ladies and Gentlemen,

You might have thought that judges in Singapore administer the law. Wrong. Their principle job is keeping people in line, silencing dissent, and making sure Lee Kuan Yew family have no challengers.

The way they do it is by openly abusing the law to punish Lee's political opponents. This way, anyone contemplating such a course thinks twice and stops.

One would have thought that a city state such as this would worry about their reputation if they brazenly go out misusing the law like this, but apparently it does not bother them. At least not so far. With a state controlled press and media, they appear to think it is sufficient to publish a series of articles claiming it has the best legal system in the world. But whether or not anyone actually believes this rubbish is another thing entirely.

In the last 3 decades the late JB Jeyaretnam who died in 2008, coincidentally when I was in prison in Singapore for having written a blog post critical of Lee Kuan Yew's judge Belinda Ang Saw Ean, was the punching bag suffering a series of libel suits and a jail sentence, resulting in his bankruptcy and disbarment. Lately, it was Dr. Chee Soon Juan, suffering the same fate, Alan Shadrake an English author who wrote a book critical of his legal system and myself imprisoned in 2008 and recently disbarred from practicing law in Singapore. In every single one of these cases, the victim had done no wrong. All they did was have the temerity to accuse Lee Kuan Yew or his legal system of dishonesty, which we all know, they are.

But abusing the legal system this way has severe wide ranging consequences which continue to take a toll on Singapore. First it reduces the integrity of the legal system. This can be seen in the number of lawyers in the island, not more than about 3,000 in an island with more than 5 million people. Second, the people are losing trust in the administration, resulting in the lowest birth rates in the world, mounting brain drain and an aging population. These are things a small tiny island with a tiny population can ill afford. Writing a series of articles in Singapore's state controlled newspapers claiming it has the best legal system in the world, is not really doing any good, when the papers themselves have lost all credibility.

In this day and age, unless you are a North Korea, you simply cannot stop this brain drain. Unless foreigners are downright imbeciles, any Frenchman, German or American spending a week in Singapore would go home knowing Singapore is just another North Korea in essence. Using taxpayer's money to build fancy expressways or underground train stations does not impress anyone. Pyongyang has them too.

If Lee Kuan Yew really wants Singapore to be a successful respected city state where it's citizens want to live in, it has to allow people the ability to live as human beings, not as rabbits in fear. But the problem in doing this is this. The moment he opens up society, he will be overthrown, which obviously he does not want. So as long as Lee continues in his stupidity, Gopalan Nairs and hundreds and thousands of others who could have contributed greatly to the island would have all left for good. This is frankly a no brainer.

Gopalan Nair
Attorney at Law
Disbarred from practicing law in Lee's Singapore, imprisoned and refused entry to the island for criticizing Singapore's judiciary in this blog (see blogpost May 29, 2008 Singapore. Judge Belinda Ang's Kangaroo Court)
Actively practicing law in California and in good standing at the California Bar.
Member in good standing as a lawyer in England and Wales (Barrister).
39737 Paseo Padre Parkway, Suite A1
Fremont, CA 94538, USA
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Singapore. A regime in denial

2012-01-28T11:47:00.000-08:00

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore today is simply an island living in denial, but it simply refuses to accept it. Simply put, it is an island which continues to govern through brute force, in circumstances where the people are free not to accept such a life.

Just look at this. You have a situation where any criticism of the government would result in a situation like mine, where one has to go into exile. But yet I am no criminal, no pervert or madman, but just an ordinary person who thinks it necessary to speak out on what he thinks are wrong.

So just like me, there are are thousands if not hundreds of thousands who think the same. And realizing what can happen to people like me, like Chee Soon Juan and the late JB Jeyaretnam, what do they do? They do exactly what any sane normal human being would do. They pack up and leave Singapore for good. They emigrate to Australia to Canada or the United States like me.

And the ones who leave are the very best and brightest among Singaporeans, because to emigrate you need some ability. The very ones who a small country like Singapore needs the most.

The Lee Kuan Yew government thinks it can continue by trying to profit from the bad side of human beings like greed. They send many students abroad on scholarships at government expense in the hope that they will return to serve this dictatorial regime because of the huge salaries they will receive. But you see, not everyone is made of that dishonest stock such as Lee Kuan Yew's Ministers Vivian Balakrishnan or K Shanmugam. Most human beings especially those who are in a position to live the lives of their choosing, have some decency and self respect. They are usually unwilling to prostitute themselves like these 2 Ministers do.

Simply put the numbers that return to serve this regime after scholarship education overseas is far too small to run this government. The time had finally come when you cannot expect good people to submit themselves to this sort of dishonesty at any price.

At the end of the day, anyone with eyes can see that this regime continues the way it does to profit themselves and the minions who lick their boots. That is all that is Singapore today. Lee Kuan Yew can try to paint a rosy picture to the rest of the world of efficiency and prosperity as much as they want, but the world is so well informed that no amount of misinformation is going to work.

The sad facts are these. The small tiny island of a mere 5 million people, of which nearly a half are foreigners, suffers from the lowest birth rate in the world, the highest rates of emigration in the world, the biggest income gaps in the world and the fastest aging population in the world. The only way to go on is to continue bringing in massive numbers of foreigners mainly from Communist China in the hope that they would also accept Lee Kuan Yew's Singaporean philosophy of accepting a slavish and uneventful life in return for a living. Such a population would have been all right for an agricultural country like Cambodia but it is not sufficient for an international island without any natural resources like Singapore. Running the island like what Lee Kuan Yew does is trying to fit a square peg into a round hole. In 2012 it simply does not work.

As we speak, the massive brain drain continues, the massive importation of Communist Chinese coolies continues and Lee Kuan Yew behaves as if Gopalan Nair of the Singapore Dissident does not exist. Is this a case of Nero fiddling while Rome burnt?

Gopalan Nair
Attorney at Law
Disbarred from practicing law in Lee's Singapore, imprisoned and refused entry to the island for criticizing Singapore's judiciary in this blog (see blogpost May 29, 2008 Singapore. Judge Belinda Ang's Kangaroo Court)
Actively practicing law in California and in good standing at the California Bar.
Member in good standing as a lawyer in England and Wales (Barrister).
39737 Paseo Padre Parkway, Suite A1
Fremont, CA 94538, USA
Tel: 510 657 6107
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Singapore. A dehumanized depoliticized silenced robotic people

2012-01-27T21:48:00.000-08:00

Ladies and Gentlemen,

In every country in the world, you find people passionate about different things. People who study cars, people who collect stamps, people who follow football, and all sorts of other interests even for an entire lifetime. You have such people in Singapore too. But in other countries you also have people who are passionate about their country, who join political clubs and societies and spend a lifetime furthering what they believe in what their country should be; except in Singapore. This is the one area where there is no one, perhaps just a handful of people, in Singapore.

It is almost as if the entire population is suffering from some sort of schizophrenia.

In Singapore you have very strong organizations that further gay interests, holding meetings and protests and even petitioning their leaders for change; organizations to legalize sodomy; animal rights groups that go around rescuing stray cats and a slew of passionate people for all other causes, except one. Even though the state denies them free speech, freedom of expression, the right of peaceful protest, the right to have a free press, rights which are so important but yet, there is almost noone interested in it. A very strange sort of situation indeed, something which you can never find anywhere else in the world!

I am not sure if this is an Asian Confucian trait or are they downright confused. Why is it that people in Singapore can be so passionate about legalizing sodomy but are completely happy to live under a dictatorship.

You see this strange sort of behavioural patterns in the island. For instance, people who would be celebrated as heroes in any other country, men like Chee Soon Juan and the late JB Jeyaretnam, nothing less than freedom fighters are hardly spoken about. Nothing is written about them, no one is fighting for them and the government has in fact managed to turn them into criminals.

But yet, even though the world is now a very small place, and Singaporeans who live under such circumstances can in fact leave, and admittedly many do leave; yet you find some, in fact far too many, who willingly permit themselves to be imprisoned under this authoritarianism; why, one will never understand.

And that is why only idiots and fools would ever want to willingly live in such conditions and educate their children in such a weird socio political system.

And the good thing since I left Singapore, first for England for my education and later to America to live, is coming to realize how stupid the entire island was. Frankly I too was brainwashed to a large extent and it took some time out of the island of Singapore to realize that there is something which is terribly wrong in Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore. I guess I was one of the lucky ones to get out of Singapore. Truly, the most important thing in the world is to be able to think straight and that is the crime that Lee Kuan Yew and his bully boys perpetrate on his people.

And as for writing this, which is something no Singapore can ever dare to do. They live their lives walking around like zombies in Lee Kuan Yew's island.

Gopalan Nair
Attorney at Law
Disbarred from practicing law in Lee's Singapore, imprisoned and refused entry to the island for criticizing Singapore's judiciary in this blog (see blogpost May 29, 2008 Singapore. Judge Belinda Ang's Kangaroo Court)
Actively practicing law in California and in good standing at the California Bar.
Member in good standing as a lawyer in England and Wales (Barrister).
39737 Paseo Padre Parkway, Suite A1
Fremont, CA 94538, USA
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Singapore not a country one would want to live

2012-01-26T20:49:00.000-08:00

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Singapore is just one big fraud. And underneath all that glitter, it is really not a place someone who had a choice would want to live.

On the outside Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew paints a picture of a modern first class city. You have TV newsreaders who try to speak good English imitating someone from any other city like London, but with one difference. Those in London are free of government censorship while the Singaporean specimen reads out prepared texts vetted by government agencies. You have newspapers published in glossy paper just like in London, except in Singapore they are state owned and controlled, where journalists report to government ministers on what they have plan to write. You see lawyers all dressed in black dragging modern briefcases with books overflowing with wisdom, but in actual fact they are more afraid of the government than their clients ever were.

If you fall into hard times you starve unless you go to some government minister's office and beg on all fours for a handout. In the west there are established procedures for welfare for the unfortunate in society to live with their heads up.

Singapore has no place for people who want to better society towards a more humane and compassionate one. The political philosophy is that of Lee Kuan Yew which is not very different perhaps from how the Chinese peasants lived under the Ming or Tang Dynasty many centuries ago. Which goes something like this. You wake up in the morning, go to work, be respectful towards your rulers and superiors, don't think you know any better than your masters and work your way up the ladder through the recognition of your superiors. Of course above all your superiors there is the great master or leader who is better and wiser than all. In the case of the Chinese Dynasty, it was the Ming or Tang emperor. In the case of Singapore, it is Lee Kuan Yew and in his absence, his son.

I am sorry but this is not the way I like to live. And neither do I think anyone who has an understanding of the way things are going on in the island and has the means to live somewhere else.

So what is left of native Singaporeans are those who simply cannot leave because of lack of skills or an understanding of their plight or those who are not concerned about living as free men an women as long as they earn sufficiently large amounts of money. In this group are the Lee Kuan Yew minions who stay behind.

You have of course the foreign Western businessmen and professionals who do business in the island. For them it is only a case of making money. They are naturally not concerned about how they live their lives since it is not their country and they are there for short periods, when they will go hone to France, Germany or the USA. Most of them leave their families at home in the West and even if they bring them here, they study at foreign schools with their German, Italian or American teachers. As far as they are concerned, they despise Singaporeans for a cowardly people, willing to live as slaves in Lee Kuan Yew's island, which they would not in America, Germany or France.

Then there are the middle level professionals, some from England, Australia, India and other places. For a variety of reasons, they spend some time in Singapore working as engineers, bank officers, and executives. They too are totally unconcerned about how Singaporeans have to live their lives since they are here temporarily. In 6 months, if they got a better job in Rangoon Burma, they would spend some time there if possible.

In the end, all you have in Singapore at the upper levels is the revolving door phenomenon. People come in for a time, and then leave, only to be replaced by other people who come in and who themselves leave too.

If there are going to be anyone left behind to run the place, it is the handful of sycophants and crawlers who willingly take orders from above as to what to do, regardless of right or wrong. And their numbers are shrinking too, as Singapore students leave for a foreign education and opt to remain where they are. Singapore is reaching a point where it cannot find sufficiently capable people to run the show and this is entirely because of what Singapore is today, a life of submission and obedience, which people with an education find unacceptable.

Unless the native Singaporeans who have a stake in the country take drastic real earth shattering action to demand a democratic system of government, literally taking Lee Kuan Yew to task, I don't see him doing anything to arrest the decline into which Singapore is sliding.

Gopalan Nair
Attorney at Law
Disbarred from practicing law in Lee's Singapore, imprisoned and refused entry to the island for criticizing Singapore's judiciary in this blog (see blogpost May 29, 2008 Singapore. Judge Belinda Ang's Kangaroo Court)
Actively practicing law in California and in good standing at the California Bar.
Member in good standing as a lawyer in England and Wales (Barrister).
39737 Paseo Padre Parkway, Suite A1
Fremont, CA 94538, USA
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Singapore. A country that has gone backwards

2012-01-25T22:14:00.000-08:00

Ladies and Gentlemen,

True Singapore today has skyscrapers. It did not in 1955. But truly, Singapore was far more advanced in 1955 than it is today. Surprised? You shouldn't be. Just look at this.

In 1955 Singapore had a free press. You could read independent news. People could criticize the government without being arrested. There was no Lee Kuan Yew bullying everyone into submission. People could look forward to work and a pension and retirement. If you did something wrong, you got a small fine, not several hundreds of thousands of dollars. Life was good. People were happy. You could see it in their faces.

Today you cannot do any of this. If you criticized you would be sued and arrested. People have to work until they dropped dead. Judges are not independent but Lee's agents. You don't have jury trials and if you were not on Lee's side there is double trouble from all sides.

Please take your silly skyscrapers and give me Singapore of 1955 anytime. And while at it, take your superman Lee Kuan Yew with you, please.

Tell me now, which country in the world has actually gone backwards except Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore?

Gopalan Nair
Attorney at Law
Disbarred from practicing law in Lee's Singapore, imprisoned and refused entry to the island for criticizing Singapore's judiciary in this blog (see blogpost May 29, 2008 Singapore. Judge Belinda Ang's Kangaroo Court)
Actively practicing law in California and in good standing at the California Bar.
Member in good standing as a lawyer in England and Wales (Barrister).
39737 Paseo Padre Parkway, Suite A1
Fremont, CA 94538, USA
Tel: 510 657 6107
Fax: 510 657 6914
Email: nair.gopalan@yahoo.com
Blog: http://singaporedissident.blogspot.com/

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Singapore Lee Kuan Yew's monopoly on corruption

2012-01-25T14:03:00.000-08:00

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Singapore's state controlled newspaper has the continuing story of 2 men in Lee's government being investigated for corruption. Straits Times online edition of Jan 25, 2012, carries this story under the title "CPIB probe: Ministry and Home Team will cooperate fully, says MHA". It is about Peter Lim Sin Pang, the chief of Singapore Civil Defence Force and Ng Boon Gay, the Director of Singapore's Narcotics department being investigated for corruption.

All very nice to read. I suppose another feather on Singapore strongman Lee Kuan Yew's cap as a fighter against corruption.

But then who is the most corrupt individual in Singapore? You will be surprised to know that it is none other than Lee Kuan Yew himself. First of all, he pays himself officially $3.7 million a year and treble that amount secretly as his salary. What do you call that then? I call this corruption of the worst kind. Even if the aforesaid Lim and Ng stole some money, surely it cannot amount to the several millions that Lee himself steals on a yearly basis without fail. And secondly at least they had the decency to do it secretly. In Lee's case, he not only steals, but does it before his people's very eyes.

Do you recall the Jade Mansions scandal some years ago, when he, his late wife, and every one of his children got huge discounts to purchase Jade condominiums at specially discounted prices which the public never got. When Tang Liang Hong, an opposition politician had the temerity to mention this fact at the 1997 elections, Lee not only sued him in his courts where victory is certain, he had to pay several million dollars in court awarded damages, bankrupted and forced into exile. Today poor Tang, who was once a millionaire himself ekes out a living in Melbourne Australia.

What is disgusting about the entire Lee family is this. They not only are thieves, they take offense when you call them so.

The one other dictator that comes to mind to the disgraceful extent of Lee's baseness is the former Iranian king Reza Shah Pahlevi who ruled from 1925 to 1941, a carbon copy of the Singaporean tin pot tyrant. In his case, it is often said that one good thing he did was to root out corruption entirely in Iran except for one person, himself. Under his harsh rule, with draconian laws, anyone found pilfering even the slightest amount faced harsh sentences and even execution. But then anything that was worth anything in Iran belonged to himself with a few crumbs thrown to his sycophants. The way he managed to govern was with harsh laws and fear.

And by the way have you ever wondered why noone else dares to write this in Singapore? You guessed right. He would be sued, arrested, bankrupted and jailed which is why he dares not write. In my case, I write from Fremont (San Francisco) California, which makes it a little difficult for him to successfully sue because California unlike Lee's Singapore has the rule of law.

It would be correct to say, Lee Kuan Yew is Singapore's Reza Shah Pahlevi.

Gopalan Nair
Attorney at Law
Disbarred from practicing law in Lee's Singapore, imprisoned and refused entry to the island for criticizing Singapore's judiciary in this blog (see blogpost May 29, 2008 Singapore. Judge Belinda Ang's Kangaroo Court)
Actively practicing law in California and in good standing at the California Bar.
Member in good standing as a lawyer in England and Wales (Barrister).
39737 Paseo Padre Parkway, Suite A1
Fremont, CA 94538, USA
Tel: 510 657 6107
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Singapore government should be liable for flood damage

2012-01-24T21:57:00.000-08:00

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Anyone taking the trouble to look at Singapore's state controlled newspapers would know that flooding has become almost a daily occurrence each time it rains, and even though their reports never fail to use words such as "flash floods" and not just "floods" to impress upon the reader of their short duration, it is no denying the fact that businessmen are suffering losses each time it occurs and just because the flooding is not prolonged, is results in financial loss nevertheless.

Orchard Road, the prime shopping belt appears the floods greatest victim, especially so since every single store there is upmarket and of the luxury variety, which means millions of dollars in loss each time the Heavens open up over Singapore.

Not just Orchard Road but throughout Singapore businesses continue to suffer heavy losses almost on a daily basis, and because of the frequency of such downpours and floods, insurers are no longer prepared to carry the risk, which means the businesses are uninsured.

We are not just talking about merchandise, but water damage is caused in a multitude of other ways, such as hundreds of motor cars ruined, some of the very luxury variety, electrical and machinery ruined and losses mounting.

What astonishes me is this. Except for the island's newspapers to report such flooding, they seem to be doing nothing. For one we all know that their plans such as building rooftop reservoirs is so much hogwash, expected of any government which has now finally run out ideas. Someone has to tell them that it is not enough just to report such grandiose balderdash, it is necessary also to do something for those suffering losses like this.

If anyone is searching for responsibility, it surely rests solely on this government's shoulders. It is they who had given planning permission to build in such areas. It is they who had constructed such inadequate drainage insufficient to carry the flood run off. It is they who ignored the warnings on climate change. It is they who should have advised Singaporeans to live only on higher land, of what little land that is left in the tiny island, and leave the low laying areas to the birds.

But they never did any of this, which, they as a government should have done. And there is a word in law for people such as this. It is the "n" word, "negligence". And for negligence, a defendant has to pay and pay big time.

Therefore unless all these shop owners and businessmen are nothing but a bunch of cowardly spineless fools who are afraid to take on Lee Kuan Yew and son on their liability, I would strongly suggest a series of negligence actions in the Singapore High Court against Lee Kuan Yew and his ilk for multi million dollar claims. If the court finds otherwise, at least you would have put your case forward and make them look very small indeed.

As we speak, we hear of another spate of flooding in different parts of Singapore while Lee Kuan Yew's million dollar ministers merely give out their usual excuses. Yes we do know that it is due to global warming. But you knew that too. Then why in Heavens did you grant planning permission to Lucky Plaza and Liat Towers for instance? Any answers, or have you opted on the Fifth, as you petty minions always do, because you are not accountable to anyone, as dictatorships always are.

Come on, is it raining?

Gopalan Nair
Attorney at Law
Disbarred from practicing law in Lee's Singapore, imprisoned and refused entry to the island for criticizing Singapore's judiciary in this blog (see blogpost May 29, 2008 Singapore. Judge Belinda Ang's Kangaroo Court)
Actively practicing law in California and in good standing at the California Bar.
Member in good standing as a lawyer in England and Wales (Barrister).
39737 Paseo Padre Parkway, Suite A1
Fremont, CA 94538, USA
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Singapore. The final days for Indians and Malays

2012-01-24T20:29:00.000-08:00

Ladies and Gentlemen,

If K Shanmugam, Lee Kuaan Yew's hand picked Singapore Indian Law Minister was discerning to any extent, he should know his days in authority run only as long as Lee Kuan Yew's life. Once Lee is dead, the Singapore Indian's position of Minister would slowly also die and he would, like others of his Tamil kind, slowly disappear into oblivion. With Lee's demise, Singapore's multi racial picture would also slowly cease to exist.

From the time of Singapore's independence and even before, the historical understating was always that Singapore was and is a multi racial country, reflecting the main enthicities that were living in the island, with a slight majority of Chinese and the other half roughly divided between Indians and Malays.

To support this foundational understanding, laws were enacted to give effect to the four languages, Malay Chinese Tamil and English, with English being the main business language because it was felt that Singapore would advance with it rather than with the other languages and scant lip service was also done in the Constitution demanding racial equality.

However, as we have seen, Lee Kuan Yew has had different plans, and lately even more so. Of course we cannot know what he is thinking but my belief is this. Being a Sinophile, to coin the word similar to an Anglophile, someone who is enamoured with Chinese culture traditions and greatness, especially since it appears to be the fastest growing economy today, Lee Kuan Yew it appears has decided to throw in his lot with Communist China, as a second fiddle of sorts. I suppose his thinking is that when China becomes dominant and super powerful, it would also lift Singapore, it's obedient servant.

Therefore he has deliberately decided to make Singapore into a Chinese dominated island, not a Western English speaking island. To this end, he brings in planeloads of Chinese from mainland China as we speak, to deliberately upset the ethnic make up of the island. Today, Singapore Indians who once were about 30% of the population has been reduced to no less than 8% or 9% while the Malays who are the real natives of the island have shrunk to no more than 13%, the vast majority being Chinese.

Today, it is possible for someone not only to live but also do business in Singapore by knowing only Chinese, something that one could not even have imagined before; English is really not necessary. Government clerks speak Chinese, bus conductors speak Chinese and if you wanted to set up a business, it can be done entirely in Chinese. As for English, one only needs it for the odd letter or 2 sent to a government office, which can easily be accomplished with some help, but otherwise, Singapore today is entirely a Chinese city.

But in spite of that, you may wonder why we have government Ministers such as Lee Kuan Yew's Law Minister Shanmugam being a Tamil Singaporean, a dark face in a sea of yellow faces. You also see a couple of Malay Ministers and other Indians such as the Ministers Iswaran and Tharman Shanmugaretnam. The reason for this is simple. It is not because an ethnic Chinese does not have the qualifications to do the job, but because it helps to appease the island's Indian population by showing that they are not forgotten, even though in reality, they are.

But I can assure you that this charade that goes in Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore is not going to last. If Shanmugam is still Minister, it is not going to be lasting career, i can assure you that. I reckon a sea change is going to come over Singapore once Lee kicks the bucket. Lee Kuan Yew's Chinese Ministers not only don't see the need to continue with this game of make believe with these handful of Indian faces in authority, the newer Chinese politicians have no understanding or even the appreciation of a multi racial Singapore. To them, Singapore today is a predominantly Chinese society with Chinese language and culture; it is not a multi racial island.

And with Lee's passing, the last remnant of the dinosaur days of Singapore and it's multi racial past will also slip into oblivion; the Chinese politicians will speak henceforth in Chinese to their Chinese masses who would naturally say that there is no longer any need for the likes of this Tamil bootlicker Shanmugam and other such like ceremonial figures; and the only thing left to do would be to say good riddance. It would be the same with the other handful of Indians and Malays with titled jobs and money. The Chinese don't need you. You don't speak their language and you have nothing to give. So it is going to be Adios.

This is not intended as an attack on Singaporean Chinese by any means but just a logical prediction of things to come. It is the same with any other society had they been in the majority. For instance if Singapore was predominantly English then English would be preferred, so with German, French or any other racial group for that matter. It is natural for people of a race to be comfortable with others who are like them, especially a Chinese society which has an illustrious history.

I am afraid, with a few speeches in cultured Mandarin or Hokkien to the Chinese masses of Singaporeans, the Malays and Indians would be history. There simply won't be anymore Indian Ministers in Chinese Singapore. I am not sure whether I should be happy or sad to see this happen. But I am certainly happy to say, I told you so.

Gopalan Nair
Attorney at Law
Disbarred from practicing law in Lee's Singapore, imprisoned and refused entry to the island for criticizing Singapore's judiciary in this blog (see blogpost May 29, 2008 Singapore. Judge Belinda Ang's Kangaroo Court)
Actively practicing law in California and in good standing at the California Bar.
Member in good standing as a lawyer in England and Wales (Barrister).
39737 Paseo Padre Parkway, Suite A1
Fremont, CA 94538, USA
Tel: 510 657 6107
Fax: 510 657 6914
Email: nair.gopalan@yahoo.com
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Singapore. Orchard Road the flood ridden shopping mall. Whose fault is it?

2012-01-19T21:53:00.000-08:00

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Dictatorships who think they know best, sooner or later create a mess. And it usually a very big mess.

Anyone following Singapore's state controlled newspapers (they are all state controlled) will read of repeated, almost weekly flooding in Orchard Road, Singapore's prime shopping district where millions of dollars, belonging to both crooks and drug lords (the residence of choice is Singapore for Burmese drug lords and Indonesian bank thieves) are spent in luxury shopping.

Gucci Cartier and Rolex are all there but now with a problem. The entire area is flooding and their luxury merchandise is being water damaged on a regular basis.

And whose fault is it? Not Mother Nature because it was not God who decided to build all these shopping malls in the lowest lying area in that small island, it was Lee Kuan Yew and his dictatorship.

This is a perfect example of what happens when a government is unaccountable to anyone as dictatorships are, like Singapore.

They made no attempt to look into the possibility of global warming even though there was ample warning about this for decades. This calamity would not have occurred had Singapore been a democracy because then there would have been conflicting voices with diverse opinions heard, even that of Gopalan Nairs out there who would have possibility said that building in Orchard Road was a bad idea. Very bad indeed.

And this flooding curse in Singapore which is going to become progressively worse for Singapore should be a lesson to all these petty thugs and tyrants like Lee Kuan Yew out there. There is always a very painful prize to pay when you walk around like Mike Tyson bullying everyone in your way. Sooner or later you will find yourself in the corner from which there is no escape.

Gopalan Nair
Attorney at Law
Disbarred from practicing law in Lee's Singapore, imprisoned and refused entry to the island for criticizing Singapore's judiciary in this blog (see blogpost May 29, 2008 Singapore. Judge Belinda Ang's Kangaroo Court)
Actively practicing law in California and in good standing at the California Bar.
Member in good standing as a lawyer in England and Wales (Barrister).
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Singapore's legal profession painting a rosy picture in the state controlled press

2012-01-19T19:44:00.000-08:00

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Today Singapore's Parliament is comprised entirely of Lee Kuan Yew party members, with 6 helpless toothless and powerless opposition members as against his 81, and with a majority like this, Singapore is in fact non other than a pure one party state, just as the Soviet Union was, which means he can pass any law he wants, repeal any law he wants and do literally anything he wants anytime with noone to question whatsoever.

Which is why in Singapore, there is no individual freedoms to speak of. Freedom of speech is criminalized, protests are criminalized and any form of criticism readers the person to arrest imprisonment and bankruptcy under his laws as they stand.

As for the courts, there are no jury trials and ever single judge is singularly handpicked for his willingness to abuse the laws to send any of his critics and opponents to jail anytime he wants he wants for any length of time Lee desires, under Lee's laws.

So in truth Singaporeans are totally helpless to question his authority. It is possible for someone to live in Singapore but it comes with the proviso that this is possible only as long as you are willing to be completely and entirely subservient obedient and compliant.

These are the facts.

However, if this is in fact known to the world, he and his Singapore are not going to look very nice at all. He wants to attract foreign investment, he wants to attract foreign students to study in Singapore and he wants skilled foreigners to work and live in Singapore. If indeed these dire secrets are known publicly, it is going to be an impediment to his grandiose plans of a global city, one that has all manner of foreigners but at the same time, one that is under his iron grip.

Therefore he desperately needs to spin a yarn and keep the charade going. He has to convince people that Singapore is something which it is not. He has to try to make people believe that his Singapore is a democracy, where it's citizens can live as they live in London, Paris or Rome as a free people.

And to pursue this plan, he uses his state controlled newspapers to regularly spin a yarn about the island being a free and liberal society, which if you looked more carefully, will realize it is nothing but so much drivel, or horse dung.

Remember, in addition to Singapore being a one party state, his judges are all there to do as he wants. Now if you add another organ of power to his total control, which is the press and media, Lee Kuan Yew finally has everything he needs to keep his people eternally under his grip, unless of course there is a revolution.

As if controlling Parliament and the judiciary is not enough, Singapore's press media and the entire mass communication system is state owned. Every newspaper, every TV and radio station, every magazine has to print exactly what he wants and nothing else. If they did not obey, their licenses would be revoked and their owners sent to jail.

As far as the press is concerned, every single newspaper is owned and controlled by Singapore Press Holdings, a government owned company, whose daily activities are supervised and directed by government ministers. Every TV and radio station is directly owned and operated by the government. Every private magazine needs a permit and if something that Lee does not like appears in them, the publications are banned and their editors prosecuted.

With all this control Singapore is in fact no better or no worse that North Korea. So the need to paint a picture of independence and freedom in these propaganda sheets, so as to make the law look better than what it is.

The reader should also remember that under Singapore's Singapore's criminal law, any criminal accused has no chance at all, once arrested. Please read my earlier blog on its shameful state. After arrest a criminal accused is denied counsel for several days while the police interrogate and torture him. Once they get the confession, which they always do sooner or later, they then hand him over to his lawyer who by that time can do nothing for him since he has already confessed.

Under these ridiculous Alice in Wonderland legal system, Lee and his government regularly put out "news" or more correctly described as propaganda stories in praise of their legal profession. Take this case. The State controlled newspaper the Straits times online edition of Jan 15, 2012 has the story "Young lawyers starting early on pro bono legal work". It talks of Singapore's lawyers increasing doing more pro bono work.

Ms June Lim, a lawyer is stated as saying "doing pro bono work is the reason why I am a lawyer". Really? The report says "Students and young lawyers like Ms Lim 25 whose focus is juvenile and family law work, help those in need of legal aid for free". All very nice indeed. But someone should ask, what for? What can any of these lawyers do anyway, as eventually the cases have to come before Singapore's judges who are there only to make sure that noone gets away and Lee Kuan Yew is pleased.

Take this story in Lee's state controlled press. The Straits Times of Jan 15, 2012 online edition has the story, "Panel of advisers gives law firm market perspective". The story is written by the 61 year old veteran propaganda agent (Singapore's definition of journalist) KC Vijayan. He was formerly a prison officer and with the mass resignations over the years from Lee's generally disgraced newspapers, they were looking for anyone to fill the vacancies which was when men such as him got hired. Since then, for the past 20 years or so, he has obediently written these reports which were nothing more than regular attempts to make Lee's newspapers look as if they were something they were not.

In this report, it is mentioned that a Law firm called Law Asia has set up office in Singapore and employed a panel of advisers who are non lawyers to help their services. It seems the job of these advisers are to report to the lawyers what the public thinks of them so as to improve their performance. It goes on to talk of their network of important people and connections abroad including universities and banks and engineering companies. It also states that it has connections with important people in South Africa and other far flung places and a whole lot of other self praise or in essence advertising.

Frankly anyone who can think logically would have probably asked the question as to why Lee Kuan Yew's state controlled press is giving free advertising to this particular law firm and secondly even if all that was said about them was true, how is this story even remotely newsworthy?

Why in Heavens should I be interested to know that Law Asia has a whole panel of advisers? They should be practicing law, not going around engaging advisers; at least that is what I thought a lawyer was supposed to do. This story is simply rubbish, there is no other word for it. In any case, have you ever asked yourself since Lee's judges can do anything with the law anytime they want in pleasing the Singapore government, what can any fancy lawyer do about anything anyway?

Then we have this story in the same state controlled newspaper of Jan 13, 2012 headed "Good if Attorney General explains charge decisions lawyers say". This is a story by the same propaganda purveyor KC Vijayan who reports on the right of the Attorney General to exercise prosecutorial discretion.

The story reports lawyers and academics have suggested it as a good thing for the Attorney General to state his reasons which arose from a case involving Singapore's intent to execute a petty drug mule (Singapore has the highest execution rate in the world given it's size) while reprieving his accomplice.

All this talk about law and procedure is a total waste of time in Singapore if anyone knew it's legal system, which is not accountable to law but to Lee Kuan Yew. This is another attempt to give the impression that there is a whole lot of dialogue and discussion about Singapore's laws, as one would expect in a democratic country, when in actual fact, in the end, it is what the judge decides whichever way he wants in Lee Kuan Yew's island according to Lee Kuan Yew's wishes, simple as that.

I only hope that the readers would be more aware of the game this fellow is playing in his state controlled press with this sort of drivel which he hopes will be believed by gullible foreigners who may not know what the real Singapore is.

Gopalan Nair
Attorney at Law
Disbarred from practicing law in Lee's Singapore, imprisoned and refused entry to the island for criticizing Singapore's judiciary in this blog (see blogpost May 29, 2008 Singapore. Judge Belinda Ang's Kangaroo Court)
Actively practicing law in California and in good standing at the California Bar.
Member in good standing as a lawyer in England and Wales (Barrister).
39737 Paseo Padre Parkway, Suite A1
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Singapore's ideal citizen; quiet humble and obedient.

2012-01-16T20:19:00.000-08:00

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Over the years, looking at Singapore's population, I have asked the question, what it takes to be successful in Singapore? The answer to that is to be liked by Lee Kuan Yew. And what sort of human being does Lee Kuan Yew like? Someone who passes his exams in school, who is obedient to his parents and his government (Lee), who is quiet and does not make too much noise about anything and someone who is humble when he meets his superiors. I think having read a little of the Chinese wise man Confucius, these are the qualities to succeed under the Ming Emperor 2000 years ago. But these are also the qualities that Lee Kuan Yew looks for in his citizens, on which I fail miserably on all counts.

I am not quiet or humble or obedient. I am always looking to challenge authority because I believe, and truly so, that I am smarter than Lee Kuan Yew and it is absolutely necessary to continue exposing the man because he is nothing but a dictator.

Which explains why they had to put me in jail for 3 months for criticizing his corrupt judge Belinda Ang Saw Ean in 2008, have me deported from his island and disbarred from practicing law there.

Surely I can understand why all these terrible things are happening to me. Gopalan Nairs are not good for Lee Kuan Yew and his government because we talk too much and we have too many ideas, not all similar to his.

But you know what I am enjoying every minute of it, because people are reading what I write. Surely there can be nothing more rewarding than that. And bit by bit, people are being persuaded the other way, not into thinking this guy is some kind of superman, but actually some kind of a Singaporean rat.

Gopalan Nair
Attorney at Law
Disbarred from practicing law in Lee's Singapore, imprisoned and refused entry to the island for criticizing Singapore's judiciary in this blog (see blogpost May 29, 2008 Singapore. Judge Belinda Ang's Kangaroo Court)
Actively practicing law in California and in good standing at the California Bar.
Member in good standing as a lawyer in England and Wales (Barrister).
39737 Paseo Padre Parkway, Suite A1
Fremont, CA 94538, USA
Tel: 510 657 6107
Fax: 510 657 6914
Email: nair.gopalan@yahoo.com
Blog: http://singaporedissident.blogspot.com/

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Singapore. Lee Kuan Yew has no answer to the Singapore Dissident.

2012-01-16T19:36:00.001-08:00

Ladies and Gentlemen,

If Singapore's purpose is to stop people criticizing them, so as not to derail their plans of continuing their grip over the citizens, they are totally ineffective with the likes of Gopalan Nair and his blog Singapore Dissident.

In 2008 while I was visiting the island for a short trip, they not only arrested me and sent me to jail for writing the sort of stuff I do here, they managed also to stop me from blogging and even from visiting members of the Singapore Democratic Party on the grounds that I, as a foreigner, am interfering in their domestic politics, a very thin excuse since I am a Singaporean through and through having been born in the island and spent nearly all my life there.

But the point I am making is this. They don't want me to write anything critical of their regime and they will arrest me if they can. Their intent is that local Singaporeans who live under their grip should not be allowed to read this sort of thing. Fair enough. But why is it that if I did the very same thing from outside, which more and more Singaporeans are reading as well as the rest of the world are doing, they take no action to have me stopped?

Surely whether I am physically within Singapore is not the point. What they want is Singaporeans should not read the criticism that I write. So it appears their purpose is entirely defeated because not only that I continue writing, I have been emboldened by my safety in being abroad.

So frankly, all the actions to have me jailed and disbarred and deported from Singapore have all been in vain. They might as well have left me alone, thinking of it in hindsight, as nothing has been achieved by all their punishments. They have as I see written a few articles tarnishing my name in the Internet and reported that I have been disbarred from practicing there, but the moment, they read of what I write here, and with a little bit more of outside reading, they will find out that the real rat is not Gopalan Nair but this Lee Kuan Yew regime that is trying to muzzle and suppress the aspirations of their people for freedom.

It looks like they have no lawful recourse against Gopalan Nair and his blog. Have they thought of an extra judicial killing? Or are they incapable of that?

Gopalan Nair
Attorney at Law
Disbarred from practicing law in Lee's Singapore, imprisoned and refused entry to the island for criticizing Singapore's judiciary in this blog (see blogpost May 29, 2008 Singapore. Judge Belinda Ang's Kangaroo Court)
Actively practicing law in California and in good standing at the California Bar.
Member in good standing as a lawyer in England and Wales (Barrister).
39737 Paseo Padre Parkway, Suite A1
Fremont, CA 94538, USA
Tel: 510 657 6107
Fax: 510 657 6914
Email: nair.gopalan@yahoo.com
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Singapore. Dictatorships look good till their last 10 minutes

2012-01-16T18:19:00.001-08:00

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Although you may call it anything else, those who understand Singapore know there is no better word to describe it, just dictatorship. All you have to give the semblance of a democracy is rigged elections every 5 years where the results are known even before the votes are counted. They win and everyone else loses. And between the 5 years till the next 5 years, the average citizen is completely ignored, as if he never existed in the first place.

And just like dictatorships all over the world, the entire media in the island is state controlled. In other words except for blogs written from outside Singapore,(you will be arrested if you criticize from within Singapore) what you read or hear is exactly what they want you to read or hear. Which is why, since the state can say anything they want and there is no one to challenge you, the rosy picture can continue to be rosy up till their last day.

So it is with Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore. Poor Lee Kuan Yew and his Singapore which has a dictatorial regime in today's 21 century, a square peg trying fit into a round hole, is facing impossible odds. Yet you will not read any of it, in his state controlled media.

I think many Singaporeans are already aware that with Big Boy's all 89 years of age, Singapore will not last after he goes. So they are not taking anymore risks by staying on. They are cashing their chips as fast as they can (an appropriate description for an island that lives off vice including gambling) and pulling out altogether.

I have heard there are massive resignations from top posts across all government departments, especially in the Police Force, resulting in their having to promote corporals to Superintendents of Police with just 10 grade education. The Civil service especially the legal service and the Attorney Generals Chambers are facing huge losses in manpower in their top posts.

And they are all scrambling in a mad rush, filling out forms to emigrate, to Australia or any other Western country, so they and their children can live free; not in the chicken coop where Lee struts around like a prize rooster bullying everyone in his way.

As far as the brain drain to the West is concerned, the government has given up hope. They understand no matter what they say, people are fed up and worried and they are going to leave no matter what. So the govt tries to do the second best thing, trying to keep overseas Singaporeans connected to Singapore, but even that is not working. Once they leave, all they say to Singapore is good riddance.

Lee Kuan Yew government faced with these unprecedented job losses and brain drain are now in a fix. They simply don't have enough people and you cannot simply give a readily available Chinese peasant who just arrived from Communist China who knows no English the job of an administrator.

They want to try to avoid giving these jobs to Westerners who come to Singapore for a temporary Asian experience since they may not be prepared to run around like one of Lee Kuan Yew's running dogs as Singaporeans do.

I think the message is already on the wall. This is the worry of the ones who are leaving. Singapore may turn out to be a very different place once Lee dies. First it may be chaos and disorder but even in time, it is unlikely to recover since far too many educated Singaporeans continue to leave the island. You simply cannot have a modern Singapore with just Chinese coolies just arrived from the villages in Mainland China.

This is how Lee Kuan Yew, the Singaporean miracle man, as some people mistakenly think of him, has ruined the island of Singapore.

Gopalan Nair
Attorney at Law
Disbarred from practicing law in Lee's Singapore, imprisoned and refused entry to the island for criticizing Singapore's judiciary in this blog (see blogpost May 29, 2008 Singapore. Judge Belinda Ang's Kangaroo Court)
Actively practicing law in California and in good standing at the California Bar.
Member in good standing as a lawyer in England and Wales (Barrister).
39737 Paseo Padre Parkway, Suite A1
Fremont, CA 94538, USA
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Singapore. The need for peaceful protests and civil disobedience

2012-01-15T22:33:00.000-08:00

Ladies and Gentlemen,

In Singapore, there is no better time than now to demand your rights and civil liberties. Since the last 52 years of Lee Kuan Yew's rule, he has not and will not listen to anything you say, simple as that, regardless of how unfair it may seem, or so it seemed. The man is now 89 years old, and it appears, finally he is on the defensive. I think he realises that the world has changed so much from what he was used to in 1959. The opening up of the Internet, more overseas travel, and the world becoming more connected does mean that it is no longer possible to isolate your people unless you want to be a North Korea which he cannot do. Today, I suspect that if you push for your rights, he cannot act in the roughshod way he has been doing these long years.

For instance, you know that only last week his government and his son have finally agreed to lower their outrageous salaries of $3.7 million a year and stealing another equally large sum is wrong. He has given the order to have it reduced to a slightly less outrageous sum to about $1 1/2 million, at least acknowledging indirectly that this is corruption, not salaries.

Remember, he would not have agreed to this without the overwhelming criticism in this blog Singapore Dissident, other blogs on the Internet and the outcry of the Singapore Democratic Party. So you can see that pressing for change does work, if you sustain without let up your demands.

There are many burning issues that he completely ignores, thinking as he does that there is nothing you can do to stop him. Firstly, there is the issue of disproportionally large numbers of Chinese immigration from Communist China, effectively turning Singapore into a satellite Communist China city. This is not only a violation of the rights of the Singapore Indians and Singapore Malays, equal citizens under the law, but also a violation of the Constitution which requires equal treatment of the races.

Second there is the issue of corruption in the judiciary. You can see for decades that Lee's judges have not only been judges, but more so PAP politicians, by using their judicial office to punish legitimate criticism of opposition politicians such as JB Jeyaretnam, Chee Soon Juan and myself Gopalan Nair. The people should demand that the judiciary stop abusing and prostituting their offices to please Lee Kuan Yew.

Third, you have the state sanctioned racial discrimination against Malays and Indians through employers demanding knowledge of Mandarin in hiring advertisements, which is a deliberate veiled practice to keep them out, since the jobs almost in every case does not require it's knowlede. The law has to prohibit employers from denying jobs to Indian and Malays through this dirty practice.

Fourth the issue of national service. Today we have the bizarre situation where being a Singapore citizen is in fact a disadvantage in your own country. A citizen has to do national service whereas foreigners who are given employment visas indiscriminately do not have to do national service, yet they have equal opportunities in employment but even worse, they get the jobs first over Singaporeans because employers prefer them for not having to do national service.

Fifth, you have several thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of young Singapore men living permanently abroad in exile unable to return because if they did, they would be arrested for not having done national service. Many of these young men find themselves in this unfortunate situation through no fault of their own as they were taken abroad by their parents as babies. Punishing them now for something their parents did is completely unjust, especially since the vast majority of them have no desire to live in Singapore anymore having had a taste of life in the West.

Lastly for every injustice that you face in Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore, there is in effect no recourse. There is no appeals procedure if you are denied a HDB flat except to go begging to your PAP Member of Parliament, there is no appeals procedure if you were denied a taxi license, a foodstall licence, a lawyer's license, with almost everything you are completely at the mercy of Lee Kuan Yew and his friends at the top. Unless you go begging for help, there is no way you can get it.

Therefore, sitting down and doing nothing, as you have done so far, simply means you are going to continue living in bondage. You don't have to do this. You can protest. And Singapore is the best place in the world to do this. It is a sardine packed country where any action you take would be known throughout the island in minutes. I have over the years repeatedly advocated peaceful protests and civil disobedience which the Lee Kuan Yew government deplores because they know how effective this can be. True, there may be some consequences from the government if you were to do this, but in my opinion, Lee Kuan Yew and his government is so weak now, and the disaffection among the population so widespread that it is unlikely he will or can do anything against you if you did.

To all my Singapore friends who cherish your freedom, it is time to take some real action for change. Peaceful protests and civil disobedience is the answer for Singaporeans yearning to be free.

Gopalan Nair
Attorney at Law
Disbarred from practicing law in Lee's Singapore, imprisoned and refused entry to the island for criticizing Singapore's judiciary in this blog (see blogpost May 29, 2008 Singapore. Judge Belinda Ang's Kangaroo Court)
Actively practicing law in California and in good standing at the California Bar.
Member in good standing as a lawyer in England and Wales (Barrister).
39737 Paseo Padre Parkway, Suite A1
Fremont, CA 94538, USA
Tel: 510 657 6107
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Singapore. Indians and Malays should stand up now

2012-01-14T20:08:00.000-08:00

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Singapore strongman Lee Kuan Yew has carefully over the years made sure, through repeated threats of arrest and imprisonment against any attempt by Singapore Indians and Malays standing up for their rights; while at the same time, he deliberately continues not only to diminish their numbers, but to destroy every single bit of language, customs and traditions that they ever had.

For example, the Malays in the past formed as many as half the Singapore population. Today despite the fact that they have the largest families, their numbers have dwindled to as few as 18% or so, while the Indians today form only 8% and steadily declining. Lee's deliberate racial cleansing policy has been to destroy both the Indian and Malay populations in Singapore and this he does by bringing in planeloads of Chinese peasants daily (the educated ones rather go to the USA) making the Chinese portion of the population a thumbing 78% and rising. At this rate there won't be anymore Malays or Indians left.

At the same time, you have the growing half breed population of mixed race, especially between Singapore Chinese women and Indian fathers. Lee Kuan Yew's Minister Vivian Balakrishnan is a product of such a union. I am not against anyone marrying anyone else, but the sad part of it is, it destroys the culture. Balakrishnan I understand knows no Tamil, which his father was, and knows nothing else other than just English, and unfortunately he is not an Englishman either.

In Singapore a large part of the Indian population is of mixed breed, a proportion which is growing, many looking more Chinese than Indian and none of them know the language, or anything else about being Indian.

Not just by the overwhelming immigration from Communist China but also through the union of Chinese women and Indian men, the Indian Singapore population is on the precipice of complete extinction.

And the fault for this lies in Singapore's Indian and Malay leaders such as Gandhi Ambalam and Jufrie Mahmood. Both of them should look not only to further the interests of Singaporeans as a whole, they should give a thought to their fellow Malays and Indians who have no other champions other than them, everyone else being thoroughly marginalized, silenced and sidelined through fear.

It is necessary now for Indian and Malay leaders to form their own organizations to fight for the interests of their own race. And I believe, so should the Singapore Chinese as they too are being drowned by this Lee Kuan Yew conspiracy to flood the island through Communist Chinese human imports, which I am sure they don't like either.

I am sure if Jufrie or Gandhi were to do this, Singapore's bully boy would surely call them racists and chauvinists, but truly, they are no such thing. Fighting for your kinsmen when Singapore is trying to destroy you, is not being racial. It is not only honorable, it is admirable.

Gopalan Nair
Attorney at Law
Disbarred from practicing law in Lee's Singapore, imprisoned and refused entry to the island for criticizing Singapore's judiciary in this blog (see blogpost May 29, 2008 Singapore. Judge Belinda Ang's Kangaroo Court)
Actively practicing law in California and in good standing at the California Bar.
Member in good standing as a lawyer in England and Wales (Barrister).
39737 Paseo Padre Parkway, Suite A1
Fremont, CA 94538, USA
Tel: 510 657 6107
Fax: 510 657 6914
Email: nair.gopalan@yahoo.com
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Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew, a very crooked Confucian

2012-01-14T18:46:00.000-08:00

Ladies and Gentlemen,

In Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore, unlike other democratic countries, political leadership does not require any leadership qualities at all. This is how it is done. Young children and teenagers in schools compete in examinations, the ones who do the best are given scholarships at Universities abroad, after which they contest parliamentary elections where their winning is guaranteed (I mean anyone opposing Lee is sued bankrupted and jailed and thoroughly discredited) and are thereafter promptly made Ministers to rule over their fellow Singaporeans, like an instant lord or chief.

Thereafter the state controlled newspapers would print daily reports on how good they are, how competent they are, how wise they are, and a whole load of hogwash about them would be flowing out like honey for the ignorant Singaporeans consumption, which even if anyone among them had any doubts about this, would have made no difference to him one way or another since there is nothing he can do about it anyway.

This system is broadly based on the prior Chinese Confucius system of scholar rulers of the "Ming", and "Tang" Dynasties, not to forget the "Chong and Chong Dynasty" which was probably before the building of the Great Wall and the "2 Wongs Don't Make A Right" Dynasty which was probably after the Wall. Confucius's idea was, which I am not now going to accept or deny, was a system where young Chinese peasants would get an education, which would presumably give them wisdom (a sort of enlightened gentleman) and the respect that went with it, which therefore gave them authority to rule over these silly ignorant Chinese peasants. So far so good with the Singapore comparison.

But here is where our Singaporean Lee Kuan Yew becomes a downright rascal. You see, the Confucian scholars were supposed to be honest and serve a righteous ruler. In this philosophy, it was a fundamental requirement that the ruler must be a man of integrity which gives the scholars who serve under him, similar moral authority to govern.

In Singapore on the other hand, we have Lee Kuan Yew the strongman who is in fact a rat. His main concern is not the welfare of his people which Confucius requires, in his his care it is his self interest, or rather $3.7 million a year. You can call it making money, lots of it, which is seen by his shameless corruption evidenced by his salary of $3.7 million a year, 5 times that of the US President. Just like him, these minion scholars (I prefer the term bootlickers) who are made instant Ministers work not for their people but to corruptly enrich themselves similarly in the tune of several millions of tax payers dollars. Another word for this is corruption, which was not supposed to be part of the Confucian equation.

It is funny that the Singapore strongman did not manage to see that this sort of nonsense, literally fooling the Singaporeans in the 21 Century simply cannot work. If Singaporeans are accepting this Confucian nonsense, it is not because they believe in their million dollar leaders, running dogs around Lee Kuan Yew waiting for their million dollar handouts, it is because they have nowhere else to go.

It would not be a mistake to say that the average Singaporean today looks upon their leaders as no better than comedians. But since the media is state controlled, they have the monopoly on the praises heaped upon these downright crooks leaving the real story to be told in the blogs and Internet which Lee Kuan Yew is either unable or unwilling to control.

So day by day, bit by bit, Singapore Dissident and other blogs continue to expose the Singaporean superman and his million dollar scholar minions, making it progressively difficult for this fake Confucian exponent to fool anyone.

And the good news is, the damage is beginning to be felt. This blog Singapore Dissident has continued to condemn the corruption that has been going on there in these unconscionable million dollar salaries which has finally has taken it's toll. We have achieved victory. Lee Kuan Yew has finally admitted, something which he has never done before, that he was wrong in stealing this money, and ordered a study to be done which recommended it's slashing. I wouldn't call it a great victory but at least we have managed to make this tyrant give up part of the loot he grabs from his people.

As we, Singapore Dissident, the blogs and the Singapore Democratic Party continue to shame and expose him, we expect them to give up even more of the corrupt privileges he and his minions enjoy.

Lee Kuan Yew should realize that it is simply not enough to select a few school children who can do nothing else than pass exams, give them high office and everyone else will simply obey. Those days are unfortunately gone. Today we have Gopalan Nairs who simply will not roll over and go away. And printing some garbage in your state controlled press extolling your government is not going to do the trick either. Singapore is not the "2 Wongs Don't Make A Right Dynasty" on the other side of the Great Wall, 1000 years ago.

He should realize that this high handedness hurts him more. One thing I know of Confucius is this. Confucius's sonorous words were, the main quality of any ruler to remain in power is his integrity and moral righteousness. The moment this is lost, the leader fails and his dynasty crumbles. Singapore strongman Lee Kuan Yew does not seem to realize this. A people this day and age cannot be kept subservient by terror alone, which is evident by the massive brain drain from it's shores, the lowest birth rate in the world, where only second rate fools decide to call it home.

Gopalan Nair
Attorney at Law
Disbarred from practicing law in Lee's Singapore, imprisoned and refused entry to the island for criticizing Singapore's judiciary in this blog (see blogpost May 29, 2008 Singapore. Judge Belinda Ang's Kangaroo Court)
Actively practicing law in California and in good standing at the California Bar.
Member in good standing as a lawyer in England and Wales (Barrister).
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Singapore state controlled newspaper's daily garbage

2012-01-13T23:25:00.000-08:00

Ladies and Gentlemen,

One thing I have learned is this. Unless a dictatorship's state controlled newspapers can keep out outside information, like they do in North Korea, simply publishing propaganda daily is not going have any effect. People will know the moment you try any nonsense, they are simply going to laugh at you. You can't expect anyone to take you seriously because you are simply not going be believed. What is worse, you are going to bore them to death. And this is exactly what is happening to Singapore Lee Kuan Yew's state controlled newspapers.

The following is the sort of garbage you get.

Singapore state controlled newspaper Straits times online edition of Jan 13, 2012 has the story "Singapore Management University pays tribute to President Tony Tan". Of course you know who Tony Tan is. He is just another of Singapore Strongman Lee Kuan Yew's minions handpicked to run his errands in the past and now appointed by him as the president of Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore. Nothing impressive in the man one way or another.

The story talks about Tan beckoning another of Lee's bootlickers Ho Kwon Ping, some 20 years ago, to start a university, of course with tax payer's money, which shouldn't be too difficult since the money is not his, which he does calling it Singapore Management University, which has ever since then continued to churn out timid obedient and compliant Lee Kuan Yew bootlickers like him ever since. I am not sure how this bit of writing can be of any interest to anyone.

Take this nonsense. The same newspaper of Jan 14, 2012 has the story "CDAC to spend 15% more this year to help 60,000 beneficiarys". It says, the Chinese Development Assistance Council will spend 16% more this year to help 60,000 beneficiaries. There is, with the story a picture of Lim Swee Say, a Lee Kuan Yew Minister looking very serious and generous but other than that there is not much more. As is the case with all these propaganda stories, other than what you are told now, you will know nothing more. You will not know whether in fact 15% extra was spent and if so, who were these beneficiaries and even if that were the case, why should this story be of interest to anyone. Another classic exercise of making yourself look good I suppose. The only question is, will anyone be impressed?

Next is this. The same newspaper of Jan 14, 2012 again says "Elderly at Swami Home enjoys CNY festivities with Khaw Boon Wan". By the way, Khaw Boon Wan is a Lee Kuan Yew Minister.

There is a picture of him bowing very low in humility for the camera, before some very old wheelchair bound residents of an old folks home and distributing a couple of bucks each and some small oranges to them seated neatly in a row, I suppose carefully arranged for the Minister to come and the photo taking.

I am not sure how or why this story is newsworthy unless of course Lee Kuan Yew takes every one of his Singaporeans to be imbeciles without anything better to read. Of course we all know the hidden agenda behind this opera. It is none other than to show how kind and generous these Lee Kuan Yew bootlickers like Khaw are, and why we must continue under the rule of this self proclaimed Singapore superman, Lee Kuan Yew and his side kicks.

Then we have this nonsense, also in the same paper of the same day titled "Create your own web page to raise funds for charity". It has a picture of a very scantily dressed smiling ethnic Chinese woman, a Miss Chang, deliberately exposing her bare thighs and buttocks for the camera, admittedly the best looking parts of her body since her face does not do her much justice, claiming that she has set up a link to a Singapore charity in their web page to collect ang pows (charity) for the poor.

It all seems to me a rather elaborate convoluted unnecessary mystery, since if anyone wanted to give for charity, they can do so without having to have this ethnic Chinese woman exposing her body parts for the camera. Another bit of pure unadulterated nonsense, by Lee Kuan Yew's state controlled newspaper, wasting my time and everyone others who had even the slightest grey matter in their cerebrums.

Another bit of a total waste of time, not to mention newsprint from the same paper of the same day. It is the same nonsense of Lee Kuan Yew's sidekick Singapore President Tony Tan and his Singapore Management University this time with a picture of some ethnic Chinese students with their usual blank faces (I suppose they have nothing much in the line of ideas) grinning at this Lee's sidekick which I suppose they are supposed to do.

Below an avuncular picture of Tan, there are the words "I was always aware that he saw us as the catalyst for the radical changes he wanted to make in Singapore's university system" which Ho had said of Tan. Why this should be of interest to anyone baffles me, especially since we have not heard how and why, if at all such a phenomenon is possible in Singapore.

I can go on, but you see my point. If the intent of the government of Singapore is to insult our intelligence by this nonsense in their state controlled newspapers, I tell you, they are succeeding very well indeed.

Gopalan Nair
Attorney at Law
Disbarred from practicing law in Lee's Singapore, imprisoned and refused entry to the island for criticizing Singapore's judiciary in this blog (see blogpost May 29, 2008 Singapore. Judge Belinda Ang's Kangaroo Court)
Actively practicing law in California and in good standing at the California Bar.
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"Singaporean" Olympic gymnast actually Communist Chinese

2012-01-13T21:32:00.000-08:00

Ladies and Gentlemen,

With a disillusioned Singaporean population leaving the country en masse, the birth rate ending up the lowest in the world, and the general morale very bad indeed, Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore desperately needs to ratchet up the "good news". Here is another one.

The State controlled Singapore newspaper the Straits Times online edition of Jan 14, 2012 has the story "Female gymnast makes history by qualifying for the Olympics". Of course simply because a female gymnast qualifies for the Olympics, should not be history at all since there are competitions for women in Olympic gymnastics since decades. That was not history at all. What the Singapore paper, which is nothing more than Lee Kuan Yew, the Singapore strongman's propaganda sheet is trying to imply is that this woman is a Singaporean.

It says "National gymnast Lim Heem Wei has made history by becoming the first Singaporean gymnast to qualify for the Olympics". But the truth is, this woman is not Singaporean at all. True, she looks ethnic Chinese, thanks to the Singapore strongman who has made sure that almost every single face in Singapore is ethnic Chinese, by bringing in daily plane loads of them from China in violation of the rights of Singapore's other citizens, the Malays and Indians.

No, the Singapore state controlled paper is once again trying to mislead Singaporeans which is very easy to do, since the entire news media is state controlled. In fact, as has been the case in every single claim of Singapore's sportsmen, which in fact it has none, this woman is just like the others, a recent Communist Chinese immigrant and a leading gymnast, to whom Singapore has paid millions of dollars to come to Singapore, given instant citizenship and asked to pretend that she is from Singapore to compete in the Olympics.

Once again they will be using this woman to fool the world and local Singaporeans into thinking that one of them has actually competed in the Olympic Games. The truth is they have no sportsmen at all, as the only quality they have in Lee Kuan Yew's island is hanging around licking his boots and expecting some financial rewards.

I suppose they realize that it is no good trying to turn their people into sportsman since they have no other ability other than fawning and crawling at his feet. So I suppose they have given up the idea, but since they want to boast of having sportsmen anyway, their favorite destination is China since they look like them. All they have to do is to pay their top sportsman and women money, large amounts of it, to wear Singapore colors at the next world meet.

And once they have done that, the next minute, this lie would splashed across the pages of their state controlled press "Singaporean wins gold medal". Only later do you realize that the Singaporean turned out to be a phantom, actually from Harbin China, an excellent pole vaulter, who got his money, competed in the Games, got the medal, and immediately thereafter threw the citizenship back at Lee Kuan Yew's face and promptly returned to his home in Communist China with the money in the pocket.

I am not sure if you recall, at the last Olympics, they were trumpeting their 2 table tennis players who won medals at the Games in China. Once again, they were not Singaporeans at all, but Communist Chinese.

Only recently they have been touting the case of an Olympic swimmer, prominently displaying her picture in the state controlled press claiming that she is an Olympic prospect. Olympic prospect she is; what she is not is Singaporean. Yes, once again, a citizen of Communist China, recently admitted to Singapore and granted citizenship overnight, and shamelessly parading as a Singaporean.

For those who are not aware of the real Singapore, let me tell you this. There are no sportsmen in Singapore. If you read of the so called great Singapore sportsmen, they are all from Communist China, paid millions of Singapore taxpayers money and compete in the Games, to fool everyone else into thinking that Singapore has sportsmen, let alone world class sportsmen.

Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore strongman is looking very silly once again.

Gopalan Nair
Attorney at Law
Disbarred from practicing law in Lee's Singapore, imprisoned and refused entry to the island for criticizing Singapore's judiciary in this blog (see blogpost May 29, 2008 Singapore. Judge Belinda Ang's Kangaroo Court)
Actively practicing law in California and in good standing at the California Bar.
Member in good standing as a lawyer in England and Wales (Barrister).
39737 Paseo Padre Parkway, Suite A1
Fremont, CA 94538, USA
Tel: 510 657 6107
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Video. Singapore's legal beatings in prison (Warning, graphic content and very disturbing)

2012-01-12T21:17:00.000-08:00

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Below is video of the brutality which criminals have to endure in the beatings they receive in Singapore's prisons.

I am again warning that it is graphic and very painful to watch.

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=5ab_1172940415

Although this video was sneaked out without the Malaysian authorities consent, this is exactly how it happens in Singapore too, except that the the beatings are done with even greater force and the victim suffers even more pain, if at all this is possible. The reason for this is because unlike the beater in this video who remains stationary in one place, in Singapore, he takes takes a few steps forward, almost running, before he strikes, therefore making it much more painful as it's velocity is increased as a result.

The language spoken is Malay which I understand and speak, which is also spoken in Singapore. The prison officer with the hat sitting, explains to the prisoner that he has been sentenced to 5 years in jail and will be given 20 lashes of the stick (cane).

Next to the police officer is the doctor wearing a tie. He is there to make sure that the prisoner does not die or faint. The man who beats him is a prison officer specially trained to do the beatings. His purpose is to inflict the utmost pain possible in his prisoner.

You will see at each stroke of the cane (stick) the skin tears drawing blood and the man begins to scream at some point.

I am not altogether sure of the man's crime but I believe it is rape.

If this is not enough for you to condemn these petty Singapore thugs who subject human beings to this sort of unbearable torture, I am not sure what will. Please spread the word around the world and expose these small time tyrants with a message that this sort of thing will not be tolerated in this day and age. Make them pay for this in any small way you can; for instance cancel your planned Singapore holiday, stop flying Singapore Airlines and if you can do more, picket the offices of Singapore Consulate in your country.

I wonder why anyone in his right mind would want to come and live in a country such as this! Even if you yourself are not subjected to this sort of brutality, no one with any self respect would want to have anything to do with a place such as this. Which explains why I, just like hundreds of thousands of self respecting educated Singaporeans have left Singapore and continue to leave, and why it is becoming increasingly difficult for them to attract any immigrants of any quality to reside in it.

I understand each year about 50,000 Singaporeans are giving up their citizenship for residence in the West and to replace them, Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew is bringing in 100s of thousands of Chinese peasants from the remote parts of China into Singapore. It appears no one else wants to come. Almost all educated Singapore born citizens have left the country. In essece today, Singapore is peopled primarily by recent immigrants from Communist China. With an already tiny overcrowded island of no more than 5 million people, at this rate of emigration abroad, it should be no suprise that there are no more native born educated skilled Singaporeans left.

I am sorry , it is painful to watch but if you did I thank you. I am hoping that after watching this video, one more Australian would cancel his Singapore vacation and one more Indian couple would cancel plans for their Singapore shopping trip.

Thank you.

Gopalan Nair
Attorney at Law
Disbarred from practicing law in Lee's Singapore, imprisoned and refused entry to the island for criticizing Singapore's judiciary in this blog (see blogpost May 29, 2008 Singapore. Judge Belinda Ang's Kangaroo Court)
Actively practicing law in California and in good standing at the California Bar.
Member in good standing as a lawyer in England and Wales (Barrister).
39737 Paseo Padre Parkway, Suite A1
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Singapore. A legal escape route overseas from being caned

2012-01-12T20:25:00.000-08:00

Ladies and Gentlemen,

This will come as a welcome bit of news for those who have been charged with offenses that include being caned (beaten) as a punishment under Singapore draconian laws. One such offense is vandalism. Under Singapore law a conviction of vandalism carries a punishment of jail and caning (beatings).

This sort of punishment is considered illegal under international law as being cruel and unusual punishment. Therefore every Western country which is a member of the United Nations including Australia and the US does not condone this sort of cruelty, regardless of the nature of the offense.

Therefore my advise for Singaporeans, regardless of the crime you are alleged to have committed is this. If you manage to somehow get to a Western Country and seek sanctuary, they will protect you. They will not send you back to Singapore as it would be against their laws to send anyone to a country where he will be subjected to cruelty such as this.

I am not sure if they would give you asylum for this, since you would be deemed a person of bad character (not for vandalism, which is considered a minor offense) nevertheless they will not return you to Singapore if doing so would mean your being tortured (caned).

In the US, what happens is this. If a person can prove that he would be tortured in this manner, but nevertheless has bad moral character (because of the criminal conviction) he is given what is known as "Withholding of removal". This means he is allowed to remain and work in the US but it will not lead to a Green Card or Citizenship; the plan being that in the event, some time in the future, if Singapore repeals these brutal laws, you are liable to be returned to Singapore.

I am looking forward to helping someone in this sort of a situation from Singapore. The best client for me would be someone who has done a little graffiti. As this is not a serious offense which will disqualify you from permanent residence or citizenship, if you want to come to the USA, see me on this.

Go out and do a little graffiti in Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore. When you are caught try to be released on bail. Once you are out, come and see me in my office in Fremont, California and I will get you legal residence here. Remember it does not matter how you got to California. The danger of course is this, if they refuse bail, kept you locked up and then caned you, it will be too late. So remember, it is up to you whether the risk is worth taking. It will be your decision, not mine. Remember that.

I am not sure what the rules are in Australia but I am sure, you will not be returned to Singapore to endure Lee Kuan Yew's torture.

For those who are unable to obtain travel documents to leave Singapore, note this. As far as the Western Country is concerned, it really does not matter how you got out of Singapore if you were escaping from this torture. So if it is possible, obtain a false passport if necessary, travel to Malaysia undetected, forge a few border crossing stamps in your passport and board the flight. The crucial point to remember is this. As long as you are able to board the flight to your western destination and get on the plane, you are safe. When you arrive in Sydney or Frankfurt or Toronto, merely inform customs and immigration that you are you fear for your safety in Singapore and are seeking sanctuary. From that point, you are safe. They will give you a hearing and determine your eligibility.

On the other hand, if you have a Singapore passport and can leave the island, you have no problem since you don't need a visa to most countries. You may need a return ticket just to show the airport at embarkation.

But one thing I am sure. They will never send you back to Singapore to be beaten (caned). If you are contemplating this action, do let me know.

Good Luck

Gopalan Nair
Attorney at Law
Disbarred from practicing law in Lee's Singapore, imprisoned and refused entry to the island for criticizing Singapore's judiciary in this blog (see blogpost May 29, 2008 Singapore. Judge Belinda Ang's Kangaroo Court)
Actively practicing law in California and in good standing at the California Bar.
Member in good standing as a lawyer in England and Wales (Barrister).
39737 Paseo Padre Parkway, Suite A1
Fremont, CA 94538, USA
Tel: 510 657 6107
Fax: 510 657 6914
Email: nair.gopalan@yahoo.com
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Fast disappearing Singapore Indian lawyers

2012-01-11T17:04:00.000-08:00

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Only yesterday did I find out that 2 more of my old acquaintances, Singapore Indian lawyers, have given up practice and retired, not because they have made enough money but because there is simply no more work for them. In fact it has not been good news for Singapore Indian lawyers for the last 2 decades except that recently it has gotten much worse.

A little background. The legal profession has always been attractive to Singapore Indians.

It is generally accepted among the Singapore Chinese and Malay population that Indians are good in English, more articulate, speak better English than the Chinese who with their well known difficulty in pronunciation, the best comical example, no offense intended, being "Fly lice" instead of "fried rice".

So naturally in the past, Singapore Indians were attracted in large numbers to the Singapore legal profession, in disproportionately large numbers making up about half of the lawyers, although Indians were only about 12% of the total population.

But this situation could not last and was completely artificial and unsustainable for the following reasons. First the vast majority of businesses were in Chinese hands since they formed the largest mercantile community in Singapore. So naturally when disputes arose the natural tendency for them, and understandably so, was to seek out a Chinese lawyer with whom they naturally would be more comfortable. This resulted in more and more civil work going to Chinese lawyers and when they realized that there was work in this field, more Chinese went into the legal profession especially for civil work.

For criminal work too, since the Chinese formed at least 75% of the population, there was extensive criminal work which ordinarily went to Chinese lawyers. However the general belief among some, either factually or imaginary, it does not matter one way or another, that Indian lawyers are good, did send some criminal work their way, but the small volume of this could not really sustain the large number of Indian lawyers in Singapore.

There are however a handful of Singapore Indian criminal lawyers who manage to do very well but this is not because of their ability in any real sense but because they are connected to the establishment, as Singapore's best criminal lawyer, Subhas Anandan, according to the Lee Kuan Yew dictatorship is.

You can see many of videos of him on the Internet, which generally don't look all that impressive.

Not suprisingly, being a de facto government spokesman, you will actually see him arguing for his master Lee Kuan Yew as to why he thinks that criminal defendants should be brutally beaten (caned), which is part of Singapore's official punishment for some criminals, regardless of what the UN says on this type of cruelty.

But other than a handful of government bootlickers like him, most other Indian criminal lawyers find their practices greatly and progressively diminishing.

As this unfortunate trend continues, more and more Singapore Indian lawyers will close shop as Lee Kuan Yew continues to bring in disproportionate numbers of Chinese immigrants from Communist China who see no reason to go to any Indian lawyer.

It is bad news for Indian lawyers in Singapore as is the same for Indians generally in Singapore. You are already drowning in a sea of Chinese faces and very soon, you will become a curiosity, if you are not already one.

Comparing myself to the Singapore Indian lawyers among who I practiced in Singapore in the past, I have to count myself a very lucky man.

I am lucky to have left for California where I continue in very active practice which has continued to grow over the years to where I am now a very very busy man; which is what happens to lawyers around the world, minus Singapore Indian lawyers.

As time goes on, I expect to be even more busy. So in my career as a lawyer, I have done pretty well by leaving Singapore. Had I remained, I suppose I too would be closing shop, since I have no desire to lick any one's boots like Singapore's best lawyer, Subhas Anandan, and surely not those of Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew.

Gopalan Nair
Attorney at Law
Disbarred from practicing law in Lee's Singapore, imprisoned and refused entry to the island for criticizing Singapore's judiciary in this blog (see blogpost May 29, 2008 Singapore. Judge Belinda Ang's Kangaroo Court)
Actively practicing law in California and in good standing at the California Bar.
Member in good standing as a lawyer in England and Wales (Barrister).
39737 Paseo Padre Parkway, Suite A1
Fremont, CA 94538, USA
Tel: 510 657 6107
Fax: 510 657 6914
Email: nair.gopalan@yahoo.com
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Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew stands up to the incoming tide

2012-01-10T19:51:00.000-08:00

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Singapore state controlled newspaper Straits Times online edition of Jan 10, 2012 has the story "Orchard floods need new solutions as Stamford Canal is inadequate". The story is about the almost daily flooding in Singapore prime shopping area, not to mention island wide, a phenomenon which Lee Kuan Yew's highest paid ministers in the world seem unable to solve, and what is worse, never anticipated.

The story comes up with some ingenious, but more accurately described as desperate hopelessness, such suggestions as "storing water in the Orchard Road Area further upstream", "storing water in roof tops", "storing water in retention ponds" "building storage tanks along Stamford Canal route" etc.

The story admits, we have to concede, that the frequent flooding was due to "more intense rain and increased urbanization" something even lesser paid third rate ministers around the world would have been aware of, which, unfortunately these incompetent ministers, each of which are paid several times the salary of President Obama were unable to anticipate.

Frankly when people such as these have begun to talk of storing rain water in such places as Singapore in roof tops, it simply means that they have run out of ideas and are now beginning to spin a yarn for public consumption, for fear that the hopelessness of the situation would be discovered.

Singaporeans should realize that it is the incompetence and maladministration of Lee Kuan Yew's regime which has brought the island into such a hopeless state. Any layman would have told you, Singapore is far too small and far too built up and far too overcrowded to be able to manage any of these things like storage tanks. Furthermore even if you could built tanks and find the space for it in crowded Singapore, the rainfall is far too intense and heavy for any tank to hold it.

It is simply forlorn hope, there is nothing to hope for, the flooding is simply going to continue to become more and more intense, more and more frequent and more and more catastrophic.

When ministers such as these begin to talk like Jules Verne did, you know the game is up.

I am not sure when the next great down pour is going to be, today or tomowrrow, and the question is whether it will coincide with high tide, if it does, we have another flood, and again the same a few days later and then more and more frequent and more and more heavier. As we speak, global atmospheric temperature continues to increase, the tide continues to go higher and higher and sea level elevates on a daily basis. The atmospheric temperature steadily rises, holding more and more water vapour which means heavier and heaver downpours.

Lee Kuan Yew and his million dollar ministers have completely failed their people in this issue. They should have known that and island as small as Singapore is incapable of supporting 6 million people in a concrete jungle which is not more than a few inches above sea level, as simple as that.

All we have to do now is to simply sit back and see the entire Lee Kuan Yew edifice built on greed, corruption and avarice just collapse. As flooding continues to increase, Orchard Road prime shopping district will be wiped out of businesses and customers entirely. Already the flow of businesses outwards has already begun. Lait Towers and Lucky Plaza owners will all terminate their leases and get out. As the waters increase even further, Orchard Towers and other buildings next in the line of the floods will similarly pull out.

Many tenants and residents in the Bukit Timah flood prone district are also not waiting for the last day, and have already begun moving out.

As and when the Singapore business fails because of the effects of flooding, Lee Kuan Yew and his government will also rattle and collapse in no time.

I am not sure what will happen next but it appears Mother Nature is not prepared to forgive Lee Kuan Yew's dictatorship, that seems clear. It seems she must have her pound of flesh this time.

Gopalan Nair
Attorney at Law
Disbarred from practicing law in Lee's Singapore, imprisoned and refused entry to the island for criticizing Singapore's judiciary in this blog (see blogpost May 29, 2008 Singapore. Judge Belinda Ang's Kangaroo Court)
Actively practicing law in California and in good standing at the California Bar.
Member in good standing as a lawyer in England and Wales (Barrister).
39737 Paseo Padre Parkway, Suite A1
Fremont, CA 94538, USA
Tel: 510 657 6107
Fax: 510 657 6914
Email: nair.gopalan@yahoo.com
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Singapore. Running a country on propaganda

2012-01-09T12:31:00.000-08:00

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Joseph Goebbels, Hitler's propaganda minister stated categorically that it was propaganda that they relied upon to advance Nazi Germany. To do this end, every newspaper, every radio station, every magazine, and every other means of dissemination of information was brought under the firm control of the state. Every word, every sentence was decided by the government and nothing adverse was allowed.

In North Korea, the same applies today.

And Singapore is exactly the same. Every newspapers is owned and controlled by the state organ, Singapore Press Holdings and every TV or radio station is similarly state controlled. Every single word that is said in Singapore is first censored by the state employed journalists who are daily told what to publish and what not to publish. TV radio stations are again directly and firmly controlled and what is said is intended to further the interests of the Singapore government.

Just as Hitler's Germany went to great lengths to photograph and film their country in the best light to sell it to the world, so does Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore which goes to great lengths to show it as something which it is not, hoping this way, to fool everyone.

Chee Soon Juan, a Lee Kuan Yew critic, the late JB Jeyaretnam and myself are carefully reported as thoroughly bad individuals, thereby attempting a negative public opinion whereas Lee Kuan Yew, his family and party members are put up on a pedestal as if they were saints incapable of any human failing. Frankly I am not sure whether anyone in Singapore believes anything that is said about us, which is why this sort of propaganda actually does them more harm than good.

In this manner, Hitler did manage to not only maintain control over his people, he in fact managed to achieve great success initially. Similarly in North Korea today, a closed society, it seems to continue it's control over it's people despite international sanctions and every manner of obstacles placed in their way.

The question is, will Singapore also manage to continue hoodwinking it's citizens and the world to it's advantage. I think not. There is a very big difference between North Korea of today and the Hitler's Third Reich of the 1930s, as compared to Singapore of today, which is this.

Today's North Korea is a closed society and it's people are kept completely in the dark as to the outside world. A North Korean citizen has no idea whatsoever about anything that happens outside his country. There are no foreign newspapers, the TV and radio does not report anything foreign and there is no way you can find out anything about the world. Whatever you are told is what the state wants you to hear. Therefore the state's ability to brainwash their people is easily achieved. Today I understand the vast majority of North Koreans actually believe that theirs is the best country in the world.

Yesterday I met a South Korean who told me that North Korea is actually preventing many of it's citizens who were working in Libya from returning because they do not want them to be telling their fellow citizens about the overthrow of Gadaffi lest they think of doing the same to their leader; imagine that.

Similarly the Third Reich was also in fact a closed society, since it was much more difficult to travel internationally in the 1930s and even without travel restrictions, you still never knew anything much about what was happening outside your country.

Singapore on the other hand today 2012, is entirely different. Even if Lee Kuan Yew controls his media in the island, you still can purchase foreign newspapers, you still can read the Internet, and you can still travel abroad whenever you want. And with a growing sophisticated English speaking population, it is simply impossible for Lee Kuan Yew to try to hoodwink anyone else. If he is, he is only doing it to himself.

For instance consider this silly propaganda put out today in his state controlled newspaper the Straits Times. In it, there is an article which states that some obscure French survey had found Singapore's Orchard Road to be the best shopping street in the world. Come on, who are you kidding? Has no one gone to Barcelona's La Rambla, a thousand times more lively and interesting a place. What about Paris's Champs Elysee's? Are you telling me that Orchard Road is better than that? What about Oxford Street or Reagents Street in London? You can see how stupid such a claim about Orchard Road is.

You see Singapore can only come up with such nonsense because there is no way that anyone could argue with them, since they control the press. But this sort of nonsense does not have the effect it could have had in say 1930 or some earlier time.

Take another bit of nonsense put out in Lee's state controlled Singapore newspapers today. The Straits Times reports that some Singapore Chinese girl had won the world Optimist Class sailing title. If you are a sailor you would know what an Optimist sailboat is. It is about 8 feet long, more like a bath tub than a boat. It is intended for small children. My son sailed it when he was 6 in Singapore adn later the similar class of boat the El Toro after he came to America till he was about 12. And if a 16year old girl sails a boat like that (this Singapore girl), well, it does not say much for her or her choice of boat. And this isolated incident of a 16 year old girl in a little boat does not make Singapore a world class sailing country. If you want to see world class sailors look to Australia, New Zealand or the US; not to Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore. Many of them are even afraid of the water.

See picture of Optimist dinghy:

http://www.google.com/imgres?hl=en&biw=819&bih=446&gbv=2&tbm=isch&tbnid=2zSp4Ppk5SNskM:&imgrefurl=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimist_(dinghy)&docid=kBTN69roScTP0M&imgurl=http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a3/Optimist_on_the_beach.jpg/200px-Optimist_on_the_beach.jpg&w=200&h=300&ei=7AsOT-iwDeWiiQKtlLyhDQ&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=97&vpy=56&dur=2657&hovh=240&hovw=160&tx=95&ty=187&sig=105795672657261791550&page=1&tbnh=114&tbnw=77&start=0&ndsp=10&ved=1t:429,r:0,s:0

In 2008 when I was arrested in Singapore for criticizing Lee Kuan Yew's corrupt judge Belinda Ang Saw Ean for punishing Chee Soon Juan for going against Singapore strongman Lee Kuan Yew, I recall several court documents filed by the government in my case which claimed that they had the best legal system in the world!

I want to put this message out to Lee Kuan Yew. You are running out of ideas. You really cannot control the way people think by writing such rubbish in your state controlled press. You are making yourself look very silly. Read my lips. Orchard Road is not best shopping Mall in the world. It is best in nothing.

Gopalan Nair
Attorney at Law
Disbarred from practicing law in Lee's Singapore, imprisoned and refused entry to the island for criticizing Singapore's judiciary in this blog (see blogpost May 29, 2008 Singapore. Judge Belinda Ang's Kangaroo Court)
Actively practicing law in California and in good standing at the California Bar.
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If it's Singapore why isn't it flooded

2012-01-08T15:03:00.000-08:00

Ladies and Gentlemen,

There was an old romantic comedy movie titled "If It's Tuesday This Must be Belgium" about an American tour group that visits Europe's capitals over a week. It has a song of the same name whose lyrics goes as follows:

If it's Tuesday, this must be Belgium
If it's Wednesday, this must be Rome
If it's Thursday, this must be Montreux
I feel I never wanna go home

If this is London, why ain't it raining?

With Singapore flooding almost on a daily basis now with higher atmosphere temperatures and rising sea levels, perhaps we should ask "If it's Singapore why isn't it flooded".

Calamity always strikes dictatorships all over the world, if there are any left, sooner or later, in more ways than one. You have your usual bad mouthing the regime through the Internet that takes it toll like I do, people leaving the country for settlement abroad and the surge of unmarried singles and childless couples, all characteristics of the backlash of an oppressed people who finally want to get even; the same old sad story Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore is now facing.

But luckily for those free spirited people who want to see the back of dictatorships like I do, in the case of Singapore, Mother Nature has also begun to lend a hand. As a result of the increased atmospheric temperature enabling the air to carry much more water vapour and increasing high tides as high as an unprecedented 4 meters, never seen in Singapore waters, sea water is trying to displace itself by rushing into rivers and canals of the tiny Singapore which in most places is not even a foot above sea level. If we have the torrential rains (believe me they are torrential) to pour down at the same time, there then begins an island wide flooding. What is particularly interesting and welcoming to me is Orchard Road, which so happens to be on very low ground, with the prime shopping within it's area, completely underwater.

So far I have heard thousands of motor vehicles have got serious water damage running into millions of dollars. Almost all the shops in the basement of Lucky Plaza and Liat Towers, the 2 places that have been hit the most have all terminated their leases and pulling out of Singapore entirely.

I have heard it is dirt cheap to get a lease in either of these places, even assuming, which I doubt, if anyone wants one.

Business is badly hit in the whole area because of the dangers of driving into it or leaving your car there which would very likely suffer engine, brake and transmission damage. Thousands of parked cars have been totally lost, some pulled along by the water current into drains and canals and disappearing altogether. Lives have been lost by people accidentally stepping on areas which they thought was hard ground but in fact canals. To make matters worse, not knowing the extent of instability which would impact Singapore which will happen when the dictator who is now 89, Lee Kuan Yew dies, people and businesses are not waiting around for their stocks to loose all their value and bankruptcy; they are pulling out right now to be safe and sure.

The racial minorities and even the Singapore born Chinese are so outraged by the limitless amount of Chinese immigrants from China being brought in, thereby suppressing wages and denying work for locally born Singaporeans, they are now up in arms against this unwelcome immigration and ready for a fight if necessary.

I am not sure who said too much orderliness is bad for democracy and if he did, I completely agree. If the businesses continue to leave because of the impending uncertainly caused by the death of the old dictator, you are going to see huge job losses and with the added help of Mother Nature flooding the entire small tiny low lying island on a daily basis, I think I am in for a very interesting time.

So visit Singapore while you still can, if it is still there, and would you do me a favor by singing that song, "If it's Singapore why isn't it flooded"

Gopalan Nair
Attorney at Law
Disbarred from practicing law in Lee's Singapore, imprisoned and refused entry to the island for criticizing Singapore's judiciary in this blog (see blogpost May 29, 2008 Singapore. Judge Belinda Ang's Kangaroo Court)
Actively practicing law in California and in good standing at the California Bar.
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Singapore. The secrets of Lee Kuan Yew's criminal legal system

2012-01-02T15:25:00.001-08:00

Ladies and Gentlemen,

You may not believe what I am about to say but sadly every word here is true, a report I am writing not only as a lawyer who had practiced in Singapore for 10 years after having been admitted to practice in England, but also as one who was personally a victim of the system.

Firstly Singapore's criminal legal system is designed for one purpose alone, to arrest criminals and others who are a pain in the neck such as political opponents and punish them. To say it another way, the moment you are arrested, your conviction and sentence is certain.

Although at first reading you may say surely every legal system in the world intends the same result. True but not entirely.

Western jurisprudence, both the Anglo Saxon Common Law system and the Roman Dutch Code system among which which the world is divided requires not only that criminals be punished, it also requires that the state ensure criminals (I use this word for ease of reference only) are given certain rights, such as the right to silence, the right to be free from self incrimination and free from illegal searches and seizures, to ensure that the innocent are protected.

NO INDEPENDENT JUDICIARY: All judges in Singapore are selected for their loyalty to Lee Kuan Yew and his government. In other words, they double as PAP politicians. Their purpose is to administer, Lee's way of thinking, which is, rid the streets of criminals thugs and other miscreants. The manner in which this is done is totally irrelevant. Their other very important duty is to punish political dissidents such as Chee Soon Juan, one his his victims who will painfully tell you this. Ask him.

NO JURY TRIALS: Singapore does not have jury trials. Every case is decided by judges who have been specially selected by the government to decide cases as the government wishes. Very often the rich and connected are never arrested for their crimes. The poor ordinary citizen doesn't stand a chance under these government hand-picked judges.

THE SINGAPORE CONSTITUTION IS JUST GARBAGE: Singapore has such a thing as a Constitution like most other countries. The words in there are very nice to hear, but with only one difference. It is only words. None of what is said in there is ever enforced.

CITIZEN NOT TOLD WHY HE IS BEING ARRESTED: When the police go out and arrests a citizen he is not told why he is being arrested. If the arrested person were to ask, he is merely told something like this "We are arresting you under Section 49 of the Penal Code". Nothing more is said. Since most people are not aware of the contents of the Singapore Penal Code, the citizen is literally kept in the dark as to why this is happening to him. This works on his mind psychologically to his disadvantage causing fear and confusion.

IN SINGAPORE, THE CONSTITUTION IS THE BEST KEPT SECRET: Most people in Singapore do not know anything that is written in the Constitution, in fact the vast majority of Singaporeans don't even know that such a thing exists. It is not taught in schools, it is never spoken about and never written about.

EVERY SINGLE PROVISION IN THE CONSTITUTION IS VIOLATED: Although the Constitution is an excellent document to read which gives Singapore citizens their human rights like other civilized countries, in reality they have no rights at all.

LACK OF EDUCATION DENIES JUSTICE: This denial of citizen's rights is worsened by the fact that most people arrested have little or no education. They do not know that they need not incriminate themselves, and the police make every attempt to capitalize on the citizen's ignorance by forcing them to confess.

NO RIGHT TO COUNSEL: In Lee's Singapore, even though the Constitution requires due process of law and the right to counsel, in fact you have no such right. What happens is this: After the police arrest you, they detain you at the police station for many days. During this time you are denied access to a lawyer and are therefore for several days completley at the mercy of the police. They interrogate you over this period, day and night. In almost all cases, the citizen eventually "breaks" or confesses, at which time they get a signed confession, after which they promptly release him on bail to retain a lawyer. Any fool can tell you that by this time, it is too late for any lawyer to do anything. He has already confessed.

POLICE TORTURE: During the time the police detain the person, they extract a confession under torture. The torture is usually not physical but mental. It could be prolonged sleep deprivation, it could be repeatedly waking him at odd hours of the night for repeated interrogation sessions, it could be threatening him and his family members with harm or a combination of these until the victim eventually "breaks" and then they have got him. The police have a nasty habit of taking the prisoner's statements at 3 am in the morning, waking him up when he is fast asleep and demanding a statement. This is done repeatedly at short intervals throughout the night. Having gone through this, the poor citizen would be prepared to sign anything given to him, just to stop this torture.

NO RIGHT TO SILENCE: Although the Constitution mandates the citizen's right to silence and to be free from self incrimination, there is no such right. There is a provision in the law which says that when a person remains silent, the court can infer that he is guilty. So whenever the citizen refuses to give a statement, the verdict of guilt is a foregone conclusion.

SINGAPORE POLICEMEN ARE SELECTED FOR THEIR LACK OF EDUCATION AND UNDERSTANDING: Many Singapore policemen of the lower ranks are Malay and of other races who have no education beyond a rudimentary stage. They have no idea about the Constitution or the laws or that the people are supposed to have rights. They will do exactly as they are told and their main intent is to please their superiors. Their superiors too have very little education, themselves taking orders from the top as to whom to arrest and whom to leave alone. In fact the likelihood of your getting into trouble depends a lot on who you are. If you are a political opponent, the likelihood of your being in trouble is great, regardless of whether you have done anything wrong.

NO RIGHT TO BE FREE FROM ILLEGAL SEARCHES AND SEIZURES: The Constitution does provide for the right to be free form illegal searches and seizures. But in practice, this is never complied with. The police can stop anyone anytime, without any reason, demand a right to check your car, your belongings and your home without any reason at all, or ask you any question they want anytime anywhere. If you refuse, you will be arrested and they will do it anyway. In other words, it is a police state. And every police action is justified and allowed.

LIMITED DISCOVERY: Although the Constitution demands due process, which means, a citizen arrestee is entitled to complete information of the prosecution's case including prosecution witness statements, except for a list of witnesses, the police don't provide any statements from anyone except your own, meaning, for the first time in court, you will hear what they say. In any other jurisdiction which has the rule of law, the citizen is provided with prosecution statements so that he is appraised with what he has facing.

NO FAIR TRIAL: The citizen stands no chance at the trial. His confession is produced as evidence of his guilt. He finds himself in a bind, if he now claims that the confession was involuntary while the police officer testifies otherwise. With a judge determined to show the government that he is doing his job by putting "criminals" away, the poor citizen stands no chance.

ONE LAW FOR SOME, ANOTHER FOR OTHERS: As I have said some get away Scott free because they are connected in high places. When a crime is obvious such as beating up a taxi driver, they have no choice but to arrest this VIP. But after that many ingenious procedures are adopted such as bringing a doctor's report that the assailant was suffering from diminished responsibility and other imaginary ailments plucked out of thin air, the VIP is convicted but released anyway either with a small fine or probation. This sort of special justice only happens with the select few who are connected in high places. For ordinary people such tactics will not work. In his case, he will go to jail and for a long time.

EVEN WITH THESE FEW SAFEGUARDS ABOVE, WITH CORRUPT SINGAPORE JUDGES ACCEPTING THEIR DISGRACEFUL ROLE AS AGENTS OF LEE KUAN YEW AND THE STATE, CITIZENS WOULD STILL CONTINUE TO BE UNJUSTLY PUNISHED SINCE THEY ARE NOT BOUND BY ANY LAW BUT LEE'S LAW. IN THE END, IF THERE ARE THESE LEGAL PROVISIONS, IT IS MERELY TO HOODWINK THE IGNORANT INTO THINKING THERE IS THE RULE OF LAW. IN FACT THE GOVERNMENT WOULD BE BETTER IN TAKING AWAY EVEN THESE TRIFLING RIGHTS GIVEN TO THE POOR SINGAPOREAN BECAUSE IN TRUTH, YOUR FATE DEFENDS NOT ON THE LAW, BUT ON THESE GOVERNMENT APPOINTED JUDGES.

SINGAPORE'S HELPLESS LAWYERS: In Singapore, lawyer Subhas Anandan is considered the best. He claims to have defended over 1500 major cases including dozens of murder trials. He has even written a book. He has practiced for about 40 years. Yet throughout this time, under these disgraceful legal procedures, all his clients were never given a right to counsel except after they had all confessed under torture; he has lost almost every single case, and if he has won anything, it would not be more than managing to reduce the sentence from a serious charge to lesser charge, usually because his client is well connected.

The following a video clip where this man, supposedly Singapore's best criminal lawyer spoke about his experiences:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJ0YjjbZwTA

What is a tragedy for Singapore and this man is this. For supposedly the best criminal lawyer in Singapore, for 40 years he knew that his clients were denied counsel in violation of the Constitution but he did nothing to protest this except to complain to the Minister.

For 40 years he knew that many of his clients were even executed because they were denied counsel, yet he does nothing except to complain to the Minister.

For 40 years he knows that his clients have suffered police brutality by repeated police interrogations and deprivation of sleep as a result of which they have been executed, yet all he does is to complain the the Minister.

For 40 years, he knows Singapore has no rule of law but a bunch of corrupt judges but he does nothing but to complain to the Minsiter.

Yet all the while, if he did complain to the Mister, he already knew that Lee Kuan Yew's sidekick, the Tamil Minister of Law, K Shanmugam, is not going to do anything but to tighten the law even further, if at all this is possible.

And if you see the video, he even has the audacity to say that he has no regrets about practicing law in Singapore.

What he should have done, or any other decent lawyer in any other country would have done, is not just to complain to the Minister, when he knows the Minister will do nothing, but to actually occupy, picket, demonstrate and protest outside the Minister's office until he corrects these injustices which are murdering his clients.

Knowing Singapore, you would not be surprised why Lee's state controlled media proclaims him as the best criminal lawyer. After all he has never really defended any of his clients in the real sense, and in fact he does the work of the government by going through the motions of a legal practice. If such is the quality of the best criminal lawyer in Singapore, why do you need lawyers anyway, tell me that.

This poor fellow, I mean as a human being, is suffering from various ailments and from reports takes a daily cocktail of medicines to keep alive. I am sorry for him. As Edward Rice Murrows, the famous CBS reporter once said of people who do unconscionable things to make a living "I don't think he likes the look of his face in the mirror in the morning".

SECOND RATE CITIZENS WHO WILLINGLY LIVE THEIR MISERABLE LIVES: With criminal laws such as this, it does not say very much about Singaporeans who accept such lives. For one, they have to be ignorant of such things as human rights. Or Second, they are those without principles who work for Lee Kuan Yew and paid huge salaries. Or Third, they are foreigners there temporarily, without concern for such things as rights. Either way, not a population which anyone can be proud of.

Gopalan Nair
Attorney at Law
Disbarred from practicing law in Lee's Singapore, imprisoned and refused entry to the island for criticizing Singapore's judiciary in this blog (see blogpost May 29, 2008 Singapore. Judge Belinda Ang's Kangaroo Court)
Actively practicing law in California and in good standing at the California Bar.
Member in good standing as a lawyer in England and Wales (Barrister).
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Singapore. The New Zealander who got away

2012-01-01T19:21:00.000-08:00

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Singapore state controlled newspaper Straits Times online edition of Jan 2, 2012 has the story, "Suntec City brawl: NZ fugitive may end up on Interpol List". It's about last week's case of 3 men, one New Zealander, Robert Stephen Dalberg, 31, the subject of the story, an Australian and an Englishman, who gave 2 taxi drivers a real beating, what for I do not know, crashed their taxis, broke some heads and some noses and were arrested.

For some inexplicable reason, they not only let Dalberg go, they even returned his passport, which was when he took the fastest ride he could to the island's airport (I understand he broke all existing speed records)and 4 hours later was safely in his home in New Zealand from where he has shown his middle finger, and rightly so, to Lee Kuan Yew and his silly island, where you are jailed for chewing gum and get whacked on your backside (weird people indeed) for smoking a joint.

This state controlled propaganda sheet, Lee Kuan Yew's Straits Times is trying to tell us that even though they themselves facilitated his disappearance by letting him go and handing him his passport, with a wink and a nod, they are trying to get him back now through Interpol! I suppose if I was Interpol the question I would be asking is, why in Heavens did you give him his passport back then?

You recall in 2008, I was arrested in Singapore just for writing a blog which criticized Lee's judge Belinda Ang Saw Ean for using her judicial office to punish Chee Soon Juan, a Lee Kuan Yew critic, by fining him several hundreds of thousands of dollars, bankrupting him and sending him to jail. And just for writing a blog, mind you I did not go around breaking heads and noses and crashing taxis, my passport was confiscated and I was forced to remain in Singapore for 5 long months and finally sent to jail. The court informed me that I was a flight risk which required their confiscating my passport. Why was not Dalberg, a New Zealander, a flight risk who had just broken some heads and noses and crash a few taxis! Why was my passport held, just for writing a blog, but not his?

I tell you why my passport was held and his was not. I am a Lee Kuan Yew critic and a perennial thorn on his side, and their hope was that if I was sufficiently punished, I would become afraid and would never criticize them again. I think that was where they got it terribly wrong.

And this another perfect example of Singapore legal system selectively using the law; where some are treated leniently and others harshly. In other words you abuse the law as and when you please when the situation calls for it. For the same offense, political opponents and critics are treated one way, important people and government cronies are treated another, and ordinary people are treated yet another way.

I suppose this is another face of the famous Singapore model which goes something like this "Claim you have human rights but deny it anyway, claim you have rule of law but abuse it anyway, claim you have a free press but control it anyway". I suppose in this case it goes like this "Claim you want Dalberg back but allow him to leave anyway".

I am not sure if Dalberg is reading this blog, but if he is, please contact me and I will give you all the help you need. I have good news for Dalberg. Singapore will not succeed in extraditing him, never, I promise you that. In fact criminals all over the world take note. If you commit a crime in Singapore and manage to leave the island, you are one lucky person because Singapore will never manage to extradite anyone. No self respecting country would force any of it's citizens to submit to a country such as this.

In order to extradite anyone, Singapore has to show it has the rule of law. This is where it fails. All over the world, Singapore is known as one country that uses the law for it's political ends.

Lee Kuan Yew's judges such as Belinda Ang Saw Ean routinely use the law as a tool to jail and bankrupt it's citizens who pose a political threat to Singapore strongman Lee Kuan Yew. It's laws and courts favor the rich and connected wile handing out harsh punishments to ordinary Singaporeans.

Singapore permits cruel and unusual punishments prohibited the world over such as beatings (canings) and hangings even for minor offenses. Almost a quarter of Singapore citizens walk around permanently crippled both physically and mentally as a result of enduring the beatings and torture.

All in all for extradition, Singapore will have to show that it's laws comport with internationally accepted norms of civilized behaviour which it cannot do.
Internationally Singapore is a pariah state as far it's laws stand. Therefore no civilized country in the world, of which New Zealand is one, would ever submit any of it's citizens to such brutality shamelessly shown there.

My point is proven just last year in a well publicised case, when Silviu Ionescu, the Romanian diplomat, killed one pedestrian and seriously injured 2 others while driving drunk.

Today he lives safely in Bucaresti, Romania and sticking out his tongue to Singapore and it's goons.

Yes, in his case they did try very hard to have him extradited to Singapore but failed. I understand Ionescu had a very easy time convincing the courts in Romania that Singapore is a pariah state as far as it's laws are concerned and that he would never have a fair trial in Singapore.

In fact Ionescu called me last year as he was reading my blog posts and thanked me for the help it provided in his case.

I am quite sure Dalhberg will never be extradited to Singapore. Neither would he be extradited to North Korea or Burma or Communist China if any of these countries ever wanted him. Countries like these, like Singapore, are known for their brutality shown to their citizens, and their lack of the rule of law.

Gopalan Nair
Attorney at Law
Disbarred from practicing law in Lee's Singapore, imprisoned and refused entry to the island for criticizing Singapore's judiciary in this blog (see blogpost May 29, 2008 Singapore. Judge Belinda Ang's Kangaroo Court)
Actively practicing law in California and in good standing at the California Bar.
Member in good standing as a lawyer in England and Wales (Barrister).
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Singapore. The Indians in our midst

2011-12-31T14:22:00.000-08:00

Ladies and Gentlemen,

In the very near future, the Singapore Indians (mainly Tamils) will become so small a number that they will become a curiosity. In fact they already are.

Lee Kuan Yew Singapore strongman has been successfully over the years very sucessfully turning Singapore into a distinctly tiny Chinese island. He continues, in fact has increased the flood (no pun intended with Singapore literally flooding with water) of Chinese immigrants from Communist China in numbers vastly disproportionate to Singapore's multi racial character. He claims that somehow, Singapore has to maintain at least 75% Chinese population in the island and if there is a shortfall, he brings in even more to keep the numbers up.

In effect all this talk of multi racial society and 4 official languages and so on is just baloney. You already see this happening now. On Singapore English TV and newspapers, you come across large sections of Chinese state controlled official news videos and Chinese programs. Far too often, a non Chinese speaking citizen's viewing is interrupted for long periods when the dialogue suddenly breaks into Chinese during which time, I suppose you can boil the kettle for a cup of tea!

Lee Kuan Yew's Chinazation (making a place into a Chinese one, a word which I made up)of Singapore is not only downright rude and inconsiderate towards Indians, it is down right insulting. Indians and Malays have equal rights (at least they are supposed to have) in the island and they either do not want and are not required to learn Mandarin Chinese. In my case, I rather learn French or Arabic, languages far more pleasant to the ears, depending on your preference. So why should I have to put up with this Chinese sing song when I have no desire to and I need not as well.

But you see, Lee Kuan Yew being that prize rooster strutting around his tiny island chicken coop for the last 52 years, does not care one way or the other what any Malay or Indian thinks. He can and will do anything he wants in his Singapore, at least so far.

But the danger is this. So far at least there has been a modicum of an attempt to give the Indians and Malays a presence in Singapore because of the way the history of Singapore has gone, and because the older politicians are aware of this.

I fear the moment Lee Kuan Yew dies, which is going to happen very soon, given his age of 89 and sickly, there will be chaos, and upheaval, and all sort of demonstrations both peaceful and violent in Singapore and everyone jockeying for power.

At that point of time, the Indians would be far too small and insignificant a section that the Chinese who form the vast majority would, knowing how the Communist Chinese in Singapore think, simply push them aside into oblivion. And so is the fate of the Malays.

Lee has ruined the very foundations of a multi racial Singapore. I simply do not think the Indians and Malays in our midst would stand a chance for anything.

I am hoping that Malaysia and Indonesia who stand to lose a great deal with a Communist Chinese satellite city in Singapore would take some action to correct this dangerous trend.

The Americans are really not in a position to do anything one way or another at that time, since even for them, a Sino Singapore in the midst of Malay South East Asia is not in their interest either.

This is the moment for the Indians and Malays of Singapore to take account of their impending fate. They should stand up now and speak. Or it may, alas, be too late. In my thinking, I don't think Malaysia or Indonesia will allow this to happen. But we can only hope.

Gopalan Nair
Attorney at Law
Disbarred from practicing law in Lee's Singapore, imprisoned and refused entry to the island for criticizing Singapore's judiciary in this blog (see blogpost May 29, 2008 Singapore. Judge Belinda Ang's Kangaroo Court)
Actively practicing law in California and in good standing at the California Bar.
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Singapore. Lee Kuan Yew's China style legal system

2011-12-30T19:53:00.000-08:00

Ladies and Gentlemen,

In Communist China, even though it's laws allows aggrieved persons to file law suits in courts seeking relief, in many instances, not just the litigant but the lawyer too are arrested, tortured and given long sentences for doing just that.

Only yesterday, the BBC reported of a woman lawyer in China having been brutally beaten only for representing villagers whose homes were compulsorily acquired for development. She was also given a long jail term.

In Singapore even though they don't go to this extent, I am sure Lee Kuan Yew would love to if he can. It is an island where you see all the outward trappings of lawyers in black robes dragging along stuffed luggage with books along courtroom corridors looking all solemn and sombre but if you thought even for a moment that these characters actually have the courage to represent anyone in reality, you cannot be more mistaken. They are so afraid of what Lee Kuan Yew would do to them, that their representation of your lawsuit would go only so far as Lee Kuan Yew would tolerate, never mind what any of the law books says.

Let me give you give you a few examples. I remember when I was admitted to the Singapore Bar in 1981, I had to appear before a judge and swear that I would uphold the laws and the Constitution of Singapore. Only later did I realise that in fact if you wanted to succeed at the Singapore Bar and stay out of trouble, that is the last thing in the world you should do.

The underlying principle of English Constitutional law which is supposed to form the basis of Singapore law states 1. the Constitution is the supreme law of the land upon which all other statue laws are enacted. Any law which violates the Constitution is null and void 2. If a law violates the Constitution, for it to be legal, there has to shown a compelling reason such as a grave state emergency or calamity which requires the lifting of that constitutional provision.

If this is what Constitutional means, Singapore has no constitutional law at all. The Singapore Constitution is nothing more than a worthless piece of paper. In fact you could go one step further and say, Singapore has no Constitution at all.

One of the underlying Constitutional provisions is the right to free speech and assembly. But this Constitutional provision is totally worthless because another statute law states exactly the opposite, that you need a permit to make a public speech which, even if one applied for it, it would never be granted. And then if you go on to make that public speech or assemble anyway, you end up as another Chee Soon Juan, arrested and sent to jail.

It is like this with every other aspect of the Constitution. Although the Constitution mandates a free press, it is state controlled. Although the Constitution mandates the right to assemble, you have none. Although the Constitution mandates free trade unions, they are all controlled by the state. Although the Constitution mandates the rule of law, the law is abused by Judges such as Belinda Ang Saw Ean to send innocent citizens like Chee Soon Juan to jail for criticizing Lee Kuan Yew.

Every single lawyer in Singapore makes sure never to raise a Constitutional defense for his client. There is one particular Indian lawyer who claims to defend human rights but he has been successfully marginalized and has lost all his cases. In fact anyone who is in trouble and understands Singapore would never even imagine engaging him. If you did, one look at him by the judge and your case is lost. The judge of course feels that he is pleasing Lee Kuan Yew by finding against this lawyer, because Lee does not like him. 2 years ago, he represented Chee Soon Juan and even had the audacity to cross examine Lee Kuan Yew, something any lawyer in his right mind in Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore would never even dream of doing.

In Singapore despite all the claims of due process and rule of law, in fact there is an established and entrenched unwritten policy of giving preferential treatment for celebrities, important persons and rich foreign businessmen. In fact this policy of unjustly preferring some over others is so entrenched and well known that if you belong to this privileged class, you know beforehand that you can basically do anything you want and get away with it.

You can read for yourself the extensive coverage of this distasteful aspect of Singaporean life in the Internet, and also in these pages.

The Singapore state controlled newspaper Straits Times of Dec 30, 2011 has a story "TV host Quan Yifeng gets probation over row with taxi driver".

It is a case of this recent Chinese woman from Taiwan who is a celebrity Chinese TV host in Singapore who went on a rampage over a taxi driver, breaking his taxi meter, rummaging and destroying his belongings and kicking him and his taxi over an extended period of time.

The normal punishment under Singapore law for this sort of behaviour for any ordinary person is imprisonment in the island's Changi Jail for at least 12 months if not longer.

I think, this woman, like every other resident in the island, knew she could do anything she wanted and get away with it, otherwise she would never have done this.

This is how, Lee Kuan Yew's men do the dirty work in such cases. The lawyer first gets some doctor to put up a false report saying that the woman in question was suffering from depression and other bogus imaginary ailments.

Mind you if a doctor made such false claims in any other ordinary case, he would be arrested and severely disciplined. Not so in cases involving celebrities.

After that the lawyer, usually, an opportunistic government connected fellow like Subhas Anandan in this case, makes these imaginary claims of diminished responsibility and depression and what not, all plucked out of thin air, which the selected judge accepts wholesale, with a wink and a nod.

And the judge then goes on to give a lengthy explanation, a whole load of baloney, that the woman if fact was in a great deal of stress, and blah blah and Viola, she walks away Scot free.

In this particular case Quan not only got away Scot free with probation, she also got to hold a video taped press interview with the state controlled press which was televised on national TV at prime time, looking her TV best with her lawyer by her side, who for his part gave his side of the baloney.

I am attaching the link here of the comical Chinese opera of Lee Kuan Yew's Singaporean law of the woman who got away, yet again: http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/Singapore/Story/STIStory_750129.html

Her lawyer sitting next to her Subhas Anandan is the quintessential Singaporean product, someone with no principles, no self respect or pride and no concern at all whether he cares to see himself in the mirror the next day. A pretty low type of a human being.

You see although he claims to be a criminal lawyer, he is more a sort of a negotiator.

Most of the celebrities and government connected individuals who routinely commit offenses in the island make up his client base.

Having him as a lawyer gives the client an immediate advantage.

He has access and is privy to the inner dealings of the people at the top.

It is like being the personal lawyer of North Korea's great leader.

He can get anything he wants. It is also because, the judge himself is careful not to find against his client since this may indirectly annoy Singapore's great leader Lee Kuan Yew whose man he is.

In general, with the right connections and the proper lawyer, you can spin any story you want, beat up any taxi driver you want, drive drunk anytime you want, create a ruckus anytime you want. And why not, Singapore is yours when you are somebody and on Lee Kuan Yew's side.

I can imagine what punishment I would get if I did what she did! Perhaps being locked up and the key thrown away, not only am I not a Singapore government connected person; what is worse, I am a thorn on their side!

Singapore law is stood on it's head; there is in reality no Constitution; Singapore lawyers are more afraid of their own shadows and Lee Kuan Yew making them unfit to represent anyone in truth.

To live in a country such as Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore, you either have to have no principles whatsoever and just go along for the ride, you should be careful not to express any political opinion and if you have to, only an opinion in support of the government.

There are of course those who have no inkling whatsoever about what in the world I am saying, and for these ignorant people, Singapore is OK too.

But if you did have some pride, some understanding of your rights and some shame under your skin, then stay away from Singapore. You would be ashamed to look at yourself in the mirror if you did.

Some years ago, this so called best Singapore criminal lawyer Subhas Anandan was asked if he would represent political dissidents.

He said he would prepared to defend anyone, murderers, drug traffickers and even terrorists; but please no political dissidents. This rather unsavory character represents the soul of the Singapore legal profession.

Gopalan Nair
Attorney at Law
Disbarred from practicing law in Lee's Singapore, imprisoned and refused entry to the island for criticizing Singapore's judiciary in this blog (see blogpost May 29, 2008 Singapore. Judge Belinda Ang's Kangaroo Court)
Actively practicing law in California and in good standing at the California Bar.
Member in good standing as a lawyer in England and Wales (Barrister).
39737 Paseo Padre Parkway, Suite A1
Fremont, CA 94538, USA
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Singapore. Daily flooding dampens property market and business

2011-12-28T20:01:00.000-08:00

Ladies and Gentlemen,

I am not someone who believes too much in Divine intervention but this time, perhaps it happens. It is happening now in Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore. In the last few months global warming coinciding with higher sea levels and increased rainfall have caused extensive flooding throughout the island almost on a weekly basis if not more.

Orchard Road, the prime shopping district where luxury retail shops abound have been increasingly hit by flooding. Roads there are no longer passable almost every week due to flooding, water floods into stores damaging property in the millions and the luxury apartments in which their millionaires live in the vicinity find themselves imprisoned because of the floodwater's outside, while their expensive cars suffer serious damaged by water in garages.

I understand from information received that this has already started a selling spree among the luxury owners because they fear, quite naturally, that as the effects of global warning continue to heighten, which it must, their luxury homes would be worthless in no time, since it is impossible to live in a place which floods almost everyday.

I also understand that the store owners in Lait Towers and Lucky Plaza in the vicinity housing luxury foreign merchandise, the 2 buildings which have suffered the most damage from repeated flooding, are hurriedly terminating their leases and leaving causing a steep drop in both in prices and rentals.

The flooding is not confined to only Orchard Road; it is island wide. Bukit Tiamh which also has expensive apartments and houses are all selling too and the property market is already on the decline and set to crash.

Lee Kuan Yew, the 89 year old Singapore strongman, who has been strutting around his tiny island in his arrogance for the last 52 years, as if he knows everything is how caught with his pants down. I understand he is in hospital and I can imagine him cursing at his minions accusing them of betraying him by not thinking of flooding when they built all these buildings in his tiny island.

Even if Singaporeans themselves never had the courage to stand up to Lee Kuan Yew and his arrogance, it appears Mother Nature can and will. And this will be the end of Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore. The flooding which now occurs weekly will soon become twice a week, and then thrice a week and then in a few years it will become daily.

And this which is not just probable but an established fact the way the earth is warming, simply means that Singapore is far too small to overcome this phenomenon.

More and more shops will close, more and more people will leave and more and more foreigners will pack up. The property market will collapse, the stock market will collapse and Lee Kuan Yew and his country too will collapse.

I have printed out a copy of the tide tables in Singapore and keeping a lookout on the weather pattern in the island. High tides are jotted down and rainy days are looked at. As and when they coincide, you have another wonderful day of rain and floods galore, around Singapore. It may be fun to watch but not much fun if you were a Lucky Plaza store owner.

Perhaps it is time to sell, take your money and leave for higher ground in Australia.

Gopalan Nair
Attorney at Law
Disbarred from practicing law in Lee's Singapore, imprisoned and refused entry to the island for criticizing Singapore's judiciary in this blog (see blogpost May 29, 2008 Singapore. Judge Belinda Ang's Kangaroo Court)
Actively practicing law in California and in good standing at the California Bar.
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Singapore. One law for elites, another for ordinary men

2011-12-28T18:32:00.000-08:00

Ladies and Gentlemen,

For any country, it's success has to depend on it's rule of law; the moment you lose that respect, you lose everything.

Today, Singapore legal system and it's judiciary stand thoroughly disgraced. Routinely you find the courts treating some preferentially and others harshly.

Foreigners from Western countries and locals in positions of importance or connected to the ruling party are free to commit almost any crime they want and get away with it either without any punishment at all or a mere slap on the wrist.

Ordinary Singaporeans on the other hand face the brunt of the law, many years of imprisonment and brutally beaten (caned) if not also killed by hanging.

Although they won't admit it of course, the reasoning behind this double standards by this cowardly government of Singapore is this; important Westerners and locals in high authority are especially needed in Singapore whereas an ordinary Malay bus driver is of no consequence one way or the other. So you treat these foreigners and elites one way while the local humble Singapore is punished so hard that he will never again dare to misbehave.

The Singapore state controlled newspaper, The New Paper of Dec 21, 2011 has the story "NZ man jumps bail, warrant of arrest issued". It talks about 3 foreign men, a New Zealander, an Australian and an Englishman who got drunk at Suntec City in Singapore, beat up a taxi driver, broke his head and nose and hijacked his taxi and totalled it. This is an offence which carries a jail term of 10 years as well as the beating (caning). Yet, in the case of the New Zealander Robert Stephen Dalberg, 34, the police not only let him go, but even gave him back his passport with a wink and a nod whereupon he promptly headed to Singapore's Changi Airport and took the first flight home!

He has never returned and when his father was contacted about him, he quite rightly said his son won't return and went even further by saying "He was at the wrong place at the wrong time". Quite right indeed.

You can see the special treatment for this man, a New Zealand working as a stockbroker in Singapore. What he did carried a jail term of 10 years and a thorough beating as well but they not only gave him bail, they even returned him his passport and even though Singapore airport is normally alerted in cases such as this, I suppose they even ordered them to let him leave.

On the other hand, Dr. Chee Soon Juan, Singapore Opposition politician, who has a family and his home in Singapore is refused permission to travel because not only that he is not a Western stockbroker, he is also a pain in the neck for the Lee Kuan Yew ruling family in Singapore for his opposition politics.

In my case, you recall, in 2008 I was arrested just for writing a blog post critical of Lee Kuan Yew's judge Belinda Ang Saw Ean for prostituting her judicial office by unjustly punishing Chee, bankrupting him and sending him to jail. While on bail, I had applied twice to court for permission to leave for California to attend to my law practice and return for the trial. True to form, my applications were denied, my passport confiscated and I was forced to remain in the island for a full 6 months without an income while my law practice in California almost folded up due to neglect. What else could I have expected of this morally corrupt regime? Afterall I was a former Singaporean and a known critic of the Lee administration, making me a perfect victim of their law abuse.

Lee Kuan Yew is shooting himself in the foot continuing his policy of treating some one way and some another. Today Singapore law stands disgraced around the world, and this makes it more difficult to attract good people to Singapore and drives Singaporeans embarrassed and outraged by this for settlement abroad. And more importantly, with such a disgraced reputation for the law around the world, it facilitates foreign criminals in Singapore to avoid extradition from their home countries because they can easily argue that they will never get a fair trial in Singapore's Kangaroo legal system.

I wish I was Robert Stephen Dahlberg, 34, this New Zealander's lawyer. I can assure you it would be very easy to argue against extradition to Singapore. All I would have to argue is to produce the disgraceful litany of cases where the law is routinely abused, the unpredictably of their laws and the use of cruel and unusual punishment such as brutal beatings (caning) and unacceptably frequent killings (hanging) even for the most minor offenses. No New Zealand judge would ever order an extradition request by a government such as this. They would, had it been a respectable country such as England, Canada or Germany.

Silviu Ionescu, the Romanian diplomat last year on a drunken driving spree killed a Singaporean and injured several others. In his case too, because he was a foreigner in a top position, he was allowed to leave the country and when Singapore tried to extradite him, he managed to successfully argue against it by raising the defense that Singapore's legal system is disgraced and nothing but a Kangaroo court. And he was right.

Gopalan Nair
Attorney at Law
Disbarred from practicing law in Lee's Singapore, imprisoned and refused entry to the island for criticizing Singapore's judiciary in this blog (see blogpost May 29, 2008 Singapore. Judge Belinda Ang's Kangaroo Court)
Actively practicing law in California and in good standing at the California Bar.
Member in good standing as a lawyer in England and Wales (Barrister).
39737 Paseo Padre Parkway, Suite A1
Fremont, CA 94538, USA
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Singapore Dissident's only concern is Lee Kuan Yew

2011-12-27T20:43:00.000-08:00

Ladies and Gentlemen,

There is a saying, the Nile is Egypt and Egypt is the Nile. Without the Nile, Egypt is dead, because it is nothing but a desert; except for the water from the Nile. Similarly in Singapore one could also say, Singapore is Lee Kuan Yew, and Lee Kuan Yew is Singapore.

In his eagerness and greed to remain in control for the last 52 years, Lee made sure that no one else could even remotely establish a power base. Which is why this blog Singapore Dissident only writes, intentionally and deliberately, about Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew alone, because no one else matters.

I don't think I am wrong in my prediction that with the demise of the 89 year old Singapore leader, Singapore too will collapse, at least for a moment, and out of the chaos, we will hopefully see a new better freer Singapore.

There is of course others such as Tony Tan, Lee's recently handpicked President, Goh Chock Tong, similarly handpicked Senior Minister as are every single one of his sidekicks, who were plucked out of thin air, given important positions overnight to rule over Singaporeans.

None of these characters such as the Singapore President has any power base, or any support from anyone. If they were ever elected into power, it was because Lee wanted them in power. The moment Lee is dead, no one would even take a second glance at minions and opportunists such as these. Tony Tan is a Lee Kuan Yew creation, nothing more and nothing less, and so are every single one of these million dollar opportunists going around holding Lee's tail and crawling at his feet. Simply disgusting.

And once he is dead, it will be chaos. Lee as well as they will just be history.

As for myself, I am living in exciting times. I know any moment now, the old man with all the power will die, and at that instant the fun will begin. When that happens, I would like to see the face of K Shanmugam, his Tamil Minister of Law who obediently says 2 and 2 is 10 anytime his master orders it. What he will do after that, is any one's guess.

I hope I would be amply rewarded when this change happens, which I believe will happen; my reward will be the realization that in some small way, I have contributed to the change and betterment of Singapore. All the provoking and challenging this dictatorship from 1984 up till now which I did, including going to Lee Kuan Yew's prison for calling his judge Belinda Ang Saw Ean a rat which she was, would have been all worthwhile.

At that moment, Gopalan Nair and his adventures in Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore will hopefully be remembered once again. All these blog posts in Singapore Dissident will be read and re-read. And hopefully my travails and adventures in Lee Kuan Yew's prison for criticizing his Judge Belinda Ang Saw Ean, would be remembered too.

And perhaps one day, that illegal conviction and sentence of 3 months jail against me for writing a blog in Singapore would be reversed, my unjust disbarment would be reversed and I will once again visit Singapore, the land of my birth.

If anyone was wondering why I continue harping on this man Lee Kuan Yew, you know the reason why.

Yes, this is an exiting time. Perhaps I will set foot in Singapore again after all, and it may not even be too long away (the reader would know that Singapore has prohibited me from entering the country). If and when that happens, the wise adage that the pen is mightier than the sword would be proven once again.

Gopalan Nair
Attorney at Law
Disbarred from practicing law in Lee's Singapore, imprisoned and refused entry to the island for criticizing Singapore's judiciary in this blog (see blogpost May 29, 2008 Singapore. Judge Belinda Ang's Kangaroo Court)
Actively practicing law in California and in good standing at the California Bar.
Member in good standing as a lawyer in England and Wales (Barrister).
39737 Paseo Padre Parkway, Suite A1
Fremont, CA 94538, USA
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Singapore. What Lee Kuan Yew needs to remain in control is Big Brother

2011-12-26T21:56:00.000-08:00

Ladies and Gentlemen,

George Orwell in his celebrated book 1984 created Big Brother, an ingenious means by which a ruling party can in effect remain in power eternally. I am surprised Lee Kuan Yew in his eagerness to continue his grip over his people, alive or dead, never thought of creating such a system.

Orwell's Big Bother is not a man, it is a concept, an imaginary power like a God who remains in control permanently, regardless of whether the living human dictator lives or dies. Big Brother will always rule, and he does this through his proxies (his ministers) who take their power from this imaginary Big Brother. People are told that Big Bother is in fact alive and watching you every minute, but noone has really seen him or knows for sure that this true.

Every good thing that ever happens to the country is attributed to Big Brother. For instance Big Brother is given credit for creating the aeroplane, even though many in fact know that planes existed even before the creation of the state. It really does not matter what is true or false, all that matters is what the state tells you. And what is most important, the government is always selected from members of Big Brother's party since no other party is allowed to exist anyway.

Big Bother like Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew, constantly rewrites history to make himself look good. This by the way continues to happen in Singapore. For instance, today's Singapore history books refer to Lee Kuan Yew as the father of Singapore which we know is by no means true. While at the same time, others who have made a real impact on Singapore's history such as JB Jeyaretnam, Chee Soon Juan and Lim Chin Siong are carefully obliterated from all the books. If anything is said about them, it is only bad.

Since Lee Kuan Yew has placed his son as Prime Minister and I believe is having daily nightmares, given he is 89 and sickly, as to what the ungrateful Singaporeans will do to his son after he is dead, and will that also include tearing him apart literally limb by limb, would it not be a good idea for him to devise a scheme by which his family will continue in power in eternity, even after he is dead?

But I guess such a scheme is beyond even Lee Kuan Yew and his shenanigans.

It is a little too late now. If he wanted to create the Singaporean version of Big Brother, he should have done it decades ago. Today, with the Internet, Singaporeans are not only mocking him they are packing up and leaving in planeloads. Even if he tried, Singaporeans are not going to bother about the Singaporean Big Bother aka Lee Kuan Yew.

Gopalan Nair
Attorney at Law
Disbarred from practicing law in Lee's Singapore, imprisoned and refused entry to the island for criticizing Singapore's judiciary in this blog (see blogpost May 29, 2008 Singapore. Judge Belinda Ang's Kangaroo Court)
Actively practicing law in California and in good standing at the California Bar.
Member in good standing as a lawyer in England and Wales (Barrister).
39737 Paseo Padre Parkway, Suite A1
Fremont, CA 94538, USA
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Fax: 510 657 6914
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Singapore, North Korea and China, birds of a feather

2011-12-26T20:35:00.000-08:00

Ladies and Gentlemen,

North Korea, Peoples Republic of China and Singapore all have state controlled newspapers, except in Singapore's case, there is also the Internet. All three are also one party states with a supreme ruler each, the Kim family in former, Communist Party chief in China and the Lee family in Singapore.

If given the chance many will escape Korea and China, as well as Singapore. But in Singapore, in the case of emigration, it's people stand at a distinct advantage.

Not many who are aware of their rights would want to live in such an island, a place where Lee pays himself $3.7 million in corruption leaving you helpless to question him; a place where the entire media is nothing but a propaganda sheet and where the law is, with his judges like Belinda Ang Saw Ean, anything he decides it should be to destroy political opposition. The control on society is the same in these 3 countries the difference lying only in it's extent of severity.

But the people of Singapore have 2 real advantages over these others, if they really want to leave. Firstly, because Lee Kuan Yew does not want it to be seen as controlling the freedom of movement of his people, he is unable to place any restrictions on his citizens leaving the country if they wish.

And for the same reason he allows the Internet to exist, except that you are liable to be arrested if you criticize, as in my case in Singapore.

Second, Singaporeans know English, the international language of today, thereby enabling them to leave for countries that welcome immigration such as Canada and Australia.

For North Koreans and the Chinese, their lack of English becomes a serious obstacle. And third, Singaporeans can easily obtain visas for almost any country, whereas for the Chinese and the few North Koreans who are lucky enough to travel, they can only get visas for equally repressive countries like them, such as Singapore.

It is this ease with which Singaporean citizens can leave their country which continues to hurt Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew's plan to perpetuate his rule. If he could, I am sure he would prevent his best and brightest among his population, tiny as it already is, from leaving, but because of how he portrays his island as a free and international city, there is nothing he can do to stop massive migration and brain drain from his shores; why, because native Singaporeans know what the island really is.

I have not read any latest news about the state of native Singaporeans in Singapore but like global warming which continues to go up and will continue to do so, by the minute, and by the day, the numbers of educated and skilled Singaporeans still remaining in Singapore continues to decline steadily and progressively until there won't be any discerning self respecting native Singaporean left in the island.

And this decline is further helped by the increasingly aging population dying off by the day, and as a double or triple whammy, you have a fast disappearing birth rate which is already the lowest in the world.

I am not expecting Lee's state controlled newspapers to give us any bad news as is expectedly always the case in the few remaining one party state authoritarian countries of the world, but I would like to know what the present tally is.

At the rate of the planeloads of Chinese immigrants being brought in to Changi airport by the day, have the foreigners exceeded the native born population yet? What is the rate of emigration from it's shores? How many more native born Singaporean old people have died off lately? And how many children are born and whether are they all the children of foreigners?

Ladies and gentlemen, we are living in very exciting times in Singapore's case. Lee Kuan Yew is 89 years old and dying, if not today, tomorrow. You have almost a totally depleted local born population and almost every single one of them who have come in have done so for the ride.

When Lee dies there is going to be turmoil and upheaval, because he made sure that Singapore's politicians are all scholars and reluctant ones at that, just greenhorns with no other ability or experience other than to pass college exams, and who came in just for the money.

When Lee dies, I expect the investments to begin to flow outwards which would also mean the recent new immigrants would also begin a packing. You know, Singapore is so small a place, it would be impossible for Singapore to weather the storm.

I am dying (not literally, I am not 89, like Lee Kuan Yew) to see what would happen when Singapore's Big Brother goes, what calamity, what commotion, what upheaval? There is going to be some fireworks I can assure you that, both the harmless kind and the other nasty kind as well.

And by the way, where is Lee Kuan Yew anyway? I have not seen him for some time. Don't forget, it is the practice of these other one party state countries like North Korea not to announce their dictators have died, sometimes even for weeks and months. I am not suggesting anything, don't get me wrong. But then, where is Lee Kuan Yew anyway? I simply can't wait for the fun to begin. If all the leaders Lee has are men such Teo Chee Hean, Tin Pei Ling and that sort, we are truly in for some fun, that is, if you are only an observer from California, such as myself.

And to top it all, you have Mother Nature too on the side of freedom, making sure that the floods continue coming in on a daily basis, as if determined to make Orchard Road into Orchard Swimming pool without any further delay.

For one, I have just received information that Changi Beach has very little beach left, with the waterline at high water already up to the tree line near the road. Very soon Runway 02 would also be underwater requiring all pilots to receive certification in sea plane operations.

Gopalan Nair
Attorney at Law
Disbarred from practicing law in Lee's Singapore, imprisoned and refused entry to the island for criticizing Singapore's judiciary in this blog (see blogpost May 29, 2008 Singapore. Judge Belinda Ang's Kangaroo Court)
Actively practicing law in California and in good standing at the California Bar.
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Singapore. A letter from a former Singaporean presently serving with the US Army in Afghanistan

2011-12-25T20:34:00.000-08:00

Ladies and Gentlemen,

The following is an Email I received last month from a serving soldier, US Army Afghanistan. It is both tragic and ironic that a young man such as this, from no fault of his own, a model citizen anywhere in the world, serving his country USA proudly in time of war, is actually a criminal under Singapore law, liable to arrest and imprisonment if he ever steps foot in Singapore for being a national service deserter.

A stupid law. A stupid country.

I have stated his name and his Email address as he wrote to me. He did not express any objections to that.

Gopalan Nair
Attorney at Law
Disbarred from practicing law in Lee's Singapore, imprisoned and refused entry to the island for criticizing Singapore's judiciary in this blog (see blogpost May 29, 2008 Singapore. Judge Belinda Ang's Kangaroo Court)
Actively practicing law in California and in good standing at the California Bar.
Member in good standing as a lawyer in England and Wales (Barrister).
39737 Paseo Padre Parkway, Suite A1
Fremont, CA 94538, USA
Tel: 510 657 6107
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Dear Sir,

NS DEFAULTER/DESERTER

rsmayhall@yahoo.com
November 30, 2011 9:40 AM

I hated typing the above subject line.. It made my stomach curl. The reason being, that I type this email from Balkh, Afghanistan, where I am serving my fourth combat tour as a Non-Commissioned Officer of the United States Army. I am no coward and my eight years of service have far exceeded anything demanded of a typical NS term.

I am an American Citizen born on Singaporean soil; to an American father and a Singaporean mother. I moved to the US as a toddler, but returned to S'pore at the age of eight when my parents underwent a very messy separation. I am a child of two nations. Both great in there own ways, but now I find myself only accepted by one. My crime? I answered a call to war. 9/11 struck me deeply on an intensely personal level.

At age twenty, I left Singapore to enlist as an American Soldier. I have trained, travelled and fought alongside some of the toughest warriors imaginable, against an enemy that is tenacious, devious and virtually undetectable.

....yet part of me still misses the home I left behind. Woodsville Primary, St Gabriel's Secondary and Lasalle SIA are all a part of me. I can still taste the food and picture the sights. I miss the family and many friends I had to leave behind. My fate is doubly ironic as I was once a (very) minor TV celebrity, hosting a few "Kid's Central" series as a teenager. Apparently, they still air from time to time though I'd never again be permitted to return.

My voluntary military contract ends in Mar 2012 and I will be pursuing a BS in International Relations, an interest that was sparked during my service as a liaison to the US Embassy in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. I have every intention of continuing to serve my chosen country. My only regret is that I was forced to chose at all.

In short, Sir, I understand your anguish...because it is my own.

Respectfully,
Staff Sergeant Mayhall, Randall Scott
US Army, Balkh, Afghanistan

Singapore. An Email received from a reader

2011-12-25T20:22:00.000-08:00

Dear Mr Nair,

I had just stumbled upon your blog yesterday and thoroughly enjoyed your posts.

The very last post I read, the one on An Unsingaporean Gopalan Nair, struck a very strong cord with me.

I am just a very insignificant Singaporean, with no great accomplishments to date. But yet, my little insights into the workings of education and housing ministries through the course of my work has left me with great bewilderment at the lack of compassion and lack of real depth of experience amongst our political leaders and policy makers. Sometimes, the solutions are apparent and they pretend they don't know because politically, it is not preferred. Other times, They don't even bother to brainstorm for solutions because they will just follow the precedent set earlier.

Being an earnest and fair-minded person, this has caused me much internal distress. From many moons past, as early as 1998 when I first returned to Singapore after my UK education, I have never gotten used to life in Singapore and the way the groupthink and adult Singaporeans ignore everything else except making money.

Seeking to engage anyone in talking about policies or politics would lead to icy stares and silence.

My own observations of what is happening around us and the need to be concerned has led to my family members chastising me on thinking about abandoning my motherland. All is not rosy abroad, they would remind me.

How I wish I could be the obedient girl that they so wish me to be. But try as I might, my mind refuses to be dumb and I am suffering because if it.

Married to one whom migration is an impossibilty and facing daily struggles to bring up my children, coupled with being a civil servant in name but not at heart, I am very much stuck where I am.

Nevertheless, the purpose of this letter is to tell you that you are not Unsingaporean. You are a true blue son of Singapore, just like those of the Fajar generation in the 50s.

We have sacrificed everything on the altar of economic success. But what you have been advocating is so true. Freedom of speech, an independent judiciary etc. To cite an example, the newspapers recently reported that a man who was unable to pay his rental arrears was locked in his flat as the officers believed the flat was empty. I can tell you that I know why it could have happened, being once their staff. But if I do talk, you can be sure that I will end up in a most pathetic state.

Yet the likes of Ms Tin Pei Ling, who may not be better than me intellectually, academically or in terms of capability are drawing a salary 3 times mine, just by being in the right camp and with the right connections.

I struggle on the periphery, not knowing how to shut up and listen, which I was told is my greatest weakness, but which I believe without which, I would lose myself.

Truly, we were meant to be the lighthouse of the east, but by not developing and helping indigenous Singaporeans take their place in society, we have robbed the sons and daughters of Singapore of their birthright.

Our pioneers would have sacrificed in vain to build a future for their posterity. If, knowing that the state of Singapore would be run like a dictatorship in 200 years, they would have set sail for another destination, not to Sir Stamford Raffles' British Colony which was supposed to be a land of opportunities.

When I think of my future in a Johor nursing home, my heart sinks. When I see trains, malls, parks swamped with Chinese immigrants, I feel displaced. I tear when I think of how much my parents sacrificed to bring me up, hoping and believing that I would have a chance to do well with a degree. But alas, I can't even provide for them as I have a small family to feed and I don't earn enough. If they get sick, our miserly medisave will be insufficient.

When we sell our flats, much of the profit gets put back in the CPF ad lost interest and CPF used. They take the cash component and convert it to CPF interest which would have accrued if we had not bought a flat.

Please keep writing, for perhaps enough true blue Singaporeans can live to tell the tale to those who love their country, those who have a shared history of once being a citizen of this former British Colony and had hoped to make it a brilliant country. Don't languish in jail, like some, who never get to tell the tale.

Be truthful, not vindictive, and I am sure the purpose with which you started your blog will be even more crystal clear as time passes.

best regards,
Miss L (35 years old)

(p.s. Appreciate it if you do not publish my letter with my real name as I can't afford to lose my job :( )

Singapore. A climate change disaster

2011-12-25T19:03:00.000-08:00

Ladies and Gentlemen,

I read today of Singapore's flooding once again. Several parts of Singapore were up to 1 feet underwater after rain including the prime shopping area of Orchard Road. It has already become an occurrence that happens almost every other day, if not daily. A few days ago, Singapore's state controlled newspapers reported of a new policy, which is just simply idiotic nonsense, not surprisingly, requiring new construction of buildings and beaches filled as land fills to be built a few inches higher.

This is Singapore's idiocy at it's highest. To put it in plain language, Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew knows that this time, even if Singaporeans have not done so, Mother Nature has got him by the neck.

You don't have to be a climate scientist to hear what I am about to say. And I am not one anyway.

With higher atmospheric temperature sea water level rises. And in a small island like Singapore which is not more than a few inches above sea level, this is a problem. A 10 year old by will tell you that.

Then there are tidal currents in the sea. When the Moon is aligned above Singapore, which it circles twice a day, gravitational pull of the Moon causes high tide, twice daily. Sometimes there are days when both the Sun and Moon are in line, then gravitational pull becomes even stronger, which means very high tides.

And since there are 2 high tides everyday, there is even the possibility of flooding twice a day, if it so happens that rain coincides with the tide.

Coming back to atmospheric temperature rises, higher temperature means the atmosphere has greater capacity to hold water vapour. So when it rains, it rains even harder, cats and dogs metaphorically speaking. In Singapore it is so hot and so humid that whenever it rains, it as if several Niagara Falls or Victoria Falls are by private agreement, all at once dumping the water over Singapore. Nowhere in the world does it rain so hard like it does in Singapore.

Each time there is high tide, and with rising sea level, the water from the sea rushes up the canals surrounding Singapore inland. With simultaneous massive waterfalls of rain, the rain water cannot be discharged. This is what causes floods. And as each day passes, sea level continues to rise not decline, the atmosphere continues to heat up higher and higher and the intensity of the rainfall continues to increase, more and more. It is a problem which is intensifying day by day and there is nothing, simply nothing that Lee Kuan Yew or anyone in the world can do.

Water in the volumes that pour down on Singapore simply cannot be displaced. You cannot keep it in an underground reservoir. You cannot hold it in an overheat tank. You cannot export it. You cannot send it out to sea. The volume is simply too large. Simply put, there is nothing you can do. When it comes, it will stay, and there is no 2 ways about it.

Coming to the stupidity that this man puts out to us, let us examine it. He says he is going to build on higher ground. But that only means that the water would rush to lower ground which would be flooded even worse. He says beach landfills would now be higher. But is that going to solve the problem of extensive low lying areas of Singapore which continue to be hit, and with his plan hit even worse?

Downtown Singapore and the Orchard Road Area are simply far too low in height and psychics simply tells us that water will find the lowest ground. Unless you demolish all the buildings in the Orchard Road Area and all the business high rise buildings in Raffles Place, relocate the entire population of Singapore and through landfill raise the entire island of Singapore about 5 feet and then rebuild once again, you are simply not going to solve the problem.

Mother Nature has got Lee Kuan Yew this time. All we have to do is to wait. As for me, I have no answers. There is no one in the world with answers. Vanuatu in the Pacific is sinking. The Maldives in the Indian Ocean is sinking. And now Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore is also sinking.

Finally this problem is not something which would have happened if we had democracy, because in democracies alternative views would have told you decades ago that the tyrant has got it wrong again, as all tyrants do always.

I am afraid the Titanic is sinking. If there are life boats left, board them. That is your only hope. Rearranging the proverbial deckchairs now is not going to do you any good.

Gopalan Nair
Attorney at Law
Disbarred from practicing law in Lee's Singapore, imprisoned and refused entry to the island for criticizing Singapore's judiciary in this blog (see blogpost May 29, 2008 Singapore. Judge Belinda Ang's Kangaroo Court)
Actively practicing law in California and in good standing at the California Bar.
Member in good standing as a lawyer in England and Wales (Barrister).
39737 Paseo Padre Parkway, Suite A1
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Singapore. What is 89 year old Lee Kuan Yew doing for his $3.7 million "salary"

2011-12-25T18:10:00.000-08:00

Ladies and Gentlemen,

In any other country that has laws, government ministers like anyone else may get a pension if anything upon retirement, and it is not supposed to be $3.7 million a year at any rate. In Singapore, it is not just a case of the government's open corruption in siphoning off state funds, which in any other country would have rendered them liable to arrest and a long term of imprisonment in light of the huge sums involved; they not only steal it while in office but continue stealing it while retired; which is what 89 year old Lee Kuan Yew is doing!

About a decade ago, he stepped down from his office of Prime Minister and handed it to his son, which meant that in any other country he is supposed to retire. Instead of that, Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore's strongman, plucks out a position out of thin air, calling it Minister Mentor and appointing himself in that, and continues stealing $3.7 million a year for this post which he created himself!

Nowhere in the world is there such an idiotically sounding position as Minister Mentor, let alone a case where it justifies $3.7 million a year, in an island where 1/3 of the people are living at or below the starvation line and daily 2 people commit suicide without fail, by jumping out of their empty high rise apartments, because they have nothing to eat!

Although paying himself and every one of his ministers $3.7 million while he was in office is already a crime, it is an even greater crime taking that money after he is retired, which he is now.

Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew today is not only of no use to anyone, being 89 years of age, and spending most of his time in an out of hospital, he is an fact a huge embarrassment. An embarrassment because he is considered by everyone else except by his minions and cronies in Singapore not only as a thief but also as politician who had lacked that wisdom and foresight to understand that leaving Singapore, which he will do by kicking the bucket sooner than later given his age and health, in it's completely helpless situation without a clear system for change of leadership, is a clear heading for disaster. The way it is now, with all power concentrated in one man, himself, and noone else even daring a squeak, Iraq and Afghanistan today would be seen as peaceful and calm as Lake Placid not far from here, compared to Singapore.

An astute leader with even a rudimentary understanding of human nature would have known that merely building skyscrapers and bringing in hordes of foreigners and millionaire bank thieves from Indonesia would not ensure a smooth transition of leadership in a change of government. A legal system has to be in place where alternative leaders smoothly and seamlessly step into the shoes of the government which continues without upheaval and calamity.

Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew who continues to steal several millions of taxpayers money year after year and calling it a salary is not only a thief, he is also completely lacking in the knowledge of what it takes for peaceful political transition in government.

Unless the people of Singapore can manage to stop this ongoing theft before our very eyes, and do something to bring about a smooth transition of government this very minute, I fear not only that the people's coffers will suffer a serious financial loss, if not already, and with this old sick tyrant's death any minute now, you are going to have island wide upheaval and unrest, which would mean that Singapore as it is today is no more. My only hope is that the interregnum of chaos and upheaval which is inevitable would not also see bloodshed. I am as you know against violence but I fear the worst. Only time will tell.

Gopalan Nair
Attorney at Law
Disbarred from practicing law in Lee's Singapore, imprisoned and refused entry to the island for criticizing Singapore's judiciary in this blog (see blogpost May 29, 2008 Singapore. Judge Belinda Ang's Kangaroo Court)
Actively practicing law in California and in good standing at the California Bar.
Member in good standing as a lawyer in England and Wales (Barrister).
39737 Paseo Padre Parkway, Suite A1
Fremont, CA 94538, USA
Tel: 510 657 6107
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Singapore. Desperate Singaporeans turn to violence. The caged animal syndrome

2011-12-21T21:47:00.000-08:00

Ladies and Gentlemen,

One thing that appears to become alarmingly common in Singapore; unprovoked and unpredictable violence on the increase. Sometime ago, Singaporeans read of one disgruntled citizen, I remember his name as Mr. Yeo, who suddenly went up to his Member of Parliament at a Meet the People Session holding a can of paint thinner or gasoline I am not sure which, deliberately doused him with it, and set him alight, all in plain sight of hundreds of others who were there!

That MP suffered third degree burns and is permanently crippled as a result. He was lucky even to be alive.

A few days ago, I had read of another Singaporean who deliberately rammed his car into a number of police cars, was promptly arrested and jailed.

Several other citizens have sent threatening letters to their Members of Parliament threatening to kill them, all of them having been since arrested and jailed.

Today, the Singapore state controlled newspaper the Straits Times online edition has a story of a taxi driver who deliberately rammed his taxi into a number of other Comfort Delgado taxis and was duly arrested. He too will spend time in jail.

Also today, MP Seng Han Tong made an apology of sorts for publicly stating on a video that the nationwide train breakdown that just happened and the total breakdown of communication to get things right was because Malays and Indians who drove the trains did not speak good English. Seng on the other hand is an ethnic Chinese. But he fails to realize that his English was no better and from my observation, was worse than anyone's I ever met! Hardly intelligible even as English!(MP Seng Han Thong apologizes for SMRT staff comment, Straits Times, Dec 22, 2011). I am sure this has angered so many Indians and Malays that one should not be surprised if someone among them went straight to the nearest Lee Kuan Yew Member of Parliament tomorrow and gave him a real bashing.

Surely any reader can appreciate that this sort of unprovoked spontaneous violence among Singaporeans is similar to the behaviour of caged animals, who you would sometimes see trying to tear down the walls or bars of their cage, or crying out or roaring incessantly. It is obvious they do this because they are so desperate and hopeless in their cages that they react in this sort of unprovoked spontaneous violence in their hopelessness and desperation to get out.

This is what Singapore strongman Lee Kuan Yew fails to understand. If you deny human beings any resort to redress their grievance, they too, like the caged animals at some point, become desperate and hopeless and in their desperation, they lash out any way they can.

Singaporeans as the reader should be very well aware, live no better than caged animals in this sense. They live totally at the mercy of the Lee government and have no means of seeking redress for grievances.

For instance, the Singapore government, in their almighty powers can raise the HDB apartment rents anytime they want regardless of what the people think.

They can increase taxi rental charges and anytime they want regardless of how many lose their livelihoods and families and children suffer.

The courts can send anyone to prison for any amount of time which you cannot question.

The government can racially discriminate against any Malay or Indian which they do daily which again is unassailable.

In other words, you live entirely at the mercy of Lee Kuan Yew and his friends at the top who wield almighty powers over you, leaving you powerless, voiceless, disenfranchised, a piece of garbage, no better than a caged animal.

I am no psychologist but I believe that when man is pushed to the wall this way, they reach a point when they retaliate in unpredictable and sometimes violent ways. Which is what is happening to the average Singaporean, which it appears million dollar man Lee Kuan Yew and his friends do not appear to know.

In Western countries people are given rights and the means to challenge authority when they feel their rights are trammelled upon. This gives them a sense of security and peace of mind, because they know that the moment they are trodden upon by anyone, they have a grievance procedure in place to put the offender in his place. Singapore does not have this. It is a place where each and every one lives under license of Lee Kuan Yew and his friends. This is not the human way. It is the caged animal way, for want of a better description.

As time progresses, since Lee Kuan Yew is determined to think he is God himself, you are going to see more Mr. Yeos pouring gasoline over arrogant Members of Parliament, and bashing police cars for no rime or reason. They have begun to behave like caged animals, hopeless and desperate.

By the way Dr. Chee Soon Juan of the Singapore Democratic Party is a psychologist. The reader could write to him on my prognosis, that of a layman which I am.

Gopalan Nair
Attorney at Law
Disbarred from practicing law in Lee's Singapore, imprisoned and refused entry to the island for criticizing Singapore's judiciary in this blog (see blogpost May 29, 2008 Singapore. Judge Belinda Ang's Kangaroo Court)
Actively practicing law in California and in good standing at the California Bar.
Member in good standing as a lawyer in England and Wales (Barrister).
39737 Paseo Padre Parkway, Suite A1
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The Singapore model

2011-12-21T14:56:00.001-08:00

Ladies and Gentlemen,

World over governments wanting to stay in power through repression now have a new model to follow, "The Singapore model" which roughly goes as follows:

"Claim you have a free press but control the newspapers completely; claim you have the rule of law while making sure judges comply with government orders; claim you have human rights but deny your citizens any; claim you have freedom of speech but sue, bankrupt and imprison anyone who dares to criticize; claim you have freedom of protest and assembly but arrest and jail anyone who publicly assembles or protests; claim you have equality before the law but give special privileges to some but not others; claim all races are equal but Chinese are more equal than others" Singapore strongman Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore Model

Gopalan Nair
Attorney at Law
Disbarred from practicing law in Lee's Singapore and refused entry to the island for criticizing Singapore's judiciary.
Actively practicing law in California and in good standing at the California Bar.
Member in good standing as a lawyer in England and Wales (Barrister).
39737 Paseo Padre Parkway, Suite A1
Fremont, CA 94538, USA
Tel: 510 657 6107
Fax: 510 657 6914
Email: nair.gopalan@yahoo.com
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Singapore. Double lives.

2011-12-20T18:39:00.000-08:00

Ladies and Gentlemen,

The amazing dexterity of Singaporeans to live double lives is unparalleled. Many Singaporeans are upset about the repressive laws in the island; the lack of a free press, the lack of human rights or the inability to organize protests upset many.

They are bitter about being completely helpless, at the total mercy of the Lee Kuan Yew family that run the island. Yet up till now, there is hardly anyone who has publicly stood up to complain, to protest or to scream to high Heaven demanding justice, except of course Chee Soon Juan who has paid dearly for his actions.

The other Singaporeans (other than Chee Soon Juan) all live their double lives, publicly pretending that all is well, out of fear or opportunity serving Lee Kuan Yew, but inside bursting for justice and change.

You have a judicial system without jury trials and with judges appointed by the government, hand-picked for their willingness to be compliant.

As a victim of a judicial decision which is clearly unjust, in any other country, if all else fails, you can at least show your displeasure by standing outside the court with a placard reading "Unfair". It may not be much but at least you are allowed that.

But in Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore even that is disallowed because even a single peaceful protester is liable to arrest and imprisonment under his law, even though you have not even harmed a fly.

Although a Singapore judge clearly and publicly abuses the law, any criticism also renders you liable to arrest and imprisonment. In Lee's island you respect the judge no matter what, even if they openly punish you for nothing.

On a daily basis every single government agency abuses their rules to prefer the Chinese over others, government cronies over others, Chinese students over others with total impunity. You face the same injustice in jobs, careers and opportunities, all denied you but given to the select few. Yet the poor victim is left with no recourse whatsoever. Any legal action against the government is bound to fail without more not to mention being prohibitively expensive because Lee and his friends always win in Lee's Singapore.

In any other country he could have turned to the newspapers to tell his story but not in Singapore because all newspapers are state controlled. They are under specific orders not to write anything averse to the government or which shows them in bad light.

In the end poor victim is completely powerless. Government agencies discriminate against him, the courts deny him justice, the newspapers deny him publicity and he is even prevented from telling the world of the injustice by arresting him under the Public Order Act if he just stood at a street corner completely peacefully holding a small harmless placard!

Living in Singapore under Lee Kuan Yew is to wake up everyday and realize there is nothing you can do about anything. You have no choice but to simply accept anything dished out at you, right or wrong, because Lee Kuan Yew is in every sense boss and you are his slave. In his perverted way of thinking, you should consider yourself lucky as you are not in Zimbabwe.

Frankly I am surprised that up till now Singaporeans have accepted this disgraceful life of a slave. But I don't think this calm is going to last much longer.

Singaporeans have an advantage over others. They can travel wherever they want, and Lee is unable to lock them up in their island as are North Koreans.

Passports are readily available, young Singaporeans unlike unlike in other repressive countries, are able to travel abroad as and when they please and observe alternative lifestyles and thinking; the Singapore passport being welcome almost anywhere.

They can see the Occupy Wall street protesters and protesters elsewhere. They can see there is nothing morally wrong with it, although Lee Kuan Yew, for his own personal benefit may declare this illegal. One becomes wiser through observation. No matter what laws Lee continues to enact which he does at will, when common sense tells you that some thing is not a crime, even a million legal enactments will not make it so.

Many young Singaporeans are constrained from publicly protesting because their parents are beholden to Lee Kuan Yew and therefore they fear, protests by their children would harm their careers.

Even though this may be true in many cases, you cannot deny that there are 5 million Singaporeans out of which about a half of them are native born. Even if the foreigners and recent immigrants could care less about these things as long as they make a buck, the native born or at least some of them would see the need to rebel and would sooner or later publicly demand change.

Although there is the Speakers Corner in a area where there are hardly any passers by, which is legal for peaceful protest, no one in their right mind would even consider using it for protests because firstly it is at a location which no one takes any notice, and secondly, if you had an issue with Lee Kuan Yew who lives at Oxley Road, it makes no sense to stand 10 miles away at Speakers Corner to complain.

Protests are going to happen sooner if not later, I am sure, and when that happens Lee Kuan Yew is in a very dangerous position. Singapore is one of the most crowded places in the world and a protest anywhere is likely to create more protests throughout the island, since every single action you take is observed by a thousand other people that instant. And the island being so tiny, news of it would spread across its length and breath in half an hour.

Lee Kuan Yew knows the grave danger his government faces in the face of protests which is why, only a year ago, he passed an amendment to the Public Order Act which makes even a single peaceful protester liable to arrest. That fact alone tells me that Lee Kuan Yew has a mortal visceral fear of it, which he knows would be his end, because he has laws in the island which do not stand up to muster, either moral or common sense.

For the moment Singaporeans live their double chameleon lives, but looking at them and the way they are, educated and well travelled, I don't think they would continue this way for much longer. So Lee better brace up. His time of running the island his merry way may be up sooner than later.

Gopalan Nair
Attorney at Law
Disbarred from practicing law in Lee's Singapore and refused entry to the island for criticizing Singapore's judiciary.
Actively practicing law in California and in good standing at the California Bar.
Member in good standing as a lawyer in England and Wales (Barrister).
39737 Paseo Padre Parkway, Suite A1
Fremont, CA 94538, USA
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Singapore's "great" lawyer Davinder Singh debunked

2011-12-18T14:57:00.000-08:00

Edited Dec 18, 2011, 1840 hrs Pacific Standard time

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Singapore's state controlled newspaper the Straits Times online edition of Dec 6, 2011 has the story "Singapore senior counsel Davinder Singh scores a first". But the "first" which he appears to have scored would instead be a badge of shame for a lawyer anywhere else other than Singapore.

Davinder Singh has risen to prominence in Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore for having never lost a case in all the cases, defamation of character to be exact, that he has argued before his client's (Lee Kuan Yew) judges in Singapore.

For those who are not yet privy to the goings on in the legal scene in that island, let me explain. The phrase "Kangaroo courts" could not be better described by any other courts in the world other than Singapore.

Instead of rule of law which the Constitution requires, it is rule of Lee Kuan Yew in his courts and every single judge sits there at his pleasure and removable and punished if ever they dare to decide against him in any case he brings. And the cases he brings are the defamation of character type.

In other words every time someone who either had the courage or the stupidity, depending on which way you look at it, to criticize him in his island, as I had to learn it the painful way by spending 3 months in prison there for criticizing his judges, he would sue that person, and his lawyer of choice is this turbaned Indian Davinder Singh.

Since the judge is already prepared to do anything that he wants to please Lee Kuan Yew even before he steps into the courtroom, Singh's efforts are more perfunctory than any real legal work. If he argued that the the Moon was made of cheese, that too would probably be accepted as law.

Since Lee is supposed to win no matter what, one begins to wonder why spend all that time and effort going through the motions of examination and cross examination and instead, like the Queen Rabbit suggested in the trial of the stolen tart in Alice in Wonderland, why not proceed to with the judgement first, then hear the evidence!

I think you get the gist of what I am trying to describe are Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore courts and what this man Davinder Singh and his "accomplishments" are.

Coming back to this newspaper article, it describes how this man has recently represented the Sultan of Brunei in a case which involved the question of the Sultan having the power to summarily dismiss any army officer in the Brunei Armed Forces he did not like instead of having to follow due process of law as in any other democracy's courts martial.

The Sultan of Brunei is a despot no better than Lee Kuan Yew in Singapore who runs roughshod over his people who so far have accepted any nonsense from him just because he throws money at them.

So representing this Brunei tyrant to run roughshod over his army officers without due process was not in any sense a cause worth representing in the first place, and there is no honor at all in such as case, in fact it is an absolute disgrace.

In the past, the Sultan of Brunei with all his money used to fly in top English barristers to argue for him but I suspect in this case, the barristers themselves had seen the total lack of merit in the Sultan's attempt to deny his officers any possibility of defending themselves as a cause which is so unworthy that it would mar their legal reputation to do it; so they refused the brief even though highly paid.

So as the Sultan is left without his usual lawyers, who else to turn to than to the likes of this turbaned Indian Sikh who would be prepared to do anything for money, having achieved his "reputation" as the Singpaore dictator's lawyer.

And the Straits Times , Singapore strongman Lee Kuan Yew's mouthpiece trumpets this representation of the Brunei Sultan in a totally unmeritorius case as "a first"!

Davinder Singh by this has not created any "first" at all. If it is a first, it is the first time that we see in Singapore's history, a thoroughly unscrupulous character who has achieved fame by repeatedly harming his fellow Singaporeans who have stood up for freedom, such as JB Jeyaretanm and today Dr. Chee Soon Juan, both of whom, thanks to him have been repeatedly jailed, impoverished and bankrupted not because the law says so but because his client Lee Kuan Yew wants them to be destroyed.

And now he continues on this long career of dirty work by arguing that in this day and age, 2011, it is quite acceptable for the Sultan of Brunei to strut around like a prize rooster in his tiny Brunei and dismiss any army officer without any due process of law.

In fact Davinder Singh, if he tried to be admitted to any other legal profession in any other democracy would be disciplined and disbarred because a lawyer should not represent a client when he knows that client's case has no merit whatsoever.

Davinder Singh has blood on his hands. I suppose as long as Lee Kuan Yew his benefactor and client who runs the show in Singapore is still alive, he will continue to prosper at the bar doing his "brilliant" legal work.

After his 89 year old sickly dictator kicks the bucket which is going to happen any time soon, as to what happens to him after that, your guess is as good as mine. You see, sooner or later each one of us is held accountable to our actions.

Gopalan Nair
Attorney at Law
Disbarred from practicing law in Lee's Singapore and refused entry to the island for criticizing Singapore's judiciary.
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Singapore's unintelligible biligualism.

2011-12-17T21:57:00.000-08:00

Ladies and Gentlemen,

I was reading Singapore's state controlled newspaper the Straits Times article of Dec 18, 2011 headed "Public inquiry to look into MRT (subway train system) breakdowns: PM Lee". The article which also had a video in which Lee Kuan Yew's son whom he appointed Prime Minister was explaining to a bunch of reporters that he was sorry that all these trains have been continously breaking down without fail all over the island and that he was going to hold a public inquiry about it.

During the interview, Lee Kuan Yew's son had initially started out answering questions in English, which by the way I obviously understand, but to a question that was put to him in Mandarin Chinese he suddenly switched to it, and for several questions thereafter continued in Chinese, which language I do not understand, quite obviously since I am an Indian Singaporean by birth and neither my parents, nor myself, did not see the need or the urgency to study it. I had studied Tamil in school as was expected of most immigrants from Southern India like my parents and Mandarin Chinese never came into the equation, for someone like me with a darker compexion rather than yellow, a straight nose, more facial and bodily hair and bigger eyes, features which distinguish Indians from the Chinese.

Watching this video of Lee Kuan Yew's son speaking and turning from one language to another, English to Chinese and back again, creates many difficulties which must be obvious to anyone. First of all, the newspaper that published this video was an English Language newspaper, not a Mandarin newspaper, so why in Heaven's is it using Chinese when it's readership is supposed to be English.

Second, does Lee Kuan Yew's son realize that Singapore consists of not only Mandarin speaking Chinese but also Indians and Malays the vast majority of whom had no idea one way or another what he was saying for half the time in that video in Mandarin Chinese.

Is this not inconveniencing the other sections of Singapore citizens who are not required to understand Mandarin Chinese and even if they could have no desire to embark on that language anyway, who therefore are kept in the dark as to all that he said in Chinese to his Chinese audience in the English newspaper.

To go one step further does this not disenfranchise the entire Malay and Indian community in Singapore, equal citizens under the Constitution, to second class status, because the Chinese including Lee Kuan Yew's son can say anything behind their back?

Third we see this happening only among the Chinese like Lee Kuan Yew's son. However I have never seen this sort of thing happening among the Malays or Indians in Singapore. For instance there has never been a single occasion, to the best of the time I have following these Singaporean curiosities, for K Shanmugam, Lee Kuan Yew's handpicked Tamil Minister for law, suddenly breaking into Tamil for my benefit, since I understand it very well, while speaking to Singapore reporters for a video on the need for law to arrest anyone who dares to accuse Lee's judges of corruption even though we all know they are.

Surely if we are going to be fair to all, the Chinese population of Singapore should equally be inconvenienced occasionally by having to listen to a Tamil speech in the midst of an English one in a Straits times video by or our Tamil Minister for Law K Shanmugam or a Malay Minister to suddenly break into polished Malay, so that the poor Chinese are left wondering what in the world was all that about!

And then again if Lee Kuan Yew's son is going about in Mandarin Chinese, giving instructions and orders about which the Tamil or Malay listener would have no clue about, is he not trying to imply that all you need to know in Singapore is Mandarin Chinese and no other. If so, what about official business? Will the Singapore law courts and their Kangaroo judges now accept legal arguments and court filings in Chinese and what about the numerous Indian lawyers who ply their trade in Lee's courts? Are they now required to take a speed course in Mandarin Chinese language and mannerisms in the event their Chinese opponent suddently breaks into Mandarin? And considering the other races, can an Indian lawyer stand up and address the court in perfect Tamil and would Belinda Ang Saw Ean, Lee Kuan Yew's judge who punished Chee Soon Juan for being a troublemaker in the Singaporean sense, a Chinese woman be comfortable with that?

Frankly the whole thing about language in Singapore, just as you see the arrogance and at the same time stupidity of this one party state dictatorship, simply is skewed, and nonsensical. If English or a perverted form of it that is spoken in Singapore is supposed to be the language of business, then you should say so. And saying it, English newspapers should only have English in it, including their videos, and the Chinese newspapers, which I cannot read and don't intend to, should only be in Chinese.

And Lee Kuan Yew's son should be told that he should stick to English in an English newspaper because we are not interested in his fluency in Mandarin Chinese. After all he is Chinese anyway and knowing it gives him no great credit. If showing off is what he trying to do, then speak to me in Tamil and I will be impressed. Otherwise stick to your English in an English newspaper and don't leave men like us, who are neither Chinese nor have any desire to learn it, nonplussed, flummoxed and waiting for the Chinese portion of the speech to be over. And then wondering what in Heaven's have I missed.

And if you are determined to continue in this unintelligible bilingualism policy, then let us hear Lee Kuan Yew's hand picked Tamil Minister for Law, K Shanmugam break into Tamil once in a while. Surely sauce for the good should also be for the gander.

Gopalan Nair
Attorney at Law
Disbarred from practicing law in Lee's Singapore and refused entry to the island for criticizing Singapore's judiciary.
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Singapore. Lee Kuan Yew, America's perfect son

2011-12-13T20:01:00.000-08:00

Ladies and Gentlemen,

American foreign policy alas, is something I am not very proud about but understandable nevertheless. Ultimately we see that for all the talk of human rights and liberty that America claims to cherish, it is always quite another tune when it comes to foreign policy, which is, whatever needs to be done in America's interest goes. Human rights and such highfalutin things are really always secondary.

I remember when Hilary Clinton had not too long ago planning to go to China for talks when a journalist asked her if she would press human rights and the case of the Dalai Lama. Her answer was not unexpected. She said that human rights was on the list of matters to discuss, but not necessarily at the top. We also have to consider she said, the growing trade between the US and China.

Afghanistan is one of the poorest countries in the world, the life expediency there is less than 40 years old, it has the highest rates of illiteracy and one in every 4 children or so never reach the age of 5. And what is particularly important is the fact there is no oil in Afghanistan! So why in Heaven's is America spending billions every month if not every day to keep the war going on there? The only reason I can think of is the fact that they made a mistake having sent troops there in the first place and once they began taking casualties, it was a question of pride which prevents them from just pulling out.

And recently Obama has declared that he is going to withdraw the troops by 2014. Is this not a striking reminder of what they did in Vietnam? The fact is, just as in Vietnam, they are now certain they have lost the war. So what better way to find a way out of this mess and calling it something else than a defeat. Which is exactly what they did in Vietnam. There they knew the war was lost. So in 1973 they claim to train the Vietnamese army to fight the Vietcong, reach some sort of an armistice in Paris and graciously pull out. When their Vietnamese army were soon roundly defeated by the Vietcong in 1975, they could cleverly say that it was not they who lost but the Vietnamese army, who they trained the best they can. So it was not a defeat of the US Army at all but a defeat of the Vietnamese Army.

They seems to be planning the same thing for Afghanistan. They know they have no chance to win. They simply cannot take on the Taliban. So what does Obama do? He does the same as what they did in Vietnam. He says he is training the Afghan army and the US is pulling out all troops by 2014. So when the Afghan army is routed by the Taliban a few years after 2014, which we know will happen, the Americans will sing the same tune they sang in Vietnam. "We did all we could. We trained the Afghan army as best we can. It is not our fault they were defeated. You have to blame the Afghan army."

Coming to Lee Kuan Yew, I read he was awarded the Lincoln medal recently by the Americans. I tell you, the Americans would be prepared to shower every medal possible that is available out there on Lee Kuan Yew; why, because Lee Kuan Yew is good for American business, and that is frankly the bottom line of it all. Human rights does not matter, nothing else matters.

Some other dictators come to mind. Mobutu Sese Seku, or formerly Joseph Mobutu was the Belgian Congolese leader who in 1965, was resisting Patrice Lumumba who had leanings to the Soviet Union. The Americans and the French not only propped up Mobutu even though he was the biggest thief imaginable, they also helped to murder Lumumba, all because Mobutu was in the American interest. And not just that throughout Mobutu's corrupt rule, he was protected by the French and Belgian armies each time there was threat to his government.

Then you have medals upon medals bestowed upon the late Shah of Iran and the overthrow of Iran's true democratic leader Mossadeq in 1954. And then you have every other tyrant and dictator in Latin America who are all propped up because they are pleasing to American business and the elimination of perfectly honest leaders such as Salvatore Allende of Chile who thought it right that workers should be given their fair share.

It is not that the State Department or rather the CIA is not aware that Lee Kuan Yew is a ruthless dictator, of course they know this. But it so happens that Lee Kuan Yew is a good friend of America which means it is good for American business. So of course Lee Kuan yew gets the medals, and it should be no surprise to anyone.

In the past there was a saying about British Prime Minister Margaret Thather that she was so obedient to the American President Ronald Reagan that if Reagan were to ask Thather to jump, her question would be "How high"! I think the same can be said of 89 year old Lee Kuan Yew. If Obama were to ask Lee to jump, he would similarly ask "How high", that is if he still can with this wobbly legs.

Gopalan Nair
Attorney at Law
Disbarred from practicing law in Lee's Singapore and refused entry to the island for criticizing Singapore's judiciary.
Actively practicing law in California and in good standing at the California Bar.
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Singapore. The problem with dictatorships

2011-12-13T17:59:00.000-08:00

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Any student of politics and history will not fail to see one recurring undeniable result, which is, when the dictator dies, the regime crumbles, followed by an interval of uncertainly and chaos until such time as another dictator comes along and the same stop start process trudges along, but on one certain trajectory, which is on the decline, not upwards. Eventually in the long run the country descends into another basket case, another banana republic.

Singapore is one classic example of a fascist dictatorship with the dictator, who is already either 89 or 88 depending on whom you ask, just about to kick the bucket. And if history is anything to go by, we are quite certain to see that expected chaos and collapse as we have seen so often elsewhere.

And these dire consequences are magnified multi fold in the case of Singapore being just a small overcrowded island with a tiny population, insufficient to provide any buffer, as opposed to a large country such as Russia, against the impending chaos on the demise of the dictator.

The fragility of all dictatorships are these. Firstly all dictatorships never had any real leaders other than the dictator himself. In the case of Nazi Germany, you had that supreme leader Adolf Hitler and everyone else who forms the government with him are merely bootlickers and sycophants who please him and in return are given positions of authority.

If Hitler had others with him who were leaders with ideas of their own, he would never have sent troops into demilitarized Rhineland against the Treaty of Versailles, and even if he did, he would have stopped there. German troops would never have marched into Austria, Czechoslovakia would never haven been occupied, they would never have bombed Poland and the war would have been averted and millions of lives saved. Hitler just like Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew thought he knew everything and no one else know's anything, and this is what becomes of arrogance such as this.

You see the same in Singapore, with every single government minister hand picked by Lee Kuan Yew for their abilities as academics, not their ability as leaders which they have none, and the irony is they never did aspire for leadership either. All of them are merely opportunists who considered themselves very lucky for having been chosen by Lee Kuan Yew for political positions of authority and the consequent good life that comes with it, not to mention a salary of $3.7 million a year!

Secondly if Singapore had any political philosophy of it's own, it has to be that of Lee Kuan Yew. And Lee Kuan Yew's philosophy if I can guess is this. You try to bribe (or in Lee's euphemism, "pay") citizens to work for you by paying them each $3.7 million each as salary a year. In this way, because of the huge windfall of money which you receive through your entire career, the chosen opportunists will sing any tune, and say anything which Lee Kuan Yew demands. In the end the only thinking in the entire country is how Lee Kuan Yew thinks and this is enabled by the state controlled media which will only publish the government line.

And sadly the government line of thought in not something anyone should be proud of. It requires everyone to be self reliant or otherwise starve (no social security for the needy), it requires known government critics such as Chee Soon Juan to be relentlessly persecuted and punished just because he has contrary views, it requires former Singaporeans like myself who write blogposts unflattering of Lee to be imprisoned if he is caught and prohibited from ever entering Singapore, and every other disgraceful practice you can think of.

The result of this shutting out every other way of thinking other than what Lee thinks, results in a dearth of alternative thought. We all know that no one can be right all the time, or even most of the time, which is why democracies encourage alternative ideas because society progresses by this. Denying any form of alternative thinking denies the entire country of a valuable necessary asset resulting in it's going from one calamity to the next.

The next point is this. No government can openly abuse it's powers and expect never to be held accountable. Lee Kuan Yew's policies are openly and blatantly illegal in fundamental aspects and he stays in power momentarily only because Singaporeans presently are afraid to resist.

For instance paying each of themselves $3.7 million a year and calling this a salary is clearly unacceptable anywhere in the world as well as in Singapore although strangely the people are not now up in arms against this. But it does not mean that such corruption is excused. You only have to wait for that oppurtune moment, as when the dictator is no more, when the people will demand an explanation.

Second the muzzling of the entire media and turning it into a propaganda sheet is also unacceptable anywhere in the world although strangely for the moment Singaporeans are not protesting. But again it does not mean that such abuse of authority is excused. You only have to wait for that opportune moment, as when the dictator is no more, when the people will demand an explanation.

Using the courts though corrupt judges such as Belinda Ang Saw Ean to punish innocent Singaporeans who resist is also blatantly wrong and something that is unacceptable anywhere in the world but strangely in Singapore they remain silent. These are only a few of the numerous illegal practices used by Lee which is wrong and unacceptable now or in the future.

The result of this sort of misuse of power is that when the dictator goes, these abuses of power, which is never forgotten by the people suddenly come to the surface to haunt these former Lee Kuan Yew minions. All of a sudden the minions who so far had it so good, and seek control have either to continue these illegal practices against the peoples' wishes or flee for their lives.If they stay, in the event of resistance they would have no choice but to use violent methods against their own people which usually does not work.

With the death of the dictator, there is a void in the leadership since every single one in Lee's government are all merely opportunists and bootlickers who never had any real power base of their own.

If for the moment, people listen to them, it is because they have to, since their power comes not from within themselves but through the dictator who has placed them there. Once the dictator dies, these minions with no longer any power of their own would have to disperse and disappear as fast as they can or seek power with the serious consequences that may follow.

If there is foreign investment in Singapore, it is because Lee has been and is there. As investment dollars do not necessarily chose democracies to invest but places that have the most stability regardless of how corrupt and dishonest the governments are, Lee has been that stabilizing factor which enables investment. With his death, there will no longer be stability, which means investments are unsafe, which means a run on the banks and a flood of investment money out of Singapore.

Almost half if not the majority of Singaporeans are recent immigrants mainly from Communist China who have come to make a living, not necessarily to make a home. Unstable countries are unsuitable places to make a living which means, you would have a flood of these Communist Chinese on their way out to Guanzou and Chendu, Communist China. The same with every other recently arrived immigrant, all heading home to their various impoverished Asian countries.

And with that you have every other calamity imaginable, offshore banking disappearing, money launderers leaving, Burmese drug lords packing up, and Casinos closing. You know the rest.

Of course Lee Kuan Yew's son, whom his father appointed as Prime Minister might decide to get tough and crack the whip by calling out the army to try to maintain order. If he does that, it will only exasperate the already worsening situation because even more Singaporeans and foreigners will leave and Singapore would be empty not only of people but money as well.

This gloomy scenario would never happen if we had a vibrant democracy with everyone given a chance to further their views and vie for power. But with Lee Kuan Yew's shortsightedness, avarice and stupidity, we can only expect the worst sort of gloom over the horizon.

But for people like me who live abroad and see Singapore from the outside, all I can say is "I told you so". All there is to do now is to wait for the fun to begin when Lee Kuan Yew kicks that bucket, which we all know is expected very soon.

Gopalan Nair
Attorney at Law
Disbarred from practicing law in Lee's Singapore and refused entry to the island for criticizing Singapore's judiciary.
Actively practicing law in California and in good standing at the California Bar.
Member in good standing as a lawyer in England and Wales (Barrister).
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Singapore's opposition blog "Temasek Revealed" reports "Lee Kuan Yew very sick and admitted to hospital"

2011-12-11T19:18:00.001-08:00

12/11/2011/last para edited

Ladies and Gentlemen,

I have just received information on a Singapore opposition blog which reports that Singapore strongman Lee Kuan Yew has been admitted to an unnamed hospital very sick, http://temasekrevealed.blogspot.com/2011/12/rumor-lee-kuan-yew-is-very-sick-now.html.

This would come either as good news or bad news depending on the way you look. Of course for those sycophants and bootlickers who hang around him singing praises and propping lee's dictatorship in return for millions of dollars or $3.7 million a year each to be exact, this would come as bad news indeed. Their leader and benefactor who hands out largess for doing his bidding may be no more, and so goes their golden spoon of lifelong luxury.

As for the opposition by which I mean Dr. Chee Soon Juan and his courageous friends who are pushing on despite all odds, it is good news indeed. Why, because Singapore as it is under Lee Kuan Yew with a few loyal bootlickers running the show is not a viable model long term, certainly not for an island state which is presumably sophisticated and intelligent. The only reason why they have lasted so long is simply because Lee has been careful not to go overboard with his repression, as there are no shootings such as in Iran and DRC Congo.

If Singaporeans have tolerated the abuse of the law to silence dissent, muzzling the media and outlawing any form of dissent, it is because the bulk of Singapore citizenry may not be as educated to understand these concepts, but it is undeniable that there are also the large swathe of highly discerning citizens who consider all these repressive policies totally unacceptable. This time, if Lee dies dies we will see their ascent and appearance demanding justice.

If Lee were to die now, he will be doing it at a very bad time. The European economy and the American economy upon which Singapore is almost totally reliant is presently on very shaky ground. If Lee were to go, and they were contemplating pulling out of Singapore during these hard times, what better excuse to give than to say Singapore is unstable, because any stability so far in Singapore is today rightly or wrongly attributed to Lee's presence.

I would direct the reader to the faux paus, which I wrote earlier in this blog claiming Lee had a serious heart attack and was admitted to hospital. It was false but I deliberately wrote it to test the water if that were to happen. I was told there there was great uncertainty in the Singapore economy and in fact the stock market had even dropped slightly as a result. The next day, to ally the fears of the Singapore public, the Singapore Prime Minister's Office put out a report that Lee Kuan Yew was alive and well and was in London England, whether this was true or not is any one's guess. The next day, the Lee Kuan Yew government being so outraged by my having put out this false alarm, Minister Liu Tuck Yew went to Singapore Parliament to condemn my action and stated that the Singapore government would not officially respond, because according to him "I should be treated with the contempt I deserve". Frankly I failed to understand his remark, since his publicly referring to me in Parliament was, I thought, a government condemnation of my actions. But I guess, when you are above the law and invincible in Lee Kuan Yew's government, you can say anything silly and still get away with it. After all you are not accountable to anyone except Lee Kuan Yew.

But the point I am making here is this. If indeed Lee Kuan Yew were to kick the bucket, which by all signals, is going to happen very soon, I believe Singapore would the very next minute become completely unstable and by comparison, Iraq would be a bastion of stability. Why, because foreign investment would begin to flow out like the vast Amazon river; foreign companies will close shop; money launderers who have their money in the island will pull them out; the brain drain which is alredy large will become even larger; Chee Soon Juan and his friends will think it safe enough to organize nationwide peaceful protests; and there will be born the Arab Spring, no the Singapore Spring.

K Shanmugam, the Singapore Minister for Law, the Tamil bootlicker who hangs around Lee Kuan Yew for the goodies he throws at him would probably be packing and moving off to Tamil Nadu, India to be among the others who look like him, and hoping that those demanding vengeance would not be searching for him in that Tamil city. Lee Kuan Yew's son, whose father is no longer around to give him the support and protection he needs would probably be in Beijing China because had he gone to any other European or American city, his actions would begin to haunt him through demands for justice in those countries, as Europeans and Americans are not docile Singaporeans.

Lee's compliant judge Belinda Ang Saw Ean who so shamelessly abuses the law in Singapore under her master Lee's protection, would now be wondering where in the world could she go and be safe. In her case the only country where she would probably be safe is again China.

Yes, many things are going to happen. Lee Kuan Yew is a staggering 89 years old and at this age, it is customary for people to die, and there is nothing unusual about that.

My only hope is that Singapore will not suffer too much upheaval if Lee were to go, that they would soon recover and would rise from the ashes, like a Sphinx, from the dictatorship as a new democratic Singapore like Spain which rose to democracy eventually from the demise of Franco.

Gopalan Nair
Attorney at Law
Disbarred from practicing law in Lee's Singapore and refused entry to the island for criticizing Singapore's judiciary.
Actively practicing law in California and in good standing at the California Bar.
Member in good standing as a lawyer in England and Wales (Barrister).
39737 Paseo Padre Parkway, Suite A1
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Singapore. Lee Kuan Yew's one party state and groupthink.

2011-12-10T20:21:00.000-08:00

Ladies and Gentlemen,

I suppose, a summary of Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore government politics can be summarized this way. It is perfectly all right for Lee and his family members and those of his government to pay themselves $3.7 million a year or 5 times the salary of the President of the United States. In Singapore government thinking, this is not corruption but a lawful salary.

Singapore has no independent press or media, which is controlled by the government. In Singaporean thinking, even though the state Constitution mandates a free press, it is not wrong to control the entire media.

Singaporeans have no right to peacefully criticize, protest or challenge government policies. If you do any of this in Singapore, you will be arrested, sued and/or imprisoned. You will suffer any one or more of these punishments as the government decides.

Although the state constitution mandates an independent judiciary and the rule of law, Singapore judges are not independent and take and comply with orders from Lee and his government to destroy political opposition, as and when they are so ordered.

Lee's police arrest suspected individuals and deny them legal representation until a confession is obtained under duress and coercion and thereafter releasing him to engage counsel which effectively prevents him any real ability to defend himself. This is despite the fact that the state Constitution mandates due process of law.

With the police, the law courts and the media all effectively state controlled, any real political opposition is impossible since anyone contemplating it may suffer imprisonment, legal defamation actions and bankruptcy, thereby leaving Lee Kuan Yew, his family and his political party as the only political party that can govern Singapore as they have done without interruption since 1959 while Lee Kuan Yew's political philosophy is the only philosophy that is permitted and all other ideas are promptly stuffed out.

There are those such as Chee Soon Juan and a handful of his colleagues, brave men and women, who work for the furtherance of freedom and democracy in Singapore but they are doing this unfortunately with almost unimaginable suffering and sacrifice, which almost no other ordinary human being, unless you are a Mahatma Gandhi or a Nelson Mandela would be prepared to endure.

Chee Soon Juan who is a highly qualified neuropsychologist with an American PhD was fired from his professor position in the Singapore University and is now reduced to eking out a living with very little money. John Tan, his number 2 at the party was similarly fired from his teaching job at Singapore James Cook University, undoubtedly at the orders of Lee government, and is now, as far as I understand jobless. James Gomez, who I understand was until lately teaching at an Australian University appears to have returned to Singapore but as to how he manages to survive, I cannot tell. Mr. Jufrie Mahmood who is an excellent man and a Singapore patriot had been a Malay interpreter in the government when he was wrongly imprisoned after being being wrongly accused as a Malay chauvinist. Ever since then, he has changed his line of work and become a building contractor who struggles with intermittent work.

Every single one of these aforementioned individuals are highly talented and highly skilled who would have in any other circumstances been in top positions, and earning ten times what they do now, if not more. But because Lee Kuan Yew's political philosophy, which we can can call downright cowardly, is that he feels he and his party can manage to remain in power and continue taking the $3.7 million annually each as he does, only by unjustly punishing and persecuting his political opponents by every means possible.

You can see the loss to Singapore in the long run by such a completely unwise ridiculous political doctrine. For one thing it silences a large section of Singapore population who are educated and talented with a sense of civic duty and loyalty. As any contrary viewpoint is immediately suppressed and the owner of it promptly punished and persecuted, it makes no sense to put forward publicly any political ideology which does not comport with Lee Kuan Yew's ideas. As any society advances and progresses through divergent views and ideas, effectively denying human beings of fighting for independent views is highly damaging to Singapore's well being.

Take my own case for instance. Among other democratic ideas which I hold, in 2008, while in Singapore on an intended short visit which turned out to be 6 months due to Lee Kuan Yew's government confiscating my passport, and thereafter sending me to prison all for writing a blog post in this blog criticising the disgraceful spectacle of Judge Belinda Ang Saw Ean prostituting her position as a judge in open court to please lee Kuan Yew and his government by abusing the law to award a huge damages award against Chee Soon Juan.

The Singapore state controlled media has never published anything that I have ever said or done and they never will, while it is being used as a smear sheet to tell lies about my character and blacked my reputation. I had left Singapore in 1991 due to the persecution I suffered and had I remained and not left, I would have had to endure repeated defamation lawsuits, repeated imprisonment and bankruptcy and denied any meaningful way to make a living.

Singapore does not have a free and fair election system as we would expect in other free countries. Politicians and persons in high office in Lee's government, are either invited to assume such positions because of their academic or business success or through accepting applications from those who appy.

Also, scholarships are awarded to bright students who are then sent to overseas universities, presumably to improve their social skills as well as their academic studies, who are then required on their return to sign long employment contracts with the government to serve as Ministers politicians and civil servants.

Then there are others who volunteer themselves to become Ministers, civil servants and also in a new recently created position of Non Constituency members of Parliament, a thoroughly unique arrangement which allows them to speak in Lee's Parliament even though no one had ever voted for them.

If you really thought about it, this type of creating and securing politicians is the worst possible system imaginable which can only result in Singapore descending further and further into a complete dysfunctional government. Keeping in mind that anyone who aspires to be a Singapore government politician must have views that are those of Lee Kuan Yew, and if not, must change his views to conform to that of Lee Kuan Yew's. And what are they? They are the belief that earning $3.7 million dollars a year as a Singapore politician is perfectly OK, that it is perfectly all right to completely control the Media, that it is perfectly OK to interfere in judicial functions and use the law as a political tool to silence dissidents, that it is perfectly all right to deny an arrestee the right to counsel until he confesses under duress, and that it is perfectly OK to arrest even a peaceful protester even though the Constitution guarantees the freedom of speech.

So if you look at the entire bunch of Singaporean ministers and their judges and journalists, what do you see. You see a bunch of opportunists who would be prepared to say that all these abuses of government are perfectly acceptable, because if you could not say this in your conscience, then you will not be able to join Lee Kuan Yew and his government and live the good life which comes with it.

And what is worse is the unfortunate fact that there are large numbers of Singaporeans eager and willing to say anything that the government puts out for the opportunity that comes with it, a good job, a secure future and no trouble whatsoever.

Singapore's governance today is no different from that of Communist China, Franco's Spain or Cuba or the former Soviet Union. In all those countries too the passport to success was recognition by the government, the willingness to say or do anything that was pleasing to the ears of those at the top and the marginalization and ostracization of those who had contrary views.

Today every Singaporean knows that you cannot rely on any Singapore government minister because he is not concerned with your welfare; he is primarily concerned with his own. He has no independent views about anything; any view he has is that of Lee and his government. There is no need to read philosophy, the principles of democracy and the values of such things as freedom; as far as Lee Kuan Yew is concerned, such things are unsuitable for Singaporean society as they are a European concept and you have to accept this as correct.

What you end up with in Singapore is groupthink. Think the way you are supposed to think and your life would be fine. Think any other way and you are looking for trouble. 2 plus 2 may be 5 or 10 or whatever Big Brother tells you it is. And believe you me, it is good for you to accept it; that is, if you want to live in Lee's Orwellian Singapore.

Gopalan Nair
Attorney at Law
Disbarred from practicing law in Lee's Singapore and refused entry to the island for criticizing Singapore's judiciary.
Actively practicing law in California and in good standing at the California Bar.
Member in good standing as a lawyer in England and Wales (Barrister).
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Singapore's uncertain future when 89 year old dictator finally kicks the bucket

2011-12-05T19:46:00.000-08:00

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Singapore's dictator Lee Kuan Yew during the last 52 years of political control made sure that no one else will ever emerge or even allowed to become a leader in the island, which was the best way to ensure he will never face political competition.

Today every single Minister in his Cabinet and every other person who has any sort of power over the people derive it, not on their own merits, but because they have been approved and "licensed" by Lee Kuan Yew or his son, who effectively between them run the country, his father being Minister Mentor and the all powerful person in the island while his son, placed there by him as Prime Minister, as second fiddle, wields power through his father.

And these politicians who govern the island through proxy of Lee and Son, can hardly be described as leaders because they simply are not. They were all scholarship recipients who did well in school and universities who are then seconded into the government, promptly made to stand for elections and immediately thereafter get elected because of their connection to the government.

Therefore nothing they have achieved politically is because of anything political they themselves did; because all they did was to pass exams in school, which caused Lee and Son to select them for office.

And these Lee Kuan Yew backed "instant politicians" are not accountable to the people as they are in other democracies, but accountable instead to father and son, (Lee Kuan Yew and his son). Therefore they are at all times fully aware off their of their tenuous situation, which is they govern only as long as Lee and Son approve, and the moment they are disfavored, they become history.

This sort of an unhealthy political climate, where everything depends on a single family, the Lee family, simply cannot instill confidence among the citizens, because the frightening question is always this; what happens to Singapore when the dictator is dead?

In any other democracy, it does not matter when the political leader dies because there are procedures in place for other leaders who have the stature and the respect of their citizens to continue government. In Singapore, with Lee Kuan Yew having made sure that no one really had any real power or support as a leader, it is worrying what would happen when this 89 year old man finally kicks the bucket which I expect to be very soon.

Will Vivian Balakrishnan or Deputy prime Minister Teo or any other of Lee Kuan Yew's bootlickers be telling us that there is going to be no welfare for the poor, because Lee Kuan Yew wanted everyone, no matter how helpless, to fend for themselves? Will any of these yes men be telling us that foreign Chinese immigrants must flood Singapore island and dislodge the dying local population because that is what Lee Kuan Yew wanted? Would any of these characters be telling us that even a single peaceful person standing in a street corner with placard deserves arrest because Lee Kuan Yew did not appreciate any protests? And if they decided instead to adopt these silly ideas as their own and thrust it down our throats, do you think they would have sufficient respect or support of the people to except anyone to listen?

With the sad fact that all these men and women calling themselves Ministers who surround the Lee family like dogs waiting for the crumbs he throws at them, are only as good as far as they have Lee's seal of approval, I am afraid that the people are not going to tolerate any of these characters once Lee is gone. And with Lee's disappearance, it is probably going to be the end of Singapore too.

Gopalan Nair
Attorney at Law
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Singapore. Punishing critics and hurting the country

2011-11-26T19:33:00.000-08:00

Ladies and Gentlemen,

The one hallmark of Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore is this. It is the relentless pursuit of their critics by every means possible, both legal and otherwise to ensure that they or their views simply will not see the light of day. This has been so ever since Lee Kuan Yew's PAP came to power in 1959.

JB Jeyaretnam, his erstwhile bete noir, was harassed intimidated punished and pursued to his death with repeated defamation actions, the abuse of the law courts and bankruptcy, thwarting his law practice and denying him a livelihood till the very end, till death.

Today we have Chee Soon Juan also repeatedly sued, bankrupted and jailed not because he is any criminal, but only because his political views are in variance with that of the Lee family who run the country.

And this disgraceful history of Lee's PAP regime in the island has countless other cases of JB Jeyaretnams and Chee Soon Juan's all destroyed just because they were not prepared to tow the line.

In my own case, I had been deported from Singapore following my arrest and imprisonment for criticizing Singapore Judge Belinda Ang Saw Ean for her misuse of the law in 2008 in the Lee Kuan Yew vs Chee Soon Juan defamation case. Consequent on my deportation, I will be refused entry to Singapore without a visa, and it is unlikely they would ever grant me one if I applied. In other words I am banished from Lee Kuan Yew's island. By the way I am no criminal if that is what you think. I simply don't agree with Lee Kuan Yew on how he runs the island.

Just like me, there are many Singaporeans or former Singaporeans living in exile overseas and denied the right to enter the country of their birth, all because Lee Kuan Yew is unhappy with them.

It is one thing to act in such a vindictive and revengeful manner against his opponents, but has he ever considered the harm he is doing Singapore by such petty mindedness or rather childishness?

Consider the case of Chee Soon Juan, presently living in Singapore and the target of the relentless punishment he receives at the hands of the Lee government only because he is a political opponent. From his writings and his actions, he is undoubtedly a vary able person, and Singapore would benefit tremendously if he is allowed to participate in local politics in the island. Yet, the Lee regime ensures that nothing he says ever sees the light of day in the state controlled press, nothing he says is ever publicised or allowed any publicity and for all intents and purposes, his wisdom and intellect is lost for Singapore.

When Jeyaretnam was around (he died in 2008), he suffered a similar fate. Everything he said was blacked out, and it was as if, anything you heard of him , if you ever did was just bad news. It did not matter what anyone thought of him, as far as Lee was concerned Jeyaretnam was a thief and that was that.

As for me, I have been in Lee Kuan Yew's state controlled press several times in the past, but they were all to paint me as the most evil person that ever walked the terrain in Singapore. Never mind what anyone thought of me, as far as they were concerned I was all bad.

In fact the Lee Kuan Yew doctrine is simply this. You first target your opponents, such as JB Jeyaretnam, Chee Soon Juan and Gopalan Nair. Once that is done, use every possible means, both fair and foul to tarnish their image, and deny them every single opportunity, place every hurdle possible to obstruct and prejudice them so that they will not be able to live in any meaningful manner possible.

Lee's hope of course is that his opponents, suffering under this unbearable persecution, repression and suffering, would at some point or other give up their beliefs, apologize and prostrate before him and promise never to criticize him. Once this is done, to use the government's own words during my trial for contempt of court, the subject is "purged" of his offenses, he is then successfully rehabilitated (as if we were criminals) and would then be treated leniently once again. But as long as the subject remains defiant and refuses to submit, the punishment goes on unabated permanently.

So according to this Lee Kuan Yew doctrine, it would appear, all Chee Soon Juan has to do now is to simply apologize to Lee Kuan Yew, give an undertaking never to criticize him again and even better still, state his willingness to serve his Peoples Action Party. Although such a scenario is as impossible as the Sun rising in the West, knowing Chee Soon Juan, if indeed he is willing to do this, I bet on it, his fortunes would change overnight. He would be given his professorship at Singapore University back, which Lee had taken away, he would very likely get all the money he paid so far in fines and court damages and perhaps even made the Singapore Ambassador to London at one stroke.

In my case I am not sure if any such thing will happen had I apologized but perhaps I would be allowed to travel to Singapore again at least.

But these are the totally unacceptable harebrained terms that he has for his critics, which is either kowtow or else. But the problem is, most of us who have had the willingness and the courage to stand against this man have done so because we truly believe in what we have done. As for me, I truly believe that fighting this dictatorship in Singapore is an honorable cause which I shall continue doing no matter what. And I am sure it is the same with Chee Soon Juan and everyone else who have suffered under the repression of the Lee Kuan Yew government, for having stood up to him.

I am sure by now that Lee Kuan Yew is himself aware that Chee soon Juan is going to be a thorn on his side permanently and no amount of punishment is going to make him budge. And I will continue criticizing him or doing anything else in my capacity regardless of whether or not he allows me into the country.

In these circumstances, with the impossible stalemate as it is, if Lee Kuan Yew is going to use his brains, it would make more sense for him to stop this relentless pointless vindictiveness against his political critics and instead try some appeasement instead. Being stubborn the way he is, is not only silly, it is seriously damaging Singapore.

Remember Chee Soon Juan, Gopalan Nair and countless others who are being persecuted or in exile can contribute to the betterment of Singapore, even though it may not be to the betterment of the Lee Kuan Yew family. Every one of us wish Singapore well although we also want to see the back of the dictatorship.

Gopalan Nair
Attorney at Law
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Singapore. Living off dirty money

2011-11-25T12:12:00.000-08:00

Ladies and Gentlemen,

What is it that keeps Singapore going today? What comes to mind are a few things, one Casinos, 3 of them recently constructed to attract gamblers from all over the world to Singapore and making money off them. In other words living off vice.

Second you have tourism, just like every where else has it too, nothing particularly noteworthy in Singapore's case.

Third you have money laundering, from Burmese drug lords to Indonesian bank embezzlers, including the notorious Robert Mugabe family of Zimbabwe who stack their ill gotten gains there from which Singapore makes money. Again in essence vice.

Fourth you have land sales to these rich crooks from around the world at astronomical prices in land scarce Singapore. Unfortunately for Singapore, there is only that much land and this source too is fast dying out.

Fifth, you have legalized prostitution in a suburb called Geylang, set aside for this purpose, which is so specialized that it in fact has segregated sections for women from a particular part of the world, for instance 3 roads reserved for Chinese prostitutes, another 3 for Burmese and for Indian and Filipino and so on. Recently a particular area has been allotted for Central Asian women who being Caucasian looking are attracting very brisk business. A sizable number of tourists come to Singapore especially to engage in prostitution who are given work visas for the purpose while sex tourism is on the rise from which Singapore continues to profit. Prostitutes are given visas under the euphemism of social workers. They are required to have medical check up regularly for sexually transmitted deceases and if they default, their visas are revoked. Living off immoral earnings is what it is.

Sixth you have some manufacturing of weapons including the dreaded cluster bombs which Singapore coninues to sell to regimes and juntas despite world condemnation, regardless of their cause including militants and guerrillas in Africa as well as to pariah governments such as Zimbabwe and Burma, countries that repress, suppress and torture their own people and deny their rights. For Singapore it appears, all that matters is money, never mind how you make it.

In order to prevent anyone from questioning these disgraceful practices Singapore denies press freedom, controlling and owning the entire press and media, arresting and imprisoning anyone who criticizes them by denying their constitutional rights of free speech and jailing anyone who protests against these injustices.

Unfortunately for this Singapore dictatorship, this sort of repression is backfiring. With Singapore's increasingly educated population, they are increasingly showing their displeasure to these blatant acts of repression and suppression. Increasing numbers of educated Singaporeans continue to leave their shores for settlement abroad instead of accepting this nonsense while Singapore's reliance on dirty money for survival becomes more and more a a cause of embarrassment than anything else.

What is worse the routine abuse of the law to stifle dissent, where government compliant judges are used to bend the law to punish known critics such as the well known opposition politician and martyr Dr. Chee Soon Juan is beginning to adversely affect even Singapore's money laundering business, as the fear is that if the government can abuse the law to punish government critics, what guarantee is there that they will not similarly abuse the law to deny the rights of money launderers?

The lack of the rule of law has seriously affected Singapore's attempt to be an international arbitration center as Hong Kong and Australia in the region continue to grow as Singapore's continues to shrink.

Today there is no one who could criticize the Singapore government and expose their true colours from within Singapore as I do here, as they would be immediately arrested, tortured and deprived of a livelihood the very instant. Which is why the only way that one can speak his mind about Singapore is from the outside, not from within Singapore.

As if all this is not bad enough, Chinese immigrants from Mainland China are bought into Singapore and given instant citizenship to replace the educated and English speaking Singaporeans who are leaving en masse for settlement abroad. These mostly unskilled Chinese immigrants are reducing productivity and competitiveness further damaging the economy, which explains why you would be probably served won ton mee if you ordered Chicken rice at Singapore's Changi Airport. The recently arrived Chinese waitress has no clue what you are talking about. Furthermore the reproductive rate is the lowest in the world while local Singaporeans either die off or leave the country to be replaced by these unskilled and non English proficient Mainland Chinese immigrants.

And with this blog as well as several other blogs from around the world, like vultures, we wait to see how long more for Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore.

For decades now, both father and son, Lee Kuan Yew and son, who are the Singapore government have gone around the capitals of the world like Melbourne and Sydney begging the Singapore diaspora, hat in hand, to return, but should anyone be suprised that so far no one is preapred to take the bait?

Gopalan Nair
Attorney at Law
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Singapore Airlines poor saftey record, an unsafe airline

2011-11-22T21:33:00.001-08:00

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Would you trust your life with flying Singapore Airlines. I would not. It is not just the number of major crashes with heavy fatalities, it is also the nature of these crashes which is worrying.

On Oct 31, 2000 a Singapore Airlines 747 crashed on to construction equipment on attempting a take off at Taipei Airport bound for Los Angeles. The tower had cleared it for takeoff at Runway 05 Left, but the captain mistakenly entered into 05 right, thinking it was 05 left and despite every condition indicating that he should exercise extreme caution, simply took off without checking. The errors were far too many and serious making this crash not just a simple mistake of judgement, it borders almost on recklessness.

First the charts clearly showed there were 2 runways parallel to each other 05 left and 05 right. If he was not sure where he was, how could he just endanger the lives of his passengers and crew without making sure where he was.

Second there was heavy rain in Typhoon conditions and visibility was minimal. Since he could not really see, should he not have exercised even greater caution to make sure where he was. Or even better aborted the take off entirely for inclement weather, as a safe pilot would have done?

The wrong runway into which he turned 05right, had green lights in the center line with no lights on the sides clearly indicating that it is not a runaway but only taxiway. Why did he not see this.

The aircraft cockpit display would have had a Para visual Display which would have shown that he was not lined up with his allotted runway. He did not check this.

Runway lights have white light in the center line and on the sides. Not seeing this he should have known that he was not on it.

This Singapore Airline pilot simply decided to take off anyway, not caring where he was putting the lives of his passengers at risk, which resulted in heavy casualties and serious injury.

Some years later, Silk Air, the sister airline to Singapore had an even more shocking accident. The pilot of a Boeing 737 deliberately pitched his nose down, pointing to the terrain below and deliberately crashed the aircraft killing all aboard. He has committed suicide.

And only last month, a Singapore Airlines from Manchester veered off the runway into the grass while landing in Munich even though all indications were that the weather was fine, it wasn't a Cross wind landing and there were no other difficulties whatsoever, which leads us to believe in this case the pilot was simply incompetent.

And why I would ask any reader of this blog to be wary about ever flying Singapore airlines is this. It is not really the number of accidents but more importantly the type of accidents which is worrying in this case. Unlike in other cases where the accident is caused by the aircraft malfunctioning, with Singapore Airlines it is either pilot recklessness, pilot committing suicide or pure incompetence.

In the Taipei crash the pilot almost showed complete reckless disregard in pouring rain and took off at the wrong runway. In the Silkair case, the suicide pilot did not care that he is killing dozens of his passengers in his suicide act. And in the Munich case recently, which trained pilot in the world would be expected to veer off a runway in perfectly good weather with a perfect headwind, or in other words ideal conditions, unless he is a mental case.

No no. If I were you I would not fly Singapore Airlines. Quantas is a much better bet which uses normal trained pilots who do not go around committing suicide, or take off from the wrong runway or decide to use the grass as a runway at Munich.

Gopalan Nair
Attorney at Law
39737 Paseo Padre Parkway, Suite A1
Fremont, CA 94538, USA
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Singapore was better off under British Colonial rule

2011-11-22T19:59:00.000-08:00

Ladies and Gentlemen,

It is interesting to note that in 1851, at the height of the British Empire across the world, Britain's population was only 20 million, in 1901 it had 40 million and in 1951 at the beginning of it's sunset, it had a mere 50 million. And yet with this comparatively tiny population, it had managed to rule India with hundreds of millions and across the world with several more hundreds of millions, a feat unimaginable.

The question is how did they do it. To assume that they managed not only to conquer but to hold these huge swathes of the globe for centuries by brute force alone is to completely miss the point. The Moors did not manage to subjugate and rule Andalusia and Spain for 400 years merely by brute force and neither did the Ottoman Turks rule the then known world from 1452 to the end of the First War by force alone either.

On the other hand we have seen the Tartars and Mongols capture and plunder distant lands but they unlike the British or the Ottomans nor the Moors never lasted. In a flash they came and in a flash they also went.

What then makes such empires as that of the British last centuries and others not. The answer has to be that power and strength alone never managed to sustain empires. What sustained them was the respect they managed to attract from their subjects, the justice and the just and fair administration of their territories which made their subjects not only respect them but willingly serve under them.

Just speak to any older person who had been living in Singapore during British colonial rule and they will tell you that they had the rule of law. The British made sure that the law was not only just but was also seen to be just. Criminal trials had juries who decided guilt or innocence, not some judge who is beholden to the Lee Kuan Yew family as we have today.

The press was independent and free and a citizen could expect to read real news, not the propaganda which is churned out today by the state controlled press.

Workers under British rule had rights, and were protected by real independent unions. A worker then could not be dismissed just like that as he can be today under Lee Kuan Yew's rule. One had security of employment, unemployment social security for those without work and a school system where every child was given an equal opportunity.

Today with independence under the Lee Kuan Yew family, Singaporeans do not enjoy any of this. True, you have better roads, and modern buildings but what good is it to have these things without the rule of law, and independent press and a free and fair administration.

I have no hesitation to say that Singapore was a far better place to live under British administration than it is today under the Lee Kuan Yew family. The British all along knew that if you lose respect you lose everything, which is why they made sure they never lost the respect of their subjects. Singapore under Lee Kuan Yew has lost it's respect. The people no longer consider the courts as independent institutions dispensing the rule of law, they no longer believe that what they read in Singapore's state controlled press is in fact news, which leaves the people to simply withdraw into to their own cocoons as far away from the government as they can, a government with whom they want nothing to do.

Can there be any doubt then as to why Singapore has the lowest reproduction rate in the world, the highest emigration rate in the world and it's population is almost entirely made up of recent immigrants because every single native Singaporean has either died or emigrated.

Just as it was under Franco's Spain, Singapore under Lee Kuan Yew for 52 years has lost it's talent, it's writers, it's thinkers and it has lost the very best of it's citizens who either went abroad or simply withdrew their co-operation. For all intents and purposes in Singapore of today, there is only one political party, Lee's PAP, there is only one newspaper, the state controlled Singapore Press Holdings and there is only one trade union, the state controlled NTUC. Nothing else exists and nothing else will be allowed to exist.

In Singapore there is only one voice, that of the Lee Kuan Yew family, no other voice will be tolerated.

Momentarily such a hopeless situation may go on for a while, but I don't think it has what it takes to last or compete with the rest of the world. Politically speaking, Singapore is a basket case. It simply does not have solid foundations.

Gopalan Nair
Attorney at Law
39737 Paseo Padre Parkway, Suite A1
Fremont, CA 94538, USA
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Singapore. "Flash floods due to rain", of course they are!

2011-11-06T21:34:00.000-08:00

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Singapore's state controlled newspaper "Today" of Oct 31, 2011 had this story "Flash floods due to rain"! It was about the almost daily flooding that happens in the island these days after every downpour.

But the title insults our intelligence, by stating the obvious. Flash floods due to rain? Of course they are! What did you expect? Flash floods due to fire! It has to be due to rain, what else!

I have been observing the progressive decline of the standards of Singapore journalism. One shouldn't be surprised. It is well known that Singapore has a ranking as low as 147 by Reporters Without Borders for it's lack of independence. In fact it is about as low as Somalia or North Korea. Not surprisingly anyone with any self respect and some ability in journalism shuns working for Singapore newspapers if they ever wanted to work for any other paper anywhere else for the unfavorable stigma it attaches. Singapore newspapers are seen as pariahs in the trade and anyone who works for it as a thoroughly unscrupulous charlatan who would do anything for money.

Which explains why you get nonsense such as this. It was probably written by some Mainland China recently arrived immigrant who are brought in by the planeloads and given some schooling in English and let loose at their newspapers, to replace all the other journalists who had earlier emigrated to Australia.

Gopalan Nair
Attorney at Law
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Singapore strongman Lee Kuan Yew claims he is not mad

2011-11-06T15:24:00.000-08:00

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Singapore state controlled newspaper the Straits Times of Nov 07, 2011 has the story "Decease "has not affected my mind will or resolve": Lee Kuan Yew". The story says, while planting a tree at his Tangong Pagar Constituency, he said "I have no doubt at all that this (his neurological disorder which causes him to walk crooked) has not affected my mind, my will or resolve".

What is worrying about his statement is his "resolve" which begs the
question,"resolve" for what? If history is anything to go by, we know he had a great deal of resolve, which has resulted in great pain and agony to countless of his citizens. He was revolved to destroy the opposition and put every single member of it in prison for long periods, as Chia Thai Poh, a living victim of it, here to tell the tale. His great resolve ensured the total subjugation of the press. His resolve put every single peaceful protester behind bars and that same resolve completely neutralized the country's constitution. To Singaporeans on the whole, if indeed he has this resolve, it is not something to rejoice but a big reason to continue their lives cowering in fear as they live today in Singapore; in fear of Lee Kuan Yew's resolve.

But on the other hand I am not sure whether he knows what he is actually talking about, being 88 years old and a thoroughly crooked man who walks crooked as well. He is not a doctor and is in no position to diagnose himself. In any case Hitler all along thought he was completely normal but in truth we all know he was as mad as the Hatter.

I don't think anyone should pay any attention to him. My hope of course is that one day he should be tried for the crimes he committed just as President Pinochet but he probably will escape the law by dying anytime soon, just as Pinochet did.

Gopalan Nair
Attorney at Law
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Singapore Joke, suicides at Bedok Reservoir

2011-11-06T14:16:00.000-08:00

Ladies and Gentlemen,

A poor Singaporean pauper was tired of waiting in line everywhere for help. He was tired and starving. He had to wait hours in line at his Member of Parliament office to ask for bread. He had to wait hours in line at a homeless shelter for a place to sleep. He was tired of waiting in line and decided to kill himself afterall at Singapore's Bedok Reservoir, the favorite suicide haunt.

When he got there, someone asked him what he was doing when he walked straight to the reservoir to which he answered he had just about had it and was going to die, to which the man asked him whether he knew what they all were doing there? He was told that there is a long line of people waiting to kill themselves, and that if he wanted to kill himself, he should stand in line and wait his turn like everyone else.

Gopalan Nair
Fremont, California

Singapore. Gopalan Nair, a perennial thorn on the side of Lee Kuan Yew's dictatorship

2011-11-05T22:43:00.000-07:00

Ladies and Gentlemen,

I suppose Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore is used to abusing the rights of his critics who thereafter willingly fade away and leave him alone. Had I remained in Singapore, this would probably have been my fate too as it is almost humanly impossible to render any further resistance once he embarks on his evil vendetta against you of repeatedly harassing you, imprisoning you, and depriving you of a livelihood. History has shown that this has been the fate of almost every single person who had dared to stand up to his dictatorship.

But the equation is very different if you manage to get out of Singapore. Since the whole purpose is to expose this repressive regime to the world and change both international and domestic opinion against this regime, this purpose is entirely doable from outside Singapore.

The Internet still reaches the Singapore domestic population and the world at large and writing this blog enables me to put forward the other side of the coin from that of Singapore's propaganda in their state controlled newspapers.

It is impossible to judge exactly how many people have been swayed and persuaded against this tyranny but the general trend in the decline of support in the regime is indicative. The population continues to decline with almost non existent childbirth rate, and anyone there is most likely a foreigner from somewhere else. The brain drain of the skilled and educated continues to mount and Singapore appears to have ran out ideas on economic policy which has stagnated over some time.

Lee Kuan Yew has to be told that there are some people who simply don't roll over as and when he pleases. They may get out but continue a thorn on his side.

I urge other Singaporeans who have similarly got of that dictatorship join the drumbeat around the world in condemning this regime. True, there may be some disadvantages from doing this such as being barred from entering Singapore such as in my case, but surely these small inconveniences is a small price to pay in the pursuit of the goal of toppling this regime. Every single person's effort goes a long way to hurt this regime.

Gopalan Nair
Attorney at Law
39737 Paseo Padre Parkway, Suite A1
Fremont, CA 94538, USA
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Singapore's Bedok Reservoir, the favorite spot to kill yourself or murder someone.

2011-11-05T17:04:00.000-07:00

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Singapore's state controlled newspaper the Straits Times of Nov 6, 2011 reports "Another body found in Bedok Reservoir on Saturday morning". The report says "Police said they received a call at 9.15 am informing them a body, believed to a be a Chinese male, in the waters in the reservoir".

The frightening thing about this particular reservoir is that just within the last 3 months, 10 floating dead bodies have been found, half of them murdered and the other half suicides.

It has attracted so much notoriety by these daily floating dead bodies that Singaporeans, a generally superstitious people, consider it haunted and many have reported seeing apparitions and have heard screams at night. It is no longer a place that people go to for recreation and even on weekends the place has become totally deserted.

In fact real estate agents have reported a surge in sales of people trying to get rid of their apartments nearby and moving out and the general drop in HDB housing prices near Bedok Reservoir, as people fear living near the haunted lake.

Knowing to what extent Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore has descended in the last decade or so, with about third of Singaporeans living in poverty in their one room rented apartments (no one owns their property in Singapore as it is all rented to the public by the Singapore Government Agency HDB), it is not surprising to see both violent crime and suicides sky rocketing in the sardine packed overcrowded tiny island of Singapore.

In fact today, despite Singapore Lee Kuan Yew's protestations that it is the safest city in the world, in fact, if anyone dared walking along Singapore streets at night, they will see that neighbouring Jakarta Indonesia or Kuala Lumpur Malaysia are far safer places.

Other than murders the most common crimes include knife point robbery of residents travelling alone in an HDB elevator. If you do, there is a very good chance you will be held up with a knife and relieved of your wallet or handbag in addition to being stabbed repeatedly or even murdered. The situation has become so bad in Singapore that many women refuse to travel alone in an elevator and instead travelling only with male friends or relatives. As most people live in very high rise pigeon hole like apartments, this need to be accompanied causes a severe strain on women throughout the island.

Another very common crime that occurs both day and night are men either on motorcycles or on foot who dash past you and grab your handbag. This crime happens in every street in Singapore and if you bothered to stake out any street for sufficient time, you would at least see one or two of these.

A crime that is alarming in it's blatancy which one could not have even imagined before is robbery at knife point of pedestrians in the public within view of others. There are several instances of cases where men and even women come up to someone in open view, stick them up and make off with their handbag.

This rampant increase of crime throughout the island is alarming especially since punishments are very harsh in the island. Every single robbery and violent crime not only results in a prison sentence, it also mandates the criminal to be severely beaten (caning). In any other place such tortuous punishment would have deterred criminals from this. But it appears not so in Singapore.

This ten fold increase in murders, floating dead bodies in lakes, robberies in elevators and in broad daylight is caused by several reasons. The indiscriminate entry of Chinese thugs from Mainland China, India and other neighbouring impoverished countries for sweat shop work is one such reason. The second is the dire financial straits that Singaporeans have been brought down to due entirely to Lee's failed economic and social policies.

With the Singaporean component of the population continuing to decrease even further and very soon disappearing altogether and with the population comprised by a majority population of Mainland Chinese and other foreigners containing a large proportion of thugs, things are getting much worse.

I understand the Lee Kuan Yew government has sent out instructions to their state controlled newspapers not to report any more floating bodies found on Bedok Reservoir or any other lake in Singapore but in a small sardine packed island like that, you cannot keep out the bad news. It is simply impossible

Gopalan Nair
Attorney at Law
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Fremont, CA 94538, USA
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Lee Kuan Yew's Singaporeans, ignorance, apathy and a lack of passion

2011-11-04T19:12:00.000-07:00

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Tell me, in which country in the world today, where even a single peaceful silent protester is liable to arrest and imprisonment; where in the world is the entire media state controlled dishing out daily truckloads of propaganda; where in the world does the slightest criticism of the government result in libel suits, bankruptcy and imprisonment not necessarily in that order; where in the world can you walk around where human beings have no opinion about anything at anytime of the day or night, like zombies?

That country is Singapore appropriately termed Uniquely Singapore in a moment of candour, where it's people willingly accept this indignity imposed upon them by their government and in spite of this to whom they willingly dish out their hard earned money in taxes only to be repressed even further by their all powerful government.

And what is even more astonishing is the fact that the country has open borders which allows them to leave this self imposed imprisonment anytime but yet many, except those who emigrate, willingly stay to accept this dogs life.

To an outside observer this sort of behaviour would seem very strange, something like having an entire country of masochists; a people who enjoy being hurt by others like ecstasy in being whipped or raped or other strange behaviour.

Knowing Singapore intimately, let me tell you why.

First you have ignorance. Almost the entire local population of Singapore are not aware of their rights. Except for science and mathematics and other school subjects, they know nothing much else. They do not know that all over the world, human beings protest government policies and criticize them when they have to. Although normal behaviour anywhere else, to a Singaporean brought up in Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore such an action is almost criminal. In Lee's Confucian thinking prevalent there, one does not show disobedience publicly like they do in the West. One kowtows. That in the skewed reasoning of Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore is being smart.

Second the government has very cleverly kept the subject of citizens rights under wraps, making sure in no school curriculum are such things as civil rights ever mentioned. Only yesterday I was speaking to an Singapore Indian engineer with a University degree from Australia who had emigrated to the US. He did not appear to know anything about human rights or it's importance, but came to the US because of better career advancement and equal opportunity as an Indian.

Third Singaporeans, for some reason or other, are not a people passionate or idealistic about anything much. All they generally need is a career and the possibility of making lots of money if at all possible. You will not find a Gandhi or a Mandela or a Martin Luther King Jr in Lee Kuan Yew's island. To them each one of these people were fools because if they had anything in their heads, they would have spent their time making money instead.

Fourth, by and large Singaporeans are a cowardly people. They are averse to the slightest risk which anyone else would be prepared to take. For instance many write to me to this blog asking endless questions on how they could emigrate to the USA. Instead of buying that ticket and coming out here to check for themselves, they would rather spend endless hours Emailing and asking questions on what the risks are in coming out here and what if they don't succeed. It is tiresome to answer these questions.

Fifth, apart from risk taking or the lack of it, they are so terrified of their government which is the reason why they never dare to break these laws, even though they are so clearly unjust. True, if you are arrested there are several adverse consequences from this vindictive government but even so, in any society, there would have been at lest a few who would say the hell with it and do it anyway. This is not the case in Lee's Singapore. Not even a single Singaporean except for a handful of brave men and women like Dr. Chee Soon Juan, can ever pick up that courage.

Sixth, you have general apathy about anything that concerns them except the pursuit of making money, which by the way, they don't have anyway. They are not interested in the fact that they have no free press, they are not interested in not having the right to protest since they have nothing to protest about anyway, they are not interested in police brutality since they have nothing to do with the police and they are not interested to know that Lee Kuan Yew takes home $3.7 million a year in salary which is theft, since this theft does not directly concern them.

To sum it all, Singapore is a boring place peopled by an ignorant cowardly lot, apathetic about anything else except money which they think they have but actually they do not.

Which suits Lee Kuan Yew and his friends at the top very nicely indeed because tomorrow he can even pass a law in his island requiring everyone to henceforth crawl on their bellies which these humourless automatons or rather Singaporeans would willingly and eagerly comply.

Gopalan Nair
Attorney at Law
39737 Paseo Padre Parkway, Suite A1
Fremont, CA 94538, USA
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Singapore. The time for race based political parties.

2011-11-03T21:17:00.000-07:00

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Singapore, a predominantly ethnic Chinese populated city, so populated through the design of Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew has today a mere 12% or so Malay population and 10% or so Indian (predominantly Tamil) population. It was not meant to be so, had natural forces been at work, as Malays have much more children than anyone else, while the Indians were a far greater number in the past, but were overtaken by the hordes of Chinese immigrants intentionally brought in to make sure they are in the far greater majority than anyone else.

And with this flood of Chinese immigration from China, you have state sanctioned racial discrimination. You can hear the stories of this sort of thing happening everyday from the Indians and Malays. Not a day goes by when you do not hear that one Indian was fired from his job only to be replaced by a Chinese. You hear of jobs being denied Malays or Indians, reserved for Chinese, promotion denied for Malays and Chinese and advertisements clearly stating that only Chinese need apply.

Yet in spite of such blatant state sponsored racial discrimination, the government continues to claim no such thing and labels anyone who fights for the rights of people of their own race as racists and anti-social, with the threat of arrest under the Internal Security Act and detention without trial.

We have to tell the Lee Kuan Yew government of Singapore that they cannot have it both ways. You simply cannot discriminate against Indians or Malays and when they resist, label them racist and jail them. This is simply not on.

In the face of the daily curse of disgraceful racial discrimination against Malays and Indians, I say the time is now. Stand up. Malays should form Malay rights parties and demand rights for the Malays, which they are entitled to. Indians should form Indian parties and cry out for an end to this disgraceful racial discrimination being perpetrated against their citizens.

You can no longer afford to be afraid. State openly that Malays demand for Malay rights and Indians demand Indian rights for equality and justice under the Constitution.

Gopalan Nair
Attorney at Law
39737 Paseo Padre Parkway, Suite A1
Fremont, CA 94538, USA
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Singapore. What it could have been

2011-11-03T18:21:00.000-07:00

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Sometimes, I wonder what Singapore could have been without a Lee Kuan Yew and his arrogance and a one party dictatorial island. Something like this.

An island where judges are independent of the government with courage to administer the law without fear and where the people have confidence they will get justice from their courts.

An island which cherishes and nurtures it's own citizens, educating them to the fullest, teaching them citizenship and their rights realising that a well informed citizenry with rights is fundamental for national security and development. Singaporeans would then have studied both locally and abroad and would have had an intense passion and yearning to work for the advancement and progress of their country where they have rights and where they are not merely "digits".

An island where the government realises that the people are entitled to uncensored information because without true information, you cannot really progress to any extent.

An island which realizes that it grows according to it's ability. Industry should be in the hands of Singaporeans and not foreigners. Singaporeans should be the ones who run industry, science and business.

An island which realises that it has to work within the capacity of it's population and transform and grow according to what Singaporeans can manage, and not by means of bringing in ships loads of foreigners to start businesses which no Singaporean understands or has any desire to.

An island which has some space to live with a population of 3 million native Singaporeans instead of today's impossible sardine packed overcrowding of over 5.5 million people made up almost entirely of foreigners in a tiny dot, one on top of the other.

An island where every citizen is cherished and nurtured for the skills and abilities that he or she may have, and not just putting up a few selected bookworms on a pedestal and everyone else treated as an outcast.

Lee Kuan Yew has managed to destroy today's Singapore. Instead of a Singapore for Singaporeans, the entire island has been made to turn upside down. Off shore banking, a euphemism for money laundering had become a mainstay business, with local Singaporeans having little to do with it, either in jobs or know how.

And then you have the casinos which the government thinks is one way to attract even more thugs and prostitutes for the money.

And then foreigners are admitted in indiscriminate numbers to do any sort of business they want, most of which Singaporeans have no idea about. To work these businesses they bring in millions of unskilled people from neighbouring countries to work for pittance to enrich their foreign owners. There is no free press, no independent judiciary and today foreigners have overtaken Singaporeans in numbers in Singapore. Singaporeans no longer have any faith in the legal system which they consider corrupt and if given the chance, they would rather emigrate to the West.

Very sad indeed.

Gopalan Nair
Attorney at Law
39737 Paseo Padre Parkway, Suite A1
Fremont, CA 94538, USA
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Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore. All in the family

2011-11-03T17:20:00.000-07:00

Edited Nov 03, 2011

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Singapore's state controlled newspaper "Today" of Nov 1, 2011 has the story "New Law Dean at NUS". It says "A successor has been found for the longest serving dean at the National University of Singapore law school". "The NUS announced yesterday that with effect from January Professor Tan Cheng Han (present dean) will be succeeded by Professor Simon Chesterman, 39".

There are 2 interesting things in Chesterman's appointment which if one knows anything about Singapore, wouldn't be interesting at all. Firstly he is only 39, which by any standards is pretty young for any lawyer, let alone, the Dean of a Law Faculty. As for me, at 39 I was just beginning to understand the law, as most other mortals would be.

But his relatively young age in such high elevation would not be surprising anymore if one knew who he was. Yes you guessed it. He has high connections at high places. He is married to none other than Patricia Tan the daughter of the President of Singapore, an ethnic Chinese Tony Tan.

It appears he met this Chinese woman while studying at university and thought it best to marry her, very probably attracted by the goodies that will most certainly fall from heaven or rather the Singaporean Heaven under Lee Kuan Yew if he marries the daughter of Lee's hand picked President.

All Singapore institutions of education without an exception, you would have noticed, have the dubious worldwide distinction of seemingly appearing to have no opinion at all about anything. As we speak today, all the capitals of the world are abuzz with Protest Wall Street demonstrations, yet in Singapore as well as it is in Lee's university campuses throughout the island there is the silence of the cemetery. Every single student in Singapore is so afraid to speak up, they are as good as dead, thanks to the absolutely successful fear mongering that Lee has succeeded in advancing throughout the island.

And I hate to imagine the sort of lawyers that Lee Kuan Yew's National University of Singapore has produced so far and will continue to produce under this political puppet Simon Chesterman.

All in all Chesterman comes forward as a rather weak opportunist who doesn't appear to think too much of himself. For anyone with more confidence in his abilities, any relationship with a University in Singapore , just as a University in North Korea is more a minus than a plus on a resume.

In fact this sort of nepotism is openly seen across the breath of the Lee Kuan Yew government. The repeated attempts to say that Singapore is a meritocracy is as like repeatedly saying that North Korea is a beacon of democracy, which by the way, I believe they do. Look at the list here, which is only what I know, which list is very much longer if one took the trouble to look at it.

Wong Kan Seng, the Home Minister is Lee's Cousin. Tan Pei Ling, the little girl who makes a fool of herself and yet became an MP, is the wife of the Secretary of the Prime Minister. Ho Ching, the woman who runs Temasek the State Wealth Fund is the Prime Minister's wife. Lee's other son runs a government listed company. Tony Tan, Lee's hand picked President's son has avoided military service. And the list goes on if the reader cares to add.

Let's not pull punches and say it as it is. Singapore is nothing more than the Lee family's private possession which he runs with compliant and trustworthy relatives and friends. And that's it. After all blood is thicker than water.

Gopalan Nair
Attorney at Law
39737 Paseo Padre Parkway, Suite A1
Fremont, CA 94538, USA
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Singapore. Is dirty money that pays Singapore's Rajah and Tann, Singapore's largest law firm

2011-10-24T18:43:00.000-07:00

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Singapore's state controlled newspaper Straits Times has the story "Rajah and Tann now largest law firm in Singapore".

"The firm has eclipsed Allen and Gledhill, the previous No. 1, as measured by the number of staff" the story says.

"It is one of the 50 top law firms in Asia" and "in the past 12 months it has set up offices in Ho Chih Minh city and Bangkok" the story says.

Well the question is, with a relatively small business market like Singapore, where does all that money come from? And second, is all that money legit?

Remember, you are dealing with a country like Singapore where the brutal military junta leaders of Burma are not only given red carpet welcomes when they visit Singapore, while they brutalize and torture their citizens, orchids in Singapore were even named after them!

And recently we had the recent official visits of North Korean leaders to Singapore, perhaps to negotiate legal contracts on their drug smuggling activities around the world, and the several visits of the Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe and his wife ostensibly for medical treatment but more likely to stash away illegal money in Singapore banks.

With all this rather dubious activity that the Singapore government under Lee Kuan Yew appears to specialize in, as far as legal firms such as this, raises some eyebrows as to what exactly do they do to get all this wealth.

One thing certainly comes to mind when you read about Singapore government connected law firms such as this.

Their attorneys usually don't appear to have much interest in defending the rights of the ordinary man as opposed to big business.

Recall my earlier post where I interviewed one of their lawyers Shamila Nathan who confessed that she had lived all her life in Singapore.

Yet she claims she has never heard of Chee Soon Juan, Lee Kuan Yew's foremost political critic who continues to be persecuted for his beliefs.

Shamila Nathan and every single one in this government law firm would be quite happy to protect drug lords stack their money in Singapore banks, but not someone who is punished for exercising his human rights.

If Rajah and Tann very probably has Burmese drug lord clients and possibly even connections in Burma, I suppose one can understand why.

There is a lot of dirty money to be made with Burmese drug money connections, something which they would not be too happy to admit.

Burmese drug lords need lawyers too.

Contracts for drug money transactions have to be drafted, banking agreements have to be entered into and complicated money laundering transactions have to be worked out.

For all these unsavory activities you need lawyers just as Al Capone the gangster had a large team of them.

And since these crooks have a great deal of dirty money, firms like Rajah and Tann with their large team of lawyers stand to make a very good living.

And very soon the word gets out to any crook anywhere in South East Asia that if you need lawyers to arrange money laundering contracts, you need not go any further, Rajah and Tann are the people you need.

It is a very serious thing for anyone to accuse a law firm of dishonesty, which I am doing here, since it is much more likely to attract a defamation lawsuit from a law firm than from someone else, since for lawyers integrity is their main commodity. Lose integrity and you lose business.

If Rajah and Tann believes that what I had said is wrong, the right thing for them to do would be to sue to clear their name, especially since they being a Singapore law firm where defamation laws are strictly enforced, a serious accusation such as this left unanswered is likely to be believed.

But I doubt very much they would sue because to win, they would have to show that I was wrong.

But you know I am not wrong.

Lee Kuan Yew does do business with Burma.

Many of them are drug lords.

Many of them are clients of Rajah and Tann.

In these circumstances proving themselves upright citizens and upright lawyers would be a difficult proposition, especially if the lawsuit was commenced in the USA.

I hope many read this blog and realise what sort of people populate Lee Kuan Yew's island of Singapore and their law firms.

Gopalan Nair
Attorney at Law
39737 Paseo Padre Parkway, Suite A1
Fremont, CA 94538, USA
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Singapore. All that hype and glitter doesn't help in the end.

2011-10-23T17:30:00.000-07:00

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Do you ever notice Singapore spends a great deal of time and effort promoting itself as a first rate country, best in everything, with all their skyscrapers and glass towers that skirt the shoreline.

I reckon, this this does fool some people from the West believing all that nonsense to be true, only to realize that it is so much Lee Kuan Yew hogwash making them leave as quickly as they came.

Only this time, they take with them the knowledge what the real Singapore is, nothing but a dictatorship police state resulting in Singapore hurting even more.

Take all this talk about Singapore being somehow good in Maths education.

This is only good only as long as this belief remains outside Singapore.

But when some American teacher comes to Singapore and learns about this Singapore miracle first hand, she is going to go away with a much worse impression than she first came in.

She would notice that Singapore teachers, unlike American teachers, deliberately instill fear in their children instead of spontaneity or independence and confidence.

Just look at Singapore students.

They are afraid even to speak publicly and so are their teachers, all afraid of Lee Kuan Yew and his son if anything unflattering was said about them.

In this climate of fear, how do you teach anything, let alone mathematics.

I tell you, the American mother is much better off with her American teacher.

If you need a Singapore style education, you would be doing even better by sending your child to North Korea.

Myself, Gopalan Nair would have ended up a far inferior specimen of a human being had I remained in Singapore.

I have managed to become Lee Kuan Yew's number one state enemy and a proud recipient of the status of a disbarred lawyer in Singapore because I have been educated and lived abroad.

If you want your child to grow up an independent thinking confident individual, then last place to educate him in the world is Singapore.

Both teachers and students in Singapore are so timid and insecure, they are afraid of their own shadows.

Singapore boasts of the rule of law and so does North Korea.

If it does have the rule of law, it is the type you see in North Korea.

For instance, in immigration, you really don't know what the law is.

Singapore states it invites immigrants who are encouraged to apply.

But nowhere except in broad terms, does anyone know the requirements for admission.

Assuming you do apply, if you are successful you are so advised.

If not, except for a single line replay, "Sorry you have not been successful" you have no idea why you were rejected.

What happens is they look at your history.

If you have had a history of active civic responsibility etc, they look at you as a trouble maker, which they do not want.

On the other hand if the only thing you have done is to pass your exams with no opinion one way or another, you probably would be accepted.

You would successfully blend into one of Lee's "digits", a derogatory term he has used to describe his hapless Singaporeans.

Even though they claim to be fair, Malays are never given immigration.

Indians are allowed if you happen to be one of those who have a college degree but nothing much more in your head, especially not someone who has been active in India's politics.

The fear is, you would turn your interest into Singaporean opposition politics.

As far as Chinese from Mainland China are concerned they are admitted in almost unlimited numbers.

Uncouth uncultured illmannered peasants who may have some skills in carpentry or cooking Chinese chop suey.

They are of no real benefit to Singapore but are seen as safe immigrants, who would come in and keep their mouths shut in politics as they do in Communist China.

As they pose no threat to the Lee Kuan Yew police state, they are preferred.

Also their increased numbers would keep the Malays and Indians in check as they are seen more likely to be irritants to Lee's police state.

Some people from the West do come under the mistaken belief that Singapore was something else, but when they find out that Singaporeans enjoy no human rights, the police can pick up anyone anytime they want, there is no free press and the judges spend more time punishing Lee's critics than dispensing justice, they make a turn about back to the democracies in the West from where they came.

Consider men and women in science research and technology who would have mistakenly come to Singapore.

They soon realise that in a sterilized society devoid of an independent spirit such as Singapore research and science cannot flourish.

They too turn around and return home the way they came.

Almost every single independently financed student who goes abroad never returns.

A few who are bonded with scholarships return but only reluctantly and when given a chance, they leave as soon as they can.

I understand 9 out of 10 scholarship students break their bonds and rather suffer financial penalties than return to Singapore.

Singapore appears to erroneously think that they can maintain their rule simply by increasing the hype and the false promotion of Singapore.

This is not possible.

In today's world of interconnectivity, people can find out that the grass is greener on the other side.

And when they do, the very ones that Singapore needs the most are the very ones that desire and have the capability to leave the most.

What Singapore needs is democracy, not dictatorship.

Singapore needs freedom not Confucianism.

This whole idea of a few select scholars being given the power to rule over a modern citizenry is just not a workable model.

What you need is to empower everyone to have a say about their lives.

This way everyone participates in government, everyone feels they have a stake, and everyone begins to have a sense of loyalty.

Singapore today continues to suffer from a massive brain drain.

Just yesterday, I tried to enquire about a former lawyer who was in Singapore when I was there, Venugopal Kurup.

I was told he is no longer there.

He is in Perth Western Australia.

He is just one of the many thousands who have left and continue to leave.

I suppose he has been replaced by a Chinese peasant from Chendu, the Interior Province, Communist China.

As we speak, in addition to the unstoppable brain drain which I understand is the highest in the world, the birth rate is the lowest well below replacement rate and the population except for recent immigrants from China is aging fast.

These recent immigrant peasants from China know nothing about Singapore and they are given preferential treatment by allowing them to retain their Chinese nationality; although outwardly it claims that dual nationality is disallowed.

This is another lie like the thousands of lies Singapore puts forward when it suits them.

So when things are no longer comfortable for them, or for any reason they change their minds about Singapore, they leave and perhaps replaced by others from their country.

Indians from India who become citizens also remain as long as they want since they too can return to India anytime under India's laws.

In the end it does not matter if anyone becomes a Singapore citizen.

Singapore citizenship is not only illusory, it is also transitory.

Frankly a worthless piece of paper for the moment and to be tossed when it's purpose is served.

Lee Kuan Yew has managed today to reduce Singapore to nothing better than a loose woman whom you use for the moment.

When you have had your pleasure and it is time to go, you simply discard her.

Gopalan Nair
Attorney at Law
39737 Paseo Padre Parkway, Suite A1
Fremont, CA 94538, USA
Tel: 510 657 6107
Fax: 510 657 6914
Email: nair.gopalan@yahoo.com
Blog: http://singaporedissident.blogspot.com/

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A light moment from Fremont, San Francisco, California

2011-10-23T17:00:00.000-07:00

Ladies and Gentlemen,

There are always some funny moments when you are in a different country which does not know yours, as the following

I was watching rugby once on TV and later told my colleague about it. She asked what is rugby, understandably since in USA the primary sports are baseball and American football, which they call football. I told her it was a game similar to football and the best team in the world are the New Zealand All Blacks. She asked me if that meant all their players are black like black Americans? I said no, only their uniform is black and they are not necessarily black. No one in the British Commonwealth like Singapore or Malaysia would have asked that question!

When I first arrived here, I did not have a car and going to San Francisco Bus Depot, I asked a guy passing how do I get to Sacramento. Sacramento is about 3 hour drive from San Francisco. He told me "Catch the Dog". Puzzled by his answer which made no sense, I looked surprised. Looking at me he reassured me by saying "You know the dog goes everywhere". I was even more surprised, thanked him and walked away. A minute later I looked up at the street and lo and behold, before me there was a big bus with a huge picture of a greyhound dog on it's side. Only then did I realise that he was telling me to catch the Greyhound Bus Lines, a long distance bus company that goes to Sacramento, and for that matter everywhere else!

Sometimes it is funny when you are some where else. Life! I enjoy it every minute. Especially writing this blog.

Gopalan Nair
Attorney at Law
39737 Paseo Padre Parkway, Suite A1
Fremont, CA 94538, USA
Tel: 510 657 6107
Fax: 510 657 6914
Email: nair.gopalan@yahoo.com
Blog: http://singaporedissident.blogspot.com/

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Singapore, an airplane in trouble

2011-10-22T19:58:00.000-07:00

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Imagine, Singapore was an aircraft flying at 10,000 feet. It has icing on it's wings obstructing smooth airflow and reducing lift. It is flying too slow, causing difficulty remaining aloft. The pilot instead of pitching nose down to increase speed and airflow over wing surface, pitches nose up increasing drag. Both wings are just about to stall, into a nose dive and crash. The pilot is not monitoring the instruments. Presently Singapore under Lee Kuan Yew is this aircraft.

Lee Kuan Yew and his family and friends pay themselves millions which is daylight robbery. The people hate him and his family for this corruption. The legal system is completely discredited with judges punishing Lee's political opponents instead of administering justice. Thousands of people have been victims of state sanctioned beatings, called canings in Singapore and permanently crippled both mentally and physically. It has the highest rate of executions in the world, several hundreds each year.

Except for offshore banking, money laundering and tourism, there is no other profitable industry. Singaporeans are leaving the country en masse for settlement abroad, there are no children being born in the island and the growing older population is dying off. To replace them large numbers of Mainland Chinese peasants who speak no English are being brought in.

This is not a plan to remain airborne for the aircraft Singapore. It is a plan to go into a tail spin and a crash over the Mandai jungle.

Gopalan Nair
Attorney at Law
39737 Paseo Padre Parkway, Suite A1
Fremont, CA 94538, USA
Tel: 510 657 6107
Fax: 510 657 6914
Email: nair.gopalan@yahoo.com
Blog: http://singaporedissident.blogspot.com/

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Singapore's silenced lawyers. An interview with Edmond Pereira

2011-10-20T21:12:00.000-07:00

Ladies and Gentlemen,

On Oct 17, 2011, Monday 7pm Fremont California time which was 10 am Oct 18, 2011 10 am Singapore time, I telephoned Edmond Pereira, Advocate and Solicitor (Singapore's term for an Attorney) to seek his views on Freedom of the Press in Singapore.

On the whole, he appeared an ardent spokesperson for the Lee Kuan Yew dictatorship and their repressive laws which deny every single human right which is taken for granted everywhere else in the free world.

Singapore is a country where political leaders earn highest salaries compared to anywhere else. For instance Lee Kuan Yew, his son and every one of his ministers earn a staggering $3.7 million dollars a year each. Everywhere else this would be called corruption. In Singapore it is called a salary, which is nothing short of 5 times what the President of the United States gets.

There is no freedom of the press. The entire press is controlled by the government. There is no right to free speech. If you say anything against Lee and his government, you get sued, bankrupted and even jailed. There is no right to peaceful assembly or protest; you will be arrested. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is completely negated. The country is a one party state and every single member in Parliament is a PAP supporter even though outwardly 6 were voted from the opposition (but in truth Lee supporters).

I did not tape the conversation as Mr. Pereira objected. The interview did not go well as it began to be very clear from the outset that he had no intention of answering the questions and be nothing more than a Lee Kuan Yew government defender. At the end it almost descended into a shouting match at which time he decided to terminate it. For what it is worth, I write the following:

Gopalan Nair: Do you agree, there is no freedom of speech in Singapore.

Pereira: There is no complete freedom of speech anywhere in the world. Look at the press in England. If you ask 10 people in England, they all are fed up with it. Almost everyone hates the press which has descended into a laughing stock. They can say anything they want in England.

Gopalan Nair: Well it depends which 10 people you ask. I may find many who love the press in England. And anyway, you have recourse to the law if your rights are violated in England

Pereira: Yes that is true.

Gopalan Nair: But coming back to Singapore, do you agree that there is no freedom of the press in Singapore

Pereira: I agree there is censorship in Singapore. Perhaps a little too much censorship. But you should understand the reasons why the government imposes this censorship. Singapore is unique and has its own reasons why the press has to be censored. You should not be allowed to go around and say anything you want. Perhaps there is a need for censorship

Gopalan Nair: Do you agree that there is no right to free speech in Singapore?

Pereira: No I don't agree. There is free speech.

Gopalan Nair: Do you agree there is no rule of law in Singapore

Pereira: I disagree. There is rule of law.

Gopalan Nair: Do you agree that the late JB Jeyaretanm was denied his free speech when he was repeatedly sued, bankrupted and jailed and there was nothing wrong in what he said about Lee Kuan Yew.

Pereira: JB Jeyaretnam was tried and convicted in a court of law. It is not possible for me to comment in such a case where he was tried and convicted and was found liable in damages for defamation. Are you asking me to revisit what the law courts had decided about him?

Gopalan Nair: But surely as a lawyer, you are aware of what he had said or wrote and you can see there was nothing wrong with it.

Pereira: There is a proper way to say things and an improper way.

Gopalan Nair: Do you agree that in Singapore I cannot even stand peacefully in a street corner and make a speech without being arrested.

Pereira: But you will be arrested if you are causing a disturbance.

Gopalan Nair: I agree but even if I caused no disturbance and was vey peaceful and stood at a street corner and quietly and calmly gave a speech, I would be arrested, and is this not a violation of the free speech and assembly clause.

Pereira: In Singapore the culture is such that no one does this sort of thing, such as speaking in public. They might think you are mad and send you to the mental asylum

Gopalan Nair: But assuming I did make this speech and they arrested me and sent me to the mental asylum and it was discovered I was not mad after which I returned to the spot and spoke again. Would I be arrested?

Pereira: I am having a pain in my ear listening to this. Moreover I have to get back to work. In fact I was looking at a letter while I was speaking to you. I am a very busy man and do not have the time to read blogs. I am not sure whether you have any work but I spend my time working hard. I am sorry I have to say goodbye.
END OF INTERVIEW. APPROXIMATELY 5 MINUTES.

Edmond Pereira is of Indian decent and born in Singapore. He has about 34 years of practice. He reminds me of an elephants who are first caught in the wild and eventually tamed into complete submission and domestication from the wild. Initially when caught the first time, they put up a fierce and desperate struggle to return to the wild and be free from captivity. But after repeated and prolonged restraint from the mahout, they eventually realize that resistance is hopeless and submission and obedience is the only option. This is the sad case of men such as Edmond Pereira.

It is not that he is not aware that Lee is a dictator; he is. It is not that he is not aware that paying $3.7 million a year to Lee Kuan Yew is daylight robbery; he is. It is not that he is not aware that every single constitutional human right of citizens in Singapore is denied; he is. It is not that he is not aware that there are very many proud and independent small countries with small populations not dissimilar to Singapore where citizens enjoy all their rights; he is. Yet for him, admitting any of this is dangerous. Lee might take away his livelihood. Therefore like the subjugated elephant, he submits to authority without resistance.

He is like Winston in Orwell's 1984, who finally agrees that Big Brother is right afterall.

I had earlier written that no lawyer in Singapore would dare to defend Lee Kuan Yew's arch enemy Chee Soon Juan in any law suit. One of them who would not dare is this Edmond Pereira.

I thanked Edmond Pereira for granting me this interview and I have his permission to publish it with his name. His contact details, Edmond Pereira and Partners (even though he appears to a sole proprietor without any partners), 111 North Bridge Road, #10-01, Peninsula Plaza, Singapore 179098, Email: epereira@epplaw.com.sg, Tel (65)6336 2122.

P.S. He also said Americans like me think too much of themselves as if the world revolves around them. In fact, he said, Singapore is so good now that according to him, thousands and thousands of people around the world, including Americans are all giving up their US passports and taking up Singapore citizenship. As for me having the time to talk to him, he said that unlike him, it appeared as if I did not have any work. (I think he did not realize that when I called him it was 7 pm on Monday with the difference in time, and one does not necessarily work at 7 pm)

Gopalan Nair
Attorney at Law
39737 Paseo Padre Parkway, Suite A1
Fremont, CA 94538, USA
Tel: 510 657 6107
Fax: 510 657 6914
Email: nair.gopalan@yahoo.com
Blog: http://singaporedissident.blogspot.com/

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Singapore. A life without rights

2011-10-13T20:40:00.000-07:00

Ladies and Gentlemen,

It is very strange for an observer to note Chee Soon Juan, a Singapore dissident and Lee Kuan Yew's foremost critic always defends himself in court in his numerous political cases.

It is not what you think. He does this, not because he thinks he is a brilliant barrack room lawyer who can outdo any of those thrown at him by Lee, but because, believe it or not, no lawyer in the entire country will represent him.

And this fact speaks reams and reams of the extent to which Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore has descended into a complete island of fear.

It is fear that grips the entire citizenry preventing them from saying anything the government does not like.

And it is fear that prevents every single lawyer from doing what they were trained to do, as they do all over the world, which is defending rights.

Any doubt about the extent of this fear that blankets the entire country should be evident from this fact. Subhas Anandan has been crowned the title, the best criminal lawyer in Singapore by the Lee Kuan Yew government and their state controlled press.

In a country where your guilt or innocence is decided not so much by what you had done but by who you are, this man's success comes more from behind the scene deals he makes, as the government lawyer with a Class A seal of approval.

Sometime ago, when he was asked whether he would defend government critics, he candidly remarked "Give me murderers, cheats and crooks of all dimensions anytime. But please don't give me political dissidents". Simply put, if he defends a political dissident, Lee will end his career. And because he practices law in Singapore, he refuses to defend any government critic.

A Singaporean lives without rights not just in political cases. He lives so in every aspect of his life.

Administrative law is what touches the daily lives of every citizen anywhere in the world.

And this failure by the Singapore government to protect rights deprives any citizen of any security whatsoever. You are simply living at the mercy of Lee and his friends in government. This is, despite the glass skyscrapers which skirt the shoreline, the worst third world country you can imagine.

Lets take some examples. A Malay Singaporean goes to the HDB, the Singapore housing agency which owns almost all residential property where citizens live. He might choose a desirable apartment with a view to rent (every apartment is rented on 100 year leases. No one owns residential property expect for the 1% super rich).

As he is not Chinese or because someone else with government connections had wanted it, his request is flatly denied. In any other country, there is an grievance procedure to ensure this sort of bias and injustice does not occur. But in Singapore there is none. This Malay can complain as much as he wants, but to no avail. He simply has to accept it.

A Malay student does very well in his exams and applies for a government scholarship. Despite his excellent grades, he is is refused and some other Chinese immigrant student is given it. No reasons are given in their letter to him except a simple non committal sentence such as "We have carefully considered you application but it is denied, thank you". There is nothing the Malay student can do but to grit his teeth in anger and just go away. There is no grievance procedure in place, no appeals procedure, no nothing.

A Malay man wants to apply for one of those ubiquitous hawker licences to sell tea and coffee. Unbeknownst to him, some other Chinese man which connections to Lee Kuan Yew's ruling People's Action Party had also applied for the same licence. Predicted result, Malay denied, Singapore Chinese man with PAP connections granted.

A Malay taxi driver was found overcharging a customer. The Singapore Taxi authority calls him up and tells him he is suspended from driving for 3 months, which means no income for the entire period.

In addition, a fine of $1,000.00. Just a month ago a Chinese taxi driver who regularly volunteers his time at the Toa Payoh Resident's Committee, a branch of Lee's Peoples Action Party was also caught overcharging, except in his case the amount was much more. Yes, you guessed the outcome. Chinese errant taxi driver gets off with just a warning.

And your political inclination affects your destiny far more than anything else. If any political dissident, which happens to be only a handful in Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore, were to be guilty of the slightest infraction, you can be sure that he would face very very harsh punishment while the Lee Kuan Yew supporter walks Scot free.

It is this sort of blatant injustice that cuts across the entire island that makes life in Singapore very unattractive. There is simply no checks and balance against this sort of thing.

First, you have no independent press or investigative journalism which would speak against this, since if Singapore had a free press, the island's problem of repression would be solved with one stroke.

Second, you don't have an independent judiciary as a check against these abuses, since the judiciary is simply a rubber stamp for anything that the government wants. Third the legal profession has been effectively cowed as can be seen in my last post, "Singapore lawyers quietly accept their lives under Lee Kuan Yew" of Oct 12, 2011.

To put it simply, it is an alright country to live if you want to stay there for a bit and earn a few dollars and go home when you have had enough.

But it is not a country that you would want to call home.

It is not a country to live in with rights, because you haven't any.

As long as you are quite happy to move along when the police tell you in the police state; to accept the denial of your application even though it is clearly meritorious; to accept your employment termination simply to replace you with a ethnic Chinese with lesser qualifications; to accept your denial of your job application even though you are the most highly qualified applicant and to plead guilty to any crime which Lee and his friends decide to attribute to you, then you can be happy, momentarily.

Otherwise go somewhere else, and not to Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore. Or if you are a native Singaporean, emigrate.

Gopalan Nair
Attorney at Law
39737 Paseo Padre Parkway, Suite A1
Fremont, CA 94538, USA
Tel: 510 657 6107
Fax: 510 657 6914
Email: nair.gopalan@yahoo.com
Blog: http://singaporedissident.blogspot.com/

Your letters are welcome. We reserve the right to publish your letters. Please Email your letters to nair.gopalan@yahoo.com And if you like what I write, please tell your friends. You will be helping democracy by distributing this widely. This blog not only gives information, it dispels government propaganda put out by this dictatorial regime.

Singapore lawyers quietly accept their lives under Lee Kuan Yew

2011-10-12T20:59:00.000-07:00

Update 10/13/2011/ have faxed this blog to Shamila Nathan of Rajah and Tann, and the 2 others lawyers interviewed (other than the Swiss William Hold)

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Yesterday I had wanted to speak to Singapore lawyers to find out what they thought about their lives in Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore.

We already know that Singapore has no free press, the entire island's press media TV and radio all controlled by the government, which meant you get propaganda there, not real news.

Second the Constitutional rights of citizens are denied with legislation in place denying peaceful assembly, free speech, protests or anything else. Being lawyers supposedly trained in common law jurisdiction, one would have thought these restrictions which go to the root of one's very existence would be totally unacceptable particularly to lawyers who by training are experts in citizen's rights.

I spoke to 4 lawyers yesterday over the phone and what I discovered was an eye opener. Contrary to what I had expected, which was to complain about their disagreeable lives under a Stalinist Lee Kuan Yew regime, they were in fact supportive of the system.

First I managed to speak to Shamila Nathan of Rajah and Tann, of Straits Trading Building at Battery Road Singapore. I mention her name because she came across as an thoroughly unscrupulous person, a mercenary, completely devoid of any conviction or principle and she had thought she could say anything she wanted just because I may not have known what Singapore really was. I confess I used a false name to get her speaking to me after which I told her who I really was. Once I did that she was almost pleading that I should not quote her in this blog. The following is a brief summary of the conversation:

Gopalan Nair: I am (so and so, not my real name). I am from California. May I ask you a few questions about the law in Singapore?

Nathan: Sure go ahead.

Gopalan Nair: I have read that the Singapore legal profession is shrinking as many are leaving the country such as to Australia

Nathan: Yeah, but now they are all coming back

Gopalan Nair: I understand that foreign lawyers are allowed to practice in Singapore now. Are you a foreign lawyer?

Nathan: Yes, I am a foreign lawyer but if you pass certain exams, you can practice Singapore law.

Gopalan Nair: Are you sure, you can practice in all areas of law just as a local lawyer?

Nathan: Yes, that's true.

Gopalan Nair: How do you find practicing law in Singapore when the government denies human rights such as the Constitution being violated

Nathan: I don't know because I don't involve myself in politics

Gopalan Nair: How long have you lived in Singapore?

Nathan: I have lived in Singapore all my life

Gopalan Nair: have you heard of a man called Chee Soon Juan

Nathan: I have not heard of Chee Soon Juan

Gopalan Nair: That appears impossible

Nathan: I don't read Singapore newspapers

Gopalan Nair: Do you not agree that Lee Kuan Yew is a dictator and you live in a dictatorship?

Nathan: He is not a dictator

Nathan: In fact tomorrow I will be able to practice in all areas of the law in Singapore as I have completed the requirements

At this point I thought I had had enough and thanked her and got off the phone. A minute later, I called again and this time identified myself:

Gopalan Nair: Have you heard of a Gopalan Nair who was recently disbarred in Singapore

Nathan: Yes, you are from Fremont.

Gopalan Nair: Do I have your consent to publish what we spoke in my blog Singapore Dissident?

Nathan: No please don't publish it. I did not know who you were at first. I don't want my name to be published in your blog.

Gopalan Nair: Do you not admit that whatever you told me was the truth

Nathan: Yes but I don't want my name to appear in your blog. I am just starting out in may career, and I don't want to spoil it.

Gopalan Nair: Do you agree that I am not violating any one's right by publishing it?

Nathan: Yes, but please don't publish it.
(By this time, she was almost pleading)

This young woman Shamila Nathan does not cut a figure of a lawyer anywhere in the world, rather like a fearful little girl trying to make a buck the best way she can.

One thing is certain, if your rights are on the line, I don't think you would have much success with a woman like this. This is not the sort of character who would defend your rights at all costs, even to her own detriment, as a good lawyer is supposed to behave. But in Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore where it is better to say that you have never heard of Chee Soon Juan, I think she would probably have a very bright future.

Then I called William Hold, a Swiss man from the same firm. This conversation was short:

Gopalan Nair: What do you think about practising in a country that denies human rights

Hold: (With a Swiss German accent) I practice commercial law only.

Gopalan Nair: But still you are a lawyer and you are form a democracy. What do you think of practicing in Singapore which denies human rights

Hold: I have some work to do. I am sorry. Good bye

As far as Hold is concerned, I think he would be as comfortable in Rangoon Burma if they had work in commercial law. Nothing more to be said of Hold.

I then called an Singaporean Indian lawyer, lets call him X, whom I knew before from the 1980s. He has a practice in Peninsula Plaza North Bridge Road Singapore. He used to be a partner with another senior criminal lawyer in the Arcade, Singapore who died of a heart attack at which time the practice ended and he later set up on his own. Then X was full of vigour and ambitious. I saw him in 2008 when I was in Singapore on my fateful trip, a much weaker man in spirit.

Gopalan Nair: Are Singapore lawyers leaving the profession and going to Australia

X: Actually I am not sure

Gopalan Nair: What sort of work do you do now

X: Only insurance (motor) cases

Gopalan Nair: Don't you want to go to Australia too? ( I knew he had been to Australia but had returned)

X: No I will stay here

Gopalan Nair: But I thought you had gone to Australia before?

X: No I have never gone. OK thanks. Maybe we can talk later
End of conversation

Frankly he did not want to speak much. He appeared a disappointed person. He does not appear to have advanced much in a Singaporean career.

I think the problem was that he did not make a real effort to join Lee's ruling party and sing praises which is the principle means of advancement in Stalinist regimes such as Singapore. I have not identified him. He is already in his 60s and if he the way he is now, he is not going to get a spark about rights and justice anytime soon. Best to let him be.

Third I spoke to another lawyer, also Indian, who also started practicing in Singapore around 1980 or a little sooner. His office is at GSM building Middle Road, Singapore. Lets call him Y

Gopalan Nair: Is there a shortage of lawyers in Singapore because they are leaving for settlement abroad

Y: No I don't think so.

Gopalan Nair: those who left, is it for political reasons, because they did want to practice in a dictatorship?

Y: No that is not what I have heard. They have left because they found their children are being too stressed in Singapore schools

Gopalan Nair: You know the Singapore lawyer population figures is about 3,000 only. Don't you think it is very small for a country such as Singapore. Whereas London would have about 100 times that number of lawyers

Y: We always had that figure. We have somehow managed. Now the figures are increasing because those who left Singapore are returning, and there are many foreigners now practicing too

Gopalan Nair: I don't think that lawyers are returning to Singapore to stay. I can return to Singapore for a meal of mee goreng (a popular Singapore dish) but that does not mean I am returning

Y: Many foreigners are being admitted to practice here.

Gopalan Nair: Don't you think the standards of Singapore lawyers are being lowered by 2 Singapore colleges offering easy 2 year courses to make it easier to enter the profession

Y: No, it is the other way round. Singapore law courses are too hard which is why they are going to England because it is easier there and then return to Singapore to be admitted. Today you have lawyers from all over the world practicing in Singapore and are Singapore citizens

Gopalan Nair: You mean like Delany (an Englishman who practices local law in Singapore and who appears to have learnt how to grovel like a dog before the judge like the other Singapore lawyers do. I met him 2008 when he was there doing this disgrace)

Y: Yes, Singapore has now all sorts of people practicing law.

Gopalan Nair: But tell me, how much confidence can you have in your lawyer if all he has is an employment pass and who can be deported anytime by Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew. He is not likely to tread on any one's toes to defend your rights, which is what you want.

Y: No I don't think that is the case.
End of conversation.

Y can be described as the standard Singapore specimen, one who has not stood up for anything, and neither would he for the remaining years of his life, which has been one long crusade to blend in and not stick his neck out for anything. No ideals, no convictions. Nothing. In other words the quintessential Singaporean lawyer.

Gopalan Nair
Attorney at Law
39737 Paseo Padre Parkway, Suite A1
Fremont, CA 94538, USA
Tel: 510 657 6107
Fax: 510 657 6914
Email: nair.gopalan@yahoo.com
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Singapore police go after opposition poitician Chee Soon Juan for talking to Francis Seow

2011-10-09T21:51:00.000-07:00

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Singapore's state controlled newspaper the Straits Times online edition of Oct 10, 2011 has the story "Police investigating Singapore Democratic Party forum".

What is happening is this. Francis Seow was a former Solicitor General of Lee Kuan Yew's Peoples Action Party government for many years during which time he willingly did Lee's dirty work for him, arresting Lee's political opponents, and jailing them to please his then master.

Somewhere along the line, he fell from Lee's grace and was thrown out to the streets by his erstwhile master. Upset at Lee for his betryal, or perhaps also because he turned into a Thomas Beckett of sorts with pangs of conscience, we do not which is which, he announced that he was joining the then Workers Party headed by the late JB Jeyaretnam to contest elections against his former master.

This announcement sealed his fate. Singapore's Machiavelli, Lee Kuan Yew, as expected, came down on him like a ton of bricks, arrested him under the Internal Security Act, gave him a real beating and with a wink and a nod from the CIA, permitted him to leave Singapore for good, for the USA.

The other person in this drama is Tang Fong Har. She and other 22 civic minded citizens, mainly lawyers had got together to do some good for Singapore in the democracy arena. Since Lee considers democracy as anathema which should be excoriated at any cost, she and her fellow travellers were all arrested and detained for extended periods and repeatedly beaten up. During an interregnum at which she was released from the torture, she managed to make her way to Hong Kong and to freedom.

Both she and Francis Seow are treated as fugitives and in the case of Seow, there is also a warrant of arrest against him.

Except for Francis Seow and his rather unsavory past as the hatchet man that he was for Lee Kuan Yew for decades, perhaps we can forgive him as the repentant sinner or the reformed Beckett that he claims he is. I am not sure whether Lee Kuan Yew had mentioned the famous words, "Will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest" that Henry II had said when ordering Seow's arrest but whether he did or not is really immaterial to what we are seeing in this stupidity being drawn out here.

As for Tang Fong Har, no one can have anything derogatory to say about her, other than praise for having the courage to speak up for the down trodden in Lee Kuan Yew's dictatorship. Seow has been living in exile in the US since 1988 and Tang has been similarly living in Hong Kong for same period.

A few days ago, Chee Soon Juan, the head of the Singapore Democratic Party had organized a teleconference session at a local Singapore hotel where Seow and Tang spoke to members of the public who attended, numbering perhaps 100 or so, answering their questions on Singaporean politics and giving their advice and views of how to get rid of Lee and his dictatorship.

Mind you, there was nothing incendiary about the whole thing. Neither of the guests advocated violence, terrorism or murder but only on lawful means for the purpose. Looking at this, it is impossible to see anything illegal about it, unless of course you happened to be Lee Kuan Yew and the subject country was Singapore.

The newspaper report states "The police are investigating whether organizers of last Sunday's forum featuring former Internal Security Act (ISA) detainees Francis Seow and Tang Fong Har breached the law".

It goes on to say "the organizers of the forum arranged for a fugitive from justice, Mr. Francis Seow and a foreign national Ms Tang Fong Har to participate in a discussion on Singapore's domestic politics".

It then says "the organizers had arranged for them to do so from outside Singapore's jurisdiction allowing them therefore to be involved in our domestic politics at a public assembly in Singapore without being physically present and accountable".

In other words, it appears incredible as it seems, Chee is being prosecuted for speaking to someone outside Singapore, who holds rather unflattering views about Lee Kuan Yew and his Singapore island! If anyone can tell me why Chee has broken the law for doing this, I would be forever grateful. Frankly I cannot see anything wrong that Chee or any of the others did for speaking to them nor for seeking their advice and opinion.

If any of these people are guilty of some crime or other, then I should have been guilty a thousand times over for writing all this stuff in Singapore Dissident. And all those people who have contributed comments, holding overwhelmingly negative opinion of Lee and his island, should all be guilty of crimes too.

And so should the International Bar Association who were in Singapore and the participants at their conference for condemning Lee and his government as nothing more than a petty tyrant and a gangster's den respectively. Should not all of them be guilty and be investigated for crimes against Singapore?

This is another example of an embattled Lee Kuan Yew dictatorship desperately trying to cling on to power in the wake of of the worst showing in decades at the polls where their share of the votes at the recent elections was the worst in history, a mere 60% with all indications showing the trend to continue unabated.

Lee as you can see is behaving as any other petty tyrant would do anywhere in the world when he sees his grip on his people slipping. What else to do than to tighten the grip and threaten his people to cow and submit or else the whip.

I don't think Chee or the people of Singapore are afraid of this sort of intimidation any longer. Frankly it has the opposite effect.

I am sure Lee Kuan Yew must have heard the theory in physics of an action resulting in a reaction. This sort of petty harassment and intimidation is the main cause of educated people leaving the island permanently for settlement abroad, because we no longer need to live in dictatorial societies where people are treated no better than dogs.

In a way this sort of stupidity serves the cause of freedom more than we think. For example, a large section of the already small legal profession continue to emigrate not wanting to practice law in a fascist regime such as this.

Families are not having children and the local Singapore population continues to shrink, being replaced by second rate immigrants from Communist China.

And most importantly, with cases such as this, Singapore continues to be the butt of jokes in every bar and saloon all over the world over a pint of beer.

As long as Lee continues with this sort of stupidity, his problems that he faces will increase, not decrease.

Gopalan Nair
Attorney at Law
39737 Paseo Padre Parkway, Suite A1
Fremont, CA 94538, USA
Tel: 510 657 6107
Fax: 510 657 6914
Email: nair.gopalan@yahoo.com
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Singapore is now a foreign country

2011-10-04T19:54:00.000-07:00

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Singapore state controlled newspaper's the Straits Times online edition of Oct 03, 2011 has the story "More Singapore employers to hire fewer foreigners for rest of 2011".

It talks about a survey done in Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore showing a partial decline in hiring of foreign workers for the second half of 2011, as some say they will hire and some say no.

But either way, it is no consolation for those who are following Singapore's precipitous decline in their native population in recent years.

Truly, if anyone had any hope of keeping Singapore Singaporean, a normal desire of people from all over the world, like keeping Britain British or keeping France, French, I am sorry to say, it is a bit too late.

In fact calling the island of Singapore by it's name of Singapore would today actually be a misnomer.

It may be more accurate to call it a Communist Chinese City, which has pockets of Indian nationals, Burmese nationals, Philippine nationals who have all, by the way, become instant Singapore citizens, while one could also say there are some native born Singaporeans remaining thinly scattered among the recent foreign arrivals.

It is a curious place where these recent arrivals congregate in their own large communities, Communist Chinese enclaves, Indian enclaves and so on.

While the few remaining Singaporeans seek out their own still remaining in the island to try to keep their Singaporean way of life alive, but it is getting more and more difficult because of the rapid decline in their numbers.

Among all the different races or ethnic origins mentioned which make up the Singaporean polyglot, the Singapore native citizens are the ones rapidly declining in numbers, while the foreign population, which continue to arrive in mounting numbers under the Lee's generous and harebrained immigration policies, and who are given almost instant citizenship continue to increase.

This leaves Singapore in the unique position, nowhere to be seen in the world, where like total blood transfusion, the local native born Singaporeans in their own country become extinct while foreigners take their places and call themselves Singaporean.

This transformation of the very character of Singapore is now unstoppable.

It is simply too late to do anything about it.

We all know the reasons for this phenomenon, which is today nothing short of a calamity.

For one, Singaporeans are not procreating sufficiently to the extent that it has the lowest birth rate in the world, despite the fact that the government has gone out on a limb offering all sorts of carrots to induce reproduction.

Imagine, taking a stud horse to a mare, which simply refuses.

I am not sure the reason for this but we can guess.

Singapore is a dictatorship under the iron grip of one man Lee Kuan Yew and his family.

Singaporeans live in daily fear of criticizing their rulers, and the atmosphere is almost one of abandonment of any control over their destinies, all popwer being tightly held over them by the Lee family.

I suppose this is one reason why many people do not wish to raise families there. I didn't.

Other than the childless phenomenon, you have a large brain drain of the educated leaving the island for settlement abroad.

To an outsider this must be inexplicable, since after all, there are many jobs for those who wish to work.

Again the answer can only be in the island's disadvantaged political situation, as a dictatorship.

English speaking (or you could say a form of English) Singaporeans find it easy to emigrate to the West, a place where they can live free and bring up their children in a free and democratic society which they cannot in Lee's Singapore.

This is another big reason for the virtual extinction of Singaporeans in Singapore. It sounds an oxymoron, but sadly true.

The other contributing factor is Singapore's aging population.

The biggest population increase in the island was in the 1940s and 1950s and it is these who are the bulk of Singaporeans.

With their demise and the contributing factor of having the lowest birth rate in the world, not to mention the highest brain drain numbers, Singaporeans by birth are fast racing into extinction, having already become an endangered species in their own country.

Of course Lee Kuan Yew's state controlled press refuses to print any of this because if it did, it would finally and conclusively bring the native Singapore population into extinction once and for all, by the alarm it would cause on those remaining in the island and the consequences therefore.

I am not sure how much Gopalan Nair and this blog Singapore Dissident has been a thorn on the side of Lee Kuan Yew's plans to hoodwink the world into thinking Singapore was something else, but I am sure it has contributed some way at least in worsening the insurmountable problems of brain drain and fewer childbirth.

One thing I do know is this. All dictators stay in power only as long as they can subdue their subjects, which they do by fear, as Lee Kuan Yew does.

What causes him unbearable anger and fury is when someone like me, tells him openly that he is a fraud, which he is, because if more than one person dares to call his bluff, he can longer rule.

Which is why he resorts to innumerable countless defamation lawsuits and arrests against every single critic because he knows the danger of being challenged.

He knows that as long as a single Singaporean reads this blog, and forms a bad opinion of him and loses respect, it is becoming, as Churchill had said, the beginning of the end for the Lee Kuan Yew regime.

That is why every one of us should continue to do what we can, by writing, by agitating or by standing on a soap box at Raffles place and saying a loud NO.

Don't forget Singapore is already a tiny island with a tiny population.

It doesn't take much for Singaporeans to become extinct.

So watch it, it might be gone in a blink.

And quite frankly, this is what I am aiming for, because a mix of all sorts of people in a tiny island from all the impoverished parts of Asia who form tiny enclaves of their own for comfort, without any real Singaporeans cannot really last.

And when the country fails, Lee and his government fail too. And when that happens, the Singaporean diaspora in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, UK, Germany and South West Namibia would return to Singapore with their experience and their wisdom and turn it into a real Singapore, not the fraud that Lee and his friends have created today.

Gopalan Nair
Attorney at Law
39737 Paseo Padre Parkway, Suite A1
Fremont, CA 94538, USA
Tel: 510 657 6107
Fax: 510 657 6914
Email: nair.gopalan@yahoo.com
Blog: http://singaporedissident.blogspot.com/

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Singapore's fast disappearing Singaporean population

2011-09-28T18:31:00.000-07:00

Ladies and Gentlemen,

The Singapore state owned and controlled newspaper (the entire media is state owned and controlled like in the former Soviet Union) Straits Times of Sept 29, 2011 has the story "Singapore's population hits 5.18 million as at end of June". "Singapore's population has reached 5.18 million, up 2.1 per cent from 5.08 million last year" it says.

It says it's citizens have increased "there are now 3.26 million citizens, up 0.8 per cent from 3.23 million in 2010". The other 2 million plus people are either permanent residents or temporary workers.

But the figure of 3.26 million "citizens" is interesting. What is left unexplained either by design or by accident is this. We are not told the composition of this number, which is troubling if anyone understood the dire situation of it's population's composition.

We know that daily we have planeloads of Chinese immigrants arriving from Mainland China for settlement in Singapore under Lee Kuan Yew's immigration policy of boosting the island's population with them (he prefers immigrants from China over others).

We also know that today, Singapore faces a debilitating problem for having the world's lowest birth rate, a very low marriage rate, and an overwhelming aging population.

To make matters worse, Singapore's skilled and educated are leaving its shores in droves, the departing numbers boosted even further by increasing numbers of Singapore students leaving for foreign education opting not to return and national service deserters.

By any reckoning, Singapore's native population is in fact dying off, and if, according to this report, it's citizens have increased in number, we can only presume that a sizable and growing proportion of these citizens are in fact recent immigrants who are being given instant citizenship, mostly from Mainland China.

Since correct figures are not given, as can be expected of any one party state like Singapore, there is a strong possibility, in the light of the above alarming trends that perhaps of the 3.26 million citizens only 1.5 million are in fact native Singaporeans and the rest are in fact recent immigrants mainly from Mainland China who are given instant citizenship.

If that is the case, which I hope is not so, Singapore today is left with only 1.5 million or so native born Singaporeans and the rest 4 million or so, are in fact recent arrivals mainly from China made up either of citizens, permanent residents or temporary workers.

Since, like clockwork, the local population's decline continues unabated with fewer and fewer people left while the foreign population of Singapore, regardless of whether Lee Kuan Yew would call them citizens or otherwise, continues to increase unrelenting, similarly like clockwork, I am not sure how long it would take for the Singapore native population to shrink to 1 million, then to half million, then to quarter million, and then to zero, leaving behind only Lee Kuan Yew family and friends.

I expect this to happen either this year or by latest in 2 years. It is your country not mine. I am only the messenger , not the cause of it. The island is yours. If you chose to do nothing, the decision is yours, not mine.

Gopalan Nair
Attorney at Law
39737 Paseo Padre Parkway, Suite A1
Fremont, CA 94538, USA
Tel: 510 657 6107
Fax: 510 657 6914
Email: nair.gopalan@yahoo.com
Blog: http://singaporedissident.blogspot.com/

Your letters are welcome. We reserve the right to publish your letters. Please Email your letters to nair.gopalan@yahoo.com And if you like what I write, please tell your friends. You will be helping democracy by distributing this widely. This blog not only gives information, it dispels government propaganda put out by this dictatorial regime.