Dan Tan, the Home Affairs and Law Minister spoke

After a week of silence, a very unusual thing for the outspoken Law Minister to do so, he finally spoke about the injustice of the Dan Tan case. But to be correct, according to the media, he never say anything about injustice. In other words there is no injustice.

Shanmugam said the law, the Criminal Law (Temporary Provisions) Act(CLTPA) is sound. He said there is nothing wrong with this law. I agree. He also said ‘a majority of Singaporeans support it’. This part I am not sure. If I were to conduct a poll in my blog, I can guarantee at least 70% will be against it unless Raymond and his clowns appeared to stuff the votes. Would be good if the minister can enlighten the people on where he got this impression that a majority of Singaporeans support it. Is it because no one is demonstrating against it, no one is marching on the streets, or no one spoke against it? See, no protest so everyone must be happy.  I am not saying the minister is wrong on this. He could be right. Just not sure how he got the numbers to support his claim of a majority.

Ok, nothing is wrong with the law. So is there anything wrong with this case? The Chief Justice and his appeals judges said it was wrong to detain Dan Tan and summarily released him. If there is nothing wrong, then am I right to say that the Chief Justice and his peers must be wrong? Why was Dan Tan detained without trial and with no conviction, for two years?  According to Shanmugam, ‘the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) had assessed Tan to be a threat, and his detention in 2013 was “on good grounds”’ Oh the MHA made an assessment.

What was Shanmugam saying, the law is ok, the detention is by an assessment of MHA which was also ok?  So there is really nothing wrong. Would the MHA appeal against the decision of the Appeals Court since everything is ok? Ok, he said MHA is not going to appeal, or MHA is accepting the court’s decision.  

Now the bad part, the international observers, not sure who the heck these observers were, and former, not current, Interpol investigators, have taken issue with the court’s decision.  So?

And this is the betterer part, ‘From their perspective, without having looked at the grounds of the Court of Appeal’s judgement, they take it at the headline, that he is being released by the courts and they can’t understand.’  Oh, like that ah! Does it mean that they are all so superficial, shallow, ignorant, just like the readers in my blog and in TRE, only read headlines and jumped into conclusions? These are law enforcement officers, and they acted like that without thinking, without knowing the truth? And our Court of Appeals must therefore take note of these superficial jokers’ concern, that they did not understand?

Shall the Chief Justice or the Law Minister write to these international observers and former Interpol investigators to explain to them why the Court had to release Dan Tan so that they will not be unhappy with the Court’s decision? If not, would it damage the reputation of Singapore or our justice system? Or the release of Dan Tan is going to post a threat to our peace and security?

What is the best thing to do? Rearrest Dan Tan or what?