You Decide: Is It Prosecution or Persecution? - Part 1/2

Li Sheng-Wu wrote in his recent Facebook post:

"Apparently the court has rendered judgement on my case today, and fined me $15,000 for a comment made to my friends on Facebook. I disagree with the judgement, and worry that it will reinforce the PAP's tendency to suppress ordinary political speech. In response to three words in a private Facebook post, the government has wasted three years of civil servants' time.

In a kind of cruel irony, the AGC has spent long hours lecturing me about my grandfather's values. The AGC is supposed to be an apolitical agency, even though the current attorney general was my uncle's personal lawyer.

As I was arranging my bookshelf the other day, I came across a gift from my childhood. (photo attached) Those were better times, before my uncle bullied his siblings and tore the family apart."

The prosecution or persecution of Li Sheng-Wu may backfire one day.

The whole process, taken in the period of three long years, has finally come to result in a foregone conclusion. It may altogether look leegally alright in the mind of legal interpretation, but it really looks ugly in the hearts of perception.

Commoners who are not well-versed in the legality of such an issue will tend to perceive this as:

1. The big bullying the small,

2. The elder bullying the younger,

3. The strong bullying the weak and

4. The powerful bullying the weak.

Whichever way you choose, one cannot run away from the fact that the government is led by Li Sheng-Wu's own blood uncle and the Attorney General happens, not by coincidence but by choice, to be Sheng-Wu's uncle's personal lawyer for a long period of time.

These facts remain true in the Court of Law as well as in the Court of Public Opinions and in the Eyes of Public Perception. And these facts are of paramount importance when we put two and two together - what can be seen and what cannot be seen.

In my humble opinion, the fine of $15,000 is an excessive overkill that will disqualify Sheng-Wu forever from taking part in the Singapore's General Elections. Thereby, consequently it destroys his political career if he ever wished to embark on that road to take on his cousins who may decide to carry on the Dynastic Rule one day in the not too distant future.

Whether the judge's decision is an overkill or not, fair or unfair, the fact remains that the impact of the judge's decision destroys forever a young man's potential for the highest political office, that may one day be calling the shots for the entire nation, a position even an ordinary judge himself/herself would not dare to dream of?

Whether the judge's decision
was by coincidence or by design, whether his hands were tied or his mental faculty skewed, whether there was a long hidden hand behind the scenes manipulating the outcome or not, nobody is the wiser. We can only imagine and assume.

Nobody can honestly point a finger to anybody unless somebody is willing to come out as a whistleblower to clear the air of doubts. Moreover, in the scheme of things, somebody may use a knuckle-duster to determine the tooth, the whole tooth and nothing but the toothpaste.

    

            Under the sinister twilight nothing can be seen clearly. An apparition can be mistakenly                         perceived as a human bean and a dark-skin human bean can be wrongly perceived as a ghost.

Therefore, Sheng-Wu's predicament may be mistakenly portrayed as a legal issue and the legality of the issue may be wrongly seen as a relentless persecution. Whichever the case may be, we the commoners in the street must go by the common logic, which is the basis for the Common Laws.

It is the man in the street who judges, not the grey-hair learned of many years sitting in an enclosed office to decide. That's Common Law!

In this Internet Age, it is the Court of Public Opinions that upholds the Common Law because it serves as the Mother of all streets where commoners gather in the billions. It is the International Court of Justice for the Common Human Beans.

That was my humble perception which I have to get out of my chest for whatever it is worth, in order to close the LOOP.

What have you perceived? You decide.


~ The LOOP - 30 July 2020.

PS. Posted on behalf of LOOP