The daily
reports of violence against citizens and residents have nudged Shanmugam to
come out and say that the govt/police will protect the people here, regardless
of race, religion or nationality. Everyone should feel safe here and the Police
will be there to protect them and their safety. This is something that we can
be proud of as a country, when there is law and order and the law/police are
there to protect the people. In some totalitarian countries, dictatorships and
failed states, the people fear most is the police for harassing and threatening
their safety. Many were arrested by the police and disappeared without a trace,
some suffered from police brutality.
The
reputation of the Police is of great importance to every country. The Police
must be held in high regards, in great confidence that they are there to
protect the people and the people can go to the Police with confidence that
they would be protected by the Police and the Police will upkeep law and order
and justice for the people.
Recently
there is a new trend for the people to make spurious Police reports to harass
other citizens. These people are abusing the Police, making use of the Police
like their private gangster force, to threaten and intimidate other citizens.
Hopefully there are not many such cases and the Police knew the intent of these
scoundrels and would not be made use of by them and made a fool of, and losing
their credibility as the guardian of the people. Not only that, any spurious
report would mean a lot of manpower and resources and valuable police time
wasted to chase after ghosts and imaginary things.
I have been
threatened a few times by such scoundrels before, claiming that they would make
a police report against me for all kinds of spurious and fictitious reasons.
The lastest is by an anonymous blogger calling himself JayF in my blog. He
accused me of being racist, xenophobe, traitor, anti Singapore etc etc. I
quote,
‘It is not
thought crime when you actively spew hatred and xenophobia with dog whistling
on a public blog…. Chua had crossed a line when he openly celebrated a mass
murderer who was born in the USA, never visited South Asia before and even in
his comments justified murdering of civilians because attacking people who can
shoot back are too scary…. Chua. Let's make it clear. I am now accusing you of
putting the interests of the PRC and cultural chauvinism above the interests of
the Republic of Singapore. I am accusing you of being someone who despite being
a Singaporean has loyalties to the PRC rather than the Republic of
Singapore...’
And now this JayF, an
anonymous claimed that he is his bastard son, is using a police report to
threaten and intimidate me, suggesting that he had made a police report against
me, and the police will come knocking at my door. Here is his post.
‘POLICE REPORT J/20160618/7014
Dear
POLICE REPORT
I refer to your Police report lodged on 18/06/2016.
Your report has been forwarded to the following police unit for follow-up:
Police Unit : Divisional Investigation Branch
Investigation Officer In-charge :
Contact Number :
Email :
An official copy of your report is attached below. Please quote this report no.
J/20160618/7014 for future reference. You may wish to print a copy of the report
for your retention.
Yours faithfully
Electronic Police Centre
Singapore Police Force
(This is an auto-generated email. Please do not reply to this email.)
June
19, 2016 10:23 am
This is another form of impersonating
the Police to harass the people.
This is how scoundrels
are abusing the name of the Police to threaten other citizens, tarnishing the
reputation of the Police. They are carrying out the Police force as their
private army to frighten people, to harass people, in the name of the Police. And
the Police would get the blame for it as the feared Police force.
If people
keep doing this kind of things, what would happen to the reputation of the Police,
would it become a feared and indiscriminating force that would go around
chasing citizens, harassing citizens and arresting citizens because an
anonymous scoundrel made a report against a citizen?
I hope the
Police know what these scoundrels are doing to damage its reputation as the
guardian and protector of the people and become the devil to be used against
the citizens. The reputation of the Police must not be damaged by such
scoundrels. Once damaged it would be
very difficult to repair.
The Police should
be on guard against such scoundrels and take a few to court for damaging its
reputation in the eyes of the people. The Police should not be made to dance
and jump around because these scoundrels made them to. They should take a few
of these scoundrels and make them jump on a hot tin roof instead.