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

PAP has started to create good jobs for Singaporeans

Facebook screengrab: Rayson Goh. Good paying jobs. Pic taken from www.theindependent.sg.

While Singaporeans are losing jobs, many new jobs have been created for PAP MPs as political office holders! What an irony!

The PAP’s GE manifesto of Your Jobs, Your lives, Your Future sounds more like a parody! Seriously, you think you have a brighter future and economic security under this bunch of incompetents?

Let’s see how many real and good paying jobs they are able to create between now and the next GE!

Lim Tean

The above is from an article by Lim Tean in TRE.

I think Lim Tean has missed out the 37 political jobs paying millions in Parliament, and the nearly a million dollar jobs for 5 mayors that have been created after the GE. These are damn good jobs. Hope they will create a few more so that more Singaporeans can get these good jobs.

A mayor’s minimum annual salary is $660,000. To this salary, we should add the allowance of a member of parliament which is $192,500 per annum. The monthly salary of a mayor is, therefore, a minimum of about $71,000. And the mayor's salary is lower than the 37 officer holders in Parliament.

Getting one of these jobs is like striking Toto every month. Jiat buay leow.

Happy Hari Raya to our Malay and Muslim friends. And congrats to several of our Muslim friends for getting the million dollar jobs created by the PAP. These jobs are great reasons for a big Hari Raya celebration and open house.

PS. Why I called these as jobs. Because they are just like jobs in organisations that come  with career development, regular promotions, annual performance appraisals, annual bonuses and performance bonuses just like what employees are expected to have. Anyone in these jobs can look forward to a long career, and looking for annual increments, oops, promotions in lieu, and a life long career. Used to have pensions as well, paying in the millions. Not sure if this is too much and eventually curtailed.

This is the premier premier civil service. The elites of the elitist service of the country where only the very best are recruited, went through several rounds of gruelling interviews before they are selected.

Skills upgrading Singapore style

This cleaner has been upgraded to become cleaning officer. Next upgrade would be Cleaning Senior Officer

Covid19 - The Americans politicising everything

LOOP said...

China should withhold any vaccines from well-known existing Pariah countries that tried to label other countries as "Pariah".

Anounce to the whole world that Pariah countries like Australia, New Zealand, Canada, UK and USA will not be given any vaccines that China has invented. This is intellectual property.

China must start an International Official Authority to register all Intellectual Properties as the supreme authority on all forms of intellectual properties. All those intellectual properties registered in the USA will not be recognized by China as legal.

July 28, 2020 10:54 am

With the cocky and belligerent Americans politicising everything, calling countries as enemies, bullying countries by unilateral economic and political sanctions, threats etc etc, and with the Americans and its five eyes countries openly calling China their enemy, it is only natural and expected that China must reciprocate in kind, tit for tat and treat these countries as enemies. They want to screw China, want to fix China, it is about time China screw and fix them altogether in the same breath.

If China is successful in being among the earliest to come up with the vaccine for Covid19, China could make a motherhood statement that its vaccine will be given to every country, everyone who needs it will get it. But because of the limitation of time and production processes, initially there would not be enough vaccine for everyone at one go.

China would thus have to prioritise on who to get the vaccine first and who next and who will be the last in the queue. The Chinese people would naturally get it first, their national product. But to be kind, China's allies like Russia, North Korea, Cuba, Iran, Pakistan, Venezuela and the Philippines would be among the top of the list.  Next in line would be countries that signed up with the BRI, all those with good relations with China, especially the Central Asian and African countries.

The last on China's list to get the vaccine would be China's enemies, countries that openly declared China as enemy. Number one from the bottom of the list must be the USA followed closely by the five eyes countries. Slightly above this group of enemies would be the American cronies and lapdogs, and countries that banned the use of Huawei's 5G equipment. Then there would be those that sat on the fence blowing hot and cold at China whenever the Americans attacked China.

Actually the most favoured nations of China are very easy to identify. So are the enemies of China and American cronies and lackeys that always took the side of the Americans against China. Who are the friends of China and who are enemies of China are very clear. Who are playing double headed snakes are also very clear, telling China we are friends but screwing China from the back are also very clear.

It would really be nice to see this day when China calls the shot in distributing its Weapon of Peace to its friends first and enemies last, without fear or favour but according to the above rules. The Americans are very edgy at the moment, so are the five eyes, knowing that they have dug a big hole to bury themselves in.

I must say thank God, it is happening and good riddance. Xi would not pick up any calls from Trump. Wang Yi would also not pick up any calls from the evil lump of fat.

Are Australia and US claims to their occupied lands seized from the natives legal and lawful?

MELBOURNE: Australia has joined the United States in stating that China's claims in the South China Sea do not comply with international law in a declaration likely to anger China and put more strain on their deteriorating relations.

The United States this month rejected China's claims to offshore resources in most of the South China Sea, drawing criticism from China which said the US position raised tension in the region.

Australia, in a declaration filed at the United Nations in New York on Friday (Jul 24), said it too rejected China’s maritime claims around contested islands in the South China Sea as being inconsistent with the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea.

"Australia rejects China's claim to 'historic rights' or 'maritime rights and interests' as established in the 'long course of historical practice' in the South China Sea," it said.  Reuters

In the above article, as usual, the white men in US and Australia are claiming that China's claim to South China Sea's islands as unlawful. What about the white men's claim to the land in North America, now called USA, and the continent of Australia, seized from the natives of both lands? Are they lawful, are they legal?

What international laws allowed the white men to seize the land in North America and Australia from the natives?  The South China Sea's islands are uninhabited when China found them. There was the law of finders keepers on no man's land.  The continent of North America and Australia have their own native inhabitants, not no man's land. On what basis are the white Americans and Australians claiming these lands as theirs from the natives of these lands?