You Decide: Prosecution or Persecution?

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 powerless.

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 is your perception? Prosecution or persecution? You decide. 

COVID-19 - No End In Sight

COVID19 PANDEMIC - INFECTIONS AT SINGAPORE WORKERS' DORMITORIES NO END IN SIGHT

After 4 months, the situation of COVID-19 infections is still not under control inside Singapore’s foreign workers' dormitories.

As reported by the Health Authority, there are between 200 to 400 cases on the average every day. This is not acceptable. It is taking too long to weed out infections inside the workers' dormitories. This will definitely spill over to the community once the foreign workers are allowed to leave their dormitories.

What does this mean?

Probable Answers:

1. The relevent leaders are probably taking it too easily or they still have no clue how to deal with it efficiently and effectively.

2. The Ministry for Health does not have any concrete viable plan to stamp out COVID19 infections in the foreign workers' dormitories on an urgent basis.

3. The policy could be to allow as many of the foreign workers be infected by the COVID-19 disease so as to achieve "Herd Immunity" on a large scale. If this is so, then it is not only foolhardy but also cruel and ruthless.

Whatever the reasons for the lacklustre actions, in the mean time, the workers are still being exposed continuously to infection and re-infection again and again, and are living like prisoners.

Even though many people have been reported "recovered" or "released from hospitals", their lungs and other organs could probably have been damaged beyond repair for life!

We know that only our liver can heal itself, if not badly damaged. However, all our other organs once damaged cannot repair themselves.

The damaged organs may not function in full force again and may lead to secondary causes of death in the future, unknown to the health authories or the sufferers/victims.

Therefore, it is wise not to let ourselves be infected by the Covid-19 coronavirus at all costs. Take all the necessary precautions to ensure that you stay alive in full health happily.

Never allow ourselves to be used as Guinea Pigs by any ruthless, unethical, immoral or easy-way-out policy formulated by unwise and imperfect men - politicians and scientists alike. We do so at our own peril.

May all be well and happy!
May all enjoy good health and longevity.
May all have the will to see things as they are.
May all stay in perfect equanimity!


The LOOP - July 2020.
First published at mysingaporenews on 22 July 2020.