First Part of Gopi's ChallengeSingapore. Judge Belinda Ang's Kangaroo CourtLadies and Gentlemen,This is Gopalan Nair in Singapore today, May 29, 2008. I have been in Singaporesince May 25, 2008, and staying now at Broadway Hotel, Room 708, 195 SerangoonRoad, Singapore 218067.I am deliberately stating my identity and my present exact location for a definitepurpose. On day 2 of the trial in Singapore, day before yesterday, in the Lee KuanYew and son verses Dr. Chee Soon Juan case, Lee senior had said in answer to aquestion by Dr. Chee, that if he, Lee Kuan Yew, knew the identity of bloggers incyberspace who defamed him (defamation being used of course in the Singaporeansense), he will sue and bankrupt them.He had earlier sidestepped the question by saying, that he had difficulty suingcritics of his in the Internet because their identities were not usually known.When pressed, he categorically and deliberately stated that he will sue if theymade known their identities.Well, what you are going to read should be without question defamatory of Mr. Leeand his son, that is in the warped and hare brained Alice in Wonderland meaning ofthe word "defamation". It will be interesting to see if this Singapore strongman,Lee Kuan Yew and son, who strut around the small island of Singapore bullyingeveryone who so much as criticized, will sue me now for calling him nothing morethan a small time street bully; since now, we have myself Gopalan Nair who has thetemerity to identify himself and state his presence with full address inSingapore.Mr. Lee Kuan Yew, see here. I am now within the jurisdiction of your courts; Irepeat, "the jurisdiction of your courts" because literally they are your courts,willing to commit any crime or injustice you will demand of them.During the last 3 days of the court hearing, up till yesterday, in the High Court,before your stooge of a judge, Belinda Ang in Court 4, you and your Prime Ministerson conducted yourselves as expected, no better than cowards hiding behind thecoat tails of your equally cowardly counsel doubling up as a PAP politician incourt; who managed with the full co-operation of the said judge to ensure that youcame to court merely for form, refusing to answer almost all questions that wentdirectly to your integrity or rather the lack of it.After the end of the 3 days in court, it left no doubt in my mind that you andyour son are indeed what international human rights organizations say you are,nothing more than tin pot tyrants who remain in power by abusing the courts toeliminate your political opponents. You are clearly corrupt, as is yourgovernment, because paying yourself $3.7 million is corruption pure and simple andin the end you have lost all credibility and moral authority to govern Singapore.The following transpired during the last 3 days in court. The judge Belinda Angwas throughout prostituting herself during the entire proceedings, by beingnothing more than an employee of Mr. Lee Kuan Yew and his son and carrying outtheir orders. There was murder, the rule of law being the repeated victim.The issue in the said court was the determination of the quantum of damagespayable by the innocent victim, Dr. Chee Soon Juan who had earlier been foundliable by this judge for defamation of character of Mr. Lee and son, where the law

was once again abused through the contrivance of a process known as summaryproceedings, thereby disallowing Dr. Chee to produce any witnesses or to cross-examine those of Mr. Lee because there were none.The said 3 day of hearing before the court was nothing more than a mockery ofjustice; a charade, a make believe that appeared right out of the pages of Alicein Wonderland with Belinda Ang playing the role of the Queen of Hearts before thetrial of the Mouse who stole the Tarts very well indeed. It almost appeared thatshe was going to dispense with all testimony and come straight to the verdict ofguilty so as not to waste her valuable time!It would be fair to say, in fact an understatement, that in effect she disallowedDr. Chee any effective cross examination of either the father Lee Kuan Yew or theson, as Mr. Singh, their counsel was almost having a workout like in a gym;standing up to object, and sitting down after almost each and every question thatDr. Chee put to his father and son clients. In fact Singh was popping up and downalmost without let up during the several hours of the hearing so much so, thatsomeone suggested to me that it would have been a good idea if he remainedstanding throughout the case to facilitate his expected objections at each andevery question of Dr. Chee.If Dr. Chee did manage to ask even one question, it was because he went ahead andasked it despite the objection of both Mr. Singh and the judge because if he didnot, he would not have been able to ask any questions at all!Dr. Chee has asked Lee's son how much he was being paid, that is $3.7 million, 6times what George Bush is paid! Question disallowed and the son shamefully justsits there, protected by his counsel Mr. Singh and the kangaroo judge.Chee asks whether it is just for him to corruptly steal this amount of taxpayer'smoney while the poor in the 1 room flats starve without any financial assistance!Question disallowed and the son shamefully just sits there, protected by hiscounsel Mr. Singh and the kangaroo judge.Chee asks why the GIC and HDB function under a shroud of secrecy without anytransparency, when the moneys in them is taxpayers money? Question disallowed andthe son shamefully just sits there, protected by his counsel Mr. Singh and thekangaroo judge.Chee asks whether he knew that those who read the Internet overwhelmingly hatedhim as a tyrant and a bully and the only ones singing praises in his name are theSingapore state owned and controlled media? Question disallowed and the sonshamefully just sits there, protected by his counsel Mr. Singh and the kangaroojudge.Chee asks whether the international community looks at him no better than a despotand a father's son? Question disallowed and the son shamefully just sits there,protected by his counsel Mr. Singh and the kangaroo judge.Chee had asked this Lee Kuan Yew's son why he said in the 2006 elections that " ifthere were more opposition candidates at elections, he will have to "fix" them andbribe his voters to win elections"? Question disallowed and the son shamefullyjust sits there, protected by his counsel Mr. Singh and the kangaroo judge.There were many more questions put to him just as the above questions, all veryrelevant, which, had they been answered, would have shown that he had no integrityor reputation whatsoever, and since integrity and reputation are the issues indeciding quantum of damages, Lee Kuan Yew's son should have been awarded no

damages at all; that is provided we have an independent judiciary, which we havenot.Any honest spectator in the court's gallery would have come away with one opinionalone, that is, this man is Prime Minister only because he happens to be the sonof his father. If he really wanted to show that he was in fact in control, hecould have easily told his lawyer to stop being the Jack in the Box and stoppopping up and down with his objections and let him handle the questions. At eachquestion, he was looking meekly at his counsel to see whether he has to answer it.If I could put it in a simple way, he was nothing more than a helpless boy.The following refer to Lee Kuan Yew's testimony or rather the lack of it.Chee asked him whether he came to power through unfair means in 1959, as shown bydeclassified British Colonial Office documents in London? Question disallowed andthe father shamefully just sits there, protected by his counsel Mr. Singh and thekangaroo judge.Chee asks about his throwing Lim Chin Siong, his political compatriot, in jailunder the ISA in solitary confinement for several years in the 1960s and whetherthis was a sign of a man with a reputation and integrity? Question disallowed andthe father shamefully just sits there, protected by his counsel Mr. Singh and thekangaroo judge.Chee asks about the Operation Cold Store in the 1960s where he jails politicalopponents because he fears he might be overthrown? Question disallowed and thefather shamefully just sits there, protected by his counsel Mr. Singh and thekangaroo judge.Chee asks about Chia Thye Poh, Zaid Zakaharia and Lim Hock Siew, his politicalopponents whom he imprisons without cause for many many years? Question disallowedand the father shamefully just sits there, protected by his counsel Mr. Singh andthe kangaroo judge.Chee asks whether the only people who have a good opinion of him are his stateowned and controlled Singapore press, whereas everyone else in Singapore as wellas the entire list of respectable foreign organizations and countries includingthe entire European Union consider him as a thug and small time street bully?Question disallowed and the father shamefully just sits there, protected by hiscounsel Mr. Singh and the kangaroo judge.Other than the dubious Transparency International Kula Lumpur Chapter (not to beconfused with Transparency International of Berlin Germany) he was asked whetheranyone else considered him in high regard other than the local press which hecontrols? His answer was that PERC and a Swiss organization, both of whom caterfor businessmen thought highly of him. But when asked whether highly respectedAmnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Lawyers Without Borders, Reporterswithout Borders, ILRW and several other international bodies considered him acrook; he had nothing to say, because as usual the Jack Rabbit Davinder Singhstood up once again to object and the judge obediently sustained the objection.Then Lee Kuan Yew went on to insult Dr. Chee with impunity, that he is a liar, acheat a charlatan, a criminal and what not. Of course the judge permitted theseinsults, since after all Lee Kuan Yew and his son owned the courts and the judgeas well.These court proceeding were nothing more than a sham, a charade and a mockery ofjustice. It was very clear that both father and son had no integrity or