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Related reading........ "S'pore govt dismisses human rights allegations in IBA report - Ministry of Law responds" Just read somewhere that this book was banned in Singapore. I have not read this book yet but why was it banned?

haha when can i own a alfat again?

Hi MCF brudders, Just now around 1pm, was travelling at 70-80km/h along Jalan Bukit Merah towards Eu Tong Sen St and was approaching the CTE flyover when the light turned amber. I was like 10 -15 metres away from the traffic light and thought I was clear to go but the light turned red when I was 5 metres away . . boh pian had to continue driving as I would not be able to stop in time My bad for not slowing down and stopping . . . sorry to all the turning vehicles in the opposite direction as there were quite a number of cars horning away. My apologies!

Singapore Democrats 10 Feb 08 Former Singapore solicitor-general and Law Society president Mr Francis Seow filed an affidavit in support of the SDP in the lawsuit against Mr Lee Kuan Yew and son, Mr Lee Hsien Loong. The Lees sued the Singapore Democrats and its executive members over an article which the party published drawing parallels between the NKF scandal and the way the PAP runs Singapore. The High Court awarded the Lees the case without giving the SDP a fair trial despite the fact that the defendants had filed their defence and raised the fact that there were disputes in fact and law. The judiciary will now decide how much the Lees have to be paid in damages in a hearing. Mr Seow filed an affidavit last week as a witness for the Singapore Democrats. In it, he refuted the claims made by the Lees that they are worth the amounts they claim (see below). Earlier, the SDP and two other defendants Ms Chee Siok Chin and Dr Chee Soon Juan, filed their Affidavit Evidence in Chief, stating that the reputations of the Lees have inflated by the system they control. Mr Seow has stated that he stands ready to be cross-examined at the hearing. Affidavit of Mr Francis Seow: I, Francis T Seow, do hereby make oath and say as follows: 1. I am a witness for the defendants in this suit. 2. I was the former Solicitor-General of Singapore and the former President of the Law Society of Singapore. 3. As the former Solicitor-General, I have some knowledge of how the Government works under the Lee Kuan Yew (LKY). From my interactions with him, there is no doubt that LKY is bent on the total control of the Singaporean society. 4. The use of the Internal Security Act (ISA) to quarantine and rehabilitate his political opponents, the wholesale subjugation of the print and broadcast media, the prohibition of public protests, and ironically the use of defamation laws have all had one effect: To silence opposing views in Singapore. 5. I was one of his victims. I was arrested and detained without trial under the ISA for opposing LKY's ways and his autocratic policies. My experience under detention is recounted in my book To Catch A Tartar: A Dissident in Lee Kuan Yew's Prison published by the prestigious Yale University Southeast Asia Studies. Pertinently, no one, not even the ever-litigious Lee Kuan Yew, has challenged the accuracy of what I had related in my book. 6. During my imprisonment I was told during my interrogators that they were going to neutralize me and that I should give up my idea of going into politics: "So, you think, you can take on and bully the second-generation leaders? Well, our job is to make sure that you do not succeed. We are here to neutralize you. You know, to neutralize you! For your infomatioon, Lee Kuan Yew is running for another term. And you will be locked up here for at least two years, if not more. So, where will you be? You can give up all your ideas of going into politics." (Francis T Seow, To Catch A Tartar: A Dissident in Lee Kuan Yew's Prison published, Yale University Southeast Asia Studies, 1994). 7. If the State can treat the country's former solicitor-general in such a contemptible manner, how much more can it intimidate the ordinary citizen