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For those of you who did not go to Hong Lim or wasted your time shopping, you should listen to Han Hui Hui's experience.
PM Lee said he aims for a JUST and FAIR society. One element of JUST is JUSTICE.
For those of you unaware of what is going on, the high income inequality also has an effect on JUSTICE. A few of my neighbors running small businesses or stalls get into dispute with big landlords, the way things are handled is for them to hire a big law firm to threaten the small guy....because poor people cannot afford expensive lawyers
they very often have to give way rather than fight and incur huge legal expenses. In other words, JUSTICE favors those with more money, a rich person whether caught for drunk driving or involved in wrong doing can hire the best lawyer queen counsel - example is Ng Boon Guy who paid, many believe, close to 500K to 1M to clear his name....a poor person with just go to jail simply because he has no money to fight. In other words money rules, and when you have income inequality at the level of Singapore....JUSTICE is compromised. To balance this there has to legal-aid and legal welfare available at a large scale for anyone without financial muscle to pursue a case.
For Tan Hui Hui's case, if not for a single human rights lawyer Ravi who was willing to take up her case, she would have been bankrupted or silenced by big organisations ....this is how one person can make a difference to another. But Ravi cannot handle the tens of thousands of cases of big organisations legally bully small guys.....hence more must be done to uphold our pledge : TO BUILD A DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY BASED ON JUSTICE AND EQUALITY.
JUSTICE is not so easily achieved in an unequal society....under a govt that has done too little and wait to late to understand...it is even harder.
For those of you who did not go to Hong Lim or wasted your time shopping, you should listen to Han Hui Hui's experience.
PM Lee said he aims for a JUST and FAIR society. One element of JUST is JUSTICE.
For those of you unaware of what is going on, the high income inequality also has an effect on JUSTICE. A few of my neighbors running small businesses or stalls get into dispute with big landlords, the way things are handled is for them to hire a big law firm to threaten the small guy....because poor people cannot afford expensive lawyers
they very often have to give way rather than fight and incur huge legal expenses. In other words, JUSTICE favors those with more money, a rich person whether caught for drunk driving or involved in wrong doing can hire the best lawyer queen counsel - example is Ng Boon Guy who paid, many believe, close to 500K to 1M to clear his name....a poor person with just go to jail simply because he has no money to fight. In other words money rules, and when you have income inequality at the level of Singapore....JUSTICE is compromised. To balance this there has to legal-aid and legal welfare available at a large scale for anyone without financial muscle to pursue a case.
For Tan Hui Hui's case, if not for a single human rights lawyer Ravi who was willing to take up her case, she would have been bankrupted or silenced by big organisations ....this is how one person can make a difference to another. But Ravi cannot handle the tens of thousands of cases of big organisations legally bully small guys.....hence more must be done to uphold our pledge : TO BUILD A DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY BASED ON JUSTICE AND EQUALITY.
JUSTICE is not so easily achieved in an unequal society....under a govt that has done too little and wait to late to understand...it is even harder.
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