Reporters Without Borders Condemns Proceedings Against WSJ Editor

[SNAblog]

http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=30593

Singapore : Green light for contempt proceedings against Wall Street Journal editor

Reporters Without Borders, 16 Mar 2009

Reporters Without Borders deplores high court judge Tay Yong Kwang’s decision to give the attorney-general a green light to start contempt of court proceedings against Melanie Kirkpatrick, the deputy editor of the Wall Street Journal’s editorial page, in connection with two editorials and an op-ed piece about the Singaporean judiciary published in the newspaper’s Asia edition in June and July 2008.

“We urge the high court to reverse this decision in order not to jeopardise the freedom of foreign journalists to express their views about the situation in Singapore,” Reporters Without Borders said. “The government’s harassment of the Wall Street Journal indicates a chronic inability to tolerate criticism and is very harmful to the country’s image.”

The high court decision was reported last weekend by the Straits Times, which quoted court documents as saying the articles “contained passages that scandalise the Singapore judiciary.”

The high court already found the Wall Street Journal in contempt of court last November in connection with the same articles, fining it 25,000 Singapore dollars (16,250 US dollars). Attorney general Walter Woon said at the time that the articles questioned the judiciary’s independence.

The Singaporean government has in the past obtained damages from Bloomberg, The Economist and The International Herald Tribune.

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[besotted]

Well done Tay Yong Kwang. Sue the bloody Wall Street Journal and chase them out from our borders

Fuck these bloody Westerners who think they are damn smart and like to lecture other people

Unfortunately our younger generation here suffers from Pinkerton syndrome and worship the white man and his bullshit despite the way the expats think they are one level above the locals

 

[SamuelStalin]

I also think I am above the locals.

Well done Tay Yong Kwang. Sue the bloody Wall Street Journal and chase them out from our borders

Fuck these bloody Westerners who think they are damn smart and like to lecture other people

Unfortunately our younger generation here suffers from Pinkerton syndrome and worship the white man and his bullshit despite the way the expats think they are one level above the locals

 

[johnny333]

Well done Tay Yong Kwang. Sue the bloody Wall Street Journal and chase them out from our borders

Fuck these bloody Westerners who think they are damn smart and like to lecture other people

Unfortunately our younger generation here suffers from Pinkerton syndrome and worship the white man and his bullshit despite the way the expats think they are one level above the locals

Leaving aside white man lecturing the poor asian peasant, or the Spore
elite. Haven't read the article so don't know if its accurate.

Have you read the article? Whats it about? Got a copy or URL

 

[yansen84]

Well done Tay Yong Kwang. Sue the bloody Wall Street Journal and chase them out from our borders

Fuck these bloody Westerners who think they are damn smart and like to lecture other people

Unfortunately our younger generation here suffers from Pinkerton syndrome and worship the white man and his bullshit despite the way the expats think they are one level above the locals

I'd read the WSJ or FT over the shitty times on any given day

 

[angie II]

Why are u all (excluding the TS) replying to a DOG?

 

[funglung]

Kangaroo courts have better sense of justic and fairness than the courts of Lee Kuan Yew Singapore.


The courts of Singapore is nothing but a parody and sick joke populated by puppets of stinking bastard Lee Kuan Yew.




DO NOT WAIT UNTIL ELECTION TIME
THE TIME TO ACT IS NOW!

TALK TO YOUR FRIENDS AND YOUR RELATIVES.

SUPPORT OPPOSITION PARTIES WITH YOUR TIME AND MONEY AND STAND BY THEM AND WITH THEM.
THEY SPEAK FOR YOU AND TRY TO SPEAK FOR YOU.

LKY AND PAP HAVE BEEN USING THEIR KANGAROO COURTS TO TRY TO BANKRUPT THEM TO SILENCE THEM.

IF YOU DO NOT STAND WITH THEM AND STAND BY THEM, CAN YOU STAND ALONE AGAINST LKY?

SINGAPOREANS MUST UNITE AND SUPPORT ALL THE OPPOSITION PARTIES.


DO NOT JUST WAIT UNTIL ELECTION TO VOTE


VOTE OUT LKY AND HIS BASTARDS IN WHITE WHO ONLY WANT YOUR MONEY AND TO FUCK YOU.


IF NOT FOR YOURSELF, THEN FOR THE FUTURE OF YOUR CHILDREN

THERE WILL NOT BE AN OBAMA AS PRESIDENT OF USA IF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT THERE WAS INTIMIDATED BY BEATINGS AND LYNCHINGS IN THE PAST.


THE TOBBLING OF LKY WILL NOT BE EASY, AND CAN BE BLOODY AS WELL.
THEY WILL NOT GIVE UP THE BILLIONS THAT THEY SUCKED FROM YOU AND CAN CONTINUE TO SCREW FROM YOU NOW AND IN FUTURE.


ONLY YOU HAVE THE POWER TO SAY 'NO MORE OF THAT' AND THROW EVERYONE OF THOSE BASTARDS OUT







Already 400-500++ billions got sucked and bled by LKY into his Temasick and GIC.
HOW MANY OTHER BILLIONS GOT SUCKED AND USED BY THEM IN GLC WHERE THEIR FAMILY MEMBERS AND MINISTERS AND BASTARDS IN WHITE ARE CHAIRMAN AND CEOS?

EVEN IF NO ELECTIONS, SINKIES MUST SPEAK WITH ALL THEIR FRIENDS AND ALL THEY KNOW

STAND UP TO THAT BASTARD LKY AND PAP BLOODSUCKERS

STAND WITH ALL THOSE THAT FIGHT BASTARD LKY

OR STAND UP YOURSELF IN YOUR CONSTITUENCY

DONT BE BULLIED BY THAT FUCKING COWARD LKY USING HIS CORRUPT KANGAROO COURTS AND ALL THAT HE CAN, AND WILL THROW AT YOU


You will fear them only if you allow yourself to fear them.

Just because THEY want you to fear them, must you fear those fucking bastards?

THEY ONLY CAN RULE YOU , AND BLED YOU , THROUGH FEAR AND INTIMIDATION.


SINKIES,

FIND YOUR BALLS AND STAND UP TO THEM.
THEY WILL THEN FEAR YOU.

AND YOU REGAIN YOUR MONEY AND YOUR FUTURE AND YOUR CHILDREN FUTURE.

DO NOT LET OUR MONEY GO TO FUND PAP DOGS FRENCH COOKING LESSONS

DO NOT DIE IN OLD FOLK HOMES IN JB.

FIND YOUR BALLS AND STAND UP TO THEM





LEE KUAN YEW LOST AND LOST DUNNO HOW MANY BILLIONS IN TEMASICK AND GIC

EVEN MORE BILLIONS HE THREW AWAY TO HIS DOGS AND COCKROACHES SO THEY CAN TAKE FRENCH COOKING LESSONS

LKY NEED MORE BILLIONS FROM SINKIES WHO VOTED FOR HIM AND FROM THOSE WHO VOIDED THEIR VOTES

EVEN IF YOU VOTE AGAINST HIM, NO DIFFERENCE.

COLLECTIVE PUNISHMENT AS SINKIES DID NOT TRY HARD ENOUGH TO KICK OUT THAT VAMPIRE BASTARD LKY

SO EXPECT EVERYTHING IN SINGAPORE TO GO UP AND UP

BASTARD LKY NEED YOUR $$$$$

HE SCREW YOU AND DEMAND THAT YOU THANK HIM FOR HIS FUCKING 'SUBISIDIESD BULLSHIT' AND 'AFFORDABLE' CON-TALK.

GO ALL OUT TO KICK ALL THOSE BASTARDS OUT

ALL OF THEM