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TR sure knows how to pick his friends.....
Mongeral Gopalan Nair would have been jailed for contempt of court but was given a telling-off and warning against making attacks against the Singapore Judiciary in future, when he admitted in open court that he had made statements that were punishable as contempt of court.
He then went on to offer an unreserved apology to the court and to District Judge James Leong for offending comments that he had made.
But this two headed snake withdrew his admissions and apologies just two days after returning to the US from Singapore.
Now he is making hoaxes about LKY's death and TR comes to his rescue...
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MR Temasek Review..
You better watch what you say....Gopalan has the sanctuary of the US. You on the other hand are in Singapore.
And yes the burden of proof will come and crush you and all that associate with you for your plagarism, harrassment of officials and the spreading of falsehoods!!
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The “hoax” by Gopalan Nair on Lee Kuan Yew having a heart attack: More than meet the eyesMarch 10, 2010 by admin
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OPINION
When Gopalan Nair posted the article last Saturday claiming that PAP octogenarian leader Lee Kuan had “suffered a massive heart attack”, it sounded so real that it soon spread like wildfire in Singapore’s blogosphere.
24 hours later, he updated the title to clarify that it is a “hoax” before penning another article to explain why he did so. Gopalan’s “hoax” naturally did not go down too well with netizens especially those who have “popped the champagne” too early to celebrate the news, many of whom flamed him for spreading “malicious” lies.
As expected, the Straits Times jumped into the fray by portraying Gopalan as a nutcase while casting doubts on the credibility of the New Media. Some bloggers even tried to make use of the saga to boost their own “credibility” by condemning Gopalan on their blogs and demanding an apology from him.
Netizens should not fall into the trap set by the establishment and mainstream media and start to play according to the rules set by them using their own contorted version of “credibility” as a yardstick.
In today’s wired world, there is such thing as “absolute truths” or “absolute lies” – everything else exists somewhere in between in a gray area.
Gopalan has the right to post whatever he wants on his blog. The onus is on netizens themselves to decipher for themselves the degree of truth in his article and to expose the fallacies if any.
That is what the New Media is all about – a free-for-all world where nobody can control the flow of information or has the monopoly on the truth.
And the most beautiful part is that everybody is interacting with one another on an equal footing – no one is more “credible” or “truthful” than the other.
Gopalan Nair has been blogging for many years, far longer than the existence of this site. Though some of his views may be outlandish, he has never posted any “hoax” at least till last Saturday.
Being a lawyer by training, he should know that he will be discrediting himself by posting such unverified reports on his blog. Even if it is really a hoax, it is unlike him not to post a disclaimer at the bottom of the article.
Now consider the following anomalies:
1. There was no immediate response from the Prime Minister’s Office to refute the statements made by Gopalan Nair. In this instance, there are sufficient grounds for suing him, even in the United States.
2. The best way to dispel the rumors is to get SGH to issue a public statement that Lee was never admitted to the hospital. The Straits Times mentioned that SGH received numerous phone calls from the public, but did not reveal if Lee was ever admitted.
3. Lee made a trip to the United Kingdom yesterday. He had not been seen in public for more than a week. Given the possible damage done by the rumors, shouldn’t Lee made a public appearance in Singapore to allay lingering anxieties and concerns?
If you realize, till now, amidst all the cacophony, it has yet to be proven beyond any reasonable doubt that Lee was never admitted to SGH last week for a heart attack or otherwise. Whether it is indeed a hoax as claimed by Gopalan is another matter altogether.
The burden of proof is on the authorities to show us that Lee is indeed in the pink of health and since the matter had already been brought up by the mainstream media, why didn’t it proceed to clarify it completely now and then?
There are two ways to refute such rumors: either issue a public statement to demolish them once and for all or ignore them altogether. It is strange that the state media has gone on a merry-go-round to discredit Gopalan Nair without addressing the crux of the matter. Is Lee’s health less important than Gopalan’s online credibility?
Let us recall a sensational murder case which rocked Malaysia last year.
One of its key witness Balasubramaniam had made a statutory declaration implicating Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Najib Razak in the murder of Mongolian model Altantuya Shaariibuu. He retracted the declaration a day later and made a new one removing all mention of Najib before disappearing.
He finally surfaced 8 months later in India where he claimed that he was forced to retract the first statutory declaration and that its contents are true in an interview with Malaysia Today.
Reading is not believing. There’s more than meets the eye in this case.
Mongeral Gopalan Nair would have been jailed for contempt of court but was given a telling-off and warning against making attacks against the Singapore Judiciary in future, when he admitted in open court that he had made statements that were punishable as contempt of court.
He then went on to offer an unreserved apology to the court and to District Judge James Leong for offending comments that he had made.
But this two headed snake withdrew his admissions and apologies just two days after returning to the US from Singapore.
Now he is making hoaxes about LKY's death and TR comes to his rescue...
+++++++++++++++
MR Temasek Review..
You better watch what you say....Gopalan has the sanctuary of the US. You on the other hand are in Singapore.
And yes the burden of proof will come and crush you and all that associate with you for your plagarism, harrassment of officials and the spreading of falsehoods!!
+++++++++++++++
The “hoax” by Gopalan Nair on Lee Kuan Yew having a heart attack: More than meet the eyesMarch 10, 2010 by admin
Filed under Opinion
Leave a comment
OPINION
When Gopalan Nair posted the article last Saturday claiming that PAP octogenarian leader Lee Kuan had “suffered a massive heart attack”, it sounded so real that it soon spread like wildfire in Singapore’s blogosphere.
24 hours later, he updated the title to clarify that it is a “hoax” before penning another article to explain why he did so. Gopalan’s “hoax” naturally did not go down too well with netizens especially those who have “popped the champagne” too early to celebrate the news, many of whom flamed him for spreading “malicious” lies.
As expected, the Straits Times jumped into the fray by portraying Gopalan as a nutcase while casting doubts on the credibility of the New Media. Some bloggers even tried to make use of the saga to boost their own “credibility” by condemning Gopalan on their blogs and demanding an apology from him.
Netizens should not fall into the trap set by the establishment and mainstream media and start to play according to the rules set by them using their own contorted version of “credibility” as a yardstick.
In today’s wired world, there is such thing as “absolute truths” or “absolute lies” – everything else exists somewhere in between in a gray area.
Gopalan has the right to post whatever he wants on his blog. The onus is on netizens themselves to decipher for themselves the degree of truth in his article and to expose the fallacies if any.
That is what the New Media is all about – a free-for-all world where nobody can control the flow of information or has the monopoly on the truth.
And the most beautiful part is that everybody is interacting with one another on an equal footing – no one is more “credible” or “truthful” than the other.
Gopalan Nair has been blogging for many years, far longer than the existence of this site. Though some of his views may be outlandish, he has never posted any “hoax” at least till last Saturday.
Being a lawyer by training, he should know that he will be discrediting himself by posting such unverified reports on his blog. Even if it is really a hoax, it is unlike him not to post a disclaimer at the bottom of the article.
Now consider the following anomalies:
1. There was no immediate response from the Prime Minister’s Office to refute the statements made by Gopalan Nair. In this instance, there are sufficient grounds for suing him, even in the United States.
2. The best way to dispel the rumors is to get SGH to issue a public statement that Lee was never admitted to the hospital. The Straits Times mentioned that SGH received numerous phone calls from the public, but did not reveal if Lee was ever admitted.
3. Lee made a trip to the United Kingdom yesterday. He had not been seen in public for more than a week. Given the possible damage done by the rumors, shouldn’t Lee made a public appearance in Singapore to allay lingering anxieties and concerns?
If you realize, till now, amidst all the cacophony, it has yet to be proven beyond any reasonable doubt that Lee was never admitted to SGH last week for a heart attack or otherwise. Whether it is indeed a hoax as claimed by Gopalan is another matter altogether.
The burden of proof is on the authorities to show us that Lee is indeed in the pink of health and since the matter had already been brought up by the mainstream media, why didn’t it proceed to clarify it completely now and then?
There are two ways to refute such rumors: either issue a public statement to demolish them once and for all or ignore them altogether. It is strange that the state media has gone on a merry-go-round to discredit Gopalan Nair without addressing the crux of the matter. Is Lee’s health less important than Gopalan’s online credibility?
Let us recall a sensational murder case which rocked Malaysia last year.
One of its key witness Balasubramaniam had made a statutory declaration implicating Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Najib Razak in the murder of Mongolian model Altantuya Shaariibuu. He retracted the declaration a day later and made a new one removing all mention of Najib before disappearing.
He finally surfaced 8 months later in India where he claimed that he was forced to retract the first statutory declaration and that its contents are true in an interview with Malaysia Today.
Reading is not believing. There’s more than meets the eye in this case.
