PM Lee takes legal action against blogger Alex Au
Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong is taking legal action against blogger Alex Au for allegations made in a post about the sale of computer systems used by town councils.
A letter of the demand was sent to Mr Au on Friday, saying that an article on the blog entitled “PAP mis-AIMed, faces blowback”, together with 21 other comments that the blogger allowed to be posted on the site, can be taken together to suggest that PM Lee is guilty of corruption in relation to the transaction between the PAP town councils and the firm Action Information Management (Aim).
“These are false and baseless allegations,” said the letter of demand which was from Senior Counsel Davinder Singh of Drew and Napier.
The blog post had raised several questions about the circumstances surrounding the contract signed between the PAP town councils and Aim.
Mr Singh goes on to ask that Mr Au immediately remove the article and comments as well as publish an apology to PM Lee. He has been given two days to comply, before legal proceedings will begin.
This is the second time in in six months that Mr Au has been asked to apologise for an article on his blog. In July last year, he apologised for a blog post on the case of plastic surgeon Woffles Wu’s traffic fine after the Attorney-General’s Chambers wrote to him to say that his post was contemptuous of the courts for alleging that courts are biased towards the well-connected.
As of 3.30pm on Friday, the post about the town councils was still up on Mr Au’s blog.
together with 21 other comments that the blogger allowed to be posted on his site,
Rightly or wrongly, it's the 3rd time Alex Au was slapped by a legal letter. One was to K Shanmugam for his "affair" and one to AGC on the Waffles Wu case.
I suggest he starts blogging anonymously. It is a disadvantage to be open about your identity, and it also does not look good to have to keep apologizing and make yourself look like an irresponsible blogger.
Look at Real Singaporean team which snubbed Davinder's request to reveal their identifies.
The blog posts and comments may go, but always remember this:
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Wow, they had actually picked and choose which comments were undesirable?
Those twits don't understand that the blog/site owner isn't responsible for the comments made by visitors?
Well if he gets sued, I hope he comes up with an appeals campaign,,I for one sure will donate,,,,If all of us donate $2.00 plus the 40% donate abit,,and this goes to court,,more shit will be leaked out to embarrass PAP even further,,,now is not like the 80s,,,no alternative media,,,PAP is resorting to old tactics,,,but with the alternative media,,sure will picah PAP Lobang one
Go ahead. Collect the money for a cause that Alex Au will surely lose. He is too poor to pay damages so it is good that you donate money to Alex to pay for them.
Alex Au has already chickened out, by the way.