A Tribute To Good Old Forum Banter

[jw5]

Goh Meng Seng​

1h ·
Rule of Law, Rule by Law, Rule by Mob Law
Rule of Law - The Lady Justice is blinded with a balance scale held in the left hand and a sword held in the right hand. This symbolizes impartiality (blindfolded without prejudice of who is being judged), judging with balance of evidence and logic and the power of punishment held in the sword.
Rule of Law depends not only on the Judge but the whole judiciary system which includes the police as well as the public prosecutors.
Rule by Law - the Law is applied with differential prejudice in accordance to who you are, who you know, what's your social status etc.
Rule by Mob Law - this is basically lawlessness whereby punishment or law is applied in accordance to "Court of Public Opinion" instead of the proper professional institutions trained and tasked to evaluate evidences and legal rules in a balanced manner.
Everyone would want to maintain the Rule of Law for our country but everyone tends to form opinions quickly without qualifications by critical thinking. Most of the time, it's a knee jerk emotional responses rather than an reaction after careful examination of the information and evidences of these cases.
The blindfold of the Lady of Justice doesn't symbolize don't need to look at any evidences or details of the cases! Some people must have been mistaken.
Anyone could disagree with the judges and their judgement, but they are trained to examine legal evidences, rules and logical reasoning to determine fair judgement. Thus unless you have a better logical reasoning which is more convincing, else we should just respect the judges and their judgement.
Most of the comments so far, are full of prejudice and personal biasness, instead of presenting logical reasonings or arguments.
We should not subject our legal system to Mob rules. Court of Public Opinion doesn't contain public who are trained in legal terms and logical reasoning. Most of the time, most people are ignorant with only emotional responses.
People can be blind but not wise as the Lady of Justice.

 

[jw5]

Goh Meng Seng​

22h ·
David Neo's idiotic remarks is just International Embarrassment but our PM Wong's remarks here will potentially put our whole National interests at risk!
He should just shut up and refrain from commenting on China-Japan spat as the Prime Minister of SG! He is indirectly saying SEA "trust Japan" more than China in providing military security! Does it mean that he agree with Japan's proposition that it should provide "co-defense" pact with Taiwan?!
This is definitely a very dangerous proposition and everyone in North Asia and SEA are keeping mum about this spat between China and Japan because it's really ultra sensitive. Nobody will think you are mute if you don't talk about this issue on international platform.
There is no "dispute" on who was the aggressor in World War II and the terms of Japanese surrender are pretty clear.
If Lawrence Wong doesn't really understand World War II and its implications on post war dynamics, he should use his skill future fund to enroll himself in history course on World War II!
I just want to remind PM Wong, Singapore has hundreds of billions invested in China. He is dancing on a very thin rope now and he is risking our National interests and investment in China for making such comments.
There is saying in Chinese, "說者無心，聽者有意。"
"黃循財也將目光轉到目前陷入緊張關係的中日兩國，表示亞洲保持穩定符合所有人的利益，希望兩國能夠找到緩和當前局勢的方法。但中日關係複雜，部分原因涉及美中間的戰略競爭，雙方在釣魚台與二戰歷史也都有爭議，希望兩國能找到解決複雜問題的方法，向前邁進。
「就歷史而言，東南亞對日本的態度一直是如此」，黃循財強調，這需要一些時間，而隨著世代的更迭，人們的感受已經不同。他舉出多項調查表示，日本是東南亞國家最值得信賴的大國，大家都支持日本在該地區發揮更大作用，其中包含安全領域。"