Many many moons ago I had an online conversation with Locke and shared what I thought. In essence he was encouraged to start TOC by none other than the PAP. Now the meetings, the dinner and what have you.
Below is probably the slickest and smoothest reply covering both sides of the divide that I have ever seen. And we all know about Raymond Lim and the non-partisan roundtable.
Kirsten was used as the tethered goat in the Lynn Lee investigation and she is still bleating.
"Remy Choo Zheng Xi
Yesterday evening I received a call from Law Minister Mr K Shanmugam regarding an article written by Eric Ellis for The Global Mail, entitled “Out of the Haze, a Singapore Spring?”
The call came rather late at night, but I guess lawyers (and Law Ministers) are rather nocturnal. Minister shared his views about the article, noting that he thought it was libellous. Minister also noted that it had been re-published. I agreed that there were many unverifiable facts in the article and that it appeared to me that the article was libellous.
As the conversation concerned an article that was being re-published by my friends, I informed them of this conversation and the views of Minister. I had earlier in the day informed them of my opinion that the article was libellous under Singapore’s laws on defamation (and that as much as I disagreed with the scope of defamation laws, this was the law as I understood it).
I want to clarify that all my communications with Minister have been cordial, open and frank and that my phone call with him relating to the Ellis article felt anything but sinister to me.
I thank Kirsten for the concern she expressed towards me in her article “Midnight phone calls”."
Below is probably the slickest and smoothest reply covering both sides of the divide that I have ever seen. And we all know about Raymond Lim and the non-partisan roundtable.
Kirsten was used as the tethered goat in the Lynn Lee investigation and she is still bleating.
"Remy Choo Zheng Xi
Yesterday evening I received a call from Law Minister Mr K Shanmugam regarding an article written by Eric Ellis for The Global Mail, entitled “Out of the Haze, a Singapore Spring?”
The call came rather late at night, but I guess lawyers (and Law Ministers) are rather nocturnal. Minister shared his views about the article, noting that he thought it was libellous. Minister also noted that it had been re-published. I agreed that there were many unverifiable facts in the article and that it appeared to me that the article was libellous.
As the conversation concerned an article that was being re-published by my friends, I informed them of this conversation and the views of Minister. I had earlier in the day informed them of my opinion that the article was libellous under Singapore’s laws on defamation (and that as much as I disagreed with the scope of defamation laws, this was the law as I understood it).
I want to clarify that all my communications with Minister have been cordial, open and frank and that my phone call with him relating to the Ellis article felt anything but sinister to me.
I thank Kirsten for the concern she expressed towards me in her article “Midnight phone calls”."