Re: DEFAMATION!!! WP LTK IS FUCKED! Mark my words, he will be out-of-pocket by $500,0
When JBJ threw a defamatory "Molotov cocktail" at that Wooden piece of shit.
Jeya's action was "like throwing a Molotov cocktail'
147th Prostitute Press, 20 August 1997
DEFAMATION CASE AGAINST WORKERS' PARTY CHIEF: DAY 2
PRIME Minister Goh Chok Tong argued yesterday that what Mr J. B. Jeyaretnam did at a rally on Jan 1 was like throwing at him "a Molotov cocktail" - prepared by Mr Tang Liang Hong - with precise timing to cause hurt.
The Workers' Party chief had told the crowd that his Cheng San GRC team-mate had placed before him two police reports, at a highly critical moment at the very close of the last rally before Polling Day.
Mr Jeyaretnam was thus helping to propagate Mr Tang's claim that Mr Goh and 10 other People's Action Party leaders were liars and criminal conspirators, he suggested.
Rejecting this, Mr George Carman, Queen's Counsel for Mr Jeyaretnam, argued that Mr Goh's case against his client was making "a mountain out of a molehill" and the Molotov "story" was "a load of nonsense".
To say that Mr Jeyaretnam's mere announcement about the police reports had caused grave damage was "unreal, fanciful", and offensive to fairness, common sense and objectivity, he added.
A Molotov cocktail is a home-made bomb of petrol and rags in a glass bottle, which explodes when thrown. It is named after Russian statesman Vyacheslav Molotov (1890-1986), who ordered its production during World War II.
Mr Goh offered the analogy under cross-examination by Mr Carman, on the second day of the High Court hearing into the defamation case brought by 11 PAP men against the WP chief.
Said the Prime Minister: "I was outraged ... It was as if Tang had prepared a Molotov cocktail, and given it to Jeyaretnam, who at the precise moment, hurled the Molotov cocktail in my direction."
He described how he was outraged a few more times during the three hours he was in the stand, under very pointed questioning from the QC.
Mr Carman was warned twice by Justice S. Rajendran, upon intervention by the PM's QC Thomas Shields, not to make comments while asking questions.
At one point, he accused the PM of "fencing" in his answers and being an untruthful witness.
Mr Goh objected to this strongly, saying he would sue the QC if he could, although the comment, made in a court hearing, was privileged.
On Mr Jeyaretnam's rally remarks, he said: "It was not a simple telling of a crowd that here you are, you have a police report. It is the timing of it, the precise timing of it."
Mr Shields yesterday showed the court 25 minutes of video clips from WP rallies from television recordings, including the last segment of the Jan 1 rally.
The video showed crowds cheering and waving as Mr Jeyaretnam, at Mr Tang's repeated instigation, referred to the police reports.
Mr Shields said that, even if Mr Jeyaretnam did not go into detail about Mr Tang's police reports, the crowd would have known what they were about, since there had been much publicity about the PAP's attack on Mr Tang.
Mr Carman argued that Mr Jeyaretnam had to be reminded to tell the crowd about the reports, and did so in a low-key manner that attracted no "wild paroxysms of excitement".
So, if indeed a bomb was thrown, it was "a pretty casual throwing of a Molotov cocktail".
He said Mr Goh must be "a very sensitive politician" to take offence to such an extent, to which the PM said he was very sensitive where his integrity and reputation were concerned.
Mr Goh had said in his affidavit that his international reputation had been hurt by Mr Jeyaretnam's remarks, although he could not point immediately to a particular example of damage.
"My reputation internationally is not just based on this particular aspect of it. So when I talk about damages, it is the totality of my reputation," he explained.
Mr Carman even went so far as to suggest that Mr Goh, a "willing apprentice" of Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew, had "adapted" the system to stifle opposition and stay in power.
The case against Mr Jeyaretnam, he charged, was "designed to bankrupt" the Non-Constituency MP and keep him out of Parliament.
The ordinary man walking out of a burger joint on Orchard Road, with a degree of cynicism, would treat what the WP chief said at the rally as an unconfirmed claim in a squabble between politicians, he added.
As for damages, he argued, Mr Goh deserved at most a "derisory" 50 cents, since his reputation had been vindicated fully by the defamation award won against Mr Tang in May.
Yesterday's cross-examination drew intermittent laughter from the public, who was there in numbers again, with queues forming as early as 8.30 am.
Today's hearing continues with Mr Jeyaretnam expected to be called to testify.
Why the PM was outraged -
QC George Carman: What you are saying is that you were very upset simply because Mr Jeyaretnam announced that the report had been filed?
PM Goh Chok Tong: Yes, I was outraged as well.
QC: For simply announcing that the report had been filed?
QC: Are you really seriously and responsibly saying to this court that for a politician at an election rally to say about another politician that he has been handed a police report would damage his leadership standing in the world to the extent you describe?
When JBJ threw a defamatory "Molotov cocktail" at that Wooden piece of shit.
Jeya's action was "like throwing a Molotov cocktail'
147th Prostitute Press, 20 August 1997
DEFAMATION CASE AGAINST WORKERS' PARTY CHIEF: DAY 2
PRIME Minister Goh Chok Tong argued yesterday that what Mr J. B. Jeyaretnam did at a rally on Jan 1 was like throwing at him "a Molotov cocktail" - prepared by Mr Tang Liang Hong - with precise timing to cause hurt.
The Workers' Party chief had told the crowd that his Cheng San GRC team-mate had placed before him two police reports, at a highly critical moment at the very close of the last rally before Polling Day.
Mr Jeyaretnam was thus helping to propagate Mr Tang's claim that Mr Goh and 10 other People's Action Party leaders were liars and criminal conspirators, he suggested.
Rejecting this, Mr George Carman, Queen's Counsel for Mr Jeyaretnam, argued that Mr Goh's case against his client was making "a mountain out of a molehill" and the Molotov "story" was "a load of nonsense".
To say that Mr Jeyaretnam's mere announcement about the police reports had caused grave damage was "unreal, fanciful", and offensive to fairness, common sense and objectivity, he added.
A Molotov cocktail is a home-made bomb of petrol and rags in a glass bottle, which explodes when thrown. It is named after Russian statesman Vyacheslav Molotov (1890-1986), who ordered its production during World War II.
Mr Goh offered the analogy under cross-examination by Mr Carman, on the second day of the High Court hearing into the defamation case brought by 11 PAP men against the WP chief.
Said the Prime Minister: "I was outraged ... It was as if Tang had prepared a Molotov cocktail, and given it to Jeyaretnam, who at the precise moment, hurled the Molotov cocktail in my direction."
He described how he was outraged a few more times during the three hours he was in the stand, under very pointed questioning from the QC.
Mr Carman was warned twice by Justice S. Rajendran, upon intervention by the PM's QC Thomas Shields, not to make comments while asking questions.
At one point, he accused the PM of "fencing" in his answers and being an untruthful witness.
Mr Goh objected to this strongly, saying he would sue the QC if he could, although the comment, made in a court hearing, was privileged.
On Mr Jeyaretnam's rally remarks, he said: "It was not a simple telling of a crowd that here you are, you have a police report. It is the timing of it, the precise timing of it."
Mr Shields yesterday showed the court 25 minutes of video clips from WP rallies from television recordings, including the last segment of the Jan 1 rally.
The video showed crowds cheering and waving as Mr Jeyaretnam, at Mr Tang's repeated instigation, referred to the police reports.
Mr Shields said that, even if Mr Jeyaretnam did not go into detail about Mr Tang's police reports, the crowd would have known what they were about, since there had been much publicity about the PAP's attack on Mr Tang.
Mr Carman argued that Mr Jeyaretnam had to be reminded to tell the crowd about the reports, and did so in a low-key manner that attracted no "wild paroxysms of excitement".
So, if indeed a bomb was thrown, it was "a pretty casual throwing of a Molotov cocktail".
He said Mr Goh must be "a very sensitive politician" to take offence to such an extent, to which the PM said he was very sensitive where his integrity and reputation were concerned.
Mr Goh had said in his affidavit that his international reputation had been hurt by Mr Jeyaretnam's remarks, although he could not point immediately to a particular example of damage.
"My reputation internationally is not just based on this particular aspect of it. So when I talk about damages, it is the totality of my reputation," he explained.
Mr Carman even went so far as to suggest that Mr Goh, a "willing apprentice" of Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew, had "adapted" the system to stifle opposition and stay in power.
The case against Mr Jeyaretnam, he charged, was "designed to bankrupt" the Non-Constituency MP and keep him out of Parliament.
The ordinary man walking out of a burger joint on Orchard Road, with a degree of cynicism, would treat what the WP chief said at the rally as an unconfirmed claim in a squabble between politicians, he added.
As for damages, he argued, Mr Goh deserved at most a "derisory" 50 cents, since his reputation had been vindicated fully by the defamation award won against Mr Tang in May.
Yesterday's cross-examination drew intermittent laughter from the public, who was there in numbers again, with queues forming as early as 8.30 am.
Today's hearing continues with Mr Jeyaretnam expected to be called to testify.
Why the PM was outraged -
QC George Carman: What you are saying is that you were very upset simply because Mr Jeyaretnam announced that the report had been filed?
PM Goh Chok Tong: Yes, I was outraged as well.
QC: For simply announcing that the report had been filed?
QC: Are you really seriously and responsibly saying to this court that for a politician at an election rally to say about another politician that he has been handed a police report would damage his leadership standing in the world to the extent you describe?
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