WTF is wrong with M Ravi?

[Asterix]

He once said he wished that more Singapore lawyers would join him in fighting these cases but many of his contemporaries – especially the well-heeled Chinese lawyers – would pat him on the back, tell him to soldier on, but would refuse to join in the fight. Little wonder he's all stressed out and unstable.

Sometimes I wonder whether it pays to fight so hard for cowardly and ungrateful Sinkies.

I will remind the educated elite, not just lawyers, of which I must deny I am one, of what Kennedy said eons ago:

"I speak to you today, therefore, not of your rights as Americans, but of your responsibilities. They are many in number and different in nature. They do not rest with equal weight upon the shoulders of all. Equality of opportunity does not mean equality of responsibility. All Americans must be responsible citizens, but some must be more responsible than others by virtue of their public or their private position, their role in the family or community, their prospects for the future, or their legacy from the past. Increased responsibility goes with increased ability. For those to whom much is given, much is required.

............ I speak, in particular, therefore, of the responsibility of the educated citizen, including the students, the faculty, and the alumni of this great institution. The creation and maintenance of Vanderbilt University, like that of all great universities, has required considerable effort and expenditure, and I cannot believe that all of this was undertaken merely to give this school's graduates an economic advantage in the life struggle.

"Every man sent out from a university," said Professor Woodrow Wilson, "Every man sent out from a university should be a man of his nation as well as a man of his time." You have responsibilities, in short, to use your talents for the benefit of the society which helped develop those talents. You must decide, as Goethe put it, whether you will be an anvil or a hammer, whether you will give to the world in which you were reared and educated the broadest possible benefits of that education.

Of the many special obligations incumbent upon an educated citizen, I would cite three as outstanding: Your obligation to the pursuit of learning; your obligation to serve the public; your obligation to uphold the law.

 

[Jah_rastafar_I]

Agree that the majority of Indian lawyers are equally cowardly. It's just that when the Chinese form 75% of the population and majority of lawyers are Chinese, I expect more Chinese to step up to the plate. Why just depend on the odd Indian like Ravi or JBJ to fight for our freedom?

Okay, we have CSJ, but he's not a lawyer. And he and his gang needed the help of Ravi on several occasions.

Aiyah why do you specifically pick on lawyers that are chinese? You can see many chinese in the oppo and they might not be lawyers who cares.