US blogger to enjoy Singapore jail A blogger who accused a Singapore judge of "prostituting herself" has been sentenced to three months' jail, AFP reports. Former lawyer and US citizen Gopalan Nair, 58, made the ill-advised remark while commenting on a hearing "at which Singapore founding father Lee Kuan Yew and his son, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, …
That UK MP's don't get a whiff of this story... I can see a new UK law coming into force, with the line between insult and criticism being very blurred or at least open to interpretation.
I dare say, What Justice Kan Ting Chiu saw as insult, others would most likely see as criticism, or dare I? oops, too late now.
No word about whether the inflamed comments were true/justified though? A bitch is a bitch is a bitch and it makes no difference if you call her a dog and give her lipstick and whenever you have a System which is Adversarial and Supports with Champion Practitioners, both Crime and Victim, you have a Corrupt System which actually encourages Abuse and Injustice for the Consideration of Increased Wealth.
the old forgetting your not in the US chestnut.
If your in a country that does not have a right to free speech, so anywhere that's not in the US, then moderate what you publish! Even in the US if you published something, without evidence, alleging that a judge was corrupt you would get into trouble, why is it such a shock!
"I can see a new UK law coming into force, with the line between insult and criticism being very blurred or at least open to interpretation."
It very nearly did, a few years ago, as part of Rome II (harmonisation of non-contractual undertakings, iirc). Briefly, people would have been able to bring defamation cases in the English courts, under foreign law. For example, French law, where the truth is not a defence if the complaiant is a head of state.
We managed to stop it, though :)
Wacky Jacqui or Bumbling Bush or other corrupt, inept, deceitful, lying, warmongering, ignorant public officials. Maybe if that judge wasn't selling her soul to the current scum in charge he wouldn't have said that; then again, maybe he would and who knows?
Paris, 'cuz she wouldn't sell herself.
This is just plain, ordinary Contempt of Court. As a former lawyer, he should have known better and now he's paying the price for his stupidity. This isn't an attack on Freedom of Speech, or proof that it doesn't exist in Singapore, it's just a judge insisting that she be treated with respect. He'd get the same treatment (if possibly less severe) in England, Canada or America. Nothing to see here, move along.
"" He'd get the same treatment (if possibly less severe) in England, Canada or America. Nothing to see here, move along.""
Actually, I doubt that. This is just freedom of expression which would be respected here.
It's his blog. It's his opinion. He's entitled to an opinion and he's entitled to state it although apparently not in Singapore.
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