“Given the proximity of the conference, coupled with these concerns, which include his current medical condition, the effectiveness of his medical regime, and the workability of his monitoring system, the Council is of the view that it cannot responsibly continue to include him as a panellist in our Conference”.
Ravi was supposed to appear on two panels at the Administrative and Constitutional Law Conference 2015, an invite extended way back in July 2014. The lawyer thinks he has been "disinvited" because of LawSoc's unilateral and peremptory withdrawal of his practising certificate on shaky medical grounds. Chinese New Year reunion dinner talk has it that the real reason is his announced testosterone charged challenge to the incumbents of the six-member Ang Mo Kio Group Representation Constituency. Especially when one prominent member has publicly announced the surgical removal of his key manhood components. Just because this is the year of the goat doesn't mean it should be a free-for-all for everyone to get his goat.
The quaint expression comes from a tradition in horse racing. Thought to have a calming effect on high-strung thoroughbreds, a goat was placed in the horse's stall on the night before the race. Unscrupulous opponents would then steal the goat in an effort to upset the horse and cause it to lose the race. With or without the inevitable horse trading, it looks like dirty politicking for the coming election is set to hit an all time high.
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LOL ... so many mixed metaphors.
ReplyDelete“Given the proximity of the conference, coupled with these concerns, which include his current medical condition, the effectiveness of his medical regime, and the workability of his monitoring system, the Council is of the view that it cannot responsibly continue to include him as a panellist in our Conference”.
ReplyDeleteDid this statement come from the Singapore Medical Association? Are the lawyers practicing medicine now?
What difference does it make? They are all practising PAP politics one way or another. The Singapore Medical Association is just as politicised as the Law Society of Singapore. For that matter even the Business Association, the NTUC, the PA, the Press,.... most everything under the Sin sun is politicised. The Economist has ranked Singapore 5th on the crony-capitalism index. To get ahead you need to join the gravy train. The hand of repression is tightening as election is drawing near.
DeleteAs they say politics is dirty, PAP politics is no exception. So are the Pappies.
DeleteFor the sake of power & money, some will even go to commit murder. So getting rid of an opponent is only chicken feed.
The lawyer with the unpredictable behavior deserved to be disinvited to be the speaker at the conference. He did not have his head properly screwed up when he announced his candidacy of the super large GRC. Where is he going to get another 5 people to join him?
ReplyDelete6 member GRC
The dirty politics had been around for the last 50 years. The supreme leader never had to panic, given his ability to command respect even if it was not due. He had gravitas, you have to admit, challenging even distinguished foreign critics to debates. This new crop, born out of the system devised by him, are mere digits to fulfil his private agenda. They are now panicking, unable to perform or think out of the box. Hence, the dirty politicking hitting an all time high, as you put it.
ReplyDeleteThis is exactly the kind of behavior we Singaporeans expect of the MIW. They lived up to expectation. Huat ah!
ReplyDelete/// the real reason is his announced testerone charged challenge to the incumbents of the six-member Ang Mo Kio Group Representation Constituency. ///
ReplyDeleteHa ha ha! Huat Ah!!!
On one side of the ring - a testosterone charged challenger.
On the other side of the ring - a prostate-less testosterone-less incumbent.
Are the voters going to be sheep and follow the 153rd's propaganda blindly?
Or are they going to be rams and ram the plutocrats out.
I cannot imagine a former PAP MP like Tan Cheng Bock being unduly concerned with a challenge from M. Ravi.
ReplyDeleteCan you?
Does it seem like the PAPigs are engaging in a race to the bottom?
Do you think LHL would ever write a book called "Too Few Good Men - The Twilight Years Before the Fall"
The old man may indeed have gravitas.
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately, it is not transferable and once precepts are based on immoral guidance, the machinery will loose gears, belts and screws. Evidently this has already happened:
The gears...
Punggol East
Aljunied
The belts...
AIM
CNB
The screws...
Bad statistics ( S&C charges )
Town Council Act
Reminds me of the joke about a nutcase who raped a girl and scooted off.
DeleteNut screws and bolts.
The machine is going to pieces precisely because the mastermind is no longer capable to telling them how it should be done. As Lim Chin Siong, the one time head of the Civil Service said, second generation learns from first, loss in transmission. Third generation learns from second, further loss. The continuity between first and second and some way through third was the world's longest serving MP. The current bunch cannot command the ground by personality. So they command support through patronage.Hard times Singapore.
DeleteThe Law Society claims that the Council has a duty to protect the integrity of the profession, yet it turned a blind eye when:
ReplyDelete1) representative Wong Siew Hong intruded into Justice Pillai's Court without an application;
2) member Alvin Yeo overbilled its services in a case involving over-invoicing.
No, the law is not blind, only members of the Law Society choose to be.
I did not know the Law Society is so competent at rendering a medical diagnosis.
DeleteThey must be giving out double degrees.
Graduate as a lawyer and get a medical degree for free.
LawSoc, is a senile and decrepit old man fit to be a Member of Parliament at taxpayer expense?
DeleteLawSoc has been rendered impotent by the old man. It can only do the bidding as ordered by its bosses, just like those ancient Imperial eunuchs. Compared to its Malaysian counterparts, they no longer have any conscience to uphold even the most basic dignity to maintain that justice is not only heard but seen to be done as well.
DeleteA bunch of legal bastards, basically.
Mr Ravi is unsuited to run against the PAP in the political arena - when the role of dissenter is left to the Fool, there will be trouble ahead for everyone (see King Lear).
ReplyDeleteIt's even worse when we let a Fool continue to be King.
DeletePrime ministership here is an extremely hazardous and emasculating occupation. 2 out of 3 prime ministers had prostrate cancer. You must be a fool or an idiot to want to be a premier. Or is it retribution for getting everyone's goat by idiocy and abuse of power?
Delete"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." - Lord Acton
Is it true?
DeleteSexual fraustration results in the build up of fluids in the prostate glands?
And this causes prostate cancer?
Does better sex prevent prostate cancer?
"Some studies have suggested that men with a higher frequency of ejaculations may have a slightly lower risk of prostate cancer."
DeleteLack of sex? Too busy screwing the people.
Doesn't have the right kind of sex can also lead to a lot of sexual frustration which in turn can contribute cancer in the reproductive system.
DeleteLike having sex with a lady with a man's face ? Which normal man can tahan?