Cowardice or hypocrisy?

Salient No. 16 published an article about the recent arrest of 35 people; including lawyers, accountants, students and politicians in the Republic of Singapore and 113 others in 1963 who were alleged to have infringed the notorious Internal Security Act in Singapore.

The "real" offences committed by these people have never been revealed. The alleged infringement of the Internal Security Act has never been substantiated let alone bringing the people who were arrested to a proper and fair trial before the Court of Justice.

Like many Singaporeans in New Zealand, I was very dissapointed at the way our "representatives" who self-proclaimed themselves as fighters for liberty, freedom and basic human rights, had remained mute and spastic about the whole matter.

When Khoo Ee Liam was arrested, David Tan and his comedians wasted no time in discrediting the Malaysian Government. Dc Tan and his comedians condone this indiscriminate arrest of people in Singapore who have the dignity to question the authoritarian Government of Lee's regime. If not why does he continue his bare hypocrisy and muteness? Is David Tan a coward when his head is on the chopping block?