Lee Kuan Yew has tarnished my reputation : ex-ISD director
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Yoong Siew Wah, a former director of the Internal Security Department in the 1970s, has claimed on his blog Singapore Recalcitrant that his reputation has been tarnished by an inaccuracy in the book Men In White.
I reproduce his full post here.
Occasionally, there can happen to an unsuspecting person an underbelly attack on his reputation from not entirely unexpected quarter.
Quite frankly, I am baffled by the motive of the ebullient authors of the overhyped political book "Men in White" in giving me unflattering mention in it. Whilst it is purported to give an objective history of the PAP struggle I wonder what have I got to do with the intra-party struggle. Anyway, in page 441 of the book the ambitious authors made the following unverified disparaging statement about me under the sub heading "Another Foreign Hand" : "But in 1971, after a police raid on his (Francis Seow's) woman friend's apartment, he used his influence and friendship with the then director of the Corrupt Practices Investigations Bureau, Yoong Siew Wah, to have the four officers who had conducted the raid sacked. The attorney-general Tan Boon Teik intervened to reinstate the four officers. Seow was allowed to resign rather than have his actions investigated because of his track record in the Legal Service. Yoong was also asked to quit."
On 28-9-09 I wrote to the Chief Executive Officer of the Singapore Press Holdings drawing his attention to this disparaging statement about me and requesting that a correction be made in his newspaper. I explained that the CPIB was duty-bound to investigate all formal complaints. Mr. Francis Seow made a formal complaint and CPIB carried out investigations of the four detectives. The investigation papers were sent to the Deputy Commissioner of Police who made the decision to dismiss the detectives. There was a prima facie case against the detectives. There was no question that I was asked to quit. I was appointed Director of Internal Security Department following my CPIB stint.
My letter was passed to Mr. Richard Lim, one of the three authors of the book. Mr. Lim replied on 1 October that the material for the disparaging statement was taken from a speech made by the then Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew at the Select Committee Hearing of the Legal Profession (Amendment) Bill which was published in the Straits Times on 10 October 1986 of which a copy was attached.
It did not come as a surprise to me as the then PM Lee Kuan Yew was like a god to some people and the accuracy of his denigration of a person's reputation was invariably taken at its face value. That he made the disparaging statement about me in the heat of the moment without regard to its accuracy in his heated exchange with a cool-headed eloquent Francis Seow at the Select Committee Hearing could not be ruled out. He is not unknown to have behaved erratically with venom in his speech when highly agitated. He was obviously so infuriated by Mr. Francis Seow's biting taunts that it escaped his normally lucid mind that I was not boarded out but appointed Director ISD after my CPIB stint. It was subsequently pointed out to him but humility is not his forte and he has not been known as one to apologise for his mistakes. Mr. Richard Lim, one of the authors, has assured me that he would add a line after the sentence that I was also asked to quit to indicate that I was actually appointed Director ISD after my CPIB stint in his next and future editions of the book in order to be fair to me.
It was reported that the then attorney-general Mr. Tan Boon Teik intervened to have the four detectives reinstated. Very gallant of him. He must have read the CPIB file on the investigations and could not have missed that the dismissal of the four detectives was made by the Deputy Commissioner of Police. How the then PM Lee Kuan Yew was given the impression that I had the four detectives unlawfully dismissed is something I would like to get to the bottom of.
Mr. Francis Seow was the solicitor-general at the time when I was director CPIB. He had overall supervision of CPIB investigation files sent to his department for final direction. That I should have had a cordial relation with Mr. Francis Seow was natural in human relationship development. For the then PM Lee Kuan Yew or for that matter the attorney-general Mr. Tan Booin Teik to give a sinister connotation to such a relationship seemed to raise doubt as to the soundness of the detractors' mind. Why should the affinity between Mr. Francis Seow and me be seen as something unwholesome?
The most decent thing for the Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew to do now is to undo the harm he has caused me and to restore my reputation. But will he?
http://sgblogs.com/entry/kuan-tarnished-reputation-director/364307
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Even the ex ISD chief also fed up with that fucking dog Lee Kuan Yew.
86 year old bastard still refuses to go.
Die die must hold onto power until the day he fucking dies.
Lee Kuan Yew you mother fucker.
The day will come for you to die.
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Thank God for the Internet - where there is the possiblity for the sunlight to be cast onto the darkness cast by the long shadows of small men attempting to stand tall.
It is even more critical to find out the truth of some many other events in which the word of LKY is taken as God, and which countless have fallen without evidence but simply on his word alone.
Is it any wonder that he should be so desperate to scheme new schemes to prevent the Alternative Political Parties to succeed in the politics of Singapore ?
With so many skeletons hidden in the woodwork, one can only wonder what other sickening truth have yet to be revealed.
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All the lies of that fucking bastard Lee Kuan Yew.
The truth must be revealed.
He must be exposed.
It is time for ISD chief to spill the beans on Lee Kuan Yew.
Who was the bastard that instigated the 1987 mass arrests of innocent people?
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It is the truth then he can sue him liao.
Time for the old man to taste his own medicine.
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Originally posted by Medicated Oil:
It is the truth then he can sue him liao.
Time for the old man to taste his own medicine.
For Yoong Siew Wah to get more then what LKY is worth, Yoong will have to prove his reputation is of some value.
CSJ tried to prove that LKY's value is self-inflated and is actually worthless - when one is to consider LKY's dubious political career at "back-stabbing" Lim Chin Siong - who was introduced to David Marshall by LKY as the future Prime Minister of Singapore; but had instead conspired to have the British to arrest Lim.
Fortunately, the British Colonial Archive of Official Records opened their files and revealed that the British Colonial Government had rejected LKY's idea, as the British ISD had investigated Lim Chin Siong and did not find any links to the Communists.
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While I sympathised with Mr Yoong, my question is he must have been in the "good books" of LKY when he was appointed Director CPID and ISD. Unfortunately, he must have "stepped" on LKY's toes, for his reputation to be suddenly tarnised by LKY. There are some ex-Directors of ISD, who have been well rewarded by LKY (no names mentioned), they must have apparently toed LKY's line. On the debate between Francis Seow and LKY, everybody who understands English, knows that Francis Seow won hands-down. If my memory serves me, that was the 1st and last time that anybody was allowed to win in the debate with LKY.
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"Mr. Francis Seow was the solicitor-general at the time when I (the writer) was director CPIB. He had overall supervision of CPIB investigation files sent to his department for final direction."
"The attorney-general Tan Boon Teik intervened to reinstate the four officers. Seow was allowed to resign rather than have his actions investigated because of his track record in the Legal Service. Yoong (the writer) was also asked to quit."
"It was reported that the then attorney-general Mr. Tan Boon Teik intervened to have the four detectives reinstated. Very gallant of him. He must have read the CPIB file on the investigations and could not have missed that the dismissal of the four detectives was made by the Deputy Commissioner of Police. How the then PM Lee Kuan Yew was given the impression that I had the four detectives unlawfully dismissed is something I would like to get to the bottom of."
Something very strange are surrounding this case.
1) The writer was the Director of CPIB yet his four detectives were sacked, not by him, but by the commission of Police?
2) The writer's CPIB unit was investigating an existing, senior functioning bureaucrat then, high up the echelon who had supervision over his entire CPIB?3) Why was the reinstatement done by the then attorney-general, Mr. Tan Boon Teik and not by the CPIB or the commission of Police? No a word from them then. Why the silence from these two units then?
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The "god" of Singapore is "perfect", he has no "faults".
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who wrote the book "Men in White"? Lee kuan yew?
Than sue him loh.
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That he (LKY) made the disparaging statement about me in the heat of the moment without regard to its accuracy in his heated exchange with a cool-headed eloquent Francis Seow at the Select Committee Hearing could not be ruled out.
Mr. Richard Lim, one of the authors, has assured me that he would add a line after the sentence that I was also asked to quit to indicate that I was actually appointed Director ISD after my CPIB stint in his next and future editions of the book in order to be fair to me.
The book was written by SPH Mr Richard Lim and two others, not LKY. I don't think the writer can sue LKY.
The writer seems to imply that LKY put the blame game on him and made him the fall guy for this case. -
The truth will be suppressed as long as possible and as long as LKY lives! Catch the drift?
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PS - the internet is a benediction for the citizens of whatever hue and colour, for the govt it is a curse!
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yoong might not get anything from lky or sph on this issue but it is good that he let the truth be known.
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4sg, the writer didn't imply he actually said LKY had tarnished his reputation and ask LKY to undo the damage.
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When one runs with the hare and hunts with the hounds - one inexorably has to face up to the shitty consequences lar.
TS - u were not working for the betterment of humanity - get it?
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If not for Mr Lee Kuan Yew Singapore won't be what it is today. No offence to the others but from 1965-2009 44 years of independence look at our lifestyle, compare this to foreign countries. We are amount the top countries in the world now.
Mr Lee is not God but God send him definately. You guys need to stay and lived in 3rd world countries to know how good Singapore is. -
to tokutski,
we....or he???ITS WAS A GROUP EFFORT!
AND PLEASE DONT YOU FORGET IT!
IF LKY DID IT ON HIS OWN ,SPORE WOULD END UP LIKE THE OTHER COUNTRIES.
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A MAN ALONE IS WORTH NOTHING!
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TO TUTUSKI,
CASE STUDY
ZONE A)WHAT ABOUT HONG KONG?SOUTH KOREA?CHINA?TAIWAN?JAPAN?
zONE B)WHAT ABOUT MALAYSIA?INDONESIA?PHILLIPPINES?INDIA?
AS FROM A CASE STUDY,WHY DID HK,SOUTH KOREA,CHINA,TAIWAN GO FORWARD WHILE THOSE FROM ZONE B LAGGED BEHIND IN TECH INDUSTRIES?
MOST OF THEM HAD SOME SORT OF MEDIOCRE OR LOUSY LEADERS AND SOME WERE VERY CHAOTIC.BUT THE ONES THAT ADVANCED THRU WERE FROM ZONE A.
ZONE A:75% DIDNT HAVE MUCH OF A LEADERSHIP AND WERE FREE TO DO WHATEVER AND ONE WAS A COMMUNISM TYPE OF LEADERSHIP WITH VERY LITTLE FREEDOM.BUT THEY ALL PROGRESSED RAPIDLY EVEN THOUGH 4/5 WERE ALL INVOLVED IN CIVIL WARS IN THE 1950STILL TODAY.MOST BELONG TO MONGOLOID CHINESE RACE THAT IMMIGRATED OUTWARDS SINCE THE EARLY CHINESE EMPERORS FROM THE SHANG DYNASTY.
ZONE B:DIDNT HAVE MUCH OF A LEADERSHIP AS IN ZONE A COUNTRIES.THEY ALL PROGRESSED SLOWLY AND WERE PEACEFUL COUNTRIES WITH NO CIVIL WARS.THEY WERE CONTENTED AS IT APPEARS.MOST BELONGED TO INDIGINIOUS RACE THAT WERE CONTENTED TO LIVE PEACEFULLY EVEN IF IT MEANS WALKING TO WORK OR SLEEPING UNDER A COCONUT TREE ON A SATURDAY AFTERNOON BY THE BEACH.
IF WE TOOK LKY AND PUT HIM IN A ZONE B COUNTRY............I BET YOU WOULD CHANGE YER STORY ABOUT HIM BEING THE MAKER OF SINGAPORE TILL TODAY
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Originally posted by Tokutolosti:
If not for Mr Lee Kuan Yew Singapore won't be what it is today. No offence to the others but from 1965-2009 44 years of independence look at our lifestyle, compare this to foreign countries. We are amount the top countries in the world now.
Mr Lee is not God but God send him definately. You guys need to stay and lived in 3rd world countries to know how good Singapore is.
Makes me wanna cry when I did the comparison.Except for maybe.. Myammar.
All the others have progressed more in the past 3 years than our beloved Singapore...
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Originally posted by HITMAN11111111111:
to tokutski,
we....or he???ITS WAS A GROUP EFFORT!
AND PLEASE DONT YOU FORGET IT!
IF LKY DID IT ON HIS OWN ,SPORE WOULD END UP LIKE THE OTHER COUNTRIES.
Originally posted by HITMAN11111111111:A MAN ALONE IS WORTH NOTHING!
Bravo HITMAN11111111111
you hit the nail right on its head, and scored your 11111111111
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Well , u are free to use the past n delude yourself justify your stand lar.
Unfortunately, that megalomaniac has to go. He is a blight on the nation!
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Originally posted by Tokutolosti:
If not for Mr Lee Kuan Yew Singapore won't be what it is today. No offence to the others but from 1965-2009 44 years of independence look at our lifestyle, compare this to foreign countries. We are amount the top countries in the world now.
Mr Lee is not God but God send him definately. You guys need to stay and lived in 3rd world countries to know how good Singapore is.
Once upon a time a hermaphodite angel said these same words. -
Originally posted by Short Ninja:
Once upon a time a hermaphodite angel said these same words.Could be that hemaphrodite clone too.
