the threat of serious legal attacks is very salutary as far as the press is concerned, as lee kuan yew demonstrates frequently. this is about the fifth time i have seen the lofty and nose-in-the-air Economist grovelling before lee kuan yew. the threat of force being applied to their broad bottoms works very well with press barons.
the right approach to be taken against the indian english media that lies so blatantly is to sue their pants off.
it's unbelieveable that we can't even get that absurd little racist twit witzel -- the word popinjay leaps to mind -- to cease and desist.
in point of fact, devan nair was humiliated and forced into exile. he may have been an alcoholic, but that's normal for a lot of politicians, isn't it? boris yeltsin leaps to mind. once again, the fate of an ethnic indian overseas was of no consequence to the 'secular' indian government. contrast this with what the self-respecting japanese did for ethnic japanese alberto fujimori when he had to be exiled from peru.
since india doesn't respect its culture or its indigenous faiths or people of its ethnicity, why should others? this is one of the pathologies of surrender -- starting off with a world-view (courtesy j nehru and the aryan invasion theory fanatics) that india is ipso facto an inferior nation whose role in life is to be the slaves to the real great powers.
Jan 19th 2006
From The Economist print edition
Devan Nair
SIR – In your obituary you wrote "by Mr Nair's account, Mr Lee promised to crush him [J.B. Jeyaretnam], crying 'I will make him crawl on his bended knees and beg for mercy.' That image had haunted Mr Nair before, as the worst expression of arrogant colonialism" ("Devan Nair", December 24th).
This and many other statements Mr Nair made after his bout of alcoholism in 1985 were unfounded. One statement he made in 1991 forced Mr Lee Kuan Yew to sue him and the Canadian Globe & Mail in Toronto. The matter was settled when Mr Nair's two sons issued this statement, reported in the Globe & Mail on July 1st 2004:
"Mr C.V. Devan Nair, aged 80, has been diagnosed as suffering from the beginning stages of dementia, an ailment which affects his memory. He is no longer able to give evidence in court proceedings.
"On March 29th 1999, the Globe & Mail published an article by Mr Marcus Gee. The article quoted Mr Nair as saying that Mr Lee Kuan Yew had Singapore government doctors slip hallucination drugs to Mr Nair to make him appear befuddled.
"Having reviewed the records, and on the basis of the family's knowledge of the circumstances leading to Mr Nair's resignation as president of Singapore in March 1985, we can declare that there is no basis for this allegation."
Yeong Yoon Ying
Press secretary to Minister Mentor
Singapore
Apology: We recognise that the statements attributed to Mr Lee in the obituary on Devan Nair and which are referred to in Mdm Yeong Yoon Ying's letter above, are false. We apologise to Mr Lee for having published them, and we unreservedly withdraw them. We have agreed to pay Mr Lee damages and to indemnify him for all costs incurred by him in connection with this matter.
1 comment:
hi rajeev,
we can look at this from another angle. we can look at this from the point of view of a commie getting screwed. its just my thought, i am not taking any position on this issue. if you look at this from a commie getting screwed angle, then you will see the irony that the indian commies just sat and watched when another indian commie was getting screwed. what do you think?
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