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Sunday, June 08, 2008

Chua Lee Hoong : Chee is nuts!

This article (see below), Chua Lee Hoong sets a new standard in investigative journalism. She has found out that Chee is suffering from an anti-social personality disorder. Add that to the list of ailments that Chee is suffering from- a psychopath, a liar, a cheat, a political gangster and unscrupulous man. Now he found to be also suffering from antisocial personality disorder. What a horrible twisted evil person this Chee is. No wonder Singaporeans who have been reading their Straits Times diligently will show signs of revulsion when Chee walks towards them. ...that explains why people walk detour when they see him selling his books. I'm so glad we have enlightened journalists such as Chee Lee Hoong help us to warn us about flawed opposition members.

According to Ms Chua, Chee's plight is all his own doing. He got himself bankrupted, jailed and arrested....of course, Chee has free will, if he sit around and do nothing like the rest of us, none of these things would have happened to him. So this is all his own fault - the result of his own actions.


"According to a medical website, one complication that might arise from this disorder is frequent imprisonment for unlawful behaviour" - Chua Mui Hoong


"Oh my, Aung San Suu Kyi, Gandhi, Nelson Mandela have all been jailed for breaking the law, they are all having antisocial personality" - Lucky Tan
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In any other country, Chee would have been called a political activist and would be allowed to protest all he wants. In Singapore where the system is so wonderful, you have to be crazy to be a political activist when there are so many weekend sales around to keep you occupied. According to Ms Chua, Chee doesn't have many supporters. It could be that Singaporeans are just shy, whenever Chee turns up, there are all these people with cameras filming the people who come to support him. After that, you might get a free visit from the police or a greeting card to remind you of the behavior of good citizens. Just like this group of young people who joined Chee for the Freedom Walk...... if I were their parents, I will force them to stop participating in these activities and spend more time attending rock concerts and shopping.

I want to thank Chua Lee Hoong for her excellent article. It is a reminder that Singaporeans have no need and do not want people like Chee around. We as a nation have no need for Western style democracy and freedom to protest and speak in public.....after 4 decades of PAP rule we have forgotten and lost all desire for those things. What is important is the pursuit of GDP growth....as long as GDP is growing, everything else will take care of itself.

"But we either believe in democracy or we not. If we do, then, we must say categorically, without qualification, that no restraint from the any democratic processes, other than by the ordinary law of the land, should be allowed... If you believe in democracy, you must believe in it unconditionally. If you believe that men should be free, then, they should have the right of free association, of free speech, of free publication. Then, no law should permit those democratic processes to be set at nought, and no excuse, whether of security, should allow a government to be deterred from doing what it knows to be right, and what it must know to be right... "
- Lee Kuan Yew, Legislative Assembly Debates, April 27, 1955
(from wikiquote)
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"Yes Sir, you didn't say whether you believe, IF we believe in democracy....I guess these days the PAP believes in GDP rather than all those things...just like true love cannot be eaten....you can't eat democracy and freedom..." - Lucky Tan
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Whatever Chee is, he believes in freedom and democracy. 2 things that our society has already discovered is totally useless for our well being. We do not want to waste anymore time debating this, changing our society and laws so that we can have more of democracy and freedom is just a waste of time. In fact our constitution and laws has been changed and changed again to make sure Singaporeans don't have to trouble themselves with freedom and democracy anymore. Our elections are about estate upgrading and you want to experience the freedom to protests just take a flight to Hong Kong, Seoul, Taipei or KL over the weekend. We are so lucky to be living in a society that is so orderly, men like Chee are treated as nut cases. They have to be crazy not to appreciate the wonderful system MM Lee has put in place to preserve what is most valuable to all of us - the esteemed PAP leaders who tell us what to do.
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THINKING ALOUD
The squandered potential of Chee Soon Juan
By Chua Lee Hoong
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Political EditorToday, one cannot help but conclude that the trailblazer is more a sputtering meteor, and perhaps one with an antisocial personality disorder.
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MANY people will remember the stir caused by Chee Soon Juan when he first entered politics.
The year was 1992; the occasion, the Marine Parade by-election called by then-prime minister Goh Chok Tong. Chee was a psychology lecturer at the National University of Singapore. Just 30 years old, he was eloquent, photogenic and full of passionate conviction.Mr Chiam See Tong, then-leader of the Singapore Democratic Party (SDP), hailed his new recruit as 'perhaps the most courageous person in Singapore today'. He looked forward to Chee heralding a new era in opposition politics, one in which more well-educated professionals entered the fray.What has happened in the 16 years hence? Today, one cannot help but conclude that the trailblazer is more a sputtering meteor, and perhaps one with an antisocial personality disorder.
The SDP that is now under his leadership is no more than a ragtag band, hardly credible as an opposition party.
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Nowhere was this more evident than in court last week, during the three-day hearing to assess damages in the defamation suit Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew had won against the SDP, Chee and his sister Siok Chin.
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SDP supporters numbered not more than 15 or so, even though the public gallery was invariably full. Of those who started out as neutral observers, I would venture that not a few ended up even less sympathetic to Chee after observing his behaviour up close.
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Chee and his supporters will argue that the SDP's sad state of affairs is entirely the doing of the ruling party. The latter, they will allege, has used all means at its disposal to suppress the SDP's rise.
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Such a 'Poor me! I'm a victim' argument will, however, cut no ice with the majority of Singaporeans, who can point to Mr Low Thia Khiang and Mr Chiam as examples of opposition politicians who have managed to get elected in successive polls in spite of the uphill battle.
Going by anecdotal evidence, Chee has disappointed an entire generation of voters who had hoped that his entry into politics in 1992 would bring about more substantial debate on political issues here.
The disappointment began early enough - barely six months after the Marine Parade by-election in fact, as a series of shenanigans came to light in rapid succession.
There was the misuse of university funds to send his wife's thesis overseas. There was the 'hunger strike' during which he drank water with glucose. There was the ouster of Mr Chiam from the SDP that led rapidly to the party's decline.From three SDP MPs in Parliament after the 1991 polls, there was none by the next election.
Chee seemed to focus his energies not on getting his party into Parliament but himself into the spotlight.
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At an election walkabout at a Jurong hawker centre in 2001, he heckled then-PM Goh loudly and persistently, right in front of the dozens of people having their Sunday breakfast. It was my misfortune to have witnessed the incident with my own eyes.
In 2004, another rude heckling incident, this time at a Washington think-tank which had invited Mr Goh to give a talk.
Last year, there was Chee's performance at the International Bar Association conference at Suntec City, when he used a question and answer session on the rule of law to criticise Singapore's judiciary and focus attention on his own political misfortunes.
The attempt to play to an international audience for his own gain did not go down well with Singaporeans.
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Workers' Party chairman Sylvia Lim, a speaker at the symposium, distanced herself from him when she said Singaporeans are quite capable of deciding for themselves the kind of country they want and did not need foreigners to 'canvass our agenda for us'.
'Singapore is not perfect, and we don't pretend that it is. But neither should we make it out to be worse than it really is,' she said, in what seemed a rebuke to Chee.
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This Monday, it seemed to be Mr J.B. Jeyaretnam's turn to distance himself from Chee.
Acting as Chee's counsel for a contempt of court hearing, the 82-year-old seemed to be making a disclaimer when he said that while he had a duty to present the best case for his client, 'the counsel doesn't have to agree with whatever has been done by the client'.
When two prominent opposition figures have problems accepting Chee's behaviour, what more the average Singaporean?
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Not that I think Chee will care about this. He marches, at least in his own mind, to a different beat. 'My Christian faith guides me, and it is a faith that compels me to fight for justice and to treat my fellow men and women with compassion,' he said in court last week.
Back in 1993, he also cited his Christian faith when talking about his 10-day hunger strike: 'I am a Christian. I came into this hunger strike under the Lord's guidance and am leaving it the same way. My life is not mine to take.'
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The question though is whether mainstream Christians will accept his pattern of behaviour as being particularly Christian.
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He claims to fight for justice but the way he fights has been lamentable.
Irresponsible, reckless, impulsive, unethical are all words that describe Chee's behaviour. Interestingly, they are also all words associated with what American psychologists call antisocial personality disorder, which manifests itself in a disregard for truth and for social norms.
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According to a medical website, one complication that might arise from this disorder is frequent imprisonment for unlawful behaviour.
We don't know if indeed Chee suffers from this disorder. If he does, we have got to feel sorry for him. If he doesn't - well, all I can say is, Chee has squandered his potential.
leehoong@sph.com.sg

21 Comments:

  • Oh I see, CSJ is a near psychopath according to the MM. Now the PAP stooge, Chua Lee Hoong, is saying he is anti-social. With more confirmation from official medical doctors, the next thing we know, they gonna put him in "Woodbridge Hotel" lah.

    If you do not know what that is, it is known otherwise as the Institute of Mental Health.

    Hey, in there nobody can bail you out cause you are crazy even if you complain you are sick eating the food there.

    Well in fact I used to see a crazy guy in a public bus loudly cursing at "Ah Long" throughout the journey. I thought he was scolding some evil debt collectors known as "Ah Long" in Singapore.

    But then one day I listened closely and realized he was in fact scolding the "Ah Loong", our dear PM.

    I wondered how he became crazy in the first place? Perhaps the old riveting 70's movie "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" might provide some clues. You can go in a normal guy but end up a crazy one.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 8/6/08 18:28  

  • "Oh my, Aung San Suu Kyi, Gandhi, Nelson Mandela have all been jailed for breaking the law, they are all having antisocial personality" - LT
    :)
    Good one :)
    Some how it remind me of a certain Jurong MP ChiaTP of BN long ago.
    ST ranked low on freedom of press but can be more tabloid than tabloid.
    Dr ChuaLH (MD of quakery, mongol and sensationalism) gives her expert opinions on her non patient without the patient attending her clinic. Playing the role of Cacia(greek) for her patron god.

    By Anonymous Onlooker, at 8/6/08 18:38  

  • Micah 6:8 He has showed you, O man, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you? To Act Justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.

    Amos 5:15
    Hate evil, love good; Maintain Justice In The Courts . . . .

    Isaiah 30:18
    Yet the LORD longs to be gracious to you; he rises to show you compassion. For the LORD is a God of Justice. Blessed are all who wait for him!

    Luke 18:7
    And Will Not God Bring About Justice for his chosen ones, who cry out to him day and night? Will he keep putting them off?

    2 Corinthians 7:11 See what this godly sorrow has produced in you: what earnestness, what eagerness to clear yourselves, what indignation, what alarm, what longing, what concern, What Readiness To See Justice Done At every point you have proved yourselves to be innocent in this matter.

    Isaiah 29:21
    those who with a word make a man out to be guilty, who ensnare the defender in court and with false testimony Deprive the Innocent of Justice.

    Amos 5:12 For I know how many are your offenses and how great your sins. You oppress the righteous and take bribes and you Deprive The Poor Of Justice In The Courts.

    God is a God of justice, righteousness and truth . . . . . and He is our Ultimate Vindicator.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 9/6/08 00:50  

  • Nice one Lucky...
    Oh my, Aung San Suu Kyi, Gandhi, Nelson Mandela have all been jailed for breaking the law, they are all having antisocial personality..

    That sentence just triggered a fact which I never realised, perhaps many would not have too.

    I guess there is very few great leaders true who has never been arrested or jailed. Many of our own to add to the ones Lucky mentioned have been imprisoned one time or rather because they fought for what they believed in and were willing to pay the price. Yet history also has men who somehow or rather were sly enough never to be caught in the position. Sly enough to use others, be it the conqeror, friends or foe, sly enough to say the correct thing at the correct time,like speaking up for democracy, sly enough to change the tune according to the situation and sly enough to quietly implement everything that they once opposed to ensure their continued power and to declare themselves the greatest of all great leaders.

    Yes these men are great, for we do have to admire the cunningness of the fox and much as we admire the braveness of the lion. So what is the medical term for such a person, Anyone?

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 9/6/08 09:56  

  • "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" ?

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 9/6/08 11:14  

  • Chua Lee Hoong
    sucidal journalist
    Straits Times

    ~ woof says my master, woof i will.

    By Anonymous f.i, at 9/6/08 11:28  

  • Can Chee sue them for defamation anot ah?

    By Anonymous JL, at 9/6/08 12:28  

  • Freedom of the press is not needed in a one-party state. No decisions to be made. ST keeps everyone informed on all we need to know.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 9/6/08 16:30  

  • If according to your quoted bible verses then Chee don;t need to do anything, he will be avenged?

    Do not quote verses to side your arguments and bring Christians to bad light.

    Remember wat Jesus said in the temple about paying taxes. Remember wat Daniel did in the pagan years. There are many more I shall not quote.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 9/6/08 16:44  

  • Chua Lee hoong : Chee is nuts!.
    Uncle Lee : Chua, my nuts to you!

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 9/6/08 17:01  

  • Mat 5:20 For I say to you that unless your righteousness shall EXCEED that of the scribes and Pharisees, you shall in NO case enter into the kingdom of Heaven.

    Who are the scribes?
    The scribes held various important offices in the public affairs of the nation. The Hebrew word so rendered (sopher) is first used to designate the holder of some military office. The scribes acted as secretaries of state, whose business it was to prepare and issue decrees in the name of the king . They discharged various other important public duties as men of high authority and influence in the affairs of state.
    There was also a subordinate class of scribes, most of whom were Levites.
    In later times, after the Captivity, when the nation lost its independence, the scribes turned their attention to the law, gaining for themselves distinction by their intimate acquaintance with its contents. On them devolved the duty of multiplying copies of the law and of teaching it to others.
    The titles “scribes” and “lawyers” are in the Gospels interchangeable. They were in the time of our Lord the public teachers of the people, and frequently came into collision with him. They afterwards showed themselves greatly hostile to the apostles.
    Pharisees are also well versed in the laws of Moses.

    Key words - Public. Nation. King. Affairs of the state. Law. Lawyers.


    Mat 23:1 Then Jesus spoke to the crowd and to His disciples,
    Mat 23:2 saying, The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat( the seat of legal power. the law giver/maker).
    Mat 23:3 Therefore whatever they tell you to observe, observe and do. But do not do according to their works; for they say, and do not do.
    Mat 23:4 For they bind heavy and hard-to-carry burdens and lay them on men's shoulders. But they will not move them with one of their fingers.
    Mat 23:5 But they do all their works in order to be seen of men. They make their phylacteries broad and enlarge the borders of their garments.
    Mat 23:6 And they love the first couch at feasts, and the chief seats in the synagogues,
    Mat 23:7 and greetings in the market-places, and to be called, Rabbi! Rabbi! by men( dignitary).

    ???????

    Today's gospel is no where close to the original message.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 9/6/08 22:33  

  • dont' be confused. paying taxes doesn't mean serving caesar or collaborating with caesar and his empire. the remark, render to caesar the things that are caesar and things of god that are god came as a rebuke to the pharisees wicked intention to trap him.

    one must read it in the context of " you can't serve mammon and god"

    if so, that statement is actually a call to separation. incidentally, daniel never bowed to the king or served the king's agenda. daniel was first and foremost a servant of of the most high who warned the king of his follies!

    there was clearly a separation with daniel.

    Joh 15:19 If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

    the reason why the true followers were hated because they operated under a different kingdom or order or economy from caesar.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 9/6/08 23:32  

  • I think it is quite clear that it is Mammon that makes Chua write what she does, and Mammon that makes LKY take people to court and Mammon that keeps Singaporeans meek and slavish and Mammon that keeps sycophants clinging to those in power in this nation.

    So you see they have chosen their master, and Chua Lee Hoong has possibly committed sedition by inflaming religious sensitivities.

    By Anonymous Daniel, at 10/6/08 10:28  

  • Her religious insensitivity and political predisposition probably came from reading countless number of books which are easily available in our local bookshops,library and internet. To protect virginal minds( adulterated minds too) from its insidious and subversive influences, it is high time the government destroy or restrict all these seditious books and materials percolating the country.

    We need to save our high priestess or the likes of her from hell!

    Amen!

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 10/6/08 11:43  

  • Oh forgot. Burn all religious books too!

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 10/6/08 11:44  

  • Chua Lee Hoong is really learning very well from the malaysians..

    Remember they used a blog to put forth their case for Pedra Branca.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 10/6/08 13:29  

  • Lucky, please stop all the all religious crap here. It is very confusing to read your messageboard due to this.

    I too have a religion or if you like "If you have a god, so do I", so don't come here and mess up this messageboard.

    Ultimately it is people who solve problems not some great guy up there. We want to talk sense, and find practical solution and this includes first making people understand what is going on in Singapore.

    PAP is not very efficient contrary to popular thinking including oddly some PAP critics even. This is a very small country and if it has no semblance of order, PAP better go to hell.

    Look, there are just too many issues not properly tackled. The price of HDB flats are going up by leaps and bounds, for instance. What is being done by PAP?

    Actually someone (a taxi driver) told me this might well be a cunning strategy of the PAP to force young married couples to live with their parents or in-laws so that they will take care of them in their old age instead of the PAP govt. It makes sense.

    Now Chee Soon Juan and party is not getting it right. There is too much personal vendetta between PAP leaders and him. But for all the fights problems are not being addressed and solved.

    On the other hand the other opposition parties are thinking only when they get into Parliament only then can they resolve national problems. Rubbish.

    I have been writing to the govt, town council, press and what not and I have accomplished much more than the opposition or resident committee in tackling problems on various levels.

    Still I come to this blog and tell Singaporeans to wake up to what is going on.

    Both PAP and oppositions parties are not doing right.

    I hope to start a blog to address issues be they municipal, national, social etc.

    They are just too many and they are not being addressed. The newspaper have been cowed into submission to reject frank and strong political views.

    ST is run therefore by selfish cowards. TODAY used to have brave forum editors but they were removed through sacking or repositioned to some night duty.

    This country belongs to us all. Don't let Lee Kuan Yew, or any opposition party be in control and give the impression only they can make decide how this nation develops.

    We must act as individuals.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 10/6/08 14:25  

  • strange. from the land of corporate bondage to the land of religious bondage. both shared a commonality which was - they had great leaders. the latter hailed as a deliverer yet, the land wasn't spared of serpents like the first land of bondage. so what went wrong?

    perhaps, they were too lazy and didn't want to relate to reality? perhaps, they enjoyed being ruled?

    perhaps,perhaps...perhaps.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 10/6/08 16:09  

  • Animal farm ...

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 11/6/08 09:31  

  • to anon above: Big brother is watching. Big sister is writing.
    Big auntie is shinking corp.Big uncle is inexperience.
    Cacia (Greek daimona of vice and immorality)(pronounce kakia -- hokkien lackey).
    Desc:
    Fat, highly dolled up and exude "promise of richness" woman who try to trick people into believing what she say and mislead them into making wrong decisions.
    Most impt one Hercules she tried on, I think forgot where I read it :P
    Just some infos to clear thing up ;)
    Chee is nuts and I like gNutella :)
    I do love a old mythical tales like the test a men t == Dionysius stories and not to forget the old series Xena(u) the warrior princess.
    Oh lastly:-
    Remember How red hill legend come to be.The sultan who is jealous/ afraid of the clever boy who come up with the idea of banana trunk.Partly to secure his dynasty.

    By Anonymous Onlooker, at 12/6/08 13:33  

  • Well, Chua Mui Hoong is a lot more convincing than someone who writes so sarcastically. And let's face it, her articles get read far more widely than yours ever will be... unless you start writing for a Singapore newspaper as well.


    "Sarcasm is the protest of people who are weak."
    - John Knowles, A Separate Peace

    By Blogger Catholic Writer, at 17/6/08 08:48  

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