Sheep City

Many years ago former Solicitor-General Francis Seow went down to Whitley Road Detention Center to represent two persons held there. He never came home for seventy-two days. In his book, To catch a Tartar, Seow revealed one of the disturbing dialogues made by the nefarious ISD officer:  

“Look, cut out all your court English. This is not a court of law. The rules of evidence do not apply here. We make the rules here. This is a kangaroo court. No one can help you, no one. All the human rights organisations can do is make a little noise, but how long can they keep it up? After a while, you will be forgotten.”

Since then the term kangaroo court have become ever so popular. If you do not know what a kangaroo court is, it is where the court that has had its integrity compromised. Popular despots like Joseph Stalin’s kangaroo trials against his political enemies, whom were labeled enemies of the people. Many were summarily executed or sent to the treacherous Gulag. In Sheep City, if you call the men in whites dishonest, greedy and corrupt, you will be dubbed a charlatan or a psychopath brimming with poisonous lies. You will be sued for defamation and damages in the form of hundreds of thousands must be paid to the parties u have defamed. Failing that you will be bankrupted and jailed.

Do it again, you will be sued and bankrupted many times over. If you believe in reincarnation, you will not be able to pay the damages even in your second life. Your reputation in the present life and the other destroyed as clearly indicated in the mouthpieces of the mainstream media. The orwellian newspeak will reveal what a repugnant character you personify in the most despicable format imaginable- psychotic, rancid filled with vitriolic hate. The plebeians spit on your name and continue to exalt those in power.

This much is certain and the outcome is most obvious and assured. We common folk do not bulldoze our way in to courts and escape a stern reprimand by the judge. It can only happen when ultimate power controls every facet of life, bending our will to its knees.

This form of repression emphasizes the non-recognition of civil and political rights of the citizenry. It strikes fear into the hearts of men to question those in power. We lose our senses even to realize that they are mere public servants voted into power. We too have forgotten among many things that is rightfully ours like our voice and expression all but taken away. This is our mistake. Our mistake of hoping to advocate democracy when everyone else believed it is a mere fable and a concept. 

When we look for justice in the name of our civil rights, we can only hope and look at the stars. There is nothing for us in the kangaroo court that we can hope to be spared from punishment. We are as guilty as hell right from the start.

This is very sad. Even sadder for the good men who do nothing and sat idling by.