The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Friday November 19th, 2021
How fair is Singapore’s judicial system? by Zulfikar Shariff
The late Subhas Anandhan, one of Singapore’s foremost criminal lawyers famously said that while he would defend murderers and terrorists, he would not take political cases.
He was a married man with a family and could not take the risk of the government’s reaction.
For anyone who speaks or acts against the PAP, the cost can be extreme. And a lot of the PAP’s abuse of process can be traced to its control and abuse of the judicial system.
From being sued to bankruptcy to detention without trial, the PAP’s use of the judiciary is well known.
This does not mean that the PAP direct judges in every political case. Instead, as Ross Worthington noted, the PAP leadership appoint judges that they know would toe the line, especially when they sit on political cases.
But there have been the odd cases where judges do not play ball with the PAP’s expectations.
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“Washington Heights” #poem #haiku by Saloni Kaul
“Stormy river heights!
I revel in fulfilment.
Mind made up, I cross.”
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Survival of the State of Israel? by Joseph Gatt
Recently, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett made what I thought was a surprising statement by saying that Israel had been destroyed twice before in the past, alluding to the destruction of the First and Second Temple, and that surviving the 80th anniversary of the creation of Israel should not be taken for granted.
A bit of a historical reminder. Judea was a kingdom where a good chunk of the population were shepherds. So lots of sheep (because that’s pretty much what you can do in the desert) and the sheep were herded and sold to neighboring kingdoms (Egypt, Babylonia, Persia, Arabia, Axium, Greece, Rome and so on).
Now remember sheep is not just meat. It’s also wool and leather and those were luxuries back in the day. Then Judea had lots of wine, and lots of salt but that’s pretty much all we produced and exported. No wheat, no grain, little or no produce.
So Judeans depended heavily on exports, and when neighboring countries struggled to find the gold and silver to purchase our sheep and wine and salt, the Judeans had a rough time.
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Always something; the family edition 21#20 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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