The 9th letter to PM Lee Hsien Loong: Protest at Raffles Place

From: Yan Jun
Sent: Monday, February 19, 2018 17:04
To: 'Lee Hsien Loong (lee_hsien_loong@pmo.gov.sg)' <lee_hsien_loong@pmo.gov.sg>
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Subject: Protest at Raffle Place

Dear PM Lee Hsien Loong,

I refer to my email to the PM dated Nov 7, 2017 with regard to the Terrex conspiracy. I am going to protest at Raffle Place MRT station on Feb 22, 2018 at 12 noon.

My email dated Nov 7, 2017

In that email, I requested that the PM issue a ministerial statement and then step down if my allegations of the Terrex conspiracy were true; or sue me for defamation to clear the government’s name if my allegations were false.

I did protest on Nov 23, 2017 to support my allegations and was subsequently sentenced to prison. However, I haven’t received any response from the government.

In early January, 16 fourth generation ministers suddenly released a joint statement saying they were working closely to choose PM's successor in good time. In late January, PM unexpectedly declared that “choosing next PM will take a little bit longer”. While it is difficult for people to understand Singapore's political succession plans, I will keep protesting at Raffle Place against the judicial corruption and the government’s authoritarian rule so the government will feel the urgency of picking a fourth generation leader.

The Select Committee on fake news

In early January, a Select Committee was formed to address the issue of fake news. In my email to the Supreme Court dated Feb 14, 2018, I revealed that the legal officer who came up with the idea of the Terrex conspiracy was senior judge Chao Hick Tin. I copied all ten members of the Select Committee on that email.

Last year an academic was found to be an “agent of foreign influence”. I am not an agent in any way but I don’t mind playing games with undercover agents, intelligence agents, or both. On January 18, I booked a flight to Hong Kong from Singapore on February 26 but later I changed my mind. I have decided to postpone the flight for at least 6 months and I am going to write a blog post explaining why I changed my mind all of a sudden.

I hope that the Select Committee can carefully examine my allegations and my possible connections with political organizations such as the Chinese government. I am looking forward to seeing the report presented by the Select Committee to the public on the Terrex conspiracy.    

Singapore’s legal system 

In my blog post “Is Singapore’s legal system fair?”, I claimed that the essential function of the Singapore’s legal system was to protect the ruling People’s Action Party (PAP) government’s interests at the expense of justice. I have already informed the Supreme Court of my view and I am waiting for the Supreme Court’s reply. 

In the case of Public Prosecutor v Yan Jun [2017] SGMC 76, District judge Lim Tse Haw arbitrarily replaced my defence of police corruption with police long-standing policy not to grant permits for all outdoor demonstrations so that at least Judge Lim could give grounds for his decision. If I am not wrong, Justice See Kee Oon, the current Presiding Judge of the State Courts, heard my appeal in the Supreme Court. Justice See simply ignored Judge Lim’s misconduct, readily concluded that my arguments didn’t make sense when he was unable to answer my first question, and immediately ended my appeal a few minutes after the start of the hearing. 

Given the fact that “The State Courts handle 90 per cent of Singapore's case load” and based on the integrity and the competence of Justice See Kee Oon, I have enough reason to believe that the State Courts are meant to help the PAP government impose authoritarian rule rather than do justice. 

As explained in my blog post, the management system of Changi Prison is autocratic in nature. I stand by my words and copy on this email a number of senior prison officers including PPA Desmond Chin, SAC Chow Chee Kin, Provost Veera Purumal s/o Meyappan, SUPT Tan Bin Kiat, SUPT Teo Hock Soon, SUPT Sze Chuck Huang. If the prison authorities do not accept my criticism of their management, we can talk about it on the coming Friday if everything goes well.

My requests

I would request that the PM publicly respond to my allegation that the Terrex detention issue is a carefully laid trap by the PAP government to embarrass China by exposing to the world Singapore's military cooperation with Taiwan and by violating China’s sovereignty.

I also request the PM to publicly address the issue of judicial corruption in Singapore.

Thank you.

Regards,

Yan Jun

(Singapore NRIC: S7684361I)