THE US REPORT

The shape-shifter entity I call the Neo World Order (aka our “global village”) has led Singapore authorities to charge US citizen Gopalan Nair for insults because he blogged about a political matter in Singapore. This charge should concern anyone who lives in a country where there is freedom of speech. Agence France-Presse reported Nair’s creative expression on his blog in declaring a Singapore judge was “prostituting herself” in the matter of a defamation case filed by a political figure.

AFP says, “If convicted, Nair, a former Singaporean lawyer now based in California, faces up to one year in prison and a 5,000 dollar (3,630 US) fine.”

Hopefully, Nair’s lawyer will send Singapore authorities a copy of the U.S. Constitution and highlight Amendment I. And hopefully, those same lawyers will insist, with the help of our government, on recouping fees from Singapore’s government for trying to usurp the rights of a US citizen in the first place. The Web is under assault globally. Bloggers in free countries should speak up loud and clear. You'd think US and European media would be all over a story about Singapore's government trying to convict a US citizen for blogging his thoughts via social media, which constitutes the press in my opinion.
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[Text filed by Kay B. Day; photo US Government National Archives]

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