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28/03/2008
Half-Hearted Token Search for a Fugitive Means Cover-Up?
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Wong Kan Seng practically called off the search, even before the Committee of Inquiry finished its findings. This action, a surprise shrugging of shoulders, seen suspiciously together with a flippant "what to do it has happened" from Lee Hsien Loong no less, only goes to confirm that the escape and subsequent search is not what it appears to be.
Furthermore, the symbolic search conducted by a mere 1,000 police and handful of army personnel, and not 10,000 or more ground forces, demonstrates that there is no real will to find Mas Selamat. If Mas Selamat was indeed a dangerous terrorist leader he is supposed to be, no resources would have been spared and the regime-controlled press would proudly report that SAF satellites, high tech drones, helicopters and reservists were also mobilised in the great search.
One popular theory by Singapore Rebel on the staged "security breach" which is already well established is that Mas Selamat died while in detention under the draconian ISA perhaps under torture or poor attention to his health needs. Hence, the escape was a cover-up out of fear of JI reprisals and there was no real concern for a serious search effort beyond a token one.
The other theory by loaded888, maybe the same Sammboy person with a wealth of credible "inside" stories on police matters in the past, is that Mas Selamat was made to cooperate with his captors and then released to rejoin his JI comrades as a double agent. This cover-up theory is just as unnerving and shows what kind of high risks the regime would take for unknown returns, at the expense of Singaporeans' safety. Didn't the regime hear of the principle that there is no negotiation with terrorists or else Pandora's Box would be opened?
Supposedly throwing in the towel so early and not deploying the full means available in the search just means a regime cover-up more and more.
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Double agent? Died in custody? These are fantastic theories deserving further expatiation by Jerry Bruckheimer's screenwriters toward the making of a Hollywood action-thriller.
Has anyone heard of Occam's Razor?
I prefer the more mundane, less romantic notion of governmental incompetence.
Posted by: Matilah_Singapura | 28/03/2008
ockham's razor? most definitly. "entities should not be multiplied beyond necessity".
This is often paraphrased as "All other things being equal, the simplest solution is the best." In other words, when multiple competing theories are equal in other respects, the principle recommends selecting the theory that introduces the fewest assumptions and postulates the fewest entities.
But, then again, I find that when it comes to Singapore, Sherlock Holmes is more appropriate:
"When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."
Singaporean gov't and civil service being incompetant has got to be impossible. I mean, when you pay your Prime Minister and other ministers millions of dollars a year to attract only the highest talent, then that means that all the people that these perfect people hire must be perfect and loyal as well. After all, perfection seeks out perfection and incompetance seeks incompetance.
Therefore, double agents, killed in custody, ancient religious magic, alien abductions....all of these, however improbable, are easier to believe than the impossible act that the great Singaporean PAP gov't has screwed up.
Posted by: Capt_Canuck | 28/03/2008