败家子

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For 40 years, our Matrix Master (MM) has stressed repeatedly that he cannot allow human batteries to make fun of police officers as this will reduce their authority and legitimacy in the eyes of the public and this will lead to chaos in the country and investors leaving and racial riots... blah blah blah.

Towards this end, he forbids the making of any tv drama that depicts any police officer in a bad light, even when it is only fictional e.g. yelling at wife, smoking, beating his own kids etc. (This rule is relaxed a bit in recent years, I think). He also directed the AG's office to seek deterrant sentences whenever members of the public hurt a police officer.

But even as those on the outside are not doing anything to smear the police's reputation, the police force, from within, is causing damage to itself:


Straits Times, April 6, 2007
Death on test drive: Why no action?
I REFER to the report, 'Driver crashes test car, sales exec dies. Now he's shopping for these hot wheels' (ST, April 4).

I was outraged after reading about the nonchalant manner in which Mr Regan Lee commented on his so-called dilemma of having to choose between two high-performance cars, totally devoid of any guilt over his part in the sales executive's death.

However, my outrage was nothing, compared with my dismay that the case has dragged on for 17 months, without even the perpetrator of the accident being charged. In the meantime, Mr Lee continues to drive and is even pondering the purchase of a sports car.

Edmund Khoo Kim Hock


So you see? Even before "your security will be at risk and our women will become maids in other people's countries" as our MM has threatened, one of our women's security has already been breached and she has become "mince-meat" in her own country and the police did NOTHING for one and a half years! WHY? (The police had acted speedily in other cases - Eg. the guy who crashed car into MRT track near Yishun. Eg. the guy who drove the car into a bus stop and killed some people).


New Paper, Apr 07, 2007
I couldn't endure it
By Tay Shi'an
... A police spokesman told The New Paper that investigations for the case are still ongoing.

...Legendkiller also discovered that the driver was an active member of mycarforum.com, so he started to visit the website too. That's how he saw the driver's post on 21 Mar, in which he said he was deciding between a Volkswagen Golf GTI and a Subaru WRX STI-S. That post spurred him to act... Even before he exposed the driver's identity, netizens have long been intrigued by the name of the mystery driver, and why the case has not been resolved.


WHY indeed?
What is so special about Mr. Regan Lee?
Is he a relative of former US president Reagan or ...?

Anyway, for every one such inaction "exposed" by our newspapers, you can be assured that there are another 10 (or maybe 100?) cases of injustice that are buried deep inside and which will never see the light of the day, either because they did not attract the attention of the reporters, or because the reporters dare not report on them (cannot put police in bad light, remember?), or there is an official order to cover up (as in the organ robbery case, where the family's plea for a full investigation is ignored).

Do you know what cause all these police problems? Simple! Our police officers are not well-paid enough - hence they are susceptible to corruption and inaction and resignation!

We should increase their salary by 10 -folds. Somehow, with a higher pay cheque, they will work harder (not lesser).

Somehow, the concept that if you dish out too much welfare, people will lose their interest in working will NOT apply to Ministers or police force. So yes, up their salary for their dismal performance!

OK, enough of sarcasm. I want to say this seriously to the parents of this Mr. Regan Lee:


"Shame on you! Your son has just killed a young girl through his reckless high-speed driving (and some said, drink-driving too) - and you are buying him another car?!? And a sports car some more? What kind of parents are you people?

Maybe you are going to receive a terrible phone call at night telling you that you have lost your son on the road soon -- not that I am cursing him; It is a fact that the way you are bringing him up is going to make him even bolder and more reckless in his driving, and thus make it more likely for him to get killed on the road.

Maybe someone should give your son a good punch on the nose - you should thank the person who does that because he is knocking some sense into your son on your behalf (since you two are not fit to be parents), and saving your son from commiting worse crimes and reaping worse karmic retribution!"


Maybe one of us should really call up his parents based on the info listed.

Human Battery: 养不教, 父之过! 上梁不正下梁歪!
Human Battery: 你这没家教的败家子!

(Note: The 2nd sentence refers to the junior Mr. Lee in the test driving case, while the 1st is about his father, Senior Lee's, fault for not teaching his son any moral values and for not setting a good example.

They certainly do not refer to any other "Mr. Lee"! Don't read too much into the scolding. Haha!)