The Malaysian Bar Wesite on Friday, 13th July 2007 highlighted an article taken from the New Straits Times titled:
> PM Lee's son in NS reprimanded by SAF > > (http://www.malaysianbar.org.my/content/view/9810/2/) The article in question basically reports the story of Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong's son ie Second Lieutenant Li Hongyi who was evidently reprimanded for ³not following proper procedures in e-mailing a letter of complaint to many other servicemen². In response to the aforesaid story, one member of the Malaysian Bar posted the following: > RULE OF LAW APPLIED > Written by Stephen Tan Ban Cheng on 13 July, 2007 at 07:53 AM > > See the application of the rule of law in the tiny red dot we call Singapore, > a non-country that some say. > > At least in this tiny red dot, the rule of law is applied to all and sundry, > including the scion of the ruling Prime Minister. > > This means the law applies EQUALLY to all - at least in this instance. > > Stephen Tan Ban Cheng ========================== My response in turn was to write the piece below titled: Two Sets to the Rule of Law? It is without doubt that Singapore is a remarkable success story. It has achieved literally the pinnacle of bureaucratic excellence and material wellbeing for its citizens. That said it is not Utopia nor a completely egalitarian society as many people would like to believe and claim. A case in point is the banning of headscarf worn by Muslim girls attending government schools in the island state. Apparently the ban hopes to instil a sense of religious and racial harmony amongst its diverse population. Oddly in its efforts to create this uniformity, Sikh children are allowed to maintain wearing their turbans to such schools. For further reading, please go to the following links: > > http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/1943999.stm > > http://www.singapore-window.org/sw02/020213na.htm > > http://www.singapore-window.org/sw02/020214ft.htm Megat Shaharuddin Merican
