Before the public get carried away by Roy Ngerng’s act of apologising to PM Lee three times in court yesterday, we should recap some key moments. In May last year, Roy Ngerng retracted defamatory contents he posted and issued an apology to PM Lee. But the public has forgotten that Roy Ngerng also informed the media to tell them other ways to access the removed contents in a attempt to raise awareness of his self-induced plight. That act showed Roy Ngerng was insincere in his public apology. Hence, the public should not be taken in by Roy Ngerng publicity stunt of apologising to PM Lee three times in court yesterday.
To deal with the lawsuit, Roy Ngerng sought funds last year from netizens who thought they are looking at a handsome young man who could rescue their CPF. More than $100,000 have been raised but the monies were used for his overseas trips to Scandivanian countries and United Kingdom.
To Singaporeans’ disappointment, Roy Ngerng visited Reporter without Borders, gave talks in international forums, and even met up with NS defaulter Tan Wah Piow to seek legal opinion.
Prior to meeting Tan, Roy Ngerng was actively learning from Leong Sze Hian, a statistician whose educational qualifications were doubted. What was the outcome of learning from Leong? Roy produced more confusing graphs even my qualified accountant friend can’t make any sense of.
But looking at the sinkhole Roy Ngerng is in now, I wonder what form of advice Roy Ngerng has received from Tan Wah Piow? Remember it was Tan who first advocated “Virtual Movement for Democracy in Cyberspace” by seeking more “guerrilla-type bloggers and cyber-warriors” to challenge the status quo which would erode the support towards PAP [1]. Then we saw Roy Ngerng writing for TRS, and getting himself into more limelight by hiring and firing of his legal counsels, but yet applied through the courts to admit a Queen’s Counsel to defend his case? All his actions got the attention of news-starved competitive international media that are more than eager to tell the world that Singapore adores Kim Jong Un and wear down Singapore’s image.
Roy Ngerng is trying to milk the limelight for as long as possible to set himself as an example to tell Singaporeans that this country is undemocratic, and this country is a shit hole; and only by voting out the oppressive PAP can this country be saved.
What do you think? Are Singaporeans that naive? Maybe yes, you know. since nobody asked about the $100,000 worth of donations. LOL
[1] The real reason behind the Internet Crackdown by Tan Wah Piow,