Walter Woon is Not Welcomed by Pappies?

Slip of the tongue is a slip of the mind....

SINGAPORE - Professor Walter Woon, who stepped down as Attorney-General recently, said he "was kidding" when he told The Straits Times (ST) last week that he had "outstayed" his welcome.

"I was kidding. I was being facetious," Prof Woon told The New Paper (TNP) in an interview published on Friday.

According to the newspaper, Prof Woon was responding to a commentary in Today written by Mr P N Balji, the director of Asian Journalism Fellowship. Mr Balji had analysed the comments by Prof Woon during his exit interviews with the media.

In his interview with ST, when asked if he had annoyed "the powers that be", Prof Woon said: "Best to leave before you outstay your welcome, although I think among some people, I've already outstayed my welcome."

Referring to the quote, Prof Woon told TNP: "I was thinking more about the people I prosecuted rather than anything else."

On the public spat he had with Dr Lee Wei Ling, director of the National Neuroscience Institute, over whether ailing C K Tang boss Tang Wee Sung should be shown some kind of mercy for trying to buy a kidney, Prof Wong said the case wasn't meant to be high-profile.

"But considering the person who was making the criticism, you can't jolly well go down and ask somebody (like a spokesman or a senior official) to cross swords with her."

When asked why he didn't stay on until Senior Counsel Sundaresh Menon takes over as Attorney-General (AG) on Oct 1, Prof Woon said: "I wasn't asked. My term was up in April. And nobody said anything about staying. And I never thought about staying on."

According to Prof Woon, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong had asked to see him at the Istana earlier this year to talk about the end of his two-year term.

"If he hadn't asked to see me, I would have asked to see him because it was about time to discuss it," Prof Woon told TNP.

It was during the meeting that Prof Woon learned that Mr Menon would be taking over from him as AG.

"It was like okay, fine," Prof Woon said when the paper asked him for his reaction.

Attorney-General Walter Woon is SACKED?

From: OngBak3
Subject: Attorney-General Walter Woon is SACKED
Singapore's Attorney General Walter Woon Seong Ming removed from his
post.

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Singapore's state controlled newspaper Straits Times online edition of
March 05, 2010has this story "Back to NUS law School".

It is the story of Singapore's Attorney General Walter Woon Seong
Ming, Lee Kuan Yew's Attorney General who was until recently
terrorizing his master's (Lee's) political opponents by misusing the
law, jailing and bankrupting them in his master's corrupt courts to
shamelessly further his own career.

He was only appointed Attorney General within the last 2 years, yet in
this time, he had sued the Wall Street Journal, the Far eastern
Economic Review and numerous other respected international newspapers
the moment they uttered anything unflattering about his master.

During his disgraceful 2 years in office, he shamelessly licked his
master's (Singapore Lee Kuan Yew's) boots.

Shameless boot licking was what was going on.

One would have thought such shameless unbounded flattery and obedience
to his master would have helped him further his career.

Instead of appreciating this pathetic individual, Singapore's supreme
leader Lee Kuan Yew, the Singapore equivalent of Dear Leader Kim Jong
Il, was unappreciative.

Instead, he kicks Attorney General Woon Siong Ming and removes him
from his Attorney General post.

One can understand why of course.

Singapore is today an international city state with Internet
connection throughout the island.

If you blatantly misuse the law like Walter Woon Seong Ming did, it
brings a bad name to the island and shows it as a repressive
intolerant Stalinist state.

Such as bad name is not conducive to Singapore's advancement.

Walter Woon Seong Ming should have had the brains to have realized
this.

Since he did not have it, Lee Kuan Yew decided it best to remove him
from his post.

Can anyone blame Lee Kuan Yew in these circumstances?

Poor man, Walter Woon Seong Ming, the Attorney General.

Henceforth he will be quietly teaching the law in some classroom, in
obscurity, and no one will hear any more of him.

This is what happens when you blindly follow a despot, because the
despot can behave in an unexpected way.