Monthly Archives: October 2018

Illustration charts in the background of the photo: Courtesy of Kueh-lapis. The blue represents Aljunied-Hougang Town Council managed by the opposition Workers Party

Tan Wah Piow

Is Singapore’s political and judicial system afflicted with a terminal disease – Selective Persecution Syndrome (SPS)?

What is Selective Persecution?

If 5 blacks, and 15 whites are arrested for shoplifting, but only the blacks are charged, then this is selective prosecution.

Because such prosecutions are selective based on the colour of the skin, the prosecutions amount to racial discrimination, and are selective persecution of a racial group. Likewise, if only one political group is singled out for prosecution, it is selective persecution. When such a practice is institutionalized, the nation is afflicted with the SPS disease. read more