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11-10-2014, 03:40 PM
An honorable member of the Coffee Shop Has Just Posted the Following:
CALVIN CHENG SAYS ILLEGAL PRICE FIXING IS NO BIG DEAL AND CALLS 2.1 MILLION TRS READERS 'MORONS'
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11 Oct 2014 - 7:47am
http://therealsingapore.com/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/field/image/calvin%20cheng%201.png?itok=OLsX7UBt (http://therealsingapore.com/sites/default/files/field/image/calvin%20cheng%201.png)
I refer to my previous article: "Former YPAP member and NMP Calvin Cheng was involved in illegal price fixing (http://therealsingapore.com/content/former-ypap-member-and-nmp-calvin-cheng-was-involved-illegal-price-fixing)"
I'm glad many of you share the same sense of outrage that I felt when I found out about what Calvin Cheng had been sanctioned for. But there are some who don't get it. So, I would just like to add some more thoughts which I left out because I didn't want to overload the original fact presentation.
Anyway this is another update from Calvin Cheng on the incident:
http://i.imgur.com/3q7F5qL.png
He thinks that price fixing is no big deal and clearly is still clouded by greed to make more money from his modelling agency. We did stated that this news is back in 2011 and didn't say this is the latest news. Obviously, he has nothing to defend himself against so he starts making personal attacks and labels all the 2.1 million unique visitors that reads TRS every month as 'MORONS'.
According to Alexa.com:
http://i.imgur.com/LCctBqd.png
The very first point that I would like to make is that I don't subscribe to any of the local newspapers, but I do read whatever free news they provide. So the reason I was so surprised when I found out about the naughty things Calvin got up to is that I obviously missed the news entirely when it first appeared. And it surprised me even more because IT IS A BIG DEAL. For those of you who think it is old news, good for you. But if it's old news to you and you still support Calvin Cheng, you need to reconsider, seriously. Why?
FAILURE OF THE PARLIAMENTARY SPECIAL SELECT COMMITTEE
The initial complaint was made to the CCS on 13 February 2009. The CCS report does not reveal when they decided to investigate further, but the "simultaneous unannounced inspections" were made on 15 July 2009. I cannot find the exact date Calvin Cheng was announced to have been nominated as NMP, but there was a controversy over Calvin Cheng being a lapsed member of Young PAP around that time. There were some articles dated to around 10 July 2009 discussing this. So, the inspections were made after Calvin Cheng had officially been announced as an NMP.
Wait, how can someone who has this hanging over him be allowed to participate in the decision making of the body in which the sovereignty of our republic is invested? Calvin Cheng, as a nominated Member, had the right to vote on all matters of parliament (except for a few categories)! The honourable thing for Calvin Cheng to have done, once he found out he was being investigated, is to resign. The necessary thing for the Parliamentary Special Select Committee is not to have nominated him in the first place, and to have suspended him whenever they found out.
As it is, Calvin Cheng served out his entire term as NMP, and only then did the final decision come out!
CALVIN'S SPECIAL PLEADING
As it turns out, Calvin Cheng was singled out for mention in the final report. His agency was fined for its part in the price fixing, and in the original finding, the fact that Calvin Cheng was the instigator warranted an additional 15% fine on his agency (note: later removed on appeal). Sure, his crime is not arson, or murder, or rape, but the law he contravened is very clearly and simply defined (just don't talk to any one at all about prices). Is it really that hard to follow?
This link resurfaced in one of the places which reposted my original article: http://news.asiaone.com/print/News/Latest%2BNews/Singapore/Story/A1Story...
(http://news.asiaone.com/print/News/Latest%2BNews/Singapore/Story/A1Story20130506-420591.html)
Calvin Cheng obviously is very proud of it since he pasted it himself once people started asking him on Facebook. In it, he admits he was "technically wrong", but that his "intentions were noble". Drug traffickers also will say they do it for their mother's medical treatment or sister's education. It does not matter how good his intentions were (if they were even so), he knew the law and he chose to break it. Laws aren't guidelines for privileged people to choose to follow or not to follow at their own whim.
Calvin Cheng says on his Facebook he does not respond to The Real Singapore. Sure, he does not need to. The Competition Commission of Singapore has already said all that needs to be said. In fact, the Straits Times immediately afterwards published a response from the CCS in the forum rubbishing Calvin's special pleading [Link (http://www.straitstimes.com/premium/forum-letters/story/modelling-agencies-price-fixing-had-adverse-effect-market-20130509#sthash.cA3KPXCA.dpuf)]
It is for those of you who are still supporting him who need to respond in your own heart.
If what he has done and his justification afterwards (he still "is standing by" his illegal activity) does not shock you, and you die die still want to support this sort of person, then I'm sorry, the decline of Singapore is squarely on your shoulders. It's not even that there are no unrespectable people at all left in the PAP (Denise Phua came out against the casino industry just recently; turn your support to her lar). I don't care what political types people support, as long as these types are sensible, and moral. Like you all like to say, must distance yourself from the crazies. Calvin Cheng isn't a crazy: he merely believes himself above the law.
To quote someone whom Calvin Cheng very buddy-buddy with, now is the McCarty-Murrow moment (whatever the hell that means): "Do you support someone who thinks himself superior to the law or not?" That is all you need to ask yourself.
PS Bonus: Next time he says Singaporeans are "shite" for not getting jobs in the face of foreign immigration, quote his interview: "Too much competition on supply side, too little competition on demand side, what happens? Prices collapse." And how does he know? He is an "economist by training".
ASE
Junior TRS writer
Click here to view the whole thread at www.sammyboy.com (http://www.singsupplies.com/showthread.php?191776-Calvin-cheng-says-illegal-price-fixing-is-no-big-deal-and-calls-trs-readers-morons!&goto=newpost).
CALVIN CHENG SAYS ILLEGAL PRICE FIXING IS NO BIG DEAL AND CALLS 2.1 MILLION TRS READERS 'MORONS'
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11 Oct 2014 - 7:47am
http://therealsingapore.com/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/field/image/calvin%20cheng%201.png?itok=OLsX7UBt (http://therealsingapore.com/sites/default/files/field/image/calvin%20cheng%201.png)
I refer to my previous article: "Former YPAP member and NMP Calvin Cheng was involved in illegal price fixing (http://therealsingapore.com/content/former-ypap-member-and-nmp-calvin-cheng-was-involved-illegal-price-fixing)"
I'm glad many of you share the same sense of outrage that I felt when I found out about what Calvin Cheng had been sanctioned for. But there are some who don't get it. So, I would just like to add some more thoughts which I left out because I didn't want to overload the original fact presentation.
Anyway this is another update from Calvin Cheng on the incident:
http://i.imgur.com/3q7F5qL.png
He thinks that price fixing is no big deal and clearly is still clouded by greed to make more money from his modelling agency. We did stated that this news is back in 2011 and didn't say this is the latest news. Obviously, he has nothing to defend himself against so he starts making personal attacks and labels all the 2.1 million unique visitors that reads TRS every month as 'MORONS'.
According to Alexa.com:
http://i.imgur.com/LCctBqd.png
The very first point that I would like to make is that I don't subscribe to any of the local newspapers, but I do read whatever free news they provide. So the reason I was so surprised when I found out about the naughty things Calvin got up to is that I obviously missed the news entirely when it first appeared. And it surprised me even more because IT IS A BIG DEAL. For those of you who think it is old news, good for you. But if it's old news to you and you still support Calvin Cheng, you need to reconsider, seriously. Why?
FAILURE OF THE PARLIAMENTARY SPECIAL SELECT COMMITTEE
The initial complaint was made to the CCS on 13 February 2009. The CCS report does not reveal when they decided to investigate further, but the "simultaneous unannounced inspections" were made on 15 July 2009. I cannot find the exact date Calvin Cheng was announced to have been nominated as NMP, but there was a controversy over Calvin Cheng being a lapsed member of Young PAP around that time. There were some articles dated to around 10 July 2009 discussing this. So, the inspections were made after Calvin Cheng had officially been announced as an NMP.
Wait, how can someone who has this hanging over him be allowed to participate in the decision making of the body in which the sovereignty of our republic is invested? Calvin Cheng, as a nominated Member, had the right to vote on all matters of parliament (except for a few categories)! The honourable thing for Calvin Cheng to have done, once he found out he was being investigated, is to resign. The necessary thing for the Parliamentary Special Select Committee is not to have nominated him in the first place, and to have suspended him whenever they found out.
As it is, Calvin Cheng served out his entire term as NMP, and only then did the final decision come out!
CALVIN'S SPECIAL PLEADING
As it turns out, Calvin Cheng was singled out for mention in the final report. His agency was fined for its part in the price fixing, and in the original finding, the fact that Calvin Cheng was the instigator warranted an additional 15% fine on his agency (note: later removed on appeal). Sure, his crime is not arson, or murder, or rape, but the law he contravened is very clearly and simply defined (just don't talk to any one at all about prices). Is it really that hard to follow?
This link resurfaced in one of the places which reposted my original article: http://news.asiaone.com/print/News/Latest%2BNews/Singapore/Story/A1Story...
(http://news.asiaone.com/print/News/Latest%2BNews/Singapore/Story/A1Story20130506-420591.html)
Calvin Cheng obviously is very proud of it since he pasted it himself once people started asking him on Facebook. In it, he admits he was "technically wrong", but that his "intentions were noble". Drug traffickers also will say they do it for their mother's medical treatment or sister's education. It does not matter how good his intentions were (if they were even so), he knew the law and he chose to break it. Laws aren't guidelines for privileged people to choose to follow or not to follow at their own whim.
Calvin Cheng says on his Facebook he does not respond to The Real Singapore. Sure, he does not need to. The Competition Commission of Singapore has already said all that needs to be said. In fact, the Straits Times immediately afterwards published a response from the CCS in the forum rubbishing Calvin's special pleading [Link (http://www.straitstimes.com/premium/forum-letters/story/modelling-agencies-price-fixing-had-adverse-effect-market-20130509#sthash.cA3KPXCA.dpuf)]
It is for those of you who are still supporting him who need to respond in your own heart.
If what he has done and his justification afterwards (he still "is standing by" his illegal activity) does not shock you, and you die die still want to support this sort of person, then I'm sorry, the decline of Singapore is squarely on your shoulders. It's not even that there are no unrespectable people at all left in the PAP (Denise Phua came out against the casino industry just recently; turn your support to her lar). I don't care what political types people support, as long as these types are sensible, and moral. Like you all like to say, must distance yourself from the crazies. Calvin Cheng isn't a crazy: he merely believes himself above the law.
To quote someone whom Calvin Cheng very buddy-buddy with, now is the McCarty-Murrow moment (whatever the hell that means): "Do you support someone who thinks himself superior to the law or not?" That is all you need to ask yourself.
PS Bonus: Next time he says Singaporeans are "shite" for not getting jobs in the face of foreign immigration, quote his interview: "Too much competition on supply side, too little competition on demand side, what happens? Prices collapse." And how does he know? He is an "economist by training".
ASE
Junior TRS writer
Click here to view the whole thread at www.sammyboy.com (http://www.singsupplies.com/showthread.php?191776-Calvin-cheng-says-illegal-price-fixing-is-no-big-deal-and-calls-trs-readers-morons!&goto=newpost).