[Oyk]

The Oxley case became a cause celebre among S'poreans. In the wake of the sibling feud, PM Lee publicly announced that he would never take any of his siblings to court no matter how things panned out. This is a classic case of blood being thicker than water.

Will the general public exonerate the head of the govt in the court of public opinion? When social media enters the equation, the 'verdict' on PM Lee is likely to be skewed negatively from the very beginning. So this isn't an accurate mirror of public opinion. It's therefore imperative to have countervailing influences in the form of online apologists.

Recently, we saw the word "injunction" being used by no less a High Court judge.  There is another legal term called "Specific Performance" - that's two simpur enough words but it's a legal jargon.

The former is a court order which means "You are not to" while the latter means "You are to..."

PM Lee shared in Parliament that he was specifically told - a specific performance, if I may borrow this legal jargon - by his father that if anything should happen to him to look after his mother and younger siblings.  So, he was given the heavy burden in a typical "Chinese" family to be the man of the house should LKY be killed.

I would not say "Blood is thicker than water" in this case.  Rather, I see an honourable son who obeyed his father, was filial, and who had set his mind from that day onwards to look after his younger siblings for life.  He would not interfere with the judiciary.  He would let the law run its course, and the judges decide according to the law of defamation.  I don't think he is elated to see his younger brother being sued and sued successfully.  I am sure it pains him.

If blood is thicker than water, both his younger siblings would not have gone so publicly about their feud, which did nothing good for LHL's name.