InsideBayArea.com, 15 Dec 2008, Matthew Artz
FREMONT — One week doesn't matter much to most people, but it could end up being the difference between prosperity and poverty for Gopalan Nair.
If the Fremont immigration attorney and Singaporean dissident had just waited seven days before posting a blog entry accusing a high court judge of "prostituting herself" in a sedition case against an opposition leader, he would have been back in the United States and out of reach of Singaporean authorities.
He never would have been arrested, interrogated or strip-searched. He never would have been detained for four months, nor jailed for two more.
He never would have lost his legal clients, maxed out his credit cards, missed a mortgage payment or spent Thanksgiving at the Islander Motel.
In standing up for free speech in his native Singapore, Nair, 58, unwittingly thrust himself into a one-man economic crisis.
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