The deliverance of a protest letter to RCS came about hours after rejection by the police for a permit to picket outside the Caldecott building.

The final blow came from the police on 2 March 2001 in quick response to Think Centre's appeal dated 28 February 2001, and it is anyone's guess - a "no go", with the usual "potential law and order problems" as justification. On the same day, Think Centre came into action.

The security guard at the counter, Devadas, was clearly nervous after his eyes fell on the envelope with two big word "PROTEST LETTER" written on it, which was addressed to Mdm Chua Foo Yong, the Head, MediaCorp Radio of RCS, demanding her resignation over the Fauziah Ibrahim issue.

Jacob greeted the man and proceeded to request a representative from RCS to receive the letter. There were none, but the trio politely repeated their request.

At his wit's end, Devadas brought in his superior, Anthony Wong, who was behind the scenes. Wong merely added that the letter would be left with the receptionist and passed over to Mdm Yong first thing on Monday since RCS staff, apart from our indigent journalists like Fauziah Ibrahim, do not work on weekends.

Not wanting to be too difficult, a compromise was reached whereby Wong would sign in acknowledged receipt of the letter and leave it at the reception counter pending assignment to the appropriate party on Monday.

The little display was watched by Devadas and another curious bystander at the counter, who had earlier showed signs of restlessness but seemed to have forgotten his original task of coming to RCS building!