KTemoc's No 1 priority - Fight crime!

Yesterday was a day of meditation for me, reflecting and focussing on peace. Kaytee is not an unreasonable man, and only wants his nation, our nation, to be a law abiding nation, meaning it’s not only the rakyat who should be law abiding but the leaders too.

Day before yesterday, in a moment of frustration I posted What would I say for Merdeka!, implying I, kaytee the aethist, would be more than ready to settle for an Islamic state in Malaysia if I can be confident that through obedience to Allah swt or God (and aren’t they the same?) we can and would rid our country of corruption, crimes and cronyism.

I had a day to think over, and still affirm to that. However … yes, a big big big however ... I am not even sure we have the leadership, the moral discipline and obedience to Allah swt or God, and the purity of our piety towards Him swt, nay, not in our current corp of political leadership on both sides of the fence, to purge our great country from the triads of corruption, crimes and cronyism.

It’s a long way to ... no, not Tipperary, but ... Utopia, so we need to settle for a more practical model.

Malaysia is not a bad country, much as I and you raved and ranted when we are angry at the ruling party's blatant disregard for law and order, at arrogant dismissal of due process and non transparent non accountability.

However, Malaysia is approaching the critical stage when it slides from being 'acceptable' to 'deplorable' to a state where the law of the jungle prevails..

Yes, we hear of seditious SMS-ing from malaysiakini, of an alleged impending racial riot down south. Perhaps mischief-making as an expression of hopeless frustration?

This time the police acted with alacrity and arrested some inciters, unlike their slothful stuporous conduct when the Mufti of Perak did the same seditious incitement.

Malaysian leaders, especially those of the ruling party, and not excluding some in opposition, are themselves not ready for democracy or democratic reforms. They still hold fast to the Hang Tuah era mentality, where the 'Sultan' could do what he likes, wants or wishes. To them, democratic process is a cussed western concept, something they have to pretend to follow, to exploit, in order to maintain their continued leadership. The rewards are obvious.

And we are much aware of Mao Tse Tung’s dictum that ‘power comes from the barrel of the gun’, and guess who has the ‘gun’.

So, as always, I am prepared to have half a loaf than none, half a glass of water is half full and not half empty, my three bowls of rice.

But we need some quid pro quo from the ruling party – we want crime to be the first to go!

The IGP has shown poor performance as the nation’s No 1 law officer, where crime rates have shot up to an all time high under his stewardship.

Notwithstanding his tenure as the IGP has been illogically, inexplicably and dodgily extended by the PM, he still must go.

We cannot live in a country where the law abiding citizens cower in constant fear of criminals, even foreign ones who roam the land as if they are in their fiefdom, perhaps even abetted by law officers under the employment of the Malaysian public.

We cannot have illegal visitors robbing and murdering our people. We cannot accept African visitors dragging innocent women away to serve as sex slaves for their beastly sexual gratification without the police apprehending them or ensuring justice is served.

We have become hostages of crimes in our own country. Where then and what use then, is having a police force?

The IGP must answer satisfactorily or go – the PM must make him!

Or, my vote goes to the opposition, any opposition party!