Motive to murder - seeking Confucius' help

In my post The motives of love, lust, lucre and loathing I quoted P.D. James, who had served for thirty years in various departments of the British Civil Service, including the Police and Criminal Law Department of Great Britain's Home Office, as well as being a magistrate that “All the motives for murder are covered by four Ls: Love, Lust, Lucre and Loathing.”

Everyone who has been following the Altantuyaa case including the most learned judge knows that Altantuyaa was blackmailing her ex lover Razak Baginda with such aggression that he became terrified enough to ask for special protection, so most would say there was initially love and lust in their relationship, and then when the passion and ardor turned cool and relationship soured, the blackmailing for money (lucre) kicked in, with the final outcome of loathing, probably of a mutual nature.

Thus, it was an astonishing pronouncement by his Lordship that notwithstanding Razak Baginda’s possessing all the likely motives (which of course don't necessarily translate into criminal action), those motives couldn’t be the basis to suspect him (Razak Baginda).

It’s hardly surprising that most Malaysians would cast their eyes on siapa godfather nya? Of course his close friendship with Najib plus alleged corrupt armed purchases have deepened the suspicions that there had been kow-tim-ness. These suspicions are all natural, logical and thus unavoidable, and coupled with the (lack of) reputation of our kow-tim-able judiciary, has led to accusations that our Malaysian Don Corleone had intervened. I'd go along with such suspicions.

Be that as it may, while it’s one thing to suspect Najib helping his buddy, it’s quite another to accuse Najib of being the killer or the man who gave the order to pull the trigger.

But that is the sentiment currently prevailing among PKR people who wants Najib implicated, not just as an accessory to the crime but as the prime suspect, the man who ordered the murder of Shaariibuu Altantuyaa.

In my readings of the various available articles and news reports, I could not find a single shred of evidence of Altantuyaa harassing Najib, or waiting outside his (DPM) house to pounce on him. All I gleaned from those was Altantuyaa going after Razak Baginda, her former lover.

Of course there was that mysterious photograph as well as Balasubramaniam’s double SD’s. I’ll touch on them in my next post.

Quite frankly, after reading the comments in Malaysiakini on the judge’s dismissal of charges against Razak Baginda, such as “The 2 policemen had no motive to murder Altantuyaa” or ...

... as someone commented in my last post in Exploiting the murder of Altantuyaa Shariibuu that “The UTK goons who were convicted were just the idiots who shouted 'Aye Aye Sir' and carried out the orders. Who gave the order to drop the bomb?”, I came to the conclusion that even if the judge had called Razak Baginda to give his defence and he was subsequently found guilty, those baying out for blood would still not be satisfied.

No siree, not with Razak Baginda or even those already ‘found guilty’, namely Azilah Hadri and Sirul Azhar.

Just a reminder, the two policemen were the ones who were the last people with a still-alive Altantuyaa when they whisked her off from Razak Baginda’s house to her sad fate.

Those MKINI readers want Najib’s head. They want him not just as an accessory to the murder (in helping Razak Baginda) but as the murderer.

Why?

Wakakaka, let’s talk about that in a future post. But to end this post, I am seeking the help of an ancient Chinese to help me conclude my piece about possible motives. Kǒng Zǐ or Confucius said that “A picture is worth a thousand words”, so please have a look at the following pictures (or photographs).









Altantuyaa Shariibuu was undoubtedly a very beautiful woman.

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Subsequent Note: When I posted the above photos I made the same mistake as many others in believing they were of Shaariibuu Altantuyaa when they were not, but of a Korean model who committed suicide in Paris.

Nonetheless I've left the above photos in this post as I believe they serve a purpose, to illustrate a likely motive in the 2 policemen murdering Altantuyaa.

It is a line of thought which has struck me as quite plausible, but I admit it won't satisfy some people's politically driven belief that Najib has been the culprit or murderer. That has been why many argued that those policemen must have acted on orders a la idiots who shouted 'Aye Aye Sir' and automatically carried out the orders.

As I mentioned above, that even if the judge had called Razak Baginda to give his defence and he was subsequently found guilty, those baying out for blood would still not be satisfied until Najib was found guilty and hung whilst his chief political foe become the DPM to AAB.

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Okay a quick revision, P.D. James said “All the motives for murder are covered by four Ls: Love, Lust, Lucre and Loathing.”

But I don’t suppose any of above can answer the comment in MKINI, namely, “The 2 policemen had no motive to murder Altantuyaa”.

Really? Or has that been toxic opportunistic politics talking?

Incidentally, I might recall for readers the sad murder of another beautiful woman, namely The Canny Ong Murder which you can read here and here.

photo of Canny Ong from Kosmos

Now, please tell me who gave Ahmad Najib Aris the instructions to rape and murder Canny Ong on the night of 14 June 2003?

After all, wouldn't you PKR people agree that “The 2 policemen Ahmad Najib Aris had no motive to murder Altantuyaa Canny Ong.”

Exploiting the murder of Altantuyaa Shariibuu

Though I promised to provide my analysis on the likely motives behind the Altantuyaa Shariibuu’s murder, I realize after reading the various articles (including my many posts on it) that I would probably need a book to cover what I want to present to you.

Obviously that’s not practical as it would take ages to complete my wannabe ‘Magnum Opus’, so I’ll have to do it gradually part by part, post by post.

The murder of a mother is always a tragedy but when the murder is exploited by political expediencies, that catastrophic blow continues to ravage every living member she left behind for unnecessary long periods.

Such has been the unthinking evil of people who deliberately capitalize on her untimely death for their selfish political interests that I pen Murdering Altantuyaa Shaariibuu Again at my other blog, where I spoke for her as follows:

As I journey through the darkness of cold oblivion
Borne on the back of Shava to meet his master
Assigned to Samsara by cruel nefarious forces
Which ended my karmic forces violently, abruptly

In my odyssey, wandering by the woeful Acheron
Was there a time when I had felt soothing voices
To comfort me amidst my lonely pains and fears
Yes I do, only from the One who is fragrant Pure

But the loudest noises are they calling for ‘justice’
Though, I smile cynically, ‘twas not meant for me
Their shrill proclamations & belated outrage (sigh)
Startled even great Gujir Tngri and the 77 siqar

Grandstanding acrobatics, their excuse to dispense
With all norms, purportedly all for me (wry smile)
I must confess I view with scepticism and distaste
As I would professional chest-pounding mourners

Gnashing Colgate mint-flavoured peroxide-d teeth
Wretchedly wringing manicured Ulan oiled hands
Shedding date-expired plastic bags of lo-salt tears
Proclaiming to be 11th hour paragons of ‘justice’

Even Ataya Tngri rolled his ancient eyes upwards
While Emegelji Eji cackled with caustic laughter
The ancient pair could see abacus shaped hearts
Clicking furiously and shaming Casio calculators

By sheer speed of their computation of advantage
What to extract, exploit, extricate from my name
Squeezing the very last speck of desiccated blood
From my hyper cold shattered fragments of bones

Eager hands raided the ossuary for me to be laid
As stepping stones for the progress of a demigod
On Ardha-Matanga, 4 tasks & seven white trunks
Saluting Brahma, walking to Amarawati by a lake

As the pseudo-pious pirouetting pachyderm crushes
What little good left of my name, what trust exists
In my family’s hope for requital of my cruel murder
I realize those raucous battle cries were not for me

Summoned by conjured justice to now serve Fenrir
To break asunder Gleipnir but only with my death
Re-evoked, for my soul to be murdered a 2nd time
To satiate the burning thirst of Angrboda’s 1st child

This continuous murder of Altantuyaa by Malaysian politicians had/have only prolonged the torment and mourning of her family especially her father, poor Shariibuu Setev (Steve).

And the ‘other side’ of course countered the attack on them through the exploitation of Altantuyaa’s murder with equally unscrupulous tales that only those who loved fabricated stories (like those lies about Lim GE’s son) could come up with, such as those of Altantuyaa being an immoral woman etc, which have only further punished and tortured her family.

All these lamentable Malaysian cruelty has been caused by the political overlay, that has unfortunately for her family worsened the sad tragedy.

I came by the Altantuyaa's story quite late, but nonetheless was struck with immense sadness by the murder of a mother. Her children will grow up but only with memories of her, because they can never see her again.

I was compelled to write something in memory of her (before the above criticism of Malaysian politicians) which I titled Remembering Altantuyaa Shaariibuu

I am the Golden Beam*, from
The land of steppes, come to
The South Seas to Malaysia
called the Mountains of Asia

* Altantuyaa = Golden Beam

‘Twas no Shambula as promised
But of evil Gehanna, sent there
By C-4, 1.34 times more powerful
Than C6H2(NO2)3CH3, or TNT

In that shattering blast, in a tick
Golden Beam* I was no more
But thousands shattered shards
Of tears, blood, and deep regrets

Never to see my children again
Where I am I have met Erlig Qan
But I am not yet ready to submit
To his reign until I taste justice

Oh, if only I can quench my thirst
To drink sweet requital, my due
Against unimaginable evil cruelty
Just a wee sip from across the Styx

Will the Heavens sense my sorrow
My wail of uncompromising pain
At the loss of not just my young life
But treasured sight of loved ones

O, Sulde Tngri, Dayicin Tngri and
Gesar Khan, I offer thee, Holy Triad
Votive arca or juniper branches &
Berries, & kuji the sweetest incense

I pray, let they who judge be brave
Resolute and just, and not render
My tormented soul to wander in
Perpetual odyssey, sans retribution

I yearn to return home soon to rest
Among the elm-trees and willows
To hear the larks trill their sweet
Songs over the endless steppes

Please, let me gaze once more at the
White snow cap of Nayramadlin Orgil
Then I'll know I'm home once again
To close my tired eyes as Golden Beam*

My good friend Susan Loone was kind enough to post ‘Remembering Altanuyaa Shariibuu’ in her blog.

Then she informed me she showed a copy of it to Steve Shariibuu (the father) when he came to Malaysia. He was pleased with my ode for her and said he would have it published in a Mongolian newspaper.

Yes, I wish for the soul of Altantuyaa to return home where she can see the white snow cap of Nayramadlin Orgil, to then rest among the elm-trees and willows, and close her tired eyes while listening to the larks trill their sweet songs over the endless steppes.

To be continued ….

Another MCA leadership shame?

Free Malaysia Today - Ling ordered to enter defence

In delivering his ruling, High Court judge Ahmadi Asnawi says with the absence of other evidence, he will not hesitate to conclude that the former transport minister intentionally induced the government to pay a higher price for a plot of land for the PKFZ project.

“He opted not to make known to the Cabinet what he had known,” he added.

Ahmadi said that Ling, as the “number one man” in the transport ministry then, should hold the highest accountability and cannot claim ignorance over a recommendation on interest that caused the price of the land of about 1,000 acres to balloon from RM1.088 billion to RM1.808 billion.


Of course, according to the laws of Malaysia, he is deemed innocent until proven guilty. But as a layman, I have to say, what with his Lordship's words, Ling's case sure as hell doesn't look good.

If he is found guilty, he will have the dubious record of being the second MCA President (or ex President) to be jailed.

Tan Koon Swan was the first. Remarkably Tan had, just prior to his imprisonment, won 76.9% of the votes cast in the MCA party presidential election in November 1985.

It was the largest majority in the party's history, thus it could be reasonably claimed that Tan KS was the most popular president ever elected in the MCA. He was also the first challenger since 1954 to win the party's national leadership.

Alas, his popularity among MCA delegates didn’t prevent him from another 'first', being jailed by not one but two nations, firstly by the courts of Singapore and THEN after his 2-year sentence was served there, by the courts of Malaysia.

And in those imprisonments, he achieved yet another 'first', the first MCA President to masuk lokap, and as mentioned, not once but twice.

What Tan’s successful election as the most popular MCA president ever elected, coupled with his subsequent imprisonments, showed was the stupidity of the MCA delegates, who repeated their dumbo-ness in recent times by electing CSL and Liow Tiong ‘my beloved PM’ LIE as their pair to lead an already severely wounded and moribund party, instead of a more rambunctious Ong Tee Keat who was actually preferred by the Chinese community (but lamentably, not the MCA delegates and their self-interests).

I suppose that must be what people call 'death wish'.

Thus far, no UMNO, Gerakan or (wakakaka) MIC president has ever been jailed, which I'm sure would be due to their low-cholesterol high-Omega-3-oil diet wakakaka.

I wonder whether Datuk Seri Harun Idris was the only UMNO leader to be jailed for corruption. He was sentenced to 6 years imprisonment but on recommendation by PM Dr Mahathir, was pardoned by HM after 3 years in Pudu (where it was said he served in its library).

Like another UMNO leader who went to prison for murder (and also subsequently pardoned), he went into and exited prison with his Datukship intact. If found guilty, Ling could well be be the first Tun, though I'm quite sure HM will tarik balik that dulu wakakaka.

It’s a pity that years after Harun Idris was pardoned, Dr M failed to recommend to HM to pardon Lim GE who was incarcerated not for corruption but for what was a blatant miscarriage of justice - where the courageous defender of the rights of an underage Malay girl was jailed while the (statutory) rapist not only got clean away, but was subsequently honoured by HM as a Tan Sri.

We are still waiting for Dr M's long overdue apology to Lim GE, and also to HM for recommending an award to a sleazy slimy scum.

If I fail and have to go to jail, I have no regrets. I have no regrets of going down fighting for the principles of truth and justice. And pursuit of human rights, especially women's rights. There can be no women's rights if women rape victims are considered equally responsible, and even detained, whilst the accused remain free — Lim Guan Eng

The motives of love, lust, lucre and loathing

Aiyah sayang saje, if only I didn’t focus on writing Vice greater than 7 Deadly Sins yesterday, I would have pipped my hero Karpal Singh in asserting the centrality of ‘motive’ in murder, specifically in the murder of Altantuyaa Shariibuu.

It’s not that I’m a learned erudite lawyer like my Bai guru but wakakaka I have read a few books on crime, of course only for knowledge and entertainment.

In the most simple approach, and avoiding the pitfalls of legal definitions, I would say that if someone has been killed and there was motive, it’s murder. If there wasn’t any motive, then it’s probably manslaughter.

Only the most mindless moronic murderer wakakaka would deliberately kill someone without motive, but then I suppose his lawyers could plead insanity (and he would probably win too), wakakaka.

Karpal has been, probably still is angry with the bizarre statement of the Shah Alam High Court judge Mohd Zaki Md Yasin, who astonishingly said "Whatever the motive was, it is a matter of law that the motive, although relevant, has never been the essential to constitute murder."

And this was AFTER he admitted that Abdul Razak Baginda could have had a motive to murder Altantuya as she was blackmailing him.

But then the most learned judge stunned every legal person in Malaysia (well, almost everyone) by declaring the motive cannot be the basis to call for Razak Baginda's defence.

So, my Lord, what basis if not motive should be the case then? Would a videoclip of the murderer (plus 4 witnesses) plunging the knife (or detonator) into the victim's heart do?

The famous British crime author, P.D. James, who served for thirty years in various departments of the British Civil Service, including the Police and Criminal Law Department of Great Britain's Home Office, as well as a magistrate and as a governor of the BBC, wrote in her book The Murder Room that “All the motives for murder are covered by four Ls: Love, Lust, Lucre and Loathing.”

So did those four L’s, love lust, lucre (money) and eventually loathing exist in the relationship between Altantuyaa and Razak Baginda?

Well, everyone including the most learned judge knows that Altantuyaa was blackmailing her ex lover Razak Baginda with such aggression that he became terrified enough to ask for special protection, so most would say there was initially love and lust in their relationship, and then when the passion and ardor turned cool and relationship soured, the blackmailing for money (lucre) kicked in, with the final outcome of loathing, probably of a mutual nature.

But I suppose his Lordship knows best in asserting that motive cannot be the basis to suspect someone, so much so that Karpal Singh was moved to say:

The High Court has provided a precedent for the acquittal of a person with a motive to murder and charged with abetment without calling his defence.

It’s the first time in this country that an affidavit used for the purpose of bail and later tendered as an exhibit was used to acquit an accused person.

Mind, I’m no longer surprised by our amazing judiciary ever since the unbelievable (original) Adorna ruling where the Malaysian court (supposedly of law) helped crooks relieve rightful owners of their properties.

Tomorrow or during the weekend I will attempt to analyze the murder of Altantuyaa Shariibuu based on all the readings I have done (and not reckless emotions).

But in the meanwhile, we can say our judiciary, like our equally remarkable police, has done a Boleh-one again.

Vice greater than 7 Deadly Sins?

The Christians have their 'Seven Deadly Sins', while the Jews find theirs in the Mishlai (Book of Proverbs) where Solomon taught that "six things the Lord hateth, and the seventh His soul detesteth."

And do you know the seventh that God detesteth?

It’s “Him that soweth discord among brethren” wakakaka.

Throughout the Bible, the sins are repetitively mentioned, though strangely, in this atheist’s opinion, there was no embarrassment by Solomon, or more correctly the compiler of the Bible, when he named the 2nd sin as “a lying tongue” wakakaka.

Anyway, rather than talk about the religious-listed sins, let’s consider vices (of a personal nature and not religious sins) though I read that in Islam, Ibn abi Dunya, a 9th-century scholar and tutor to the caliphs, described seven vices as worldliness, ire, envy, slander (wakakaka, obviously this teaching hasn’t reached Malaysia yet), obscenity (kaytee smirking), intoxicants and instruments of pleasure.

Buddhism names as vices the absence of shame (wakakaka, reminds me of someone), absence of embarrassment (please stop it Lord Buddha, I’m collapsing from laughter, wakakaka), jealousy, anger, concealment of wrongs and particularly for Buddists, a range of unnecessary emotions - am still giggling helplessly which being an emotion perhaps may be considered as a vice for Buddhists, wakakaka.

But from a secular perspective, what would be ‘vice’, which is the subject of my post?

The dictionary defines it as ‘an immoral or evil habit or practice’.

I propose to omit the utter evil of pedophilia from the list as it is more than a vice; it’s a f* evil crime which we all must, as far as we possibly can, smash, obliterate and annihilate, where no quarters should ever be given.

Traditionally, we consider vices as drinking - principally of alcohol though I would not recommend taking too much fizzy drinks wakakaka but I reckon we can include in this group the taking of harmful drugs such as opium in earlier days to the current heroin, etc - womanizing and gambling. Modern awareness has also included unacceptable stuff like pornography as a vice.


My personal take from observations and experience is that the worst of the lot is … yes, gambling.

I’ve seen families broken up in utter tragedies because of a member's uncontrollable addiction to gambling, of how mothers cried as their addicted sons and daughters gambled away the family assets like savings, houses, and in some countries, reportedly even wives and children.

Drinking, drugs taking, womanizing, etc – they’re bad of course but the terrible consequences of gambling is deep seated and far far more reaching than a drug addict (including an alcoholic) finally succumbing to his/her own addiction.

Thus I would avoid gambling because of its unmitigated risk taking, more so as the high risk taking of gambling seems to be associated with the Chinese more than other races.

By stating this I’m not a Chinese self-hater like a man who frequently reminds everyone who cares to listen he’s a Melayu wakakaka. I’m quoting from an interesting book by Dr Desmond Lam titled The World of Chinese Gambling (2009), where he identified Chinese as the ethnic group with the highest risk-seeking behaviour in gambling.

Two years ago (in happier ‘Mediterranean climes’ wakakaka) I wrote A disease deadlier than AIDS for the Centre of Policy Initiatives (CPI) about the lethality of the gambling disease ...


... which brings me to the core question of Malaysia-Today’s post on Mahathir's Disastrous Financial Speculation.

Financial speculation is without any iota of doubt just gambling, not unlike punting on Empat Ekor or speculating on shares. We know or have heard of housewives, maid servants (especially in Hong Kong) and many others playing the stock and futures markets, many to their financial doom with some even committing suicide.

But when a PM of a country put the nation’s resources on the world's financial table, not unlike a Chinaman staking his money in a game of baccarat in Macau or blackjack in Genting Highlands and Singapore, we are not talking about mere thousands or even millions.


RPK’s post quoted The Asia Sentinel report that: ... Malaysia’s central bank, Bank Negara Malaysia, at the urging of then-Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, began speculating aggressively in global foreign exchange markets, at one time running up exposure rumoured to be in the region of RM270 billion -- three times the country’s gross domestic product and more than five times its foreign reserves at the time.

RM270 billion! My knees feel f* weak at the thought of that sum.

Didn’t Dr M know it was gambling? Could it be, impossible as it sounds, he has some secret drops of Chinese (gambling) blood in his heritage, to indulge in such risk taking?


In his book, Dr Desmond Lau states that, among many factors contributing to the gambling problems of the Chinese, their superstitious beliefs represent a major influence and consequently, their unwarranted conviction that they could exercise control over the gambling outcomes.

We all too often see this pattern of behaviour in our local Chinese seeking divine or supernatural help from every nook, crook and corner for, what Penangites would term as, chun-chun see ay jee (the correct 4 numbers) for a win.

So, was Dr M similarly equally superstitious to possess such ‘unwarranted conviction’ that he could exercise control over the financial speculation (gambling) outcomes?

The Asia Sentinel continued: Mahathir and Bank Negara ..... walked away with a US$4 billion loss, followed by another US$2.2 billion loss in 1993, the total equivalent of RM15.5 billion.

Although the disastrous trades destroyed the entire capital base of Bank Negara, after first denying it had taken place, the then-Finance Minister Anwar Ibrahim repeatedly reassured parliament that the losses were only “paper losses” and, now that he is Opposition Leader and head of the Pakatan Rakyat opposition coalition, has managed to skate free of the controversy.

Remember, it was Lim Kit Siang (not kaytee) who raised this issue of Anwar Ibrahim’s involvement and misleading of Parliament.

Eventually, the Finance Ministry had to recapitalize the central bank, almost unheard of for any government anywhere. It is reliably estimated that Bank Negara lost as much as US$30 billion in this and other disastrous currency trades, costing the head of the central bank and his currency trader deputy their jobs.

Lost US$30 billion!


And we haven’t even touched other issues like Maminco, MAS, etc yet.

And today Dr M has the bloody cheek to preach to us on matters economic, social and financial.

Open tender vs negotiated contracts

3 days ago, Free Malaysia Today published Perkasa mob ticked off for ‘un-Malay-like’ behaviour which reported:

The Penang Malays Congress (PMC) today hit out at Perkasa members for causing the ugly Esplanade ruckus during the anti-Lynas peaceful gathering on Sunday.

PMC secretary Mohd Noor Mohd Abdul Kader also condemned Penang Perkasa leader Mohd Rizuad Mohd Azudin for rudely showing a shoe to Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng when the DAP leader was leaving the place in his official car.

Mohd Noor criticised the Perkasa mob for being “un-Malay-like” in creating the disturbance at the peaceful gathering, in which two reporters were roughed up.

Now, you know why UMNO considers DAP as its No 1 threat in the coming election – not PAS, not PKR, but DAP which UMNO once dismissed as a small irritant belonging to MCA-Gerakan’s problem area.

UMNO is obviously terrified of DAP’s clear foot in the Malay heartland which I posted in January as UMNO fears DAP beachhead. I then wrote (extracts):

And that’s why the DAP's beachhead in the heartland must be destroyed before it makes further inroads in making the rakyat realize that DAP is truly a multiracial party which can deliver its promises in a C.A.T fashion, and thus successfully secures the invasion of good governance.

Thus, to UMNO’s thinking, "Ceterum autem censeo, Carthaginem esse delendam" (Furthermore, I think Carthage must be destroyed) where it sees DAP as Carthage.

This has not been the first time the Penang Malays Congress (PMC) has spoken out fairly and responsibly as a 'Malaysian-oriented' organization, and thus, indirectly in support of Lim GE and his Penang government.

The reason for such a monstrous wakakaka sea change in Penang's Malay attitude may be read in RPK’s post EPISODE 18: Selangor government still to end negotiated contracts, where wrote as his opening paragraph:

Lim Guan Eng in Penang is already practicing the open tender system, so much so that a number of contracts ended up in the hands of Umno people. I suppose that is what transparency is all about. Contracts go to those who are qualified, not to those who belong to your political party.

Now, can you see the C.A.T doctrine in action where meritocracy (not mediocracy) is the order of the day, every day, in the governance of the Lim government?

By contrast, according to RPK, the Khalid Ibrahim Selangor government still has the UMNO-style 'negotiated' contracts, despite the MB promising that would stop.

The differences between Lim’s open tender system and Khalid’s 'negotiated' contracts are monster-ish wakakaka. The former is consistent with C.A.T where, as RPK pointed out, even UMNO business people can win the contracts on merit, while the latter’s process had been largely .... well, let me put it this way ... NOT open.

RPK acknowledged that, yes, Selangor’s ‘negotiated’ contracts amounted to around RM350 millions, and by comparison to UMNO’s lamentable legacy of such ‘negotiated’ contracts, would be considered as a relatively small sum.

But RPK in true form sneered: Well, if you murder one person you are a murderer. 100 people and you are still a murderer. There is no such thing as a small murderer and a big murderer. Murder is murder.

Little drops of water,
little grains of sand, (sand? wakakaka)
make the murky ocean
and the dodgy land

(with apologies to Julia Carney)

So we have to ask, why is Selangor still using an UMNO-style contractual approach? Why hasn't it dropped it (as promised by Khalid) and return to the universally used ‘open’ tendering system, as Penang has done?

Perhaps the world’s greatest economist etc etc can enlighten us! Perhaps he would tell us, again, 'Khalid is very stubborn'? Wakakaka.

Police callous brutality

Malaysiakini - Public uproar over cop who 'kicked' motorcyclist

According to Kwong Wah Jit Poh, motorcyclist Lim Hup Hwang was riding without a helmet about 5.50 pm when he arrived at the roadblock.

Attempting to stop Lim, the police personnel kicked the motorcycle, causing the teenager to fall and hit the road divider.

Lim was taken to the Tangkak Hospital and later transferred to a private hospital in Malacca due to the severe injuries on the head, right ear, neck, right leg and other parts of his body.

The daily quoted an eyewitness as claiming that Lim’s motorcycle was kicked because he did not immediately stop after being instructed by the police to do so.

As if that was not bad enough, the following happened:

The witness then saw a People’s Volunteer Corps member riding a motorcycle. He ran into Lim who was lying on the ground and left the scene hastily.

The witness claimed that the police personnel had stood and watched the whole incident without offering any help to Lim.

The police as usual attempted to lay the blame on Lim as they did on Aminulrasyid Amzah. Like Aminulrasyid, Lim is only 14 years old.

Lim sister revealed: “This policeman argued that my brother intended to hit him with the motorcycle hence the kick. Fortunately, three good Samaritans are our eyewitnesses (to rebut the policeman). Thank you so much.”

To stop Lim, they kicked his bike, to stop Aminulrasyid they shot him.

Our remarkable police has done it again.

Eons ago in Penang way before my time, as my uncle told me, a police outrider in a VVIP convoy came upon a young boy pedalling a bicycle just ahead, but by the edge of the road where cyclists would be. Without pausing as he passed, he brutally and callously kicked the young cyclist aside, obviously to show that no one should be on the road when a VVIP convoy was in progress.

Unfortunately the boy died. Like Lim Hup Hwang he expired tragically due to severe head injuries.

As a youngster (coincidentally around 14 years old too) I suffered almost the same experience though fortunately for me, the policeman, also on a bicycle, came from behind me and kicked his booted foot right into the spokes of my front wheel (instead of me) to stop me.

Due to the unexpected abrupt stop, I catapulted forward and suffered some minor bruises. Worse for very poor me, my bicycle suffered damage especially to the front wheel spokes. I couldn't afford to repair it and for months I lost use of the bicycle. To add insult to injury, I was severely beaten by my mum for damaging the bike.

I got up with a shock wondering what it was all about. The cop snarled at me for riding double abreast with my mate. Did that deserve such a violent treatment? Then he gave me a ticket.

Coincidentally, he was the cop who sought lodging advice from my neighbour Pakcik Daud, on whom I wrote about in my post Makcik Puteh & Belangkas over at my other blog KTemoc Kongsamkok.

I had already told Pakcik Daud about that incident. During the meeting, he gently reminded the cop about his unacceptable ‘behaviour’ especially with people in a small kampung and then, best of all for me, urged him to 'settle' the ticket.

The asshole was embarrassed of course and attempted to bull his way through by laying the blame on my mate, claiming he (my mate) was arrogant and refused to stop. But Pakcik Daud knew he had came from behind two oblivious boys chatting away happily while riding abreast. Perhaps the cop wanted to show off his police credentials as allowing him that act of unnecessary brutality. Anyway, the cop somehow had my ticket cancelled, thanks to Pakcik Daud.

Some people just can’t handle power and misapply it. ‘Tis the nature of the beast.

Read also: Political violence - the nature of the beast

Lessons of history

The Malaysian Insider - No need to bring up BN’s past mistakes, says Muhyiddin.

Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin said although the prime minister admitted Barisan Nasional’s (BN) mistakes, “there is no need to list out our weaknesses; that is in the past”.

“What is more important is in front, in the next 10, 20 years and as the prime minister said, we are ready to improve ourselves and improve on what we have already accomplished such as the national transformation programmes, which includes the economy, government, politics, rural issues and new measures taken by the prime minister and the government, which have an effective impact.

Sorry, my dear Tan Sri, I strongly disagree, because George Santayana advised us that "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it”.

And that’s precisely the reason why we must remember the past, and the important lessons of history - an example on the global scale would be that of the Yanks not remembering its humongous mistake of Vietnam and repeating it in Iraq, Afghanistan and, if the Israelis have their way, Iran.

Of course we needn’t take grudge with everything unsatisfactory that we recall, but when there exists in our national politial landscape a clear picture, pattern and probability of non-repentance, continuing lack of transparency, accountability and proper governance, then we should, as far as our democratic process allows us, not permit the future to become another copy of the past.

Reminder: "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it” wakakaka.

Mindless Malaysian Myrmidons

Often I have employed the word ‘anwarista’ in my writings, wakakaka. I don’t suppose I need to explain what it means.

I was told RPK coined up this word. I presume he must have based it on the Sandinistas of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN in Spanish), where FSLN members were called Sandinistas. Apparently the FSLN organization was named after Augusto César Sandino, the charismatic head of the Nicaraguan resistance against the USA occupation of Nicaragua in the 1930s.

Charismatic head? Wakakaka.

kaytee has in turn described anwaristas as Myrmidons, the ant-soldiers of Achilles.

In Greek mythology, the Myrmidons were known for their ferocity and blind unquestioning loyalty to their leader. Their eponymous ancestor, meaning the ancestor who gave them their name, was (naturally) King Myrmidon of Phthia, Thessaly.


The story tells us King Myrmidon was the result from an illicit sexual union, in which Almighty Zeus in the form of an ant seduced a mortal, Princess Eurymedousa of Phthia. Hence the Myrmidons were sometimes called the ant soldiers, perhaps as a reminder of the source of sperm which gave birth to their tribe.

Sex with an ant? Wakakaka. But I suppose it's better than with a frog, wakakaka again.

However, in medieval Europe the word Myrmidon meant ‘hired ruffian’, which may not be fully applicable here wakakaka, because our mindless ‘ruffians’ are not hired but actual devotees, like Achilles' ant soldiers.

Now, my reason for selecting the term Myrmidons to describe anwaristas had been inspired by a dictionary description of Myrmidon as "a loyal follower, especially one who executes orders without question, protest, or pity - unquestioning followers", wakakaka.

Now, doesn’t that dictionary definition so aptly captures the very character of those mindless moronic mechanical cyborgs (cyborgs as per the notorious mindless Borgs of Star Trek movies mumbling "Resistance is futile") wakakaka.


They are very much like low brow George ‘Dubya’ Bush, asserting their doctrine of “either you’re with us or against us”, so if you question their hero, you must be from the enemy BN – and if a Malay like Zaid*, an UMNO Trojan horse, or if like kaytee wakakaka, then a MCA paid cybertrooper earning a magnificent RM300 per month which is almost AUS $91 – wow, wakakaka (Pos Laju has been very slow because I'm still eagerly waiting to receive my first payment wakakaka).

* Zaid Ibrahim was a government minister (for Law) who resigned on principles against the use of ISA to incarcerate Teresa Kok of the DAP and a Chinese newspaper journalist, in stark contrast to someone who remained quiet like a mouse when Lim Guan Eng was unjustly incarcerated for defending the rights of an underage Malay girl.

They don’t care whether their accusations are true because they are so devoted to their hubristic Achilles wakakaka that, damn the entire world, their accusations of blokes like kaytee must be, have to be true. To them it’s not possible for a pro PAS or pro DAP person to dislike their icon, so these people must definitely be from BN.


Hey, Lim Kit Siang must be a BN cybertrooper too for exposing their great leader's complicity in the forex scandal. And don't forget, Pak Haji Nik Aziz could be one too for challenging and embarassing manmanlai in his declaration to WSJ of his total support for Israel, wakakaka.

Stretching further out to other targets to be destroyed, these Myrmidons would, for example, demand that a person like, say Marina Mahathir, must denounce her father for her to be considered as clean and acceptable - hmmm, just so because her father is their hero’s nemesis?

Apart from a truism that it is utterly cruel to require a son or daughter to condemn a parent, and I am an Asian, I would not respect Marina if she ever denounces her parents, no matter whether they are mass murderers or thugs. One can disagree with one’s parents and refuse to do what they do or what they want one to do, but one can never ever badmouth them, no matter what their sins. As Chinese would say, a put-how (unfilial) child is an affront to the Heavens and would be struck down by lightning.

Marina Mahathir is responsible for her own conduct and the master of her own destiny. Her father’s should be those of her father. She doesn't need to be unfilial just to be accepted, which she should be on her own rights and merits.

Just look at RPK’s post Your 10 questions with Datin Paduka Marina Mahathir, where one of the visitors, chanal 58, left this terrible mindless comment:

Never bother to read what she wrote. Never believe she is an angel in Bersih 2. The many many SINS from her Mamak Papa to the Rakyat of Malaysia can never be cleansed and forgiven. Please remember that every night you go to sleep. Same to your brothers.

It’s not unlike the Israelites’ belief in the biblical saying that ‘the sins of the father will be visited upon their children for several generations’ …

Thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me – Deuteronomy 5:9

and

I will even repay into their bosom, both their own iniquities and the iniquities of their fathers together – Isaiah 65:6-7

… which I opine is utter nonsense on the basis of logic, commonsense and secular justice, but then, a Myrmidon could not even understand democracy (of unacceptable manmanlai frogology), let alone logic, commonsense and secular justice.

Hmmm, shouldn’t we then demand Nurul Izzah denounces her father for despatching thugs to bash up the international and local participants of Apcet II and wreck the conference, and then boasting “Our mission was to stop the conference and we did just that”?

Shouldn’t we demand she denounces her father for the shameful attempt to subvert the supremacy of the ballot box as in his deformasi 916 frogology, more so after PKR people claim the Great Man has changed from being Vlad UMNO-cula into Mr Reformasi?

Shouldn’t we also demand she denounces him for the following deformasi sins:

• Islamic doa requirements at school to include compulsory participation by non Muslim students, effectively a proselytizing program
• Sparking the onset of Ops Lallang through his sinister attempt to send non-Mandarin educated headmasters to vernacular schools
• Silence in the persecution and incarceration of Lim Guan Eng in the Melaka statutory rape case – where silence was agreement
• Subversion of democracy during the 1994 Sabah post-election election frogology (to be repeated but failed in 2008)
• Forex fxxkup
• Demagoguery ('Cina balik Tiongsun', 'stop the bells from ringing at Indian temples', etc)

Should we also comment on Nurul as follows:

Never bother to read what she wrote. Never believe she is an angel in Bersih 2 or the more pretentious Puteri Reformasi. The many many SINS from her Mamak Papa to the Rakyat of Malaysia can never be cleansed and forgiven. Please remember that every night you go to sleep. Same to your sisters.

In my post A Tale of Two Sweeties I wrote:

… whatever good Marina Mahathir might have done (as in AIDS and women affairs), they (as well as some UMNO-BN people too) would impute some ignoble motive on her part

Sometime back, I read an article (somewhere, and also indicated above in that Myrmidon’s comments at RPK’s post) where the author aired his distrust of Marina’s motive in walking with Bersih 2.0, suggesting she possessed a secret agenda to infiltrate Bersih a la the Trojan Horse to destroy it from within. Well …

Then there were others who questioned her ’enjoyment of the privileges’ of being a PM’s daughter as if she could only be free of guilt if she had chosen someone else to be her parents. Such has been the stupidity of those mindless comments.

And incidentally, did Nurul not enjoy the same privileges when Anwar was the powerful rightwing DPM from UMNO?

Anwaristas' double standard! Or, Myrmidon moronic mindless mentality?

Mindless, moronic, muddle-headed, striking out recklessly or machine-gunning down (with wild accusations) everyone they don't agree with (or who disagree with them), some even mouthing sheer utter mindless nonsense at blogs wakakaka, which has been why I remarked to one such person, words to the effect, that I continue to be astounded by his endless stupidity (because his wild bizarre mindless accusations).


You know something? These Myrmidons are no different at all from those 50 hooligans who harassed Lim GE at the Himpunan Hijau rally at the Esplanade in Penang – exactly the same, whether they are from UMNO-Perkasa-Suara Anak-Anak Malaysia-Komtar Traders Association or anwarista-ish Myrmidons, all thugs a la Apcet II, probably offsprings of the same ancestors.

Sex with an ant? Wakakaka.

The new (UMNO) Malay?

The Malaysian Insider - Malay courtesy under threat — Tunku Abdul Aziz.

MARCH 3 — The spectacle of Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng being subjected by some Malay thugs to public harassment and humiliation on February 26 as he was leaving the anti-Lynas rally at Padang Kota in Penang caused a great deal of genuine pain to the sensibilities of men and women of goodwill in this nation.

Is this what the notion of “the new Malay” is really all about? Have they totally abandoned the natural courtesy and graciousness of their forebears? What has happened to the “adat”, or have they forgotten that too?

We may not like his politics but was that appropriate behaviour towards another human being? Lim is the head of government and must be shown all the courtesies attendant upon that position. That, in my book, is the norm of a civilized society, and anything less is unacceptable.

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The above article (extracts only) has Tunku Abdul Aziz bemoaning the loss of the renowned Malay courtesy, as was seen in the Himpunan Hijau rally at Esplanade, Penang. Apart from the violence perpetrated by UMNO Youth, Perkasa and Suara Anak-Anak Malaysia and Komtar Traders Association led by its vice president, wannabe-Melayu (UMNO version) Abdul Ghani Mohammed Jiman, the PDRM was mysteriously absent at a time when CM Lim GE was threatened with verbal abuses and rude displays of near-physical violence.

The Malay saying which goes: Biar mati anak, jangan mati adat (Rather our child dies than our tradition) depicts the traditional Malay attitude towards civilized behavior, just as the Arabs would (in their old traditions) never turn a stranger away from their homes.

Because traditional Malays would instill in their children this value of civil courtesy, the word they hate to hear about their offspring is biadap (ill-mannered, impolite, uncouth, uncivilized, barbaric, savage, uncultured and in the best case scenario, uneducated).

But Tunku Abdul Aziz should have been aware that in mid 1996, the greatest demonstration of Malay (or rather, UMNO Malay) discourtesy or unmitigated biadap-ness to an international audience was exhibited at Asia Hotel in KL.

UMNO Youth violently & venomously violated the second international conference called the ‘Asia Pacific Conference on East Timur’ (Apcet II).

In an earlier post Political violence - the nature of the beast I quoted Dr Syed Husin (former deputy president of PKR) giving evidence at a court hearing a case against police illegal detention of Apcet II participants:

… the 300-strong BN angry mob broke down the doors and invaded the conference hall carrying sticks and chairs in their hands.

One of them who had in his hand a food-container half-filled with water, emptied the contents all over me. He shouted at me saying, ‘Get out! Get out!’. It was mayhem.

I was personally assaulted by three persons. They used force and pulled my hands and body. They kept insisting that I should leave the hall.

Dr Syed recognised one of the thugs who thuggerishly stormed and wrecked Apcet II as Saifuddin Nasution, then No 3 in the UMNO Youth leadership hierarchy, but now PKR’s current sec-gen and a member of Anwar Ibrahim’s inner coterie.

Naturally, under a combined operations by UMNO Youth hooliganism and police complicity in being not around during the violence (déjà vu recently in Penang?) but appearing after the UMNO Youth's 'shock & awe' to apprehend and illegally detain the victims, Apcet II had to be abandoned. This was when the acting PM, Anwar Ibrahim boasted of how UMNO's organized violent disruption led to the cancellation of the international conference, crowing:

“Our mission was to stop the conference and we did just that.”

As I wrote in March 2006 in a post Apcet II Disgrace - all for an alien nation!:

What was in aid of?

Just to please a neighbouring country who was abusing the human rights and indeed the lives of a group of people of a country it should not have swallowed in the first place to incorporate into its Nusantara ‘empire’.

Many young Malaysians, including those UMNO young hooligans who participated in that act of unmitigated mob violence, seemed to have forgotten that the same neighbour had once lusted after our country and wanted to swallow us up too. We should be more sympathetic to our fellow target victims instead of resorting to violent mob rule to please an alien country.

* Update: Since then, and in recent times, Indonesians have repetitively threatened Malaysians and even smeared our Embassy in Jakarta with faeces.

Sure, it’s a big gorilla that would have pressured us to stop the Apcet II conference. It tried to do that with Apcet I in Manila, and while the Filipino government succumbed to the pressure, the Philippines courts did not, ordering the government to back off from a legitimate and peaceful seminar. Likewise too with Apcet III in Bangkok, which ran beautifully undisturbed by thugs.

Only Malaysia saw fit to suck up to its neighbour. And for what?

It’s not as if it’s a Muslim nation, and therefore Islamic solidarity was called for! It’s not as if it’s a Malay nation and therefore Malay solidarity was natural [it’s mainly a Javanese dominated society who persecuted the Malays in Aceh, and whose Majapahit ancestors chased Parameswara, later to be Sultan Megat Iskandar Shah, to Malacca].

It’s not as if that nation has done anything for us, except tried to invade us once, endowed us with their SW Monsoon poisonous haze and their illegal migrants. And it’s a country we nearly (again) went to war with recently over some gas fields. It’s a country we had a hacking battle with!

So OK, we brown-nosed those Javanese, because ‘some of us’ fantasized there’s some form of persaudaraan berakar sama [brethren of same origin], between them and us, by preventing a regional group of peaceful NGOs from seeking a peaceful, yes, peaceful resolution to a murderous situation in a neighbouring nation, where vulnerable East Timorese were massacred by Indonesian troops.

What was the damage for that thuggish behaviour for a foreign country which didn’t even appreciate or remember what the UMNO young goons plus associates had done?

(1) We abused OUR own citizens for an alien nation.
(2) We manhandled one of OUR respectable senior scholars for an alien nation. He might/may be from the Opposition, but he's from OUR Malaysian Opposition, not of an alien nation.

* that respectable senior scholar subsequently joined up with his Apcet II oppressors Anwar Ibrahim and Saifuddin Nasution to form PKR. It seems there’s no accounting for his inability to recognize a leopard never changes its spots wakakaka.

(3) We wrecked a Malaysian hotel for an alien nation.
(4) We abused our peaceful international guests in a violent manner for an alien nation.
(5) We disgraced the good name of OUR nation for the benefit of an alien nation.
(6) We then abused the Apcet participants by having the police detain them, the victims – and for what?
(7) We put them in an Abu Ghraib-ish cell! And we have the cheek to condemn the Americans?
(8) We showed the world how violent, abusive and repressive we could be, all for the benefit of an alien nation.

And it’s an alien nation that has constantly showed us disrespect and aggression from time to time! [Padan muka wakakaka]

Those UMNO people ought to get their bloody priorities right!

But most of all, we or more correctly, those UMNO (and now PKR) goons, as Tunku Abdul Aziz has now lamented, had totally abandoned the Malay adat of natural courtesy and graciousness of their forebears for an ungrateful alien nation – thanks mightily to manmanlai.

'Half brothers' MCA & Gerakan, & sons & daughter of Penang

Stanley Koh wrote an interesting article on MCA-Gerakan ties: Vintage soap opera in Free Malaysia Today. He knows what he’s talking about as he was a former head of the MCA research unit.

I won’t repeat his succinct story telling about the two 'half brothers', namely MCA and Gerakan (or at least Lim Chong Eu's UDP component of Gerakan).

Penangites witnessed the post-1969 political soap opera in my state when an already much displaced MCA attempted to steal its way back into its old niche by backstabbing and sabotaging its 'half brother' and also headhunting Gerakan frogs.

Some years later, around or after 1975, the MCA struggle to get on top of Gerakan was headed or strategized by Lim Kean Siew, a Penang political (socialist) icon in the early 60's. Lim Kean Siew, like Dr Tan Chee Khoon, was from the Malayan Labour Party. Due to the Labour Party's boycott of the general elections in 1969, it effectively self-extinguished its political existence. Lim then joined MCA in 1975.

When MCA failed in its coup d’état (to seize power from Gerakan, it seems, through BN approved 3-party contested state elections), the newspapers reported Lim laughingly acknowledged he was outfoxed by a more cunning foe.

Lim Kean Siew came from a distinguished Penang family of lawyers. His sister is the very distinguished Datuk Lim PG (Phaik Gan), a sweetheart who was Malaysia's Ambassador to the UN, union champion, director of the KL Regional Centre for Arbitration, feminist and, in many Penangites' opinion, should have been appointed Yang DiPertua Negeri of Penang, but alas, its too late now as she's in her 80's. Read the Bar Council brief of her here.

Back to Lim Kean Siew - he was not only a brilliant lawyer and committed socialist as many of his colleagues saw him - read the Bar Council's eulogy of him here - but my uncle said he was a fantastic fiery orator, in both English and Penang Hokkien. Sadly, this Malaysian socialist giant and political icon passed away in 2007.

By gargantuan contrast, Koh Tsu Koon was a pathetically poor choice to be leader of Gerakan as he wasn’t made of steel like Lim Chong Eu or even Lim Keng Yaik. Koh was plain too soft, too passive and always giving in to UMNO or, if I wish to be kind, too much of a gentleman, which in fact (and to be fair to him) wasn’t far from the truth.

But in Stanley Koh's most informative piece, which did mention UMNO’s role in the relationship of the two parties, I personally feel Stanley was not direct or forceful enough to point out that it was UMNO’s strategy to play the game of ‘divide & conquer’ by deliberately keeping Gerakan and MCA apart.

Hmmm, I wonder whether the late Lim Kean Siew was in fact referring to UMNO (and its behind-the-scene intervention to ensure Gerakan came up tops) as the cunning foe who outfoxed Penang MCA.

No doubt MCA was a pure capitalist creature while there were, at that time, shades of socialism in Gerakan (inherited from its Labour Party genes), and the latter had members who were not Chinese, it would not have been inconceivable for the two to merge into one stronger multiracial entity, to fend off a rapacious UMNO. It also suited UMNO to promote a Gerakan with a weak leader like Koh TK who always gave in to UMNO – the UMNO DCM was effectively the power in the state.

My family, relatives and neighbours once loved Gerakan, mainly because of Lim Chong Eu, but its current version leaves much to be desired. Thus on 08 March 2008, Penangites did what they did in May 1969 - they consigned the state ruling party, Koh's Gerakan and also its 'half brother' MCA, to the rubbish tip as they did to Wong Pow Nee's MCA some 40 years earlier. Thus it’s only fair and proper that Gerakan now kindly considers itself as extinct and allows Penangites the opportunity to once again enjoy a fresh new administration.

However, I recall from my earlier days in Penang that there was a protégé of Lim Chong Eu by the name of Khor Gark Kim. I knew of him only because he was a local Ayer Itam village bloke who rose like a lotus from the muddy waters of his village origins and circumstances. After Gark Kim became a teacher, his brother operated a tailor shop in the village.

I think Gark Kim studied at Chung Ling and then graduated from UM. He became a science teacher and had a reputation in the village as a hardworking man. My uncle, who knew him and his lovely wife rather well, mentioned that Gark Kim in his younger days was like Lim Kean Siew, rather passionate in socialism, thus I was surprised when he became a politician in a BN-ised Gerakan, by then a capitalistic entity like MCA. Maybe a whiff of Gerakan’s Labour Party genes had beckoned to his ideological core?

Apparently Khor’s political career grew from strength to fantabulous strength, where his party status and rank shot up in meteorite fashion for him to become, at one time, a Gerakan strongman next only to Dr Lim Chong Eu in the Penang line of power.

Once in the village, I saw him and his wife driving by in a chauffeured (Penang State) Mercedes. What an outcome for a village bloke who rose from his job as a humble school teacher to become a state exco member and the heir apparent to CM Lim Chong Eu.

Everyone naturally expected him to succeed Dr Lim as CM of Penang, but alas, it was not his mialee (fate, karma, kismet) to be so. As a result of internal Gerakan rivalry, he was ousted from Gerakan's upper echelon. There was bad blood between Khor and some current Gerakan pollies.

Soon after that he faded from the headlines and the minds of most Ayer Itam people, but just before the 08 March 2008 general elections, I was rather intrigued to see The Star Online photo showing him chit-chatting with the 2008 crop of DAP pollies for both the state and federal elections, which made me wonder what was going on?

Khor Gark Kim, 2nd from right - Star photo

I wonder whether he advised the DAP candidates on campaign strategy, perhaps as a form of extracting some long overdue retribution, wakakaka.

And I wonder again, just how Gerakan in Penang would have turned out if Khor Gark Kim had become CM of Penang?

Daulat Dato’ Defacto Deformasi

Well, I knew he was Finance Minister in 1992, when the stupid forex gambling with public money went bust to losses of billions. But I wasn’t sure whether he was involved, much as he was the Finance Minister, so I gave him the benefit of the doubt by believing that the forex fxxkup only involved Dr M and the governor of Bank Negara.

It turned out he was a forex f*up fibber. And who called him that? None other than Lim Kit Siang. Of course this was way back in 1994.

Extracts of Lim’s main points which he told Parliament – from Malaysia-Today:

There are two other reasons why Anwar Ibrahim must bear personal responsibility for Bank Negara’s forex losses.

Anwar Ibrahim said last week that he had directed Bank Negara to stop forward foreign exchange trading when he discovered its forex losses 18 months ago. If Bank Negara had followed his instructions to stop forward forex trading in 1992, then how could Bank Negara suffer RM5.7 billion losses in 1993, on top of the RM10.1 billion to RM13.1 billion losses in 1992?

Usual manmanlai!

Furthermore, Anwar Ibrahim had misled Parliament last July when I questioned him whether Bank Negara had suffered more forex losses. Anwar said that this was not true as he had been monitoring the Bank Negara’s forex dealings weekly.

On July 19, 1993, I asked Anwar Ibrahim a supplementary question during question time as to whether at that date, Bank Negara’s provision of Rm2.7 billion contingent liability for forward forex trading in the 1992 Bank Negara accounts had not only been confirmed, but even more forex losses had been incurred.

This is Anwar’s reply, from the Hansard of 19th July 1993(p. 28):

“Dato Seri Anwar bin Ibrahim: Tua Yang di-Pertua, dukacita saya memaklumkan ini satu berita yang kurang baik bagi Yang Berhormat dari Tanjong. Kerugian yang dimaksudkan itu tidak berlaku dan tidak bertambah. Yang Berhormat mahu percaya atau tidak, tetapi saya ada maklumat yang sebenar tentang keadaan tersebut. Saya juga meneliti tiap-tiap minggu perkembangan kerana masalah yang dihadapi sebelum ini…. Saya ingin member jaminan kepada Yang Berhormat bagi Tanjong bahawa perkara ini kita teliti lebih dekat dan kita lebih waspada kerana pengalaman yang lalu.”

In this one short answer, Anwar Ibrahim had misled Parliament and the nation on three matters: [and why should be surprised wakakaka]

* that by July 1993, the provision in the 1992 Bank Negara accounts for RM2.7 billion contingent liability for forward forex trading had not been confirmed;
* that Bank Negara had not suffered more forex losses; and
* that his weekly monitoring of Bank Negara’s forex dealings would prevent further colossal losses arising from Bank Negara’s forward forex trading.

If Anwar Ibrahim claims that he had directed Bank Negara to stop forward forex trading 18 months ago, and that “there are no new trading arrangements” last year as the central bank unwound its forward positions in the market last year (Business Times April 6, 1994), then Bank Negara should not have incurred RM5.7 billion when its contingent liability provision for such forward forex trading in end- 1992 was RM2.7 billion. [...]

Clearly Datuk Seri Anwar and Tan Sri Jaffar are not telling the truth as to when Bank Negara ceased new forward forex trading.

"... not telling the truth ..." means lying.

In Western democracy, when one had been exposed as having misled Parliament, one would resign. Ya, for Mr Manmanlai, you can tankookoo!

According to Chandra Muzaffar's relevation in Malaysiakini's Why US 'deep state' prefers Anwar over Najib, he would have also misled Pak Haji Nik Aziz when he (Anwar) claimed his support for "all efforts to protect the security of the state of Israel" included a requirement for Israel to respect the aspirations of the Palestinians. Apparently there wasn't such a stated condition in hsi interview with WSJ.

Whatever people may say about Chandra Muzaffar, his past achievement as Aliran founder and president speaks for his character. If he now rubs shoulders with UMNO (and I lament that) he is no different from Nallakaruppan, both of whom hate Anwar Ibrahim and his inner coterie for bloody-mindedly posing obstacles in their political career paths in PKR, but who also require a political platform to attack Anwar Ibrahim and his blue-eye boy.

Unless one is as rich as Zaid Ibrahim, one cannot have one’s own political platform, so one seeks the 'enemy of my enemy' to achieve one's purpose.

But whatever, it had been Lim Kit Siang (and not Chandra Muzaffar, Nalla, Zaid or whoever) who revealed the world’s greatest Finance Minsiter misled Parliament about the forex fxxkup.

Anwar’s list of manmanlai 'achievements' during his time in UMNO in various ministerial roles (and the following is not exhaustive) were:

• Forex fxxkup
• Subversion of democracy during the 1994 Sabah post-election election frogology
• Sparking the onset of Ops Lallang through his sinister attempt to send non-Mandarin educated headmasters to vernacular schools
• Islamic doa requirements at school to include non Muslim students, effectively a proselytizing program
• Shameful show of thuggery at Apcet II
• Silence in the persecution and incarceration of Lim Guan Eng in the Melaka statutory rape case – where silence was agreement
• Demagoguery ('Cina balik Tiongsun', 'stop the bells from ringing at Indian temples', etc)
• etc

Daulat Dato’ Defacto Deformasi!

Never criticize a pop star (like Anwar Ibrahim)

In Malaysiakini, Chandra Muzaffar wrote Why US 'deep state' prefers Anwar over Najib

Muzaffar defines ‘deep state’ as powerful interests such as the Zionist lobbies, the Christian Right, the big wigs on Wall Street, the oil barons, the arms merchants and the media Moghuls which is in effective control - effectively Zionists and pro Zionists.

This is because, unlike Najib, Anwar has declared his unreserved support for Israel. In an interview with The Wall Street Journal on Jan 26, 2012, he reiterated his support for "all efforts to protect the security of the state of Israel."

Muzaffar stated that “It should be emphasised here that support for Israeli security - contrary to what he is saying now - was not contingent on "Israel respecting the aspirations of the Palestinians."

"In the interview Israel's security stands by itself.”

“It is diplomatic recognition of Israel that Anwar links to Palestinian aspirations. Placing Israel's security on a pedestal is the sort of gesture that the deep state and Zionists the world over laud, especially if the advocate is a Muslim leader.”

I wonder whether Anwar can be equated as the male equivalent of Nonie Darwish? wakakaka

Muzaffar said “Anwar's entry into the deep state was through his close friendship with Paul Wolfowitz, the former US deputy secretary of defence and one of the staunchest champions of Zionist power.”

One outraged supporter of Anwar called Senior Citizen left the following typical anwarista-ish comment at Muzaffar’s article:

poor chap chandra to be given public caning by netizens. But then this is what happens if people pretend to be know all. Listen chandra have you listened to anwar's speeches all over the country. Look at the thousands who admire him like a pop star and you like an imbecile dare try and condemn Anwar. Are you crazy? I think you are. Go to hell.Who are you to judge anwar?

Naughty Chandra, you shouldn’t have criticized a pop star who's admired by thousands! wakakaka

Malaysia to declare war on Oz?

Malaysiakini - Cabinet ignores Canberra, okays Lynas waste return

Despite the rejection by the Australian government, Health Minister Liow Tiong Lai said the cabinet has agreed to four ministers' proposal to return the waste from the Lynas rare earth plant to Australia.

Meanwhile, deep in the special war room in a Putrajaya underground:

Submariner: Hey Liar, do you like my special war room?

Liar: At least this room is below sea level hehehe.

Submariner: Droll droll, my dear Liar. But why did you ask me to activate the ops room?

Liar: We may have to declare war on Australia if those bastards refuse to take back the waste from Lynas.

Submariner: Wah, didn’t realize you Chinamen are so warlike. OK but then, what will we do next, my Liar friend?

Liar: Aiyah, just sandiwara mah! For voters consumption lah, at least until GE-13 is over, like no tear gas in Tung Shin, hehehe.

Submariner: Hah, no wonder you people can hapcheok (cooperate) with Perkasa.

Liar: Correct, correct, correct.

Malaysian justice?

From The Star (20 January 2010), a Jobless man gets 5 yrs for stealing some beer.

Zulhaidi Hamzah was sentenced by the Magistrates Court in JB to 5 years jail for stealing 11 cans of beer worth RM70 from a mini mart in Pasir Gudang.

Compare Zulhaidi's sentence to this one, where The Malaysian Insider reported that an Umno MP and his aide get six-year jail terms on eight counts of making false claims totalling RM80,000 for events that never took place four years ago.

On top of the relatively lenient sentence, the Shah Alam Sessions Court also granted them a stay of execution pending appeal.

Look, Zulhaidi was an unemployed and probably uneducated man, while the latter two were a politician and his fully employed (presumably educated) aide, so where was the judicial considerations of these aspects in these two cases?

Malaysian justice?

Then from Malaysiakini, we heard that an Elderly man was probed over Dr M's 'letter' to Israeli PM.

Liew Khooi Cheng, 73, was called by the MCMC to record a statement at the TTDI police station today. Liew was alleged to have spread to the public that contained seditious elements, namely an alleged email from former prime minister Dr M to the prime minister of Israel.

Today, The Malaysian Insider reported Government releases Dr M’s letters to Israeli PMs.

Will the MCMC now call Anifah Aman, the Foreign Minister, to a police station to record his statement reagrding such letters from Dr M to the prime minister of Israel?

Malaysian justice?