MACC tortured Sivanesan into 'confession'?

In the inquest on the inexplicable, unaccountable and dodgy circumstances surrounding the horrible death (in the premise of a MACC building) of young Teoh Beng Hock, who was supposed to be a mere ‘witness’ to assist an investigation by MACC into alleged (and still unsubstantiated) corruption by Selangor DAP ADUNs, we further learn of the MACC conducting Gestapo-Kempetai torture techniques on another person, T. Sivanesan, ...

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... to compel him (through threats of MORE unbearable physical and indeed mental pains) into signing a prepared confession – for more, read The Malaysian Insider’s High Court dismisses MACC bid to remove evidence.

As if that was not enough, we just heard of (from the Malaysian Insider) Mystery ‘police’ after Sivanesan?, where several persons claiming to be policemen went to Sivanesan’s house to arrest him.

But fortunately Siva was out, and spared the ordeal with the sinister visitors (and a probable extremely nasty experience).

Those sinister visitors left a message for him to report to the Jenjarom police station but Siva had the presence of mind (especially after the still-unexplained deaths in custody of Teoh Beng Hock, A Kugan, Udayappan) to take along a lawyer, the redoubtable son of Karpal Singh, Gobind Deo.

And surprise surprise, the police at Jenjarom had no clue on that ‘secret police’ instruction to Siva. Who were those mysterious but certainly sinister 'visitors' who visited Siva immediately after he spilled the beans on MACC's Abu Ghraib-ish methods at the inquest?

UPDATE @ 1200 hrs: Those mysterious 'visitors' have been confirmed as police officers by Gobind Deo. But he didn't provide ay further info as he said he does not know why Sivanesan was asked to report to the police station and to a specific officer. However, he did state the witness’s safety is a concern but steps have been taken to address that issue. - see The Malaysian Insider's It was the cops after all who came a-calling for Sivanesan

With all these frightening events, I have to ask (admittedly rhetorically), what sort of organization the MACC has been, is, and unless we do something, will be!

Let me assure you that even UMNO people are not safe, for if you (UMNO) happen to be in the ‘wrong camp’, you could be a future target for these thugs, as had already been experienced by an UMNO bloke (in Johore???).

Instead of dealing with real corruption, their raison d'être, some of the MACC officers harass the inconsequential and innocents on the instructions of their political patron. They have (though probably not all of them) become a political/private rather than a public tool, a pack of goons useful for extracting ‘required’ information (meaning information they decided they 'require' for their nefarious purposes) like a brutal dentist on his bad day …

… and speaking of dentistry, please read the following letter by Peter Chin to Malaysiakini. It’s a bit dated, being published on 06 April 2009 but it still demonstrates succinctly the uselessness of the MACC, if not a sinister threat to public interests and safety:

I refer to Malaysiakini report Ex-MB slams Selcat for tarnishing his reputation.

Mohd Khir Toyo accused Selcat of tarnishing his image. I do not think so. In the first case Selcat did invite Khir Toyo and his wife to answer or maybe explain himself to the committee. But they chose not to do so.

Now that the truth of abuse of funds and power is revealed by none other than CEO of PNSB,, he cries foul over the inquiry.

Mohd Toyo must know that he was given a chance to vindicate himself at the inquiry but he did not seize the opportunity. He therefore has forfeited his right to rebut.

As claimed by him, if both he and his wife had done nothing wrong, he should not be afraid to face the committee. As the Chinese saying goes, ' Pure gold is not fearful of going through fire'. He should have proven his worth at the inquiry.

Anyway, the more Khir Toyo tries to explain himself the more he exposes himself.

He alleged that the original aim of Selcat was to look into the Balkis fund but had later strayed into PNSB just to damage his image.

In this aspect, Khir Toyo should appreciate the initiative of Selcat to look into PNSB's dealings. I believe the people in Selangor are grateful of Selcat's initiative.

In exposing the abuse of funds in PNSB, a future CEO would be more careful in granting aid to charitable organisations. It is also a lesson to chief ministers and MBs not to treat statutory bodies as their private banks.

In one of the his statements, Khir Toyo claimed that he paid directly to a travel agency for his children's trip and got verification from them that they would not claim payment from the state agency, PNSB.

It boggles my poor mind.

The PNSB official claimed that they had paid for the children's trip and now Khir Toyo claims that he had paid for the same trip too. I would like to assume Khir Toyo's claim is true. As such the said trip has been paid for twice?

Can it be? Definitely not! There would be a big accounting problem for the travel agency if the said trip was paid twice. Faced with two persons claiming too have paid for the same trip ,which is not possible, there are four possibilities that I can draw:

1. Khir Toyo had paid for the trip and PNSB had done it too. The overpayment must have been pocketed by some individual down the line.

2. The money might have been refunded to PNSB and someone in the state agency might have pocketed the money.

3. PNSB had actually not paid for the trip but Khir Toyo did.

4. PNSB had actually paid for the trip and Khir Toyo did not.

Khir Toyo is like a mouse caught in a trap and snapping at everything in order to get out.

Hey, what is there to deny the truth that PNSB paid for your wife's trip when the truth itself was revealed by none other than the CEO of the company.

The allegations did not come from Ah Too, Awang or Muniandy but by the very person helming PNSB.

Khir Toyo made me laugh when he challenged Selcat to report the matter to the MACC.

To do so is like bringing coal to Newcastle. Aiya, Khir Toyo, it would be more realistic if reports be made against someone sacrificing a few cows for the deserving poor because the poor do not deserve such a treat. This is a more serious case.

Perhaps ‘bringing or more correctly, carrying coals to Newcastle’ may not be the best idiom, though it’s certainly correct in one aspect as in, why report corruption to a place that’s already full of corruption.

Judiciary can't interfere with BN Legislative, but can with Pakatan Legislative

I’m now utterly confused by the be-wigged or be-songkok-ed wise men of the Judiciary.

In Malaysiakini Speaker vs speaker: Sivakumar's suit thrown out Judge Azahar Mohamed said in the Ipoh High Court yesterday that:

… the court could not interfere with what had been decided by the Perak assemblymen at their sitting on May 7 in accordance with Article 72 (1) of the Federal Constitution, "which states that the validity of any proceeding in any state legislative assembly cannot be questioned in any court" ...

… and because, in his learned judgement that the Perak Legislative Assembly has an exclusive jurisdiction over the matter, the decision of the legislative assembly on May 7, 2009 to remove the plaintiff as speaker and to appoint the defendant was conclusive.

He pontificated: "To question the validity of the removal and appointment is to question the validity of the constitution. This cannot be done in virtue of Article 72."

Therefore he struck out with costs the suit by PKR legislative assembly speaker V Sivakumar against BN speaker R Ganesan

Believe it or not, I actually agree with him on the part of his ruling which raised the constitutional principle of separation of powers between the legislative and the judiciary. What he stated has been what we (virtually everyone, except UMNO people) have been saying all along … BUT

… yes BUT his judgement has (coincidentally of course) now ruled in the favour of the BN usurpers.

… BECAUSE …

… prior to this, the court had ruled that the Perak DUN’s suspension of BN Zambry and a number of BN ADUNs were invalid even though that was passed by the committee on rights and privileges and a subsequent proceeding of the state legislative assembly.

In that earlier court determination, on Speaker Sivakumar and the DUN's suspension of Zambry and some of his BN cohorts, the Judiciary saw it fit to march intrusively and unconstitutionally into the domain of the Legislative ... virtually an unprecedented rape of the Constitutional doctrine of the separation of powers.

But unprecedented and unconstitutional as that might have been, it became a legal precedent. The principle of stare decisis requires judges to obey this legal precedent ... but apparently not so, as the Ipoh High Court has shown yesterday.

So can you blame a comment in the MKINI news article, that the judge interpreted the Constitution correctly when it suited the BN ... BUT failed abysmally to take into consideration the earlier decision of the court made by his colleague? Thus he condemned the Judiciary as being nothing more than a tool to the political conveniences of the ruling UMNO elites.

Another MKINI commentator remarked sarcastically that His Lordship - apart of ignoring the (no doubt questionable) legal precedent made by his colleagues against Sivakumar when the Judiciary then had violated (or raped) the Legislative - couldn’t even identify the claim in Sivakumar’s case on an issue of battery, assault and wrongful detention from proceedings of the Assembly.


Poor assaulted and illegally detained Sivakumar has not obtained the redress he sought, but he is lucky as he hasn't suffered a similar fate to that of the principle of stare decisis, which appears to have been decapitated like a cow's head.

And it might just be opportune to recall what Groucho Max said about 'principles':

"Those are my principles, and if you don't like them ... well, I have others."

Is Hindraf about 'breed', not 'need'?

Have you guys noted that Waythamoorthy has been criticizing Pakatan ceaselessly?

Damn ungrateful bloke, when it had been the DAP which fought for him and the Hindraf 5 when they were behind bars.

Well, here’s another Hindraf official (or rather erstwhile Hindraf official), R.S. Thanenthiran who founded a new Indian-based party called, believe it or not, Makkal Sakthi which was virtually immediately approved by ROS, whereas PSM took eons for its name to be okay-ed.

Today Malaysiakini posted Makkal Sakthi backs Zambry.

Now you know why Indian Malaysians have been so badly led – by MIC, various kacang putih parties, Makkal Sakthi and probably Hindraf too – all dying to be UMNO appendages, even after the cow's head affair! Aiyoyo, Thanenthiran, no dignity lah!

Worse, Waythamoorthy or his brother Uthayakumar had the uncouth biadap-ness to call Prof Rama, Penang DCM2, a mandore to Lim Guan Eng. Didn't their mum teach them manners?

But mark my words, see who’ll end up being UMNO’s mandore.

Now, a few words about Kampung Buah Pala from my matey Vijay Kumar Murugavell, as follows:

I will not go into a ten page explanation regarding Kampung Buah Pala except to say that it is irrefutable that the previous BN government alienated the land for a miserable sum without consulting the residents.

Lim Guan Eng (LGE) may be many things but to call him a liar or evil is pushing the buck a bit too far, in the worst case he was probably not well informed or inexperienced in running a state in some aspects.

As to the assertions of LGE sending "Indian mandores" is a cheap shot, he sent two of his Deputy Chief Ministers to meet the villagers one of whom happened to be Prof Ramasamy. At the height of Hindraf protests did for PM Pak Lah send his Deputy Prime Minister to meet Hindraf on the streets? No, instead they were met with water cannons.

I was am truly disappointed with Hindraf's stunt of threatening to burn LGE's effigy, a memorandum of protest would have sufficed, LGE would have gladly accepted the memorandum and explained his side of the story.

Hindraf aimed its vitriol at LGE from the beginning. Had they joined LGE in the beginning to pressure the previous state government to account for their actions and failing that compensation for the settlers the outcome may have been very different.

Hindraf advisor K Maran said Hindraf campaigned against Barisan Nasional because the Indian community wanted a better caring government to help them.

However, he slammed the DAP government for purportedly not showing any difference from the previous one.

Malaysian's mudah lupa (forget easily) including Hindraf. Let me take you down memory lane.

Please view this video :Guan Eng: Indians Rich? Please prove it (Dec 13th 2007) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLt3QARQ1HA

Barely a month after the Hindraf Nov 25th rally, LGE stood up for you guys.
LGE is now the villain? How about the still unresolved Kugan case? Dare Hindraf burn effigies of the IGP and Health DG ?

Pakatan Manifesto vs Hindraf 18 point Manifesto

Lets get something very clear, the Pakatan Manifesto is meant as a framework if Pakatan takes over the Federal Government not at state level.

Pakatan Manifesto promises to take care of all Malaysians based on NEED not BREED.

It does not promise special quota's for Malaysian Indians or any other ethnicity.

If we look at a cross section of Malaysians below the poverty line, the Malays are likely to make up the largest portion in absolute numbers followed by Indians in numbers disproportionate to their total population, then smaller numbers of Chinese and others in respect to their total population.

All should be given help regardless of their ethnicity, if the Malays and Indians make up most of this number so be it.

You said it matey!

Related:
The Malaysian Insider's BN hand in new Makkal Sakthi party?

Forgotten Malaysians

We believe that God created everything, and I assume, besides Dalits (or Harijans, as Mahatma Gandhi called them) that would include transsexuals ..... all God’s children.

I first read this article about the marginalization, harassment and persecution of Malaysian Muslim transsexuals yesterday in the Sydney Morning Herald, and am glad that Malaysiakini has picked it up, publishing the sad article as Life in the twilight for Muslim transsexuals.

Some extracts are as follows:

Like many transsexuals in Malaysia, a conservative and mostly Muslim country, the clash between ID card and appearance means Tasha is shunned by employers, and forced to make her living as a sex worker.

"It's a hard life, people don't like us, they're always making fun of us," she says as she prepares for another night in the grimy alleyways of Chow Kit, the red light district of Kuala Lumpur.

Tasha endures drunken clients, violent pimps, and aggressive competition from other transsexual prostitutes, but what really frightens her are the raids mounted by police and religious authorities.

Enforcement officials from the Islamic Affairs Department (Jawi) - notorious for swooping on nightclubs and motels in search of Muslims drinking or having extramarital sex - regularly descend on the streets of Chow Kit.

Sex workers are sent scattering on their high heels, and those who are caught and hauled off face jail or intensive "counselling" sessions like a two-week interrogation Tasha once endured.

"They asked me why I didn't want to be a man, how I became like this and why I behave like this. But it didn't change my mind!" she says as she layers on make-up before hitting the streets where she has worked since she was 15.

Tasha puts on a brave face, but the the pain is clear when she relates how she has struggled for acceptance from her family, her religion and her country.

Although she is on the margins of society, she continues to perform the Muslim prayers, fasts during the holy month of Ramadan, and respected her mother's wish that she not undergo sex-change surgery.

"Why can't Islam accept us? We are human beings as well. I am also one of God's creations."

Teh Yik Koon from the National Defence University has written a book on the transsexual locally referred to as mak nyahs.

He said prior to 1983, Malaysians were fairly tolerant of the mak nyahs, stating:

"Until the early 1980s transsexuals were usually accepted in Malaysia, they could go for a sex change and amend their identity card."

"At that time quite a few had sex changes, some became happily married and even adopted children."

And we know of someone like that, someone whom we (except for some assh*les) love dearly, and who has recently returned to the bosom of Allah swt.

Then one day in 1983 a mufti from a state helped establish a fatwa that prohibited gender-reassignment surgery. As part of this fatwa, cross-dressing was prohibited.

Teh lamented that since the 1983 fatwa, that erstwhile Malaysian tolerance has gone, much to the distress of at least 20,000 mak nyahs in the country.

Teh said: "So now they're not accepted, there's no such thing as transsexuals according to Islam in Malaysia."

Malaysiakini has titled this article appropriately for these marginalized mak nyaks are living in the twilight zone that men have cruelly consigned them to.

Who's perpetuating the Kampung Buah Pala issue?

The Star Online’s 13 in Kg Buah Pala want money instead of house reported:

In yet another twist, 13 households in Kampung Buah Pala want a RM300,000 compensation each from developer Nusmetro Ventures (P) Sdn Bhd instead of a double-storey terrace house.

Village residents association chairman M. Sugumaran said the money would enable them to build a heritage village by themselves on a nearby piece of private land.

Sugumaran claimed: “Some well-wishers have come forward to help us secure the land measuring about 2.4ha.”

I am not sure when the KBP saga will end. Mr Sugumaran seems determined to perpetuate it – I wonder why?

And I wonder too whether he actually has the support of all the villagers?

Again, I wonder who are those ‘well-wishers’?

I invite Sugumaran to name them!

But, could it be those flamboyant grandstanding boastful Johnnies-come-lately (to the saga) who claimed they have RM3+ million to buy the land?

Well, what’s stopping them? Since they claimed to have the money they should go ahead and get the 2.4ha land ... ... and not jeopardise the villagers' stake to the compensation of the double-storey terrace houses.

I hope those so-called leaders will stop f*-ing around with other peoples' lives and assets.

TCow-ering Malaysians

What a bull-sh*tting week. We have a cow-dung-sense Home Minister and his Police Force, with the latter showing itself to be an UMNO political apparatus rather than a neutral public law enforcement body – closing one cow-eye on a bunch of violent seditious racists while arresting a group of peaceful protestors holding not a pig’s head but candles and roses.

Sometimes I wonder who is the worst minister in the Naib cabinet?

His cousin, Hishamuddin, for a litany of moronic acts but with his worst idiocy being the contractual extension of Musa Hassan as the IGP when the latter has demonstrated very clearly his inability to stop crime rates soaring to a new Malaysian high, a man alleged to have connections with the underworld?

Rais Yatim, the fickle-minded Gobbels of Malaysia?

Zahid for choosing that Rozaihat what-his-name, a disbarred lawyer as the candidate for Permatang Pasir?

Muhyiddin Yassin for supporting the racist rants by the Malay language MSM?

No doubt TCow-ering Malaysians.

Hishamuddin's ox-hide and bullsh*t

In my earlier post Cow-hide Hishamuddin protects cow-head bigots based on Malaysiakini’s article Hisham: Don't blame cow-head protesters, I mentioned Hishamuddin claiming that the illegal assembly of racist UMNO cow-head goons had a dialogue with Hindu Sangam. I then wrote:

Then he made the moo-ther of all bull-poo excuses for those cow-head cow-eye mooing whiners ..... by seizing on meeting two days ago between those bigots and the Hindu Sanggam to state: “So if it can be resolved quickly and both sides understand each other, why (should) they be penalised?”

Resolve? How? What? Yes, you may surmise that as Hisham clutching on a flimsy straw, for his *bull* to chew on.

Of course there was nothing resolved for the reason there was no such meeting as The Malaysian Insider revealed today in Hindu Sangam denies meeting cow-head protestors, wants them charged which read:

Malaysia Hindu Sangam said today it had no intention of meeting the cow-head protesters and have called on authorities to take immediate action against them.

It’s advisor Datuk A. Vaithilingam said the name of the national body for Hindu affairs had been misquoted in the press as having met the cow-head protestors.

“There were no such meetings,” he said today.

He said the protestors who gathered last Friday at the state secretariat to protest the relocation of a temple with a severed cow head had insulted Hindus who regard the animal as sacred.

Vaithilingam said they were dismayed at Home Minster Datuk Seri Hishamuddin Hussein for meeting the protestors and for being photographed with them in the press. However, they are relieved the minister is now also calling for the protestors to be charged in court.

Well well well or should I say moo moo moo!

Hisham has not only defended the indefensible (the racist seditious illegal assembly) but he made the moo-ther of all BULL-shit in that process.

To borrow Samy Vellu's fave words, Hisham tidak boleh pakai lah! wakakaka.

Moo-deka

Read this letter in Malaysiakini by Prof Mohd Tajuddin Mohd Rasdi titled Are they real Muslims?

The Prof was referring to those racist UMNO goons in the recent 'cow head' incident, and why he believed they were not conducting themselves as Muslims.

However, I find the question the Prof asked in his conclusion as most telling. He wrote:

After more than 50 years of merdeka, I still cannot raise five children without the threat of racial disharmony and hatred. What does that say about our present leadership and future of our country?

Amin!

Hishamuddin f* up again and again!

One wonders how Hishamuddin Hussein could have been so stupid as to met the blood-letting wannabes who had protested in disgraceful fashion against the re-location of a Hindu temple to PJ Section 23 – racists who insulted Hindus by desecrating a holy Hindu icon?

... and during the holy month of Ramadan too!

Is he so moronic as to believe his defence of those outrageous bigots would be accepted by the public?

Did he not know what his cousin Najib or even KJ had said about the shameful illegal assembly?

As Malaysiakini columnist Azly Rahman wrote in a special letter to the online news portal in Shame on you! Hisham

As a Muslim, I felt disgusted when Home Minister Hishamuddin Hussein chose to stand with the protesters who caused a national uproar. A group of Muslims use an animal sacred to another religion and incite racial tensions, and yet he says the protesters should not be blamed?

He even had the cheek to say that the protesters "had no intention at all to bring the cow's head and invoke racial sentiments or cause tension."

"What nonsense? It is an insult to our intelligence, let alone us Muslims! Is this the kind of Islamic justice we are portraying? No wonder there is so much misunderstanding about Islam. […]

Take a hypothetical situation. If they are to step on our beloved Quran or bring a swine's head into the compound of a mosque to protest, can Hishamuddin say that we cannot blame the protesters for doing so ?

When other people have been detained under the ISA and arrested for attending candle light vigils or wearing black T-shirts, how can the home minister say we cannot blame a group of protesters with a very clear intention of inciting racial and religious sentiments?

Worse, it is done during Ramadan which we Muslims observe as a holy month, and this act of insulting another religion is still acceptable by the Home Minister's standard?

Or, was he playing bad cop to his cousin Najib’s good cop? Maybe Muhyiddin Yasssin told him “It’s your bloody turn. I’m sick of always playing bad cop to your cousin!”

Perhaps Hishamuddin is shoring his position as VP of his party, by indulging those ‘innocent cow eyes’ cow-head draggers who wanted to spill Hindu blood?

Talking about moronic, idiotic, nonsensical, The Malaysian Insider has just published its article Musa Hassan stays on as IGP.

It just takes your breath away, for Home Minister Hishamuddin to renew the contract of a man who as IGP had allowed the crime rate in our nation to shoot through the f* roof.

Oi, new KPI Minister, Senator Idris Jala, do you rate Musa Hassan as competent and suitable for an extension to his contract as IGP?

... where under his stewardship of the PDRM, death in police custody had assumed such frightening magnitude that the police station has been deemed to be the most dangerous place in Malaysia,

... a man who has been regularly alleged to have connections with the underworld.

Never mind Idris Jala, but what would have Hussein Oon or Oon Jaafar say of Hishamuddin’s moronic nonsensical idiocy if they were still around?

Cow-hide Hishamuddin protects cow-head bigots

The title of Malaysiakini’s article Hisham: Don't blame cow-head protesters says it all - the total lack of decency, propriety and responsibility of Hishamuddin.


Not only did Malaysia’s No 1 internal security man, Home Minister Hishammuddin, met with the racist rabble-rousing blood-letting wannabes who threatened Hindus over the location of a Hindu temple in PJ Section 23 and insulted them by desecrating a Hindu holy icon, he defended them as well.

Yes, Hishamuddin, self-confessed wannabe reformed keris waver, asserted those cow-head bigots who flagrantly, tauntingly threatened and insulted Hindus cannot be blamed for the religious outrage, and that “they just wanted their voices to be heard”.

This is the same man who tolerated his jack-booted sturmtroopers bashing people holding peaceful candle-light vigils as well as ADUNs and MPs of another party (both in Selangor and Perak) - now he wants us to believe his outrageous assertions that his UMNO goons "just wanted their voices to be heard”.


He made all sorts of mealy-mouth mooing excuses on their behalf – not worth repeating here as it will only raise your blood pressure.

Then he made the moo-ther of all bull-poo excuses for those cow-head cow-eye mooing whiners ("oh, we didn’t know there was to be a cow’s head") by seizing on meeting two days ago between those bigots and the Hindu Sanggam to state: “So if it can be resolved quickly and both sides understand each other, why (should) they be penalised?”

Resolve? How? What? Yes, you may surmise that as Hisham clutching on a flimsy straw, for his *bull* to chew on.

When challenged as to why the police had not acted when the cow's head was brought in, he claimed that action had been taken, he moo-ed bull-sh*ttingly: “I was monitoring it myself and reporting it to the prime minister.”

Bull! Bull! Bull! and I'm not gender biased here ...

... because Shah Alam district police chief Noor Azam Jamaluddin had apologised to several Pakatan Rakyat leaders during a meeting with him, where he explained (or provided the excuse) that the officer at the scene was a 'junior'.

At least Noor Azam attempted to mitigate the police non-action by suggesting that the officer at the nasty racist rally was inexperienced in handling such matters, and promised that action would be taken immediately against those responsible for the racist protest.

Now if Hishamuddin claimed he was monitoring the matter, then obviously Noor Azam’s excuse cannot be accepted. Hishamuddin is hardly an inexperienced junior police officer – he’s in fact the Home Minister of Malaysia.

Either Hishamuddin or Noor Azam had been bullsh*tting – guess who?

Recall in the meeting with Noor Azam, Jeyakumar, the Pakatan ADUN who oversees non-Muslim affairs in Selangior, said: "So Noor Azam has given us his word."

And Hishamuddin, by unmitigatingly defending his UMNO cohorts, has effectively pulled the rug from under Noor Azam’s feet because Noor will now be unable to keep his promise of taking action immediately against those racist cow-head idiots, not when the Home Minister has covered those offenders with his ministerial bull-hide aegis.

Hishamuddin stated that the police will investigate the incident to identify who brought the cow's head to the protest, in addition to conducting their usual probe into the protest because “no one is above the law”.

Bull! Bull! Bull!

... because we not only know that UMNO goons are always above the law under this government, but who the police investigation, under the ‘monitoring’ of the Home Minister, will identify as the culprits – no prize if you guess the following:

(a) Teoh Beng Hock (best candidate of the lot as a dead man cannot defend himself), (b) Ronnie Liu, and (c) Ean Yong Hian Wah!

Hishamuddin Hau-seow has demonstrated he is certainly no son of his admirable father, and absolutely no grandson of his illustrious grandfather.
both photos by malaysiakini

MACC lawless conduct against DAP's contractor

Malaysiakini tells us in its MACC now quizzes contractor over Selangor state funds that poor Lee Wye Wing, a contractor who had done several small scale community construction projects in Seri Kembangan for Selangor exco Ean Yong Hian Wah, has been hauled in for questioning for the second time.

Not only that, six weeks ago the MACC confiscated the central processing unit of Lee's computer without any notice, effectively screwing up his contractual work. The MACC had refused to allow Lee to make a copy of his working files.

In outrage Ean Yong lambasted the MACC: "This violates the Section 33 (3) of the MACC Act, which stipulates that a list of the things confiscated must be provided to the owner."

"Does this mean the MACC authorities can simply come into my house and confiscate my things without issuing a receipt of the items they had taken? What is the difference between stealing and confiscation then?"

A pathetic case of lawless 'siapa rajah'!

Ean Yong asked pointedly: "It appears that the MACC is more interested and more aggressive in investigating cases which are worth RM2,400 used to purchase 1,500 Malaysia flags and RM112 used to purchase a banner.”

"Meanwhile they are neglecting serious allegations such as the Khir (Toyo's) palace which is worth RM24 million and the PKFZ which is worth RM125 million."

But what is worse has been UMNO’s MACC getting paid from public purse to do UMNO’s work!

Mana bolehlah, stealing both Lee’s computer CPU and taxpayers’ money

And we suspect, stealing Teoh Beng Hock’s young life!

Bovine dust

Heard on the grapevine that:

(1) The MACC (Moolaysian Anti-Cowruption Cowmmission*) informed that the cow whose head was dragged around by BAC (Bull-s*tter Action Committee) was not killed – the poor creature had committed suicide,

* thanks Jamal ;-)

(2) A local Balinese exclaimed “Not me, I am Balinese ma – we love cows!”,

(3) Dr Hassan is promoting cow’s milk as the preferred drink,

(4) My ‘friend’ Anwar has gone to where there’s no cow but plenty of camels,

(5) Ong Tee Keat is not a man easily cow-ed,

(6) Many suspect the RM10 million allegation is all bull,

(7) To cover more bovine-poo in PKFZ,

(8) We’re going to retaliate against Indon’s free carcinogenic smoke with our free comical bullsh*t,

(9) Supplied by those so-called leaders of Kg Bu(ll)ah Pala who had been sniping bull-poo pellets at Lim Guan Eng,

(10) Especially if they (the Indons) don’t shut up about the bull on our stealing their Terang Bullan for our national anthem

Moo moo moo (translated = correct, correct, correct!)

Police cow-ed by cow's head?

But why was the police so slow in its response to such a public act of religious sacrilege, when tardiness in dealing with 'national security threats' had never been a weakness of the Royal Malaysian Police Force?

Police intelligence cannot be so obsolete that it is not aware of the act of sacrilege being planned and executed, when the organisers had taken pains to ensure that their protest would get the maximum mass media coverage – reported, photographed and videoed.

- Lim Kit Siang

The Malaysian Insider CPO: Protest to be investigated under Sedition Act tells us that the Selangor CPO - but only after none other than the PM gave an ass-kick to the IGP who in turn gave one to him - finally mumbled something to the effect that his normally alert-aggressive (against Pakatan) but recently somnolent (against UMNO) police would be looking into yesterday’s cow-head illegal assembly at the state secretariat building.

[Note: he didn’t use the word ‘illegal’, but that’s what that event actually had been]

He grudgingly whispered that the (my words again) 'illegal but police-tolerated (maybe even protected) mob of hoodlums' who were (my description, not his, of what had occurred) sprouting irresponsible racist vicious threats of blood-letting against the relocation of a Hindu temple, would be investigated under the Sedition Act.

He said those involved would be called up for questioning. He proudly boasted: "We have identified those involved in the incident and will be recording their statements.”

above underlining are mine

That’s all? Oh, I feel so safe now!

So unlike sweetie Teresa Kok, those blood-letting wannabes aren't dangerous enough to be held under the ISA, ironically an Act which would just be gnam gnam (fitting) for those assh*les.

And bullchicken-sh*t protestor, the so-called Action Committee chair Mahyuddin Manaf, who had earlier warned the Pakatan state government to give in to them or the residents would retaliate (stating: "We will not budge one inch, even if lives are lost or blood is made to flow. We will still defend Section 23 from having a temple built there"), changed his moo-ing today, asking with cow-eyes "Cow's head? Don't know where it came from?", and stressing he was not a racist.

He belakang-pusing-ed with his miserable mealy-mouth moo-ing: "From the onset, I gave importance to religious sensitivities. I want unity. We are not against the temple, we just do not want it to be built in a Muslim majority area."

[read his 180 degrees cowbull in Malaysiakini Organiser: Cow's head a mystery!]

And if you’re still in doubt about the Selangor Police double standards - not unlike that of the useless bludging makan-gaji-for-free branch of UMNO posing as a public service, the MACC - just read The Malaysian Insider editorial Can’t hold a candle to cop’s excuse which tells us the following (with delightful shades too of the punning way of my matey Dean Johns):

One can’t hold a candle to the Shah Alam police excuse for inaction in fear of sparking further anger at the cow-head protest yesterday. It begs the question if the dozens of riot police in full gear were cowed by the actions of 50 protesters armed with banners and a cow’s head.

And smacks of double standards.

Dozens of people have been hauled away for less provocative stunts, like wearing black or holding lit candles at night. The only thing these cow-head protesters had in common with the others was to assemble without a permit.

Of course, a democracy can tolerate if not encourage public assemblies and protests but not anything that is provocative or insults another person’s faith. Isn’t there mutual respect anymore? And is it not the duty of the police to keep the peace by preventing stunts that can inflame racial passions?

Opposition politicians have long condemned the Royal Malaysian Police for not arresting the rising crime rate but instead focusing on political activity against the ruling Barisan Nasional government.

It’s now plain to see that they may be right after all. The police have to act without fear or favour, for they carry the royal warrant. All the more so when the police top brass were breaking fast with the King yesterday, hours after the protest.

The proffered excuse of not acting because of the ‘volatile nature’ of the protest is pathetic and a slur on a force that has served the nation for some 200 years. And shows up the police as a farce, to borrow the words of Pulai MP Datuk Nur Jazlan Mohamed.

Are we a nation that quickly detains those who wear black or hold candles but take our time for those who insult religions!

And do we have to wait till the cows come home for some police action against those who threaten Malaysia’s peace and give a bad name to Islam?

Well, considering it’s the infamous (the current IGP-led) PDRM, maybe we need to wait until …

Hey diddle diddle,
The cat and the fiddle,
The cow jumped over the moon,
The little dog laughed to see such sport,
And the dish ran away with the spoon.

un-Islamic manners during Ramadan

In this holy month of Ramadan, you would imagine an atmosphere of peace, goodwill and compassion, in accordance with the teachings of Allah (swt) as Muslims strive to perfect compliance with one of the 5 pillars of Islam, fasting.

According to Dr Arafat El-Ashi, the director of the Muslim World League (Canada), when Islam requires Muslims to fast, “it planted an ever-growing tree of infinite virtue and invaluable products.”

He stated that the spiritual meaning of the Islamic Fasting aims to achieve the following:

(a) It teaches man the principle of sincere Love: because when he observes Fasting he does it out of deep love for God. And the man who loves God truly is a man who really knows what love is.

(b) It equips man with a creative sense of hope and an optimistic outlook on life; because when he fasts he is hoping to please God and is seeking His Grace.

(c) It imbues in man the genuine virtue of effective devotion, honest dedication and closeness to God; because when he fasts he does so for God and for His sake alone.

(d) It cultivates in man a vigilant and sound conscience; because the fasting person keeps his fast in secret as well as in public. In fasting, especially, there is no mundane authority to check man's behaviour or compel him to observe fasting. He keeps it to please God and satisfy his own conscience by being faithful in secret and in public. There is no better way to cultivate a sound conscience in man.

(e) It indoctrinates man in patience and selflessness, as through fasting, he feels the pains of deprivation but he endures them patiently.

(f) It is an effective lesson in applied moderation and willpower.

(g) Fasting also provides man with a transparent soul, a clear mind and a light body.

(h) It shows man a new way of wise savings and sound budgeting.

(i) It enables man to master the art of Mature Adaptability. We can easily understand the point once we realize that fasting makes man change the entire course of his daily life.

(j) It grounds man in discipline and healthy survival.

(k) It originates in man the real spirit of social belonging, unity and brotherhood, of equality before God as well as before the law.

(l) It is a Godly prescription for self-reassurance and self-control.

But alas, the noble objectives of fasting during Ramadan that Allah (swt) set for his believers have been totally ignored by a few (around 50) Malaysians. Instead they did the exact opposite.

malaysiakini photo

But the clue that might just give away their 'affiliation' has been their most un-Islamic ways of dragging around a severed cow’s head. Once I saw this strange practice in Bali.

Can MCA redeem itself under Ong Tee Keat?

In recent years, the last 25 or so, a significant number of Chinese Malaysians began to have doubts about the MCA as a political party that could represent them. Some had by then dismissed the MCA as nothing more than an UMNO lackey, with the leaders only concerned about their own interests. Fat cats … and castrated ones too!

However, many clung on, in the hope that the MCA might change. In 1969 the Chinese had once abandoned the MCA in a big way; in 2008 the majority decided that enough was enough, and repeated their disdainful disgusted dismissal of the MCA as their political representative a la 1969.

Just prior to 08 March 2008, the brother of the MCA president, seeing the winds of change, actually debased himself in humiliating fashion, by ‘begging’ the Chinese for some crumbs when they voted. He knew the MCA would be wiped out north of KL. He pleaded for a minor share of the Chinese mandate.

He didn't get even a stale bread crumb.

Has it been the alleged corruption of MCA leaders that had made the Chinese spurn MCA? Was it the unpopular MCA's purchase of some Chinese newspapers (turning them into government mouthpieces) that had infuriated the community?

Yes, all that did add up to the Chinese growing disenchantment with the party that fought for their fathers' citizenship in the early gestation days of the nation, but …

… BUT …

… the singular most humiliating factor that convinced (and still does) Chinese Malaysians to reject the MCA has been its servile silent sycophantic relationship with UMNO.

Admittedly the MCA has not been as obsequious as the disgraceful Gerakan Party in the person of Koh TK, but it was bad enough to make Chinese Malaysians cringe in shame.

The Barisan Nasional is in name a coalition … a coalition theoretically of partners. Sure there would always be a leader among the partners, the primus inter pares (first among equals), ... but as I had blogged before, UMNO has been all primus while the rest of the Barisan Nasional, namely MCA, Gerakan, MIC and the kacang putih mosquito parties, were never ever remotely near the status of pares.

OK, forget those mosquito parties, but for the last 20 to 25 years UMNO had not been treating the MCA with the respect a partner, even a junior one, ought to receive.

For God’s sake, when the BN divvy-ed up the seats for a general election, you would imagine that for a 'coalition', that was that, with each component party nominating its own party members to be the respective election candidates in their allocated constituencies.

But oh no, the MCA (and the others) had to seek the approval of the UMNO president for its nominated candidates. Has MCA been a subordinate branch of UMNO? Now, do you understand what I had meant when I said, ’UMNO has been all primus while … MCA was never ever near the status of pares’.

UMNO had continuously undermined, sometimes deliberately, MCA’s credibility with its own community, yet demanded of the Chinese-based party the support of the majority of Chinese Malaysians … a f* Sisyphean task.

As a recent example of UMNO’s unrealistic and unreasonable expectation, the failed UMNO candidate in Permatang Pasir (though reportedly an UMNO 'good looking hero') had the brazen nerve to voice his dissatisfaction with the lack of Chinese support for his candidature, in that, an indirect criticism of the MCA, without even appreciating that it had been UMNO which had destroyed the credibility and political leadership of MCA in the eyes of the latter’s community.

But the shameless MCA plodded on, as a willing captive, a pariah serf to the Barisan Brahmin, in wishful thinking that somewhere down the track, its record of loyalty, or at worst, muted passivity, will earn UMNO’s respect.

But trust the MCA somehow to lose its plot and dignity along the way, where at one stage, to the utter humiliation of the Chinese Malaysian community, an UMNO man actually acted as the MCA’s interim president. How f* humiliatingly low could one go.

So when Malaysiakini reported on the MCA sacking of Chua Soi Lek with the headline Chua's axing in defiance of Najib? I said to myself, good on Ong Tee Keat. It’s f* high time the MCA stop cringing and wringing its hands in front of TaiKoh like what Koh TK would probably do, to take instructions from Ah Hniah (Teochew for big brother).

I don’t know much about Ong Tee Keat, though his credentials as MCA President has automatically placed him in many Chinese black books ;-) …

… but if his current efforts to expose the PKFZ corruption scam as he had done in 2006 with the embezzlement of (90% of) schools’ maintenance funds is a sincere effort at ‘cleaning up’ the MCA’s act, then I say, more power to Ong!

I also have nothing against Chua in as much as I don't with Ong Tee Keat, but in the matter of MCA as a sovereign party which can and should manage its own internal party’s issues, I say kudos to Ong for standing up to UMNO with some spine in the sacking of Chua.

;-) and guess what, Najib agrees with me, stating he won’t step in unless invited.

Handicapped UMNO never a threat in Permatang Pasir

In Malaysiakini Pakatan's victory signals reversal of fortunes Athi Shankar ;-) wrote “PAS' comfortable victory in Permatang Pasir, despite the low turnout, was a sweet surprise, especially so after the narrow win at Manek Urai.”

C’mon lah Athi, what surprise? How could you have compared Manek Urai with Permatang Pasir – like you could an apple to an orange?

Manek Urai was virtually (almost) a 100% Malay constituency. Permatang Pasir was 74% Malay, 26% Chinese with a sprinkling of Indians.

If we look at only the Malay constituency in Permatang Pasir we would have seen, through Ong Kian Ming’s erudite analysis that UMNO did succeed in winning back 3% of the Malay votes (since 2008). But it lost instead nearly a further 6% of Chinese votes (on top of that for 2008).

Before we get ourselves overly ecstatic with PAS-PR victory, we need to remind ourselves that UMNO started off by shooting itself in the foot, handicapping itself by putting forward a candidate who had been disbarred by the Bar for impropriety with a client's money.

What if the candidate had been one who is 'clean' and well-known/liked locally?

Then UMNO mutilated itself further with its racist campaign, virtually on an everyday basis, with its media mouthpieces concocting all sorts of imagined threat and/or insults by the DAP-led yellow peril.

They portrayed Islam and the Malay Kingdom as under siege. The DPM showed his jaguh-ness for the leadership role in this shameless ethno-centric marshalling of the faithful to the keris-ed banner.

In the process they effectively killed off any possible help that could have been rendered by their supposed allies, MCA and the already moribund Gerakan. Not only that, they ensured the political death of these two Chinese-based BN parties.

But worst of all, they sent the feared yellow peril over to the enemy camp … to become PAS' voters.

Yes, there were attempts to convince the Chinese voters of PAS' fearsome policies against pig abattoirs in Kedah and yamseng-ing in Selangor, but these porky pissup propaganda paled into comparison with the perceived (not yet proven but nonetheless perceived/believed) murder of Teoh Beng Hock.

And Rohaizat what’s-his-name wondered why the Chinese in Permatang Pasir didn’t marshal around him.

… well my dear disbarred counsellor, for the same reason the Chinese abandoned the BN sailing boat in March 2008 when they were threatened by the ambitious during the UMNO general assembly.

On the other side of the coin, in the longer term, the Chinese know they have to grapple eventually with an arrogant PAS led by the leadership triad of Pak Haji Hadi Awang, Nasharuddin Mat Is and Dr Hassan. But this will be for another day.

Lust to punish

Reference: The Malaysia Insider Kartika’s legacy to Malaysia

Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf is the Chairman of the Cordoba Initiative, an international organisation devoted to improving West-Muslim world relations, and author of “Islam, A Sacred Law, What Every Muslim Should know about the Shariah”.

He wrote in The Star on July 29, 2009 the following about Islam and its stand on the imbibing of alcohol:

“…Neither the Quran nor the Hadith invokes a penalty for alcohol consumption. The sin of consuming alcohol is described in the Quran in the mildest language of prohibition. When it comes to dietary laws, the Quran commands the believers in Sura 5:3: “forbidden (hurrimat) to you is the dead animal, loose blood, and the flesh of the pig.”

“… Some legal scholars suggest that the divine command ijtinab, to avoid something, is milder language than tahrim, prohibition. A Muslim consuming a glass of wine with a pork chop commits a more serious offence in eating pork; yet as there is no Quran or Hadith penalty for consuming pork, there is also none for alcohol consumption.”

If that’s the case, then how did the punishment for drinking alcohol come about?

Rauf wrote, “It occurred during the time of the second Caliph Umar b. al-Khattab. There was a companion of the Prophet (sahabi) who had fought on the Prophet’s side in his battles. A heavy drinker, he would walk the streets of Madina drunk at night and loudly shout scandalous things about people. The inhabitants of Madina complained, and Umar formed a committee to decide what to do.”

“Imam Ali, based on the man having committed slander, suggested the penalty for slander, whose maximum penalty is 80 lashes. Since that time, this has been considered the maximum penalty for alcohol consumption, based on utilising the Syariah concept of ta`zir (deterrence).”

Above underlining is mine

“I disagree with this being the mandatory sentence for the offence of wine consumption, because it is the maximum sentence for another, separate offence – slander – albeit committed under the influence of alcohol.”

So we learned the real reason for the punishment from a learned person like Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf. The punishment was really about 'slandering' rather than 'drinking alcoholic beverage'.

And in the meantime we get a local but seditious bloke, one who nearly caused racial-religious riots through unsubstantiated information (later proven to be not true at all, meaning they were fibs) a couple of years back, who insisted it should have been 80 lashes instead of a mere 6 – see Malaysiakini Mufti: It should be 80 lashes, so why the fuss?

Hmmm, how many strokes does one get for telling fibs (surely 'slandering' as defined by Imam Ali), that could have gotten innocent people killed through riots?

80 lashes? Why not, and do I need to tell you who that bloke is?

But he is not alone. PAS Youth wants Kartika punished! Why am I not f* surprised?

And so do PAS' two most conservative ulamas with an un-Islamic bent for ‘ethnic unity’, Pak Haji Hadi and Awang and his No 2 man, Nasharuddin Mat Isa.

To reiterate, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf said the punishment was more about slander than partaking of alcohol. And the Prophet Mohamd (pbuh) said: "Every important matter which is not begun with, ‘In the Name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful’ is maimed."

So why have PAS leaders seen fit not to emulate what the Prophet (pbuh) said, that when one talks in the name of Allah (swt), one should be mindful of His compassion and mercy? These PAS bloke haven’t shown one microscopic iota of either quality for Kartika Sari Dewi Shukarno.

Well, Art Harun described it well in The Malaysian Insider’s article Will the real PAS please stand up? where he wrote:

PAS’s real nature is more like the Lernaean Hydra, the fearsome water serpent with nine heads.

This is a party which is so full of itself. It is filled with people who believe that Islam needs their help and assistance all the time. With people who believe that God is so meek and weak that He needs defending by them.

Ya, I agree with Art Harun's explanation from what I have observed, that many PAS people possess such a mentality.

But the strange thing is this. When the situation suits them, these very same people would embrace liberalism and would dance on the same dance floor with the likes of DAP and Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim's PKR. Not only that, it would have no qualms in entering into a pact — a binding promise the breach of which, in Islam, is a sinful act — with PKR and DAP in order to form a political alliance for the general election. And they would sing liberalism all the way to various state legislative assemblies and even Parliament.

Well, it is hard for a tiger to lose its stripes. Deep inside and within, PAS is still PAS. History would show that they have jumped in and out of the Umno bandwagon for the sake of nothing more than political aspirations and desires. It is almost a vehicle for political expediency.

Ho hum, hyper hypocrites!

Friedrich Nietzsche once said: "Distrust anyone in whom the desire to punish is powerful".

I believe the unseemly lust to punish, as exhibited by PAS leaders, very much against Allah’s (swt) twin pillars of compassion and mercy, is the covert need to slap down those who dare to imperil the punisher's status (his edicts, beliefs) and position in society (his authority, ulama-ship).

It's the old tale of the use of overpowering dominance, with the weapon of religio-teflon-ised intimidation without fear of any retribution, against those who would dare to not conform or refuse to toe the line.

Yes, I suspect it's more about self interests.

Lawmakers too easy on incest!

The Star Online - Father jailed 15yrs for incest with teenage daughter.

That slimy slug received only 15 years jail and three strokes of the rotan. He would have been punished more severely if not for the disgraceful act of Parliament in lightening sentences for such slugs – read about that in my 2006 post Parliament Reducing Sentence for Incest?

Then I had written:

... the biggest disgrace has been its proposed amendments to the conviction for committing incest. Incest with an underage child would also be aggravated rape. Currently incest carries a jail sentence of between 15 and 30 years with up to ten strokes of the rotan (cane)*. The committee now proposes to reduce the jail term to between eight and 15 years.

* that’s what that slug should have received, if not for Parliament

Their bullshit is that the reduced sentence will encourage the public to report the offence.

Tell me, would a victim or the guardian representing the victim be influenced by the difference between 15 to 30 and 8 to 15? Would they, when reporting to the police, be inhibited by it? Would those poor unfortunates, when testifying in court, be even aware or conscious of the difference in the terms of the sentence?

This is sheer nonsense!

Then continuing on its unsupportable course, the committee wants the punishment for rape cum murder from the present mandatory death penalty to either the death penalty or imprisonment of between 15 and 30 years and not more than 10 strokes of the rotan, because it claims that there might be those who did not intend to cause the death of the rape victim. With the amendment, the courts will have more discretion to decide whether the accused should face imprisonment or a death penalty.

Now, KTemoc is against the death sentence so I am happy even for them to remove that draconian punishment completely.

But judge for yourself its proposal for snatch theft, that it be defined as a specific offence with perpetrators facing up to 14 years in jail. OK, there had been a couple of deaths associated with snatch thefts but in those cases, murder wasn’t intended. The deaths were caused by the victim being hurt when they fell down as a result from the abrupt jerk of the snatch theft. If death occurs as a result of snatch theft, then charge the perpetrator with either murder or manslaughter.

But my point is this - consider the possibility of a snatch thief receiving 14 years of imprisonment, while a rape-murder criminal gets only 15 years, a husband sexually assaulting his resisting and perhaps pregnant wife a mere 5 (or maybe 1 or less), years, and the worst of all, the slimy slug who rapes his own underage daughter in a disgusting act of incest would get max 15 years or just 8 if he puts on a 'welfare face' and blames his 12-year old daughter for being 'gatal' (randy).

It appears to be that rape in general, and specific rape in particular such as incest with an underage child, aren't viewed with the gravity those crimes demand.

And poor Kartika Sari Dewi gets 6 strokes for having a beer!


Related:(1) Gatal versus Miang
(2) Has Aphrodisiac Budu Been Responsible?

MACC wanted to delay reporting Teoh's death by 1 day!

In The Malaysian Insider’s Court orders probe into DAP man’s accounts we now know of a very important revelation from the MACC officer being cross–examined by Gobind Singh Deo in the inquest into Teoh Beng Hock’s inexplicable death (or perhaps manslaughter if not murder).

The revelation is actually shocking!

The Malaysian Insider reported: Speaking to reporters after the inquest, he [Gobind] stressed that the pattern of [MACC officer] Mohd Anuar’s testimony from the witness box “were consistent with somebody having something to hide.”

“If you look at what he said, if he had been directed not to report, he would not, despite the law requiring him to do so,” Gobind added, referring to the MACC man’s admission, under questioning that he had been “ordered” by the deputy director of Selangor MACC, Hishamuddin Hashim, to wait one day before reporting Teoh’s death to the police.

Above underlining are mine.

Imagine, a MACC senior officer instructed his subordinate not to report Teoh’s death to the police until one day later, yes, ONE DAY LATER!

You may ask yourself why - what was there to hide?

Put this revelation together with the following three facts:

(1) On the day of Teoh’s death (or was it the actual day Teoh had died? Now I'm not sure?) MACC slammed shut its door for unexplained reason – read my previous post The attempted metamorphosis of MACC where I wrote:

Something terrified MACC at around 1:30 pm, when it was claimed that a janitor discovered Teoh’s body. Kim Quek wrote in Malaysiakini’s Teoh's death: Mysteries abound (extracts):

… Why was the outer timber door of the MACC office unprecedentedly closed for some half an hour at the time when some one discovered Teoh's body?

The Chinese section of Malaysiakini reported on July 17 that its reporter Rahmah Ghazali observed an inexplicable happening at the MACC office at the 14th floor, where the outer timber door was mysteriously shut between 1.15 pm and 1.35 pm, and re-opened shortly before 1.50pm on July 16. [...]

What did the staff do behind that timber door at that crucial moment that they would not want outsiders to see? The mystery seems to deepen.

What had caused that ‘sealing’ of the building at that crucial time? Was it the discovery of Teoh’s body? Or was it an interrogation technique that had gone horribly wrong? At this juncture, around 1:30 pm, it should be noted that Tan Boon Hwa was then suddenly released.

(2) Kim Quek also wrote: What happened between 1.30 pm and 5 pm?

Though Teoh's body was discovered at 1.30 pm, it was not until after 5 pm that MACC disclosed the news to assemblymen Ean Yong and Ronnie Liu who had been waiting for over an hour in the MACC office insisting to meet Teoh. Why should MACC have hidden the news for so long unless there were compelling reasons which in all probability might not be guilt-free?

(3) Why was Teoh’s body not removed from where he had fallen until late into the evening, at around 8 pm to 9 pm?

When I put all these four together, especially the instruction by deputy director of Selangor MACC, Hishamuddin Hashim, according to the testimony by MACC officer Mohd Anuar, to wait one day before reporting Teoh’s death to the police, I gather a nauseating suspicion that the objective was to heighten the rate of Teoh's decomposition.

I don't know, but would decomposition have helped mask certain bruises or surface markings?

Ask yourself again: why would a MACC senior officer - a man identified by the whistle-blower’s letter as the very person interrogating Teoh prior to the latter’s strange death, a man reported to employ a notorious manhandling technique of seizing and holding up his unfortunate victim by the belt - instruct his subordinate to delay reporting to the police of a death in MACC custody for a whole day, if there was nothing untoward to hide?

Gobind then made Mohd Anuar read out loud Section 329 of the Criminal Procedure Code (CPC), which deals with the duty of a police officer to investigate deaths, where it says:

“Every officer in charge of a police station on receiving information -

(a) that a person has committed suicide;
(b) that a person has been killed by another, or by an animal, or by
machinery, or by an accident;
(c) that a person has died under circumstances raising a reasonable
suspicion that some other person has committed an offence;
(d) that the body of a dead person has been found, and it is not known
how he came by his death; or
(e) that a person has died a sudden death;

... shall with the least practical delay transmit such information to the officer in charge of the police district.”

That’s right, “with the least practical delay”!

So let me end this post by repeating what I have written at the very top:

Gobind] stressed that the pattern of [MACC officer] Mohd Anuar’s testimony from the witness box “were consistent with somebody having something to hide.”

“If you look at what he said, if he had been directed not to report, he would not, despite the law requiring him to do so,” Gobind added, referring to the MACC man’s admission, under questioning that he had been “ordered” by the deputy director of Selangor MACC, Hishamuddin Hashim, to wait one day before reporting Teoh’s death to the police.

UMNO prefers Ong Tee Keat out?

In Malaysiakini Chua: It's baffling Umno not defending Ong the former-MCA-now-PKR man, Chua Jui Meng, acting in his new role as char koay teow man, stated the obvious, that not one, yessiree, not one single UMNO minister inclusive of the PM, has defended Ong Tee Keat over the latter’s exposure of the Port Klang Free Zone (PKFZ) issue.

UMNO has been deafening in its absolute silence over Ong's handling (exposure) of the corruption-scam crisis.

Chua said: "Ong is the president of the second largest BN component party and no one from Umno is protecting him. All these years, UMNO leaders have come out in the open to defend their under-attack colleagues from component parties. I find it strange."

I don’t!

Some three years ago, around September 2006, a then deputy Education Minister, Ong Tee Keat aroused the ire of Hishamuddin Hussein when he (Ong) exposed the corruption in a school.

Hishamuddin's cousin, Najib (then DPM) managed to get the Education Minister to apologise for his deputy’s (Ong’s) exposure of the rot in the education domain. Ong had refused to apologize wakakaka so his boss had to do it.

But much to the cabinet’s embarrassment, Samy Vellu confirmed what Ong exposed in that particular case, that corrupt school administrators couldn’t account for 90% of the maintenance funds, yes, 90% and not just 10% of the funds.

The word used was ‘embezzlement’. Ong Tee Keat exposed it, Hishamuddin was mad he did. Najib made him apologise (Ong refused and so his Minister-boss did).

Ong Tee Keat had then discovered UMNO didn’t like the exposure of acts of corruption by the government lil’ napoleons or BN insiders. I believe that’s what Chua Jui Meng is now saying, that UMNO is once again mad with Ong for repeating his ‘mistake’, with the current PKFZ issue, ...

... which, BTW, the current DPM wants settled in an ‘amicable’ manner, though what he had meant by that, one can only guess.

In my post "No sorry please, we're UMNO Youth leaders" I wrote of that affair:

On the cabinet reprimand of Deputy Higher Education Minister Ong Tee Keat’s criticism of alleged embezzlement of school maintenance funds, since then confirmed by Humpty Dumpty, Hishamuddin dug in deep himself. He said the reprimand [of Ong] had to be made.

Obviously the subsequent vindication of Ong's statement by the Works Minister wasn't enough to restore a just apology to the man who was unjustly reprimanded for exposing corruption.

Hishammuddin said his ministry has thousands of staff, and it was not possible to keep an eye on all of them to ensure that they do a proper job. He said it was not fair for Ong to specifically pick two Chinese schools in his complaint and to publicly criticise another ministry. He averred that when there were problems, they must be dealt with quickly, instead of turning them into a racial issue.

Bull Hisham! It's everyone's duty to expose corruption, not just Ong's. And in fact, Ong did not air that alleged embezzlement as a racist issue. He merely highlighted corruption. There was no mention of race. That the schools were vernacular in character was never the issue - the missing 90% of the maintenance funds was.

It was Hishamuddin who turned it into an anti-Ong issue because he obviously didn’t like the idea of an MCA bloke highlighting alleged corruption in his ministry. His act of political intimidation against Ong could be seen as an act against the exposure of corruption.

Even DPM Najib knew that there had been, to use Humpty's word, 'irregularity', which was why he stressed on cross-ministerial procedures as the reason to reprimand Ong while in the same breath, stating the 'facts' of the case was a different issue. He stated: “I don’t want to talk about facts, that’s another issue".

The DPM of the nation didn't want to talk about facts of an issue, that have direct bearing to a case of corruption? Kalah ta'apa, gaya mesti ada - form takes precedence over substance.

For more, read my earlier postings:

(1) Najib's facts, principles, goose & gander
(2) Corruption 'Fact' for DPM Najib & Hishamuddin
(3) What the cabinet reprimanded Ong Tee Keat for!
(4) Najib riled with Ong Tee Keat's last laugh!
(5) Int Sec Ministry gagged Chinese press on alleged embezzlements
(6) MCA at a crossroad

So I am hardly surprised that UMNO would be moving to oust Ong Tee Keat, a loose cannon in the BN scheme of never washing dirty linen in public.

In MCA's history there were/are three of its presidents who didn't/doesn't quite meet UMNO's requirements, namely, Lim Chong Eu, Tan Kwon Swan and Ong Tee Keat.

These were what happened to them: (a) Tunku cunningly manoeuvred Lim Chong Eu out in favour of Tan Siew Sin; (b) Tan Kwon Swan however made life easy for Dr Mahathir when he was arrested by the Sings; and now (c) Ong Tee Keat may well be the 3rd on UMNO's political hit list.

And what sort of Chinese politician would be UMNO's ideal partner? Ask Hishamuddin - anyway, the answer lies here - check the 2nd photo! ;-)

Anyway, back to Ong Tee Keat - Ong said of his intention to expose the PKFZ scam: I am willing to dismantle this time-bomb and if I fail, I will be the first to die.

In a way, I am waiting for death. Do you think Malaysians are stupid? Voters want transparency and accountability. Don't blame the blogs for posting gossips and speculations (on the PKFZ).

I am fighting for real and Ong Tee Keat never fakes his fights. As long as I have this breath, I will carry on this task.

If he doesn't succeed, he knows that it’s not only him who will ‘die’ but the MCA as well.