KTemoc 'shot' over 'shooting' posting

One visitor to my blog, Winston Smith (and I am the Rt Hon Rupert Clemont-Briggs), has warned (threatened?) me twice that ‘Big Brother is watching me’.

In his last (unedited) comments on my posting "Somebody, please shoot this Jeff Ooi for good"? he wrote:

Ktemoc, chill out man!

P Gunasegaram was merely expressing his opinion, just like you do with your pro Tun Mamak Kangkang articles. You and him just have differences in opinions. You have the right to say his writings nonsensical. No doubt about it.

But when people start using threats in order to silence others or force them to see things in another way, well, I don't think that's right. Perhaps, that is what you should be condemning. After all, your blog's not yet regulated by MiniTrue that's currently managed by Mamak Mydin.

If you do believe that, quote "Somebody, please shoot this Jeff Ooi for good"? unquote, then you are no better than those quote "who talked about keris dripping with blood and burning down the Chinese Assembly Hall, or UMNO trained hornets zipping in fiercesome formations at parties it didn’t like".

Big Brother Is Watching You

That’s the first I have been credited as a pro-Mahathir blog. Well, I am a bloke who sees a half glass of fluid as ‘half-full’ rather than 'half-empty', so I want all of you readers to tell Dr Mahathir - if you know him or have an opportunity to sembang (chitchat) with him - there’s a pro-him blogger at KTemoc Konsiders. He might yet leave me ‘something’ or better, I get introduced to Marina ;-)

As for Winston's ;-) defence of Gunasegaram, he missed the point. I did not post "Somebody, please shoot this Jeff Ooi for good"? to criticise Gunasegaram's article against Dr Mahathir but against his reporting Jeff Ooi to the CMCF.

I had queried exactly what another reader mob1900 had commented, that Screenshots reader Imran might have been blowing his top but his action was not with malice or ill-intent, other than an exasperated shout of ‘shutup’ to Gunasegaram.

Mob1900 hit the spot when he asked: “Don't tell me as an experienced journalist/reporter he [Gunasegaram] can't tell the difference between a genuine threat and a 'figure of speech'?".

And as a refresher for dear Winston, here’s what I wrote earlier:

If my reading of the situation is not incorrect, it would appear that Gunasegaram seeks acquittal (through the CMCF) from Jeff Ooi for not removing the comment in a time to his (Guna’s) satisfaction rather than some assurance that Imran or another reader will not ‘shoot’ him. Imran has become incidental while Jeff Ooi is now Gunasegaram's target.

That he had reported the matter to the CMCF and refuses to withdraw it, even after both Jeff Ooi and Imran had clarified the latter’s comments (already removed), would appear to be an unusually extreme case of merajuk (sulking) for a professional media person. Surely Gunasegaram can't be that angry or vindictive over a petty issue which he has seen fit to not even report to the Police, for 'fear of his personal safety'. Does he want the CMCF to ‘shoot’ Jeff Ooi?

In other words, why make an official mountain out of a blogging pimple, unless only Jeff Ooi’s blood would do.

And dear Winston, please stop your threats. I am aware that Big Brother is indeed watching. I am disappointed you didn’t read my earlier posting Malaysia an Orwellian's 1984?.

I tell you what - I'll refer to you as O’Brien from now on. Cheers, O'Brien.