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2 notorious cases challenge Malaysia’s modesty

International Herald Tribune
By Thomas Fuller

Friday, August 1, 2008

KUALA LUMPUR: Government censors in this majority Muslim nation uphold an ethos of modesty by snipping sex scenes from films and ordering entertainers to avoid outfits that reveal too much on Malaysian stages – bare belly buttons and figure-hugging outfits are off limits.

But these days Malaysians looking to avoid R-rated content might be advised to read past news reports about their own leaders. Top politicians are embroiled in two scandals involving accusations of sodomy and the gruesome murder of a Mongolian mistress.

Reports on the finer points of a rectal examination and revelations about the sexual preferences of the dead mistress make other sex scandals that once shocked people here – such as Monica Lewinsky and her blue dress – seem almost Victorian.

This is not the first time that sex and politics have publicly collided in Malaysia. The trial of Anwar Ibrahim, a former deputy prime minister, for sodomy in the 1990s featured, among other highlights, a blood-stained mattress being hauled into the courtroom.

This time, wider use of the Internet has helped disseminate documents, facts and rumors that would otherwise have been filtered out of mainstream news media tightly controlled by the government.

The two scandals encompass much more than just sex. They are part of a broader clash between two men vying for power: Anwar is facing new allegations of sodomy at a time when he is vowing to unseat the governing party, while the other scandal involves Anwar’s principal political rival, Najib Razak, the deputy prime minister and anointed heir to Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi.

What is worrying for many Malaysians is that the gloves appear to have come off in the high-stakes fight between Anwar and Najib.

Testimony in the murder trial revealed that immigration records of the Mongolian woman and her friend had been deleted.

Malaysia’s political opposition says the case highlights the impunity of the police and high officials in government as well as a lack of independence in the judiciary. A police officer took the stand and said she was tortured by police investigators – her own colleagues.

Witnesses in both cases have dropped from sight, including a private investigator, Balasubramaniam Perumal, who alleged in a sworn statement issued shortly before disappearing that the dead Mongolian woman was Najib’s mistress.

The statement by Balasubramaniam, which has been widely circulated online, contradicted Najib’s repeated assertions that he never met the Mongolian woman, Altantuya Shaariibuu.

Balasubramaniam spent two months writing and revising a 16-page declaration about the case, based on conversations he had with the murdered woman and Abdul Razak Baginda, an aide to Najib. Balasubramaniam retracted the allegations in a hastily convened press conference and then disappeared.

“It’s obvious what has happened here. You don’t need to be a rocket scientist,” said Americk Sidhu, the private investigator’s lawyer. “Somebody needed him to shut up.”

Balasubramaniam’s wife and three children are also missing. The family’s two Rottweilers were left behind in their cages.

“A lot of very dark things are happening now,” said Raja Petra Kamarudin, one of the most influential and prolific Malaysian bloggers. Raja Petra was formerly a political associate of Anwar’s wife, Azizah Ismail, in her National Justice Party.

Although a number of gruesome facts in the Mongolian case have emerged in court over the past year – Altantuya, for example, was shot and her body obliterated with explosives in the jungle outside Kuala Lumpur – Raja Petra asserts that only a fraction of what happened is being admitted into court.

Citing sources in military intelligence, he issued a sworn declaration in June alleging that Najib’s wife, Rosmah Mansor, was present at Altantuya’s killing. Government prosecutors say Altantuya was killed by two commandos who also served as bodyguards to Malaysia’s top leaders.

“I don’t think Malaysia can afford to have a prime minister who has a huge question mark hanging over his head: Is he, or not, involved in the murder of this girl?” Raja Petra said in an interview.

Najib has called the allegation in the declaration “total lies, fabrication and total garbage” and a “desperate and pathetic attempt to discredit and taint my political image.”

The government charged Raja Petra with criminal libel, a law that lawyers say has not been used in recent memory in Malaysia and which, unlike civil defamation, can carry a two-year prison term. Separately, Raja Petra has been charged with sedition and his house raided several times.

Raja Petra was also responsible for leaking a medical report last week relating to the sodomy case. Anwar’s accuser, Mohamed Saiful Bukhari Azlan, a 23-year-old former campaign volunteer, went to a hospital in Kuala Lumpur hours before lodging a police report charging that Anwar had sodomized him. But the medical report, which also circulated widely on the Internet, says he complained of a piece of plastic being inserted into his anus. The doctor who wrote the report, Mohamed Osman, said he found “no active bleeding, no pus, tear or scar.”

Since then, Osman also has disappeared, although the hospital says he will be back Monday.

Anwar, who on Thursday announced that he would run for Parliament in his quest to unseat the government and become prime minister, said in an interview that he expected to be arrested soon. He has refused to give a DNA sample because he believes it will be used against him. “There’s nothing stopping them from fabricating evidence again,” Anwar said.

Although Malaysians enthusiastically share the latest developments in both cases, some have grown tired of the graphic details.

“A good word is disgust – whether it’s sodomy or blowing up the Mongolian lady,” said the Reverend Wong Kim Kong, executive adviser of the National Evangelical Christian Fellowship, an umbrella organization of protestant churches. A narrow majority of Malaysians are Muslim but the country has sizeable Christian, Hindu, Buddhist and Sikh minorities.

Wong said the constant barrage of allegations made by bloggers, paired with the government’s steady denials, have left Malaysians pining for clarity.

“People just cannot trust the word of any of these people,” Wong said. “They cannot distinguish who is telling the truth.”

The scandals come at a time of great political uncertainty in Malaysia. The governing party of Abdullah and Najib and the ethnic-based system of politics that it represents is in disarray. There is simmering resentment between the majority Malays and the minority Chinese and Indians, and corruption within government is rampant, despite promises by Abdullah to clean up the system.

Anwar has vowed to remake the country’s politics and revoke the authoritarian laws that, among other things, ban students from protesting, keep the media controlled and allow the government to lock up dissidents without trial. But Anwar remains a polarizing figure who is not trusted by many in the elite.

“I think there will at some point be a crisis of legitimacy,” said Ibrahim Suffian, the head of the Merdeka Center, a polling agency. “‘The leaders seem to feel that they can get away with a lot of things so long as the masses are satisfied with the economic opportunities given to them.

“But the economy is so bad that people are losing faith. There is a feeling that maybe it’s time for major changes.”

77 Replies to “2 notorious cases challenge Malaysia’s modesty”

  1. “People just cannot trust the word of any of these people,” Wong said. “They cannot distinguish who is telling the truth.”

    Well, Reverend Wong Kim Kong, it seems that your parents had really wasted their hard-earned money in your years of education because you still do not possess the brains to distinguish who is telling the truth. You are no better than the Sakai in Ulu Tembeling who believes in everything umno says

  3. Greetings!

    Thanks for the published. It does absolutely correct in view of the chaos in Malaysian way of politic.

    Count from the motiveless education, economic failure due to imbalanced distribution, jurisdiction doubt and many others… The pupils have been suffered not only live from hand to mouth but mentality tortures.

    In short, we all want changes.

    Hidup Pakatan, Pakatan Baru, Pakatan Rakyat.

    “From the demos for the demo”

  5. pulau_sibu Today at 07: 49.31 :-

    Imagine a poor university dropout, a scholarship holder but an academic failure with no money, no hope and no future (whose entry grades into university are much worse than thousands of other applicants but was chosen due to the indiscriminate quota system practised here). Then, when you went to apply for yet another scholarship to go to another university, some one offers you a mother of all schemes whereby you would get rich beyond your wildest dreams, in return for concorting some story regarding your a*sehole.

  6. I hoped Anwar will get some people to comb through all these web news to get all the ideas, witnesses and evidence to support his case if he is being charged. Is just unbelievable that the police is not dropping the charge even with all these evidences found on websites. It is too naive for these people to think that the current government will continue to protect them. Do the right thing and not blow with the wind, have conscience and everybody will have a better life.

  8. All of us have all been saifooled.

    Anwar and his PKR colleagues all knew that Saiful was a “plant” by UMNO, so they kept him under surveillance. They knew that he went to DPM’s residence to seek advice on “scholarship matters”, so as a precaution, they “planted” their own people in various hospitals, just in case Saiful shows up for rectal examinations. Yes, Anwar has many friends in the medical fraternity, and he has the means to “plant” his friends in hospitals like Pusrawi, Gleneagles, Sentosa, etc. Lo and behold, the university dropout shows up at Pusrawi and was told by Dr Osman that there were no signs of sodomy. The dropout then went to a hardware store, bought a toilet plunger and spent the next couple of hours sodomising himself with it. 4 hours later, he went to HKL for a second examination, which this time found signs of fresh wear and tear.

    What UMNO doesn’t realise is that PKR had Saiful’s self-sodomisation with the toilet plunger on tape. They are just waiting for the “selected” prosecutor, the “selected” judge”, the “selected” investigating officer, the selected doctors and the “selected” chemists to complete the conspiracy.

    The last time (1998), the “selected” investigating officer made it to IGP, while the “selected” prosecutor made it to AG, and the “selected” judge got promoted ahead of his peers.

    This time, Saiful has saifooled himself.

  9. Pak Lah is very kind to evil-doers and white-collar criminals. When they violated the law, he never took STERN actions against them. For example, shouldn’t the IGP and AG be suspended? What happened to the Lingam Video Tape saga – swept under the carpet? When this loving-gentle-kind culture takes root and becomes acceptable in the Malaysian society, others (especially those holding high office) will be emboldened to take advantage of the system and eventually chaos will emerge.

  10. In 50 years of Malaysia we have never seen a MP of BN being charged for corruption, misbehavior, sedition, offense or crime. It seems that if you are a MP of BN esp UMNO, you can do anything you want and you can get away even with murder. BN esp UMNO portrays that their MPs are super clean. NO offenses committed, virtue in everything they do and very holy. Even if you have a lodged a police report, the usual reply is either it is still in progress or the report is ready and at AG office. It will stay there forever. Lost in the tons of reports that are pending. It seems it will take years for Police to complete the investigation. If it is in court, it will take years to be heard. Look at these people, Zakaria, close one eye MP, ex Minister who touched backside, PKFZ, AT murder, etc

    However, this can’t be said for the opposition. The slightest complaint, you will be charged and arrested. Police investigation will be super fast and the facts will be there. Your date in court will be early and you will be found guilty even though the evidence is substandard.

    There are always two sets of laws in Malaysia. One for the BN and the other follow the rule of law. There is no impartiality in our Police investigation, court decision.

    It is also strange why they don’t raid Raja Petra house again since he posted a medical report of Saiful. Police should confiscated his computer again. Maybe Police knows that Raja Petra computer has been confiscated before and not returned, so no need to raid his house again. This is more serious than the previous complaint of false accusation. Our Police is full of idiots who just follow blindly what their master tells them to do. They have no cow sense.

    Our PM said that Saiful, being the poor guy, needs justice. He felt pity for him. What bullsh*t!!! What about the Rakyat’s complaints on all these:-
    1. AT murder case
    2. Commission paid for submarine
    3. PKFZ scandal
    4. CYC scandal
    5. Monsoon Cup
    6. Islamic theme park
    7. Patrol boat built by PSCI
    8. Forward sports training centre
    9. MAS bailout
    10. Seditious speeches and many others

    The main reason why BN is so concern about the takeover is because when the opposition becomes the Govt, then the opposition will have the opportunity to see all the Govt agreement/documents that are classified OSA and can’t be seen by the opposition now. Look at the simple takeover of 5 states, most of the classified and/or incriminating documents disappeared overnight. We can be sure when the opposition takes over, there will be more missing agreements/documents. If the opposition gets their hands on the damaging documents, all of them will be charged from the top to the bottom of all MPs of BN. They can’t afford this. It is shameful. It is outrageous. So BN has to protect the takeover at all cost so that all these will not be shown at all. The stake is very high. BN only cares about their own wealth fare. As for the rakyat, BN doesn’t give a damn!!! So in such situation, we can be sure that BN will do anything to stop this takeover. Let’s derail their plan and send all of them to hell!!!!

  12. Hey guys…enough of all these. We dont care who or what Anwar is……JUST CHANGE THE umNO-BN GOVERNMENT.
    Im not going to live, suffer and die for $hit umNO-BN.
    Get rid of Kurang aJar & Nahzri.
    Enough is Enough.

    JUST CHANGE THE GOVERNMENT.
    JUST DO IT.

  13. Malaysia is as sick country because managed by a sick government…supported by sick Malaysians voters.
    Fortunately…..most voters are healed and not sick…given hope of better futures without a sick incurable….UMNO government.
    Yes….we are going to show Dollah and especially Mahathir..how to be good doctors..and cure our country’s sickness…..caused …mainly by these two.
    Anwar’s by-election will be the first sign.
    I suspect he will be unopposed….for UMNO to make some face saving excuses.

  14. Although Anwar is their main target in their lies and deceits, Abdullah government is actually is comitting sucide. People are getting really fed up with the BN and this is going to be their Achilles heel. But they are too thick to know they are destroying their own and the country’s reputation. What a shamless bunch of nitwits. Like I said before, I’ve never been so ashamed of being a Malaysian.

  16. Wise up to the Da Dollah Code, which is to merge umno and pas, and in the process eliminate the DAP, PKR, Najib, Anwar and anyone (such as Dr M) who stands in the way of the Badawi Dynasty

  17. Why MCA never settle its quit rent and assessment for its property in Taiping? How can they behave like that? Please check also Gerakan and UMNO properties, to see whether they do their duty or not? How to ask Rakyat do their duty if they themselves never set up good example? Ong Ka Chuan never do his duty at all !

  20. ///The two scandals encompass much more than just sex. They are part of a broader clash between two men vying for power///- Thomas Fuller, International Herald Tribune.

    It is not just the two men. Deputy Education Minister Dr Wee Ka Siong now faces allegations of a sex scandal with a student from China intending to bring him down politically as his other MCA counterpart Dr Chua Soi Lek was brought down following a sex scandal. MIC too has its share. Some year back a MIC deputy speaker resigned when tapes of him in the sex act were circulated.

    As government’s censors snip sex scenes from films and morality police swoop on entertainers with ‘revealing’ outfits, this ‘ethos’ of sexual modesty and propriety in society has not been matched by deeper morality: indeed it has been a cover for an ethos of greater hypocrisy.

    Examples : sexual escapades are carried on overseas; and where they were conducted here and caught, they were covered officially up if one were politically well connected, and one’s sexual indiscretion is used as one more chip to ensure one will do the other’s political bidding! However if one is on the other side of the political fence or is a political threat, all hell breaks loose and one is alleged to not only involved in sexual indiscretions but also “unnatural” sexual crimes!

    With increasing religiosity and sexual conservatism, matters of sex, when exposed publicly, have accrued greater shame and guilt than ever before, and it is this sense of shame and guilt that has been leveraged as a weapon to bring the defaulter, often-political opponent down politically.

    Greater interest is placed in damning the fallen who is caught than in tempering the voices of those holier-than-thou who condemned or even entrapped them, and the dictum “Let him who is without sin cast the first stone” is forgotten.

    Also forgotten are simple values such as respect for individual’s privacy and freedom in matters of private sexual morality.
    Or even basic truth that sex is a basic biological imperative responsble for replenishment of the species not to be so terribly ashamed of and ridden with guilt as to be used as a convenient weapon to arbiter who is entitled to hold public office.

    There is, in truth, no necessary nexus:

    · between a politician’s private sexual life as his fitness, capability or honesty to discharge the duties of public office though the lack of propriety in the former has so far not been accepted as an inconsequential quirk;

    · between ‘reputational’ sexual propriety and actual libidinal character. A person of raging hormones can be a sexual satyr cavorting with underaged girl or grabbing of behinds and yet preserve “reputation” if extended political patronage of official protection.

    At the end of the day, it is just about the sex and the need to restrain immoral sexual behaviour to prevent society’s descent into moral chaos – that is the smaller issue.

    The bigger issue is that we are already in moral chaos when the larger society and the people in control of levers of power lack the deeper morality and substitute it with hypocrisy, when institutions are subverted, law enforcement becomes selective tool for maintenance of power, and people generally cast not just first but many stones at others even though they live in glass houses!

    Is there any wonder then even in the larger society the increase in sexual conservatism and moral policing has acompanied by a cocomitant rise oif the oposite rather than the desired results with an increasing rise of cloistered promiscuity, Illegitimacy incest, crimes in general and sexual crimes in particular and HIV???

    Greater attempts to moralise only serve to demoralise when there is no deeper morality structured upon simple values of openness, honesty, fairness, live and let live and the truth that our parents teach us to embrace.

  21. The smell of filth oozing out from the Umno-putras a**holes can be scented from ‘kangaroo land’ Shocking, the way the murder was carried out on the Mongolian lady, Alantuya, will shame Hollywood murder movies. Most of all, shame all Malaysian!
    Hav’nt this Umno led govt in particular the PM has any decency left?

  23. YB,

    We now export our murder expertise to UK. check and read Rocky Bru on Malaysian Headhunter in UK!

    The young one learn very fast from the example of the elder, C4, Sodomy and more.. Malaysia Boleh, Apa Apa pun Boleh! However not in a good or smart thingy.. mostly from stupid and ego thingy..

    Do you know if UK have a knight Space Tourist? But we do have our own Datuk Space Tourist or Rather Datuk Space Steward!

    http://shiokguy.blogspot.com/2008/07/datuk-space-tourist.html

    Next we are going to have DSAI, Not Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim but Datuk Super Ass Informer. Read about some posting on MT about the Malay Anus thingy.. we have 3 celebrated ASS now..

    Cheer

  24. Common the 33% uninformed immatured population of malaysians who still think DSAI is gulity should note that 2 big high profile cases are now not even mentioned in the papers, 1st mahathir-lingam tapes and altantuya murder case. isn’t it bloody obvious that we have an ever so guilty government!?!?!

  25. “People just cannot trust the word of any of these people and They cannot distinguish who is telling the truth.”…quoted by Reverend Wong Kim Kong, executive adviser of the National Evangelical Christian Fellowship. Yes, Malaysians agreed with his statement.

    Let us rethinks what Pak Lah say something today but do reverse something tommorrow.

    Malaysians have lost trust and faith with the flip flop system from PM and BN leaders who failed to uphold and keep their words.

    For instance,

    1. when Pak Lah asked Malaysians to change their styles of living, in reverse his oil state MB grabs power to ignore him but spend lavishly for S200 Mercedes Benz for his excos and top civil buddies.

    2. when Pak Lah said no hike in oil price, in reverse he raised the oil price sky high to 40% and 63% for petrol and diesel.

    3. when Pak Lah said no electicity and rice hike, in reverse TNB and Bernas increased both commodities.

    4. when Pak Lah said he is PM for all Malaysians, in reverse he attended UMNO – PAS secret talk to unite Malay on one race only to form a government and ignore non-Malay component parties like MCA, Gerakan, PBS, PBRS, SUPP, SAPP and MIC.

    5. when Pak Lah said he will reform the judiciary, police and ACCA, in reverse he lets the three bodies do their fancies actions and swept things under the carpets examples are Lingam case, Anwar sodomy ad Altantuya C4 case.

    6. Corruption within government is rampant, despite promises by PM to clean the system, in reverse more corruptions are happening in all walks of government bodies from civil servants, the police forces, to money politics for corrupted politicians in BE END parties.

    As old Malays saying “PM cakap tak serupa bikin” means ” PM talks different and do different” is similar the old English saying “Words fromouth never meets Truth of Hearth”.

    No wonder Cabinet Ministers in BN government never listen or obey or respect what PM talks, assumed his cakap cakap kosong saja or talk rubbish without any strength of command.

    These Ministers do what they think is good for their cronies, corrupt practices in their civil servants unchecked and ingnored public cried, protest and suffering today.

    Believe it or not….read the daily media on what PM talks about something today but do something with reverse his words the next day.

    As I see it, read it, listen to it….now time to write it. ……regards from Malaysian Mummy.

    You are the judge tomorrow.

  27. To All PR Supporters and Volunteers during the by-election campaign in Permatang Pauh,

    BeeNd govt will play the below issues to attack DSAI

    1. US Agent, so we should told all the Permatang Pauh’s voters that BeeNd is the real US agent(read Tulang Besi articles -Jika Anwar Ibrahim Agen Amerika, Bagaimana Pula Dengan Najib/UMNO/BN? )
    to avoid they fall into the dirty tricks of BeeNd govt!

    2. Saiful will emphasize that he is willing to swear on Quran, ‘Berani kerana Benar’.
    This again will woo those voters who don’t really understand about the Religion and Saiful insist to misused the Religion to turn the wrong thing into the right thing!

    3. Ezam will play race issues and emphasize on the NEP and Ketuaan Melayu to woo the Malay voters! We should ask the Malay voters what they had earn from the NEP? Only the cronies of BeeNd earn and most of the Malay are suffer!
    We should explain to the Malay voters the difference of ‘Ketuaan Malaysia’ Vs ‘Ketuaan Melayu’!

    Pls be reminded that we should never to be OVER CONFIDENCE!
    This is the rule of any competition!

  29. quote … What UMNO doesn’t realise is that PKR had Saiful’s self-sodomisation with the toilet plunger on tape. They are just waiting for the “selected” prosecutor, the “selected” judge”, the “selected” investigating officer, the selected doctors and the “selected” chemists to complete the conspiracy. unquote.

    Like they say, give then enough rope to hang themselves. Let them talk, catch a lie and they spew more lies , then we laugh quietly and wait for the next breath taking episode of no brainer lying.

    quote … Hey guys…enough of all these. We dont care who or what Anwar is……JUST CHANGE THE umNO-BN GOVERNMENT. Im not going to live, suffer and die for $hit umNO-BN. Get rid of Kurang aJar & Nahzri. Enough is Enough. unquote.

    The thing is if those BN voters in backward states like Johore, Negri, Malacca, have awoken, it is too late to do anything, for the next five years. Let us realize that the ball is in the court of the elected MPs. Have they got what it takes to tip the scales? Don’t they know that the time is nigh to begin to speak up against the falsehood of their party leaders? A disappointing group. Or they can’t see the falsehood? Whatever.

    quote .. Malaysia is as sick country because managed by a sick government…supported by sick Malaysians voters. unquote.

    I agree. We can see the sickness with every statement made by the ruling class – ooops ruling no class statements.

    I am astonished UMNO members are comfortable with their so-called leaders. Any one who knows how to read and write should be stumped by the naivety of BN leaders. PAS took them for a ride. No tambang – want another ride?

    Say one day soon, the backstabber in UMNO becaomes a leader, and it is another bad hat to lead the party. Goodness gracious. Most at the top are bad hats! If UMNO dies because members allowed blackguards to rise, so be it. It is very good for the Malays. If MCA dies, it is very good for lthe Chinese.

    It is very good for Malaysians and the country if all communal based parties die.

  30. Which is more important, DSAI sodomy charge or LINGAM,S tape scandal OR ALTANTUYA,s MURDER.
    DSAI sodomy case have no effect on the goverment or RAKYAT.Its the UMNO led BN Government and Main stream media and bloggers who are so caught up in it.DSAI is about two adults and sex.The LINGAM TAPE SAGA and the murder of ALTANTUYA is many times more Important.because it effect us directly.
    The LINGAM TAPE SAGA had clearly shown that our country justice system was control by POWER,GREED and MONEY.For over 18 years and till to this day nothing is being done to right this wrong.For over 18 years how many rakyat or companies had loss their cases because judges was bought over.
    The ALTANTUYA,s case is more important because a foreingner is involve,The whole world is watching to see that justice is being done in a fair manner.The sad part is our DPM and his wife are implicated in this case.This case alone had caused tax payers RM millions in court charges.Now if Altantuya,s family decides to sue the govenment and police force.Who do you think will pay …Yes us THE TAX PAYERS….

  32. Hi YB,

    http://themalaysianinsider.com/index.php/headlines/42-lead-stories/2486-a-new-era-for-dap

    I found this article written by Wan Hamidi Hamid in the Malaysian Insider very interesting…

    The last 3 paragraphs are especially remarkable, as quoted here:

    About 900 delegates will deliberate on the future of the party on Aug 23 and 24 at the party congress expected to be held in Kuala Lumpur.

    Whether they will argue about positions in the new-found power base of Penang, Perak and Selangor, or find a more pragmatic way to promote transparency, freedom, equal opportunity, local-level democracy and freer, open market, the congress is expected to be a turning point for a new DAP.

    Even if most of the old guards retain their respective position, they too should be able to embrace transformation. Failing that, the party will forever be doomed with the old bickering politics; similar to that of their sworn political enemy BN.

    ===================================================

    Perhaps the DAP should make this month of Merdeka, which is coincidentally the month of DAP National Congress, as a month that the DAP people could sit down and think and gear up for a transformation (that is long overdue), which will hopefully bring the party, and the rakyat to a new high-level…

    I believe as a “party Goliath”, you should be the one who fire the party transformation engine…

    or maybe it’s about time for the Goliaths to give way to new faces?

  33. What we need now in boleh is a Mikhail Gorbachev. We already have the perestroika, which is reformasi in boleh term. We also have the Boris Yeltsin, who is Anwar Ibrahim. We are waiting to see collapse of BN happening. It is a matter of time.

    I mentioned before NEP and racisim in boleh is like the communism, that was supposed to be good, but was abused by the leaders. The country and people suffered from the mismanagement of the economy. The peasants can no longer support such a corrupted political system.

    Our collapse of the Berlin Wall has already happned with the 9th March tsunami.

    Yeltsin is ready to act, but Gorbachov should be ready to help implementing his Perestroika. He should be ready to hand the power to Anwar in a smooth way. We will see the future of Malaysia. Abdullah, like Gorbachov, will still remain as a good politician and respected by the majority like Gorbachov.

  34. As police is not doing their work, possible that PR investigate about the present of najis and Altantunya in Singapore and France? Nail this down and if there is a proof or witness/evidence, BN is dead and we can change the goverment more easily.

  35. This piece is an honest assessment by an outsider. His purpose is basically to describe his observations of what has been and are happening in this country and the possible political implications in the near future if the expected scenario works out for the opposition. Change, for better or for worse, looks inevitable, judging from the current state of affairs.

  36. Look at the facts. If my alibi is foolproof…They have no basis, no reason, no grounds for me to be arrested,” he said. Anwar continues to maintain that Saiful was nothing more than a “coffee boy”.
    Sabah Progressive Party (SAPP) president, Datuk Yong Teck Lee, had also revealed that he was in discussions with Anwar at the time he was allegedly committing the act. – Themalaysianinsider

  37. Government will not hesitate to take action against anyone disseminating news and article that is detrimental to the reputation of our leaders. This article is written without a fair heart and it aims to totally discredit the present government and our leaders and to draw sympathy for Anwar. Outsiders have no right to intervene or comment about the affairs of Malaysia as Malaysia is an independent democratic country with it own set of law and rules. Questioning the ability of how our leaders carried out their duties is unacceptable and represents a severe intervention of our domestic affairs. Our leaders are kind enough to be easily taken advantage of. If they are as merciless as the Singapore’s leaders, all these article writters would have been sued and put in jail. Please don’t ever try to test the limit of our tolerance anymore. The reporters from the West, without having a good understanding of the unique culture of this country, have already put the reputation of our entire government into jeopardy. We, as citizen, should not join the West to discredit our leaders and all of us have due duty to defend the actions taken by our government.

  40. What ever Najib said about he had not met the Mongolian girl, nobody believe so. On the other hand, whatever the govt wanted the rakyat to believe that Anwar did the sodomy, everyone knew that it is political and another fabrication. We the rakyat have lost all trust on the govt. ZERO TRUST. We also dont want najib to be the PM. Like the article said, your denying did not clear the air, and nobody, not just Malaysia, but the whole world cannot accept such a head of govt. If he is PM, Malaysia will be outcast, pariah, and nobody will want to trade us. We lose all respect throughout the world. No point being such a PM also.

  41. “Questioning the ability of how our leaders carried out their duties is unacceptable and represents a severe intervention of our domestic affairs”

    “We, as citizen, should not join the West to discredit our leaders and all of us have due duty to defend the actions taken by our government.”

    Kasim Amat

    with respect to his right to say whatever he wants in a democracy, I have to say he has got it totally wrong.

    Badawi is not above questioning because he is a democratically elected top civil servant to administer the country. he is not an emperor in a feudal society. Badawi and his team is earning a living, a very good one, from our tax money. Our constitution never forbid citizens from questioning elected civil servants. All the more as citizens of this country, we must critically evaluate the fitness of people to lead the nation when we cast our votes.

    since when criticising “our government” automatically align our self with Western media? When BN opposition criticises our certain state government, does it mean UMNO & BN people “join the West blah blah blah” (eh, Mat, been to the West for vacation?) If the West is right, they are right. If they are wrong, they are wrong. If I happen to agree with them with they are right, does it mean I m wrong? Typical Mahathirism where all things from the West except FDI are wrong.

    I don’t have to defend our government. I pay my taxes and I vote them in and out depending on their performance. If I think they are doing the right thing, I’ll let them know and if they are doing the wrong thing, I’ll let them know either.

    Mat, even the Bhutan King decided to relinquish his power. Feudalism should be dead and burried

  42. ‘Kasim Amat Says:

    Today at 15: 21.00 (24 minutes ago)
    Government will not hesitate to take action against anyone disseminating news and article that is detrimental to the reputation of our leaders.’

    Spot on. Raja Petra can attest to that. So can most of the political detainees under ISA. Our government is untouchable and can do no wrong so we cannot criticise them.

    Further Kassim says :
    ‘This article is written without a fair heart and it aims to totally discredit the present government and our leaders and to draw sympathy for Anwar. Outsiders have no right to intervene or comment about the affairs of Malaysia as Malaysia is an independent democratic country with it own set of law and rules. Questioning the ability of how our leaders carried out their duties is unacceptable and represents a severe intervention of our domestic affairs.’

    Again he is spot on. Our government cannot be criticised but they can criticise others. If Kassim takes ‘outsider’ to mean anyone outside the top echelon of UMNO then he wil have gotten it even more spot on.

    Further:
    ‘Our leaders are kind enough to be easily taken advantage of. If they are as merciless as the Singapore’s leaders, all these article writters would have been sued and put in jail. Please don’t ever try to test the limit of our tolerance anymore.’

    Sue for what? Criminal defamation? If our whole government is mobilised towards going after everyone who criticizes the govt the criminals in this country will have a field day! Already the lack of police enforcement in Msia is so apparent. If you’ve not noticed Spore is an authoritarian state. Why don’t we take a more democratic country to compare with instead of always taking the worst example?

    Finally, Kassim ends with:

    ‘The reporters from the West, without having a good understanding of the unique culture of this country, have already put the reputation of our entire government into jeopardy. We, as citizen, should not join the West to discredit our leaders and all of us have due duty to defend the actions taken by our government.’

    When we have a government that is so sensitive about critism, clueless on how to run the country, more intent on playing politics of race and filled with corruption from head to toe there is no duty by anyone to defend the government, epspecially when we know the critisicm to be true. This kind of government would have lost the moral mandate to rule.

    No one is above the law especially the people that make up the government. They as figure heads (notice I’ve not used the word leaders because leaders have certain inherent qualities which our government lacks) are even more open to criticism due to the position they hold and their responsibilities towards the Rakyat.

    If you think this writer is wrong then by all means come out and tell us why. Don’t just threaten as if you’re Auntie Pet. The Rakyat is not stupid anymore. This is not 1988!

  44. Kasim, Kasim. So, do you think what this writer mentioned is nonsense and not analythical reason? By rejecting people’s analysis because of where it come from? What kind of graduate are we if we have such thinking. If the comment is constructive, why not give it a ponder. If Malayisan is so easy to be influenced by this article, then it means Rakyat not even convinced to our own leaders. Why rakyat not convince? You should know the answer. if following your altitute, we are no where and no wonder our gratuate is lack of innovative, dynamic altitute and mindset. Oh sorry, are you dropout from U same as Saiful? Say only good things to what leader want to hear? How to improve? Reputation is not given by others, it come with the acts. See ur beloved Wan Azizah as an example.

  45. Never in my forty or more years of observing the political development of this country have we in Malaysia sunk to such despicable depths of despair and disgust.

    How can the immigration records of Altantuya and her compatriots disappear without the culprit being identified?

    How can a foreigner be obliterated by the use of the C4 plastic bomb by two of our own Swat team members?

    How can the huge resources of government be marshalled to target one person?

    How can statutory declarations be made and then withdrawn the very next day without the maker being subjected to the rigours of the law?

    How can crimes continue to be committed with impunity?

    Mind you, not all our police officers are corrupt. But those who are must be identified and shown the door. The money used to feed them is better used to feed grateful dogs. These people are worse than maggots!

    Yes, we must bite the bullet of change. We must keep faith with the POLITICS OF HOPE and reject the POLITICS OF FEAR propagated by the likes of Kassim Amat.

    Let us now see how dirty the National Front want to be in the forthcoming by-election. Watch this space.

  46. Kassim Amat, your boss is so cruel to force you to work on Sunday. Double pay, its alright then.

    Godfather is playing golf or snoozing and can’t read your posting here, but make sure you are around tomorrow.

  49. Our Kasim Amat is just a sampling of the ruling elite, bigoted, arrogant, gangster type behaviour. This is my space, my territory,my land, my country. Don’t tell me WHAT TO DO and NOT WHAT TO DO. Don’t criticize. Do do this to me … don’t do that to us … I’ll sue, I’ll threaten, I’ll intimidate, I do anything to protect my “right”. So F* off!

    This is the mentality of such people. Leave them alone to rot. Why teach them about good governance?

  50. The country needs to be “spring-cleaned”. Only a thorough cleaning would do the job to restore the nation’s status. Anything less would not achieve the desired result and the people, especially the poor, the under-privileged, the middle income group, the wage earners, and I mean people across the board regardless of race or creed, would continue to suffer in SILENCE.

    We, the SILENT MAJORITY, have the right to the nation’s wealth, just as the very few filthy rich and privileged had.

    Government policies need to address the situation as the nation’s wealth is more than enough for everyone. It is a matter of policies which would help create a more equitable and sustainable environment. Not lopsided racial based and selective discrimination. This had been proven to be disastrous and benefited only a handful of cronies and interest groups. The privileged business sectors cannot be allowed to profit excessively from the general public, even though a free market is encouraged.

    Where are all the experts? They should be roped in to come up with ideas for a more balanced and fair approach to economic management.

  51. Kassim Amat’s brain cells are just as dead as his bosses. But then again, anyone who is still supporting the brainless AAB is an even bigger idiot. AAb’s supporters have no grey matter … they have maggots in their skulls, maggots that ate all their brain cells and are now living in comfort in the space they created.

    When I read some comments in Malaysia Today, I noticed that some bloggers use the word ‘mastermind’. If you bloggers read this, please, please, do not ever use the word ‘mastermind’ with our politicians. They don’t deserve this word. ‘Mastermind’ is often used on people (or criminals) with great minds, devising strategies or plots that are truly clever. The sodomy charge is DEFINITELY NOT CLEVER. Peleeeeese!!! Don’t degrade this word!

  53. Every time Kasim Tak Amat opens his mouth, it makes me laugh for a good weekend. This dude never failed to amaze me with his UMNO mentality. Actually if I was his boss in UMNO, I would have fired this dude for being an idiot and continue to tarnish the party’s image. Hahaha.

    If Tunku Abdul Rahman and Dato Onn Jaafar was still alive and seeing UMNO in this state of shambles, they would most definitely have joined PR and bring UMNO down.

  54. Kasim Amat is obviously still living and thinking pre GE12 UMNO style. But truly , it’s “great” to see the true mentality of a man with blind loyalty to Party orders.
    If AAB tell Rakyat to eat shit, then we eat shit lah !!! Luckily AAB is still far from being Adolf Hitler or Osama.
    Recent developments have seen changes in MCA,Gerakan and even MIC. To some degree some softcore UMNO supporters.
    Being bigots does not make you a champion, especially when voicing dissents in “Western” media. Malaysian MSM is no better.

  55. Kasim Amat Says:

    Today at 15: 21.00 (6 hours ago)
    “Our leaders are kind enough to be easily taken advantage of. If they are as merciless as the Singapore’s leaders, all these article writters would have been sued and put in jail…blah, blah, blah

    The danger, mostly to himself and his ilk, is that he believes in the ‘truth’ of what he is saying!

    Why has the BN government not clamped down on the internet and threw bloggers into jail but managed only to hack into certain blogs in an attempt to restrict their readership. Is it because their leaders are kind? Why is a blogger facing criminal charges for criminal defamation and why have key witnesses gone missing. Why have two rothweilers not been served with a summons to appear in court to answer questions about their missing masters??

  56. For those of you who said that Kasim is in the wrong blog, think again.

    We need him here not for the garbage that he writes but we need him here to serve as the lightning rod for our anger and frustration and to remind us of the absurd lengths to which the BN government is prepared go in holding on to power when everything else fails.

  57. Thats a good one undergrad2. I bet Kasim himself is probably shocked to find out that there are so many people who wants the change to initiate. Part of a job of a cyber trooper is to stir shit and to be as a scout to find out what is going on among the midst of the Rakyat.

  58. faklah is just a kampung leader,some said he just fit to be ketua kampung!he forgoten his deceased mother told him to do good things for the country,yes,infact he did,he cleanswept all the mega projects for his cronies,and SIL!
    DSAI is a world class leader,colour blind,upholding meritocracy,destroy racism NEP,promoting harmonies among races,competent,intelligent,far sighted,and very positive spirit tat never say die!

    A person who can lead only cud b classified as Leader,otherwise he or she wud be just a Dealer!(yes,umno dealer,try to negotiate power-sharing with pas!)

    And btw,coincidently,DSAI also means “dosa punya saiful!”:-)

  59. Kasim,
    Since when have your bosses got the type of reputation you claim they have.As far as the public and much of the outside world goes, they are perceived to be a bunch of thieves robbing the country silly, and now one of them is perceived to be involved in Altantuya’s murder, can you beat that?And you talk about reputation, just go piss off!

  60. Malaysians, you have to decide whether a politician living a promiscuous life is acceptable. In ancient times, a ruler had many wives, mistresses and concubines. A Queen had affairs beside her king husband. Why was it acceptable then which is not acceptable now ? Their names are written in the history books with no mention of anyone condemning them. Religion had already come into the lives of the people then. Even in ancient civilization, the people believed in a religion. It does look like our politicians have a jolly good time when their wives are not beside them. Like one politician who once said that if his counterparts can do that, why can’t he ? He is confirming that this sort of thing is being practised. A big smile in exchange for a mega deal. Is that what the government’s entertainment budget is for ? Not just for drinks and stomach food. But also for the physical food for the big people out there. Then one of the big savings should be to stop all the entertainment budget. Issue a circular that says you cannot spend more than so and so. Spend it first. Claim later after a thorough investigation. Then you know that it is a real big wastage spending on the physical food. If physical food is more important, then that means the nation’s affairs come second. History also tells us that many leaders fell because of this physical food.

  62. Kassim Amat says: The reporters from the West, without having a good understanding of the unique culture of this country, have already put the reputation of our entire government into jeopardy. We, as citizen, should not join the West to discredit our leaders and all of us have due duty to defend the actions taken by our government.

    You know what, sometimes I wish for more than what you complained. I wish the British are back here again. I prefer that. We have enough of third world tribal leaders using national sovereignty and independence to scr*w their own people, plunder nation’s wealth and destroy the livelihood of their own people. Just look around you, you another coconut head, how many countries have achieved anything worthwhile since breaking from the colonial yoke. Almost ZIP.

  64. Since we can’t seem to get off this topic of R-rate topic:

    1) Where is the censorship on this from the Govt ? – Why haven’t they slap a ban on this sexual explicit news reporting ? I mean, we have to protect the average Malaysian from sexual exploits of recent member of parliament. Some have even decide to venture into being a porn star and I pay Parliament to be leaders, not some B-grade movie actor !!!! Hey, if they want to tell the world about each other sexual power, should go to a Western country and live it out. Leave the Govt to serious people.

    2) The local paper also reported that the victim of rape started a blog and wishing his rapist “all the best”. I do not know about you, but I have never ever come across a rape victim NOT ANGRY at his attacker, let alone a male man who claims NOT GAY being raped by another man. It not normal and any subject matter experts will tell you that rape victims will hate their rapist.

  67. Limkamput’s coconut head friend is now holed up together with RealWorld at Mike Tyson’s house plotting their next moves. They will threaten to sue Thomas Fuller, William Pesek, and the guy Down Under who have all been critical of the den of thieves known as UMNO.

    Problem is the leader of the den of thieves is no Lee Kuan Yew.

  68. The thieves are all holed up in Kelana Jaya, drinking Tongkat Ali teh tarik, and discussing the contents of a protest letter to be sent to The Herald Tribune, Bloomberg, Time, the Age, etc. Problem is Mike Tyson doesn’t understand English…..

  69. Well Thomas Fuller , you are more than right, because this nation’s top leaders are a bunch of hippocrates and hiprocrisy is thier ideology, and race based politics is ther top priority , they are the product of their own archaic NEP policy , becos they are chosen from the dumb of the dumbest , so what do u expect of these people, the country is surely and slowly slipping away economically , and these dumd heads still think that they are smart. Don’t you worry there wud be more SODOMY in the news in the near future, becos they know not of any other sensational issue, stay tuned, more hippocrisy to follow , you can label m’sia to have the best sex news in the world , forget playbot and penthouse , the contents are so TAME., that’s why it is banned here.

  71. Malaysia is the world’s expert/centre on sodomy and C4-murder. The BN government will soon promote sodomy and C4-murder related tourism! Come one, come all to Malaysia – truly fantastic!

  72. The government is more concern on people sexual issues instead of resolving the serious issues happening in this country. Just look at the 1)Mongolian girl murder which clearly involves some high profile people especially our powerful couple which everyone knows, 2) Lingam juduciary case, 3) Submarines purchase corruption, 4) IGP and AG case, 5) Monsoon cup case which Oxfart graduate is the main suspect, 6) Bala’s SD (by the way where is the police keeping him???) the list goes on…..

    The rakyat must help Anwar rise up and save malaysia. We r already a laughing stock to the world.
    However, end of the day, the main culprit to let all this happen to our country is our flip-fop, lame sleeping beauty.
    Problem is ,he has no feelings any more even the rakyat kick him real hard on his butt. I weep for our country.

  74. *************************************************

    Hello ! All !! Please wake up…..!!

    Anyone understand the meaning of “Licensed Mob” or ” Licensed Triad”….

    Our politics are similar to it…….I personally believe….if you have the experience in running a triad successfully…you can be a successful politician.

    **************************************************

  75. Yee Siew Wah: “Our government is more concern on people sexual issues …..” …..but that is where they have more experience in. Looking into other more serious issues (as you have mentioned above) is just too complicated and difficult for them. They don’t have the knowledge, experience and people with brains to deal with these kind of issues.

  76. In the absence of a just and independent judiciary, we bloggers have inadvertently formed the people’s court where we sit and judge people who are suspected of committing certain crimes. This seems to be quite understandable as it may compensate for the lack of justice administered by an untrustworthy system.

    However, in setting up ourselves as public judges, are we not also accomplices who were guilty in supporting/voting in the present government for the past two decades (out of economic satisfaction/complacency)?

    In other words, we deserve the mediocre fruits (government) we have planted (voted for) over the years. For a change, PKR/DAP/PAs should stop harping about spilt milk and start planting good seeds today. You guys need to move one step forward if you want to form the next government with solid proposals and a national plan of regeneration.

  77. If PKR “knew” that Saiful was planted by UMNO, they would have kept him under strict surveillance; they failed. They knew that he went to DPM’s residence yet were unable to pre-empt his next move. If UMNO is playing dirty to keep Pakatan from seizing power, then Pakatan also must have prepared to play equally dirty to stay one step ahead of UMNO.

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