Assuming that the BERNAMA news report (see below) - or click HERE- is correct: Surely the aircraft should be impounded by, and this air accident investigation should be carried out independently by the Department of Civil Aviation (DCA) Malaysia. They are the regulatory body for civil aviation in Malaysia, are they not? In order to ensure accountability and transparency, all air (and for that matter any accidents on land, sea or air) accident investigation reports should be made public. This looks like being yet another cover-up and /or a full whitewash! Shame on you DCA Malaysia. NEWS FROM THE NATIONAL NEWS AGENCY, MALAYSIA (BERNAMA) “LANGKAWI, March 16 (Bernama) -- Flying school HM Aerospace has set up a committee to probe the emergency landing by its Diamond (DA40) light aircraft in the sea near the Pasir Hitam police officers mess in Ayer Hangat on Monday. Excusatio non petita, accusatio manifesta He who excuses himself, accuses himself Commodum ex iniuria sua nemo habere debet No person ought to have advantage from his own wrong |
Tuesday, 16 March 2010
AIR ACCIDENT [Diamond DA40 TDI] IN MALAYSIA -HOW CAN A FLYING SCHOOL [HM Aerospace] INVESTIGATE THE DITCHING (CRASH LANDING INTO THE SEA) ON THEIR OWN
Tuesday, 26 January 2010
For the real news: READ ASIA SENTINEL
Friday, 13 November 2009
Catch up on the Real News from Malaysia
There are lots of places to catch up on what is really happening in Malaysia, for example:
FREE MALAYSIA TODAY
MALAYSIA TODAY
MALAYSIAKINI
THE MALAYSIAN INSIDER
and many good blogs.
Amor patriae
Love of country
Aequa tellus pauperi recluditur, regumque pueris
The impartial earth is opened alike for the pauper and the children of kings
Of course if you like fairy stories, fantasies, selected news, distortions and reflections of the facts, you know where to find them.
Aquila non captat muscas
The eagle doesn't capture flies
Aequam memento rebus in arduis servare mentem
Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even.
Wednesday, 9 September 2009
What possessed the cow-head protesters?
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Please ask your other friends this question.
What possessed them, those pigheaded cow-head protesters?
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We know that it's not Islam that teaches intolerance of and disrespect toward other religious beliefs, nor is it Islam that preaches violence or force if Muslims don't get their way. We also know that it is really not Malaysian or Malay custom at all to be so obnoxious, threatening and crude. For all my life as a Malaysian, I have known Malay customs to be gentle, sophisticated and inclusive. This is most likely because the "Malay" race was actually historically constructed; its customs weaved from a convergence of different continents and cultures.
So, if neither Islam nor Malay custom drove the 50 protesters to publicly despoil a sacred Hindu creature and to threaten bloodshed because of a Hindu temple, what was it?
Possessed by superiority
My hunch is that these protesters were emboldened by a culture of Malay Muslim superiority that has been carefully cultivated and strategically stoked by the Umno-led government, Malay Muslim politicians from Umno, PAS and Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR), and by the judiciary both civil and syariah.
We only need to consider the following events where non-Muslim, non-Malay Malaysian rights are deferred, even trampled on, by a system that upholds Malay-Muslim rights and sensitivities as ultimate and unquestionable.

(Pic by Bill Davenport / sxc.hu)





But since when was Ramadan meant to be a kill-joy for Muslims and non-Muslims? I don't recall Catholics in Malaysia insisting that non-Catholics should also fast and sacrifice during Lent. Or Hindus suggesting that everyone else should also be a vegetarian on a Hindu holy day.

(Pic by Theodore99 / sxc.hu)
Mind you, this attempt to ban a band because of preferences, defined by some Muslims for all others, is no different from when the animated movie Babe, which starred a pig as the lead character, was banned several years ago.




Police inaction
I'll also wager that the Shah Alam protestors were bold enough to do what they did so publicly, showing no fear of being caught or penalised by the police, because they knew that they would not be arrested. After all, in the past, police have demonstrated an uncanny ability to restrain themselves from taking action whenever a Muslim mob attacked a Malaysian forum that tried to address the issues of political Islam and how they affect our nation.
We shouldn't be surprised at all that the Selangor police stood by and did nothing on 28 Aug while the protesters promised bloodshed and clearly threatened the peace. After all, the police also took minimal action against the mob that disrupted the peaceful Article 11 forum in Penang in 2006, and against another mob, led by PKR's Zulkifli Noordin, that disrupted the August 2008 Bar Council forum on conversion in Malaysia.

Hishammuddin (Pic courtesy of theSun)And what has the current administration led by Datuk Seri Najib Razak demonstrated to reinforce this culture of inaction in the face of threats and attacks against civil liberties and the legitimate rights of non-Malay and non-Muslim Malaysians? It excuses these threats of violence. Home Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein not only found time to meet the cow-head protesters at his office, he also found ways to justify their actions by making them out to be the ones who were "victimised".
We all know that if any group protested against the building of a mosque by using a severed and bloodied pig head, the group would not have stood a chance with the authorities. And they definitely would not have been so easily welcomed, and then defended, by the home minister in his office. And that's why, even when protests that are designed to insult Islam happens, the perpetrators of such hate antics do so without revealing themselves.
So, what possessed the residents of Section 23, Shah Alam to do what they did so boldly and publicly? I'll be happy to wager that it's because they believed they would get away with it. Even if they eventually don't because of public outrage, including among Muslims, and the embarrassing international headlines, these protesters probably started off by believing that their method of protest would not result in any repercussions on them. Indeed, Hishammuddin's defence of them may just be an indicator of how, even if they are taken to task for instigating violence, they will be let off lightly.
And so, do you blame the protesters for thinking they would get away with threats of violence? I don't. The evidence, after all, that they would likely escape action because they belong to a Malay Muslim majority, is just too overwhelming. Denying that a particular political culture has been put in place in order to favour such bigoted, violent and intolerant behaviour would be to deny that the 28 Aug demonstration ever occurred.

Veritas numquam perit
Truth never perishes
Vivere commune est, sed non commune mereri
Everybody lives; not everybody deserves to
Wednesday, 29 July 2009
Open Letter From Tengku Razaleigh on the death of Teoh Beng Hock
Mr Teoh Beng Hock’s death marks a watershed in the attitude of the public towards their government. The government has plumbed a new low in loss of credibility. Many people have come up to tell me in anger or despair that they feel their country has gone off the rails. People who previously considered themselves apolitical have been roused into active engagement.
There have been too many deaths under custody. But this death is particularly disturbing because Mr Teoh died after interrogation by a specially commissioned watchdog agency, inaugurated with fanfare last year by the outgoing administration. The very agency set up to combat the abuse of power has become in the public eye a symbol of the abuse of power.
Mr Teoh was a mere witness. He was questioned about the possible misuse of funds by his employer, a state assemblyman, to buy flags for the last Merdeka celebrations. The sum in question was RM2,400. He was questioned for eight hours through the night. He was found dead the following day outside the MACC’s headquarters.
Mr Teoh, 30, would have registered his marriage last weekend. His fiancée is two-months pregnant.
If the Perak debacle reminded us of the importance of the Constitution, the death under suspicious circumstances of Mr Teoh Beng Hock has brought home in a heart-wrenching way how much we need our public institutions to be independent and law-abiding. A shocked public is demanding answers, and rightly so.
Questions about how Mr Teoh died cannot be shut down with the usual warning that it is “liable to confuse the public” because the public is already confused. We are confused about how an idealistic young man with everything to live for can enter the headquarters of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission as a witness one day and be found dead outside the next.
Questions about the death of Mr Teoh cannot be swept aside with the paternalistic instruction to “leave it to the authorities to investigate,” because the death of Mr Teoh appears to be just the result of “leaving it to the authorities investigate.” It is precisely the independence of the investigating authorities that people are questioning.
Questions about the death of Mr Teoh cannot be suppressed with the warning “not to speculate” when the investigating authorities were apparently able to prognosticate, ahead of their own investigations, that foul play was not involved, and some leaders appear to have special knowledge that Mr Teoh jumped to his death of his own accord.
Questions about the death of Mr Teoh cannot be evaded with the low tactic of racializing the issue because the death of Mr Teoh touches us all as citizens, brothers and sisters and fathers and mothers. None of us wants to live under a government apparatus that cannot be trusted to be independent and to tell the truth.
Questions about the death of Mr Teoh cannot be suppressed with authoritarian prohibitions because they are about the integrity and independence of institutions that belong to the people. Those ministers who talk down to the people may have forgotten who put them into government and pays their wages, and whose questions they were put there to ask. And to answer.
To ask such questions is not to “politicize” the issue but to exercise our ownership of an issue that touches each and every one of us as citizens: our basic institutions are rotted out, and we are headed down the path of a failed state.
It is our right and indeed our duty as citizens to keep asking questions when someone dies under circumstances that put the entire government under a shadow. As we ask these questions let us accept our joint responsibility to push uncompromisingly for an overhaul of the key institutions that have rotted through under exactly the kind of authoritarianism that would prohibit discussion of the circumstances of the death of Mr Teoh Beng Hock.
(Published in Sin Chew Daily, 22nd July 2009)
Written by Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah
Member of Parliament for Gua Musang
July 22, 2009
This letter from Tengku Razaleigh, focusses clearly on the issue, and is a breath of fresh air at a time when the air in Malaysia is becoming increasing corrupted, rancid and polluted, by lies, half-truths, deception, bribery, fudging, spinning, arrogance, greed, selfishness and political posturing.
What is required is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
Anything less than this will be insufficient.
Emitte lucem et veritatem
Send out light and truth
Friday, 24 July 2009
UMNO Spin or Fact?
Perhaps Nik Aziz did indeed commend Kartika Sari Sewi Shukarno for accepting her whipping punishment, without an appeal, but did he actually say all that was reported by the NST?
Read this news (please click HERE) reported by the Malaysian UMNO controlled newspaper New Straits Times.
If what Nik Aziz is reported to say is really true, and not the result of UMNO spin doctoring, then it may be a much needed boost for UMNO's flagging support.
If it is untrue, then it will be yet another nail in the UMNO / BN coffin.
Most Malaysians would, I feel, prefer a more secular government, rather than a fundamentalist Islamic one under which brutal, cruel and inhuman punishments like, whipping, amputation, stoning to death and beheading are the norms.
This news has so far NOT been seen in any other news media, including the PAS on-line daily news Harakah Online click HERE.
Salva veritate
With truth preserved
Medio tutissimus ibis
You will go safest in the middle. (Moderation in all things)
Tuesday, 14 July 2009
NTV7 host ‘reassigned’ after Najib gets a D rating
Najib, is currently far away in Sharm El-Sheikh. Egypt, one wonders why he went early Tuesday?
Could he not wait to see BN / UMNO defeated in the Manek Urai by-election?
(The by-election results will be known soon, all things being equal, by 12:00 GMT (8pm in Malaysia), however the main stream media most likely will be slow in reporting the expected BN / UMNO defeat by about 2,000 votes)
See Malaysiakini for updates HERE
Extract from: Blog CK Chew
"All her guest did was to give premier Najib Abdul Razak a ‘C’ or ‘D’ rating for his first 100 days in office.
It was enough to see ntv7 talk-show host Florence Looi being issued a warning letter and an immediate transfer to the news desk of the private television station.
Looi, who hosts the popular ‘Point of View’ current affairs programme, was said to have ‘breached editorial policy’, according to ntv7 sources.
The two guests on the talk-show, aired on July 5, were author Syed Akhbar Ali and consulting editor Leslie Lau of news portal Malaysian Insider. It was the latter’s remarks that landed Looi in trouble.
The sources said she was verbally told that she should not have asked her guests to rate Najib’s performance. As Looi is the host-cum-producer of the programme, she was the only one who received the warning letter.
Looi, who is assistant assignment editor, has since been reassigned to cover news, ostensibly because of a shortage of human resources at the news desk."
Click HERE to see more
If others had been asked, I think most would have not been so generous with their marking!
Also see Malaysia Today HERE
Himself loving himself so much
Wednesday, 9 July 2008
Where are P. Balasubramaniam, his wife and their children?

It seems to be anyone’s guess, read the fudging, sidetracking and convolution in some of these news reports:
1. NST "Police: No agenda in Bala Case"
Police do not have any agenda in investigating the statutory declarations by private investigator P. Balasubramaniam.
“Federal Police CID director Bakri “Zinin reiterated that their investigations were not based on assumptions.
"We simply want to establish the facts," he said
"We are professionals. We do not have ulterior motives."
Bakri added that the steps taken by the police to locate the missing private investigator were also not meant to put him under undue pressure.”
2. Meanwhile the Star reports on 9th July 2008:
“Private investigator P. Balasubramaniam, who disappeared with his wife and three children last Friday, has been located.
Sources said police here with the help of Interpol traced his whereabouts to an Asean country but declined to name it or say when he would be brought back.
CID Director Comm Bakri Zinin confirmed this but declined to reveal details.”
3. Meanwhile Home Affairs Minister Syed Albar is reported by the Sun, on 9th July 2008, as saying:
"I have no comment on Balasubramaniam."
I am in no position to discuss or debate."
"So far as the law enforcement agencies are concerned... we have to make sure our investigations are not disturbed in any way."
"Otherwise there will be all sorts of allegations and charges against the police, and it will be difficult for them," he said.
"I am sure that Balasubramaniam is safe, otherwise the family members would not be asking questions," said Syed Hamid, who urged the press to leave the investigation in the hands of the police.
He added that if the police have strong reason to believe that their lives of Balasubramaniam and his family are being threatened, it is the duty and responsibility of the police to provide them protection.
4. P. Balasupramaniam’s nephew says, according to a Sun report dated 9th July 2008:
“Missing PI Bala contacted nephew
After three days of being in the dark about the whereabouts of his uncle private investigator P. Balasubramaniam, R. Kumaresan received a call late on Monday night.
However, other than knowing that his uncle and aunt are alive, Kumaresan, is no closer to knowing their whereabouts or if they are being detained against their will.
Speaking at a gathering of about 150 people organised by the Hindu Rights Action Force (Hindraf) opposite a restaurant on Jalan Tun Sambanthan, Brickfields, at 8pm yesterday, Kumaresan said he received the phone call which appeared as "private number" on his handphone about 11.30pm on Monday.
He said despite repeatedly asking his uncle where he was, Balasubramaniam, who sounded very formal and uncomfortable, told him that he was unable to reveal his whereabouts, and passed the call to his wife.
"I asked my aunt the same questions but she too told me she was unable to say where she was but she did say she was using a policeman's handphone to make the call," said Kumaresan, a 27-year-old IT professional.
He said his aunt told him that they were fine before he heard what sounded like a door slamming in the background and the call, which lasted about three minutes, went dead.
Kumaresan's lawyer R. Surendran said the call indicates that Balasubramaniam and family were being confined against their will and urged the police to swiftly probe his whereabouts.
(Note: In
This last report may be closer to the truth than the others?
The plot thickens, but vital questions remain:
- Where are P. Balasubramanian, his wife and children?
- Are they being held against their will, if so who is detaining them?
Bala’s wife was reported as saying:
“she was using a policeman's handphone to make the call,"
Was this referring to a Malaysian policeman, or foreign policeman?
This vitally important question remains unanswered.
- Where are they?
Wednesday, 26 March 2008
Is the PM sincere, or just waffling?

Knee-jerk reaction package has been proposed, yesterday, Tuesday 25 March 2008. which is supposed to ease the ever increasing burden faced by low-income poverty stricken Malaysians.
According to media reports Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, now in his second term as Prime Minister, has unveiled a reactive package of measures supposedly formulated to alleviate the intolerable burden of rapidly spiralling costs of basic essentials faced by low as well as middle income Malaysians.
Firstly the government aims to mitigate the impact of rising world prices for lower income households and limit the wastage and losses caused by subsidies.
Secondly, the government would review the implementation of its economic plans to ensure that its benefits would touch the lives of those who needed them the most.
Thirdly, the government would continue its work towards reducing wide income gaps between and within ethnic groups while ensuring fairness for all Malaysians.
Other priority areas for his second term as PM were said to be to drastically reduce crime, step up the battle against corruption, support reforms of the judiciary and ensure a fair number of places of worship for Malaysians of all religions.
Is this more hot air, lies, and play-acting which the public have become so accustomed to hearing and seeing during Abdullah’s first term as PM?
Even if he is being sincere and honest, it a really a case of TOO LITTLE TOO LATE!
In another news report Adbullah admitted he had not moved fast enough in pushing through reforms which he had promised to undertake, and said the result of the general election was a strong message to him, that he had not done so.
Wow at last he seems to realise he was given a hard slap by the voters for lying and being incompetent!
"I thank the Malaysian people for this message. Point well made and point taken," he said .
"During the last elections, we lost the cyber-war. The young people were looking at SMSs, Internet and other tools to get information."
"We did not think that it was important to respond to them. It was a serious misjudgement. It was a very serious mistake on our part."
"It is my intention to respond to the young people and their enthusiasm. We have no other choice but to respond to the message as swiftly as we can.”
It is not only the young people who deserted him and BN, does he realise this fact? Perhaps not!
He said he now intended to implement a bold agenda for addressing the concerns of the people as expressed through the ballot box.
Abdullah said the Government was ready to change and address the people's concerns and grievances.
He said that the Government would work with honesty, integrity and zero tolerance of corruption.
"I believe we have the means to do well. We are working very hard. We are ready to rectify our mistakes. It is important for us to do it," he added.
Well, well, well, a very late, but nevertheless welcome admission of non-performance, tardiness and incompetence, that is somewhat refreshing, but will henceforth see any positive changes, or will we only experience the status quo or just more and more‘talk’?
Decisive, bold, sincere and effective action will be needed, and it must be implemented across the board relentlessly without fear or favour.
Then and only then all Malaysians may see some positive benefits from it.
It is once again TOO LITTLE TOO LATE!
Ab actu ad posse valet illatio- From what has happened before we may infer what will happen in future
Sunday, 24 February 2008
Trials and Tribulations

Abdul Razak kicks chairs and hits a door at his murder trial
Abdul Razak Abdullah Baginda, who is being tried for abetting two policemen in murdering Mongolian Altantuya Shaariibuu, was widely reported to have lost his cool on the 90th day of the trial on Wednesday.
He had an angry look when his father Datuk Abdullah Malim Baginda whispered something to him before the trial resumed at about 9.30am.
After the proceedings were adjourned for lunch, the 48-year-old political analyst surprised all those present in the High Court when he suddenly kicked at chairs and banged a door with his hands. He was also seen crying before his lawyer Wong Kian Kheong and mother calmed him down.
Finally, about three hours later, Razak Baginda apparently could not stand it any longer and he ‘exploded’.
What did he say?
Reporters who were in court have been quoted as saying that Razak shouted again and again,
“Matilah kau Pak Lah!”
“Matilah Pak Lah!”
“I am innocent!”
“I am innocent!”
NOTE: “Matilah kau Pak Lah” means ‘Death to (the end of) you Pak Lah’ (Pak Lah is the well known nickname for Abdullah Ahmad Badawi)
Clarification:
It needs to be pointed out that the words in Bahasa Malaysia above, are a simple spoken form of the language, the word 'mati' could mean, dead, death, end, over, finish. Since the proper contex is unclear, the interpretation of the phrase "Matilah kau Pak Lah" is debateable.
After which he went on a rampage and kicked the chairs and doors in the courtroom.
The Judge was said to have been flummoxed and appeared to be unsure of what to do.
Both the defence lawyers and the prosecution legal team were reported as being shocked.
The Sun newspaper evidently initially carried the full story, complete with the details of Razak Baginda's outburst.
However, it is understood that the Ministry of Home Affairs ordered The Sun to withdraw their first print run which carried the 'Matilah Kau Pak Lah!' outburst by Razak Baginda.
Consequently the Sun was forced to withdraw thousands of copies of their initial print run.
Whatever actually happened that day in court, strange, dangerous and devious things are happening in
Court cases and Royal Commissions of Inquiry are developing into soap operas, and one cannot help but wonder if justice is being properly administered.
Are defendants the only persons implicated, or even worse, could they be convenient scapegoats?
Good people are never involved in the suppression of facts, denial of free expression and imposition of restrictions on the open reporting of the news, only the wicked, devious and manipulative would effect and condone such things.
One thing which is certain, in the Malaysian main stream print and electronic media, and on the local radio and television stations, the truth is never apparent, and there is little or no transparency and very little openness or honesty.
Such occurrences are not sign of a healthy democracy; to the contrary they are indicative of autocracy, elitist supremacy and distaste for accountability.
The truth will always prevail sooner or later, and then those who are truly guilty will certainly receive their due punishment.

TWO FACES, YES / NO?
Saúde!