In Memory of Teoh Beng Hock

The people demand the truth and justice!

Teoh Beng Hock was laid to rest today

Memoria in aeterna - In everlasting remembrance

Those who are responsible, directly or indirectly, for the death of Teoh Beng Hock must be brought to justice.

Also, the idiotic and rhetorical statements, by UMNO / BN supporters, about the political opposition in Malaysia targeting Malaysian Anti Corruption Commission (MACC) because is a Malay race dominated government agency, should stop. What inane stupidity to even suggest that!

This matter extends beyond skin colour, it’s not about race, or religion or ethnicity; wake up you blinkered, narrow minded, hypocrite dumb arses who wrote, or were quoted, in the UMNO / BN controlled main stream media.

Let all in Malaysia follow this ideal:

“I am only one,
But still I am one.
I cannot do everything,

But still I can do something;
And because I cannot do everything,
I will not refuse to do the something that I can do."

Edward Everett Hale

This issue not about politics, it is not about race, it is purely about justice!

All those who are guilty must be severely punished, without fear or favour.

Multi famam, conscientiam pauci verentur

Many fear their reputation, few their conscience.

Inhumanitas omni aetate molesta est

Inhumanity is harmful in every age

The Arrest of Anwar, the Legality of taking a DNA Sample

TAKING ANWAR’S DNA SAMPLE IS UNNECESSARY and NOT LEGALLY REQUIRED AT THIS TIME

That's what I understand to be the truth.

BBC Video Clip HERE, which shows Anwar Ibrahim arriving at Kuala Lumpur police headquarters and giving a brief statement.

The following is compiled from reports from Malaysia Today and elsewhere.

According to lawyer Sankara Nair, Anwar’s arrest had nothing to do with his non-appearance at the police headquarters on Monday.

“In fact, several minutes before the arrest, the investigation officer DSP Jude Pereira called us to ask if were coming. We replied that we would be there at 2pm sharp,” he said.

“If Anwar had not showed up at 2pm, I would understand the need to arrest. The police have breached the trust and confidence we once had.

“Now, my client has expressed fear that he will be subjected to intimidation by the police,” he added.

Sankara Nair said the police must explain the purpose of arresting Anwar in such a manner.

He also stressed that under the law, Anwar does not need to provide the police with a DNA sample.

Deputy national police chief Ismail Omar confirmed Anwar had been arrested, saying he was a suspect in the sodomy case and would need to undergo a ‘medical examination’.

“He is not being charged with anything yet, don’t jump to conclusions,” Ismail reportedly had told AFP.

What will the 'medical examination' Deputy IGP Ismail spoke about consist of?

What is the purpose of it?

I am of the opinion that, if the police forcefully take a DNA sample from Anwar Ibrahim, then this DNA sample could easily be mishandled, doctored or misused and could be used to fabricate evidence to incriminate him.

A DNA sample should only be provided later, should it be deemed necessary.

Anyway, surely the police and the courts already have a records of Anwar’s DNA, etc., from the previous contrived, cocked-up & concocted sodomy case!

UPDATE:
ANWAR TAKEN TO HOSPITAL FOR TESTS! (TAKING OF DNA SAMPLES?)

Malaysiakini
Breaking news updated 10.35pm
The police took PKR de facto leader Anwar Ibrahim to Hospital Kuala Lumpur for tests at about 8:45pm.
He was transported in a convoy of vehicles.
Whilst at the Kuala Lumpur Hospital Anwar as guarded by 40 policemen.
He was sent back to KL police HQ after about two hours.

See the full Malaysiakini report, in Bahasa Malaysia, HERE


Primum est non nocere


- First of all, do no harm.

(Hippocrates; The maxim has become an ethical guiding principle in medical profession)

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 9^th 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 9^th 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 9^th 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 Malaysia a call indicating ‘private number’ could be either from within Malaysia or abroad)

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.

Ubi sunt?



- Where are they?

Was the retraction of parts of SD by P. Balasubramanian due to criminal intimidation?

The following is the full text of the statement given by PKR vice-president R Sivarasa at a press conference at the party’s headquarters in the afternoon of Friday 4th July 2008.

"Yesterday, in this very room, in the presence of many of you here again today, Bala Subramanian released a statutory declaration which gave evidence of criminal suppression of evidence and perjury in the Altantuya murder case.

In front of dozens of persons, Bala stood by his sworn statement, but in an answer to a question he acknowledged his fear for his personal security due to the power and position of those he has implicated. I am very troubled that last night, one way or another, and true to Bala’s concerns, another crime was committed.

The crime was something which caused Bala this morning to retract the statements he made on Tuesday, July 1, 2008 and revealed publicly yesterday. In particular, we have taken notice that line by line the specific statements that were revised in Bala’s new statement have selectively removed those which specifically implicate the deputy prime minister by name.

This sorry episode confirms again what Anwar Ibrahim said yesterday - that there is a consistent pattern of manipulation of the criminal justice system in this country. Last night witnessed yet another instance of manipulation of evidence relevant to the most significant murder trial in recent times.

We are fully satisfied that the first statutory declaration by Bala was voluntary and with the intention the truth should no longer be hidden from the public – that it was important for us to know the secrets he had carried with him since October / November 2006. Our confidence in the original declaration is based on the information given to us by Americk Singh Sidhu and our observation of Bala himself.

For the record, his statutory declaration was first shown to us on Wednesday, July 2 - one day after it was attested to with his attorney on Tuesday, July 1.

Now the key question arises – which of these two statutory declarations represents the truth? This is the question that the royal commission we called for yesterday must immediately deal with first.

The fact that the retraction was done so speedily and in circumstances where Bala says it was made under duress but will not name who pressured him speak for themselves.

Who would have a motive to send Bala to make such damaging allegations against the police, the AG’s Chamber and Najib Razak with the idea that he would then withdraw it the next day to attempt to embarrass us? It’s difficult to think of anyone.

Who however would have a motive to intimidate Bala last night to retract his statement immediately? Obviously, from the contents of his first statutory declaration, a number of people would have that interest.

We demand that a royal commission be established to investigate the key question stated above – which of these two statutory declarations represents the truth?

This issue must also be ventilated in the Altantuya trial by all parties there so that the truth is established. In fact, the prosecution is now duty-bound to reinvestigate all of Bala’s allegations.

Sivarasa Rasiah"

Emphasis was added by me.

Veritas vincit

- Truth conquers

Vide et credere

- See and believe

Raja Petra’s Statutory Declaration, the PM Speaks!

Malaysia PM says his deputy Razak & his wife Rosmah, were not involved in Mongolian woman’s murder

This report was in the Straits Times of Singapore HERE

“KUALA LUMPUR - MALAYSIAN Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi on Tuesday denied that his deputy Najib Razak and the man's wife were involved in the 2006 murder of a Mongolian model.

A prominent Malaysian blogger has linked the couple to the case.

Mr Abdullah said that action would be taken against the blogger who made the allegations against Mr Najib and his wife Ms Rosmah Mansor, and who has already been charged with sedition over the issue.

'I don't believe that Najib and Rosmah are involved,' the premier told reporters.

He described blogger Raja Petra Kamaruddin's actions as 'unacceptable'.

'The Attorney General has told me that an investigation will be carried out and action will be taken against him,' Mr Abdullah said.

Political analyst Abdul Razak Baginda, a close associate of Mr Najib, is currently on trial for abetting the murder of Altantuya Shaariibuu.

Two police officers from the Special Action Force (UTK), whose duties included guarding Mr Abdullah and Mr Najib, were also charged with the killing.

Raja Petra, founder and editor of the popular Malaysia Today site, last week lodged a signed declaration in court linking Ms Rosmah to the case.

He has already been charged with sedition over an earlier article he wrote on his website, linking both Mr Najib and Ms Rosmah to the murder. If convicted, he faces three years in jail.

Mr Najib, who is heir apparent to Mr Abdullah, has repeatedly denied any involvement in the death of the 28-year-old Mongolian woman, whose body was blown up with explosives.

Mr Abdullah dismissed Raja Petra's allegations that the premier had seen a military intelligence report on the murder that backed the allegations.

'No, I can't remember receiving anything. He can say anything but I have not seen it,' Mr Abdullah said.

Mr Najib again rejected links to the case in May, telling parliament that they were 'lies aimed at tarnishing my name'.

'As a responsible citizen, I will say again that I have never known or even met this woman before. I pray that the court will continue to seek justice and uphold the law without any interference,' he said at the time. – AFP”

Well folks, what do you make of that?

Abdullah seems to know a lot about it and furthermore appears to be pre-judging RPK.

One could even infer that his is acting as the de facto AG, investigator, prosecutor and judge!

Abdullah has taken a strong stand on the matters contained in RPK’s SD, but will there be a full and impartial investigation, and will the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth ever see the light of day?

In the interest of justice, integrity and transparency it is hoped it will.

Too much has, and is still being swept under the carpet in Malaysia.

Audiatur et altera pars!



- Let us hear the opposite side!


In quaestione versare




- To be under investigation

The Persecution of Raja Petra.

RAJA PETRA KAMARUDIN

For more background information, latest news updates and the RM 1.00 fund raising effort, please go
HERE, HERE & HERE.

LET's ALL SUPPORT RPK's STRUGGLE AGAINST INJUSTICE, TYRANNY, COVER-UPS, LIES, DECEIT, ABUSE OF POWER, CORRUPTION, RACISM, USE SCAPEGOATS, the list goes on and on.

POWER TO THE PEOPLE!
WE SHALL OVERCOME!
WE ARE NOT AFRAID!

MAHALIA JACKSON Live, in the late 1960's
We Shall Overcome



Res firma mitescere nescit


- A firm resolve does not know how to weaken

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

THOUGHTS TO DIGEST DURING THE PRE-ELECTION PERIOD

RELEVENT QUOTES

"In a time of national deceit, telling the TRUTH becomes a revolutionary act"
George Orwell

"In matters of style, swim with the current.
In matter of PRINCIPLE, stand like a rock."
Thomas Jefferson

"There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall....think of it ALWAYS."
Mahatma Ghandi

from the Bard Robbie Burns, a wee memo to the pompous, the arrogant, the proud and the self important:-

Epigram—The Toad-eater

"OF Lordly acquaintance you boast,

And the Dukes that you dined wi’ yestreen,

Yet an insect’s an insect at most,

Tho’ it crawl on the curl of a Queen!"

ONLY THOSE WHO RISK GOING TOO FAR CAN POSSIBLY FIND OUT HOW FAR THEY CAN GO.........T. S. Eliot

and also from T S Eliot, The Wisdom of Humility:

“Do not let me hear

Of the wisdom of old men, but rather of their folly,

Their fear of fear and frenzy, their fear of possession,

Of belonging to another, or to others, or to God.

The only wisdom we can hope to acquire

is the wisdom of humility: humility is endless.”

from: Four Quartets, East Coker, [Stanza II] by T. S. Eliot:

Down the Hatch!

Words- Simple or Big

READ, MARK, LEARN & INWARDLY DIGEST

• The prose below may not be new
• But it's so apt, the words so true
• To inspire the mind to think anew

• Empty words mean nothing much
• Petty gifts are bribes or such
• Honesty will win, so keep in touch

• On the eighth of March, election day
• Keep the truth in mind, don't be swayed
• Mark your cross to vote for change

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DEMAND THE TRUTH

Words - Simple or Big

Simple words to say
Simple words to receive
Like "I love you"
Or "Go fly a kite"

Big words, difficult words
Like "misleading", "expectations"
Or deep thoughts prefacing with
"I beg to differ"
Sometimes they cause misunderstanding

But if given in sincerity
With no ill intent
Friends can live with some misunderstanding
Exchanging simple or difficult words

But beware sweet, rambling words

Coated with honey and wine outside

Loaded with arsenic and bile inside.

FOR CHANGE

Spero melior!

INCREDIBLE INDELIBLE EXPENSIVE INDIAN INK

INDIAN INDELIBLE INK over RM 42.55 per bottle [assuming that it is RM 2 Milion for 47,000 bottles, not RM 2 million per bottle!!]

47,000 bottles of ink to be used in the general election have arrived from India

The Election Commission (EC) has bought in 47,000 bottles of the black ink, which will be distributed to the states by next week.

The indelible ink, costing over RM2mil, will make its first appearance in a general election here.

It will be applied on the left forefinger just before a person casts the ballot and is said to stay on the finger for at least two weeks.

Kamaruzaman also reminded women to remove their nail polish before going to the polls on March 8, as it would be difficult to apply the ink otherwise.

ROOM FOR ELECTION FRAUD HERE?

Matt transparent nail varnish could be used?

PROFITEERING POSSIBILITIES?

At over RM 2,000,000 for this ink from India, it is quite likely that those involved in buying it made handsome ‘profits’.

Add to this the very 'costly' transparent ballot boxes.

THIRD WORLD MINDSET?

The use of this indelible ink, and also the transparent ballot boxes are not prerequisites for free and fair elections, they are only window dressing, a thin veneer, pretence.

THE EC WILL HAVE TO DO A LOT MORE THAN COSMETIC CHANGES, IF THE ELECTIONS IN MALAYSIA ARE TO BE SEEN AS TRULY FREE AND FAIR.

Budmo!

THE THIN END OF THE WEDGE FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA?

Is University of Malaya (UM) perched on a slippery slope?

Maybe best to be- AWARE. Land Grabbers are On the Prowl Once Again.

It has been reported today, 20 February 2008, that University Malaya (UM) has proposed to develop 11.13ha of the land on which the campus (in a prime area of Kuala Lumpur) is sited, through a joint venture which it has been said, could earn the university at least RM312million.

UM deputy vice-chancellor (academic and international relations) Prof Datuk Dr Mohd Amin Jalaludin was quoted as saying that the land would be developed to benefit staff and students.

“UM is not selling the land. It still belongs to us. All the money received will go to the university. No individual will benefit from the project,” said Prof Amin, who is acting vice-chancellor. (Vice-chancellor Datuk Rafiah Salim is overseas.)

In a statement yesterday, UM said

“It would utilise the land, an under-utilised area (Lot 10476) for development in the most beneficial manner to support our research and educational facilities and infrastructure”.

“The successful completion of the development project is expected to provide UM with a minimum income of RM312mil or the land value of RM200mil plus a share of the developer’s profit, whichever is higher.”

Five companies had evidently submitted proposals to be the joint venture partner with PPC-MINT-GLOMAC getting the nod.

Prof Amin was also quoted as saying that “UM had sought approval from Higher Education Minister Datuk Mustapa Mohamed on Jan 25 for the development.”

UM has set up ‘UM Holdings Sdn Bhd’,headed by BERNAMA chairman Datuk Seri Mohd Annuar Zaini, to develop the university’s assets, including its 365ha land bank,

Other members of UM Holdings are Prof Emeritus Tan Sri Dr Augustine Ong, Anuar Mohamad, Azhar Haron and Prof Dr Muhamad Zakaria.

Last year, (June 2007) Prime Minister Datuk Abdullah Ahmad Badawi had quashed rumours that UM would be relocating to Sepang, in Selangor, saying that the university’s campus had historical significance.

('Bolding' was done by me)

It all sounds rather ‘fishy’ what do you think?

More misinformation, most probably so; the plot will thicken soon.

Big Money, Big Temptations, Big Pay-offs, who knows, but there are certain to be hungry vultures hovering aloft, eagerly awaiting the ample spoils.

Are we seeing the beginning of the end for UM as we know it?

The wooded area, green and 'unproductive land', (see aerial view below-CLICK ON IMAGE FOR BIGGER VIEW) most likely is the area to be 'developed'.

This forested area is a vital green lung, not only for the university but also for Kuala Lumpur and Petaling Jaya, but it looks as though the trees will be sacrificed on the alter of greed; they will be replaced by a concrete jungle.

Satellite image of UM green lung from Google Earth




Note the green lung the "Rimba Imlu" in English this means, Forest of Knowledge. On UM maps like this one, it is marked in English as Botanical Garden, how very very odd. (click on image for full sized view)

I think we are at the thin edge of the wedge stage, and slowly but surely the wedge(s) will be driven in, step by step, splitting the noble University of Malaya asunder. How sad!

Unless the UM Students, the UM Academics, the UM Alumni, and the general public, object strongly, the two faced arse kissers will surely easily get their way, and be laughing all the way to their Swiss bank accounts, which are no doubt already bursting at the seems with ill-gotten gains.

The two faced arse-kissers, must be saying:

"More virgin land to violate! More big bucks for me"

Democracy Malaysia Style, more like SNAFU (Situation Normal All Fucked Up), once again!

Object to this dictatorial autocracy, choose, no demand, true democracy.

Bunden i vejret eller resten i håret!

Where did a lot of Malaysian taxpayers' money go?

Watch this video, from You Tube, and you will see where some of the hard earned taxpayers' money went.

Stand up, and Speak out!

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