"Too Outspoken"

He was passionate about fighting crime.

He was really keen to expose the alleged link between police and the underworld.

But his enthusiasm for exposing crime came with hazards.

He claimed harassment by several individuals and was followed by a group of men while having a drink with his friend at a popular coffee joint at the LCCT airport.

So he lodged a report at the Sepang police station.

No action was taken.

A few days later, he posted on his Twitter account that a hired gun was out to get him, saying: "A @PDRMsia cop told some syndicate fellow that he'll get them firearm & told them to fire few shots at my house to scare me/family!"

And then just eight hours later, he got shot in the abdomen while he was driving his car in a sleepy little town.

So this beggars the question: Why did he get shot?

This is the first time I have heard the concept of being "too outspoken". Things do not get resolved if you're not outspoken.

There is no point in being enthusiastic about anything if one is not outspoken. One is the consequence of the other -- and it is a good thing.

But evidently, not everyone seems to think so. Certainly not the former Inspector General of Police, who is obviously implicated in this matter:

Former police chief Tan Sri Musa Hassan considers Crime watchdog My Watch president R Sri Sanjeevan as too outspoken until a party decided to shoot him.

He said that he had advised Sanjeevan not to be outspoken and to solve several issues through the right channel.

“Sanjeevan is too outspoken, and I’ve advised him that if has any information, he needs to go to MACC. If he wants to cooperate with the police, do it properly. Cooperate with the police that he trust, give them (the information) for them to take action. But he decided to do his own monitoring. He was in Jempol to monitor and he received threats,” he told Astro AWANI.

Apparently, according to the former IGP, the "right" channel is the MACC (Malaysian Anti-Corruption).

Obviously, that wasn't a safe channel for Teoh Beng Hock or that Customs Officer who suffered a similar fate.

If there is a connection between the police and the underworld, the last place to go, last people to trust, last course of action are the police. (The second last would be the underworld, of course -- in case you were wondering).

So it's natural that one would be suspicious of the incidents surrounding this shooting. Who is implicated?

All fingers point in the same direction.

Guess who's touchy.

Saving Private Interests

When I was still a young ciku, the world of cinematography yielded a somewhat popular WWII movie entitled Saving Private Ryan.

Being an American movie (and a Steven Spielberg one at that), it was highly dramatic coupled with generous infusion of patriotism and brotherly love.

In 1998, I was certainly much less cynical than I am today, so I enjoyed the storyline which detailed the arduous effort of rescuing a fallen serviceman during the Normandy invasion.

Today, in Malaysia, a similar effort is being exerted.

Individuals In Collusion With Raja Petra Can Be Hauled Up - Musa:

KUALA LUMPUR, July 6 (Bernama) -- Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Musa Hassan said individuals in collusion with fugitive Raja Petra Kamaruddin can be hauled up under the law.

"We can propose to charge them for harbouring criminals but it is up to the court to decide," he said when asked what police (PDRM) were doing to bring Raja Petra home.

Newspapers recently ran a photograph of Raja Petra together with private investigator P.Balasubramian and Federal Territory Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) chief Datuk Zaid Ibrahim.

Musa said PDRM could not act in haste to record statements from them as procedures had to be followed.

"We can't go to the country to detain him as it too has laws but this does not mean that we can't act.

He said although Interpol had refused to track down the Malaysia Today webmaster, PDRM had other initiatives and strategies to detain him.

It matters not that Interpol had rightfully reviewed the reasons behind this extradition and decided those reasons were not valid.

By hook or crook, the police - and by proxy the ruling coalition, Barisan Nasional - want Raja Petra Kamarudin back on Malaysian soil so they can control the damage he inflicts to their reputation.

I hate to break this to you, but there is no brotherly love lost here.

Lest you think Malaysia has no serious issues (to the extent that the police are spending so much time on a futile exercise), we have had a young woman blown up with C4 explosives.

There has been no motive established, and her killers were identified as two commandos who worked for the BN government. Justice has yet to be served for that young Mongolian woman.

And then we had a young man fall to his death when he was pushed off a building. He would have become a father, but he never saw his son.

We have also had a number of missing children who may have been kidnapped and trafficked into other countries. Someone needs to bring them back to their families.

Raja Petra Kamarudin is not the priority here.

Detention Under ISA

With the inflation rate skyrocketing, it appears that our government must have decided to give us free entertainment by flaunting and parading their stupidity in full view of all and sundry.

Except no one is laughing because the situation is getting critical. And those in power are outdoing themselves by trying to explain away their demented actions that serve their selfish goals.

Take this village idiot, for example. He goes by the monicker Musa Hassan, but it makes you wonder who died and appointed him as the Inspector General of Police?!

Because for the love of God, he is nothing but an utter embarrassment to anyone who identifies himself as Malaysian!!


This man is the reason why our police force, the law enforcement of our nation is in such a pathetic state.

When our forefathers drew up the Constitution, they stipulated that the Executive, Legislative and Judicial bodies be independent of each other - to protect democracy and prevent abuse of power.

It is common knowledge that in Malaysia, this part of the Constitution (among others) has been completely disregarded, with tyranny reigning supreme within the government.

To make matters worse, instead of remaining independent to protect the rights of the citizens, Law Enforcement is in bed with the government. They are having a massive orgy to ensure that they collectively remain in power until kingdom come.

The easiest way to do that is to remove potential threats. Now these are not potential threats to the country. These are threats to the individuals in power, whose lofty position is destabilised by the presence of those threats.

So what do they do? They detain anyone who poses a threat (not to national security but for personal gain), under the draconian Internal Security Act which is frankly a barbaric law with no purpose anymore, in this day and age.

This is how arrogant the current ruling coalition has become, to repeatedly ignore the calls for change. These imbeciles have become so fixated on remaining in power that they have shown their tragic lack of wisdom when it comes to ruling our country.

Both the government and police blatantly deny that detaining without giving fair trial is cruel.

In the case of the latest ISA detainees (HINDRAF 5) who were arrested merely because they spoke of the discrimination against themselves, there was insufficient investigation carried out beforehand.

This makes their arrest ILLEGAL.

The government is not holding these men for the nation's security; it is keeping them behind bars to scare the hell out of people and to serve as a warning that anyone who goes against the government will receive due punishment.

Our government is criminal.

One of the HINDRAF 5, Uthayakumar is in very critical condition. He is a diabetic, one with very high blood sugar levels. He has also developed a disturbing skin allergy and is experiencing heart problems.

If there are insufficient doctors available even for the National Service trainees, would you expect that a detention centre for individuals who have fallen short of the government's good graces would dispense of sufficient medical treatment and attention??

You must be out of your mind if you think so.

The newspapers claim that Uthayakumar's condition is reportedly stable after being treated by doctors, but I highly doubt it.

Detainees of the Internal Security Act are in Kamunting because it is illegal for the government to exterminate them, though if given the opportunity, I'm certain more C4 explosives would be utilised.

Of course, the government hasn't disposed of them because it is illegal to do so. It is merely because they have become public figures and someone would certainly question their sudden disappearance.

Otherwise, I am sure the government and its concubine, the police force, would certainly eliminate its threats in blissful silence.