WTF is the Barisan Nasional government thinking?
As if they haven’t done enough to damage their reputation for the past six months… they decided to detain controversial blogger Raja Petra under ISA for being a threat to security, peace and public order [more on Malaysiakini and Thestar]
I am not a fan of RPK; I think he is an arrogant jerk who trash-talked too much and often bordering on spreading rumours and fabricating stories. But has he done enough to cause security concern for the country? I strongly doubt so.
Pak Lah is trying to justify that the government will not be using ISA without concrete reasons, but seriously… how is it justifiable that the likes of Ahmad Ismail is walking on the streets acting like a patriotic hero?
And from my point of view I won’t even want to see Ahmad Ismail detained under ISA because it’s plain wrong to detain a person without trial as you wished.
What is national distress?
When we are invaded.
When nature disaster strike; something huge like the Asian Tsunami.
When food crisis strike; not just temporarily shortage of sugar or cooking oil… but when people started to feel the hunger because of food shortage.
When hyperinflation… not when people are chatting in Starbucks on how expensive our fuel is, but when people can’t even afford a cup of coffee in mamak stall.
When people are started losing jobs and couldn’t find new jobs. When unemployment is largely due to lack of jobs and not because of the poor qualities (and some laziness) of our young graduates.
When the police and armed forces are becoming thugs. This is the one hanging on borderline… but set aside a few political cases, the police are still doing their job to fight crimes. Remember this, some of them are risking their lives to protect ours.
When democracy is irrelevant. Don’t tell me that our democracy is dead… we are given the rights to vote, and despite not being perfectly fair, we do have the power to determine which parties and people we want to form our government.
If Malaysia is in distress, what should we call other countries like Philippines or India? For name sake I don’t even think the likes of Philippines and India are in distress yet, let alone Malaysia?
Some Malaysians are just too pampered these days… distress? WTF.
Liwat-gate, sodomy-gate, turkey-gate, whatever-gate… the million dollar question is, is Anwar orchestring his own play?
The thought of Anwar plotting the show is rising for the past two days… just that most people who share the thought would not dare to raise their concerns fearing of being branded as cynical and also the backlash from PKR and Anwar’s supporters.
Just a few thoughts…
Who is the one that is actually benefiting the most from the current saga?
Is BN government that stupid to frame Anwar using the same old trick?
Who is behind the death threat?
Did Anwar really received a death threat or just tips from ‘reliable sources’?
Is the whole police force that corrupted that they are no good cops around at all?
Is it a logical choice to seek protection from a foreign embassy?
WTF do we need to involve foreign interference with this?
Isn’t it a bit too convenient for Turkey to provide the sanctuary?
Is Malaysia that volatile these days?
Are we in the same league of Myanmar, Zimbabwe or Pakistan?
I don’t want to suggest anything further… plenty of questions with no apparent answers though.
A few thoughts worth reading from other bloggers… Aizuddin and Bigdog.
If a political leader received a death threat and was killed, he became a hero.
If a political leader received a death threat and decided to hide in a foreign embassy, he becomes a joke… dead or alive.
I have no rights to tell people to risk their lives to become heroes… but of all options, is it the best one to seek refuge at a foreign embassy?
So, what’s next? How about asking military help from Indonesia or Thailand and takeover the country?
Besides, how serious is the death threat? From his statement, he learned from ‘numerous credible sources’ about the threat… hello? You call that a death threat?
Malaysians these days are occupied by the petrol hike and all the political sagas that some of us are forgetting how worrying our crime rate is.
The news of a middle-aged woman who died on Friday following a snatch theft attempt in Malacca only managed a small column in the papers. A few years ago this news would have made it into headlines, but nowadays it seems like people are accustomed to it… because the fatal crime is happening way too often.
Murder cases happen almost every week, if not days in Malaysia these days. Almost every one or two months I would learn of a friend being a crime victim of some sort… not gossips, but actual misfortunate events on people I know.
I am pretty sure a few of your friends or relatives (or unluckily yourself) must have been a crime victim in the past few years. There is a joke from JB that if you have never been robbed, you are not from the city; sounds exaggerating, but it’s sadly close to being a fact… not just for JB, but across the nation as well.
Fighting crime should be our country’s top priority, and it still should. Sadly, our political leaders from both BN and Pakatan are more occupied on whether to raise (or reduce) the oil price than to reduce the crime rate.
An express bus which had 32 traffic summonses, skidded, crashed into a road divider and fell on its side, killing a passenger and injuring 22 others and the driver. The accident occurred at the 383.9km North-South Expressway yesterday. [Bernama]
It’s the third fatal bus crash in two weeks.
The governmnet had vowed to tackle the frequent bus accidents since the Bukit Gantang crash in August 2007, but I don’t see much happening to be frank… buses with abundance of summonses are still allowed on the road; and people who often drive for long distance would have notice how fast the buses were rampaging on the highways.
Do something Ong Tee Kiat, while there is still chance.
Malaysia has started implementing the rear seat belt rulling yesterday (June 1), and it’s certainly a welcomed act to enhance road safety.
Various studies have shown that wearing rear seat belts could reduce accidents’ fatility. Lots of countries have implemented the rule, some for more than a decade.
One of my neighbours passed away in a road accident a couple of years ago… the front seat driver and passenger actually survived, but he was thrown out of the car from the backseat and couldn’t make it. Well, if the law was enforced earlier my neighbour could still be alive.
There are still some grey areas with our rules though… for example it’s kinda odd that it’s mandatory to wear our rear seat belts while baby seats for infants are not made compulsory.
Malaysians will have a three-month advocacy period to adjust to the new rule. Cars without the rear seat belts are given three years to install their belts… and it seems like local car manufacturers will install those seat belts for free.
Deputy Health Minister Datuk Dr Abdul Latiff has caused uproar among medical professionals for his ‘licensed to kill’ statement when replying to a question in parliament on Monday.
Abdul Latiff was responding on why the government decided to extend the houseman-ship period for trainee doctors from one to two years when he blurted out the controversial words.
What he said was harsh and stupid, but he actually made a good point for his entire speech, that doctors are responsible for the life or death of their patients. Any mistakes or poor judgments from the doctors could lead to serious illness, injuries or fatality… and these cases are not unheard of in Malaysia.
I have a friend who was asked to do an angiogram (normally for heart problems) when she got a gastric; another unfortunate friend had half of his liver cut off because the doctor wrongly diagnosed his earlier symptoms… luckily he survived.
I am sure most of you have heard of some bizarre cases where doctors were making the wrong calls… not from gossips or papers, but real cases among your friends and relatives. For me, it happens a bit too often to be frank.
Licensed to kill? Maybe not; but incompetent doctors certainly could.