Oops... i stamped it!

"(Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein) said his officials had no intention to deface the bibles."

Pic taken from MI

The line is taken from this following article in the MI - Hisham: Alkitab stamping standard move.

I actually read this interview in The Star - but when i looked for it again, it had been amended (see here).

I initially wondered if it was a mistake - or was someone told not to publish it. I am thinking it is the latter.

But this is utter nonsense!!!! No intention???? So is he saying that his officials are so thick that they stamped the Bibles recklessly? But there were over 5,000 copies if i am not mistaken! Negligently? Accidentally????

Malaysia boleh!

Suspended

Umno has suspended its Bukit Bendera division chief Datuk Ahmad Ismail of his
membership rights and stripped him of his posts for three years for making remarks which were deemed offensive by the Chinese community.

The decision was made at a specially convened supreme council meeting yesterday(10/09/08).

(reported in The Star here)

The conclusion is that the supreme council made a finding that Ahmad did indeed make remarks which 'were deemed offensive' by the Chinese community. What the....? Crap!

Call a spade a spade. If it was a racist remark, then say it was. But they cannot bring themselves to say so. Now it appears that Ahmad is innocent - it's just that the Chinese community are sensitive or overreacted. They deemed it to be sensitive.

Hello? You do not have to be from the Chinese community to find such remarks offensive as it is racist! Anyone from any community will find it offensive - unless maybe if you are from the Malay community (i'm saying that since the Malay leaders i.e. UMNO could not bring themselves to say they find it offensive and it would be safe to assume they speak for the community?).

Is it any wonder Ahmad remains unrepentant and defiant? (see here).

Furthermore, a 3 months suspension is like a slap on the wrist! He uttered words which were racist in nature. It was against the constitutiion of our country which guarantees equality for all Malaysians. It threaten to harm the unity of the country.

I read this this morning:-

An Australian politician has had to resign after dancing in his underpants at a staff party.

Matt Brown, a state minister in New South Wales, admitted he had made a "mistake" and was "embarrassed".

Mr Brown then admitted conduct unbecoming to a minister, and resigned only three days after being sworn into office as minister for the police.

"I'm a human being and I made a mistake and I'm going to cop the consequences of that mistake," Mr Brown told reporters, without elaborating.

(reported in full here)

He did the honourable thing. He admitted his conduct was not becoming of a minister and he stepped down after he was asked to.

Not in my country. In my country, he would deny he did any wrong and would refuse to step down.

Malaysia boleh!

Hard to say I'm sorry

Right. So everyone knows about this man oredi


Unrepentant racist?

Wait. He looks a little familiar, doesn't he? Like a movie star! I think i saw him in a movie very recently! Was it in The Clone Wars?

But moving on.

He called the Malaysians of Chinese ethnicity 'immigrants' who do not deserve equal rights (as reported in a local paper which is linked later in this post).

The DPM apologised on his behalf. He also apologised on behalf of the Malay political party, UMNO (see here).

The PM was of the view that the DPM's action was 'the right thing to do' (see here).

But now, our fren Jabba Ahmad has come out of 'hiding' - and not only does he refuse to apologise, he is demanding that the Chinese community leaders apologise to him (see here)!!!! What the...?????

Further, '...state Umno liaison committee deputy chairman Datuk Abdul Rashid Abdullah said Umno’s 13 divisions in the state supported Ahmad’s decision not to apologise over his remark'.

Oh, it gets better - our former PM who does not know his time is up but still must stick his butt in everything goes public and questions why the Malay leaders should apologise (see here)! His reasoning is that when non-Malays utter racist sentiments, the Chinese leaders do not apologise.

Hello???? In the first place, that is not true. If non-Malays make racist remarks against the Malays, the Malays will take to the streets and riot and perhaps kill. And even if his remark is true - but is strongly denied - does 2 wrongs make a right? Can you justify your wrongdoing by pointing out that others are doing it also?

Is it also not a basic Constitutional law principle that there must be collective responsibility? Should not the political party take a collectiuve responsibility over the wrongdoing of a party member - especially when it was a leader speaking in such capacity?


Doesn't know basic consti principles?

So that's how it is folks. A leader utters racist remarks in public. he refuses to apologise. he demands to be apologised to. His fellow leaders support him. His superiors apologised but their actions are not followed (shows how much respect they have for their party leaders). Former leaders go public and say Malay leaders should not apologise.

Oh, someone was blogging about this and commented what a country we live in. A comment was left asking why he was still in this country. Typical response.

Malaysia boleh!

Sensitive

I was shocked and unhappy when i read the article yesterday regarding the Bar Council's forum pertaining to conversion to Islam. The Deputy PM was against the idea of the forum to be held openly!!! What was worse was the Umno Youth exco member Datuk Pirdaus Ismail who was quoted saying:-

“Don’t play with fire! Don’t ever touch on religious and racial sentiments. Whatever the excuses given, the forum still provokes Malay sentiments and creates uneasiness and public disorder, particularly among the Malays.”

Read the article here.

My first response to the said politicians was that it was an insult to the Malay people and the people of Islam faith. Surely they are not so sensitive! Surely they are mature enough to handle it. Surely they are not so insecure!

Well, apparently, i was wrong! They are! Well, some of them, anyway. I'm referring to the group of people who gathered purportedly in the name of Islam and resorted to violence and vulgarity to disrupt the forum. Read about it here.

Let's put things into perspective - the forum was regarding conversion to Islam. It is IMHO of benefit to the Islam faith too. The Islam faith had been getting a lot of bad press in recent times when people who did not fully understand the implications of conversion, converted to Islam and then tried to convert out of it. By having a forum like this, people will be able to make an educated choice when converting to Islam and not change their minds easily later - and no more bad press to the Islam faith.

Instead, the Bar Council is accused of threatening and challenging Islam (see pic). What a bunch of morons - those who protested today.



Furthermore, this is another attack on freedom of expression - can't we not have open discussions freely and in a mature manner? Must we always bow to the whims and sensitivities of one race in this land? Unless the exceptions to this human right are fulfilled, then the forum should be allowed to go on.

Of course people are free to demonstrate - that is another form of freedom of expression. But to threaten violence? No, of course not!

Oh, those protesters who were allegedly defending the Islam faith? Well, these people did so with obscenities and vulgar words. Read the above mentioned news report. Now, does Islam teach its followers that?

But they won in the end. The cops - instead of dispersing the protesters with tear gas and water cannons (like they do to the opposition protesters in the past) - told the Bar Council to end the forum early.

Malaysia boleh!

Bang bang!

I was across the main road when i heard the gunshots. I thought it was a car back-firing. Ironic cuz the last time in London, we thought it was gunshots when it was actually a car-backfiring.

Yes, our trigger happy plain clothes rude and overweight cops were engaging in a shoot-out on a busy road at lunch time in Subang Jaya!!!

Me student and i quickly went up the pedestrian bridge to get a better view - we could not have been better placed. As i took out me camera phone to snap a photo, one of them fat cop spotted me and started shouting rudely (are any of our local coppers able to talk without sounding rude???) at me, gesturing at me to get off the bridge. Stubborn old me refused to budge but just stared back at him. He raised his voice even louder. I gestured back, indicating that i had every right to be there - and he had no right in law to push me around. His fat face turned mad - and me student had to drag me away. As i moved a way, i gave him the typical "apa-la" hand gesture... Yeah, i hate local cops.

What was disturbing was actually wat took place before that rude encounter. Let me retrace me steps.

I was across the road, wanting to withdraw money from the ATM. I heard the shots - easily 5 or 6 shots. It's funny how it sounded nothing like the cool gun-shot sounds you hear in movies like Wanted. It was like some cheap fire cracker going off. I canceled the transaction and went to have a look. I then went back to the machine, withdrew me money and then went onto the pedestrian bridge. Ran up and looked down.

A black car with the driver's seat door was opened and someone lay down flat just outside it. One stood over the body with a shotgun pointing at it while the other cops were redirecting traffic - and being rude. Then suddenly, i jumped cuz another cop who was standing near the body discharged another shot!!!!!

Let me say this was a good 3 to 5 minutes since the first volley of those 5 (or 6) shots were heard. The man was down on the ground. Another cop had a shotgun pointed at him. And this guy was over the body and just fired another shot!!!!

I must say that at that point of time, we did not see where his gun was aiming when the shot was fired. I started asking out loud, "Did he just shot the guy again???" Another Indian man nearby commented in BM something to the effect like how can the cops do such a thing?

My only guess is that the body must have stirred a bit and the rude copper just emptied another shell into him to make sure he was dead. Or was he just negligent and accidentally fired his gun?

It was no surprise that he was pretty mad at us standing on the bridge looking down at him.

Malaysian cops.

Malaysia boleh!

Disrespectful liar

Viewers shocked by MP Bung Mokhtar's lewd gesture in Dewan Rakyat

KUALA LUMPUR, (July 8, 2008) : Those who caught RTM1's live telecast of the Dewan Rakyat question-and-answer session this morning were shocked over a lewd gesture made by Kinabatangan MP and Barisan Nasional Backbenchers Club (BNBBC) deputy chairman Datuk Bung Mokhtar Radin during a shouting match.

MP of Kinabatangan Datuk Bung Mokhtar Radin said that "It was not a bad sign- i was just showing like this only" during Dewan Rakyat sitting at Parliament House.

The RTM1 camera was trained on Bung Mokhtar who was standing up to engage in a verbal tirade with the opposition camp, with each calling the other bodoh! (stupid).

As he was sitting down, the camera caught the MP, who is no stranger to controversy, making the lewd gesture of slapping one hand over a clenched fist.

(Read the entire report here)

Now, Bung insisted initially that he did not show any "bad sign". When asked by reporters, he showed what he allegedly did in the Dewan:-

What the heck is that???? Hitting the back of one hand with the palm of the other??? Well, since the liar Member of Parliament refused to admit to wat many viewers saw, let me show you what took place and what he actually did:-



Saw that? Well, in case you didn't, here is a still taken from the clip:-

Quite obvious what he did, isn't it?

So what can we conclude?

1. The MP of Kinabatangan, Datuk Bung Mokhtar Radin, is a LIAR!!!!!
2. The MP of Kinabatangan, Datuk Bung Mokhtar Radin, is disrespectful to the august parliament house;
3. The MP of Kinabatangan, Datuk Bung Mokhtar Radin, does not know how to behave himself in a manner expected of an MP - or for that matter, in a manner expected of any civilised respected adult.

So what should be done to someone like that? When the matter was raised on Thursday, guess what happened? Read it for yourself:-

KUALA LUMPUR (July 10, 2008): Attempts by DAP parliamentarians to raise the issue of BN-Kinabatangan MP Datuk Bung Mokhtar Radin making a lewd gesture in the Dewan Rakyat on Tuesday, failed today.

This was because Deputy Speaker Datuk Ronald Kiandee did not allow the matter to be raised under the Standing Orders of the House, saying the incident took place "two days ago".

"It was witnessed by thousands of viewers. Does this mean any MP can get away with making lewd gestures?" DAP-Segambut MP Lim Lip Eng who had raised the issue under Standing Order 26(1)(p), challenged Kiandee.

(Read the entire report here)

So what should be done? Absolutely NOTHING!!!!!

And what about the lying uncouth MP had to say now that video clips and pictures have shown him to be blatantly telling lies to the public?

Asked how he felt about television viewers complaining on the issue, Bung Mokhtar said: "Ah, they only watched it on the TV, not in the Dewan."

What the...?????? You mean the TV stations carry different scenes from what actually takes place in the Dewan???? I've heard of things which get lost in translation but this is more than ridiculous - IMHO, it's downright stupidity and an insult to our intelligence!

What do you think will be done to him?

Yes, absolutely nothing!

Malaysia boleh!

How rude!

LAST week, a burglar broke into my home. Fortunately, my scream sent him fleeing. I called the police station to report what had happened.

Two policemen arrived about 15 minutes later. I informed them that the burglar had taken my bunch of keys. They looked around and then asked me to go to the police station to file a report.

Since I live alone, I reminded them that the burglar stole my bunch of keys and that he could return at any time.

The policeman called his superior and, after a short conversation, handed me the phone and asked me to talk to his superior.

His superior rudely informed me that the policemen couldn’t wait at my house till daybreak and told me to get a new padlock, and then go to the police station. Where on earth could I find a new padlock at 3am?

I’ve heard tales of unhelpful, rude and inefficient policemen. What happened that morning proved that there is truth in all those tales.

It’s little wonder that the PDRM has such a bad reputation. They’re insensitive and unhelpful. Aren’t they trained to handle such situations?

MAZLIZA OTHMAN,

Seri Kembangan.

Letter sent to the Star and published here.

Well, this is only one side to the story and the cops involved should be given an opportunity to giuve theirs. However, i believe that many reading this letter would not be surprised. I for one have encountered many a rude cop. When they see me in simple clothes, they will not show any respect at all. It doesn't help that people say that i look like a student. When i was a practising lawyer, they would be all polite and friendly when they see me dressed up in court - but i see the very same fellas being rude to the poor and uneducated who had the misfortune of having to appear in court.

I could go on and on with stories of rude cops. I know a lot of people who have encountered rude cops. So much so that when one actually meets a polite cop, it is such a huge and pleasant surprise and it really makes one's day! But that's quite sad isn't it?

Malaysia boleh!