When Malaysiakini reported on 29th August that Mahyuddin Manaf, the chairperson of the Section 23 residents action committee, who organised the ‘cow head’ demo in Shah Alam last Friday, claimed that the appearance of the cow head at the demo was a complete mystery to the organisers, I thought that only an idiot would swallow this story.
Well both Malaysiakini and Malaysianinsider have it that the Home Minister not only bought into this story after meeting up with the residents, but he has come out in defence of the demonstrators.
Whilst I would not quarrel with anyone who insists that the Home Minister is idiotic enough to believe this yarn, I don’t believe for even one moment that story by Mahyuddin or that Hisham believes it.
Before I say anymore on this, let’s just note first that Malaysiakini today also reports that the Selangor CPO has confirmed that the police investigations into the ‘cow head’ incident has been completed and forwarded to the AG’s chambers and they are awaiting further instructions. In these circumstances, I think the Home Minister has no business making public statements justifying the actions of the demonstrators, as this may be seen as an attempt to influence the decision-making at the AG’s chambers.
In this regard his comment, as reported in Malaysianinsider that “If it can be resolved quickly and can be done with both sides understanding each other … why would we want to penalise anybody?”, is plainly mischievous and improper.
The Home Minister must know better.
More disconcerting, though, were his remarks as reported in Malaysianinsider, that “If I wanted to use the issue to create chaos in Selangor, I can but we didn’t take such actions”, the report adding that Hisham “tried to play down the cow-head incident by pointing out that there were previous incidents where a pig-head was used”.
“I have it in my records to show there were cases where a pig-head was used by irresponsible parties including leaving the head in front of an Umno building covered by an Umno flag”, Hisham is reported to have said.
Firstly, I’m convinced that certain quarters are using this latest incident together with several others that have occurred and still more waiting to happen, to create chaos in Selangor.
And its all about taking Selangor back into BN’s stable, whatever the cost.
This aside, someone must tell this idiot that citing the occurrences of past inflammatory acts or incidences cannot justify or water down what was done last Friday.
In any event, given the pigheadedness that prevails in UMNO, a few on the outside would go unnoticed.
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