On a bed of nails Malaysians wait
by Singa Pura Pura
The impudent, open screening of naked pornography at Carcosa Seri Negara. Think about it – as we lay and wait on our bed of nails – for the police and the public prosecutor to move.
Despite the gathering storm of public outrage and the consternation of an entire nation, the Home Minister, representing UMNO and the ruling coalition, still refuses to do the right and proper thing – which is to bring the persons who have openly, plainly and admittedly broken the laws of the land before the altar of justice. To charge them in an open court and to afford them an opportunity of answering those charges; to see if they have a lawful justification or excuse for possessing and screening pornography at a public place.
It is pertinent here to ask the question: In the Federation of Malaysia, and for all practical intents and purposes, to whom does the Attorney-General or the Inspector-General of Police answer? Is it to His Majesty the Yang di-Pertuan Agong? Is it to Parliament? To the Cabinet? Or to the Home Minister and/or the Prime Minister? The answer is common knowledge. Which is why pushing the blame – for the dogged refusal of the Home Minister to act – unto the police and the public prosecutor is akin to the liver apportioning liability upon the kidneys for not filtering out the toxins that are poisoning the body. Are we, seriously, being asked to believe that in this country, the police acts without any reference to the Attorney General who, in turn, acts autonomously from the Home Minister or the Prime Minister?
It simply will not do anymore for the Home Minister to crouch under the wide, discretionary ‘sarong’ of the Attorney-General or the public prosecutor. Despite the preponderance of public opinion, the Prime Minister and the Home Minister have been intractably resistant to having any proceedings brought against the licentious trio of public pornographers. Pornographers are the enemies of the state; the unwilling victims of their pornographic recordings are not.
In these circumstances, one is constrained to come to the reasonably fair conclusion that the actions and inaction of the police and the public prosecutor have led to the irresistible and adverse presumption that the ruling coalition, via UMNO and/or its agents, must have had a prior arrangement or understanding, if not a secret undertaking, with the pornographers to bring the leader of the opposition down by way of a video scandal. Of course, in law, as in life, presumptions, however irresistible they may be, are seldom irrebuttable. Which is why the onus weighs ever so heavily now upon the Home Minister to show, to the complete satisfaction of the Rakyat, that both the ruling party and the coalition to which he belongs are not only unassociated with these pornographers but also that UMNO and the ruling coalition are rightly against such heinous societal elements or ‘pemusnah masyarakat’ that seek to destroy this nation through universally unacceptable ways and means.
The fog of infamy is furiously rubbing its hindquarters on the window panes of UMNO; the Home Minister must make it go away, believably and convincingly. Otherwise, he must slide the panes up, and let the fog in. The ‘Trio of Carcosa 2011’ might have benefitted from an unseen sleight of hand here, but the resulting twist of fate for the country’s reputation is surely incongruous with how the ‘Trio of TAR-TAR-THO’ (Tunku Abdul Rahman, Tun Abdul Razak and Tun Hussein Onn) had envisaged the Home Minister would look out for the country from his watchtower and perform the duties with which he has been entrusted by the Rakyat and the founding fathers of Malaysia.
With or without the Home Minister, we say.
by Singa Pura Pura
The impudent, open screening of naked pornography at Carcosa Seri Negara. Think about it – as we lay and wait on our bed of nails – for the police and the public prosecutor to move.
Despite the gathering storm of public outrage and the consternation of an entire nation, the Home Minister, representing UMNO and the ruling coalition, still refuses to do the right and proper thing – which is to bring the persons who have openly, plainly and admittedly broken the laws of the land before the altar of justice. To charge them in an open court and to afford them an opportunity of answering those charges; to see if they have a lawful justification or excuse for possessing and screening pornography at a public place.
It is pertinent here to ask the question: In the Federation of Malaysia, and for all practical intents and purposes, to whom does the Attorney-General or the Inspector-General of Police answer? Is it to His Majesty the Yang di-Pertuan Agong? Is it to Parliament? To the Cabinet? Or to the Home Minister and/or the Prime Minister? The answer is common knowledge. Which is why pushing the blame – for the dogged refusal of the Home Minister to act – unto the police and the public prosecutor is akin to the liver apportioning liability upon the kidneys for not filtering out the toxins that are poisoning the body. Are we, seriously, being asked to believe that in this country, the police acts without any reference to the Attorney General who, in turn, acts autonomously from the Home Minister or the Prime Minister?
It simply will not do anymore for the Home Minister to crouch under the wide, discretionary ‘sarong’ of the Attorney-General or the public prosecutor. Despite the preponderance of public opinion, the Prime Minister and the Home Minister have been intractably resistant to having any proceedings brought against the licentious trio of public pornographers. Pornographers are the enemies of the state; the unwilling victims of their pornographic recordings are not.
In these circumstances, one is constrained to come to the reasonably fair conclusion that the actions and inaction of the police and the public prosecutor have led to the irresistible and adverse presumption that the ruling coalition, via UMNO and/or its agents, must have had a prior arrangement or understanding, if not a secret undertaking, with the pornographers to bring the leader of the opposition down by way of a video scandal. Of course, in law, as in life, presumptions, however irresistible they may be, are seldom irrebuttable. Which is why the onus weighs ever so heavily now upon the Home Minister to show, to the complete satisfaction of the Rakyat, that both the ruling party and the coalition to which he belongs are not only unassociated with these pornographers but also that UMNO and the ruling coalition are rightly against such heinous societal elements or ‘pemusnah masyarakat’ that seek to destroy this nation through universally unacceptable ways and means.
The fog of infamy is furiously rubbing its hindquarters on the window panes of UMNO; the Home Minister must make it go away, believably and convincingly. Otherwise, he must slide the panes up, and let the fog in. The ‘Trio of Carcosa 2011’ might have benefitted from an unseen sleight of hand here, but the resulting twist of fate for the country’s reputation is surely incongruous with how the ‘Trio of TAR-TAR-THO’ (Tunku Abdul Rahman, Tun Abdul Razak and Tun Hussein Onn) had envisaged the Home Minister would look out for the country from his watchtower and perform the duties with which he has been entrusted by the Rakyat and the founding fathers of Malaysia.
With or without the Home Minister, we say.
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