PDRM Change Your Behavior or Perish?

To those who don't believe Selangor political aide Teoh Beng Hock could be a victim of homicide, they might change their minds after hearing the ordeal a Bernama photographer went through with the police.

On Sunday, a police officer threatened to throw him off the third floor of a bus terminal after the latter was detained for no apparent reason.

"(The officer) also told me he would soak me in a lake," said national newswire Bernama photographer Hairul Nizam Bahrin.

Hairul, 37, was taken to the police station in the Bandar Tasik Selatan Integrated Bus Terminal handcuffed and with his head covered, unaware of why he was detained.

The photographer was riding his motorcycle, returning from duty at about 11.45am yesterday at the Bandar Tasik Selatan Integrated Bus Terminal when he was stopped by plainclothes men.

"A motorcyclist came close to me and told me to stop. He was not dressed in a police uniform. Several seconds later, several other motorcyclists approached me and asked me to stop, but they too were not in uniform so I ignored them," he said.

In the report, lodged at the Jalan Tun Razak station last night, he said that he stopped about 500 metres ahead after he was blocked.

"One of the motorcyclists took my keys, so I took his in retaliation. Then they started yelling at me, telling to remove my helmet and hand over my identity card but I refused.

"This continued until an auxiliary police sergeant came and started pushing me. When I told him he had no right to touch me, he punched me on the lip," he said.

Police tried to "negotiate"

He was also hit on the head and torso after his helmet was removed, and was handcuffed when he struggled to break free.

"I yelled, saying that they cannot do this to me as I am not a thief. I also called my office to inform them that I had been assaulted and handcuffed, but the sergeant snatched the phone away," he said.

Hairul said that the handcuffs were removed when they reached the terminal police station, where he was asked to go to the back room to "negotiate" with a police officer.

"He got angry when I asked if the area that I had photographed is a restricted area, and if there was a letter from the Home Ministry to say so. That's when he threatened to throw me off the third floor," he said when contacted today.

Hairul was later brought to the Dang Wangi district police headquarters by the police auxiliary sergeant, and was eventually released from the ordeal which lasted for about an hour.

The Malaysian parliament is supreme like U.S. Congress but not sovereign like the British Parliament. The sovereignty of the Malaysian Parliament is not absolute, it is relative. The Constitution is superior to Parliament. Further, it is the people of Malaysia, who are superior to the Constitution.The nation needs more of such active and informed deliberations over the matters concerning national interests. Moreover, the upper chamber for a day changed its image to that of a federal second chamber. The federal state is in constant transformation, adapting to the various challenges as it deals with the multiple centres of power. Legislative scrutiny of all clauses and public discussion came out as favourable outcomes of this exercise.

A nation that cannot uphold its law cannot preserve its order. When Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim's bodyguard apparently waved a gun to disperse a crowd blocking the politician . , the authority of state abandoned the responsibility of state. Excuses, evasions and lies have shifted over  years; this central truth has not.

Why do we say “law and order” rather than “order and law”? Simple. Law comes before order. Law defines the nature of order. Law is the difference between civilization and chaos. Law is evolutionary: the edicts of tribes, chiefs and dynasties lifted human societies from scattered peril to structured coexistence. The laws of democracy have vaulted us to the acme of social cohesion, for they eliminated arbitrary diktat and introduced collective will. The divine right of kings is dead; it has been reborn as the secular right of an elected Parliament.

Institutions have been existing in political reality as per the wisdom of the theories which the founding fathers of the law of the land have borrowed. What may be their role, relevance and power in terms of theory and practice may be at loggerheads. ‘Change’ is the only variable that is constant in politics. The latter may induce new innovations in the working of political institutions. Every aspect has its good and bad sides, where in the quest for harping over what is bad, one needs to also ponder over the silent side.An instance of this kind happened in the Malaysian democracy, where  Anwar carved a new niche for itself for deliberations, legislation and state concerns, in contrast to several observations of the political and academic commentators about its bleak existence. The article stresses that this change is contingent upon political realities and may not have been able to translate itself to the desired end, yet this pessimism need not take away the merits attached in the case.The presentation of thoughts shall go in an ascending manner with the debate being initiated along the contours for understanding rationale for political institutions, how  has been a non-starrer in terms of its cause of states’ concern, the changing dynamics of party politics and coalitions in Malaysia

The rise of what can only be described as political hooliganism in Malaysia must not be tolerated.  in the US, during presidential election,even the opposition candidate are being protected by the authority but not in Malaysia.. These UMNO guys were just looking for troubles. It's a matter of time before troubles get to them. With the police not being able to do a proper job,.. the country will surely become anarchic most democratic countries, the government in power sends bodyguards to protect the opposition leader, but in Malaysia the government in power sends thugs to threaten the opposition 

And as the ruling coalition Barisan Nasional (BN) must take the lead to condemn such behaviour as recent cases show that Pakatan Rakyat (PR) politicians have been at the receiving end of such hooliganism.

 POLICE have detained a bodyguard of Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim after he allegedly drew a firearm and pointed it at some pro-Barisan Nasional supporters in Kampung Baru Rim here yesterday evening.

The 37-year-old bodyguard was detained by plainclothes policemen, who were at the scene when the incident took place at 3.15pm.

During the time, the bus in which Anwar was travelling in was stopped by some youths from various movements.

A Toyota Camry then appeared next to the bus and the bodyguard, believed to have been engaged from a private security company, alighted from the car and allegedly pointed his gun at the youths.

They were trying to prevent the bus from entering the site where the Jelajah Merdeka Rakyat programme was to be held.

The programme was organised by Parti Keadilan Rakyat.

The action of the bodyguard was witnessed by those at the scene, including Special Branch officers, who proceeded to disarm and apprehend the man.

At 3.45pm, the bodyguard, who was wearing a white short-sleeved shirt and dark pants, was brought to the Jasin police headquarters for questioning.

Following the incident, at least four police reports were lodged by members of the Jasin Umno Youth and the Belia 4B movement.

State police chief Datuk Chuah Ghee Lye said the bodyguard had been detained for questioning.

"Let us investigate the matter first as it is still premature to determine if the man had actually pointed the weapon at the public, or he was just brandishing it as an act of protecting someone. He could have taken out the gun and accidentally showed it to the people gathered there."

Meanwhile, a 28-year-old youth movement member said he was shocked when the bodyguard pointed the weapon at him.

"All of a sudden, the bodyguard alighted from the car and pointed the gun at me and said 'Mari' (come), like he was asking me to come and engage in a fight.

"My friends and I just froze and the bodyguard went back into the car and left," he said after lodging a police report.

the SB were at the scene and did nothing tocontrol the hooligans UNTIL Anwar's bodyguard was forced
to take out his pistol to ward off those UMNO thugs. AND for doing his job of self-defence he was arrested while those UMNO thugs left untouched.If this is the type of politics BN are brandishing, Anwar must have a solution to counter this goons during GE13 and after to ensure they are able to take over under the ppls choice of power. 
The BN bastards are becoming too much and we dont live inthe 20 century anymore. How to be loyal to the country when they are run like thugs protection  Shame the UMMO trouble makers. PM and Home Minister do you support your members' samseng behaviors. Malaysians are very impatient with your timid no action against hooligans as Ministers. Please don't shame Malaysians further, Ministers.

A few months ago unidentified thugs threw rocks and eggs at a PKR ceramah in Kuala Lumpur, injuring a few members of the public.

It has become common for opposition politicians to face unruly gangs at rallies around the country.

Yesterday a bodyguard of Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim allegedly waved his gun when confronted with a crowd of hooligans trying to block the opposition politician from attending a rally.

BN leaders and the authorities cannot just claim that they are not responsible for the hooliganism.

If BN political parties and leaders are not responsible they must then take the lead to pressure the police to take action, as well as publicly condemn it.

If doing the right thing is not motivation enough they should realise that the public does not condone such behaviour.

And BN will end up taking the blame anyway.

The typical middle class Malaysian in particular is growing into a very angry person.

Why?

Because he or she wants a level playing field, a mature Malaysia, a competition of ideas.

Violence and hooliganism is not the path forward for a mature democracy.

 Bicameralism is an essential feature of Malaysian Parliamentary system. The parliament  was intended to be an important revisionary and deliberative chamber. The notion of Second Chamber was to act as a check on hasty legislations, provide more opportunities for scrutiny, and accommodation of diversity. There are certain assumptions that underline the idea of Political Institutions. They are seen as a channel of opportunities and incentives for political behaviour. The rational choice analysis sees political institutions as endogenous: rules, designs and structures. The working of institutions also provides areas of conflict that stimulate tensions. Rules of game are never neutral but are part of struggle between challengers and holders of power. Stability of institutions comes from web of the historic and normative fabric of the polity.

In confronting a crisis of epic proportions, one can do the heavy work of crafting a well conceived, comprehensive strategy. But why bother, when short-term gimmicks are politically more feasible. Thus we have this absurd counter-cyclical gimmick, the so-called “cash for POLICE” boondoggle, being offered by the NAJIB establishment as their “answer” to the massive problems

Some of you may think that theSEE VIDEO ON YOUTUBE HERE video is in bad taste. I mean, how can we make fun of Teoh Beng Hock’s death when we should instead be mourning him? Yes, it was a hard decision to make as to whether to publish that video or not. But we decided to do it anyway not with intent to make fun of Teoh’s death but to reveal the real circumstances behind his death. And the video best describes the events behind what really happened

The police askes why we are only looking at the police? Linggam asks why we are only looking at the judiciary. The parliament ask why are we only looking at the executives. The rulers ask why are only looking at the monarchy. In the end nothing gets looked at. We’re back to square one. No actions on complains. People who complain gets thrown into ISA for their safety. The corrupt in power gets bolder and increasingly obnoxious.

Great argument there, Hisham. You are another example why I have zero respect for my leaders. They are not smart. And they can’t sound smart even if their life depended on it. In fact, they dont even make sense half the times. Can somebody tell me the last time anybody in BN said something intellegent that is not already a well known fact?

You missed the point, Sham. This is not selective persecution. Pushing for the IPCMC is simply saying that crime is out of control as you Sham pourself has admitted and to check police abuse of power. Why are you and the PDRM so defensive? If they have nothing wrong, there is nothing to be afraid of. In fact, if the PDRM is innocent as alleged, they should welcome the IPCMC to clear their names independently. It is only those that has shit between their backsides that are afraid to be scrutinised. Plain and simple.

Why?

Because:

- Kugan was killed by the police

- The police personnel who are responsible for Kugan’s death is still walking free, still having a job at a police desk

- Because many others have lost their lives in police custody

- Because police are gangsters who arrest without valid reasons, like how they arrested the 5 lawyers who only wanted to represent their clients

- Because police are corrupt.

- Because mat rempits and snatch thieves roam free.

- Because police are pussies who are afraid of having a beat base in Jln Haji Taib

- Because police are not impartial, always obviously acting on umno orders.

- Because police do not respect the law, illegally removing a speaker from the dewan where it has no jurisdiction

- Because police are rude as hell (Mr headhunter the classic example)

- Because police has lost the faith of the rakyat

- Because the rakyat demands the police to be cleaned up.

Way to go Ragu, I will wallk with you to PM office at Putrajaya and I am sure at least 3,000LAWYERS more of us from the bar will too. Just say when.MALAYSIA MUST avoid yet another crisis. Although oscillating between corrupt civilian governments and POLICE dictatorships, crises have been a way of life for MUSA HASSAN But this crisis IS different. It was not particularly for or against a leader. It was the third act of a grass-roots movement, led by the lawyers, in favor of the rule of law under a constitutional framework.

MALAYSIA appears to be on the verge of emerging as a functioning Constitutional Democracy, witH primacy of laws and constitution that has eluded MALAYSIA for 51 years of its checkered history.

THIS times in the lawyers, men and women in their somber black coats MUST defied the illegal edicts of the case of judicial sodomy. and succeed in forcing the government to back down.

Ragunath said”I will tell him that these are the areas that need to be looked into so that there won’t be a recurrence,” he said.

Is Nazri admitting that the Home Minister screwed up? That’s the first! I just hope he won’t backpaddle. the council had also lodged a complaint with the Malaysian Human Rights (Suhakam) Commission as it was a matter concerning a breach of human rights.”For those matters that are linked to the police, I will hand the memorandum over to Home Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Tun Hussein.

As the minister in charge of judiciary affairs, Nazri said he wanted to ensure that the rule of law was upheld

“The court action is still ongoing and we will definitely file it on behalf of the five lawyers,” he told reporters after handing over a memorandum to Minister in Prime Minister’s Department Datuk Seri Nazri Abd Aziz at the Parliament lobby here Tuesday.

bar council got some teeth ? way to go.

Show them that nobody is beyond the law.

Najib at Odds with Tun Dr. Mahathir

“If they are not united, how are we going to realise the 1 Malaysia concept? This will not only be detrimental to the Malays but also to other races…When we talk about Malay unity, we are not talking from the racism point of view. We have accepted the fact that there cannot be a government which is led 100 per cent by Malay leaders … we have been practising power sharing for so long”

In a speech that he was supposed to have delivered at the Harvard Club of Malaysia on 29th July 2002, this is what Mahathir is reported to have said :

“When I wrote The Malay Dilemma in the late 60s, I had assumed that all the Malays lacked the opportunities to develop and become successful. They lacked opportunities for educating themselves, opportunities to earn enough to go into business, opportunities to train in the required vocation, opportunities to obtain the necessary funding, licences and premises. If these opportunities could be made available to them, then they would succeed. …… So what is the new Malay dilemma? Their old dilemma was whether they should distort the picture a little in order to help themselves. The new dilemma is whether they should or should not do away with the crutches that they have got used to, which in fact they have become proud of. There is a minority of Malays who are confident enough to think of doing away with the crutches, albeit gradually. But they are a very small minority. Their numbers are not going to increase any time soon. They are generally regarded as traitors to the Malay race. ….

Distort the picture in order to help themselves!

That the truth then was that every marginalised Malaysian, regardless of race, “lacked opportunities for educating themselves, opportunities to earn enough to go into business, opportunities to train in the required vocation, opportunities to obtain the necessary funding, licences and premises”, was buried in the distorted picture that was presented, so that certain quarters could help themselves.

11 years before that reported speech to the Havard Club, in 1991, Mahathir launched his Vision 2020 where he also spoke of establishing a united Malaysian nation; a Bangsa Malaysia, as he put it. I have alluded to this in a previous post last year. This is what Mahathir had said in 1991 of that Bangsa Malaysia :

“By the year 2020, Malaysia can be a united nation, with a confident Malaysian society, infused by strong moral and ethical values, living in a society that is democratic, liberal and tolerant, caring, economically just and equitable, progressive and prosperous, and in full possession of an economy that is competitive, dynamic, robust and resilient. There can be no fully developed Malaysia until we have finally overcome the nine central strategic challenges that have confronted us from the moment of our birth as an independent nation…The first of these is the challenges of establishing a united Malaysian nation with a sense of common and shared destiny. This must be a nation at peace with itself, territorially and ethnically integrated, living in harmony and full and fair partnership, made up of one ‘Bangsa Malaysia’ with political loyalty and dedication to the nation…The eighth is the challenge of ensuring an economically just society. This is a society in which there is a fair and equitable distribution of the wealth of the nation, in which there is full partnership in economic progress. Such a society cannot be in place so long as there is the identification of race with economic function, and the identification of economic backwardness with race.”

18 years on from that inspirational speech of his, why is it that we do not appear to be anywhere near establishing that one ‘Bangsa Malaysia’ with political loyalty and dedication to the nation ?

Was Mahathir’s Vision 2020 no different from his ‘Look East’ policy that he innovated soon after taking office, in that both were made up of inspiring rhetoric with little political will to carry through and which got us all sufficiently distracted so that the privileged hands that were raiding the national coffers could work at will and unnoticed?

What is the difference between Mahathir’s Vision 2020 and Najib’s 1Malaysia?

Is there such a difference between Mahathir and Najib that we should be encouraged to believe that, whilst Mahathiir had little impact in taking us anywhere near the Bangsa Malaysia he spoke of, with Najib, it will be otherwise ?

by Haris Ibrahim

Almost everyone knows, because they have read the above article which informed them of the relevant law applicable, which is that it is the Assembly who decides the question of the disqualification of a member of the Assembly and not the Election Commission. It is only when a member has been disqualified would there be a vacancy in the Assembly.

Now that we, the ordinary people, know the law we could very easily judge the competence of these judges of the Federal Court.

Recently, they have handed down a written judgment dated June 8, 2009 which was delivered by Nik Hashim bin Nik Abd Rahman FCJ as the judgment of the court.

The judgment appears to be oblivious of the fact that the general public is now aware of the law applicable. Since the people has been apprised of the law it would be foolish for any judge to …