Malaysia response to a scandalous mess is neat and categorised. Cash and sex are the north and south pole of mass interest, each with a sprawling magnetic field. We divide the hemispheres with the equator of logic. Cash and corruption are the preserve of politics. Sex is the province of glamour. We refuse to recognise any cross-over evidence.
Defeat is the distance between a bedtime story and a wake-up call. The former starts with ‘Once upon a time...’ and lulls the voter to sleep. The second is an energiser that addresses a fresh dawn.Weakness is contagious. It tends to debilitate even those limbs of the body politic that are functioning normally.A helpless Prime Minister induces a hapless government. Drift, as the term indicates, is never in a hurry. A government can float a long way before someone realizes that it has lost direction. Drift does not threaten a government's survival, but it saps the people's patience.This is useful if you want to buy time, but not effective if you want to run a government.
What these examples illustrate is that the moral life is anything but clear. DSK’s womanizing lifestyle is irrelevant to his crime. George W Bush’s ‘moral clarity’ brought great suffering to the Iraqi people and diminished America’s prestige
Old story does not mean solved story...as long as the story is not yet solved, whether old or new, it is still a matter of concern. In fact, when comes to unsolved story, the older it gets, the more pressing it becomes, because that show how "impotent" the police is,
corruption has been happening for a long time yet no action has been taken, not even now. So shouldn't the rakyat vote for change of govt since the current one is unwilling to address the corruption issue?
Throughout human history, when a servant or someone of low status accused a powerful person of rape, she was ignored. This is why the arrest in New York of Dominique Strauss-Kahn (DSK), the former head of the International Monetary Fund and a contender for the presidency of France, has exhilarated the world. The trial will soon decide if DSK is guilty of sexual assault. In the meantime, there is victory in the fact that the maid was given the respect she deserved when New York’s police took her accusations seriously and arrested a very powerful and wealthy man.
The mistake people made in judging DSK was to confuse his womanizing with sexual assault. It was as wrong as the idea still prevailing in India that a 'loose' woman can be raped. There is huge difference between consensual and forced sex, and a woman's right to say “no” is not diminished by the number of times she may have said “yes” in the past. In fact, DSK’s ability to find willing partners makes him an unlikely rapist. Only one historical allegation matters — Tristane Banon’s claim that he sexually assaulted her and tried to rape her during an interview in 2002. In the eyes of the law, there is no difference between raping a prostitute or a virgin. A husband who forces his wife to have sex also commits a crime; a married woman who has an affair does not. IGP is making a naive and a sweeping statement that the allegation is old and done with. QUESTIONS: Is there any 'statutory limitation' provision attached to an allegation that you cannot file a police report? Do we need to submit proofs and evidences attached to the police report before the police starts investigation? Who are you protecting? Why not arrest Ramli for making a false report against the AG and a former IGP. These two are as quiet as a mouse and dare not sue the pants off Ramli and his fellow officers. You want our respect? Then we dare you to reopen the case as Ramli dare continue to stand by his allegations. The case is not old, it has just not been touched. Care to comment Mr. IGP?
Time to play fair
Aung San Suu Kyi's victory is as goosebump-raising as her struggle. She is fashioned for iconography. Her porcelain bone structure and the spray of jasmine flowers are cliches of femininity, but for 23 years she has defied the testosterone-riddled junta. More important, she has always been not martyr but victor. The exultant images of the past week were almost a 21st century avatar of mythology's triumph of good over evil.
We had all lapped up every bit of news that hiccupped out over the decades from behind Burma's bamboo curtain. The 8888 Uprising - when General Ne Win stepped down after 26 years on the seemingly auspicious 8.8.88 - and its violent crushing; the emergence of a pretty, young woman who seized the mantle of her revolutionary father and diplomat mother; her personal sacrifices; Cyclone Nargis tearing off the roof - and the power - in her dilapidated lakeside home, forcing her to live in candlelight; her rusty, trusty piano. And her resonating Freedom from Fear speech which began: "It is not power that corrupts, but fear..."
More morbidly fascinating were the 'yadaya' or black magic obsession of Burma's generals. Ne Win smashing his own reflection in a mirror to ward off a predicted assassination. Gen Than Shwe and his top brass appearing at a Union Day ceremony in women's style longy is, supposedly to put a hex on Suu Kyi.
Ismail Omar, wants us to trust the police when he brushes aside a serious allegation such as this. Trust you my foot, rather trust a venomous snake then you. the more you talk, the more you condemn yourself. Final Warning: if you continue covering up for your Umno bosses, they won't be able to help you when the day of reckoning comes... and it won't be long now.What does IGP means by old? Old means don't have to do anything even though the Police did not act on it? Common IGP, how are you going to build public confident if this is the way you responded to justice. What Ramli claims is serious and since it affected for IGP and current AG, a tribunal has to be established to investigate this. It is not for the present IGP to say whether there is a case or not.the fact that a Ramli has the guts to accuse the then IGP of wrong dooings speaks a volumne, and he has been victimised you as honest officer cannat see it. and Anwar has been dragged through sex case the police force aided the political party
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