How on earth can a nation that has the world's two powerful nations as its trading partners ever behave so disgracefully in the eyes of the world community?
 
The rakyat is in disbelief as to how the law enforcement authorities of Malaysia could  raid, arrest, detain and above all insult and hurt the very human dignity of the women in the raid carried out in Penang this week.
 
It is beyond the imagination of all dignified citizens of the world to witness how the Malaysian authorities had chain-bound their 'dragnet catch' and to add salt to the wound they even defaced the girls under detention with markings on their bodies.
 
Where in the world do we witness such derogatory behaviour? And why are we doing such dehumanised deeds?
 
Look, if you want to arrest illegals at a night club the question that is crucial is, why in the first place are you licensing and allowing an operator to function knowing full well they are flouting the law?
 
Why do we not go after the owner of such sinful outlets and just shut down the offending premise? Why are we instead going after the seeming vice-girls all the time?
 
Even if you say that it is a way to curtail others from coming into the country with thoughts of doing the flesh trade, do you have to treat them like animals at the abattoir?
 
What has the head of the nation, the PM got to say? Or is he going to keep mum? Or is he going to tell the world that this is what we will do without any care for civil liberties, human dignity and universal code of ethical conduct?
 
In any other civilised nation, the head of the erring authority would have resigned or even ben sacked in disgrace for such horrible, inhuman deeds.
 
Indeed we thought we would have learnt our lesson from the C4 incident involving a Mongolian national; we thought we would have learnt our lesson from the expose of how we treat detainees all these while as reported in the international media before.

But no! We are adamant. We continue to breach all sense of human sanity. Now we shudder to imagine what next?