I refer to the article Umno Youth lodges police report against malaysiakini .

It is common knowledge at home and abroad that there are many pressing issues confronting the nation — corruption, cronyism, lack of transparency, wastage of public money, billion-ringgit scandals, questionable projects — but Umno Youth have explicitly kept silent on all these issues.

Instead, Umno Youth have found it fit to lodge a police report against popular and award-winning malaysiakini for publishing a letter.

I sincerely doubt such comments in that letter will undermine the stability of the nation.

What I am more afraid of is the attempt by opportunistic politicians capitalising on the issue under the guise that it will "create chaos in the country" for their own political agenda.

I am sure most Malaysians are built of stronger stuff than that perceived by Umno Youth to put on war paints just because they found the letter disagreeable.

It is a crying shame when politically ambitious young men and women, instead of really working at the grassroots like our founding fathers and by the shining examples laid done by our Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad, prefer to catapult themselves politically by shamefully highlighting irrelevant issues for private and personal gain.

Perhaps, there should be new penal provisions for such acts of political power play — what say Dr Rais Yatim?