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Indeed, the past six years have not only been a tragedy for Anwar Ibrahim and his family and supporters, but also a period in Malaysia's history when lies and calumnies were organised with the participation of government agencies as well as several mouthpieces of the Barisan Nasional government which deceptively self-styled themselves as 'mass media'.

It is time not only to expose them one by one but to compile their abuses and illogical lies so that our children and grandchildren would never again be duped in the future. Names must be named to serve as a permanent warning to the conspirators or potential conspirators that abuse of state resources against peaceful and legitimate dissidents will not be tolerated.

These compilations which should be published, would also serve to educate journalists, especially those in the mainstream media, to not help to spread lies and defamatory falsehoods without first checking the facts and double-checking them.

Journalists must know that unfounded, cruel and vicious organised lies and defamatory falsehoods could be murderous if the accused and his family are not psychologically prepared to take them.

Compiling the abuses mentioned above should not be difficult because there are many such publications recording the intrigues of Stalin's show trials and Hitler's scripts of party purges. There is nothing new in Malaysia, except for the utter stupidity of the executors of the conspiratorial enterprise.

With regards to propaganda against Anwar, it is obvious that the 'CIA agent' scripts are for the consumption of Malay/Muslims and some leftist Malaysians, while the 'Muslim fanatic' scripts are targeted at Malaysian non-Muslims.

The stupidity the propagandists failed to realise is that in this multilingual and inter-connected world, people share information and would most certainly find out contradictions and discrepancies. The smart alecs in the dirty tricks department are too smart by half.

The foreign media network script has also failed to achieve any effect. The original design was most probably that since Malaysians have lost faith and trust in BN politicians and the local mainstream media, it might be useful to get some seemingly foreign or distant media to spread lies about Anwar.

It was probably thought Malaysians would believe foreign news media more being always overawed by Western journalism. So, they fed the lies as ' news' to the unsuspecting foreign news organisation which were also careless enough not to cross-check the informants and sources.

Who fed them lies about Anwar Ibrahim? What are the 'feeders's' political or ideological backgrounds or interests? Who do they work for?

A truth commission must be set up in Malaysia to exorcise the ghosts in our midst. Let light triumph over darkness, good over evil.

Meanwhile, Malaysians and our friends all over the world should continue to analyse, expose and clear out organised lies one by one with moral and intellectual clarity in public forums like this one.

Wickedness and lies thrive in darkness and dwell in confused minds. Openness, like sunshine, cast away ghosts and evils.

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