'The money is hard earned by Malaysians and we expect it to be used to build schools, hospitals or roads, and not to pay for MACC's mistake.'
Second autopsy: Teoh's body exhumed
Louis: Who is going to pay the pathologist from Britain? (MACC chief) Ahmad Said or the Selangor MACC director? Don't you ever use our money to pay for MACC's blunder. The money is hard earned by Malaysians and we expect it to be used to build schools, hospitals or roads, and not to pay for MACC's mistake.
Ablastine: The exhumation is splash all over BBC. You can bet that interest this unusual case goes beyond Malaysia. Why does MACC bother to spend money on the foreign pathologist - the commission has as much respect as used toilet paper.
Kgan: Najib may find it better to let the MACC culprits face the music than to keep on protecting them. No doubt they may have been part of some evil plan to destabilise the Selangor government but I'm sure their orders did not include torture and murder.
These goons exceeded their authority, so why protect them? Just hand them over and save BN more political damage. A verdict of suicide will be all the worse for Najib and MACC. No Malaysian in his right mind believes that Teoh committed suicide despite all the attempts to spin.
Gk: We want justice for Beng Hock. All we want to know is the truth behind his death. I am sad to see we have to come to this that his exhumation is needed. The inquest is to find the truth, irrespective of which party or parties are responsible for the death. MACC cannot be seen as running away from this since at all material time, Beng Hock was under their custody.
Soapbox: God bless his soul ... and the souls that took his life!
Johor MB lauds MACC for being fair to all
Hardtail: Good! Now will MACC please probe the multi-million marina that was built in the muddy river mouth of Sungai Muar - completed many years ago but now lying in a state of disuse?
Thousands of taxpayers' ringgit are still being spent monthly to dredge mud from the marina. Where are the yachts? Who owns a yacht in sleepy Muar town to even necessitate a marina being built there?
Chan Kong Art: It must be a big mistake by MACC. In Umno, there is no corruption. If there is, let us start with Dr Mohd Khir Toyo and the Selangor's BN assemblypersons who used up their constituency allocations within one month.
Ang Kim Teng: Another ‘ikan bilis' case. Please MACC, get the obvious big one, like Khir Toyo for example.
Cop explains why lawyers not allowed to meet protesters
Michael Martin: Their arrest was to avoid an "uncontrollable incident"? Since when have the police been unable to control such incidents - they have plenty of FRU personnel, water cannon, etc. The evidence given by DSP (Judy Blacious Pereira) is so dishonest. The police have no intention of upholding any basic human right - the whole lot should be fired as a disgrace to any civilised nation.
Thuraisingham Shun: The basic right of a arrested person to be allowed counsel is a provision which is enshrined in the constitution, which in this case has been denied by the police.
Dharma: Poor Indians are angry and frustrated at their exclusion in the country's economic development. The BN government in power totally ignored their plight and marginalised them.
Some people seem to comment, "They have themselves to blame for their own situation." That is exactly the problem with Malaysian society today, no empathy for their fellow human beings because the different levels of class structure is so far apart, that the haves cannot relate to the have nots.
In our Malaysian society today poverty is a never-ending cycle that feeds off itself, making the rich richer and the poor poorer. When the Indian poor are isolated from the mainstream development, they are also isolated from the rest of the society due to their low socio-economic status.
The government must create the conditions that allow Indians living in poverty to claim their human rights, to empower themselves so that they can be masters of their destiny, unlike Seetha, who is a victim of her fate.
