'This so that the people can be reminded time and time again of the wanton activities of the BN government's enforcement agencies - reminded enough to vote out Umno.'
Sivarasa, Salahuddin in police sights
Pemerhati: It is beginning to look as though there is a grand plan worked out by Najib Abdul Razak and his cohorts to stay in power indefinitely by hook or by crook. They seem to be employing a number of strategies simultaneously and hoping that these would produce the desired results.
We have already seen how they have tried to polarise the communities by stoking up tension using the ‘cow head', ‘pig head' and ‘Allah' issues. By this strategy, they hope to get back the Malay-Muslim support and keep the tension high so as to start a May 13-type of trouble and then declare a state of emergency if the election results are unfavourable.
The second strategy, which is becoming obvious now, is to keep the opposition on the defensive by harassing and persecuting their important leaders so that they will not be able to organise their election machinery well and hence lose the next general election. As the judiciary and enforcement agencies are under their complete control, the BN government can harass and imprison anyone they like.
Geronimo: I hope they will continue to harass the Pakatan Rakyat leaders until the 13 th general election so that people can be reminded time and time again of these wanton activities by the BN government's enforcement agencies. Reminded enough to vote Umno and their lackeys out for good.
Right now, the police, instead of using their bullets to shoot the bad guys, are actually shooting themselves in the foot.
KayKay: Increasingly, the public perception is that the police and all government agencies have shamelessly abandoned their responsibilities to the people to focus on protecting Umno and doing in the opposition. You name it, they are at it. MACC, the police, the publications division of the Home Ministry, etc, etc.
Meanwhile, Umno politicians are busy twisting and turning every issue into a racial issue just to hoodwink the Malays into giving them a blank cheque just as in the days following the searing May 13 Sino-Malay race riots which were created by the election-losers for their self-serving ends. The ‘Allah' term is not the only issue. There are even more racial issues to come from Umno.
They don't seem very interested in bringing the people together and managing the economy, which is going to the dogs. If the economy sinks, the first people to suffer will be the rural people. Soon Malay politics will splinter again as in 1955, 1965, 1969, 1987, 1998 and 2008.
Bapak Toyol: Men in blue, please stop your triple standards. Many others especially in Umno have done worse things and yet no action was taken against them. Just because they belong to Umno, that does not mean that they are ‘untouchables'.
Carry on with what you are doing and this will only cause your Umno to lose even more votes in the next general election.
Karma: Independent MP and Perkasa chairperson Ibrahim Ali also spoke a lot during the last street protest and illegal assembly in Penang. Why are no police going after him? He called the Penang chief minister a ‘dictator' and threatened to protest until the latter ‘surrenders'. Why no policeman called Ibrahim in for questioning despite a report lodged against him?
Tan Kian Khim: Nasir Safar, Ahmad Ismail, Ibrahim Ali, Hishammuddin Hussein, Najib Razak, Muhyiddin Yassin, Jamaluddin Jarjis, Khir Toyo, Nazri Aziz, Mahathir Mohamad, etc, etc, ad nauseam have all openly and repeatedly made racist statements.
BTN: What happened to all those racist Umno members of parliament who uttered seditious words? PDRM, do your work justly and do not show the international world yet another dark side of this country. This boleh-stuff that is not only dumb in nature but idiotic as well has to be stopped.
Voter-Get-Voters campaign: Actually it is not the fault of the police, nor the fault of the Election Commission, the MACC or the government machinery. It is the fault of all those heads of the respective government departments who take orders blindly (or rather obediently) which in turns lead us to pin the fault entirely on BN.
The rot in a fish starts at the head. The only way to stop the spread of this rot is to overthrow this corrupted BN. And the one and only way is to get as much votes as possible for Pakatan Rakyat via the ‘Voter-Get-Voter' campaign so that Pakatan shall win with a massive majority - so massive that this crooked BN cannot cheat by fraud or ‘froggies'.
Satinah Osman: Najib, do not tell us that you are not behind all this. The tail cannot move unless the head gives the go-ahead.
All your rhetoric about ‘1Malaysia' and the glorious days ahead for the ‘rakyat' is stupid, unbelievable rhetoric just made up for you to hold on to your immense palace and to avoid being charged for complicity in corruption of huge magnitudes and the alleged blowing-up of foreigners on our soil.
Rayfire: Inspector-general of police, please stop harassing the politicians especially those from the opposition team. There are a lot of criminals out there causing damage to our society so please prioritise your time to handle these people instead.
I know you are trying hard to please the PM so that he will officially accept the Royal Malaysian Police Force as part of BN, but please don't let that divert you from your real role.
To all sincere policeman out there, don't be silent and let IGP ruin the reputation of the once best police force in the region. Don't degrade yourselves to become servants of BN. Treat all criminals alike and be fair.
Kgen: There seem to be two sets of laws - one for Umno who can spew out any racist rant with impunity and one for the opposition who are pulled up for frivolous reasons. PDRM, you disgust me.
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