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Kugan's case acquittal: Don't blame the judge
Published:  Jan 30, 2011 11:34 AM
Updated: 9:52 AM

vox populi small thumbnail 'The problem is not with the judge. It is with the prosecution. If they want to throw in the towel in a case, there is nothing a judge can do.'

Acquittal in Kugan's case an outrage

Swipenter: It is unbelievable that so many of our most marginalised members of our society are dying in police custody and yet every one of the deaths is attributed to natural causes or sickness, drug and alcohol addiction or unknown causes even when there are evidence of beatings and physical abuse on some of the dead bodies and even witnesses' accounts of beatings by the police whilst the deceased were in police custody.

The most recent case is that of M Krishnan. Yet no one has been found responsible for causing even one death so far, not even on charges of brutality and assault on suspects despite witnesses' account. Death by shooting is even harder to prove that there are some trigger-happy police officers.

Look at the recent case of Jensen Chia and how the police allegedly tried to frame him on a charges of carrying a dangerous weapon and drugs. What would happen to him if he has a police record? He might just be another entry into the statistics - beaten half dead and had his money stolen. Where is justice?

Wira: The problem is not with the judge. It is with the prosecution. If they want to throw in the towel in a case, there is nothing a judge can do. There cannot be a guilty verdict if the prosecution cannot even, or does not want, to establish a prima facie case against the accused.

To do so is a gross miscarriage of justice. The Attorney-General's office and the police are learning from the BN leaders how to "sandiwara".

Armour Man: Throughout history, it has been shown that it is the masses that effect change - out of poverty, hunger and desperation. Recently we see this situation in Tunisia and now Egypt.

In Malaysia, the masses are contented with the little that they have. Just look at the Felda settlers in Tenang, the villagers in Galas, and numerous other examples. Corruption, social justice, good governance are alien issues to them. Only the middle class take up these issues and it is not enough to galvanise the country for change.

Holden: Why is there no curiosity or question from the so-called representatives of the people, sitting in Parliament? Is it because this is just another Indian, and as the secondary school textbook ‘Interlok' tells us, just a dispensable low-caste person who does not deserve any better?

Some seriously clumsy social engineering appears to be at work here; and the government is only too happy to help spread such ignorance in the name of education and literature.

Normala's hubby to be probed on sick leave abuse

Fence sitter: I wonder if our DPM Muhyiddin Yassin can lead the country. Why the need to tell the whole world that Normala Sudirman's husband Maarof Abd Mutalib abused his sick leave? Let the school administrator handle it. There is need not make an issue out of it. After reading this article, my opinion is that the DPM is splitting hairs on the matter.

Atan-Toyol: At least Cikgu Mala's husband took the trouble to apply for medical leave. Do BN ministers take leave when campaigning? When Tunku Abdul Rahman called for an election, he resigned from his prime minister's post before going on the campaign trail. We have not seen any other minister do that since.

Anonymous_3f5f: Wow, Muhyiddin, your ministry has no power to interfere when headmasters uttered racist remarks, but your ministry has the power and time to interfere in the issue of whether a teacher is abusing his MCs or not.

AkuMelayu: A teacher should be a good example to his students. Maarof is doing the opposite. ‘Amanah yang diberikan untuk mendidik murid-murid diabaikan. Waktu yang dicuri, digunakan untuk mengekori isteri berkempen. Tidak berkat gaji yang diperolehi nanti.'

It not only reflects badly on himself as a teacher, it also reflects badly on his party, PAS, a party which claims to uphold Islamic teachings. Cheating is against Islamic teaching. And Normala is going to pay for her husband's stupidity.

Concerned Citizen1e05: I empathise with Normala and husband, especially with her husband being sick. I do not want to question the validity of the MC. However, is it not her duty to take care of her husband first instead of anything else?

I don't care about the politics of it. I hope for those defending Maarof that one day your children's teachers pull off a stunt like this and take off for a whole month. Let's see what you people have to say then. He should have taken no pay leave or something.

Justicekini: What about the senior education director asking all schoolteachers to help the BN or there will be action against them? How come he can campaign during office hours, and was clearly captured on video? Why is no action taken against him by the Education Department? Why didn't Muhyiddin raise a fuss about that?

Josephine: This is gutter politics and speaks volumes of how confident BN is regarding their electoral chances, and perhaps whether their boast of winning by more than 5,000 votes is 'colder than water'.

Ronin: Cheating on MCs is a serious crime in Malaysia, but stealing the rakyat's money, corruption, murder, etc, are just small offences.

 


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