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Crime statistics: Time to press reset button
Published:  Aug 28, 2012 10:42 AM
Updated: 3:21 AM

VOXPOP 'This regime has failed miserably in its duty to meet the basic need of our people for security, law and public order.'

'Cabinet trio must rebut bogus crime stats claim'

vox populi small thumbnail Cannon: PM Najib Razak touts a government performance team of Ministers in Prime Minister's Office Idris Jala and Koh Tsu Koon, supported by a battery of public relations and image consultants.

It is clear he is unable to respond to the issue of the alleged bogus crime statistics, which confirms the public perception there's truth behind the disclosure.

His ‘People First, Performance Now' slogan echoes in the sound of silence. His other ‘Janji Ditepati' slogan is twisting in the wind. This regime has failed miserably in its duty to meet the basic need of our people for security, law and public order.

Our country becoming a cowboy country - a wild, wild west with bars, brothels, gambling joints, massage parlors and all. This regime, far from winning public confidence, has emptied the people of their trust.

The way to stop this moral decline is for the electorate to press the reset button on GE13 and begin all over with a new government. This government has reached the end of its shelf life.

Abasir: DAP supremo Lim Kit Siang should be more considerate. It is not gentlemanly to put pressure on the cabinet trio - Home Minister Hishammuddin Hussein, Idris Jala and Koh Tsu Koon - to come up with an answer in this manner.

They need time to consult, time to come up with a spin, time to launch a witch-hunt to nab the whistleblower, and time to find a carpetbagger to pay someone to say that the report was false and instigated by the opposition.

They need time to do all this and it's been a long Raya break.

Bootsie: There is an enemy within the ranks of the government who has come out into the open. This only goes to show that all is not well and there are people who care for the nation and its citizenry. Praise the good anonymous cop .

Din: Honourable Lim Kit Siang, it is pointless for them to rebut the allegation. In yesterday's report, a senior police officer in Bukit Aman was said to have agreed that the letter (by the anonymous cop) had merit.

And in case you aren't aware, one very senior police officer (of deputy commissioner of police rank) besides several other senior officers and men from the rank-and-file are assigned to chaperon the home minister at all times. What a sheer waste of resources paid for by taxpayers.

Bob Teoh: We don't need any more studies to tell us the country is not safe. We already have more police per capita compared even to industrial nations. The home minister should know the police force is simply incompetent, ill-equipped to handle rising crime.

Botak Chin: If anyone had bothered to read 'Freakonomics' , you would know by now any statistics can be easily manipulated to churn out the results one expected.

So criticising Umno is insulting Islam

Changeagent: To the NGOs which lodged a police report over this supposed 'lowering' of Islam issue, please take cue from the local Christians.

They have been accused of far more serious lies like proselytising to Muslims and scheming to make Christianity the official religion, but yet they have largely kept their peace and maintained a non-confrontational stance.

Better still, they haven't threatened to burn anyone's effigy yet.

Paul Warren: Of course, criticising Umno is tantamount to a criticism of Islam. After all among its objectives, Umno is also committed to defend Islam.

In the pursuit of that task if any of its actions is criticised, it is possible that adherents can assume that to be a criticism of the faith itself.

Similarly the criticism of Osama Bin Laden can also be regarded as criticising Islam as he was after all committed to the pursuit of Islamic ideals.

Saddam Hussein too, often enough committed his work to Islam. And so has Iran and Pakistan. Honour killings too have many a time been attributed to advancing or defending Islam.

The thinking behind the NGOs is that criticism of Islam is levied when there is criticism of someone committed to advancing the cause of defending Islam.

Starr: It's always dangerous to bring religion into politics for it's not only emotive but also something deeply personal, resulting in people incapable of any sensible discourse.

Besides, except those in recognised religious authorities, no one has the divine right to represent God/Allah and speak on His behalf.

If they truly worship God/Allah who's high above and rules over of his dominions in heaven and on earth, so what business is it of his believers below to claim the need to defend his religion?

When God/Allah establishes his kingdom, whether in heaven or on earth, there is no need for anybody to defend it.

It would make more sense for them to seek the truth and be humble and pious in their spiritual journey to eternity. Claiming to defend Islam is an abuse of the religion for political ends.

There are plenty examples of such abuses in history, and they all faded away eventually. Osama Bin Laden is a case in point.


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