Yet another black mark for MACC

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your say ‘Again, MACC has fallen from grace. It is time the whole MACC be revamped and all its heads of department fired...’

On Ex-Tourism Ministry DG acquitted of corruption

Sarajun Hoda: Former Tourism Ministry director-general Mirza Mohammad Taiyab has been acquitted from a corruption charge without being called to enter his defence. This is another sham episode for the MACC after Teoh Beng Hock’s death.

Everyone who was following the case were baffled from day one why MACC was going after Mirza because clearly there was no case for him to answer.

I personally attended his hearing several times. In one of them, even the judge was making ‘fun’ of the prosecution when he repeatedly asked the main witness - on whom the whole case stood - the same question and got the same answer, nine times. All the prosecution witnesses could not offer anything that could pin blame on Mirza.

That Mirza never knew that his bill was paid by someone else, the clinic giving treatment was strictly told not to present the bill whenever Mirza asked but rather told to give some excuses, and the person who paid the bill - out of remorse for recommending Mirza to his wife’s clinic - never got any favour or benefit whatsoever from his payment.

There was no case at all. It was such a sheer waste of court time and process. Why can’t these agencies use the public’s valuable resources to go after the real culprits? Why the MACC made it into a high-profile case, got the DG suspended from his high-ranking job, horrendously humiliated him and all his family members for so many months?

Indeed, the anti-corruption agency is not way near the standard set by the renown Hong Kong’s ICAC.

Again, MACC has fallen from grace. It is time the whole MACC be revamped and all its heads of department fired for making silly decisions at the cost of their victims’ honour. MACC… shame on you.

Doc: Many people tend to blame Prime Minister Najib directly for what the MACC is currently doing. Though as the PM he should be ultimately responsible, I think even Najib don't know what is going on at the MACC and who is manipulating this institution behind the scene.

Indeed, it is all too obvious that the MACC is behaving like the Gestapo. There are hidden hands at play here, and the hidden hands are those that fear the emergence of the opposition and the takeover of the federal government as this not-unlikely scenario may mean their demise, both financially and politically. These are the same people who have been linked constantly to dirty-money tactics, and who have billions of ringgit at their disposal.

The MACC is therefore actually compromised and unless we have the investigative and forensic expertise similar to the FBI or Scotland Yard, we will be unable to uncover the conspiracy behind all the vulgar episodes that are now rampaging through Malaysian politics and are an utter disgrace to Malaysia in the eyes of the world.

The royal commission is useless as no action will come out of all its recommendations. And then things will soon revert back to "normalcy".

CK: It saddened me to write this message thinking of the pain and sufferings Teoh Boon Hock’s family has to endure. It sickened me to just see what our beloved Malaysia has become. The death of TBH is the final nail in the coffin for Malaysian democracy.

I am sure the sheer mention of MACC and the police are enough to bring tough men to their knees. Doesn’t it bring back memories of the Gestapo in Germany? The Suharto administration in Indonesia? Where “problems” are not solved but “erased”?

In this age of cyberspace, it is easy for children to understand that chivalry and patriotism doesn’t pay, that corruption and power does. Gone will be the memories of my childhood movies that heroes always prevail in the end. I have never been so hopeless thinking about the restless souls of Kugan, TBH, and the C4 girl, the list goes on.

Who says crime never pays? In Malaysia, it does. Look at the mansions of our corrupt leaders and it will tell you that it pays to be corrupt, incorrigible and ruthless in Malaysia.

It sends a chill down my spine thinking what Malaysia will be like in years to come if this tide of capitalism is not stopped. I dread to think what my children will write in their school ‘My Ambition’ essay. Hoping it will not be a police officer for the want of god-like power and money, or politicians for the want of palace-like mansions and the power to summon winds and lightning.

Let’s stop this rot and bring Malaysia back to its glory days where all Malaysians are just plain Malaysians - not Malays, Chinese, Indians, etc. Let’s send those who wield the power to summon winds and lightning back to where they rightfully belong, the core of the earth where all scumbags should belong.

CH Siew: I really yawn when I read the news on ‘ Umno members gather in support of MACC ’. Is this all what Umno think about - along racial lines? I mean the opposition has outgrown Umno in this respect. Never once has any of the opposition play the race card in this incident.

How the hell did these Umno people come to the conclusion that the opposition was trying to instigate racial sentiment? Of course, if it is Umno trying to use the race sentiments to create unrest and use it to their advantage, it would fits well into the picture.

Come on Umno. You should know very well by now that the race base politics are not going to work. The problem that every complaining is not how MACC or the police treat a certain race, but how they are bias in their action against the opposition. It is not only DAP who were harassed, PKR share the same experience in Perak and Penang, and those people there are Malays.

I really wonder how Umno define race in their dictionary - does it still means opposition? Remember, the Chinese are not the only one speaking up against MACC and the police. Anwar, Zaid and Razaleigh spoke up against the MACC action too. Of course, Umno now probably label them as Chinese or Indians by now.

It seems like ever since the humiliating 'defeats', after March 8, 2008, Umno has still not learned their lesson and still trying to rule through racial divide even now. This bunch of maggots has done nothing to benefit for the growth of Malaysia and only the growth of their pockets. They are in fact the disgrace of Malaysia and they are the one who can truly be labeled as public enemy of Malaysia.



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