vox populi small thumbnail 'It was not bribery. Can you bottle 'change, reformasi' or the Teoh Beng Hock and Port Klang Free Zone issues and pass it on to them to live on?'

'Rural folk easier to bribe': Tian Chua gets drubbing

Dan: It's not bribery, Tian Chua. They have families to feed and children to send to school. Can you bottle 'change, reformasi' or the Teoh Beng Hock and Port Klang Free Zone (PKFZ) issue and pass it on to them to live on?

And, aha, yes Isa Samad was found guilty, that is not new. He was suspended for money politics. There was no trial and no way to defend it. But that is another story.

Tian Chua, tell me please, have you all disassociated yourselves from Zaid Ibrahim? He - like Isa - was suspended for money politics. But since he joined PKR, well, he is 'okay' lah .

Ezilan: BN has kept the majority of the population - especially in East Malaysia - in a state of artificial poverty and depressed their incomes through their crony capitalism.

Then again and again during elections, they use government machinery to promise to uplift these people from the poverty which they themselves created!

This insidious game has been going on since forever.

Cheah Hooi Giam: It is disappointing that someone who belongs to a political party that claims to be unlike the BN, is behaving more and more like them.

Tian Chua, your arrogant and patronising comments about a section of your fellow Malaysians (in this case rural folks) is shameful. If you can't expound anything logical other than your own stereotyped views of your fellow Malaysians, keep your mouth shut.

Kgen: It's not about stereotyping rural folks. What Tian Chua is actually saying is that economically disadvantaged people are more susceptible to vote bribery. But many of the poor people also happen to be rural folks so Tian Chua made a generalisation about rural and urban voters.

He should have chosen his words more carefully but he later explain it as an economic issue: "It is not race but rather the social economics of the people. The poorer ones are less educated and more susceptible to material gains and intimidation."

Dr M: Najib should intervene in MCA crisis

Malayamuda : The MCA members are mature enough to settle their own mess. They don't need an outsider to settle MCA matters. If Umno sacks its deputy president again, will it be okay for MCA and MIC to intervene for ‘the sake of BN'?

Thomson Fletcher: Dr Mahathir, you are no longer popular and your opinions are no longer accepted (even by Prime Minister Najib Razak). You should not create problems but remain silent honourably.

Garuda: Look at what Chua Soi Lek has done to the party. He has created chaos rather than rejuvenating the party. Chua has brought about more damage to the party. Chua is a total disgrace. Why has it to end up in such a way that the PM has been urged to meddle in MCA's politics?

All this wouldn't have happened if Chua has withdrawn from the party. He is a power-crazy politician.

SW Chia: Ong Tee Keat, whatever the opinion from any leader is not important. You must decide as it is you that going to change the history. If you leave now, then the corrupt officials of the Port Klang Free Zone (PKFZ) scandal will be the winners.

I hope you will stay and make those corrupt guys pay for what they stole from the people under the pretext of the PKFZ project. Stay and fight as you must save what you had started to save. Fight for justice and be brave and strong to weather gossip and fight for your dignity.

Wife to home minister: Where is my husband?

Victor Johan: Who is this Bangsar Shan? If he is an 'undesirable' character involved with thugs, etc, then at least a statement like, ‘He is alleged to be involve in underground activities' or something like that.

This statement should come from the police and also P Uthayakumar. The rakyat have the right to know the true events.

If this is the case, the police should use a lawful way to arrest and charge him. Even a crook has the right to a fair and just trial. So charge him upon due investigations.

No, don't use the ISA, that's draconian. This country is not a police state, and the police should not treat it as one. I sincerely hope the police are not using the thugs to carry out their work to maintain law and order.

V David: Vigilante action does not do anyone any good. The state must follow the law. If we take the law into our hands, one day you and I who are law-abiding will meet the same fate -just vanish into thin air. Is that okay with you?

Suhaimi Said: So, what's the police action going to be? Just saying that the police did not arrest this man is not good enough. The police have to do something, and do it with might and urgency.