'We, the public, will decide whether it is authentic. Datuk T, what have you got to lose? Why set up a commission? The Sarawak polls will be over by then.'
Experts: Possible but tedious to doctor a video
Keturunan Malaysia: First thing first, send the sex video clip to a known reliable independent experts to verify:
a) If it has indeed been untouched
b) If the person is in fact Anwar Ibrahim beyond all reasonable doubt
What is stopping Datuk T? Why must he be so nice to Anwar? And how come Datuk T can come out openly, show the video, threaten Anwar and still continue to do so without the authorities at least affording him the safety of confining him under the Internal Security Act?
Abil: Datuk T, put the video on Youtube. We, the public, will decide whether it is authentic. Don't waste time, what have you got to lose? Why set up a commission? The Sarawak election will be over by then.
Kit P: The expense of doctoring a video is hardly an issue. The guy who could spend on Carcosa Seri Negara hotel for the slick premier event obviously has ample resources behind him. No prizes for guessing what his motives are.
Geronimo: Okay, maybe it is hard to doctor a film. Haven't you heard of stand-ins? Hollywood use stunt men to stand in for the main star. They will dress alike, walk alike and talk alike but normally done with the image in the distant. No close up shots have ever been seen.
You get someone with the height of Anwar, wearing a pair of specs and spot a goatee and a beard. The body movement has been rehearsed thoroughly so it will look unmistakably Anwar. This can be done by watching the many videos of Anwar enough to impersonate him. The film has blur images.
Now what does that tell you? The police should do the following:
1. Arrest those responsible for possession of pornographic materials;
2. Arrest all the reporters for being an audience to the screening of this porno video;
3. Charge the management of Carcosa Seri Negara for allowing its venue to be used to "premier" the show; and
4. Charge the culprit for libel/blackmail.
Anonymous_408d: "If they can make 'Avatar', they can make anything" - this was Dr Mahathir Mohamad said when he accused the US of staging the 9/11 attacks. If they could come up with such a piece of absolutely brilliant technical wizardry like ‘Avatar', then anything can be made, including this poorly executed video supposedly showing Anwar with a prostitute.
Those gangsters and this shameless old man will stop at nothing to try and bring Anwar down. It is almost laughable that they are so terrified of him. Mahathir never thought that when he made the statement, "If they can make 'Avatar', they can make anything", that it could one day be used to defend his mortal enemy, Anwar.
As for the cost of making such a work of fiction, their desperation is so evident that cost will be no object. And this Datuk T or whatever, should make his identity known if he has the guts to stand behind his "discovery".
Anwar lodges police report on sex video
Ma'arip: The sodomy case, allegations of extramarital sex and the many accusations against Anwar give the impression that Malaysians have high standards: that our judiciary is efficient in taking action and that crimes irrespective of how big or small are tackled.
But the fact is, the opposite is true. Bigger crimes are ignored, including murder, mega-corruption, payoffs, and lots more.
Gerard Samuel Vijayan: Pakatan Rakyat should just forget about the video. It has no credibility at all.
Concentrate on Sarawak - expose the corruption and abuses, the cheating, oppression and subjugation of the natives, the native customary rights land grabs, the rape of Penan girls and women, the lack of development and basic amenities after 48 years of BN rule, breaches of the 18-Point Agreement, oil revenues, the extension of ketuanan Melayu to Sarawak at the expense of the natives, the Dayak/Ibans becoming second-class citizens in their own land and now the explosive 'Al-Kitab' issue and religious intolerance from Kuala Lumpur.
This is enough to sink the BN cabal. If they want to raise personal issues and morality - Pakatan should just expose the morality of the BN leadership, from women to booze, gambling and fornication.
To this, add the murder of Altantuya Shaariibuu and the "actress incident" in Port Dickson. The rakyat are just fed-up with all the political sleaze coming from the BN.
Nicholas Lim: Let's put DSAI (Anwar) aside for the moment and let's look at Malaysian law which I believe should be of paramount importance. The actors in yesterday's show has already admitted culpability to various offences from possessing and distributing obscene material, possessing stolen goods ( Omega watch) and criminal intimidation (resign now or else).
Why were the prime minister and home minister so quick to deny police involvement? Well, with senior 'government' newspaper editors there to view the clip, there is no way the police were not aware that these criminal acts were taking place in Carcosa. Why the inaction?
Shouldn't the police be interested in getting their hands on the video? And notice the timing, the video was shot on Feb 21 and only now shown to the public on the same day Abdul Taib Mahmud dissolved the Sarawak legislature. So this must be the 'secret weapon' Sarawak Deputy Minister Dr George Chan was boasting on his return to Sarawak from KL after meeting the PM.
Pants on Fire: When and where will all this end? My foreign colleagues are wondering if the Malaysian government ever think of policies and how to run the nation better?
They say Malaysia is the only country where newspapers are used by government to pour filth on their political enemies. They are now convinced that BN is all out to get Anwar, by hook or by crook. One Australian colleague told me he is sad for Malaysia - a beautiful country with lousy leadership.
Not Confused: As a Brit, I sit on the sidelines here and am really entertained by the antics of the idiotic government that you have here. Why people here continue to vote for the corrupt, arrogant and pathetic BN politicians is a complete mystery to me.
The connivance by the ruling party is so blatantly obvious, but the apathetic electorate continue to support BN like zombies. Given Anwar's current sodomy trial (yet another farce perpetrated by the government to cling to power), he would be stupid to engage in such an activity as purported on this concocted video.
But of course, those involved in the government are so blinded by arrogance that they will not see what is obvious for those watching with intense interest and black humour.
On your toes: Home Minister Hishammuddin Hussein and the police have declared they are not aware there was a porno show in that posh hotel, Carcosa Seri Negara. They don't know who Datuk T is and all the nincompoop journalists who attended the porno session were also not aware who he is because, according to them, he wore dark glasses.
So the police will not know where to begin - case close due to insufficient evidence to charge anyone. Nincompoop viruses are spreading fast, so now we have nincompoop journalists and hotel keepers besides the police and the home minister.
LittleGiant: The so-called Datuk T should be charged for screening obscene material to the media and for being in possession of stolen goods. I believe the police knew about the screening and were told not to interfere.
What if it was about a politician from BN? I am very sure the police would have acted swiftly to stop the screening and would have gone to great lengths to protect the 'actors' in the video clip. No doubt about that.
Anonymous_3fc4: PM Najib must be trembling in his pants of Anwar Ibrahim's take over of Putrajaya. What other reasons are there for all these allegations to surface at a time when the Sarawak's state assembly has been dissolved in preparation for the state elections?
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