vox populi small thumbnail 'Those who were killed are all Malay, but Ibrahim Ali keeps quiet, while Perkasa only talks about the survival of their political bosses.'

Police to propose inquest into Glenmarie shooting

Wcp: An inquest only now despite the shooting having taken place in November last year. I suppose this is one way of saying, "We are now opening a case and start to investigate the shooting".

If there is no public outcry, no investigation would be required. The case would be stamped as ‘no further action'?

Ankswak: Those who were killed are all Malay, but Ibrahim Ali keeps quiet, while Perkasa only talks about the survival of their political bosses.

Righteous: All the perpetrators and victims are Muslims, yet not a whimper from the Muslim lawyers. It's another case of the ‘other races' taking care of the down-trodden Malays under Umno rule.

Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng can relate his story where he campaigned on behalf a Muslim minor against a Muslim predator-lately-turned-porno-peddler. Zahid Hamidi, better start a wing in Umno that can come to the aid of such people.

Ferdtan: Don't the enlightened Malays get angry enough to put pressure on the police? Are lives of Malays so inconsequential? Where are the Malay NGOs? Where is Ibrahim Ali?

DNA: Seven months after the 'killing', and the police are still investigating? This shows the efficiency of the men in blue.

In fact, this is how most of the government servants work. Numerous public holidays, five-day weeks, annual leave, 'training' which is actually having a holiday, sitting in coffee shops stress-free - are these the reasons why youths are keen to work in the government?

Onyourtoes: Why do you need an inquest? The post-mortem reports are there for the attorney-general to make a decision on whether to charge the police officers involved.

Anonymous_40f4: The inquest is just to delay and hide the truth - playing for time to plan the cover-up and hoping the killing will be overtaken by other happenings and eventually forgotten so the killers can go free and live happily ever after.

The case of Teoh Beng Hock and Customs officer Ahmad Sarbani are good examples. The victims will only get justice if the Umno regime is booted out of Putrajaya.

My boss Taib is innocent, says PBB sec-gen

Lexicon: Parti Pesaka Bumiputra Bersatu (PBB) secretary-general Stephen Rundi asked, "Are you questioning me now?" Well yes, we are.

And you have squirmed and failed to provide any cogent answers. PBB, as a party, is culpable for Abdul Taib Mahmud's mismanagement since you have stuck by him and supported him unquestioningly for 30 years.

Anonymous_3e0b: Rundi, if you have nothing better to say just shut up. The whole country and many in other parts of the world are staring at your boss's magical hands in transforming the state from a resourceful country into the hands of few resourceful politicians.

Are you still daydreaming or just out to seek a name for yourself by championing your boss's innocence on the allegation?

Fairnessforall: Okay, so you believe he is innocent. Can you tell us exactly where he amassed all his wealth from. If you can't, then shut up and stop trying to fool the public. The whole world knows how corrupt your boss is.

Cinaputra: One look at the obscene opulence that Taib has amassed will tell you the ‘thief' minister is corrupt to the core. The billions he has is due to the astute business acumen of his daughter and son-in-law, he claims. What does he take us for? A bunch of idiots?

Methinks Rundi himself should be investigated if a dossier has not yet been opened on him. I bet you, he can't account for his assets. Meanwhile, the many poor in resource-rich Sarawak continue to eke out a living on a day-to-day basis.

Wira: Even the blind can see that Taib has a lot more wealth than what he earns on the salary of a chief minister. Stephen Rundi is not blind. He is simply a liar.

Anonymous_3ec6: When it concerns BN leaders, they are innocent until proven guilty, but if it concerns Pakatan Rakyat, the leaders are already guilty before having to prove it. Rundi, you are a classic apple polisher.

Lim Chong Leong: Let the authorities investigate, but who will investigate the authorities? When the whole system is corrupt, of course everyone will be ‘innocent'. No further action here, no further action there, you help me, I help you, all one big happy innocent family of corrupted evil beings.

Adcin: Even Prime Minister Najib Razak dares not say Taib is not corrupt because that will be like taking the rakyat for fools.

Monochrome: Sure, sure, and pigs can fly too.

One Malaysia, but three sets of registration rules

Atan-Toyol: If the case for a child's race in Peninsular Malaysia is up to the parents, why did a school in Ampang 'force' a certain student whose mother is Malay and father a Muslim non-Malay to adopt the 'other' category, when the mother insisted on using 'Malay' as the child's ethnicity?

After all, the family is Muslim, practices Malay culture and speaks Malay at home. And why is Dr Mahathir Mohamad allowed to use 'Malay' as his ethnicity, when his father was an Indian Muslim from Kerala?

His early records also used ‘s/o' (son of) after his name, followed by his father's name, Mohd Iskandar, although I stand to be corrected.

Ketuanan Rakyat: Malaysians must insist that they should not be classified under different races from now on. It is time to say ‘no' to ‘ketuanan Umnoputras' and ‘yes' to ‘ketuanan rakyat'.

The government is here to serve Malaysians and not the other way around. Enough of classification of people into different races.

Buffalo_Bill: It appears that Sabah practices the 1Malaysia concept without having to preach it, whilst Peninsular Malaysia preaches what it doesn't practice.

 

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