It appears that the deputy prime minister has suffered from a bout of amnesia over the Tajudin-MAS scandal, says a reader.

On No royal commission on MAS 'secret deal'

MC: Our deputy prime minister appears to have suddenly suffered a very quick mental blockage on Tajudin's revelation, and at the same time, he is equally quick to "rule out" a royal commission to investigate into the matter. One wonders why, and also whether it is for him to simply "rule out" the matter?

Starlight-Starbright: Someone must tell Najib to change his lifestyle by way of digging into his fading memory power; on his own volition. If this is too messy, then perhaps he should agree for the creation of the royal commission.

Its investigations should revive some bits of his memory. After all, Tun M has hinted the OSA should and could be lifted to accommodate this inquiry. Also, Najib has made the pronouncement just a few days ago in the mass media that civil servants should now speak up on such matters.

A lesson to be learned though is that the age of transparency and accountability has come into the Malaysian psyche like the tsunami visit in December 2004. Our leaders should be clever enough to realise this, and be wiser for it. So, try not to get caught with your pants down (again, that is).

On 22 questions for Dr M crosses the Causeway

Nari: I also have another question for Mahathir to answer. What is this latest thing on Tajuddin being the scapegoat of the two Tuns with regards to MAS?

MS Abdullah: Tun, why did you allow the sale of the 32% controlling interest in a highly profitable GLC, Hicom Holdings Berhad (Hicom) to the late Yahya Ahmad and Gang when in fact the full cost of the acquisition was extracted from the coffers of Hicom when it was forced to pay RM1.2 billion in cash for two of Yahya and Gang's controlled companies, namely ACM and USF, which were highly inflated in values?

At the time of the sale, Hicom had more than RM800 million in cash and more than RM3 billion worth of listed companies share which were all unencumbered.

On Anuar slams Suhakam

Lee: I disagree with the ex-human rights commissioner that the IPCMC should not be formed because there is currently a disciplinary section to take action on the police personnel though the section is not functioning well. When the people involved are not doing their duties or not bothered, then it is only logical that an independent IPCMC should be formed to oversee that the police force is in place.

Look at what was/is happening? Was there any big guy in the force being disciplined and sacked? Nothing of such news in the media. Therefore, I for one believe that IPCMC should be formed.

On Yet another video of school kids violence

Pissed-off Dad: The school bully issue is an old issue. If the minister of education and the headmasters/mistresses cannot handle it, they should have the dignity to resign and let a capable person(s) take over.

HJ Angus: Such incidents are the indications that Malaysia has become a sick society. Too many parents just spend too little time to nurture their children and often the TV and video games are the main pastimes. Often a child spends more than with the maid than with either parent as the pursuit of more and more money means that family time is sacrificed.

I expect that many of these children could have been the victims of abuse themselves and becoming part of a gang compensates for this. We also should encourage more male teachers as some of these boys lack a good male role model. I think we have about 80% female teachers in primary schools and we should work towards a maximum of 65%.

On RM360 mil compensation: Kit Siang says M'sians made 'suckers'

Pttan: Same tactic as used in road tolls. Have a high figure, then back down to a lower figure so that someone higher up can claim the moral high ground for work done.

On AG to Hindu group: Chase police for reports

Peter Ooi: It is rather sad that our Hindu brethrens have to plead with various authorities in order that their temples are not demolished. What makes it even sadder is that many of the temples that were demolished were more than 100 years old.

They were demolished to make way for new projects and roads. I do not object to new development. But to demolish old temples without any considerable thoughts to their heritage values is beyond comprehension.

In some countries if any trees, sheltering some endangered species of birds or animals, are standing on the path of new roads, the trees have to be spared. The roads have to be built round it. Now, here we have temples of more than 100 years being destroyed without considering its antique values and architectures of days gone by.

Most important is that after the temples are demolished, the Hindus are left without places of worship. And often they are not given any site for their temples. We use hear our leaders asking us to be sensitive to others religion. Here, I don't seem to see any sensitivity on the part of the authorities, especially to the Hindu temples.