October 10, 2012
Good News the Bad as good as the Ugly
by Rom Nain (1o-08-12)@www.malaysiakini.com
After the integrate of weeks or so of unrelenting inanity, enough to have me wax lyrical (well, almost) in this column, you suspicion of writing something nice, inoffensive, light-hearted even, this week.
After all, dual Malaysian justice decisions this past week positively gave many of us reason to cheer.
The visualisation for the 5 ex-ISA detainees in the illegal apprehension fit they brought opposite the regime, for one, must have been the undiluted pick-me-up for many of us.
The KL High Court found which the 5 had been detained unlawfully as good as in bad faith in 2001 as good as reportedly awarded them 'RM15,000 each, for any day of their apprehension under Section 73 of the Internal Security Act, as good as RM30,000 any as aggravated damages'.
Altogether, in the Oct 2 judgment, 5 former ISA detainess, then
Reformasi activists, together with the irrepressible Hishamuddin Rais , PAS' Hulu Selangor assemblyperson Saari Sungib as good as PKR's Batu MP Chua Tian Chang, better good known as Tian Chua, were awarded the total of RM4 million.
There have been substantially those who might think which this is the big, even exorbitant, sum.But when you read the litany of abuses they had to go through in the hands of the authorities, which, according to their lawyer, inc! luded be ing 'shamed, done to shift their wardrobe in front of police personnel, done to travel barefoot in to the filthy toilet, interrogated for hours upon end as good as for the initial couple of days of detention, the Muslims between them were not allowed to perform their prayers', it would appear which RM4m is the rsther than reasonable sum. Small shift even.
Small shift indeed, when compared to, say, the amounts which apparently altered hands with the PFKZ scandal, the NFC debacle and, many certainly, the amounts quoted in the Scorpene case.
Of course, the system of administration might still interest the decision. But which will be an additional story.A day prior to this noted decision, nonetheless an additional square of good headlines had been perceived by the many Malaysians genuinely wanting reform.
This was The Kuala Lumpur High Court's decision to quash 'the Home Ministry's decision not to accede to the publishing permit to Mkini Dotcom Sdn Bhd, which operates the Malaysiakini headlines portal'.
It was the smashing square of news, especially since the ridiculous, stupid accusations hurled by the increasingly though the crony mainstream media during Malaysiakini just the couple of days before, between which were accusations which Malaysiakini was out to disintegrate the BN government.
In an roughly immediate, positively predictable, reply to the High Court verdict, Home Minister Hishammuddin Hussein announced which he was in foster of appealing the decision.
Baffling statements
Indeed, in dual! rsther than baffling statements since during the same press conference, the often-bewildering, if not himself bewildered, apportion is quoted by the respected Edge newspaper, as carrying initial said, 'on the personal basis, of course, you would similar to to see the matter appealed'.
Then, when reportedly asked the reason for rejecting Malaysiakini's interest in 2010, he had this to say: "I was not around during the timethis is the bequest issue, which is what happened before. [If you dwell upon the past], then you will not be able to move forward."
I do not know about you, though in my neck of the woods, this is what you would call the contradiction. And with this counterbalance not the initial of its kind by the jokers of this system of administration it looks as though Malaysiakini's problems removing the journal permit will continue.
But, as the crony in Vermont, USA, texted me, 'Celebrating even fleeting victories, though gloating over or making as good much of them, would appear important.'
The some-more critical point is which this story of Malaysiakini's problems was covered quite significantly in the abroad media, in, between others, the New York Times. Indeed, it was the headlines item in the NYT that prompted my Vermont crony to message me.
However, this being Malaysia, as good as with the elections only down the road, however long, hilly as good as circuitous it might appear for some, such happy headlines lend towards to be drowned out by quite pathetic ones.
The many odious story had to come from the state which for so prolonged was held in
awe for carrying produced 5 mythological warriors. Indeed, Malacca, according to the ever-changing history books, is eminent for the warriors 5 Hang! s, Tuah, Jebat, Lekir, Lekiu as good as Kasturi.
Tuah, especially, has prolonged been credited with carrying provided the rallying call which regularly warms the cockles of the ketuanan mob. Unfortunately, the repute of these 5 as proud Malay warriors has perceived the bit of the reversal lately, with the little historians asserting which they were some-more anticipation total than genuine ones, as good as others murmur shock, horror which they might not have been Malays after all and, may, instead, have had Chinese origins.
The Ugly: Ali Rustam outshines all
But all this pales in comparison to the repute of the current Chief Minister, (Hang) Ali Rustam, who seems to have sailed in to the storm with his Malaysian Book of Records (who follows that, you wonder?) wedding feast for his son.
A feast for 130,000 people no less, which Ali says cost him 'a mere' RM600k. Indeed, the feast which, according to an purported memo, was partly 'sponsored' in the form of apparatus as good as crew belonging to the Malacca state authorities.
God-given right to make use of office
Such, it would seem, is the warp bargain of what constitutes right as good as wrong in this country which when this story initial broke, the reply by those implicated in this intensity abuse of state services as good as personnel, was the single of indignation; which the people who were raising the complaints were simply 'jealous'.
Indeed, celebration of the mass through the reports, the single couldn't assistance though feel which this person similar to others in! his in front of of power believed which it was his God-given right to use, in truth abuse, his office, for his own gain.
This, many believe, is the inlet this system of administration has sunk too. Indeed, it has truly sunk so low which the head of the system of administration had the gall even some-more not long ago to give us all the harangue upon the need for leaders during all levels of society to quarrel corruption, during the time when whistleblowers similar to Rafizi Ramli and, of course, Suaram, have been being tormented as good as intimidated by his own regime's minions for you do only that.
What has turn of accountability, you might good ask? What, indeed, has turn of shame?
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