So many questions. On the question of why B. Anantha Kumar would solicit a bribe after publishing exposes on corruption in Malaysia's immigration department, seems rather naive. Why not, if one has more evidence of corruption that goes all the way to the top of Malaysia's renowned rotten-to-the-core immigration department. This is not to suggest Kumar had sought a bribe (reportedly MYR20,000).
What I cannot understand is why take the cache of cash in the hope of proving to a Malaysian immigration director that his department stinks like rotten eggs. In other words, given the long history of corruption in Malaysia that reeks from prime ministers and the Malay-dominant bureaucracy, through the entire Malaysian police force, even the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC), and all the way to the last man in the street, why trust a senior immigration officer on whatever promises he or she offers, but taking the position of trust no one in Malaysia's institutions?
Speak to, say, Filipino guest-workers in Malaysia, especially females, whose visa are due for renewal or who have overstayed their visas: They'll you how immigration officers demand no less than MYR10,000 -- cash, and some even regular casual sex -- in exchange for visa renewals. I also know of groups of street-based money-changers (Hindus and Indian-Muslims or 'mamaks' as they're known), as well as filthy-rich chettiar loan sharks, who spirit away loads of money to India and Pakistan and Bank Negara, the central bank, does not even blink. These crooks call it "remittance". It doesn't take an Einstein to know just how totally corrupt Malaysia is, including the country's business sectors, and that no one in Malaysia is trustworthy by even half an ounce.
Mr. Kumar was nabbed in a sting operation invented by the MACC. Would anybody trust the MACC with Zaam Baki as its chief? Not with a sampan pole, you wouldn't. I'll wager the operation was conducted with the full blessing of Malaysia's notorious home ministry, run by a complete dodo minister, Nasution, in conjunction with Malaysian immigration higher-ups. Mr. Kumar is the newest lesson to keep Malaysia's pathetic media in check, especially the online media, who, as everybody knows, has always been too meek, or too gutless, to press the regime and its insidious protective squads, questions that might unravel just how corrupt Malaysia's system of governance is -- despite Anwar Ibrahim's macho talk about good governance and open government. It's more bullshit from Anwar.
There are two ways of shutting up Malaysia's media, especially its lily-livered so-called journalists -- given them cash stuffed in envelopes, as some of The Star's so-called journalists have taken in the past, or jawbone them with threatening to use the anti-democratic or illiberal printing presses law that runs out of the piss-weak home minister's office. He, and the communications minister Fahmi, are Anwar Ibrahim's Madani Joseph Goebbels -- full or lies, deceit and without morality. So much for their devout Islamism.
I hope Mr. Kumar gets off scot-free. But I also do not trust Malaysia's judiciary one bit. It lives in the Anwar Ibrahim regime's pockets, just as it has in the past in the pockets of previous Malay regimes. Malaysia's judiciary is the Malay-state's political tool to undermine rights, truth and justice for Malay regime maintenance.
The blight isn't on Mr. Kumar but on Anwar Ibrahim and his goons throughout his incompetent institutions -- institutions he will not or never reform despite his wild and woolly promises.
So many questions. On the question of why B. Anantha Kumar would solicit a bribe after publishing exposes on corruption in Malaysia's immigration department, seems rather naive. Why not, if one has more evidence of corruption that goes all the way to the top of Malaysia's renowned rotten-to-the-core immigration department. This is not to suggest Kumar had sought a bribe (reportedly MYR20,000).
What I cannot understand is why take the cache of cash in the hope of proving to a Malaysian immigration director that his department stinks like rotten eggs. In other words, given the long history of corruption in Malaysia that reeks from prime ministers and the Malay-dominant bureaucracy, through the entire Malaysian police force, even the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC), and all the way to the last man in the street, why trust a senior immigration officer on whatever promises he or she offers, but taking the position of trust no one in Malaysia's institutions?
Speak to, say, Filipino guest-workers in Malaysia, especially females, whose visa are due for renewal or who have overstayed their visas: They'll you how immigration officers demand no less than MYR10,000 -- cash, and some even regular casual sex -- in exchange for visa renewals. I also know of groups of street-based money-changers (Hindus and Indian-Muslims or 'mamaks' as they're known), as well as filthy-rich chettiar loan sharks, who spirit away loads of money to India and Pakistan and Bank Negara, the central bank, does not even blink. These crooks call it "remittance". It doesn't take an Einstein to know just how totally corrupt Malaysia is, including the country's business sectors, and that no one in Malaysia is trustworthy by even half an ounce.
Mr. Kumar was nabbed in a sting operation invented by the MACC. Would anybody trust the MACC with Zaam Baki as its chief? Not with a sampan pole, you wouldn't. I'll wager the operation was conducted with the full blessing of Malaysia's notorious home ministry, run by a complete dodo minister, Nasution, in conjunction with Malaysian immigration higher-ups. Mr. Kumar is the newest lesson to keep Malaysia's pathetic media in check, especially the online media, who, as everybody knows, has always been too meek, or too gutless, to press the regime and its insidious protective squads, questions that might unravel just how corrupt Malaysia's system of governance is -- despite Anwar Ibrahim's macho talk about good governance and open government. It's more bullshit from Anwar.
There are two ways of shutting up Malaysia's media, especially its lily-livered so-called journalists -- given them cash stuffed in envelopes, as some of The Star's so-called journalists have taken in the past, or jawbone them with threatening to use the anti-democratic or illiberal printing presses law that runs out of the piss-weak home minister's office. He, and the communications minister Fahmi, are Anwar Ibrahim's Madani Joseph Goebbels -- full or lies, deceit and without morality. So much for their devout Islamism.
I hope Mr. Kumar gets off scot-free. But I also do not trust Malaysia's judiciary one bit. It lives in the Anwar Ibrahim regime's pockets, just as it has in the past in the pockets of previous Malay regimes. Malaysia's judiciary is the Malay-state's political tool to undermine rights, truth and justice for Malay regime maintenance.
The blight isn't on Mr. Kumar but on Anwar Ibrahim and his goons throughout his incompetent institutions -- institutions he will not or never reform despite his wild and woolly promises.