WHY IS THE MACC UNDER ATTACK NOW??

At first people had high hopes on the newly minted MACC (formerly ACA) -given their additional powers etc.to fight CORRUPTION. But before it can make any impact, the MACC is already under seige. Not only by the Opposition which we all can fully understand but also by the ordinary man on the street! Why? These are the reasons.

First, MACC like its predicessor goes after the ikan bilis or corruption cases involving MR 2,500 up to MR 50, ooo at most. e.g the PKR exco members in Selangor. Even the DG of Immigration is an ikan bilis case. MR 60, 000 only. WHEREAS Corruption involving hundreds of million ringgit had been going on in the Immigration for a long time. Why MACC doesnt go after previoous DGs'?? Their pockets were full and their bank accounts under nominees or overseas are fat. Difficult to get evidence is it? BULL SHIT Or they are prevented or just CLOSING ONE EYE as they say

. Second, they go only after Opposition more seriously than Government, the latter they will try to delay as long as possible. But for the opposition they took action YESTERDAY

. Third they do not set any PRIORITY on their investigation work. After all they have limited resources (money and manpower). They must prioritise their tasks FOCUSSING on the SHARKS than the IKAN BILIS. This will have the greatest IMPACT to their reputation

Fourth, they are not PROACTIVE. They only act after formal reports are made. This is most stupid and most ineffective. Go after those WHO LIVE BEYOND THEIR MEANS, THOSE WHO HAD ACCUMULATED ASSETS BEYOND THEIR DECLARED SOURCES OF INCOME. Dont tell us you cannot IDENTIFY who they are ? especially RETIRED GOVERNMENT SERVANTS! those previously in the Ministry of Internationa;l Trade and Industry, The Customs, the Immigration The JPJ. These Departments are GOLDMINES for the CORRUPT. Remember the Chinese proverb, when the fish gets rotten it ALWAYS STARTS FROM THE HEAD and from there spread to the rest of the body. Our advice to the MACC staff just go and put your ears on the ground and do a bit of MOOCHING around a bit, in otherwords be PROACTIVE. I bet you get a lot of INFO and STORIES which can become the basis for your investigation. You should also try those inside, the INSIDERS, as they say especially thos who are real honest but can see things happening infront of their eyes but SCARED to do anything lest their RICEBOWLS will be broken!! There are many HONEST people there. Only the few bad hats that spoil the organisation

Fifth, they appear to be "SELECTIVE" in their investigations when it comes to high profile personalities, like senior politicians, high ranking corporate executives and high ranking public servants. In this regard we must remember thos senior government servants at the Secretary General or the Director General, they are very pally with not only the tiop people at the MACC but also the Attorney General and his senior staff and to some extent some of the judges even. So you can draw your conclusion why so "" to make a case against any of them in that category. You scratch my back and I scratch Yours is their Motto.

Can we blame the MACC entirely for the above? Not entirely. We must remember the MACC is a Government agency, its staff paid by the government. Their "Tuan" or Boss is the government in power. They can try to be "professional" as we believe many of its staff are, but at the end of the day the piper that pays will call the tune. To think that the Head of the MACC or the no 2 or 3 are not under the inflence of the Government is WISHFUL THINKING. So you can conclude to WHAT EXRENT they can be totally independent. But we dont blame. But if they STICK to their PRINCIPLES they should not bow to political pressure or influence irrespectice from which side of the political divide they come from

WHO DECIDES A CASE IS CORRUPT BEFORE AND AFTER IT GOES TO COURT/

In my last blog I highlighted why one man's meat can be another man's poison. The Kasitah Gadam corruption case is another classic example of this phenomena. He was a Minister in Tun Mahathir's Cabinet and was accused of corruption on some share dealings during his time. But according Tun Mahathir, Kasitah was not corrupt and that is why no action was taken on him . He said this in his statement to the press following the verdict given by the Court on this case recently. Kasitah was charged during the previous administration. And the trial went for years before coming with the verdict.

The obvious question to ask is why is the action to prosecute Kasitah taken only during the previous administration or alternatively why do the two administrations see or view this case so diametrically opposed to one another? After all both are BN led governments. Why the double standard? Are we saying that corruption like "beauty" depends on the eyes of the beholder? Or whether a case is classified as "corruption" or otherwise depends on the person who has the last say!!. If this is the rule of the game then power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. In this case we will be doomed in no time

How can we change the public perception that the government is not "corrupt" when they see the absence of transparency and glaring double standard being practised. Of course one can say , yes we bring the alleged wrongdoer to court but the latter found him innocent. To me the "procedural issue" is not important. But what is important and should be questioned by every one is why the double standard used by the same government! When confronted by such a case involving high profile individuals and millions of ringgit, procedure or form is not important simply because wrong things can be done for the right reasons!!

Nevertheless we shared Tan Sri Kasitah's happiness for being acquitted after bearing all the trials and tribulations during these years, but can now put all behind him. He said he is going to perform the UMRAH after this, Alhamdullillah

As a reminder to all of us as Muslims, we can hide our wrong doings in this world and even escape punishment from the "Human" Courts because we have lawyers and witnessess to help us. BUT NOT in the Court of the Almighy in the world hereafter, because there you have no lawyer to fight for you or witnesses to help you. Your lawyer is your tongue and your witnesses will be your eyes, ears, hands and the rest of your body. You cannot hide any fact or evidence or use any alibi because every part of your body will tell the truth and nothing but the truth. And you cannot say anymore "So Help me God" as you would swear in the witness box

I leave these thoughts for the coming of the holy month of Ramdhan!!

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FOOD FOR THOUGHT

So much had been said and written on the death of Teo Beng Hock. The key question to be asked is WHO is really interested in finding out the truth on the cause of his death? The truth is only Teo's's family. They have lost their beloved son and no one can ever know or fathom their sufferings except they themselves. And they want whoever was responsible be punished

The rest is immaterial. The DAP has its own agenda and so is the MCA . As for the government it has to do the needful. The fact is the real truth if at all can be uncovered might become abitter pill to swallow for which no one is prepared to face. If any party is implicated like a political party for example, that party is doomed be it the DAP, the MCA, Gerakan or UMNO. But among these parties DAP and MCA appear to be competing to take the centre stage to become the champion for the late Teo Beng Hock. The STAKES must be very high

With modern technology and sophistication in investigative techniques, the truth can be established with relative ease. In fact the truth can also be tailored to meet certain objective, by doing the wrong thing for the right reason. THIS is the DILEMMA we are facing to day. One man's meat is another man's poison. Yes we want the truth but the truth hurts and it may hurt many people. We know that A is corrupt and we can go all out to prove that A is corrupt. But we wont because the bottomline is too much a risk to bear. This is what in fact has been going on in this country. High profile cases, be it murder, corruption or whatever where the stakes are high and where it connects so many people THAT MATTER, THEY ALL usually end up in much ado about nothing

Do you want to bet that the Royal Commission will come with anything DECISIVE? An international private investigator once wrote in his book that for politically complicated or high profile cases and to a certain extent Judicial cases, the modus operandi of investigation or prosecution as the case may be is NOT to start from the beginning but to DECIDE first and formost what should be the OUTCOME. In short the FINAL outcome that we want. We here can refer to the power that be or Mr X or Organisation Y. that will finally CALL THE SHOT. Having done that, you mobilise and put all your resources in place to work and every step of the investigation or process must be MONITORED to ENSURE that they all JIVE together towards the ULTIMATE OUTCOME. If for some reason that there is possibility of slippage or deviation along the way that can threaten and DERAIL the final outcome, then the parameters must be changed and the actors must take action immediately. Use whatever means because the ends justify the means. And so the process goes till the end when in fact it is already known.

Just think and ponder on this!!

TUN MAHATHIR WAS CALLED "CROOK"

Many must have read the New Straits Time early this week when Minister in the Prime Ministers Department Dato' Seri Nazri Aziz called Tun Mahathir, the ex IGP Tun Hanif and the ex AG Tan Sri Talib Osman "crooks". To be fair, amongst the three, the most deserving to be called crook is Tun Mahathir. In fact he had been called a "Firaun" which is even more degrading when he was Prime Minister. If everyone can recall the http//members.tripod.com/~mahazalimtwo that ran for years in the internet calling him Firaun or Mahazalim interchangeably. The non Malays may not be that familiar with Firaun which is the Pharoah during ancient Egypt. Remember the film the Ten Commandments. There the Pharoah played by Yul Brynner was not only a dictator par excellence but also annointed himself as God. And we knew his fate. He met with a tragic death on the seabed of the Red sea whilst he and his chariots were in pursuit of Moses and his people crossing the Red sea to escape from the Pharoah's tyranny.

As for the ex AG Tan Sri Abu Talib Osman, he probably deserved it given his important role in the dismissal of Tun Salleh Abbas the former Chief Justice, as a consequence of which our judiciary 's reputation and hence public confidence towards it went down the drain and has not fully recovered until this day. Of course as a civil servant he must have been directed by his superior. To add salt to injury! we have the Lingam Tape debacle on the judiciary

As for the Ex IGP, Tun Hanif, he does not deserve to be called a crook. Although I must say that it is not usual for an ex Head of the Police to become the Chairman of a "Gambling" company. I dont think this happened anywhere in the world!

You may not realise that the process of Karma or as the Muslims believe in the power on the Will of God, many of the wrongdoings committed by our leaders in the past, whether politicians or otherwise are slowly coming out in the open no matter how much they tried to hide them from the public. Every day we see one episode after another being exposed through the Will of the Almighty like the recent collapse of the stadium in Trenggannu and before that the Klang Free Trade Zone project. And what is next? Whatever it is it will come out sooner or later.

And the Rakyat want those responsible to be PUNISHED. And if the Government still dilly dally and take no action, more troubles will brew because God is Great and the Rakyat had been suffering in silence for a long time because of CORRUPTION, NEPOTISM and CRONYSIM and they also prayed day and night for FAIRNESS, TRANSPARENCY and HONESTY to prevail in the country so that everyone irrespective of race and religion will have an even playing field to earn their living.

If they are driven to the wall and their patience taxed to the maximum limit they may just exercise their last weapon against the Government, which is the "BALLOT BOX"

And for UMNO here is a lesson. As long as UMNO continues to align itself with Tun Mahathir or look upon him as its "saviour" this will be the beginning of UMNO's demise. In the Bukit Gantang by election, one voter came out openly that he wanted to vote for BN but because Mahathir went there to campaign he gave his vote to Pakatan Rakyat. Again in the Manik Urai election, UMNO must be very careful who they choose as their candidate s as not to choose the wrong one. In this case BN the candidate in his interview with the press after the election in response to the question who is his most admired leader- he replied Tun Mahathir. That sort of reply can only come from a moron or someone who is very "taksub" to a personality cult. In such circumstances and forum, he should never convey his "personal" feelings. After all he is put there by UMNO as a candidate and hence whatever he says must reflect the party's platform and conscience. I believe if Mahathir went there to campaign, the BN loss will be even bigger

TUN MAHATHIR'S HYPOCRACY

Whether you realise or not, Tun Mahathir always gives the impression that he dislikes publicity. In his speech at one of his birthday's parties recently, he wants to liken himself as a retired general whereby he would fade away slowly. But "How can I do that when you all keep asking me all the time and inviting me to functions?", he told his audience



Come on Tun, deep inside your heart, you want this all the time especially after you left the pinnacle of power. You had been so used to be in the limelight for more than two decades and it is not easy to adjust. You must be feeling like hell during Abdullah's regime when neither the press nor the TV gave any space nor coverage for you!!. And smartly, as cover up to your predicament, you purposely left UMNO when deep inside, you did not want to do that because you do want to come back! You always do the OPPOSITE of what you want just to confuse people. And true enough, as soon as Pak Lah left and Najib took over, you rejoin UMNO and since then you make yourself to be in the limelight at every opportunity. When there is no issue, you can create one just to draw public attention even criticising the Government to earn such publicity. For you as a Michavilean the ends always justify the means. Your thirst for publicity sometime surpassed that of the Prime Minster or the Deputy Prime Minister.



If you are really sincere to become the retired general as you wish, our advice to you is very simple - just refuse to accept whatever invitation or stop entertaining any request for an interview!! Better still you relinquish your positions in the PM Leadership Foundation and Petronas Advisor to someone else., because you have been leveraging on these two institutions so much. Is that so difficult to do? Its all your decision you know. I believe the PM will be more than happy to accept your resignation! If you dont believe you just try and see whether the PM will ask you to reconsider. I bet my bottom dollar, he will accept your resignation within 24 hours



The fact is you want publicity to serve your agenda. Why pretend otherwise, because that is HYPOCRACY of the highest order. In all fairness people wont mind listening to you once in a while. The fact is that majority of the rakyat had discounted you long time ago, including UMNO although UMNO members still show their respect - just being polite a true reflection of a genuine but not half baked Malay ettiquet. We dont think they welcome you or want you to meddle in their affairs.



And we know, you will continue to solicit help subtlely of cource from your corporate cronies to organise what ever functions you want to keep you in the public limelight. And they would not mind since you have helped them to become tycoons. Few of them were nobody in the corporate world before but through your help they have become your successful cronies To them it is pay back time

TUN MAHATHIR WILL NEVER GET OFF THE RADAR SCREEN

Soon after the DPM's announcement on the PPSMI issue, Tun Mahathir is so quick to give his comments. He is not happy at all and blamed the PM. He is not happy because he is the man who started this policy. He did it on his own, never consult the educationists because he thinks he is not only better than anybody else in this country but he also believes that he is always right all the time. Hence he just cannot stand anything that goes against what he had done. This time he made a mistake. The government acknowledged that and so are the others that matter most

But the above is a moot point. What is more important is that he is in the limelight all the time even more than the PM or the DPM. Why does the Government give so much face, we fail to understand. We dont understand why the DPM has to brief him on this PPSMI issue. He is no longer in the government, unless of course the whole Cabinet is subservient to him which we believe is not. Or is he contemplating of becoming a Minister Mentor like Lee Kuan Yew?

The Tun will continue attacking the Government. This is his STRATEGY and his best line of Defence. He had also said members in the UMNO MKT are corrupt and indirectly saying that the government too is corrupt and again not doing enough to fight corruption

Yes this country since Tun Mahathir became PM had been plagued by corruption NOT BEFORE HIM and we seem helpless to resolve it effectively, with so many obstacles along the way. Sometimes we really wonder who really the pepetrators are because we seem to get into a "vicious circle" everytime we want to pin down corruption especially at high places or involving high profile personalities.

I happen to ask an old government servant who used to serve during the colonial days, how he thinks the government should go about reducing or eliminating corruption in this country given the state we are now. He is also blank BUT he did suggest one thing though which we all should ponder and think seriously. And we believe more so for the powers that be. According to him, based on what he saw happening in Indonesia, we should follow their action whereby they really went all out right to the top to investigate even up to the level of President Suharto. And they succeded. When I asked why, he said as soon as this happened in Indonesia, everyone becomes free and daring to go all out to tell all or to spill the beans. Before they dared not for fear of victimisation especially their safety. But that exists no more when the top man in the country is nabbed. But most important according to him is that it sent out an EFFECTIVE SIGNAL to the Indonesian people that government there means business when it come to corruption. Oh yes I forgot one thing. They also changed the Government.

WHY THE FUSS ABOUT KHIR TOYO NEW MANSION

The New Straits Times and Star's front page carried the picture of Khir Toyo's mansion in Shah Alam.The two papers are closely aligned to UMNO and MCA respectively. Actually no big deal! But for Khir Toyo this may possibly signal his exit.Question is why only pick Khir Toyo.There are so many out there who are like Khir Toyo - living beyond their means, like recently retired government servants, politicians, ADUNs and MP's including Ministers! The public knows who they are BUT they are helpless to do anything.They know they are CORRUPT to live like that.

The newly minted MACC cannot do anything either about these people because no EVIDENCE. Isn't living unbelievably beyond one's means which you can see with your own eyes IS ENOUGH EVIDENCE AND PROOF already?. If the MACC is going to wait for a formal signed report,forget it. No one will want to stick their neck out. Not only you are not protected, what do you get out of it anyway? So the CORRUPT will continue to enjoy because the Authorities are taking the attitude " Si Luncai terjun dengan labu labu nya" BIAR KAN BIARKAN !! Even in the Khir Toyo case, I bet nothing will come out of it. Just look at the "lingam Tape" debacle, until now NOTHING! It shows the Government will tolerate CORRUPTION if the consequences of takling action will bring more problems than benefits!

They dare not put away Ali Rastam BUT they did for Isa Samad, both Menteri Besar. Now we want to see how they will deal withKhir Toyo

The Government cannot go on fooling the people. The present Government must DELIVER what they promised in terms of TRANSPARENCY and INTEGRITY and should never follow Mahathir's "Cakap tak serupa Bikin" The BN and UMNO will suffer in the next election. The Rakyat are no longer stupid. They are now WELL INFORMED fed by the altenative media on information what is happening in the country and what their LEADERS ARE DOING. This is now happening not only in urban areas but the message has spread deep into the kampongs and all parts of rural Malaysia.

Until and unless the Government shows it means business to deal with all the corrupt issues that have been brought by the people in a decisive and resolute manner, and just not doing it selectivly, the government is just digging its own grave and dont be surprised BN may become an opposition party comes the next general election. Change now OR you will be changed. This has been the war cry of UMNO. Prove it