Bloggers Must continue to dig out More ‘Dirts’ being swept
under the carpets!!!

Do it Without FEAR and PREJUDICE!! Tell the Whole the TRUTH,
Nothing But The Truth!!!

They will make it up as they go to suit their objectives and circumtances.

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All said and done, it is a move of desperation. With the GE coming, they are afraid of more revelations by Malaysia Today. More so when they cannot refute them. But they fail to realise that their desperate acts of repression only serves to raise more suspicions.

You seem to have enlighthened everyone in depth. Hope your comments will not stir the hornet’s nest… he he.

Thanks anyway friend for your well written comments.

Many people do not now believe in what is written in the mainline media. They turn to alternative news. It is important for alternative news to always be credible and rational in what they say so that they can be an effective hearing or rather reading by people.

In view of what UMNO is trying to do to RPK and Malaysia Today, it is important to set up a comprehensive blog that can direct anyone to all the alternative news that are responsible and credible.

Further, if one person can inform ten other persons of such alternative news/websites it will certainly help to make for a better informed Malaysian public. However, this is not to say that I believe all that is written in the alternative blogs either, as everyone has a different agenda of their own.

Blogging must go on! There must be free speech even though I may disagree with the views expressed.

Just a wee bit of correction here. They can so draft any new law to incorporate elements of strict liability which may mean one can be responsible (even vicariously) for things done outside one’s ambit of control.

I think the difficulty posed to the prosecutorial authorities must be that the host server is overseas. So where is the offence committed? Malaysians who post comments on CNN, BBC, NYTimes, Washington Post etc., even if seditious etc. can’t possibly be hauled up under any Malaysian law. Their audience and viewership is international. So, if my argument holds water, RPK’s blog could get off the leash just like it was CNN etc. The ‘offence’ against Malaysian laws ‘occured’ in USA or Europe or whatever… And the posters may well be foreigners too…and you can’t even bait those monkeys let alone drag them to our courts. But, of course, if RPK cooperates with the authorities and spills the IPs, then Malaysians who posted those incriminatory comments may suffer. That, God forbids, is most unlikely. RPK is too much of a Prince of INtegrity rather than a princeling of INjustice.

That much said, it behooves all posters to be careful not to overstep the boundaries of what’s fair and proper comment and to avoid anything inflammatory, sacrilegious, racist or regicidal.

I must take a parting shot at Nazri’s unwarranted and vehement outburst. One cannot help but pity his uncontrolled mouthful (which is typically NAzri. Remember his ‘racist! racist! racist! outburst in parliament and his infamous ‘bodoh! bodoh! bodoh! outcry? Wonder who is racist and who is ‘bodoh’, his law degree notwithstanding!). So, NAzri, taking RPK’s blog for instance, just tell us precisely what is wrong with his exposes or forever hold your peace.

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This is where the police comes in – to check out the claims, and arrest the wrong doers! Certainly not the messenger…

Here again main obstacle is RPK’s integrity. He may not want to play ball.

Then again it is the tenet of principle amongst the “thieves” [to borrow Godfather's favourite expression] that everyone can be bought at a price. The question is as always how much.

Some you have to pay a lot because the integrity/principle is very high up there but it still can be bought but you have to pay substantially more. Others less principled the price is cheaper.

Moral of the story – if you want to get rich fast and be bought : be a clever cyber gnat like RPK, have your sources, create alot of discomfort amongst powers to be but make sure they cannot latch unto any law to nail you but have to pay you off instead to silence you or work fior them against the Opposition by some lucrative contracts, packaged with datukship and other privileges symbolic of success in our feudal society!

The guarantee is for freedom of internet and freedom of expression within but even the international community and liberal voices in progressive jurisdictions would go that far to say that Freedom here may be translated into “absolute” freedom and license to spread falsehoods and harm others’ reputation and careers by defaming them via the Internet.

It has always been the case that even in progressive societies the quest is not for one desirable principle of Freedom of Speech only but also the freedom to be protected from harm of being unjustifiably defamed out of malice rather than fair comment!

Hence to make new laws to seek such a “balance” of the imperatives of Freedom of Speech against the Freedom to be protected from calumny of slander, libel and defamation may not necessarily be construed as a breach of Bill of Guarantee.

Besides, the present bunch of guys up there are more interested in what feathers their present nest than the past interest of Tun Dr Mahathir’s pet projects, whether MSC and Bills of Guarantee or Proton, Labuan offshore Centre, the Crooked Bridge to S’pore etc

So I think they would try make the laws but such laws will only have deterrent value to an extent but will not have the “teeth” to bite ie enforced effectively.

For the Internet, Blogs, postings made under anonymity and IP data stored in overseas servers pose very unique challenge and technical obstacle to any authority whether here (as they found in RPK) or in other more progressive western jurisdictions.

Even if you have such laws there is much difficulties to get tangible admissible evidence to satisfy the demands of legal due process in courts: to go all the way is such a protracted and costly process, that it is simply not worth the while from the practical stand point!

For reasons of which the drift in progressive jurisdictions is necessarily a decreasing emphasis on enforcing usual laws on defamation/libel that awards monetary compensation to those innocently victimized by libel in blogs or prosecution by criminal law against irresponsible bloggers – not because the laws are no more important or the need to protect the innocent against spurious allegations posted on the Net is no more relevant or desired but it is because of difficulty of enforcement due to difficulty or costliness of tracing the source and procuring evidence.

That is also why increasingly the emphasis is on the rights of response or reply by the individuals who were defamed on the very forum or even elsewhere to correct and dispel the offending allegation.

Meanwhile there is really little one can do to the likes of RPK who knows the score and the game of how to harness and leverage on the Internet. Round One of Mike Tyson versus RPK would go to RPK because Mike Tyson does not understand the unique challenges posed by Internet and that is way using hackneyed ways like raising Islam and King being disparaged by commenters against 3rd party like RPK only serves harassment value but has no “bite” in real terms of prosecuting him.

Police understands this : that is why the interrogators wasted 8 hours trying to get the IPs of the commenters from him in vain!

Yes, the best way to silence RPK and bloggers is still resorting to the Internal Security Act as what Undergrad2 mentioned but as I said ISA is no more in vogue and fashion to deal with Cyber dissidents who are viewed by readers/public as champions to expose corruption. By no means can a cyber dissident be considered an anti national element whether Communist, Triad leaders or Jemiah Islamiya that the draconian ISA is supposed to be used against!

To crack down on likes of RPK by OSA is then like seeking to hammer a small gnat that inflicts an itch that doesn’t go away with a huge mallet/sledger where the end result does not justify the means : one’s image is straightaway dealt a blow from domestic civil socioeties and opposition not to mention the international furore from Amnesty International and Transparency International etc crying “repression” and ranking Malaysia several notches again down their scale whilst meanwhile RPK in Kamunting will have more time to read and write and doing same damage though on a greater scale unimpeded with help from his ten servers overseas.

Even thieves need face.

It is obvious that they want to make him an example to other bloggers. Maybe test some of their new laws.

Will this go against the Bill of Guarantee that the internet shall not be censored to curb freedom of speech and expression?

MPs who claim to be the representatives of the Rakyat can afford to say controversial things in Parliament. All they have to do is to retract their statements and declared it as “personal views” or rather it should be treated as mere “humour” and they would be let off the hook.

Bloggers who are well perceived to be the people who voice out their personal opinions and sentiments over the net can now be DETAINED under some barbaric law such as the ISA/OSA, as their comments can influence and represent public opinion so that the majority of the people would know who to vote for in the next GE.

So should we now pledge and launch an official request to PM to sack all the ass licking dirtbags in Parliament and replace them with more influential bloggers?

Hoi, Encik Dollah! Kau masih tidur dan mimpi ke? Atau masih dalam bulan madu?