I think it’s inept to say that ‘politicians will be politicians’ and also that ‘an incident is politicised’. Some incidents are harder to politicise than others. LKS even saw assassins in a punctured tyre not so long ago. The fact remains that a political aide from his party was found dead on the premises of a government agency who could – not unfairly – be said to be focussing their efforts on the Opposition, when they should be non-partisan. If the head of the MACC had been outraged, or leaders of the government had been outraged, at the time when the fellow’s apparently outrageous death was first revealed, Pakatan Rakyat wouldn’t have been able to make nearly as much political capital as they have.
To call for PR to ‘channel their energies into serving the people in unity with the government’, while it appears government organs may be involved in the death of their assistants and explicitly don’t give a siht, is worse than insulting.
I too want a credible report of what has happened and continues to happen, but ‘wait and see lah’, when all we’ve seen before is inexplicable death and cover-ups that wouldn’t fool a child, does not count as ‘credible’.
I wonder how many people have to die before imranj78 considers holding candles as not ‘dis-proportionate’. Either a ratio of deaths/candle or a floor number of deaths before candles are proportionate will do. Perhaps he could come to some sort of consensus with SpeakUp and adapt his ‘eye for an eye’ to a contemporary Malaysian setting substituting ‘political aides’ and ‘candle’ for ‘eye’ as appropriate. I expect there’s plenty of time before BN kills your father or rapes your sister – you’re right, things could be worse, eh?

My sister had frequent terrible rows with our mother when we were both teenagers. I clearly remember one particularly intense row when my sister stormed up the stairs, only pausing long enough to shout “and you always have to have the last word!“, which made my mothers face twitch visibly. She managed several seconds before shouting up the stairs “No I don’t!”

I don’t know what reminded me of that.

Are Malaysian’s fair?
They look dark to me, but I wouldn’t give the benefit of the doubt to anyone who did what you’ve just done to an apostrophe.

You’re being obtuse, or worse. I can’t remember the exact circumstances of the “Come back here you murderer” thing, but I have a similar opinion of that incident as I do of the recent ejection of Toyo for “calling into question the bias of the Speaker”. Malaysia has the most incompetent public servants I have ever witnessed. Either politicians are free from threat to say what they feel needs to be said, or they’re not. By all means, call each other ‘blooyd batsards’ or laugh at the female mps for leaking, but after order is called, sit down and resume. Is an apology actually needed? I’m not sure about that. If a member won’t respond to a call for order, then suspend him.

Gobind was echoing the suspicions of many, which the government has manifestly failed to lay to rest. Regardless of what the truth is in the case of the exploding model, many don’t believe that justice is being done. Gobind merely summarised that feeling.

‘Black Blog’ is catchy, isn’t it? The media have already picked that blog up. In the perennial information vacuum that is Malaysia, it’s as credible as any other source. LKS dismisses it lightly at his peril. If he doesn’t place any importance in the online medium, who will?

Onlooker Politics, please don’t make forecasts like that, not after the Prophet Ronnie Liu’s most accurate recent warning.

It’s just a shame this blog doesn’t come with glasses of beer. The complementary nuts could be better too.