AAB says: “…bloggers are not immune from the law, whether their websites are hosted overseas or otherwise.”

Obviously there is more than one set of laws in Malaysia:
1) The laws of Parliament
2) The laws of UMNO
3) The laws of the PM.

It’s confusing as the people would never know which laws apply to whom, when, where and why.

The PM says: “…bloggers are not immune from the law, whether their websites are hosted overseas or otherwise” probably qualifies as one of the PM’s laws or UMNO’s laws. We see then how the police will hurry and scurry to interrogate people like YM Raja Petra Kamaruddin. Let’s see whether they arrest him under Parliament’s laws because that is the only law that the courts respect and enforce.

The PM’s laws and UMNO’s laws can be challenged in a court of law and then debunked. The danger, often enough, is that the PM’s laws and UMNO’s laws get enacted by a compliant Parliament where other component parties sit and gape sheepishly, holding out their rubber-stamp, with their arms outstretched and propped up by UMNO stalwarts for the seal of approval.

This is why such a Social Contract is untenable. So right-thinking Malaysians with a sound mind and an appropriate sense of decency must deny BN victory in the next GE.

BN must go. Vote DAP/PKR.

Justice would be seen to be done even if PM AAB spends just 8 minutes of interrogation by the Police rather than the 8 hours of ignominy RPK suffered. 2 reasons:

1) It’s unbecoming of a nation to subject it’s PM to any oral torture particularly on something so ‘remote’ because he has not visited his own blog in 2 years! PM’s blog must be so lonely (perhaps zero hits in monthly terms) because nobody discovered this scandalous posting until a good 2 years later; YB LKS included. HA, ha.

2) SO far as I understand there is no applicable law under a strict liability principle relating to bloggers in Malaysia. The question of any liability at all is even arguable based on RPK’s argument which seems to be in accord with the common laws in the Commonwealth unless….we like to cut our moorings to those sanctified ties that have kept our nation’s sanity.

BUT seriously, YB LKS, the people should just spare our beloved PM the ordeal. After all we all know he is no lawyer and is perhaps a friend of letters rather than a man of letters; he is possibly computer illiterate; and certainly there is no intention to be seditious at all. We should all be quite happy that, as penance for his oversight, the PM declares that all bloggers are free to blog and all comments within reasonable bounds of decency and fair comment are acceptable. Political commentary is fair game too. Gossip is inevitable when personalities choose to hush up even though challenged, as in RPK’s blogs. Those who feel victimised have all the avenues to seek redress through due process of the courts such as libel actions.

Society must be free to rout out evil camouflaged in religious skins or political colours. Blogs serve a wonderful role in this regard; RPK deserves special thanks for his investigative work. Nobody has yet come forward to sue or prosecute him or provide proof that he had perpetrated malicious lies. The AG cleared the IGP and former ACA Chief perhaps, as it appears, with the wave of a hand. Is the AG not obliged to say more on their exculpation considering that so much public heat and interest have been generated. The Malaysian people have been longsuffering and simply wants to know the truth. And if these VIPs are not guilty – how are they not guilty? Then why isn’t RPK prosecuted for such abject lies? RPK has said he is prepared to face any judicial challenge or something like that.

So where does the ball lie – on whose court?

Brown said this in US Congress just yesterday:

“I believe Winston Churchill came here, to the House, and said many years ago that our joint inheritance is a belief in liberty, a belief in opportunity for all and a belief in the dignity of every individual,” he said.

Can PM AAB say the same in PArliament:

“I believe ……..our joint inheritance is a belief in liberty, a belief in opportunity for all and a belief in the dignity of every individual,” he said.”

And then do something sensible about all those complaints of second-class citizens, policies of divide-and-rule, discriminatory practices that mocks at all those claims of egalitarianism, police excesses that batters human dignity, press control and censorship that undermines fundamental principles of liberty and more.

It doesn’t take a Bush or a Brown to enunciate these fundamental rights. They are right there in the human heart and psyche. SO AAB should be aware that these are inalienable rights planted in our souls by the ALMIGTHY.