“….did not rule out “underworld connection” to the arson attack..” – this is a speculative observation. Anything is possible. One cannot equally rule out disgruntled MACC officers from throwing Molotov cocktails at MACC’s 4 wheel drive vehicle.

Even if “Selangor MACC was investigating claims that some state exco members had links with the underworld, as alleged by Wangsa Maju PKR MP Wee Choo Keong”, MACC is also investigating countless others (including those implicated in PKFZ scandal ) that may equally harbour grievances against MACC. There is no logical reason to single out underworld – since when has their modus operandi involve Mat Rempits’ Molotov cocktails?? – is much less connect the underworld to state exco members as if Wee Choo Keong’s claims have been proven.

There is no end to spurious allegation : for example one also “cannot rule out” the possibility that the allegations of the complicity between between a top MACC officer and an influential politician working together to start investigations into alleged corrupt practises by Selangor’s Pakatan Rakyat leaders contained in the mystery letter which emerged at the Teoh Beng Hock inquest are true and that the orchestrators of these political investigations planned the throwing of Molotov cocktails to distract public from that letter and to provide excuse for authorities to crack down on the Selangor Opposition!

Which is interestingly replied to and matched by another indirect/oblique counter-speculation on LKS part when he alludes to “the Reichstag (German Parliament) fire in 1933 which had been blamed on the Gestapo as it was the event which precipitated the Nazi takeover of Germany.” Now where’s the end to speculation?

YB – I think you meant Hitler blaming “Communists” rather than “Gestapo” for the Reichstag (German Parliament) fire to accelerate NAZI takeover of Germany.

There were differing accounts who really started fire. Friotz Tobias published an authoritative study on it. He concluded Nazis did not start fire, Communists & their parties denied vehemently any involvement. It was started by a half naked Dutch loony, Marinus van der Lubbe.The specifics of who really started arson wasn’t important. Event was used by Hitler tactically and propagandistically when he said “Now I have them” (meaning the Communists). Hiltler mobilised through Goring the whole police force & Gestapo to arrest 4000, most of whom were members of Communist Party, with Hitler’s main Reichstag’s rival, communist leader Ernst Torgler, arrested. Next morning Hitler called on ailing President Hindenburg, dramatized events of the fire as Communist uprising, placed a prepared emergency decree for him to sign and vesting ultimately in himself and Nazi party the powers of the state. (reference – Joachim C. Fest book on “Hitler” 1975 edition pg 395 to 398).