Yes, boys and girls it's really really official now.
We are a banana republic!
Top leaders get involved in oil for food scandals, depriving the poor hungry Iraqi women and children of valuable resources which could be used for the purchase of food and medication. But at the same time pretending to be so holy and pious back home. Holy hypocrisy!
Top leaders get involved in sex and murders scandals and shamelessly deny the link, when all the evidence is pointing a particular way. "I don't know who she is..but I only met her in P---s for dinner"....."and she likes to do what I have falsely accused my political opponent of doing". Wink Wink
Normal protests by the general public is put down with unprovoked violence by the police; going for a walk on Sunday morning in a group of more than 5 is illegal in this country. It's an "illegal gathering."
Print and broadcast media is stifled and told to toe the govt line, villifying all opponents of the govt. Bloggers, who due to the inherently free nature of the internet, are able to give the public the truth they crave, are targetted for one silly reason or the other. Read : Sedition charge against our Yang Mulia.
Online newspapers have their offices raided. No news is credible other than that which we get on the internet through the efforts of a few brave individuals. May they prosper and may their numbers grow. My special salute to Malaysiakini at www.malaysiakini.com for their courage in keeping to the noble aims of journalism, i.e. the reporting of the unembellished truth, even in these difficult and dangerous times.
People are more afraid of the law enforces than they are of the thieves because, as they say, they have a licence to plunder and pillage unrestrained, whereas the thieves have to do it under the cover of darkness and with their faces covered. Govt-sponsored armed forces are are being formed, independent of the police or the military, and being armed and given the authority to enter any premise without a warrant. Allegedly to look for illegal foreign workers. Know who I'm talking about? So what's the role of the immigration and the police? Oh, so they're understaffed eh? Well here a hint! Why not employ more police and immigration officers rather than forming what efectively amounts to a paramilitary force? Good!!! As we slide further down the scale of a civiled country ...to Banana Republic status!
The public is put in fear of attending public gatherings by the threat that the army will be brought in to control the "mobs" and patrol the streets. Army patrolling the streets? Are we in Palestine or Zimbabwe or Myanmar? Loss of faith in the police, knowing that even the "underlings of the govt" cannot now stomach the corruption and deception practised by the top leaders.
Poltical opponents are arrested or charged with trumped up charges for a crime which would be an impossibility to commit. A frail five-footer with a spine problem manages to overpower a strapping 23 year-old six-footer, flips him over and gives him the old shebang? Stretching the limits of credibility, init?
People fighting for justice in their homeland are imprisoned under preventive detentions laws, denied medical treatment and just left to die, all because they were of a different clour and they prayed to a different God. And he (you know who) would have died if the new PR govt had not made a big fuss over it. The immense loss of support the Bloody Nasty govt would face if he died sobered them up. A little....
A cry for fair elections is a crime in this banana republic. Again be prepared to face the wrath of the water canons, gleefully bought with our tax money ( with a massive commission thrown in, of course), to be gleefully used against us. Against women, children and old people who ask for nothing more than a right to air their views and grievances. I guess they forgot : WE'RE A BANANA REPUBLIC.
All we need to complete the picture is our dear dear "anak lelaki Sik----r Kutty" going around the country preaching the preservation of the purity of the race. Which race?...has he forgotten that he's a South Asian and only a first generation Malaysian? So which race is it that he's fighting to preserve the purity of ... and which bloody party was so stupid to allow the bloody south asian to lead them thinking he was one of them. Many a time this South Asian Keralite's son must have laughed to himself , thinking how he managed to gain control of a race-based party when he wasn't even a member of that particular race. And now he goes around stirring up racial propaganda all around the country..."no jail time for me, no matter that bloody drunk indian lawyer said". Get the picture?
The Inspector General of Police and the Attorney General having been accused of covering up evidence at a criminal trial. And the police are going to investigate!!! Kind of like asking the fox to count the chickens!!!
First World public transportation system in our country exists in the unilateral wet dream of some govt politician, drooling over the money to made from the award of contracts to their cronies.
Politians treating their development funds as their very own piggy banks. Wonderful!!
Now the top dog says there is no problem, everthing is okay, country is peaceful. But bring on the army, just in case!!!!
ooi a 8Mar2008 
ooia 23/02/2008 
