Tuesday, August 07, 2007

阉割人民嗓子

Here's my last week's column in Oriental Daily entitled "Repressing the Voices of the People". It focused on the arrest of Nathaniel Tan for alleged ownership of OSA documents, as well as the interrogation conducted on Raja Petra for allegedly insulting the Agung and Islam.

The sheer idiocy of the allegations raises the questions as to whether the Police are completely incompetent? Or are there more sinister motives behind these moves? On top of that, don't the police force have more urgent matters to attend to such as the accelerating crime rates in the country?

Well, the Police as been "efficient" in handling the cases of Nathaniel and Raja Petra. I have now lodged a police report on a literally seditious web article from an UMNO supporters' website. We'll see if the police acts differently. More tomorrow. ;)

阉割人民嗓子
潘俭伟

今年一月,两位博客即黄泉安与阿希鲁丁被巫统控制的《新海峡时报》起诉诽谤。前个星期,另一位26岁、美国哈佛大学毕业的年轻博客被警方援引官方机密法令扣留。警方宣称他拥有指国内安全部副部长佐哈里涉嫌贪污的文件。

上周,随着巫统宣传主任莫哈末泰益针对《今日大马》在7月11日刊登一篇被指侮辱最高元首与回教的文章向警方报案后,警方传召《今日大马》网站负责人拉惹柏特拉录取口供长达8小时。然而,事实又是怎么一回事呢?

陈仁义被扣留4天期间,警方明显没有针对所谓佐哈里被指涉嫌贪污的文件展开调查。由于有位无名氏在陈仁义部落格留了一个网址,链接到相关指佐哈里涉嫌贪污的网站,结果陈仁义就有难了!事实上,这个网站跟陈仁义毫无关系。

其实,许多平面媒体曾引述佐哈里涉嫌贪污的资料,但警方为何没有调查相关媒体负责人呢?至于拉惹柏特拉个案,他在7月11日不曾撰写任何文章!在盘问时,警方告诉他只是针对读者在其网站的留言。警方为何连文章与留言都分不清呢?

警方的专业精神去了哪里?当巫统领袖报案时,为何警方会立即采取行动?然而,当《今日大马》或其它博客或网站揭露官方人物涉嫌贪污的证据时,警方却选择不理不睬。

摆在眼前的问题是,我国的警队为何竟沦落为执政集团的工具?到底是警方的专业能力成疑,甚至有者还不懂得掌握最基本的电脑操作,更妄论要成为电子世界的“特级警察”,抑或是他们有更阴险的目的?

政府岂不是承诺不会限制互联网的资讯流通吗?如今,随着更多政府高官的丑闻被揭发后,为了阻止真相进一步流通,官方只好利用高压手段,并以凶猛的偏执态度对付博客?

难道警方除了骚扰拉惹柏特拉和其他博客之外,就没有更重要的事情做了吗?与其耗时间跟自己的影子过意不去,警方倒不如专注打击日益猖獗的罪案,进而根除国人对犯罪的恐惧感。

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

UMNO is above the law. Money-politics is not corruption. In Bolehland everything is BOLEH. What else do we expect? BPR was warned not to interfere with UMNO's party matters. UMNO has separate rules for itself.

Pak Lah wants to eradicate corruption be it anywhere, but Najib insists that UMNO is above the law. It's a tradition in UMNO. It has become its culture. Being not corrupt is NOT UMNO. A spineless organization like UMNO will not survive without corruption. May I quote Raja Petra,'UMNO IS CORRUPT TO THE CORE'. Let it be.

Let's vote for DAP/Keadilan in the coming General Election!! Let's gather and witness the final funeral prayers for UMNO together!

Ibn Abd Halim

Anonymous said...

UMNO a party of corruption, cronism, nepotism, racism, bigotry, hatred and everything bad.

What kind of stupid and immoral persons would support such party? I think you all know.

Anonymous said...

Tony, maybe your report inside the 'tong sampah' already.

Anonymous said...

tony

you should know by now. two sets of laws; one for the powers that be and another for commoners like you and me. by the way, they are even above the law when they want.

delphi said...

One of the main complaints against the police is that it is seen as a tool of the UMNO party. This is evidenced by the behaviour of the police in dealing with the public. They take sides against the opposition whenever the opposition wishes to hold a cemerah or any function. They act with brutality against the opposition and the NGOs and, yet, whenever the UMNO (especially the UMNO youth) have a public demonstration no action is ever taken by the police.

Until the police acts impartially and stop their partisan behaviour they will never get the help of the public. So stop blaming the public. The police should look into their own failures and their party politics first.