Wednesday, 22 July 2009

Royal Commission and the game oppo plays

In my recent writings on the MACC case, I did not at all mention that a Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) should be held.
Like most people, I am angry about the way things had happened at the anti-corruption body and how it had failed to properly handle the angry backlash.
And I am unhappy that race issues were raised by some in the media.

I am but a tiny voice who is not even based in Malaysia.
But let me tell you anyway the reason for my big reservations about the RCI:

As you must have seen with the Lingam RCI, the opposition made use of this to vent their frustration at all things linked to the judiciary.
The opposition did not bother to make clear to everyone - since all Malaysians, foreign investors and readers well beyond Malaysia were also watching - that perhaps SOME judges were implicated. The opposition instead went all the way and throw all kinds of nonsense that in the end the WHOLE judiciary became tainted.
There are many good judges, untainted ones, in the system.
But in their hurry to paint the government black, the opposition did not care two hoots. They only want to come to power by making the government and its agencies look black.

And was there not a RCI on the police force, that was made out by the opposition to make all cops look like corrupt guys who will rob you tomorrow and then beat you up to death during detention? In other words, no one now trusts the police.

While Teo Being Hock deserves justice, how come I got the feeling that at the END of this whole new RCI, ALL anti-corruption officers would have been painted as corrupt and pro-government workers who love to persecute the opposition?
You can see the oppo playing games here already. They say they want quick answers but they dabble in mind games.

I hope to be proven wrong about this new RCI, with the opposition showing real maturity.
When pigs fly....?

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