Don't Let Teoh Beng Hock die in vain!

When this picture pops out again to remind me of how the late Teoh Beng Hock was killed, my emotion erupts as if the lava is less eruptive and boiling!

What has happened to our once a paradise and beloved County?

1957 - the same big crowd and phalanx of peoples formed parade of obedient subjects shouted in glee and gestured with high spirits of putting to the sky all their limbs strident hail for - Merdeka! Merdeka! Merdeka - together with our most venerable Bapa Malaysia, Tunku Abdul Rahman, during the declaration of the Nation's Independence Day which was also the birthday of - the Great Malaysia!

In one of the community hall in the Capital City, July 2009, thousands of hands too put up to the sky, not to hail viva, but for showing supports to demand justice - for the late Teoh Beng Hock, he died unwillingly!

Thenceforth 52 years. Now. The new PM Najib has been celebrating his grand natal birthday of the 56th year few days in the past, July 23rd. He said he expressed gratitude and very grateful to the many well wishers whom they had left birthday wishes in his blog. And he said, this will spur him to work harder in service of the rakyat and the Nation! Hip hip hurray! It sounded so sweet and touched, my heart was touched, and my brain full of fancy and hope!

Camera switch to the picture of the late Teoh Beng Hock, did he hear the same touching notes as well as the same hope and fancy could possibly distilled into his already declared dead skull, with vibes?! No! A dead body would not even sense with goose pimples, when rigor mortis set in!

Not even all the moans, weeps and cries could be heard!

My heart cries, I continue hard to suppress my emotion and to allow all my tears to gain its gateway through the throat, deep into the pit, somewhere until it disappears!

What's wrong with our Country?! Once a peaceful and blissfully felt environment - where has it gone to?!

There is no word can describe how fiendish, cold-blood and compassionless nowadays the modern elite will behave! The well trained intelligence of MACC are all those robotically programed and mechanically constructed parrot fashion machines bought to install in the high office to torture, and to submit innocent people to threat of their lives, or even kill by brute force?! The more they are veiling the truths, the more lies they tell, they cannot stop our right mind to think of all these possibilities which avail amidst the muzzy minds can suspect, and perceive!

No one threat of law is capable of smothering the general public of being outraged, grow in furore and flay on the authority concerned of being a department of ruthless and unprofessional which calls for a Royal Commission to be set up into the inquest of the poor Teoh Beng Hock's mystic death! A revelation of public distrust over the law enforcement units which are now under the flak of all the fair minded citizens whom they are showing the strength to demand for justice - for Teoh Beng Hock - for the family - for the society-by and large - for the Nation!

Evilly and demonic are those political animals! They are those hyenas in sniff of the stint of the blood, ballyhoo high cries in order to fight for a position of advantage so as they would quench and satisfy their blood thirsty ego of being a nit in the limelight of the public, and condemnation!

Sometimes I do ponder, did they really own a mother?! Or, they simply were those who burst out from the rock?! Hard and rigidly lump of heart which totally lacked of an iota of humanity!

More so the so-called National Leadership, in the nick of time, would also dress in disguise, foxily and hypocritically, toe the line of handout condolences and express of moans for the demised Teoh and his much to be grieved and troubled family, distinguishably a benefactor, but false! All discerning eyes could just pierce through the silky cocoon and see the ugly larva is grinning!

What's wrong with our Nation?!

Are we going to be further dragged into drift together with all these zombie-like animals and be sunk in the quagmire?!

Shall we not appeal to the spectre of Teoh to haunt and bring out to light the real perpetrator behind the scene, and justice would be served!

Dust to dust, rest in peace - My deepest condolence to the demised of Teoh Beng Hock, and the family!

Teoh Should Not Die in Vain!

[A large crowd gathers to greet DAP veteran Karpal Singh as he arrives at the rally for Teoh Beng Hock at Kelana Jaya stadium. - Picture by Jack Ooi]

By Asrul Hadi Abdullah Sani

PETALING JAYA, July 19 – Pakatan Rakyat (PR) leaders today rallied thousands of their supporters today with fiery rhetoric and demanded the government establish a royal inquiry into the death of Teoh Beng Hock.

Led by DAP stalwart Lim Kit Siang, Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng and Selangor Mentri Besar Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim, they laid the blame for Teoh’s death on the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC).

Teoh, political secretary to Selangor executive councillor Ean Yong Hian Wah, was found dead on July 16 outside the MACC office in Shah Alam. The 30-year-old was earlier questioned over alleged abuse of public funds by his boss.

The crowd began slowly to stream in for the Teoh Beng Hock memorial at Stadium Kelana Jaya here at 4pm.

The situation was calm with no visible police presence and people brought their families to show support for Teoh.

White carnations were distributed to the crowd while most present signed a petition urging MACC and Barisan National (BN) take responsibility for Teoh’s death, and to call for a royal commission of inquiry.

The memorial began with the crowd observing a moment of silence.

The normally soft-spoken DAP vice president Tunku Aziz did not mince his words in attacking Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak.

“Forget Najib’s 1 Malaysia, we have 1 black Malaysia. We will die for a better Malaysia where there is equal opportunity for all,” he told the crowd. “We should tell the government that we do not trust them anymore.”

Selangor executive councillor Dr Xavier Jeyakumar also attacked Najib and wanted him to explain to Malaysians what happened to Teoh.

“We want Najib Razak to answer to Selangor people, Teoh’s parents, Malaysians … what the hell is going on?” he thundered.

Datuk Husam Musa, a member of PAS’s central working committee, was also present to show support and told the crowd that Teoh’s life was as valuable as any Malay, in an apparent reference to a story in Umno-controlled Berita Harian today which equated criticism against MACC as an attack on Malay institutions.

“If you kill a man, you have killed humanity. There is no doubt that Beng Hock was murdered. Beng Hock is our hero, his family are also heroes,” he said.

The PR leaders also expressed their belief that the public had lost confidence in the police as well and called for the resignation of the Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Musa Hassan.

“Why don’t we trust them? They are suppose to be our friends? They are suppose to be our protectors? We pay their salary, we are their paymasters!” Lim kit Siang told the applauding crowd.

Lim also called for MACC chief commissioner Datuk Seri Ahmad Said Hamdan to step down.

“We want the director general of MACC to resign and the Cabinet to take responsibility because the MACC acted under the directive of the Cabinet,” he said.

However the biggest cheer went to Selangor Speaker Teng Chang Khim. He received a five-minute standing ovation when he related how he was able to kick former Selangor MB Datuk Seri Mohd Khir Toyo out of the state assembly while the MACC failed to act on allegations surrounding the Umno leader’s palatial mansion.

The leaders also mocked the MACC for targeting Teoh over allegations surrounding the allocation of flags worth RM2,400 in Ean Yong Hian Wah’s constituency of Seri Kembangan while no action has been taken in other more significant cases like the Port Klang Free Zone (PKFZ) RM12.5 billion scandal.

“When we saw Teoh Beng Hock lying helplessly on the ground, we also felt helpless because the government and authorities that were supposed to protect us have now become oppressors,” Guan Eng, who is also DAP secretary-general, told the crowd.

Selangor MB Khalid said that there were too many questions that remained unanswered.

“This is not about politics, activists or race. This is about justice,” Khalid said.

The memorial ended with DAP national chairman Karpal Singh announcing the party would soon take the MACC to court over Teoh’s death.

After the speeches, PR supporters were seen burning copies of Berita Harian and Utusan Malaysia to express their anger over the articles criticising the opposition for allegedly politicising Teoh’s death.

Is PAS a better Government?

The most recent political tussle between PAS and DAP is the issue of a swine abattoir, which had been demolished by the Kedah City Council without giving face to the one and only DAP YB Lee Guan Aik, by taking no heed on his proposals of other sites to rebuild another abattoir.

It sounds fair and logical only the MB of Kedah, Datuk Seri Azizan Abdul Razak who is from the Party PAS, to seriously consider YB Lee's proposal based on the principle that - respect begets more respects, but unfortunately, he had neglected such goodwill of entertaining the supposed to be a comrade in the house of the alliance.

Could it not be only the MB's negligence, it's also the arrogant pro-HadiAwang, Azizan, who is trying to run his own administration which detours from his Tok Guru, Nik Aziz's Kelantan successful prototype and track record to treat all Kelantanese Chinese in a fairer manner of respecting their cultures and life styles, the racial sentiment has been cut down to a bare minimum in Kelantan.

Whereas in Kedah, it seems all the acts of contradiction of principle of the PAS main body, by a State Executive who can even practice his own set of ideology, probably without his need to consult the Party supremo, and acted with his own discretion to the extent of deviation from the Party ideology!

Frankly, a character of too much extreme in personal ego does not befit to be a leader at helm of the office which is to govern a society of pluralistic! Though the Chinese and Indians are the minority in Kedah State, MB Azizan must also emulate from his Tok Guru Nik Aziz's management style of rakyat friendly sort of pattern instead of his over-zealousness to promote his personal belief and his portray of being a loyalist to the system of theocracy, which is virtually, a pet aversion to the minority Chinese, has also been viewed as a form of discrimination to the other ethnic group of different creeds, and belief!

Why the rakyat voted PR in the 308 election? Not that because any of the component Party in the so-called PR coalition bloc was outstanding of their performance or in terms of ideology, unanimously acceptable to all voters across the board! It's all because the rakyat had been under enough pressure by the despotic BN or rather the UMNO hegemony had caused the rakyat in retaliation of giving a putsch to BN, pledging all the hopes in PR and wish that the dreams will come true - that - PR will be able to revamp the autocratic and corrupted yet racist BN governance and commit themselves to a trend of change for betterment, of which it's beneficial to not only the rakyat, and the national interests!

It seems PAS, the younger generation, or rather I call them the second rung, had been too much obsessed by the belief that it's their God's willing to have granted them the victory and the power to rule, they had forgotten that it was the People's power to put them in the present position, and not their fancy belief that it is the omnipotent power of their God!

Regrettably, MB Azizan did not learn from the ex-MB of Trengganu - Hadi Awang - his failure to serve the Trengganu electorates well after merely one short term, he was removed from office and aborted by the rakyat! Yet both of them may still think fit to work with UMNO for a so-called unity government, which has been seen as a suicidal act in politically giving up their ideology pledged with the rakyat during 308!

Seriously speaking, it's sort of betrayal to the manifesto of the Party, as well as, characteristically mortify the PAS doyen, the spiritual leader Tok Guru Nik Aziz, and deprived him of his esteem and notable creditability ever been built along with PAS's hard earned fame in the 308 political tsunami, in the midst of supports from the voters and the Parties - PKR and DAP, and their members in the coalition - PR!

They should learn how to defense the rakyat against the despotic BN, and to give them more respects, in spite of discriminating the rakyat due to differences of colors and religious belief!

It definitely does not bore well for PAS to be over enthusiastic of wishing to turn the Nation to the hands of the fanatic Islamists akin to Ahmedinejad of Iran, nor his prospective protege in the making, in this instance - Hadi Awang, who will only turn the Country into ruckus and forever unrest!

Should PAS be adamantly continue to offend the rakyat in their feelings, come next election, the voters will inevitably rethink of who to vote, base on the appraisal of merits when they are at helm of the States. Period.