12 Sept is the darkest day in journalism history, where the Sin-Chew reporter who reported a racist remark by the UMNO plitician beeing arrested under Internal Security Act (ISA). Beside the reporter, the prominent blogger, Raja Petra and Teresa Kok-DAP MP were also arrested on the same day. This rendered the decision by MCMC to lift the ban on political blogs meaningless. It is easy to find an excuse to arrest RPK & Teresa Kok as both of them are "politicians". But what has the Sin Chew reporter ,Ms Tan Hoon Cheng done wrong? She merely put together what Ahmad Ismail has said into black and white for the readers to consume. She did not even give her opinion or said something that is consider provacative. The police, instead of inviting her to assist in investigation, they detained her under ISA. Why so high handed?
In contrary, Ahmad Ismail who quoted the racist remarks over and over again remain untouched? Ahmad Ismail repeatly calling the chinese as squatters and the UMNO ultimately granted him is 3 years "honey moon" (he is banned from party post for 3 years but keeps his UMNO memebrship). Furthermore, the 13 division heads from Umno Penang who have openly supported Ahmad Ismail were also walk free as if nothing happened. Aren't this bunch of peoples also culprit of the current racial tension?
It is clear that Pak Lah is desperate now as he faces many problems the initiated by the disgruntled UMNO members. He is facing a fresh demand from leader like Muhyiddin to call for the PM's early retirement. At the same time, the DPM, Najib Tun Rasak loyalty to Pak Lah seems to be shaken.
In view of the imminent UMNO party election, I foresee that the show will be getting dirtier as day goes by (more arrest maybe) . Not only Pak Lah, the other potential candidates for party posts will try their best to be the "Malay hero" so as to garner more support from the ground. I'm interested to see how today's Malay react to UMNO politicians old dirty tactics.
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