Hoi Botak! - Malaysiakini

Instead of giving the chance of RPK to sit down for a case of habeas corpus today, he was instead thrown to the detention dungeon in Kamunting - in Taiping. This would not be the first time he had ended up in the detention camp there.

It was a shock to many political critics that the one who ordered the detention is Botak himself. This is a classic example of leadership within four walls, as illustrated by a friend of mine. He said that nations like Malaysia are sorely lacking behind because most of the mindset of the leaders are bound within the four walls. The lack of education adds to this cause and that is why Malaysia lacks the pragmatism as of other civilized and better nations like Hong Kong and Singapore.

Just as like father, the son also happens to lie to the public with an excuse that is laughable - to protect national interests. But the person who is sent to prison does not carry any guns, merely words that are weapons that terrifies the guilt. The guilty parties are hiding behind what is called religion. It is the holier than thou thing that saved their asses terribly. The Muslim NGOs who have been making noises should have invited Pete to come out and dispute the facts and claims of the Quran. After all, he has been providing Muslim history and the intepretation of the Quran that left many people, even those who claimed to be holier than thou in utter shock.

And there is just one message to the idiots out there who are playing the 'holier than thou' thing: don't you ever teach your grandmother to suck eggs! Because someday, you're going to end at the wrong end of the pole. And the police are now at the wrong end of the pole, as lapdogs, they go and look for the wrong people who criticize the inefficiencies of the government instead of hunting criminals and scum of the society like killers, robbers, sociopaths. My god, who actually told them to look for the wrong party? Botak? Wan Farid, as what Mat Sabu claimed? Or what?

Yes, Pete has been a thorn in those who walk in the corridors of power and especially those who really wanted to take Anwar Ibrahim out in Sodomy II. And in the latest news behind the scenes, it seems that the top brass isn't happy of how things are going out against their wishes...

In what is believed to be his last post before being sent to the camp, Pete has said that:

The Monday before my detention, my lawyers sent Syed Hamid Albar a letter of demand, demanding that he apologise for alleging that I insulted Islam. He was given three days to apologise and on Friday, the 12th of September 2008, instead of apologising, they detained me under the ISA.

I believe they are trying to buttress Syed Hamid Albar’s case by “proving” I have insulted Islam thereby justifying Syed Hamid Albar’s allegations against me as well as justifying him not apologising but ordering my detention under the ISA.

Further to that, the Government appears to be trying to get a second bite of the cherry. I am already facing one sedition charge for the article, “lets send the Altanthuya murderers to hell” plus three charges of criminal defamation. My interrogation in the hands of the SB officers is also about that article and the statutory declaration.

Assuming I win my cases in October and November, they can still hold me under the ISA. Either way I will still remain under detention; heads they win, tails I lose.

Botak has been sweating over this thing and so to buy time and to claim that it is ridiculing Islam, Botak decided to send him away to the camp. Special Branch reported nothing that is ridiculing Islam. But Botak decides to push for the matter because of that thing above. And that fact is never revealed to the rest of the public.

So David Eick's theory is indeed ringing true: Abdullah is taking the George Bush prescription. The prescription that has been running for 8 years that says that if you are dissenting and against the government stance, even though you know is right, you are 'DEEMED AS A TERRORIST" - I think that is what Malaysia is following the US right now in the sense of paranoia fashion. Perhaps the next time the tables are turned around, Botak and the radicals could get the real taste of what is like to be in their own Detention camp.

Even if Botak manages to put a man like Pete into a dirty cell like Kamunting, Botak has lost part of his job. In the UMNO elections, he lost his division post in Kota Tinggi. And if Abdullah loses in the December elections, Botak could be out of the job, perhaps. If Ku Li takes over, then we could see a different case. If Anwar takes over, then Botak could end up beaten at his own game, who knows, right?