As if the Perak news wasn’t bad (albeit expected) enough, now this – closer to home this time.

My distributor says the bookshop is now taking the books of the shelves, but selling upon request – so if you don’t see it on the shelves at a given bookstore, do ask at the counter.

We are in discussions with the parties involved over our next course of action.

As always, here’s a how to buy guide. It really sounds like they want to take them off the market for good, so please hurry and get some before they do.

1. Get one from your local major bookstore (I’ve previously seen them available in Popular, MPH, Borders, etc)

2. Order one online from Kinibooks.

3. (If you live within the Klang Valley) Place an order with whereisjustice@jelas.info, and we will do our best to get a copy to you at RM 30 (incl delivery costs), on a COD basis.

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pre-script: feeling sad today, sigh… :(

Read the mainstream media, and it’s nothing but news of PKR internal chaos, infighting, people leaving, etc.

I’ve written about these before, but figured I would explore another conspiracy theory of the day.

It would appear that some opportunists may be taking advantage of the trial atmosphere – where DSAI and many around him focus on this one issue.

Perhaps some may think this is the perfect time to further their political careers, or start jockeying for position in a post-Anwar scenario. Under such circumstances, the selfish-minded have no qualms about tearing the party apart as they do so.

Needless to say, Umno rubs their hands in glee and eggs it all along. Who knows – perhaps this was the plan all along. They may or may not get their conviction, but the chaos they create along the way may (to their twisted calculations at least) still be worth it irregardless.

Far be it for me to tell one of Malaysia’s most prominent politicians (and ex-boss) what to do, but perhaps DSAI should consider putting his foot down while he still walks the streets freely.

This may be the perfect time for decisive leadership, and finding out once and for all who one’s real friends are. It’s clearly a terrible analogy, but if this were Ops Lalang, I think the lalang has grown taller than us by now.

Of course, no one is irreproachable in this mess. I have always believed that true leaders take ultimate responsibility for all mishaps under their watch, and clearly, greater effort is required to put out some of the real fires behind the mass of smoke.

At the end of it, a party will stronger without those who put personal interests before the nation’s, and with bold, improved leadership at the top.

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So, Rais “Facebook and Twitter will destroy Malaysian culture” Yatim recently issued threats to bloggers who were writing in contempt of court or infringing on the subjudice rule.

As I understand it, the subjudice ruling is one where no one is supposed to make an undue attempt to improperly influence the outcome of a trial.

Of course, this applies more to trials that are decided by jury. I should hope that judges are less susceptible to ‘public influence’ (other influence? Well, I don’t know what’s correct or not correct :P )

Then again, I’m no lawyer, and I can’t quote you any authorities etc, on this matter.

If you can however, I’d love to hear it :) How can someone like Nat legally cover his bases? Can anyone provide a brief but accurate “Subjudice for Dummies?” :)

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I don’t get it – how many copies do they need in order to ’study’ the materials for ‘content that may disrupt public order’?

(This notwithstanding that the books have been on the shelves for months, and oh, what’s that? Public order still intact?)

So why must each state slowly confiscate these books one by one? If the Home Ministry wants to study the book, we’ll happily give them one copy for free. Just leave the rest alone until you’re done.

Clearly this is an attempt to intimidate the bookshops and disrupt the sales. I’m also disturbed at how only one bookshop – Popular – seems to have been targetted. I hope they have the courage to face this ridiculous singling out.

If you do visit a bookshop, do have a look to see if there are still copies available – I’d love to hear.

In the meantime, I hope you’ll grab a copy quick for you and your friends before the crap really hits the fan. Once again, 3 ways to purchase:

1. Get one from your local major bookstore (I’ve previously seen them available in Popular, MPH, Borders, etc)

2. Order one online from Kinibooks.

3. (If you live within the Klang Valley) Place an order with whereisjustice@jelas.info, and we will do our best to get a copy to you at RM 30 (incl delivery costs), on a COD basis.

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On my way out to lunch, but a quick point to my latest article. The hyperlinks therein were removed, so I hope no one will mind if I reproduce it here with links intact :)

While writing this piece, I had a random thought perhaps worth noting for later further exploration. What if Najib was secretly egging on the Perkasa factions so as to make himself appear to be the more moderate alternative – an ‘in between’ between conservative Umnoputeras and ‘overly liberal’ opposition? It’d be quite a con.

Ah well, wouldn’t be a political blog without the occasional conspiracy theory right? :P

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This isn’t my favourite topic to blog about, but seeing that so few people seemed to have done so (except the ever reliable Patrick Teoh)…. Also, please excuse the vulgarities ahead.

So yesterday Saiful testified something along the lines of: one day, Anwar was alone with me in a condo, and (out of the blue) asked me, “Can I fuck you?”

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Ah, but the implausibility doesn’t stop there. TMI reports that Saiful was angry, scared and defiant….. well, defiant right up to the point where he basically seems to decide: Err. Yeah. OK.

I mean. Options (assuming one values one’s presumed anal virginity) included running and/or physically resisting this sixty plus year old man with the bad back.

But I guess Saiful wants us to believe that he wasn’t sufficiently interested in avoiding being buggered. He didn’t seem to explain how his decision making process transitioned from a mentality of ’scared’, ‘angry’, ‘refuse to take money’ and ‘cannot bear to do it’ to what basically amounts to ‘I guess I’ll just bend over then.’

Imagine how many more people would be having sex if it was this ‘easy’ :P

This is a middle class young man. Would *you* have let yourself be raped to keep a RM 1,000 a month job?

I personally don’t believe any of his testimony happened, but it looks like Saiful has no qualms in having himself seen as someone willing to sell his dignity (and well, ass). He’s clearly done so, one way or the other.

I reproduce below Siva’s previous analysis of the inconsistencies in Saiful’s testimony and umm, ‘position’ from Loyarburok:

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ps- There will be a protest gathering Thursday, 4th February at Bkt Aman at 11am, over deaths in detention as well as the case of Norizan bt Salleh, who was shot 5 times and kicked repeatedly by the police, without having committed any crime or posing any threat. Another post on this later.

The unbelievable part is this: even though activists have literally screamed bloody murder over so many cases – Kugan, Gunasegaran, Francis Udayappan, and (again, literally) thousands of others – the police brazenly continue with their ways.

The latest victim is P Babu, a sawmill worker only a year or two younger than myself.

Sawmill worker P Babu, 28, was found dead in the Jempol police lock up at about 4am (February 1st. Babu, an orphan who was raised by his uncle, has been under remand since Jan 24 after he surrendered himself to the police over a robbery case.)

When contacted, Jempol MIC Youth chief M Palani said the first post-mortem report classified the death as suicide.

The deceased had apparently used his shirt to hang himself.

Palani said the family have rejected the findings because “Babu was a strong willed person and would not have this decision (to commit suicide)”.

“We are also questioning the fact that he hung himself using his shirt. Shouldn’t he be wearing a police issued t-shirt (for detainees)?” he asked.

Even if we give the police the benefit of the doubt, which is stretching plausibility to its maximum, they must accept full responsibility for the death of anyone under their custody.

I happened to watch Felon on HBO last night, which had some disturbing insight on how cruelty can fester and grow in people who are granted power of others. Instead of checking such tendencies in Malaysia, the government is being complicit to them by failing miserably to bring perpetrators to justice.

If the police won’t stop these horrific deaths, and if the government won’t make them stop, then I think it’s damn well time to change the government.

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