Are the men of blue purveyors of pornography....

Last night, four video clips featuring a sex romp by a man resembling Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim was uploaded to the YouTube video-sharing website. The clips were taken down within hours as it went against the website’s terms and conditions for showing explicit sex acts and nudity. Another link to a pornographic website was also given in an email to major news organisations but the site is blocked under Malaysian laws.

The question is, how did these video clips get on to the Internet?

The trio behind the first screening of the video clip in Carcosa Seri Negara on March 21 claimed they possess the only solitary recording of the sex act. Calling themselves Datuk T, they also said there were four cameras found and a recording device.

They later handed over the original copy of the video to the police. Yet, parts of the video with Thai wordings first appeared on YouTube on April 3, three days before nomination day for the Sarawak state election.

No one admitted to uploading the video clip. Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Ismail Omar denied the video clip was leaked by the police, saying, “Of course, it did not come from us. How can I allow such a thing.” He also said “It was ‘Datuk T’ who said that there was one copy of the video. But, we do not know if it is the truth. You should ask them.”

The trio are not saying anything except that they will take full responsibility for screening the video. They are former Malacca chief minister Tan Sri Rahim Tamby Chik, businessman Datuk Shazryl Eskay Abdullah and ex-Perkasa treasurer Datuk Shuib Lazim.

Apart from a run-around of taking DNA samples from Shazryl, making a big deal of an Omega watch of unknown provenance and getting experts to identify the main actor in the video clip, the police have done precious little in this case except passing the investigation papers to and from the Attorney-General’s Chambers.

What is the crime here? Screening a pornographic video or a man having sex? And with that, a vicious campaign of leaking a video clip to bring down a politician without even proving he is the man caught in flagrante delicto. The men in blue have done their job but with the latest release of more video clips, they have turned everyone into men of blue or purveyors of pornography.

The Attorney-General has to either charge the men with possessing pornography or close the case. Any other innuendo, by police or the prosecutors, to reveal the man in the video is not necessary unless there is a political agenda to it. After last night, and with provocative titles such as Papa Nurul Izzah II, it appears to confirm the political agenda behind the Datuk T revelation.

They want Anwar out of politics as he is a threat to the ruling coalition’s political dominance. They want to ensure Nurul Izzah is also out because it’s young politicians like her who are the future of this country.

The brief glimpse of the video clips on YouTube means they want Anwar tried in a court of public opinion and buried in the next general election. Perhaps it might be that or the reverse. Until then, the prosecutors have to throw the book at the Datuk T trio. And those who uploaded the videos on YouTube. Or be seen as part of a plot to end Anwar and Izzah’s political careers.

source:malaysian insider

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