Police who can 'foresee' loss of life and EC who can resurrect the dead...

The police has done a one up on the Election Commission. It is well known that the Election Commission has the capabilities to resurrect dead voters come polling day and to register phantoms at home addresses without the occupants knowing about it - just ask PKR deputy president Azmin Ali.

11 phantom voters were registered to his mother’s residential address. His mum who lives alone apparently did not approve of the other 11 phantoms, and she lodged a complaint. If not the fact that her son is a high profile lawmaker, one wonders if the EC would do anything about it at all. As it its, they only say they will 'look inot it'.

And while the EC can raise the dead, the Malaysian police can see into the future.

Police chief foresees loss of life

The Inspector General of Police, Ismail Omar has foreseen “loss of life” and all things illegal with the Bersih march. Hence, the police’s move to arrest all things deemed “Bersih” in the name of law and order. Yet, isn't this ability to forsee the future based merely on UMNO’s paranoia at seeing citizens stand up and speak out on the corrupt practices in the election process and obviously the BN government.

When measured against the light of the law, the IGP and the police force are acting on the basis of the lies that UMNO and the BN government may have spun. The police should take note that they risk legal action by blindly following such extreme orders. BN is BN and the police are the police. The distinction must be clear but Ismail Omar is very obviously a political appointee.

The moment the Bersih assembly was announced, even before Ambiga and the committee applied to the police for a permit, the assembly was tagged “illegal” by the Home Minister. And this is the news spun by the mainstream media and all organs aligned with UMNO.

Yet, how can an assembly be illegal before it is has gone through the formal process of applying for a permit? If that does not rile you, why then the arrests of supporters for something that has not happened yet?

Can one be arrested for “show of support”? And to charge people using the Sedition Act shows the level of idiocy in those who read the law in UMNO circles. Show of support is not sedition, and wearing a t-shirt that speaks of a future event is not sedition either.

Wearing the Bersih tee is no different than wearing a tee that promotes a Grateful Dead rock concert. Or as someone pointed out, is wearing a tee printed with a marijuana leaf going to get a person arrested for alleged intent to smoke pot?

Top cops beholden to the UMNO elite

There is no way out of it. No excuses they can hide behind. It is clear the police big guns are playing soothsayers for UMNO. And misguidedly, they are proud about it, but one wonders if the rank and file feel the same.

This is clear when the only people promoting the idea that mayhem and chaos will rain down on Malaysia, come 9th July, are those who stand to gain from the UMNO elite.

It shows just how dependent the police, through the top cops, are on the political masters of the day. The IGP and police force are puppets to the UMNO elite and follow the whims and fancies of their masters to the dot.

They close their eyes to outright criminals like Ibrahim Ali, Perkasa and Mat Rempits from UMNO Youth. But turn the lawful into unlawful when it comes to raiding the office of the Bersih organizers, arresting PKR workers distributing Malaysian flags because they wore Bersih tees, violating the Parliament to record statements from opposition MPs and walking the streets to grab all things yellow.

Time and time again, the police top cops have bent over backwards to please their political benefactors. Bersih is just another event in a string of events whereby the police have shown just how they are not independant as they are required to be.

Politically-motivated sodomy cases where “evidence” suddenly materializes out of mid-air, forever immortalized by the sight of policemen carrying in a soggy mattress into court to falsely nail their target, the convenient delay in investigating the Datuk T trio over a sex video that also suddenly cropped out, the incredible way former Malacca chief minister Rahim Thambi Chik was acquited for raping a minor because of lack of evidence. The list goes on, all highlighting the shady way the police in Malaysia go about their business.

And as the Bersih march draws nearer, expect more arrests by the police. These arrests will not be made to ensure law and order, but instead, the police will arrest citizens of Malaysia because UMNO told them to.- Maclean Patrick

source:Malaysia Chronicle

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