‘WHO AND WHAT CREATE CRIMINAL ACTIVITIES IN MALAYSIA?’ – PART II:
…LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS OFTEN GET THE BRUNT, WHILE SUSPICIOUS CHARACTERS AND CRIMINALS ARE FETED LIKE HEROES.
By Mansor Puteh
THANKS TO THE NEW AND CONFUSED JOURNALISM – BAD NEWS IS GOOD NEWS; AND GOOD NEWS IS BAD NEWS – WHEN THEY DO NOT KNOW THEY ARE SERVING JUSTICE OR THE LAWYERS OF THOSE WHO WERE DEAD WITH THEIR PARENTS OVERWHELMED BY GUILT FOR NOT STOPPING THEIR CHILDREN FROM COMMITTING JUVENILE DELIQUENCIES.
ARE WE IN THE ERA OF THE ANTI-HEROES, WHEN PEOPLE SYMPATHIZE AND RELATE TO THE CROOKS OR ANTAGONISTS MORE THAN THE HEROES OR PROTAGONISTS?
THERE ARE MANY WHO DARE TO QUESTION, TO ASK AND TO MAKE WILD ALLEGATIONS AND FEEL PROUD OF IT. IS IT THE ‘IN’ THING TO DO NOW FOR MANY ESPECIALLY FOR THOSE IN JOURNALISM?
Have the lawyers, parliamentarians cum lawyers and other activists and the newspaper editors no shame in trying to ‘benefit’ from the dead and juvenile delinquents and the others again and again?
The juvenile delinquents and their parents are the ones who should be the main focus of attention.
If they had not been negligent, all the silly and unnecessary criminal cases and controversies as well as scandals could have been avoided – much to the chagrin of the media owners who do not have much to write about or dwell on, perhaps?
That certainly isn’t good news to the high profile lawyers, media and whoever that can benefit from such unnecessary crimes and issues.
The main thing is to avoid such incidents from repeating themselves in the future and not to happy to find them. This, the lawyers, media people and police as well as the other well-meaning personalities do not know how to do.
So they allow the status quo to remain with other juveniles and unsuspecting criminal candidates to emerge from amongst us in the near future.
Malaysians do not want to be in a police state, but it needs policing because the people cannot be trusted to be with themselves as many of them do not care for law and order – they ignore and break every law given the chance.
They are the same lawyers and the same parliamentarians cum lawyers who have actually benefited from crimes that had happened and the dead who give them such opportunities to trust themselves.
They are the ‘Heroes of the Dead’.
How many lawyers have been known and seen to cry if the cases they handled went awry and those whom they tried to defend goes to prison on a long-term sentence or worse, if they are sentenced to hang?
To the lawyers, it was just another job; they move on to the next and see what else they could benefit from it this time.
To them, winning and losing is nothing; what matters the most is that they get a steady job of defending criminals and those who are charged in court so they can reap tidy profits from them.
It’s the same with the media which can also benefit from reporting criminal, police and court cases.
In the past, they toed the official line; now for the sake of ‘openness’ they prefer the unofficial line instead and in the process bring out those who are obviously guilty and potentially guilty to give them ample space to rebut and also rebuke the authorities.
And there are also some parliamentarians cum lawyers who also want to get on the bandwagon to shove their way into such issues which are often controversial and news grabbing.
But alas, the people in the streets don’t seem to care anymore; with those in the food stalls or ‘warung’ busy sipping their ‘pulled out tea’ or ‘teh tarik’ and eating their packet of ‘nasi lemak’.
They ask: Why should they care for the miseries of the others, when they too have their own to worry about? Who’s going to pay for the ‘teh tarik’ and ‘nasi lemak’?
But why are the same lawyers and the same parliamentarians cum lawyers not using their legal minds to try and find new laws and regulations that can ensure the members of the public are protected so they do not become useless to themselves?
The truth is that they are not too smart to realize how they can actually help to save the juveniles and the other members of the public from harming themselves. They are so dumb to realize that having a degree in law and become too bookish cannot take them very far, except to the front-pages of the newspapers.
But these often have to be at the expense of those who have been dead.
What’s the point for those lawyers and parliamentarians cum lawyers to try and exert their presence and solve crimes that had happened when some have already been killed?
It is too late.
But it is still not too late for them to use those legal brains they claim to posses in great abundance to do what I am now telling to do, failing which one can easily come to the conclusion that they are not interested to stop or curb the incidents of crime but to allow them to happen so they can continue to benefit from them.
This seems to be the case and the attitude of the press has also not changed for they, too, can benefit from crimes which are repetitive and totally unnecessary which happened because the lawyers and parliamentarians are too busy doing other things, and looking elsewhere, for new crimes which are similar to happen so they can jump on the bandwagon and take another round of ride around the legal quagmire and rigmarole.
These well-meaning lawyers and parliamentarians are therefore mean for not being able to arrest such crimes.
Even without much legal background I can see how such crimes could have easily been avoided, that a fifteen-year-old student could be involved in a car chase ala many of the silly Melayu films which were shown in the cinemas, for which the student might have seen before.
Speed racing along narrow roads late at night for a person so young can be curbed, only if the same lawyers and the same parliamentarians had done a good job at trying to curb them.
They can introduce new laws and regulations to do this, but they did not do so.
Will they now want to do it after seeing similar cases being repeated in almost similar forms?
Young Indian men are found dead while in remand. A young Chinese man was said to have jumped from a high-rise office building…all these could have been avoided if the lawyers and parliamentarians are not busy looking for such unusual crimes to happen so they can jump on them and crowd around their family members and close friends to offer their expert legal advice.
But what good can they now do to the dead who are buried in the ground with some who have also been turned to dust?
There is no good at all. But is there anything that can be learnt from all this? Yes, there is.
But unfortunately, none of the same lawyers and parliamentarians and even the police do not seem to have any clue of it.
So with the parliamentarians making lousy and ugly noises in both the houses of the Rakyat and Negara, petty and silly crimes involving the most unlikely characters continue to happen.
Yesterday it was a young Chinese man who flung to his death from a high-rise office building. And few days ago, a younger Melayu student was gunned down while speed racing in a residential area early in the morning.
Tomorrow, similar things will happen as the same lawyers and parliamentarians busy taking up similar issues to the same court houses where they had fought tooth and nail many times before in order to get justice to the relatives of the deceased.
But alas, they should know that despite their protestations and those of the others who sympathize with the relatives of the deceased, the dead continue to lie buried in the graves.
No valuable lesson has been learnt.
The same lawyers and same parliamentarians and even the police are all at a total loss of not knowing what’s been hitting them.
What sort of useless and silly crimes will happen next? And who will be involved this time?
We do not know. We do not care.
But one thing’s for certain is how the same lawyers and the same parliamentarians cum lawyers will be first to come to the scene of the crime to unveil what happened prior to it so those who are involved in it are brought to justice.
They do not care for those who are still alive and who could be given extra protection from the other members of the public and especially from their own selves.
By Mansor Puteh
THANKS TO THE NEW AND CONFUSED JOURNALISM – BAD NEWS IS GOOD NEWS; AND GOOD NEWS IS BAD NEWS – WHEN THEY DO NOT KNOW THEY ARE SERVING JUSTICE OR THE LAWYERS OF THOSE WHO WERE DEAD WITH THEIR PARENTS OVERWHELMED BY GUILT FOR NOT STOPPING THEIR CHILDREN FROM COMMITTING JUVENILE DELIQUENCIES.
ARE WE IN THE ERA OF THE ANTI-HEROES, WHEN PEOPLE SYMPATHIZE AND RELATE TO THE CROOKS OR ANTAGONISTS MORE THAN THE HEROES OR PROTAGONISTS?
THERE ARE MANY WHO DARE TO QUESTION, TO ASK AND TO MAKE WILD ALLEGATIONS AND FEEL PROUD OF IT. IS IT THE ‘IN’ THING TO DO NOW FOR MANY ESPECIALLY FOR THOSE IN JOURNALISM?
Have the lawyers, parliamentarians cum lawyers and other activists and the newspaper editors no shame in trying to ‘benefit’ from the dead and juvenile delinquents and the others again and again?
The juvenile delinquents and their parents are the ones who should be the main focus of attention.
If they had not been negligent, all the silly and unnecessary criminal cases and controversies as well as scandals could have been avoided – much to the chagrin of the media owners who do not have much to write about or dwell on, perhaps?
That certainly isn’t good news to the high profile lawyers, media and whoever that can benefit from such unnecessary crimes and issues.
The main thing is to avoid such incidents from repeating themselves in the future and not to happy to find them. This, the lawyers, media people and police as well as the other well-meaning personalities do not know how to do.
So they allow the status quo to remain with other juveniles and unsuspecting criminal candidates to emerge from amongst us in the near future.
Malaysians do not want to be in a police state, but it needs policing because the people cannot be trusted to be with themselves as many of them do not care for law and order – they ignore and break every law given the chance.
They are the same lawyers and the same parliamentarians cum lawyers who have actually benefited from crimes that had happened and the dead who give them such opportunities to trust themselves.
They are the ‘Heroes of the Dead’.
How many lawyers have been known and seen to cry if the cases they handled went awry and those whom they tried to defend goes to prison on a long-term sentence or worse, if they are sentenced to hang?
To the lawyers, it was just another job; they move on to the next and see what else they could benefit from it this time.
To them, winning and losing is nothing; what matters the most is that they get a steady job of defending criminals and those who are charged in court so they can reap tidy profits from them.
It’s the same with the media which can also benefit from reporting criminal, police and court cases.
In the past, they toed the official line; now for the sake of ‘openness’ they prefer the unofficial line instead and in the process bring out those who are obviously guilty and potentially guilty to give them ample space to rebut and also rebuke the authorities.
And there are also some parliamentarians cum lawyers who also want to get on the bandwagon to shove their way into such issues which are often controversial and news grabbing.
But alas, the people in the streets don’t seem to care anymore; with those in the food stalls or ‘warung’ busy sipping their ‘pulled out tea’ or ‘teh tarik’ and eating their packet of ‘nasi lemak’.
They ask: Why should they care for the miseries of the others, when they too have their own to worry about? Who’s going to pay for the ‘teh tarik’ and ‘nasi lemak’?
But why are the same lawyers and the same parliamentarians cum lawyers not using their legal minds to try and find new laws and regulations that can ensure the members of the public are protected so they do not become useless to themselves?
The truth is that they are not too smart to realize how they can actually help to save the juveniles and the other members of the public from harming themselves. They are so dumb to realize that having a degree in law and become too bookish cannot take them very far, except to the front-pages of the newspapers.
But these often have to be at the expense of those who have been dead.
What’s the point for those lawyers and parliamentarians cum lawyers to try and exert their presence and solve crimes that had happened when some have already been killed?
It is too late.
But it is still not too late for them to use those legal brains they claim to posses in great abundance to do what I am now telling to do, failing which one can easily come to the conclusion that they are not interested to stop or curb the incidents of crime but to allow them to happen so they can continue to benefit from them.
This seems to be the case and the attitude of the press has also not changed for they, too, can benefit from crimes which are repetitive and totally unnecessary which happened because the lawyers and parliamentarians are too busy doing other things, and looking elsewhere, for new crimes which are similar to happen so they can jump on the bandwagon and take another round of ride around the legal quagmire and rigmarole.
These well-meaning lawyers and parliamentarians are therefore mean for not being able to arrest such crimes.
Even without much legal background I can see how such crimes could have easily been avoided, that a fifteen-year-old student could be involved in a car chase ala many of the silly Melayu films which were shown in the cinemas, for which the student might have seen before.
Speed racing along narrow roads late at night for a person so young can be curbed, only if the same lawyers and the same parliamentarians had done a good job at trying to curb them.
They can introduce new laws and regulations to do this, but they did not do so.
Will they now want to do it after seeing similar cases being repeated in almost similar forms?
Young Indian men are found dead while in remand. A young Chinese man was said to have jumped from a high-rise office building…all these could have been avoided if the lawyers and parliamentarians are not busy looking for such unusual crimes to happen so they can jump on them and crowd around their family members and close friends to offer their expert legal advice.
But what good can they now do to the dead who are buried in the ground with some who have also been turned to dust?
There is no good at all. But is there anything that can be learnt from all this? Yes, there is.
But unfortunately, none of the same lawyers and parliamentarians and even the police do not seem to have any clue of it.
So with the parliamentarians making lousy and ugly noises in both the houses of the Rakyat and Negara, petty and silly crimes involving the most unlikely characters continue to happen.
Yesterday it was a young Chinese man who flung to his death from a high-rise office building. And few days ago, a younger Melayu student was gunned down while speed racing in a residential area early in the morning.
Tomorrow, similar things will happen as the same lawyers and parliamentarians busy taking up similar issues to the same court houses where they had fought tooth and nail many times before in order to get justice to the relatives of the deceased.
But alas, they should know that despite their protestations and those of the others who sympathize with the relatives of the deceased, the dead continue to lie buried in the graves.
No valuable lesson has been learnt.
The same lawyers and same parliamentarians and even the police are all at a total loss of not knowing what’s been hitting them.
What sort of useless and silly crimes will happen next? And who will be involved this time?
We do not know. We do not care.
But one thing’s for certain is how the same lawyers and the same parliamentarians cum lawyers will be first to come to the scene of the crime to unveil what happened prior to it so those who are involved in it are brought to justice.
They do not care for those who are still alive and who could be given extra protection from the other members of the public and especially from their own selves.
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