Tian Chua and Keadilan Daily

A week and hundreds of police reports later, Tian Chua blames his own party's newspaper

Still, the PKR man refuses to apologize. And his own party's organ that allegedly misquoted him has not said sorry or even published a correction. So what gives? 

Sue, Sue, Sue!

From Day 1, Pakatan Rakyat has been assaulting the mainstream media, especially Utusan Malaysia, TV3 and NST and Bernama, for malice, slander, libel etc. The Lahad Datu incident alone has seen Tian Chua's boss Anwar Ibrahim filing RM200 million lawsuits against "Umno-owned" media for reporting what the Philippines Inquirer, the Manila Times, and other foreign media have earlier published.

Anwar is threatening to sue any Malaysian journalist who dares repeat the allegations.

Tian Chua himself has threatened bloggers with lawsuits.

As I said on Twitter, Tian Chua should sue Keadilan Daily. If you want to muzzle and bully the Press, be consistent. Tian Chua should also get his own party newspaper to publish a correction and apologize to all Malaysians, including the ex-Commandos who have lodged the police report against him. 

A sodomy revisited

Updated 9 March 2008: 

Father, Son and Anwar Ibrahim. For the record, Saiful Bahari has issued a statement [read h e r e] to basically say that he stood by his story that, basically, he had been sodomized by Anwar Ibrahim and that he believes his father Azlan Mohd Lazim is the victim of Anwar's political "kerakusan" (I can't find a suitable equivalent in English). Will it be an open battle of words between son and father after this? If so, it could be uglier and more bitter perhaps than the long-drawn siblings rivalry involving Anwar's right-hand man Azmin and sister Umi Hafilda ... 

Original posting:
I thought I'd seen it all ...

Saiful's biological dad Azlan Mohd Lazim

And then, out of nowhere, while we are busy defending our sovereignty from a terrorist attack in Sabah, a crisis that has threatened and is still threatening to implicate Opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim in a most damning way, the father of Saiful Bukhari, the former "coffee boy" who had accused the same Anwar Ibrahim of sodomizing him, told a press conference today that his son ...

"was used by several unscrupulous people, including a special officer to the prime minister, to fabricate lies against the opposition leader."

I don't know who Saiful's father is or how relevant or credible he is. Saiful's parents were divorced when he was very young; he grew up with mom and stepfather [read Did you know Saiful is related to ...? July 2, 2008, I had to add renewed link for The Story of a boy called Saifool h e r e as the old link is dead).

It's been over a year since the verdict of Sodomy 2 so we will all have to reboot our memory banks. Expect ore twists and surprises ...

Five years later, are you sure you want Malaysia under Pakatan's Rule?

Think again! If you were to ask me what Pakatan has contributed in the last 5 years to my country, I would have very few good words to say. But Dr Chandra Muzaffar says it better in this interview at Anas Zubedy:

At the start of the interview, he lists five major achievements of  BN's 55-year rule. At the end of the interview, he says these are not just BN's track record, they are the people's track record, too. In between, this ex-PKR man has some good words to say about DAP and PAS but, alas, not for about Anwar Ibrahim or PKR:

Malaysians' 5 greatest achievements in the last 55 years, according to Chandra:

1. Continuous peace in one of the most complex multi-religious, multi-ethnic landscapes in the world

2. Prosperity: average GDP growth of 7 per cent a year in the last 55 years; eradication of poverty

3. Major socio-economic transformation: agriculture to manufacturing, rural to urban

4. Parliamentary democracy all along, freedoms

5. We are a country that has been able to preserve an independent foreign policy: Malaysia is not beholden to anyone

Ops Daulat

"We are not happy to see dead bodies but we are happy those who killed our PDRM men are killed." - Apanama on Twitter from Lahad Datu. More pictures on his blog here.