A good article and well thought of which I think should be read by many.
HH
Sunday, August 29, 2010
Charge the ‘surau man’ with assault on a minor!!
Courtesy of Hartal MSM
So how did the police so quickly know to finger the culprits who splashed paint at a surau in Taman Pulai Impian?
Elementary my dear Watson.
Police apprehended them on the night of Aug 24 and the morning of Aug 25. But guess what? Malaysiakini reported that the 13-year-old sister of one of the teenagers had lodged a police report on Aug 24 itself.
Her report claimed that her brother and his friends were “provoked” before the incident.
The girl said that she was with her brother and five other friends at a playground nearby the surau and they had gotten into an argument when a separate group of 20 men tried to chase them away.
“A Malay man in a red T-shirt and a songkok from the group became angry and called us babi (pigs)” — the girl said in her police report.
“We demanded to know why they used such language against us. That was when another group of men came out from the surau and reprimanded us.”
She explained that as her group refused to admit that they were at fault, the confrontation turned violent and one of the men, whom she claimed was from the surau, slapped her brother and chased them away.
See, something happened to trigger the vandalism… the insult ‘Cina babi’ — that incessant verbal abuse against the minorities. For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.
Before the police arrested the boys, shouldn’t they also have arrested the grown-up bully who assaulted a teenager and gertak a 13-year-old girl?
Yet it is some Chinese voices who have been most strident that the Chinese boys who threw paint at the surau be punished most severely.
MCA central committee member Loh Seng Kok called for the surau vandals’ citizenship to be stripped.
Bernard Khoo (blog: Zorro Unmasked) urged that “the full force of the law must be used as a deterrent. If whipping is enforced, well and good.”
Note that the NST article had this to say: “One of the four suspects is jobless, while the rest are employed.”
Those Chinese boys are merely 16 and 17 years old. How come at their age they’re already working and one unemployed?
*** Why are they not in school? ***
Deprived of the chance of furthering their studies? Their fathers are mechanic, carpenter, trader — quite possibly unable to afford.
The number of Chinese dropouts is a national problem that MCA should be paying attention to instead of Loh Seng Kok wanting to have the poorly educated juveniles stripped of their citizenship. His over-reaction is outdoing the Malays who have been more forgiving. Loh looks like another LGE by being so ‘over’.
How you have utterly, most miserably failed the community you claim to represent, MCA, and now you descend to this low by haranguing errant boys?! Shame on them but BIGGER shame on you, Loh and MCA.
Think! Vui Kong sitting on the death row in Singapore. Why did he not have better opportunities in life? He could have been in college.
And even now, all some people can talk about is punish, punish, punish.
What about ‘HELP’ for a change? How about uplifting the marginalized?
Church arson vs mosque vandalism — proportionality
CASE 1
Two Malay youths were sentenced by Judge S.M. Komathy Suppiah of the Kuala Lumpur Sessions Court to 5 years’ jail.
The youths aged 24 and 22 were found guilty of setting fire to the Metro Tabernacle Church near Taman Melawati in January.
They had claimed trial for the offence and did not publicly express any remorse for their act.
They had been charged under Section 436 of the Penal Code which carries a maximum penalty of 20 years jail and a fine.
The church suffered more than RM1 million in damages when its its entire ground floor was gutted and has since relocated to a new building.
CASE 2
Three Chinese teenagers have pleaded guilty to charges of lobbing bottles filled with paint at a surau in Seremban, on Aug 22.
The trio, aged between 16 and 17, are awaiting sentencing by magistrate M. Mageshwary of the Juvenile Court.
They were charged under Section 427 of the Penal Code which carries a maximum penalty of 2 years jail and a fine.
Their offence is for causing damage “to the amount of RM25 or above”.
The boys have publicly apologized for their act.
WERE THEY AWARE?
The Malay youths were sentenced 5 years — a quarter of the maximum penalty (20 years). Going by the same ratio, the Chinese boys should be sentenced to 6 months jail.
The fact that the Chinese teens have said sorry and the mosque committee forgiven them are mitigating factors. The material damage in terms of monetary cost is not much — some turpentine and a new coat of paint.
Did the vandals fully realise the ramifications of their act on our fraught race relations?
(In comparison, the Malay youths surely knew they were setting a match to the religious tinderbox by doing what they did at the time they did it.)
Nonetheless the Malay youths have been receiving rounds of support from Malay blogosphere whereas the Chinese boys have been hurled sticks and stones by certain Chinese themselves.
Calling to revoke citizenship and for whipping is going waaay overboard!
So how did the police so quickly know to finger the culprits who splashed paint at a surau in Taman Pulai Impian?
Elementary my dear Watson.
Police apprehended them on the night of Aug 24 and the morning of Aug 25. But guess what? Malaysiakini reported that the 13-year-old sister of one of the teenagers had lodged a police report on Aug 24 itself.
Her report claimed that her brother and his friends were “provoked” before the incident.
The girl said that she was with her brother and five other friends at a playground nearby the surau and they had gotten into an argument when a separate group of 20 men tried to chase them away.
“A Malay man in a red T-shirt and a songkok from the group became angry and called us babi (pigs)” — the girl said in her police report.
“We demanded to know why they used such language against us. That was when another group of men came out from the surau and reprimanded us.”
She explained that as her group refused to admit that they were at fault, the confrontation turned violent and one of the men, whom she claimed was from the surau, slapped her brother and chased them away.
See, something happened to trigger the vandalism… the insult ‘Cina babi’ — that incessant verbal abuse against the minorities. For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.
Before the police arrested the boys, shouldn’t they also have arrested the grown-up bully who assaulted a teenager and gertak a 13-year-old girl?
Yet it is some Chinese voices who have been most strident that the Chinese boys who threw paint at the surau be punished most severely.
MCA central committee member Loh Seng Kok called for the surau vandals’ citizenship to be stripped.
Bernard Khoo (blog: Zorro Unmasked) urged that “the full force of the law must be used as a deterrent. If whipping is enforced, well and good.”
Note that the NST article had this to say: “One of the four suspects is jobless, while the rest are employed.”
Those Chinese boys are merely 16 and 17 years old. How come at their age they’re already working and one unemployed?
*** Why are they not in school? ***
Deprived of the chance of furthering their studies? Their fathers are mechanic, carpenter, trader — quite possibly unable to afford.
The number of Chinese dropouts is a national problem that MCA should be paying attention to instead of Loh Seng Kok wanting to have the poorly educated juveniles stripped of their citizenship. His over-reaction is outdoing the Malays who have been more forgiving. Loh looks like another LGE by being so ‘over’.
How you have utterly, most miserably failed the community you claim to represent, MCA, and now you descend to this low by haranguing errant boys?! Shame on them but BIGGER shame on you, Loh and MCA.
Think! Vui Kong sitting on the death row in Singapore. Why did he not have better opportunities in life? He could have been in college.
And even now, all some people can talk about is punish, punish, punish.
What about ‘HELP’ for a change? How about uplifting the marginalized?
Church arson vs mosque vandalism — proportionality
CASE 1
Two Malay youths were sentenced by Judge S.M. Komathy Suppiah of the Kuala Lumpur Sessions Court to 5 years’ jail.
The youths aged 24 and 22 were found guilty of setting fire to the Metro Tabernacle Church near Taman Melawati in January.
They had claimed trial for the offence and did not publicly express any remorse for their act.
They had been charged under Section 436 of the Penal Code which carries a maximum penalty of 20 years jail and a fine.
The church suffered more than RM1 million in damages when its its entire ground floor was gutted and has since relocated to a new building.
CASE 2
Three Chinese teenagers have pleaded guilty to charges of lobbing bottles filled with paint at a surau in Seremban, on Aug 22.
The trio, aged between 16 and 17, are awaiting sentencing by magistrate M. Mageshwary of the Juvenile Court.
They were charged under Section 427 of the Penal Code which carries a maximum penalty of 2 years jail and a fine.
Their offence is for causing damage “to the amount of RM25 or above”.
The boys have publicly apologized for their act.
WERE THEY AWARE?
The Malay youths were sentenced 5 years — a quarter of the maximum penalty (20 years). Going by the same ratio, the Chinese boys should be sentenced to 6 months jail.
The fact that the Chinese teens have said sorry and the mosque committee forgiven them are mitigating factors. The material damage in terms of monetary cost is not much — some turpentine and a new coat of paint.
Did the vandals fully realise the ramifications of their act on our fraught race relations?
(In comparison, the Malay youths surely knew they were setting a match to the religious tinderbox by doing what they did at the time they did it.)
Nonetheless the Malay youths have been receiving rounds of support from Malay blogosphere whereas the Chinese boys have been hurled sticks and stones by certain Chinese themselves.
Calling to revoke citizenship and for whipping is going waaay overboard!
Dear HH,
ReplyDeleteThanks for the article. We all know that the MCA is irrelevant and only serves as running dogs of UMNO so this little shameless MCA pariah dog Loh Seng Kok thinks he will earn brownie crumbs from his UMNO master by calling for the revoking of the 3 culprits' citizenship.
What the 3 culprits did was wrong and they should be punished in accordance to the law. Shameless people like Loh are no different from those bigots from UMNO, Perkasa, MPM who demand non malays be stripped of their citizenships if the non malays do not display patriotism and gratitude to the ketuanan melayu for giving them the citizenships in the first place.
It's no wonder why the majority of chinese are deserting the MCA when the party is filled with "running dogs"
Steadyaku
ReplyDeleteThe MCA people cannot understand the Chinese. They are out of touch. Lest I be said to be guilty of talking along racial lines,what then is MCA for? As an accessory of UMNO, to help complete the propagated 1Malaysia. Nothing more. And get some crumbs, for those eligible. MCA leaders speak as though they know when they don't. We don't need Chinese parties anymore. We need truly Malaysian parties.