Possibly the best cartoon of the decade...

I personally would suggest government. 

They never go to jail.

[forwarded by Vijayadas Menon]

Where on earth is Saiful Bukhari Azlan (Malaysia's infamous anus)?

Actually, I don't have a clue. 

And, frankly, I don't give a fuck.

This photo of Saiful Bukhari Azlan on pilgrimage to the Ka'aba is undated.

Let's hope the same applies to Saiful.

What a twisted little Saicopath!

Dean Johns: BN is a National Affront!

Umno members stomp on a cow's head to protest Hindu temple (Samsul Said)

BN adds insult to injury
Dean Johns | Malaysiakini
12:01PM Apr 11, 2012

Barisan Nasional, it seems to me, has got itself trapped in a classic lose-lose situation.

Courtesy of Mob's Crib

Not only is this rotten regime increasingly revealed as a nothing but a national front for the criminality of its members and cronies, but it is causing even more national affront by its brazen attempts to conceal, deny, excuse and above all continue committing its crimes.

For example, as if it wasn't reprehensible enough to be responsible for the death of the innocent Teoh Beng Hock in the custody of its anti-corruption commission, BN proceeded to insult Malaysians' intelligence by staging an ‘inquest' that found his death to be due to "neither homicide nor suicide."

And now, in a further cold-blooded slap in the face to Teoh's bereaved family and friends, and to the outrage of the Malaysian people at large, the Attorney-General's Office has announced that three MACC officers allegedly involved in Teoh's death have no case to answer.

But it gets even more offensive than this.

Nation's sleaziest crook moonlights
as the Attorney-General

The aforesaid attorney-general, Abdul Gani Patail (left), was the lead prosecutor in the BN regime's first trial of Anwar Ibrahim on trumped-up sodomy charges, and is now, together with former inspector-general of police Musa Hassan, subject to sworn allegations of involvement in organised crime.

If the elevation of a figure as suspect as Gani Patail to the office of attorney-general isn't sufficiently insulting to the Malaysian people and the principle of justice, then I don't know what would be.

Devious and duplicitous

The most reviled & ridiculed
home minister to date

But of course I actually know only too well: it would be the saddling of Malaysia with a home minister as devious, duplicitous and downright disgraceful as Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak's cousin, Hishammuddin Hussein (right), who recently blithely dismissed the organised crime allegations against Gani Patail as "unsubstantiated."

Hishammuddin, of course, is the minister in overall charge of Malaysia's insulting apologies for ‘law-enforcement' agencies, and thus ultimately responsible for the blackest blot on the BN regime's dark record, the deaths of Teoh Beng Hock and countless other ‘suspects' in fake ‘shoot-outs' and ‘accidents' in custody.

But as deeply offensive to all Malaysians as it has been to be handed Hishammuddin as their chief ‘protector', the most outrageous insult of all by BN to Malaysia and Malaysians was the appointment three years ago of Najib Abdul Razak as prime minister.

It would be difficult to show more contempt for the people than to so scorn their revulsion at the murder of Altantuya Shaariibuu, the Mongolian woman involved in the notorious Scorpene submarine scandal, as to elevate the defence minister suspected of involvement in these crimes to the nation's highest office.

No garland big enough to conceal the stench of insatiable greed (The Malaysian Insider)

Yet that's precisely what BN did.

And the Malaysian people have had to live under the shadow of this deadly insult ever since.

And what an insult and an embarrassment it has been, and continues to be.

Having sworn on the Quran that he had nothing to do with the Scorpene submarines or Altantuya Shaariibuu affairs, Najib has not only presided over the continued extra-judicial killings of ‘suspects' like Teoh Beng Hock, but has further compounded these offences by contemptibly failing to press for their proper investigation.

Luxury coach trip with the fake Mentri Besar of Perak

Then, as if determined to heap further insult on such injury to victims of his criminal regime, he's called on his BN collaborators and cronies to defend Putrajaya with still more "broken bodies" and "lost lives."

He's insulted the intelligence of every Malaysian by calling on them to have faith in his lying "1Malaysia" slogan, despite all the while betraying their desire for racial and religious harmony by covertly sponsoring hate-mongers like Perkasa, Ibrahim Ali and Utusan Malaysia.

Najib: "We will defend Putrajaya with our broken bodies..." Against whom?

Daylight robberies

To grievous financial injuries to the people like the RM12-billion PKFZ scandal, the rape of Sarawak's resources by the Taib dynasty and dozens of other daylight robberies, he's added the insult of allowing these and other thieves get away scot free.

To the injury he's done to the nation through his own and his accomplices' profligacy with public money, he's added the insult of calling on Malaysians to tighten their belts and curb their personal spending.

Saiful Bukhari Azlan's infamous anus almost derailed Anwar's career (AFP)

To the injury he inflicted on Anwar Ibrahim by subjecting him to a trial on yet another trumped-up sodomy charge, he added the insult of trying to further smear Anwar by permitting if not actually supporting the production and dissemination of the ‘Datuk T' sex tapes.

To the injury he's done Malaysia's international reputation through spending a fortune on fake documentaries for Bloomberg and the BBC and ludicrous PR campaigns on his own and his consort's images, he's added the insult of using an Israeli-owned PR company while posing as pro-Palestinian.

To the injury he does the Malaysian people by persisting in suppressing the news media by means of the pernicious Printing, Presses and Publications Act, he's added the insult of falsely pretending to promote press freedom and claiming that Malaysia's mendacious media are among the world's best.

Just as his doltish deputy, Muhyiddin Yassin has attempted to cover-up the injury that BN has inflicted on Malaysia's education system with the insulting claim that it is better than that of the US, UK or Germany.
And most unforgivably of all, as aware as you or me that he and his regime are utterly unelectable in a clean and fair contest, Najib is determined to keep doing the democratic process an injury by every traditional BN means - gerrymandering, roll-stacking, foreigner-registration, voter cloning, postal-vote manipulation and blatant bribery.

While simultaneously adding the insult of pretending to be a ‘transformer' and staging a phony inquiry into electoral ‘reforms' that he has no intention whatever of instituting.

Shahrizat & Najib: RM250 million worth of bull

Meanwhile, he's added the insult of declaring himself the minister for women, family and community development to the injury of refusing to fire the previous incumbent, failed political candidate and back-door senator Shahrizat Abdul Jalil, for her family's involvement in the National feedlot scandal.

And in the process of announcing this move, he had the additional effrontery to declare that Shahrizat, in retaining her post as chief of Wanita Umno, "will assure a big win for the BN in the upcoming general election," and to add that "I dare say that the people are gradually coming back to us; their affection for us is rising.

To which all I can say is that, far from feeling renewed affection for Barisan Nasional, more and more Malaysians are affronted and offended by Najib and his accomplices' every word and deed. And thus the suggestion that this gang of crooks deserves even one more day in office, let along five more years, only adds yet another deadly insult to decades of unforgivable injury.

The Last Umno Emperor, Ah Jib Gor

[This is such a powerful piece I felt compelled to share it with those who don't subscribe to Malaysiakini!]

The 1% are the very best destroyers of wealth the world has ever seen ~ George Monbiot

Illustration by Daniel Pudle

The very rich are often described as wealth creators. But they have preyed on the earth's natural wealth and their workers' labour and creativity, impoverishing both people and planet. 

Now they have almost bankrupted us. The wealth creators of neoliberal mythology are some of the most effective wealth destroyers the world has ever seen.

Until recently, we were mesmerised by the bosses' self-attribution. Their acolytes, in academia, the media, thinktanks and government, created an extensive infrastructure of junk economics and flattery to justify their seizure of other people's wealth. So immersed in this nonsense did we become that we seldom challenged its veracity.

This is now changing. On Sunday evening I witnessed a remarkable thing: a debate on the steps of St Paul's Cathedral between Stuart Fraser, chairman of the Corporation of the City of London, another official from the corporation, the turbulent priest Father William Taylor, John Christensen of the Tax Justice Network and the people of Occupy London. It had something of the flavour of the Putney debates of 1647. For the first time in decades – and all credit to the corporation officials for turning up – financial power was obliged to answer directly to the people.

It felt like history being made. The undeserving rich are now in the frame, and the rest of us want our money back.

[Read the whole illuminating essay here!]

The crookedest cop in history... IS HISTORY!

Police chief Musa to quit this month

March 13, 2010
9:30am


Inspector-general of police Musa Hassan has tendered his resignation to Home Minister Hishammuddin Hussein Onn, five months before the end of his contract.

According to China Press, the police chief is expected to formally step down on March 25 at a function commemorating the 203rd Police Day.

Sources said that Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak and Hishammuddin have both accepted his resignation.

If there are no last-minute changes, deputy inspector-general of police Ismail Omar will take over as the country's No 1 cop.

Musa's resignation - five months before he was due to end his contract - came a day after former No 3 in the police force, Ramli Yusuff, was acquitted of failing to declare his multi-million ringgit assets.

[Source: Malaysiakini]

First it was Ahmad Said Hamdan, MACC chief, who stepped down several months before the end of his term. Now, IGP Musa Hassan. Who's next? Here's my wish list: Gani Patail (Attorney-General); Hishammuddin Hussein (Home Minister); Najib Abdul Razak (Crime Minister).

NEWSFLASH! MORE DENIALS!

KUALA LUMPUR, March 13 — Tan Sri Musa Hassan has denied a report in local Chinese daily China Press today that he has resigned as Inspector-General of Police.

Quoting unnamed sources, China Press had reported that Musa submitted his resignation letter to the Home Minister, Datuk Seri Hishammudin Hussein, and Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak.

The 59-year-old Musa’s contract as IGP expires in September.

“I have not submitted any resignation letter to the Prime Minister or anyone.

“I want to know if the source is from official channels or from the underground.

“I know it is not from the ministry as I have checked with the ministry Secretary General Datuk Mahmood Adam who denied any knowledge,” he said.

His remarks today appeared to suggest the newspaper obtained the information from underworld criminal figures.

[Source: The Malaysian Insider]

WHAT RPK REVEALED A MONTH AGO ON MALAYSIA TODAY

Umno Rogues Gallery (Partial Listing)

Look at those cold-fish cunning ruthless shifty eyes. Eyes that show no emotion, dead eyes behind which no human soul is visible, as though he has mortgaged it to Mephistopheles for a brief spell of earthly power. This slimy swamp creature from Pahang was so hellbent on wresting Perak from Pakatan right after the general election he was prepared to spend RM50 million buying the loyalties of a few MPs of dubious character. What prompted him to embark on such a desperate and misguided gambit, just to flex his pack-leader muscles prior to the Umno General Assembly and impress the yokels? Sheer arrogance and the absolute absence of any ethical sense whatsoever. Lacking charm, intellectual appeal, bereft of novel ideas, and burdened with the heaviest political baggage of any politician in Malaysian history, this man can only win by resorting to dirty tricks, bribery, intimidation and voodoo courtesy of his spouse. Anyone who so much as shakes his hand is instantly CONTAMINATED!

Malaysia's own Lady Macbeth (some say a cousin of Black Magic Woman Mona Fandey or at least a soul-sister) who set her sights on wealth and power decades ago - and singlemindedly clawed her way to the top, stepping over, casting aside or blowing up anyone who stood in her way.

Totally uninspiring, typical potatohead Umno warlord, long past use-by date as a human being. Has yet to utter a single intelligent, original, constructive thought outside of the Ketuanan Melayu box. As though it wasn't tragic enough that he managed to maneuver his way into the deputy PM's post, he also took over as education minister.... HELP!!!

A face that can sink a thousand ships and wreck the Constitution. Portrait of a 2nd echelon corporate gangster. A sight that induces spontaneous vomiting. Not in a miilion years will any decent Malaysian recognize this smug and uncouth sleazebag as Mentri Besar of Perak. Podah!

Click to enlarge so you can see closeup the miserable faces of Perak's rogue State Assembly (courtesy of Knights Templar)

Young Turk who had a lot going for him (youth, good looks, British education, political connections)... but, alas, he opted to join a dead duck party on the brink of extinction. Also, he succumbed to temptation and stuffed his own pockets too full while his father-in-law was asleep on the job. Now he's every bit as corrupt as all the others - and perhaps even more dangerously evil, since he has to try so much harder just to be accepted by the crime syndicate he's part of. But let's not write him off completely just yet. There's a minute possibility he might have a satori moment and come to his senses before he gets sucked down the bottomless pit of damnation with the others...

This rhinoceros-skinned blackguard operates on an erratic and volatile mix of 65% egomania and 35% unmitigated malice. Under his watch as chief minister, bureaucratic corruption and self-aggrandizement spread throughout the state like a cancer, along with hazardous hillslope housing projects and massive and almost immeasurable misappropiation of public funds. A rabid racist who seems obsessed with attractive, intelligent Chinese women politicians - constantly torn between an atavistic compulsion to savagely rape, strangulate and mutilate their provocative bodies... or annihilate their political reputations. Only cure for his disease in its present advanced stage is compulsory castration... or permanent exile to Kampong Melayu, Sumatra.

This guy used to be one of the few Umno warlords with a touch of class and even a trace of culture. He really ought to have quit politics while the going was good and people still had a modicum of respect for him. Too late now. As communications minister all he appears to be doing is issue stern warnings to bloggers and hardline critics of Umno/BN. Sounds just like a constipated dinosaur, utterly pathetic and completely out of sync with the times. Prrrrp.

The Ultimate Umno Rogue Elephant. He sodomized the police, judiciary, media, civil service, and an entire generation of Malaysians. Enough said. Time to pull the plug on this cynical, self-serving megalomaniac.

WHAT MALAYSIANS TRULY DESIRE:

• FRESH ELECTION IN PERAK

• ABOLITION OF OPPRESSIVE AND ARCHAIC LAWS

• ACTION ON ROYAL COMMISSION RECOMMENDATIONS RE LINGAMGATE & POLICE MISCONDUCT
  

• A VOTE OF NO-CONFIDENCE IN PARLIAMENT

• SNAP ELECTIONS IN 2009!