Any reader or fellow blogger here from Malaysia will probably know just by looking at the title what the content of this article's going to be.
Today an innocent man, a man who wants nothing more than truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, has been sent to jail on a charge of inciting the people of the nation (Malaysia) against the present ruling government of Malaysia.
Well deserved, i hear you say? Yeah, well deserved, i agree, if indeed he incited anybody to do anything. In that case, they should lock him up and throw away the key. Yeah, try that on for size, inciter, incite as many people as you can in jail. See how you like that!!
Unfortunately, it is not as simple as that. All this man asked for was for the people of the country, from the Agong (Malaysia's equvialent to a King), to the Prime Minister, to the leaders, to the authorities, both religious and secular, down to the man on the street, to work together to ensure that cold-blooded killers be sent to hell.
Of course, as you and I know, neither the Agong nor the Prime Minister nor leaders nor authorities (especially religious) nor any man on the street can decide whether anyone deserves to go to heaven or hell. That job or honour is still very much the sole reserve of God. Therefore, anyone with even the slightest iota of brains should be able to adduce that the word hell here is used as a literary tool to emphasise the sternest possible punishment for the afore-mentioned cold-blooded killer(s).
How asking for cold-blooded killers to be put away can be construed as sedition is beyond the ability of the ordinary folk to grasp.
Gasp! Unless some in the government felt that the article was asking the Agong, the Prime Minister, the Leaders, the Authorities and the Man-On-The -Street to send the government to hell. But that's only possible if the government IS INDEED the afore-mentioned cold-blooded killer, isn't it?
I mean, shouldn't the government also want the perpetrators of this heinous crime to be brought to justice and have the book thrown at them? Then why arrest a guy who shares the same ends? The means may not be the same, but the ends of both the government and the blogger are the same, right? Catch the killer and punish him to the full extent of the law.
Well, I'll give it a rest for now. For further reading, please look up the following articles, websites and key words.
Websites - www.malaysia-today.net
www.malaysiakini.com
www.sloone.wordpress.com
Articles - www.malaysia-today.net/2008/content/view/6604/84/
www.sloone.wordpress.com/2008/05/06/be-there-for-raja-petra-
tomorrow/
www.malaysia-today.net/2008/content/view/7081/1/
Keywords - Altantuya, Raja Petra Kamarudin,


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