Flip-Flop Cabinet

Is there anything more to say about the weekend roadblocks that hasn't been said in the papers and around cyberspace? Naah, I don't think so. Efforts by the police to "safeguard the public" left most folk living on the outskirts of KayEll or in the towns surrounding KayEll and trying to get into the city for a weekend of leisure or pleasure must really be fuming and foaming at the mouth. What a load of crap!

Safeguard me? Prevent me from inconvenience due to protesters? Maintain public safety? Yeah right.... Come take mine for a walk. Maybe then I might incline to give you an ear. Come on la... How many of you saw the bloody cops on duty manning those roadblocks? Did they look like they were out to safeguard anyone? Did they even bloody hell look like they were looking for any protesters? Did anyone of the blue shirted cops even check any car to find items that might have compromised public safety? Bollocks!!

They looked to me like they were biding time. Waiting. For what? God only knows. I can only hazard a guess. Monday was supposedly the D-Day in parliament. The opposition was to have moved a motion of no confidence in the PM. My guess is that the police were on standby incase the motion got passed or approved or whatever shit they call it in Parliament-speak.... If that had happened, fat chance actually - seeing that the speaker himself is a pro BN dickhead, then the cops on the street would have gotten the call that they were waiting for. "Anarchy, mayhem, chaos, we need to maintain public order - get the police to 'safely guide the people back home' while we await the latest from the Government" or some shit not dissimilar to that would have been announced to put us effectively in a state of emergency.

Anyway, it's done and dusted. They blocked the roads and we got stuck. Of course we know all their "reasons", and we have got counter questions to them based on that. Like why the entire weekend when the threatened rally was only for Monday? Like why all entry points into the city when the protest was scheduled for parliament? I mean, you already had barbed wire and other preventive stuff in parliament. Like where did you get the info about the protest rally?

Syed Hamid said he got it off the internet from some blogs and a few circulated sms'es. To make himself look intelligent and as if he had done his homework, he even gave a few blog sites that were supposedly calling the people to rally in protest. And he calls it police intelligence gathering.

Well, I guess that's why they found Nurin (apologies to the family) after she'd been chopped up, and they're still looking for Sharlinie. Please Mr Kidnapper, our police need you to send an sms that you have kidnapped Sharlinie or at least you got to blog about it. Our police intelligence seems to depend on vague sms'es or blogs. I don't know about you, but I find that damn insulting to my intelligence. The best part of the story is, hardly a week had gone by since Badawi's infamous clarion call to all and sundry to steer away from gossipy blogs and sms'es. And we have one of his dumb-ass minister doing a flip-flop on it. Can't really blame Syed Hamid now, can you? He also got confused. He thought that when Badawi said don't believe in sms rumours and blog stories, Badawi must have meant the opposite.

In any case, when you have a flip-flop Pm, what more can we expect from his cabinet?