Its a mistake!

The Police released Sungai Siput MP Dr Michael Jeyakumar and five other Parti Sosialis Malaysia bigwigs from detention under Emergency Ordinance late this afternoon. Inspector General of Police Tan Sri Ismail Omar announced this minutes ago:

Published: Friday July 29, 2011 MYT 5:49:00 PM
Updated: Friday July 29, 2011 MYT 6:50:16 PM

IGP: Sg Siput MP Jeyakumar and 5 others released

KUALA LUMPUR: Sg Siput MP Dr Michael Jeyakumar and five others, detained under the Emergency Ordinance, were released Friday.

Inspector General of Police Tan Sri Ismail Omar said that the Attorney General would decide on the next course of action.

Jeyakumar, M. Sarasvathy, Choo Chon Kai, M. Sukumaran, R. Saratbabu and A. Letchumanan were arrested on June 26 and detained under the EO on July 2.

The six were detained for their alleged involvement in foreign-aided and subversive activities against the nation.

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It is strongly believed the consideration to decide on the release of the six is mainly due to political pressures including from the Indian community, at the expense of the investigations so far and decision of the Police who are in charge of internal security. This is despite that the Police discovered Dr jeyakumar did travel to South Thailand to meet up with Chin “Butcher of Malaya”Peng, twice.

Dr Jeyakumar and thirty others were arrested upon crossing into the border from Penang on 26 June 2011 with materials for the promotion of ‘reliving the communist struggle’, despite therejection of rakyat Malaysia to the notion. Communist rebels laid down arms in a treaty sealed in Hadyaii, Thailand on 2 December 1989 which ended 54 years of brutal insurgency in Malaya (later Peninsular Malaysia).

This should be seen as the second political mistake by the Federal Government with regards to the drumming up and post failed BERSIH 2.0 ‘street revolution’ on 9 July 2011. The first was despite all the rooms for consultation and warnings by the Police against the planned illegal street demonstration, BERSIH 2.0 Co-Chairman Ambiga Sreenivasan and two others were brought to present themselves to His Majesty Seri Paduka Baginda Yang DiPertuan Agong. Upon her leaving Istana Negara, she announced that the planned street demonstration is off but it never did.

The release of Dr Jeyakumar and five others should be seen as nothing but a mistake. The Opposition which banked on their entire political strategy on ‘politics of hatred’ and ‘demonisation of law enforcement agencies’ will now on never heed any warnings and/or actions by the Police since they have proven that the Federal Government bend on political pressures in their game of being a ‘populist government’.

Probably the six would be charged for some misdemeanour. From ‘attempting to wage a war against His Majesty Seri Paduka Baginda Yang DiPertuan Agong’ to some small charge is the revisit of the mistake PM ‘Flip-Flop’ Dato’ Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi did post-HINDRAF riot of November 2007 where 31 men were arrested. AG then charged them for ‘Attempting to cause grevious harm to a Policeman on duty’ and eventually on 17 December 2007, went to court to revoke the charge and let them all off walking away just like that.

They never learn, did they?

-bigdogdotcom