Deputy IGP's statement defies logic

POLITICS tends to make some Malaysians behave outside the norm and do bizarre things. I refer to the setting up of burger stalls in front of the home of Bersih co-chairman Datuk Ambiga Sreenevasan by a group of disenchanted traders, followed by so-called army veterans who performed “butt exercises”.

Their actions were clearly an invasion of an individual’s privacy. Worse still when we have our deputy inspector-general of police seeing it differently and going on record to say that he sees no offence in gathering outside someone’s home doing what these people had done! His statement is tantamount to allowing any crackpot to do anything in front of anybody’s house so long as he/she doesn’t encroach into the property.

Over in Penang, we observed the actions of certain members of Perkasa performing mock Hindu funeral rites in front of the chief minister’s home. They later did something similar at Komtar where the CM’s office is located. To conduct mock funeral rites for a living person is downright crass. How these people get away with their actions baffles me. Isn’t the CM an important enough person to be accorded some kind of police protection? How is it that the police and the local authority didn’t take any action against these hoodlums for disturbing the peace and littering, respectively?

Previously, another nutcase sent two coffins to the home of a state assemblyman. I didn’t read of any severe punishment meted out to this chap.

Just because some of these so-called NGOs claim to be championing the causes of the ordinary people, it doesn’t mean they can do what would make any right-thinking person shudder.

Little do they know the damage they could have done to the political parties they have been purported to be linked with. It is no wonder Penang Umno had come out strongly to condemn the actions of Perkasa. Then again, it’s probably too little too late!

Michael Ng

Seremban