Najib taken captive by Umno's right-wing

VOXPOP 'Poor Najib is in the pocket of ultra right-wing forces. He needs to pacify these forces to hang on to the power.'

PM says 114A 'modern, forward-looking' legislation

Kgen: How can section 114A of the Evidence Act prevent slander and cyber-bullying when the perpetrators can hide behind an innocent identity knowing that the police will only go after whoever is depicted as the author?

They know that the police will be too lazy to investigate because they have a ready-made scapegoat who must prove his innocence, which is almost impossible.

Swipenter: Innocent unless proven guilty or guilty unless proven innocent - which do you prefer? This is aimed at controlling and not facilitating the correct and responsible use of the Internet.

I rather prefer you free a guilty person due to lack of proof and evidence than to convict an innocent person without proof and evidence. This is gross injustice of the worst kind. How forward looking can that be?

iBoleh: Najib is making the same mistake to defend the decision not to review section 114A, similar to what he did when his deputy claimed he is Malay first, Malaysian second.

His deputy went against what he had tweeted when he was away overseas. His leadership and command will be in jeopardy if he doesn't put his foot down.

Mushiro: Why did Najib instruct the cabinet to discuss the 114A in the wake of criticisms? But the cabinet which was chaired by DPM Muhyiddin Yassin decided not to review it. Did Najib get the message?

Vgeorgemy: Poor Najib is in the pocket of ultra right-wing forces. He needs to pacify these forces to hang on to the power.

Bender: Care to debate on that 'forward looking' claim, Najib? Because I don't see how such blunder that you call 'legislation' can be described as forward looking.

Oh, right, debate is not our culture. So, part of forward looking is to accept whatever people like you say without question.

Anomnim: We are not arguing that we don't need that law, we are arguing that because the burden of proof now falls on the people who could not command the resources required to come up with the evidence to clear themselves.

Can you imagine a rape victim having to proof that the rapist is the culprit?

Cantabrigian: What nonsense is this? No matter how modern and forward looking we are, the principle of law is still the same over the past 20 centuries - that a person is innocent unless proven guilty.

Puchong Mali: It is indeed ‘forward looking' for Third World politicians who still dream of holding on to power in this age of Internet. - Malaysiakini