Desperate, irrational spins from the PM’s office

Like the Prime Minister’s special officer Datuk Hardev Kaur, who has desperately issued a “My heartfelt regret” for suggesting “no crucifixes” at a Christmas tea party attended by Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak, the whole bunch of advisers and news spinners in the PM’s office should quit or be sacked for insulting the intelligence of Malaysians.

Who is Hardev to even have the audacity to suggest or request a “ban” on the display of crucifixes at a Christmas function attended by the PM.

Now, unfortunately for the PM’s boys, the coroner’s verdict on Teoh Beng Hock’s death has become a nightmare, coming so close to a crucial by-election in Tenang, Johor.

The by-election was caused by the death of BN assemblyman Datuk Sulaiman Taha last Dec 17.

It’s a nightmare because the verdict is just unacceptable to the public and it is likely to cost Barisan Nasional some amount of votes.

After all, any rational thinking Malaysian will not accept such a verdict because a healthy man, who stepped into the office of a Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commision (MACC) to give his statement as a witnesses ended up dead, while in custody.

And you expect Malaysians to believe that no one in the MACC office, which is a security area, knows how Teoh ended up dead?

So, now the advisers and news spinners from the PM’s office have desperately launch its damage control strategy in a bid to reduce the impact of Teoh’s death on the Tenang by-election.

To quell the anger, Najib has obviously been advised to announce the formation of a full-scale Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI), not to look into the death of Teoh, but to investigate MACC’s investigation procedures and whether it had violated human rights.

Now, wasn’t that settled by a court ruling last year?

I dare predict that the outcome of such a RCI, after the Tenang by-election, will be: “No violation of human rights!”

How can there be violation when it is the right of the police to clamp down on those who stage peaceful candlelight vigils or children bearing flowers, or the rakyat protesting peacefully against price hikes or even wearing a certain coloured tee-shirt walking briskly along the streets.

Yes! Be Tenang, please. Cast your ballots wisely and peacefully. - Malaysia Chronicle