KUALA LUMPUR - It looks like the speculation that Prime Minister Najib Razak's wife Rosmah Mansor was behind the controversial crackdown on a video lampooning her husband's mismanagement of the economy and their ultra extravagant lifestyles while the man in the street suffered from sky-rocketing costs of living, might just be true!
The ... sorry to say this but let's call a spade a spade ... the FAT actress Lim Ching Miau who acted as a feng shui expert in the video has been hauled by the Malaysian cops.
"This is ridiculous. Somebody in the police force must be trying to be funny. Are they trying to send the message that anyone who dares to imitate or impersonate Rosmah Mansor will be jailed?" MP for Batu Tian Chua told Malaysia Chronicle.
Blatant racism against the Chinese and other minorities
In the video, Rosmah who in real life is often accused of megalomania and an unquenchable thirst for material wealth, was lampooned as 'Lo-si-ma'.
Ching Miau, in her role as the rotund handbags and jewellery-crazy 'Mrs Jit', had advised viewers to place a 'lo-si-ma' or horse made of of nails and screws to attract good luck in the Year of the Horse.
Teresa herself has been harassed for producing the video, with extremist Muslim NGOs staging violent protest and calling her 'ayam' or chicken (rude local slang for prostitute) and even offering RM1,200 cash as reward to anyone who could successfully slap her.
No longer harmonious, or happy or even a stable nation
The shocking inducement, made in public, to assault Teresa has been totally ignored by the Najib administration, dismissed by Home Minister Zahid Hamidi as being of no consequence.
This has emboldened the violent Muslim NGO to issue further threats, while the police continue to launch one-sided action against Teresa and those involved in the video, with Ching Miau the latest to be taken in. A Chinese sitcom was also banned from national TV for alleged involvement in Teresa's 'One-der-ful' video, meant to usher in the 2014 lunar new year.
Indeed, once a poster-nation for harmonious multiracial relations, Malaysia has become known as an extreme pro-Malay and anti-Chinese country.
The Malay form 55% of the 28-million population and control both the government and economy, while the Chinese who form 25% of the population have found themselves - along with other non-Malays such as the Indians, Punjabis, Kadazans, Ibans and Dayaks - increasingly sidelined and stripped of their constitutional rights.
Lydia Shum or Lo-si-ma - no fear, Chinese will continue to rebel against Umno's overt racism
Meanwhile, according to Malaysiakini, Ching Miau is due to give her statement on Tuesday. She claims she was mimicking the late Lydia Shum, a Hong Kong actress much-loved for her motherly ways, beautiful skin and comically-obese shape.
"I was summoned under Section 111 of Criminal Procedure Code (as a witness), to give a statement to the police at 2pm tomorrow," said Ching Miau.
"I imitated Lydia Shum (a late Hong Kong comedian and artiste). I don't know how I ended up 
becoming Rosmah. I thought I just look like Lydia. I have watched her acting ever since my childhood."
becoming Rosmah. I thought I just look like Lydia. I have watched her acting ever since my childhood."
It looks like whoever is trying to strike fear into the hearts of the non-Malays so as to warn them off from lampooning top Umno leaders, such effort is doomed to boomerang.
Not only is it plain for all in the country to see that the police are using scare tactics to frighten the ordinary folk into docility so as to please the political bosses, most of the non-Malays in Malaysia are fairly well educated and know their legal rights.
They see through the bluff and the clear-cut bullying tactics deployed by Najib and Rosmah via the police can only set their backs up even more.
Jump in "instant fame", renewed interest in Lo-si-ma video
If anything, legal experts told Malaysia Chronicle, Ching Miau was likely to see a jump in "instant fame" and they also expected renewed interest in the video and her role in it.
"It is like Zunar's cartoons. Najib also tried to clamp down on Zunar caricatures of him and Rosmah with the big hair but it has not worked. Instead Zunar is now world famous as a political cartoonist who is willing to go to jail for his work. He even held an exhibition of Altantuya and Scorpenes in London recently," said Tian.
He was referring the late Altantuya Shaariibuu, a beautiful 28-year-old Mongolian translator allegedly involved in the Malaysian government's Scorpene submarines procurement, with whom Najib was also accused of having an affair with.
Both the PM and Rosmah were implicated in Atantuya's gory murder but have denied involvement. - Malaysia Chronicle
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