Nurulhidayah, better ask your dad to stop police brutality

YOURSAY l ‘I believe it will be easier, now that your dad is the head honcho of the police force.’

Dad left on highway blindfolded, recalls Zahid's daughter

NoFaham: Nurulhidayah Ahmad Zahid, first I laud a loyal and loving daughter who comes to his father's defence.

I am also very sure, being someone who is informed and reads forums and blogs, that critics of the current administration and leaders are not without merits.

I am also very sure that you are aware that the people who voice out are not all supporters of opposition, but people who just want a better Malaysia.

Yes, love your daddy but as someone rational, do not blindly support him. A good example is Dr Mahathir Mohamad's daughter.

Having said this, I doubt you can actually do it. As much as you claim to have gone through hardship, I really doubt you have learnt any humility from it.

Negarawan: Nurulhidayah is showing her narcissistic tendencies again. The narrative of her father's and her own "tribulations" is a desperate and shameful attempt to gain public sympathy and support for her father's "durian runtuh" promotion to DPM.

Let it be clear that Zahid was not chosen democratically by the rakyat as the DPM. He was selected on the basis of immorally protecting a PM potentially guilty of massive graft and abuse of power.

He is known for protecting alleged criminals such as Paul Phua from being prosecuted through his affidavit to the US Justice Department.

A leader who truly has the rakyat in his heart and mind is unlikely to have selfish and highly materialistic traits like flaunting multi-million-ringgit worth of luxury watches and vehicles to the extent that Nurulhidayah's house was burgled twice.

It is interesting to note that Tudor HK reported plunging sales because its main customers from China are corrupt officials who have been clamped down by the Chinese government.

Puchong Mali: As if she has earned the right to whine and gripe. Her father was only locked up for 10 days and she was already 18.

What about those kids who watched their parents taken away in the middle of the night by the Special Branch and had grown up separated from their parents because their parents had to endure years of incarceration in Kamunting?

Oscar Kilo: Zahid was detained only 10 days. That's nothing to shout about. But if he was detained for two years, then he would probably be a different man today.

Anticonmen: Now that your dad and you are wiser and are ensconced in power and money, are you able to stand up for the same principles by releasing all political prisoners especially Anwar, without whom your dad will not be where he is today with his power and money from government businesses, by abandoning him during reformasi?

Odysseus: Nurul, from your interview, it shows you are thinking from the perspective of your dad's initial suffering and also how to keep him in power. If you think demonstration is not good, how about the treatment your dad received from police?

He was lucky he did not receive a black eye like former DPM Anwar Ibrahim. Indeed, leaving him by the roadside blindfolded may get him run over by a truck.

Imagine, if they can leave your dad, who was the then Umno Youth chief, by the roadside, how about commoners who are without any political connections?

I would recommend that you spend your time campaigning against brutality by the police force. I believe it will be easier as now your dad is the head honcho of the police.

Drngsc: Young lady, your "abah" was and is a turncoat. He cannot take a stand and stick to it. He is a chameleon who twist and turns and change his colour to suit the environment for his own selfish reasons.

Demonstration is a way to achieve one’s aim, but only when all else has failed, including civil negotiations.

In Malaysia today, how can you negotiate with dictators who steal, cheat, lie, embezzle money. abuse power, sack, replace officers who were trying to do their jobs?

You watch, lady. There are more twists and turns to come.

Anonymous_660: If your father was left in the middle of the road, it is not Mahathir that did that. It was the heads of institutions and agencies who did not want to "buat kerja" but tried their easy way of "cari makan".

What you had protested then was of "kezaliman" of absolute power and you should be hailed doing that.

But now, you have seen the good life over the last two decades and become the epitome of Melayu Baru. As long as you are rich, connected and powerful, you can justify anything.

Mojo Jojo: Honestly, none of what you say or do will help your father. No matter what it is you utter, the fact remains that your sweet old daddy is running a regime with an iron-fist alongside the man who has everything to hide.

What goes around comes around, and history has less tolerance and sympathy for the likes of kleptomaniacs masquerading themselves as enlightened tyrants.

Anonymous 1281621434255574: Nurulhidayah, whatever happened is history. Do it right for the nation now. Don't look for sympathy, we don't buy it. -Mkini