Police report against RPK and Malaysia Today: The consequences
The police report against RPK by Muhammad Taib as UMNO Information Chief must have backfired for the Selangor’s ex-Chief Minister a.k.a Mat Tyson and UMNO in general. Suffice to say the police report had more negatives effect on Mat Tyson and UMNO. If you read what RPK had written in his blog about the investigation by the police, the whole thing is nothing but a big joke.
When that ex-Selangor Menteri Besar with two Muhamads in his name went to the Dang Wangi Police Station on Monday to lodge his police report, he did not have any details to support the allegation that Malaysia Today had insulted the Agong and Islam. He was told that the evidence to support this allegation must be attached to the police report. They then tried to get onto the internet to access Malaysia Today so that they could look for the evidence. But they did not know how to and could not find Malaysia Today.
They then enlisted the help of a journalist from one of the Chinese newspapers who was there covering the event. Through the good help of this Chinese reporter, they finally found Malaysia Today and went through the comments in the blogs to find the evidence that they needed to support the police report.
Malaysia Today was launched on 13 August 2004 and since then we have about 20,000 or so items with an estimated five million comments in the blogs. Looking for the evidence would be like looking for a needle in a haystack. We must note that at this point of time they had lodged a police report but lacked the evidence. They were now putting the cart before the horse. They now needed the evidence to support the police report.
They finally found about a dozen or so postings amongst five million that looked strong enough to prove that Malaysia Today has insulted the Agong and Islam. One was my own posting that said if you insult any race or religion then I would have no choice but to delete your posting and ban you from further posting comments in Malaysia Today. Another was by Indianputra who was appealing to Malaysia Today’s readers not to fight and argue as some people might take advantage of the squabbling and exploit it to divide the races. What we want is a peaceful country, argued Indianputra, so if we engage in a civil manner then we will be able to unite all the races. And so on and so forth. Basically, this was the evidence they were working on to prove that Malaysia Today insulted the Agong and Islam.
I asked the police whether these postings are insulting the Agong, insulting Islam, and are trying to divide the races, or whether they are actually the reverse. The face of the ASP interrogating me turned red as he tried to explain that he was just doing his job and that he was ordered to take my statement. I replied that the person who made the police report is a stupid person who can’t speak English. So what do you expect from someone like that? He can’t even understand comments that are appealing for national unity and instead interpret it as calling for racial strife.
“Do you know that that orang bodoh ran away with the Sultan’s daughter and then denied it?” I asked the police. They just smiled. “Well, I am going to reveal this to the world,” I continued. “I am going to publish the letter he wrote to the Sultan where he denied he had married the Sultan’s daughter whereas he had in fact already secretly married her in Thailand. You tengoklah. I akan balun si bodoh tu habis-habis.”
The police appeared amused at what I had to say although their only retort was, “Banyak maklumat kita dapat hari ini.”
Source: Malaysia Today
Because of the police report, more Malaysian public (and the rest of the world of course) are exposed to Malaysia Today. RPK revealed that his blog traffic had doubled from 2.5 million to about 5 million as reported by Malaysiakini. But you don’t see that totally just from the blog traffic point of view.
What it simply means is that, 2.5 millions more people now know…..
…that Mat Tyson actually did not know what he was doing when he filed the police report
…that Mat Tyson had married the Sultan’s daughter in Thailand and denied about it in his letter to the Sulltan of Selangor
…that the UMNO never challenged RPK for all the allegations made in Malaysia Today giving the impression to the public that those allegations are true
…that UMNO actually has a group of Cyber Troopers under the care of Azalina Othman to infiltrate Malaysia Today (CJCM: and the blogosphere??) with negative comments
…that Mat Tyson had been charged in Australian court for trying to bring millions of RM into Australia but acquitted on the grounds he does not understand English
…that the perceived real motive of the police report by Mat Tyson is actually not to protect the dignity of the King and Islam but to gain political mileage
My guess is that Mat Tyson must have wished he never made that police report in the first place.
[tags]Malaysia Today, RPK, Mat Tyson, Raja Petra Kamarudin, Islam, Agong[/tags]
3 opinions for Police report against RPK and Malaysia Today: The consequences
bayi
Jul 29, 2007 at 11:27 am
Try to be a folk hero without thinking of the consequences and that’s what you get, especially when your intended victim appears to have a higher IQ than you! :)
malayamuda
Jul 29, 2007 at 2:58 pm
wow, so much revelaed about Mat Tyson now. Why La Tyson, you should have kept your big bloody mouth shut, now all the Ampu - ing you have been trying to do all these years to get a Parliament seat has just gone down the drain…………….
Whats the penalty for a person who steals the Sultan’s daughter from the palace and married her in an Islamic state Najib ????
Sura kenchana
Jul 29, 2007 at 3:30 pm
It’s about riding the present tide and flavour of the day to redeem his public image in an attempt to make yet another step forward back to a stronger position in the government.This has always been the branding of this great pretender and opportunist Mat Toysen.Actually with his notorious track records he should be the last persion to make the polis report against RPK.
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