A Hot Spring Turkish Bath.

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This could happen to Malaysia.

The rampage was over piffling matter of saving a city park from redevelopment into a shopping mall. The people are not happy, they don't want the mall, they want to keep the park. With the oppositions adding fuel to the fire, the flame of passion transformed and engulfed an inferno of destruction that required heavy-handed police action.

Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan blamed the main opposition and social media for the trouble, accusing the main opposition party of calling for resistance and provoking the protests. He says "Social media is the worst menace to society" 

I agree !

Place the guns in the wrong hands, they'll shoot blindly. Most can't differentiate between criticism, constructive or otherwise, and libel.

Erdogan has bigger agenda for himself. He wants to change the country's constitution to make him the first directly elected president with formidable executive powers.

Did you hear right, sound familiar and one that rings a bell close to home.

Yes, hypocrisy of the highest order, the man that Anwar Ibrahim worshipped and wanted to emulate is a wolf in sheep's clothing, determined to turn Turkey into an authoritarian state and him as the new king of Turkey.

This is just the beginning of Erdogan's trouble, but it is no "Arab Spring", just a summer of disquiet that Erdogan need not worry too much for the moment.

Link to video: Turkey: police clash with protesters

Thousands of protesters have controlled Istanbul's main square once more after two days of violent clashes with rampaging riot police, asTurkey's prime minister vowed to press on with the controversial redevelopment that provoked the clashes.

Calling the protesters an "extremist fringe", Recep Tayyip Erdoganblamed the opposition Republican People's party for provoking the protests.

"We think that the main opposition party, which is making resistance calls on every street, is provoking these protests," Erdogan said on Turkish television, as an estimated 10,000 demonstrators streamed into the area waving flags and calling on the government to resign.

"There is now a menace which is called Twitter," Erdogan said. "The best examples of lies can be found there. To me, social media is the worst menace to society." Read more.

Insulting The King's Speech

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Anwar dismissed the King's speech. Said the text was prepared by the government desperate to solicit support from all areas including the King. Story here.

Does it matter who wrote the speech? The King must have had his trusted aide to go over the speech before he accepts it. I am sure the King is capable of making his own judgement whether to accept the prepared speech or not. 
  
Most countries, including his best friend's country "Down Under" have given recognisance to Najib's new government.Australian Foreign Minister Bob Carr described Malaysian elections credible here. 

Why is he still grinding his axe and refused to accept defeat befitting a gentleman?

Anwar questioning the King's speech has also attracted malicious posting on social media belittling the King here.

Despite the King's appeal for all Malaysians to respect and not to destroy the constitutional monarchy and the process of parliamentary democracy, Anwar is adamant in pushing his "Malaysian Spring" rally forward, regardless. 

He will hold another one on 15th June, 2013.

Do you find remarks by Anwar Ibrahim of the King's speech insulting or not?

Have your say!

Deaths In Police Custody: Here Are Some Answers, Bozo!

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Death in police custody not only happened in Malaysia, it happenned all over the world, but in Malaysia opposition politicians made political mileage out of it. 

The oppositions have no real concern for rights of citizens but used  the unfortunate incidents as political tool to rile up unsuspecting Malaysians to hate the police and ultimately put the blame on the government.

There are many reasons detainees died in custody.Some detainees are excessively violent and needed strong arm tactic to be subdued and things can get out of hand giving the police no choice but to use excessive force. Some may have died due to overzealous policemen who went over the limit of proper police conduct. Suicide, is another cause of death in police custody. The U.S. and U.K findings on death in custody are almost similar.

In the U.K,  considering the police force was less gung-ho than in the U.S,  there were 5998 deaths recorded between 2000 and 2010 that give an average of 545 deaths per year.

In Malaysia, the latest death in police custody was that of a former engineer P Karuna Nithi of unknown causes, which raised the ire of some opposition Pakatan Rakyat's elected members. They waste no time to harangue the government including Prime Minister Najib.

The Malaysian public are being cheated by opposition politicians into thinking that death in police custody only happened in Malaysia and nowhere else.

Malaysians are easily fooled because they are the proverbial "katak dibawa tempurong", they either don't read at all, or read only juicy stuffs.

Below are some answers to deaths in police custody in the U.S.

WASHINGTON (AP) — More than 2,000 criminal suspects died in police custody over a three-year period, half of them killed by officers as they scuffled or attempted to flee, the government said Thursday.

The study by the Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics is the first nationwide compilation of the reasons behind arrest-related deaths in the wake of high-profile police assaults or killings involving Abner Louima and Amadou Diallo in New York in the late 1990s.

The review found 55% of the 2,002 arrest-related deaths from 2003 through 2005 were due to homicide by state and local law enforcement officers. Alcohol and drug intoxication caused 13% of the deaths, followed by suicides at 12%, accidental injury at 7% and illness or natural causes, 6%. The causes for the deaths of the remaining 7% were unknown.

The highly populated states of California, Texas and Florida led the pack for both police killings and overall arrest-related deaths. Georgia, Maryland and Montana were not included in the study because they did not submit data.

Most of those who died in custody were men (96%) between the ages of 18 and 44 (77%). Approximately 44% were white; 32% black; 20% Hispanic; and 4% were of other or multiple races.

"Keep in mind we have 2,000 deaths out of almost 40 million arrests over three years, so that tells you by their nature they are very unusual cases," said Christopher J. Mumola, who wrote the study.

"Still, they do need to be looked at to determine whether police training can be better or practices can be better," he said.

State laws and police department policy typically let officers use deadly force to defend themselves or others from the threat of death or serious injury. Deadly force also is allowed to prevent the escape of a suspect in a violent felony who poses an immediate threat to others.

The Justice Department study released Thursday suggests that most of the police killings would be considered justified, although it does not make that final determination. About 80% of the cases involved criminal suspects who reportedly brandished a weapon "to threaten or assault" the arresting officers.

Another 17% involved suspects who allegedly grabbed, hit or fought with police. More than one-third of the police killings, or about 36%, involved a suspect who tried to flee or otherwise escape arrest.

The report was compiled at the request of Congress in 2000 after the 1997 struggle between New York police and Louima, a black security guard who left the precinct house bleeding after officers jammed a broken broomstick into his mouth and rectum. A few years later, two police shootings of unarmed black men followed, including Diallo, who was shot 41 times after he reached into his pocket for a wallet.

Since then, following police sensitivity training, New York has seen a few killings involving suspects and officers, including last year's shooting of Sean Bell, an unarmed black bridegroom-to-be whom police say they believed was reaching for a gun.

New York now ranks sixth nationwide in the number of police killings, behind Arizona and Illinois, according to Thursday's report.

Other findings:

• Among law enforcement, 380 officers were killed in the line of duty over the three-year period and 174,760 were reportedly assaulted, according to FBI data. Most of the deaths were accidental (221), while 159 were homicides.

• Blacks were disproportionately represented in arrest-related deaths due to alcohol or drug intoxication (41% vs. 33% for whites); accidental injury (42% vs. 37% for whites); and unknown causes (46% vs. 39% for whites).

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Nurul Izzah: Sabah Constituted Right

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You can puke all you want, the state of Sabah has the right to bar anyone entering the state including politicians out to cause mischief.

Nurul Izzah and her father Anwar Ibrahim have shown to be rich repository for troubles, refused to accept the verdict that they have been defeated, cooked allegation of massive frauds by BN as reasons for massive rallies that they hope would inflame the people's anger and trigger a Malaysian Spring. 

The cows might have been cowed but they are not all that stupid. They were led to the watering hole but refused to drink. The Malaysian Spring that Anwar wanted so much to happen, didn't happen.

Malaysians are generally peace loving people and would not want to destroy this country for the sake of one man's greed for power.

Sabah shouldn't take chance and let her in freely to do what her father has done in West Malaysia. She played active role in the rallies in West Malaysia and could do the same in Sabah.

Prevention is better than cure.

You can curse, swear and write shits or shit yourself all you want, the power lies with the state.

Her father promised to give more autonomy to Sabah, why is she complaining, the state is only exercising its autonomous right.

Below is Immigration Act 55 of the Immigration Act 1959/63 relevant to Sabah and Sarawak.

Restriction on citizen’s right of entry into an East Malaysian State

66. (1) Subject to subsection (2) and to sections 67 and 68, a citizen shall not be entitled to enter an East Malaysian State without having obtained a Permit or Pass in that behalf unless—

1. (a)  he belongs to the East Malaysian State;
   
2. (b)  he is a member of the Federal Government, or of the Executive Council or Legislative Assembly of the East Malaysian State (or of any Council having similar functions in the State);
   
3. (c)  he is a judge of the Federal Court or of the High Court in Sabah and Sarawak, or is a person designated or nominated to act as such, or he is a member of any Commission or Council established by the Federal Constitution or by the Constitution of the East Malaysian State; or 
   
   
   (d) he is a member of any of the public services of the Federation, or of the public service of the East Malaysian State, or of a joint public service serving the East Malaysian State, or is seconded to any such service.
   (2) Where a citizen is entitled to enter the East Malaysian State under subsection (1), the citizen’s children under the age of eighteen years and (if he is a man) his wife, if entering the East Malaysian State with, or to be with, the citizen, shall not be required by subsection (1) to obtain a Permit or Pass in that behalf.
   (3) Where a citizen is not entitled to enter an East Malaysian State under this section, Parts I to VI, in their operation as a special law for the East Malaysian State shall apply to him as if he were not a citizen:
   Provided that a citizen arriving in Malaysia in the East Malaysian State or in the other of the East Malaysian States, and proceeding to a part of Malaysia which he is entitled to enter, shall be entitled to such Pass as is reasonably required to enable him to do so.
   (4) The burden of proof that a person is entitled to enter the East Malaysian State under this section shall lie on him.
   Right to enter East Malaysian State for exercise of political rights
   67. Subsection 66(1) shall not have effect in relation to a citizen entering the East Malaysian State for the sole purpose of engaging in legitimate political activity; but the burden of proof that a person is entitled to enter the East Malaysian State under this section shall lie on him.