They want to throw the book at me and cite me for publishing false Statutory Declarations. And this, they hope, will clear Musa Hassan’s name. But to be able to do this they must first get all those who signed these Statutory Declarations to deny ever signing them and that these Statutory Declarations are a fabrication and a figment of Raja Petra Kamarudin’s imagination.
THE CORRIDORS OF POWER
Raja Petra Kamarudin
The most damaging pieces of evidence against the IGP, Musa Hassan, are the many Statutory Declarations signed by his own police officers, two members of the Chinese underworld, plus another by his own ADC. Even ex-IGP Tun Hanif Omar and ex-PM Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad appear to think so. (I personally met Dr Mahathir to hand him original and signed copies of these Statutory Declarations who in turn handed them to Hanif).
And this is what Tun Hanif wrote in his article ‘Throw out the bad apples’, (which can be read in this Blog http://pointofviewtunhanifomar.blogspot.com/):
I have no time to go to the webblogs but last Thursday a friend told me about the contents of a recent blog that sent shivers up his spine. It is about the alleged extent of organised crime in gambling, loan-sharking, drugs and human trafficking in many states in the peninsula, and the authorities are allegedly ignoring the activities.
The contents are exceptionally defamatory and it won’t do for the maligned authorities to merely wish them away. Every day, more people will read them and say here is the evidence that the US State Department was right in placing us among countries with the worst human trafficking problems.
They will also believe that the extent of corruption is behind the problem. Our Foreign Minister should read them and make certain they are not true or otherwise take it up with the Cabinet.
Of course, the Sabah court Written Judgement -- which said that Musa Hassan is unreliable, inconsistent and has no credibility as a witness in the Ramli Yusuff ‘corruption’ trial -- further adds to this damage. But the only thing they can do about that would be to appeal the Ramli acquittal (which they are doing), try to win the appeal (which is not too difficult if they can ‘control’ the judge), and in that way it would appear like the court was wrong in its views about Musa (so the appeal is not actually about Ramli but about clearing Musa’s name).
What most people tend to forget is that it was Ramli and not Musa who was on trial. So how would a reversal of Ramli’s acquittal clear Musa? Well, they would spin it in such a way that since the appeal court disagrees with the trial judge, then this would also mean it disagrees that Musa is unreliable, inconsistent and has no credibility as a witness.
How easy it is to pull the wool over the eyes of Malaysians.
Malaysia Today’s job, therefore, in the event they succeed in reversing Ramli’s acquittal, would be to remind the public that only Ramli’s acquittal was reversed. This does not mean the same court also reversed the opinion that Musa is unreliable, inconsistent and has no credibility as a witness. That still stands even if the appeal court may disagree that Ramli should be acquitted.
So, how do they embark on damage control with regards to the many Statutory Declarations signed by Musa Hassan’s own police officers, two members of the Chinese underworld, plus another by his own ADC?
Simple, they do what they did in the case of PI Bala’s Statutory Declaration. They make all these people do a ‘U-turn’ and force them to sign new Statutory Declarations, which will reverse what they said in the first Statutory Declarations that they signed.
And this exercise has already begun. The police officers who signed Statutory Declarations pointing to Musa Hassan as the Taiko (Mafia Don) behind the prostitution, drugs, illegal gambling and loan-shark Chinese underworld syndicate have been hauled up by Tatatertib (the police disciplinary unit) and have been interrogated by police officers to get them to declare that they never signed any Statutory Declarations and that in fact Malaysia Today published fake Statutory Declarations.
If these police officers can be frightened into changing their story and can be forced into denying that they signed all those Statutory Declarations (see below for the links to these Statutory Declarations), then action can be taken against Malaysia Today. And they plan to use the COMMUNICATIONS AND MULTIMEDIA ACT 1998 to get Malaysia Today.
And what does this Act say?
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COMMUNICATIONS AND MULTIMEDIA ACT 1998
ACT 588
PART X
GENERAL
Chapter 2
Additional Offences And Penalties
233. Improper use of network facilities or network service, etc.
(1) A person who-
(a) by means of any network facilities or network service or applications service knowingly-
(ii) initiates the transmission of, any comment, request, suggestion or other communication which is obscene, indecent, false, menacing or offensive in character with intent to annoy, abuse, threaten or harass another person; or
(b) initiates a communication using any applications service, whether continuously, repeatedly or otherwise, during which communication may or may not ensue, with or without disclosing his identity and with intent to annoy, abuse, threaten or harass any person at any number or electronic address,
commits an offence.
(2) A person who knowingly-
(a) by means of a network service or applications service provides any obscene communication for commercial purposes to any person; or
(b) permits a network service or applications service under the person's control to be used for an activity described in paragraph (a),
commits an offence.
(3) A person who commits an offence under this section shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding fifty thousand ringgit or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year or to both and shall also be liable to a further fine of one thousand ringgit for every day during which the offence is continued after conviction.
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So there you have it. They want to throw the book at me and cite me for publishing false Statutory Declarations. And this, they hope, will clear Musa Hassan’s name. But to be able to do this they must first get all those who signed these Statutory Declarations to deny ever signing them and that these Statutory Declarations are a fabrication and a figment of Raja Petra Kamarudin’s imagination.
But will they succeed? Can these police officers be frightened into doing a U-turn like how PI Bala was frightened into doing a U-turn? Or will these police officers stand firm and declare that they did in fact sign these Statutory Declarations and that they stand by what they have signed?
Ah, but that will have to be revealed in part 3 of this series. So come back tomorrow and we will reveal more about how the entire Malaysian Police Force is being used to take down one Blogger while the country burns and Malaysia is being brought to the brink of a race war that would make May 13 appear like a children’s birthday party by comparison.
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