BJ Thoughts…

Was duress played a part is making the first SD or when retracting it?

Certainly someone’s ass was on fire AFTER the first SD, not before. One reader in Malaysiakini nails the point as follows:-

David138: Between the first SD and the second SD by P Balasubramaniam, I am inclined to believe the first SD to be truthful.

First of all, it is more reasonable to believe that he was under duress for the second SD, because he had exposed and linked a powerful politician to the murder case of Atlantuya, but all references to this person in the second SD has been expunged.

Without question, he must have been threatened in someway to do so. It is laughable to expect the public to believe that the opposition, especially Anwar Ibrahim (who himself is embroiled in a scandalous accusation) has the means and the power to put him under duress.

All Bala needs to do is to report Anwar Ibrahim to the authorities, and they will welcome him like a sweet singing canary, and perhaps later even earn himself a ‘Datuk’ title for good service to the nation.

What is clear is that, in the first SD, it took courage to come forward to put one’s name on the dotted line. The pressure and the risk he and family will face in the aftermath is not for any ordinary soul like us. Perhaps only a person of Raja Petra’s background and calibre can withstand such a high pressure and risky challenges.

In the second SD, the risk element has disappeared and it really make no relevance to the outcome of the on going trial.

So why does he need to make the second one?I am afraid Balasubramanian has made his point.

The 2nd SD probably is made under duress instead of the 1st SD.

Further details in Malaysiakini

It has been tiring in the last few day…

To summarize the last few day, let me recap what Marina Mahathir has wrote in her blog:-

I don’t know about you guys but I really can’t keep up anymore with what’s happening. With all these endless statutory declarations, police report after police report, statements hither and thither, I can’t get any of it straight anymore.

Who did what to whom? Who has been plotting to do what to whom? Who hates who, who loves who? Sorry, I don’t know anymore. I’d rather watch CSI frankly (or rather, right now, Wimbledon, which has just as much drama. Go Zheng Jie! )

She have read my mind!

(Many types of “screwing” happening in Malaysia. Image source: http://www.bartleby.com)

These days, it has been nothing but about someone been screwing someone:-

First Anwar was accused of sodomising his young aide.

Anwar denied it and went offensive.

Anwar filed police report against the IGP and AG of misconduct.

Then Anwar revealed new evidences against the DPM

DPM has denied the allegations (his statement that he did not meet Altantuya reminds me of Clinton’s statement that he did not had sex with Monica. Very familiar indeed)

Whilst this has been happening, other events have been taking places too. The obvious one is the crash of systems in Bursa Malaysia. The timing of this event was certainly adverse to Pak Lah’s administration who been seeing the KLCI losing points for some days now

It is a bit interesting to imagine what would happen if Barang Naik BN had won the GE2008 with an overwhelming majority? The Parliament would have been a mere rubber stamp, Pak Lah and the DPM would have handled the ‘rumours” more confidently and perhaps we would have seen further increase in fuel price and blatant wastages. And Samy Vellu would probably have come out happy with another toll price increase.

But it did not happen that way, did it?

The Oppositions are holding crucial 5 states and the Parliament has more aggressive young opposition MPs such as Gobind Singh, Tian Chuan, Guan Eng and more to scrutinise whatever shit that is been pushed to the Parliament for endorsement (and later to be claimed as “the people had approved it”). All it takes is one wrong move and the Parliament (with enough opposition MPs) can strike out the Government’s laws.

Pak Lah’s position has been shaky since the last general election and it is getting shakier by the minutes with fresh allegations against his Deputy, rise of consumer goods and of course, Anwar’s target to take over the Government looms nearer. Will we see the end of this uncertainty and political circus after September 16 – the day that Anwar targeted to take over the Government?

In the meantime, more screwing is expected to happen in the next few days…

A funny thing happened yesterday…

The night before yesterday, as I was driving and avoiding crazy motorcyclists along the choked LDP, I suddenly thought of my driving license.

Why driving license? It’s because I could not recall whether I renewed it. And as oppose to my friends, I renewed on a yearly basis - I don’t know why and don’t ask. It has been so since 1993.

(Driving license - sometimes we do tend to forget them because it is always hidden away in the wallets. Image source: http://www.firecoalition.com)

So, there I was amidst traffic jams and crazy riders thinking about my driving license. The first I did when I reached home to check this “document” and true to my gut feelings, it had expired. Not by couple of days but rather by almost a month.

I started to get nervous and worry about road blocks. At the same time, I was “kicking myself” for forgetting to renew my license.

Yesterday, I determined to renew it as early as possible and thought of taking time off to do this important errand. I mentioned this to my friends over breakfast and one of them, Alex was laughing and suddenly went blank. He seemed to have remembered something and quickly took out his wallet. He checked his driving license and he too had “missed the mark” by a month.

Thankfully, renewing the license at the post office was fast and easy (other than the long queue for the petrol rebates, damn!).

Have you renewed yours?