JATUH, LOMPAT ATAU 'TERBUNUH'???

Yesterday's news of a 30 year old found dead after being questioned by MACC officials at Plaze Masalam where the MACC HQ is situated is nothing short of a TRAGEDY that can happen to anyone under the current rules from which the MACC and the POLICE operate.

Teoh Beng Hock, the political secretary to the Seri Kembangan assemblyman was getting ready to be married the next day, and now we may never know the real reason why he is dead.

News of his death was greeted by immediate disbelief, anger and profound sadness by most Malaysians, by his family, friends and party members. These are all natural emotions to be expected. A healthy young man is called for questioning and is kept until 3.45am in the morning and not allowed phone calls or not allowed to see anyone is found dead several hours later at 1.30pm. Agatha Christie could not have come out with a better plot.

What amazed me were the existence of a few swift responses by some misguided BN supporters who unthinkingly felt it was their duty to come to the defense of a government agency. They say they could not understand the insinuations, the suspicions, the anger. They are calling upon everyone to not jump the gun.

I CAN ONLY SHAKE MY HEAD IN DISBELIEF!!!

Now lets take a moment to try to understand how people who know the deceased have reacted.

CLOSE YOUR EYES,

Imagine your loved one (a brother, sister, husband, wife, ect) is called to the MACC for questioning with regards to something you have done or not done. You at first think its a routine investigation but you are nevertheless worried for your loved one having to go alone. You request to follow, but the MACC says no, so you are forced to let your loved one go alone. You request for a lawyer to be present, but the MACC refuses.

Still worried but unable to do anything you carry on with your own work and your loved one goes to the MACC office. That is the last time you see your loved one, you try calling him/her on the mobile but there is no answer, later at night, you take a drive down to the MACC office to see your loved one but you are refused permission.
Worried but unable to do anything you go home, still trying to contact your loved one on the mobile unsuccessfully.

Next morning you go to work thinking that your loved one is safe and is back at home. At three in the evening you get a call from a friend that your loved one was found dead and is being reported on the news.

WHAT WOULD BE YOUR FIRST REACTION......

ANGER!!!!!

DISBELIEF!!!

You quickly drive to see your loved one, all the way crying and angrily promising justice and ....

I PERSONALLY FEEL ALL THESE FEELINGS ARE FULLY JUSTIFIED BASED ON THE EXISTING INFORMATION AVAILABLE.

And of course all these could have easily been avoided by the authorities in questioned if they had in place procedures that record all movements at all times of any 'guest' brought into the building by the MACC. Today the MACC would have no case to answer to and public perception would be with them.

BUT THE POLICE, THE MACC TILL TODAY HAVE REFUSED TO HEED CALLS TO MAKE SURE ALL MOVEMENTS WITH REGARDS TO HOW THEY HANDLE ALL 'GUEST' OR SUSPECTS IN THEIR CUSTODY OR RESPONSIBILITY.

THEY REFUSE TO ALLOW THE FORMATION OF THE INDEPENDENT POLICE COMMISSION AS RECOMMENDED...CAN WE THEN BLAME THE PUBLIC IF THEY THINK THAT THE AUTHORITIES HAVE SOMETHING TO HIDE....

I hope YOU never have, to have a loved one 'taken' from you without knowing what happened to them.