But just passing throu my comments doesnt make any solution.I need your feedback and also whether you can do so,to set up the trust fund.

Raj RAman.I can afford the fund but cant afford to take the harrasment.So pls pls do something for others.

(An idea worth considering, Raj - but just too bogged down with so many different things at the moment. - Anil)

i know you are the corrupt buster and pennies counter.you play a save game.

may i borrow your space for my other matter.you have the rights to moderate my opinion.(I HAVE ENOUGH SHOUTING THIS MESSAGE IN OTHERS BLOGS BUT NO COMMENTS FROM THEM)

RE.RPK AND DONATION.

AS OWNER OF YOUR BLOGS AND I AM THE BLOGGERS TO YOUR SITE,I NEED TO ASK FEW QUESTIONS.

1.Why the donation drive of accounts number is not make available by malaysiakini?

2.I have to take a risk to donate throu from bloggers who gave the accounts number.

3.Based on goodwill and trust many donated but its have some flaws-the blogs owner never mention to wish accounts to donate.

4.Its very unresposible of blogs owner to allow bloggers to put in the accounts number until the owner of blogs themself confirm.(luckly its a correct accounts).

Your column does atract alot of good readers and your supplement blogs in malaysiakini also contribute to their readership.So why malaysiakini never come out the banner to whom we must donate.

Finaly,RPK case is testing ground for the goverment to start harras blogs owner and the bloggers.Do you all prepared to face this harrasment?

If yes,please start a campaign and create a trust fund for blogs owner and the bloogers who pass throu the moderation comments.
In event there is urgent need of fund,the will be some kind of fast action to be taken to bail them out.

Thanks,

raj raman-please do something about this trust fund.Maybe you,me and others will need the fund to bail out from this political motivated charges.RPK IS FAMOUS SO THERE BIG HO HA-HOW ABOUT THE OTHER GUY WHO CHARGE TOGETHER?DONT HE ALSO NEED SUPPORT FROM US?

TO,
malaysiakini,

You have the moral obligation to provide free space when the trust fund is created, because not all your news comes from your reporter,the blogs owner and bloggers need to be protected.

I too came across this article about this debacle in UK today.

Of course CCTV works in UK. For whoever got the fat supply & the more lucrative maintenance contracts! Likewise in M’sia.

The fact is, hanging, electric chair, lethal injection, gassing, caning/whipping, life sentences with hard labour, all have one thing in common - overall crime rates in the world have not decreased! Even with amputation in the Middle East!

If anything, they have increased, especially sexually violent rapes and killings. Do we not all weep for every Nini or Shalin?

If CCTV has not worked in the UK as a crime deterrent, then it is unlikely to do any better in M’sia. The answer is not to treble or quaruple the number of CCTV’s and herald the arrival of the dangerous ‘Big Brother’ and the completely Dictatorial and Police States of ‘1984,’ ‘A Clockwork Orange,’ and ‘Gattica’.

Like prostitution, few enter the world of crime by choice. I am not an apologist to the likes of robbers, killers, rapists and child molesters. Nor to do I readily subscribe to Freudian theories of Oedipus, mother and sexual repression as universal causes of sexual crimes.

But endemic problems like this that circle the Globe usually have their roots in:-

1. poor all-round education system with over-emphasis on paper qualifications
2. poverty
3. wide disparity in national income distribution
4. rapid urbanisation, with huge migration of populations from rural to urban areas
5. failure of policing infrastructure to keep pace with urbanisation.
6. over emphassis on materialism and acquistion
7. institutionalised racism, especially in Government

I am sure there are many more fundamental reasons why an ordinay straight-thinking person will drift towards crime.

I will tell you though 2 things that used to work in preventing crime:-

1. When you knew the cops by name. You know, when we had Malay, Indian & Chinese neighbourhood beat cops! AND

2. When Rukun Tetangga was in force.

What has clearly happened in M’sia is that :
(a) we have substituted quantity for quality
(b) made Polis DiRaja into an amost single race profession
(c) and cops react to rather than prevent crime, from the comforts of air-conditioned souped up fancy cars and plush high-rise offices.

Somewhere in there, the fact that we pay peanuts to our police, like we do teachers, must also be a significant contributary factor to declining standards.

One thing that really puzzles and got me winded up recently was news about the killing of an MP…. The IGP is quoted as clarifying that they had one of the suspects (pro hit man), the gun (also used in another killing) and matching bullets, but had to close the file (NFA) as they could not rely on hearsay.

Huh? …

Perhaps, someone can explain or was the IGP misquoted… ?