Calling a Crook a Crook

• 6 May 2019
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There is an unfortunate habit prevalent in Malaysian society to avoid describing something unpleasant or openly illegal as such. The time has come to drop this convention and to describe things, persons and happenings by their real description.

This bad habit has been particularly prevalent in the political field. Instead of calling a crook by that description there has been a sort of convention that such persons should be referred to in public as “political personalities” or some other equivocation. Thus even after criminal behaviour has ben publicly revealed there still appears to be a reluctance to attribute it to the guilty parties.

Nowhere has this practice been more prevalent than in the State of Sarawak where a malign criminal hierarchy has been in illegally procured power for decades and where significant public posts such as Chief Minister and/or Governor have been allowed to pass into the hands of mega criminals bent on robbing the State and its people of all its natural resources while blocking the process of criminal investigation and prosecution at the same time.

Fear of criminal prosecution or civil process by mega wealthy parties is no doubt at the back of reluctance to make public the criminal behaviour of many leading political personalities in the State, particularly when control over criminal investigation and prosecution was within the hands of notorious crooks like former Prime Minister Najib and current Sarawak Governor Taib. Najib is, at last, facing the penalties for his multiple crimes but equally guilty Governor Taib still sits in his Kuching mansion presiding over the rape of Sarawak’s remaining assets while his BN elected representatives sit on the PH benches in the Federal Assembly.

It is as grotesque as if Adolf Hitler were to be sitting in Buckingham Palace and Taib in No.10 Downing Street and the very facts shame Malaysia, shame PH and shame the Prime Minister..