Corruption, criminalization behind Great RCI Whitewash of NRD, EC

by Joe Fernandez

COMMENT The National Registration Department (NRD) this week confiscated a MyKad (Malaysia Kad Akuan Diri) from an Indonesian, a voter in many Malaysian elections, at the Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) on the grounds that he was holding a forged document.  The local media went to town with the story.

The NRD definition of forged here at the RCI and in Court as in previous cases reads "not in the system". Not a word more than that uttered by the NRD, not a word less.

It's not about using a genuine document originating from the NRD in its blank state for fraudulent purposes.

The Indonesian was then escorted by the NRD to the Indonesian Consulate to get a passport instead of being dragged to Court for “stealing” a blank MyKad or corruptly/fraudulently accepting the same from the NRD and subsequently using it for fraudulent purposes with or without the knowledge of the authorities concerned. It’s the Court which should subsequently direct the Immigration Department to act on the case of the Indonesian PATAI (Pendatang Asing Tapi Ada IC) after the prison authorities take charge.

The NRD should be given a standing ovation and an Oscar for its three monkeys’ see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil performance at the RCI.

Double standards, selective persecution, selective prosecution

Why should the Indonesian Consulate issue a passport to a man if he has become stateless, i.e. if he entered Sabah with valid travel papers and over-stayed, and has been away from his country for decades?  If the Indonesian entered Sabah by the backdoor, he remains a citizen of his country, and may be entitled to obtain an Indonesian passport on “Indonesian soil” in diplomatic territory in Malaysia.

Why didn't the NRD likewise confiscate “in the media” the MyKads of the born again in Sabah PATAI Maimunah Curry House owner (the Tamil Nadu-born told the RCI, amidst laughter in the public gallery, that Musa Hitam was the Chief Minister of Sabah and that Nazeem was the Prime Minister of Malaysia) and the PATAI Pakistani who entered the state as a ten-year old to be born again? They confessed their sins before the RCI and the NRD pretended to be deaf, dumb and blind on their confessions. This smacks of “double standards”, although that’s not the term that applies when all those concerned are illegals. Selective persecution, if not selective prosecution, is another term which comes to mind.

Bank Negara should step in if the said trio -- the Indonesian, Indian and Pakistani -- have been operating bank accounts in Sabah when their MyKads are not listed in the NRD data bank. Their respective banks should be hauled up for breaking the laws.

These cases are the tip of the proverbial iceberg. The NRD tried to persuade the RCI that on average one forged MyKad is detected in Sabah every two weeks i.e. to portray the impression that the problem MyKads are in fact not a problem at all.

Many Filipino Christians in Sabah, for example, reportedly hold MyKads in “Muslim” names, issued directly or indirectly by the NRD. By and large, so the story goes, they faithfully turn up in Church every Sunday and other holy days of obligation. These Filipino Christians apparently include refugees from the southern Philippines who were made landless by rebel Muslim attacks on them in retaliation for migrating from the Christian north to their ancestral territory in the south and buying up land from the local Muslims who subsequently demanded their properties back when they in turn became landless.

NRD will deny under secrecy laws the role of the Prime Minister’s Office

It's clear, from the way that things are going, that the NRD will be whitewashed by the RCI which was supposed to hang like the proverbial Sword of Damocles over it.  The RCI will probably not recommend any Amnesty for the PTI (Pendatang Tanpa Izin) which includes the PATAI in Sabah. An Amnesty would force them to come clean through police reports to report their presence and./or surrender their “Malaysian” documents to obtain Special Passes in return from the Immigration Department to temporarily regularise their stay in the country.

The NRD will deny the suspected existence of a secret parallel data bank on illegals in Putrajaya under the purview of successive Prime Ministers.

The purpose of the secret data bank would be to whitewash the 3rd and subsequent generations of illegal immigrants and enter them in the NRD data bank. The law is clear: once an illegal, always an illegal, no matter how many generations.

No one can obtain citizenship in defiance of the Federal Constitution. That applies as well to the PTI and PATAI, who certainly cannot be listed in the NRD data bank, and their keturunan.

Again, the PATAI and their keturunan are reportedly listed in the secret data bank in Putrajaya to facilitate the transfer of the names of the 3rd Generation onwards to the NRD data bank in order to change the demography of Sabah and steal the country from its people, under the COFFIN concept, for the greater glory of Ketuanan Melayu (Malay political supremacy and dominance), a sick combination of Rule by Law, Nazism, Fascism, Apartheid, socialism, communism, militant Islam, political Islam and the evil caste system, preached to the Malay-speaking communities in Malaya i.e. Bugis, Javanese, Minang, Acehnese and other Muslims whether from Nusantara or elsewhere. COFFIN stands for “Citizens” Originating From Foreign Illegal Nationals, the thesis statement driving the secret data bank in Putrajaya. The COFFIN concept has been designed to put Sabahans in the coffin and bury them for good.

No one is above the law and that includes a government.

Again, the RCI will fizzle out into a great whitewash of the NRD and the EC.

So far, no 3rd Generation PATAI has turned up at the RCI to come clean on Projek IC. Only the PATAI who are “not listed” in the NRD data bank have turned up to give their pathetic eyewash of evidence.

So, it's easy for the NRD to dismiss such witnesses by trotting out the standard line in Court when a PATAI MyKad is referred to them for verification: "Tidak dalam sistem kami." They don't admit that the document itself in a blank state originated from the NRD since that would open up Pandora’s Box.

EC a pack of excuses, electoral rolls can be easily cleaned up

The NRD wants to create the impression through the RCI that the MyKads of the 1st and 2nd Generation PATAI are the work of forgers, syndicates -- how did they get their hands on blank MyKads from the NRD? -- and/or rogue elements at the NRD doing a little illegal business on the sideline to make some money for themselves.

The electoral rolls meanwhile can be easily cleaned up if the Election Commission (EC) is online to the NRD. The EC, a pack of excuses, is indulging in the politics of distraction and disruption by claiming that “the re-registration of voters” would be messy.

To purge the NRD data bank of the 3rd and subsequent generations of PATAI, there should be verification with the MyKads of the parents and grandparents of the 3^rd Generation. That would set off a chain reaction which would affect the 4^th and subsequent generations of illegals in Sabah. That would put the COFFIN in the coffin.

It’s not difficult to understand that it would be claimed in defence that rogue elements are or may be running amok at the NRD and EC if it’s alleged that both bodies are swamped by corruption and criminalization. The true definition of corruption is “making things that anyone touches go bad” and not just confined to giving and taking money illegally.

The rot at the NRD and EC begins with the police force which does not enforce the laws and/or is not in a position to enforce the laws. Non-enforcement of a law is equivalent to the law being dead, there being no law, null and void, and clearly demonstrating that the law does not exist although it’s in the books in letter.

Because of the apparently increasing corruption and criminalization of our society in recent years, an image is emerging in the eyes of the world that there has been increasing corruption and criminalization of our police force as well.

The public perception in Malaysia too is that the police are nothing more than criminals in uniform.

Something must be done fast to arrest the deteriorating image of the police, if not the situation in the force, to restore public confidence in this once great institution which knew how and where to draw a line between it and the likes of Bentong Kali, Botak Chin, Geng Mamak and two-bit politicians who are nothing more than scoundrels of the highest order.

The situation in the police force has become intolerable

The rot in the police force was confirmed for the entire world to see when a serving Inspector General of Police (IGP) gave a just-sacked Deputy Prime Minister, Anwar Ibrahim, more than a black eye.

It has been more than a decade since that notorious incident and there are no indications that the situation in the police force has since turned around for the better. Indeed, the police are happily beating the shit out of detainees in their custody when not beating a confession out of them or beating them to death in extra-judicial measures. Lying in ambush and killing suspects in cold blood is another favourite extra-judicial measure employed by the police.

Evidently, the situation in the police continues to deteriorate and at an alarming rate.

The key to resolving the dilemma is to re-train, better train and constantly re-train the police while putting in adequate internal and external controls on the force.

The police would then be in a situation to be better able to help arrest the increasing corruption and criminalization of society.

Salvation for the people of Sabah and Sarawak can only come through them capturing the moral high ground on Malaysia. They should not look to traitors in the form of the local proxies, stooges, rogue elements and moles of Putrajaya and the Malayan Opposition.