How to dig a grave

Restraint.

The police showed restraint at the Hindraf rally yesterday. So said everybody with half a position in the govt, including Minister of Frequent Travels Abdullah Ahmad Badawi.

Strange word to bandy around, especially led by a Parliament which has shown anything but ( read bocor, terowong, close-one-eye, mau lawan?)

Here's restraint, Malaysian-style.

Restraint is showing up at 2am (or 4am) at Batu Caves, corralling citizens as sheep behind the temple gates, and then jet-spraying the shit out of everyone there with chemical-laced water, and for desserts, tear gas.

If that's restraint, what is otherwise? Hanging 'em by the balls?

Restraint is setting up roadblocks (four lanes into one) three days before the event to sic out Malaysian Indians who might be coming to town with 'wrongful' ideas. How stupid is that?

The supporters threw rocks and bricks, so it was reported. It was the way it was reported - the impression that everyone there came with a bagful of fist-sized rocks. If such missiles were that prevalent, the mainstream media and bloggers would have shown pics of people in the act.

Every picture editor in the MSM would've used this picture big (like colossally big) to carry their accusatory tone of 'Defiance'. And yet... none. Fuckall.

And when things get hot on the PR side, here's what losers do. They lie. IGP Musa Hassan's getting very comfortable with it. He said:
(NST) "A Molotov cocktail was thrown into a bus which was razed but at no time did we use any force, including water cannon or tear gas, in and around the temple vicinity."

(NST) "There was no body contact from my men."

(The Star) Musa said no tear gas or water cannons were used at the demonstrators during the incident (at Batu Caves).

And Jeff Ooi has this in response.

This govt has lost every last morsel of legitimacy it once had. Its counsel is irrelevant. It is past due.