Thursday, July 23, 2009

Day +1114 : A royal commission falls short of our expectation

I am fine today.

I am profoundly disappointed by the cabinet decision to limit the scope of the royal commission to look only into the MACC investigative procedures while leaving the circumstances that surround the mysterious death of Teoh Beng Hock to an inquest led by a magistrate.

An inquest is a judicial inquiry into a matter usually held before a jury, especially an inquiry into the cause of a death. From this definition, we understand that the purpose of the inquest is to determine the cause of death only, but not who should be held responsible for the death.

Even the inquest is given mandate to determine who should be accountable of the death, nobody will believe that it will do a good job as past circumstances demonstrated that our judiciary is corrupted.

Avoiding accountability in this case will certainly lead us suspecting who was the mastermind of the episode that caused the death of Beng Hock.

If I were the mastermind, I will certainly try all means to avoid the accountability issue. I should say that those in power are cunning enough to satisfy people’s demand of setting up a royal commission and an inquest while avoiding the issue of accountability. This keeps everyone who does the wrong safe.

What a government!

Don't be fooled again.

See you next post :-)

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