Umno Youth deputy chief Khairy Jamaluddin certainly set the cat among the pigeons and the fox loose in the chicken coop by branding political bloggers as monkeys and suggesting that one should be punished as a warning to all the others.

"It seems there is no law in cyberspace any more," he declared, "It is the law of the jungle and we need to take action against one monkey. I think the other monkeys will get scared."

But the one monkey he had in mind to take action against - whether he was referring to the recently-detained and now released Nathaniel Tan of www.jelas.info or the target of an even more recent police report, Raja Petra Kamarudin of www.malaysia-today.net - didn't appear in any mood to be cowed.