VOXPOP 'Get used to Umno's culture of endless denial, denial, denial. This is the core behaviour from the PM, ministers to anyone related to Umno.'

Missing guns - Zahid Hamidi at bay

Louis: Home Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi looks like a big bully in the picture. He should be ashamed to see how he intimidated the young reporter. What a third class minister.

If he were a minister in say, Australia, a country where he would probably be just a janitor in the shopping mall, he would have been hounded and ridiculed by the public till he resigns. What a low class minister.

AF McLaren: This reminds me of former Singapore PM Lee Kuan Yew. Some years ago during a forum he was asked a pointed question by a young lady reporter. He was uncomfortable and he barked at her, "How old are you .... in 1965 you were not even born ...you don't even understand your own question..."

This is another big bully. The difference between the two ministerial bullies is that one is a double first from Cambridge and the other a third class from our kampung university.

1960's: Get used to new Umno culture - endless denial, denial, denial. This culture is the core behaviour from the PM, ministers and anyone related to Umno. By endlessly denying, these 'professional' VVIPs do not need to answer or take responsibility and accountability.

Just think, have you ever heard anything sensible and logical from any ministers in the past, and lately?

Siang Malam: Bullies are normally those with an inferiority complex. How can such people rule our lives?

Rupert16 Trying to bully people to accept your lies ‑ that's Zahid for you. He is looking more and more like a minister from Zimbabwe.

Malaya: The 44 weapons were lost in or before 2012. Within weeks of the audit report, Zahid can claim that these losses were due to carelessness. My question is how sure is he? Has he investigated all 44 cases or is he just relying on hearsay only from the PDRM?

To give the rakyat more confidence, the YB should list out all the cases being investigated, what was found, what action has been taken and the preventive measure. By just saying "I know" seems like a cover up in the eyes of rakyat.

Lone_star: Now what would this bully of a home minister be thinking of when he mentioned that the 44 guns were not lost because of deviant acts? Have members of the PDRM been suspected of putting their guns to uses other than what they were meant for? Remember we are living in the land of "endless possibilities" and "endless denials".

Satay Satay: Zahid, 'carelessness' and 'mistakes' done in the line of duty demand that the officers involved be revealed and action be taken against them. The minister has got to be duty bound to perform his duty, even when his officers are not.

AnakJohor1920: Zahid himself is indeed a national threat to security from the public's perspective! He is always intimidating and threatening journalists, opposition members and the public at large with each of his press conferences.

Sad and utterly shameful - he has no idea how to work as a home minister that can be trusted with full confidence by the rakyat. Why can't he advocate and reeducate the police force to carry out proper and fruitful investigative work, rather than relying on preventive detention laws to catch suspected criminals?

The police are now probably going to use detention laws to do the minister's dirty work rather than getting any real work done. Is it because of the previous Internal Security Act (ISA) that was so convenient to use that most police force has forgotten how to carry out proper investigative work to charge criminals?

Are the criminals smarter now than Zahid, or have the police not improved much since the first ISA law was used? The police now have absolutely no clue how to arrest and charge criminals, it would seem.

Senior: Why is the Home Ministry pampering the men in blue? The police refuse the Independent Police Complaints and Misconduct Commission (IPCMC), so no IPCMC. They want preventive detention, so give them that. They lost 1.3 million in assets but no foul play - but where are the assets? Are they still in the country?

Abasir: Going by the evidence at hand, as reported by the Attorney-General's Report, there are enough grounds to put a large section of the police and the civil service away under the Prevention of Crime Act (PCA).

This would be one preventive action that would see a dramatic drop in the loss of weapons, harassment of migrant workers for money, custodial deaths, the serial abuse of public finances and a host of other crimes reportedly committed by these crooks in uniform and those in suits.

LLKS: If the police cannot take care of their own guns, how are they to take care of the country?

Asking the right questions on bumi development

Onyourtoes: I think the first question we should ask is: what is the role of government and public polices ‑ to make selected people rich or to make the poor less poor? Is it the responsibility of public policies to make it possible for certain people live in bungalows, drive marques, own millions in shares, have four wives, become towering personalities, hold high positions in GLCs and the civil service, and own holiday homes all over the world?

Seriously, are these not the better achievements of public policies that this country has implemented over past few decades? It is not right to leave the poor people to remain poor. But it is wrong to make some people rich.

If a person wants to be rich, he must work harder, learn new skills and knowledge, save more and invest smart. Any development model that aims at making certain people rich is self‑serving, unethical, and subjected to abuse.

Chandran Sukumaran: Why have the Malays failed to achieve upgrading their economic stature after more than 50 years of spoon feeding (by the New Economic Policy etc)? Can someone from the Malay community or others answer this question? Is this because of the other races, namely the Chinese? Any plausible answers without fear or favour?

SenyumUnta: The writer has very well answered his own question on bumi development. It's spoon feeding, with a silver and even a golden one.

Even milk feeding of a baby has its term end six to nine months maximum, but spoon feeding can be never-ending.

The above is a selection of comments posted by Malaysiakini subscribers. Only paying subscribers can post comments. Over the past one year, Malaysiakinians have posted over 100,000 comments. Join the Malaysiakini community and help set the news agenda. Subscribe now.