YOURSAY 'IGP, I thought of asking you to pick someone your own size but Mariam is so much bigger a person than you are.'

Police chief warns columnist Mariam Mokhtar

Black Mamba: Inspector general of police (IGP) Khalid Abu Bakar, leftist Siti Aishah Abdul Wahab at 69 can't be older than the late former Communist Party Malaysia leader Chin Peng who was over 80 years of age and refused entry .

At least give a better reason than that Aishah is forgiven because of her old age. If for any reasons she has given up her citizenship, on what grounds is she to be restored her Malaysian citizenship when she professes being a communist all her life?

JMC: Yes, Siti Aishah is harmless and should be allowed to come back now. But what about the ashes of a dead man, how harmful is that in comparison?

Angel: One very important thing Khalid overlooked is Siti Aishah did not sign a peace agreement with the Malaysian government, while Chin Peng did. Ching Peng has made peace, yet they wanted to punish him.

Fairnsquare: The IGP is correct in that the two cannot be put in the same category as Chin Peng left a trail of bloodshed and violence in the country. Without threatening Mariam, he should have explained this in a sober and professional manner.

His outburst reveals some guilt in handling the matter, when it is clear that one cannot put the two persons in the same category.

Lynn: But Chin Peng also was involved in fighting the Japanese and had a hand in our independence. Can't take one without the other, Mr IGP. A lot of Chin Peng's comrades in arms were also allowed to return.

Strait Settlement : Siti Aishah Abdul Wahab as defined by Article 160 of the Malaysian constitution is not a Malay anymore and ironically she is still related to her sister, who is a Malay. With such confusion and idiocracy for race definition in Malaysia, no wonder we have an IGP who's making a fool of himself by shooting his mouth off without even knowing who and where writer Mariam Mokhtar is.

Harapanbaru: How dare you threaten Mariam Mokhtar, you muscle brained minion of Umno's dark lords! One Mariam Mokhtar is worth far, far more than 10 trillion Khalid Abu Bakars. Nobody is scared of one who has no mind, no conscience to call your own.

World Citizen: Mariam Mokhtar is a national treasure, while politically appointed officials can be dispensed with at leisure. Well, we try to but they just cling on shamelessly.

Trublumalaysian: Mariam writes and opines on real life situations that Malaysians face and her readership is way more than commendable. Moreover, those who read her articles can definitely relate and know it to be the truth.

Only those who are trying to hide or divert the truth will start brandishing their swords. The heading of this article clearly embellishes that fact.

Anonymous_3f6d: The IGP should focus on reducing the crime rate. You are a law enforcer not a politician.

Onlooker: Now I have to read Mariam's article!

4dpeople: Dear IGP, I have read the said article twice and nowhere does Mariam mention about action being taken due to race. She has mainly stated the facts accurately regarding both individuals. I guess it's your own guilt reflecting in your words and your thoughts.

SimonTi: When these fellas are incompetent and incapable of engaging in an intellectual discourse with an intellectual like Mariam, they will only issue threats.

FACTS: Azahari Husin and Nordin Mohd Top, bloodthirsty Islamic terrorists spreading terror, committing bombings and killing innocent women and children around the world were shown sympathy by the Home Minister and his body was welcomed.

Ex IGP Abdul Rahim, also declared Malaysia is world's laughingstock for discriminating against Chin Peng's ashes and went on to condemn the act against Chin Peng as grossly unfair. Why no threats against the ex IGP? Another laughing stock of the world.

The world knows that hardcore communist leaders - Siti Aishah, Rashid Maidin, Abdullah CD, Shamsiah Fakiah - together were the brains behind all the attacks during the war. But why is only Chin Peng alone held responsible for the atrocities?

Mohd Indera, a communist leader led the killings at Bukit Kepong, but not Chin Peng, yet only Chin Peng is blamed? Now they attack Mariam for telling the truth?

But be careful who you threaten! South African former president Nelson Mandela was treated like a slave and put under hard labour by a corrupt and racist regime. Just look at the incompetent ministers and heads of every corrupt institution in Malaysia simply shocking.

Most don't even have an iota of Mariam's intellect and thinking. Mariam Mokhtar is a highly capable and competent woman of substance, an activist, a true patriot, a potential and strong candidate for home minister or even prime minister when the new Pakatan government takes over Putrajaya to lead a united, uncorrupt, crime free, peaceful and free Malaysia. We are certain of that.

Anonymous #25558299: Why go after a lady who speaks the truth with facts. Don't you police fellas have better things to do? You are paid with the rakyat's tax money to take care of the country's and the rakyat's security, not to bully one single woman who has better brains than you.

Satay Satay: May the people learn, and Mariam is just one of the 'highlighters' to make the people learn. Learning means learning of the truth to both sides of the stories and not just being indoctrinated by someone with power to speak the powerful lies to cover the truth.

For that, the lessons from Mariam ought to be allowed. It is up to the people whom they want to believe, and not for anyone to shut her up from speaking the truths as she finds them to be.

This is democracy and a democracy of the advanced countries, not a primitive one where the people are living in coconut shells and thriving under it out of fear.

MfM: Sedition, the standard threat when the truth hurts. All the more reason for people to despise the BN government.

Swipenter: The one who is manipulating the truth is the IGP himself, not by leftist ideology but by ketuanan ideology.

EvenSteven: IGP, I thought of asking you to pick someone your own size but Mariam is so much bigger a person than you are.

N H Gong: Finally, here is proof that a lady's pen is mightier than a donkey's sword. Errr, gun.

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