“If there was no evidence, why is Anwar going up and down the court appealing and re-appealing for documents and DNA samples?” (Azlan Mohd Lazim as quoted by The Star 2009)

Someone tell me if this sounds as stupid to you as it does to me.

Dear Mr. Azlan Mohd Lazim,

You might not know this, but if you keep asking for something and your request is rejected multiple times (even though you’re requesting for something that’s rather crucial and is not supposed to be withheld) you would naturally automatically assume that

a) the person you’re requesting it from is being a bitch and doing this on purpose

b) it doesn’t exist in the first place

So, of course he keeps re-appealing! YOU guys say it exists but won’t give it to him, so he assumes either (a) or (b), but then you guys INSIST it exists again so obviously he will continue asking!

Oh and apparently Anwar’s lead counsel has pulled out due to health reasons. Mr. Azlan, I know you call it “stunts” but don’t you think as a lawyer, with the court and the prosecution withholding evidence, you would feel so stressed and worried and fed up that you would develop all these health problems (whether it’s high blood pressure or just the inability to sleep, eat and think) from the case and pull out too for your own sanity?

I know I would.

Sincerely,
Xinch

P.S. Read the article here.

Disclaimer: If you’re wondering, she is apolitical and just wants the best for Malaysians whether that comes in the form of BN or Pakatan Rakyat (it’s just that right now, she seems to think more equality will be achieved through Pakatan Rakyat and that the current federal government is playing an amazing PR game with the whole 1Malaysia crap and has perfect timing with news releases to mainstream media).

And by the way, this is just her opinion to why the man quoted sounds dumb and should rehearse his speeches for the media if he cannot say anything intelligently critical off-the-bat. By no means does she mean any offense. Again, just her opinion.

Also, just so you know, she has no idea if Anwar sodomized that dude or not. She just thinks that a smart man like Anwar wouldn’t make the same mistake twice (if he did sodomize the first guy) and that if he did, he would’ve done it out of the country with some random whore instead of doing it with another aide who happens to be chummy with Najib. I mean, the guy’s got to have some brains if he can rally support form urban, educated Malaysians and other large developed, first-world leaders).

One last disclaimer. The writer also thinks “like father, like son”. Perhaps Anwar supporters would think better and eventually sympathize with his son (I doubt it but it’s worth a shot hoping) if he sounded like less of an idiot in mainstream media.

Datuk Arif Shah Omar Shah

If you don’t know who he is, he’s the UMNO-glorified politician who ran against Anwar Ibrahim in the recent Permatang Pauh by-elections. Everyone harped on and on about the fact that he’s a Chinese-and-Hokkien-speaking Malay politician who was schooled in a Chinese-medium school in some godforsaken place in Perak. While newspapers and mainstream media repeatedly stressed on Anwar’s looming sodomy charges, few speculated this UMNO man’s background. Of course, there was that little bit of controversy on his credentials… but really. In Malaysia, supposed and unfounded sodomy deserves more coverage than a politician who imagined his education in two nonexistent universities and even went to the extent of FAKING several websites in order to support his allegations. No… proven plagiarism and lying is really minor compared to unfounded cases of sodomy.

In the US, where it’s heating up between the republicans and the Democrats, much dirt has been unearthed about the Republican latest VP canditate – Sarah Palin. Her personal life, murky as hell, has been splashed all over the internet and various mainstream sources – THIS, is politicking.

While, of course, Pakatan Rakyat went on and on and on about how BN is corupt, racist and filled with cronyism and how our leaders are not… well, leaders. BN’s main bullet into the Pakatan Rakyat armor was Anwar’s sodomy allegations! What does unfounded, unproven sodomy have ANYTHING to do with running a country?! And they (read: BN) said that, “the people are tired of the politicking”. Well, that’s true. We, the people, ARE tired of politicking. We’re tired of YOUR politicking and by God, we’re tired of YOU.

I’d rather that this man who’s supposedly accused of sodomy for the second time (read: no such thing as a coincidence) lead my state, my country rather than this Arif fella over there who’s a total flake. I wouldn’t make such allegations without having at least some proof.

He claimed to have studied in two institutions – Graber International and Edison University of Technology.

Even Jeff Ooi said to Google both. While you’ll find that Graber does not exist at all (we tried every available spelling alternative), hey! Edison does!… But wait… It’s EDISION lah, not Edison – journalists today don’t know how to spell.

Bloggers like Margee discovered this so called EDISION University of Technology and blogged about the fact that it’s domain is Malaysian-registered with a Streamyx IP address despite the fact that this University is supposedly located in the British Virgin Islands. Nonetheless, the very curious housemate and I decided to investigate a little further.

1. BLATANT PLAGIARISM

Example 1
The only program with active links is the Management Program (which I’m supposing is the one Datuk Arif Shah claimed to be pursuing lah). So we clicked on the information page about the Doctorate Program and found it a little dodgy (link here) and ended up Googling some of the text. Lo and behold – an exact replica of a similar Doctorate program in this place in India called EXCEL INSTITUTE (link here).

Example 2
The Welcome Message in the “About EUT” section is blatantly plagiarized from the Honolulu University website.

2. FRAUD

In the “About EUT” section of the website, there is a disclaimer dissociating the university from the current Malaysian controversies. So it gets a certificate from the State of Delaware saying that, “EUT is a legally established identity and has recently obtained its not for profit organization status from the State of Delaware, USA for the scientific and educational purpose” (EUT, 2008). It even lets you view a copy of their certificate! Looks pretty genuine, you think? Perhaps. But look closely – it was prepared by this… “Delaware of Business Incorporators”. So I Googled this and tell me if it looks dodgy or not (link here). Even more dodgy than that is the fact that the document they apparently scanned looks a tad forged. Tilt the screen of your monitor a little and you can see some parts of the letter looking like it was a cut and paste job! But, I a mere Psychology student wouldn’t know that now, would I?

3. More fraud

In order to maximize the credibility of the University website, it’s claimed to be recognized by the International Management Association, UK. A quick check revealed that a Penang-based webdesign company called Websmith ATP. WOW. They must be really huge to be designing websites for associations and corporations as such. You know what’s even more impressive? This same company designed a website for another institute called the Washington Technology Institute. Cool, huh?

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You know the other link between these two websites? They’re both linked on the EUT website and EUT claims to be conducting research WTI! Cool, innit. So we checked out the WTI website and lo and behold. It’s really not much different from the EUT website since it’s more or less plagiarized. Mission and Vision from the Thomas Edision University of Technology, program description from the Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition (CARLA) and Godknowswhatelse.

You know the best part about all these websites?

IMA UK

WTI, Nevada

EUT

They all have the same contact address which, if you Google, is the contact address for hundreds of other businesses! So is EUT’s Vanterpool Plaza address and WTI’s Hong Kong address.

Dodgy, no?

I try my best to be as onthefence as possible when it comes to politics. But this is really too much to take. So what if he claims to have aborted his doctorate because it’s not accredited. He still was educated in an imagined university (Graber Institute) and all these websites have ties back to Penang (with WHOIS information to the same address listed under WebsmithATP in Bukit Mertajam).

That aside, so you harp on and on about no sex and sensationalism in Malaysian mainstream media (which is controlled by the Federal government, FYI). This whole Anwar sodomy debacle has made sex and sensationalism near-daily headlines of every major newspaper in the country up till the by-elections. Hypocrites.

No sen-fucking-sationalism, my ass. You looking for something to sensationalize? Sensationalize this!

This man is still an MP, still in UMNO and is probably one of the MPs backing Ahmad Ismail in Penang (that moron who called us Chinese “pendatang” and unworthy of equal rights).

It is this sort of backward thinking that stops us from growing as a nation. THIS sort of deceit. You don’t see politicians making comments as such in the US or in the UK where there are tons of immigrants who happen to be citizens. Yes, there is a “White” Caucasian majority but this year the US has an African American Presidential candidate! True, it took them donkey years to get to this stage but really, we’re no longer living in the same world it was a century ago.

So don’t do anything to Ahmad Ismail. Just say sorry, and hey, it’s okay, I said sorry. Haven’t you heard?

Sorry no cure.

Do something. Kick him out. SHOW us that such words and racial politics are not condoned by you! Afterall, action speaks much MUCH louder than words. But you can’t do that now, can you? The BN has long used the racial card to divide us by race. We’re categorized by our race! They say give the Malays superiority, no other race is as superior. They say we help the Chinese too and give some Chinese schools some money. They say the Indians are important to us too, they give Tamil schools money. Then they suddenly remember the East Malaysians and go over to clear their rainforests and give them money. But at the end of the day, all of us, despite our race, should unite against this. Stop letting them pit the bumis against the nonbumis! This is ridiculous, afterall, it’s a lose-lose battle. The only winners are those up there – the cronies. So really, what’s the point?

Let’s just say I’m really fed up with the political situation in my country. I love Malaysia. But because of this shit, I cannot wait to get out of here and try my luck elsewhere. Nowhere’s perfect, but it might be a tad better than this bullshit.