Saturday, April 09, 2011

Why we dont need a RCI for the sex video tape.

It is quite acceptable for lawyers to have differing opinions about legal issues but when they have differing opinions because of vested interest then it is something else. I refer to two lawyers call for a Royal commission of Inquiry.Muhammad shafee's and Wee choo keong's call for an RCI has vested interest written all over it. The former is currently engaged by the Govt in the Teoh Beng Hock's RCI and the latter , Wee Choo Keong was a former member of PKR who left the party under acrimonious circumstances.Both have one thing in common. They are both certainly B.N friendly and certainly very anti-Annuar.So can we have any reliance on their opinion that we need to have a RCI for the sex tape? Of course not.

As mentioned by the Bar council President, an RCI is primarily set up for the purpose of enquiring into matters of national public importance involving public instituitions that affect life or welfare of citizens. What it certainly does not encompass is to pry and probe into the sex life of any public figure.

There are more important issues that involve public instituitions and public welfare and yet there is no inclination by the govt to have an RCI to investigate. So why should a sex tape involving an opposition figure have any priority?

Let us first have an RCI for the PKFZ fiasco, the Sime Darby billion loss, the millions in commission in the submarine deal, the murder of Altantuya and of course the Chua Soi Lek sex tape which by comparison have similar relevance if one decide to also have an RCI.

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