Credibility

"He has no credibility"

—Deputy Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak, commenting on the man who declared some very disturbing things about him. [The Star]

Why bother saying it at all? Of course as far as Najib is concerned, Bala has no credibility. It's not like any of us Malaysians was expecting Datuk Seri to say otherwise.

"He was going to see the police. How much safer can you be?"

—Americk Singh, former lawyer of Balasubramaniam, responding to the question on why didn't he advise his client about his personal safety. [The Star]

As a Malaysian lawyer, Mr Americk Singh doesn't seem to be a very bright chap.

In Malaysia, even the biggest boss in the police force had the history of beating up a prisoner while in their legal custody. A man can somehow mysteriously end up with arsenic poisoning while in prison.

Police personnels have been involved in blowing up an unarmed woman into pieces.

A teenage girl was stopped by the police while she was out with her boyfriend on a motorbike. They were brought to the police station for "interrogation". She was then ordered to perform oral sex on the pervert policeman; and then later raped by the same man.

So much for safety while in police custody.

No—I wouldn't say that it is safe to be around the police—far from it! I might not survive the kind of "interrogation" they conduct.