In my ‘Malaysiakini stands up to defy the oppressors’ post, I had asked if the reason might be to avoid ministerial embarrassment and had suggested that if that were so, it was a case of too little, too late.
MCMC’s reasoning, applicable to both videos, is that the “videos contain offensive contents with the intent to annoy any person, especially Indians”.
The Malaysiakini report of the press conference by Hishamuddin, which is the subject matter of the second video, had the Home Minister saying that the “residents did not know the organisers and did not know a cow’s head would be brought during the demonstration” , and added that the police would investigate the incident to identify who brought the cow’s head to the protest.
The report has it that this press conference took place after Hisham had an hour-long closed-door meeting with residents’ representatives at his office in Putrajaya.
It also reported that when asked why no police action was taken when the head of the cow was brought to the scene of the protest, he claimed that action had been taken and then said that “I was monitoring it myself and reporting it to the prime minister”.
At this point, I will make the observation that it is reasonable to assume that as Hisham was ‘monitoring it’ himself and reporting to the PM on the matter, he must surely have watched video footage when the head of the cow was carried to the protest and the disgraceful things that were done to it, before he went into that hour-long meeting.
That video footage can in fact be found in the first video that MCMC have asked Malaysiakini to remove from their website.
It is already available on Youtube.
If you watch the video, you will note that the head of the cow appears for the first time from the 58th second of the video, carried by two unidentifiable individuals clad in jeans and t-shirts.
1 minute and 7 seconds into the video clip, and for about 10 seconds, you will see that a man in a white shirt and songkok is now one of two persons carrying the head of the cow in the procession.
The same man resumes carrying the head 1 minute and 20 seconds into the clip for another 9 seconds.
He’s back 3 minutes and 22 seconds into the clip, this time seen adjusting the head and then placing his foot on the same.
I think it is inconceivable that Hisham would not have viewed this footge before going into that meeting with the residents.
The Malaysiakini report of that press conference after that meeting carried three photographs. I reproduce two below.
Only those to the right and directly behind Hisham are caught in this photo. Those on the left do not appear
This is a photo of that scene at minute 3 and 20 seconds in the video clip of the man in the white shirt and songkok with his foot on the head of the cow
The second video clip that MCMC wants Malaysiakini to remove from its website is also now available on Youtube.
From the outset, you will see several people behind Hisham beckoning someone to come and join them.
11 seconds into this video clip, that person walks in and joins the others.
This person, now without a songkok, and in a blue shirt, is the very same person who appears in the white shirt, wearing a songkok and carrying the head of the cow to the protest at the SUK building in Shah Alam.
Isn’t it really quite mind boggling that in the course of the press conference, Hisham said that police were investigating to identify the person who brought the head to the protest, and right through the press conference, the perpetrator of that evil deed was standing behind Hisham?
Are we to believe that Hisham met this ‘cow head’ carrier, would have viewed his antics on the first video, and still swallowed the yarn that the residents did not know who brought the head of the cow to the protest?
I don’t believe this for one moment.
This is what I believe.
MCMC wants this video removed because it bears the plainest evidence that the Home Minister aided and abetted in a lie that the residents did not know who brought the head of the cow to the protest.
This raises important questions.
Why would a senior federal minister go to such lengths to cover up the wrongdoings of these ‘residents’?
Who are these ‘residents’, really?
Was the hour-long meeting to hear the residents side of the story or to plot this attempted cover-up?
Who is this person who, it seemed, was first reluctant to be part of the press conference and then, foolishly, stepped into the spotlight?
I was at the dialogue in Shah Alam yesterday that was hosted by the Selangor state government to hear the views of the section 23 residents on the proposed move of the Sri Maha Mariamman Hindu temple that has become contoversial. So was this ‘cow head’ carrier.
Will tell you about the dialogue, this fellow and his merry men who were there, and my thoughts on the same in a forthcoming post.
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mccann105
September 6, 2009
with these continual misbehaved n obvious intended to disrupt..the more they do..doesnt mean the silent majority are silent…come next election..all these will be translated into votes..thats for sure ..
malaysianfirst
September 6, 2009
How much more convincing do we need that UMNO/BN has to be brought down at next GE in order for this country to heal itself and become the great nation that our founding fathers envisioned for all Malaysians.
Is it not a crime if you were proven to have aided and abetted in the commission of a crime.
With Hishamuddin doing what he has done, is he not a racist and is he not aiding seditious actions and should he not be jailed?
Yes we can and we need a change now! Let us tell more of our friends about this need to change the government for a better Msia.
Sambal muncha
September 6, 2009
Hisham, you’re a has been, mate. Truly up shit creek now, and without a bloody paddle to boot.
To Gan from MI, respect!
Paul Warren
September 6, 2009
Hiya Haris,
You want to play “Pull Down Pants”, play yourself la. Why pull down Minister’s pants for? Now he stands shamed! Caught lying! Pants on fire! Hisham oh Hisham, your mother never teach you how to lie ah? Lie and get caught!!
Is the MCMC using its laws to have the video taken down because between the videos, the pictures and what Hishammuddin is saying we have our Home Minister, former Minister of Education, son of a former Prime Minister, grandson of a founder of UMNO and cousin to the present Prime minister lying? Ptui naayi!
donplaypuks
September 6, 2009
Bro
Many in the cow’s head video have purportedly been identified at:
http://zainulfaqar.wordpress.com/2009/09/02/kepala-lembu-berdarah-siapa-dalangnya/ as allegedly UMNO members.
In particular, the guy who brought the cow’s head is allegedly Ketua Penaja UMNO Cawangan S23 Hj Amzir Md Zain.
dpp
We are all of 1 race, the Human Race
frags
September 6, 2009
Interesting theory that the second video was asked to be taken down because it had the perpertrators in public view. I thought because it was a PR blunder(by PR I mean public relations).
Definitely awaiting your take on what happened in the so called meeting. Looked to me that it was sabotaged even before it was called.
Melvin
September 6, 2009
That man in the songkok is no other than Azmir Mohd Zain, brother of the former Kota Anggerik assemblyman Datuk Nawawi Mohd Zain. The man has been instigating the protests on that day and even during the dialogue sessions.
Some PAS people have conducted the video analysis of and they have confirmed it.
p.s.nathan
September 6, 2009
Hi Haris, You have done a great job, investigating and analysing this ‘Sandiwara’. The men in Blue could do with a little bit of your brains!…to achieve their KPI’s for the coming year.
ps.
domino
September 6, 2009
Such low mentality and shallowness shown for the whole world to see! Still no shame kah?
than
September 6, 2009
DearHaris
The pure and pious folk who protested after Friday prayers during the ‘holy’ month of Ramadan; they plotted and planned whilst prostating themselves facing Mecca. Their hearts filled with hatered and loathing for the infidel. The ‘halal’ butchered animal – obviously killed humanely because they respect ‘God’s creature that provided them food – was descrated. No! It not the Indians who are offended – they shamed & humliated Islam (note I don’t say Muslims) Wow! What is cult – it strips you of your HUMANITY!! Well~ that is ‘organized’ religion for you!
Parameswara
September 6, 2009
Haris
Its simple lah. If this video is still there, it can be used as evidence?
And during cross-examining, questions can be asked if that was the person involved.
Mind you, the question can be even posed to the minister who may have to appear in court.
That is embarrasing lah.
Thats why the video has to be removed.
So that the minister can be spared from being asked to testify if that guy was the same one who handled the severed cow head.
Anyway, plan B (if minister has to appear in court) is to train the minister to say ‘It looks like him and it sounds like him, but I am not sure if it was him’.
After all, we already have a template ever since VK Lingam tape saga – just update it to suit the case and all is fine.
And no worries if the video appears in other blogs.
No one will bring it up.
Its same like prosecution and defence agreeing to avoid asking the Altantuya murderers as to who wanted them to do the act.
masakini
September 6, 2009
There is no more pretence as it used to be. What a shame that a bunch of crooks is supported by a Home Minister. It would not be long before what now are considered public areas become a no-go area for Non-Muslims. The way these goons were shouting on Friday and during the meeting on Saturday, it is very obvious that they want to pick-up a fight. Not even one word from the PM on the threat of violence and blood by these goons. And it is heartening that there are many Malaysians, including a sizable number of Malays, who believe this matter can be resolved through dialogue and consensus.
sinnersaint9
September 6, 2009
greetings
i dont not believe the Malays are oppressors, i do know its the BNs strategy to incite hatred amongst the different ethnic groups.
It has worked for 35 odd years and these tried and tested are successful.
Now
The question here is whether, we Malaysian are going to allow it, or are we going to keep our sense and do the right thing come the next election, GE13.
Remember Indias independence was obtained via AHIMSA, it took on Goliant (British Empire) and brought down to its knee.
Mind you many cows are slaughtered daily, does it hurt Hinduism or Hindus, if one moves in the realm of consciousness, than all these circus act by political parties will not hurt any of us.
None can rule FOREVER – NOTHING IS FOREVER:)
So, come 2011 or 2012 – The birth of new nation shall rise, now will people ke ke ke
Baraka
siewkhim
September 6, 2009
Mumpus lah UMNO!!!!
frags
September 6, 2009
BTW, Najib is now using the issue as proof of PR ineptness:
http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/index.php/malaysia/37011-najib-says-easy-to-be-the-opposition
Which only goes to show that the feds could have had a hand in it.
Sam01
September 6, 2009
That means the Minister is the cause of the anger to Indians.
Then it is the Minister who should be removed, not the video, you MCMC bully.
sash
September 6, 2009
U r fantastic – am so impressed. Thank u for everything.
Ahmad
September 6, 2009
it’s a shame that he is the ring leader and this video never lie. i know too well who to vote in the 13th election.
sampalee
September 6, 2009
When you lie too often,you get trapped in your own lies.I am not perturb by the events that is unfolding lately.It bear a strong hint that the script of Tuhan is ushering the weventual death of evil umno.I sense it in my bone and we rakyat will eventually see the munafiq killing the munafiq[from both bn and pr]Tuhan always determine the ending.Sit back and see umno hit the dirt like the bull head.
fireduck
September 6, 2009
Thank you, bro Haris!
And looks like the Home Sinister had ok assembly and marches of 50 people or less without permit. He implied so himself and even had the stupidity to say that the organizers told him that if they wanted a bigger protest they could have …. so if it’s “not a very big big protest”, it IS ok!!! Hear that, you overstaying IGP?
Xforget
September 6, 2009
Love this write-up of this cow-head incidents that follows. You just showed the clowns in our national circus that is better than the “Royal London Circus” … we got to watch without the advertisement.
telur dua
September 6, 2009
Ministers in this predicament in other countries would have resigned in shame.
But Malaysian Ministers are thick-skinned and shameless and cling on regardless.
ice kacang
September 6, 2009
50 protesters carrying a cow’s head with blood oozing out is nothing compared to some 20 to 30 people carrying candles and roses.Why ? The answer is because they are all from UMMNOO and they are all immune to everything or rather called the ‘UNTOUCHABLE’.nobody can shake them,NOT even MUSA HASSAN or GUNI PATAI.This is what we call ‘SATU MALAYSIA..RAKYAT DULU’ or ‘1 MALAYSIA’.Sudah habis lah Malaysia.
storm62
September 7, 2009
Can’t say i’m proud to be a Malaysian anymore!!!
gone were the days!!!
Clifford
September 7, 2009
MCMC wants the video taken down because it shows Kerishammuddin putting his festering, manure-covered boot in his mouth. Let him now chew on it… slowly. I’ve downloaded both the Malaysiakini videos and will disseminate them. The videos will live forever in infamy.
Shakuntala
September 7, 2009
Haris, both your posts on this disasterous handling of the Cow-head tradgedy,by the BN Government,show your skill at graphic journalism, well done!
Papa Hussein Onn will be ‘turning in his grave’, as the saying goes, at the unremarable way his son has tarnished Malaysia’s name and exposed himself as a clown. And he has sat beside another clown at the press conference, because the so called ‘joke’ between them, pointedly aimed at the MB Selangor is a continuation of The careless and deliberate manner of the Home Minister is depressing.
On the other hand, the rose, symbol of peace, combined with the candlelight and carried by members of the Human Rights Party at their march yesterday, has captured the imagination of so many.
In sharp contrast to the antics of a government minister and a gang of foolish men.
ttc
September 7, 2009
🙂 Haris, howdee.
Friend Tom just now perambulated drowsily over after a snoozy session and drawled on about his hazily iffy vision in which he says he spied the long-gone Onn Jaafar somewhere far away, wherever it was, looking verily like an 😐 ominously black Nimbus-thundercloud and pacing about like a not very happy tiger, like you know going to and fro and then back and fro again and again in sort of a distress-mode, with what friend Tom speculates was a very BIG baseball bat, while muttering some angry wordies that sounded to Tom’s ears like sparing some rod and spoiling some child somewhere, which led Tom to speculate cautiously that good Onn Jaafar may have been waiting there to perchance whack someone really hard somewhere.
Do you think the long-departed Onn Jaafar is perchance waiting there, who knows wherever it is that Tom saw him waiting with that BIG stick, to perchance give his rottenly naughty Hishammuddin grandson a 😀 thrashingly hard whacking whenever he gets to the place that Tom saw OJ waiting with that BIG batstick?
Hmm. Do you think the long-gone but verily good OJ perchance regrets that he spared the 😐 rotan-rod then and perchance spoilt this silver-spooned Hishameuddin grandson into becoming the now rottenly no good and even more brainlessly yukky UMNO/BN Home Minister than even that other rotten baddie managed to be, you know that 😦 our man loony SHA, presently incognito and perchance still skulking about here or in some unknown whereabouts?
Who knows, perchance good grandfather OJ is so annoyed with his peskily moronic grandson for annoying and insulting everybody and 😦 lying through his teeth most harassingly like Haris has shown here, and also trickily using this as an excuse perchance to pretendingly keep the 😦 bad ISA to threaten everybody with and then trickily pretending peskily not to see or know anything at all about the badly 😦 abusive treatment hurled at this one sadly beheaded dead cow’s head there. Uh, uh, not a thing at all can this brainless walking moron see he says, 😐 even though it’s right there, you see? Right there in the front and also the back of those videos for everyone else to see clearly and digest except for this one pesky, brainless 😦 yukky UMNO/BN Home Minister entity.
After cogitation and digestion of the evidence available all here have concluded conclusively that this rotten yukky UMNO/BN HM entity needs an eye-check and new spectacles or more worsely, he may be suffering from the scarily dreaded afflictionology known to all here as the 😐 deadly hopeless case of Malaysianeye-itis. On friend Tom’s premonitionary vision, all aye ayed to consensually concur that this pesky moron perchance has badly disgraced and disappointed sadly all his good and clever dead ancestors, like his good grandad OJ, and so has deservedly invited a 🙂 good whacking from his dearly departed ancestors, perchance for disturbing their peaceful slumber and causing them to turn over uncomfortably in their graves.
Oops….one of Thor’s thunderbolt just came along and struck through the thinking cap most sharpishly like and cogitated suddenly into this one odd question.
What P-numbered seat does this nastily keris-waving and annoyingly shouting uglily and now apparently also lying through his teeth yukky UMNO/BN HM entity sit on please? 😀
WE SAY YEAH! & NO TO ISA! 😛 AND HARIS FOR AG & RPK FOR IGP! GO FOR DSAI FOR PM & LKS FOR DPM & KIND WAN AZIZAH FOR HOME MINISTER.
2009 Resolution: Seek out all garbage and recycle or dispose post haste for a healthier life and planet!
ADDENDUM: Protect coral reefs and save all the good fishies in the seas.
adilshah
September 7, 2009
Haris
As you have mentioned in your writings, totally agree with your contention, now, the Hisham fellow is making a defence for the 50 goons they sent but failed in their mission which was to stir race sentiments base on religious belief’s. It’s a sad day, I see dramas unfolding in Malaysia just like what we see in hindi,tamil movies involving politicians and goons.
bangkalipoeylukiaka
September 7, 2009
Borther Haris, we all know that MACC-refers to….for Cars and Cows, so MCMC-also must be reffering to…Cows…Cows.
The “Cow Brain” goons and their party who brought out this “One Bolehland” Slogan are suffering from an ACUTE sickness of MAD COW Disease.
That’s the reason why they cannot TAHAN anything to do with COWs.
Poor Cows, poor Buffaloes.
Branden Potulski
February 2, 2011
Everyone loves what you guys are usually up too. This sort of clever work and exposure! Keep up the excellent works guys I’ve included you guys to blogroll.