Today's Sex In The City
Sex and politics — Tay Tian Yan
MARCH 29 — Over the past few days, wherever I went, people kept asking me: Who was he? Was it real?
All I could say was: I did not see the video. Have no idea who the guy was, but am sure it wasn’t me!
Although I keep a moustache, and my hair is just as sparse, and am also bespectacled, with a small tummy, I can be very sure it wasn’t me.
Sure enough it wasn’t me. That said, any middle-aged man in Malaysia with a moustache, sparse hair and a small tummy and is wearing glasses could be the guy, or the stand-in for that particular instance.
If the police were to identify the guy, or the stand-in, they may have to summon all men with the above features.
An easier way is to get all the sex tradesmen to view the tape and start the investigation from the girl.
Chinese sex workers in KL have all gone through the baptism of modernisation, systematisation and computerisation. Their height, vital statistics, disposition, linguistic abilities and unique features have all been clearly registered.
It wouldn’t take the pimps too long to single out the female counterpart in the video.
If the female counterpart is in the light, you can get the man in video in no time.
With the professionalism of the pimps in town, who needs the help of the “Datuk T” trio, especially Shazryl “Eskay” Abdullah and Abdul Rahim Thamby Chik?
Eskay used to be a close ally of Anwar Ibrahim. When Anwar fell down from horseback and injured his back while he was still the country’s deputy prime minister, it was said that Mahathir was looking high and low for a therapist to fix Anwar’s ailment.
The then-PM heard that there was a renowned Malaysian physiotherapist in the United States specialising in giving physiotherapy treatment for American athletes.
So he brought back this man by the name of Eskay.
It doesn’t matter whether Eskay eventually fixed Anwar’s problems, but he did make it to the upper class of society because of this, and became a big landowner-cum-contractor.
He claimed that he had combed the entire southern Thailand to look for a companion for Anwar, showing that he was indeed a big friend of Anwar.
But once they don’t get along in their interests, even the best friends could be turned into the most heinous foes.
As for Rahim, he also used to enjoy a close relationship with Anwar beginning with the Wawasan team until he was accused of raping an underage girl and ordered to leave office by Anwar.
Rahim said the revelation was meant to force “people with moral problems to step down.”
I wasn’t aware that Rahim had turned over a new leaf and assumed the role of a moral guardian.
Sex and politics, friends and foes. Sometimes we need to draw a clear line demarcating the two. — mysinchew.com
Sex scandal Video: Sex is no accident
Concerns of an average Malaysian — Rajiv Nambiar
MARCH 29 — As I write this, our nation has been recently rocked by yet another scandal. This time around it alleges a well-known politician to be involved in an “immoral” act which was recorded in a hotel room in Kuala Lumpur. I wondered to myself about what has our nation come to as we always seem to make world headlines for all the wrong reasons.
The world mourns the loss of lives in Japan, Libya is under attack, Yemen is on the verge of collapse and a potentially calamitous climate change is set to take place, yet all the attention Malaysia is drawn into is about an “illegally” filmed sex act which may or may not involve the said politician at all.
In the eyes of the average Malaysian, this issue has been blown out of proportion. I was on Twitter a week ago when the news of this video first came out and my immediate reaction was that “This is definitely going to make front-page news tomorrow!”
What’s saddening is that nobody bothers about a politician being involved in a sex act. Firstly, the point that comes to mind is that the people who have exposed the video should have been arrested for possession of pornographic material under section 292 of the Penal Code. Moreover, now that a police report has been lodged by the said politician and many who followed suit, it’s important that the police carry out their duties efficiently if not transparently.
To leave all this aside and to look at this whole fiasco from the average Malaysian’s standpoint of view is a whole different matter. This is where I come from. I am the average Malaysian and it bothers me to think that all the government and the media could think of since the 2008 general election only concerns the ruling coalition and the opposition. The “people” have been neglected in my opinion. Let’s look at the said sex clip scandal first.
The facts as we know them today are that the video was filmed in a hotel room in KL involving “someone” performing sex acts with a prostitute. Now as a Malaysian, I am not concerned about the “someone” who was filmed in the video. I am more concerned about which hotel is it in KL that provides prostitutes to customers? Why hasn’t the authorities spoken anything about this? Prostitution is rife in KL and one only needs to go to Bukit Bintang and other places alike to assert the truth about these claims. There happens to be massage parlours that promote vice at every nook and corner in KL and also everywhere around the country. Why has nothing been done to stop the spread of this? Shouldn’t there be some kind of enforcement?
On a different note, my city is tainted with irresponsible and ill-mannered cabbies, dirty toilets and endless number of potholes on every major road, yet all we could think of discussing about right now is about a dubious porn clip? I am bewildered whenever I drive around KL because I get the impression that the authorities are not concerned about their people at all. The Federal Highway is badly jammed all the time and it is almost unpredictable to drive on. Whenever it rains, roads around KL are packed to the brim and traffic policemen are nowhere to be seen.
Public transportation is atrocious. We speak about controlling the rate of climate change, but take a drive around KL and you will know why this is unachievable if not a distant dream. Public buses are not well maintained and we can see that every other day at least one bus breaks down in the middle of the road and thus causes traffic congestion which often stretches for hours. So much black smoke is emitted from these buses that at times it is almost impossible if not difficult to see the road while driving behind it. What are the authorities doing?
If buses aren’t bad enough, let’s look at another mode of public transport — KTM Komuter. Every day during peak hours these trains are packed like sardine cans and it amazes me to think that there are people travelling on it every day! I took a train recently after a hiatus of almost two years and I must say that nothing has changed since! The trains almost always arrive late and it’s hot and humid inside. Illegal immigrants travel on the train like it’s the Genting Theme Park. Why wouldn’t there be cases of pick pocketing and sexual harassment if the distance between me and the next person inside a Komuter coach is no further that a strand of hair?
Leaving public transportation aside, let’s talk about roads. Every major road in the city is either badly laid or ridden with potholes. It is extremely distressing to be driving under these circumstances and if potholes and bad roads aren’t bad enough, these roads are also not resurfaced properly after a repair work is done. KL is full of such roads. Where is enforcement? Why has nothing been done?
What I have stated here doesn’t even cover 10 per cent of the actual problems that plague our country, it’s only an insight from a concerned Malaysian. I am sad that all this is taking place with no action being taken about it, but whenever there is a scandal involving the ruling coalition or the opposition, it makes front-page news almost immediately. Twitter and Facebook look like a war zone where politicians trade barbs against each other. Why can’t there be common ground when it comes to protecting the interests of the people they serve?
I love my country and I feel blessed to be a citizen of this wonderful nation. I hope politicians set their differences aside and first try to sort the problems that plague the nation rather than wasting taxpayers’ money to launch a royal commission of inquiry to probe a despicable porn clip. What happens in a person’s private life should remain private and shouldn’t be used against him/her.
It’s like saying I won’t listen to Ricky Martin songs because he is gay or Bob Marley’s music is bad because he is a drug addict. If you wish to gauge a person’s capability, take him on in an even battlefield where in this case happens to be “Politics” and “How to help the people”. This way, millions need not be spent on campaigning before the general election because “we” the people already know who to vote for in the ballot box.
I urge the authorities to take into consideration the points I have raised in this letter before launching into a debate on whether there should be a royal commission of inquiry to probe the authenticity of a porn clip. There are much more pressing issues to be addressed and we are running out of time and me, being the average Malaysian, running out of patience.
* Rajiv Nambiar reads The Malaysian Insider.
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