May 23, 2010
From Alor Setar, Kedah
http://www.the malaysianinsider.com
RPK dares Malaysia to fight him in the UK
LONDON
Fugitive blogger Raja Petra Kamarudin has thrown down the gauntlet to Malaysian authorities, challenging them to bring standing charges against him to the courts in the United Kingdom.
Swaggering into a packed hall in the UK capital yesterday and flanked by two burly men in dark glasses, the controversial Malaysia Today writer insisted that he would fight charges of criminal defamation and sedition as well as the appeal against his Internal Security Act (ISA) detention, given a level playing field.
“I will take on the government and I will fight them but I will do what Sun Tzu said, ‘Fight him in your territory.’
“So my territory is here in the UK,” he declared to applause from a largely partisan crowd of over 300, who had their bags searched before entering the hall at the BPP Law School.
Many had to stand for the two-hour talk by the blogger, who repeated what he had written over the years, in his first formal appearance after over a year in self-imposed exile.
Raja Petra wore his now signature beret and immediately refuted the notion that he should return home to prove his innocence of the charges leveled against him.
“A first year law student can tell you that it is not the job of the accused to prove his innocence. It is the job of the prosecution to prove guilt.
“There is the UK court here. There need not be phone call or phone call from someone’s wife,” he said in a thinly-veiled jibe against Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak and his wife, Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor, whom he has previously accused of interfering with institutions such as the judiciary.
Despite calls from various BN lawmakers to bring Raja Petra to justice, the government has so far not followed up on suggestions that they apply to extradite the runaway blogger who has made many claims, including the involvement of Najib and Rosmah in scandals such as the murder of Mongolian translator Altantuya Shariibuu.
Police have said they were looking into reports that he was seen in several countries, including the UK and Australia, after he absconded but have not reported any success.
Raja Petra, widely known by his initials RPK, also explained that Opposition Leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, who is facing a sodomy charge which Pakatan Rakyat insists is trumped up, was in a different boat.
“Anwar has accepted the fact that he has to stay (in Malaysia) as he aspires to be the next prime minister. I have no political aspirations.
“I’ll probably be a free man longer than Anwar,” he quipped.The member of the Selangor royal family referred to several incidences in his previous brushes with the law to back his claim that the Malaysian judiciary was not independent.
He questioned why the Federal Court had yet to decide on the government’s appeal against his release from the ISA, after more than a year.
He also said that he had tried to obtain a full bench of nine judges and “thought that maybe we will get seven but we ended up with just three.”
“We were told it was an administrative decision but nobody told us who made the decision or who were the judges until the day of the hearing.
“On the morning of the hearing, we found that one of them was Augustine Paul,” Raja Petra said, repeating what he had written about the hearing.
The late judge had in 2001 denied a habeas corpus application by Raja Petra to declare his first ISA detention illegal. Raja Petra had also written numerous articles criticising the judge who had also presided over Anwar’s first sodomy trial, which saw the sacked deputy prime minister being jailed for six years.
“I’ve written a lot of nasty things about him and called him all sorts of names. Even I would cite myself for contempt of court! How will he give me a fair trial?” Raja Petra said.
Din Merican: the Malaysian DJ Blogger 
“Even I would cite myself for contempt of court!” = classic RPK
Lots of boasts, lots of swagger from this self-exiled ‘PM’.
Level playing field in UK, yeah right.
He’s one screwed up guy, best ignored.
The main aim of the challenge is to prove our government and the police are impotent.
Sayang bangsa, “He’s one screwed up guy, best ignored.” and yet you concluded with “The main aim of the challenge is to prove our government and the police are impotent”, which is which.
He may be screwed up, obviously by the Malaysian Government, but he is still capable to prove the Malaysian Government and police are truly impotent plus a lot of other uselessness and really not fit to govern..
tulis berita fitnah kemudian berlakun jadi mangsa. hanya yang bodoh sahaja boleh percaya “cabaran” bodohnya.
Dia tahu kerajaan tak boleh dakwa dia mengunakan sistem kehakiman di Britain..mana boleh buat jenayah di britain kemudian didakwa di oleh mahkamah jepun etc..
jadi dia berlagak hero dan orang yang ingin percaya kepadanya akan berjaya walaupun benda bodoh.
Mahkamah sudah beri dia peluang membela dirinya kerana dituduh membuat fitnah terhadap rosmah dan dia pun tahu dia tak akan memang kerana Rosmah ada alibi maka dia lari dan menipu lagi kononya mahkamah tidak adil.
You are the mna YM Raja Petra Kamaruddin!
You make an idiot of the entire Malaysian law enforcement and judiciary and that truly is the case!
The entire law enforecement and judiciary in this country has been systematically dismantled and destroyed since the time of Tun Dr Mamakthir Kutty and is still being destroyed by the present administration. No Malaysian today will have an iota of confidence with these corrupted government agencies and neither will they get a fairb hearing if they ever need to step into these agencies.
Hail YM RPK! You’re da man!
Leman… not God-fearing or afraid of the hereafter?
alahai Leman apa yang engkau merepet nih, maluuulah sikit, orang dah tahu cerita sebenar, hanya engkau yang ketinggalan zaman, diam sajalah, issh bangang betullah engkau nihhhhhhhhh!!
Berapalah sangat engkau dibayar wahai pejuangtrooper woiiiiiiiii. Meluatceh!!!
Can’t help but smile reading through Lemans’ & Sayang Bangsas’…
Oooo dear…. sad but that’s the truth how most Malaysian (mainly Malays!?) thought of RPK …! My say : Altantuya case will forever hunt Najib (& Bik Mama)!
The internet age proves once again how tough for a corrupt politians to survive any wrongdoings. Within seconds it can spread like wild fires, What’s more with FBs’ & Tweet at their highs now!! I give Najib…. well, the most 2 terms to govern! LOL
“Maybe history will be kinder to him than we who are affected by his decisions and actions.” – DIN MERICAN
WHAT HAS AFFECTED YOU THAT YOU HARBOR SO MUCH HATRED OF DR. MAHATHIR.
MAYBE, YOUR WISHES OF GAINING SOMETHING FROM HIS TENURE DOES NOT MATERIALISE OR MAYBE HIS POLICY OR HIS ACTION HAVE MADE YOU VERY POOR MORALLY OR ECONOMICALLY.
DIN, WHERE WERE YOUR DISSENTING VIEWS AND VOICE DURING HIS TENURE BUT WHY NOW, WHEN THE PERSON IS NO LONGER IN POWER. WHERE IS YOU “JANTAN”.
YOU ARE BIAS AND SELECTIVE IN HIGHLITING CERTAIN MATTERS OF PUBLIC INTEREST IN YOUR BLOG REPORTING.
VERY LITTLE OR RATHER NOTHING IS HIGHLITED ON ISSUE THAT FACE THE COUNTRY TODAY.
INSTEAD YOU CHOOSE TO HIGHLIGHT ANYTHING THAT INVOLVE DR. MAHATHIR.
DIN YOU ARE LIKE ” SEBIJIK BUAH KUINI YANG SUDAH BUSOK LAGI BERULAT DI-DALAM NYA” WANGI DI-LUAR DAN BUSOK DI-DALAM ITU LAH SIFAT DAN KEBENCIAN MU TERHADAP TUN DR. MAHATHIR YANG TELAH MENGANGKAT MARUAH SERTA MARTABAT BANGSA MELAYU
DANN MARUAH NEGARA.
DIN, APAKAH SUMBANGAN MU MENGANKAT MARUAH SERTA MARTABAT BANGSA MELAYU DAN MARUAH NEGARA.
DIN, NEGARA RUGI MEMPUNYAI SEORANG ANAK BANGSA MELAYU YANG TAK TAHU BERTERIMA KASIH DAN MENGHORMATI PERJUANGAN PEMIMPIN YANG TELAH BANYAK BERJASA KEPADA BANGSA MELAYU.
MUNGKIN INI LAH YANG DI-PANGGIL “MELAYU BARU” YANG BIADAP LAGI TIDAK BERSYUKUR DAN BERTERIMA KASIH.
RPK, KALAU KAU SEORANG ANAK JANTAN, JANGAN LARI KE UK, PULANG LAH DAN HADAPI LAH SEGALA TUDUHAN DAN HUKUMAN.
DIN TOLONG NASIHATKAN PRK PULANG KE MALAYSIA.
Richard Loh
What I am saying is RPK is boasting about level playing field when he is hiding in the UK.
He wants to prove to his worshippers (there are many here) that the government and the police are impotent.
He is actually a coward and an escapist.
He knows he is in the wrong in his unfounded allegations against Najib and Rosie.
But how long is he playing this cat and mouse game?
Sepandai-pandai tupai melompat akhirnya jatuh ke tanah juga.
Leman is placing the right perpsective on RPK for you to ponder who RPK is – a clay pigeon.
Ipin
Upin is glad tat you acknowledgde Najib is here to stay.
Unlike your friends here who think BN will be gone in the coming GE.
Hidup BN and Najib.
RPK has clearly thrown the gauntlet down at 1st ladyman Rosemajib.
Do they have the balls to respond in UK and seek extradition or sue him there if his utterances are defamatory?
Will the AG, who flew to Uruguay to ostensibly retrieve 2 lost jet engines now head for London? Has he the cojones?
dpp
we are all of 1 race, the HUman Race
I notice there are two low-level IQ idiots lurking around here. Just ignore them as pariahs.
Our very own AG can be campion also in UK to charge RPK Oopps… I mean ULU KINABATANGAN where is really a campion and the best among the orang utan.
Sayang Bangsa,
I just don’t wanna spoil your Sunday…. ! You want 3 terms? GRANTED!….. LOL
FYI, I’ve been a silent followers of Dins’ blog since inception… Ppl like you comes & goes. Just like “ILHAM” or are you? LOL
Damn I’m smiling again… What a Sunday! Best Regards from Upin brother especially for you!
Now wat’s the bn govt. going to do? Na na na na na nah.
mari berfikir secara waras, dan jangan emosi dan mari berhujah secara intelek
1. Bala yang menuduh Najib (sekarang boleh hidup di UK..siapa sponsor?), gagal untuk beri bukti.
i) Dakwaan Najib Bejumpa Altantuya di sebuah Restoran di Paris
Restoran begitu.. tidak ada cctv kah? dan bagi seorang ahli politik sentiasa yg sentiasa mendapat perhatian media tambahan lagi bersama wanita cantik di Paris…tetapi tak ada kesan.
ii) Dakwaan Najib bertemu Altantuya di majlis lelongan berlian.
Majlis yang dihadiri oleh orang ramai dan wartawan ..maka mustahil tiada satu gambar pun.
iii) Najib sudah bersumpah tidak mengenali Altantuya.
iv) Razak baginda juga mengaku dia mengarahkan dua polis tersebut “mengurusi” altantuya, cuma pendakwa gagal membuktikan dia “mengarahkan agar membunuh”, sebaliknya dua pegawai polis tersebut terlibat secara langsung
sebaliknya Anwar.
i) dia dituduh oleh mangsa sendiri.
ii) Spin media PR pada mulanya mengatakan saiful diculik oleh polis dan diarahkan/dipaksa membuat pengakuan palsu…akhirnya terbukti dakwaan PR palsu.
iii) Karpal singh dan Mat sabu adalah dua orang yang pertama menuduh Anwar terlibat dalam salah laku seks.
iv)Saiful difitnah memiliki kondo bernilai 2 juta…akhirnya terbukti ianya mikik kawan Anwar.
v) Tuduhan saiful minta bantuan biasiswa dari najib..sebenarnya dia berjumpa dengan pegawai lama Anwar di pejabat TPM dan saiful ada surat sokongan dari Anwar yg akan didedahkan dalam mahkamah.
vi) tidak ada manusia yang sangup dihina oleh masyarakat yg jahil semata mata untuk wang.
sebenarnya saiful minta pinjaman untuk mengikuti latihan pilot yg cukup dengan kelayakan SPM.
Sila jawab dengan hujah..jika terbukti air mani Anwar ada pada dubur saiful..bagaimana mungkin ianya dirancang.
i) Air mani walaupun boleh direka, tetapi yang palsu dengan mudah dapat dikenal pasti..
Sam01, there are three of them, equals to one single mindset of unrealised incompetent, trying to down-play the issues of the masses. Yes, just ignore and forgive them, the best remedy available for these category of low grade specimens.
WHAT HAS AFFECTED YOU THAT YOU HARBOR SO MUCH HATRED OF DR. MAHATHIR.
MAYBE, YOUR WISHES OF GAINING SOMETHING FROM HIS TENURE DOES NOT MATERIALISE OR MAYBE HIS POLICY OR HIS ACTION HAVE MADE YOU VERY POOR MORALLY OR ECONOMICALLY.
ILHAM
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So, its still back to the same thing lah, gaining something for nothing. Hey Ilham, many of us don’t need free rides like you and your gang. Only people like you need to have a crutch just to keep standing.
I am not super rich but I can take my family for overseas holiday at least once a year and sometimes twice. I don’t need to be super rich and I don’t need free handouts.
More than anything else, I don’t need to prostitute myself writing in forum as paid cyber trooper, thats really low down.
RPK has a responsibility to all freedom loving Malaysians both at home and abroad committed to fighting oppression wherever oppression is found, to bring to the attention of those who seldom hear about Malaysia and could not place Malaysia in the world map, who think that Malaysia is somewhere in India (my neighbor in England from a middle class suburb just outside London thought Malaysia is in Africa) that we are a newly developing country with aspirations to become a model of parliamentary democracy for South Asia, and that we were on track to be those until a politician by the name of Mahathir Mohamad took over the reins of leadership in the early ‘80s.
With Mahathir Mohamad (and the world does not know the full extent of this man’s transgressions), he allowed arrogance to go to his head once he occupied the highest seat of power. He exceeded the powers given him by the country’s federal constitution. He is a man who does not take kindly to criticism and in the process single handedly over the two decades that he was Prime Minister, destroyed all opposition to his policies; and when his opponents relied on the independence of its judiciary as their last bastion in the defense of justice, he systematically dismantled the country’s third pillar of government making a mockery of its independence which is guaranteed by the constitution i.e. a constitution he is sworn to protect and uphold. This man broke his own oath of office.
Mahathir Mohamad quickly found Malaysia to be too small for his ambition and it is not long before he took to the international stage earning for himself, in the process, the reputation of a tin-pot dictator, a title reserved by the U.S. Department of State for third world leaders who sought to rise to power through anti-U.S. rhetoric. Except that with Mahathir Mohamad even that would not be enough and he has to add and did add anti-Jewish rhetoric to his speeches to catch the attention of the Muslim world; and which he did and did it well. That was to be his forte.
After being chided by U.S. President Bush at international meetings for holding on to power, he promised he would voluntarily step down for his successor. Why not? He has lined up all the ducks in one row and it was time for him to take that shot. His successor Ahmad Badawi quickly showed that Mahathir’s shoes were too big for him to fill and he eventually was forced out of office amidst calls for his resignation both by his supporters and his critics giving way to Najib Razak.
Under Najib Razak, little changed as the man who wants to be Prime Minister is again put on a show trial before the inevitable happens i.e. political exile for the man who wants to be Prime Minister, negotiated with some world leaders whose support Najib Razak would need to protect his own legacy when the time comes for him to step down.
But with RPK what do we find today?
Apparently RPK has sought asylum in the U.K. as it is his right to do so under the asylum law of the United Nations incorporated into the domestic laws of countries who are signatories to the 1954 U.N. Convention Relating to Refugees as expanded by the 1967 Protocol. RPK is not a convicted felon but a political activist fleeing persecution for his political views. He should now use his celebrity status at home and security as guest of the U.K. government to defend the constitutional rights of freedom loving Malaysians of whatever political affiliations.
He should discard his silly preference for the lone red star khaki cap (a reminder of the cap with triple red stars worn by terrorists fighting the British in the ‘50s) or even the lone red star black beret of Che Guevara as this conjures up the wrong image among his British audience. It is time for him to get serious and make good use of his celebrity status at home and the platform given to him internationally and be heard abroad as well. It is not enough for him to frolic in the limelight of his own making and that of his persecutors.
It is time for him to appear at the Speakers’ Corner of the famed Hyde Park in London.
din’s blog has taken the path of rpk’s m2day. m2day during its earlier years was both informative and discussional. indeed a lot of exposes rpk revealed and indeed a lot of intellectuals posted excellent comments which formed a cyber forum by itself. not anymore now. the intellectuals no longer want to be associated with pre-puberty commentators, so, what’s left are a bunch of “premature ejaculators” and, my version of “one touch climax” schoolgirls.
din san,
sometimes blog hits may not really be priority no.1 after all?
mr. bean,
your piece above on behalf of din for “ilham” ?
Din,
Sorry to sidetrack a bit. It would be great to have some writeup on the passing of Goh Keng Swee
Bean,
Methinks you’re putting too much into RPK’s french cap err.. beret. It does give him a debonair look, perhaps. I don’t think he’ll look good in a songkok nor a Mao cap. A toupee is definitely out.
Yep, i see your point, wrt Hyde Park.
“Fugitive blogger Raja Petra Kamarudin has thrown down the gauntlet to Malaysian authorities, challenging them to bring standing charges against him to the courts in the United Kingdom.”
It is unfortunate that the writer referred to RPK as ‘fugitive’ because he certainly is not a fugitive from justice. He is not a convicted felon. He is fleeing persecution and not really prosecution. He feels he would not get a fair trial – and he is right.
As for the idea that the Malaysia government could bring charges against him in the British courts, that is preposterous! This is a jurisdictional issue and nothing more need be said about that. There is an extradition treaty between Malaysia and the United Kingdom. Even if the U.K. government wants to deport RPK it cannot do so. Under the U.N. asylum law which the U.K. government is legally bound to follow, it cannot deport RPK back to Malaysia to face certain danger.
But what if the Malaysian government were to guarantee it would drop all charges against him and not slam him with new charges? Then RPK would do well to resist deportation in the U.K. immigration courts. Their courts are not like our courts and are fiercely independent of the executive. If the Immigration Judge on appeal were to abuse his or her discretionary powers given him under the law, that would give jurisdiction to the Court of Appeal to review but only the abuse of the judge’s discretion; and if abuse of the judge’s discretionary power is found, the appeals court could have it remanded back to the Immigration Judge with its directions.
RPK in London
Bean , besides french caps , have you ever put on your thinking cap?
That’s the idea here. Have a set of hats where each one represents a different mindset. Simply put on your hat when you need it. Wearing a hat can put you in a certain mindset and reduce conflict that you might normally feel trying to manage several different opposing viewpoints. This gets in the way of energy moving and forward progress. The key is using the right hats for the right situations. When you’re in execution mode, you don’t want to be wearing the analysis hat or the fear hat. You want the action hat. When you’re in a highly political setting, the kick arse or action hat can get you in trouble if not using the political hat first.
Surrounded by body guards two of whom look like they just come out of retirement and a third who looks like a bouncer from a nightclub in Soho?
http://national-express-malaysia.blogspot.com/2010/05/rpk-in-london.html
Raja Petra wore his now signature beret and immediately refuted the notion that he should return home to prove his innocence of the charges levelled against him.
“A first year law student can tell you that it is not the job of the accused to prove his innocence. It is the job of the prosecution to prove guilt.”
It is for the prosecution to prove guilt beyond reasonable doubt and not for the defendant to prove his or her innocence. Even then not beyond all doubt. The law of evidence is not for first year students. Too difficult for them to grasp.
However, in cases of strict liability the shoe is on the other foot.
hello musa and hisha,
where’s the scotland yard and interpol?
how to trust you two when cakap tak serupa bikin. really embarrasing leh.
AG Petai is now frantically searching his law books to see if there was any precedent. In Malaysia Petai can bulldoze his way through the police and courts but in the UK he is up against the big boys. The big wigs there will throw him out the minute he opens his mouth.