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      <title>Why vugularity in SAF replied by Missus @ Fri, 29 Feb 2008 23:25:42 +0800</title>
      <description>&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;div class="quote_from"&gt;Originally posted by Short Ninja:&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="quote_body"&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Discussing views about NS with a&amp;nbsp; Malaysian is a waste of
time and certainly not good for the blood pressure.This is the
&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;Singapore Armed
Forces&lt;/span&gt; forum so please&amp;nbsp;take a hike to somewhere
comfortable.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Well-said! This is a Singapore forum, registered on Singapore
soil, you are even probably in SG working here cos of the
impossibly low salaries back home, I won't speak for all
Singaporeans but I believe most agree with me. From a Singaporean
lady who married another Singaporean, I'd like to tell you get lost
man! I (we) don't welcome you. &lt;img src=
"/images/emoticons/kde-3.5.8/KMess/thumbs_up.png" alt=
"thumbs_up.png" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Why vugularity in SAF replied by Missus @ Fri, 29 Feb 2008 23:18:54 +0800</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;I think rooki should go home since she hates SG and its men so
much. I won't speak for all Singaporeans but as a Singaporean
speaking to a M'sian who clearly bottles up immense amount hate,
anger, bitterness and jealousy against Singapore and Singaporeans,
please take a hike and get lost? Go home! I (we) don't welcome
you.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Why vugularity in SAF replied by cookiecookie @ Fri, 29 Feb 2008 21:47:57 +0800</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;More gems Everyone and fat Sow! LOL!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/3029468.stm&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style=
"color: #ff0000;"&gt;The number of police officers in Malaysia is to
be boosted by almost a third in response to public concerns about
crime.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;The drive to recruit an
additional 23,000 officers follows the rape and murder of a young
woman abducted while at a family celebration in a wealthy district
of the capital, Kuala Lumpur.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;lt;!-- S IIMA --&amp;gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;img src=
"http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/39221000/jpg/_39221248_policebodyap203.jpg"
height="152" alt=
"Malaysian police armed with shields and tear gas guns " width=
"203" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;div class=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Malaysian police
are not well paid&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;lt;!-- E IIMA --&amp;gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Canny Ong's killing prompted
an outcry from a Malaysian public worried after a string of murders
and gang rapes.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;The 28-year-old was due to
return to the United States with her American husband and was
sharing a farewell dinner with her family.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;She left the table to retrieve
a ticket from her car and never returned.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Ong and the man who had
abducted her were apparently stopped twice by police, who failed to
notice anything was wrong.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Her charred body was found
four days later.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Corruption
problem&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Malaysian deputy Prime
Minister Abdullah Badawi's plan to recruit extra officers over the
next five years will add to the 80,000 already on the
beat.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;He said the government's long
term aim was to increase police numbers tenfold in line with levels
in developed nations.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;However, getting so many
volunteers will be a challenge in itself.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff0000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style=
"font-size: x-small;"&gt;Police pay is low by local standards and
Abdullah Badawi concedes that corruption in the ranks is a
problem.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff0000; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;But
the deputy prime minister, who is due to take over the top job in
October, is signalling that fighting crime and corruption will
among his priorities.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;The once ubiquitous pirate
video sellers have all but disappeared from the streets since
Abdullah Badawi instigated a major police operation against the
criminals last month.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;lt;!-- E BO --&amp;gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style=
"color: #ff0000;"&gt;http://www.nationmaster.com/country/my-malaysia/cri-crime&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;MALAYSIAN CRIME STATS:&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; Top Stats
&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &lt;a href=
"http://www.nationmaster.com/red/country/my-malaysia/cri-crime&amp;amp;amp;all=1"
class="" rel="nofollow"&gt;All Stats&lt;/a&gt; &amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
View this page with:&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; Just Stats &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;
&lt;a href=
"http://www.nationmaster.com/red/country/my-malaysia/cri-crime&amp;amp;amp;b_cite=1"
class="" rel="nofollow"&gt;Sources&lt;/a&gt; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &lt;a href=
"http://www.nationmaster.com/red/country/my-malaysia/cri-crime&amp;amp;amp;b_define=1"
class="" rel="nofollow"&gt;Definitions&lt;/a&gt; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &lt;a href=
"http://www.nationmaster.com/red/country/my-malaysia/cri-crime&amp;amp;amp;b_cite=1&amp;amp;amp;b_define=1"
class="" rel="nofollow"&gt;Both&lt;/a&gt; &amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;lt;!-- End submenu --&amp;gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;lt;!--tr&amp;gt; &amp;lt;td class="text"&amp;gt;Variable&amp;lt;/td&amp;gt; &amp;lt;td
class="text" align="left"&amp;gt;Amount/description&amp;lt;/td&amp;gt; &amp;lt;td
class="text" align="right" style="width: 36px; text-align: right"
mce_style="width: 36px; text-align: right"&amp;gt;Rank&amp;lt;/td&amp;gt;
&amp;lt;/tr--&amp;gt; &amp;lt;!-- google_ad_region_start=article --&amp;gt; &amp;lt;!--
Burglaries: 32,913 --&amp;gt; &lt;a href=
"http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_bur-crime-burglaries" rel=
"nofollow"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Burglaries&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; 32,913&lt;br /&gt;
[21st&amp;nbsp;of&amp;nbsp;54] &amp;lt;!-- Car thefts: 55,879 --&amp;gt; &lt;a href=
"http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_car_the-crime-car-thefts"
rel="nofollow"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Car thefts&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; 55,879&lt;br /&gt;
[13th&amp;nbsp;of&amp;nbsp;55] &amp;lt;!-- Drug offences: 48.6 per 100,000
people --&amp;gt; &lt;a href=
"http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_dru_off-crime-drug-offences"
rel="nofollow"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Drug offences&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; 48.6 per 100,000
people&lt;br /&gt;
[19th&amp;nbsp;of&amp;nbsp;34] &lt;a href=
"http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_ill_dru-crime-illicit-drugs"
rel="nofollow"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Illicit drugs&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
drug trafficking prosecuted vigorously and carries severe
penalties; heroin still primary drug of abuse, but synthetic drug
demand remains strong; continued ecstasy and methamphetamine
producer for domestic users and, to a lesser extent, the regional
drug market &amp;lt;!-- Murders: 551 --&amp;gt; &lt;a href=
"http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_mur-crime-murders" rel=
"nofollow"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Murders&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; 551&lt;br /&gt;
[24th&amp;nbsp;of&amp;nbsp;62] &amp;lt;!-- Prisoners: 39,258 prisoners --&amp;gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_pri-crime-prisoners"
rel="nofollow"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Prisoners&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; 39,258
prisoners&lt;br /&gt;
[33rd&amp;nbsp;of&amp;nbsp;164] &amp;lt;!-- Rapes: 1,210 --&amp;gt; &lt;a href=
"http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_rap-crime-rapes" rel=
"nofollow"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Rapes&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; 1,210&lt;br /&gt;
[26th&amp;nbsp;of&amp;nbsp;65] &amp;lt;!-- Rapes (per capita): 0.0505156 per
1,000 people --&amp;gt; &lt;a href=
"http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_rap_percap-crime-rapes-per-capita"
rel="nofollow"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Rapes (per capita)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; 0.0505156
per 1,000 people&lt;br /&gt;
[38th&amp;nbsp;of&amp;nbsp;65] &amp;lt;!-- Total crimes: 167,173 --&amp;gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_tot_cri-crime-total-crimes"
rel="nofollow"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Total crimes&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; 167,173&lt;br /&gt;
[32nd&amp;nbsp;of&amp;nbsp;60] &amp;lt;!-- Total crimes (per capita): 6.97921
per 1,000 people --&amp;gt; &lt;a href=
"http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_tot_cri_percap-crime-total-crimes-per-capita"
rel="nofollow"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Total crimes (per capita)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
6.97921 per 1,000 people&lt;br /&gt;
[50th&amp;nbsp;of&amp;nbsp;60]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;!-- google_ad_region_end=article --&amp;gt;&amp;lt;!--
google_ad_region_start=sources --&amp;gt; &lt;strong class=
""&gt;SOURCES:&lt;/strong&gt; Seventh United Nations Survey of Crime Trends
and Operations of Criminal Justice Systems, covering the period
1998 - 2000 (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Centre for
International Crime Prevention); &lt;a href="http://www.unodc.org/"
rel="nofollow"&gt;UNODC&lt;/a&gt;; &lt;a href=
"https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html" rel=
"nofollow"&gt;CIA World Factbook&lt;/a&gt;, 14 June, 2007 ; &lt;a href=
"http://www.prisonstudies.org/" rel="nofollow"&gt;International Centre
for Prison Studies&lt;/a&gt; - World Prison Brief&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=
"color: #ff0000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;http://www.dawn.com/2007/03/19/int14.htm&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Malaysia&#8217;s rising crime
graph&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;KUALA LUMPUR: With an eye to early elections, Malaysia is
beating the drum about its healthy economy, but surging crime
levels offer a stark reminder that the government has yet to
deliver on key law-and-order promises. &lt;span style=
"color: #ff0000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Malaysia expects to host more than 20
million tourists this year as it marks its 50th anniversary of
independence, but burglaries, shootouts in shopping malls and
motorcycle-borne bag snatchers are just some of the hazards
visitors could face. (yikes!)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In recent months, public attention has been riveted by the
murder of a Mongolian model whose body was feared to have been
blown to bits and the theft of a cargo of $13 million worth of
computer chips in northern Penang.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff0000;"&gt;Police figures show that
crime in Malaysia rose 14 per cent last year to 225,836 incidents
against 198,017 in 2005, and the proportion of serious crimes, such
as murder, rape and armed robbery, grew 26 per
cent.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Though the government paints a rosy picture of the economy, crime
is being fuelled by a volatile mix of factors that includes a huge
migrant labour force, the rising cost of living and a vast gulf of
deprivation between rich and poor, one analyst said.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&#8220;Having a more effective police force would help,&#8221; said political
analyst and activist Chandra Muzaffar, adding that crucial reform
steps suggested in 2005 by a sweeping inquiry into Malaysia&#8217;s
police force had yet to be carried out. &#8220;That is a pity and it
shows a lack of political will and an inability to exercise one&#8217;s
authority,&#8221; he said.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Opposition politicians say the government has not fulfilled
promises to rein in crime and cast doubt on police data, saying
they do not reflect the true problem because &lt;span style=
"color: #ff0000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;people lack confidence in the force, and
leave many crimes unreported.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&#8212;Reuters&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;http://www.harbx.com/archives/2007/01/crime_in_malays.html (from
M'sia national newspaper, New Straits Times)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;Crime in Malaysia up 15%&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=
"http://www.nst.com.my/Current_News/nst/Wednesday/National/20070131090921/Article/index_html"
rel="nofollow"&gt;NST&lt;/a&gt; today.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff0000;"&gt;"Every state, except
Kedah, recorded an increase in crime last year. The number of
serious crimes has also gone up."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff0000;"&gt;This is indeed worrying.
Especially after reading this &lt;a href=
"http://www.nst.com.my/Current_News/nst/Wednesday/National/20070131090841/Article/index_html"
rel="nofollow"&gt;other article&lt;/a&gt; about this old couple who was
murdered in a burglary. The kinds of animals we have in the country
that is willing to do anything is sickening.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff0000;"&gt;&lt;a name="a000193more" rel=
"nofollow" id="a000193more"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff0000;"&gt;NILAI: The figures are
worrying &#8212; crime is up more than 15 per cent
nationwide.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff0000;"&gt;Every state, except Kedah,
recorded an increase in crime last year. The number of serious
crimes has also gone up.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Why vugularity in SAF replied by cookiecookie @ Fri, 29 Feb 2008 21:25:47 +0800</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;This is not for you Edwin, it's to display the brutal truth to
the Msian fatty who wishes she had some by the rapists at home,
reports that make her blood boil. The truth hurts and she can't
handle it!!!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;And i love to show it cos I know every word, every punctuation,
every inspector and politician's quote, every international
journalist byline makes her smelly blood boil!!! Every single
letter, every single sentence, every ounce of truth sears her
soul.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If you believe the deluded fat M'sian cow that it's not
crime-plagued, sure.. check out these M'sian reports by one of
their politicians, Lim Kit Siang. Cops there are so 'good' at doing
their jobs, so 'above board' and so 'capable' that they have a
campaign entitled &lt;span style="color: #ff0000;"&gt;"GOOD COPS SAFE
MALAYSIA"&lt;/span&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;i see.. indeed.. M'sia's crime rates are indeed just like
Singapore's. That such campaigns with such fantastically hilarious
names could exist!!! if you can fathom a relatively crime free
place with a campaign name as above, I think you're stupid enough
to join her league and perhaps you should be her first suitor.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Parliament Member in M'sia, Lim Kit Siang has a blog, which he
regularly writes about his views and plans for the country, and
chief of the issues he wants to tackle is the rampant crime
rate.&amp;nbsp; When Abdullah first took on the PM job, one of his main
promises was to combat the heinous crime wave of M'sia. When that
is a PM's core promises and agenda upon succession, do you think
the crime situation is anything like what deluded cow says?! She
even has the fat cheek to deny to all of us that we have been fed
"local propaganda" so as to save her (pig)skin, yet all the news
reports were from INTERNATIONAL news agencies.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Your request for facts and figures has dutifully been given, and
you did not bother to read the international news links, that much
I know from your weak response of "population".&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Do you think M'sia's (24 mil) population is anything like
Indonesia (234 mil) or Thailand (64 mil)'s? Go freaking do your own
research online on those countries' crime situation and M'sia's and
stop bothering us with your politically correct BS. A M'sian
himself (a human rights activist and lawyer) in the M'sian news
report says that M'sia is becoming the CRIME CAPITAL of ASIA.
Another M'sian mother in the M'sian news report says the crime rate
is at its worst since its independence 50 years ago! Do you realise
how deluded and silly you sound now when you came up with the weak
shit of a&amp;nbsp; "depends on the population" whimper?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Please read and not talk nonsense before reading to act the hero
retard. Everyone in this thread besides the deluded fat M'sian cow
unanimously agrees so your 'noble' desire to act just and reserved
stinks and frankly, makes you look a tad stupid.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The parts in bold and scarlet red are meant to raise the blood
pressure of the deluded.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style=
"color: #ff0000;"&gt;http://www.limkitsiang.com/archive/2008/jan08/lks4708.htm&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff0000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style=
"font-family: Times New Roman;"&gt;Abdullah&#8217;s worry about unchecked
rising crime index and multi-prong anti-crime strategy should not
be&amp;nbsp;just election gimmicks to give Malaysians a false sense of
security&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff0000;"&gt;______________&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span style=
"font-family: Times New Roman; color: #ff0000; font-size: x-small;"&gt;
&lt;span style="font-weight: 700;"&gt;Media
Conference&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style=
"color: #ff0000;"&gt;&lt;span style=
"font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=
"font-family: Times New Roman; font-weight: 700;"&gt;&lt;span style=
"font-size: x-small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;
&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style=
"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;by&lt;/em&gt; Lim
Kit Siang&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style=
"font-family: Times New Roman; color: #ff0000; font-size: x-small;"&gt;
&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;
_____________&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff0000;"&gt;____&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style=
"color: #ff0000;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: 700;"&gt;&lt;span style=
"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: x-small;"&gt;(Ipoh&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-weight: 700;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;,
&lt;em&gt;Thurs&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style=
"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: x-small;"&gt;day):&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"&gt;The
Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi&#8217;s expression of
&#8220;worry&#8221; about the rising crime index and his announcement of&amp;nbsp;a
multi-prong strategy to combat crime lack seriousness and
conviction, as they appear to be just&amp;nbsp;election gimmicks to
give Malaysians a false sense of security that something is being
done to fight crime with the approach of the general
election.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff0000;"&gt;&lt;span style=
"font-family: Times New Roman;"&gt;New Straits Times front-page
headline yesterday, &lt;strong&gt;&#8220;CRIME RATE UP 13.4% - PM expresses
alarm Announces remedial action&#8221;&lt;/strong&gt; understates the gravity
of the crime situation in Malaysia during the four-year Abdullah
premiership.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff0000;"&gt;&lt;span style=
"font-family: Times New Roman;"&gt;The crime rate rose by 13.4 per
cent last year but in the four years of Abdullah premiership, crime
rate shot up by an even more alarming 45%.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff0000;"&gt;&lt;span style=
"font-family: Times New Roman;"&gt;When Abdullah became Prime Minister
in October 2003, the crime situation was already out of control
which was why one of his first reform promises and measures which
won him all-round plaudits and support among Malaysians was the
establishment of the Royal Police Commission to reduce crime to
restore to Malaysians their twin fundamental rights to be free from
crime and the fear of crime, whether in the streets, public places
or the privacy of their homes.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff0000;"&gt;&lt;span style=
"font-family: Times New Roman;"&gt;After four years, Malaysia today is
even&amp;nbsp; more unsafe to its citizens, visitors, tourists or
investors because of endemic
crime.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff0000;"&gt;&lt;span style=
"font-family: Times New Roman;"&gt;In the past four years, the crime
index had worsened from 156,315 cases in 2003 to 224,298 cases in
2007 &#8211; a sharp rise of some 45% when it should have gone down as
recommended by the Royal Police Commission.&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;For the
first time in the nation&#8217;s 50-year history, the crime index last
year crashed through the 200,000 psychological barrier.&amp;nbsp;Women
in Malaysia are now more unsafe today than four years ago &#8211; as the
incidence of rape had&amp;nbsp;more than doubled from a daily average
of four women in 2003 to 8.5 women last
year!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff0000;"&gt;&lt;span style=
"font-family: Times New Roman;"&gt;Is the five-prong anti-crime
strategy announced by Abdullah adequate to make Malaysia a safer
country&amp;nbsp;than just four years ago before he became Prime
Minister?&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff0000;"&gt;&lt;span style=
"font-family: Times New Roman;"&gt;One of the five anti-crime
strategies is to appoint civilians to administrative positions and
thereby release police personnel for their main
duties.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff0000;"&gt;&lt;span style=
"font-family: Times New Roman;"&gt;This is actually Recommendation No.
78 of the 125 recommendations of the Royal Police Commission to
create an efficient, accountable, incorruptible, professional
world-class police service to keep crime low, eradicate corruption
and uphold human rights.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff0000;"&gt;&lt;span style=
"font-family: Times New Roman;"&gt;The Royal Police Commission
proposed &#8220;Civilianising or outsourcing functions presently
performed by uniformed personnel in PDRM, and re-deploying the
uniformed personnel to core policing functions&#8221;. It said that such
a move would immediately release 35,000 uniformed police personnel
for core policing functions, i.e. fighting crime and catching
criminals!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color: #003300;"&gt;&lt;span style=
"color: #ff0000;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"&gt;The
Royal Police Commission provided a time-line for the implementation
of this proposal &#8211; &#8220;In phases. Completion by May
2007&#8221;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff0000;"&gt;&lt;span style=
"font-family: Times New Roman;"&gt;This is January 2008 and the Prime
Minister is still talking about this proposal of &#8220;appointing
civilians to administrative positions to release police personnel&#8221;
for their core police duties to fight crime and catch
criminals!&amp;nbsp;What a shame and
disappointment!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color: #003366;"&gt;&lt;span style=
"color: #ff0000;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"&gt;DAP
has decided make crime, law and order the top national&amp;nbsp;theme
in the next general election &#8211; which will be a first in the
nation&#8217;s 50-year electoral history.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff0000;"&gt;&lt;span style=
"font-family: Times New Roman;"&gt;&lt;span style=
"color: #000000;"&gt;Today, we are here to&lt;/span&gt; launch in Perak
state the DAP&#8217;s &lt;strong&gt;&#8220;Good Cops, Safe Malaysia&#8221;&lt;/strong&gt;
campaign theme for the next general election, &lt;span style=
"color: #000000;"&gt;starting with the visit to the Kampong Simee
market just now.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff0000;"&gt;&lt;span style=
"font-family: Times New Roman;"&gt;&lt;span style=
"color: #000000;"&gt;Together with other DAP Perak state
leaders,&lt;/span&gt; I will take part in a&amp;nbsp;two-day whistle-stop
campaign to take the DAP message of &#8220;Good Cops, Safe Malaysia&#8221;
&lt;span style="color: #000000;"&gt;to all Malaysians as it is the basic
right and expectation of all Malaysians, regardless of race,
religion or political beliefs to enjoy personal safety and property
security.&amp;nbsp;Among the places I will visit in the weekend two-day
whistle-stop campaign in Perak will be Ipoh, Teluk Intan, Taiping,
Sungei Siput, Pantai Remis, Kampar and
Bidor.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff0000;"&gt;&lt;span class=
""&gt;http://english.limkitsiang.com/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff0000;"&gt;&lt;span style=
"color: #ff0000;"&gt;&lt;span style=
"color: #888888;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I&lt;span style=
"color: #ff0000;"&gt;nspector-General of Police Tan Sri Musa Hassan
made a shocking confession when he
spoke&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style=
"color: #000000;"&gt;on &#8220;&lt;span style="color: #000000;"&gt;&lt;strong style=
"color: black; background-color: #a0ffff;"&gt;Crime&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
and Changing Social Values in the Malaysian Society&#8221; during a
seminar at the Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka (DBP) in Kuala Lumpur
yesterday&amp;nbsp; that&lt;/span&gt; the &lt;strong&gt;Police is afflicted by the
close-one-eye syndrome&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div class=""&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff0000;"&gt;Musa lamented that in the war
against &lt;strong style=
"color: black; background-color: #a0ffff;"&gt;crime&lt;/strong&gt;, the
police are at times frustrated by &lt;strong&gt;some politicians who want
the police to&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;keep one eye open and one eye
closed&lt;/strong&gt; . &lt;em&gt;(Sin Chew)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff0000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style=
"color: #000000;"&gt;This is most shocking.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;
&lt;span style="color: #000000;"&gt;M&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;usa should not be
lamenting about the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style=
"color: #ff0000;"&gt;close-one-eye syndrome in the
police&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; frustrating the campaign against
&lt;strong style=
"color: black; background-color: #a0ffff;"&gt;crime&lt;/strong&gt;. He
should have declared as the Inspector-General of Police that he
would no more tolerate such &#226; close-one-eye syndrome, whether
caused by interfering politicians, corruption or rogue
policemen.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Musa should have gone one step further publicly name the police
officials and the interfering politicians who had acted against the
public interest in their close-one-eyeconspiracy to frustrate the
forces of law and order.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Both parties in the close-one-eyesyndrome, whether the police or
the interfering politicians, are breaking the law and committing
serious offences in frustrating the police war against
&lt;strong style=
"color: black; background-color: #a0ffff;"&gt;crime&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff0000;"&gt;Musa&#226;&#8364;&#8482;s lament proved that the
Royal Police Commission entrusted with the task of making proposals
to create an efficient, incorruptible, professional and world-class
police service had been both a waste of time and public resources
as well as a great letdown of public expectations that some 21
months after the Royal Commission Report, public confidence have
reached a new crisis point.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=
"color: #ff0000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=40833&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
(International news agency HQ in Rome)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff0000;"&gt;&lt;span class=
""&gt;POLITICS-MALAYSIA:&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class=""&gt;Rampant Crime Turns
Main Election Issue&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span class=""&gt;By Baradan Kuppusamy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class=""&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 18 (IPS) - As election fever grips the
country, with polls widely expected mid-March, the &lt;span style=
"color: #ff0000;"&gt;country's seemingly unstoppable escalation in
violent crime&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;is turning into the main
plank of the opposition's campaign.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Opposition parties have now launched a nationwide &#8216;Good Cops, Safe
Malaysia&#8217; campaign distributing leaflets, organising forums and
holding &#8216;meet-the-people&#8217; sessions to persuade voters to show their
displeasure at the upcoming polls.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Several recent public opinion &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style=
"color: #ff0000;"&gt;polls also&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style=
"color: #ff0000;"&gt;indicate that crime has turned the voter's number
one concern,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; followed by rising food and fuel
prices.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
For most Malaysians the country's racial and religious differences,
that usually hog the domestic and international headlines, is not
as worrying an issue as was previously thought.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="color: #ff0000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;"I am more worried about the
safety of my children than ethnic strife," said accounts executive
Melissa Chong, who works for a local bank.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
"The crime rate has jumped 45 percent since Abdullah (Prime
Minister Abdullah Badawi) took over in 2003," she told IPS when met
at an opposition organised forum on safe living in the
capital.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff0000;"&gt;"The statistics show nine
girls and women are raped every day," she said. "This is the
scariest situation ever since independence 50 years ago."
(!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="color: #ff0000;"&gt;Across the country ordinary citizens
are forming voluntary neighborhood patrols called &#8216;Rukun Tetangga&#8217;
while others are cordoning off their areas with barbed wire and
hiring private guards and guard dogs to keep safe.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The government, aware of the emotive impact of crime that affects
all Malaysians irrespective of race or religion announced a raft of
new measures this week aimed at bring down the escalating crime
graph.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
But opposition lawmakers say the measures are lukewarm and
politically motivated in anticipation of the early general
election.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
"In 50 years of electoral politics this is the first time the
opposition is putting crime as the top issue during an upcoming
election," said parliamentary opposition leader Lim Kit Siang.
"Discrimination, race, poverty and religion are all issues that
have been in society for a long time but uncontrolled crime is now
the top issue," he told IPS.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
"Abdullah has failed miserably to curb crime which has almost
doubled during his term as prime minister," Lim said adding that
Badawi also holds the key finance and interior portfolios.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
"Heavy responsibilities have overwhelmed him. He should give up the
home ministry and appoint a dedicated crime fighter to curb rising
crime," Lim said.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
According to Lim &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff0000;"&gt;the key
reason why crime is rising is because of police corruption,
inefficiency and unaccountability. "&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;All these are
part of the rampant crime problem which has become a top political
issue," Lim said adding &lt;span style=
"color: #ff0000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;police have lost the ground to
criminals.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Officials said the government is worried because crime has become
an emotive issue and one that affects all races.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
In an event widely reported by the country's mainstream newspapers,
Badawi visited police headquarters, held discussions with police
top brass and announced that he has taking personal charge of
combating crime.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
He also announced new measures like hiring more policemen, freeing
others from office duties to patrol the streets, buying better
equipment, and closed circuit TV surveillance cameras and rehiring
retired police personnel.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
But he &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff0000;"&gt;has not offered any
solution to combat corruption in the force and the lack of skills
to fight crime -- two setbacks experts say is fueling the
escalation in violent crime.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff0000;"&gt;Under Badawi&#8217;s premiership
the crime index worsened from 156,315 cases in 2003 to 224,298
cases in 2007 -- a rise of 45 percent over the past four years. It
rose 13.4 percent in 2007 alone.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
As if to mock Badawi&#8217;s measures, a five-year-old girl was abducted
last week by an infamous serial killer and sexual predator. His
fifth victim was abducted in the same depressed Kampung Medan area
of the capital as the fourth one, sparking a massive public
outcry.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Despite mobilisation of the national police force and technical
help from the intelligence agencies, the killer is loose
heightening the fear felt in many households that rampant crime has
become unstoppable.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
"The strategies announced are too little, too late and lack
seriousness. The political will to bite the bullet is missing,"
said human rights lawyer Ramu Kandasamy. "When Mr Abdullah became
Prime Minister in 2003 he pledged to curb crime but instead crime
jumped 45 percent during his tenure," Kandasamy told IPS.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
"This is a country with a modern economy and first world
infrastructure and first world ambitions. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style=
"color: #ff0000;"&gt;I&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff0000;"&gt;t is sad
but we will soon become the crime capital of Asia,&#8217;&#8217; Kandasamy
added.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Many experts say a key reason for the crisis is Badawi&#8217;s failure to
set up an independent police misconduct commission, and follow a
key recommendation made by a royal commission in 2005 to overhaul
the police force.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
In December, Badawi offered a heavily watered-down version of a
independent oversight commission which was heavily criticised
because senior police personnel would be running it.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="color: #ff0000;"&gt;"The key issue is who polices the
police&#8230; surely not the police themselves,"&lt;/span&gt; said opposition
lawmaker Murugesan Kulasegaran. "It has got to be done by
independent, non-police persons of high caliber and
integrity."&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="color: #ff0000;"&gt;"More policemen and more CCTVs are
not going to automatically bring down the crime rates," he said.
"These measures are aimed at the symptoms; it will not cure the
infection."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="color: #ff0000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
"Police have lost the streets," Kulasegaran said. "They have to get
it back by being better cops -- fast, efficient, skillful and free
of corruption."&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=""&gt;&lt;span style=
"color: #ff0000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;http://justice4allkuantan.wordpress.com/2008/01/09/2007-crime-index-crashed-through-200000-barrier-biggest-failure-of-4-year-abdullah-premiership/&amp;nbsp;
(Written by a M'sian)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=""&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=
"http://justice4allkuantan.wordpress.com/2008/01/09/2007-crime-index-crashed-through-200000-barrier-biggest-failure-of-4-year-abdullah-premiership/"
title=
"2007 crime index crashed through 200,000 barrier - biggest failure of 4-year Abdullah&amp;amp;nbsp;premiership"
rel="nofollow"&gt;2007 crime index crashed through 200,000 barrier -
biggest failure of 4-year Abdullah&amp;nbsp;premiership&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;div class=""&gt;Posted on &lt;span class=""&gt;January 9, 2008&lt;/span&gt; by
jfakuantan&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=""&gt;
&lt;p&gt;January 9th, 2008 &amp;lt;!-- by Kit --&amp;gt;The Prime Minister, Datuk
Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi&#8217;s &lt;span style=
"color: #ff0000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;five-prong strategy announced yesterday
to combat the rising crime index is not impressive at all &#8211; too
little, too late and too indifferent in lacking seriousness and
commitment by Abdullah to make Malaysia safe again for its
citizens, visitors, tourists and investors.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff0000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Under Abdullah&#8217;s
premiership, crime has reached endemic dimension with Malaysia
gaining an international notoriety as a country unsafe for her
citizens, visitors, tourists and investors.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff0000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;When he became Prime
Minister on Oct. 31, 2003, Abdullah pledged that one of his top
priorities would be to reduce crime to restore to Malaysians their
fundamental right to be free from crime and the fear of crime,
whether in the streets, public places or the privacy of their
homes.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff0000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Today, Malaysians feel
even more unsafe from crime than when he became Prime
Minister.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Abdullah had raised great hopes about his commitment to create
an efficient, incorruptible, professional and world-class police
service to declare an all-out war against crime when he set up the
Royal Police Commission which came out with 125 recommendations,
the most important of which was the proposal for an Independent
Police Complaints and Misconduct Commission (IPCMC).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;All such high hopes of Malaysians for a world-class professional
police service to keep crime index low to make the country safe for
the people, visitors and foreign investors have been dashed to the
ground in the past four years.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;All these high hopes have come to nought. The proposal of an
effective IPCMC has been killed, replaced with a clawless and
toothless Special Complaints Commission proposal.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Under Abdullah&#8217;s premiership, the police fought a losing war
against the rising crime index, which had worsened from 156,315
cases in 2003 to 224,298 cases in 2007 &#8211; a sharp rise of some 45%
in the past four years.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff0000;"&gt;The crime index crashed
through the 200,000 barrier for the first time in nation&#8217;s history
with rape more than doubled from a daily average of four women in
2003 to 8.5 women last year.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
This means that under Abdullah as Prime Minister, women are even
more unsafe from the crime of rape, with the risk of rape more than
doubled than when Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad handed power over to him
four years ago.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Abdullah&#8217;s multi-pronged anti-crime strategy announced yesterday
has fallen like a damp squid as nobody believes that it will have
any effect to make Malaysia at least as safe for personal safety
and property security when he became Prime Minister four years
ago.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;When will Abdullah wake up to realize and admit that crime in
Malaysia has become endemic under his premiership, and that the
prevalent feeling of citizens, visitors, tourists and investors
that they have lost the sense of personal safety and property
security is one of the greatest failures of his premiership?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
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      <title>Why vugularity in SAF replied by edwin3060 @ Fri, 29 Feb 2008 03:44:28 +0800</title>
      <description>&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;div class="quote_from"&gt;Originally posted by cookiecookie:&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="quote_body"&gt;
&lt;p&gt;How about news reports by&amp;nbsp; international and Malaysian (not
Singapore) news agencies, newspapers and Malaysian blogs and
forums?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Southeast_Asia/FG02Ae02.html&amp;nbsp;
&amp;lt;--- Asia Times&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/3029468.stm&amp;nbsp;
&amp;lt;-------- BBC&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/9aef4088-c9d2-11dc-b5dc-000077b07658.html
&amp;lt;---- Financial Times&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;http://asme.wordpress.com/2008/01/11/crime-rate-in-malaysia/
&amp;lt;------- Written and reported by a M'sian Hahahahahha&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=40833 &amp;lt;------- IPS news
agency, HQ-ed in Rome&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;http://www.dawn.com/2007/03/19/int14.htm &amp;lt;--------Pakistan's
most widely circulated English language newspaper&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;
http://www.harbx.com/archives/2007/01/crime_in_malays.html&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;
&amp;lt;--------- Malaysian Blog hahahahahhahahahahhah!!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;http://malaysiacrimewatch.lokety.com/forum/&amp;nbsp; &amp;lt;-------
crime forum set up by M'sians hahahahhahaha&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1640136,00.html
&amp;lt;----- TIME Magazine&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;To sum the on the current crime rate, I think it is best to
describe from last year&#8217;s statistics of 588 murder cases and 3,177
rape cases that;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff0000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Every day, more than one
person was murdered&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;(1.6&amp;nbsp;per day)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff0000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Every day, more than eight
women were raped&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;(8.7&amp;nbsp;per day)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;statistics released by the PDRM show that Malaysia had more than
125,000 cases of "hard" crime in 2002 alone. This figure has not
declined over the past two years.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;The following figures above are quoted from each of the
news links above.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Look, none of that is relevant unless you can come up with
meaningful numbers, i.e. murders or rapes or robberies relative to
population size. If&amp;nbsp; a country has a population of 10 million,
and 10 murders a year, versus a country of population 100 million,
with 50 murders a year, the country with more murders is still
safer, even though the absolute number of murders is higher! Do you
get what I mean?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Also, to both sides, why the fuck are you all letting this
discussion degenerate into a flame war?&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Why vugularity in SAF replied by Missus @ Fri, 29 Feb 2008 00:58:50 +0800</title>
      <description>&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;div class="quote_from"&gt;Originally posted by Short Ninja:&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="quote_body"&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Discussing views about NS with a&amp;nbsp; Malaysian is a waste of
time and certainly not good for the blood pressure.This is the
&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;Singapore Armed
Forces&lt;/span&gt; forum so please&amp;nbsp;take a hike to somewhere
comfortable.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Yup I agree. Yuppers talkng to a Malaysian is a waste of time,
GET LOST since this forum is clearly and in no uncertain terms,
titled "&lt;span style="color: #ff0000;"&gt;Singapore&lt;/span&gt; Armed
Forces". You need to go home to your developing country and not
hang around a forum with a name that features a country isn't yours
and that you clearly detest (don't worry, the feeling is so very
mutual) :)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class=
""&gt;&lt;strong&gt;en.wikipedia.org&lt;/strong&gt;/wiki/&lt;strong&gt;Developing&lt;/strong&gt;_&lt;strong&gt;country&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class=
""&gt;www.&lt;strong&gt;un.org&lt;/strong&gt;/esa/earthsummit/malay-cp.htm
"&lt;/span&gt;aims at transforming &lt;strong&gt;Malaysia&lt;/strong&gt; into a
&lt;strong&gt;developed&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;country&lt;/strong&gt; by 2020:"&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;The difference is, you're the one hanging around here,
while we don't deign to hang around the forums of your country or
even bother with it.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;SG men can't hold a candle to foreign men?! Hahahah Malaysian
hahahhhhahhahhhahahhahaha&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Why vugularity in SAF replied by cookiecookie @ Fri, 29 Feb 2008 00:48:23 +0800</title>
      <description>&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;div class="quote_from"&gt;Originally posted by edwin3060:&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="quote_body"&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;Neither Singapore nor Malaysia is crime free, and
Malaysia, having a higher population, would definitely have a
greater number of crimes, all things being equal. Having no idea
what the crime rate relative to the population is, I say both sides
give this a rest, unless they have &lt;span style=
"color: #ff0000;"&gt;hard numbers&lt;/span&gt; to quote.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;How about news reports by&amp;nbsp; international and Malaysian (not
Singapore) news agencies, newspapers and Malaysian blogs and
forums?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Southeast_Asia/FG02Ae02.html&amp;nbsp;
&amp;lt;--- Asia Times&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/3029468.stm&amp;nbsp;
&amp;lt;-------- BBC&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/9aef4088-c9d2-11dc-b5dc-000077b07658.html
&amp;lt;---- Financial Times&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;http://asme.wordpress.com/2008/01/11/crime-rate-in-malaysia/
&amp;lt;------- Written and reported by a M'sian Hahahahahha&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=40833 &amp;lt;------- IPS news
agency, HQ-ed in Rome&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;http://www.dawn.com/2007/03/19/int14.htm &amp;lt;--------Pakistan's
most widely circulated English language newspaper&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;
http://www.harbx.com/archives/2007/01/crime_in_malays.html&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;
&amp;lt;--------- Malaysian Blog hahahahahhahahahahhah!!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;http://malaysiacrimewatch.lokety.com/forum/&amp;nbsp; &amp;lt;-------
crime forum set up by M'sians hahahahhahaha&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1640136,00.html
&amp;lt;----- TIME Magazine&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;To sum the on the current crime rate, I think it is best to
describe from last year&#8217;s statistics of 588 murder cases and 3,177
rape cases that;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff0000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Every day, more than one
person was murdered&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;(1.6&amp;nbsp;per day)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff0000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Every day, more than eight
women were raped&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;(8.7&amp;nbsp;per day)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;statistics released by the PDRM show that Malaysia had more than
125,000 cases of "hard" crime in 2002 alone. This figure has not
declined over the past two years.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;The following figures above are quoted from each of the
news links above.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Why vugularity in SAF replied by cookiecookie @ Fri, 29 Feb 2008 00:31:36 +0800</title>
      <description>&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;div class="quote_from"&gt;Originally posted by Short Ninja:&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="quote_body"&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Didnt know that Rooki was a she but pretty sure that she is a
Malaysian.Girls in Malaysia get raped practically
everywhere....highway,rubber and oil palm plantations,relative's
home,kopitiam...etc .Rooki is just frustrated&amp;nbsp;that she couldnt
get into these places at the right time.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Oh my god that spewing, ranting moronic bitch who keeps on
slamming NS and Singapore is M'sian?? My conjecture was right!
Hahah!! Viet wife?! Hahahaa!!! My wife isn't Vietnamese but most
blessedly, she isn't MALAYSIAN!! Sorry fat ass, my wife is very
Singaporean, and i wouldn't have it any other way! Short ninja,
you're so right. This M'sian sow is frustrated she didn't place
herself in the fateful M'sian gang rape crime scenes, and is in
Singapore selling her soul working her ass off here cos our country
pays her double the wages of her hometown, she dreams and wishes
that Singapore has many rapes as M'sia so perhaps she could finally
get some.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;And isn't that fat broad deluded or what? Missus pasted all the
links from international news agencies that expose what a dangerous
place M'sia is but it seems the deluded ranting nutcase prefers to
take the easy way out by deceiving herself. poor sow, when faced
with overwhelming evidence that her country is the shelter of
illegal immigrants and psychotic parang wielding murderers who rob
and rape women at the rate of once a day, that even their own
politician lim jit siang uses the crime waves of M'sia as his
political strategems, she resorts to channeling her sexual
frustration &amp;amp; getting rejected by Singapore men routinely for
being fat and ugly by ranting against Singapore men on the net
Hahaha!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;Hahahahahhaha!!!!! Dumb m'sian broad who can't understand
simple english and prefers to delude herself about Singapore being
better off as one of the many "charmingly old-world" and
crime-infested M'sian states that she gotta come online to rant and
rave. Hahahah I feel sorry for her actually!!!!!&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Why vugularity in SAF replied by Short Ninja @ Thu, 28 Feb 2008 07:16:46 +0800</title>
      <description>&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;div class="quote_from"&gt;Originally posted by tarutaru:&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="quote_body"&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Lol, btw Malaysia's NS is not really NS is more of the racial
get together thing. Vulgarity is common in NS and I don't see it as
a big problem.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Yah,it was formerly known as RT ....Rukun Tetangga &amp;gt;&lt;img src=
"/images/emoticons/kde-3.5.8/redones/biggrin.png" alt=
"biggrin.png" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Why vugularity in SAF replied by Short Ninja @ Thu, 28 Feb 2008 07:08:27 +0800</title>
      <description>&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;div class="quote_from"&gt;Originally posted by dumbdumb!:&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="quote_body"&gt;
&lt;p&gt;rooki's malaysian? then why's she critisizing how we do things?
her country's NS isn't any better. i heard girls got raped there
right?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Didnt know that Rooki was a she but pretty sure that she is a
Malaysian.Girls in Malaysia get raped practically
everywhere....highway,rubber and oil palm plantations,relative's
home,kopitiam...etc .Rooki is just frustrated&amp;nbsp;that she couldnt
get into these places at the right time.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Why vugularity in SAF replied by edwin3060 @ Thu, 28 Feb 2008 04:14:10 +0800</title>
      <description>&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;div class="quote_from"&gt;Originally posted by rooki:&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="quote_body"&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Wow...just wow.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The only reason I brought up bumi was that many Singaporeans
seem to have a genetic aversion to it. It will never stay in place
for long, and so it can be discounted as a factor against
unification. Without bumi, unification is much more palatable.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;God, take off all your freaking blinders already. 'Malaysia high
in crime?' Get real. Go live in Malaysia and stop swallowing
propaganda/biased reports. The Singapore government are just loving
you all for your ignorance and manipulativity. And it's not like
Singapore is entirely crime free.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Dumbdumb, please tell me English is a foreign language to you,
if you think 'ilk' is a profanity.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Allright. You say &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Pakistan and North Korea can
withstand world pressure to disarm because of their powerful
military.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; Does Singapore aspire to be like them? If
so, well...I really have nothing more to say to you. A powerful
military is a flagrant waste of resources, as the starving NKeans
have shown. What, you think all aid is channeled to Kim's
Neverland?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why the hell can't countries accede to each other
peacefully? Why must they act like complete buffoons parading their
military tin toys in front of each other, as if they're in some
kind of playground arguing over who's having the biggest
stick?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Good that you're happily married to your viet wife cookie. I
understand many men fail to get local brides and resort to arranged
marriages as a last resort. But please try not to be so insecure
next time, ok? Repeating the phrase that foreigners are good for
you like a broken record just seems like you're trying to delude
yourself. &lt;strong&gt;Face it, Singaporean men cannot even hold a
candle to the worst of foreign men. You can change this, however,
by not swallowing everything the almighty government tells you to,
including the lie that NS is 'good'.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Categorically;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;1) Singaporeans have an aversion to the bumiputera policy
because we are living proof that it doesn't work. Some smart
Malaysians realise that as well, and come over to Singapore. Being
smart, they actually run and have run some of our biggest companies
like SIA. They would never have had such a chance if they stayed in
Malaysia.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;2) Neither Singapore nor Malaysia is crime free, and Malaysia,
having a higher population, would definitely have a greater number
of crimes, all things being equal. Having no idea what the crime
rate relative to the population is, I say both sides give this a
rest, unless they have hard numbers to quote.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;3) The point dumbdumb was making (and I have been making since
the start of this thread) is that words by themselves do not hurt.
It is the context in which they are used that hurt people. Thus,
vulgarities in and of themselves are not degrading--I have shown
that they can bond people. Your little flamewar with cookiecookie,
even though it doesn't contain any vulgarity on your part, was
still insulting.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;4) Again, you miss the point. which is that the political
leaders of those nations are able to achieve their political goals
because of the military. Regardless of the political system or the
morality of the goal, you have to admit that the military is the
ultimate guarantor of their political power. Looking at it on the
flip side, we enjoy Pax Americana today because of the military
power of the USA--this peace has allowed both Malaysia and
Singapore to thrive and prosper.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;5) As I said, read your history. Or your biology. It is so
improbable as to be impossible that all sides will lay down their
arms. Simple logic will tell you that a situation where everybody
does not have weapons is highly unstable; in the land of the blind,
the one-eyed man is king. So it is with weapons as well. And your
description of toys on the playground is a vast oversimplification.
Your arguments here have shown that you are not stupid, so go do
some reading!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;6) Again, a personal attack and oversimplification that is
beneath ALL OF US. This is a very interesting discussion that has
transcended the original topic. Let's keep it civil. Also, if you
feel that the best that Singapore can offer is worse than the worst
that the rest of the world offers, you either have to travel around
Singapore or the world more. :)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;To keep it on topic, Short Ninja makes a good point about the
difference between combat and other vocations in the army, and the
applicability of vulgarity in each instance. And so it is with all
situations. The use of vulgarity, like the use of humour, is
situational. Using it when the time is right can greatly enhance
the effect of your message. Unless someone can justify that the use
of vulgarity is never justified, I would say you have lost the
argument.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Why vugularity in SAF replied by tarutaru @ Wed, 27 Feb 2008 21:31:59 +0800</title>
      <description>&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;div class="quote_from"&gt;Originally posted by dumbdumb!:&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="quote_body"&gt;
&lt;p&gt;rooki's malaysian? then why's she critisizing how we do things?
her country's NS isn't any better. i heard girls got raped there
right?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Lol, btw Malaysia's NS is not really NS is more of the racial
get together thing. Vulgarity is common in NS and I don't see it as
a big problem.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Why vugularity in SAF replied by dumbdumb! @ Wed, 27 Feb 2008 18:50:42 +0800</title>
      <description>&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;div class="quote_from"&gt;Originally posted by Short Ninja:&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="quote_body"&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Discussing views about NS with a&amp;nbsp; Malaysian is a waste of
time and certainly not good for the blood pressure.This is the
&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;Singapore Armed
Forces&lt;/span&gt; forum so please&amp;nbsp;take a hike to somewhere
comfortable.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;rooki's malaysian? then why's she critisizing how we do things?
her country's NS isn't any better. i heard girls got raped there
right?&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Why vugularity in SAF replied by Short Ninja @ Wed, 27 Feb 2008 12:04:40 +0800</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Discussing views about NS with a&amp;nbsp; Malaysian is a waste of
time and certainly not good for the blood pressure.This is the
&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;Singapore Armed
Forces&lt;/span&gt; forum so please&amp;nbsp;take a hike to somewhere
comfortable.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2008 12:04:40 +0800</pubDate>
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      <title>Why vugularity in SAF replied by dumbdumb! @ Wed, 27 Feb 2008 10:36:25 +0800</title>
      <description>&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;div class="quote_from"&gt;Originally posted by rooki:&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="quote_body"&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Wow...just wow.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The only reason I brought up bumi was that many Singaporeans
seem to have a genetic aversion to it. It will never stay in place
for long, and so it can be discounted as a factor against
unification. Without bumi, unification is much more palatable.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;God, take off all your freaking blinders already. 'Malaysia high
in crime?' Get real. Go live in Malaysia and stop swallowing
propaganda/biased reports. The Singapore government are just loving
you all for your ignorance and manipulativity. And it's not like
Singapore is entirely crime free.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Dumbdumb, please tell me English is a foreign language to you,
if you think 'ilk' is a profanity.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Allright. You say &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Pakistan and North Korea can
withstand world pressure to disarm because of their powerful
military.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; Does Singapore aspire to be like them? If
so, well...I really have nothing more to say to you. A powerful
military is a flagrant waste of resources, as the starving NKeans
have shown. What, you think all aid is channeled to Kim's
Neverland?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why the hell can't countries accede to each other
peacefully? Why must they act like complete buffoons parading their
military tin toys in front of each other, as if they're in some
kind of playground arguing over who's having the biggest
stick?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Good that you're happily married to your viet wife cookie. I
understand many men fail to get local brides and resort to arranged
marriages as a last resort. But please try not to be so insecure
next time, ok? Repeating the phrase that foreigners are good for
you like a broken record just seems like you're trying to delude
yourself. &lt;strong&gt;Face it, Singaporean men cannot even hold a
candle to the worst of foreign men. You can change this, however,
by not swallowing everything the almighty government tells you to,
including the lie that NS is 'good'.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;i'm not talking about the language used. but rather the
intention of using a particular word.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;words like "fucker" is from the english word too, but like you
said, its a degrading term thus not respecting the party whom you
intended the word on. i think the more important point is what you
intend to use with the word, and not the word itself, as pointed
out by some sgforumer&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;"chee bye" is a word from the hokkien language. is the hokkien
language of lesser class than english? not to me. its just another
language, who's to say that english is of higher class than
hokkien. a polite gentleman who speaks in hokkien is of higher
class than a crude drunk who is sprewing english profanity.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;in the end, you're just like the neanderthals you despise.
except you use prettier words.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Why vugularity in SAF replied by Short Ninja @ Wed, 27 Feb 2008 10:28:16 +0800</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Army lingo without vulgarities is like watching cartoon without
the sound effects&amp;gt;&lt;img src=
"/images/emoticons/kde-3.5.8/redones/biggrin.png" alt=
"biggrin.png" /&gt;.As for commanding respect in the SAF,it is usually
those Commanders in the combat units who refrain that&amp;nbsp; find it
hard&amp;nbsp; control his troops effectively.Where you use your
language and how you use it depends on the dynamics the group.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Why vugularity in SAF replied by rooki @ Wed, 27 Feb 2008 10:11:06 +0800</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Wow...just wow.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The only reason I brought up bumi was that many Singaporeans
seem to have a genetic aversion to it. It will never stay in place
for long, and so it can be discounted as a factor against
unification. Without bumi, unification is much more palatable.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;God, take off all your freaking blinders already. 'Malaysia high
in crime?' Get real. Go live in Malaysia and stop swallowing
propaganda/biased reports. The Singapore government are just loving
you all for your ignorance and manipulativity. And it's not like
Singapore is entirely crime free.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Dumbdumb, please tell me English is a foreign language to you,
if you think 'ilk' is a profanity.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Allright. You say &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Pakistan and North Korea can
withstand world pressure to disarm because of their powerful
military.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; Does Singapore aspire to be like them? If
so, well...I really have nothing more to say to you. A powerful
military is a flagrant waste of resources, as the starving NKeans
have shown. What, you think all aid is channeled to Kim's
Neverland?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why the hell can't countries accede to each other
peacefully? Why must they act like complete buffoons parading their
military tin toys in front of each other, as if they're in some
kind of playground arguing over who's having the biggest
stick?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Good that you're happily married to your viet wife cookie. I
understand many men fail to get local brides and resort to arranged
marriages as a last resort. But please try not to be so insecure
next time, ok? Repeating the phrase that foreigners are good for
you like a broken record just seems like you're trying to delude
yourself. &lt;strong&gt;Face it, Singaporean men cannot even hold a
candle to the worst of foreign men. You can change this, however,
by not swallowing everything the almighty government tells you to,
including the lie that NS is 'good'.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Why vugularity in SAF replied by Missus @ Wed, 27 Feb 2008 04:46:48 +0800</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;My husband is in the army and he is an officer and a gentleman.
I've not heard him use profanities before, though I am not sure if
he uses it at work.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Honestly, the use of profanity has no correlation with the
effectiveness of the commander nor indicative of the respect given
to his men. An army commander may choose to refrain from
profanities yet motivate and lead his men effectively, over and
beyond another who does. Also, a commander may not use profanities
yet show his men even less respect than another who does. Like
rooki here as dumbdumb! rightly pointed out, she claims to fight
for values like respect for humanity and assumes a moral ground
against military violence, yet she exhibits more crassness and
judgmentalism in her views and things she says about other
people.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I fully agree with Edwin that respect has to be earned,and one
should not assume he should be respected by virture of being human.
As we can see, there are lots of detestable humans around, like
rooki, so being human is hardly sufficient criteria for respect
heehee!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;And this rooki person, errr other than her highly questionable
intelligence in comprehending simple language after she has the
gall to say Singapore guys have "their brains and language
faculties wrecked by NS", it's obvious that she doesn't have
friends to talk to.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Malaysia's crime plagues are such common talking points among
Singapore because we're such close neighbours and so many of the
citizens of both countries visit the other. People discuss this all
the time here and it's so bad that international reporters from
BBC, TIME and FT write about it (not just straits times) and
there's even Malaysian crime internet forums and blogs, it's common
knowledge....she actually says SG's crime situation is like M'sia
and PAP kool-aid...hahaha.. doesn't she have friends to talk to?
Guess not. Heehee!!!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Southeast_Asia/FG02Ae02.html&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/3029468.stm&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/9aef4088-c9d2-11dc-b5dc-000077b07658.html&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;http://asme.wordpress.com/2008/01/11/crime-rate-in-malaysia/&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=40833&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;http://www.dawn.com/2007/03/19/int14.htm&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;http://www.harbx.com/archives/2007/01/crime_in_malays.html&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;http://malaysiacrimewatch.lokety.com/forum/&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1640136,00.html&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;To sum the on the current crime rate, I think it is best to
describe from last year&#8217;s statistics of 588 murder cases and 3,177
rape cases that;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff0000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Every day, more than one
person was murdered&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;(1.6&amp;nbsp;per day)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff0000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Every day, more than eight
women were raped&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;(8.7&amp;nbsp;per day)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;statistics released by the PDRM show that Malaysia had more than
125,000 cases of "hard" crime in 2002 alone. This figure has not
declined over the past two years.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Why vugularity in SAF replied by dumbdumb! @ Wed, 27 Feb 2008 02:47:07 +0800</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;lol. if she's that dumb, then i think i'll just take your words
for it, and&amp;nbsp; retire to bed. i'm bushed&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Why vugularity in SAF replied by cookiecookie @ Wed, 27 Feb 2008 02:42:45 +0800</title>
      <description>&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;div class="quote_from"&gt;Originally posted by dumbdumb!:&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="quote_body"&gt;
&lt;p&gt;i wasn't following the thead carefully. which part didn't rooki
understand?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Oh read from page 3 onwards,where she can't follow simple
English statements. Can't tell the difference between "combatant's
job" and "after a combatant", can't follow simple statements I made
that she plainly admitted that the Bumi policy is not feasible. I
used the word "admitted" and "bumi policy not feasible" and she
still can't get that I said she was referring to the bumi policy as
not tenable. How much simpler can plain English be? And I told her
Pakistan and North Korea can withstand world pressure to disarm
because of their powerful military and she can't understand that
either. She stated fighting with the guys from page 2 onwards. You
can discount page 1. This dumb broad can't seem to understand
simple plain English, think she should get a 100% refund for her
stupid liberal local arts degree.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Why vugularity in SAF replied by dumbdumb! @ Wed, 27 Feb 2008 02:26:25 +0800</title>
      <description>&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;div class="quote_from"&gt;Originally posted by cookiecookie:&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="quote_body"&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Mental weakness to withstand profanities is one thing. The more
alarming thing for any person is extreme stupidity close to
retardation- not being able to understand simple plain English
three times in a short forum thread, yet having sufficient
shamelessness to say guys "have language faculties and brains
wrecked by NS". Hahaha!!!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;i wasn't following the thead carefully. which part didn't rooki
understand?&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Why vugularity in SAF replied by cookiecookie @ Wed, 27 Feb 2008 02:22:12 +0800</title>
      <description>&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;div class="quote_from"&gt;Originally posted by dumbdumb!:&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="quote_body"&gt;
&lt;p&gt;lol. its what makes NS fun!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;honestly, i guess it differs from person to person. if you're
that easily affected by another man's language, that shows you how
insecure or weak you are as a person. how do you survive in the
world if you can't even tolerate this minor issue?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Mental weakness to withstand profanities is one thing. The more
alarming thing for any person is extreme stupidity close to
retardation- not being able to understand simple plain English
three times in a short forum thread, yet having sufficient
shamelessness to say guys "have language faculties and brains
wrecked by NS". Hahaha!!!&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Why vugularity in SAF replied by dumbdumb! @ Wed, 27 Feb 2008 01:56:19 +0800</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;lol. its what makes NS fun!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;honestly, i guess it differs from person to person. if you're
that easily affected by another man's language, that shows you how
insecure or weak you are as a person. how do you survive in the
world if you can't even tolerate this minor issue?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;my platoon, we used to giggle and laugh when our cwo started
swearing at us. "chao chee bye la! you think you all very lao jiao
issit? laugh somemore! stand still la! i make you lie down on the
parade square and roll from one end to the other end then you
know!!"&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;but i did notice that my standard of english did decline
slightly after i orded. took me some time to pick up proper english
again. still picking up the pieces. but, on the upside of it, i
learned basic malay! which proved entertaining and useful!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;and if you're really disagreeable to vulgarities, i think its
double standard to start name calling at others. using degrading
terms like " neanderthal", or "ilk".&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;you may not use the word "fuck", but your words have the
intention to hurt others, so what's the difference between you and
those crude people whom you detest? no difference at all, except
that you use prettier words.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;as a matter of fact, you're even worse than them. at least
they don't dress up in a robe of hypocrisy and act holier than the
next man and point fingers at their faults and think that they're
better than them.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Why vugularity in SAF replied by cookiecookie @ Wed, 27 Feb 2008 01:27:15 +0800</title>
      <description>&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;div class="quote_from"&gt;Originally posted by iSpeak:&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="quote_body"&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Hi.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I'll just like to point out a couple of likely scenarios if your
average Singaporean male did not serve his National Service.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;First example ; Pedra Branca will not be an issue. Why? Because
we won't be having our RSN missile corvettes patrolling around that
rock and our NDU guys hanging their legs and MP5s out of
helicopters overhead to ensure that our right to national
sovereignty is not threatened. We can face other foreigners in the
eye and know that we are not a country of total wusses.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Secondly, imagine the cost of your PUB bill without the presence
of an SAF. Malaysia would play havoc with the water rates. Maybe a
ringgit per litre for all you care. Maybe lima puloh sen. Price of
an essential good goes up, the rest of the market follows suit.
Everything in your life, from buying a bowl of laksa, buying a
packet of panadol, having a baby, rises up tremendously. Inflation
occurs. Trade deficit tumbles. Economics, baby. Singapore is
reduced to a third-world country, where you take a shit in a little
hut with no flushing, and an ah pek comes around at 5am daily to
dispose of the daily human waste of your kampong. Yeah, kampong.
The government probably wouldn't be able to afford to build HDB
flats for you. Don't talk about NEWater and desalination plants -
we won't be able to afford those, either.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;As was mentioned, Gandhi is the exception, not the rule. The
Swiss were not invaded during World War 2 by Nazi Germany not
because they marched up and down the Alps on hunger strikes, but
because they had a dedicated and committed military that could stop
German panzers in their tracks coupled with the serious terrain
advantages. History has shown that emulating the Swiss model is a
more reliable and efficient way of ensuring your survival.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;There are very wide political, economic and social implications
if we were to dump NS, and if you are not aware of them, then well,
I would advise you to do take some time to ponder a little.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Have a nice day.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;You've just wasted 5 mins of your life explaining to a fat
undesirable things that require an IQ level of at least 100 to
understand.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Why vugularity in SAF replied by caleb_chiang @ Wed, 27 Feb 2008 01:00:31 +0800</title>
      <description>&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;div class="quote_from"&gt;Originally posted by Ferguson:&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="quote_body"&gt;
&lt;p&gt;cock la.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
when is vuglarity part of SINGLISH???????????&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Hokkien not part of Singlish meh? &lt;img src=
"/images/emoticons/kde-3.5.8/KMess-Cartoon/angry.png" alt=
"angry.png" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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