police state and the state of the police

I refer to Malaysiakini letters to the editor, titled “police a reflection of dirty politics” and could not agree more with the author. I wish to highlight some points here on the police force in Malaysia.

There is an ulterior motive in government’s frugality in raising the salary of the police officers. It is a conscious decision on the part of the government to keep them on the brink of poverty, for most of them that is. It is similar to a strategy of keeping the majority of the population at a despicably low poverty level where a mere RM50 can buy the government five years’ of power to loot the nation of its wealth. The force is likewise compelled to resort to tax the public by way of the Sheriff of Nottingham’s. The problem is endemic. Eventually the whole force is plague with this disease and everyone becomes partners in crime.

As far as level of education of police officers is concerned, there is a conspiracy to keep the bulk of the force just above idiotic level. This coupled with the nature of “following orders of superiors” requisite ensures that the lid is tightly sealed. The very few at upper echelon with some grey matters but lack conscience lead the ignorant lot. We end up with a force from the dark side.

The Special Branch of the force is the propaganda machine. Government of the day wages war against the opposition. There are many generals within this massive unit whose main role is to win the war with the opposition. They make Sun Tzu look like a novice, forgetting that the absence of Moral Law will cause the people to be NOT “in complete accord with their ruler, that they will follow him regardless of their lives, undismayed by any danger”.
Blatant lies and deceptions are contrived and majority of the force swallows official version of events without questions. People at large buy the government’s version of events, having been duped by controlled media.

We became a police state long time ago. Majority of the population does not even realise this. They do not even comprehend what it means, being a police state. Thus the state of the police is the reason for our nation to turn into a police state.

However the propaganda and a single version of interpretation of events no longer work when information age ensues, hence the current awakening! The advent of internet satisfies people’s hunger for an alternative point of view, having been bombarded with only single-sided story for most of their lives. The time has come for us to change the state of the police to discard the police state. Let us be nothing but a civil society.