change your look?

oh gee, free plastic surgery… IF you are a whistleblower who come forward?

haha. is the ‘stupid’ minister at it again?

KUALA KANGSAR: A new identity or even new look can be arranged for the person or persons who took the controversial video of a prominent lawyer allegedly brokering the appointment of judges, said Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Datuk Seri Mohamed Nazri Aziz.

He said such measures were defined under the Witness Protection Act to ensure the person’s identity was protected.

“Under the Act, they will not only be protected but can also undergo (plastic) surgery to change their look,” he told reporters after handing out duit raya and goodies to old folks in Lubuk Merbau here yesterday.

what witness protection act huh, oh nazri? according to bar council, there is no such thing!

i guess again the de facto law minister is shooting off his mouth without thinking. thinking there is a witness protection act however is not so amusing as to say one can go for plastic surgery to change one’s look under the act. did nazri watch too many spy or thriller movie? this act with plastic surgery thrown in may be found in other countries but i doubt it will be in our country!

wits0 says:

12/10/2007 at 3:05 am

Now the latest tale spin that came out is that there’ll be limited protection for witnesses…. after hiding behind the press secretary and claiming misquotation.

With this much spinning inherent in Bolehland already, one wonders why there’s need for a couple of Buminauts to do the same around the Earth.

Lucia says:

10/10/2007 at 1:55 am

wits
ya. to hide his shame, nazri should be the first person to change his look. haha.

kitty
yep. no such act. now nazri is telling us he was misquoted. think he said something like there is no such an act but there are other acts that made provisions for whistleblowers to be protected. anyway he is going to push for the witness protection act to be tabled at parliament. let’s wait and see.

09/10/2007 at 7:51 pm

No good deeds may go unpunished, KK46.

With Mala Fide prosecutions and the firearms law(the way it is lazily worded)there is little reason for anyone to report the sighting of a real pistol under a flower bush in a park. Civic consciousness can even be hazardous to your health! :evil

kittykat46 says:

09/10/2007 at 9:48 am

There is no such Witness Protection Act in Malaysia.
The Anti-Corruption Act 1997 provides limited protection of the privacy of the identity of an informant or witness, but no real legal protection.

It is quite possible, even likely in this case, for the informant to end up being arrested and prosecuted with some trumped up charges to silence him.

Mala Fide prosecution, otherwise known as Persecution, is quite well established in Bolehland.

09/10/2007 at 3:06 am

Since there’s no such a thing, he should be the first to change his looks that way. To misrepresent the law as a law minister is shameful. Much “face water” has evaporated in the process anyway. 😀

The 1997 law refered to must be this one:
ANTI-CORRUPTION ACT 1997
http://www.agc.gov.my/agc/oth/Akta/Vol.%2012/Act%20575.pdf

I’m intrigued by the use there of the term, “in good faith” – something that begs the question at a time when “good faith” is in doubt from the Gomen side. Not forgetting that Abu Talib as the AG burnt evidence in support of Vijendran. Today he claims altruism for the gal copulating with Vijendran.
So it’s absolutely necessary that, in this case, both material evidence and witnesses must be protected! Very simple common sense. :8)

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