Bailing Enforcer
Illegal traders post bail for enforcers
By Sim Bak Heng
Guess who posted bail for four Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs Ministry employees here who were detained in April for suspected dadah abuse? The eight unlikely benefactors: Illegal CD and VCD traders.
They immediately coughed up bail of RM8,000, at RM2,000 per officer, besides standing surety, to place the officers back on the street. The traders are on the department’s blacklist after being summonsed for offences related to the sale of pirated CDs and VCDs. Sources said the illegal traders had been known to cultivate friendships with enforcement officers, entertaining them at nightclubs and pubs. The four, aged between 20 and 40, and five policemen, were among 322 patrons detained at the Platinum Discotheque in Taman Sentosa here, on April 14.
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You see, when officers from a ministry are having financial problem, who will come to their rescue? None other than the VCD peddlers. They are the good samaritans; please appreciate!
Ministry officers and council enforcers can testify that over the decades, whenever they have problem, the people who help them are not the govt, not the church or mosque, not the rich men, not the presumed corporate citizen, not public-listed companies, not EPF, not socso; but, CD & VCD Peddlers.
These operators are well-known Good Samaritans in Malaysia. But when they help those in trouble, there is accusation that their actions are sinister. Why? Why?
Why can't we appreciate? I have seen these operators helping the hawkers and the desperate citizens. What's wrong? Is it that their money is tainted with blood or sins? No! They harm no one; they make no one suffer; they help those who could not afford to buy expensive software and without which many would not have learn to use information technology and internet. They did not sell drugs to harm the body of anyone.
Bill Gate & his American counterparts should only go after corporations and organizations who use pirate software but not the poor individuals ....they can't afford to pay ten of thousands to buy a Microsoft Office package & Primavera or Autodesk. But once they learn to use the software, their employers have to buy them; this help to meet the sales and profited the programme developers.
Enforcers should focus on drug peddlers, prostitution dents, gambling dents.... not Pasar Malam operators, foodstall operators, and VCD peddlers....
Rapacious system managed by pacayunish managers
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