MALAYSIAN LAWS NOW TURNED UPSIDE DOWN?

KAMPAR, Malaysia - Democracy is more than just freedom of speech, says Malaysian former PM, Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad who lamented that laws have been turned upside down.

“If people who are investigating get arrested, and those who are being investigated can give orders, terbaliklah (should not be the case).

“There should be some investigation (made), why do you stop (them)?” he told reporters here referring to the ongoing investigations on 1Malaysia Development Bhd.

He was at the Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman’s 21st convocation as a guest-of-honour where his wife Tun Dr Siti Hasmah Mohd Ali was conferred the honorary Doctor of Medical Science.

Dr Mahathir had mentioned in his blog, chedet.cc, on Aug 10 that "democracy is dead because an elected leader chooses to subvert the institutions of Government and make them his instruments for sustaining himself."

Asked again for his comment on Backbenchers Club president Tan Sri Shahrir Samad’s statement that he was no longer relevant the former premier said“ask him to 
wait and see.”

“He should read comments made by the people, not from their own newspaper because their newspaper is directed to praise the Government but not from the internet.

"I didn’t tell these people what to say. He just need to look at their comments,” Dr Mahathir said.

Source: The Star