Home Minister Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi has nothing but contempt for other races but the thuggish character is given an important portfolio in the cabinet of Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak. He wields considerable power with his control over the police force, and that is when he becomes a dangerous man, an extremely venomous politician.
With his bigoted streak, Zahid has only the non-Malays, mainly Indians, on his crosshair. He has issued orders to his men in blue to open fire first and talk later when they come across suspected Indian gang members. This admission explains the spate of mysterious shootouts in which suspects are gunned down in cold blood without given the space to surrender.
Zahid has a perverted sense of justice to justify the killing of bad hats. He claimed the majority of the gang members are of Indian ethnicity whose victims are mostly Malays, “our race!” So he is justified in issuing the “licence to kill” order to his race in the police force to gun down all these Indian suspects without any warning. Not satisfied, he trained his gun on the Chinese as well for their alleged links to the underworld and mischievously implied their wealth is ill-gotten. Zahid’s declared enemies are the Indians and Chinese, whether criminals or law-abiding citizens.
Now every Indian and Chinese citizen has become a target for the trigger-happy sharpshooters who only have to get some evidence, solid or flimsy, to take out human lives. Witnesses to a crime committed on Malays only had to shout “Indians” and Zahid’s boys will descend on them, shooting from the hips.
Zahid is not acting in a responsible or sane manner in dealing with crime. Granted, bad hats must be severely dealt with, but when action is taken based on racial profiling, it amounts to gross injustice. Zahid sees in every Indian or Chinese criminal traits that must be wiped out at the shout of a command. Even innocent non-Malays might become victims of the over-zealous police who are only answerable to their imperious boss.
How will Zahid react when people take to the streets to demand fair play? It is not too difficult to second-guess his response. Armed with new draconian police laws, he will mow them all down because they are all “criminals”. They are all “criminals” because they are all mostly non-Malays. Based on his diseased logic, it is all right to detain, beat or shoot them. When he was the defence minister, he was ready to use the full might of the army to crush the Bersih protesters who happened to be mostly non-Malays who only want free and fair elections.
Zahid seems to cradle the thought that as home minister he can do what he wants with human lives. Torture them. Shoot them. Or even use his Tiga Line mobsters to do the dirty job. Soon his prisons will be overflowing with casualties as his “shoot first, talk later” policy goes into top gear. Fear will stalk the land as every Indian and Chinese home worries over the fate of their sons and daughters.
Zahid is no defender of all Malaysians. Neither is he an advocate of press freedom. He hates the press especially the alternative media and will have no hesitation to crush them. As press czar he can dispense or withdraw a publishing licence at his whims and fancies, and find ways and means of disrupting the online forces. By muzzling the press, Zahid will have a free hand in all his cloak-and-dagger operations.
The tension between Zahid and the people, particularly the non-Malays, will increase as the uncouth minister tightens his grip on domestic life. Never mind Najib: he will not interfere with what Zahid will do. He will not sack him because he needs a roughneck to ride roughshod over the people. The home minister will stand tall and haughty but he will never earn the respect of the people. Zahid is public enemy number one.
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