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Public murders of public figures: who takes the fall?

commentary posted 2019-05-26 - last updated 2021-06-29

Part 3 of the See No Evil: Public Murders In Malaysia series:

See No Evil: Malaysia's Open Secret
Trial by execution? A Sarawak tale
Public murders of public figures: who takes the fall?

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See No Evil: Malaysia's Open Secret

commentary posted 2019-04-21

Part 1 of the See No Evil: Public Murders In Malaysia series:

See No Evil: Malaysia's Open Secret
Trial by execution? A Sarawak tale
Public murders of public figures: who takes the fall?

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Trial by execution? A Sarawak tale

commentary posted 2019-04-21 - last updated 2020-09-29

Part 2 of the See No Evil: Public Murders In Malaysia series:

See No Evil: Malaysia's Open Secret
Trial by execution? A Sarawak tale
Public murders of public figures: who takes the fall?

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Today I Learned New Sex Slang

commentary posted 2018-07-10

Courtesy of this balaclava-clad police "escort" to court in Malaysia.

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US Extrajudicial Executions: A Brief Primer

commentary posted 2016-11-25 - last updated 2016-12-07

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Fixed To Fail: Justice (updates)

commentary posted 2016-10-15

Part 7 of the Fixed To Fail series:

Fixed To Fail: Overview
Fixed To Fail: Buck vs. Bell and the US illusion of justice
Fixed To Fail: Buck vs. Bell (video)
Fixed To Fail: The Emmett Till Murder Trial (video)
Fixed To Fail: The Emmett Till Murder Trial (additional resources)
Fixed To Fail: Justice (video)
Fixed To Fail: Justice (updates)

Justice: the updates

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Borderline insanity

commentary posted 2016-10-06 - last updated 2023-04-25

Indefinite delay, severe restriction of movement, part-time imprisonment: all just daily routine in the borderland.

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Killing Me Friendly

commentary posted 2016-08-04

No need to entertain the troops: the troops want to entertain you...

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Crossing The Police Line

commentary posted 2016-07-26 - last updated 2016-07-28

A common myth finally exposed - just because Donald Trump repeats it.

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Real life sentence: Blues for Traveler 23

commentary posted 2016-07-16 - last updated 2018-06-06

Freedom is a privilege, captivity is the rule

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Better living through legal lynching

commentary posted 2016-07-02 - last updated 2016-12-20

Security, law and order are just three shots away...

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Cops add to their arsenal, costs supplier 5 years

commentary posted 2016-06-02

Costs cops nothing...

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"Find Us On Facebook" - then find us in jail: updates

commentary posted 2016-05-27

Online stir, Facebook censorship, flight to alternative, Facebook denial

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Addicts and Illegals

commentary posted 2016-05-23 - last updated 2016-06-02

"...a stern-faced member of the Royal Malaysia Police - in helmet, battle fatigues, and bullet-proof vest - posing for the publicity shot, with assault rifle casually pointed towards the head of a toddler..."

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The peasants have no fish? Let them eat steel!

commentary posted 2016-05-21 - last updated 2016-10-14

Do we want to fish or do we want to develop a modern steel industry?

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An Extraordinary Event of Ordinary People: Part 2

by

Hara Shintaro,

repost from Prachatai English,

commentary posted 2016-05-13

The role of educational systems in Patani Thailand

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Disorder in the Court, Taiwan-style

commentary posted 2016-05-11 - last updated 2016-07-02

Psychiatric disorder in the mind of the beholder: Taiwan executes youth 18 days after Supreme Court rules that randomly stabbing and slashing strangers to death was a sane act.

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"Find Us On Facebook" - then find us in jail

commentary posted 2016-05-09 - last updated 2016-05-27

An abducted critic of the Thailand junta, charged with lѐse majesté, has warned that private Facebook chat is no longer safe under the military regime. Was it ever?

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Crowdsourcing of suppression comes to Thailand

commentary posted 2016-05-07 - last updated 2016-05-27

Denounce Thy Neighbor - or go to jail

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An Extraordinary Event of Ordinary People: the Story of the Fund Raising Event for Pondok Jihad

by

Hara Shintaro,

repost from Prachatai English,

commentary posted 2016-04-19 - last updated 2016-05-13

Pattani community shows overwhelming support for religious school confiscated by authorities

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Trump@AIPAC: Ups His Rebel Cred! (video)

by

Voice of Voidsville,

commentary posted 2016-03-28

What happens when Donald Trump, positioning himself as an anti-establishment outsider who is free from lobbies and unafraid to voice controversial views, meets one of the most powerful US lobbying groups?

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Fixed To Fail: Justice (video)

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Voice of Voidsville,

commentary posted 2015-08-15 - last updated 2016-10-15

Part 6 of the Fixed To Fail series:

Fixed To Fail: Overview
Fixed To Fail: Buck vs. Bell and the US illusion of justice
Fixed To Fail: Buck vs. Bell (video)
Fixed To Fail: The Emmett Till Murder Trial (video)
Fixed To Fail: The Emmett Till Murder Trial (additional resources)
Fixed To Fail: Justice (video)
Fixed To Fail: Justice (updates)

Are calls to arrest, judge, and imprison killer cops effective in changing/eliminating the existing power structure - or do they only help maintain that system?

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Patterns Of Disorder (video)

by

Voice of Voidsville,

commentary posted 2014-10-21

'As long as you are held within a pattern, you must create disorder in the world.'

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Voidsville Confidential: Gamin' On Ya (video)

by

Voice of Voidsville,

commentary posted 2014-03-13

WARNING: Mind not yet deprived of any imagination, so video might not make sense

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Condolences On The American Tragedy (video)

by

Voice of Voidsville,

commentary posted 2012-12-29

After the latest US horror, condolences were received from state leaders around the world. This one is from Voidsville.

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Better Off Dead (video)

by

Voice of Voidsville,

commentary posted 2012-11-03

The explosive tale of blazing lust fuelled by the Big Payoff, a deadly femme fatale, and hog carcass - that bumps against one tough cop...

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Rules Of The Game (music video)

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Voice of Voidsville,

commentary posted 2012-09-15

A healthy democracy needs informed voters, so listen up as The Boss lays down the Rules Of The Game: 'Freedom to choose is just a ruse I use...'

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Memo 23, Revisited: US Invades Taiwan Election (video)

by

Voice of Voidsville,

commentary posted 2012-05-02

Re Ta1wan's 2012 presidential election, US Assistant Secretary of State told Congress: 'We don't play favorites, we don't choose a candidate'. Does history support his claim - or the policy of Memo 23?

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US Invades Taiwan Election

commentary posted 2012-05-02

Obama to Taiwan: Washington, not the people of Taiwan, knows what is best for Taiwan - because Taiwan is not yet ready for self-determination.

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The China Model: Obama On Libya

commentary posted 2011-04-21 - last updated 2016-02-06

Obama used noble words to justify the bombing of Libya but, in an impromptu reply, he spoke more openly about the economic mission of the attack - and cited China as a model.

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Special Relationship (video)

by

Voice of Voidsville,

commentary posted 2011-02-02

A love that never dies - even if it kills all of us.

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Never Again (video)

by

Voice of Voidsville,

commentary posted 2011-01-20

The generic AIPAC speech - again and again...

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Peace On Earth 2: Attack of the Mutant Messiahs (video)

by

Voice of Voidsville,

commentary posted 2011-01-14 - last updated 2016-12-20

That old rascal De Lawd is at it again, his puckish match-making igniting nuclear revelations in market-driven messiahs.

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Peace On Earth 101 (music video)

by

Voice of Voidsville,

commentary posted 2010-12-26

In the spirit of the Christmas season, a 1-minute appeal for Peace on Earth.

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Everybody Loves A Dead Rebel (music video)

by

Voice of Voidsville,

commentary posted 2010-11-23

On the pros and cons of non-conformance...

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San Mateo Top Prosecutor Guilty of Stealth Racial Bias in Jury Selection

commentary posted 2009-12-26 - last updated 2016-02-27

** Hi, I'm Steve Wagstaffe, the poster child for racial jury rigging. **

In an unusually sharp rebuke, the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals called San Mateo County Chief Deputy District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe's justifications for barring an African-American from the jury 'pretexts', 'make-weight' and 'logically implausible'.

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