Why has Star published eight reports in eight days disseminating the blog address of the anonymous ï¿½black blogï¿½ to defame DAP Selangor leaders but no mention of RPKï¿½s blog post detailing five flights taken by Ong Tee Keat in private jet of Tiong King Sing?

Media Statement (3) by Lim Kit Siang in Petaling Jaya on Monday, 3^rd August 2009:

Why has Star published eight reports in eight days disseminating the blog address of the anonymous ï¿½black blogï¿½ to defame DAP Selangor leaders but no mention of RPKï¿½s blog post detailing five flights taken by Ong Tee Keat in private jet of Tiong King Sing, boss of KDSB, turnkey developer of PKFZ

MCA President and Transport Minister, Datuk Seri Ong Tee Keat yesterday thanked me for lodging a police report last Monday to protect his life over a death threat to him, but said I had no locus standi in the matter and that in any event, I was ï¿½one-step too lateï¿½ as he had lodged a police report the same day.

There is no need for Ong to thank me as I was lodging a police report more for the public interest to ensure that Cabinet Ministers whether Ong or the others are not threatened by Malaysiaï¿½s version of ï¿½black goldï¿½ politics invoking ï¿½dark forcesï¿½ of politico-business underworld combined with certain Barisan Nasional elements to compromise the integrity of their decision-making process.

However, it would appear that Ong has lodged a police report on a threat to him which is different from the death threat which had been made against Ong much earlier ï¿½ which means my police report was indeed necessary to protect Ongï¿½s life.

The police report lodged by Ong was over a threat in the form of a note sent to his house warning ï¿½Watch Outï¿½.

But this is not the death threat he talked about when interviewed by Sin Chew Daily on 16th July 2009, where he said:

Q: You said you were threatened by people. How did they do it? And by whom?

A: Someone tried to deliver a message through some friends in the secret society, saying that if some day I suddenly disappear from this world, I should know why this has happened.

Clearly, we are referring to two completely different events.

In the case of the threat in the note ï¿½Watch Outï¿½, Ong did not know the identities of the person who sent it to him.

But in the case of the death threat delivered to him through ï¿½secret society brothersï¿½ which read: ï¿½If youï¿½re wiped out from this world some day, you should know why this has happenedï¿½, Ong knew the identities of the persons involved:

i. the person who sent him the death threat; and

ii. the ï¿½friends in the secret societyï¿½ who delivered the death threat to him.

Has Ong told the Police the person who sent him the death threat and the ï¿½friends in the secret societyï¿½ who delivered to him the death threat that he would ï¿½disappear from the worldï¿½?

So far, Ong has not lodged a police report about the death threat to him that he would ï¿½disappear from the worldï¿½? Can Ong explain why?

Recently, there has been a sprouting of anonymous ï¿½black blogsï¿½ to spread lies, half-truths and doctored documents to defame Selangor DAP leaders in the wake of the mysterious death of Teoh Beng Hock at MACC Headquarters on 16th July 2009.

What is shocking is the involvement of MCA elements in these black blogs, with MCAï¿½s newspaper The Star among Barisan Nasional mainstream media which had played a prominent role in disseminating lies and falsehoods from anonymous ï¿½black blogsï¿½ which no self-respecting mainstream media would normally touch with a barge-pole.

But in the case of the anonymous black blog, t4tbh.blogspot.com, which told lies and half truths about DAP leaders, particularly from Selangor, the Star was in the forefront of certain mainstream media to promote it with extensive reports of its allegations.

Can the MCA-owned Star explain why it had published eight reports in five days from July 24 to August 1 to get excuses to disseminate the blog address of the anonymous ï¿½black blogï¿½ to defame DAP Selangor leaders.

Can the MCA Star explain the double standards in scrupulously omitting mention or report of RPKï¿½s blog post Malaysia Today since July 31 detailing five flights taken by Ong Tee Keat in private jet of Tiong King Sing, boss of KDSB, turnkey developer of Port Klang Free Zone (PKFZ)?

Can Ong confirm and if so, explain, these five flights on Tiongï¿½s private jet ï¿½all over the placeï¿½ when he had become Transport Minister? I will ask this question in Parliament if Ong chooses to keep dumb.

*Lim Kit Siang, DAP Parliamentary leader & MP for Ipoh Timor