MY FRIDAY GUEST BLOGGER: CAPT. YUSOF aka THE ANCIENT MARINER.

I first met this old "sea-dog" two days before I unmasked myself as a blogger. We met at the Denmark House cafeteria during the NST vs Jeff Ooi/Ahiruddin Atan defamation case. Besides our metallic-gray hair, we share a lot in common, from a glass of amber piss and (whatever you can imagine in between) to blogging as Barisan Rakyat Bloggers.

He too guns for change, not because he happens to be DSAI's classmate in MCKK. To quote his familiar line, "I've had enough of this shit to last me a lifetime" this retired seaman, calls a spade a spade and not an excavator.

On Wednesday night, at the PKFZ forum, he was the only speaker who said this straight from the heart: If nothing happens, I will take class action against the crooks." Brave words, but knowing this man, he aims and shoots and not shoot and then aim. People, he said it in public and now it is in black and white here:

No PAC Probe

Malaysiakini reported late yesterday, here, that the four key players in the Port Klang Free Zone (PKFZ) debacle have been let off the hook by the parliamentary Public Accounts Committee (PAC) and will not be called in for questioning.

The four are former PKFZ general manager OC Phang, former Port Klang Authority chairperson and current Deputy Finance Minister Chor Chee Hueng and two former Transport Ministers Ling Liong Sik and Chan Kong Choy. The reason? Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) is the rightful authority to probe the four. "We feel it is unnecessary," said PAC chairperson Nazri Khalid.

Which passeth all understanding.

At the recent DAP forum PKFZ: Will Heads Roll? I had vowed that if nothing comes to naught with these high profile probes etc., I will take it upon myself, together with a few former Klang Port Authority colleagues, to initiate a class action suit or public interest litigation or whatever to see justice done. We believe that perhaps we do have some measure of locus standi as concerned citizens and former employees of the port to start both criminal and civil proceedings for breach of trust and to recover the monies from those involved in this heinous crime.

Not that we have much faith in the judicial system either.

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Captain Sir, when you drop anchor at the court house, sound your fog-horn and we will rally.

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KETUANAN RAKYAT LAWYERS, ARE YOU ON?