"WILL HEADS ROLL?" CAPT. YUSOF aka The Ancient Mariner,ASKED.

Last night I attended the DAP Initiated forum on the PKFZ Scandal. I came away further scandalized by the blatant buggery and cover-ups that will unfold. Do expect snail-paced machinations by the plethora of task-forces already in place.

Captain Yusof, former superintendent pilot and pioneer GM of Westport, postponed his birthday celebration and beggged-off an ivitation by FT Minister Raja Non Chik who hosted a dinner for some bloggers. Instead he chose to speak at this forum. In his blog he asked: Will heads roll? HERE.

Not here Captain Sir, not here in this country where if you are buddy-buddy with the Bench, you can even get away with the most heinous of crimes.....if you are on the right side of the divide.

No Captain Sir, heads will not roll. Heads will roll only in this country that our PM just paid a visit to.

In China, that is. Half your head will be blown off and your body organs sold off to the international black-market.

It would be a capital idea if the PM would take all Members of Parliament....ALL...let me emphasise, to China to get an idea of how they execute high profile cheats.

To add veracity here is Wikipedia's contribution on Execution in China - a relevant excerp:

China currently uses two methods of execution. The most common is execution by firearms, which uses an assault rifle to fire a single shot of an expanding hollow point bullet to the head.^{[citation needed]} Lethal injection was introduced in 1997. It differs from its application in the U.S. in that it is carried out in fixed locations as well as in specially modified mobile execution vans. As lethal injection becomes more common, debate has intensified over the fairness of relying on lethal injection to execute high officials convicted of corruption while ordinary criminals get executed by firearms. It is public opinion in China that lethal injection is an easier way for the condemned to die.

In the past the government collected a "bullet fee" (子弹费) from the relatives of the condemned.^[4]

Capital punishment in China can be politically or socially influenced. In 2003, a local court sentenced the leader of a triad organization to a death sentence with two years of probation. However, the public opinion was that the sentence was too light. Under public pressure, the supreme court of China took the case and retried the leader, resulting in a death sentence which was carried out immediately

Rates of execution

Considering the size of the Chinese population the relative number of executions in China is still large. Even by the confirmed numbers, the rate of executions in China (0.07 per 100,000 people) is higher than the United States (0.02 per 100,000) and Pakistan (0.05 per 100,000), though Iran (0.25 per 100,000) executes more prisoners per capita. Dui Hua Foundation declares that the true figures were higher; they estimate that China executed between 5000 and 6000 people in 2007, down from 10000 in 2005.^[6]

The exact numbers of people executed in China is classified as a state secret; occasionally death penalty cases are posted publicly by the judiciary, as in certain high-profile or politically embarrassing cases. One such example was the execution of former State Food and Drug Administration director Zheng Xiaoyu, which was confirmed by both state television and the official Xinhua News Agency^[7]

Yes, one more thing I learnt (above)....your family has to pay for the bullet.

A STUDY-TOUR FULLY SPONSORED BY THE RAKYAT

I am convinced that that would be a fruitful mission, our PM taking ALL Parliamentarians to get an in depth study of execution China-style. The rakyat will willingly sponsor for this worthwhile study-tour. Yes, we will also pay for the Toyo guy.....but not his children and maid.

And who else?