Can we trust you, Ahmad Said?

In the Star newspaper today,

Ahmad Said has served in various capacities in the ACA, including as director-general before being appointed MACC chief commissioner.

Ahmad Said has been attacked in blogs and via e-mail over the issue of his son bringing child pornographic material into Australia. His son, a pilot, pleaded guilty and paid a fine for the offence.

Ahmad Said vehemently denies that it was child pornography. He said that the titles of the video clips found in his son’s laptop computer were misleading.

“I can bet with you that it’s something that you will find on most men’s handphones,” he said.

I did not think much about this after reading. A little later, I read in Jeff Ooi's blog.

Prohibited item in Australia

AdelaideNow.com, a news website owned by Rupert Murdoch's Fox News group, reported February 08 last year that Ahmad's Said's son Ahmad Shauqi, a Malaysia Airlines co-pilot, was handcuffed to the Adelaide Magistrates Court, and convicted and fined for bringing child pornography into the country on his personal computer.

The three videos classified as prohibited import items were titled "Reped (sic) Virgin'', "10-Year Old'' and "High School Students".

Contrary to what the MACC chief had tried to rationalise, that the titles were misleading, Magistrate Simon Smart ruled that "this material is repugnant and abhorrent - any decent minded person would be so affected by it".

Magistrate Smart added that the rape scene featured a crying girl aged under 18 being forced to have sex with an older male. "These are not victimless crimes - for every video that depicts such a scene there is a victim,'' he said.

Ahmad Shauqi was fined A$5000.00 $5,000 and had his laptop forfeited to the Crown.

Records entered in the South Australian court show Magistrate Smart had told him the videos were cruel and violent and it was a disgrace that the married father of two had brought the material to Australia. The magistrate further said people like Shauqi encouraged the market for child pornography.

Ahmad Shauqi's wife was expecting their third child at that time.Moral of the story is: Between the Australian Bench and MACC, who is misleading us? You judge.

I don't care about Ahmad Shauqi. I think he is a sick fuck.

"However, Ahmad Said,

If you have said no comments, I will understand. However, here it looked like you lied. Now, how can you expect us to trust you to head MACC? And I think you mentioned somewhere that you need a lot of support from the media; you need a lot of support from the people.

And some people wonder why so many Malaysians have emigrated with a substantial number of the rest making the leap once financially able or presented with an opportunity. And some people wonder why most urban and better teenage students have already made up their minds to emigrate once they can."