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Happy 58th Birthday, Love Yesterday, 27th September, 2008 was Pet’s Birthday. My two daughters’ and I were allowed the schedule visit to see Pet at Kamunting, on his 58th birthday.
When we wished him Happy Birthday he had forgotten it was his birthday and told him that we had brought along birthday cards hand drawn by his 2 grandchildren, ages 5 and 6, 1 from Jia Wei age 7, 1 card signed by a few of his friends and also 3 books. We had to handover all the items with the prison authorities and they will only give it to him after inspection. I told him of the numerous emails, sms’, calls, on the blogs and our sons in the UK also sent him Birthday wishes.
This visit was also face to face and so I was holding on to his hands all along. An officer came along to inform us that we were allowed 2 visits for Hari Raya the 1st and 2nd day and it could be in the courtyard. But then it would also depend on the Recording Officer (RO) whether he is considered a hardcore and if he is then the visit would be face to face across the counter. Then Pet asked him “Am I considered a hardcore?” he said he would have to refer to the RO and get back to him. He also told us that our subsequent visit after Raya would be through a screen and we have to talk on the phone. Pet then said, “In here it like stick and carrot,” if you are good you get a carrot when bad to get the stick. So when you don’t cooperate, you get lesser family visits and if you do they give you more face to face visits.
Well I guess if the RO don’t consider him a hardcore and allow the courtyard visit that would be the only time I would be able to give him big hug and kisses, even though it is considered “kelakuan tak senonoh” (unbecoming behavior) until he is FREE again. When he told me about this “kelakuan tak senonoh” the last trip, I did wonder whether the officers know we are married and that it was alright for married couples to show affection. Pet and me have been together for 40 years and married for 35 years.
He looked in better spirit and I asked him how he was coping and what have they been doing to him. He said that he was reading a lot and finishes a book a day and asked for me to bring him more books but no books on religion.
He is allowed to step out his cell from 7am to 6pm and at this juncture my daughter advised him to do a bit of excise due to his arterial blockage and extreme stress, we don’t want his condition to worsen. But he said that he usually reads and was reading like a book a day cause from 6pm onward the lighting in his cell was very bad and could not read anymore. If he wanted to read after 6pm he had to try and get some light from the passage way and it was very difficult. He said he is also given the yesterday’s NST newspaper to read. Then he asked us about what he was told by an officer on a report in the NST that there was a signature campaign asking for 150 thousand signatures to free RPK and it was not getting any respond and it was a failure. I told him yes we have all sorts of campaign and the signature campaign is one of them and the response is overwhelming cause to have just started that campaign and the last I looked before coming here was about 28,000. I also told him that we having T-shirt campaigns, going bald campaign and getting supporters to send him birthday and Raya cards to Kamunting Prison he then said no wonder I am getting 10 Raya cards a day. I told him, “Love, please don’t believe anything they tell you, they trying to break your spirit”. I said, “Trust me, you have tremendous support out there, this time around I am not alone fighting to get you out. We have a huge family out there and they are all praying everyday, burning candles in their homes having candle light vigil all over the country for your release and to abolish the ISA”. I saw tears in his eyes at this time, he was touched. I said, “Love, don’t let them tell you otherwise”. He then said. “Please send MT readers’ my Hari Raya greeting and thank them for remembering me and to continue supporting Malaysia Today. Malaysia Today now belongs to them and they will have to keep MT going until I am out to make that change”. He told us that he is still in solidarity confinement all alone in that block unless they bring in someone new. He has 3 guards outside his cell at all times on a 3 hourly rotation and he remarked “what a waste of manpower guarding me inside for writing when you can read in the NST there is so much crime and murders outside there”. When we were there 2 other detainees had family visits as well and Pet said, that the detainees gets very few family visits after awhile especially the Malay detainees. At the beginning of their detention they get frequent visits, but since some of them have been in here for a long time the family visit gets lesser and lesser due to many constrains, money being one of them. But he said, there was one Chinese, detained for 2 years, he had family visits’ without fail. I told him “Love, I will be here, I am Chinese and will be here every week rain or shine and don’t let anyone tell you otherwise”. He also asked about how my daughters’ managing and my youngest daughter’s final exams. Then time was up my daughters and I kissed his hand and left.
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RELEASE RAJA PETRA FROM THE DUNGEON OF “FULL HATE!”
“These men of hate will go down in the history of mankind and the animal kingdom as the first to exist with “full hate!”
I spoke to a few of the World Religious Council members, after reading Marina’s article written straight from her heart. I need not! I should not have spoken to them, knowing pretty well, every living human being in this world could have provided me with the answer! Even a baby who is born today would have justified my doubt! Perhaps an unborn foetus too! But I still contacted a few of them, with different religious affiliations, hoping that I will get different answers! They gave me the same answers! I was not satisfied. Let me try on an animal this time around! I patted my neighbour’s cat, hoping that it will screech and leave its paw marks on my fingers. It never did. It licked my fingers! As I was turning back home, my neighbour’s fearsome dog was staring and barking at me, probably it noticed my stroking of the cat’s fur. I stood still, frightened at first, but happy at last that I will get the answer that I wanted, undisturbed, the dog turned its back and walked away into the house. It too knew that like its species, the human race too is harmless! Every human born to this world including the unborn foetus, and all animals, domestic or those living in the jungle and water,…… all of them either exist or bonded by varying feelings of affection call LOVE! No living mammals, reptiles, amphibians or whatever, can exist without LOVE!
Even the most hatred of all creatures of god, must possess that little love for the sake of existence! Without which, it will die! “Full hate” devoid of love does not exist and will never exist!
All religions in this world preach love. No religion in this world can exist without preaching it!
It pains me deeply, that Islam that was twisted by few for their unending thirst of power and wealth, Islam that was abused by the few for varying reasons of greed, Islam which is a true religion of love, was sabotaged and made an exception, by a few men of hate!
These men of hate will go down in the history of mankind and the animal kingdom as the first to exist with “full hate!”
The most basic of all expressions of love is a bare hug! Any animal or human possessing the most basic characteristics, and with no requirement of common sense needed, will understand this form of expression of love! Maybe they are so used to the intense feeling of sexual love that they forgot the existence of basic expressions of love. Maybe every form of love to them seems sexual! Maybe these men of “full hate” who misuse Islamic marriage allowance of four, are so obsessed with sexual desires, that basic expressions of love elude them! Maybe these men of “full hate” seem to conclude that every form of basic expressions of love will ultimately lead to a sexual activity! Maybe these men of “full hate” have not seen the tears of sadness flowing after a hug! They are men of “full hate” after all!
To all men of “full hate”, whatever religious affiliations you belong to,
To all men of “full hate” who define hugging as an unbecoming behaviour,
To all men of “full hate” who stop sons hugging crying mothers departing to the Holy Land to perform their duties,
To all men of “full hate” who stop husbands hugging crying wives at the doors of the delivery theatres,
To all men of “full hate” who stop fathers hugging crying daughters over their mothers dead bodies,
To all men of “full hate” who stop brothers hugging their sisters in consolation,
To all men of “full hate” who deprive my sister Marina from hugging her loving husband,
To all men of “full hate” who mark down LOVE instead of ticking it up,
MY HERO RAJA PETRA WILL BE BACK!