God forbid you might slap a naughty child, or biff an obvious crook; the current generation still think they’re carrying the torch for the civil rights movement: “Better one thousand crimes go unsolved and unpunished, than one innocent be tried” seems to be the message.

The Government owns
your ass here, and is very good at screwing the bobs out of the
serfs.

As I’ve been my usual critical self about Malaysia, so let me now point out some good points …

Right. I’ve been to Kuala Lumpur, and Penang. Kuala Lumpur has some mad motorists, dengue fever, heat and humidity, the Twin Towers, and Chinatown. Malaysia has a Western veneer overlaying an uneasy truce between the dominant Malays and the rest. It is not a good place to get arrested in. As I write there is [...]