It’s all about principle
I’m a person of evidence. If I see solid, hard proof for something, then and only then is it true.
I believe that there are two sides to every story. And I also believe spices get added to original tales be it deliberately or otherwise.
After reading Ju-Lee’s version of things many question marks have popped up in my head, including:
- Why the hell did she latch the door? This is Malaysia, an Islamic country. Out-of-the-norm things that go on behind closed doors always spark suspicion of foul play. Especially in places such as public toilets, the home of many “kegiatan sumbang.”
- Why didn’t she get a guy friend to go with her to the toilet? Yes, she did ask a male acquaintance to go check him out, but she should’ve gone with him then before he went MIA, innit! Having another person there not only means he can warn people entering the loo that there’s a girl inside aiding her ill fiancé, but he might also help slash the idea of hanky-panky somewhat.
- With such health issues, why did they go to a smoke-filled, packed-like-sardines, nausea-inducing club in the first place? I’m not saying they have no right to do so, nor that whatever James suffered from that night was caused by the atmosphere, but the latter could’ve greatly contributed to the former. And on top of that, he was consuming alcohol? Hrmmm…
So, perhaps Ju-Lee didn’t handle the situation too well. But hey, tell me how many of us have got the ability to stop, think and act sensibly when overcome with panic and fear?
More importantly, no matter what the reason, no matter who kicked whom first, there’s no excuse for the bouncers to start beating people up. Especially not when there’re four of them as opposed to one helpless punter.
Oh, yeah. There were two recipients. Which is the only part of this incident that truly angers me.
MEN DON’T HIT WOMEN. PERIOD.
There are no two ways about it. Even from a young age, kids are taught to pick on someone their own size. Thus, men—especially bouncer-sized ones—shouldn’t whack ladies who are more delicate with their smaller builds and have less strength.
I don’t know what really happened that nite, and thus will not comment on the kind of punishments for the said bouncers on the basis of the other things (unprofessionalism, abuse of power, etc). But to me, Ju-Lee definitely has a case based on the kicks and punches that she received.
For this, I reckon the bouncers should each be thrown to four aggro beings which aren’t their own size and lack rational minds.
Like grizzly bears.
November 17th, 2005 at 5:44 pm
I read this same shit, and had to read it twice. It’s hard to believe, but at the rate of ridiculous things happening in KL right now… it’s hard to deny as well.
My first reaction was ‘Why the hell were you there in the first place?’. That article repeatedly stated that the guy had a variety of health complications (for sympathy?). Yet, he is out at a club, drinking alcohol. Surely by law its not wrong, but it doesn’t take a health specialist to tell you that a crowded night club is the last place a person in that kind of condition should be at. It’s like taking an afternoon walk in the gulf desert, when you are suffering from dehydration. Why test your limits unnecessarily? As harsh as it sounds, that was THE action that started the ball of self-destruction, rolling down the hill that night. Oh, and excuses in the form of ‘but the VIP area not so crowded’ is a load of BS.
Having said that, those bouncers had no right to do what they did. It is criminal. It is abusive. It is inhumane. Totally unacceptable. And that’s just how I feel about someone kicking the shit out of a possible helpless, sickly person in need of medical assistance. If he was raping someone in the toilet, by all means, do spill his blood all over the floor. But only thing he was possibly accused for, was ‘getting jiggy with it’ in the toilet. As for hitting the girl, it was an act of a brainless mammal (and thats probably an insult to brainless mammals, if one does exist). The bouncers had absolutely no capacity to think like a decent, civilized human being. Even jungle Tarzan knew how to treat women. A chimp could possibly be more human-like in the brain department, than those bouncers ever will be.
*phew*, that was lengthy.