Letter: Don't let crocodiles remain free

Fri, 11/06/2009 2:46 PM  |  Reader's Forum

Of course the good and kind Creator whom most of us believe in would never willfully destroy His creations. The wrongdoers among us destroy themselves, by their own thoughts, words, and actions that damage the interests of fellow souls. The negative results of these words and actions will boomerang back at them.

All of us are one in God - and if we hurt or destroy the rights of our fellow souls, we will ultimately hurt and destroy ourselves. Several months ago, chief detective Comr. Gen. Susno Duadji compared the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) to a cicak (gecko) and his own police force to a buaya (crocodile).

Since all but the completely ignorant know that cicak is a small, useful and charming house lizard that only presents a danger to mosquitoes and similar insects offensive to humans, whereas a buaya is a large and greedy saurian that, even in ancient fairy tales, has a reputation for being a most untrustworthy bully, relying on its brute power to obtain whatever it wants.

How very interesting and remarkable then, that Susno's condescending and insulting words that belittled the cicak and glorified the buaya have now turned against him and the very police force he still is a member of, and revealed the shameful Mafiosi practices within that force. God didn't destroy Susno. His own negative thoughts and his own arrogant words did.

I would also like to say that I am very disappointed (again) with President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's statement, namely that he feels so uncomfortable about the words cicak and buaya. Why must he feel that way? Why didn't he strongly and personally reprimand Susno for uttering those words as well as National Police Chief Gen. Bambang Hendarso Danuri, for allowing those offensive words to be uttered and for showing tacit approval of them for months and months on end?

My disappointment and dismay was and is intensified upon hearing the news that the Fact-Finding Team, appointed by the President himself and headed by the internationally renowned Adnan Buyung Nasution, apparently isn't (or hasn't been yet?) equipped (or should I say "armed"?) with a complete array of legal powers to ferret-out, question, grill and even detain, all of the Mafiosi, from high to low, within the police force and the AGO.

Dear President, please, if you send a team to hunt and contain a dangerous and powerful crocodile, where this monster is now certainly forewarned and therefore doubly dangerous, please, don't just arm your self-appointed hunters with mere slingshots, but furnish them with all the best weaponry available.

Otherwise, your precious team may be swallowed alive - and the crocodile will remain free to gobble up more victims.

Tami Koestomo
Bogor

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