I know I stand in line
Until you think you have the time To spend an evening with me And if we go someplace to dance I know that there's a chance You won't be leaving with me Then afterwards we drop into a quiet little place And have a drink or two And then I go and spoil it all By saying something stupid Like I love you I can see it in your eyes That you despise the same old lines You heard the night before And though it's just a line to you For me it's true And never seemed so right before I practice every day to find some clever lines to say To make the meaning come true But then I think I'll wait until the evening gets late And I'm alone with you The time is right Your perfume fills my head The stars get red And oh the night's so blue And then I go and spoil it all By saying something stupid Like I love you I love you...Wednesday, March 02, 2022
Wednesday, February 09, 2022
The mysterious Admiral Canaris
https://www.bhistory.it/2019/03/28/the-mysterious-admiral-canaris/
28 Marzo 2019
In February 1944, Wilhelm Canaris, Admiral and Chief of the Abwehr, the German army intelligence service, was arrested and imprisoned by the SS at Lauenstein Castle. Fervent patriot but opposed to Nazism, one of the first architects of many Germany victories during the Second World War is finally sentenced to death and executed when the dawn rose on April 9, 1945. Who was really this officer hanged by the Führer’s direct order? And to what extent does he embody German Resistance to Hitlerian totalitarianism? Dark and mysterious figure of the History of World War II, Wilhelm Canaris was no less important, in particular because of his action at the head of Third Reich counter-intelligence.However, unlike other Wehrmacht superior officers such as Wilhelm Keitel or Admiral Dönitz, Canaris was a fierce opponent of the Nazi Party ideology and used his influence to defend Germany’s interests against Hitler.
An intelligence officer
Born into a family of German bourgeoisie, nationalist and monarchist, W. Canaris, a polyglot and brilliant young man, chose to pursue a military career in 1905 by integrating the German Navy. Lieutenant serving on the Dresden during the First World War, Canaris fought the British on South American seas before being captured and then escape to Germany in 1916. He enrolled in the intelligence services at that time, notably participating in the surveillance of military movements in Spanish ports. As a nationalist and anti-communist officer, he was fiercely opposed to the Spartakist movement that threatens Berlin in the inter-war period. A year after Hitler’s takeover and at the end of his career, in 1934, he was called by the government to head the Wehrmacht‘s secret service, the Abwehr.
The Abwehr reorganisation
Canaris immediately maintained a direct and respectful relationship with Reinhard Heydrich, a naval officer just like him, right arm of SS leader Heinrich Himmler, and also director of RSHA or Reich Security Office, a complex bureaucracy leading the German repressive apparatus, in particular the famous political police, the Gestapo. While Heydrich headed security services of Hitler’s Germany, Canaris’ role was to ensure the collection and analysis of strategic information for military purposes. Weakened by the conditions imposed by the Treaty of Versailles, the Abwehr was reorganized by Canaris in order to make it a complete counterintelligence and sabotage service for the Reich. The multilingual admiral emphasized the importance of languages, drastic selection of personnel, and interdisciplinarity by recruiting military and civilians with varied skills.
Towards the war
In 1939 the outbreak of the Polish campaign marked the beginning of a new world conflict, even harder than the one Admiral Canaris knew in 1914. Hitler made the decision to invade Poland in late May 1939, after the Polish government refused his demands for annexation of the Danzig territory, in order to access East Prussia. Canaris was then trying to demonstrate to the German General Staff including its leader W. Keitel that the war could take a bad turn. The German-Soviet Pact signed by the Nazi government with Stalin’s USSR, however, eliminated the threat of a war on two fronts, facilitating the decision to attack. In early September Hitler finally attacked Poland and World War II began in front of Admiral Canaris’ eyes.
Opposition to Nazism and Hitler
Canaris, fiercely opposing communism and defending the German Nation, could have seen in Hitler’s election a positive aspect especially with the remilitarization of the Rhineland and the virulent anti-Marxism of the new government. However, the admiral rejected the brutal methods of Hitler’s regime. The Eastern territorial expansion of Nazi Germany shocked the naval officer by disrespect for war and civilization rules which he considered as key principles. Indeed Heydrich sent out troops of assault, the Einsatzgruppen, to eliminate the “enemies of the Reich”, namely Jews and Gypsies, in the conquered territories of Eastern Europe, engaging in barbaric acts. After the invasion of France, Canaris therefore issued false passports, through his secretary Inga Haag, to Jews and other minorities persecuted to protect them from deportation. The Führer’s attitude towards his generals, and in particular the evictions based on false files of generals Von Fritsch and Von Blomberg, also represented a central element in Canaris’ opposition to the German leader.
Tensions with the SS
Heydrich and his security services were also trying to control the German society and closely monitor all the Reich dignitaries. In particular, Heydrich played a central role in the elimination of the SA leaders in 1934, during the “Night of the Long Knives”, to ensure the predominance of the SS organization. If Canaris had cordial relations with Heydrich, he rejected his barbaric and violent methods. Heydrich for his part suspected Canaris of anti-Nazi opinions, and tried to constitute a file concerning the Admiral. SS intelligence service, the Sicherheitsdienst (SD), also found many leaks towards the Allies regarding military operations since 1940, and Heydrich saw it as an action of Canaris’ subordinates. Tensions between SS superior officers, notably between Heydrich and Himmler himself, and between SS and Nazi party leaders, for example with Secretary Martin Bormann, preserved however the Abwehr and his leader from a frontal attack. In May 1942, a Czech commando parachuted from London assassinated Heydrich, who was also Protector of Bohemia-Moravia. The Czech government in exile in London was trying to make a demonstration in order to revive the local resistance, but English intelligence services also strongly pushed the operation to be effective. Historians thus question the hypothetical goal of protecting a “mole” that Heydrich was dangerously close to.
Was it Canaris?
From opposition to conspiracy
The Sudeten crisis of 1938 had been a first occasion for Canaris and other German military leaders, including his assistant Hans Oster, to prepare plans to dismiss Hitler, seen as a foolish ruler.In early 1942, before Heydrich’s death, the Gestapo tapped some of Canaris’ collaborators. Suspicious testimonies were accumulated and Heydrich’s successor, Kaltenbrunner, conducted further investigations on the Abwehr. A close collaborator of Canaris, Dohnanyi, was thus arrested at the premises of the Abwehr in April 1943. After the fall of Mussolini, Germany invaded Italy which had signed an armistice with the Allies, who have just invaded Sicily. The SD found confidential documents there indicating relations of mutual understanding between the Abwehr and Italian partisans whereas Canaris had falsely reassured Hitler about Italy loyalty. In 1944 a resistance circle in the Berlin high society was infiltrated by Gestapo agents who discovered Abwehr officers. Hitler finally lost confidence in Canaris and in February 1944, the Abwehr was absorbed by the SS administration and Canaris was placed under house arrest. On July 20, 1944, Hitler escaped a bomb that was prepared to kill him while he was examining maps with his generals at the General Headquarters of Rastenburg, East Prussia, in his famous den nicknamed Wolfsschanze. That was the Walkyrie Operation.
A tragic end
The conspirators of the Walkyrie Operation wanted to kill Hitler to overthrow the Nazi regime and establish a conservative dictatorship, or eventually restoring the monarchy. They hoped to make peace with the Allies while continuing the war against the Soviet Union. Among them were several senior officers including retired General Ludwig Beck and General Hans Speidel, Chief of Staff for the famous Erwin Rommel, who was informed of the plot without involvement. The central figure of the operation was Claus von Stauffenberg, a witness of SS brutality in Russia, opposed to Nazism. After the failed attack of July 20, 1944 against Hitler, in a period of acute paranoia, the Gestapo officially arrested Canaris on July 23. With a few collaborators, he was transferred to the Flössenburg concentration camp. The fallen admiral was subjected to various degrading treatments and physically exhausted, but he did not reveal any strategic information to his jailers and even managed to obtain news from outside. In April, Hitler personally ordered Operation Walkyrie conspirators execution. Canaris was hanged on April 9, 1945, in a Germany that has been ravaged by the war and that he failed to save from a deadly ideology. In the mean time, the discovery of Canaris’ diaries by Kaltenbrunner’s investigators confirmed his knowledge of various machinations to overthrow Hitler. Pushed by religious and moral sentiments, acting as a man of values, Canaris risked his career and his life to protect personalities of the Jewish community including Rabbi Yosef Schneersohn, thinker of the Chabad movement, but also simple civilians in Poland or France. More than half a century after his execution, the Yad Vashem memorial is still studying the possibility of declaring him “Righteous among the Nations” …
PLM
Books
- Brissaud (André), Canaris. Le petit amiral prince de l’espionnage allemand (1887-1945), Paris, Perrin, 1970
Press articles
- Decaux (Alain), “Le mystère Canaris”, in Les dossiers d’Alain Decaux, 1986, Antenne 2
- Smith (David), “Why my friends felt they had to kill Hitler”, in The Guardian, 2004
- Stabile (Alberto), “La spia di Hitler che Israel vuole tra i Giusti”, in La Repubblica, 2009
Saturday, November 20, 2021
The World’s Largest Muslim Organization Just Honored Evangelicals
https://religionunplugged.com/news/2021/7/20/the-worlds-largest-muslim-organization-just-honored-evangelicals
From left to right, Rabbi David Saperstein, former Ambassador at Large for Religious Freedom under President Obama, Pak Yaha, Gen. Sec. of Nahdlatul Ulama, Imam Talib, Bishop Dr. Thomas Schirrmacher and ReligionUnplugged contributor Paul Marshall. Photo provided by Paul Marshall.
Religion Unplugged believes in a diversity of well-reasoned and well-researched opinions. This piece reflects the views of the author and does not necessarily represent those of Religion Unplugged, its staff and contributors.
(OPINION) Last week, a small but significant celebration headlined as “God Needs No Defense: Reimagining Muslim-Christian Relations” was held in a remarkable place. The occasion was part of the plethora of events around the bipartisan 2021 International Religious Freedom Summit held in Washington, D.C. on July 13-16. In this particular event, leaders of Nahdlatul Ulama (NU), the world’s largest Muslim organization, honored the newly installed head of the World Evangelical Alliance (WEA).
The new Secretary General of the World Evangelical Alliance elected in March 2021 is German theologian, Bishop Dr. Thomas Schirrmacher. Creative Commons photo.
The place was Masjid Muhammad, the first mosque to be built from the ground up in America’s capital city by its own citizens, and the first established in America by descendants of enslaved African Americans, including African Muslims. With this history, it is also called The Nation’s Masjid (Mosque).
It has shared roots in some heterodox forms of Islam among African Americans, now represented by Louis Farrakhan. But under Imam W. Deen Mohammed, the mosque community gradually embraced mainstream Islam. On May 22, 1960, Malcolm X donated $1,400 to it and helped raise more to build the mosque. The building was dedicated on Dec. 10, 1960, the anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In the late 1970’s, it dissolved its militaristic Fruit of Islam group, admitted White people into the community, and reached out to other religious groups. The mosque initiated the nation’s first Muslim American Veterans Association (MAVA) and supplied the first Muslim Chaplain to the U.S. Armed Forces. Its current imam, Talib Muttaqee Shareef, came after 30 years of active service in the U.S. Air Force.
Imam Talib welcomed Kyai Haji Yahya Cholil Staquf, who is the General Secretary of Nahdlatul Ulama, which is based in Indonesia and is the world’s largest Muslim organization, having some 90 million members, and also the head of NU’s youth organization, Gerakan Pemuda Ansor (Ansor). He is also the elder brother of Indonesia’s Minister of Religious Affairs, Yaqut Cholil Qoumas.
Then there was the introduction of the day’s guest of honor, Bishop Dr. Thomas Schirrmacher, the newly installed Secretary General and CEO of the World Evangelical Alliance which, due to the massive global growth of evangelicalism over the last century, has become one of the world’s major Christian bodies, drawing together over 600 million Christians in national alliances in 140 countries. Schirrmacher has also often been described as “the Pope’s favorite Protestant.”
Bishop Efraim Tendero, widely known as Bishop Ef, is the former Secretary General and CEO of the World Evangelical Alliance (WEA). Creative Commons photo.
This meeting’s origins stem from a NU/WEA meeting in November 2019, in Jakarta, Indonesia, which led in April 2020 to the two groups forming of a joint working group to counter two threats to religious freedom and to society more broadly: religious extremism and secular extremism. The two groups stress that they are not seeking to meld their theologies: they remain fervently Christian and fervently Muslim, but they want to work together, and to respect and love one another.
The working group has already produced several books and in honor of Bishop Schirrmacher’s appointment presented a collection of writings to him, titled “God Needs No Defense: Re-Imagining Muslim-Christian Relations in the 21st Century.” The phrase “God Needs No Defense” stems from an acclaimed essay by Abdurrahman Wahid, former head of NU and former President of Indonesia. It has now become a slogan, and even a song, in Indonesia. And, full disclosure, it first appeared as the Introduction to a book by Nina Shea and Myself, “Silenced.”
Apart from honoring the head of the WEA, the gathering also announced the formation of a joint “Center for Shared Civilizational Values” and produced “The Nation’s Mosque Statement.” This statement:
“calls upon people of goodwill of every faith and nation to join in building a global alliance founded upon shared civilizational values.
This global alliance seeks to prevent the political weaponization of identity; curtail the spread of communal hatred; promote solidarity and respect among the diverse people, cultures and nations of the world; and foster the emergence of a truly just and harmonious world order, founded upon respect for the equal rights and dignity of every human being.”
Many inter-religious partnerships can be akin to public relations exercises, and many religious declarations express fine words and sentiments that in the end come to little. But this remarkable partnership has produced fruit in joint projects in Africa and elsewhere.
In his keynote address to the International Religious Freedom Summit, and in his later Hudson Institute panel with former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Pak Yahya noted that many people might find it strange that a mammoth Muslim organization would produce a book honoring a world evangelical leader. Then he stressed that we should work together so that we find it to be a normal expression of our solidarity based on the God given dignity of every human being.
Paul Marshall is the Wilson Distinguished Professor of Religious Freedom at the Institute for Studies of Religion, Director of the Religious Freedom Institute’s South and Southeast Asia Action Team, Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute’s Center for Religious Freedom, and a contributor to Religion Unplugged.
Tuesday, November 16, 2021
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A danish and coffee to take away
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A place I feel so much at ease
Sunday, May 16, 2021
https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-the-phenomenal-wealth-of-hamas-leaders-1000957953
24 Jul, 2014 17:40
"Among the Palestinians, they tell you straight out, 'I want to get rich.'"
In recent days, various media have been publishing photographs of Hamas leaders in luxurious homes with fitness equipment, at luxury hotels around the world, etc. On the other hand, distressing pictures are being shown of the suffering of the Palestinian people in their rundown houses, whom Hamas says it represents.
One of the big mysteries is how much the Hamas leaders, the Arab world's new tycoons, are worth, and how they, born and raised in refugee camps, who raise aloft the cause of their people's welfare, have become so wealthy and reclusive.
Col. (res.) Dr. Moshe Elad, a lecturer in the Middle East Department of the Western Galilee Academic College, who served in senior positions in the territories for 30 years, is attempting to answer these questions.
"The vast majority of Hamas founders and leaders were refugees or second generation refugees, and some of them were the product of marriages between Egyptians and Palestinians. They had no money at all. When they and Hamas were just starting out, the organization (not in its own name) was nurtured by the Israeli military government, which fostered the Islamic associations working in the Gaza Strip as a counterweight to the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). Their phenomenal wealth started accumulating when they decided to disassociate themselves from Israel and search for alternative financing sources."
Elad explains that the money came from two directions: "Legacies from the deceased; money from charity funds; a donation called zaka, one of the six pillars of Islam; and donations from various countries. It started with Syria and Saudi Arabia, with Iran added later and becoming one of Hamas's biggest supporters, and ended with Qatar, which has now taken Iran's place."
Together with the donations from various countries, fundraisers began operating in the US to collect money for Hamas. Here, the Hamas leaders began to get their hands on some really big money. "One of those fundraisers was Dr. Musa Abu Marzook, the number 2 man in Hamas," Elad says. "At the beginning of the 1990s, he began a fundraising campaign in the US among wealthy Muslims, while at the same time founding several banking enterprises. He himself became a conglomerate of 10 financial enterprises giving loans and making financial investments. He's an amazing financier."
The US administration ordered Marzook's arrest in 1995 on charges of supporting terrorism. After he spent two years in a US prison, it was decided to expel him without trial. He kept the money. "When he was expelled from the US in 1997, he was already worth several million dollars," Elad says, adding, "Somehow he evaded the clutches of the US Internal Revenue Service and was not charged with financing terrorism. People in the know say he probably became connected to the administration and cooperated with it. There is no proof, but it's hard to think of any other reason why he escaped punishment for such serious offenses. In 2001, in the investigation of the September 11 events, it turned out that he had extensive financial connections with Al Qaeda, including the transfer of funds to the 21 Al Qaeda operatives accused of the attacks."
Today, Marzook is considered one of Hamas's wealthiest billionaires. "Arab sources estimate his wealth at $2-3 billion," Elad says.
Another Hamas leader-turned-tycoon is Khaled Mashaal. "Estimates around the world are that Mashaal is currently worth $2.6 billion, but the numbers mentioned by the Arab commentators (based on their many sources) are much higher, varying from $2-5 billion invested in Egyptian and Persian Gulf banks, and some in real estate projects in the Persian Gulf countries," Elad adds.
The next tycoon on the list is Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh. "He is a scion of a family from the Al-Shati refugee camp, and his capital is estimated at $4 million," Elad says, adding, "He registered most of his assets in the Gaza Strip in the name of his son-in-law, Nabil, and in the name of a dozen of his sons and daughters and a few less well known Hamas leaders. They all have homes in good neighborhoods in the Gaza Strip, where the value of every home is at least $1 million."
Another wealthy Hamas official - Iman Taha - is not on the organization's highest levels, but he, too, (and other junior managers) is feeding from the trough. According to Elad, "He was a poor rebellious kid from the al-Borg refugee camp, but he recently built a home in central Gaza worth at least $1 million. He's responsible for coordination between oversea Hamas and Hamas in the Gaza Strip, and he's not even a leading figure, but he's already among the millionaires."
The question of where these officials got their money exposes the corrupt system used by Hamas through its control of the money pipelines in the Gaza Strip. They treated the money as their own personal possession. "Most of the money that went into the pockets of people in the Gaza Strip was obtained through tunnel deals and the creation of a flourishing smuggling market, which it is believed has created several hundred millionaires in the Gaza Strip, although most of the people there don't live like that. The man pulling the strings from Egypt with the tunnels is none other than the number two man in the Muslim Brotherhood, Khairat el-Shater. His connection with Hamas was ostensibly for Islamic religious purposes, but they actually built a prosperous business, which earned phenomenal profits," Elad says.
The Asharq Al-Awsat (Middle East) newspaper, one of the most prestigious in the Arab world, recently reported that at least 600 millionaires were living in the Gaza Strip - the same people sitting on the money pipelines there.
Elad describes how the system worked and to how much money (huge amounts) Hamas leaders were exposed: "Senior Hamas leaders charged a 25% 'tax' and $2,000 on every disassembled vehicle coming through the tunnels. There are hundreds of smuggling tunnels from Egypt to Gaza, and these are the types of tunnel Israel has been less busy in destroying, because Egypt has destroyed many of them. From June 2007 until 2010, $800 million in cash was transferred in tunnel deals (according to information from Hamas money traders). Hamas also taxes Gaza merchants on everything traded, from boxes of vegetables to luxury cars, and the leaders scoop the money into their pockets."
Another source of wealth for Hamas leaders was taking over land. "They took over land mainly near the sea in good areas, such as the former Gush Katif, then sold it. In effect, they are the cat guarding the cream - the land - so they were able to take over land and loot it for themselves," Elad explains.
In addition, there is a system in the Gaza Strip of fictitious recruitment of workers for Hamas for the purpose of obtaining pay slips from people overseas paying for it. "They get the payments from overseas according to the workers' names. It has recently been discovered that there are hundreds of fictitious names of soldiers and officials supposedly in Hamas. Actually, the leaders and officials put the money in their own pockets," Elad asserts.
According to various sources, some of Mashaal's money came from the "Syrian fund." Elad explains: "According to these accusations, following an investigation by the US federal authorities, Mashaal was accused of embezzling the entire Syrian fund. There was a separate fund in Syria for Hamas; Mashaal controlled all the movements in the fund when he lived there. As soon as he left Damascus, he took the Syrian fund, which was worth several billion dollars, and distributed it to himself and others. It is believed that Hamas had $1.5-2.5 billion in assets in Syria, which Mashaal took."
In summary, Elad says, "This is corruption at the highest level… What has united the Palestinian leaders all throughout the years is the saying, 'We have to get rich quick.' This is how the regime sees it. Their leaders have no shame. Shortly after they got power, they took control of fuel, communications, and any other profitable sectors in the country. There are get-rich-quick schemes and corruption in Western society, too, but there it's done sophisticatedly with envelopes of money and complex structures of bribery and the like. Among the Palestinians, they tell you straight out, 'I want to get rich.'"
Published by Globes [online], Israel business news - www.globes-online.com - on July 24, 2014
© Copyright of Globes Publisher Itonut (1983) Ltd. 2014
Wednesday, May 05, 2021
Novel Baswedan adalah Iblis di KPK (?)
https://www.narasikita.com/maaf-bolehkah-kita-menilai-bahwa-novel-memang-beneran-iblis-di-kpk/
Polemik seputar KPK yang bermula pada wacana revisi UU KPK oleh DPR, kini menyeret pula isu tambahan terkait penyidik KPK: Novel Baswedan.
Sebuah berita lama kini ramai kembali dibagikan melalui jejaring sosial macam Facebook dan Whatsapp. Judulnya tak tanggung-tanggung: “Novel Baswedan itu Iblis”. Isi beritanya bisa disimak antara lain di sini: https://www.tribunnews.com/nasional/2017/08/23/irwansyah-novel-baswedan-itu-iblis
Sebagaimana diberitakan di situ, Novel disebut iblis oleh korban penyiksaan tatkala Novel masih menjabat sebagai Kasatreskrim Polda Bengkulu tahun 2004. Dituturkan oleh para korban yakni Irwansyah Siregar, Doni, Rusliansyah, dan Dedi Nuryadi bahwa tatkala mereka diinterogasi dalam kaitannya dengan kasus pencurian sarang burung walet ketika itu, mereka disiksa secara keji. Tidak sampai di situ saja bahkan mereka tidak pula mendapat perawatan medis seusai mengalami luka akibat penyiksaan tersebut. Wah, benar-benar keji.
Baiklah, itu adalah sekelumit kisah masa lalu Novel Baswedan di luar urusan menyangkut polemik seputar KPK yang kini bergulir sebagai isu panas. Namun, apakah intimidatif memang merupakan sifat dasar seorang Novel Baswedan dalam menjalankan tugasnya? Nanti dulu!
Saya tidak berani memastikan dengan yakin tanpa bukti berupa fakta empiris. Namun, apabila yang dimaksudkan oleh tokoh akademisi bidang hukum yang lumayan berpengaruh di negeri ini, Prof. Eddy Hiariej dalam video di bawah ini adalah Novel, rasanya kok tak ada alasan untuk mengelak bahwa Novel memang berkarakter suka mengintimidasi.
Ya. Profesor memang tidak mengatakan secara gamblang. Beliau cuma mengatakan bahwa beliau bisa tunjuk batang hidungnya satu-satu orang-orang di KPK yang suka main intimidasi dalam memerkarakan sebuah kasus. Lebih dari itu, profesor malah menilai kalau KPK kini tidak lagi bekerja murni menegakkan hukum (di bidang korupsi).
Alasan untuk membenarkan bahwa Novel berlaku intimidatif dalam pelaksanaan tugasnya sederhana saja. 1). Yang bisa menjadikan seseorang tersangka atau bukan adalah hasil kerja seorang penyidik. Tentu seorang penyidik tak ingin hasil kerjanya dinilai buruk. Minimal kasusnya naik ke pengadilan. Jadi, masuk akal kalau Novel diduga merupakan oknum yang dituding profesor suka intimidasi. 2). Sinyalemen dari Prof Hiariej bahwa KPK sekarang tidak murni lagi menegakkan urusan hukum. Ini berarti membuka ruang bagi hadirnya asumsi bahwa KPK juga punya misi tendensius dalam menargetkan seorang jadi tersangka korupsi. Kan kalau urusannya bukan hukum, apalagi sih motivasi di balik penargetan seseorang menjadi tersangka dalam sebuah kasus pengadilan (tipikor)? Maka, kalau motivasinya bukan penegakan hukum tetapi sangat ingin agar seseorang bisa masuk bui, tak ada cara lain selain intervensi hakim, di antaranya bisa berupa intimidasi. Ini juga masuk di akal.
Berita dua tahun lalu di mana Irwansyah, cs menuding kalau Novel itu berhati iblis, lebih sadis dari PKI, karena main intimidasi dalam menyidik sebuah kasus ternyata klop dengan sinyalemen dari Profesor Eddy tentang adanya oknum di KPK yang suka main intimidasi terhadap hakim-hakim yang menangani kasus perkara korupsi. Menurut Anda, jika kedua pernyataan tersebut dihubungkan satu sama lain, kira-kira siapa di urutan pertama oknum KPK yang pantas diduga suka main intimidasi terhadap hakim tipikor? Tentu Novel, sebab Novel jadi penyidik di KPK.
Nah, apalagi bila kita simak pernyataan Neta S. Pane di depan DPR beberapa hari lalu. Ketua Presidium Indonesian Police Watch itu mengeritik Penyidik KPK Novel Baswedan yang dinilainya kebal terhadap proses hukum. Ia mengaku heran Novel tetap dipertahankan sebagai penyidik meskipun berstatus sebagai tersangka pembunuhan.
Pertanyaan Neta tentu menjadi pertanyaan kita semua. Apakah yang membuat seorang Novel bisa kebal terhadap proses hukum di negeri ini? Sangat diduga dengan kuat bahwa itu bisa terjadi karena dia intimidatif. Apalagi “kekuasaan” sebagai penyidik KPK sangat memungkinkannya untuk melakukan hal tersebut.
Bayangkan apabila baru mau naikkan pentahapan kasusnya sebagai tersangka pembunuhan, dia tiba-tiba kirim pesan singkat di HP Anda, “Naikkan kasus saya maka Anda akan siap-siap digelandang KPK untuk kasus KKN Anda”. Ini sangat mungkin mengingat yang kita kira bukan gratifikasi sebuah pemberian tulus seseorang untuk pejabat penyelenggara negara ternyata menurut pandangan KPK malah merupakan gratifikasi. Apalagi bila pejabat tersebut nyata-nyata pernah terima suap atau korupsi. Siapa yang tak akan ciut nyalinya?
Jadi sampai di sini, bila ditanya apakah Novel Baswedan intimidatif dalam mengemban tugasnya, rasanya kok tergoda untuk menjawab iya. Tetapi, apakah dia pantas disebut iblis juga di KPK karena kemungkinan-kemungkinan tadi, saya kembalikan ke pembaca untuk menyimpulkannya sendiri.
Denny Siregar : Kisah Kasih Antara AB, NB & BW..
narasikita.com/denny-siregar-kisah-kasih-antara-ab-nb-bw/
Oleh : Denny Siregar
S aya itu senang menganalisa sesuatu berdasarkan kepingan-kepingan informasi kemudian menyusunnya menjadi sebuah gambar besar.
Kesenangan ini membuahkan sebuah analisa yang kadang berguna untuk melihat pola apa yang sedang dipakai oleh sebuah kelompok. Dan lumayan berhasil ketika menggambarkan “niat” kelompok demo saat 411 dan 212. Tulisan saya bisa selangkah didepan gerakan mereka.
Itulah kenapa mereka sangat marah ketika niatnya terbongkar. Dan yang mereka lakukan juga polanya sama, menuduh buzzer, penjilat, dibayar istana dan segala macam.
Kadang, bahkan banyak teman juga termakan pembunuhan karakter ala mereka. Sedih memang. But the show must go on. Urusan saya adalah bagaimana membaui tempat persembunyian kelompok radikal ini, bukan melayani debat yang tidak berujung pangkal.
Masalah KPK ini sudah lama saya dengar dari banyak informasi baik dari internal maupun dari pengamat luar. Tapi saya menahan diri, tidak semua informasi bisa menjadi kepingan berharga.
Alarm saya kemudian berbunyi saat melihat seorang BW menjadi pembela saat di MK. Bukankah dia dulu ada di KPK ? Bukankah dia juga sekarang ada di tim seorang pejabat DKI ?
Dari situlah saya menelusuri kepingan-kepingan lain supaya analisa ini menjadi sebuah kesimpulan yang kuat.
Akhirnya saya menemukan fakta, bahwa KPK yang menurut informasi akurat dikomandani oleh NB yang sudah berada disana 12 tahun lamanya, sama sekali tidak pernah curiga dengan apa yang dilakukan sepupunya AB, selaku pejabat daerah.
Bahkan ia mendapat 3 penghargaan dari KPK.
Padahal aroma kolusi penerbitan IMB reklamasi sangat kuat sekali. Itu proyek ribuan trilyun rupiah, yang kata BTP, retribusi tambahannya kalau 15 persen saja, DKI bisa dapat lebih dari 100 triliun rupiah.
Tapi KPK seolah tutup mata dan tutup telinga. Malah sibuk OTT ikan-ikan kecil dengan tangkapan ratusan juta rupiah, dengan drama dan publikasi yang sungguh luar biasa.
Saya akhirnya bisa mengambil benang merah, alasan kenapa BW ada disana.
Sebagai orang yang pernah ada di dalam KPK, BW sangat paham kinerja KPK. Ini sangat berguna jika ia menjadi tim pejabat daerah. Ia bertugas “mengamankan” sistem proyek supaya aman dari jeratan KPK.
Maksud “aman” disini bisa saja bukan bagian dari pencegahan, tetapi juga supaya tidak terendus.
AB memang punya ambisi pribadi untuk menjadi RI1. Itulah kenapa dia butuh mesin-mesin yg bekerja untuk membangun jalannya ke depan. Dan mesin apalagi yang cocok jika itu bukan KPK ?
Kenapa KPK menjadi mesin yang cocok ?
Ya, pastilah. KPK adalah lembaga superbody, jadi tidak punya pengawas dan bebas menyadap siapapun yang mrk suka. Mereka independen dan sudah terlabeli “suci”. Membongkar kebusukan mereka harus rela dilabeli “pro koruptor”.
Dengan semua fasilitas itu, paling enak menembak musuh-musuh AB kelak, sekaligus mengamankan semua perangkat untuk kemudahan AB bergerak.
Siapapun calon kelak yang berhadapan dgn AB, sadap, dan tembak lewat opini di media bahwa dia korupsi. Selesai sudah. Berguguran satu persatu dan AB melenggang dgn mudah.
Sudah mulai paham dan merasa ngeri ?
Itulah kenapa penting menguasai KPK sekarang yang sudah dikuasai demi kepentingan. Marwah KPK sebagai pemberantas korupsi harus kembali, bukan menjadi agen politik yang disalahgunakan.
Dan saya harus maklum dgn teman-teman yg termakan propaganda bela KPK. Karena selama ini di benak mereka KPK adalah “pahlawan” dan harus diselamatkan.
Inilah keberhasilan org2 di dalam KPK membangun citra. Mirip orang yg masih percaya bahwa PKI masih menjadi momok yang menakutkan di era sekarang ini.
Seandainya saja, banyak dari kita mau melihat lebih luas sebuah masalah, tentu perdebatan dukung dan tolak revisi UU tidak akan terjadi.
Sejak lama sudah banyak orang yg mengingatkan bahayanya KPK jika superbody, termasuk salah satu perumus UU KPK, almarhum Adnan Buyung Nasution.
Jadi paham kan, kenapa orang-orang di dalam KPK ngamuk ketika disebut sebagai “Taliban” ? Itu pukulan telak, ketika cadar mereka terbongkar bahwa ada agenda besar yg mereka jalankan dgn memanfaatkan mesin yang ada. Wuih, habis karakter saya dibunuh mereka lewat media.
Tapi sekali lagi, the show must go on..
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