Re The Hunter

It seems that your urging students not to wallow in coprophilia has resulted in some of them directing their energy to 'batriolic' attacks, to coin a new word.

I shall attempt in simple English as far as possible to answer the above mentioned pseudonym's character assasination and questions she raised.

Her first two questions (and H. Lawhutt's insinuation that I am being used by NZUSA) are answered in the interview on my speaking tour to spread the word of freedom which has been very contagious. I believe I have sufficiently established my case that the Malaysian Government is unduly high handed in the manner it rules. However, if The Hunter is not gratified with the answers there, she may write again so that there can be more debate on a very interesting issue.

To be fair to Roger I must mention that although the interview was ready for publication last week he failed to give il the top priority treatment it truly deserved in deference to The Hunter's letter.

Firstly let me salute The Hunter for being so humble as to refer to herself as an 'ant'. I am not sadistic enough to go around killing ants with Tai Chi. Her claim that I could do so is a clever hyperbole which my friend Ban Cheong will confirm is an impossibility. Tai Chi is only practiced as a physical exercise. Anway I shall not let her know what deadly martial arts I practice lest she is frightened away from further discussion in these pages.

For a person who purports to have got most of her information on me from the TV Inquiry programme The Hunter displays a lot of knowledge of my life otherwise not known to the public.

I shall now try to establish that The Hunter is a spy. If not, then she is some one who knows me very well.

1) How did Modesty Blaise know that I have done Constitutional Law? 2) How did she know I have a photostat copy of the Infernal Security Act? 3) How did she know I practiced Tai Chi for three months, a fact which is very confidential? 4) How did she come to know that I called my friends 'cowards' which is partially false? All these point to one obvious thing, spies do exist on the campus.

As regard the fourth point, it is true to the extent that I have indeed called only one friend 'coward', not Friends.' She asked me to reconcile this fact with the allegation that I claimed not to have urged Malaysian students to join in the protest.

In saying that I did not urge students to protest openly, I did so in reply to Ken Lim's statement accusing me of just what The Hunter is doing now i.e. putting words in my mouth as usual. At the first forum before the demonstration I did not in fact urge Malaysian students to take part in what Mr Lim describes as a 'potentially dangerous situation'. This may be confirmed by tape recordings of the NZBC.

This unfair allegation has no connection whatsoever with the fact that I did call one of my friends 'coward'. This came out in the course of a conversation with this particular person outside the Law Library for your records, on the specific topic: Whether we as Malaysians should continue to submit ourselves uncritically to intimidation by the home government. My friend counselled that we should. Whereupon I said "You bloody coward". We laughed over this remark and parted as good friends as before. Satisfied?

My ideals have been expressed in the interview referred to above. I am not sure Mr Steele will guarantee to print it. If he does not, would The Hunter apply to me for a copy which I shall be pleased to contaminate her with.

The Hunter at least will not be subjected to leftist' secret police methods which the Malaysian Government applies to its political opponents.