Malaysian police raided a restaurant cum lounge in the capital city of Kuala Lumpur on early Sunday morning and detained 32 people - 28 men and four women - after they were found to have tested positive for methamphetamine, according to the state-run Bernama news agency.
Kuala Lumpur's Jalan Yap Kwan Seng
The report, which was carried in newspapers including The Star and The New Straits Times on Sunday, quoted Kuala Lumpur narcotic police investigating officer ASP Mohd Ashril Md Johar as saying that the venue described as a "gay club" was “packed with about 500 patrons, mostly men dancing in an erotic manner.”
The police spokesperson said there were about 500 men and 34 women at the venue which the police had monitored for a week prior to the raid.
According to Hafidz Baharom who was present during the raid, the venue located at Jalan Yap Kwan Seng is said to have been hosting a "gay-friendly party" on the night - as it usually does on Saturdays - when the police raided the establishment at 1.30am.
He told Fridae that all local patrons had to submit to a urine test while foreigners at the club were asked to leave.
Although the report said that Eramin 5 was found "strewn all over the floor", Baharom, a writer and contributor for The Malaysian Insider said that he did not see any pills as described.
"There were no pills on the upper floor where I was, nor were there any pills in the lounge where the police had set up their urine test counter."
But he conceded that he did not get a "good look at the outside balcony on the second floor."
Baharom says this is the second raid on this club in the past eight months; the prior raid being a "gay-friendly" fundraiser event known as 'Red Carnival' and was organised by Malaysia's PT Foundations in November last year.
He also noted the presence of the state-run Radio Televisyen Malaysia (RTM) camera crew during the raid, snippets of which was shown on the TV news on Sunday.
The 32 people have been charged and released pending a second urine test. They face up to three years jail sentence and a fine of RM5,000 under Section 15(1)(a) Dangerous Drugs Act 1952.
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Also note the subjective comments made by these oh-so-professional police..."dancing in an erotic manner" and ( the pills)"were strewn all over the floor"
Malaysia is bleeding by a thousand cuts. Its going backwards economically, socially and culturally at a million miles an hour. Corruption at all levels of government is one of the major causes. Yet the police would rather stake out gay venues because about 6% of the patrons are using party drugs. One of the other causes is lack of money. Yet the Malaysian Government will happily waste hundreds of thousands of dollars persecuting and prosecuting people for being gay.
What a tragedy for Malaysia and Malaysians
p.s. it was tempting to include a remark or two about the Prime Minister but I don't want to get Fridae in trouble
Ever see an addict of the Destroyer Drug Meth? Not very attractive. They lose their teeth and develop sores on their skin that they pick at, turning a formerly physically attractive person into a ghoul, a living dead person.You cook your organs in your own body using meth, in addition to losing your teeth. It only takes a few months. One of the most telling images is in Frontline, a show shown on the Public Broadcasting System (PBS) in the USA. Click on this link and ask yourself if you would like to kiss that mouth.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/meth/body/
Gorgeous yesterday, scary today, courtesy of the Destroyer Drug Meth:
http://www.drugfree.org/Portal/DrugIssue/MethResources/faces/index.html
And some others:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=meth+effects&aq=5&oq=meth+&aqi=g10
http://www.mappsd.org/How%20Meth%20Affects.htm
http://www.anti-meth.org/files/tuscan_citizen.htm
Labs to make the Destroyer Drug Meth have been setup in trailer parks, rent houses, and cheap motels, putting mainly poverty stricken people at risk for fire and explosion of the volatile ingredients. I have personally been near places where meth labs blew up, causing loss of innocent life and limb, terrible burns, and horrible death. Imagine this in a high rise apartment house in Mid Valley or Petaling Jaya. And national security? Come on people, everyone knows Al Quaeda traffics drugs to supply their campaign of terror. And they are NOT gay friendly at all.
Malaysia is not the only country bleeding by a thousand cuts, going pedal-to-the-metal in reverse, economically, socially and culturally. Any country, that has to deal with this motherload of social sickness, bleeds. It's no wonder the police anywhere go ape shit when they find a lab, or someone in possession. Somewhere priorities need to be set, and the raiding of a gay bar for "party drugs" may be such a priority.
In the local New Straits Times, it was mentioned that the police would recommend to KL City Hall that the restaurant/club/lounge be closed down. I hope DBKL does not take this recommendation seriously.
http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/index.php/malaysia/33088-outrage-over-caning-for-model
Also, someone i know who is from NYC said that the police told the foreigners they could leave anytime they wanted. some chose to stay just for moral support for the locals. this sort of testing has happened in straight venues as well and my straight friends have also been caught, so it's not specifically just for gay clubs. just remember that there are heinous gay crimes that happen in the United States and other more developed countries all the time.
I sure do hope that DBKL doesn't shut down Marketplace... it would be one less place to go to on the weekend for the LGBT community here...
The police in KL are probably homophobic, so what else is new ? I bet they're not more homophobic than any other police anywhere else in the world.
But if gay guys gather together and stuff themselves with drugs that are not only illegal but also highly destructive, then I won't cry "homophobia!!!", sorry.
Do we? I agree drugs are a large problem around the world, but "especially within the LGBT community"? Do we really know that? I don't actually know anyone on drugs.
But isn't it to do with the clubbing scene, gay or straight?
You don't know anyone on drugs ? Wow... looks like you don't live in the world I live in, or maybe you don't like the idea that gays tend to take more drugs, but as it happens they do, and for all kinds of reasons. Clubbing is one of them.
Gays go clubbing a lot more often than straight people and these surroundings encourage people into taking all kinds of drugs.
Or could this be a misunderstanding around the word "drugs" ? Ecstasy, GHB, poppers, cocaine, yaba... if you don't consider these to be drugs, then I too don't know anyone on drugs, lol.
Yes I do consider those that I've heard of to be drugs (I've never heard of yaba or GHB), and taking them pretty dumb, and no, I don't know anyone who does, so far as I know. But I don't go clubbing. I hung up my dancing clogs a while ago. I dance like somebody's Dad anyway.
Though I don't go clubbing I would still guess that the number of straight people that go clubbing in London vastly outnumbers the gay ones. I suspect that's even more true somewhere like KL where many gay people would be uncomfortable being seen publicly at a gay venue.
So I just question, in the absence of any evidence to support your statement, whether what you say is true, or is it another one of those myths. Or maybe it is more true in certain parts of the world?
If it is true, then an article on Fridae on the causes and effects might be useful.
I didn't mean that the NUMBER of gays taking drugs is higher than the NUMBER of straights taking drugs. I would never say something like that because I'm not dumb and I know that the proportion of gays is only between 6 and 10% of the population.
What I meant was that the PROPORTION, or the ratio if you prefer, is higher.
And questioning that is about as relevant as questioning the Britishness of your Queen E.
OK, not any more.
To the topic at hand, I personally believe that drugs wouldn't be an issue if the Malaysian tax on alcohol and cigarettes weren't in the triple digits.
Well, if, as you agree, numerically, many many more straight people go clubbing than gay people, and are exposed to these drugs and take them, then, for society as a whole, the bigger problem is among straight people and at straight venues.
But if there is evidence that the proportion is higher among gay people then let's see it, examine the causes and consequences and look at what could be done. You can't just assume it's true because you happen to know a certain number of people who do yourself.
Are you a lawyer of some kind ? Or teacher maybe ?
Who says I "assume" ? You don't know my sources, do you ? So ... you just assume that I assume :-))
End of argument as far as i'm concerned, hair splitting is not my cup of tea, and all the best to you.
#8- yveserwan-good point. Empirically a hush hush common fact that most gay druggies prefer not to admit. Denial is their best drug to keep spiraling downwards. Sad.
I'm not saying I disbelieve you, I'd just like to know where this information can be found. All I've been able to find through google is references to some increases in HIV can be linked to drug use and consequent risky behaviour through this new and dangerous drug meth, and reports showing an actual DEcrease in drug use in the gay population during the nineties, which is probably out of date.
I agree with you and jammyboi on many things and it's kind of sad that you both resort to playground language, when this is clearly an important issue that should perhaps be discussed more.
And "playground" language ? that's downright hilarious! give me a break, you're the one who's behaving like a schoolboy!
You are not to tell anyone here how things "need to be talked about" and I don't have to give you all kinds of private information just because you pompously demand it. You do have the typical arrogance of a teacher, you know, and that's probably why you don't like to be contradicted or not obeyed.
This comment board belongs to everyone here, not to you. You're not the moderator or the one who decides how it works.
As a person that was there that night at Marketplace, I beg to differ. First of all, while the police were kind enough to point me to a leather sofa to sit down, I did highlight to one officer to make the announcements in English. This went unheeded and some officers started yelling at the crowd for 'not listening', when it was clearly more a matter of people not understanding what the heck they were yelling to begin with.
Secondly, the female officers were being damned cynical and giggly about the fact that the club was full of guys.
Thirdly, as highlighted in the News Straits Times, the police actually mentioned suggesting the closure of Marketplace. On what grounds? The urine tests proves that there are drugs in one's system. It does not prove that they took it in the club, considering that NO PILLS were found "strewn on the floor" within the club itself.
This shows that either the papers are putting words into the policemen's mouths (most likely) or that the police are themselves making stories up to boast a "successful raid".
Moving along, not everything is written in google stone. Tat's why there's such a term called empirical.
Anyways, the dead horse is due for rebirth, so please leave it be hereon ya?. Lighten up, it's anti-aging. Peace. ;)
PS: If u still need to have the last word in, feel free. Not going there- I'm afraid of the dark. :P
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