have control of the united states for 60 years straight. that's effectively what's happened here in malaysia. so the ruling party has been criticized for a good bit of corruption, and that's frustrated people, just like this pilot. this pilot supported the opposition party, the minority party, and it's led by a guy named anwar ibrahim. and anwar has been really butting heads with the ruling party. well, the day before, just hours before this malaysia airlines actually went and took off from the airport behind me, anwar was sentenced to prison. he was convicted -- an appeals court overruled a charge from a lower court sending him back to jail for a sodomy charge. sodomy is illegal here so a lot of people here in malaysia were upset and that's where this narrative is coming from. did the pilot down this plane