Kuala Lampur, Aug. 20 -- What's most dangerous?

A. Handle uranium in a reactor without gloves

B. Evening strolls on the Korean DMZ after hours without permission

C. Navigate an oil-tanker with an American flag through the Strait of Hormuz

D. Affix a Malaysian flag on a pole, balcony, wall, rooftop, fence, pillar, floor, ceiling or staircase

D probably gets a bunch of votes in a Malaysian Internet poll.

In our independence month, nothing is straightforward and our flag turns into Kryptonite very quickly.

A Nepalese guard and an office lady bear testament to this in Johor's Kulai this week as they continue their four-day remand in a police station over their complicity in the astonishing act of erroneous display of a set of flags - J...