The Trickeries and Antics of MACC

June 28, 2010

THE TRICKERIES AND ANTICS OF MACC: What you saw currently 28 Jun 2010in a Jalan Duta Courts

by Din Merican

After writing my square yesterday about a shift of Judge in a Trial of Rosli Dahlan, you was determined to be benefaction in court this sunrise to comply a proceedings. Before that, you decided to check out how this brand brand brand brand new development would prejudice Rosli.

Reproduced below is what a fellow blogger as well as reputable counsel, Art Harun said:

First of all, you do not because they have been changing a Judge. This is unequivocally odd. The use is, when a conference is at an modernized stage, as well as when large hours have been spent upon a trial, a Judge will not be changed. Even if he is eliminated away, he would be asked to go upon to regulate over a case.

This is since he is a many appropriate chairman to decider a testimony, possibly to a admissibility or many importantly, to a weight to be since to a square of sworn statement (we call it probative value of a evidence).

This is since a Judge would have seen as well as celebrated a declare as well as his body language, his temperament, he refusal or eagerness to answer a subject as well as if he answers, his demeanor while answering. All these will be in his head. He decides whether to hold a declare as well as if he believes, how most he would hold which declare based upon all those things.Nobody else can do which though him. Because he was there.

If Rozillah (the brand brand brand brand new judge) takes over, she would have to begin de novo (meaning, all over again). Otherwise she would be handicapped since she did not have a opportunity to comply Kevin Morais as well as a rest of a bumbling c! lowns wh o a prosecution is calling witnesses.

If she did not begin de novo, she would have to rely upon a records taken by a former Judge. That is not good since she would not know a demeanour of a witnesses who were giving evidence. She would not see a persperate which ran down Kevins face, nor a awkward grin of whoever who was giving evidence.

So, to borrow a lawyers phrase, prima facie, Rosli will humour a prejudice. The previous decider would know as well as remember all of Kevins lies described in my previous article The Liar Kevin Morais Buried In His Lies, when he delivers his verdict. The brand brand brand brand new decider would not.

I can right away assimilate because DPP Dzulqarnain as well as DPP Suffian disrupted a well-spoken using of a conference upon a previous occasions by raising large objections. you can right away assimilate because DPP Dzulqanain sought to cancel a alternative days indifferent for a conference by giving a excuse which he indispensable to go upon holiday to Australia with his whole family, since these were dates which he had formerly concluded to. you can right away assimilate which these were only tactical maneuvers as well as delaying tactics to get Judge Abu Bakar Katar to be eliminated out.

MACC is frightened of a Truth

The MACC contingency be indeed fearful which their seven witnesses including a star witnesses, DPP Kevin Morais as well as Investigation Officer (IO) Saiful Ezral, have been stripped exposed in court as being possibly unsuitable or undisguised lying. Either which mental recall is private from Judge Abu Bakar Kattars thoughts or better still, send a Judge as well as get a brand brand brand brand new decider who has no such memory! That, in a nutshell was what all these maneuverings were about via a trial.

My conclusion was spot on. Rosl! is couns el, Dato K Kumaraendran, sensitive a brand brand brand brand new Judge, Puan Rozillah Salleh, which a Defence had written to a Chief Registrar looking which Judge Abu Bakar Kattar be called behind to interpretation this case. That Judge Abu Bakar Kattar himself had sensitive counsels benefaction upon a final conference date which there was no need for a Defence to write in as he, a Judge, would do so. Dato Kumaraendran additionally sensitive Judge Rozillah which a Prosecution had stated which a benefaction declare IO Saiful Exral is a final witness. If Judge Abu Bakar Kattar can return for 6 alternative cases, because cant he for this case?

The Customary Antics of DPP Dzulqarnain

To my amazement, DPP Dzulqarnain jumped up to demand which a brand brand brand brand new Judge, Puan Rozillah Salleh, should take over to control a box as well as interpretation it. DPP Zulqarnain cited assorted supplies of a Criminal Procedure Code as well as box laws to support his contention. To Dato Kumaraendrans amazement, DPP Zulqarnain afterwards pronounced which circumstances have altered as well as a Prosecution will right away produce dual some-more witnesses to clear because Puan Rozillah can still hear a case. It became so obvious which DPP Dzulqarnain was fighting tooth as well as nail not to concede Judge Abu Bakar Kattar to come back. It was so obvious which a MACC did not wish Judge Abu Bakar Kattar!

Judge Rozillah afterwards ruled which a subsequent conference date will be upon Sep 6-8, 2010. If a Chief Registrar allows Judge Abu Bakar Katar to come back, afterwards a brand brand brand brand new set of dates will be given. you saw far-reaching laugh upon a faces of a dual MACC DPPs, as if they had won a major battle.

I approached Rosli as well as saw a sombre look upon his face, which he fast altered to a forced grin when his poetic daughter as well as youngest son came to hug their father. The grin upon Roslis face could! not cen sor a concern as well as disappointment in his eyes. The disappointment flush when Rosli momentarily gave in to a lapse when he pronounced This is a single of a ironies of life. This box is about Ramli not me. Yet you was arrested as well as handcuffed until you bled, locked up overnight. you charged first even before Ramli. Ramli has been acquitted as well as you am still facing this!

As you walked down a steps of a court house, Rosli muttered faintly Dj vu- 6-8th Sep is only two-three days before Hari Raya Aidilfitri. They unequivocally wish to remind me what happened in 2007.

From 2007 to 2010: Case still unsettled

I afterwards satisfied which it was in Ramadan 2007 which Rosli was arrested, brutalized as well as produced in court to be publicly flustered only a single day before Hari Raya! Even at my age, you could take this heart tugging scene no more. you walked away from Roslis family initially feeling really unhappy with what you had only seen as well as heard. But afterwards you told myself which you contingency do something about this.

Wake-Up Fellow Malaysians: Justice Delayed is Justice Denied

I contingency let alternative caring Malaysians know about this: about MACCs trickeries; about changeable goal posts; about a injustices in a system; about a victimisation of an innocent man.

Malaysian Bar Council as well as Chief Justice: Recall Abu Bakar Kattar

I call upon a Bar Council defend your brother at law, call behind which Judge. you call upon a Chief Justice this is your chance to uncover independence; probity behind is probity denied.

Finally, if it is any comfort to Rosli, you would like to tell him what you am told about Judge Rozillah. Let me only imitate what Art Harun said:

I th ink you know Rozilah. She was a single of a Deputy Registrars of a Court of Appeal before. She is a decent lady. Hardworking too. And she was really really beneficial to everyone. She would go out of her way to help lawyers as well as she did which regularly with a smile.If you have been talking about a same Rozillah, you contingency say which you utterly admire her really.

Perhaps it is a blessing in disguise. So dont be sad, Rosli. Perhaps, there is a hikmah in all this. No trickery of a MACC can outdo Gods will- Man proposes though God disposes.

Letter & Opinion From Joe Public

A Nettoian Perspective on being PKR No. 2

June 28, 2010

What it takes to be Number 2 in PKR

by Terence Netto (www.malaysiakini.com)

COMMENT In a media hoopla over a Selangor PKR crisis, revolving as it did upon a Khalid Ibrahim and Azmin Ali rivalry as prelude to a competition for a celebration emissary presidents post, little or no courtesy was paid to a critical question.

This is what is required of a single to be No 2 in a PKR which is supposed to lead a Pakatan Rakyat coalition. At this point, some might smirk during a entire notion of PKR being a leading celebration in Pakatan, what with five MPs as well as multiform lesser lights having left a celebration in a last one-a-half years of hue as well as cry in a ranks.

Although their departures have sullied PKRs stature, couple of severely feel which a quitters were anything alternative than border players in a overall composition of a party.

PKR can reinstate them with, in all likelihood, improved peculiarity possibilities who can win behind a really constituencies held by these defectors. But can PKR find a leader with a intellectual as well as moral stature to be No 2 to Anwar Ibrahim as well as assistance him hold a Pakatan bloc together, which equates to striking a change between an avowedly physical DAP as well as a theocracy-favouring PAS?

If you consider light of this matter, consider a concerned musings of DAP chairman Karpal Singh upon a possibility which once Pakatan takes sovereign power, there could well be a renewal of a question of an Islamic state which Karpal concedes is a matter of ideological element to PAS.

While acknowledging which PAS would find it fo! rmidable to abandon a Islamic state agenda, Karpal reiterated which DAP would never give up a position which Malaysia is a physical state.

Karpal, who once called for Anwars deputy as Pakatan supremo, right away acknowledges which Anwar is a categorical adhesive in a bloc of manifold ideologies.

He is a only politician who can keep a improbable Pakatan bloc together. And gripping it together is a only approach to propelling it to reinstate a status quo which is beyond redemption.

Islam concordant with democracy?

Two reasons insist a materialisation of Anwar Ibrahim: One is which Anwar has been means to project his struggles opposite his UMNO-imposed travails in to a counterpart of a incomparable citizenrys need for a improved Malaysia.

And secondly, Anwar has displayed surpassing intellection in his quest to build a religiously informed open philosophy for a Malaysian experiment in approved restoration.

Just right away this quest is connected to a world-historical issue, which is either Islam is concordant with democracy in Muslim-majority nations.

Much of his career till right away as well as to come should be become budding minister of Malaysia is assimilated to this issue.

Is this overstating a case? Surveying national, informal as well as a universe scenarios, a single thinks not. We have been during a world-historical crossroads where a truths bequeath to us by religion, Greek rationality, Roman law as well as a European Enlightenment have been comprehensible by a humanities of reason.

These truths confer upon us sure obligations, both personal as well as civil, which have to be held, assented to, as well as worked in to a fabric of approved institutions for a prevalence of peace, justice, leisure as well as unity.The saga of Anwars tumultuous career as well as intellection contain consistent reminders of a need to have a ongoing Malaysian experiment in approved replacement a success.!

S een as well as defined in this way, a question of who is to be No 2 in PKR dwarfs a presumptive candidates. They ought to be in no hurry to fill it.

TERENCE NETTO has been a journalist for close upon 4 decades. He likes a occupation since it puts him in contact with a eminent without being under a necessity to admire them.

Letter & Opinion From Joe Public

A gamble that Najib lost........

So, it's finally final. No legalised sports betting. After all which vacillating as good as humming as good as hawing, Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak has come out to contend a Finance Ministry has cold a capitulation it had initially since to Ascot Sports Sdn Bhd.
He even certified which capitulation was indeed since - yet usually "in principle" - confirming something he had sought to hedge upon June fifteen when he pronounced no looseness had been awarded to Ascot Sports.
Revoking a capitulation is bad form, of course. What you would call buruk siku - taking something behind after giving. It doesn't prophesy good for a supervision as a open will view this as an additional of a flip-flops. In a last couple of years, a supervision has been flip-flopping so often, it cannot be seen to be in total control. Why, a single contingency ask, was it so reckless in granting a looseness in a first place? Why did it, in these volatile domestic times, agree to legalising sports betting when an emanate similar to which would fundamentally raise a hue as good as cry in public?
Did Najib as good as his BN colleagues not weigh a odds as good as realize which a emanate would be politicised? Did they not foresee which a opposition would fasten upon to it for domestic gain as good as threaten to theatre a mammoth convene against this endorsement of gambling? That it would expel BN in a negative light, generally between a Muslim electorate? That even a celebration similar to a DAP would make use of it to win Malay-Muslim hearts?
Had BN turn as well assured about a having won behind competent Malay support which it could play upon something similar to this? Or was BN perplexing to win non-Malay support since legalised sports betting would have been meant usually for non-Muslims? Even ministers similar to Mohd Nazri Abdul Aziz as good as Rais Yatim were starting around touting which ! legalisi ng it would be showing apply oneself for a rights of non-Muslims - even yet you'd have to swallow what they pronounced with a cupful of salt.
Surely, it was not only a World Cup contest which triggered a pierce to legalize sports betting even yet a prepared for pickings competence have been substantial. Was a supervision unfortunate for a revenue it could derive from a legalisation because a nation's coffers are dwindling? And if so, did it not wonder about how it would look to be profiting from non-Muslims through an activity which Muslims would scowl upon? On which score, wouldn't a issues of religion as good as morality fundamentally stand up?
Government half-truths
Now which a whole thing's been called off, most people would probably not lamentation which Ascot Sports is a celebration which has been hard done by, since which a owners have been subject to most criticism, generally in domestic blogs as good as online headlines websites, yet a fact remains which a open design of a supervision has taken a violence with this faux pas. And a fact remains which a association which had been betrothed a understanding has been unfairly treated.
It doesn't make a difference what a association is; a indicate is, reneging upon a understanding already concluded is unbecoming, generally if a celebration which has unsuccessful to keep a finish of a discount is a government. How does a single have faith in a celebration which actually breaks a word? The supervision has not long ago prided itself upon being a single which gets open feedback first prior to implementing any policy or starting ahead with a project. Thus, it has presumably taken a time over a last recover of a New Economic Model. If that's a case, because did it not get open feedback first prior to move with giving a capitulation to Ascot Sports?
It has also not helped a government's means which it offering half-truths! when a controversy was raging. On June 12, Ascot Sports publicly revealed which it had already got a capitulation from a finance minister, i.e Najib. But upon June 15, when he was questioned by a media, Najib pronounced no looseness had been issued.
Without splitting semantic hairs, you have to contend which an capitulation is an approval, as good as even if Najib was not wrong in observant which no looseness had been issued, he could have certified which a capitulation had already been since yet a distribution of a looseness was still pending. By being vague in his statement, he kept a open in suspense, thereby serve fuelling a anxiety as good as difficulty which was already building up.
In hindsight, you competence contend which it was obviously a damage-control measure. As a emanate was out in a open as good as a feedback was negative, Najib had to be cagey in box a emanate incited sour. He was also playing for time to see which way open opinion would eventually go. In other words, he wasn't indifferent in his ruling. This looked similar to a box of leadership uncertainty.
Who's in charge?
As it incited out, even with coalition partners MCA as good as MIC coming out to defend legalising sports betting, it took a bigger voice of Umno to call a shots.
What unequivocally contingency have hurt Najib was a first salvo dismissed by Johor Umno, which released a categorical objection upon June 13. This was later followed by Umno of Kedah as good as Perak. Umno Youth, nonetheless it uncharacteristically took a little time to decide, also joined a fray. A revelation indication from this entire episode is which Najib is not in full carry out of a celebration he heads. Neither does he suffer a full backing to do what he wants.
What is even some-more demeaning for him is which a last preference for revoking a sports betting capitulation was done by a Umno autarchic council.! Conside ring which it was a government, as represented not only by Umno yet also other BN partners, which had since a approval, it should have been a supervision which done a decision. Since it was not so, a summary which comes through is clear. BN is not unequivocally in assign of a government. Umno is. And as it looks from here, neither is Najib.- Kee Thuan Chye
Vincent Tan blames PKR, review here.
Vincent Tan unfortunate with supervision 'backtracking' review here.

source:malaysiakini
Buying over frogs is a costly event as good as UMNO need money to finance these deals.However,they cannot be seen as a real paymaster yet need a associate as good as here where a Berjaya boss fits in to a picture.
Though, Vincent Tan has lost his bid to run sports gambling, when a permit Najib 1Malaysia betrothed was withdrawn, however, Vincent Tan's effort will be compensated handsomely later upon thru mega projects in a making.......
cheers.
Letter & Opinion From Joe Public

The Launch of Friends of Pakatan Rakyat ONLINE REGISTRATION NOW OPEN

Friends of Pakatan Rakyat (FPR) is being officially launched as an organization to rally a support of Malaysians who share a prophesy of a Pakatan Rakyat coalition for a better Malaysia. The launch will be held upon a Sunday 4th of July 2010 in London as well as officiated by DatukZaid Ibrahim, a Pakatan Rakyat Secretariat Coordinator.

Event: The Launch of Friends of Pakatan Rakyat
Date: Sunday 4th of July
Time: Registration begins during 10am. Event starts during 11am as well as ends during 4pm
Venue: Conway Hall, twenty-five Red Lion Square, Holborn, London WC1R 4RL
Map:http://tinyurl.com/35d6kre

The programme for a day is as follows:

1000 Registration
Meet polite multitude activists
1100 Welcome address in a Main Hall
Speech by Pro tem Chairman of Friends of Pakatan Rakyat -
Speech by PKR, DAP as well as PAS representatives
Introduction to polite multitude movements
FairComment
Abolish ISA Movement UK
Malaysia Freedom Film Festival
Malaysia Forum

Lunch served by Mango Tree Restaurant

Keynote Speech by Pakatan Rakyat Secretariat Co-ordinator for PKR Zaid Ibrahim
Speech by Raja Petra Kamarudin
Q & A session
1600 End of conference

This eventuality will paint a largest entertainment of overseas Malaysians to direct a nation that we can all be proud of as well as call home.

Do move along your complete family. For those with young young kids families, provisions will be done for aplayroom as well as creche.

To join us upon this momentous occasion, greatfully indicate your interest by regist! ering on line athttp://fprlaunch.eventbrite.com

Do register early as seats are limited as well as greatfully pass this invitation to your Malaysian friends.

Be partial of a torch that lights a spirit of hope for Malaysia.

FRIENDS OF PAKATAN RAKYAT

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Najib grilled on Scorpene missiles cost, Altantuya tryst in S'pore

Wong Choon Mei, Malaysia Chronicle

As a D-date nears for an explosive London meeting in in between a MACC as well as in isolation questioner P Balasubramaniam, opposition leaders have been redoubling efforts to get Prime Minister Najib Razak to come clean upon a squeeze of dual Scorpene submarines as well as a attempted attempted murder of Mongolian translator Altantuya Shaariibuu, who had acted as a match in a exorbitantly-priced deal.

PKR autarchic council part of Badrul Hisham Shaharin dismissed a first salvo, calling upon Home Minister Hishamuddin Hussein to confirm if latest news reports were loyal a Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission would finally send 3 officers to London to take down a statement from Bala, a in isolation eye hired by Najib's tighten associate Razak Baginda.

Badrul additionally indicted a budding minister of buckling to pressure from a Singapore supervision over a multi-billion ringgit railway-land swap understanding which he pronounced disadvantaged Malaysia. Was Najib being 'blackmailed' as well as Malaysia put to ransom? Badrul urged his colleagues in Parliament to lift a issue.

Bala has pronounced in a sworn statement which Najib was a a single who introduced Altanutya as Aminah to Razak Baginda during a solid uncover in Singapore. Does this mean which a Singapore authorities have report or photographs which could inculpate Najib? Can this be because a PM is so ready to determine to Singapores terms in a railway-land deal, Badrul told Malaysia Chronicle.

Despite swirling speculation which Altantuya was his chick upon a side prior to he passed her onto Baginda, Najib has confirmed his innocence as well as sworn upon a Quran which he had never met her. Baginda has however certified a sexual attribute with Altantuya.

Meanwhile, PKR Member of Parliament for Batu Tian Chua sought to table an puncture suit to discuss a co! st of ac quiring dual sorts of missiles for a submarines purchased by Najib when he was invulnerability minister in 2002.

According to Tian, there was a possible acceleration of during least twenty percent in a final squeeze cost for a 40 SM 39 Exocet Block 2 missiles as well as thirty Black Shark torpedoes. He pronounced Malaysian lawmakers needed to examine a reason for a extra charge as well as discuss if it was a form of kickback as well as to whom.

A apart volume of 114 million euros was additionally paid to Perimekar, an problematic firm with links to Baginda, though was booked as fees for co-ordination as well as await services. Despite public outrage as well as accusations which this was tantamount to commission, a supervision has refused to proceed any examine for possible corruption.

The sum marketplace cost costs of a dual sorts of missiles amounted to 182.8 million euros. But a Malaysian governments cost of squeeze is 219.265 million euros. This equates to which a supervision had overpaid twenty per cent or 36.465 million euros compared to a marketplace price, Tian told Parliament upon Monday.

Tian additionally asked because until right divided a missiles, which were due to be delivered in in between 2008 as well as 2009, have not arrived. The guaranty for a submarines expired in May 2010. After May, there is no guaranty though a missiles have been not here yet, he said.

The Altantuya attempted attempted murder as well as a Scorpenes acquisition have been intertwined. The 28-year aged Altantuya was murdered in 2006 after she allegedly unsuccessful to pick up a elect of US$500,000 from Baginda for her purpose in assisting to tighten a deal.

Balasubramaniam, whom Baginda hired to watch over Altantuya, was upon a scene outside Bagindas home when she was taken divided by dual former bodyguards of Najibs as well as his wife Rosmah Mansors. The dual bodyguards have been found guilty of her attempted attempted murder as well as condemned to hang.

Bala fled ! a countr y after divulgence marvellous report joining Najib, Rosmah as well as Baginda to Altantuya as well as a Scorpenes purchase. He resurfaced late final year as well as offering to help MACC investigators if they concluded to encounter in London.

According to online news portal Malaysiakini, Bala's counsel Americk Singh Sidhu pronounced they were ready to encounter a MACC in in between July 5 as well as 7.

There is additionally a apart examine being conducted by French military upon a submarines deal. Investigations by Parisian authorities have been expected to finish within a next 2 to 3 months prior to being escalated to prosecutors to confirm if there is a case.

The sum costs for both submarines incompatible annual upkeep came up to 1.34 billion euros or about RM6.7 billion. The sum broke down to 969 million euros for a dual submarines, 219 million euros for missiles, 38 million euros for diverse apparatus as well as 114 million euros for coordination as well as await services.
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Separating state from party: The next generation of PKR leaders

Wong Choon Mei, Malaysia Chronicle

PKR broke convention when it separated a functions of a state administration department from a celebration by appointing clamp boss Azmin Ali to conduct a Selangor division, a position traditionally held by a Mentri Besar.

Selangor is PKR's main state as good as a jewel in a Pakatan Rakyat's crown. Sunday's proclamation is a systemic shift directed during ensuring vital check-and-balance as good as which celebration leaders cannot abuse state coffers for their personal advantage. It is a pierce which Umno warlords would never allow their celebration to pull through.

Unfortunately, a personalities involved as good as their infighting has dark what is actually a unequivocally good move, a natural suggestion for mending transparency. It is also one of many long-lasting structures which PKR needs to set up to strengthen itself as good as to protect a voters.

The evident greeting to final night's proclamation has been one often of surprise. The knee-jerk greeting is which de-facto PKR conduct Anwar Ibrahim is only loitering selecting in between Mentri Besar Khalid Ibrahim as good as Azmin. And it is a matter of time prior to Azmin goes after Khalid again. In alternative words, a thumbs down.

But demeanour some-more closely. Even if Azmin is unsatisfied, a complement stays. He won't be able to reason both posts - not since Anwar as good as a celebration leadership do not certitude him though since this is a systemic revamp which will remain in place. If PKR suddenly dispenses with it, afterwards this is when a rakyat should raise their voices as good as complain, this is when a supporters as good as constituents should sound warning bells since it opens a doorway to crime as good as abuse of power.

The subsequent point. Is Azmin unequivocally so corrupt? Who says so? What was he prior to! March 8 , 2008? How come he is right away Khir Toyo Junior? And is Khalid so clean? He is also a former Umno man as good as so is Zaid Ibrahim - let's be frank, both organisation have their own histories. Why is it which they have both reformed whilst Azmin has sold his soul? It unequivocally depends on your turn of gullibility though according to a latest headlines reports from a Umno media, Azmin is right away some-more open to crime than Khalid as good as Zaid.

One way to discuss it if this is constant is to demeanour during what any of a 3 organisation has finished in a past 10 years. Without wanting to worship Azmin or to run down a well-respected Khalid as good as Zaid , isn't it a actuality which Azmin fought as good as struggled during a past 10 years? Without him, PKR may never have been born. If Azmin sees only Ringgit signs, since didn't he join Ezam, Salehuddin as good as which bunch? If allegations have been constant which Umno paid DAP's Hee Yit Foong RM25 million, suppose what sort of figure Azmin could command? Why should he wait?

But sadly, these questions have been overlooked amidst a slew of turn in cold blood topsy-turvy by a Umno press. So bad was a negative broadside which primarily celebration stalwarts feared Anwar competence check making any changes during all. But right away which such a pierce has been pushed through, there is service among many stalwarts in a party.

Of course, there will be only as many detractors who will impugn it from different angles. They won't be completely off-mark either since any evidence has a own strengths as good as a actual doing will need give-and-take. But it is a good process as good as a cut-off indicate comes when a issues which surround it have been on purpose misinterpreted as good as used with malice to conflict a celebration for a purpose of destabilizing it or for manipulation for personal as good as vested interests.

That there is intense adversary in between Azmin, Khalid as good as Zaid is for sure. That they any w! ish to b e a subsequent Timbalan Presiden is a given, in any case of any medium postponement by their particular aides.

So, is which wrong? Is it assumed for them to wish to compete? Would it have PKR stronger if a next-generation leaders were deferential yes-men who would only brave go for it when Anwar gives a green light?

No, though PKR leaders have to be unequivocally clever since they can unwitting stone their own boat. Their vessel is many some-more fragile than they think. Firstly, a notice which they have been a darlings of a civic citizenry is no longer true. This is a actuality they must arise up to as good as put right rught away - not only rush to urge communications with a farming electorate. The actuality is they have turn pitifully weak in both a civic as good as farming arenas interjection to missteps as good as bad advice of a past year.

Possibly, there is still sufficient time to get going - though only barely. The hope of PKR well-wishers is which Anwar won't take a breather right away which he has authorised this change. He unequivocally needs to do many some-more as good as many some-more quickly.

As for a by-now infamous G15, there has been so many hype even a little of a strongest of PKR supporters demand it is not a gossip though an open secret. They even explain it is a actuality good known to people who matter in a party.

Yet many of a tip echelon have been baffled. To them, it is unequivocally not constant as good as although none of them deny there is adversary in between Azmin, Khalid as good as Zaid, they have been repelled during a turn of media opportunism as good as never expected such a circus. Some of them told Malaysia Chronicle perhaps 3 or 4 federal lawmakers constant to Azmin were perplexing to pull his case though not in a furious manner referred to in a press.

How which was spun in to a Group of 15 with a usual bulletin to topple a waffly Khalid as good as how an desirous Azmin has been turned in to a hurtful ogre, whilst Khalid! as good as Zaid have turn a brand new saints as good as saviors is a consternation to them.

Even Azmin is left wondering since he is right away viewed as a many greedy-for-money man in PKR, a weakest couple as good as a Malay ultra who poses a greatest risk to a party's multi-racial as good as magnanimous policies.

The answer as good as main law-breaker is of course a overdone speculation in a press. And which was often Umno-initiated with a help of a little inner saboteurs in PKR itself. After all, if Azmin has his own gang, since not Khalid or Zaid for which matter! Or a little alternative unseen palm or organisation for which matter! Politics is indeed murky as good as many of a time intentionally so.

Whether PKR - with a horrible lack of structural strengths as good as a horde of untested as good as unreliable lawmakers - can survive will ultimately depend on either Malaysians still believe in a party's conflict cry for justice as good as reform.

An unfriendly media is not something brand new as good as a negative promotion will get a 1,000 times worse as a 13th GE nears. It is up to PKR to find a right tools to quarrel back as good as a good eggs in their basket will have to take a lead. They have to show which PKR can be salvaged as good as a reformasi celebration which Malaysians knew as good as upheld in a past is still alive as good as has not been hijacked as good as diverted from a goals.
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PKR splits state from party, initially asked Zaid to head S'gor

"We know our weaknesses and we are trying to address them as quickly as we can. We don’t want to be the sick man in Pakatan, but at every step of the way, our No. 1 enemy keeps trying to block us with their media manipulation".

By Malaysia Chronicle

The PKR retreat ended with de-facto head Anwar Ibrahim taking steps aimed at strengthening the party for the next general elections, in particular to safeguard jewel in the Pakatan crown, the Selangor state government.

As advised by Selangor Mentri Besar Khalid Ibrahim, Anwar agreed to separate the functions of the state administration from the party. He transferred the PKR state chief post to vice president Azmin Ali, who in turn yielded his Federal Territory chief post to Zaid Ibrahim. Khalid will remain as chief minister.

“These are good moves because it capitalizes on the different strengths of the personalities involved. In Azmin, Umno will find a very much tougher foe and this is what they have feared. It may be why there was so much media hysteria generated towards PKR in the past few days,” Batu MP Tian Chua told Malaysia Chronicle.

“Khalid is a good Mentri Besar, he has a natural multi-racial touch that goes down well with the Selangor people. Azmin keeps a much lower profile but he is very agile, a fighting-fit boxer when it comes to political strategy. Khir Toyo won’t stand a chance.”

Weak party building

Indeed, one of the main topics of discussion at the two-day retreat was to dissect why PKR’s party-building was weak even in the states that the Pakatan Rakyat controlled.

“The consensus from the leaders who attended was that governance in the Pakatan states was good but we did not put in enough effort to expand our party machinery or to reach out to voters. They blamed this for the recent loss in the Hulu Selangor by-election,” Tian said..

“For Selangor, which is PKR’s main state, Tan Sri Khalid acknowledged that he often had to give state matters priority over party matters. He suggested we split the functions, and initially, Zaid Ibrahim was proposed to take over as Selangor PKR chief. But later, because Azmin is more familiar with the grassroots here, Anwar decided to pass Selangor to Azmin and give FT to Zaid.”

Read more at: http://malaysia-chronicle.blogspot.com/2010/06/pkr-splits-state-from-party-zaid.html

The M-S Bridge

By Sakmongkol AK47

HRH the Sultan of Johor has publicly asked the government to reconsider construction of the infamous crooked bridge. Some bloggers have joined in the call on the government to do so. The bridge was conceived by the 4th Prime Minister of Malaysia. PM Najib said, he will look into it.

When Dr. Mahathir mooted the idea, he wasn't just motivated by commercial impulses, i.e. some contractors will get rich with the project. The same will happen if the bridge is approved by PM Najib. DR Mahathir was also motivated by strategic reasons. We aren't sure if this is the case with PM Najib.

You can already see the contrasting approaches between the former and present PMs. Dr Mahathir was all for the agreement and details of transaction with Singapore be made public. PM Najib prefers doing things on the quiet which is discomforting to Malaysians in general. No disrespects to Singapore, but ordinary Malaysians have this perception that in making deals with Singapore, they are always steps ahead. With a reticent and prone to reversals and retractions PM leading our country, we aren't sure what PM Najib has got himself into.

Will the PM consider this royal call? It all depends on the agreement ratified between the PM of Singapore and Malaysia recently. Until details of the agreement are made public everyone is in the dark. We wish our PM is forthcoming in the details of the agreement. The devil is in the details.

Otherwise, this muted treatment of the agreement will be treated with suspicion. What took ages to be resolved can be settled in a few hours meeting. OUR MPs must ask the question and the PM cannot NOT answer their questions in parliament.

Read more at: http://sakmongkol.blogspot.com/2010/06/m-s-bridge.html

10MP: Cronies First, Corruption Now

The 10MP makes no effort to reduce government spending in areas that hurt ordinary Malaysians the most: defence expenditure, bureaucratic wastage, and mega-projects that provide huge profits to ministers and developers, but little or no benefit to the people.

By Pak Bui

The 10^th Malaysian Plan (10MP) is a misnomer. It does not serve Malaysian interests, and there is no viable planning on display.

The 10MP was “unveiled” with typical fanfare in Parliament like some work of art. The document was bound in a gaudy colourful cover, designed to distract from its lack of content and economic innovation. The 10MP is another prime example of outward appearance trumping substance in Malaysian politics.

Its true slogan should have been splashed across the cover: “Cronies First, Profits Now” (to paraphrase Apco and 1Israel).

The five year economic plan lays out a “development” expenditure of RM230 billion. The focus is fixed relentlessly on maximising income for UMNO cronies, and ensuring UMNO’s political survival, at the cost of ordinary Malaysians.

The 10MP makes no effort to reduce government spending in areas that hurt ordinary Malaysians the most: defence expenditure, bureaucratic wastage, and mega-projects that provide huge profits to ministers and developers, but little or no benefit to the people.

The 10MP provides pitifully inadequate encouragement for small- and medium-sized enterprises, crucial for our future. The blueprint pays no more than lip service to the training and education that are desperately needed to improve our employment prospects and income.

There is no substantial effort to improve the lives of the hardcore poor, including the neglected rural communities in Sarawak and Sabah, and the Orang Asli and estate Indians in peninsular Malaysia.

Read more at: http://hornbillunleashed.wordpress.com/2010/06/28/7782/

UMNOs Opportunistic Ulama

UMNOs Opportunistic Ulama
M. Bakri Musa

Like his predecessors Abdullah Badawi as great as Dr. Mahathir, Prime Minister Najib Razak forever proclaims Malaysia to be an Islamic state. Now with 40 young ulama fasten a party, Najib must feel which his avowal to be a truth. He could not be some-more wrong.

Yes, ulama fool around a executive purpose in an Islamic state. In his book, The Fall as great as Rise of a Islamic State, Noah Feldman attributed a longevity as great as name of progressing Islamic states to a vicious purpose of a ulama as great as scholars.

The Islamic ruling element is simple. Rulers have been to oversee according to Gods law, as stated in a Quran as great as elaborated in a hadith (sayings as great as practices of Prophet Muhammad, s.a.w.). The executive principle is, Command great as great as dissuade evil! As long as a woman monarch fulfils this obligation, his energy as great as management have been legitimate as great as deemed divinely-sanctioned.

It was a tribute to their domestic skills as great as intellectual bravery which those early scholars were able to formulate from a Quran as great as hadith a set of laws a Sharia which currently still governs a everyday lives of Muslims, even those not living in Islamic states. At a time a Sharia represented a quantum jump in a recognition of simple tellurian grace as great as rights. As Feldman noted, For many of a history, Islamic law offering a many liberal as great as humane authorised beliefs available anywhere in a world.

The executive injunction of a Sharia is which all, rulers as great as a ruled alike, have been governed by it. No one, not even a sultan, is exempted. That is a order of law during a core.

The ulamas alternative vital contribution was which they exerted a required checks as great as balances upon a powers of a rulers. It was a scholars, not a rulers, who determined what was great or evil. A woman monarch had to reside by a decisions of ! a ulama, for not you do so would meant deviating from Gods law, a certain route towards de-legitimatizing a rulers authority.

These two executive elements (fidelity to a order of law as great as institutionalized checks as great as balances upon a powers of a rulers by a ulama) accounted for a conspicuous success as great as continuation of those early Islamic states.

The deficiency of both is what dooms many so-called Islamic states today, or in truth any state. Show me a backward society, as great as we will uncover a single which has no respect for a order of law as great as but an institutionalized system of checks as great as balances. This is true not usually in a Islamic World but additionally elsewhere. Sadly, Malaysia is fast headed there.

The many Islamic state currently is Iran. There a clergy category has assumed absolute power; there have been no checks as great as balances. Criticizing a mullahs is noticed as criticizing Islam; they to illustrate effectively put themselves on top of a law. Those who perspective Iran as a model Islamic state obviously missed a essence as great as beauty of Islamic beliefs of governance.

UMNOs Ulamas

As for a 40 ulama fasten UMNO recently, a charitable partial of me would similar to to hold which this was a eminent move upon their part, an try during emulating their shining very old predecessors. That is, they saw a excesses of UMNO as great as felt compelled to step in to save a princely establishment by on condition which much-needed checks as great as balances.

Alas which was not a reason, during slightest not a a single stated by their representative, Fadlan Othman, a junior educational during a internal university. His primary reason for fasten was to proselytize from within, for a great of UMNO members whom we feel have been ripe to have their knowledge, religiosity as great as spirituality uplifted. (Tujuan utama kami memasuki UMNO adalah untuk berdakwah dari dalam, untuk kebaikan ahli-ahli UMNO yan! g kami r asakan amat subur untuk proses peningkatan ilmiah, keagamaan dan kerohanian.)

Well, during slightest he review UMNO members well. we would have been satisfied if he had a some-more modest goal, similar to perplexing to have UMNO as great as a members some-more honest as great as reduction corrupt.

I am heartened which a proclamation of a ulama fasten UMNO coincided with a partys rescinding a progressing preference to approve sports gambling. If a two were in truth related, afterwards which positively was a great beginning. Now if as a outcome of their fasten a party, UMNO would additionally acknowledgement money politics as great as corruption haram, afterwards they indeed have been upon a trail of rehabilitating a organization as great as a members.

The realist in me however, saw something else; a bunch of folks with differently unpromising careers spotting an opportunity to allege themselves. we see no difference between them as great as a many not-too-talented young Malays who, unable to allege upon their own prowess, sought a clientele of UMNO.

UMNO is inundated with lawyers who cannot draw up a coherent contract as great as engineers some-more adept during building a overpass with some-more water flowing over than underneath it. This ultimate stand of recruits is no different. Google their names as great as their scanty erudite output becomes apparent. As for their khutba (sermons), which as great have been canned, constructed by a cabinet during headquarters.

Just as these ulama have been using UMNO to allege their careers, so as great is UMNO exploiting them to raise a partys tarnished Islamic image, what with a foolish progressing preference to allow betting in sports. These ulama have been there to sanitize UMNO. Whitewash is a some-more suitable term.

These ulama ought to be reminded which exploitative relationships, personal as great as political, rarely endure.

The game which UMNO is intent in as great as where these ulama have been usually a! s great peaceful participants is a very old one. Throughout history, locally as great as elsewhere, a powers-that-be had successfully co-opted peaceful ulama. Ulama, similar to alternative mortals, can be bought; usually a cost varies. For some, a promise of a solid salary, government-issued car as great as quarters would do it; for others, an considerable title. However, whether a cost is a penny or a pot of gold, a harlot is still a hooker.

Prime Minister as great as UMNO President Najib Razak is positively great attuned to these corrupt relationships. Consider his bald make a difference during a new Sibu by-election, You help me, we help you!

In Malaysia, a marketplace for ulama is saturated. Seen in which light, their zeal to stick on UMNO is understandable. They have been positively you do themselves a little good, during slightest in this world, but whether they have been additionally you do a community any great is an additional matter.

These domestic ulama, whether in UMNO or PAS, have been a distant cry from those shining progressing ones for whom a auspicious saying, Scholars have been a heirs of a Prophet! was apt. Likewise, todays Islamic states, Malaysia included, have been a distant cry from those progressing ones, which Feldman describes as so Islamic which they did not need a verb to describe themselves.

No consternation Malaysian Prime Ministers from Mahathir to Najib have been obsessed in job Malaysia an Islamic state. They have to, for Malaysia has nothing to uncover for it but a label.

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