Hishammuddin is Malaysia's No. 1 Enemy of Justice

Lawyers for Liberty

LFL announces its Top 10 Enemies of the Administration of Justice in conjunction with World Human Rights Day on 10 December 2010.

How do we explain the persistent and blatant injustices that are done in the name of law and order? How do we pretend there are still integrity, justice and fairness in the courts, the AGs Chambers and the police force?

In order to put the abysmal state of affairs in perspective, LFL has compiled a Top 10 list of Enemies of the Administration of Justice:

1. Hishammuddin Hussein, Home Minister

2. Abdul Gani Patail, Attorney-General

3. Musa Hassan and Ismail Omar, former and current Inspector-General of Police

4. Mohd Bakri Zinin, Federal CID director

5. Yusof Zainal Abiden, Solicitor General II, chief prosecutor in Anwars case

6. Zaki bin Azmi, Chief Justice and former UMNO legal adviser

7. Mohd Zabidin Mohd Diah, High Court Judge in Anwars case

8. The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission

9. Corrupt and unprincipled doctors like Siew Sheue Feng and Razali Ibrahim of HKL (Anwars case) and others like Abdul Karim Tajuddin of Serdang Hospital (A.Kugans case) who work hand in glove with the AGs Chambers and the police to manipulate evidence including medical and post-mortem reports.

10. The Lembaga Penasihat under the PMs Department that acts as a special court for cases under the ISA, Emergency (Public Order and Prevention of Crime) Ordinance and Dangerous Drugs (Special Preventive Measures) Act. The Lembaga Penasihat is therefore responsible for perpetuating the detention without trial of thousands of detainees.

The best explanation that perhaps sums up the continuing perversion of justice is from Franz Kafka:

Whatever impression he makes on us, he is the servant of the Law. He belongs to the Law and is not answerable to human judg! ment.

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Letter & Opinion From Joe Public

CJ's alleged misconduct: Karpal to move motion

By FMT Staff

PETALING JAYA: DAP chairman Karpal Singh is moving a parliamentary motion to debate on the alleged misconduct of the Chief Justice of Malaysia, Zaki Azmi, for allegedly admitting that he had bribed court officials.

In a press statement today, the Bukit Gelugor MP said that he has sent a letter to Dewan Rakyat Speaker Pandikar Mulia Amin to notify of his intention to move the motion which he termed as "definite, urgent and of public importance".

"I seek leave to move the house... to discuss the conduct of Zaki who has completely ignored my letter of complaint dated Aug 8 against him for misconduct despite he being required in his capacity as the public authority and not judicial to do so pursuant to Section 13 of the Judges Code of Ethics, 2009," said Karpal.

Karpal said that in his complaint he had stated that Zaki has misbehaved himself when he gave a speech on June 11, 2010, at the prize-giving ceremony at the Federal Court Excellent Service Awards.

Zaki had purportedly said: "I will not sympathise with those involved in corruption, be it in the form of monetary gains or mobile phones, flight tickets, hotel vouchers or anything else. Some say if there are no givers, there won't be any corruption, but I say if there are no receivers, there will be no givers."

"(He said this) when he had, in fact, publicly admitted on Nov 7, 2008, in Kuching to a corrupt practice by giving a bribe to court officials when he was in private practice in 1987 thereby breaching Section 7(8) of the Judges Code of Ethics, 2009.

The section states: "A judge shall not conduct himself in any manner which is not befitting of a judge or which brings or which is calculated to bring disrepute to his office as a judge."

Karpal added that Zaki had not replied to his letter despite public reminders and a letter dated Dec 1, demanding that the ch! ief just ice respond in seven days.

He said that the conduct of the chief justice must be discussed by the House as the he should not be allowed to defy a law passed by Parliament.

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Menantu Presiden PAS Jangan Jadi Pengacau!!!!!

NOTA EDITOR: Tak habis-habis lagi kerenah Ustaz Zaharuddin ni. Tidak cukup beliau ditolak oleh ahli-ahli di Kawasan beliau sendiri (PAS Subang), sekarang ni beliau nak buat kacau di tempat lain pula. Beliau merasakan title menantu Presiden tu besar sangat.

Saya hairan, apa fungsi Ustaz Zaharuddin ni? Kalau beliau bukan menantu Presiden, adakah beliau akan diberikan jawatan yang beliau pegang sekarang? Setakat yang kita tahu kesemua jawatan beliau adalah jawatan lantikan. Baik di Pemuda PAS Pusat, di SYura, di negeri dsbnya. Ertinya, beliau tidak popular dan tidak diterima ahli hatta di Kawasan beliau sendiri.

Kalau ahli-ahli di Kawasan beliau sendiri menolak beliau, inikan pula ahli-ahli PAS seluruh Malaysia.

Masih teringat kesah beliau lari meninggalkan Muktamar PAS Subang 2009 sebelum proses pemilihan tamat. Akibat sedar beliau ditolak ahli-ahli PAS Subang, beliau tidak tunggu pun Muktamar tamat walaupun beliau pemangku YDP PAS Kawasan. Beliau pulang awal seawal-awalnya.

Nasihat saya pada Ustaz Zaharuddin, berhenti jadi pengacau. Kalau tidak mahu menguntungkan PAS, duduk senyap-senyap.

Jangan jadi pengacau sehingga PAS rugi dan kalah. Pegi muhasabah kenapa ahli-ahli PAS Subang sendiri tolak awak walaupun awak tu pemangku YDP PAS Kawasan. Sepatutnya dgn title awak "ustaz" dan menantu Presiden, awak tiada masaalah untuk menggantikan jawatan YDP PAS Subang.

Itu lebih aula bagi awak.

Nasihat saya pada PAS Subang supaya jangan mencalonkan orang ini di kerusi DUN Paya Jaras. Ia akan merugikan PAS.

Kalau setakat title menantu tu TIADA MAKNA sebenarnya. Anak dan isteri Nabi NUH AS pun mati lemas dalam banjir besar. Kalau banding Nabi Nuh dengan Presiden PAS, Nabi NUH jauhhhhhh lebih tinggi darjatnya di sisi Allah berbanding Presiden PAS.

KOD ETIKA PAKATAN RAKYAT UNTUK AHLI PAS

Juga, antara projek beliau yang saya dengar adalah mahu mengadakan "Kod Etika Pakatan Rakyat" bagi semua ahli-ahli PAS. Beliau telah pun menyiapkan deraf dokumen da! n mahu M ajlis Syura Ulama PAS meluluskan dokumen tersebut.

Bukannya nak cari jalan jatuhkan UMNO. Beliau sedang mencari jalan untuk melemahkan PAkatan Rakyat. Soalan saya kepada beliau, mengapa tak komen pasal pemimpin-pemimpin PAS yang berjumpa dalam gelap dengan UMNO seterusnya BERBOHONG kepada ahli-ahli PAS? Tidakkah itu memerlukan kod etika juga???

Maklumat saya dapat, kod etika ini ditulis kerana marahkan ahli2 PAS yang menolak idea kerajaan PERPADUANG. Antara faktor yang dilihat sebagai mengagalkan gagasan perpaduang ini adalah sikap ahli2 PAS yang "pro" kepada Pakatan Rakyat. Maka, ahli-ahli PAS perlu disedarkan terhadap kedudukan mereka dalam Pakatan Rakyat. Yakni, ahli-ahli PAS wajib mengikut kehendak kepimpinan PAS sekalipun kehendak itu berlawanan dengan kehendak Pakatan Rakyat.

Bagi saya, kod etika ini tidak lebih satu dokumen yang mahukan ahli-ahli PAS memberi ketaatan membuta tuli supaya idea bekerjasama dengan UMNO lebih mudah diterima dan diijual pada ahli-ahli PAS. Itulah tugas Ustaz Zaharuddin Mohammad.

Sekali lagi saya nyatakan Ustaz Zaharuddin ni pengacau dalam PAS. Tidak lebih dari itu. Tiada tindakan dan idea beliau yang menguntungkan PAS. Kalau tidak, masakan beliaau ditolak oleh Kawasan beliau sendiri.


Wallahualam

ps di bawah artikel dari Al Bakistani.



Rabu, 2010 Disember 08
ULAMA PELAPIS PAS HARAMKAN BUKU DR MUJAHID?

Tengahari tadi, dapat satu SMS yang berbunyi;

"Salam. Muzakarah buku 'menuju PAS baru' oleh ulama pelapis pada 5 Disember, dihadiri oleh 32 pakar Syariah seluruh malaysia telah meresolusikannya sebagai TERSASAR"

Tadi, berlaku satu wacana. Ahli penalnya adalah, penulis buku sendiri, Dr Mujahid Yusuf Rawa, Dr Ghazali Muhyiddin [penganalisa politik], Ustaz Zaharuddin Mohammad [Ahli majlis Syura PAS] dan Dr Abdul Aziz Bari [Penganalisa dan pakar rujuk perlembagaan Malaysia] yang membicarakan tentang buku ini.

Di Akhir forum, Ustaz Zaharuddin Muhammad yang merupakan Ahli Majlis Syura Ulam! a PAS me nyatakan, pada 5 disember baru-baru ini, Ulama Pelapis PAS Pusat telah mengadakan perbincangan tentang buku ini dan keputusannya adalah buku ini perlu DINILAI semula.

Sebelum penutup, sebagai menjawab, Dr Mujahid Yusuf Rawa menyatakan bahawa beliau tidak ada sebarang masalah tentang komentar dari Ulama Pelapis PAS Pusat tentang buku tulisan beliau, tetapi beliau menyatakan bahawa beliau tidak dijemput untuk menyatakan pandangan di hadapan ulama Pelapis Pusat itu terhadap buku yang dilihat seperti di "haramkan" kan itu.

Dikhabarkan pula bahawa Ustaz Ridhwan Mat Nor ada menyatakan bahawa beliau akan menulis buku untuk mengkritik balik tulisan dari buku "Menuju PAS Baru" ini.

Kita sedang menanti kehadiran buku jawab balas, dan kita sedang nantikan wacana terbuka tentang buku "Menuju PAS baru" dan jawapan balas terhadap buku ini, dengan dihadiri penulis ke dua-dua belah pihak, untuk diwacanakan secara ilmiyyah.

"Wacana ke arah kesegaran minda anak Muda"

sekian

Wallahu 'Alam


Al-Bakistani

- Sri Indah [b] Sg Buloh
9 Disember 2010 * 2:45 Pagi

Letter & Opinion From Joe Public

Thousands of 'Sino-natives' may end up status-less

By Queville To

KOTA KINABALU: The authority of the Native Court in Sabah may be on the verge of unravelling itself and throwing into doubt the status of tens of thousands of Sino-natives in the state.

Sabah DAP is concerned that a “politically motivated” investigation of the Sino-native status of their boss Jimmy Wong, who is also Sri Tanjung assemblyman, would open a Pandora's box of claims and counter-claims across the state.

DAP secretary Edwin Bosi warned that the move would have far-reaching impact on the status of children of mixed parentage.

"The issue of whether one is a native or not, should be left to the Native Court to decide without interference by the government," said Bosi.

He called on the Sabah government to let the Native Court handle all native-related matters, and resume the issuance of the native certificates immediately.

“It is legal for anyone to present himself or herself to the Native Court if he or she would like to be known or identified as a Sino-native or a native,” he said.

He added that Sabah DAP strongly supported the calls to strengthen the Native Court in Sabah as proposed during a public forum on the indigenous legal system organised by the Human Rights Commission Malaysia (Suhakam) here on Oct 12.

“This (issue) is very relevant and timely,” he said.

Bosi was responding to a statement by PBS vice-president-cum assemblyman for Kadamaian, Herbert Timbon Lagadan, who said he was puzzled why Sabah DAP is worried over Wong’s Sino-native status.

“Let me be very clear with Timbon that Sabah DAP is not only concerned about Wong but also the thousands of Sino-natives who are now in limbo because the issuance of Native Certificate was stopped by the government in 1984.

“Those who have the certificates issued by the Native Court are now wondering what will happen to their certificates because Samsudin (Yahya, the Sekong assemblyman) and Hajiji (Noor, the Local Government and Housing Minister) can question them.

"How about the children of native women married to orang putih, Indian, Pakistanis, Timorese, and so on?” asked Bosi, alluding to the off-spring of several senior state politicians and officials.

Chinese among earliest settlers

Bosi reminded Timbon that it was Samsudin who had first questioned the authenticity of the Native Certificate belonging to Wong during the State Legislative Assembly sittings two years in a row.

He noted that to clarify the matter, Wong had gone to the district chief of Kota Kinabalu, OKK William Mojimbun, to authenticate his Native Certificate and status.

Because it was a high-profile case, Mojimbun had to refer it to his boss and a special committee comprising, among others, Sabah Law Association (SLA) president John Sikayun and State Attorney Chambers’ representative Juprin Wong Adamal was established by the Yang diPertua Negeri office to interview Wong.

The matter died down until Hajiji informed the State Legislative Assembly last month during its last sitting that Wong’s Native Certificate was genuine but he was not qualified to possess it.

Hajiji, who is also Umno Sulaman representative, said that the special committee had made the finding and that he would instruct the Native Court to revoke Wong's certificate.

Bosi, however, reiterated that as far as Sabah DAP is concerned, Wong is a Sino-Kadazan.

“Sabah DAP will continue to say that Huguan Siou and PBS president (Joseph Pairin Kitingan) has turned his back on a native when that particular native needs his support.

"Whether he (Pairin) likes it or not, the Sino-natives have been staunch supporters of PBS and the KDCA (Kadazandusun Cultural Association).

“Unfortunately, they (Sino-natives) are not even good enough to be included under the definition of 'KadazanDusun'.

"Sadly, Pairin, Mositun and Timbon just turned a deaf ear in the State Legislative Assembly when 'one of them' is questioned about his Native Certificate by an Umno assemblymen,” he said.

He also reminded Timbon that the Chinese were among the earliest to settle in North Borneo and many had married natives thus their children would be Sino-natives.

“Fortunately or unfortunately, their children have Chinese-sounding surnames in line with their tradition. However, they can find remedy in the Native Court if one of their parents or ancestors could be categorised as Sino-native which would then entitle them to the rights of a native.

“This is exactly what happened to Wong when on June 25, 1981. The Native Court in Kota Kinabalu duly accepted and endorsed his Native Certificate,” Bosi said.

Gloomy Christmas because federal welfare aid to Sabah delayed

from Free Malaysia Today - Free and Independent by FMT Team

By Luke Rintod

KOTA KINABALU: Hundreds of welfare recipients in the state have been told that they will have to bear with a delay in getting their special monthly aid for the time being because of a delay in federal funds.

The state government said the delay in disbursing the special monthly allowance to deserving citizens in various districts in Sabah is due to a failure by the state government to receive funds from the federal government.

State Community Development and Consumer Affairs Assistant Minister, Herbert Timbon Lagadan, admitted that the state Welfare Department, which oversees the disbursement of various welfare aid here, has been unable to disburse the aid on time for the past few months due to the delay.

"Also recipients who do not yet have bank accounts, will see a further delay receiving their allowance," he said when approached by FMT on the issue today following complaints by the elderly.

Under a special arrangement with the federal government last year, the monthly aid was increased from RM90 to RM300 for the needy including single mothers, handicapped persons and qualified elderly (above 60 years).

However, some of the welfare recipients, especially from the district of Kota Belud, have been complaining that they had not received the aid since either August/September this year.

They also complained that there had been no notice of the delay and that they had been given all kinds of excuses with some told they were no longer qualified for aid and that there would be new 'screening' before they could be considered eligible.

Lagadan, who is the Kadamaian assemblyman in Kota Belud, admitted that there is a fresh 'screening' on the living conditions of those who had received aid for a year.

"Our welfare officers will visit their houses to ascertain their qualification before deciding to continue the aid," he said adding that the screening is only for those who have received aid for one year.

The state Welfare Department comes under the Ministry of Community Development and Consumer Affairs headed by Minister Azizah Mohd Dun.

Also read:

State 'pulls back' RM300 allowance for poor

Sabah poverty: EPU formula all wrong, says Sipaun

from Free Malaysia Today - Free and Independent by FMT Team

By Dominic Legeh

KOTA KINABALU: Sabah continues to top the list of poor states in the country because the federal government's allocation for each state is based on the number of Malaysian citizens in each state and not the actual population.

Former Malaysian Human Rights Commission (Suhakam) vice-chairman, Simon Sipaun said the Malaysia Plan formula which was used by the Economic Planning Unit (EPU) was not feasible for Sabah because it did not take into account the thousands of illegal immigrants.

He said nine years ago when Suhakam was under the chairmanship of Musa Hitam, they had a dialogue in Kuala Lumpur which involved the relevant ministers and the EPU.

“During the meeting, I asked (the EPU) how they allocated money to all the states when formulating the Malaysia Plan.

"In the case of Sabah, I said, there are many illegal immigrants in Sabah and supposing that we have half a million illegal immigrants in Sabah, do you take into account the total number of people in Sabah when you allocate the money or not,” he recalled.

Sipaun said the answer given to him was that the EPU only took into account the actual number of Malaysians who are in Sabah.

“I told them this was not fair because if there are only one million registered Malaysian citizens in Sabah, but the overall number of people in Sabah included 500,000 illegal immigrants then when we (in Sabah) get the RM1 million allocation we have to share it among 1.5 million people.

“I also explained to them why it is not fair because the illegal immigrants still have to go to the hospitals, schools maybe, they use the roads and everything and so we (Sabahans) are actually short-changed.

"The EPU's response was that they didn't know the figure. I told them that it is their job to know the actual number of people (in Sabah) because if not who else would know about it.

“When I came back to Sabah later, I wrote to the (then) Sabah state secretary (KY Mustafa) to tell him that I was very surprised with what I heard (during the meeting) and I asked if he can find out what the actual situation was.

“I got a response from KY Mustafa. He said he had referred it to the state cabinet and that was all that I heard about it,” he said.

Unfair to penalise voters

About a year ago, when Sipaun was still in Suhakam, he raised the matter again at another forum.

“But, even there nobody could confirm what was the actual situation. The person who gave the talk said they based their calculations according to the needs.

"But that does not answer the question. So I think this is probably one of the factors contributing to Sabah being the poorest state in the country.

“The other contributing factors are disproportionate allocation of funds. I noticed that the government is giving so much funds to the Barisan Nasional (BN) elected representatives only.

"But the money does not belong to the BN because it actually comes from the taxpayers.

“Why should they (those voting the oppositions) be deprived … I think it is most unfair and I don’t think it is correct for the government to do that.

“Although a constituency has an opposition elected representative, not everybody in that constituency voted for the opposition.

"There are also those who have supported and voted for the BN in the opposition-ruled constituencies, so why should they be penalised.

"I don’t know what is the rational … to me this is an abuse of the public funds,” he said of the special allocation announced by Chief Minister Musa Aman last month.

"It should be given to every elected representative. They should be enjoying the same amount of facilities.

“Why should you deprive the people’s representatives simply because they are in the opposition. They are also members of the Parliament and state legislative assembly,” he said.

Sipaun also disagreed with claims by some that the poverty situation in the state was due to ignorance of the federal government.

“I think it is just a matter of mindset … they want to penalise the opposition which, to me, should not be the case,” he said.

Sipaun was commenting on the World Bank’s 2010 Malaysia Economic Monitor (MEM) report that 40% of the country's poor were centred in Sabah.

The respected former civil servant is now a member of the Advisory Board of the Malaysian Anti- Corruption Commission (MACC). He was a Suhakam Commissioner from 2000 to 2010.

Also read:

No amenities in Sabah interior, says DAP

Gloomy Christmas because federal welfare aid to Sabah delayed

State polls: Mawan won't drop 'errant' reps, retaining all 8

By FMT Staff

KUCHING: Sarawak Progressive Democratic Party (SPDP) has dismissed speculations that it will be dropping several errant incumbents and fielding new faces in the 10th Sarawak state election.

Party president William Mawan Ikom ended rumours that he would be 'killing-off' leaders who were vocal and against his leadership.

He said SPDP will retain all its eight candidates including the highly controversial members of the "SPDP 5" who stormed out of a meeting last December in protest over Mawan's appointment of Nelson Balang Rining as party secretary-general after promising to reappoint Marudi assemblyman Sylvester Entri Muran.

The elected representatives who were part of the "SPDP 5' are Peter Nansian (Tasik Biru), Paulus Gumbang (Batu Danau) and Rosey Yunus (Bekenu). Others are Mas Gading parliamentarian Tiki Lafe and SPDP supreme council members George Garai, Peter Gani and Eda Egar.

In addition Merluan assemblyman Wong Judat too was recently rumoured to be on the chopping block after he openly criticised Mawan and deputy information minister Joseph Salang Gandum.

Said Mawan today: "We're retaining all the eight candidates. We are not dropping any incumbent but we are leaving it to the top Barisan Nasional leadership to decide on their placement based on ground information from the constituency as to BN's chances with the seat.

"SPDP is going with the BN coalition's approach which is to field only winnable candidates," said Mawan.

Currently SPDP is in eight constituencies. The eight representatives are Mawan in Pakan, Nansian, Peter Nyarok Entrie (Krian), Juda, Yunus, Entri, Gumbang and Rining (Ba'Kelalan).

Mawan said there was however no guarantee that the incumbents will be fielded in their existing constituencies.

"The seats belong to Barisan Nasional, SPDP is a member of that coalition. Incumbents may not be fielded in their respective constituency.

"We are looking at the situation collectively and will cooperate and focus on winning seats," he said.

Strategic swap

Meanwhile party insiders said that Mawan was quitely confident about swapping seats with coalition party members with the blessings of Sarawak BN chairman Taib Mahmud.

In November, much to the shock of SPDP members, Mawan had openly declared that he was willing to swap seats with other BN component parties.

On record, BN partner Parti Rakyat Sarawak (PRS) has said that it does not want to swap any of its nine seats. But Sarawak United People’s Party (SUPP) and Parti Pesaka Bumiputra Bersatu (PBB), however, have not responded to Mawan's statement.

But speculations are rife that Mawam and SUPP president George Chan are in heavy negotiation over viable seats. SUPP holds 11 seats.

"Mawan is fed-up with the situation within SPDP. It's been a frustrating battle for him.

"He's been hinting at swapping seats and its known now that he is talking to SUPP. Perhaps this is a better way to rid the party of the four ‘errant’ state reps.

"The CM has agreed to seat swapping among the members because he is only concerned about winning. He has to win big this time.

"Everyone here has woken up to the opposition. This is going to be a tough election for all concerned," the insider said.

Mawan has meanwhile pledged to counter an increasingly organised campaign by the opposition.

"The situation is different now compared to the 2006 state elections because the opposition have now brought into the state peninsular style politicking.

"Nevetheless we will not allow the opposition to twist issues because BN also will do the same with them," he said.

PAS lone ranger guns down Umno's puppet claim

from Free Malaysia Today - Free and Independent by FMT Team

By Zefry Dahalan

SEREMBAN - PAS' sole state assemblymen in Negri Sembilan, Mohd Taufek Abdul Ghani, has slammed Umno for branding his party as DAP and PKR's puppet.

The Paroi rep described the allegation and the accusation that PAS was not protecting the Malays and Islam as slanderous.

"The combination of PAS, DAP and PKR state government in Selangor is much better in safeguarding the welfare and rights of the Malays and Islam in the state.

"This was proven when the Pakatan Rakyat Selangor government allocated RM6 million yearly for religous schools compared to the Umno-led Negri Sembilan government which only allocated RM367,000 for January-October 2010,” he said.

"What will the Umno heroes say about this?” he asked.

Mohd Taufek stressed that Pakatan state governments were doing a better job than their rivals in taking care of the welfare of non-Malay communities as well.

"Selangor gives RM4 million yearly for Chinese and Tamil schools but Negri Sembilan only gives RM434,000 and RM422,000 respectively for January-October 2010,” he said.

Stressing that the facts and figures speak for themselves, the PAS rep called on Umno leaders to stop making slanderous remarks.

On another matter, Mohd Taufek also hit out at Syarikat Air Negri Sembilan (SAINS) which was corporatised since Jan 1, 2009.

Previously, the management of the state's water was under Jabatan Bekalan Air Negri Sembilan (JBANS) which is fully owned by the state government.

Referring to the National Audit Report for the year 2009, Mohd Taufek said that the state incurred RM40 million losses due to Non-Revenue Water (NRW).

"In 2007, NRW for Negri Sembilan was 53.1% which is second highest in Malaysia. In 2009, NRW for the state is 51.6% even though the management of the state water was taken over by SAINS,” he added.

You know nothing, west Malaysians

There are times for diplomacy. And there are times when you realise it would be as effective as launching kittens at a convoy of tanks.

I am sorry I have no kittens to offer you, west Malaysians. See, I am a little tired of hearing this one sentence: “It is the Sabahans/Sarawakians’ fault for choosing BN.”

According to many from the opposition, all east Malaysia needs is to spurn Barisan Nasional, embrace Pakatan Rakyat and all will be hunky dory.

Tell me this, will voting Pakatan Rakyat really make things better?

Will it fix our poverty levels?

Will it improve our infrastructure?

Will it truly address the growing income disparity between rich and poor?

Will it prevent west Malaysians from doing what they have been happily doing for the last few decades — plundering our natural resources to fund your development?

Look at KLCC. Now look at the rainforest in Sarawak, wait, what rainforest? There’s hardly any left since we sold most of it all off. Timber fetches good prices, you know.

Look at what you have and look at what we don’t.

Look at Kuala Lumpur and its shiny rails. Now, look at the rural villages in east Malaysia with neither piped water nor electricity.

You, the enemy

You complain we don’t let west Malaysians come over freely to work or live. You complain about all the immigration restrictions and how much it costs to fly over to Sabah or Sarawak.

“For that amount, I could fly to Hong Kong! Even Thailand is so much cheaper!”

Fine. Give our friendly Southeast Asian neighbours your tourist money while Norwegians pay ridiculous sums to come over and visit Sabah’s beaches, tour what’s left of its forests, traverse the wonders of Meliau Basin and climb Mount Kinabalu.

They know only too well it will probably be all gone in a few decades, destroyed to build another mall and more office complexes.

It is easy for you, armchair activists, to tell me what east Malaysians should do.

I will not listen to you. Not until you come to my state and you see all the things you don’t see in those polished Tourism Malaysia commercials.

See our rickety bridges. Our poor. The “black areas” in Kota Kinabalu locals fear to tread because they’re crime-ridden and controlled by local cartels of illegal immigrants. Houses on the outskirts of the state capital that are so close and yet, Telekom Malaysia doesn’t have enough land lines for them.

Come visit the Dayaks in Sarawak who are told they have suddenly become “Malay.” Walk the two-hour walk the Orang Asli people make to the nearest public transport just to get to the city.

In both Sabah and Sarawak the infrastructure is so poor, getting access to basic amenities is a struggle. For the people, it is all about trying to get through the next day, surviving.

Come then, you opposition flag-bearers and speak to these people who care nothing for all your high talk about Anwar Ibrahim and social justice. Can you give them schools or promise to restart the abandoned highway project, or fix the crippled TNB grid?

You whine when the electricity cuts out for even a few minutes. I grew up getting used to blackouts happening at least once a week.

Why am I here then, in a city I despise for its ugliness and worship of cars? It’s taken me years to learn not to despise you for not acknowledging me as Malaysian because I am not Malay, Chinese or Indian.

Why aren’t I back in Sabah, hugging trees, rallying the locals against the evil ruling coalition?

Because the only thing I can do well is write and I write so that maybe some of you west Malaysians who do read will finally know something about Sabah.

Know this at least: the problems in east Malaysia can’t be magically fixed with the power of the vote.

Know too that east Malaysians have long been let down by those who play at leadership when they care nothing for the people but everything for their own bank accounts.

So put down your latte and take a little time to understand why it is so hard for me not to hate you for speaking of what you do not know.

Money given to Chinese unregistered school, but Malay students who were promised in Egypt just ignored

Najib Tun Razak!



2,000 Malaysian students in Egypt in financial distressBy Dinesh KumarDecember 09, 2010KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 9 Some 2,000 students in Egypt are in dire need of financial aid after failing to get assistance from Putrajaya, several groups said today.
Persatuan Pengguna Islam Malaysia (PPIM) secretary general Dato Dr Maamor Osman said the students taking the medicine, dentistry and pharmacy course in Egyptian universities will be stranded if they do not receive any money soon.
Some of these students are in urgent need of RM 30,000 by January 2011. If this amount cannot be channelled to them in time, they will be stranded in Egypt, unable to pay their university fees, Maamor said in a press conference.
He said these students were originally financed by their families for the first year but were promised financial aid by the government from their second year onwards if they meet the requirements.
But they didnt receive anything. They did meet the requirements but they got nothing, Maamor said.

Maamor said the PPIM together with Perkasa, the Malaysian Youth Council, Gabungan Pelajar Melayu Semenanjung (GPMS) and Majlis Perunding Melayu had set up the Emergency Education Fund to collect the RM 30, 000 by the end of this month to help the students in need.
In the meantime, we also urge the GLCs to exercise their social responsibilities by contributing to the emergency fund, Maamor said.
We will set up a meeting with the Prime Minister. We believe only he can solve this problem. But if the PM himself cannot solve this, then we will bring this issue to the King, he added.
Maamor said even if the government and the GLCs provide financial assistance to the students in Egypt, the emergency fund will still be continued. It would become a ready-to-use fund.The st udents who would receive the financial aid will have to sign a pledge declaring that they would return and serve their country.
The pledge would also require them to contribute to the emergency fund.
However, Maamor told The Malaysian Insider that the pledge the students would sign is not legally binding. It all depends on the sincerity of their hearts. If they want to contribute, they should. But if they dont want to, its up to them.
Perkasa Youth chief Arman Azha Abu Hanifah expressed his sadness over the matter and also urged the GLCs to come forward and set up education funds.
I am saddened that our own students are not receiving any help for their education. I humbly ask all the GLCs to set up their own education funds to help the students. They are our future doctors, Arman said.
Maamor claimed that the government imports doctors, dentists and pharmacists from around the world and asked why cant the government spend the money on our own students and help them financially in the medical courses?
The NGOs have set up a CIMB bank account and have urged all Malaysians to donate to the fund. Go here
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Letter & Opinion From Joe Public

Akim agrees to accept Zaid Ibrahim, will let him be president

Zaid - finally gets to be celebration president!KUALA LUMPUR Former PKR emissary presidential contender Datuk Zaid Ibrahim has been in contention to take over a little Kelantan-based celebration Malaysian People's Justice Front or Akim that would be relaunched as his brand brand brand new political platform.

Akim boss Zakaria Salleh told The Malaysian Insider he was peaceful to let Zaid take over a celebration presidency.

It is understood that apart from Akim, a former Umno apportion has also been assembly with leaders representing alternative asleep parties.

Datuk Zaid has voiced his eagerness to join Akim, so you will welcome his admission into a party, pronounced Zakaria when contacted.

We have discussed a direction, as well as a celebration a care has concluded to accept Zaid. He has no personal interest, that you consider is his strength, he added.

Zakaria pronounced he was peaceful to resign as celebration boss if Zaid wishes to competition a post at a Akim annual ubiquitous assembly subsequent week.

If Zaid wants to competition a celebration presidency, you would step aside for him.

Why am you peaceful to palm over a presidency to Zaid? Because you consider he is a capable personality who can take Akim forward, he added.

Meanwhile, sources tighten to Zaid reliable that a former law apportion had met with Akim leaders as well as an central proclamation upon his brand brand brand new celebration would be done early subsequent month.

Many leaders of asleep parties together with Akim have met with Datuk Zaid. Datuk Zaid will have an announcement, maybe early subsequent month, pronounced a source who spoke upon condition of anonymity.

Forming a brand brand brand new celebration is not easy, it might take a single to dual years, so most substantially Zaid would join an existent party, a asleep celebration as his platform, ! he added .

Zaid had pronounced early this month about a need of a brand brand brand new political celebration as well as described existent parties as unwilling to have a mount upon fortifying elemental principles.

Akim was founded in 1995 though has been unable to have any impact, even in Kelantan that has been underneath PAS rule given 1990.

In 2008, a celebration contested in a Permatang Pauh by-election though a claimant Hanafi Mamat lost his deposition when he performed usually 92 votes.

Akim faced a care predicament recently though was resolved after intervention by a Registrar of Societies that after reliable a registration standing upon Dec 1.

For a subsequent ubiquitous election, Akim plans to competition in all parliamentary as well as state constituencies in Kelantan.

In Kelantan, you will margin our possibilities in all parliamentary as well as state seats, whilst for alternative states you are still in discussion, pronounced Zakaria.

- Malaysian Insider

Realmild not held in trust for Umno, court rules

Khalid was very happy with the courts decision today, December 10, 2010. File picKUALA LUMPUR, Dec 10 The High Court has effectively dismissed the notion of an Umno trust in its ruling today over the disputed sale of a block of Realmild Sdn Bhd shares.

The shadowy company has been alleged to be owned by the grand old political party to protect its business interests, since its set-up by four Malay newspapermen-turned-businessmen in the early 1990s.

Realmild had held a controlling stake in several conglomerates, including the public-listed Malaysian Resources Corporation Berhad (MRCB) and media giant New Straits Times Press Berhad (NSTP).

Today, former company director Khalid won his RM10 million suit against corporate player Datuk Seri Abdul Rahman Maidin over a disputed five per cent sale of a block of Realmild shares in 1999.

The latter had counter-sued Khalid for misrepresenting the true ownership of the shares in a bid to claim back a RM5 million payment after being told by then-Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad that Realmild belonged to Umno and that all the shareholders were only nominees.

Judge Datuk Mary Lim ordered Abdul Rahman to also pay RM70,000 in costs.

In reading out her decision, Lim said Abdul Rahman had failed to prove misrepresentation, noting the defendant is not a novice but an established player.

She said the evidence by another founding partner of Realmild, Datuk Ahmad Nazri Abdullah, had backed Khalids assertion that he owned the five per cent shares that were given to him as motivation to improve the business.

Its a very good decision, a beaming Khalid greeted reporters outside the courtroom this morning.

The retired accountant, who is now a commissioner with the recently set-up transport commission, applauded the judge for going back to the basics of corporate law.

The most important thing in corporate law is! that an y share... even 10 sen [amount] can be unitised to be put on a title... and no other law can say its not yours, he added.

Abdul Rahman was ordered to pay RM70,000 in costs. File picKhalid stressed that he did not care that he would finally be paid the full amount for the sale of the shares but that the court decision had exonerated him as an Umno crony and proxy in public.

Is five per cent a proxy sum? he asked, rhetorically.

The most important fact is that Im never, never a crony. Im not because Im a professional. All this while Ive been saying that, he said, repeatedly.

The suit was mooted by Khalid in March 2005 against his successor, Abdul Rahman, to claim RM10 million in payment for a block of the companys shares.

In taking their quarrel over the sale price of Realmilds shares from a decade ago, Khalid and Abdul Rahman have showed how the political giant has fed and sustained its tight grip on power through control of several conglomerates starting from the early 1990s.

The nexus between Umno and certain conglomerates has been revealed in the court hearing that started in August this year involving the past shareholders of Realmild, the shadowy company that took over NSTP in 1993, and MRCB.

A number of high-flying corporate figures entered the witness stand, most notably Tan Sri Syed Anwar Jamalullail, younger brother to the Raja of Perlis Tuanku Syed Sirajuddin Ibni Al-Marhum Tuanku Syed Putra Jamalullail who also held the position of Yang di-Pertuan Agong at the time of the contentious takeover.

Khalid sued Abdul Rahman for RM10 million over the sale of a five per cent stake in the company in 1999, which took place during a shake-up and buy-out related to Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahims sacking from government.

Abdul Rahman had paid RM5 million but later reneged on the remainder.

The silver-haired industry captain testified in court that Dr ! Mahathir , who was prime minister at the time of the buy-out, told him that the shares actually belonged to Umno.

Abdul Rahman, a former Penang Malay Chamber of Commerce president, also claimed to have received instructions from Tun Daim Zainuddin, and Tan Sri Nor Mohamad Yakcop had previously instructed him to undertake a management buy-out of MRCB by purchasing the 7,101,001 ordinary shares in Realmild.

But Khalid maintained the five per cent stake was his own although he acknowledged that the majority stake was part of an Umno trust.

The other directors in Realmild then were former Berita Harian group editor Ahmad Nazri, New Straits Times group editor Datuk Abdul Kadir Jasin and Mohd Noor Mutalib, who replaced Khalid as NSTP managing director in February 1993.

Realmild, originally a RM2 company, was then already the majority shareholder of MRCB, which is now developing the KL Sentral commercial and transport hub in Brickfields.

Representing Khalid was lawyer Ahmad Fadzil Mohd Perdaus.

Alex De Silva and Eugene Jeyaraj Williams acted for Abdul Rahman. - Malaysian Insider

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UMNO made Malays Drug Addicts

'1 in 100 is a drug addict in Terengganu'

KUALA TERENGGANU - A recent revelation that Terengganu hosts the highest number of drug addicts in the country has left PAS's international liaison chief Dr Syed Azman Syed Ahmad questioning the state government's commitment to fight the drug scourge.

The state police recently said there was a ratio of one addict for every 100 people in the oil-rich state, which has a population of 1.2 million.

“So, who should be blamed? Should we blame only our youth? Or should we blame the parents? How about the role played by Menteri Besar, Ahmad Said, who is willing to spend more than RM2.2 billion a year for Terengganu state development?” asked Dr Syed in his weekly column in Harakahdaily, "Terengganu Menangis".

'Felda areas are hot spots'

State narcotics Crime Investigation Department chief Roslan Abdul Wahid had earlier said that some 10,000 drug addicts were arrested last year, topping even cities like Kuala Lumpur and Penang.

“The figure shows the problem of drug addiction in the state is very serious and requires the attention of the authorities and the people of the state,” said Roslan.

For the first three months of 2010, there had been a 31% percent increase of drug users from the same period last year, totalling 3,791 offenders.

There were also 97 arrests made involving drug dealers in the first quarter of this year, or 11 percent more than the same period last year.

Roslan said most drug addicts were between 20 and 40 years of age, and named Felda areas as hot spots for drug collection and distribution.

Dr Syed meanwhile said it would be useless for the state government to focus solely on material development while neglecting the people's human development.

“The question is what is the plan and future for Terengganu’s next generation,” he said, and warned that the state government should not spread material development for political mileage at the cost of the society.

- Harakahdaily

Military families are now postal voters, claims PAS

By FMT Staff

KOTA BARU: Umno-Barisan Nasional is moving to consolidate its grip on Putrajaya by upping the number of postal voters in the country, according to PAS.

Officials in the party noted that the ruling coalition had directed all wives and children of the uniformed corp to register as postal voters.

Describing the latest Umno-BN strategy as a last-ditch attempt at securing itself, Kelantan PAS new recruits bureau chief Abdul Fattah Mahmood said that it was the only way the ruling coalition could confirm a win for itself in the 13th general election.

"Postal votes are its (BN) lifeline. Before it was just the soldiers and policemen; now the coalition is registering wives and children.

"BN is without any options now. It is the only way for it to secure a victory in the coming election and keep Putrajaya, " he said.

Fattah said that Umno-BN had failed in its efforts to win over the Chinese and Indian communities.

"BN was always dependent on these two communities. They were the coalition's crutch, but Pakatan Rakyat broke this dependence.

"So now BN is using its final lifeline. We in Pakatan have repeatedly said Malaysia is a free country and postal votes should be abolished.

"But unfortunately BN is increasing the postal votes," he said, adding that "postal votes are a misfortune for Malaysia's democratic system".

Insidious attempt

The regime's insidious attempt to bolster support has prompted PAS to issue a warning to all Pakatan-administered states.

Sarawakians have no faith in the BN’s anti-corruption sandiwara

Hornbill Unleashed

Apang

It is truly sickening that the PM still has to okay the prosecution of those in high office engaged in corrupt practices. What can Taib offer Najib that will prevent Najib ordering him to be arrested?

It is certainly not thanks to lack of evidence, that Taib is not being charged. After all, there are ongoing exposés from Sarawak Report website and more on Taib’s families in Hornbill Unleashed, and Sarawakians have long known about the Taib family’s accumulated fortune.

Taib makes Khir Toyo look like a Boy Scout, with Taib’s family’s reported land grabs and accumulation of wealth. This is terribly unfair to the Sarawak Chief Minister’s image, outside of Sarawak that is, coming from a fellow BN partner in Selangor!

Sarawakians must be wondering: is Taib sweating now?

Taib, is this latest UMNO gimmick a consolation to you, or is it giving you sleepless nights? You may think that you still have bargaining chips to use with Najib, but Najib may not see those as valuable chips or even as chips.

Let us speculate on whether Taib is still an asset to Najib. Our readers should have plenty to chip in with, during this discussion.

My postulated ‘chips’ that Taib can use to negotiate with Najib are:

You can try to ensure Sarawak is really a ‘fixed deposit’ for Najib to continue as the Prime Minister. But this is extremely doubtful in urban Sarawak, following the Sibu by-election. Najib showed he is certainly edgy, even about rural Sarawak, when he was forced to announce a RM20 million Federal Grant to the Sarawak Government to survey Native Customary Rights (NCR) Lands in an attempt to please the NCR landowners. Najib’s weakness is that he is being wrongly advised by the likes of Sarawakian Idris Jala. Idris Jala thinks that NCR lands owned by the rural villagers can be restricted by the Sarawak Government’s definitions, and need not be determined by what are rightly the people’s ancestral lands. This has resulted in the Sarawak Government’s Land and Survey Department targets, to survey either a pitifully tiny area of land used as paddy fields and/or individual housing plots, while leaving out the communal lands, despite the clear precedents set by the Federal Court, the highest court in the nation. But then certainly Sarawak Native Customary Rights landowners specifically can never expect any BN government to respect the people’s rights, not even after the judiciary’s final decision.

You can work in close collaboration with Mahathir to ensure that Najib can somehow be brought down. You can try to threaten Najib by agitating Muhyiddin to challenge Najib. But you cannot pursue this tactic at present, when the UMNO general assembly has been postponed for 18 months, and even Muhyiddin’s position is rocky.

You can offer to change the party you lead, PBB, into the de facto UMNO in Sarawak. You can perhaps try to prevent it being called UMNO per se, in order to pacify Sarawakians who may or may not be holding supposed ‘anti-Semenanjung’ feelings. But this can be done by anyone, by someone more trustworthy and more UMNO-centric, certainly not only you.

You can try to force upon Najib the idea that there is no-one besides you who can “unite” – bring together the factions among the Dayaks, Chinese and Malays to be blind followers – the fragmenting Sarawak BN. But Najib knows only too well that unity in the BN family is obtained through money, position and access to UMNO’s inner circle – to abuse power and enrich oneself and cronies. You, Taib, have been using all these, and the tactics of divide-and-rule, so you have crippled BN “unity” in Sarawak. In fact, Najib is slowly but surely waking up to the fact that you are actually the ‘disunity’ factor within the Sarawak BN, and there is no shortage of examples to be used against you.

You can offer projects to Najib’s proxies and cronies. This, too, is doubtful, when your family is known to be currently on a desperate sweep of Sarawak, almost as if they are preparing to be on the run. Even well-established cronies’ business turf is being targeted by the family members for ‘get-rich schemes’ as we speak. For example, your brother, Tufail Mahmud’s grab of Ting Check Sii’s shares in Sanyan. Soon, it will be further revealed how your family also tries to grab the wealth of one of your long-time ally and crony. Furthermore, Najib knows only too well that anyone he puts in to replace you can and will do that anyway.

The end is near

In the end, the inconsistency of the top BN man, the PM himself, and the manipulation of the publicly disgraced institutions like the Attorney-General’s Department, the Police, and the Anti-Corruption Commission combine to dilute whatever sandiwara show that the PM is doing. The sandiwara of the arrest of Khir Toyo, the ex-Selangor MB whose corrupt practices have long been public knowledge, especially among Selangor voters, has convinced very few Malaysians.

We should note that when the AG himself faced serious allegation of being a crook, he tried to drag his whole department into the mud. This mudslinging continues, although, as in the police, there are those in the AG’s department who are professionals and want to pursue their officially designated task of prosecuting without fear or favour.

We look forward to Sarawakians making the decision for Najib, by making Taib Mahmud the ex-Chief Minister after the next Sarawak State Election. And if prediction is correct that the General Election will be held at the same time as the Sarawak State Election, then there will be no need for Najib to agonize over having to charge Taib for massive corrupt practice because a new PR federal government will ensure all those involved in corrupt practices will be arrested and prosecuted!

Zaid Ibrahim likely to take over Kelantan party

Zaid is expected to announce his new party early next month. File picKUALA LUMPUR, Dec 10 Former PKR deputy presidential contender Datuk Zaid Ibrahim has been in discussion to take over the tiny Kelantan-based party Malaysian People's Justice Front or Akim which would be relaunched as his new political platform.

Akim president Zakaria Salleh told The Malaysian Insider he was willing to let Zaid take over the party presidency.

It is understood that apart from Akim, the former Umno minister has also been meeting with leaders representing other dormant parties.

Datuk Zaid has expressed his willingness to join Akim, so we will welcome his admission into the party, said Zakaria when contacted.

We have discussed the direction, and the party the leadership has agreed to accept Zaid. He has no personal interest, which we think is his strength, he added.

Zakaria said he was willing to resign as party president if Zaid wishes to contest the post at the Akim annual general meeting next week.

If Zaid wants to contest the party presidency, I would step aside for him.

Why am I willing to hand over the presidency to Zaid? Because I think he is a capable leader who can take Akim forward, he added.

Meanwhile, sources close to Zaid confirmed that the former law minister had met with Akim leaders and an official announcement on his new party would be made early next month.

Many leaders of dormant parties including Akim have met with Datuk Zaid. Datuk Zaid will make an announcement, maybe early next month, said the source who spoke on condition of anonymity.

Forming a new party is not easy, it may take one to two years, so most probably Zaid would join an existing party, a dormant party as his platform, he added.

Zaid had said early this month about the need of a new political party and described existing parties as unwilling to make a stand on defending fu! ndamenta l principles.

Akim was founded in 1995 but has been unable to make any impact, even in Kelantan which has been under PAS rule since 1990.

In 2008, the party contested in the Permatang Pauh by-election but its candidate Hanafi Mamat lost his deposit when he obtained only 92 votes.

Akim faced a leadership crisis recently but was resolved after intervention by the Registrar of Societies which later confirmed its registration status on December 1.

For the next general election, Akim plans to contest in all parliamentary and state constituencies in Kelantan.

In Kelantan, we will field our candidates in all parliamentary and state seats, while for other states we are still in discussion, said Zakaria. - Malaysian Insider

Letter & Opinion From Joe Public

My Apologies to Women and Ketuanan Melayu Types

By batsman

No, I am not god’s gift to women or Ketuanan Melayu types. These titles have already been claimed by others. Rather, I am going to try and handle some pretty heavy, complicated and complex stuff which some people might say is from outer space. So if you don’t go for the deep space stuff I suggest you go somewhere else. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.

But if you insist on staying the course, please don’t make stupid brainless comments and expose yourself as a dimwit. Not that I care, but it makes MT look like it is being populated by gas bags and commenters with low class inferior intellects. But if you wish to ask decent questions, I shall be happy to oblige and answer as best I can in equally decent manner.

In dealing with women’s rights, liberal types have been sporting and gentlemanly. Unfortunately the solutions they champion not longer suit modern circumstances. Funny liberal types who hang on to the coattails of the real liberals have become fanatical and abusive about these issues.

Religion is accused of being obsolete. I accuse liberal types of being even more obsolete than religion. They have turned liberalism in cahoots with the funny liberals into a fanatical religion while the religionists struggle to find adequate solutions to the problems of modern times. The dialecticians might say that they have transformed into each other in a dialectical way. This means that the old creature that incorporated the old contradictions is gone and there is a new creature called “current times” which incorporates the new dialectics.

I agree that women as a whole have been oppressed, discriminated against and exploited throughout the ages. The solution of the liberals is to grant women equal rights. Unfortunately all cultures in the world today without exception are unable to offer women equal treatment (let alone men).

As a result, the effect on men is to split them into 2 types (depending on the background they come from among other things) – those who oppress women even more and those who have lost their balls and become infertile. Some scientific studies have come to the conclusion that modern man has become less fertile, more submissive and losing out in competition to fierce women. On the other hand, some newspaper reports claim that modern women in western countries have become more domineering and more assertive than men, drink and stink like fishes, smoke and stink like smoldering rubbish dumps and engage in stinking loose moral behaviour even more fiercely than their male counterparts. The dialecticians might say that they have transformed into each other in a dialectical manner.

In Malaysia, we are beginning to see the same effects. Women do a lot better than men in the universities and would probably demolish the men in the work place too if not for the Ketuanan Melayu types who push them back into their places. They would be pushed back all the way into the kitchen too if not for the fact that they now earn decent salaries and have to feed and support their Ketuanan Melayu type men, who when not bullying their women, spend their time bullying minorities instead or who abandon their wives and children to seek greater pleasures elsewhere.

Of course the above statements sound contradictory and inconsistent, but this is because of the contradictory and inconsistent nature of life and not from any inconsistency of my opinions.

In reality some Malaysian women have become even more domineering and assertive than their Ketuanan Melayu type husbands. Unfortunately most of these cannot sing for nuts. Please note that I do not mean anything here in a racist manner since RPK himself says that Indians and Chinese too support Ketuanan Melayu. I suppose lousy singers come from all sorts of races.

The fact that there is this dichotomy in both men and women of submissive and aggressive types destroys any solution imposed that is based purely on women as a homogeneous group.

So it is that equal rights being granted to protect the weaker sex are being used by domineering and aggressive women to beat down men (and other women). Domineering women now demand equal rights in the work place and in competition with men but also demand to be given preferential treatment as the “weaker” sex. Equal rights did not come with equal treatment. No man can compete with this. If they submit, they lose. If they fight uncompromisingly, they are labeled as sadistic, masochistic misogynists. Plus the fact that the hormones of men make them susceptible to creatively and artfully composed photographs, men are a sorry miserable defeated lot.

Unfortunately, there are contradictions in history, so firm conclusions cannot be formed. Suffice to say that when dominant women come to power in the west (Elizabeth I, Catherine the Great and Margaret Thatcher) the state is usually growing more powerful. In the East, it is the opposite and women coming to power usually signals the weakening of an empire. If there is a lesson to be gleaned here, it is that the east should not copy the west blindly. Liberalism in the west differs substantially in content (if not in form) from the funny copy-cat liberalism in the east.

So it is that modern Malaysian men slowly lose their colour and become submissive and infertile – all because the funny Malaysian liberals insist on outdated blindly copied solutions to a complex problem.

It is the same with the Ketuanan Melayu problem. An obsolete solution offered for a complex problem is being used by cut-throats to bully everyone else, including the people who are meant to be protected. Malays being the “weaker” partner in Malaysia’s development seek special rights and privileges to be able to catch up. Unfortunately society is not made up of purely weak individuals. The cut-throats in society who now control and dominate power and wealth have abused the special consideration offered to help Malays and demand it as a birth-right to protect their power and wealth thus turning it into a racial or genetic issue rather than an issue of development, splitting people along racial lines rather than uniting them as partners in development.

Those Malays who object to this are even now bullied and called “political prostitutes” and threatened with incarceration under the ISA. So it is that the victims, the weak party themselves become victimised and unable to voice any dissent or disagreement whatsoever. Malays now don’t even have the right to refuse the Ketuanan Melayu champions (of all races including PPP members) imposed on them.

I submit that in this modern day and age, with such great complexity existing in society, and with population itself expanding rapidly, outdated solutions are never adequate. False solutions are usually those which employ force and coercion.

Even in religion these days, voices are now engaged in debate and discussion, not only to find solutions to complex problems but to merely understand the problems more clearly.

Aggressive and fanatically domineering types who offer or support singly outdated solutions usually do so because this singularity gives them monopoly and enormous advantages. Coercion and abuse usually accompanies their offer of solution.

If these domineering types prevail, the rest of society will lose their colour and become submissive, infertile and bullied – just like cows and sheep or just like men with no balls – same thing.

So I am going to borrow an idea from UMNO which used to say that there should be no identification of race with economic activity or profession. If only they were honest and fair about this principle, it might have achieved something useful.

To cut things short, I propose that there should be no identification of abuse with gender, class, race, nationality or religion. For example, if a woman is abused, she should be offered protection, but if she turns into an abusive, domineering, corrupt lousy singer, then she must be resisted and challenged. Similarly, if a Jew is abused, he should be offered protection, but if he turns into a Zionist and starts abusing and bullying others, then he should be opposed.

The same goes for a Malay. If a Malay is abused, marginalized and discriminated against, he should be offered protection and help, but if he becomes a Ketuanan Melayu type and starts to abuse and bully others, then he should be resisted and challenged. I suppose the same applies to professions as well. If workers are oppressed and exploited, they must be supported, but if they turn into communist dictators or all powerful trade unionists, then they should be opposed. This can hold true for laws as well. If a law such as the

ISA is abusive and oppressive, then it must be repealed.

Finally if a government is wasteful, abusive, corrupt, sinful and uses dirty tricks, race and religion to split the rakyat so that it can cling on to power, it must be voted out of office.

Such a proposal means that the rakyat needs to be proactive and constantly weighing the issues themselves , not sleeping and leaving the resolution of problems to abusive and corrupt leaders who treat them like immature little children with undeveloped balls.

If this proposal is accepted, then the elements of gender, class, race, nationality and religion is removed from all problems and issues and liberals can no longer be fanatical about their high horse religious type principles. I think it will also help to solve some extremely prickly issues in Malaysia as well. What do you think? Is it too deep space or am I just a crazy misogynist? Whatever the case, I suppose for political correctness, I should also apologise to lousy singers and gas bags everywhere. heeheehee



*Note from Admin: Malaysians are aware of these issues, and a Malaysian is currently working on a film which discusses them implicitly. This film is slated for Nov 25th release 2011. CLICK HERE for a preview.

Forgery and Sodomy

Instead of conducting an internal inquiry to find out the person or persons responsible for the forgery and taking the appropriate actions to mitigate the consequences of such a criminal act, PKR leaders chose to go into denial mode and politicize the allegation.

By Goh Soon Sin

As a member of DAP and a staunch supporter of PR, I am duly worried by the current state of affairs in PR, especially in PKR. I am wrecked with anxiety over the issue of the forged letter and the implications of that criminal act on PKR specifically and PR generally.

I am convinced that the letter is a forgery based on the affidavit by the former Secretary-General of PKR, the minutes of the MPP meeting on 30 August, 2009 and the statement made by Jonson Chong, a former Deputy Secretary-General of PKR.

The dismal response of PKR leaders to the allegation really amazes me. Instead of conducting an internal inquiry to find out the person or persons responsible for the forgery and taking the appropriate actions to mitigate the consequences of such a criminal act, PKR leaders chose to go into denial mode and politicize the allegation.

The PKR leadership is still insisting that the letter is authentic despite the evidence. They spin the allegation as part of a political conspiracy to destroy PKR. To gain sympathy of the public, PKR, as usual, plays the role of the victim.

Inevitably, the response of the PKR leadership to the allegation of the forged letter reminds me of the response to the sodomy charges against the de-facto leader of PKR. It is one of denial and politicizing the issue.

If a clear cut case of forgery is spun into a political conspiracy, I am starting to have my doubts over the innocence of the de-facto leader in the sodomy case. The PKR leaders have the temerity to forge a letter and, when exposed, start playing victim. Likewise, the de facto leader could have sodomized his personal aide and, when charged, cry political conspiracy.

For a party that claims to fight for justice and transparency, the issue of the forged letter may well be a setback to PKR. I am worried that the negative perception of PKR will affect PR. The public will lose confidence in PR and consequently, diminish the chance of PR winning the GE 13.

It is only strategic for PAS and DAP to start considering PR as a coalition without PKR. PR sans PKR is more appealing to the voters.

Racial breakdown for police/immigration services

Soalan:
Tuan Lim Kit Siang [Ipoh Timur] minta MENTERI DALAM NEGERI menyatakan butir-butir mengikut kaum pegawai polis dan imigresen berikan angka-angka tersebut mengikut gred masing-masing.

Jawapan:
Untuk makluman AhIi Yang Berhormat, sehingga 31 Julal 2010 jumlah anggota polis di seluruh negara ialah 106,530 orang. Jumlah anggota polis ini melibatkan pelbagai gred jawatan dan peringkat Anggota Polis Pangkat Rendah dan Sokongan hingga Ketua Polis Negara (KPN). Daripada jumlah tersebut, sejumlah 84,523 orang atau 79.34% adalah terdiri daripada kaum Melayu, 2,210 orang atau 2.07% kaum Cina, 3,624 orang atau 3.4% kaum India dan 15,886 orang atau 14.91% lain-lain kaum.

Sehingga 31 Ogos 2010 jumlah anggota Jabatan lmigresen ialah 11,017 orang di mana sejumlah 9,598 atau 87.12% anggota terdiri daripada kalangan kaum Melayu, 322 atau 2.92% kaum India, 208 atau 1.87% kaum Cina, 813 atau 7.38% kaum Bumiputra dan 76 orang atau 0.69% kaum-kaum lain.

Maklumat terperinci berkaitan gred jawatan berdasarkan kaum adalah seperti di Lampiran A dan B.

Lampiran A
Maklumat perjawatan anggota Polis Diraja Malaysia (PDRM) berdasarkan gred jawatan dan kaum sehingga 31 Julai 2010

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Lampiran B
Maklumat perjawatan Jabatan Imigres! en Malay sia (JIM) berdasarkan gred jawatan dan kaum.

Ringkasan Perjawatan Mengikut Jantina Dan Kaum
Jabatan Imigresen Malaysia sehingga 31 Ogos 2010

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Twitter-savvy Anwar accepts UM findings as 'challenge'

KUALA LUMPUR - Parti Keadilan Rakyat de facto leader Anwar Ibrahim said his top priority at the moment was to stabilise his party following its first-ever direct elections which concluded last month.

Responding to Twitter followers, one of whom reminded Anwar that PKR should be as stable as its partners PAS and DAP, Anwar replied that it was on top of the list.

“Yes, it will be our main priority,” said the Permatang Pauh member of parliament, one of only few prominent Malaysian politicians on the micro-blogging site, who responds to his individual Twitter followers now numbering more than 25,000.

PKR, which has been hit by defections and more recently, name-calling among party leaders contesting some of its top positions during its elections, has often been criticised for what is perceived by some sympathisers as lack of discipline. Only recently, one of its more prominent members Zaid Ibrahim resign the party in protest after claiming his complaints about irregularities in party polls had not been addressed.

'Challenge'

Meanwhile, a poll conducted by University of Malaya showed that the party was fast losing voters' trust especially in the wake of its noisy election.

According to the poll, 43 percent of residents in PKR strongholds are not in favour of voting for PKR, while 33 percent said they would cast their ballot for it. Another 22 percent were indecisive.

Anwar said the party would take the findings as a challenge to work "harder, smarter" to regain voters’ confidence.

- Harakahdaily

RM2b 'wang haram' every year, admits Finance ministry

KUALA LUMPUR - The government receives an average of RM2 billion yearly from the gambling industry, and the use of the money is not segregated nor restricted for use by certain groups only.

The Finance ministry reveals this in a written answer to Rantau Panjang member of parliament Siti Zailah Mohd Yusuff.

It said in the first nine months this year, the government collected RM1.95 billion from the gambling sector. The revenue also had increased since the year 2003, from RM1.79 billion to RM2.6 billion in 2009.

The latest revelation not only confirms that the government does not distiguish between money considered "haram" from the "halal", but also falls flat on accusation by UMNO and its right-wing offshoot Perkasa that the Penang state government has been funding welfare activities from gambling money.

Penang's chief minister Lim Guan Eng recently became target of attacks by the two organisations, who called on Muslims in the state to return the cash from the state's financial aid programme for poor Penangites, citing its haram origins.

DAP's Kuching MP Chong Chieng Jen urged the government to walk the talk by setting up a special fund to store taxes sourced from gambling avenues.

“Since UMNO in Penang has been accusing the state government of using gambling revenue to fund its old age appreciation fund and has been pressuring Muslims to return the money since it was non-halal, I think the federal government should walk the talk and set aside a special account to store all taxes earned from 4D companies.

“If UMNO truly holds on to the belief that tax revenue from the gambling industry should not be used to pay charity to Muslims, then they should do this,” he was quoted as telling news portal, The Malaysian Insider, in response to the Finance ministry's earlier admission that it received RM1.08 billion in gambling revenue specifically from 4D gaming outlets.

- Harakahdaily

EXPOSED: ROMANCE BETWEEN PERMAISURI SITI AISHAH AND SYED ABDULLAH AL ATTAS - WHERE IS SITI AISHAH?

Dimana Aishah?

1. Dimanakah Aisyah dan keluarganya ketika sidang akhbar diadakan pada 3-12-2010?

2. Kenapa Aisyah tidak menyatakan bahawa semua artikel dan gambar saya dengan aisyah didalam blog ini adalah fitnah? (klik) (klik) (klik)

3. Kenapa Aisyah melarang saya dari terus menulis tentangnya dalam blog ini? (klik)

4. Kenapa Aisyah melarang saya menerbitkan buku "Cinta Syyhh" pada hakikatnya hanyalah pengalaman benar kisah cinta syyhh kami berdua? (maaf tertinggal perkataan 'syyhh' tadi) (klik)

5. Adakah Aisyah sebenarnya sudah.....?

Diharap Aisyah akan hadir di mahkamah pada 22-12-2010 kerana ramai yang nak tatap wajah Aisyah yang terkini serta mendapat komen darinya sendiri.

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Letter & Opinion From Joe Public

Where is Yen Yen? Langkawi needs to be clean, not build more hotels

Don't turn Langkawi in to a sea-slumMariam Mokhtar, Malaysia Chronicle

Speaking during a central launch of Teluk Datai Resorts Development Plan in Langkawi, Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak pronounced which Langkawi indispensable brand new impetus to become a premier traveller end in a world.

He confirmed which projects worth RM1bil would be invested in Teluk Datai around a investor, Teluk Datai Resorts Sdn Bhd as well as Khazanah Nasional.

Najib pronounced which a redevelopment process as well as a promotion of tourism would emanate worth to a country: The growth is not usually for Teluk Datai though for Langkawi as a whole. Many people pronounced Langkawi was a loss after Tun Dr Mahathirs epoch as budding minister.

Langkawi is a loss not since it lacks premier golf courses or 6 star hotels with in isolation beaches. There have been many reasons a island is unwell as a traveller destination, chief among them is cleanliness.

On alighting during a Langkawi international airport, as well as while waiting for a luggage to appear upon a carousel, all one has to do is to visit a toilets which have been adjacent to this carousel.

Locals competence be used to Malaysian style open toilets with floors which have been an in. low in water, toilet rolls blank from a cubicles as well as doors with thatch missing. Tourists get a ambience of what to expect. Most people have a reckless shelter as well as wait for till they strech their road house where a comforts have been some-more hygienic.

What happened to spawn bins?Another reason why tourism in Langkawi is going downhill is a litter. Plastic bags as well as polystyrene containers have been strewn everywhere, upon a roads, beaches as well as next to buildings. It! appears which couple of caring about a spawn situation, in their unfortunate rush to follow after a traveller dollar. Education will help as well as a critical promotional expostulate upon cleanliness, by Tourism Malaysia is needed.

Not all tourists have been honeymooning couples who will stay in their road house bedrooms as well as a confines of their luxury hotel. Langkawi lacks an fit as well as cheap open ride system. Hired cars have been expensive as well as buses have been irregular. Many people usually try to places which have been within walking distance since they refuse to compensate exorbitant charges for transport.

Driving upon Langkawi roads can be risky. Motorbikes weave in as well as out of traffic, couple of raod users observe trade manners as well as during night, buffaloes ramble a road as well as have been a hazard. The condition of a roads is pitiful.

The island may instruct to promote tourism, though it fails miserably in a bid to house a needs of infirm people. Buildings miss befitting ramps for wheelchair users as well as a comforts in hotels, restaurants as well as attractions have been not infirm friendly.

Attractions similar to a lizard sanctuary as well as a aquarium have been not well-maintained, with spawn strewn, broken glass enclosures or cages which have been empty. All these have a traveller feel short-changed.

Moreover, foreigners will get their initial ambience of racism, when they find which entrance fees have been opposite for locals as well as foreigners.

Another sore-point is a miss of medical comforts as not all hotels or guest houses have a doctor-in-the-house.

Measures for improvement have been of small use if it is found which a eremite authorities have been going to have lives miserable for tourists. Few will forget how an elderly American couple was tormented in their unit while available their yacht to be repaired, a couple of years ago. Any disastrous broadside will usually expostulate people up north, to a islands o! f Thaila nd.

Langkawi is slowly losing a charms with acres of land being flattened for constructing golf courses as well as 5 or 6 star hotels. If Najib is frank about wanting a population of Langkawi to benefit from tourism, he needs to go back to basics, urge infrastructure as well as ascent a cleanliness levels. He wont even need RM1 billion for that.

Maybe YenYen could be swayed to go to Langkawi instead of traipsing a world, perhaps?

Dr M wades into BN's small brothers' rebellion, scolds Soi Lek

Illogical to ban Ketuanan Melayu. We're defending ourselvesWong Choon Mei, Malaysia Chronicle

Former premier Mahathir Mohamad has weighed in to a controversy influenced by MCA boss Chua Soi Lek when he called for a ban to a string of phrases which non-Malays have found offensive together with Ketuanan Melyau or Malay supremacy.

These things have never cropped up before. When people proposed questioning a position of a Malays afterwards it is our right to defend ourselves. If people had not questioned afterwards no one would have had to respond," Mahathir was reported as saying.

The 85-year Mahathir had ruled Malaysia with a fist of iron for 22 years as well as is widely blamed for having formalized as well as deepened a secular system in Malaysia with divisive policies aimed to assistance him as well as his celebration keep power over a Malay community, a largest voter base in a country.

On Wednesday, he did not defect a society of reporters who rushed to get his opinion. He labeled Soi Lek's comments as "illogical" as well as "baseless".

When you reply to defend ourselves, afterwards they contend you have been breaching human rights as well as have been racist. On a alternative hand, when you accuse them of being racist, people tag us as racists, Mahathir said.

Small brothers put up tiny fight

In a debate aimed to take a rumble from Prime Minister Najib Razak during a new BN association held during a MCA auditorium, Soi Lek was penetrating to show his mettle to his celebration as well as a Chinese community.

Soi Lek, Tsu Koon - they look difficult but looks have been deceivingNot only did a scandal-plagued MCA personality caution leaders against using supportive words like pendatang ! or immig rants, penumpang or passengers, terhutang budi or indebted to, kurang patriotic or unpatriotic as well as ketuanan Melayu, he also called for an end to Umno's "big brother" or bullying attitude towards alternative BN partners.

It immediately triggered a slew of calls for his neck as well as for Najib to kick a MCA out of a BN. Umno leaders, with Mahathir being a latest, slammed his "insensitivity towards a Malays" nonetheless Gerakan president, Koh Tsu Koon, has come to his defence.

Announcing major government policies after Umno meetings as well as not just after Cabinet as well as BN meetings have since rise to a notice which BN is not utterly a bloc of equals as stated in a BN constitution, Tsu Koon said.

But which was all which a former Penang arch apportion was rebuilt to say, sparking conjecture which both he as well as Soi Lek soon 'surrender' as they have regularly done in a past to their large brother, Umno.

In his subsequent breath, Tsu Koon fast retreated in to a shy debate which has done Gerakan supporters lose patience with him as well as even drawn a new public scolding from celebration life-advisor Lim Keng Yaik.

I advise all parties to pierce upon as well as concentration upon a transformation process as well as realize a 1 Malaysia judgment spearheaded by a prime apportion as well as BN chairman, Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak, Tsu Koon said.

Malayan Indian men and women soldiers in WW2

Approximately 25,000 British Indian POWs and 15,000-18,000 Malayan Indian men including thousands of Indian women joined the Indian National Army in Malaya to fight for independence from Britain both in India aswell as in Malaya.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_227365&v=wGVCMn99JJI&feature=iv

courtesy of Human Rights Party Malaysia

Letter & Opinion From Joe Public

Sarawakians have no faith in the BNs anti-corruption sandiwara

Apang

It is truly sickening that the PM still has to okay the prosecution of those in high office engaged in corrupt practices. What can Taib offer Najib that will prevent Najib ordering him to be arrested?

It is certainly not thanks to lack of evidence, that Taib is not being charged. After all, there are ongoing exposs from Sarawak Report website and more on Taibs families in Hornbill Unleashed, and Sarawakians have long known about the Taib familys accumulated fortune.

Taib makes Khir Toyo look like a Boy Scout, with Taibs familys reported land grabs and accumulation of wealth. This is terribly unfair to the Sarawak Chief Ministers image, outside of Sarawak that is, coming from a fellow BN partner in Selangor!

Sarawakians must be wondering: is Taib sweating now?

Taib, is this latest UMNO gimmick a consolation to you, or is it giving you sleepless nights? You may think that you still have bargaining chips to use with Najib, but Najib may not see those as valuable chips or even as chips.

Let us speculate on whether Taib is still an asset to Najib. Our readers should have plenty to chip in with, during this discussion.

My postulated chips that Taib can use to negotiate with Najib are:

You can try to ensure Sarawak is really a fixed deposit for Najib to continue as the Prime Minister. But this is extremely doubtful in urban Sarawak, following the Sibu by-election. Najib showed he is certainly edgy, even about rural Sarawak, when he was forced to announce a RM20 million Federal Grant to the Sarawak Government to survey Native Customary Rights (NCR) Lands in an attempt to please the NCR landowners. Najibs weakness is that he is being wrongly advised by the likes of Sarawakian Idris Jala. Idris Jala thinks that NCR lands owned by the rural villagers can be rest! ricted b y the Sarawak Governments definitions, and need not be determined by what are rightly the peoples ancestral lands. This has resulted in the Sarawak Governments Land and Survey Department targets, to survey either a pitifully tiny area of land used as paddy fields and/or individual housing plots, while leaving out the communal lands, despite the clear precedents set by the Federal Court, the highest court in the nation. But then certainly Sarawak Native Customary Rights landowners specifically can never expect any BN government to respect the peoples rights, not even after the judiciarys final decision.

You can work in close collaboration with Mahathir to ensure that Najib can somehow be brought down. You can try to threaten Najib by agitating Muhyiddin to challenge Najib. But you cannot pursue this tactic at present, when the UMNO general assembly has been postponed for 18 months, and even Muhyiddins position is rocky.

You can offer to change the party you lead, PBB, into the de facto UMNO in Sarawak. You can perhaps try to prevent it being called UMNO per se, in order to pacify Sarawakians who may or may not be holding supposed anti-Semenanjung feelings. But this can be done by anyone, by someone more trustworthy and more UMNO-centric, certainly not only you.

You can try to force upon Najib the idea that there is no-one besides you who can unite bring together the factions among the Dayaks, Chinese and Malays to be blind followers the fragmenting Sarawak BN. But Najib knows only too well that unity in the BN family is obtained through money, position and access to UMNOs inner circle to abuse power and enrich oneself and cronies. You, Taib, have been using all these, and the tactics of divide-and-rule, so you have crippled BN unity in Sarawak. In fact, Najib is slowly but surely waking up to the fact that you are actually the disunity factor within the Sarawak BN, and there is no shortage of examples to be use! d agains t you.

You can offer projects to Najibs proxies and cronies. This, too, is doubtful, when your family is known to be currently on a desperate sweep of Sarawak, almost as if they are preparing to be on the run. Even well-established cronies business turf is being targeted by the family members for get-rich schemes as we speak. For example, your brother, Tufail Mahmuds grab of Ting Check Siis shares in Sanyan. Soon, it will be further revealed how your family also tries to grab the wealth of one of your long-time ally and crony. Furthermore, Najib knows only too well that anyone he puts in to replace you can and will do that anyway.

The end is near

In the end, the inconsistency of the top BN man, the PM himself, and the manipulation of the publicly disgraced institutions like the Attorney-Generals Department, the Police, and the Anti-Corruption Commission combine to dilute whatever sandiwarashow that the PM is doing. The sandiwara of the arrest of Khir Toyo, the ex-Selangor MB whose corrupt practices have long been public knowledge, especially among Selangor voters, has convinced very few Malaysians.

We should note that when the AG himself faced serious allegation of being a crook, he tried to drag his whole department into the mud. This mudslinging continues, although, as in the police, there are those in the AGs department who are professionals and want to pursue their officially designated task of prosecuting without fear or favour.

We look forward to Sarawakians making the decision for Najib, by making Taib Mahmud the ex-Chief Minister after the next Sarawak State Election. And if prediction is correct that the General Election will be held at the same time as the Sarawak State Election, then there will be no need for Najib to agonize over having to charge Taib for massive corrupt practice bec! ause a n ew PR federal government will ensure all those involved in corrupt practices will be arrested and prosecuted!

courtesy of Hornbill Unleashed

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