Malaysia Can Achieve Her Vision 2020 Aspirations, If the Leaders and Citizens Have Free Minds
In the first two parts I asserted that for Malaysia to achieve her Vision 2020 aspirations, she needs leaders and citizens with free minds. I likened those without a free mind as frogs underneath a coconut shell.
By M. Bakri Musa
The Comfort of the Coconut Shell
[Presented at the Fifth Annual Alif Ba Ta Conference at Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ, organized by UMNO Club of New York-New Jersey, January 29, 2011.]
We ignore our better sense and willingly believe the mullah despite the donkey braying in our face because our minds are captive to biology, tradition, and the environment, among others.
The North Koreans fervently believe that they live in Paradise because their “Beloved Leader” tells them so. Never mind that they wake up every morning with nothing to look forward to and go to sleep at night on an empty stomach. Malaysian leaders never tire of telling us that they are competent and not corrupt despite the mess the country is in and their luxuriating in their palatial mansions. It does not take a donkey to realize that these leaders could not possibly be “clean” to afford such obscene opulence just on their government pay.
We refuse to hear the braying donkey because our mind is trapped by culture to believe the mullah. Doubting would be an act of blasphemy, disloyalty, or even treachery.
Returning to the coconut shell metaphor, that little (or even big) frog can be smug about his world and claim to fully comprehend and in command of it. After all, what is there to understand? His world is all dark and small. As for commanding it, he is the only one to obey his orders!
What that proverbial Señor Frog does not appreciate is that his universe, large as it may seem to him, is nothing but a speck. I am not referring here to Señor Frog chain of bars in the Caribbean and Mexico, which is a huge and attractive universe, at least to American college students on spring break.
We on the outside may be tempted to lord it over the unfortunate entrapped frog. We may even pity the poor critter. However, as Pramoedya noted in his Child of All Nations, “Pity is the feeling of well intentioned people who are unable to act.” Impotent, we assuage what little guilt we may harbor by rationalizing that the poor soul is probably quite happy with his lot. That may well be; after all you would not miss what you do not know you miss.
Malaysians face many forces, subtle and not so subtle, that keep us cooped under our shell. There is our feudal culture, and with it our meek and excessive deference to authority figures. Our schools and universities are more for indoctrinating, not teaching our young to think critically. We are also easily trapped by labels; thus we readily dispense with critically examining what is in or behind those labels. Our leaders exploit this societal weakness by labeling those they disagree with as “anti-nationals” or “unpatriotic.” We in turn are only too ready to believe those labels.
Then there are intrusive and repressive laws like the awful Internal Security Act where a minister has absolute power to incarcerate you without trial. No mortal should ever have that power. As the Sudanese reformer Mahmoud Mohamad Taha wisely observed, “No person is perfect enough to be entrusted with the liberty and dignity of others.” We need effective checks and balances, and respect for due process. Those are not niceties but necessities. Do not let any mullah regardless how impressive his title or big his turban is tell you otherwise. You would be a donkey to believe him.
There are three major obstacles facing our entrapped frog in escaping his lot. The first and greatest is to instill in him the realization that he is indeed trapped, and then to ignite in him the desire to escape; second, help him topple his shell; and third, assist him in adjusting to his new open world.
The first obstacle is the toughest for far too often we lack even the awareness of being trapped. We are blissfully ignorant of the outside world. This awareness of being entrapped is crucial but by itself is not enough; we must also have the desire to escape. For that to happen, we must first be dissatisfied with our current state.
It may seem perverse but there are those who are content to remain underneath their shell, readily accepting their fate and ascribing it to Allah’s will. Al qadar (divinely destined)! Who are we to challenge His design?
Then there is the universal power of inertia; we are comfortable with the status quo. Besides, it has served our parents, and their parents and even grandparents well. Again, who are we to alter tradition?
As for ambition, that would only upset mankind, as Pramoedya sagely observed in his short story, Djongos dan Babu (Houseboy and Maid). That family destined themselves to be slaves forever. If God were to pity them, their thirtieth generation would have descended so low as to be no longer humans but worms crawling inside the earth, predicted Pramoedya.
The coconut shell world of Sabu and Ina (the sibling characters in that short story) was tossed over many times yet they still returned to underneath it. They were enslaved by the Dutch, but when the colonial world collapsed, instead of liberating themselves they again chose to be enslaved under the Japanese. When the Japanese were defeated, the pair again chose to be enslaved, this time by the returning Dutch. Happy to be perpetual slaves they refused to be free with their fellow Indonesians, deeming themselves “too good” to be with the natives!
History is replete with examples of external upheavals resulting in the inadvertent toppling of coconut shells. Trapped underneath we are not even aware up until then of the external cataclysms. All of a sudden we find ourselves in an entirely new, open and much bigger world.
Those who destined themselves to be eternal slaves like Pramoedya’s Sabu and Ina would find this new world far from welcoming; in fact downright frightening. Thus they scramble to find new coconut shells to hide under. For others, the external upheaval that toppled their shell would be a transforming event.
When the colonials entered the Malay world they certainly turned it upside down, flipping over our shell. We cursed them for disturbing our world but there would be no denying the ensuing good. For one, they ended the more odious aspects of our culture, like slavery and indentured labor. If not for the colonialists, I would today be an orang hamba (slave) at the istana (palace). The colonials also introduced modern education, through which I am what I am today.
The British gave us Munshi Abdullah. If not for them, Abdullah too would be another indentured laborer at the istana, and Malay literature would remain nothing more than chronicles of khayalan (fantasies).
Another global cataclysm was World War II. While the colonialists’ entry forced a sea change in Malay culture, the Japanese invasion triggered a momentous change in Malay psyche. Seeing those hitherto invincible white Tuans and their Mems scurrying in their Austins and Morris Minors chased by short yellow Japanese on rickety bicycles must have made quite an impact on the natives: The myth of white supremacy forever shattered! It is the dramatic destruction of this myth that emboldened Malays to pursue with even greater vigor our independence.
Short of such external upheavals we have to make our own effort to topple our shells from within. As alluded to earlier, for that to happen we must first be dissatisfied with our present condition. Progress, and thus change, depends on individuals not being satisfied with the status quo. Once we have this sense of dissatisfaction, or preferably anger, that alone would be enough to motivate us to topple and get out from under our shell.
How that is achieved will the subject of the next few sections.
Next: Liberation Through Information
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written by educationist, March 25, 2011 03:18:22
"Our schools and universities are more for indoctrinating, not teaching our young to think critically." - and as long our education policy is only used for political objectives, the free mind among the rakyat at large will only be achieved by individuals like Bakri who have seen the chains that bind them and broken free!!
Dr Ismail Aby Jamal
Born in Batu 10, Kg Lubok Bandan, Jementah, Segamat, Johor
Friday, March 25, 2011
ANOTHER BIG FAILURE OF THE PDRM IS THE DETERIORATION OF THE TRAFFIC JAMS IN KLANG VALLEY WHERE KL NOW BECOMES THE WORST JAMMED CITY AMONG THE ASEAN COUNTRIES.........FOR IDRIS JALA, MALAYSIANS HAVE DOUBTS ABOUT YOUR NKRAs RESULTS..........
ANOTHER BIG FAILURE OF THE PDRM IS THE DETERIORATION OF THE TRAFFIC JAMS IN KLANG VALLEY WHERE KL NOW BECOMES THE WORST JAMMED CITY AMONG THE ASEAN COUNTRIES.........FOR IDRIS JALA, MALAYSIANS HAVE DOUBTS ABOUT YOUR NKRAs RESULTS..........
“It is not enough to show that in the first nine months of 2010, crime fell by 16% (but still have 132,355 unresolved reported cases) and street crimes fell 38% (18,299 unresolved reported cases) or that 648 people were arrested for corruption.
Martin Jalleh
The rakyat was told that the government’s battle against crime showed good results in 2010. Home Minister Hishammuddin Tun Hussein announced in May 2010 that his Ministry's success in reducing the crime rate index for the first four months of the year had surpassed the initial target.
Minister in the PM's Department Senator Idris Jala revealed the results of the National Key Results Area (NKRA) for crime were outstanding for the first quarter and what the police and the ministry had done in that period was totally beyond expectation.
In Oct. 2010 a very elated IGP Ismail Omar proudly declared that police statistics indicated a significant drop in street crime by 38% and in the overall crime index by 16% between January and September.
But strangely, and as was so aptly put by Lim Kit Siang in October, “…up and down the country, ordinary Malaysians do not feel this dividend of fall of crime index in their daily lives as they do not feel comparatively safer in the streets, public places or privacy of their homes…”
In fact Kit Siang’s sentiments were so eloquently echoed by former Deputy Bank Governor Tan Sri Dr. Lin See Yin, in his article “The mystique of national transformation” which appeared online before the year ended:
“As I see it, discernable progress in four areas of priority concern to the rakyat and investors needs to come early enough to build confidence. They are corruption, crime, education and private enterprise.
“It is not enough to show that in the first nine months of 2010, crime fell by 16% (but still have 132,355 unresolved reported cases) and street crimes fell 38% (18,299 unresolved reported cases) or that 648 people were arrested for corruption.
“The public and investors (with ears on the ground) have to “feel” any improvement. Raw and biased statistics cannot tell the real story, and don’t impress. At this time, it would appear the rakyat and investors don’t “feel” any material improvement in the crime and corruption situation. That matters. But they don’t rush to judgment.
“What they want to “feel” is for today to be better than yesterday, and tomorrow to be better than today; and come tomorrow, their expectations are fulfilled. Incidents from personal experience reinforce this.”
In spite of the claims by the authorities and public surveys of a drop in the public’s fear of crime thereby signifying growing confidence in the police force, the fact remained, as John Sebastian wrote in the Malaysian Insider (18 Nov. 2010) that:
• More housing estates are having to handle own security, hire guards and put up barricades.
• Police are more reluctant to accept reports from public.
• Malaysians are altering their lives every day because of fear of crime.
• People are putting in more locks, closed-circuit or cyber-camera systems and alarm systems. Because they don’t feel safe.
“So if Pemandu and any other alphabet soup committee actually believe the better crime situation in the country, they must be on magic mushrooms.
“The day Malaysians don’t feel the need to engage their own security guards to guard their homes and family is the day when the tide against crime has been turned.
“That day isn’t coming as soon as the next general elections. So give us a break. Spare us the good news according to surveys. Just do more to make all Malaysians feel safe.”
Perhaps the public would feel more confident about the police, about being more safe and secure and that the statistics truly reflect the crime rate reality – when the police stop playing politics and government sets up the Independent Police Complaints and Misconduct Commission (IPCMC).
Lawmakers on both sides of the political divide demanded that newly-installed IGP Ismail Omar end the indiscriminate fatal police shootings. DAP advisor Lim Kit Siang declared: “It would appear that with the change of IGP, there is no change in the police culture as such.”
By Martin Jalleh
There was deep concern and consternation throughout 2010 over what the public viewed as the growing “shoot-to-kill” culture by the police force or what R. Sivarasa, the MP for Subang, called “a culture of impunity”.
“It means that they feel that they can do as they wish and they won’t be held accountable… they can shoot, kill, and there won’t be any questions asked (or)… any investigations and that they can continue doing so,” he said.
The nationwide concern over the trigger-happy cops of PDRM culminated into public outraged in April with the police “killing” of 14-year old Form III student Aminulrasyid Hamzah about 100 metres from his Shah Alam house.
The callous responses and cavalier attitude of the IGP, Home Minister and the police as they tried to contain the public firestorm caused the public to lose confidence in them and repeatedly call for the IGP to resign.
Respected lawyer Art Harun captured the sentiments of the people so clearly: “Right-minded people of Malaysia regard the killing of Aminulrasyid as symptomatic of lawless totalitarianism.”
“But that which makes this case all the more nauseating is not so much that this totally unnecessary killing of a 14-year-old boy had happened, but rather the responses by various parties — those people upon whom our security is entrusted — during the aftermath.
“The responses have been anything but humane, sensitive or even caring. They are arrogant, defensive and downright rude. Where is the love? Where is the humility? Doesn’t it occur to these people that they occupy seats of trust?”
Further, the police have become very predictable with their pat responses: “The dead were criminals. They behaved in a suspicious manner. They tried to evade/resist arrest. They drove away dangerously. Weapons were later found. Police acted by the rules. The law allows them to defend themselves” (Free Malaysia Today)
Cold Blooded
Seven months after Aminulrasyid was gunned down, three youths between the ages of 15 and 22 were shot dead after a reported high-speed car chase in Shah Alam. They were suspected of robbing a petrol station. Two of the families of the trio claimed that they were killed by the police in cold blood.
Lawmakers on both sides of the political divide demanded that newly-installed IGP Ismail Omar end the indiscriminate fatal police shootings. DAP advisor Lim Kit Siang declared: “It would appear that with the change of IGP, there is no change in the police culture as such.”
Before the year ended, human rights and legal reform advocates “Lawyers for Liberty” highlighted the seriousness of the situation. The number of fatal shootings by the police rose 17-fold since 2001 – from five in 2001 to a shocking total of 82 in 2008 and 88 in 2009.
Judging from Home Minister Hishammuddin Hussein’s curt, cold and caustic response, it is very clear that such “extrajudicial killings” will continue on in Bolehland! He said there was no surge in the number of fatal shootings. The matter was just being “sensationalized” in parliament. There could be a “slight increase” after all.
Hishammuddin’s continued his hogwash: “Let the police respond on the data …If not, I would be asked this question every day when there are other serious matters to respond to”. The data provided was from the police themselves! And what is more “serious” than the safety and security of innocent lives of Malaysians?
There were also those who were shot by the police but who managed to survive, the latest being Ho Chei Hang who was shot four times by plainclothes police officers in Kepong in November. The story of Norizan Salleh who was mistakenly shot five times by police officers last year continued to receive public attention in 2010.
It is evident that the only effective way to keep the police in check and the only convincing government action is the formation of the Independent Police Complaints and Misconduct Commission (IPCMC). Sadly, the federal government has proven to be a big hindrance to such a necessary move, and for obvious reasons.
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written by educationist, March 25, 2011 21:14:18
"called “a culture of impunity”."- it is still there for the UMNOputras depend on these samsengs in uniforms to enforce their intimidation of the political opposition and the peaceful dissent among the rakyat!! ..
written by Malaysian66, March 25, 2011 14:44:51
UMNO Youth with guns! ...
written by batsman, March 25, 2011 13:32:43
Legalised psychopaths in uniforms? ...
written by durianbesar, March 25, 2011 12:19:27
someone is watching you police fcukheads and fcukwits..." including your pork eating children you motherfcuking Hishamuddin and Nazrifcukhead's pork and alcohol eating son.. who just screwed a minister's daughter... wait till the news comes out about her shannigans....."....
This is the new latest video romp that will now go around the internet... ..ha ha..
In a press statement entitled: “End Police Brutality now” a “deeply concerned” Malaysian Bar commented on the “inability of the coroner to make a definitive finding in this case” in spite of “the strength of the evidence pointing to the culpability of the police”.
Martin Jalleh
2010 was yet another year when the police were allowed to continue to operate in an environment of impunity when it came to their excessive methods in relation to arrest, detention and treatment of persons in custody.
Two tragic episodes in the year made the culture of police brutality increasingly obvious and gave further credence to the accusation that Bolehland has become a Police State.
The first was an “open verdict” delivered by a coroner’s court on 25 Oct. 2010 in an inquest to determine the cause of R Gunasegaran’s death in the Sentul police station on 16 July, 2009, a few hours after Teoh Beng Hock’s body was discovered.
In a press statement entitled: “End Police Brutality now” a “deeply concerned” Malaysian Bar commented on the “inability of the coroner to make a definitive finding in this case” in spite of “the strength of the evidence pointing to the culpability of the police”.
The second was the shocking story of K Selvach Santhiran, a key witness who implicated the police in the abovementioned inquest. His lawyer, N Surendran would describe his client’s nightmare as “the continuing descent of the police force into lawlessness”.
Police arrested Selvach on the very night of the inquest verdict. They hammered and humiliated him in front of his wife and children and hauled him off. For the next five days neither the IGP nor the Home Minister would confirm that Selvach had been arrested despite rising public misgivings.
On 30 Oct., pressured by the presence of more than 100 people in front of Bukit Aman and their refusal to disperse, police revealed that Selvach was remanded by the Dangerous Drugs Act. (Selvach, who was arrested together with Gunasegaran, was cleared of drug charges when his urine tested negative in 2008.)
After a very brief visit with Selvach, his wife S Saraswathy, Suara Rakyat Malaysia (Suaram) and Lawyers for Liberty (LFL) revealed that Selvach was tortured during his one week’s detention and taken to a hospital. A habeas corpus application was prepared to get Selvach released from remand.
Police ‘sabotaged’ the habeas corpus hearing by obtaining a two-year detention order of Selvach by Home Minister Hishammudin Tun Hussein. Selvach was transferred to the Batu Gajah Detention Camp on 14 Dec. 2010 and was not given a chance to meet his family members.
The injustice done to Selvach was not an isolated incident. The “Memorandum of Protest” to the IGP submitted by LFL and Suaram on behalf of the Selvach’s family very accurately describes it as “…a continuation of a long standing series of acts by the police that showed their contempt for the rights of the people…”
The police were sending out a very strong message – think twice before you testify against us, we will teach you a lesson, you will be tortured, taken from your home and thrown into prison with the tacit approval of the higher authorities!
Further examples of the police’s culture of impunity in 2010 were the high-handed manner in which the police dealt with the participants of the peaceful assembly who gathered at Masjid Negara on 5 Dec., 2010 and the alleged beating and robbing of businessman Chia Buang Ting by several police officers.
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written by educationist, March 25, 2011 21:07:25
"The police were sending out a very strong message – think twice before you testify against us, we will teach you a lesson, you will be tortured, taken from your home and thrown into prison with the tacit approval of the higher authorities!" - this is very frightening yet all of us know to be true of the state of the police force in our country now!! ..
written by batsman, March 25, 2011 13:31:13
Legalised assassins in uniform? Working for whom I wonder? ...
written by Ken Liew, March 25, 2011 12:57:17
Durianbesar, I said this, and i say it again.... Police and Polis are 2 words that can from 2 different planet.
Police are to be respected for all people. But you can trash Polis in a trash can and still feel insulting the trash can... ...
written by durianbesar, March 25, 2011 12:16:16
FCUK the police di raja Malaysia... the cock sucking UMNO dick heads.... becareful.. about time the RAKYAT police the police and judge the police..... every action....
Umno and its cohorts has never had to bear up with any blinding tear gas or burning chemical-laced water from a water cannon. They were never brutalised or bludgeoned by the batons of bullies in blue, or bundled into police vehicles or beaten up in a police cell.
Martin Jalleh
Bolehland celebrates the 204th Police Day today. We thank God for each member of the PDRM for risking and putting their lives on the line every day for us and the countless unseen and untold sacrifices they have made.
We would like to believe that the country is at peace because of the police.
Sadly though a review of the performance of the police force last year (2010) indicates the failure of the government’s professed intention of improving the level of public confidence in the country’s police force.
In a four-part series. the reader will be able to see how in 2010, the police
a) aggressively and indiscriminately denied certain citizens the constitutional right to the freedom of speech and assembly
b) abused and used arbitrarily the wide powers of arrest and detention
c) acted with impunity and complete disregard for constitutional and judicial safeguards.
d) arrogantly showed their contempt for the rights of the people that resulted in gross abuse of police powers leading to brutality, torture, prolonged detention, shooting, custodial violence and death.
Part I: Police Preferred to Play Politics
In March 2010, then then IGP Musa Hassan’s insisted that “the police did not take into account the political leanings of anyone, including politicians, when conducting their investigation…”
Musa was only fooling himself. There were ample examples in 2010 of the police being blatantly and brazenly biased towards the powers that be. This can be especially seen in the double standards it displayed.
Umno and its cohorts has never had to bear up with any blinding tear gas or burning chemical-laced water from a water cannon. They were never brutalised or bludgeoned by the batons of bullies in blue, or bundled into police vehicles or beaten up in a police cell.
In 2010, the police appeared to believe in and guarded Umno’s constitutional right to the freedom of speech and assembly. They were guaranteed convenient and comfortable passage to and from the place they held their demonstrations. No action was taken even though it was later confirmed it was an “illegal gathering”.
Such was the case when in February about 300 Umno Youth, Perkasa and MIC Youth members besieged the Australian High Commission to protest against the 50 Australian Members of Parliament who had called for the sodomy charges against Anwar Ibrahim to be dropped.
In the same month, police gave their blessings to some 1,000 members of Perkasa and Selangor Umno to march from the Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz mosque to the Selangor State Secretariat Building to protest the state government's handling of the quit rent issue involving Yayasan Basmi Kemiskinan.
In sharp contrast, police subjected the Opposition to “petty prosecutions”. They made it their job to deny, disturb, disrupt and derail events organized by the Opposition, civil groups (like Hindraf) or concerned citizens.
In March they disrupted Pakatan Rakyat gatherings in Kepong and Kelab Sultan Sulaiman field, held to celebrate the second anniversary of its 8 March success. In July, they “ambushed” a dinner-talk in Rengit, Johor. Such senseless police aggression was also seen in Changkat Lada, Perak and many other places throughout 2010.
In March, acting on police reports made by the police themselves, the police interrogated Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim over “sensitive issues” which he had supposedly raised during his ceremahs in Penang. Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng and about 15 other elected representatives were also questioned.
"I think this is too much…We strongly resent and protest this continued intimidation by the police force... the police are out to prevent us from carrying out our duties. They should focus on problems of security and criminals and not be subservient to Umno leaders," Anwar lambasted the police.
On 1 August 30 people were arrested in Petaling Jaya for attending an anti-ISA candlelight vigil to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the ISA. On that same night, police also arrested four people in another vigil held at the Speakers’ Square in Penang.
Police confirmed that they knew of the presence at the same spot of pro-ISA members believed to be Umno representatives and that they were there “to create trouble and agitate”. Yet, no one amongst that group was reprimanded or arrested.
The police also stood idly by when a group of pro-ISA protestors disrupted an Anti-ISA Forum in Penang in November. Would the police do the same if a group were to disrupt a forum organized by Umno?
The year ended with the men in blue at their biased best! On 5 Dec. riot police fired tear gas and sprayed chemical-laced water to disperse some 3,000 protesters as they attempted to march to Istana Negara to submit a memorandum urging the King to intervene in the on-going dispute between the state government and water management company Syabas. About 50 protesters were also arrested.
Of course, the police did not mind the 300 or so protestors of the Anti-Penyelewengan Selangor (Gaps) or anti-Selangor government movement gathered at Stadium Merdeka. They sent a delegation to the palace by car and submitted the memorandum on the water issue to a palace representative.
From the examples given above and still more, the Police failed to “act fairly, independently and professionally” in 2010. They remained for yet another year – the Police Farce!
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written by educationist, March 25, 2011 20:55:57
"Police Preferred to Play Politics " - Martin, u hit the nail squarely on the head with that statement!!
That in a nutshell, spells all that ails our police force!!
Rather than putting effort into public security enforcement duties, they prefer to help the UMNOputras intimidate peaceful protestors!! ...
written by mjpop, March 25, 2011 19:02:31
and they r muslim mostly.
menghinakan agama and bangsa. ..
written by myhhlim, March 25, 2011 15:21:46
It is timefor sarawakian to organise more protests ..
written by eloofk, March 25, 2011 14:46:10
They have carved out a good name for themselves very appropriately and our family members call them
"Policing Thugs!" ...
written by Aduh, March 25, 2011 14:37:51
" Public Confidence In Police Plummeted In 2010 " What a gross understatement ?!?!?!. It happened as early as late 90s. .
written by Taikohtai, March 25, 2011 14:31:33
Can Pakatan second the Head of PDRM from another country from the Commonwealth to ensure neutrality, fairness and fair dinkum? Australia has done it, Hong Kong has done it and look at their police force! ..
written by batsman, March 25, 2011 13:29:30
Aisehman - only now plummetting? This means I am ahead of the public. My confidence in the police was in negative territory a long time ago. .
written by Ken Liew, March 25, 2011 12:53:24
I always have FAITH in The Polis. For they are more gangster then a gangster.... More Mat Rempit then a a Mat Rempit. More Snatcher then a Pick pocket. More Brutality then a Barbarian.
They are also MORE LOYAL to Cash/power then a Dog to his master. They Claim more OT and Bonus then any other Arms forces. But yet, they are so poor in responsibility. Polis Gang bang an armless you, when you in a gang of 2, they will start shoot you.
Malaysia Polis is the Least casualty and injury in the world rating. For their Experience of Shoot 1st ask later. For Bullet counts are NOT in their Normal duty. ...
written by alpha1, March 25, 2011 12:32:12
We never had confidence in them in the first place! Licensed thugs! ...
written by durianbesar, March 25, 2011 12:13:25
MOtherfcuking police officers and IGP and NAJIS whole gomen has to be executed.. kamikaze style with C4.... or better still bersek police officers in a "Tombstone" like gun slinging gun fight...
The police from Jude Blacious LIar to all the other fcuking police and gomen fcukwith civil servants to the dud fcukwit uniformed organisations my asssss and all that comes out of it and I am sure the Rakyat will vote you motherfcukers and fatherfcukers out there...
I just got off the wrongside of the bed.... NOW 3 cheers to M.Jalleh.....
“It is not enough to show that in the first nine months of 2010, crime fell by 16% (but still have 132,355 unresolved reported cases) and street crimes fell 38% (18,299 unresolved reported cases) or that 648 people were arrested for corruption.
Martin Jalleh
The rakyat was told that the government’s battle against crime showed good results in 2010. Home Minister Hishammuddin Tun Hussein announced in May 2010 that his Ministry's success in reducing the crime rate index for the first four months of the year had surpassed the initial target.
Minister in the PM's Department Senator Idris Jala revealed the results of the National Key Results Area (NKRA) for crime were outstanding for the first quarter and what the police and the ministry had done in that period was totally beyond expectation.
In Oct. 2010 a very elated IGP Ismail Omar proudly declared that police statistics indicated a significant drop in street crime by 38% and in the overall crime index by 16% between January and September.
But strangely, and as was so aptly put by Lim Kit Siang in October, “…up and down the country, ordinary Malaysians do not feel this dividend of fall of crime index in their daily lives as they do not feel comparatively safer in the streets, public places or privacy of their homes…”
In fact Kit Siang’s sentiments were so eloquently echoed by former Deputy Bank Governor Tan Sri Dr. Lin See Yin, in his article “The mystique of national transformation” which appeared online before the year ended:
“As I see it, discernable progress in four areas of priority concern to the rakyat and investors needs to come early enough to build confidence. They are corruption, crime, education and private enterprise.
“It is not enough to show that in the first nine months of 2010, crime fell by 16% (but still have 132,355 unresolved reported cases) and street crimes fell 38% (18,299 unresolved reported cases) or that 648 people were arrested for corruption.
“The public and investors (with ears on the ground) have to “feel” any improvement. Raw and biased statistics cannot tell the real story, and don’t impress. At this time, it would appear the rakyat and investors don’t “feel” any material improvement in the crime and corruption situation. That matters. But they don’t rush to judgment.
“What they want to “feel” is for today to be better than yesterday, and tomorrow to be better than today; and come tomorrow, their expectations are fulfilled. Incidents from personal experience reinforce this.”
In spite of the claims by the authorities and public surveys of a drop in the public’s fear of crime thereby signifying growing confidence in the police force, the fact remained, as John Sebastian wrote in the Malaysian Insider (18 Nov. 2010) that:
• More housing estates are having to handle own security, hire guards and put up barricades.
• Police are more reluctant to accept reports from public.
• Malaysians are altering their lives every day because of fear of crime.
• People are putting in more locks, closed-circuit or cyber-camera systems and alarm systems. Because they don’t feel safe.
“So if Pemandu and any other alphabet soup committee actually believe the better crime situation in the country, they must be on magic mushrooms.
“The day Malaysians don’t feel the need to engage their own security guards to guard their homes and family is the day when the tide against crime has been turned.
“That day isn’t coming as soon as the next general elections. So give us a break. Spare us the good news according to surveys. Just do more to make all Malaysians feel safe.”
Perhaps the public would feel more confident about the police, about being more safe and secure and that the statistics truly reflect the crime rate reality – when the police stop playing politics and government sets up the Independent Police Complaints and Misconduct Commission (IPCMC).
Lawmakers on both sides of the political divide demanded that newly-installed IGP Ismail Omar end the indiscriminate fatal police shootings. DAP advisor Lim Kit Siang declared: “It would appear that with the change of IGP, there is no change in the police culture as such.”
By Martin Jalleh
There was deep concern and consternation throughout 2010 over what the public viewed as the growing “shoot-to-kill” culture by the police force or what R. Sivarasa, the MP for Subang, called “a culture of impunity”.
“It means that they feel that they can do as they wish and they won’t be held accountable… they can shoot, kill, and there won’t be any questions asked (or)… any investigations and that they can continue doing so,” he said.
The nationwide concern over the trigger-happy cops of PDRM culminated into public outraged in April with the police “killing” of 14-year old Form III student Aminulrasyid Hamzah about 100 metres from his Shah Alam house.
The callous responses and cavalier attitude of the IGP, Home Minister and the police as they tried to contain the public firestorm caused the public to lose confidence in them and repeatedly call for the IGP to resign.
Respected lawyer Art Harun captured the sentiments of the people so clearly: “Right-minded people of Malaysia regard the killing of Aminulrasyid as symptomatic of lawless totalitarianism.”
“But that which makes this case all the more nauseating is not so much that this totally unnecessary killing of a 14-year-old boy had happened, but rather the responses by various parties — those people upon whom our security is entrusted — during the aftermath.
“The responses have been anything but humane, sensitive or even caring. They are arrogant, defensive and downright rude. Where is the love? Where is the humility? Doesn’t it occur to these people that they occupy seats of trust?”
Further, the police have become very predictable with their pat responses: “The dead were criminals. They behaved in a suspicious manner. They tried to evade/resist arrest. They drove away dangerously. Weapons were later found. Police acted by the rules. The law allows them to defend themselves” (Free Malaysia Today)
Cold Blooded
Seven months after Aminulrasyid was gunned down, three youths between the ages of 15 and 22 were shot dead after a reported high-speed car chase in Shah Alam. They were suspected of robbing a petrol station. Two of the families of the trio claimed that they were killed by the police in cold blood.
Lawmakers on both sides of the political divide demanded that newly-installed IGP Ismail Omar end the indiscriminate fatal police shootings. DAP advisor Lim Kit Siang declared: “It would appear that with the change of IGP, there is no change in the police culture as such.”
Before the year ended, human rights and legal reform advocates “Lawyers for Liberty” highlighted the seriousness of the situation. The number of fatal shootings by the police rose 17-fold since 2001 – from five in 2001 to a shocking total of 82 in 2008 and 88 in 2009.
Judging from Home Minister Hishammuddin Hussein’s curt, cold and caustic response, it is very clear that such “extrajudicial killings” will continue on in Bolehland! He said there was no surge in the number of fatal shootings. The matter was just being “sensationalized” in parliament. There could be a “slight increase” after all.
Hishammuddin’s continued his hogwash: “Let the police respond on the data …If not, I would be asked this question every day when there are other serious matters to respond to”. The data provided was from the police themselves! And what is more “serious” than the safety and security of innocent lives of Malaysians?
There were also those who were shot by the police but who managed to survive, the latest being Ho Chei Hang who was shot four times by plainclothes police officers in Kepong in November. The story of Norizan Salleh who was mistakenly shot five times by police officers last year continued to receive public attention in 2010.
It is evident that the only effective way to keep the police in check and the only convincing government action is the formation of the Independent Police Complaints and Misconduct Commission (IPCMC). Sadly, the federal government has proven to be a big hindrance to such a necessary move, and for obvious reasons.
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written by educationist, March 25, 2011 21:14:18
"called “a culture of impunity”."- it is still there for the UMNOputras depend on these samsengs in uniforms to enforce their intimidation of the political opposition and the peaceful dissent among the rakyat!! ..
written by Malaysian66, March 25, 2011 14:44:51
UMNO Youth with guns! ...
written by batsman, March 25, 2011 13:32:43
Legalised psychopaths in uniforms? ...
written by durianbesar, March 25, 2011 12:19:27
someone is watching you police fcukheads and fcukwits..." including your pork eating children you motherfcuking Hishamuddin and Nazrifcukhead's pork and alcohol eating son.. who just screwed a minister's daughter... wait till the news comes out about her shannigans....."....
This is the new latest video romp that will now go around the internet... ..ha ha..
In a press statement entitled: “End Police Brutality now” a “deeply concerned” Malaysian Bar commented on the “inability of the coroner to make a definitive finding in this case” in spite of “the strength of the evidence pointing to the culpability of the police”.
Martin Jalleh
2010 was yet another year when the police were allowed to continue to operate in an environment of impunity when it came to their excessive methods in relation to arrest, detention and treatment of persons in custody.
Two tragic episodes in the year made the culture of police brutality increasingly obvious and gave further credence to the accusation that Bolehland has become a Police State.
The first was an “open verdict” delivered by a coroner’s court on 25 Oct. 2010 in an inquest to determine the cause of R Gunasegaran’s death in the Sentul police station on 16 July, 2009, a few hours after Teoh Beng Hock’s body was discovered.
In a press statement entitled: “End Police Brutality now” a “deeply concerned” Malaysian Bar commented on the “inability of the coroner to make a definitive finding in this case” in spite of “the strength of the evidence pointing to the culpability of the police”.
The second was the shocking story of K Selvach Santhiran, a key witness who implicated the police in the abovementioned inquest. His lawyer, N Surendran would describe his client’s nightmare as “the continuing descent of the police force into lawlessness”.
Police arrested Selvach on the very night of the inquest verdict. They hammered and humiliated him in front of his wife and children and hauled him off. For the next five days neither the IGP nor the Home Minister would confirm that Selvach had been arrested despite rising public misgivings.
On 30 Oct., pressured by the presence of more than 100 people in front of Bukit Aman and their refusal to disperse, police revealed that Selvach was remanded by the Dangerous Drugs Act. (Selvach, who was arrested together with Gunasegaran, was cleared of drug charges when his urine tested negative in 2008.)
After a very brief visit with Selvach, his wife S Saraswathy, Suara Rakyat Malaysia (Suaram) and Lawyers for Liberty (LFL) revealed that Selvach was tortured during his one week’s detention and taken to a hospital. A habeas corpus application was prepared to get Selvach released from remand.
Police ‘sabotaged’ the habeas corpus hearing by obtaining a two-year detention order of Selvach by Home Minister Hishammudin Tun Hussein. Selvach was transferred to the Batu Gajah Detention Camp on 14 Dec. 2010 and was not given a chance to meet his family members.
The injustice done to Selvach was not an isolated incident. The “Memorandum of Protest” to the IGP submitted by LFL and Suaram on behalf of the Selvach’s family very accurately describes it as “…a continuation of a long standing series of acts by the police that showed their contempt for the rights of the people…”
The police were sending out a very strong message – think twice before you testify against us, we will teach you a lesson, you will be tortured, taken from your home and thrown into prison with the tacit approval of the higher authorities!
Further examples of the police’s culture of impunity in 2010 were the high-handed manner in which the police dealt with the participants of the peaceful assembly who gathered at Masjid Negara on 5 Dec., 2010 and the alleged beating and robbing of businessman Chia Buang Ting by several police officers.
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written by educationist, March 25, 2011 21:07:25
"The police were sending out a very strong message – think twice before you testify against us, we will teach you a lesson, you will be tortured, taken from your home and thrown into prison with the tacit approval of the higher authorities!" - this is very frightening yet all of us know to be true of the state of the police force in our country now!! ..
written by batsman, March 25, 2011 13:31:13
Legalised assassins in uniform? Working for whom I wonder? ...
written by Ken Liew, March 25, 2011 12:57:17
Durianbesar, I said this, and i say it again.... Police and Polis are 2 words that can from 2 different planet.
Police are to be respected for all people. But you can trash Polis in a trash can and still feel insulting the trash can... ...
written by durianbesar, March 25, 2011 12:16:16
FCUK the police di raja Malaysia... the cock sucking UMNO dick heads.... becareful.. about time the RAKYAT police the police and judge the police..... every action....
Umno and its cohorts has never had to bear up with any blinding tear gas or burning chemical-laced water from a water cannon. They were never brutalised or bludgeoned by the batons of bullies in blue, or bundled into police vehicles or beaten up in a police cell.
Martin Jalleh
Bolehland celebrates the 204th Police Day today. We thank God for each member of the PDRM for risking and putting their lives on the line every day for us and the countless unseen and untold sacrifices they have made.
We would like to believe that the country is at peace because of the police.
Sadly though a review of the performance of the police force last year (2010) indicates the failure of the government’s professed intention of improving the level of public confidence in the country’s police force.
In a four-part series. the reader will be able to see how in 2010, the police
a) aggressively and indiscriminately denied certain citizens the constitutional right to the freedom of speech and assembly
b) abused and used arbitrarily the wide powers of arrest and detention
c) acted with impunity and complete disregard for constitutional and judicial safeguards.
d) arrogantly showed their contempt for the rights of the people that resulted in gross abuse of police powers leading to brutality, torture, prolonged detention, shooting, custodial violence and death.
Part I: Police Preferred to Play Politics
In March 2010, then then IGP Musa Hassan’s insisted that “the police did not take into account the political leanings of anyone, including politicians, when conducting their investigation…”
Musa was only fooling himself. There were ample examples in 2010 of the police being blatantly and brazenly biased towards the powers that be. This can be especially seen in the double standards it displayed.
Umno and its cohorts has never had to bear up with any blinding tear gas or burning chemical-laced water from a water cannon. They were never brutalised or bludgeoned by the batons of bullies in blue, or bundled into police vehicles or beaten up in a police cell.
In 2010, the police appeared to believe in and guarded Umno’s constitutional right to the freedom of speech and assembly. They were guaranteed convenient and comfortable passage to and from the place they held their demonstrations. No action was taken even though it was later confirmed it was an “illegal gathering”.
Such was the case when in February about 300 Umno Youth, Perkasa and MIC Youth members besieged the Australian High Commission to protest against the 50 Australian Members of Parliament who had called for the sodomy charges against Anwar Ibrahim to be dropped.
In the same month, police gave their blessings to some 1,000 members of Perkasa and Selangor Umno to march from the Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz mosque to the Selangor State Secretariat Building to protest the state government's handling of the quit rent issue involving Yayasan Basmi Kemiskinan.
In sharp contrast, police subjected the Opposition to “petty prosecutions”. They made it their job to deny, disturb, disrupt and derail events organized by the Opposition, civil groups (like Hindraf) or concerned citizens.
In March they disrupted Pakatan Rakyat gatherings in Kepong and Kelab Sultan Sulaiman field, held to celebrate the second anniversary of its 8 March success. In July, they “ambushed” a dinner-talk in Rengit, Johor. Such senseless police aggression was also seen in Changkat Lada, Perak and many other places throughout 2010.
In March, acting on police reports made by the police themselves, the police interrogated Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim over “sensitive issues” which he had supposedly raised during his ceremahs in Penang. Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng and about 15 other elected representatives were also questioned.
"I think this is too much…We strongly resent and protest this continued intimidation by the police force... the police are out to prevent us from carrying out our duties. They should focus on problems of security and criminals and not be subservient to Umno leaders," Anwar lambasted the police.
On 1 August 30 people were arrested in Petaling Jaya for attending an anti-ISA candlelight vigil to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the ISA. On that same night, police also arrested four people in another vigil held at the Speakers’ Square in Penang.
Police confirmed that they knew of the presence at the same spot of pro-ISA members believed to be Umno representatives and that they were there “to create trouble and agitate”. Yet, no one amongst that group was reprimanded or arrested.
The police also stood idly by when a group of pro-ISA protestors disrupted an Anti-ISA Forum in Penang in November. Would the police do the same if a group were to disrupt a forum organized by Umno?
The year ended with the men in blue at their biased best! On 5 Dec. riot police fired tear gas and sprayed chemical-laced water to disperse some 3,000 protesters as they attempted to march to Istana Negara to submit a memorandum urging the King to intervene in the on-going dispute between the state government and water management company Syabas. About 50 protesters were also arrested.
Of course, the police did not mind the 300 or so protestors of the Anti-Penyelewengan Selangor (Gaps) or anti-Selangor government movement gathered at Stadium Merdeka. They sent a delegation to the palace by car and submitted the memorandum on the water issue to a palace representative.
From the examples given above and still more, the Police failed to “act fairly, independently and professionally” in 2010. They remained for yet another year – the Police Farce!
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written by educationist, March 25, 2011 20:55:57
"Police Preferred to Play Politics " - Martin, u hit the nail squarely on the head with that statement!!
That in a nutshell, spells all that ails our police force!!
Rather than putting effort into public security enforcement duties, they prefer to help the UMNOputras intimidate peaceful protestors!! ...
written by mjpop, March 25, 2011 19:02:31
and they r muslim mostly.
menghinakan agama and bangsa. ..
written by myhhlim, March 25, 2011 15:21:46
It is timefor sarawakian to organise more protests ..
written by eloofk, March 25, 2011 14:46:10
They have carved out a good name for themselves very appropriately and our family members call them
"Policing Thugs!" ...
written by Aduh, March 25, 2011 14:37:51
" Public Confidence In Police Plummeted In 2010 " What a gross understatement ?!?!?!. It happened as early as late 90s. .
written by Taikohtai, March 25, 2011 14:31:33
Can Pakatan second the Head of PDRM from another country from the Commonwealth to ensure neutrality, fairness and fair dinkum? Australia has done it, Hong Kong has done it and look at their police force! ..
written by batsman, March 25, 2011 13:29:30
Aisehman - only now plummetting? This means I am ahead of the public. My confidence in the police was in negative territory a long time ago. .
written by Ken Liew, March 25, 2011 12:53:24
I always have FAITH in The Polis. For they are more gangster then a gangster.... More Mat Rempit then a a Mat Rempit. More Snatcher then a Pick pocket. More Brutality then a Barbarian.
They are also MORE LOYAL to Cash/power then a Dog to his master. They Claim more OT and Bonus then any other Arms forces. But yet, they are so poor in responsibility. Polis Gang bang an armless you, when you in a gang of 2, they will start shoot you.
Malaysia Polis is the Least casualty and injury in the world rating. For their Experience of Shoot 1st ask later. For Bullet counts are NOT in their Normal duty. ...
written by alpha1, March 25, 2011 12:32:12
We never had confidence in them in the first place! Licensed thugs! ...
written by durianbesar, March 25, 2011 12:13:25
MOtherfcuking police officers and IGP and NAJIS whole gomen has to be executed.. kamikaze style with C4.... or better still bersek police officers in a "Tombstone" like gun slinging gun fight...
The police from Jude Blacious LIar to all the other fcuking police and gomen fcukwith civil servants to the dud fcukwit uniformed organisations my asssss and all that comes out of it and I am sure the Rakyat will vote you motherfcukers and fatherfcukers out there...
I just got off the wrongside of the bed.... NOW 3 cheers to M.Jalleh.....
WE CAN ACTUALLY DETERMINE THE ATTRIBUTES AND VALUES OF A PERSON BY JUST MIRRORING CHARACTERISTICS OF THE MEMBER(S) OF THE FAMILIES......FOR DSAI, MAJORITY OF MALAYSIANS ARE CONVINCED THAT HE IS INNOCENT BY JUST LOOKING AT DATIN SERI AZIZAH AND YB NURULIZZAH.........THERE IS NO NEED TO SPEND SO MUCH OF PUBLIC MONEY ON ARGUING THE CASE IN COURT........................
WE CAN ACTUALLY DETERMINE THE ATTRIBUTES AND VALUES OF A PERSON BY JUST MIRRORING CHARACTERISTICS OF THE MEMBER(S) OF THE FAMILIES......FOR DSAI, MAJORITY OF MALAYSIANS ARE CONVINCED THAT HE IS INNOCENT BY JUST LOOKING AT DATIN SERI AZIZAH AND YB NURULIZZAH.........THERE IS NO NEED TO SPEND SO MUCH OF PUBLIC MONEY ON ARGUING THE CASE IN COURT........................
Anwar Ibrahim, the man who has been the drawing and driving force behind the opposition coalition, Pakatan Rakyat (PR), must be destroyed at all cost. Never before has anyone posed such a danger to Umno.
By Martin Jalleh
The PM and Umno are desperate, very desperate indeed. It has dawned very hard on them that they could soon be driven out of Putrajaya and into political oblivion.
Anwar Ibrahim, the man who has been the drawing and driving force behind the opposition coalition, Pakatan Rakyat (PR), must be destroyed at all cost. Never before has anyone posed such a danger to Umno.
They had tried very hard to do his political career in with a sham sodomy trial but he bounced back even more determined, and with his coalition, dealt them a severe blow in the last general elections.
They had once dismissed him as a has-been and irrelevant. But Anwar just refused to disappear. Now they are convinced he must be demolished forever and then Pakatan Rakyat will definitely disintegrate.
Umno would launch relentless dastardly attacks on his reputation with the help of spin doctors in the mainstream media and online cyber-troopers and ceaselessly attempt to damage his credibility and integrity.
They would incessantly drum it into the minds of the citizens of Bolehland long and loud enough that he is a man of dubious character, one who will do anything to be the PM of Malaysia.
They would demonise him as a loyal friend of the Zionists, denigrate him as a spy for the US, defame him as a CIA agent, disparage him as a political chameleon and denounce him as a traitor.
They would deploy anyone to demolish him, whether they be in Umno, Apco or a bozo in the police, AG’s Chambers and especially the judiciary, people who would dance to their tune at the drop of a hat.
They would get deserters, detractors and disgruntled leaders of his party and within the coalition to discredit him with their stale and silly exposé and to derail the process of change that the PR wants to bring about.
A “Doctor in the House” joins in the diatribe against Anwar with his memoirs – a “doctored” memory of the past by a supposed statesman who prefers to live in the present on self-deception, delusion and denial.
Such is their desperation, they would even resurrect characters who played a “vicious role” in the conspiracy of Sodomy I, one of whom was described in a court transcript as being “disowned by her own father”.
They would even deny Anwar a place in parliament for six months with the help of the Speaker whom Tunku Abdul Aziz (a respected public figure) described as a “total disgrace”.
Sodomy Script
Politically bankrupt and devoid of political principles, they would dish out yet another sodomy script. Once again they would ruthlessly drag his and his family’s good name through the mud.
Prosecution star witness Saiful would not disappoint in the judicial circus. He contradicts himself and even has a sex liaison with a DPP in the case! The Court confirms it did happen but refuses to dismiss the case.
The AG and the judge would deny Anwar access to the details that are as a norm furnished to the defence at the start of a trial. But the AG would disclose all documents to the defence in the Ling Liong Sik’s case.
A chemist acknowledges that DNA found in Saiful's rear end could have come from as many as 10 different people - including himself! Saiful gives new meaning to the phrase "go f**k yourself"! (Asia Sentinel)
The prosecution is at a point of desperation when the AG’s Chambers and the police commit a plethora of mistakes regarding DNA evidence. They should be aptly dubbed the “DNA” – Desperate n Asinine team.
Courage deserts the judge as he overturns his own decision made during a trial-within-a-trial (which is very rarely done). Anwar says he is not surprised. The judge may be pressured and directed to stick to the script.
Umno has even contingent plans to dispose of Anwar. They come up with a new video tape showing a man alleged to be Anwar having sex with a female Chinese prostitute.
From the feedback of reporters who saw it and the glaring questions that have arisen as to how, where and when it was shown, one can only deduce that it is but doctored trash.
Najib parrots Hishamuddin and denies that the police are involved in the making of the sex tape. The public remembers how he had denied that he had ever met Saiful but later admitted that he did meet Saiful after all.
De facto law minister Nazri Aziz, who is reputed for his temper tantrums, theatrics, threats, taunts, and twisting the truth declares that the showing of the “blue film” (his very own words) is legitimate!
Nazri asks the public not to shoot the “messenger”. Datuk T is no “messenger” but a “Terrorist” employed to assassinate Anwar’s character!
Distractions & Diversions
Umno’s alleged sex scandals by opposition members are not only a conspiracy to destroy Anwar, but they are meant to distract the nation from the failures of the BN government and Umno.
The sex video is shown on the very day the Sarawak state assembly is dissolved. Do Sarawakians want to deliberate and decide on their future or waste their energy over the salacious contents of a doctored tape?
When the nation is sex saturated, and the people enjoy their daily sex diet, this is what Umno and the BN government wants to do:
Distract the rakyat from the damning evidence that the country is going to the dogs and that we are living in a “sham democracy” (Tengku Razaleigh).
Divert the people’s attention from the reality that we have a dead constitution (courtesy of the judiciary), a divided nation, decaying institutions, a dour economy and a disturbing diaspora rate!
Deflect the public’s attention from Umno’s rampant corruption, exacerbating internal divisions and that the Umnoputras are bleeding this country dry.
Deceive the nation with Najib’s “performance” consisting of nothing but public relations, publicity stunts, political rhetoric, populist slogans, propaganda puff, a pipe-dream and a pie in the sky!
Downplay the successes of the PR States. Deny, delay and distribute discriminately federal funds they are entitled to, whilst hiding the fact that some of the BN states are near debt or in deficit.
It is very evident that Umno has not changed! It has plunged to such depths that it is only adept at churning out sex stories to destroy its enemies, the No.1 being Anwar! It has no sense of decency or shame left.
It has to resort to dirty politics (no matter how despicable and disgusting) in order to survive. It will one day reap what it now sows and bury itself in the very grave it has dug for Anwar today.
It would no doubt be an “unmitigated disaster” if the rakyat were to vote for BN and (Najib) in the next general elections!
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written by Concerned_Citizen, March 24, 2011 11:55:22
Dirtiest devil in the whole universe, collectively, Armno, specifically, C4 Expert, Toon Snile Ol' Man, KerisMoodin, MuhiddinYazin, Arm Distributor ZahiT and etc. ...
written by temenggong, March 24, 2011 10:18:38
Well Martin, you have finally made that leap - "It would no doubt be an “unmitigated disaster” if the rakyat were to vote for BN and (Najib) in the next general elections!" ...
written by Pegasus, March 24, 2011 10:04:07
Ameno now is known producer of sex porn vidoe! Najis is finshed with latest sex porn scandal that produce by his own party! No shame! Tak malu langsung! ..
written by siewchinteo, March 24, 2011 08:31:36
DO NOT OPEN!!!!
http://jackfrost.blog.co.uk/2011/03/09/who-says-country-and-western-is-boring-10794328/ ...
written by ellyna, March 24, 2011 08:24:59
Yes Martin, they will stop at nothing to get DSAI out of the way. But they fail to realise, the more they do that , the greater the support of the people towards DSAI. Even the strongest and evil Saddam Hussein met an end never anticipated by him. The great Marcos was driven out of his own country and died like a dog. What more with this corrupt so-called Leader who is trying to cling to power by desperate means.Good will always overcome evil. Lets pray hard that their end is very near. ..
written by aeiou, March 24, 2011 07:49:11
It will become increasingly difficult to destroy Anwar short of assassination after the latest sex video. It could be that those who believed Anwar is guilty in Sodomy 2 might now change their mind. Whatever the degradation, the human spirit can be indestructible. Good must triumph over evil and when the Opposition triumphs in the forthcoming GE, all the suffering he has endured may be well worth it. ...
written by NottyMaus, March 24, 2011 07:17:10
Amno is carrying out a foolish exercise.
The opposition is here to stay, as long as they continue stealing the nation's coffers and blaming malay poverty on other races; further brain-washing malay youth to be hostile to other races.
They believe in bringing down Anwar, PR will die in disarray; they just don't know how mistaken they are.
We have 2 or 3 and 4 alternatives lined up to take his place.
So Amno, give it up. ..
written by Catharsis, March 24, 2011 07:14:35
YB DATO SERI DR NAJIB .................YOU ARE A SAD SAD STORY....................................
Anwar Ibrahim, the man who has been the drawing and driving force behind the opposition coalition, Pakatan Rakyat (PR), must be destroyed at all cost. Never before has anyone posed such a danger to Umno.
By Martin Jalleh
The PM and Umno are desperate, very desperate indeed. It has dawned very hard on them that they could soon be driven out of Putrajaya and into political oblivion.
Anwar Ibrahim, the man who has been the drawing and driving force behind the opposition coalition, Pakatan Rakyat (PR), must be destroyed at all cost. Never before has anyone posed such a danger to Umno.
They had tried very hard to do his political career in with a sham sodomy trial but he bounced back even more determined, and with his coalition, dealt them a severe blow in the last general elections.
They had once dismissed him as a has-been and irrelevant. But Anwar just refused to disappear. Now they are convinced he must be demolished forever and then Pakatan Rakyat will definitely disintegrate.
Umno would launch relentless dastardly attacks on his reputation with the help of spin doctors in the mainstream media and online cyber-troopers and ceaselessly attempt to damage his credibility and integrity.
They would incessantly drum it into the minds of the citizens of Bolehland long and loud enough that he is a man of dubious character, one who will do anything to be the PM of Malaysia.
They would demonise him as a loyal friend of the Zionists, denigrate him as a spy for the US, defame him as a CIA agent, disparage him as a political chameleon and denounce him as a traitor.
They would deploy anyone to demolish him, whether they be in Umno, Apco or a bozo in the police, AG’s Chambers and especially the judiciary, people who would dance to their tune at the drop of a hat.
They would get deserters, detractors and disgruntled leaders of his party and within the coalition to discredit him with their stale and silly exposé and to derail the process of change that the PR wants to bring about.
A “Doctor in the House” joins in the diatribe against Anwar with his memoirs – a “doctored” memory of the past by a supposed statesman who prefers to live in the present on self-deception, delusion and denial.
Such is their desperation, they would even resurrect characters who played a “vicious role” in the conspiracy of Sodomy I, one of whom was described in a court transcript as being “disowned by her own father”.
They would even deny Anwar a place in parliament for six months with the help of the Speaker whom Tunku Abdul Aziz (a respected public figure) described as a “total disgrace”.
Sodomy Script
Politically bankrupt and devoid of political principles, they would dish out yet another sodomy script. Once again they would ruthlessly drag his and his family’s good name through the mud.
Prosecution star witness Saiful would not disappoint in the judicial circus. He contradicts himself and even has a sex liaison with a DPP in the case! The Court confirms it did happen but refuses to dismiss the case.
The AG and the judge would deny Anwar access to the details that are as a norm furnished to the defence at the start of a trial. But the AG would disclose all documents to the defence in the Ling Liong Sik’s case.
A chemist acknowledges that DNA found in Saiful's rear end could have come from as many as 10 different people - including himself! Saiful gives new meaning to the phrase "go f**k yourself"! (Asia Sentinel)
The prosecution is at a point of desperation when the AG’s Chambers and the police commit a plethora of mistakes regarding DNA evidence. They should be aptly dubbed the “DNA” – Desperate n Asinine team.
Courage deserts the judge as he overturns his own decision made during a trial-within-a-trial (which is very rarely done). Anwar says he is not surprised. The judge may be pressured and directed to stick to the script.
Umno has even contingent plans to dispose of Anwar. They come up with a new video tape showing a man alleged to be Anwar having sex with a female Chinese prostitute.
From the feedback of reporters who saw it and the glaring questions that have arisen as to how, where and when it was shown, one can only deduce that it is but doctored trash.
Najib parrots Hishamuddin and denies that the police are involved in the making of the sex tape. The public remembers how he had denied that he had ever met Saiful but later admitted that he did meet Saiful after all.
De facto law minister Nazri Aziz, who is reputed for his temper tantrums, theatrics, threats, taunts, and twisting the truth declares that the showing of the “blue film” (his very own words) is legitimate!
Nazri asks the public not to shoot the “messenger”. Datuk T is no “messenger” but a “Terrorist” employed to assassinate Anwar’s character!
Distractions & Diversions
Umno’s alleged sex scandals by opposition members are not only a conspiracy to destroy Anwar, but they are meant to distract the nation from the failures of the BN government and Umno.
The sex video is shown on the very day the Sarawak state assembly is dissolved. Do Sarawakians want to deliberate and decide on their future or waste their energy over the salacious contents of a doctored tape?
When the nation is sex saturated, and the people enjoy their daily sex diet, this is what Umno and the BN government wants to do:
Distract the rakyat from the damning evidence that the country is going to the dogs and that we are living in a “sham democracy” (Tengku Razaleigh).
Divert the people’s attention from the reality that we have a dead constitution (courtesy of the judiciary), a divided nation, decaying institutions, a dour economy and a disturbing diaspora rate!
Deflect the public’s attention from Umno’s rampant corruption, exacerbating internal divisions and that the Umnoputras are bleeding this country dry.
Deceive the nation with Najib’s “performance” consisting of nothing but public relations, publicity stunts, political rhetoric, populist slogans, propaganda puff, a pipe-dream and a pie in the sky!
Downplay the successes of the PR States. Deny, delay and distribute discriminately federal funds they are entitled to, whilst hiding the fact that some of the BN states are near debt or in deficit.
It is very evident that Umno has not changed! It has plunged to such depths that it is only adept at churning out sex stories to destroy its enemies, the No.1 being Anwar! It has no sense of decency or shame left.
It has to resort to dirty politics (no matter how despicable and disgusting) in order to survive. It will one day reap what it now sows and bury itself in the very grave it has dug for Anwar today.
It would no doubt be an “unmitigated disaster” if the rakyat were to vote for BN and (Najib) in the next general elections!
Comments (8)..
written by Concerned_Citizen, March 24, 2011 11:55:22
Dirtiest devil in the whole universe, collectively, Armno, specifically, C4 Expert, Toon Snile Ol' Man, KerisMoodin, MuhiddinYazin, Arm Distributor ZahiT and etc. ...
written by temenggong, March 24, 2011 10:18:38
Well Martin, you have finally made that leap - "It would no doubt be an “unmitigated disaster” if the rakyat were to vote for BN and (Najib) in the next general elections!" ...
written by Pegasus, March 24, 2011 10:04:07
Ameno now is known producer of sex porn vidoe! Najis is finshed with latest sex porn scandal that produce by his own party! No shame! Tak malu langsung! ..
written by siewchinteo, March 24, 2011 08:31:36
DO NOT OPEN!!!!
http://jackfrost.blog.co.uk/2011/03/09/who-says-country-and-western-is-boring-10794328/ ...
written by ellyna, March 24, 2011 08:24:59
Yes Martin, they will stop at nothing to get DSAI out of the way. But they fail to realise, the more they do that , the greater the support of the people towards DSAI. Even the strongest and evil Saddam Hussein met an end never anticipated by him. The great Marcos was driven out of his own country and died like a dog. What more with this corrupt so-called Leader who is trying to cling to power by desperate means.Good will always overcome evil. Lets pray hard that their end is very near. ..
written by aeiou, March 24, 2011 07:49:11
It will become increasingly difficult to destroy Anwar short of assassination after the latest sex video. It could be that those who believed Anwar is guilty in Sodomy 2 might now change their mind. Whatever the degradation, the human spirit can be indestructible. Good must triumph over evil and when the Opposition triumphs in the forthcoming GE, all the suffering he has endured may be well worth it. ...
written by NottyMaus, March 24, 2011 07:17:10
Amno is carrying out a foolish exercise.
The opposition is here to stay, as long as they continue stealing the nation's coffers and blaming malay poverty on other races; further brain-washing malay youth to be hostile to other races.
They believe in bringing down Anwar, PR will die in disarray; they just don't know how mistaken they are.
We have 2 or 3 and 4 alternatives lined up to take his place.
So Amno, give it up. ..
written by Catharsis, March 24, 2011 07:14:35
YB DATO SERI DR NAJIB .................YOU ARE A SAD SAD STORY....................................
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
THIS IS A TYPICAL CASE OF HOW THE GOVERNMENT POLITICALLY EXPLOITED A HIGH-FLYING CORPORATE CHAMPION AND MADE HIM A BLOODY-FOOL………THE RESPONSIBLE MINISTER HISHAMMUDDIN MADE AN IDIOT OUT OF IDRIS JALA!!
THIS IS A TYPICAL CASE OF HOW THE GOVERNMENT POLITICALLY EXPLOITED A HIGH-FLYING CORPORATE CHAMPION AND MADE HIM A BLOODY-FOOL………THE RESPONSIBLE MINISTER HISHAMMUDDIN MADE AN IDIOT OUT OF IDRIS JALA!!
Updated: Tuesday March 22, 2011 MYT 7:23:32 PM
Idris Jala: Impounded BM bibles to carry “For Christianity” stamp
Full text of the statement by Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Senator Datuk Seri Idris Jala is below:
PETALING JAYA: The 35,100 impounded Bahasa Malaysia Bibles will be released without the need to be numbered and would be stamped “For Christianity” only, said Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Senator Datuk Seri Idris Jala in a statement on Tuesday.
The announcement is a major move as the Home Ministry had earlier stamped the Bibles held at Port Klang and Kuching with the words “For Christians Only.”
Church groups had protested against the decision, saying it would be unconstitutional and deprive people of other faiths from reading the Bible.
“The government has agreed to issue a directive so that future Bibles in BM can be brought in as long as they have the words “ For Christianity,’’ said Jala.
The government was not just singling out Bibles, he said.
Imported Qurans were also checked to see if they were authorised copies and stamped with serial numbers before they were released, Jala said.
He said the government urged the Christian groups to collect the bibles at the ports.
He said the groups could choose to put a sticker “For Christianity” over the serial number and the stamp “For Christians only” in the impounded bibles and the impound costs would be paid by Christian sponsors.
Alternately, Christian sponsors would pay for the import of fresh bibles with the words “For Christianity” printed at the source, he said.
On his role in helping to sort out the matter, he said: "I was requested to discuss this matter with the Christian groups in my capacity as Minister in PM Department (not as CEO of PEMANDU), as a Christian and more importantly, because I am the only cabinet minister who is not a member of any political party."
Below is the full text of Senator Datuk Seri Idris Jala, Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department on the issue of Bibles impounded at Kuching and Port Klang on March 22:
"The Government wishes to reiterate that, since March 15, it had given the directive to release all Bibles in Bahasa Malaysia, which are impounded in Port Klang and Kuching.
However, to date, the Christian groups who imported the Bibles have not collected them because they did not accept the stamps and the serialisation on these Bibles.
Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein, the Minister of Home Affairs, mentioned that the act of stamping and serialisation is standard protocol.
For example, Qurans which are imported into the country are also checked to see if they are authorised copies and are stamped with serial numbers before they are released.
Qurans which are not authorised are impounded and destroyed.
The act of stamping and serialisation of the Bibles in Bahasa Malaysia and the Qurans should not be perceived as desecration of Holy scriptures.
Attached is a copy of the stamp and the serialisation as they appear of the Quran.
A special cabinet committee on this matter comprising Prime Minister, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Home Affairs, Minister of Unity, Minister in PM's Department (Law and Parliamentary Affairs), Minister of Religious Affairs and Minister in PM Dept/CEO of PEMANDU and the Attorney-General met on Thursday, March 17, to discuss the issues at hand and find a fair and amicable solution.
The solution should take into account the polarity of views between the Christians and Muslims, within the context of the existing laws of the country.
Subsequently on Friday, March 18, Datuk Seri Idris Jala and Tan Sri Abdul Gani Patail, the Attorney-General of Malaysia met with representatives from the Christian Federation of Malaysia (CFM), the Council of Churches of Malaysia (CCM) and other relevant Christian groups together with their legal advisors.
At this meeting, Idris said, "AG and I presented on behalf of the Government what we believe is a workable solution for all parties."
The solution put forward by the Government is as follows:
1.The BM Bibles currently impounded in Kuching and Port Klang will be released with the words "For Christianity" stamped clearly in font type Arial/size 16 in bold. No other words or serial numbers will be stamped on the Bibles.
2. To ensure that there is no misrepresentation in its implementation by civil servants, the Government will issue a directive from the Director-General of the Ministry of Home Affairs. As with all similar directives, failure to comply with this directive will subject the relevant officers to disciplinary action under the General Orders.
3. To highlight the Government's commitment to resolving this issue amicably, the Government has received an offer from Christian donors who are prepared to pay for the cost of all the Bibles, which have already been stamped and serialised.
These BM Bibles can either be released in their present state (with stamps and serial numbers) or arrangements can be made to put stickers with the words "For Christianity" to cover the existing stamps and serial numbers.
The choice is for the importers of these Bibles.
In the event they do not wish to take possession of these impounded Bibles in the present state, the Christian donors will pay for the full cost of new bibles to be brought in with the words "For Christianity" printed at source or stamped with these words "For Christianity" by the Ministry of Home Affairs at Port Klang and Kuching.
At the end of this meeting, the representatives from Christian groups requested for time to meet and discuss and have advised the Government that they would revert on their decision as soon as practicable.
Idris said, "In presenting the above solution, the Attorney-General (AG) and I have been authorised by the Prime Minister and the special cabinet committee to convey the Government's proposed solutions to the Christian group."
He clarified, "I was requested to discuss this matter with the Christian groups in my capacity as Minister in PM Department (not as CEO of PEMANDU), as a Christian and more importantly, as I am the only cabinet minister who is not a member of any political party.
The Government wants this matter to be resolved amicably in a non-partisan manner and in line with the spirit of 1Malaysia. The Attorney-General's involvement is obviously necessary because we have to ensure that the solution must be in the context of the existing laws of the Country."
The Government urges the Christian groups to come and collect the Bibles immediately for three reasons:
1. The focus should be on getting the bibles into the hands of people who want to read them. It has been established that the Ministry of Home Affairs is not singling out the Bibles for stamping and serialisation because this is also the same practice as they appear in the Quran.
2. Notwithstanding (1) above, an arrangement has been made by the Government, with the help of Christian donors, to pay for the cost of all 30,000 impounded bibles in Kuching and the 5,100 bibles in Port Klang free of charge. The importer can take these bibles completely free of charge at no cost. If the Christian groups do not wish to take the Bibles, then the Christian donors have agreed to pay for the cost of bringing in new bibles as replacement and these will be printed or stamped with the words "For Christianity."
3. The Government has agreed to issue a Directive so that future Bibles in Bahasa Malaysia can be brought in as long as these have the words "For Christianity" in Arial font size 16 either printed at source or stamped at the receiving Port.
4. Finally, Idris said, "This is a fair and reasonable solution from the Government and with the help of Christian donors, all 35,100 are to be released completely free of charge at no cost at all to the importers. In addition, by virtue of the Government directive, there is an assurance from the Government that future Bibles in Bahasa Malaysia can be imported and released with the words "For Christianity."
Updated: Tuesday March 22, 2011 MYT 7:23:32 PM
Idris Jala: Impounded BM bibles to carry “For Christianity” stamp
Full text of the statement by Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Senator Datuk Seri Idris Jala is below:
PETALING JAYA: The 35,100 impounded Bahasa Malaysia Bibles will be released without the need to be numbered and would be stamped “For Christianity” only, said Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Senator Datuk Seri Idris Jala in a statement on Tuesday.
The announcement is a major move as the Home Ministry had earlier stamped the Bibles held at Port Klang and Kuching with the words “For Christians Only.”
Church groups had protested against the decision, saying it would be unconstitutional and deprive people of other faiths from reading the Bible.
“The government has agreed to issue a directive so that future Bibles in BM can be brought in as long as they have the words “ For Christianity,’’ said Jala.
The government was not just singling out Bibles, he said.
Imported Qurans were also checked to see if they were authorised copies and stamped with serial numbers before they were released, Jala said.
He said the government urged the Christian groups to collect the bibles at the ports.
He said the groups could choose to put a sticker “For Christianity” over the serial number and the stamp “For Christians only” in the impounded bibles and the impound costs would be paid by Christian sponsors.
Alternately, Christian sponsors would pay for the import of fresh bibles with the words “For Christianity” printed at the source, he said.
On his role in helping to sort out the matter, he said: "I was requested to discuss this matter with the Christian groups in my capacity as Minister in PM Department (not as CEO of PEMANDU), as a Christian and more importantly, because I am the only cabinet minister who is not a member of any political party."
Below is the full text of Senator Datuk Seri Idris Jala, Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department on the issue of Bibles impounded at Kuching and Port Klang on March 22:
"The Government wishes to reiterate that, since March 15, it had given the directive to release all Bibles in Bahasa Malaysia, which are impounded in Port Klang and Kuching.
However, to date, the Christian groups who imported the Bibles have not collected them because they did not accept the stamps and the serialisation on these Bibles.
Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein, the Minister of Home Affairs, mentioned that the act of stamping and serialisation is standard protocol.
For example, Qurans which are imported into the country are also checked to see if they are authorised copies and are stamped with serial numbers before they are released.
Qurans which are not authorised are impounded and destroyed.
The act of stamping and serialisation of the Bibles in Bahasa Malaysia and the Qurans should not be perceived as desecration of Holy scriptures.
Attached is a copy of the stamp and the serialisation as they appear of the Quran.
A special cabinet committee on this matter comprising Prime Minister, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Home Affairs, Minister of Unity, Minister in PM's Department (Law and Parliamentary Affairs), Minister of Religious Affairs and Minister in PM Dept/CEO of PEMANDU and the Attorney-General met on Thursday, March 17, to discuss the issues at hand and find a fair and amicable solution.
The solution should take into account the polarity of views between the Christians and Muslims, within the context of the existing laws of the country.
Subsequently on Friday, March 18, Datuk Seri Idris Jala and Tan Sri Abdul Gani Patail, the Attorney-General of Malaysia met with representatives from the Christian Federation of Malaysia (CFM), the Council of Churches of Malaysia (CCM) and other relevant Christian groups together with their legal advisors.
At this meeting, Idris said, "AG and I presented on behalf of the Government what we believe is a workable solution for all parties."
The solution put forward by the Government is as follows:
1.The BM Bibles currently impounded in Kuching and Port Klang will be released with the words "For Christianity" stamped clearly in font type Arial/size 16 in bold. No other words or serial numbers will be stamped on the Bibles.
2. To ensure that there is no misrepresentation in its implementation by civil servants, the Government will issue a directive from the Director-General of the Ministry of Home Affairs. As with all similar directives, failure to comply with this directive will subject the relevant officers to disciplinary action under the General Orders.
3. To highlight the Government's commitment to resolving this issue amicably, the Government has received an offer from Christian donors who are prepared to pay for the cost of all the Bibles, which have already been stamped and serialised.
These BM Bibles can either be released in their present state (with stamps and serial numbers) or arrangements can be made to put stickers with the words "For Christianity" to cover the existing stamps and serial numbers.
The choice is for the importers of these Bibles.
In the event they do not wish to take possession of these impounded Bibles in the present state, the Christian donors will pay for the full cost of new bibles to be brought in with the words "For Christianity" printed at source or stamped with these words "For Christianity" by the Ministry of Home Affairs at Port Klang and Kuching.
At the end of this meeting, the representatives from Christian groups requested for time to meet and discuss and have advised the Government that they would revert on their decision as soon as practicable.
Idris said, "In presenting the above solution, the Attorney-General (AG) and I have been authorised by the Prime Minister and the special cabinet committee to convey the Government's proposed solutions to the Christian group."
He clarified, "I was requested to discuss this matter with the Christian groups in my capacity as Minister in PM Department (not as CEO of PEMANDU), as a Christian and more importantly, as I am the only cabinet minister who is not a member of any political party.
The Government wants this matter to be resolved amicably in a non-partisan manner and in line with the spirit of 1Malaysia. The Attorney-General's involvement is obviously necessary because we have to ensure that the solution must be in the context of the existing laws of the Country."
The Government urges the Christian groups to come and collect the Bibles immediately for three reasons:
1. The focus should be on getting the bibles into the hands of people who want to read them. It has been established that the Ministry of Home Affairs is not singling out the Bibles for stamping and serialisation because this is also the same practice as they appear in the Quran.
2. Notwithstanding (1) above, an arrangement has been made by the Government, with the help of Christian donors, to pay for the cost of all 30,000 impounded bibles in Kuching and the 5,100 bibles in Port Klang free of charge. The importer can take these bibles completely free of charge at no cost. If the Christian groups do not wish to take the Bibles, then the Christian donors have agreed to pay for the cost of bringing in new bibles as replacement and these will be printed or stamped with the words "For Christianity."
3. The Government has agreed to issue a Directive so that future Bibles in Bahasa Malaysia can be brought in as long as these have the words "For Christianity" in Arial font size 16 either printed at source or stamped at the receiving Port.
4. Finally, Idris said, "This is a fair and reasonable solution from the Government and with the help of Christian donors, all 35,100 are to be released completely free of charge at no cost at all to the importers. In addition, by virtue of the Government directive, there is an assurance from the Government that future Bibles in Bahasa Malaysia can be imported and released with the words "For Christianity."
WHO ACTUALLY PLUNDERED THE STATE’S WEALTH AND NATURAL RESOURCES? WHO ACTUALLY THE CAUSE OF CORPORATE BLUNDERS THAT RUN INTO BILLIONS OF RINGGIT? WHO ACTUALLY CHEATED THE RAKYAT BY LETTING OFF THOSE RASCALS SCOT-FREE AFTER THEY MADE BILLIONS THROUGH PRIVATISATION EXERCISES? WHO OWN PRIVATE JETS, LUXURY CARS, HIGH-CC BIKES, HUGE BUNGALOWS, OVERSEAS HOMES AND RANCHES? WHO ARE THE RICH PEOPLE THAT HAVE MORE THAN ONE WIFE? WHO ARE………PLENTY, PLENTY MORE OF REAL EXAMPLES OF FISCAL IRRESPONSIBILITY AND MISMANAGEMENT COMMITTED BY THE CURRENT REGIME AND ITS CRONIES…….MALAYSIA COULD HAVE BEEN MUCH MORE RICH WITHOUT THE CURRENT RULING GOVERNMENT!!!
WHO ACTUALLY PLUNDERED THE STATE’S WEALTH AND NATURAL RESOURCES? WHO ACTUALLY THE CAUSE OF CORPORATE BLUNDERS THAT RUN INTO BILLIONS OF RINGGIT? WHO ACTUALLY CHEATED THE RAKYAT BY LETTING OFF THOSE RASCALS SCOT-FREE AFTER THEY MADE BILLIONS THROUGH PRIVATISATION EXERCISES? WHO OWN PRIVATE JETS, LUXURY CARS, HIGH-CC BIKES, HUGE BUNGALOWS, OVERSEAS HOMES AND RANCHES? WHO ARE THE RICH PEOPLE THAT HAVE MORE THAN ONE WIFE? WHO ARE………PLENTY, PLENTY MORE OF REAL EXAMPLES OF FISCAL IRRESPONSIBILITY AND MISMANAGEMENT COMMITTED BY THE CURRENT REGIME AND ITS CRONIES…….MALAYSIA COULD HAVE BEEN MUCH MORE RICH WITHOUT THE CURRENT RULING GOVERNMENT!!!
Published: Tuesday March 22, 2011 MYT 4:59:00 PM
PM: Be wary of 'dream merchants'
By DHARMENDER SINGH and LESTER KONG
PUTRAJAYA: Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak warned Malaysians to be wary of “dream merchants” who could turn the country into another failed state depending on foreign handouts to survive.
The Prime Minister said the Government does not want to see the country, some day, having to hang on to the goodwill of international financial institutions, similar to the fate that had befallen some nations forced to seek handouts.
“We will not let Malaysia transform from a modern middle-high income industrial nation into a failed state due to fiscal irresponsibility and mismanagement.
“A responsible (political) party would rather remain unpopular in the short term than drive the country bankrupt in the long run,” he said when addressing civil servants here Tuesday.
“It is normal for some people to be mesmerised by cunning dream merchants who utter sweet nothings to fool them through promises in documents of various forms, like sea blue, dark green, white and now orange,” said Najib.
However, he warned, that Malaysia might suffer the fate of other failed states if the reforms proposed by certain political parties were allowed to take place.
In an obvious reference to the political agenda outlined in the Buku Jingga (Orange Book) of the Pakatan Rakyat parties, Najib said the “dream merchants” have, at times, managed to dupe people into believing “there’s gold at the end of the rainbow.”
The prime minister, who is Barisan Nasional chief, said that when it came to promises, the ruling coalition was able to deliver them through various initiatives and capabilities within its means.
“In fact, even before we make the promises, we ensure that whatever is said is realistic,” adding that the Government would be responsible and take into account every aspect of the people’s well-being and long term interests.
He said it was irresponsible for any party to introduce initiatives that were only populist in nature, without explaining to the people the actual cost of the plans and methods of financing the initiatives.
“Simply saying these plans will be funded by plugging leakages in government spending does not present a transparent explanation.
“It does not give a clear picture of the government’s need to increase revenue and avoid being dependent on natural resources,” he said, adding it was not the time for the people to try and experiment but to continue to hold on tight to what has been tested and proven.
Najib said this was why the Government implemented policy to rationalise subsidies even though, in principle, it believed that subsidies were vital for certain groups and sectors.
“We have to understand that Government resources are limited while the nature of demand is unlimited.
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Published: Tuesday March 22, 2011 MYT 4:59:00 PM
PM: Be wary of 'dream merchants'
By DHARMENDER SINGH and LESTER KONG
PUTRAJAYA: Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak warned Malaysians to be wary of “dream merchants” who could turn the country into another failed state depending on foreign handouts to survive.
The Prime Minister said the Government does not want to see the country, some day, having to hang on to the goodwill of international financial institutions, similar to the fate that had befallen some nations forced to seek handouts.
“We will not let Malaysia transform from a modern middle-high income industrial nation into a failed state due to fiscal irresponsibility and mismanagement.
“A responsible (political) party would rather remain unpopular in the short term than drive the country bankrupt in the long run,” he said when addressing civil servants here Tuesday.
“It is normal for some people to be mesmerised by cunning dream merchants who utter sweet nothings to fool them through promises in documents of various forms, like sea blue, dark green, white and now orange,” said Najib.
However, he warned, that Malaysia might suffer the fate of other failed states if the reforms proposed by certain political parties were allowed to take place.
In an obvious reference to the political agenda outlined in the Buku Jingga (Orange Book) of the Pakatan Rakyat parties, Najib said the “dream merchants” have, at times, managed to dupe people into believing “there’s gold at the end of the rainbow.”
The prime minister, who is Barisan Nasional chief, said that when it came to promises, the ruling coalition was able to deliver them through various initiatives and capabilities within its means.
“In fact, even before we make the promises, we ensure that whatever is said is realistic,” adding that the Government would be responsible and take into account every aspect of the people’s well-being and long term interests.
He said it was irresponsible for any party to introduce initiatives that were only populist in nature, without explaining to the people the actual cost of the plans and methods of financing the initiatives.
“Simply saying these plans will be funded by plugging leakages in government spending does not present a transparent explanation.
“It does not give a clear picture of the government’s need to increase revenue and avoid being dependent on natural resources,” he said, adding it was not the time for the people to try and experiment but to continue to hold on tight to what has been tested and proven.
Najib said this was why the Government implemented policy to rationalise subsidies even though, in principle, it believed that subsidies were vital for certain groups and sectors.
“We have to understand that Government resources are limited while the nature of demand is unlimited.
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Monday, March 21, 2011
WITH THE BOUNTIES OF NATURAL RESOURCES THAT MALAYSIA POSSESSES, WE ARE “SUFFERING” FROM “THE TRAGEDY OF THE ANTI-COMMONS”!! WHAT WE CRITICALLY IN NEED IS THE HUMAN CAPITAL THAT IS FREE FROM THE POLITICAL INJUSTICES AND MALPRACTICES AS PRACTISED BY THE CURRENT REGIME!!
WITH THE BOUNTIES OF NATURAL RESOURCES THAT MALAYSIA POSSESSES, WE ARE “SUFFERING” FROM “THE TRAGEDY OF THE ANTI-COMMONS”!! WHAT WE CRITICALLY IN NEED IS THE HUMAN CAPITAL THAT IS FREE FROM THE POLITICAL INJUSTICES AND MALPRACTICES AS PRACTISED BY THE CURRENT REGIME!!
Enhancing Human Capital Through Education Revamping Schools and Universities
Enhancing Human Capital
Malaysia in the Era of Globalization #57
By M. Bakri Musa
Chapter 7: Enhancing Human Capital
Enhancing Human Capital Through Education Revamping Schools and Universities
The Malaysian government recently published a massive plan, Educational Development – 2001-2010, aimed at revamping the entire education system. However, only a year earlier it had undertaken another massive revision of the curriculum, and that project was yet to be completed (it was not yet begun to be implemented!) when this new policy was unveiled. Despite its 250 pages, replete with the obligatory buzzwords like knowledge workers, IT revolution, and globalization, the report fails to address the glaring inadequacies of the present system. These include the atrociously low standard of English, abysmal levels of science literacy, and appalling mathematical skills of our students.
To address the increasing disadvantage that graduates of public universities face because of their low English fluency, the government proposes to have private institutions use Malay as the medium of instruction. In other words, handicap everyone to the same level of mediocrity!
A central feature of this new reorganization is the reduction of the school years from the present 13 to 12. This, combined with the earlier shortening of the undergraduate years from four to three, would put Malaysian students at a distinct disadvantage in the marketplace.
Instead of spending energy on a disruptive massive reorganization, the ministry would do well to focus on enhancing the present system of P-13, in particular the academic pre-university class, Sixth Form.
The government’s rationale for reducing the school years is to align the Malaysian system with those of advanced societies, in particular America. True, the American system is also P-12, but two years of college is now increasingly the norm for students, in recognition of the need for a highly educated workforce. Further, American high schools offer courses that are traditionally taught in the freshmen (first) year of college. As a result, more and more students especially at the leading universities are now entering with “advanced standing.” Teaching introductory college courses at high school is not only cheaper but also more effective. Additionally, students entering with advanced standing are better prepared and are less likely to drop out. They also graduate faster. We can never over prepare students for college.
Bard College, a highly regarded degree-granting institution, in cooperation with New York City public schools system expanded on this idea and recently started an accelerated program where highly motivated students are selected to pursue their final two years of high school integrated with the first two years of college. These students would then graduate with both their high school diploma as well as an Associate degree. They would then proceed into the junior (third) year of university.
Malaysia had a comparable program in the 1960’s where students who did well at Sixth Form were admitted as directly as “super-freshie,” skipping their first year, equivalent to the American “advanced standing.” Now however, Sixth Form is being emasculated, replaced with the much more expensive and highly inefficient matrikulasi (matriculation) programs of the universities.
I propose simplifying the present school years into elementary (P-6), middle (7-9), and high school (10-13), with a standardized national tests at the end of each level. Thus only three such tests; eliminate the present Form V (Year 11—Sijil Perseketuan Malaysia, SPM) examination. These tests should be used to assess not only the students’ but also equally important, their schools’ performances. Further, such national tests would be limited only to the core subjects of Malay, English, science, and mathematics.
Students would be promoted based on such national tests as well as their individual assessments made by the school. Such evaluations, as in the American system, should be based on the student’s performance throughout the year instead of a single end-of-year examination. It is patently unfair to decide on a student’s future based only on one single examination. If he or she is not feeling well that day or if there are interruptions in the student’s life (for example, floods, as has happened often in the past) then the students’ performance would suffer, as would their entire future.
American students are continuously assessed throughout their school year. Universities base their admissions on these school assessments (as measured by the Grade Point Average) as well as scores on national standardized tests. Often the two are correlated but there will the occasional students who excel in one but not the other. They too should not be denied the opportunity.
Eliminating the SPM examination as well as the number of subjects offered in those national tests would markedly reduce the workload of the ministry’s Examination Syndicate. It would then be able to process the results in weeks instead of the present months. At present students are kept in limbo from January to June the following year waiting for their SPM results. That is more than a semester wasted while they could be in class instead of loitering. While there has been significant improvement in announcing the examination results (in 2002 for the first time they were announced at the end of February) nonetheless university admission is still till late in the year.
My proposal would not materially change the first P-9 years, except that all schools must follow the minimal core curriculum of the four compulsory subjects of Malay, English, science and mathematics. These subjects must be taught daily. Each school would be allowed to experiment with various electives to fill in the rest of the school day.
The last four years (high school) would see the most change. Essentially I would classify high schools into academic, general, vocational, and specialized (vernacular and religious). Academic schools would prepare students for universities. The vocational stream would equip them with technical training like carpentry and auto repairs, as well as general office skills like bookkeeping. Such schools would be combined with industries’ apprenticeship programs so that when the students graduate they would be well on their way to earn their journeymen’s certificate. From the general stream would come future nurses, policemen, and non-graduate teachers.
Thus regardless of the students’ ultimate career goals, they will be fluently bilingual (Malay and English), science literate, and mathematically competent. English must be emphasized because of its utility in the marketplace. Hence in addition to having English as a subject, I would teach at least two other subjects in that language. The most suitable candidates for this are science and mathematics. Increasing the number of subjects taught in English would give student a much greater opportunity to improve their fluency in that language. As for making mathematics as a core subject, numerous studies have shown that ability in it correlates with later success in college and life. The skills learned in mathematics have wide transferability. Similarly with science; in an increasingly technological world, students must have an understanding of the basic concepts in science.
[Update: In May 2002 the government (actually UMNO Supreme Council) decided that science and mathematics be taught in English in the schools. That is the easy part. The more formidable problem is the implementation. The ministry is presently inundated with fervent Malay language nationalists who would do their best to derail this imaginative initiative. Sure enough, this policy was later rescinded. MBM]
This streaming of students must be flexible so they could readily switch during the first two years. This would accommodate late bloomers as well as those who discover their technical aptitude later.
Graduates of vernacular and religious schools would in addition be effectively trilingual (their mother tongue with vernacular schools, Arabic with Islamic schools) – an added bonus. Because of the core curriculum, graduates of religious schools too would also have greater flexibility in their future career choices and plans for further studies. And should they ended up as ulama, they would be better for it for having had a broad-based liberal education.
Schools should be allowed to chart their own course. I envisage some emphasizing the performing arts, others foreign languages or the sciences. Students would be free to choose the school that would best meet their particular needs. To eliminate obvious disadvantages based on geography (rural versus urban students), each school must also have adequate hostel facilities to cater for out-of-area and rural students.
1. by boh-liao on Monday, 21 March 2011 - 1:44 pm
Human capital is important, but equally important, if not more, is intellectual capital
1M’sia exports petroleum, palm oil, rubber, tin, n intellectual capital, very generous
2. #2 by tak tahan on Monday, 21 March 2011 - 10:17 pm
Every sustainable resources in terms of natural oil,gas,green forest and human capital will be totally gone soon if umnob is still allowed in near or far future to govern this bolehland.By then every individual kerala or mamak,bugis,javanese and all the leader pirates will go back to their respective origin country.When you meet them in their origin country,don’t refer them as malay cause by then malay race do not play important part in their lives anymore.Refer them as ketuanan xxx according to their respective country.
Enhancing Human Capital Through Education Revamping Schools and Universities
Enhancing Human Capital
Malaysia in the Era of Globalization #57
By M. Bakri Musa
Chapter 7: Enhancing Human Capital
Enhancing Human Capital Through Education Revamping Schools and Universities
The Malaysian government recently published a massive plan, Educational Development – 2001-2010, aimed at revamping the entire education system. However, only a year earlier it had undertaken another massive revision of the curriculum, and that project was yet to be completed (it was not yet begun to be implemented!) when this new policy was unveiled. Despite its 250 pages, replete with the obligatory buzzwords like knowledge workers, IT revolution, and globalization, the report fails to address the glaring inadequacies of the present system. These include the atrociously low standard of English, abysmal levels of science literacy, and appalling mathematical skills of our students.
To address the increasing disadvantage that graduates of public universities face because of their low English fluency, the government proposes to have private institutions use Malay as the medium of instruction. In other words, handicap everyone to the same level of mediocrity!
A central feature of this new reorganization is the reduction of the school years from the present 13 to 12. This, combined with the earlier shortening of the undergraduate years from four to three, would put Malaysian students at a distinct disadvantage in the marketplace.
Instead of spending energy on a disruptive massive reorganization, the ministry would do well to focus on enhancing the present system of P-13, in particular the academic pre-university class, Sixth Form.
The government’s rationale for reducing the school years is to align the Malaysian system with those of advanced societies, in particular America. True, the American system is also P-12, but two years of college is now increasingly the norm for students, in recognition of the need for a highly educated workforce. Further, American high schools offer courses that are traditionally taught in the freshmen (first) year of college. As a result, more and more students especially at the leading universities are now entering with “advanced standing.” Teaching introductory college courses at high school is not only cheaper but also more effective. Additionally, students entering with advanced standing are better prepared and are less likely to drop out. They also graduate faster. We can never over prepare students for college.
Bard College, a highly regarded degree-granting institution, in cooperation with New York City public schools system expanded on this idea and recently started an accelerated program where highly motivated students are selected to pursue their final two years of high school integrated with the first two years of college. These students would then graduate with both their high school diploma as well as an Associate degree. They would then proceed into the junior (third) year of university.
Malaysia had a comparable program in the 1960’s where students who did well at Sixth Form were admitted as directly as “super-freshie,” skipping their first year, equivalent to the American “advanced standing.” Now however, Sixth Form is being emasculated, replaced with the much more expensive and highly inefficient matrikulasi (matriculation) programs of the universities.
I propose simplifying the present school years into elementary (P-6), middle (7-9), and high school (10-13), with a standardized national tests at the end of each level. Thus only three such tests; eliminate the present Form V (Year 11—Sijil Perseketuan Malaysia, SPM) examination. These tests should be used to assess not only the students’ but also equally important, their schools’ performances. Further, such national tests would be limited only to the core subjects of Malay, English, science, and mathematics.
Students would be promoted based on such national tests as well as their individual assessments made by the school. Such evaluations, as in the American system, should be based on the student’s performance throughout the year instead of a single end-of-year examination. It is patently unfair to decide on a student’s future based only on one single examination. If he or she is not feeling well that day or if there are interruptions in the student’s life (for example, floods, as has happened often in the past) then the students’ performance would suffer, as would their entire future.
American students are continuously assessed throughout their school year. Universities base their admissions on these school assessments (as measured by the Grade Point Average) as well as scores on national standardized tests. Often the two are correlated but there will the occasional students who excel in one but not the other. They too should not be denied the opportunity.
Eliminating the SPM examination as well as the number of subjects offered in those national tests would markedly reduce the workload of the ministry’s Examination Syndicate. It would then be able to process the results in weeks instead of the present months. At present students are kept in limbo from January to June the following year waiting for their SPM results. That is more than a semester wasted while they could be in class instead of loitering. While there has been significant improvement in announcing the examination results (in 2002 for the first time they were announced at the end of February) nonetheless university admission is still till late in the year.
My proposal would not materially change the first P-9 years, except that all schools must follow the minimal core curriculum of the four compulsory subjects of Malay, English, science and mathematics. These subjects must be taught daily. Each school would be allowed to experiment with various electives to fill in the rest of the school day.
The last four years (high school) would see the most change. Essentially I would classify high schools into academic, general, vocational, and specialized (vernacular and religious). Academic schools would prepare students for universities. The vocational stream would equip them with technical training like carpentry and auto repairs, as well as general office skills like bookkeeping. Such schools would be combined with industries’ apprenticeship programs so that when the students graduate they would be well on their way to earn their journeymen’s certificate. From the general stream would come future nurses, policemen, and non-graduate teachers.
Thus regardless of the students’ ultimate career goals, they will be fluently bilingual (Malay and English), science literate, and mathematically competent. English must be emphasized because of its utility in the marketplace. Hence in addition to having English as a subject, I would teach at least two other subjects in that language. The most suitable candidates for this are science and mathematics. Increasing the number of subjects taught in English would give student a much greater opportunity to improve their fluency in that language. As for making mathematics as a core subject, numerous studies have shown that ability in it correlates with later success in college and life. The skills learned in mathematics have wide transferability. Similarly with science; in an increasingly technological world, students must have an understanding of the basic concepts in science.
[Update: In May 2002 the government (actually UMNO Supreme Council) decided that science and mathematics be taught in English in the schools. That is the easy part. The more formidable problem is the implementation. The ministry is presently inundated with fervent Malay language nationalists who would do their best to derail this imaginative initiative. Sure enough, this policy was later rescinded. MBM]
This streaming of students must be flexible so they could readily switch during the first two years. This would accommodate late bloomers as well as those who discover their technical aptitude later.
Graduates of vernacular and religious schools would in addition be effectively trilingual (their mother tongue with vernacular schools, Arabic with Islamic schools) – an added bonus. Because of the core curriculum, graduates of religious schools too would also have greater flexibility in their future career choices and plans for further studies. And should they ended up as ulama, they would be better for it for having had a broad-based liberal education.
Schools should be allowed to chart their own course. I envisage some emphasizing the performing arts, others foreign languages or the sciences. Students would be free to choose the school that would best meet their particular needs. To eliminate obvious disadvantages based on geography (rural versus urban students), each school must also have adequate hostel facilities to cater for out-of-area and rural students.
1. by boh-liao on Monday, 21 March 2011 - 1:44 pm
Human capital is important, but equally important, if not more, is intellectual capital
1M’sia exports petroleum, palm oil, rubber, tin, n intellectual capital, very generous
2. #2 by tak tahan on Monday, 21 March 2011 - 10:17 pm
Every sustainable resources in terms of natural oil,gas,green forest and human capital will be totally gone soon if umnob is still allowed in near or far future to govern this bolehland.By then every individual kerala or mamak,bugis,javanese and all the leader pirates will go back to their respective origin country.When you meet them in their origin country,don’t refer them as malay cause by then malay race do not play important part in their lives anymore.Refer them as ketuanan xxx according to their respective country.
Home Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein.......PLEASE REFRAIN YOURSELF FROM TALKING AS YOU SOUND MORE LIKE A MONGOLOID CHILD THAT SUFFERS FROM DOWN SYNDROME.........YB you must be the ONLY CLOWN WHO READ LAW in INNER TEMPLE
Home Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein.......PLEASE REFRAIN YOURSELF FROM TALKING AS YOU SOUND MORE LIKE A MONGOLOID CHILD THAT SUFFERS FROM DOWN SYNDROME..............
By Syed Mu’az Syed Putra, The Malaysian Insider
KUALA LUMPUR, March 21 — Home Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein said today that the police will not investigate an alleged sex video of a top opposition leader unless the person files a report.
“We cannot take any action unless a police report is made. Whoever was involved must be brave and answer, whoever who feels victimised must make a police report,” he told a press conference.
The Umno vice-president said he was only just informed of the sex video this morning and did not have any details.
“Whether or not it is an opposition leader, I don’t know. Whether it is genuine or fake, I also do not know. I have no seen it and may not see it,” Hishammuddin (picture) said at the police headquarters in Bukit Aman here today.
Pakatan Rakyat (PR) leaders have denied that the man in a sex video that emerged today is Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, saying that the video was doctored.
A video recording showing a man who resembles a senior Malay opposition leader having sex with a woman, believed to be a prostitute from China, emerged today.
The 21-minute-long recording was shown to members of the media by a man who only identified himself as Datuk T.
Comments (22)...
written by eloofk, March 21, 2011 23:24:18
It is so easy to get this Datuk T to be arrested since he was in possession of pornographic material and distributed it which is against the law unless the police wouldnt want to act out or fear and favour to protect certain Umnoputras!!! ..
written by Bangkok Warrior, March 21, 2011 22:07:34
Hismuddin first of all as a home minister you got your priorities wrong.First of all you should investigate how a porn movie was screened at the 6star hotel and this Datuk T fellow is.Secondly how was sex video smuggled into the augre house and played in the house of parliament.You have failed as a home minister.Investigate the rot that took place in your own house.shame on you ..
written by onnetline, March 21, 2011 21:48:41
HeSuckMyDick,
How come you didn't make an attempt to arrest the ' unlicensed ' producer of the pornographic video ? Is it because it's a BN production ?? ?
written by Catharsis, March 21, 2011 21:41:01
HAHAHAHAHAHAH..............................YB you must be the ONLY CLOWN WHO READ LAW in INNER TEMPLE ...
written by Mestizo, March 21, 2011 20:52:54
I hate to use this word but I think Hishamuddin is an idiot. He asked the person in the video to report. Who in the right frame of mind would report if he will be charged having sex with illegal?
All reporters can tell you there is this misterious guy by the nick name of Datuk T who distribute this video. Wouldn't that be where the police should start? It should not be difficult to find him as so many reporters can recognise him and since he reserved function room in Carcosa Hotel on the specific day, wouldn't that be easy to track him?
If the police is not doing that then it tells us this is another setup up and the Datuk T is someone paid by BN to get the job done. Well, don't blame me as this is what all of us perceive this sex video is all about. .
written by temanmu, March 21, 2011 20:34:11
stupid minister. . the producers and distributors should be charged. ..nite the victim. ..
As usual. . justice in its head.
written by taxpayer, March 21, 2011 20:10:38
DO YOU KNOW THAT EVEN CHUA JUI MENG RESEMBLES ANWAR ? ? SO IT IS NOTHING AMAZING THAT SUCH 'FILTH ' HAS EMERGED NOW . THE BN IS UNABLE TO PUT ANWAR BEHIND BARS , BEFORE THE ELECTION , SO SODOMY 2 , TAKES A BACK SEAT. ANYWAY , IF ANWAR WANTS TO HAVE SEX WITH A MALE OR FEMALE , IS HIS PROBLEM . WHY IS NAJIB'S ' GAMES IN THE BED ' WITH HIS MONGOLIAN MISTRESS , NOT EXHIBITED. THAT WILL BE MORE INTERESTING THAN THIS MADE-UP PORNO ! ! .
written by Wakeupmsia, March 21, 2011 19:23:21
A real Jackass Hishamemoodin! What is there to report when Anwar categorically said it's not him. We also know it's doctored to frame Anwar as the GE 13 is looming. Stupid! Go for Chua Soil Leg! .
written by Revolution, March 21, 2011 19:19:44
It is Anwar to lodge a Police report !! Bodoh !!!
written by syd, March 21, 2011 18:11:01
Datuk T-ipu?
But i think best for another prominent opposition leader to step into the limelight. I will vote for Bian from sarawak to take over anwar's place as others are hopeless. ...
written by No nonsense, March 21, 2011 17:49:47
Did CSL report to the police? Why must this man do so? Aiyoyo!!! Darn stupid MP. .
written by eloofk, March 21, 2011 17:46:45
The more they try to discredit Anwar by despicable means, the more they are going to lose to Anwar by default!!!
The rakyat can now understand how such low-down skunks government leaders could stoop so low to use such means to discredit a person!!! ..
written by IbnAbdHalim, March 21, 2011 17:45:02
Very desperate indeed. How low will UMNO stoop? ...
written by Gerald, March 21, 2011 17:35:04
Hishammuddin,
There's nothing wrong if it is Anuar who is in the video....so what?...big deal?.....Have you seen Rosmah in the Atlantuya murder scene? If not, then you are just a bloody idiotic Minister who is good for nothing...my A*****e speaks better... ...
written by wildhorse, March 21, 2011 17:34:47
Very crafty indeed!!!
Make a big hu-ah about a porno video!!!
But do not reveal it. Do not investigate.
Let the public and the MSM spin as much as they can. Since no investigation, no way to find out the truth.
Very crafty indeed!!!
A four letter worded company at work? (starting with A ending with O)
under instruction of a four letter worded party? (starting with U ending with O)
to do a four lettered action on the people (starting with F ending with u know lah....) ..
written by by2020, March 21, 2011 17:13:47
Hey, Krismoddin,
Then you should go and make a police report lah. Sure you have a hand in it! ..
written by Hanuman, March 21, 2011 16:57:22
I think this is the start of another campaign to smear the reputations of the oppositions. GE13 is definitely near.
By revealing the existence of such videos, it will hurt MCA more as CSL's chances of standing for election again is practically gone unless he going for another ERECTION. ...
written by eloofk, March 21, 2011 16:41:35
This is a very despicable act of trying to entrap Anwar to admit that he acted in this video, by going through great length to look for someone who resembles Anwar and acted in this porno film to discredit him. Let the public discern and understand how a very desperate Prime Minister who has stooped so low in his behaviour and action for the whole wide world to see and know what he is doing!!! ..
written by Stupid me, March 21, 2011 16:36:07
CSL may come out to say "I am the man", but I do not want to make a police report. That happened to CSL. So? ...
written by pinsysu, March 21, 2011 16:35:33
whoa! hissupmoodin openly declares dat it's ok to possess & screen porn material ... of course u won't investigate urself ... cut the crap. we all know lah. ..
written by Ken Liew, March 21, 2011 16:30:32
Why the Hu HA~! we have a Porn Minister and later be came a Head of a party.... Why so special about this clip.....
If The clip proven to be DSAI, why request to leave?? DIDNT Mr. Chua got a blow job clip as well?? ...
written by batsman, March 21, 2011 16:22:58
Aisehman - at this rate the pirate DVD distributors, the blackmail syndicates and Tongku's boys will control all the most powerful people in Malaysia. Is Musa quietly smiling?
By Syed Mu’az Syed Putra, The Malaysian Insider
KUALA LUMPUR, March 21 — Home Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein said today that the police will not investigate an alleged sex video of a top opposition leader unless the person files a report.
“We cannot take any action unless a police report is made. Whoever was involved must be brave and answer, whoever who feels victimised must make a police report,” he told a press conference.
The Umno vice-president said he was only just informed of the sex video this morning and did not have any details.
“Whether or not it is an opposition leader, I don’t know. Whether it is genuine or fake, I also do not know. I have no seen it and may not see it,” Hishammuddin (picture) said at the police headquarters in Bukit Aman here today.
Pakatan Rakyat (PR) leaders have denied that the man in a sex video that emerged today is Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, saying that the video was doctored.
A video recording showing a man who resembles a senior Malay opposition leader having sex with a woman, believed to be a prostitute from China, emerged today.
The 21-minute-long recording was shown to members of the media by a man who only identified himself as Datuk T.
Comments (22)...
written by eloofk, March 21, 2011 23:24:18
It is so easy to get this Datuk T to be arrested since he was in possession of pornographic material and distributed it which is against the law unless the police wouldnt want to act out or fear and favour to protect certain Umnoputras!!! ..
written by Bangkok Warrior, March 21, 2011 22:07:34
Hismuddin first of all as a home minister you got your priorities wrong.First of all you should investigate how a porn movie was screened at the 6star hotel and this Datuk T fellow is.Secondly how was sex video smuggled into the augre house and played in the house of parliament.You have failed as a home minister.Investigate the rot that took place in your own house.shame on you ..
written by onnetline, March 21, 2011 21:48:41
HeSuckMyDick,
How come you didn't make an attempt to arrest the ' unlicensed ' producer of the pornographic video ? Is it because it's a BN production ?? ?
written by Catharsis, March 21, 2011 21:41:01
HAHAHAHAHAHAH..............................YB you must be the ONLY CLOWN WHO READ LAW in INNER TEMPLE ...
written by Mestizo, March 21, 2011 20:52:54
I hate to use this word but I think Hishamuddin is an idiot. He asked the person in the video to report. Who in the right frame of mind would report if he will be charged having sex with illegal?
All reporters can tell you there is this misterious guy by the nick name of Datuk T who distribute this video. Wouldn't that be where the police should start? It should not be difficult to find him as so many reporters can recognise him and since he reserved function room in Carcosa Hotel on the specific day, wouldn't that be easy to track him?
If the police is not doing that then it tells us this is another setup up and the Datuk T is someone paid by BN to get the job done. Well, don't blame me as this is what all of us perceive this sex video is all about. .
written by temanmu, March 21, 2011 20:34:11
stupid minister. . the producers and distributors should be charged. ..nite the victim. ..
As usual. . justice in its head.
written by taxpayer, March 21, 2011 20:10:38
DO YOU KNOW THAT EVEN CHUA JUI MENG RESEMBLES ANWAR ? ? SO IT IS NOTHING AMAZING THAT SUCH 'FILTH ' HAS EMERGED NOW . THE BN IS UNABLE TO PUT ANWAR BEHIND BARS , BEFORE THE ELECTION , SO SODOMY 2 , TAKES A BACK SEAT. ANYWAY , IF ANWAR WANTS TO HAVE SEX WITH A MALE OR FEMALE , IS HIS PROBLEM . WHY IS NAJIB'S ' GAMES IN THE BED ' WITH HIS MONGOLIAN MISTRESS , NOT EXHIBITED. THAT WILL BE MORE INTERESTING THAN THIS MADE-UP PORNO ! ! .
written by Wakeupmsia, March 21, 2011 19:23:21
A real Jackass Hishamemoodin! What is there to report when Anwar categorically said it's not him. We also know it's doctored to frame Anwar as the GE 13 is looming. Stupid! Go for Chua Soil Leg! .
written by Revolution, March 21, 2011 19:19:44
It is Anwar to lodge a Police report !! Bodoh !!!
written by syd, March 21, 2011 18:11:01
Datuk T-ipu?
But i think best for another prominent opposition leader to step into the limelight. I will vote for Bian from sarawak to take over anwar's place as others are hopeless. ...
written by No nonsense, March 21, 2011 17:49:47
Did CSL report to the police? Why must this man do so? Aiyoyo!!! Darn stupid MP. .
written by eloofk, March 21, 2011 17:46:45
The more they try to discredit Anwar by despicable means, the more they are going to lose to Anwar by default!!!
The rakyat can now understand how such low-down skunks government leaders could stoop so low to use such means to discredit a person!!! ..
written by IbnAbdHalim, March 21, 2011 17:45:02
Very desperate indeed. How low will UMNO stoop? ...
written by Gerald, March 21, 2011 17:35:04
Hishammuddin,
There's nothing wrong if it is Anuar who is in the video....so what?...big deal?.....Have you seen Rosmah in the Atlantuya murder scene? If not, then you are just a bloody idiotic Minister who is good for nothing...my A*****e speaks better... ...
written by wildhorse, March 21, 2011 17:34:47
Very crafty indeed!!!
Make a big hu-ah about a porno video!!!
But do not reveal it. Do not investigate.
Let the public and the MSM spin as much as they can. Since no investigation, no way to find out the truth.
Very crafty indeed!!!
A four letter worded company at work? (starting with A ending with O)
under instruction of a four letter worded party? (starting with U ending with O)
to do a four lettered action on the people (starting with F ending with u know lah....) ..
written by by2020, March 21, 2011 17:13:47
Hey, Krismoddin,
Then you should go and make a police report lah. Sure you have a hand in it! ..
written by Hanuman, March 21, 2011 16:57:22
I think this is the start of another campaign to smear the reputations of the oppositions. GE13 is definitely near.
By revealing the existence of such videos, it will hurt MCA more as CSL's chances of standing for election again is practically gone unless he going for another ERECTION. ...
written by eloofk, March 21, 2011 16:41:35
This is a very despicable act of trying to entrap Anwar to admit that he acted in this video, by going through great length to look for someone who resembles Anwar and acted in this porno film to discredit him. Let the public discern and understand how a very desperate Prime Minister who has stooped so low in his behaviour and action for the whole wide world to see and know what he is doing!!! ..
written by Stupid me, March 21, 2011 16:36:07
CSL may come out to say "I am the man", but I do not want to make a police report. That happened to CSL. So? ...
written by pinsysu, March 21, 2011 16:35:33
whoa! hissupmoodin openly declares dat it's ok to possess & screen porn material ... of course u won't investigate urself ... cut the crap. we all know lah. ..
written by Ken Liew, March 21, 2011 16:30:32
Why the Hu HA~! we have a Porn Minister and later be came a Head of a party.... Why so special about this clip.....
If The clip proven to be DSAI, why request to leave?? DIDNT Mr. Chua got a blow job clip as well?? ...
written by batsman, March 21, 2011 16:22:58
Aisehman - at this rate the pirate DVD distributors, the blackmail syndicates and Tongku's boys will control all the most powerful people in Malaysia. Is Musa quietly smiling?
IF WE WERE TO MAKE A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS BETWEEN Dr WAN AZIZAH AND ROSMAH MANSOR, WHICH OF THE TWO LADIES THAT’LL GIVE US THE COMPASSIONATE FEELINGS OF TRUST AND EMPATHY??
IF WE WERE TO MAKE A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS BETWEEN Dr WAN AZIZAH AND ROSMAH MANSOR, WHICH OF THE TWO LADIES THAT’LL GIVE US THE COMPASSIONATE FEELINGS OF TRUST AND EMPATHY??
By Shannon Teoh, The Malaysian Insider
PETALING JAYA, March 21 — Datuk Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail backed Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim today amid the emergence of a sex video allegedly involving her husband, calling it “just another one” in a series of “dirty tactics” used to bring down the opposition leader.
“I have gone through it all, this is just another one,” the PKR president said, referring to past accusations of sexual misconduct against the former deputy prime minister.
Anwar has been repeatedly accused of having affairs culminating in two criminal charges of sodomy in the past 13 years, one of which he is still on trial for.
“They say Anwar was involved with a man. Why is the video now with a woman?” she said at a press conference at the party headquarters today.
Anwar, who was seated next to her, had earlier denied he was the man filmed having sex with a woman in a hotel room on February 21.
He called the emergence of the video recording today a “scurrilous attack” against him, his family and Pakatan Rakyat (PR).
He added that he was at home with Dr Wan Azizah, their children, grandchildren and members of his staff, on the night in question.
Anwar was speaking at the press conference called after a video recording emerged today showing a man resembling a senior Malay opposition leader having sex with a woman believed to be a prostitute from China emerged today.
“I was told the face in the video looked like me. However, the stomach of the man was much bigger than mine,” he said while showing reporters his abdomen.
The 21-minute-long recording was shown to members of the media this morning by a man who only identified himself as “Datuk T”.
“Datuk T” said that the February 21 video was from closed-circuit television camera recordings found in a hotel room in Kuala Lumpur.
This evening, Dr Wan Azizah said the call for her to resign along with Anwar showed “irresponsible motives” behind the video, which PR claims was doctored.
“Why ask me to resign? What did I do?” she said.
In his recently released memoirs, former prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad had alleged that his then deputy had propositioned four girls for sex in the 1990s.
Anwar, who is currently fighting a sodomy charge in court, had immediately denied the claims, calling the long-serving former PM a “blatant liar with selective amnesia.”
Comments (5)..
written by Midvalley, March 22, 2011 00:13:54
Directed by BN, Produced by umNO in conjunction with EC ..
written by Wakeupmsia, March 21, 2011 23:37:26
Datuk Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail, the majority of Malaysians are aware of the persecution of your husband, DSAI since 1998. You and your family have suffered enormously but despair not for the day of judgment will come where those Evil and their family will perish from the surface of the Earth. Seek these evils out and unleash Justice. We stand with you. We stand with Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim. .
written by fandi, March 21, 2011 23:35:28
Anwar Tapes
In a weeks time Datuk T will say that the actor in the tapes look like DSAI, Acts like DSAI, Moves like DSAI but then the belly is not DSAI, therefore show time is over and makes an apology to DSAI. Do Datuk T realize that damage has already been done. DSAI should sue him all out eventhough he may be his friend, or even close friend.Maybe this plot is to keep both husband and wife out of PKR and take over PKR. If my thoughts is right and yours thoughts are with me, then we know who it is responsible for all this.
written by charli88, March 21, 2011 22:18:49
THEY ARE BANDITS AND CROOKS, THEY'VE NOTHING ELSE TO DO BCOS' THIS IS WHAT THEY ARE GOOD AT. INSTEAD FOCUS THEIR ENERGY AND TIME TO HELP THE RAKYAT, THEY SPEND THEIR CHILDISH MIND FIGURING OUT DIRTY TRICK TO WIN. ONLY ORG KAMPUNG WILL BELIEVE THEM AND VOTE FOR THEM, KESIAN ORG KAMPUNG. BANGUN LAH ! BANGKIT LAH UTK MASA DEPAN ANAK CUCU KITA ! UMNO/BN TAK BOLEH PAKAI LAGI. HIDUP MASA DEPAN ANAK CUCU KITA NANTI AKAN SUSAH, CARI MAKAN SUSAH KALAU BUKAN KRONI MEREKA. TUKAR NASIB MASA DEPAN ANAK CUCU KITA, TOLAK UMNO/BN SEKARANG. UNDI LAH PR. CARA YG TERBAIK. UNDI LAH PR UTK MASA DEPAN ANAK CUCU KITA. B MUST END IN ORDER FOR US TO BE TRULY REALLY 1 M'SIA. UNDI LAH PR. ..
written by IbnAbdHalim, March 21, 2011 22:02:18
Desparados are what they're.
By Shannon Teoh, The Malaysian Insider
PETALING JAYA, March 21 — Datuk Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail backed Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim today amid the emergence of a sex video allegedly involving her husband, calling it “just another one” in a series of “dirty tactics” used to bring down the opposition leader.
“I have gone through it all, this is just another one,” the PKR president said, referring to past accusations of sexual misconduct against the former deputy prime minister.
Anwar has been repeatedly accused of having affairs culminating in two criminal charges of sodomy in the past 13 years, one of which he is still on trial for.
“They say Anwar was involved with a man. Why is the video now with a woman?” she said at a press conference at the party headquarters today.
Anwar, who was seated next to her, had earlier denied he was the man filmed having sex with a woman in a hotel room on February 21.
He called the emergence of the video recording today a “scurrilous attack” against him, his family and Pakatan Rakyat (PR).
He added that he was at home with Dr Wan Azizah, their children, grandchildren and members of his staff, on the night in question.
Anwar was speaking at the press conference called after a video recording emerged today showing a man resembling a senior Malay opposition leader having sex with a woman believed to be a prostitute from China emerged today.
“I was told the face in the video looked like me. However, the stomach of the man was much bigger than mine,” he said while showing reporters his abdomen.
The 21-minute-long recording was shown to members of the media this morning by a man who only identified himself as “Datuk T”.
“Datuk T” said that the February 21 video was from closed-circuit television camera recordings found in a hotel room in Kuala Lumpur.
This evening, Dr Wan Azizah said the call for her to resign along with Anwar showed “irresponsible motives” behind the video, which PR claims was doctored.
“Why ask me to resign? What did I do?” she said.
In his recently released memoirs, former prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad had alleged that his then deputy had propositioned four girls for sex in the 1990s.
Anwar, who is currently fighting a sodomy charge in court, had immediately denied the claims, calling the long-serving former PM a “blatant liar with selective amnesia.”
Comments (5)..
written by Midvalley, March 22, 2011 00:13:54
Directed by BN, Produced by umNO in conjunction with EC ..
written by Wakeupmsia, March 21, 2011 23:37:26
Datuk Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail, the majority of Malaysians are aware of the persecution of your husband, DSAI since 1998. You and your family have suffered enormously but despair not for the day of judgment will come where those Evil and their family will perish from the surface of the Earth. Seek these evils out and unleash Justice. We stand with you. We stand with Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim. .
written by fandi, March 21, 2011 23:35:28
Anwar Tapes
In a weeks time Datuk T will say that the actor in the tapes look like DSAI, Acts like DSAI, Moves like DSAI but then the belly is not DSAI, therefore show time is over and makes an apology to DSAI. Do Datuk T realize that damage has already been done. DSAI should sue him all out eventhough he may be his friend, or even close friend.Maybe this plot is to keep both husband and wife out of PKR and take over PKR. If my thoughts is right and yours thoughts are with me, then we know who it is responsible for all this.
written by charli88, March 21, 2011 22:18:49
THEY ARE BANDITS AND CROOKS, THEY'VE NOTHING ELSE TO DO BCOS' THIS IS WHAT THEY ARE GOOD AT. INSTEAD FOCUS THEIR ENERGY AND TIME TO HELP THE RAKYAT, THEY SPEND THEIR CHILDISH MIND FIGURING OUT DIRTY TRICK TO WIN. ONLY ORG KAMPUNG WILL BELIEVE THEM AND VOTE FOR THEM, KESIAN ORG KAMPUNG. BANGUN LAH ! BANGKIT LAH UTK MASA DEPAN ANAK CUCU KITA ! UMNO/BN TAK BOLEH PAKAI LAGI. HIDUP MASA DEPAN ANAK CUCU KITA NANTI AKAN SUSAH, CARI MAKAN SUSAH KALAU BUKAN KRONI MEREKA. TUKAR NASIB MASA DEPAN ANAK CUCU KITA, TOLAK UMNO/BN SEKARANG. UNDI LAH PR. CARA YG TERBAIK. UNDI LAH PR UTK MASA DEPAN ANAK CUCU KITA. B MUST END IN ORDER FOR US TO BE TRULY REALLY 1 M'SIA. UNDI LAH PR. ..
written by IbnAbdHalim, March 21, 2011 22:02:18
Desparados are what they're.
Sunday, March 20, 2011
Dr Zambry (an Indian by origin) has earned a reputation as a humble and hard-working mentri besar while the popular Nizar (a pure Malay) is still being projected as the “lawful Mentri Besar”
Dr Zambry (an Indian by origin) has earned a reputation as a humble and hard-working mentri besar while the popular Nizar (a pure Malay) is still being projected as the “lawful Mentri Besar”
Sunday March 20, 2011
A rosier outlook for the BN
Insight
By JOCELINE TAN
Kinta Valley still looks like a DAP fortress but the Malay swing back to Umno means that Barisan Nasional has a good chance of taking between 33 and 36 seats in Perak’s 59-seat Legislative Assembly.
DATUK Seri Nizar Jamaluddin is a fiery speaker who has become quite famous for his singing. However, he is what one might call a one-song man because he only sings the Teresa Teng song, The Moon Reflects My Heart. The Chinese pop ballad has become some sort of PAS theme song for the Chinese ceramah crowd.
The former Perak Mentri Besar is not a fantastic singer. He sometimes goes out of tune and he once changed keys three times during the song to avoid the high notes.
But he is a big hit with his Chinese audience. It helps that he is tall, quite handsome and speaks a bit of Mandarin and Cantonese, the lingua franca in Kinta Valley. He also looks accessible, unlike many PAS leaders who often appear as though they have just stepped out of a plane from the Middle East.
Past and present: Dr Zambry (right) has earned a reputation as a humble and hard-working mentri besar while the popular Nizar (left) is still being projected as the “lawful mentri besar”. They are seen here with Ngeh.
Nizar is probably the only PAS leader who has ever sung his way into the Chinese heart and his Pakatan Rakyat colleagues are hoping he will help them recapture power in Perak.
Unfortunately, Nizar, despite his engaging personality and singing, is likely to remain Perak’s ex-mentri besar.
The signs are that Barisan Nasional is on course to retain Perak with a simple but comfortable majority. Going by the last three by-elections, there has been a 6% to 8% vote swing back to Barisan. This, together with Umno’s claim of a 5% Malay vote swing to their side, means that the Malay-majority or mixed seats currently held by the Pakatan and which were won with a majority of less than 55% of the votes are in danger. There are at least eight Pakatan seats in this category – four belonging to PAS and another four to PKR.
The Barisan currently has 28 seats, 27 of which are held by Umno and one by the MCA. If this continues till the general election, the eight Pakatan seats are likely to fall and Barisan will be on the way home with 36 seats.
The DAP almost wiped out the MCA and Gerakan in Perak in 2008. Datuk Dr Mah Hang Soon was the sole MCA man to survive in a state seat.
Dr Faizal: ‘The Mentri Besar’s 1Malaysia approach is a big selling point.’
Kinta Valley, where the Chinese dominate, will still be a DAP fortress but even the DAP may have trouble holding on to a couple of seats, namely Kepayang and Pokok Assam, which it won with only 52% of the votes.
Perak is a state with big political personalities on both sides of the fence.
From the DAP there are Lim Kit Siang, Fong Po Kuan, M. Kula-segaran, the powerful cousins Ngeh Koo Ham and Nga Kor Min, and the infamous Hee Yit Foong.
Umno has Datuk Seri Nazri Aziz, Tan Sri Rafidah Aziz, Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi, Datuk Husni Hanadzlah and Datuk Seri Dr Zambry Abd Kadir.
The MCA has Datuk Kong Cho Ha and Datuk Seri Ong Ka Chuan; PAS has Nizar and Dr Mujahid Yusuf; and PKR has giant-killer Dr Jeya¬kumar Devaraj who quashed Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu’s political career.
The Perak electorate understands the power of the ballot box and Kinta Valley especially hungers for heroes, be they champion fighters or champions of the underdog.
The way the votes went in the Lumut parliamentary seat is proof of just how savvy Perakians are about their politics.
The Lumut folk chose candidate over party and they elected a star-studded cast. They voted in the MCA’s Kong as Lumut MP, and he went on to become a minister. For the three state seats, they elected PAS’ Nizar who went on to become mentri besar; Dr Zambry who took over from Nizar; and state DAP chairman Ngeh who was known as the de facto mentri besar.
The credentials and personality of the candidate will be important in Perak. For instance, Dr Mujahid, whose late father was a PAS president, won Parit Buntar with 61% of the votes. However, his party colleagues only scraped through in the two state seats with 51% and 53% of the votes.
The MCA’s Dr Mah won Chenderiang with a 65% majority even as his party colleagues fell like nine pins. Voters were impressed that he was an eminent cardiologist in Ipoh.
Gopeng, a seat long held by the MCA, fell to PKR’s Dr Lee Boon Chye, another cardiologist from Ipoh. He beat Datuk Ling Hee Leong, a big name with a famous father, by more than 7,000 votes.
“We had some morons the last time. They’d better not try that again on us,” said an Ipoh-based journalist.
Dr Mah: ‘Even a fortress can be penetrated if leaders do not keep promises.’
Kinta Valley has been described as a DAP fortress after its clean sweep of Ipoh Timur, Ipoh Barat and Batu Gajah, the three parliamentary seats that straddle the valley.
The formidable trio of Lim Kit Siang, M. Kulasegaran and Fong Po Kuan carried all the nine DAP candidates who contested the Kinta Valley state seats.
The DAP won almost all the Chinese-majority seats available in 2008 and it is now eyeing the Malay seats. The party will do well again and it is on the lookout for Malay professionals who are of mentri besar material so that, in the event they recapture power, they do not have to turn the top post over to PAS or PKR.
The DAP’s confidence has to do with the assumption that the Chinese in Perak are still resentful of the way the last government was toppled.
“At least 80% of the Chinese are with us,” said Jelutong MP Jeff Ooi who has been helping the party in northern Perak.
But, said one former DAP leader: “A lot depends on whether the mood is still there among the Chinese. Kinta Valley has been one of those pendulum areas for us. We have talked about it in the party, that when Kinta Valley swings, it goes all the way.”
Chinese sentiment, claimed Dr Mah, is no longer as hostile as a year ago and his party president Datuk Seri Dr Chua Soi Lek has been investing time and effort in the state.
Dr Mah, who is a state exco member, has come out with an 18-point document of what the state government has accomplished in areas such as investment, tourism and land issues and he is hoping the effort will translate into votes.
“Even a fortress can be penetrated if we deliver,” he said.
The battle field will be the Malay majority and the mixed seats. PAS and PKR will be fighting for their survival in Perak.
“We are trying to manage the Malay issues but there is an endless onslaught on our ties with the DAP,” said Dr Mujahid.
PAS has also been put on the defensive by the situation in Penang where the Malays are perceived to be sidelined by the DAP-dominated government.
“But I’m confident Perak people will not support a regime that did not respect their votes,” he said.
The powerful DAP cousins Ngeh and Nga have added to PAS’ problems. Their popularity on and control of the Chinese ground has been at the expense of the DAP’s image among Malays and Indians.
The hostilities between the cousins and Kulasegaran, the popular Ipoh Barat MP, is not helping in the party’s effort to revive its Indian base. Kulasegaran is an Indian success story of an estate boy beating the odds to succeed in law and politics.
Some have likened the cousins’ political style to a Han Dynasty saying, “cheng ye xiao he, pai ye xiao he” which translates as “success due to one person and downfall also due to the same person”. But no one, not even Kit Siang, can touch them at this point in time.
Nga: The younger of the two powerful cousins is a Chinese superstar.
“They command majority support; they work hard and are very committed and focused,” said Ooi.
Ngeh and Nga are also doing things that few DAP leaders have been able to do. They have built up a formidable network of branches and divisions that is going to take the party from one that is over-reliant on national issues to a real grassroots force in Perak.
Moreover, the younger and more domineering cousin, Nga, has a cult following. His pretty-boy looks attract women admirers and he has a macho style that many Chinese look up to.
He is the party’s most powerful orator and a superstar in the making. If only he had better public relations.
The Barisan made a smart choice with Dr Zambry as Mentri Besar. Many did not think much of him when he took over as Mentri Besar but he has turned out to be humble and hard-working and his intellect offsets his lack of personal charisma.
“His selling point is that he is genuinely 1Malaysia at a time when Perak was divided by racially-charged issues,” said state Barisan Youth strategy chief Dr Faizal Tajuddin.
His Indian Muslim roots turned out to be an asset as well because it enabled him to reach out to the Chinese and Indians. Dr Zambry is quite well-liked on the ground even if the Umno brand is still not very saleable among the non-Malays.
He has been on an investment drive and the economy is going to be his key platform in the run-up to the general election. He is hoping that this, more than anything else, will speak to the Chinese and persuade them to give the Barisan another chance.
The best lessons political parties have learnt from the 2008 election is that the electorate demands a higher quality of candidates, and delivery.
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© 1995-2011 Star Publications (Malaysia) Bhd (Co No 10894-D)
Sunday March 20, 2011
A rosier outlook for the BN
Insight
By JOCELINE TAN
Kinta Valley still looks like a DAP fortress but the Malay swing back to Umno means that Barisan Nasional has a good chance of taking between 33 and 36 seats in Perak’s 59-seat Legislative Assembly.
DATUK Seri Nizar Jamaluddin is a fiery speaker who has become quite famous for his singing. However, he is what one might call a one-song man because he only sings the Teresa Teng song, The Moon Reflects My Heart. The Chinese pop ballad has become some sort of PAS theme song for the Chinese ceramah crowd.
The former Perak Mentri Besar is not a fantastic singer. He sometimes goes out of tune and he once changed keys three times during the song to avoid the high notes.
But he is a big hit with his Chinese audience. It helps that he is tall, quite handsome and speaks a bit of Mandarin and Cantonese, the lingua franca in Kinta Valley. He also looks accessible, unlike many PAS leaders who often appear as though they have just stepped out of a plane from the Middle East.
Past and present: Dr Zambry (right) has earned a reputation as a humble and hard-working mentri besar while the popular Nizar (left) is still being projected as the “lawful mentri besar”. They are seen here with Ngeh.
Nizar is probably the only PAS leader who has ever sung his way into the Chinese heart and his Pakatan Rakyat colleagues are hoping he will help them recapture power in Perak.
Unfortunately, Nizar, despite his engaging personality and singing, is likely to remain Perak’s ex-mentri besar.
The signs are that Barisan Nasional is on course to retain Perak with a simple but comfortable majority. Going by the last three by-elections, there has been a 6% to 8% vote swing back to Barisan. This, together with Umno’s claim of a 5% Malay vote swing to their side, means that the Malay-majority or mixed seats currently held by the Pakatan and which were won with a majority of less than 55% of the votes are in danger. There are at least eight Pakatan seats in this category – four belonging to PAS and another four to PKR.
The Barisan currently has 28 seats, 27 of which are held by Umno and one by the MCA. If this continues till the general election, the eight Pakatan seats are likely to fall and Barisan will be on the way home with 36 seats.
The DAP almost wiped out the MCA and Gerakan in Perak in 2008. Datuk Dr Mah Hang Soon was the sole MCA man to survive in a state seat.
Dr Faizal: ‘The Mentri Besar’s 1Malaysia approach is a big selling point.’
Kinta Valley, where the Chinese dominate, will still be a DAP fortress but even the DAP may have trouble holding on to a couple of seats, namely Kepayang and Pokok Assam, which it won with only 52% of the votes.
Perak is a state with big political personalities on both sides of the fence.
From the DAP there are Lim Kit Siang, Fong Po Kuan, M. Kula-segaran, the powerful cousins Ngeh Koo Ham and Nga Kor Min, and the infamous Hee Yit Foong.
Umno has Datuk Seri Nazri Aziz, Tan Sri Rafidah Aziz, Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi, Datuk Husni Hanadzlah and Datuk Seri Dr Zambry Abd Kadir.
The MCA has Datuk Kong Cho Ha and Datuk Seri Ong Ka Chuan; PAS has Nizar and Dr Mujahid Yusuf; and PKR has giant-killer Dr Jeya¬kumar Devaraj who quashed Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu’s political career.
The Perak electorate understands the power of the ballot box and Kinta Valley especially hungers for heroes, be they champion fighters or champions of the underdog.
The way the votes went in the Lumut parliamentary seat is proof of just how savvy Perakians are about their politics.
The Lumut folk chose candidate over party and they elected a star-studded cast. They voted in the MCA’s Kong as Lumut MP, and he went on to become a minister. For the three state seats, they elected PAS’ Nizar who went on to become mentri besar; Dr Zambry who took over from Nizar; and state DAP chairman Ngeh who was known as the de facto mentri besar.
The credentials and personality of the candidate will be important in Perak. For instance, Dr Mujahid, whose late father was a PAS president, won Parit Buntar with 61% of the votes. However, his party colleagues only scraped through in the two state seats with 51% and 53% of the votes.
The MCA’s Dr Mah won Chenderiang with a 65% majority even as his party colleagues fell like nine pins. Voters were impressed that he was an eminent cardiologist in Ipoh.
Gopeng, a seat long held by the MCA, fell to PKR’s Dr Lee Boon Chye, another cardiologist from Ipoh. He beat Datuk Ling Hee Leong, a big name with a famous father, by more than 7,000 votes.
“We had some morons the last time. They’d better not try that again on us,” said an Ipoh-based journalist.
Dr Mah: ‘Even a fortress can be penetrated if leaders do not keep promises.’
Kinta Valley has been described as a DAP fortress after its clean sweep of Ipoh Timur, Ipoh Barat and Batu Gajah, the three parliamentary seats that straddle the valley.
The formidable trio of Lim Kit Siang, M. Kulasegaran and Fong Po Kuan carried all the nine DAP candidates who contested the Kinta Valley state seats.
The DAP won almost all the Chinese-majority seats available in 2008 and it is now eyeing the Malay seats. The party will do well again and it is on the lookout for Malay professionals who are of mentri besar material so that, in the event they recapture power, they do not have to turn the top post over to PAS or PKR.
The DAP’s confidence has to do with the assumption that the Chinese in Perak are still resentful of the way the last government was toppled.
“At least 80% of the Chinese are with us,” said Jelutong MP Jeff Ooi who has been helping the party in northern Perak.
But, said one former DAP leader: “A lot depends on whether the mood is still there among the Chinese. Kinta Valley has been one of those pendulum areas for us. We have talked about it in the party, that when Kinta Valley swings, it goes all the way.”
Chinese sentiment, claimed Dr Mah, is no longer as hostile as a year ago and his party president Datuk Seri Dr Chua Soi Lek has been investing time and effort in the state.
Dr Mah, who is a state exco member, has come out with an 18-point document of what the state government has accomplished in areas such as investment, tourism and land issues and he is hoping the effort will translate into votes.
“Even a fortress can be penetrated if we deliver,” he said.
The battle field will be the Malay majority and the mixed seats. PAS and PKR will be fighting for their survival in Perak.
“We are trying to manage the Malay issues but there is an endless onslaught on our ties with the DAP,” said Dr Mujahid.
PAS has also been put on the defensive by the situation in Penang where the Malays are perceived to be sidelined by the DAP-dominated government.
“But I’m confident Perak people will not support a regime that did not respect their votes,” he said.
The powerful DAP cousins Ngeh and Nga have added to PAS’ problems. Their popularity on and control of the Chinese ground has been at the expense of the DAP’s image among Malays and Indians.
The hostilities between the cousins and Kulasegaran, the popular Ipoh Barat MP, is not helping in the party’s effort to revive its Indian base. Kulasegaran is an Indian success story of an estate boy beating the odds to succeed in law and politics.
Some have likened the cousins’ political style to a Han Dynasty saying, “cheng ye xiao he, pai ye xiao he” which translates as “success due to one person and downfall also due to the same person”. But no one, not even Kit Siang, can touch them at this point in time.
Nga: The younger of the two powerful cousins is a Chinese superstar.
“They command majority support; they work hard and are very committed and focused,” said Ooi.
Ngeh and Nga are also doing things that few DAP leaders have been able to do. They have built up a formidable network of branches and divisions that is going to take the party from one that is over-reliant on national issues to a real grassroots force in Perak.
Moreover, the younger and more domineering cousin, Nga, has a cult following. His pretty-boy looks attract women admirers and he has a macho style that many Chinese look up to.
He is the party’s most powerful orator and a superstar in the making. If only he had better public relations.
The Barisan made a smart choice with Dr Zambry as Mentri Besar. Many did not think much of him when he took over as Mentri Besar but he has turned out to be humble and hard-working and his intellect offsets his lack of personal charisma.
“His selling point is that he is genuinely 1Malaysia at a time when Perak was divided by racially-charged issues,” said state Barisan Youth strategy chief Dr Faizal Tajuddin.
His Indian Muslim roots turned out to be an asset as well because it enabled him to reach out to the Chinese and Indians. Dr Zambry is quite well-liked on the ground even if the Umno brand is still not very saleable among the non-Malays.
He has been on an investment drive and the economy is going to be his key platform in the run-up to the general election. He is hoping that this, more than anything else, will speak to the Chinese and persuade them to give the Barisan another chance.
The best lessons political parties have learnt from the 2008 election is that the electorate demands a higher quality of candidates, and delivery.
________________________________________
© 1995-2011 Star Publications (Malaysia) Bhd (Co No 10894-D)
IF SINGAPORE OVERSEAS INVESTMENTS WERE BADLY HIT IN JAPAN AND MIDDLE EAST….WHAT ABOUT MALAYSIA? HAS ANYBODY DONE THE ECONOMIC ANALYSIS ON THOSE INVESTMENTS MALAYSIA MADE IN THOSE COUNTRIES TOO??
IF SINGAPORE OVERSEAS INVESTMENTS WERE BADLY HIT IN JAPAN AND MIDDLE EAST….WHAT ABOUT MALAYSIA? HAS ANYBODY DONE THE ECONOMIC ANALYSIS ON THOSE INVESTMENTS MALAYSIA MADE IN THOSE COUNTRIES TOO??
Saturday March 19, 2011
Insomnia for state investors
Insight Down South
By Seah Chiang Nee
Singapore’s ambitious overseas investments have been hit by a series of crises – from the 9/11 attacks in 2001 to the 2007 global financial crisis and recession and now the earthquake and tsunami in Japan and Middle East upheavals.
AS Singaporeans’ concern mount over the safety of millions of Japanese, a small group of state investors are probably burning the midnight oil in Singapore.
These people, who manage the two sovereign state funds with assets and investments worth in excess of US$200bil (RM610bil), are likely to be poring over possible future options.
They are not only keeping watch on the nuclear drama unfolding in Japan, but also on the spreading violent upheavals in the Middle East, where the republic has high stakes.
Recently, Foreign Minister George Yeo told Parliament that Singapore had to “adjust to changes” taking place there.
In 1999, the government began a strategy of investing heavily in overseas markets to get a higher return for the state funds.
Calling it “a second external pair of wings,” the city pushed massive investments abroad.
It was a good concept that was soon adopted by other countries.
The two sovereign funds are Temasek Holdings, which operates a portfolio of US$142bil (RM432,72bil), and GIC, or Government Investment Corp, which manages foreign reserves of well over US$100bil (RM305bil).
With the local market too small for such a huge amount of funds, and competition rising from countries like China and India, the leaders turned to the outside world to find new income sources.
Besides, the world was in good shape, and emerging Asia was offering terrific new growth opportunities.
However, the foreign foray has been pushed back now and then by bad luck and a few bad investment decisions.
In the past decade, these investment wings have flapped from one air pocket to another.
The latest – a devastated Japan – is probably the worst.
Its nuclear crisis is spewing serious fallouts towards Singapore’s recovering economy.
It had been one crisis after another for Singapore, from the 9/11 terrorist attacks on America in 2001 to the 2007 global financial crisis and recession and now the Middle East upheavals.
All these have wreaked various degrees of damage on Singapore’s ambitious overseas investments.
People are hoping Saudi Arabia – the most important country in the Middle East – remains safe.
During the financial crisis, Temasek Holdings reported that its assets had plunged by S$55bil (RM168bil). Only in July last year had it recovered 40% of that.
Even discounting a nuclear nightmare, Japan – which is the world’s third biggest economy and one of Singapore’s top trading partners – faces years of economic struggle.
It will have to divert hundreds of billions of dollars to rebuilding shattered infrastructure by using its reserves, selling bonds or by reducing overseas spending.
“Knowing their nationalistic fervour, it will not be a surprise if Japanese corporations worldwide start soon to divert funds back home,” said a stock researcher.
The Japanese will likely buy or invest less in Singapore and the number of tourists will likely drop.
Japan ranks as one of the five economic pillars that sustain Singa-pore’s prosperity, next to the United States, Europe, China and South-East Asia.
According to statistics, it is the republic’s sixth largest trading partner in 2009 with total trade amounting to S$44bil (RM105bil), and the third largest investor with S$51bil (RM122bil).
All these crises serve a lesson for Singapore.
The sanguine environment which existed before, favouring smooth foreign profits, may no longer be around.
Recent history has shown that it now calls for more than just business acumen and investment timing.
There must also be the ability to analyse international affairs.
From 1999, Singapore’s billions of state funds began travelling around the world.
It went into buying local companies, which makes the government the biggest single shareholder of a long list of major companies.
After the turn of the century, the foreign investments grew in number and size.
The buzzword then was “global strategic investments”.
This often involved banks, telcos, airlines and companies that were considered crown jewels by the host countries.
Singapore wanted them for long-term global tie-ups.
“Big-time investment calls for big bucks and bullet-biting because it can be very risky,” an experienced market researcher said.
“Even the most experienced would need luck.
“People pray that after putting their money in, there will be no sudden political upheaval or natural calamity that could blow away their investments.”
Other worries include terrorist attacks, currency changes, market turmoil, unpredictable policy changes – any one of which can overturn a billion-dollar investment.
The Singapore Government’s large-scale investments – and recent losses abroad – have run into public criticism on two grounds.
Firstly, many Singaporeans believe that the investment money comes from indirect taxes and a high imposition of fees “squeezed” from the citizenry. All these seem to be rising.
Secondly, a persistent economic gap between rich and poor that seems to be widening, and fast becoming a source of public unhappiness.
It is popularly felt that a portion of the billions should be used to provide a safety net for the poor, the aged and the unemployed.
With so many needy people around, it makes no sense losing billions, by investing in a risky world, that could be put to better use helping the poorer class.
Another popular viewpoint is that the sovereign wealth funds may not have the best people to handle so big a task.
Their performance has so far not been brilliant.
Morgan Stanley said in a report that their investment decisions were poor.
“The sheer domination of the government in the external economy means that responsibility for the poor returns must lie with the government to a large degree,” it added.
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Saturday March 19, 2011
Insomnia for state investors
Insight Down South
By Seah Chiang Nee
Singapore’s ambitious overseas investments have been hit by a series of crises – from the 9/11 attacks in 2001 to the 2007 global financial crisis and recession and now the earthquake and tsunami in Japan and Middle East upheavals.
AS Singaporeans’ concern mount over the safety of millions of Japanese, a small group of state investors are probably burning the midnight oil in Singapore.
These people, who manage the two sovereign state funds with assets and investments worth in excess of US$200bil (RM610bil), are likely to be poring over possible future options.
They are not only keeping watch on the nuclear drama unfolding in Japan, but also on the spreading violent upheavals in the Middle East, where the republic has high stakes.
Recently, Foreign Minister George Yeo told Parliament that Singapore had to “adjust to changes” taking place there.
In 1999, the government began a strategy of investing heavily in overseas markets to get a higher return for the state funds.
Calling it “a second external pair of wings,” the city pushed massive investments abroad.
It was a good concept that was soon adopted by other countries.
The two sovereign funds are Temasek Holdings, which operates a portfolio of US$142bil (RM432,72bil), and GIC, or Government Investment Corp, which manages foreign reserves of well over US$100bil (RM305bil).
With the local market too small for such a huge amount of funds, and competition rising from countries like China and India, the leaders turned to the outside world to find new income sources.
Besides, the world was in good shape, and emerging Asia was offering terrific new growth opportunities.
However, the foreign foray has been pushed back now and then by bad luck and a few bad investment decisions.
In the past decade, these investment wings have flapped from one air pocket to another.
The latest – a devastated Japan – is probably the worst.
Its nuclear crisis is spewing serious fallouts towards Singapore’s recovering economy.
It had been one crisis after another for Singapore, from the 9/11 terrorist attacks on America in 2001 to the 2007 global financial crisis and recession and now the Middle East upheavals.
All these have wreaked various degrees of damage on Singapore’s ambitious overseas investments.
People are hoping Saudi Arabia – the most important country in the Middle East – remains safe.
During the financial crisis, Temasek Holdings reported that its assets had plunged by S$55bil (RM168bil). Only in July last year had it recovered 40% of that.
Even discounting a nuclear nightmare, Japan – which is the world’s third biggest economy and one of Singapore’s top trading partners – faces years of economic struggle.
It will have to divert hundreds of billions of dollars to rebuilding shattered infrastructure by using its reserves, selling bonds or by reducing overseas spending.
“Knowing their nationalistic fervour, it will not be a surprise if Japanese corporations worldwide start soon to divert funds back home,” said a stock researcher.
The Japanese will likely buy or invest less in Singapore and the number of tourists will likely drop.
Japan ranks as one of the five economic pillars that sustain Singa-pore’s prosperity, next to the United States, Europe, China and South-East Asia.
According to statistics, it is the republic’s sixth largest trading partner in 2009 with total trade amounting to S$44bil (RM105bil), and the third largest investor with S$51bil (RM122bil).
All these crises serve a lesson for Singapore.
The sanguine environment which existed before, favouring smooth foreign profits, may no longer be around.
Recent history has shown that it now calls for more than just business acumen and investment timing.
There must also be the ability to analyse international affairs.
From 1999, Singapore’s billions of state funds began travelling around the world.
It went into buying local companies, which makes the government the biggest single shareholder of a long list of major companies.
After the turn of the century, the foreign investments grew in number and size.
The buzzword then was “global strategic investments”.
This often involved banks, telcos, airlines and companies that were considered crown jewels by the host countries.
Singapore wanted them for long-term global tie-ups.
“Big-time investment calls for big bucks and bullet-biting because it can be very risky,” an experienced market researcher said.
“Even the most experienced would need luck.
“People pray that after putting their money in, there will be no sudden political upheaval or natural calamity that could blow away their investments.”
Other worries include terrorist attacks, currency changes, market turmoil, unpredictable policy changes – any one of which can overturn a billion-dollar investment.
The Singapore Government’s large-scale investments – and recent losses abroad – have run into public criticism on two grounds.
Firstly, many Singaporeans believe that the investment money comes from indirect taxes and a high imposition of fees “squeezed” from the citizenry. All these seem to be rising.
Secondly, a persistent economic gap between rich and poor that seems to be widening, and fast becoming a source of public unhappiness.
It is popularly felt that a portion of the billions should be used to provide a safety net for the poor, the aged and the unemployed.
With so many needy people around, it makes no sense losing billions, by investing in a risky world, that could be put to better use helping the poorer class.
Another popular viewpoint is that the sovereign wealth funds may not have the best people to handle so big a task.
Their performance has so far not been brilliant.
Morgan Stanley said in a report that their investment decisions were poor.
“The sheer domination of the government in the external economy means that responsibility for the poor returns must lie with the government to a large degree,” it added.
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But if MuhiyiddinYassin is so fond of this book, perhaps he should donate copies of Interlok to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh of India and all the business people in India whom he recently tried to solicit billions of ringgit in business deals from.........
But if MuhiyiddinYassin is so fond of this book, perhaps he should donate copies of Interlok to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh of India and all the business people in India whom he recently tried to solicit billions of ringgit in business deals from. While he’s at it, he should donate Interlok to Hu Jintao of China. Let’s see how more than 1 billion Indians react to being called pariah. Let’s see how more than 1 billion Chinese react to their women being called prostitutes.
It is in the educational sector where proponents of the Ketuanan Melayu dogma have sought to impose their will and polarize our communities.
By Dr. Lim Teck Ghee
As the drama over the Interlok textbook issue continues to unfold, it is important for Malaysians to understand the context and the stakes involved, and to make a stand.
There are some defenders of the book who have argued that withdrawing or even just editing it will rob Malaysian writers of their artistic freedom and integrity. To these people, I would like to say “Hello, where have you been” – Interlok has already been edited twice, in 2005 for Edisi Pelajar and in 2010 for Edisi Murid.
Its literary integrity was already compromised by the shedding of some 85 pages even before this latest controversy.
In fact, copyright for the edition distributed free to schools no longer belongs to Abdullah Hussain but to Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka.
Hence Education Minister Muhyiddin Yassin’s statement that his ministry “will ensure that any amendments made will not affect the storyline of the novel and the noble message that the author wants to convey” is nothing short of whitewash.
According to reports, Muhyiddin is not permitting anything beyond deletion of the word ‘pariah’.
This concession is like slicing off one tentacle from a hundred-headed hydra – a totally pointless exercise.
Make no mistake; Interlok is a work that must not be permitted into the nation’s class rooms as a compulsory literature text. Anything less is a vital failure to grasp the gravity of the threat it poses.
The quarrel is not merely with vocabulary or spelling (for example, of ‘tali’ vs ‘thali’) but the overall suitability of the novel with its overt and covert racial messages as a school text.
Starting ‘em young and younger
Concern by many Malaysians that Interlok has been intentionally selected by the authorities to fulfill the Umno/Biro Tata Negara objective of indoctrinating young minds with a warped worldview and national view is hardly misplaced.
Before these concerns are dismissed as imaginary or overwrought, let us not forget that education has long been and continues to be the most politicized sector of the country.
Far from being neutral institutions, many of our public sector colleges and universities consciously and consistently promote a narrow nationalism.
It is in the educational sector where proponents of the Ketuanan Melayu dogma have sought to impose their will and polarize our communities.
Their missionary zeal focuses on use of race-based criteria at all levels and in all aspects. It is no surprise therefore that the propagation of the ideology of super-ordination and subordination has now been extended to the schools, and to the curriculum and text books.
As has been pointed out by those who have analysed the Interlok content, why are all the villains and nasty characters Chinese and Indians?
One of the key plots turns on the rapacious Chinese merchant swindling the easily duped Malay of his inheritance.
Touted as a ‘historical novel’, Interlok is constructing a version of BTN history and racial stereotypes to influence young minds.
Drawing line in the sand
Its government-mandated and authorities-supported dissemination and circulation appears to further a carefully thought-out agenda to fan racial animosity.
Because Interlok is the first round battle (in tandem with the History curriculum revamp), it is important for conscientious objectors to send a strong signal to the Education Minister and his bureaucratic and academic cronies that Malaysians will not be cowed into acquiescence.
We must exercise our right to openly discuss, criticize and protest on this crucial matter.
To remain mute will only embolden the apologist wolves wrapped in their sheep clothing of educational good intention and defence of literary freedom.
Comments (9)..
written by tehewe@gmail.com , March 19, 2011 16:55:37
With or without Samy Velu, MIC still have to listen to UMNO because their leaders does not have the guts to stand up to UMNO. All for their precious MInisterial positions and self interest. MCA also 2 x 5!
written by Fart Fart Wah, March 19, 2011 10:20:07
According to the Intelok author it would mean even the Kerala Dog is a pariah...for 22 years he wagged his tail and the Malays worship it. ...
written by gadislabu, March 19, 2011 00:25:45
Muhiyiddin Yassin, we will protest until you and your cronies with intelligence pay heed. ...
written by DPG, March 18, 2011 22:04:04
I am beginning to come round to Dr. Lim's thinking. And which is UMNO's and BTN's continued stand of indoctrinating the young, especially the Malays in becoming racists and nurture a hatred for the other races. In this respect, the novel Interlok, has a role to play, in portraying the Indians and Chinese as lower classes of humans and people to be hatred. This is part of the build up(and in addition to) the part played by BTN and UMNO racists all these years to turn the Malay mind into UMNO zombies. As I have written many times before, I have lost all my Malay friends who have become racists and have openly expressed their hatred of non-Malays. Can we blame the Malays, who have been continuously bombarded by UMNO ultra's, Utusan Melayu, and BTN these many decades? My gut feeling is that the component parties have a hand in this too. ..
written by aeiou, March 18, 2011 18:26:40
Stormquest has very good points. Yes, the Indian and Chinese communities are small and powerless, so they will continue to be easy targets for these Malay racists . But the truth can never be hidden. Sooner or later, the ignorant Malays who are deceived by the racist's book will discover the truth for themselves that the Chinese and Indians are not what as claimed in the racist's book. ..
written by Alice, March 18, 2011 16:53:23
Concern by many Malaysians that Interlok has been intentionally selected by the authorities to fulfill the Umno/Biro Tata Negara objective of indoctrinating young minds with a warped worldview and national view is hardly misplaced --------------------------
The above is the truth!
Some Malays are very very insensitive towards the feelings of non Malays.
Ungrateful too. The contribution of the Indian community towards development in Malaysia, esp in the rubber plantations is huge. They should learn how to respect the Indians in this country.
INTERLOK SHOULD NOT BE A COMPULSORY SCHOOL LITERATURE BOOK.
VOTE THEM OUT!! ..
written by educationist, March 18, 2011 16:50:17
Thank you Dr Lim for alerting us as to the import of using this controversial novel!!
So, we must make a stand!!
No to Interlok!!
Period!!
Let's see if the MIC nominees to the review panel will dare stand their ground!! ...
written by Stormquest, March 18, 2011 14:01:10
Would editing Salman Rushdie’s book, “The Satanic Verses” pacify Muslims?
Would editing Adolph Hitler’s book, “Mein Kampf” pacify Jews?
How then would editing Interlok pacify Indians and Chinese?
Why keep Interlok, when it can be easily be replaced by a book of the highest literary standards which truly promotes racial and religious harmony, and one which all Malaysians can relate to? If they really can’t find such a book, then they can easily use one of Lat’s comic books. At least students can learn about each others cultures while having fun.
But MuhiyiddinYassin and his UMNO/Perkasa buddies are insisting on Interlok, despite numerous objections. Why? Trying to push racist BTN ideology onto the younger generation of Malaysians?
MuhiyiddinYassin and his UMNO/Perkasa buddies know that they can get away with it as the Indian and Chinese communities are small and powerless.
But if MuhiyiddinYassin is so fond of this book, perhaps he should donate copies of Interlok to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh of India and all the business people in India whom he recently tried to solicit billions of ringgit in business deals from. While he’s at it, he should donate Interlok to Hu Jintao of China. Let’s see how more than 1 billion Indians react to being called pariah. Let’s see how more than 1 billion Chinese react to their women being called prostitutes. ...
written by temenggong, March 18, 2011 13:51:49
Dr. Lim is one of the few conscientious voices who reads the situation correctly and is willing to speak up and make the call.
What is the point of appointing an advisory panel if the minister is unwilling to abide by the panel's advice?
It is in the educational sector where proponents of the Ketuanan Melayu dogma have sought to impose their will and polarize our communities.
By Dr. Lim Teck Ghee
As the drama over the Interlok textbook issue continues to unfold, it is important for Malaysians to understand the context and the stakes involved, and to make a stand.
There are some defenders of the book who have argued that withdrawing or even just editing it will rob Malaysian writers of their artistic freedom and integrity. To these people, I would like to say “Hello, where have you been” – Interlok has already been edited twice, in 2005 for Edisi Pelajar and in 2010 for Edisi Murid.
Its literary integrity was already compromised by the shedding of some 85 pages even before this latest controversy.
In fact, copyright for the edition distributed free to schools no longer belongs to Abdullah Hussain but to Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka.
Hence Education Minister Muhyiddin Yassin’s statement that his ministry “will ensure that any amendments made will not affect the storyline of the novel and the noble message that the author wants to convey” is nothing short of whitewash.
According to reports, Muhyiddin is not permitting anything beyond deletion of the word ‘pariah’.
This concession is like slicing off one tentacle from a hundred-headed hydra – a totally pointless exercise.
Make no mistake; Interlok is a work that must not be permitted into the nation’s class rooms as a compulsory literature text. Anything less is a vital failure to grasp the gravity of the threat it poses.
The quarrel is not merely with vocabulary or spelling (for example, of ‘tali’ vs ‘thali’) but the overall suitability of the novel with its overt and covert racial messages as a school text.
Starting ‘em young and younger
Concern by many Malaysians that Interlok has been intentionally selected by the authorities to fulfill the Umno/Biro Tata Negara objective of indoctrinating young minds with a warped worldview and national view is hardly misplaced.
Before these concerns are dismissed as imaginary or overwrought, let us not forget that education has long been and continues to be the most politicized sector of the country.
Far from being neutral institutions, many of our public sector colleges and universities consciously and consistently promote a narrow nationalism.
It is in the educational sector where proponents of the Ketuanan Melayu dogma have sought to impose their will and polarize our communities.
Their missionary zeal focuses on use of race-based criteria at all levels and in all aspects. It is no surprise therefore that the propagation of the ideology of super-ordination and subordination has now been extended to the schools, and to the curriculum and text books.
As has been pointed out by those who have analysed the Interlok content, why are all the villains and nasty characters Chinese and Indians?
One of the key plots turns on the rapacious Chinese merchant swindling the easily duped Malay of his inheritance.
Touted as a ‘historical novel’, Interlok is constructing a version of BTN history and racial stereotypes to influence young minds.
Drawing line in the sand
Its government-mandated and authorities-supported dissemination and circulation appears to further a carefully thought-out agenda to fan racial animosity.
Because Interlok is the first round battle (in tandem with the History curriculum revamp), it is important for conscientious objectors to send a strong signal to the Education Minister and his bureaucratic and academic cronies that Malaysians will not be cowed into acquiescence.
We must exercise our right to openly discuss, criticize and protest on this crucial matter.
To remain mute will only embolden the apologist wolves wrapped in their sheep clothing of educational good intention and defence of literary freedom.
Comments (9)..
written by tehewe@gmail.com , March 19, 2011 16:55:37
With or without Samy Velu, MIC still have to listen to UMNO because their leaders does not have the guts to stand up to UMNO. All for their precious MInisterial positions and self interest. MCA also 2 x 5!
written by Fart Fart Wah, March 19, 2011 10:20:07
According to the Intelok author it would mean even the Kerala Dog is a pariah...for 22 years he wagged his tail and the Malays worship it. ...
written by gadislabu, March 19, 2011 00:25:45
Muhiyiddin Yassin, we will protest until you and your cronies with intelligence pay heed. ...
written by DPG, March 18, 2011 22:04:04
I am beginning to come round to Dr. Lim's thinking. And which is UMNO's and BTN's continued stand of indoctrinating the young, especially the Malays in becoming racists and nurture a hatred for the other races. In this respect, the novel Interlok, has a role to play, in portraying the Indians and Chinese as lower classes of humans and people to be hatred. This is part of the build up(and in addition to) the part played by BTN and UMNO racists all these years to turn the Malay mind into UMNO zombies. As I have written many times before, I have lost all my Malay friends who have become racists and have openly expressed their hatred of non-Malays. Can we blame the Malays, who have been continuously bombarded by UMNO ultra's, Utusan Melayu, and BTN these many decades? My gut feeling is that the component parties have a hand in this too. ..
written by aeiou, March 18, 2011 18:26:40
Stormquest has very good points. Yes, the Indian and Chinese communities are small and powerless, so they will continue to be easy targets for these Malay racists . But the truth can never be hidden. Sooner or later, the ignorant Malays who are deceived by the racist's book will discover the truth for themselves that the Chinese and Indians are not what as claimed in the racist's book. ..
written by Alice, March 18, 2011 16:53:23
Concern by many Malaysians that Interlok has been intentionally selected by the authorities to fulfill the Umno/Biro Tata Negara objective of indoctrinating young minds with a warped worldview and national view is hardly misplaced --------------------------
The above is the truth!
Some Malays are very very insensitive towards the feelings of non Malays.
Ungrateful too. The contribution of the Indian community towards development in Malaysia, esp in the rubber plantations is huge. They should learn how to respect the Indians in this country.
INTERLOK SHOULD NOT BE A COMPULSORY SCHOOL LITERATURE BOOK.
VOTE THEM OUT!! ..
written by educationist, March 18, 2011 16:50:17
Thank you Dr Lim for alerting us as to the import of using this controversial novel!!
So, we must make a stand!!
No to Interlok!!
Period!!
Let's see if the MIC nominees to the review panel will dare stand their ground!! ...
written by Stormquest, March 18, 2011 14:01:10
Would editing Salman Rushdie’s book, “The Satanic Verses” pacify Muslims?
Would editing Adolph Hitler’s book, “Mein Kampf” pacify Jews?
How then would editing Interlok pacify Indians and Chinese?
Why keep Interlok, when it can be easily be replaced by a book of the highest literary standards which truly promotes racial and religious harmony, and one which all Malaysians can relate to? If they really can’t find such a book, then they can easily use one of Lat’s comic books. At least students can learn about each others cultures while having fun.
But MuhiyiddinYassin and his UMNO/Perkasa buddies are insisting on Interlok, despite numerous objections. Why? Trying to push racist BTN ideology onto the younger generation of Malaysians?
MuhiyiddinYassin and his UMNO/Perkasa buddies know that they can get away with it as the Indian and Chinese communities are small and powerless.
But if MuhiyiddinYassin is so fond of this book, perhaps he should donate copies of Interlok to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh of India and all the business people in India whom he recently tried to solicit billions of ringgit in business deals from. While he’s at it, he should donate Interlok to Hu Jintao of China. Let’s see how more than 1 billion Indians react to being called pariah. Let’s see how more than 1 billion Chinese react to their women being called prostitutes. ...
written by temenggong, March 18, 2011 13:51:49
Dr. Lim is one of the few conscientious voices who reads the situation correctly and is willing to speak up and make the call.
What is the point of appointing an advisory panel if the minister is unwilling to abide by the panel's advice?
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