Why Abdul Rahman Dahlan  evades the question why he is not fighting  his own battle and instead,  run crying to “MO1” for SOS to direct other UMNO Ministers and leaders to come to his rescue?

The self-styled Barisan Nasional Director of Strategic Communications (in actual fact, BN Director of Strategic Lies), Datuk Abdul Rahman Dahlan should not evade my question to him yesterday why he is not fighting  his own battle and instead, run crying to “MO1” for SOS to direct other UMNO Ministers and leaders to come to his rescue?

When I told Abdul Rahman yesterday to stand on his own two  feet to fight his own battle, and not to depend on other  UMNO leaders to come to his aid,  at least five UMNO leaders –  four UMNO Ministers and one UMNO Deputy Minister –  had already been enlisted into Abdul Rahman’s demonization campaign against me.

They were the Minister for Rural and Regional Development, Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob, the Minister for Education, Datuk Mahdzir Khalid, the Minister for Domestic Trade, Co-operatives and Consumerism, Datuk Hamzah Zainudin, Minister for Communications and Multimedia, Datuk Seri Mohd Salleh Said Keruak and the Deputy Transport Minister, Datuk Ab Aziz Kaprawi.

By today, this “Support Abdul Rahman’s Demonisation of Lim Kit Siang” has expanded to include the Minister for  Housing and Local Government, Datuk Nor Omar and the Wanita UMNO chief, Tan Sri Shahrizat Abdul Jalil, whose statements appeared in the UMNO/BN mainstream media and I expect more UMNO/BN Ministers and leaders to join in the demonization campaign at the behest of “MO1”.

It is indeed note-worthy that these five UMNO Ministers,  one UMNO Deputy Minister and one top UMNO leader have abandoned the “anti-Malay”, “anti-Islam” allegations of Abdul Rahman’s recent demonization campaign, which had been discredited by the RM10,000 offer (upped to RM50,000 within 24 hours) by the UMNO Youth leader Tan Sri Annuar Musa for the “best essay or social media posting” that I am anti-Malay and anti-Islam, which is  tantamount to an open confession that these mischievous UMNO/BN propagandists do not have a single proof that I had been anti-Malay and anti-Islam throughout  my 51 years of active politics.

They have instead focused on one aspect –  accusing me of being “dictator” of Pakatan Harapan and suggesting that I might as well “take the helm” as Pakatan Harapan Chairman – insinuating that  Tun Dr. Mahathir (who was Prime Minister for Malaysia and UMNO President for 22 years), Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin (former Deputy Prime Minister and UMNO Deputy President), Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim (former Deputy Prime Minister and UMNO Deputy President, and Ketua Umum for PKR), Datuk Seri Dr. Wan Azizah Wan Ismail (PKR President and Ketua Pembangkang) and Mohamed Sabu (AMANAH President who had gone in and out of jail) have all become my stooges or puppets.

I had previously worked with former Prime Ministers  Tunku Abdul Rahman and Tun Hussein Onn when they were no more Prime Minister and UMNO President. Did I also make Tunku and Hussein my stooges or puppets?

The UMNO Ministers and leaders are in fact insulting the Malay race, by suggesting that top Malay leaders who had been Prime Ministers or Deputy Prime Ministers, Presidents or Deputy Presidents of UMNO, are men of such  low moral character and caliber as capable of becoming puppets or stooges of other people!

Are they also saying that the current Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister, UMNO President, Deputy President, Vice Presidents and UMNO Ministers and leaders all could become stooges and puppets of other people tomorrow when they are no more in their present power and position?

Clearly, I have more respect for the Malay race that the present UMNO Ministers and leaders.

I appeal to  the UMNO Ministers and leaders not to insult their own race in this fashion.

They can disagree with their former UMNO Presidents and Deputy Presidents, but they should not malign their character as if UMNO leaders, once they relinquish their positions, become morally worthless characters.

While Mahathir is being accused of being my stooge and puppet, an opposite campaign of lies and falsehoods are proceeding on the  Chinese ground where  MCA propagandists  spread  lies, fake news and false information  that I have become Mahathir’s puppet and stooge.

Mahathir and I are not stooge or puppet of the other, as we are honourable and self-respecting leaders who are co-operating in a common cause to save Malaysia from the curse, ignominy and infamy of being regarded world-wide as a global kleptocracy –  which if not addressed, will result in Malaysia becoming a failed and rogue state.

Mahathir and I are acting as Malaysian patriots to  join forces to save Malaysia from degenerating into a political and economic basket-case, and although Mahathir is much older than me coming to 92 years old, I am not young at 76,  we both have no agendas for personal advancement in our common patriotic cause to Save Malaysia from global kleptocracy.

UMNO/BN propagandists have spread the lies, fake news and false information that I am seeking Mahathir’s help to save Penang Chief Minister, Lim Guan Eng, from his corruption case.

If I had done that, I would not be able to look Mahathir in the eye, for I would have acted no different from an opportunist or hustler, who deserves no respect from anyone.

Mahathir and I had never even discussed Guan Eng’s corruption case – which clearly is politically motivated.

A member of the Abdul Rahman Dahlan stable of UMNO/BN owned or controlled mainstream media of lies, fake news and false information, The New Straits Times, today carried a special column on “Another vexing week for Kit Siang” which noted that yesterday  I had posted “three lengthy entries on his blog at 5.46 am, 8.30 am and 2.46pm”.

The writer of this NST column had not  been responsible and professional enough , as  I posted four entries on my blog yesterday, at 5.46 am, 8.30 am, 2.46 pm and 6.59 pm!

For the information of Abdul Rahman and his gang, which included  the NST writer of the column, last week was no “vexing week” for me at all, but a very interesting and exciting week, for it was quite enjoyable to see Abdul Rahman Dahlan and his army of UMNO/BN propagandists squirm at being publicly exposed as half-baked and unprofessional media propagandists.

The NST quoted my statement on Saturday which offered Abdul Rahman Dahlan a third lesson in “strategic communications” – – 邪不胜正 (Evil cannot triumph over good).

Abdul Rahman thought he was clever tweeting that it was I who represented “evil”.

I need only ask Abdul Rahman to read the blog posting of former UMNO Secretary-General,Tan Sri Sanusi Junid,  who had been a Minister and  Kedah Mentri Besar, dated 17th February 2017 which  listed 30 items  where Malaysia had gone wrong – like Malaysia becoming a global kleptocracy;  the 1MDB international money-laundering  scandal; the corruption scandals in FELDA, MARA, Tabung Haji – and not one of them had anything to do with me.

Those responsible for the 30 Misdeeds listed by Sanusi Junid represented the face of evil in Malaysia.

Can Abdul Rahman read Sanusi Junid’s posting and declare what is “Evil” in Malaysia?

Finally, Abdul Rahman should answer my question yesterday: When was he appointed by the BN Supreme Council as the BN Director of Strategic Communications and when such a BN Supreme Council was held, or did he just appoint himself to this position?

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How many times have Najib met Jho Low, where and when, after the 13th General Election and did the Prime Minister meet Jho Low during his last official visit to China?

I am intrigued by the high-powered and well-orchestrated UMNO/BN demonization campaign against me in the past three months, which appeared to be reaching a climax in the past week.

But I detect something unusual in this UMNO/BN demonization campaign, using a rojak of lies, fake news and false information through UMNO/BN owned and controlled “mainstream media” and the social media to demonise me as a devil, an hantu, puaka or even jembalang; that I am anti-Malay, anti-Islam; that I was the cause of the May 13 racial riots in 1969; that I am a communist; a stooge of Singapore PAP, etc, etc.

Normally, a propaganda campaign starts with light-weight personalities reaching a crescendo with the participation of increasingly heavy-weight figures. But here we see the reverse taking place.

The demonization campaign of the BN Director of Strategic Communications against me started with heavy-artillery salvos from principal UMNO leaders and Ministers but it is in danger of  petering out, as seen by deployment of the UMNO Youth deputy chief, Senator Khairul Azman Harun in the UMNO/BN media, New Straits Times and Utusan Malaysia today.

It is quite laughable to see Utusan Malaysia employing a special logo in this demonization campaign against me, with images of myself, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, Tun Dr. Mahathir, Datuk Seri Azmin Ali, Datuk Seri Dr. Wan Azizah Wan Ismail, Mohd Sabu and the wordings in a red-boxed caption “ASALKAN BUKAN PAKATAN KIT SIANG”, but somehow, the demonization campaign is  unable to enlist personalities of heavier political weight to join in but have to make do with persons of lesser political weight like a UMNO Youth deputy leader.

The Utusan Malaysia logo “ASAKAN BUKAN PAKATAN KIT SIANG” is part of the UMNO/BN demonization against me, suggesting that Pakatan Harapan is an “Ali Baba” arrangement, with me as the “master” and the others, including Tun Mahathir, Anwar Ibrahim, Wan Azizah, Azmin Ali and Mohd Sabu merely my stooges or puppets.

Here I want to make a public appeal to Utusan Malaysia and the UMNO leaders – don’t insult or run down their own Malay race by suggesting that top Malay leaders who had been Prime Ministers or Deputy Prime Ministers, Presidents or Deputy Presidents of UMNO, are men of such  low moral character and caliber as capable of becoming puppets or stooges after stepping down from their former positions!

I had previously worked with former Prime Ministers Tunku Abdul Rahman and Tun Hussein Onn when they were no more Prime Minister and UMNO President.

Were Tunku and Hussein my stooges or puppets and should their pictures be included in the Utusan Malaysia logo “ASALKAN BUKAN PAKATAN KIT SIANG” to join the company of Mahathir, Anwar, Azizah, Azmin and Mohd Sabu?

Are the present UMNO leaders and the Utusan Malaysia suggesting that the current Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister, UMNO President, Deputy President, Vice Presidents and UMNO Ministers and leaders all could become stooges and puppets of other people tomorrow when they are no more in their present power and position?

Clearly, I have more respect for the Malay race than the present UMNO Ministers and leaders.

I appeal to the UMNO Ministers and leaders not to insult their own race in this fashion.

They can disagree with their former UMNO Presidents and Deputy Presidents, but they should not malign their character as if UMNO leaders, once they relinquish their positions, become morally worthless characters.

While Mahathir is being accused of being my stooge and puppet, an opposite campaign of lies and falsehoods are proceeding on the  Chinese ground where  MCA propagandists  spread  lies, fake news and false information  that I have become Mahathir’s puppet and stooge.

Mahathir and I are not stooge or puppet of the other, as we are honourable and self-respecting leaders who are co-operating in a common cause to save Malaysia from the curse, ignominy and infamy of being regarded world-wide as a global kleptocracy –  which if not addressed, will result in Malaysia becoming a failed and rogue state.

Mahathir and I are acting as Malaysian patriots to  join forces to save Malaysia from degenerating into a political and economic basket-case, and although Mahathir is much older than me coming to 92 years old, I am not young at 76,  we both have no agendas for personal advancement in our common patriotic cause to Save Malaysia from global kleptocracy.

The BN Director of Strategic Communications has amassed quite a low-quality army of propagandists, who have either fired “blanks” or bullets which boomerang on the UMNO leadership.

Nobody believes that Pakatan Harapan is a “Ali Baba” organization, but there is no doubt that Malaysians are convinced that Najib is responsible for creating the biggest and most sinister “Ali Baba” partnership in Malaysia – the “Najib-Jho Low” Ali-Baba axis – which catapulted Malaysia to a global kleptocracy with the largest world-wide 1MDB  financial scandal in recent times.

Jho Low has become an international kleptocratic fugitive from justice for quite some time.

Let me ask the Prime Minister and UMNO President, Datuk Seri Najib Razak a simple and straightforward question: How many times have Najib met Jho Low, where and when, after the 13th General Election and did the Prime Minister meet Jho Low during his last official visit to China?

And what did they discuss during their meetings after the 13th General Election on May 5, 2013, when Jho Low was totally rebuffed and repudiated by the people of Penang despite spending ten of millions of ringgit to topple Lim Guan Eng as Penang Chief Minister and the DAP-led Penang State Government!

Or dare Najib declare that he had never met Jho Low after the 13th General Elections in 2013?

Can Malaysians expect the BN Director of Strategic Communications to ask the Prime Minister this question instead of indulging in a demonization campaign in pursuit of “strategic lies”?

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Who has the final authority on  the police ban of the Mahathir-Nazri debate – the IGP or the Home Minister?

The Inspector-General of Police, Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar, has turned the Home Minister, Datuk Seri Zahid Hamidi, who is also the Deputy Prime Minister, into a cypher (dictionary definition – “a person of no influence”) on whether the police should ban the Mahathir-Nazri debate to be  organized by Sinar Harian at its premises in Shah Alam on Friday.

What is most shocking is that the police ban came within 24 hours of written police consent for the debate.

Not only the majority of Malaysians, but the majority of the police force, cannot accept Khalid’s absurd claim that the police are merely exercising their discretionary powers provided under Section 3(3) of the Police Act 1967 in banning the debate between former Prime Minister Tun Dr. Mahathir and Tourism Minister Datuk Seri Nazri Abdul Aziz on grounds of maintaining public order.

Khalid is scraping the bottom of the barrel invoking Section 3(3) of the Police Act, as this section makes no  mention that the police enjoys  “discretionary powers” to ban the debate.

Section 3(3) of the Police Act states:

“3(3) The (Police)  Force shall subject to this Act be employed in and throughout Malaysia (including the territorial waters thereof) for the maintenance of law and order, the preservation of the peace and security of Malaysia, the prevention and detection of crime, the apprehension and prosecution of offenders and the collection of security intelligence.”

Khalid also cited  Section 20(3) of the same act which he alleged,  conferred the police with discretionary powers to carry out such duties, in the interest of the public.

I have read up Section 20(3) of the Police Act 1967, and I find no reference whatsoever to the “discretionary powers” which Khalid has arrogated on behalf of the police in carrying out its duties.

Section 20(3) of the Police Act made it very clear that in the 13 categories of police duties, ranging from effecting arrests, processing security intelligence, conducting prosecutions, executing summonses or subpoenas to seizing stray animals, protecting public property, the police are enjoined to  act lawfully – “may take such lawful measures and do such lawful acts” – and not to act at its whim and fancies, which was what the Police did in banning the Mahathir-Nazri debate within 24 hours of issuing a written consent!

In claiming “discretionary powers” and to act beyond the powers of the law, Khalid is in fact attacking the fundamental principles of the rule of law and democratic governance.

Surely, the Inspector-General of Police cannot be unaware of Section 4(1) of the Police Act on the “Control of the Police Force”, which state very clearly and explicitly that the Police Force “shall be under the command of an Inspector General who shall be a police officer and shall be responsible to the Minister for the control and direction of the Force and all other persons appointed or engaged for police duties”?

Khalid’s claim of police “discretionary powers” is not founded on the law and is no answer to the charge of police abuses of power in banning the Mahathir-Nazri debate.

The Home Minister has said that he will review the reasons behind the police ban on the Mahathir-Nazri debate.

Is this just a farce and charade, just to ensure that the Mahathir-Nazri debate organized by Sinar Harian in Shah Alam on Friday is sabotaged?

Let me remind Zahid that  he is not a cypher as the IGP would want Malaysians to believe as under Section 4(1) of the Police Act,  Zahid is finally responsible over police matters as even  the IGP is responsible to him as Home Minister.

Under Malaysia’s present system of governance, it  is Zahid and not Khalid who must have the last word on whether the Mahathir-Nazri debate on Friday should be banned or allowed.

Dare Zahid revoke  the police ban on the Mahathir-Nazri debate within the next 24 hours  as the police ban on  Mahathir-Nazri debate is not founded on law but on the non-existent Police “discretionary powers”?

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I will accept a public  debate with the Prime Minister or any senior UMNO leader on “Who is a Malaysian Patriot” or “What are the challenges of a Malaysian Patriot in 2017”

I feel sad that my appeal yesterday to UMNO leaders and Utusan Malaysia to stop insulting or running down their own Malay race by suggesting that top Malay leaders who had been Presidents or Deputy Presidents of UMNO, or Prime Ministers, Deputy Prime Ministers or Ministers,  are men and women  of such  low character  and morals that they are susceptible to become stooges or  puppets after stepping down from their high office, had not been heeded!

I am not a Malay, but I think this is a calumny of the worst kind about  the Malay race, and I want to protest against it in the strongest possible terms.

It is shocking and ironic that such calumny of the Malay race is  coming from  the incumbent Malay leadership in government and Utusan Malaysia,  which are facing a life-and-death struggle to retain popular Malay support!

The founding President of UMNO, Datuk Onn Jaafar, was once denounced as a traitor to the Malay race. So was once Tunku Abdul Rahman, even Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah when he formed and headed Semangat 46, and now Tun Mahathir and Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin.

It is time that Malaysian politics, on the 60th anniversary of the country achieving Merdeka on August 31, 1957, become less infantile and racist and  more mature and Malaysian.

Can we expect the present UMNO/BN leadership in Putrajaya grow with the times  to lead Malaysia towards this era of  more mature and Malaysian politics?

I said yesterday that Tun Mahathir and I are patriots who have joined forces to save Malaysian from degenerating into a political and economic basket case and save Malaysia from the curse, ignominy and infamy of being regarded world-wide as a global kleptocracy –  which if not addressed, will result in Malaysia becoming a failed and rogue state.

The Minister for Communications and Multimedia, Datuk Seri Salleh Said Keruak thought he was very clever and wrote a blog post ridiculing those who claim themselves as patriots, citing for example that “most historians agree that Adolf Hitler was a patriot…and 100 million people died because of this”.

I am surprised that Salleh did not seem to know  the famous quote
“Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel”
 by Samuel Johnson, but we are of course differentiating between genuine from false patriots.

Malaysia has today become the “Sick Man of Southeast Asia” – the joke of comedians in neighbouring Singapore and the people in  neighbouring Indonesia, to the extent that the people Riau, who agitated to be annexed to Malaysia in the early 2000’s, have only contempt for Malaysia today especially over the 1MDB scandal.

Is this the work of patriots?

Will a patriot allow Malaysia to be ridiculed throughout the world as a “global kleptocracy”, doing nothing to clear such infamy and ignominy, in fact doing the very opposite, persecuting and silencing those who want to get to the  bottom of the international multi-billion dollar 1MDB money-laundering scandal?

It is clear that the UMNO/BN demonization against me is  going on full-swing, with the Utusan Malaysia still using  its logo, with images of myself, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, Tun Dr. Mahathir, Datuk Seri Azmin Ali, Datuk Seri Dr. Wan Azizah Wan Ismail, Mohd Sabu and  the wordings in a red-boxed caption “ASALKAN BUKAN PAKATAN KIT SIANG”.

I had previously worked with former Prime Ministers  Tunku Abdul Rahman and Tun Hussein Onn when they were no more Prime Minister and UMNO President.

Are Tunku and Hussein’s pictures to be added to the Utusan Malaysia logo “ASALKAN BUKAN PAKATAN KIT SIANG” on the ground that like Mahathir, Anwar, Azizah, Azmin and Mohd Sabu, Bapa Malaysia and the third Prime Minister had also been my puppets or stooges?

Clearly, I have more faith and respect for the Malay race than the present UMNO Ministers and leaders, or the Utusan Malaysia.

UMNO leaders can disagree with their former UMNO Presidents and Deputy Presidents, but they should not malign their character as if UMNO leaders, once they relinquish their positions, become morally worthless characters.  Are they reflecting on their own moral character and worth?

This is not only an era of lies, fake news and false information, but of “rent-a-crowd”, “rent-a-Minister”, “rent-a-newspaper”, “rent-an-NGO”, “rent-a-spokesperson” or even “rent-a-worm”  to do dirty jobs in politics, such as issuing  debate challenges with all sort of ridiculous topics.

I have no time for such “rented” operations.

I am prepared to take part in a public debate with the Prime Minister or any senior UMNO leader on  “Who is a Malaysian Patriot” or “What are the challenges of a Malaysian Patriot in 2017”.

For Salleh’s information, I had said that there are at least 10 areas where there must be “reset” of nation-building directions and policies, and the support of these ten “Reset” objectives will be an important  test of whether a Malaysian is a patriot or not.

If Salleh as Minister for Communications and Multimedia dare to organize such a public debate, I would accept the challenge without hesitation.

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Kenapa Kit Siang bangkit mencelah pembentangan usul Haji Hadi

oleh Izmil Amri

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Pada 6 April 2017

Bertubi-tubi orang memarahi Ahli Parlimen Gelang Patah, Lim Kit Siang yang dilihat cuba menghalang Ahli Parlimen Marang, Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang daripada membentangkan usul persendiriannya yang penuh kontroversi di Parlimen hari ini.

Hadi sudah beberapa kali sebelum ini diberi ruang oleh pihak kerajaan untuk membentangkan usul yang lebih dikenali sebagai RUU355 itu, namun beberapa kali itu juga memohon untuk menangguhkan pembentangannya.

Usul Hadi itu mendapat keistimewaan hari ini apabila pihak kerajaan semalam menangguhkan lima rang undang-undang yang sebelum ini disenaraikan mendahului usul Hadi, setelah Dewan Rakyat terus bersidang sehingga hampir subuh.

Speaker Tan Sri Pandikar Amin menjelaskan bahawa kerajaan telah meminta supaya usul Hadi diberikan keutamaan.

Proses tersebut kecoh seketika, apabila beberapa wakil rakyat pembangkang bangkit mempersoalkan kenapa hal tersebut berlaku; sedangkan baru sahaja minggu lalu Perdana Menteri Datuk Seri Najib Razak mengumumkan bahawa kerajaan tidak akan mengambil alih usul Hadi, dengan alasan ia adalah konsensus Barisan Nasional.

Lalu apa ertinya kerajaan meminta supaya Speaker memberi keutamaan kepada usul Hadi sedangkan parti kerajaan telah membuat keputusan untuk tidak berbuat demikian? Adakah keputusan konsensus Barisan Nasional itu tidak membawa sebarang erti, dan hanya lakonan semata-mata bagi menunjukkan kepada penyokong MCA, Gerakan dan MIC serta parti-parti Sabah dan Sarawak bahawa BN tidak akan bersekongkol dengan usaha Islamisasi ala-Hadi?

Dan lagi, tiada seorang pun wakil rakyat dari komponen Barisan Nasional yang bangkit membela keputusan konsensus apabila Hadi akhirnya diberikan satu hari suntuk hari ini untuk membentang dan membahas usul penuh kontroversi itu.

Kit Siang bangkit tanpa langsung menyentuh usul Hadi, bahkan menyerang pimpinan Barisan Nasional, terutamanya MCA dan Gerakan yang tempoh hari meloncat sakan apabila keputusan dibuat untuk BN tidak mengambil alih usul terbabit.

Setelah beriya-iya mendabik dada bahawa mereka berjaya menghalang usul ‘hudud’ itu, wakil-wakil rakyat UMNO akhirnya hari ini kelihatan beriya-iya pula menepuk meja dan menyatakan sokongan kepada ucapan Presiden PAS tersebut.

Ahli Parlimen Puchong, Gobind Singh Deo pula bangkit mempersoalkan isu sub judis memandangkan terdapat tindakan mahkamah terhadap Speaker bagi menghalang beliau mengizinkan usul Hadi itu dibentangkan.

Sub judis itu ertinya perkara tersebut masih dalam pertimbangan mahkamah dan tidak wajar dibahaskan supaya ia tidak memberi sebarang pengaruh kepada keputusan mahkamah.

Namun Tan Sri Speaker berhujah bahawa mahkamah tidak boleh masuk campur dalam prosiding parlimen.

Padahal Speaker yang sama juga sebelum ini membuat keputusan menghalang sebarang perbahasan dan soalan tentang skandal 1MDB dengan alasan bahawa terdapat tindakan mahkamah dalam soal itu dan tidak mahu perbahasan di Parlimen mempengaruhi keputusan mahkamah. Sub judis kata Speaker.

Semua hujah-hujah yang dibangkitkan berasaskan Peraturan Mesyuarat, termasuk soal kenapa usul-usul Pembangkang sebelum ini langsung tidak pernah dilayani oleh pihak Kerajaan, adalah hujah-hujah yang wajar dinyatakan.

Belum pernah lagi pihak Kerajaan mengesampingkan urusan-urusan usul kerajaan, bagi memberi ruang kepada usul pembangkang. Kecuali lah kalau ada udang di sebalik batu.

Ahli-ahli Parlimen punya tugas dan tanggungjawab besar untuk menggubal undang-undang dengan teliti. Dewan Rakyat bukannya kilang pembuatan undang-undang, dan hanya berfungsi sebagai ‘rubber stamp’ untuk mengabsahkan kehendak pihak-pihak tertentu demi dan untuk kepentingan politik masing-masing sahaja.

Kalau bangkit mempersoal perkara yang sah pun tak boleh, tak payah lah masuk Parlimen. Kit Siang boleh duduk di rumah, jaga cucu. Ahli-ahli Parlimen pembangkang yang lain pula boleh buka gerai di sepanjang Jalan Parlimen, menjual nasi lemak, baju bundle dan sebagainya sebagai duit tepi.

Pun begitu, usul Hadi telah dibentang. Sesuai proses demokrasi yang matang, ia perlu dibahaskan.

Jangan nanti bila dibahas pun kena kritik juga. Cara begitu Korea Utara suka lah. – Roketkini.com

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Pandikar has ended up as a “bloody fool” with his abuse of powers as Speaker in disallowing a debate on Hadi’s private member’s bill motion

Parliament Speaker, Tan Sri Pandikar Amin Mulia said in Parliament yesterday:

“A politician friend once told me: ‘If you are in power you are very powerful. If you don’t use the  power you are a bloody fool.’

“Today I don’t want to be a bloody fool, I want to exercise my authority, and rule that the debate will be held in the next parliament meeting.”

Unfortunately, Pandikar has ended up, in his own words, as a “bloody fool” with his abuse of powers as Speaker in disallowing a debate on PAS President Datuk Seri Hadi Awang’s private member’s bill motion to amend the Syariah Courts (Criminal Jurisdiction) Act or RUU 355, yesterday and adjourn the debate to the next parliamentary meeting scheduled in July.

In the first place, the Speaker has no authority to create his own rules or arrogate to himself powers that are not in the Dewan Rakyat Standing Orders, or we will have  a dictator as Speaker of Parliament.

As Hadi’s motion was not debated and voted upon, the motion lapses and Hadi will have to start all over again to submit the private member’s bill afresh in the next parliamentary meeting, as there is no provision in the Standing Orders for the deferment of debate of a motion to the subsequent meeting.

In fact, any motion which is not debated and voted at a parliamentary meeting  lapses, and notice of the motion would have to be given again to keep it alive on the agenda of the subsequent parliamentary meeting.

The Speaker of Parliament cannot be a dictator and all the Speaker’s claims yesterday about the supremacy of Parliament are just eye-wash, because in reality, the Speaker acts under the directive of the Executive.

This was why the Deputy Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Zahid Hamidi was in Parliament for the entire proceeding yesterday, to make sure that the “script” for Hadi’s private member’s bill motion, not to allow a debate on Hadi’s motion after it had been proposed and seconded,  would be followed to the letter!

Do I have any proof that this was the “script” right from the beginning?

Of course.

Firstly, this was the reason why the Dewan Rakyat meeting on Wednesday went on for 20 hours from 10 am until 5.05 am on Thursday, and five government bills were withdrawn, to “clear the decks” for the Dewan Rakyat agenda on Thursday to have only one item of business – Hadi’s private member’s bill motion.

Secondly, the Speaker had told the PKR MP for Gopeng, Dr. Lee Boon Chye  who raised a point of order, that the government had asked the House  to fast-track Hadi’s private motion, proof that  the fast-tracking of Hadi’s motion was the decision not of one person or party, but of  the Barisan Nasional government representing 13 BN component parties – although publicly Malaysians were told that Barisan Nasional would not take over Hadi’s private member’s bill.

Thirdly, the strongest proof that the whole proceeding in Parliament yesterday had been scripted to the letter  and had the knowledge and approval of all the Barisan Nasional Ministers is the admission by the MIC President, Datuk Seri Dr. S. Subramaniam that Barisan Nasional leaders knew that Hadi’s motion would be tabled but not debated.

Subramaniam said the decision, made at the recent Barisan Nasional Supreme Council meeting, was to  allow  PAS to present their case on Hadi’s private member’s bill but there would be no debate or vote.

Was Hadi making use of  the Prime Minister and UMNO President Datuk Seri Najib Razak, or Najib making use of Hadi?

Who is the  “bloody fool” from the outrageous and disgusting parliamentary episode yesterday – Pandikar, Members of Parliament or Malaysians as a whole?

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When major national institutions go “rogue” and refuse to perform their  key functions, Malaysians regardless of race, religion or region must stand up to unite as patriotic Malaysians to Save Malaysia from becoming a “rogue” state

When major national institutions go “rogue” and refuse to perform their key fundamental functions, Malaysians regardless of race, religion or region must stand up to unite as patriotic Malaysians to Save Malaysia from becoming a “rogue” state.

Recent days have seen many of the major national institutions abdicating their fundamental duties, which was one reason why former Prime Minister, Tun Mahathir Mohamad said at a forum last night that the country would see better progress without current Attorney-General Tan Sri Mohamad Apandi Ali.

Only a day earlier, the Swiss attorney-general Michael Lauber expressed confidence that the money-laundering probe into the scandal-hit Malaysian fund 1MDB by the Swiss Office of Attorney-General (OAG) would bear fruit despite Malaysian authorities’ refusal to cooperate.

Lauber told a news conference “”It’s not hopeless, in fact it’s the opposite”,  saying the probe was making progress based on money-laundering reports, bank documents and work with Singapore and other countries.

He said: “It would have been very desirable from our perspective if Malaysia had cooperated.”

But “we’re still confident that we can successfully conclude the process in this area, in particular in the open cases against the two banks,” he said, referring to Swiss private banks BSI and Falcon.

In presenting his 2016 annual report on the activities of the Swiss OAG, Lauber said that the Swiss authorities would not tolerate “things” like 1MDB, Petrobas or the whole FIFA soccer corruption scandals.

What a national shame that Malaysia should be berated by another foreign country and  included in the ranks of international corruption scandals!

Would Apandi resign as Attorney-General if the Swiss investigations into the 1MDB money-laundering scandal bear fruit, despite his rebuffing of Switzerland’s request for legal assistance in probing 1MDB?

This is not an isolated case of key national institutions and principal officials in Malaysia abdicating from their key fundamental responsibilities, the others being the office of the Prime Minister, the Executive, the Police, the Election Commission, the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission,  the Judiciary, Parliament and even the office of Speaker of Parliament.

With the key national institutions breaking down one after another, the 60th National Day anniversary celebrations should be an occasion for patriotic Malaysians  to unite to re-set nation-building directions and policies to ensure that  the promises and dreams of Merdeka in 1957 and Malaysia in 1963 to create a united, harmonious, democratic, incorruptible, just, progressive and prosperous multi-racial,  multi-religious and multi-cultural  nation return to their key and   central place in all national policies and programmes.

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Cabinet should seriously consider the Pensiangan Formula on promoting national unity among the diverse races, religions and regions in Malaysia

The last day of Parliament on Thursday was a black-letter day for nation building and national unity in Malaysia – not only because Parliament adjourned ahead of normal adjournment time at 5.30 p.m. of the day to disallow a debate on PAS President Datuk Seri Hadi Awang’s private member’s bill motion to amend the Syariah Courts (Criminal Jurisdiction) Act or RUU 355, although Members of Parliament from Pakatan Harapan were prepared to take part in the debate, but also because the issue was allowed in the past year to become the most divisive issue in our plural nation of diverse races, religions and cultures.

It has been reported that the latest development in RUU 355 issue in the next meeting of Parliament will be an amendment to exclude the application of Hadi’s private member’s bill  in  Sabah and Sarawak so as to avoid the opposition of the 57 Sabah and Sarawak Members of Parliament – which will only highlight the divisive nature of the measure.

We should revisit the Pensiangan Formula which I proposed when visiting Pensiangan in Sabah last December to ensure that national unity should always be the paramount consideration for Members of Parliament, especially on controversial issues affecting religion.

The Pensiangan Formula which I proposed  last December to resolve the political and constitutional impasse  created by Hadi’s private member’s bill had comprised two elements, namely:

•  the government should not take over Hadi’s private member’s bill, which should remain on the parliamentary order paper; and

• formation of an all-party Parliamentary Select Committee to study and make proposals on how to strengthen inter-religious relations in Malaysia based on the Malaysian Constitution, Malaysia Agreement 1963 (MA63) and Rukunegara, and which should study all proposals relating to religion, including Hadi’s private member’s bill motion.

As the first element of the Pensiangan Formula has become quite academic, we are  left with the second element of an all-party Parliamentary Select Committee to take a large macro approach to promote national unity among the diverse races, religions and regions based on the fundamental nation-building documents, i.e. the Malaysian Constitution, the Malaysian Agreement 1963 and the Rukunegara 1970, including proposals like Hadi’s private member’s bill motion.

The Cabinet should seriously consider the Pensiangan Formula on promoting national unity  among the diverse races, religions and regions in Malaysia through a Parliamentary Select Committee, where Hadi’s proposals can be given deeper study and consideration.

A Parliamentary Select Committee to promote  greater national unity out of the diverse races, religions and cultures in Malaysia  will  make the 60th anniversary of Merdeka on August 31 1957 this year a most  meaningful one.

(Speech at the DAP Kopitiam Ceramah in Johor Baru on Saturday, April 8, 2017 at 9 pm)

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HOW AN ILL-FATED STOCK LISTING COULD SWAY MALAYSIA’S ELECTION

BY PHAR KIM BENG

South China Morning Post

9 APR 2017

The controversial listing of the Federal Land Development Authority’s commercial arm has left many of the Malaysian government’s key supporters – the rural poor – rethinking their allegiances

Viewed from afar, Malaysia’s ruling party, the United Malays National Organisation (Umno), might seem nigh-on unchallengeable in the general election expected as early as this year. After all, it has been in power since the country’s first such election in 1955 – two years before the country’s independence from Britain.

Yet, while it is undeniably strong, its armour is not without chinks. The party cannot afford to lose the support of Malaysia’s rural constituencies – a dependency that has entwined its fate with that of the Federal Land Development Authority (Felda) for the past 60 years and may now represent just such a weak spot.

Felda was created by Umno a year after its maiden election win to handle the resettlement of rural poor into newly developed areas and smallhold farms. It went on to alter the development of Malaysia beyond recognition as large swathes of unused land became well-irrigated plantation schemes that transformed both agricultural exports and the incomes of its rural communities.

Settlers on Felda land have remained fiercely loyal to Umno, which forms the backbone of the ruling coalition Barisan Nasional (National Front), ever since and have played no small part in defending Umno’s grip on power. Of the party’s 86 parliamentary seats, 54 are from constituencies on Felda-developed land.

But there are signs Umno’s grip may now be loosening with opinion among its erstwhile diehard support base now deeply divided by the government’s handling of the listing of Felda’s commercial arm – Felda Global Ventures (FGV) – on the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange in May 2012.

While savvy investors who bought FGV shares in November 2016 may be laughing all the way to the bank with returns of 36 per cent (the uptick followed a management reshuffle), those who bought at the time of the listing have seen their investments cut in half.

So bad has FGV’s performance been that rumours have swirled for the past month that it may be delisted from the exchange completely. If that happens, it will only further undermine the trust of many first- and second-generation Felda settlers in the government of Prime Minister Najib Razak, a leader already under fire for alleged links to a corruption scandal at the state firm 1Malaysia Development Berhad.

Critics say Najib’s government was oblivious to the risks when it placed 360,000 hectares – out of Felda’s total of 508,000 hectares – on 99-year leases as collateral for the listing on the stock exchange.

The president of Anak (the Malay acronym for the National Felda Settlers’ Children Society), Mazlan Aliman, says the move has exposed Felda to a perpetual cycle of debt-servicing.

And it’s hard for Najib to claim he wasn’t warned. When the initial public offering (IPO) was first announced in the budget of 2011, more than 65 per cent of senior officers working in FGV were opposed. Yet Najib pushed ahead, much to Anak’s chagrin.

Increasingly, there are signs of wider scale political disillusionment. Discontent was palpable when the Felda stronghold constituency of Rompin, Pahang, held a by-election in May 2015. Of its 16 polling districts, two returned a majority for the Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party – the first time in history a district in a Felda constituency had not backed the Umno candidate.

Although the Umno candidate, Hasan Arifin, still won by a majority of more than 8,000 votes, the final tally showed a 50 per cent drop in support.

Such a reversal of fortunes has set the alarm bells ringing at Umno and Najib has since tried to win over Felda settlers with soft loans that have given some the opportunity to borrow up to US$22,000. That tactic has had mixed results, increasing indebtedness among settlers rather than bringing them swift financial redemption.

Meanwhile, those settlers who bought in to FGV in 2012 have found themselves vulnerable, exposed and unable to sell.

Given these circumstances, it’s perhaps unsurprising that Najib, who is also the finance minister, is shaking up the FGV management, replacing his former ally Tan Sri Isa Samad, widely seen as an ineffective chairman, with Tan Sri Sharir Samad from Johor, a Malaysian state in which Felda has a strong presence. Those changes may have produced initial results, with the uptick in shares, but whether they will be enough to stop the rot in the long term remains to be seen.

The personnel changes reflect the high stakes to both Umno and Najib personally. Were Najib to hold all the Felda constituencies with sizeable majorities in the next general election he would further consolidate his power in the party and become, in effect, unchallengeable.

The opposition is well aware of Felda’s importance, and has courted the settlers relentlessly in moves that will not have been lost on Najib, who counts Felda as part of his father Tun Razak’s legacy.

While the creation of Felda predates the late Tun Razak’s time in office, it was he who did much to secure the lasting success of the authority, encouraging young and able-bodied Malay men to hack their way into the thick forests of Malaysia, often with their wives and family in tow. Their efforts transformed the idle lands and catapulted Malaysia to the fore of the developing world.

Felda blossomed in the 1970s, coinciding neatly with Tun Razak’s six years as prime minister, from 1970 to 1976. That this blossoming came about following the peak of the Malayan communist insurgency in the 1960s is largely beside the point.

Central to the Felda narrative is the extent to which the lot of the rural Malays systematically improved. Within 10 years of Tun Razak coming to office, Malaysia was making strong and sustainable yields in rubber, palm oil and other agricultural products and the income growth of Felda settlers started to track that of urban Malaysians. Against this backdrop, Felda settlers have traditionally backed Umno to the hilt, even when the party under the former prime minister, Mahathir Mohamad, was bent on transforming Malaysia into an industrial economy.

But if Felda once represented Umno’s suit of armour, its recent reversal in fortunes may provide the chink for its opponents to exploit as the election looms.

Umno may not have lost a general election since 1955, but its populist support has been flagging since 2008, if not before. It must confront the possibility that it faces the sort of crisis once faced by Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party or Taiwan’s Kuomintang – once unassailably dominant political parties that eventually tasted defeat due to voters’ rising disenfranchisement.

By allowing FGV to wallow, Umno’s competencies are now being seriously challenged, not only by Felda settlers, but an opposition that is waiting in the wings. ■

Additional reporting by Tashny Sukumaran

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Najib should straighten out UMNO/BN leaders, propagandists and cybertroopers in their  demonisation campaign against me – decide whether they are attacking me for wanting to be Prime Minister or Deputy Prime Minister after the 14th General Election and not vacillate between the two

The Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak, should straighten out the UMNO/BN leaders, propagandists and cybertroopers who had been launching a demonisation campaign against  me in the last four months –  and decide once and for all whether they are attacking me for wanting to be Prime Minister or Deputy Prime Minister after the 14th General Elections and not to vacillate between the two.

When the UMNO/BN demonisation campaign against me was launched some four months ago, I was targetted for wanting to take over the Federal Government in Putrajaya as the Prime Minister of Malaysia.

Since then, the UMNO leaders, propagandists and cybertroopers have been vacillating –  from originally  attacking me for wanting to become Prime Minister  to wanting to become Deputy Prime Minister, but in the last few days, the UMNO propaganda demonisation campaign have returned to the original theme of targetting me for wanting to be Prime Minister.

Clearly, the UMNO demonisation propagandists are a confused lot as they  cannot make up their mind – whether I am plotting to become Prime Minister or Deputy Prime Minister!

Although the Malaysian Constitution provides that any Malaysian can be a Prime Minister, the idea of becoming Prime Minister of Malaysia had never entered my mind.

I can vouch that for the band of Malaysians who came together 51 years ago to form the Democratic Action Party in pursuit of a Malaysian Dream of a country where all Malaysians, regardless of race, religion or region, can feel proud of their place under the Malaysian sun, we never thought of becoming State Assembly members or Members of Parliament, let alone to be Ministers, Deputy Prime Minister or Prime Minister.

We were in politics not because of what we can get out of political involvement, but what we can give to the country in terms of helping to make this country of ours a more united, democratic,  just, progressive and prosperous nation.

UMNO leaders, propagandists and cybertroopers have alleged that I had a secret meeting with Tun Mahathir on December 3 last yer, where we sealed an agreement that after the 14th General Elections Mukhriz Mahathir would be the Prime Minister and I the Deputy Prime Minister.

This was a total lie. I never met Mahathir for a secret meeting on Dec 3 last year, and in my various meetings with him, we never discussed the subject of Prime Minister or Deputy Prime Minister

It is most strange that while the Prime Minister and his Ministers are publicly condemning fake news and false information, they are the creators of the most ridiculous fake news and false information against  Pakatan Harapan parties and leaders.

Why is this the case?

DAP leaders and myself are not the real targets of UMNO demonisation campaign against DAP and myself but Pakatan Harapan, for UMNO leaders are aware that the Pakatan Harapan coalition of DAP, PKR, AMANAH and Pribumi Bersatu stands a good chance of defeating the UMNO/BN coalition in the 14th General Election.

UMNO/BN leaders have decided on a strategy to frighten the Malay voters that a vote for Pakatan Harapan will be a vote for DAP and a vote for the Chinese against the Malays – a sad and shocking resort to the politics of lies, hate and fear because the UMNO leadership believes that it  has lost popular support of the Malays in the country.

In the first place DAP is not a Chinese party but a Malaysian party, comprising Malaysian patriots regardless of race, religion or region. The very fact that UMNO leaders could not come out with a single instance to show that I am anti-Malay or anti-Islam in my 51 years of political activities and could think of the ludicrous stratagem of a RM10,000  essay or social media posting competition on whether I am anti-Malay or anti-Islam is the biggest joke of all!

In the second place, the 14th General Elections is not a battle between the DAP and UMNO, but Pakatan Harapan versus the Barisan Nasional – and if UMNO loses Federal power, the Prime Minister will not be a Chinese but a Malay.

In the third place, the real issue in the 14th General Election is whether Malaysians, regardless of race, religion or region, could save Malaysia from a global kleptocracy and  the trajectory towards a failed and a rogue state –  whether Malaysia restore its democracy or settles  down as a global kleptocracy.

This is  the choice before Malaysians in the 14 General Elections!

(Speech at the DAP Kopitiam Ceramah in Plentong,  Johor Baru on Sunday, April 9, 2017 at 9 am)

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UMNO/BN leaders and propagandists should not be so unpatriotic as to undermine sixty years of nation-building efforts with their irresponsible politics of lies, hate and fear

This year the country celebrates the 60th anniversary of the attainment of Merdeka on August 31, 1957, but it is most ironical  and shocking that this is also the year where UMNO/BN leaders, propagandists and cybertroopers have taken their  politics of lies, hate and fear to an unprecedented level undermining 60 years of nation-building efforts in the country.

The UMNO/BN campaign of demonisation of DAP and DAP leaders  as anti-Malay and anti-Islam is a most unpatriotic act and a great national disservice, because they are based on lies and falsehoods and seek to create racial and religious hatred and animosities, which would undermine sixty years of nation-building efforts.

Since its formation 51 years ago, DAP had always been a Malaysian party  fighting for the interests of all Malaysians, regardless of race, religion or  region, as it was never a party for any particular race or religion.

In the first general election contested by the DAP in 1969, DAP polled over 286,000 votes, winning 13 Parliamentary and 31 State Assembly seats ,  while in the eleventh general election contested by the DAP in May 2013, DAP polled about 1.8 million votes winning 38 parliamentary seats and with over 100 State Assembly seats in ten of 13 states in Malaysia.  Throughout the eleven general elections contested by the DAP, we had a multi-racial slate whether for parliamentary or state assembly candidates, or for the final  list of elected representatives.

Throughout the 51 years, DAP had campaigned for the interests of all Malaysians, as DAP leaders had never preached hatred or animosity against any race or religion.

In fact, Lim Guan Eng went to jail in 1998 and lost his position as Member of Parliament for defending the honour of an underaged Malay girl – a sacrifice which had never been duplicated by another political leader in Malaysia.

This is why the RM10,000 offer from an UMNO leader for the best essay or social media posting of whether I am anti-Malay and anti-Islam is so ridiculous and preposterous, for it is as good as an admission that despite the UMNO/BN demonisation campaign that I am anti-Malay and anti-Islam, UMNO leaders  could not  find a single proof to substantiate the lies and falsehoods  that I am anti-Malay and anti-Islam despite combing through 51 years of my political life.

Are the UMNO/BN leaders, propagandists and cybertroopers involved in the demonisation campaign that the DAP is anti-Malay and anti-Islam implying that the DAP had been so successful in its anti-Malay and anti-Islam campaign that we have increased our support from 286,000 votes in 1969 to 1.8 million votes in 2013?

This is treacherous and even treasonable ground, as any attempt to equate DAP’s increased support from 286,000 voters in 1969 to 1.8 million voters in 2013 as an increase in anti-Malay and anti-Islam sentiments in Malaysia is not only untrue and a downright lie, but fits into what I would describe as a great national disservice and most unpatriotic actions.

Nation-building efforts in a multi-racial, multi-religious, multi-lingual and multi-cultural nation in Malaysia would have been a total and dangerous failure if the increased electoral and popular support for DAP over the decades is equated with the rise of anti-Malay and anti-Islam sentiments in the country.

This is a dangerous lie, for never at any ceramah or political campaign in the past five decades had DAP fostered the politics of racial or religious hatred – but the very opposite, for we want Malaysia to be an example to  the world  of an united, harmonious and successful nation-building of a plural society which is the confluence of the world’s  great religions, cultures and civilisations.

I will not allow those who had been so reckless and irresponsible as to make anti-Malay and anti-Islam allegations against me to enjoy immunity and impunity for their lies and falsehoods, for I will seek legal remedies to protect my reputation and character.

(Speech at a DAP  political dialogue  organised by DAP Senai Branch in Senai, Johor on Sunday, 9th April 2017 at 12 noon)

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Is another disappearance totaling five persons missing in past six months further proof Malaysia in trajectory of a rogue state?

Malaysians are shocked that another social activist has gone missing, making a total of five persons missing in the past six months.

The latest case of missing person is Peter Chong, former aide of Subang MP R. Sivarasa.

Peter has been missing for more than three days. His son has reported to the police but to date there has been no news on his whereabouts.

Prior to Chong’s disappearance, he had complained on Facebook about a motor-cyclist who was a stranger approaching him and warning him on March 31 about people vanishing.

The other four who have disappeared since November include pastor Joshua Hilmy and wife Ruth, Perlis Hope activist Amri Che Mat and pastor Raymond Koh.

Such disappearances have never happened in the past sixty years.

Why are they happening now?

The Police have not been able to throw any light on the disappearance of these five persons, raising the  question whether Malaysia is now set in the trajectory of a rogue state, where people can disappear in broad daylight without the authorities responsible of public law and order and the security of Malaysians able to stop the spate of missing persons or to assure citizens, investors and visitors that Malaysia is a safe country for them to stay, invest and visit.

The Home Minister, Datuk Seri Zahid Hamidi, should give this issue the topmost priority and have an urgent meeting with the Inspector-General of Police, Tan Sri Abu Bakar Khalid to ensure that Malaysia is not in the trajectory of a rogue state, where people can disappear into thin air with the authorities unable to throw light on the phemenon whatsoever.

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After alleging that I “remote-control” Pakatan Harapan leaders and MPs, will Ismail Sabri next allege that I “mind control” Mahathir, Anwar, Azizah, Muhyiddin, Azmin and Mat Sabu to be my stooges and puppets?

The UMNO/BN  demonization against me has reached fever pitch, when UMNO Minister for Rural and Regional Development, Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob  could accuse me of “remote control” of Pakatan Harapan Members of Parliament, including Muslim MPs.

Is Ismail next going to accuse me of “mind control” of all Pakatan Harapan leaders, including former Prime Minster, Tun Mahathir Mohamad, former Deputy Prime Minister and PKR Ketua Umum, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, Parliametary Opposition Leader and PKR President, Datuk Seri Dr. Wan Azizah Wan Ismail, former Deputy Prime Minister and Chairman of Parti Pribumi Bersatu, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin, Selangor Mentri Besar and PKR Deputy President, Datuk Seri Azmin Ali and President of Parti AMANAH, Mohamad Sabu to be my stooges and puppets?

It is sad to see UMNO/BN  leaders, propagandists and cybertoopers continuing to  insult and run down their own race by suggesting that top Malay leaders who had been Prime Ministers or Deputy Prime Ministers, Presidents or Deputy Presidents of UMNO, are men of such low moral character and caliber as capable of becoming puppets or stooges after stepping down from their former positions!

Will they next suggest that former Prime Ministers Tunku Abdul Rahman and Tun Hussein Onn as well as former Finance Minister and former Semangat 46 President, Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah, had also been my stooges and puppets, victims of my “remote control” or “mind control” when we were working on a common cause in the national interests?

This is of course utter rubbish – but why are UMNO leaders, propagandists and cybertroopers resorting to such despicable tactics?

The reason is quite simple.

I am not the  real target of the UMNO/BN feverish demonization campaign.

The real reason is because UMNO/BN leaders and propaganists are aware that the Pakatan Harapan coalition of DAP, PKR, AMANAH and Pribumi Bersatu stands a good chance of defeating the UMNO/BN coalition in the 14th General Election and take over the Federal Government from Putrajaya.

UMNO/BN leaders and propaganists  have decided on a strategy to frighten the Malay voters that a vote for Pakatan Harapan will be a vote for DAP and a vote for the Chinese against the Malays – a sad and shocking resort to the politics of lies, hate and fear because the UMNO leadership believes that it has lost popular support of the Malays in the country.

DAP is not a Chinese party but a Malaysian party, comprising Malaysian patriots regardless of race, religion or region right from beginning of the DAP’s formation 51 years ago.

The very fact that UMNO leaders could not come out with a single instance to show that I am anti-Malay or anti-Islam in my 51 years of political activities and could only think of the ludicrous stratagem of a RM10,000 (upped to RM50,000 within 24 hours) best essay or social media posting competition on whether I am anti-Malay or anti-Islam is the biggest joke and confession of all!

The 14th General Elections is not a battle between the DAP and UMNO, but Pakatan Harapan versus the Barisan Nasional – and if UMNO loses Federal power, the Prime Minister will not be a Chinese but a Malay.

The real issue in the 14th General Election is whether Malaysians, regardless of race, religion or region, could save Malaysia from a global kleptocracy and the trajectory towards a failed and a rogue state – whether Malaysia restores its democracy or settles down as a global kleptocracy.

This is the choice before Malaysians in the 14 General Election!

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It is because of counter-productive antics by UMNO leaders like Irmohizam Ibrahim that Hishammuddin has been given super-added powers to create proper conditions for Najib to fight and win power in the 14GE

UMNO Supreme Council member and MP for Kuala Selangor Irmohizam Ibrahim is the latest UMNO leader to make a fool of himself, aggravating the critical political scenario where the Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak, is fighting for his political life in the forthcoming 14th General Election.

Imohizam accused DAP Petaling Jaya Utara MP Tony Pua of lying when Tony said that a private member’s bill from the Opposition had never been given a chance in Parliament.

Irmohizam said:

“This is an obvious falsehood which they try to peddle so that the rakyat will believe their every lie.

“This is because private members’ bills from the opposition have been tabled in parliament before, and it is very strange if they deny this themselves.”

Irmohizam said in 1977, three opposition private members’ bills were put forth, two by me and one by DAP’s Kinta MP Ngan Siong Hing.

Irmohizan even lambasted me for not correcting Tony Pua’s statement and claimed that this was all a part of an Opposition exercise to “trap and deceive” the people with lies and falsehoods.

I checked Tony Pua’s FaceBook posting dated April 6 which said:

“Opposition motions and bills have never made it to the House Floor for debate in the history of Malaysian Parliament (after the Standing Orders were amended in 1978) because BN controls what gets tabled, in collusion with the House Speaker.”

Tony is right. Until the Standing Orders were amended,  DAP MPs including myself were submitting motions to seek leave of Parliament to move private member’s bill, which had to be debated (although invariably denied)  as they occupy a higher order of priority than government business (such as government bills and motions) in the parliamentary Order of Business.

But this parliamentary facility for the presentation of motions seeking leave of Parliament for a private member’s bill was made a “dead letter” when the Standing Orders were amended by pushing it down the order of priority of parliamentary business, i.e. after official business, which means that no motion on a private member’s bill could “surface” in Parliament without consent by the government.

Among the private member’s bills which I had sought to bring up in Parliament, until the Standing Orders were amended to virtually “kill” private member’s bill were private member’s bill to fix a basic living wage for workers; to tighten the Prevention of Corruption Act 1951 to combat corruption in high political places; to address the problem of unfair dismissal; to make the National Bureau of Investigations (NBI), the anti-corruption agency, answerable only to Parliament and to outlaw  defection of Members of Parliament to ensure political integrity by requiring a by-election in every case of party defection, etc.

What has Hishammuddin’s unusual appointment today has anything to do with this? It is an example of the  of counter-productive antics by UMNO leaders like Irmohizam Ibrahim that Hishammuddin has been given super-added powers to create proper conditions for Najib to fight and win power in the 14th General Election.

It is obvious that although UMNO/BN leaders, propagandists and cybertroopers had launched  a massive offensive against the Pakatan Harapan leaders, with me targeted in unprecedented demonization campaign of lies, falsehoods and invectives; Tun Mahathir, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, Datuk Seri Dr. Wan Azizah Wan Ismail, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin; Datuk Seri Azmin Amin, Mohamad Sabu among others painted as my stooges and puppets, subjects of my “remote control” or “mind control”; unprecedented outpouring of lies, falsehoods and invectives by UMNO/BN owned or controlled mainstream media and social media (including the pernicious and mischievous Utusan Malaysia logo “Asalkan Bukan Pakatan Kit Siang” with pictures of Mahathir, Anwar, Azizah, Azmin and Mohy Sabu), things are not going right for Najib and UMNO!

Najib knew that what Mahathir recently told Bloomberg in an interview is not without basis – that the six-decade UMNO rule may be finally nearing its end, that the sentiment on the ground is so strong that Najib will fall in the next general election as “everybody you talk to today, anybody at all, none have good words for the government, especially Najib”.

This a failure of the new propaganda offensive which was launched after the massive UMNO purges in July 2015, which saw the appointment of a new Deputy Prime Minister, a new  BN Strategic Media Director and a new propaganda offensive.

I see the appointment of Hishammuddin not only as Najib’s loss of confidence in Datuk Seri Zahid Hamidi as Najib’s deputy, but also in  the new UMNO/BN political and propaganda architecture after July 2015, in particular Najib’s loss of confidence in his new political lieutenants, in particular Datuk Seri Abdul Rahman Dahlan, Datuk Seri Salleh Said Keruak and Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob.

I do not think Hishammuddin’s appointment is an indication of Najib’s exit plan before the 14GE but instead, marks Najib’s realization that things are not going well on the ground and he needs a Super-Minister to salvage the situation.

Hishammuddin may not be the Deputy Prime Minister but he has clearly become the second most powerful person in  the UMNO/BN government.

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A “coup d’etat” has taken place in UMNO/BN government  – not to topple the PM but to protect the PM

A “coup d’etat” has taken place in the UMNO/BN government – not to topple but to  protect the Prime Minister.

There can be no administrative or ministerial justification for the additional  appointment of Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein as Minister with Special Functions in the Prime Minister’s Department while retaining his portfolio as Defence Minister, except for the political and  “strategic” one of protecting Datuk Seri Najib Razak from being ousted as the sixth Prime Minister of Malaysia – whether externally as a result of defeat in the forthcoming 14th general election or from being toppled internally as Prime Minister before the polls.

Najib has already set record as the Prime Minister with the most number of Ministers in the Prime Minister’s Department, and Hishammuddin will be the tenth Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department.

But Hishammuddin will be completely different from the other nine Ministers, as he will be the most powerful Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department.

Hishammuddin will not be like MCA Deputy President Datuk Seri Wee Ka Siong – a Minister without responsibilities or power, and reduced to telling lies (like accusing me of being absent from Parliament in the afternoon on the last sitting of Dewan Rakyat, when I did not see Ka Siong in the Dewan Rakyat when I entered the chamber after lunch) –  but will in fact be the most powerful Minister in the Cabinet,  the  de facto Deputy Prime Minister.

I expect Hishammuddin to take  charge of the  UMNO/BN campaign in the run-up  to the 14th General Election to ensure that UMNO/BN is returned to Putrajaya and Najib remain as Prime Minister of Malaysia.

It is a vote of no confidence on the propaganda offensive which had been launched by the UMNO/BN “strategic communications” director, Datuk Seri Abdul Rahman Dahlan, marshalling UMNO/BN owned and controlled mainstream media and the social media but using  low-class and counter-productive demonization campaigns against Pakatan Harapan leaders, for instance to demonise me as a devil, monster, anti-Malay, anti-Islam, a communist, a PAP stooge, what-have-you, which has seen UMNO/BN losing even more credibility – to the extent that Najib has continued to sink in popularity, not just among Malaysians, but also among Malays!

This is no way for Najib to retain his PM’s ship or for UMNO/BN to win the 14GE, despite all the electoral  gerrymandering and 1MDB skullduggery in cahoots with the Election Commission.

But this is not Najib’s sole worry.

Tun Mahathir’s comment in his interview with Bloomberg that the six-decade UMNO rule may be finally nearing its end, that the sentiment on the ground is so strong that Najib will fall in the next general election as “everybody you talk to today, anybody at all, none have good words for the government, especially Najib”,  have struck a special resonance with Najib, and must have forced his hand to make the Hishammuddin appointment.

As Najib’s unpopularity among the Malay voters become more and more evident, there will be a strengthening school of thought inside UMNO that one ideal solution to ensure that UMNO can be returned to power in the next general election is to change the UMNO leader leading the charge in the 14th General Election – which is more palatable for UMNO diehards than teaming up with PAS, which is even thinking of a PAS-UMNO Federal Government, with Hadi Awang as Prime Minister based on a PAS-UMNO government with 80 PAS MPs, 40 UMNO MPs and 45 MPs from Sabah and Sarawak.

Who would lead the UMNO/BN charge in the 14GE if Najib withdraws or is forced to withdraw from the political scene?

The answer is quite obvious, hence the “coup d’etat” yesterday!

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Malaysia heading for major political change in 14GE as never before in nation’s 60-year history is there such widespread and deep-seated restiveness and unhappiness among the people, including the 1.6 million-strong civil service, against the UMNO/BN government

I believe  Malaysia is heading for a major political change in the forthcoming 14th General Election as never before in the nation’s 60-year history is there such widespread and deep-seated restiveness and unhappiness among the people, including the 1.6 million-strong civil service, against the UMNO/BN Government.

The time has come for Malaysia to become a normal democratic country, where the voters can peacefully and democratically change the Federal Government in Putrajaya through the ballot box, as in countries recognized as normal democracies, whether the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia, New Zealand, the European countries like Germany, France, Italy and others, or even Asian countries like Japan, India, South Korea, Philippines and Indonesia.

The voters should not be threatened with chaos, riots or undemocratic and authoritarian measures to frustrate the democratic will of the people expressed in a general election, as the UMNO/BN leaders are trying to do.

In trying to cling on to power, UMNO/BN politicians have resorted to the politics of lies, fear and hate to disseminate the fear among Malay voters that if UMNO is defeated in the 14GE, Malays will lose political power and their rights in the country.

This is of course rubbish and nonsense, for the Pakatan Harapan coalition comprising DAP, PKR, AMANAH and Pribumi Bersatu want to win, not just the 14th GE, but the 15th, 16th GE and others so that it could continue to form the Federal Government – which means that the Pakatan Harapan government must demonstrate that it could deliver results and do better than the UMNO/BN government to protect and promote the rights and interests of all communities in the country, including the Malays.

Recently, there has been an escalation of the UMNO/BN demonization campaign against Pakatan Harapan leaders which, among other things, sought to describe me as a devil and a monster – anti-Malay, anti-Islam, a communist, a stooge of foreign powers, a puppet-master who have made Tun Mahathir, Anwar Ibrahim, Wan Azizah, Muhyiddin Yassin, Azmin Ali, Mohd Sabu, among others into my puppets and stooges.

What other  monstrous things have the UMNO/BN “demonisers” not thought of so as to demonise me?

Only political simpletons or idiots will believe in such political rubbish and  gibberish, which have become the staple diet of UMNO leaders including Ministers – but the intensity in the escalation of such UMNO/BN demonization campaign against Pakatan Harapan leaders  is a reflection of the weakness, vulnerability and fear of UMNO/BN leaders that UMNO/BN coalition could lose Federal power in the 14GE.

Hence the latest move by the Prime Minister, Datuk  Najib Razak to appoint Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein as the Minister for Special Functions, apart from retaining his portfolio as Defence Minister –   a clear political ploy by Najib to appoint Hishammuddin as the de facto No 2 after Najib, displacing Deputy Prime Minsiter Datuk Seri Zahid Hamidi.

A new Federal Government in Malaysia after the 14th General Election will be the best news for Malaysia.

This year Malaysians will be celebrating our 60th National Day to commemorate the nation’s attainment of Independence on August 31, 1957.

In the past six decades, Malaysia failed to live up to the promises of Merdeka in 1957 for the country to be an example and showcase to the troubled world as to how diverse races, languages, religions, cultures and civilisations could successfully co-exist and integrate to build a united, harmonious, purposive, democratic, just, progressive and prosperous nation.

The 60th National Day anniversary is a fit and proper moment for the nation to undertake a “Malaysia Reset” movement, where we keep policies and measures which had done good to the country but correct or even abandon policies and measures detrimental to the nation or which had damaged the nation building process.

The incumbent UMNO/Barisan Nasional government will not conduct any such “Malaysia Reset” Movement, as a new political coalition in Putrajaya is the precondition for any “Malaysia Reset” movement and transformation in Malaysia.

This is why all Malaysian voters, regardless of race, religion, region or political affiliation, should unite in the 14GE to “Re-Set Malaysia” and  Save Malaysia from a global kleptocracy, a failed and rogue state!

(Speech at a kopitiam dialogue at Kota Alam Shah, Klang on Thursday, April 13, 2017 at 5 pm)

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UMNO/BN mainstream media like Utusan Malaysia, New Straits Times, Berita Harian and Star should stop their demeaning role as “lies-papers” and return to their traditional and time-honoured role as newspapers

In the past four months, we see the transformation of UMNO/BN mainstream media like Utusan Malaysia, New Straits Times, Berita Harian and Star from newspapers into “lies-papers” as part of the UMNO/BN campaign to demonise Pakatan Harapan leaders and myself, where I am described  as a devil, puaka, even jembalang; that I am anti-Malay, anti-Islam; cause of May 13, 1969 riots;  a communist; a stooge of foreign powers; that I dominate Pakatan Harapan and made other leaders like Tun Mahathir, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, Datuk Seri Wan Azizah, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin, Datuk Seri Azmin Ali and Mohamad Sabu as my stooges and puppets – all evils possible under the Malaysian sun!

But we can also notice something most unusual – that the intensification and escalation of the  demonisation campaign of  Pakatan Harapan leaders and myself, blatantly turning UMNO/BN newspapers into “lies-papers” through lies, fake news and false information, have not given the UMNO/BN leaders solace or relief, for they are beginning to realise that their worst escalation of demonisation campaign against Pakatan  Harapan leaders and myself are not getting the traction or credibility to restore UMNO fortunes in the Malay ground.

This is one reason  for the Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s latest political and strategic decision to make Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein as Minister for Special Functions in the Prime Minister’s Department, in addition to his portfolio as Defence Minister – clearly placing Hishammuddin as the No. 2 most powerful man in the Najib administration over and above the Deputy Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Zahid Hamidi.

Clearly, Najib  is more fearful that UMNO would be defeated in the 14th General Election than in the 13th General Election in 2013 – and the reason why the demonisation campaign against Pakatan Harapan leaders and myself have reached  ludicrous proportion.

For fifteen years, from 1998 till the 2013 general election, I was accused particularly by MCA and Gerakan propagandists as a stooge and puppet of Anwar Ibrahim;  but suddenly, after the 2013 General Election, I have turned around to make  not only Anwar  and  Azizah, Azmin, Mat Sabu, but also Tun Mahathir and Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin as my puppets or stooges?

How is this transformation possible, except in the realm of UMNO/BN lies and falsehoods?

Only political fools, idiots and simpletons who do not use their critical faculties could fall for such lies and  falsehoods – but I believe that truth will finally prevail, whatever the worst that could be done by the UMNO/BN “lies-papers” and their mercenary cybertroopers.

The lies that the DAP and I are anti-Malay and anti-Islam are most ridiculous.  My political record of the past 51 years, and those of DAP, are an open book – we support justice and fundamental economic and political rights for all Malaysians, not just for any one race or religion.  We are in fact more Malaysian than those who are attacking us!

In trying to cling on to power, UMNO/BN politicians have resorted to the politics of lies, fear and hate to disseminate the fear among Malay voters that if UMNO is defeated in the 14GE, Malays will lose political power and their rights in the country.

This is utter nonsense, for the Pakatan Harapan coalition comprising DAP, PKR, AMANAH and Pribumi Bersatu want to win, not just the 14th GE, but the 15th, 16th and future  GEs – which means that the Pakatan Harapan government must demonstrate that it could deliver results and do better than the UMNO/BN government to protect and promote the rights and interests of all communities in the country, including the Malays.

I call on the UMNO/BN to abandon their politics of lies, hate and fear and resort to clean, honest and responsible politicking to compete for the support of the voters of Malaysia regardless of race, religion or region in the run-up to the 14GE.

Let the UMNO/BN mainstream media stop their demeaning role as  “lies-papers” and return to their traditional and time-honoured role as “newspapers”!

(Speech at the Makan Malam Amal dan Solidariti Mazlan Aliman organised by Pemuda Amanah Johor in Yong Peng on Friday, 14th April 2017 at 10 pm)

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The 14th general elections is going to be  dirtiest in nation’s history when UMNO/BN mainstream media have unabashedly transformed  themselves from newspapers into “lies-papers”

The 14th General elections is going to be dirtiest in the nation’s history when UMNO/BN owned or controlled mainstream media have unabashedly transformed themselves from newspapers into “lies-papers”.

In the past four months, UMNO/BN mainstream media like Utusan Malaysia, New Straits Times, Berita Harian and Star have become  “lies-papers” as part of the UMNO/BN campaign to demonise Pakatan Harapan leaders and myself, where I am described as a devil, puaka, even jembalang; that I am anti-Malay, anti-Islam; cause of May 13, 1969 riots; a communist; a stooge of foreign powers; that I dominate Pakatan Harapan and made other leaders like Tun Mahathir, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, Datuk Seri Wan Azizah, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin, Datuk Seri Azmin Ali and Mohamad Sabu as my stooges and puppets – all sorts of  evil under the Malaysian sun!

This is not because I have suddenly become No. 1 national security risk, or the greatest threat to UMNO/BN government, but simply because UMNO leaders and propagandists are in a panic mood as they have realised that there is a possibility that they have lost the support of the majority of Malay voters in the country.

UMNO/BN leaders, propagandists and cybertroopers have therefore resorted to the primordial politics of lies, hate and fear to make me into a monster or ogre by creating   hatred and fear among the Malay voters with the “scare story” that if UMNO is defeated in the next general election, the Malays will lose their political power and their rights to the Chinese and the DAP, hoping that  the Malay electorate will not see through the UMNO bluff and political chicanery because of the following fallacies and falsehoods:

•	DAP is not the “Big Bad Wolf” which will deprive the Malays of political power and their rights if UMNO is defeated in the 14th General Election, as Malay political power will not be in jeopardy because of the reality of demography in Malaysia, and the new Harapan Pakatan Prime Minister will be a Malay and not a non-Malay.

•	Furthermore, far from undermining or depriving Malays of their rights in the country, a Pakatan Harapan coalition comprising DAP, PKR, AMANAH and Pribumi Bersatu, will demonstrate that it can deliver results to do better than the UMNO/BN government to protect and promote the rights and interests of Malays and of  all communities in the country as Pakatan Harapan want to win, not just the 14th GE, but the 15th, 16th and future GEs as well.

•	But the greatest lie and most irresponsible politics of fear and hate is to spread the falsehood that the DAP is a Chinese party which is anti-Malay and anti-Islam, when DAP had been a Malaysian party right from the beginning of our formation 51 years ago, comprising Malaysians regardless of race or religion, and fighting for the rights and interests of all Malaysians, again regardless of race or religion.  This was why in 1998,  a DAP leader, Lim Guan Eng, had gone to jail and deprived of his position as Member of Parliament when he defended the honour and dignity of an under-aged Malay girl.

For 51 years, DAP and I had been  an open book, which is why UMNO leaders and propagandists could not find a single evidence that DAP and I had been anti-Malay and anti-Islam –  the reason for the ludicrous RM10,000 (upped to RM50,000 within 24 hours) proposal for the  best essay or social media posting that I am anti-Malay and anti-Islam!

Recently, the Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak has been deploring the politics of lies, fake news and false information.

For a start, to ensure clean and honest politicking in Malaysia, is Najib prepared to direct UMNO/BN owned or controlled mainstream media to return to their role as newspapers and stop being “lies-papers”?”

(Speech at the Johor DAP State Leaders Retreat at Kukup, Johor  on Saturday, 15th April  2017 at 2 pm)

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