BN’s promise: Tribespeople, idiots or citizens?

— Rama Ramanathan

The Malaysian Insider

August 05, 2012

AUG 5 — Why am I so disgusted with the Barisan Nasional (BN) government?

I take my citizenship seriously. I was born in Malaysia. My siblings were born in Malaysia. My mother spoke only two languages: her mother tongue, Tamil and Malay. My father was a civil servant for decades. I’m a Malaysian.

My school friends are in Malaysia. My parents were cremated here, their ashes loosed in the waters off Port Dickson. My siblings, my wife’s siblings and most of our friends live in Malaysia. I desire to live nowhere else. I am entrenched.

My upbringing and my beliefs cause me to think of everyone as my neighbour. I take seriously God’s command to love Him with my every breath, thought and action, and that I should love my neighbour as myself.  I’m a citizen.

I remember daily the story the Messiah told in answer to the question: Who is my neighbour? In the story of the Good Samaritan, the neighbour is the one in need, the downtrodden everyman, to whom I am to show mercy.

I recognise that government and leadership are necessary. Without “people in charge,” such as police, lawmakers and government officials, we’ll have anarchy: bandits will reign; our cities will be like Baghdad, Beirut, or Bogota.

Those cities exemplify what happens in the absence of good government: the strong, the well-funded, and the bigots will suppress the unarmed. Mubarak did it in Tahrir Square. Najib did it in Merdeka Square.

The purpose of a government is to create, maintain and promote conditions of equity, harmony and equality through the right use of authority. A government is judged by how it treats the weak. How shall we judge the BN government?

According to BN, we’ve been blessed in Malaysia. We’ve had continuity of government. BN reminds us it has ruled us for 55 years and has done much good. BN says promises have been made and kept.

Is that what government is about? Making and keeping promises, without regard for how promises are fulfilled, if indeed they are?

In democracies, the members of the ruling party or coalition must be re-elected every now and then. In Malaysia, elections must be held every five years. People are not naturally like the Good Samaritan; they are more like bandits. An easy route to re-election is to pander to voters, to dull their vision and appetite for a golden society by giving them sweets, mere instant gratification.

People put themselves first. They want handouts, they want “their share” of wealth and prosperity now, not in the future. That applies to both the poor and the rich; any of us can choose to be bandits. The poor man wants priority for a house; the rich man wants priority for a contract award.

I’m not saying governments shouldn’t make promises and be measured according to whether they keep their promises. I’m saying it’s important to be clear that some promises, though unstated, are non-negotiable. Becoming rich by banditry, by oppressing others or grabbing public wealth is not acceptable.

Malaysia is in the state it is in because I, a citizen, let it become so. Malaysia will not continue so, because I, as a remorseful citizen, will not let it remain so.

What’s wrong with the Malaysia BN has created, promotes and sustains? Here’s my quick, short list:

1.    The police force is a spent force.
 There are many unexplained deaths-in-custody, many cases of police indifference to thefts and assaults, many cases of police brutality. BN won’t set up an independent Police Commission.

2.    The judiciary is tainted.
 The Lingam/Mahathir affair has not been adequately resolved. Instead, the BN government unrelentingly tars the Bar Council which is actively promoting decency, justice and human rights.

3.    Malay Superiority reigns.
 BN’s Malay newspaper, Utusan Malaysia promotes racism; BN’s version of history has and continues to erase the contributions of non-Malays to Malaysia; non-Malays are second class citizens.

4.    An entitlement mindset is entrenched.
The PKFZ (port) scandal, the NFC (cow) scandal and awards of Solar Energy rights to non-capitalised companies are the more visible aspects of corruption.

5.    Good citizens are demonised.
 BN’s violence in the Ipoh Constitutional crisis, persecution of EO6 and Bersih leaders/participants and trampling on the rights of Christians in the Bible and Allah controversies are the most apparent indicators of this.

In a panel discussion in 1994, the social commentator Os Guinness made an incisive comment about governments and citizens: we exhibit the behaviours we choose, and we get the governments appropriate to our behaviour:

“So let me pose the issues I think America faces today. At the individual level there is a simple choice. Will we be tribespeople and respond according to our group allegiances, will we be idiots (in the old Greek sense), people who are just after their own individual interests, or thirdly, will we be citizens, people who can fight for their own interests but always with a respect for the common good, recognizing the rights of the worst of their enemies and the smallest minorities that they happen to oppose. Too many Christians today are tribespeople. Would that they were citizens in the best sense of the word.” [Os Guinness, quoted in Modern Reformation: God and Politics. Sept./Oct. 1994 Vol. 3 No. 5 Page number(s): 24-27.]

Aren’t we facing the same choices Guinness says America faced in 1994?

Can you spot the tribespersons?
 They think as Chinese, Indian, Kadazan or Malay first.

Can you spot the idiots?
Their chief concerns are themselves, their families, their associates.

Can you spot the good citizens?
 They are the protesters, activists and relentless conversationists. They put the common good first and respect the rights of those they oppose.

Why am I so disgusted with the Barisan Nasional Government?

I’m disgusted because I think BN’s vision is a nation of tribespeople “living together” to avoid repression and incarceration by the government.

I’m disgusted because I think BN is composed of idiots whose goal is personal enrichment, achieved through trampling the honour and rights of others.

I’m disgusted because when I try daily to be a good citizen, the evil I see in myself is seen most clearly in BN.

I’m just as disgusted with PR when they exhibit the same behaviour as BN. Be warned. Many Malaysians, like me, have woken up to what citizenship means.

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Isu royalti minyak Kelantan: Perjanjian yang tidak dihormati

— Aspan Alias

The Malaysian Insider

Aug 04, 2012

4 OGOS — Semalam (Jumaat) Menteri Besar Kelantan, Tok Guru Nik Aziz Nik Mat, telah menerima surat dari Perdana Menteri Najib meminta kerajaan Kelantan menghantar wakil untuk berbincang tentang royalti minyak yang menjadi tuntutan rakyat negeri itu sejak beberapa lama yang lalu.

Jumlah tuntutan tertunggak ialah sebanyak RM7.4 billion dan sampainya surat ini menunjukkan bahawa rakyat Kelantan merupakan rakyat yang faham tentang apa yang mereka inginkan sebagai rakyat sebuah negeri yang menjadi sebahagian dari sebuah negara Persekutuan ini.

Saya secara peribadi menerima berita ini dengan perasaan yang agak lega walaupun kita belum tahu lagi keputusan perbincangan itu jika ia benar-benar diadakan. Kita berharap perbincangan ini benar-benar melaksanakan slogan “Janji Ditepati” yang juga dengan rasa tidak malu menggunakannya sebagai slogan hari kemerdekaan negara tahun ini.

Jika berjaya pun perbincangan itu, pembayarannya mesti berlaku sebelum pilihanraya ini kerana jika persetujuan untuk menghormati perjanjian yang ditandatangani di antara Petronas dan kerajaan Kelantan pada 27hb Mei 1975 dahulu. Perjanjian itu ditandatangani oleh Tengku Razaleigh yang mewakili Petronas dengan Menteri Besar PAS, Datuk Mohammad Nasir.

Dalam perjanjian itu, Petronas akan membayar 5 peratus daripada hasil minyak yang diperolehi di perairan negeri Kelantan berdasarkan pada harga FOB. Pembayaran itu hendaklah dilakukan dua kali setahun secara tunai, iaitu pada 1hb Mac dan 1hb September setiap tahun. Itu merupakan perjanjian yang asas di samping beberapa klausa pinggiran.

Perjanjian 2 muka kertas itu adalah perjanjian yang jelas dan amat mudah difahami oleh sesiapa dan tidak perlu pergi belajar ke London atau mana-mana untuk belajar undang-undang dahulu. Kalau sesiapa yang rajin untuk memahami perjanjian itu blog ini pernah menyiarkan perjanjian itu dan saudara boleh melihatnya di dalam archive blog ini.

Jika kerajaan persekutuan ingin menghormati perjanjian yang telah ditandatangani ini ia mesti dilaksanakan secara total, mengikut segala apa yang tertulis dalam perjanjian itu. Rakyat Kelantan begitu kecewa sejak dahulu lagi kerana sejak kepimpinan Mahathir lagi perjanjian ini tidak dihormati dan jika ia tidak dilaksanakan oleh pentadbiran Najib maka slogan “Janji Ditepati” itu wajar dicampakkan ke dalam tong sampah sahaja.

Rakyat Kelantan begitu kecewa dengan sikap pemimpin-pemimpin Umno Kelantan seperti Mustapha Mohamad, Awang Adek, dan pemimpin-pemimpin dan bekas pemimpin di sana yang memihak kepada pimpinan kerajaan persekutuan untuk menyekat pembayaran royalti minyak ini kepada rakyat negeri mereka sendiri.

Tengku Razaleigh secara terbuka menyokong tuntutan rakyat Kelantan kerana hasil minyak ini adalah untuk semua rakyat Kelantan dan bukan hanya untuk ahli-ahli Umno sahaja. Perjanjian itu adalah perjanjian dengan rakyat Kelantan yang diwakili oleh kerjaan pilihan rakyat tanpa mengira parti serta fahaman politik. Tetapi selama ini pimpinan kerajaan  persekutuan tidak “magnanimous” dan menjadikan isu hasil minyak ini sebagai alat untuk melakukan “arm twisting” terhadap rakyat Kelantan untuk menyokong BN.

Surat yang dihantar oleh PM Najib kepada TGNA ini merupakan satu keadaan yang baru dan saya tidak berani untuk membuat komen dengan begitu cepat. Takut-takut rakyat Kelantan dihampakan lagi seperti yang dilakukan oleh pimpinan Mahathir hingga sekarang ini. Jika perjanjian yang sangat jelas dan terang itu boleh diingkari oleh pimpinan persekutuan tidak ada sebab mereka tidak boleh melakukannya sekali lagi.

Kita tidak mahu perbincangan ini hanya sebagai “intrigue” pilihanraya semata-mata tetapi benar-benar melaksanakan perjanjian itu dengan sepenuhnya. Dengan pimpinan persekutuan BN ini kita mesti mengambil sikap “suspect everybody” dan “trust nobody”. Berdasarkan pengalaman lama sikap ini harus sentiasa ada di dalam pemikiran pimpinan Kelantan.

Jika ia berjaya dilaksanakan saya ucapkan syabas terlebih dahulu kepada rakyat Kelantan kerana kekuatan dalam perjuangan mereka. — aspanaliasnet.blogspot.com

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Malaysians should  do a Sherlock Holmes to find out the “who, when and what“ about the origin of the canard of “urination” at the flagpole of the Selangor Mentri Besar’s house provoking May 13 riots in 1969

Yesterday, I categorically denied the preposterous claim which had appeared previously on the official Facebook page of the May 13 movie, Tanda Putra, that I had urinated on the flagpole in front of the then Selangor Mentri Besar’s residence during the May 13 riots in 1969.

The facebook had carried a photo portraying me being manhandled, with the caption:

“Lim Kit Siang telah kencing di bawah tiang bendera Selangor yang terpacak di rumah menteri besar Selangor ketika itu, Harun Idris, (Lim Kit Siang had urinated at the foot of the flagpole bearing the Selangor flag at the then Selangor MB’s Harun Idris’ house)”

The photo was posted in the album in the Facebook  titled ‘Peristiwa-peristiwa yang dimuatkan di dalam filem ini’ (Events depicted in this movie).

Although the photo and caption have since been removed from the movie’s official page, Malaysiakini had captured a screenshot of the earlier posting.

I noted two very pertinent postings from the 69 comments since Malaysiakini reported my denial, viz:

RealSoldier
 witness513 its simply absurd to accuse LKS performing such despicable act because the flagpole is not freely accessable to the public as it is located within the compound of the MB’s house which is fenced and manned by a jaga. BY accident I was at the MB’s on that fateful day from 3.00am to 5.30am on 514 following rescue operations by the security forces.

FREE
 The picture of LKS being grabbed and manhandled by officers was taken at the Kota Kinabalu old airport terminal. Those officers in white-shirt uniforms were immigration officers when Harris Salleh ordered the deportation of LKS from Sabah. This writer was inside a plane and saw from the window LKS being put put in a wheelchair and wheeled to the plane for deportation back to KL.

What
RealSoldier
 posted made eminent sense, as in 1969 I never knew where was the official residence of the Selangor Mentri Besar, let alone that it has a flagpole “located within the compound of the MB’s house which is fenced and manned by a jaga”.

This posting exposes the downright lie and dangerous falsehood that I or anyone could have urinated at the foot of the flagpole at the then Selangor Mentri Besar’s house – when it was within a confined  and guarded compound.

The second posting is an eye-witness account of the origin of the photograph shown on the Tanda Putra official facebook.

The photograph was not taken in 1969 but 15 years later at the Kota Kinabalu Airport old terminal on August 26, 1984.

I had flown into Kota Kinabalu that morning en route to Sandakan in response to a challenge by the then Sabah Chief Minister, Datuk Harris Salleh to repeat my speech in Parliament on July 23, 1984 outside Parliament without the benefit of parliamentary privilege on Harris’ abuses of powers as Sabah Chief Minister in particular with regard to Labuan being carved out of Sabah and made a Federal Territory.

I had challenged Harris to name the place and date for me to repeat my parliamentary speech, and when Harris named the Dewan Masyarakat Sandakan on August 26 at 10 am, I immediately accepted them  and flew into Kota Kinabalu with  the then DAP Deputy National Chairman and MP for Jelutong Karpal Singh enroute to Sandakan for the occasion.

But at the Kota Kinabalu Airport, I was denied entry on the directive of the Sabah Chief Minister who had challenged me to repeat my parliamentary speech against him in Sandakan later the same morning!

I was told to take the same flight out to return to Kuala Lumpur. In the two-and-a-half-hour standoff with the immigration authorities, I made it very clear that denying me entry into Sabah was  a gross abuse of Sabah immigration autonomy powers and  I was not prepared to leave my own country on my own free. I told them that they  will have to bodily carry up the plane. Finally, they put me in a wheelchair and bodily carried up the flight steps  to the waiting plane.

That was the 1984 Kota Kinabalu photograph which Tanda Putra official facebook had used as one of the May 13, 1969 photographs!

The two postings are the real stuff of people’s history, unalloyed and unadulterated by lies and falsehoods.

Let us have more real people’s history on what actually happened.

“RealSolder”
 has debunked not only the lie that I had urinated at the flagpole of the  Selangor Mentri Besar’s house, but that anyone else could have done it as the flagpole is within the confined and guarded  compound of the Mentri Besar’s house.

But how did the canard of the “urination” at the Selangor Mentri Besar’s house, provoking the May 13 riots, originate?

Since the Tanda Putra official facebook entry, I had asked around whether anyone had ever heard of any “urination” incident at the flagpole of the  Selangor Mentri Besar’s house provoking May 13 riots, and nobody has ever heard of it before.

Neither the White Paper  issued by the National Operations Council on 9th October 1969 entitled “The May 13 Tragedy” nor Tunku Abdul Rahman’s book “May 13 – Before & After”  made any  reference to any such urination incident at the Selangor Mentri Besar’s residence.

This has become the Urine-Gate or Pee-Gate of Malaysia.

Malaysians should  do a Sherlock Holmes to find out the “who, when and what“ about the origin the canard of “urination” at the flagpole of the Selangor Mentri Besar’s house provoking May 13 riots in 1969 – for if there is no truth whatsoever, it should put to rest once and for all.

When did anyone first heard of such a canard?  Or is it a very recent vintage – just for Tanda Putra?

It is indeed sad and tragic when all efforts should be made on the occasion of the approaching 55th Merdeka Day/49th Malaysia Day to emphasise the unity in diversity of the Malaysian nation, there seems to be anti-national elements out to create racial distrust and dissension and undermine national harmony by spreading the most  vicious lies and falsehoods about the history of the nation.

If the Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s 1Malaysia slogan and policy is to have any meaning at all, I call on all Malaysians to prove that they are Malaysians in heart and soul on the occasion of the 55th Merdeka Day/49th Malaysia Day!

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AG: BN liability or asset?

By
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 | August 3, 2012

Free Malaysia Today

While the Attorney-General has been described as being the ‘biggest liability’ to BN, he can also be seen as an ‘asset’, depending on who you talk to.

PETALING JAYA: Attorney-General Abdul Gani Patail may be a “major liability” for the Barisan Nasional’s 13th general election goals, but he is also a key BN weapon, according to analyst Lim Teck Ghee.

Lim, the Centre for Policy Initiatives director, said that this was because the top civil servant is also “widely perceived to bend the law and manipulate the legal system in favour of the government’s interests”.

“He is a major liability but he is also seen as a key BN asset… remember that he both controls the prosecution and advises the government; hence he is in a strategic position to engage in selective prosecution and in practising political partisanship,” Lim said in an e-mail.

The NGO leader added that such “partiality” may be necessary if there is a close election outcome or a hung Parliament.

“If it is a close race, the AG may be the one who can advise the Yang di-Pertuan Agong to rule in favour of the Barisan,” he said.

Yesterday, Social Care Foundation chairman Robert Phang said that Gani was the “biggest stumbling block to Barisan Nasional with regard to its general election goal” and must be axed.

Phang, a former MACC advisory panellist, described Gani as “shameless”, “perverse” and “arrogant” and listed several instances where the latter “wasted public funds pursuing useless cases and closing an eye to cases that are really of public importance”.

“I say to [Prime Minister] Najib [Tun Razak], remove Gani. Remove him, otherwise the government will continue to be ridiculed, derided and scorned,” Phang said. “If you are sincere in supporting the government, then don’t create problems for the government… his bad advice to the government has resulted in the government being scorned and Najib made to look very bad…” he said.

Tip of the iceberg

Meanwhile, asked if Gani should resign or be removed based on negative public perception, Lim did not mince his words when he said this should have been done much earlier.

“He should have been replaced much earlier for his negligence, incompetence and political bias in many high-profile political cases. What Phang has brought out is simply the tip of the iceberg on the many issues in which the A-G has failed the test of impartiality and blind justice,” he said.

Lim noted that there is “no chance at all the the current AG will be removed or replaced”.

He said this was because he is “a key weapon in the BN’s attempt to retain power by whatever means possible”.

Meanwhile, Umno legal adviser Hafarizam Harun said that Phang’s statement was “very unfair” and “tainted with mala fide[bad faith]”.

“Gani is a very fair person, good listener and apolitical. I’ve appeared with him or against him, his professionalism remained intact. Such statements are nothing but to tarnish the image of BN that Gani is under ‘dictate’ when he is not,” he said.

When contacted, Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Nazri Abdul Aziz said that such an issue was “not worth commenting on”.

“Does Phang represent the man on the street or the rakyat? This perception that the AG is bad… I can get another three persons to come and say something else. This is only a perception,” he told FMT.

An attempt by FMT to solicit a response from Gani was not successful.

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Cabinet on Wednesday should honour Lee Chong Wei as Malaysian Sportsperson of the Decade for winning two Olympic silver medals for the country  – a feat unequalled by any Malaysian

The Cabinet on Wednesday should honour Datuk Lee Chong Wei as the Malaysian Sportsperson of the Decade for winning two Olympic silver medals for the country – a feat unequalled by any Malaysian.

Malaysians were greatly disappointed by Chong Wei’s failure to win the Olympic gold medal in the men’s badminton singles last night, as it was truly a case of “So near and yet so far”.

However, nobody could be more disappointed than Chong Wei himself, as he had put up a valiant and mighty effort to win the first Olympic gold  medal for Malaysia.

Chong Wei remains the undisputed hero for all Malaysians in the past ten years, sealed by his unequalled achievement of winning two Olympics silver medals for the country – in the 2008 Olympics in Beijing and the 2012 Olympics in London.

For this reason, the conferment of the honour as the Malaysian Sportsperson of the Decade  on Chong Wei by the Yang di Pertuan Agong on the occasion of  the 55th National Day/49th Malaysia Day celebrations on August 31 and September 16  respectively will be special and unique, drawing together all Malaysians as one united people regardless of race, religion or region.

The honouring of Chong Wei will also go a long way to undo the divisive effects caused by the deplorable attempt by UMNO/Barisan Nasional to hijack the 55th National Day/49th Malaysia Day celebrations with the most insensitive decision to impose  the UMNO/BN theme “Janji Ditepati” as the National Day/Malaysia Day theme this year, accompanied by a most hideous logo and cheap and vulgar theme song.

Although the hideous logo has been abandoned, the Minister for Information, Communications and Culture, Datuk Seri Dr. Rais Yatim has refused to budge on the “Janji Ditepati” theme and theme song, saying that the theme was a Cabinet decision.

If I am thinking solely in partisan terms, I would welcome this UMNO/BN  stubbornness for the “Janji Ditepati” theme and its atrocious theme song, e.g. the lyrics:

“Janji sudah ditepati

Kini masa balas budi” or

“Ini janji kita, BRIM Satu Malaysia

Ini janji Satu Malaysia, terima Satu Malaysia,

Kata kita dikota, Klinik Satu Malaysia

Janji kita ditepati, Kedai Satu Malaysia.”

This is because the blatant and unashamed hijacking of the 55th National Day/49th Malaysia Day celebrations by UMNO/BN with the insensitive theme and ludicrous theme song will continue to be the butt of jokes of the  majority of right-thinking and sensible Malaysians,  reinforcing the increasing thinking in the country that 55 years have been too long a time and that the time has come for a new set of leaders to run the country.

This  is going to cost UMNO/BN dearly in terms of votes in the 13th General Election which is going to decide whether it is going to be the end of the road for UMNO/BN federal power in Putrajaya.

However, as  a Malaysian nationalist and patriot, I cringe  at the very thought of the  hijacking of the 55th National Day/49th Malaysia Day celebrations by UMNO/BN with their electioneering theme of “Janji Ditepati” and vulgar theme song –  which is something just inconceivable for any normal democratic country which can distinguish between right and wrong or  nation and government-of-the-day.

The Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak is doing himself and the country a great disservice if he persists in wanting to allow UMNO/BN to hijack the 55th National Day/49th Malaysia Day celebrations.

But can he at least mitigate such  divisive effects if the occasions are also used to honour Chong Wei as the Malaysian Sportsperson of the Decade for his unequalled feat of winning two Olympic silver medals for the country?

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Keruh di hulu, keruh lah di hilir

 — Aspan Alias

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Aug 06, 2012

6 OGOS — Perkembangan politik di Sabah akhir-akhir ini amat menarik dan menjadi tumpuan ramai. Dengan perkembangan terakhir ini tidak dapat lagi dinafikan yang BN Sabah sedang menerima tekanan yang amat berat untuk mempertahankan mandat yang ada kepada mereka (BN) apabila PRU sampai masanya untuk di adakan.

Musa Aman, pengerusi BN Sabah berkata penghijrahan Lajim Ukin dan Wilfred Bumburing tidak langsung menjejaskan BN di Sabah. Kita faham yang kenyataan beliau (Musa) itu hanya lah satu kenyataan politik yang liar sahaja.

Isu yang menyebabkan BN Sabah khususnya Umno tidak lagi mendapat perhatian rakyat sekarang ini terlalu banyak sehinggakan kita tidak dapat memahami di antara sebab atau alasan yang menyebabkan penolakan rakyat yang begitu ketara terjadi. Tetapi yang paling nyata sekali ialah isu peribadi Musa Aman sendiri yang tidak lagi sanggup diterima oleh rakyat Sabah sebagai pemimpin utama mereka. DAN pemimpin ini jugalah yang dipertahankan bermati-matian oleh Najib.

Tetapi kalau Umno itu Umno juga. Parti itu sememangnya terlalu leka dengan mempertahankan pimpinan yang diragui rakyat sejak tiga dekad yang lalu. Umno tidak dapat menerima bahawa politik ini adalah peperangan mental dan jika Musa yang sudah dipersepsikan sebagai laibiliti kepada BN sepatutnya mengundurkan diri atau dipaksa oleh pimpinan tertinggi Umno untuk berundur.

Tetapi biasalah, dalam Umno, untuk memberhentikan seseorang itu terlalu susah kerana terlalu banyak pertimbangan sampingan yang kebanyakkannnya adalah pertimbangan peribadi semata-mata. Pucuk pimpinan lebih cenderung untuk mendengar nasihat “warlords” yang di sekeliling mereka dari mendengar pandangan ramai. Tidak kita ketahui apa yang menyebabkan Najib khususnya terlalu terikat dengan Musa sehinggakan beliau (Najib) tidak berdaya untuk memberhentikan seseorang yang telah begitu parah persepsinya dimata rakyat itu. Hanya Tuhan sahaja yang mengetahuinya.

Najib masih mempertahankan Musa sehinggakan rakyat Sabah merasakan yang Umno hanya mementingkan keuntungan dan pertimbangan peribadi dari memberikan pertimbangan terhadap keselamatan parti itu di mata rakyat. Isu “money laundering” yang dikaitkan dengan peribadi Musa itu adalah isu yang amat serius dan tidak boleh lagi berada di dalam sebuah parti pemerintah jika kita pertimbangkan dari sudut etika sesebuah negara yang merdeka yang mengamalkan sistem demokrasi.

Kerana Musa segala-galanya pecah dan punah ranah, dan itu belum lagi di lihat dari isu-isu besar yang lain. Umno tidak mempertahankan etika serta moral sebagai sebuah parti pemerintah. Sejak tiga dekad yang lalu Umno terlalu lalai dengan etika kepimpinan sehinggakan mereka yang tidak sepatutnya menjadi pemimpin di jadikan pemimpin oleh parti itu. Itulah sebabnya seseorang yang ingin menjadi pemimpin mesti seorang yang berintergriti, bukannya seorang yang pandai berpolitik tanpa moral dengan melaksanakan politik pecah perintah sejak zaman Dr Mahathir dahulu.

Akhirnya parti itu secara tidak di sedari sudah di kuasai oleh mereka yang tidak beretika dan secara beransur-ansur juga rakyat memandang rendah terhadap kewibawaan parti itu seperti yang kita lihat sekarang ini. Apabila sudah sampai ketahap yang tidak boleh diperbaiki lagi ini, barulah pucuk pimpinan hendak membetulkan keadaan tetapi sekarang usaha itu sudah terlambat.

Pucuk pimpinan yang sedang berusaha untuk membetulkan keadaan itu sendiri adalah dari kumpulan yang terbentuk dengan budaya buruk yang saya sebutkan tadi. Justeru kita lihat apa jua tindakan untuk memperbaiki keadaan yang dilakukan oleh Najib sekarang adalah seperti “tikus memperbaiki labu” sahaja.

Rakyat termasuk rakyat Sabah sendiri mempunyai had kesabaran mereka. Umno terlalu leka dengan kerja peribadi sehinggakan lupa yang mereka pimpin ini ada lah sebuah negara bukanya persatuan murid tua sekolah kebangsaan Kuala Tahan. Segala teguran dan kritikan terhadap pucuk pimpinan di anggap sebagai penentangan dan tidak langsung di ambil peduli.

Sekarang bagi BN, untuk mempertahankan kedudukan mereka, ia amat mahal harganya. Berbillion ringgit wang rakyat telah dibelanjakan untuk memberi “gula gula” kepada rakyat dan wang itu adalah wang rakyat sendiri. Saya teringat semasa kecil dahulu, askar-askar Australia dan New Zealand yang masih berada di negara ini selepas merdeka selalu melemparkan gula-gula kepada kanak-kanak sekolah semasa konvoi mereka melalui kawasan sekolah.

Murid-murid yang sedang menunggu bas untuk balik kerumah berebut-rebut untuk mendapatkan gula-gula yang di lemparkan oleh askar-askar orang putih itu dari trak dan Land Rover yang mereka naiki itu. Maka kita masih lagi di lakukan seperti itu oleh Najib untuk mempertahankan kedudukan mereka itu.

Zaman dan waktu “menggula-gulakan” rakyat sudah berakhir termasuk bagi rakyat Sabah. Najib akan ke Sabah dengarnya untuk menyelesaikan masalah yang BN Sabah hadapi. Bagi saya sikap BN, baik dari Pusat dan di Sabah sendiri, tindakan ini ibarat “sudah hendak berak baru menggali lubang”. Segala rintihan rakyat selama ini tidak di hiraukan: asyik dengan mempertahankan mereka yang dalam barisan kroni mereka tanpa memerhatikan etika dan kewajaran untuk mempertahankan mereka, termasuk pemimpin seperti Musa Aman.

BN jelas sudah menjadi pak pandir. Sibuk hendak mengambil alih Selangor tetapi terlepas pula Sabah dan negeri-negeri lain. Tutup lubang sana terbentuk pula lubang di sini. Yang di kejar tidak dapat yang dikendung berciciran.

Walaupun Najib akan ke Sabah tetapi dalam masa beliau ke Sabah itu ramai lagi ahli-ahli legislatif dari Sabah berhasrat untuk meninggalkan BN yang mereka tidak yakini itu dalam masa yang terdekat ini. Najib sudah mundar mandir sampaikan beliau tidak ada masa untuk menguruskan negara.

Dalam pada Najib sibuk ke hulu dan ke hilir, ke darat dan ke baruh, untuk mengejar masa mempertahankan kuasa, sempat juga isterinya yang merupakan seorang “social climber” yang terhebat di dunia ini, bergegas-gegas terbang ke London. Tujuannya (Rosmah) ialah untuk menyaksikan perlawanan akhir badminton di acara Olimpik yang akhirnya kita kalah di tangan jaguh Cina, Lin Dan, semalam.

Pingat emas tidak juga kita perolehi walaupun pemainkan bermain di hadapan seorang wanita yang tersohor di seluruh dunia kini, yang datang untuk memberikan semangat. Begitulah yang akan dihadapi oleh BN serta Najib; bergegas kesana dan kesini tidak tentu siang dan malam, tetapi BN berkemungkinan besar akan kalah juga akhirnya.

Pendeknya jika kita sudah sampai ke penghujung nyawa kita, tidak ada sesuatu pun boleh menyambung nyawa dan kehidupan kita. Begitu jugalah BN: apabila sudah sampai waktunya untuk dikalahkan tidak ada apa kuasa yang ada ditangan makhluk seperti kita ini mengelakkannya.

BN sepatutnya bersyukur dengan sokongan rakyat sebelum ini yang menjangkau 55 tahun itu. BN patut bersyukur dengan apa yang mereka telah perolehi selama ini dan jangan marah kepada apa yang mereka (BN) tidak perolehi lagi sekarang ini.

Kelalaiann Umno selama inilah yang menyebabkan parti itu merudum. Dulu-dulunya semuanya “taken for granted”. Akhirnya membawa bencana. Bak kata perpatah “kalau keruh di hulu, keruh lah di hilir”. Sekarang ini kekeruhan yang di alami oleh Umno itu adalah hasil dari kekeruhan yang dilakukan oleh pemimpin-pemimpin sejak tiga dekad dahulu. — aspanaliasnet.blogspot.com

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Najib Razak as Property Developer and Investment Banker

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M. Bakri Musa
 | August 5th, 2012

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With great fanfare, Prime Minister Najib Razak recently announced the mega property development, The Tun Razak Exchange (TRX). The project would symbolize the nation’s aspiration to be “the leading global centre for international finance, trade and services.”

            Najib wants that to be his legacy. Even if successful (and a very big if), it would simply be a physical monument, in the same manner that Petronas Towers is to Mahathir. The only thing Malaysian or Malay about that much-hyped tower is the land on which it is sited. Everything else – from the design, engineering and construction – was done by foreigners. The only work done by a Malaysian (or Malay) was the ribbon cutting at the glittering opening ceremony.

            The legacy of Tun Razak the father is his imaginative rural development schemes, like the massive FELDA program that benefited millions of poor landless rural dwellers. The beneficiaries, let it be explicitly stated in case this fact is missed, are mostly if not exclusively Malays.

            For Najib the son however, if TRX were to be successful, it would benefit leading global companies with their highly skilled and generously paid workers. Those “knowledge workers” will most likely be expatriates, and if Malaysians, only those highly educated and proficient in the language of international finance – English. Again, let it be said in case this fact too is missed, they will be mostly non-Malays.

            What an irony for a former UMNO Youth leader who once threatened to “bathe the keris with Chinese blood!” Quite a transformation!

            Veering off the race angle, it will take more than grandiose skyscrapers to be a leading financial center and to attract global companies. I would have much greater confidence in TRX’s success if the government were to simultaneously announce a comparable mega program to upgrade our universities (especially their economics and statistics departments as well as our business schools) so the nation would have the necessary brains to go with the brawns. Thus far only one of the nation’s business schools (UPM) has international accreditation.

            This mega billion TRX, as with the recent Initial Public Offering of the massive FELDA Global Ventures (FGV), is orchestrated by the Prime Minister’s Department. Najib Razak is now more property developer and investment banker when he should be the leader of all Malaysians and the nation’s chief executive. There is no shortage of critical problems facing Malaysia. If he needs any reminding, there are our crippling corruption, rotten education system, and our deeply polarized citizenry. There are many others.

            Property development and investment banking are highly lucrative pursuits; I have no problem with either. If Najib wishes to pursue both or either, he should join his brother in the private sector and quit being Prime Minister. The awesome responsibilities of that high office are very different and much broader, not least of which is to help those who need it most, like those poor landless villagers, not global corporations or the highly educated. They can take care of themselves, thank you very much.

The Cart Before the Bullock

On launching TRX Najib declared, “The Government will go out of its way to ensure that the exchange is a success and, as a first step, I can announce to you today that we will begin a comprehensive review of business regulations.”

            “Our logic behind this review is simple,” he continued, “anything that contributes to future progress stays, anything that is outdated goes.”

            Well and good! I wish he had done that first. That would also be less expensive. Businesses and investors are less attracted by fancy buildings, high rents and generous incentives, more with ease of starting a venture, availability of talents, and most of all the prospects of healthy profits. Have them and businesses as well as investors from all over will pour in. They will then build their own mega headquarters.

            Of course the grueling work of modernizing the nation’s business regulations and enhancing the investment climate or modernizing our schools and universities, is not as sexy or attracts media attention as much as unveiling glossy models of skyscrapers. In the long run however, the former would prove more effective and enduring.

            Singapore did not become a major financial center because of its gleaming skyscrapers. Those were the result of the republic becoming a successful financial center.

            I would also have a much greater confidence of TRX’s success if at its launching Najib were to announce securing a major anchor tenant or two (other than a GLC of course), even if only with a letter of intent with oodles of wiggle clauses.

            My worst fear is this. TRX may well prove successful, with all the major financial houses having their regional or even global headquarters there. However, the only Malays you would see at the upper and middle echelon would the “non-executive” chairmen, directors of “government relations,” and public relations directors. There will be other Malays of course, as security guards. The highly-paid “knowledge workers” would be mostly non-Malays, thanks to our rotten national schools and public universities. Even the janitorial jobs would be taken by the Benglas! That would be Najib’s legacy as property developer.

            Yes, that would be an improvement over the Petronas Towers project, but by not much.

            Consider Najib the investment banker. His latest IPO, FGV, is by all measures wildly successful. It was the largest globally after Facebook, and unlike it, FGV’s stocks soared.

            For a dose of reality however, visit the typical FELDA plantation and settlement. The standard of living and lifestyle of those settlers are no better from that of their parents and grandparents. Their roads are still unpaved and they still lack electricity and potable water. On the plantations, those palm nuts, the ultimate source of FGV riches, are still harvested in the same manual and inefficient method as they were half a century ago, with the nuts carried over the workers’ shoulders. There are no trucks with hydraulic lifts to help the workers harvest the nuts, no conveyor belts to load those nuts onto the trucks.

            Equity markets and stock exchanges are alien to these settlers. Their more immediate problem is to feed and clothe their families. To them, TRX would prove to be nothing more than those expensive boondoggle tricks that Najib continues to perpetrate on his people, especially Malays. Yet we continue to be mesmerized by and pin our hopes on him and his grandiose projects. When will we wake up?

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The tyranny of the Umno media

— Sakmongkol AK47

The Malaysian Insider

Aug 06, 2012

AUG 6 — I haven’t watched TV3 for a very long time. During the weekend I found myself without my laptop and I don’t own any iPad either. So with nothing to do, I found myself having to watch the propaganda mouthpiece of the Umno/BN government.

What I saw confirmed what I have been saying for a long time. It’s a one-sided communication means whereby the government of the day, because it can, by virtue of controlling the federal government, spread lies and deliberate disinformation and cuckold the minds of the public.

Immediately you are bombarded with what Umno and BN is doing. It is clear Umno/BN does not want an enlightened and informed public. What it wants is to glorify what little achievements the PM accomplished —distributing zakat from the bank the government owns (meaning if PR wins, it can do the same), frying murtabak here and distributing the delicacy to seemingly starving people. Are we not ashamed to see so many people are poor in the PM’s backyard and then we are subjected to his hypocritical speech about what Allah likes and doesn’t like. It is just an elaborate PR exercise extolling the form rather than substance.

Saturday night’s news carried the plan by the Umno government to form a commission for the payment of royalty to the east coast states. Terengganu has already received its royalty payments on the quiet side. It’s vested in the hands of the local kingpin Mat Said. So the inclusion of Terengganu is just window dressing.

When Idris Jusoh was MB, the federal government insulted the Terengganu people, imputing they don’t know how to manage the oil money by allowing Patrick Lim to decide where the money should be applied. So the federal government conspired with crony capitalists in building the facilities for the Monsoon Cup which do not benefit the Terengganu people. They built mosques in nowhere places and constructed whatever structures that can absorb the oil money which ended up in the hands of business cronies.

It’s the same wine in a new bottle. Mat Said now controls the petroleum ringgit and he determines how it is applied. So he builds the near RM100 million zoo somewhere in Kemaman.

Truly, Terengganu typifies what has been described as the curse of oil money. Oil was discovered in the 1970s in Terengganu but the state has one of the highest incidence of poverty.

Umno politicians are truly two-faced shameless liars. It has always been a legal issue and the issue of what rightly belongs to people. It has always been a legal issue concerning the right of a signatory to the PDA. The one who has been politicising the issue has been Umno and BN.

Umno is lying to the Malays of Kelantan. It claims it fights for Malays; so my question is why is Umno discriminating against the Kelantan Malays who form probably 98 per cent of the population in Kelantan? The distribution of BR1M of RM500 is an insult to the Kelantanese, when in the same breath they are denied the receipt of oil royalty. It’s a straightforward case of a legal entitlement. Kelantan is entitled to the receipt of 5 per cent royalty simpliciter without having to bear any other qualifications.

What is strange is the inclusion of my home state in the equation. How does Pahang find itself as a potential recipient of oil royalty? If the state has oil, why has it been concealed from the rakyat? Is Pahang entitled to oil royalties but because of the rapacious greed of some quarters, Tun Razak decided to withhold the bounty from Pahang because he feared the state will be robbed?

If it qualifies as a recipient, the money is better committed to a Pahang sovereign fund to prevent irresponsible and profligate applications of the oil money. I am not confident to vest the money into the hands of legislators who year after year justify Pahang’s deficit spending as a result of the state government spending on poor people. My former colleagues in Umno especially were quick to use this kind of banal reasoning when justifying the perpetual budget deficits of the state. During my stint as BN legislator I have always decried the budget deficits, fearing that they could be concealing wastage and financial indiscipline. About the need to help the needy, the aged and the infirm, no one in his or her right mind has any objections.

So Umno doesn’t have to be a farce about giving the oil royalty which is a legal entitlement. How come the government, instead of spending public money on a RCI or whatever, NOT ask the person who signed the agreement — Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah — to state whether Kelantan or any other signatory to the agreement is indeed entitled? Please spare the Malaysian public the ignominy of having to put up with your hypocrisy.

The other piece of unworthy news was the small demonstration by a group of just about 20 people, lamenting the Penang government’s decision to develop a 0.5-hectare plot of land into a private hospital and other facilities instead of housing for the poor.

How come TV3 gave extensive coverage to Gerakan and pro-BN spokespersons? Why was the government scared of providing a balanced view by inviting spokespersons from the Penang government to answer the allegations thrown at it? You are attacking a person without giving him a chance to defend himself.

The truth of the matter is perhaps the Penang government, in its pro-rakyat stand, has set aside a far larger piece of land to build public housing for the people. On a one-acre-plus plot, how many houses can be built? Not more than 20 units?

The Umno government is subjecting the people to daily lies and grossly one-sided views. Free the people from this tyranny by giving them a right to fair reporting. We must not put up with the mind-enslaving tyranny any longer. — sakmongkol.blogspot.com

* Sakmongkol AK47 is the nom de plume of Datuk Mohd Ariff Sabri Abdul Aziz. He was Pulau Manis assemblyman (2004-2008).

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If Tanda Putera blatantly lied about Kit Siang, what else is dangerous about this May 13 film?

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CPI

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CPI foreword

The Tanda Putera filmmakers are marketing their movie as an educational product on the claim that the events they have depicted are based on established truth.

“My team and I did a lot of research, such as studying documented materials and photographs, to make sure the scenes were backed by historical facts,” its producer-director Shuhaimi Baba told the NST on Aug 4.

One scene in Tanda Putera is reportedly of Lim Kit Siang urinating at the flagpole (in the compound of) the Selangor Menteri Besar’s residence while at the same time shouting a racial slur.

[See Lim Kit Siang’s Aug 4 statement – ‘
Tanda Putera’s “urination” episode – downright lie and dangerous falsehood
 ’]

Lim has questioned whether there is an ulterior motive to incite mob anger against him. Is the canard one that is only recently invented to purpose fit Tanda Putera, and if so to what end? If indeed Lim did commit the act, “why had no one ever seen, mentioned or heard about it during the intervening 46 years until now?” asks one Netizen.

Logic dictates that if the powers-that-be had any concrete evidence of any such episode involving the then DAP organizing secretary, this damning detail would never have escaped being made public.

So much for Shuhaimi Baba’s careful “research” or is it that amoral pursuit of socio-economic and political gain is reaching new heights with new recruits?

 In fact, the photograph of Lim being manhandled by the authorities (left) – featured in the Tanda Putera official Facebook as one of the May 13, 1969 photographs of real-life events – can in reality be dated to a 1984 incident in Kota Kinabalu.

Lim’s press statement (refer below) clarifies the occasion of the photograph.

That Tanda Putera – a movie financed by Finas (Perbadanan Kemajuan Filem Nasional Malaysia) and Multimedia Development Corporation – chose to include such an inflammatory and defamatory scene casts serious doubts on the whole government (read: Umno)-backed enterprise.

It is a dangerous enterprise entering into the realm of celluloid demagogy.

It invites suspicion that Tanda Putera is just one step short of a propaganda exercise to subtly cast the opposition stalwart as a hateful, anti-Malay figure.

Against this backdrop of political distrust, it is only to be expected that pro-opposition supporters would see what they regard as “the May 13 film” to be part of a pre-election smear campaign against the DAP. Or in the words of an online news portal subscriber – “The campaign has now recruited the likes of filmmaker Shuhaimi Baba with her blatant lies on celluloid to demonise DAP.”

Lim has been advised by concerned members of the public to sue the filmmaker for her dangerous distortion or to obtain a court injunction should the scene remain intact during the movie’s general release, rumoured to be given the green light by November.

There have also been calls for the public to boycott Tanda Putera for its one-sided portrayal of the Chinese as the villains of the piece as well as over the bad faith inherent in the inaccuracy – which smells quite deliberate – of placing Lim Kit Siang at the epicentre of the riot outbreak in Kampung Baru, Kuala Lumpur.

Even before the controversial movie makes its public debut, it is already wracked by widespread and confrontational polemics. The Tanda Putera trailer uploaded to YouTube has registered 4,379 ‘dislikes’ by viewers as opposed to a mere 472 ‘likes’ among those who had watched it. Roughly, nine out of 10 who voted have given it a thumbs-down.

Thus far, the pre-publicity buzz has indicated that the movie is an all-Malay affair –most certainly the main cast is all Malay and if not with a predominantly Malay research and production crew – projecting a staunchly pro-establishment slant.

The ‘timely’ creation of this movie sends the message that the Umno incumbency will not hesitate to conscript the various government agencies that it has at its disposal to maximize whatever psychological advantages the party can attain through entrenching a state-sanctioned national narrative.

Some quarters have already dubbed this Tun Abdul Razak Hussein biopic as a brown-nosing hagiography in light of the man’s eldest son possessing a current standing as the country’s prime minister.

The effects of this movie on our racially charged and ethnically divided society are all too easy to anticipate. Tanda Putera will split Malaysians cleanly down the middle along the pronounced race cleavage.

Although the CPI supports freedom of the arts and expression, it is of the opinion that this film is the type of polarizing propaganda aimed at inciting members of an ingroup to hate and scapegoat some outgroups.

Rather than educating the public and enhancing the quality of public debate and analysis on an important watershed in the country’s history, it will only have the opposite effect.

Although banning the film or obstructing its dissemination is not the correct response to it, it is incumbent on all Malaysians of peace and conscience – including the Prime Minister and other leading members of the ruling Barisan Nasional coalition – to set the record straight.

The powers-that-be must articulate their response to the film’s depiction of what happened and who were responsible for the tragic day of May 13 and the aftermath. This response needs to be ventilated and disseminated widely to serve as an antidote to the dishonest messages contained in the film.

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Lim Kit Siang’s Aug 5 statement :

Yesterday, I categorically denied the preposterous claim which had appeared previously on the official Facebook page of the May 13 movie, Tanda Putera, that I had urinated on the flagpole in front of the then Selangor Menteri Besar’s residence during the May 13 riots in 1969.

The Facebook had carried a photo portraying me being manhandled, with the caption:

“Lim Kit Siang telah kencing di bawah tiang bendera Selangor yang terpacak di rumah menteri besar Selangor ketika itu, Harun Idris. (Lim Kit Siang had urinated at the foot of the flagpole bearing the Selangor flag at the then Selangor MB’s Harun Idris’ house)”

The photo was posted in the album in the Facebook titled ‘Peristiwa-peristiwa yang dimuatkan di dalam filem ini’ (Events depicted in this movie).

Although the photo and caption have since been removed from the movie’s official page, Malaysiakini had captured a screenshot of the earlier posting.

I noted two very pertinent postings from the 69 comments since Malaysiakini [see ‘ Kit Siang denies urinating on flagpole outside MB’s house’, Aug 4] reported my denial, viz:

RealSoldier witness513 its simply absurd to accuse LKS performing such despicable act because the flagpole is not freely accessable to the public as it is located within the compound of the MB’s house which is fenced and manned by a jaga. By accident I was at the MB’s on that fateful day from 3.00am to 5.30am on 514 following rescue operations by the security forces.

FREE The picture of LKS being grabbed and manhandled by officers was taken at the Kota Kinabalu old airport terminal. Those officers in white-shirt uniforms were immigration officers when Harris Salleh ordered the deportation of LKS from Sabah. This writer was inside a plane and saw from the window LKS being put in a wheelchair and wheeled to the plane for deportation back to KL.

What RealSoldier posted made eminent sense, as in 1969 I never knew where the official residence of the Selangor Menteri Besar was, let alone that it has a flagpole “located within the compound of the MB’s house which is fenced and manned by a jaga”.

This posting exposes the downright lie and dangerous falsehood that I or anyone could have urinated at the foot of the flagpole at the then Selangor Menteri Besar’s house – when it was within a confined and guarded compound.

The second posting is an eyewitness account of the origin of the photograph shown on the Tanda Putera official facebook.

The photograph was not taken in 1969 but 15 years later at the Kota Kinabalu Airport old terminal on August 26, 1984.

I had flown into Kota Kinabalu that morning en route to Sandakan in response to a challenge by the then Sabah Chief Minister, Datuk Harris Salleh to repeat my speech in Parliament on July 23, 1984 outside Parliament without the benefit of parliamentary privilege on Harris’ abuses of powers as Sabah Chief Minister in particular with regard to Labuan being carved out of Sabah and made a Federal Territory.

I had challenged Harris to name the place and date for me to repeat my parliamentary speech, and when Harris named the Dewan Masyarakat Sandakan on August 26 at 10am, I immediately accepted and flew into Kota Kinabalu with the then DAP deputy national chairman and MP for Jelutong Karpal Singh enroute to Sandakan for the occasion.

But at the Kota Kinabalu Airport, I was denied entry on the directive of the Sabah Chief Minister who had challenged me to repeat my parliamentary speech against him in Sandakan later the same morning!

I was told to take the same flight out to return to Kuala Lumpur. In the 2-and-1/2 hour standoff with the immigration authorities, I made it very clear that denying me entry into Sabah was a gross abuse of Sabah immigration autonomy powers and I was not prepared to leave my own country on my own free. I told them that they will have to bodily carry me up the plane. Finally, they put me in a wheelchair and bodily carried me up the flight steps to the waiting plane.

That was the 1984 Kota Kinabalu photograph which Tanda Putera official facebook had used as one of the May 13, 1969 photographs!

The two Malaysiakini reader comments cited above are the real stuff of people’s history, unalloyed and unadulterated by lies and falsehoods.

Let us have more real people’s history on what actually happened.

‘RealSolder’ has debunked not only the lie that I had urinated at the flagpole of the Selangor Menteri Besar’s house, but that anyone else could have done it as the flagpole is within the confined and guarded compound of the Menteri Besar’s house.

But how did the canard of the “urination” at the Selangor Menteri Besar’s house, provoking the May 13 riots, originate?

Since the Tanda Putera official Facebook entry, I had asked around whether anyone had ever heard of any “urination” incident at the flagpole of the Selangor Menteri Besar’s house provoking May 13 riots, and nobody has ever heard of it before.

Neither the White Paper issued by the National Operations Council on 9th October 1969 entitled “The May 13 Tragedy” nor Tunku Abdul Rahman’s book May 13 – Before & After made any reference to any such urination incident at the Selangor Menteri Besar’s residence.

This has become the Urine-Gate or Pee-Gate of Malaysia.

Malaysians should do a Sherlock Holmes to find out the “who, when and what” about the origin the canard of “urination” at the flagpole of the Selangor Menteri Besar’s house provoking May 13 riots in 1969 – for if there is no truth whatsoever, it should put to rest once and for all.

When did anyone first heard of such a canard? Or is it a very recent vintage – just for Tanda Putera?

It is indeed sad and tragic when all efforts should be made on the occasion of the approaching 55th Merdeka Day/49th Malaysia Day to emphasise the unity in diversity of the Malaysian nation, there seems to be anti-national elements out to create racial distrust and dissension and undermine national harmony by spreading the most vicious lies and falsehoods about the history of the nation.

If the Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s 1Malaysia slogan and policy is to have any meaning at all, I call on all Malaysians to prove that they are Malaysians in heart and soul on the occasion of the 55th Merdeka Day/49th Malaysia Day!

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Najib’s 1Malaysia policy in past three years has  borne bitter and even poisonous fruits worsening racial polarization and producing more heinous lies like the recent May 13 falsehoods to undermine national unity

It has been said that a tree is known by its fruit and a man by his deeds.

With the approaching 55th National Day/49th Malaysia Day celebrations, the Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak should ponder why his 1Malaysia policy in the past three years, instead of creating a more united Malaysian nation, has borne bitter and even poisonous fruits worsening racial polarization and producing  more heinous lies like the many  May 13 falsehoods purveyed recently  to undermine national unity.

None other than former Prime Minister, Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad has said only in June that the next general election will centre on race as “Malaysia has become more racial than ever”!

As part of his 1Malaysia programme, Najib has raised an army of some 10,000 Umno/BN cybertroopers through a nation-wide series of 1Malaysia Social Media Conventions, not to spread the 1Malaysia message to be a Malaysian first and race, religion, region and socio-economic grouping second but to put into practice the Biro Tatanegara (BTN) and Utusan Malaysia credo to “spin” lies and even blatant lies as fact and truth.

We are beginning to see the dire  results of the raising of Najib’s army of 10,000 Umno/BN cybertroopers – including  the bitter and poisonous fruits inciting racial distrust and undermining national unity revolving around the government-funded film “Tanda Putra” on the May 13 riots in 1969, with these cybertroopers disseminating the wildest,  baseless, reckless, irresponsible, despicable and defamatory allegations that I had provoked the May 13 riots in 1969 in the street processions, that I had killed Malays and even urinated at the flagpole of the Selangor Mentri Besar’s residence when I was never in Kuala Lumpur on May 11, 12 and 13, 1969.

Other wild, baseless and most irresponsible allegations which had been “spun” by the 1Malaysia Social Media included allegations that DAP Secretary-General and  Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng had also provoked the May 13 riots in his capacity as DAP Youth leader when he was in fact only eight years old.

The late P. Patto,  former DAP Deputy Secretary-General and Parliamentarian, was also blamed for provoking the May 13 riots in 1969 when Patto was never in Kuala Lumpur in 1969 as he only  first embarked on his political career in 1973 when he gave up his secure job as a government school teacher and  accepted my offer to become my political secretary.

With the obstinate Cabinet refusal to have a new 55th National Day/49th Malaysia Day theme, logo and theme song which can be inclusive and  unite rather than divide Malaysians –  which is the position today when the National Day/Malaysia Day theme is hijacked by UMNO/BN –  Malaysians are entitled to ask the Prime Minister why he is allowing his 1Malaysia policy to bear the  bitter and even poisonous fruits worsening racial polarization and  undermining national unity!

Forty-three years after the May 13 tragedy in 1969, the time has come to bring it to  a closure – not to use the May 13 riots to scare or intimidate any community but as a object lesson on the paramount importance for  all Malaysians, regardless of race, religion, region, class, age or gender to unite as Malaysians for a common cause for change and betterment for all Malaysians, whether we are BN or PR.

I have stated publicly that DAP and Pakatan Rakyat are prepared to  co-operate and work closely with UMNO and Barisan Nasional to ensure that there will be no repeat of May 13 in the next general election.

In fact, how could therer be a repeat of the May 13 tragedy if both political coalitions – Barisan Nasional and Pakatan Rakyat – sincerely pledge to work together in the national interest to prevent any such recurrence?

The Pakatan Rakyat comprising PKR, PAS and DAP are committed to this cause and objective to ensure that there cannot and will not be another May 13 tragedy in Malaysia.  Are UMNO and the Barisan Nasional similarly committed to this common cause?

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Respect Merdeka Day!

By Allan CF Goh

Respect Merdeka Day!

Merdeka Day is for the celebration

Of national achievement and calibration

It is a day of by and for the people

Not for meaningless slogans and words of tipple

It must highlight the single aspiration

Of the common dream of one people, one Nation

It is not a politicians’ comic stage

For playing imagined greatness and false image

Merdeka must invoke an inspiration

Towards a genuine oneness of a great Nation

Not for touting the supremacy of race

Nor the other communities’ contrived disgrace

It must show a people’s commemoration

Of all worthy deeds for a loved righteous Nation

Adhering to right is right to follow right

Malaysia can be a Nation of brightest light

Let’s respect the Merdeka celebration

By respecting each big or small contribution

Let every Malaysian be paid the homage

As the Nation’s invaluable heritage

When all can stand equal before the Nation

That will be the greatest cause for celebration

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The battle of Lee Chong Wei have unite the people as one – Malaysians

By Dr Chen Man Hin, DAP Life advisor

Once in a while, an encouraging sign of Malaysian nationalism show up.

Lee Chong Wei is a good example of a patriotic Malaysian. In spite of the negative outbursts by Perkasa and UMNO, the ordinary people as a whole feel this is their country, and they belong here.

Lee Chong Wei fought and used up his last ounce of energy for the honour and glory of his country. He played his best for Malaysia. Literally, he lost by a hair’s breadth. He was as good as his opponent from China, Lin Dan.

He was as good as Lin Dan as shown by the ding dong battle in the third round. Unfortunately, at the end the luck of the shuttle fell to Lin Dan who won, when Chong Wei’s shot fell just off the base line.

Was it a defeat for Chong Wei? Definitely not. The battle showed that it was a victory for the Malaysian spirit, where the player fought his heart out for Malaysia and for his country men whether in the stadium or back home in the old country.

The multiracial supporters cheered for Chong Wei as one – Malaysians together. Defeat?  there was only victory, victory for the Malaysian spirit even in defeat.

The champion performance of Chong Wei in the centre court and the support of Malaysians in the stands have shown that the people of Malaysia regard themselves as one people.

Thank you Chong Wei for uniting the people. You are a hero in more ways than one.

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The Malaysian dream

— Art Harun

The Malaysian Insider

Aug 07, 2012

AUG 7 — With an overhead shot from around the baseline landing outside the court, his dream, and with that a Malaysian collective dream, ended. His opponent, dark, muscular and almost brooding, leapt in the air, turned around and ran around the court, with his arm opened wide as if he was going to take off the ground.

Datuk Lee Chong Wei gave his best. The Malaysian spectators at the venue shouted and screamed in unison. But luck wasn’t with Lee.

Nothing much separated the two players, really. It was a gladiatorial match. An epic. The best badminton match I had ever had the pleasure of watching.

There were moments during the match when I saw moves which were almost non-human in nature. Impossible speed, almost Spider-man like agility, the will and power of men possessed with an ultimate dream, an ultimate hope to win the ultimate prize.

At one point of time, I wondered how is it to feel the weight of the hope and wish of 28 million people on one’s tiny shoulder. How does one man deal with that? How does one man carry himself knowing every move of his might disappoint 28 million people? What is in his head every time he raises his racquet to serve, to smash and to return a drop shot?

I have nothing but admiration and pride for Lee and all our Olympians. For all their sacrifices, their hard work, their pains, blood, sweat and tears, dispensed in the name of national glory.

The Olympics, like any other mammoth sporting event, bring out the best and the worst in us. And the comical too.

Right after the opening ceremony, there were rumblings of how the Illuminati were at work to take over the world in Malaysian cyber-space. Clearly some of us have really fertile imaginations. Or perhaps some of us Malaysian Muslims were just showing signs of low blood sugar level during this fasting month. And so we read about the Olympic tree being a tree which, in Muslim traditions, is a tree which is sympathetic to the Jews, for example. I even received a private message on Facebook telling me that a certain prince is the manifestation of the anti-Christ. So I suppose this phenomenon is not restricted to the Muslims only.

Then there are people — politicians, of course — who don’t seem to know that there are moments when humanity takes over and politics doesn’t seem to matter. Astounding as it may be, believe it or not, there was a tweet by an opposition MP saying that Malaysia will win a gold medal in the Olympics after Pakatan Rakyat “takes over Putrajaya.” Good then. Put that in their party manifesto and ask the people to vote for them in the next GE with that promise. And while we are at it, how about telling the people that Malaysia will win the football World Cup too after Pakatan takes over whatever? Just so to complete the absurdity, tell us that the Middle-East conflict will be ended by Pakatan too please.

The positive side of this is the fact that Malaysians will sit together in unison to support the quest of our countrymen regardless of our faith, our race, breed and creed. To my mind, unity manifests itself in two forms, namely, situational unity and transcendental unity. We experience situational unity in every aspect of our daily life. The ultimate task for the government is to foster this situational harmony into a more permanent and cohesive unity.

Malaysians have always loved sports. And as far as I could remember, sports have always been the highlight of Malaysian unity. Never in any other act have Malaysians displayed so much loyalty, faith and unity than sporting events. I am old enough to remember how all of us watched with pride when our national football team played in the 1972 Munich Olympics. How we jumped in rapturous joy when James Wong scored against South Korea to send Malaysia to the 1980 Olympics. How the whole of Malaysia was transfixed when we hosted the 1975 hockey World Cup. And in recent times, Malaysians will of course fill with pride every time Datuk Nicol David or Lee win their respective tournament.

That proves that when faced with one ultimate — and common — aim and purpose, a people of diverse cultures, faiths and interests as well as of different races may set aside whatever differences they may have, whatever misgivings they may harbour against each other and unite.

Our task, in terms of trying to foster unity and harmony, is to create that ONE aim and purpose. I suppose we can begin by eliminating, or trying to eliminate, anything which threatens to divide us.

Or perhaps, we could just start by showing up at the airport to give a rousing homecoming to Lee and our Olympians. — art-harun.blogspot.com

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Mat Zain’s Letter to IGP: Buku berkaitan AG Gani Patail – Pemalsu, Penipu, Penjenayah?

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Mat Zain bin Ibrahim | 8hb.Ogos 2012

Kepada;

Tan Sri Ismail bin Haji Omar, IG,

Ketua Polis Negara,

Bukit Aman,

Kuala Lumpur.

YDH Tan Sri,

ABDUL GANI PATAIL: PEMALSU, PENIPU PENJENAYAH? Oleh Zainal Abidin Ahmad.

Assalamualaikum wbt. Semoga YDH Tan Sri dalam kandungan sihat walafiat.

Saya merujuk kepada penerbitan buku bertajuk seperti diatas oleh seorang Zainal Abidin Ahmad(Zainal) sepertimana yang didedahkan oleh Tan Sri Robert Phang menerusi laman Malaysiakini pada 2 Ogos 2012 dan laporan Polis beliau yang dibuat di-Balai Polis Tun Razak pada 6 Ogos 2012.

Saya tidak pernah kenal dengan Zainal sebelum penerbitan buku ini. Bagaimanapun beliau datang menemui saya pada 12.7.2012 untuk menyerahkan satu naskah buku terbitan beliau itu dan lantas berkenalan dengan saya. Zainal berusia 60 dan berasal dari Raub, Pahang. Beliau lepasan Universiti Malaya tahun 1976.

Setelah menyemak kandungan buku tersebut, saya mendapati bahawa lebih 70% kandungannya, mengandungi petikan surat-surat terbuka saya semenjak 8.10.2010, termasuk surat-surat yang saya alamatkan kepada Tan Sri, khususnya berkaitan salahlaku jenayah yang dilakukan oleh Peguam Negara Tan Sri Abdul Gani Patail dan mantan KPN Tan Sri Musa Hassan.

Saya mendapat tahu bahawa orang-orang yang telah meneliti buku penulisan Zainal berkaitan Gani Patail ini, mengharapkan pihak Polis menyiasat isi kandungan buku ini sepertimana Polis menyiasat dengan gigih penyiasatan Buku 50 Dalil berkaitan Anwar Ibrahim. Saya tidak perlu menjelaskan Buku 50 Dalil itu dalam ruangan ini, memandangkan kita sama-sama tahu apa yang berlaku.

Penyiasatan Buku mengenai Gani Patail.

Walaupun Zainal, penerbit buku diatas tidak mendapat sebarang kebenaran daripada saya untuk memuatkan salinan keseluruhan atau sebahagian daripada surat-surat terbuka saya dalam buku tersebut, namun setelah menyemak secara terperinci kandungannya, saya mengesahkan bahawa isi kandungannya, adalah sama dengan perkara yang terkandung dalam surat-surat terbuka saya yang berkenaan itu.

Saya percaya Zainal secara bersendiri tidak mampu untuk membuktikan salahlaku Gani Patail.

Bagaimanapun saya boleh, mampu dan bersedia untuk membuktikan dakwaan-dakwaan terhadap Gani Patail dan Musa Hassan, khususnya berkaitan pemalsuan dan penipuan dalam penyiasatan insiden mata lebam yang masih diperdebatkan sehingga hari ini.

Legal status not absolution, Nazri tells Bersih.

Saya menarik perhatian YB Dato Seri Mohamad Nazri Aziz(YB Nazri), Menteri Di-JPM, pada 25 July 2012 mengulas keputusan Mahkamah Tinggi mengenai status Bersih seperti berikut:-

“Bersih leaders must be reminded that the ruling did not legalise their past actions. They must know the difference. The court only decided that they are not an unlawful society. But that does not mean that they did not break the law in the past”

Saya menyatakan kenyataan YB Nazri ini adalah betul dan munasabah serta keputusan Mahkamah perlu dihormati.

Dalam premis yang sama,saya menegaskan bahawa walaupun SPB Yang Di-Pertuan Agong telah berkenan melantik Gani Patail sebagai Peguam Negara berkuatkuasa 1.1.2002, dengan diberi kuasa sepenuhnya mengikut Perlembagaan dan Undang-Undang lain, tidak bermakna bahawa salahlaku jenayah yang telah Gani Patail lakukan sebelum perlantikkan itu “di-halalkan”.

Perlantikkan itu tidak bermakna Gani Patail diberi lesen besar yang tidak terhad untuk melakukan jenayah sesuka hati beliau dan kebal dari sebarang hukuman undang-undang.

Antara kes jenayah dimana Gani Patail boleh dibuktikan sebagai terlibat sebelum dilantik menjadi Peguam Negara ialah, memalsukan keterangan dalam penyiasatan insiden mata-lebam dan menggunakan keterangan palsu dalam pendakwaan kes korupsi, kedua-duanya melibatkan Anwar Ibrahim.

Berkaitan dengan kes diatas pada 31 May 2012,sama ada secara sengaja atau tidak sengaja, Musa Hassan telah akhirnya mengaku semasa ditemubual oleh Malaysiakini, beliau memang ada mengambil contoh darah Anwar untuk ujian HIV yang tersimpan di-HKL dan digunakan pula untuk ujian DNA keatas tilam masyhor (the infamous mattress) yang diusung turun-naik Mahkamah ketika perbicaraan 1998.

Pengakuan Musa Hassan sedemikian itu mengundang lebih banyak persoalan mengenai keterangan yang beliau bentangkan kepada mantan Perdana Menteri Tun Mahathir sehingga meyakinkan Tun bahawa Anwar terlibat dalam aktibiti homoseksual.

Mengenai perbuatan pemalsuan keterangan DNA dalam kes Anwar Ibrahim tersebut ini, saya sarankan Tan Sri merujuk kepada laporan saya bertarikh 27.12.2010 yang juga disalinkan kepada YAB Perdana Menteri dan Peguam Cara Negara yang telah diakui penerimaannya.

Sebelum perlantikkan beliau sebagai Peguam Negara, Gani Patail juga dikaitkan dengan kesalahan salahguna kuasa dan lain-lain kesalahan ketika menangani penyiasatan terhadap mantan Perdana Menteri Tun Mahathir, mantan Menteri MITI Tan Sri Rafidah Aziz dan khasnya kes mantan Ketua Menteri Melaka, Tan Sri Rahim Thamby Chik.

Kenyataan YB Nazri berkaitan kes Rahim Thamby Chik(RTC).

Saya menarik perhatian Tan Sri kepada kenyataan YB Nazri di-Parlimen pada 30 Mac 2011 sebagai menjawab soalan daripada YB Lim Kit Siang dan dilaporkan dalam Malaysiakini dan Malaysianinsider.

YB Nazri mengesahkan bahawa Peguam Negara tidak mempunyai kuasa untuk “indemnify” mana-mana orang daripada kesalahan jenayah berdasarkan pertimbangan politik.

Dalam masa yang sama, YB Nazri telah berjanji akan menyemak status harta berjumlah RM 40 juta yang disahkan olih BPR/SPRM dan diperakukan olih Gani Patail sendiri sebagai telah diperolehi oleh RTC menerusi jalan rasuah dan salahguna kuasa, ketika beliau menjadi Ketua Menteri Melaka.

Kini setelah hampir 17 bulan, rakyat masih menunggu jawapan yang dijanjikan oleh YB Nazri itu, sama ada harta RM 40 juta itu dipulangkan kepada RTC atau dirampas atau status sebenar harta terlibat. Jika diserahkan kepada RTC apakah kuasa Peguam Negara meyerahkannya sedangkan harta tersebut disahkan diperolehi menerusi jalan rasuah dan salahguna kuasa.

Gani menyembunyikan fakta mustahak semasa perlantikkan.

Kita amat yakin YDP Agong tidak sama sekali akan memperkenankan perlantikkan mana-mana orang yang mempunyai perangai buruk dan lebih lagi orang yang telah melakukan sesuatu jenayah, sebagai Hakim-Hakim Mahkamah Tinggi, Rayuan atau Persekutuan ataupun Peguam Negara.

Sekiranya Gani Patail seorang yang jujur, beliau secara sukarela telah menolak pencalonan menjadi Peguam Negara, memandangkan beliau sendiri mengetahui apa kesalahan yang beliau telah lakukan sebelum itu yang bolih terbongkar dikemudian hari, seperti berlaku sekarang ini. Lebih lagi beliau sedar mengenai komen Mahkamah Persekutuan dipengerusikan oleh Tan Sri Steve Shim dalam kes Zainur Zakariah vs PP 2001, yang dibuat dalam bulan Jun 2001 yang sangat “unfavourable” dan “adverse” menyentuh kelakuan Gani Patail.

Menyembunyikan fakta material dengan curang adalah suatu perdayaan (deception) sepertimana ditakrifkan dibawah Sek.415 Kanun Keseksaan iaitu “Tipu”.

YDP Agong diyakini tidak akan berkenan melantik Gani Patail sebagai Peguam Negara, jika Baginda tidak diperdayakan untuk mempercayai bahawa Gani adalah bersih daripada sebarang salahlaku jenayah serta tidak terdapat keputusan Mahkamah Persekutuan seperti yang dinyatakan dalam perenggan diatas.

Tribunal.

Biar apapun yang diumumkan oleh mana-mana pihak mengatakan mereka menubuhkan Panel Bebas, High Powered Task Force dan lain-lain lagi, untuk menyiasat dan mengadili salahlaku Peguam Negara adalah sia-sia sahaja. Malahan ia boleh dianggap sebagai perbuatan mengelirukan rakyat semata-mata, untuk melindungi Gani Patail daripada dikenakan hukuman undang-undang serta perbuatan mencabar kuasa YDP Agong.

Sepertimana perbekalan Artikel 125(3) Perlembagaan, hanya YDP Agong sahaja setelah dinasihatkan oleh Perdana Menteri yang mempunyai kuasa dan hak, untuk membentuk Tribunal mengadili seorang Hakim Mahkamah Tinggi, Rayuan dan Persekutuan atau seorang Peguam Negara, jika tatalaku mereka melanggar Kod Etika atau lain-lain salahlaku menjadi persoalan.

Saya turut sedar tidak ada contoh lampau (precedent) cara mana menangani kes salahlaku seorang Peguam Negara.Contoh paling hampir untuk dijadikan garispandu ialah caramana dakwaan salahlaku terhadap mantan Ketua Hakim Negara Tun Salleh Abas. Proses penyingkiran mantan Ketua Hakim Negara dan sebab-sebabnya telah didokumenkan sepenuhnya dan dalam pengetahuan umum.

Jika Tun Salleh Abas menulis surat peribadi secara terus kepada YDP Agong, dianggap sebagai satu salahlaku berat yang mewajarkan mantan Perdana Menteri Tun Mahathir menasihatkan YDP Agong membentuk Tribunal dan kemudian menyingkirkan mantan Ketua Hakim Negara itu,maka salahlaku Gani Patail memperdayakan YDP Agong sendiri, adalah jauh lebih berat dari apa yang dilakukan oleh Tun Salleh Abas.

Salahlaku Gani Patail bukan sahaja mewajarkan beliau dihadapkan kehadapan Tribunal dan kemudian disingkirkan, malahan beliau wajar dituduh di-Mahkamah diatas kesalahan-kesalahan jenayah yang telah dilakukan. Pun begitu beliau wajar diberi dan berhak mendapat perbicaraan yang adil dan saksama sepertimana orang lain.

Maklumat salahlaku Gani dan Musa kepada YAB Perdana Menteri.

Untuk menyegarkan ingatan Tan Sri, saya telah mentaklimatkan PM Najib persendirian pada Oktober 2008 dan kemudian mengemukakan laporan terperinci secara bertulis dan menyertakan dokumen-dokumen yang telah dipalsukan sebagai bukti pada February 2009 yang diakui telah diterima. Ketika itu PM Najib masih lagi Timbalan Perdana Menteri.

Selain itu saya turut mengedarkan beberapa maklumat tambahan perkara sama menerusi penghantaran tangan dan juga email. Disamping itu pula saya mendapat tahu beberapa ramai pihak lain telah juga menyampaikan maklumat-maklumat kesalahan Gani Patail yang lain.

Dengan sebegitu banyak maklumat prima facie mengenai kesalahan jenayah Gani Patail dan Musa Hassan yang telah disampaikan kepada PM Najib, maka tidak ada sebab yang munasabah untuk beliau menafikan penubuhan Tribunal menyiasat Peguam Negara.Melainkan ada sesuatu yang PM Najib bimbangkan.

Kesimpulan.

Sekiranya Perdana Menteri sendiri dan juga Ketua Polis Negara tidak sanggup untuk berhadapan dengan Gani Patail yang telah melakukan beberapa banyak kesalahan jenayah, maka Kerajaan dan Polis jangan mengharapkan rakyat akan membantu mengurangkan kadar jenayah yang lain yang semakin menjadi-jadi dan bertambah ganas.

Jika setelah Gani Patail memperdayakan YDP Agong, PM Najib masih terus juga melindungi Peguam Negara itu, maka apatah lagi dengan nasib rakyat biasa yang telah dianiaya dan dikenakan pertuduhan berpilih dan palsu mengikut sesuka hati Gani. Malahan ada yang telah dipenjarakan beberapa tahun lamanya.

Penglibatan Gani dalam RCI Pendatang Haram Sabah dan Panel Royalti minyak.

Saya menjangkakan rakyat Sabah akan terpedaya dan tidak akan mendapat apa apa faedah dari Suruhajaya Di-Raja menyiasat isu Pendatang Haram, biar apa pun Terma Rujukkan yang akan diumumkan oleh PM Najib.Hasil penemuan RCI itu kelak akan dirujukkan kepada Gani Patail sekali lagi untuk keputusan.

Kita telah lihat dan muak dengan tipu helah dan pembohongan Gani Patail dalam mengendalikan RCI Mata-lebam, RCI V.K.Lingam dan jelas sekali dalam RCI Teoh Beng Hock.

Begitu juga dengan rakyat Negeri Kelantan.Mereka juga saya jangka akan diperdayakan dan dihampakan.Rakyat Kelantan harus sedar bahawa PM Najib bukan sahaja akan melibatkan Gani Patail dalam Jawatankuasa mengkaji Royalti minyak bagi Negeri Kelantan itu, malahan keluarga Gani Patail juga dilibatkan secara langsung dalam Panel tersebut.

Bilamana sahaja terdapat elemen Gani Patail diserapkan dalam apa-apa Penal, Jawatankuasa atau Suruhanjaya Di-Raja sekalipun, maka akan terdapat perbuatan pemalsuan, perdayaan dan penipuan.

Penutup.

Saya akan panjangkan surat ini kepada YAB Perdana Menteri menerusi email juga dan dijangka sampai serentak dengan surat kepada Tan Sri.

Saya memohon maaf kerana tidak dapat menghadiri Majlis Berbuka Puasa bersama YAB Perdana Menteri anjuran Bukit Aman kelmarin, atas sebab-sebab yang tidak dapat dielakkan.

Selamat menunaikan Ibadah Ramadhan. Wassalam.

Yang Benar,

Mat Zain bin Ibrahim.

08.08.2012.

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May 13 film: ‘Govt’s fear-mongering tool’

Anisah Shukry | August 8, 2012

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Analysts say that that the upcoming film’s depiction of the May 13 riots will spark unhappiness among the public and can be seen as a move to cow Malay voters.

PETALING JAYA: The government-backed film Tanda Putera is Barisan Nasional’s way of instilling fear into the hearts of the rakyat during the run-up to the country’s 13th general election, according to a political analyst.

The film was originally slated for release on Sept 13 but was now expected to reach cinemas in November following controversy over its depiction of the May 13, 1969 riots – an incident largely seen as a stain on Malaysia’s multiracial history.

“There are definitely political motives behind the movie, in terms of it being released near the general election,” political analyst Ong Kian Ming told FMT.

“One of the primary reasons for the release of the movie is that it is part of a larger picture involving fear-mongering – to create a sense of fear among the Malay community that if BN was to lose the next general election, it would lead to a repeat of the May 13 incident,” he said.

The race riots four decades ago had been sparked off by an election setback for the Malay-dominated ruling alliance. The riots lasted several weeks, with the death toll said to be 196.

But the USCI University lecturer stressed that Malaysians had largely moved on from the incident and it would have little impact on urban voters in particular.

“In the urban areas, voters are more sophisticated, so the affect would not be big.

“But once the movie filters down to rural voters, there would be greater political impact as they have less sources of information to turn to,” he said.

The rural vote, comprising mainly of Malays, was largely seen as Umno’s stronghold and a major variable in winning the next general election.

BN had managed to remain in power during the 2008 general election due to winning the many small rural parliamentary seats that made up the numbers in Parliament.

‘Malaysians unhappy over film’

Meanwhile, James Chin, who heads the School of Social Sciences in Monash University, predicted that many Malaysians would be “very unhappy” with the film due to its depiction of the riots.

“A lot of people would be very unhappy with this movie, given that it would an represent official version of events,” the analyst told FMT.

“This movie is sponsored by the government, so people would make the assumption that the authorities have approved the contents and that it represents official history,” he pointed out.

The film’s director, Shuhaimi Baba, had recently told New Straits Times that she did “a lot of research” to make sure the scenes were backed by historical facts.

She added that the film’s intention was to “educate young Malaysians about 1969.”

“But in Malaysia, contemporary history is much disputed for the simple reason that there are two sides to a historical event. This is especially true for controversial events such as the May 13 incident,” said Chin.

The official government view on May 13 was that racial tensions were incited by communists, while the Chinese-dominated DAP further heightened the conflict by holding a victory march through Malay-dominated areas after gaining in the May 10 1969 elections.

But opponents to the interpretation claimed that a Malay elite led by then deputy premier Abdul Razak Hussein orchestrated the unrest as a pretext to cement Malay control.

Abdul Razak, who is Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak’s father, became the nation’s second prime minister in the aftermath of the riots.

‘Film may backfire on BN’

Meanwhile, Ong also said that the film could potentially cost the ruling government precious votes if its depiction of Malaysian history was clearly slanted towards one party.

“If the movie is seen as blatantly one-sided, and they only show propaganda and the film itself is historically inaccurate, then it can easily backfire, especially among the non-Malays,” he said.

Lending credence to Ong’s view was the response the film had received from cyber citizens.

A Facebook page calling for the boycott of the film was also set up last month under the name “We boycott ‘Tanda Putera’ for being a political puppet of BN.”

The film’s trailer, which was available on YouTube, had received 4,541 “dislikes” compared to 491 “likes” as of today.

Ong said if the government was truly serious about the May 13 issue, it should organise a dialogue rather than allow the film to be released and create fear among the public.

“The government should have made a more concerted effort for a dialogue, where all stakeholders and those affected by the tragedy are allowed to voice their thoughts,” he added.

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Utusan Malaysia front-page headline “Haram sokong DAP” torn to smithereens Najib’s 1Malaysia signature policy

With 23 days to go before Malaysia celebrates the 55th Merdeka Day and 39 days the 49th Malaysia Day, patriotic and nationalistic  Malaysians find it most sad and heart-rending at the appearance of  more and more evidence  of powerful and divisive centrifugal forces out  to divide instead of uniting Malaysians.

Today the UMNO newspaper Utusan Malaysia’s front-page headline
“Haram sokong DAP”
 provides the latest evidence, tearing into smithereens Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s signature 1Malaysia policy to create a Malaysian nation where every Malaysian would regard himself or herself as Malaysian first and race, religion, region or class second.

Utusan Malaysia’s scandalous and outrageous screaming headline
“Haram Sokong DAP”
 is a multiple indictment – of Utusan Malaysia, UMNO and the Najib premiership!

Is Utusan Malaysia trying to foment and incite religious conflicts in Malaysia?

The pondok ulama who made the statement is totally irrelevant, as the issue is not who made the statement,  but how a responsible and nationalistic  newspaper belonging to the ruling UMNO could publish such a headline when it not only goes against the very grain of the Prime Minister’s 1Malaysia policy in the past three years but the  very essence of  Malaysian nation-building in the past five decades!

Or is Najib admitting that he has lost total control of Utusan Malaysia and that the UMNO newspaper is now run by UMNO warlords who are not beholden to him and the official UMNO and Barisan Nasional national policies?

I have no doubt that if such an irresponsible and incendiary front-page newspaper headline had been directed against UMNO or any BN component party, using say
“Haram sokong UMNO”
,
“Haram sokong MCA”
 or
“Haram sokong MIC”
, the Home Ministry would have acted swiftly to slap a ban on the defaulting newspaper.

But here we have the Prime Minister, the Home Minister and the ruling coalition condoning if not endorsing  such irresponsible, despicable and seditious publication!

There seems to be a conspiracy to prove Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad right with regard to the  former Prime Minister’s prediction in June that the next general election will centre on race as “Malaysia has  become more racial than ever”!

Is this why 10,000 Umno/Barisan Nasional cybertroopers have been raised to spin and  spread lies and falsehoods, as in the recent case  related to the government-funded  film “Tanda Putra” on the May 13 riots in 1969, making the wildest,  baseless, reckless, despicable and defamatory allegations  that I had provoked the May 13 riots in 1969 in the street processions, that I had killed Malays and even urinated at the flagpole of the Selangor Mentri Besar’s residence when I was never in Kuala Lumpur on May 11, 12 and 13, 1969?

A newspaper which could publish a front-page headline like
“Haram sokong DAP”
 is an anti-national and anti-Malaysia newspaper.

Malaysians and the world are watching.

Will Najib, who prattles about “Moderates of the world unite” in international forums, take action against Utusan Malaysia for another example of extremist, irresponsible, incendiary, seditious, anti-national gutter journalism calculated to foment racial ill-will, religious distrust and undermine national unity?

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Apa masalahnya kalau DAP menang bersama PAS, PKR?

— Aspan Alias

The Malaysian Insider

Aug 08, 2012

8 OGOS — Kali ini saya kembali menyebut satu isu yang pada saya sepatutnya menjadi satu isu basi dan tidak lagi diperbesarkan. Isunya ialah isu penyertaan saya dan beberapa orang Melayu dalam Parti Tindakan Demokratik, DAP.

Saya tahu ini merupakan isu yang tidak berapa laku lagi sekarang kerana orang ramai tahu yang momokan Umno dan penyokongnya dalam isu ini semakin hari semakin pudar dan sudah tidak diterima oleh rakyat yang ramai.

Saya tidak berminat untuk melayan momokan ini, tetapi terlalu ramai sahabat dan rakan-rakan yang menyokong saya menyertai DAP ini meminta saya menyebutnya sekali lagi, setidak-tidaknya buat kali terakhir. Mereka yang menyokong saya meliputi penyokong-penyokong saya dari seluruh negara dan ramai di antara mereka meminta saya menulisnya lagi.

“Penyokong Umno ini malas berfikir. You mesti beritahu mereka selalu, kalau tidak mereka lupa. Orang yang malas berfikir mesti diperingati selalu sebab mereka payah untuk memahami isu-isu penting ini. Mereka ini tidak pernah dilatih untuk berfikir sebaliknya dilatih untuk mengangguk sahaja,” kata beberapa orang yang menyokong saya menyertai DAP walaupun mereka ini hanya sekadar penyokong yang akan memberikan undi kepada DAP.

Sebenarnya apa yang hendak saya sebutkan lagi kerana semuanya sudah disebut banyak kali. Apakah benar yang DAP itu adalah parti Cina? Mungkin DAP itu disertai oleh ramai orang Cina tetapi ia bukan parti Cina.

DAP adalah parti berbilang kaum yang memperjuangkan nasib semua bangsa. Parti ini memperjuangkan kebersihan dalam pentadbiran kerajaan yang sangat kotor pada masa kini. DAP memperjuangkan ketelusan dan menolak isu rasuah yang banyak berlaku dalam kerajaan dan pimpinan BN sekarang ini.

Di mana-mana saya pergi, dari utara ke selatan, dari timur ke barat saya berjumpa dengan ribuan orang dan tidak ramai yang membangkang saya setelah saya berikan “rationale” kenapa kita tidak perlu takut untuk memberi sokongan kepada DAP yang merupakan salah satu komponen dalam Pakatan Rakyat ini.

Saya bukannya duduk di rumah berdiam diri. Saya selalu meninggalkan rumah untuk pergi ke merata-rata daerah dan tempat dalam negara ini. Saya dijemput untuk berceramah dan memberikan penerangan kenapa kita tidak perlu gusar untuk memberikan sokongan kepada DAP.

Barisan Nasional khususnya Umno memang begitu takut dengan pengaruh DAP tetapi sebesar mana pun pengaruh DAP itu ia tidak akan menguasai kerajaan dan Putrajaya jika Pakatan menduduki Putrajaya itu. DAP akan menurunkan hanya seramai lebih kurang 50 kerusi sahaja dalam pilihanraya yang akan datang.

Jika DAP menang kesemuanya, parti yang saya anggotai ini tidak akan terjadi apa yang dikhuatiri oleh segelintiran orang Melayu. Takkanlah nak buat kiraan yang senang ini pun mereka (penyokong BN totok) tidak mampu?

Tetapi jika DAP menang semua kerusi, ia memang penting untuk perjuangan rakyat berbilang kaum di negara ini. Pertamanya, parti ini mempunyai rekod ketelusan dalam pentadbiran, Pulau Pinang misalnya.

Jika DAP bersama-sama dengan PAS dan PKR menguruskan Putrajaya itu sudah pasti DAP akan memainkan peranan untuk keadilan ini. Yang pentingnya kita mempunyai kerajaan yang bersih daripada noda rasuah yang menggila dan menjadi benteng kepada perompak harta rakyat seperti yang lazim berlaku sekarang ini.

Saya menjadi ahli Umno selama 40 tahun dan di dalamnya saya telah menjerit dan berbuat segala-galanya untuk mengingatkan parti itu supaya berbuat yang baik dan jauhi segala kemungkaran terhadap politik dan ekonomi negara.

Tetapi saya siapa? Tidak ada siapa yang mendengarnya kerana saya hanya seorang picisan dalam Umno yang begitu kuat budaya mengampu dan membodek ini. Saya yakin dengan sebenar-benarnya yang kebaikan itu tidak akan datang malahan hanya kerosakan sahaja yang akan wujud, “from bad to worse”.

Maka saya bertindak untuk bersama DAP dan, “I want to grow old with this party”. Saya merasakan bahawa parti ini juga boleh memperbaiki diri saya kerana saya telah begitu lama dalam Umno dan saya memerlukan parti yang boleh memperbaiki sikap dan nilai dalaman saya dalam perjuangan politik negara ini.

Bunyinya besar tetapi saya tetap seperti dahulu, bukannya orang yang mempunyai apa-apa kedudukan dan tidak bergelar serta bernama seperti rakan-rakan yang lain yang mengampu ke hulu dan ke hilir itu.

Saya sebutkan kita mesti menyertai parti yang boleh memperbaiki diri kita dan saya merasakan DAP telah pun sedikit sebanyak memperbaiki kelemahan-kelemahan yang ada sedikit sebanyak di dalam diri saya.

Kalau saya masih berada di dalam Umno saya tidak akan memperbaiki diri saya kerana Umno tidak terjumpa nilai-nilai kemanusiaan yang baik dalam perjuangan selain daripada memperjuangkan nasib peribadi mereka semata-mata.

Bermacam-macam yang saya alami sejak menyertai DAP. Ada sahabat karib yang meninggalkan saya terus kerana marah-marah kerana mereka percaya pada momokan Umno dan BN. Tetapi saya mendapat penyokong baru yang begitu ramai dan mereka tidak putus-putus menghubungi saya dan bertukar-tukar fikiran sesama kita.

Alhamdulillah, usaha saya itu berbaloi dan ramai orang Melayu yang akan bersama saya untuk mendokong DAP sebagai sebuah komponen dalam Pakatan Rakyat.

Saya sekarang yakin bahawa PAS, DAP serta PKR akan mendapat dokongan rakyat dalam pilihanraya kali ini dan saya tidak sabar juga untuk melihat perubahan untuk kebaikan itu dalam pilihanraya kali ini. Saya akan bergembira melihat perubahan untuk kebaikan ini berlaku semasa saya masih hidup dan bernyawa ini.

Kepada rakan-rakan saya yang berada jauh dan dekat, ayuh kita teruskan usaha kita dan kepada mereka yang tidak gemar oleh kerana momokan Umno itu, biarkan sahaja mereka di sana. Kita wajar memandang ke hadapan tanpa menoleh kebelakang lagi. Yang penting negara kita ini kita ubah untuk kebaikan bersama.

Sekarang apa masalahnya lagi? Pemimpin yang rasuah sekarang mungkin bermasalah, tetapi rakyat tidak ada masalah. — aspanaliasnet.blogspot.com

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