Press banned from reporting Isa’s suspension

We were deliberately shock in disgrace to hear that the Chinese dailies had been instructed by the Home Ministry not to report on Tan Sri Isa Samad’s suspension from Umno ahead of the Bagan Pinang by-election.

What is this all about? Talking about "1Malaysia, Rakyat Didahulukan, Pencapaian Diutamakan", and then doing some other things negatively from behind scene. This anti-democratic moves by the Home Ministry is clearly a violation of human rights, democratic principles and freedom of expression.

What if those Chinese dailies ignore the ban and choose to continue reporting on Isa Samad’s previous suspension from Umno due to money politics and corruptions in the party? Is the Home Ministry going to close down the press or what? Can anyone from the "police ministry" answer this please?

Talking in general, how on earth a tainted and corrupted leader be chosen to be a candidate for a by-election? If you give bribe to a civil servant to work on you favor or to gain something, you will be charge in the court of law and jailed.

And this former Negri Sembilan mentri besar had openly offered money to bribe the party delegates into electing him as party vice president and yet he was only suspended from Umno and not charged in the court of law.

That means, Umno is telling the people that this country had two sets of law where one applies only to Umno leaders while the other is for common people like us.

Therefore, by voting Umno’s Isa Samad into power again would mean voting to validate corruption, power abuses and money politics. These three negative elements will certainly destroy our nation’s prosperity and growth if Umno is allowed to continue to reign our nation.

Think seriously about it please!

TI: Anti-corruption efforts wanting

The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) and other "reforms" introduced by the government has so far been ineffective in fighting corruption in the country.

Transparency International president Datuk Paul Low said today they have not produced "the desired results" and so the public perception of corruption remains unchanged.

"Malaysians are fed-up with the status quo and the unbearable effects of corruption in the country," he told a press conference after presenting the country report in the Global Corruption Report (GCR) 2009, which focused mainly on corruption in the private sector. Also present was TI executive director Mark Chay.

Low said indicative of this is the Global Corruption Barometer 2009 survey released in May which showed that 70% Malaysians believe the Malaysian government is ineffective in fighting corruption.

In contrast, although Indonesia’s has a far worse position in the corruption perception index than Malaysia, the survey found that 76% of its people believe the Indonesian government is effective in fighting corruption.

"Before the MACC was established last December, the public perceived the then Anti-Corruption Agency (ACA) was not independent from the executive branch of the government. "The ACA was perceived to be selective in its investigations and prosecutions, in that they catch only the small fry and leave the big fish -- and it was politically motivated," he said. “With the MACC now, although there are commissioners from outside in its new structure, it is really difficult to say if it is any different from the old ACA and MACC has yet to prove this statement otherwise,” he said.

Low pointed out that the controversial death of political aide Teoh Beng Hock in July, in itself raises questions on the MACC's professionalism and hints of abuses of powers in the way it conducts investigations.

Likewise, the GCR pointed out that the implementation of the watered down Independent Police Complaints and Misconduct Commission (IPCMC) to a Special Complaints Commission (SCC), strongly indicates the government’s inability to regulate the gatekeepers.

Low said the public needs to be confident of a clean police force which is free from external influences and that investigations are conducted fairly into all reports lodged to the police.

The GCR report noted that inaction in the light of serious corruption allegations and inability to catch the ‘big fish’, has gravely undermined public confidence in the authorities. “Public confidence will be further undermined if these issues are not addressed quickly and effectively,” said Low, pointing out that issues pertaining to alleged tampering in the appointment of judges as highlighted in the V.K. Lingam case, has been left unresolved since 2007.

Low stressed that the inter-relationship and participation between the government, civil service and private sector, in effect, negates the concept of check and balance. “A common thread running through politics, the civil service and private sector is the revolving door, through which individuals move from government to business or business to politics and back again,” the report highlighted.

Low said while it is good in the context of solving economic problems and dealing with investments, “political patronage or funding and money politics are big issues in the economics.” "Until drastic action is taken to separate the cozy relationship between government, business and politics, the anti-corruption effort will remain no more than a token gesture,” he stressed.Among others, the GCR said the Port Klang Free Zone (PKFZ) case - which it described as one of the biggest scandals of the year - involving politicians, government officials and businessmen, substantiates the weak oversight of public-private relationships. “The complexity of the relationships between politics and private sectors mean that corruption may take place with impunity.

Therefore, the practice of revolving and rotating doors and active government participation in the economy creates an appearance of impropriety…and increases corruption risks,” said the report.However, Low was happy to note that there has been commendable efforts in making public the details of the scandal. “Never in the Malaysian history has there been such a disclosure before,” he said.

Meanwhile, the GCR commended the Penang state government for introducing several measures to improve the regulatory environment with regard to government procurement, referred to as a CAT -- Competent, Accountable and Transparent - government.“It is the first state government to implement the open tender system for government procurement and contracts,” it noted.

As to the question of whether corruption is a way of life in Malaysia, Low said: “Yes, when the society believes that nothing can be done to fight it; when elected representatives and their close supporters believe that they are there to make money for themselves; when institutions and enforcement agencies are ineffective and independence are compromised; and yes, when dishonesty, corruption and self-indulgence becomes values that are tolerated.” - The Sundaily

BN will never change

Let us look at the recently concluded party elections in the MIC where all those men who were aligned to Samy Vellu won and grabbed all the important positions in the central committee and the disciplinary board as well.

The reformers led by Datuk S.Sothinathan were blantantly rejected by the assembly of conservative delegates. After his defeat, no one knows where is Sothi's direction or what will be his next course of action.

For Datuk S.Subramaniam who is vying for a comeback but failed to garner enough votes to take down Samy's Datuk G.Palanivel for the deputy presidency, he will still be on the run in the party.

This time Samy had enough with his former deputy and vowed revenge against him for not staying out of the party elections.

The situation is clear, Samy Vellu had a firm grip over MIC for decades and he still wants to hold on it. Perhaps, he is vying for the party life presidency now.

In this case, MIC cannot reform and rejuvenate and you had seen the leaders of the rest of the BN component parties.

Umno is still with their racist tags and jargons of the 50s after 52 years running this country, PPP president Datuk M.Kayveas purged his reformist rising star Datuk T.Murugiah, Gerakan president Tan Sri Dr Koh Tsu Koon suspending his outspoken party vice president Huan Cheng Guan for 3 years, while MCA president Datuk Ong Tee Keat ousting his deputy Datuk Seri Dr Chua Soi Lek by sacking him from the party.

The rest, Sarawak's Pesaka Bumiputra Bersatu (PBB) president Tan Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud is going to stay on as chief minister as long as he lives, Sarawak United People's Party (SUPP) president Tan Sri Dr George Chan is not making way for the young ones in his party and so does the rest in the BN fold.

The question is can BN component parties really reform while all those old and conservative leaders continue to cling on to their positions? Can these BN component parties reform while their outspoken leaders and reformist are purged and kicked out of the party and their positions taken away to prevent them an active role from within?

Certainly there will be no change at all if all these defiant conservative leaders stay on to their respective party positions. It shows that all these BN component parties cannot accept changes and reform despite knowing that they had been rejected and turned irrelevant after the 8 March general elections last year.

Therefore, for change to materialise in BN, no way! If you want real change and reform, leave the corrupt coalition and join Pakatan Rakyat. We are the real reformists.

Perak Umno rebel government sealed state secretariat

The Umno police personnel preventing Pakatan assemblymen from entering the state secretariat building. The Pakatan assemblyment were led by Datuk Nizar and his state Exco members.

The Perak Umno rebel state government today sealed the entire state secretariat which also house the state legislative assembly building in their bid to prevent the state assemblymen and the Speaker from commencing the state assembly sitting as required by the Perak state constitution.

To strengthen its move, the Perak Umno rebel state government had called in the federal-backed security forces as well as their party supporters from all over the country. The Umno supporters was earlier spotted in an opposite site demonstrating against the Pakatan state assemblymen and supporters. Most of the Umno members are clad in yellow shouted slogans supporting their rebel leader Dr Zambry Abd Kadir and denouncing the legitimate Pakatan-led state government.

As the state assemblymen and the Speaker was disallowed entry into the state legislative assembly building by security forces personnel and Umno supporters, the Speaker had no choice but to convene the state assembly sitting at Heritage Hotel in Ipoh and passed motions to condemn the acts of Umno state assemblymen, defectors and imposed fines onto those who involved in the last 7 May fracas which saw the Speaker V.Sivakumar was forcibly pulled from his chambers and locked up in an undisclosed room.

Apart from being forced out violently from his chair, Sivakumar was also prevented from discharging his duties as the state Speaker. He was then replaced by the rebel-appointed R.Ganesan before the 7 May state assembly sitting commence.

The sitting today approved a decision by its rights and privileges committee to arrest and jail for six months the rebel Speaker Ganesan and his deputy Hee Yit Foong for their active role in the said fracas. The two were also fined RM500,000 by the state assembly.

The rebel state government was established by Perak Umno last February following their coup d'etat which saw the Pakatan state government being toppled. The Umno rebels had since refused to back down despite mounted pressure from the public to dissolve the state legislative assembly to pave way for a fresh state elections for fear of being rejected by the people again.

Rumours of a Selangor 'coup' unleashes pre-emptive moves

Rumours about a BN-Umno engineered Selangor coup are making the rounds among political circle and Pakatan leaders are not taking it sitting down.

This is certainly a well-planned coup attempt by BN-Umno same as the one they did it on Perak on last February. Well, we hope that the Selangor Pakatan leadership will plan its strike back before it is too late.

Learn from the experience that Perak Pakatan had undergone. The BN-Umno had the MACC and various security apparatus to support their coup attempt. The Selangor Pakatan need to sit down together to come up with their next course of action rather than to deal with petty political squabbles amongst PKR, DAP and PAS.

Remember, the Umno president Najib Razak had pledged to retake Selangor at any cost and if he is serious about this, he will do it at any cost, by riots, by force or any ways he wants, even the armed forces tanks might be send in to topple the state government.

Therefore, we hope the Selangor Pakatan will start doing their homework before it is too late. Be extra careful and maintain your alert at any possibilities. These Umno people are really uncivilised and they could resort to anything if they want.

BN versus BN

With both MCA president Datuk Seri Ong Tee Keat and Sarawak People’s Democratic Party (SPDP) treasurer-general Datuk Seri Tiong King Sing who is also the BN Backbenchers Club president openly at loggerheads now over the Port Klang Free Zone (PKFZ) irregularities, it is Barisan Nasional versus BN now.

The MCA president who is also transport minister lodged a police report recently against Tiong over the latter’s allegation that he had given RM10 million to Tee Keat to support MCA’s divisional spending.

According to Tiong he had donated RM10 million to the MCA president last year after he was requested to do so by Tee Keat. The money was also alleged to have been paid in cash in three stages during a meeting between the two men at Petaling Jaya and Kuala Lumpur respectively.
Both Tiong and Tee Keat are now exposing one another about their previous ties, relationship, friendship and their deals as well.

When Tee Keat pledged to tell all about the PKFZ scandal which caused the massive losses in billions of Ringgit, the core player of the project Kuala Dimensi Sdn Bhd (KDSB) of which Tiong is also the chief executive officer was frequently mentioned as part of the scandal.

Tiong who is the CEO of KDSB is definitely very hot up against Tee Keat by now for making KDSB a scapegoat to this scandal. Due to this, Tiong decided to expose and tell all about his deals with MCA previously which may in turn affect the credibility of Tee Keat as both MCA president and transport minister.

Apart from the RM10 million claim that help to strengthen MCA, Tiong’s deputy CEO in KDSB had also claimed that Tee Keat had also used his personal air transport several times to travel to certain locations.

In this case, will the MACC be interested in having this case probed and bring those who are responsible to justice? Maybe MACC is only interested in cases that involve only a few hundred Ringgit and cases that are fabricated against opposition party leaders and members.

Even though the PKFZ scandal cost the BN federal government about RM12 billion in losses, it is merely a BN case and the MACC would not take its initiative to intensify its investigation on those wrongdoers and prefer to investigate non-existence cases involving opposition parties.

In this event, the MACC cannot even demonstrate its effectiveness and professionalism as claimed by MACC officials all this while. It only serves the purpose and interest of their political master, Umno.

And since this scandal involves corruptions practically, why didn’t the Port Klang Authority (PKA) lodge their report with MACC against KDSB but instead did its report at the police commercial crime investigation department?

Well, even the PKA did not trust the MACC now as they knew that organization is merely an Umno’s political tool. That is why PKA preferred the police commercial crimes investigation department to investigate the case.

In conclusion, both Datuk Seri Ong Tee Keat and Datuk Seri Tiong King Sing should resign from their positions respectively as these two men’s reputation has been tarnished politically and ethically by their own doings.

But we could see these two men are not brave enough to face the facts. Can they face the people and the voters then?

Umno youth leaders to undergo military training

According to the MalaysianInsider report on 9 Aug recently, Umno will be making arrangements to send all its youth leaders including its youth chief Khairy Jamaluddin to undergo military training. The training module would be a commando-type.

Umno vice president and defense minister Datuk Ahmad Zahid Hamidi is the core person taking charge of this program in his capacity in the defense ministry.

Well, what was the political motive of providing military training to all these Umno youth leaders? According to some source, the aim of this training is to establish a party militia force in order to provide security and political intelligence to the top party leadership. Apart from that, the said militia force would also be tasked to protect the party’s interest.

This remind us on how Chancellor Adolf Hitler build his Nazi Party’s militia and security unit into a large military force called Sturmabteilung (SA) and the Waffen-SS (SS) which nearly posed a threat to the German regular army, called the Wehrmacht.

The SA forces took up the role of auxiliary police force in Germany while the SS became a party military force consist of group, divisions, regiments, battalions and company levels which was equivalent to the regular army.

During Hitler’s reign over Germany and all over Europe, the SA and SS were widely used to organize ethnic cleansing, wiping out local resistance and create fear amongst the people over its rule and the Nazi empire.

Besides, the SA and SS were also used in Germany itself to curb local opposition against the regime and to put down the German resistance who aimed to assassinate Hitler and topple the Nazi administration.

So, with Umno youth leaders undergoing military and commando trainings, what is the current direction of the party now? To remain in power forever by force! We had seen the experience in Europe during Hitler’s era.

Dartuk Rais internet filter plan

We wish to express our grave disappointment over the BN federal government’s plan to filter control the flow of blogging and internet news portals. These actions are greatly undemocratic and dictatorial in human rights aspect.

What the information, cultural and heritage minister Datuk Seri Dr Rais Yatim planned to do for the BN clearly shows that the BN-Umno coalition had totally conceived defeat. They wanted their mainstream media to continue monopolize the information flow to the public. They wanted all information to the public to be censored to ensure BN and Umno continue to stay in power for as long as they want.

Besides, the BN also intend to filter the internet in order to severe the communications between the Pakatan Rakyat (PR) and the people as a whole. The problem they should think is, are they able to do that?

The BN-Umno coalition government did not want the truth to be channeled to the people. They knew that it was because of our bloggers who spread to the public the truth about BN and Umno’s wrongdoings, corruptions and power abuse, they lost badly in the last general elections.

We also welcome a BN component party member, Gerakan who openly protest plans to censor the internet and hope they will not go backward just because of Umno’s pressure. Gerakan had earlier stated its intention to join the Anti ISA rally on 1 August but pulled out in the last minute due to pressure from their BN dominant party Umno who voiced their dissatisfaction over Gerakan’s non-BN move.

Look, even in the BN fold there are no practical democracy at all. All BN component parties do not even have they rights to express their opinions or voice their criticisms over certain issues of public importance. They are required to respect and support whatever decisions made and determined by the dominant force of the coalition, Umno without any questions or say in opinions.

MIC politicising Buah Pala to cover up Maika

The MIC and its party president Samy Vellu had failed to protect the interest of our fellow Malaysian Indians for decades.

It has been almost 30 years now ever since our Malaysian Indian friends had invested heavily in Maika Holdings Berhad with high hopes that their profits and investments will reap one day. Unfortunately, what have they got today? Nothing at all! The Maika’s businesses and ventures has been a total failure all these years which cost all the shareholders and investors funds and monies.

Where did the monies of all these poor investors gone to? What has Samy Vellu done about this to settle their grievances after all these years, when he was a powerful minister in the federal government? Well, he did nothing the Malaysian Indians but only cares for his wealth and his pocket.

Samy Vellu boastfully said that the Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng can settle the Kampung Buah Pala issue with only a stroke of his signature in his capacity but as MIC president he cannot even settle the Maika scandal after all these years.

This shows that Samy had admitted his guilt and his inability as well, but he still insist and wanted to stay on to power as MIC president eventhough he had lost his Sungai Siput parliamentary seat and his ministerial position after the previous general elections.

Now, when the Kampung Buah Pala issue turned sour, MIC politicized it and tried to become a superhero rushing over there to defend the affected residents, but they never being able to do anything at all.

The real question is, where were all those MIC leaders, and what have they done to prevent this from happening when the previous Penang Gerakan-led Barisan state government approved and sold the land to the developer. Why are these MIC leaders keeping so quiet and cowardly run away just like that?

Therefore, no matter what the MIC has been doing right now, the party had become irrelevant and cannot be reformed anymore.

Settle Maika missing funds first, MIC told

The MIC president S.Samy Vellu and his son, Maika Holdings Bhd chief executive officer S.V.Pari have yet to give their explanations to Indian community who are also investors and shareholders over the mishandling of Maika’s investments and its funds.

The Indian community had been waiting for generations for Maika to answer their questions which were left unanswered for decades.

Samy Vellu and son, you had taken away all the hard earned money of the Indian community and did not return them despite many such requests to do so. If there are any MIC leaders ho had question the Maika missing funds, you just shut them off or sack them from the party in order to cover up the theft.

You told the party members and the Indian community that you are in firm control and no one can challenge or question you authority. Now you had lost your ministerial position and the Sungai Siput parliamentary seat and you still want to cling on to the party president’s position. Shame on you!

The position of party president does not belong to you. If you want to continue hanging on to the position, then amend the party constitution by creating a new position of party life president so that you can lead the party until you pass away one day.

Samy Vellu and MIC ought to settle the Maika Holdings case first. Do not interfere in the Kampung Buah Pala matter as you are not fit to do so. You are no longer the legitimate representative of the Indian community and so does the MIC of yours.

The Malaysian Indian community of today still lacks behind in all fields and sectors just because MIC only cares for the elite Indian leaders and its top business associates. MIC failed to assist and address the poor and needy ones and for decades they had suffered so much until they could not bare it anymore and thus, the crime rate increased.

Then Umno and the police force put all the blame on the community, got Kugan killed while in detention, got Sujatha poisoned maybe because she had some information leading to Maika’s case and so on.

Do not blame anyone else but MIC who had created a group of political warlords amongst their elites to take control of the equities of the Indian community but not benefiting the others who are not part of them.

Therefore, Samy Vellu and MIC cannot speak on behalf of the Indian community anymore as all of you are not fit to do so. You and the MIC only represent the “golongan bangsawan India”.

If you claim that you represent the Indian community, then why are there so many Indian based parties today? Why did the Indian Progressive Front (IPF), Malaysian United Indian Party (MUIP), Makkal Sakti Party (MSP), Human Rights Party (HRP), Malaysian Indian Democratic Action Force (Mindraf), Kongres India Muslim Malaysia (Kimma) and the Hindu Rights Action Force (Hindraf) emerge in the middle of the community? Are you able to explain all these in detail? We are certain that you cannot.

Just leave the affairs of the Indian community to PKR, DAP, the PAS Indian Supporters Club and the Sri Murugan Center to deal with, and stop claiming that you are legally representing the Malaysian Indians. You are not at all.

MIC is only for the elites and not for the ordinary folks like us. Do not interfere in the Kampung Buah Pala matter anymore. Stay away and do not create anymore trouble.

Putting our angers and frustrations into People’s Power

This month July 2009, our entire nation is shocked, irritated, disappointed, ashamed and angry. We demand for straight answers, we wanted to know what and why it happened.

An innocent young man was murdered, a young lady who was supposed to get married has been widowed, an unborn child has been made fatherless and denied his father and a family has been traumatized and handicapped.

We Malaysians want to know the truth and motives that lead to this tragic moment and have all those who are involved in this murder to face the court of law and justice.

Unfortunately, the BN federal government have yet to commence its probe onto the young man’s death openly and transparent. It had already shown signs of failure and its insincerity towards resolving this case.

A magistrate level court has been assigned to conduct an inquest on the death, while the royal commission will be established to only look into the investigative methods and process of the MACC.

These shows tat the BN federal government is not serious in wanting to solve this case with transparency and to serve justice. By having two different entities to investigate two kinds of situation shows that the BN federal government wanted to break up the chain of links between the MACC and the young man’s death.

In the end the results and findings of these two investigative bodies will also be in conflict since the magistrate inquest and the royal commission goes by their separate ways and means to conduct their inquiries.

By then, can you or are we able to see the effectiveness of these two investigation that will sum up their results and findings that will lead to the arrest of those murderers and be brought to justice.

Pakatan Rakyat is not manipulating, provoking and politicizing this issue as claimed by Umno. It is the duty of all members of Pakatan Rakyat to come out to help whoever or any other persons whom they saw being treated in an unjust or inhumane way to seek justice.

It was Umno and its wholly-owned press who are trying to manipulate this case into racial tension by publishing articles supporting the death of the victim, condemning those who came forward to seek justice, it was Umno who is trying to use race sentiments to create unrest and use it to their advantage.

If the magistrate inquest and the royal commission really prove to be ineffective, al of us will be very disappointed, ashamed, and angry but this does not mean we will hit back physically and protest in a violent manner as did Umno all this while.
We are all matured enough to think, analyze, and to make our decisions and judgments, then translate it into votes at the ballot boxes in our next 13th general elections which will be held in three years time. We are very patient and can wait and when the time comes we will remember what the BN had done to our people.

We will participate in the People’s Power to show this BN dictatorship that we already had enough of their nonsense.

Let’s Just Change It!

Plot hatched to topple State Government

Currently rumored around in the Selangor state are allegations that most of the state executive councilors of Pakatan Rakyat are endured in a corrupt practice to swindle state funds and allocation for personal use.

As the result, the MACC efficiently stepped in and round up the entire Selangor state government for questioning. In the middle of the interrogation, one of the state government officials was being found murdered at the Selangor MACC headquarters.

Then a blog surfaced recently claiming that the named state Exco members were part of the corrupt group of high ranking state officials that had murdered Teo Beng Hock in their effort to cover up the alleged activities.

Allegations after allegations, it seems that some parties out are trying to hatch a systematic plot to topple the state government and to take over the administration by force or violence means by inciting wild allegations and pressure against the current state government which is run by Pakatan Rakyat.

The police did nothing while the MACC is doing their best to discredit the state government, while the federal government which is still under the BN pulled its strings from behind scene. It is a very clear and open secret that the BN federal government is gearing up its plot to take over the industrialized state from Pakatan Rakyat after their successful coup d’etat that toppled the Perak state government last February.

It is a very clear fact that the BN-led federal government had wanted to avenge Pakatan Rakyat over their 8 March 2008 general elections grave defeat last year by seeking all kinds of ways and means to destabilize the Pakatan-rule state governments which lead to the collapse of the Pakatan enclave in Perak.

Besides Perak, the BN is also eyeing to destabilize two industrialize states namely Selangor and Penang, where Selangor is currently being targeted for alleged corrupt activities and Penang being embroiled in a minor racial tension following an attempt by an Umno-linked developer to evict and demolish an Indian based traditional village on an acquired land to make way for a mega project which was previously approved by the then BN Gerakan-led state government.

Apart from that, Umno is also pushing hard on Gerakan to launch a large scale assault and allegation against the Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng alleging that he is corrupted and rented a high price residence to make way for a “renovation” of his evacuated official residence Seri Mutiara.

BN had every resource, like the police, the MACC, the military, the judiciary, the intelligence apparatus, the mainstream media and whatever powers they got to engineer their plans to discredit, destabilize and to topple the Pakatan state government if they want to.

But what did the Pakatan Rakyat have? Only the support from the people and our conscience! Pakatan Rakyat had in fact nothing to defend themselves against any onslaught or coup attempt from the BN all-mighty powers.

Therefore, Pakatan Rakyat leaders from PKR, DAP and PAS need sit together to take on a bigger role by establishing a security force of their own.

Why two inquiries for probe Teo’s death?

According to the BN cabinet decision, two types of inquiry would be established to probe the death of Teo Beng Hock who was found murdered in the MACC building last week.

A royal commission (RC) would be formed and assigned to find out MACC’s investigation methods while a magistrate’s inquest (MI) would be tasked to investigate the cause of Teo’s death.

First of all why would the BN federal government to establish two separate bodies to investigate this case? What was the actual motive of doing this? The BN federal government did not give any reasons on their decision to separately conduct the investigation on MACC and into Teo’s death.

Perhaps the BN federal government did not want to embarrass themselves (who earlier initiated the upgrade the entity of the MACC) and the MACC as well. And that is why they did not want an RC to probe the MACC directly on Teo’s death. So, they just appoint an inquest at magistrate level to conduct the investigation.

We are certain that once the RC and MI start their assignments, some of their reports and finding would be conflicting in a way and fact that these two entities conduct their investigations separately. And when their reports and findings are conflicting, how is the federal government going to make their decisions and what kind of action will they take as well as to base on who’s report in order to sum up their next course of action?

Just because there are two separate RC and MI to partially probe into Teo’s death, we are most certain that these two bodies would be ineffective and powerless to determine any actions on the culprits and those who are involve in Teo’s murder. And when these two entities are powerless and ineffective to come out with their solutions, then the BN federal government would step in to have their final say which of course would be in the interest of the MACC and not totally a just and fair one for Teo’s family, fiancée and our people.

Therefore, there are no clear directions and targets for both the RC and MI to begin and achieve because the responsibilities and the subject matter has been separately assigned. Is this the intention of the BN federal government that the MACC investigation method and Teo’s death would not be linked and if these two are not linked, how are they going to determine the cause of Teo’s death?

In the end, will BN say he committed suicide or he accidentally fell off while walking near the window? The question here is not only Teo’s death, because they are also others who had suffered and died while being detained or investigated before this.

We want justice and empowerment of human rights to ensure such power abuse would not repeat anymore. The problem is can BN provide us justice and human rights?

Report lodged against Guan Eng at MACC Penang

We heard in disgust that the Penang Gerakan youth led by its state vice-chairman H’ng Khoon Leng had lodged a report at MACC against our Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng when he had refused H’ng’s demand to reveal issues related to his rented house after he moved out of Seri Mutiara which has been infested by termites.

Guan Eng was right that these Gerakan youth leaders are acting like kindergarten kids. In fact, we would say these Gerakan youth leaders are mere hypocrites. They claimed that they are here to fight corruptions, to uphold justice and to be a constructive opposition in the state.

The Penang Gerakan youth leaders are making a fool of themselves about this matter. Have they looked at their own political master clearly so far? Umno leaders had stolen and played with our people’s billions of Ringgit in public funds, staying and enjoying their lifestyles in costly bungalows and mansions built with their ill-gotten money.

Are these Gerakan youth leaders so blind until they could not see all these power abuses within the BN coalition? Or they are merely keeping quiet about Umno’s misdeeds and wrong in order to protect their money and wealth too? There is also another reason, Gerakan is afraid of Umno’s ketuananhood and supremacy.

Whenever they are any expose which are affecting Umno, Gerakan would be called in to act as an agent to divert our people’s attention on Umno’s crimes and power abuses by making a hell of fuss and noise in the Penang state government and our Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng.

Because Gerakan is still performing its slavery dutifully for Umno and helping them to advance its supremacy, Gerakan will be dead for good in Penang. Gerakan and BN will never ever again be able to return to power in Penang.

Gerakan will become like PPP soon, a mosquito party still day dreaming of regaining Penang in the next general elections.

A tragic death of democracy

The special assistant to a Selangor state executive councillor, Teo Beng Hock’s death caused by MACC is tragically outrageous and the democracy of our nation is now at stake.

The MACC (Malaysian Anti Corruption Commission) had lost all its credibility and the trust of our people and they had also brought shame to our nation. Despite its new entity and upgrade recently, the MACC still practices selective political persecution by working closely with Umno to target and destroy democracy, justice, freedom and equality.

In fact MACC had also became a component member of the Barisan Nasional (BN) answerable only to the Umno top leaders and not the parliament who earlier enacted an Act to established the anti graft commission.

We, the people are watching all over you now. MACC had in fact demonstrated its one-sided policies by practicing selective persecution against members of Pakatan Rakyat for the so-called “abuses” claimed by Umno while corruptions of Umno leaders, ministers and officials are simply ignored and swept right under the carpet for good. This is a total cover-up. Why? Because MACC is part of the BN coalition at the federal level.

While the real culprits (Umno leaders, ministers and officials) are enjoying their lifestyles in big mansions and palaces from the money that they had stolen from our people, our socio-people oriented Pakatan Rakyat elected representatives are often being targeted as they are guilty criminals or terrorists.

With Beng Hock’s death caused by the MACC, we should say that there should be no more trust onto them anymore, no matter what sort of reasons they intend to give or had already given. MACC cannot avoid and run away from the people.

MACC used the taxpayers’ money to advance the interest and the political will of Umno in order to counter the rising popularity and influence of the recently emerged Pakatan Rakyat coalition of opposition parties (PKR, DAP and PAS).

Umno cannot do it by itself via a democratic ways and means and that is why they are using the judiciary, police, military and MACC to curb democracy, justice, equality and limit our freedom as well.

Umno and BN had committed a mass genocide against our people and the nation as a whole. And if we don’t vote them out, they are going to turn our entire nation into a battleground with civil unrest one day.

So, remember, Vote Them Out in the next general elections.

NTV7 host given a warning over Najib’s scorecard

We learned in disgust that the Point of View program host for ntv7 Florence Looi was unreasonably given a warning letter just because she seeks a score opinion for Najib’s first 100 days as a prime minister which was rated C and D by guests invited to her program for their views.

The two guests who were invited to the talk show are writer Syed Akhbar Ali and The Malaysian Insider consultant editor Leslie Lau who later gave scores of C and D to the Najib administration.

There you are another one of Najib’s 1Malaysia concept. Freedom of speech and opinion are being censored in such way. Is this part of Najib’s 1Malaysia plan to further curb democracy and views of our people?

We believe that most of the media centers and companies in this country are being forced to act on directives from the higher authorities so that their business licenses and permits are not withdrawn or revoked.

Therefore, staffs of these media centers and companies are always reminded to sing words of praise and worships to the BN government leaders. The BN government is still in a denial mode. They cannot accept truth, criticisms, including constructive ones even if it is a fact and such actions are deemed absurd, childish and it clearly reflects on the immaturity of the BN government leaders, particularly from those of Umno’s.

All the while, BN and Umno cannot and will never take criticisms sportingly in order to correct and improve from all those negative views and comments. BN and Umno always emphasize that they are on the top and their policies and methods are always correct. The people must follow their directive even if they do not like it.

This is Umno’s supremacist policies and our country is on its way to dictatorship. With BN and Umno continuing its governance, Malaysia is moving backward and not forward.

Gerakan making a crack out of CM’s rented house

The Penang Gerakan is making a hell of noise over Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng’s departure from his official residence Seri Mutiara and his subsequent shifting into a rented house.

Guan Eng’s departure from his official residence, reasoned that the white ants had infested the entire building and it would not be save for the chief minister to continue staying in the said residence.

Then Guan Eng moved into a rented house to await repairs to be carried out on his government residence. Is that wrong? What are the elements of corruption as claimed by the Penang Gerakan leaders and where is your evidence which led to this “corrupt practice” which you all had mentioned.

We wish to remind Gerakan, of all the years of their rule in Penang, why didn’t they root out the corruptions and wrongdoings of their political master Umno? These Umno leaders are hundred times more corrupt then anyone else in this country.

In fact the entire BN coalition is corrupt. Gerakan, like Umno is also still in denial mode. They cannot see what are the wrongs and negatives in themselves but would rather make unpleasant statements and remarks on others.

Gerakan, as been over a decade being part of the corrupt institution, BN, Umno and its governance and therefore, they are not fit to talk about anti-corruption, transparency or accountability.

Gerakan needs to clean its own backyard first!

Kg Buah Pala : Tsu Koon should come out to resolve the crisis

Come on, Dr Koh Tsu Koon, it doesn't mean when you are now a minister in the federal government, you need not care about your homestate anymore.

We all know what you had done, and we are sure that you also know. So why hide in Kuala Lumpur and Putrajaya and refuse to come out like a man to help to resolve all the mess created by your previous state government?

Tsu Koon, you should not put the blame on the pesent state government and manipulate this issue into a racial one. You are not being transparent on your past doings.

The Khir Toyo scandal, corruption and power abuse

First, the Istana Zakaria of former Port Klang state assemblyman Datuk Zakaria Md Deros and now another palatial palace of former Selangor Menteri Besar Dr Mohd Khir Toyo just surface a few days ago.

After Dr Mohd Khir, who else? We are certainly sure that the rest of the Umno leaders do also own such palaces. These are the results of businesses, contracts, favours and rewards that they had received during their tenure in offices respectively.

Looks like these Umno leaders are fond of wealth and building palaces and mansions here and there to tell the people of their extensive wealth and powers they possess.

So what did the other BN component parties like MCA, MIC, Gerakan, PPP, PBB, SUPP, PBS, SPDP, Upko, LDP and PBRS have to say? Well, they said nothing and all seems to be keeping quiet about the power abuses of their leading component party, Umno. This is because Umno owns a ketuananship that other BN component parties do not enjoy.

But when our Penang Chief Minister and DAP Secretary-General Lim Guan Eng left the termite infested official residence, Seri Mutiara to move into a state subsidized rented bungalow, all the BN component parties are making the hell of noise saying that Guan Eng is wasting public funds by renting a bungalow and not wanting to stay in Seri Mutiara anymore.

So, who cause the Seri Mutiara to be infested with termites? Shall we say Gerakan and MCA as they were the members of the previous state government in Penang? Is Gerakan or MCA trying to say that Guan Eng had abused his powers by moving into a bungalow from Seri Mutiara? They wanted Guan Eng to continue staying in Seri Mutiara until it collapse one day and injure him and his family members.

What do MCA, MIC, Gerakan, PPP, PBB, SUPP, PBS, SPDP, Upko, LDP and PBRS have to say about their political master Umno who spend billions of Ringgit in building and constructing palaces and mansions for their top leaders and divisional chairmen? Are those leaders in MCA, MIC, Gerakan, PPP, PBB, SUPP, PBS, SPDP, Upko, LDP and PBRS too blind to see all those wrong doings committed by Umno leaders?

Therefore, we urge MCA, MIC, Gerakan, PPP, PBB, SUPP, PBS, SPDP, Upko, LDP and PBRS not to be so hypocrite and look at the mess in the BN coalition first before they talk about leaders and governments of Pakatan Rakyat.

In fact, the leaders of MCA, MIC, Gerakan, PPP, PBB, SUPP, PBS, SPDP, Upko, LDP and PBRS are not fit to talk about competency, accountability and transparency or whatever KPI because they are already part of the dirty dozens in the BN fold.

Kg Buah Pala: Gerakan ran into hiding

Come on Gerakan, you started the Kampung Buah Pala crisis and you are now running away, washing off your hands just like that.

Gerakan, please remember, no matter how much you wash your hands or how far you run to hide yourselves, our people will come after you all. In order to cover up your previous bad deeds, you are now capitalizing on the entire situation by blaming the Penang DAP-led state government for its failure to help those affected residents who will be evicted by an Umno-link property developer soon.

Where is Senator Dr Koh Tsu Koon, the former Penang chief minister who is now the minister in the prime minister’s department in the BN federal government! Do not think that you could escape from the people by staying in Kuala Lumpur to become a minister.

Prior to the Gerakan president’s defeat in the last general elections, Dr Koh as the then chief minister of Penang had purposely approved the sale of the Kampung Buah Pala land to a politically link property developer without even a single thought of the welfare of the people over there.

And recently the prime minister Najib Razak had also announced that they will not assist the residents of Kampung Buah Pala and no funds will be channeled to the affected residents because this is not a national issue. So once Najib said this, Dr Koh and his Gerakan party will think that they are now safe.

Our people are saddened and gravely disappointed that those who had contributed towards the destruction of Kampung Buah Pala is now claiming to be champions of the people and causing a lot of instability in the Penang state. Besides, some Umno are also believed to be helping Gerakan make this issue into a racial one so they could further capitalize on the situation.

By the way, is Umno trying to launch another coup d’etat here in Penang by stirring up racial tensions in this disputed village? Who knows their plans are ongoing.

Therfore, Pakatan Rakyat need to beef up their state security or else you may end up like your counterparts in Perak.

1Malaysia, a BN political ploy

1Malaysia, 1Malaysia is mentioned everywhere now. The federal government under the BN-Umno is now working round the clock every second to ensure that our people are one hundred percent brainwashed into adopting this idea which is seen as a mere political ploy by Umno to cover up their defeat, weaknesses and their racist chauvinistic political strategies.

Just right behind 1Malaysia campaign, BN-Umno is organising a major offensive in Pakatan rule states by clearly encouraging 2Kelantan, 2Kedah, 2 Penang and 2 Selangor policies. Their 2Perak offensive has been successful where the Pakatan state government was overthrown by an Umno-sponsored coup d'etat on early February this year.

Let us look at their 2Kelantan, 2Kedah, 2 Penang and 2 Selangor policies right now. In order to rival the Pakatan state governments, the BN established a Federal Development Department (Jabatan Pembangunan Persekutuan) in each of these states with a state director taking charge of each of the states. A kindly of "de-facto state government" if you study the BN's intention carefully.

Then down below, the BN also established rival entities to challenge the state appointed offices like the Penghulu which are state appointed, is rival by a Penghulu Persekutuan. That means each of these areas are now having two Penghulus, one is a state while the other is a federal appointed.

Then we go down to Village Security and Development Committees (JKKK) which is also under the states' jurisdiction are now being rivaled by BN's federal appointed Federal Village Security and Development Committees (JKKKP). That means all those kampungs and pekans in the Pakatan rule states now have two kinds of JKKKs administering the respective areas.

What is the BN-Umno trying to prove actually? Wasting public funds and monies to by creating all these additional positions and paying them with allowances just like that? Does the Federal Development Department (Jabatan Pembangunan Persekutuan), Penghulu Persekutuan and the JKKKP really have any legal statures to rival the states and areas?

This is a very big No! The establishment of Federal Development Department (Jabatan Pembangunan Persekutuan), Penghulu Persekutuan and the JKKKP are totally against the state constitutions because these positions are de-facto ones and they did not have any legal means to establish at all. These entities are just like the current Perak rebel state government established by Umno in aftermath of their coup d'etat.

Therefore, BN's 1Malaysia is only a ploy to distract our people from their real plans behind which is aimed to split our people, to create disunity, disharmony and to confuse the entire nation.

BN and Umno are the ones who are anti-establishments.

Pakatan states ought to have own security force

In aftermath of the 8 March general elections last year, DAP, PKR and PAS came together to established a coalition named Pakatan Rakyat to govern five states namely Kedah, Penang, Perak, Selangor and Kelantan which they won over in the said poll.

It was most unfortunate that after the five Pakatan state governments started functioning, the federal government which is still dominated by Umno but without the two thirds majority in the parliament, started and continues its political offensive nationwide against Pakatan in order to curb their rising influence and popularity amongst our people.

Security forces under the jurisdiction of the home ministry were widely being used and mobilized nationwide by Umno to watch and control the increasing activities of Pakatan component parties via restrictions, banning of ceramahs, withdrawal of earlier permits given, massive arrest of supporters, issuing threats and so on.

Besides, Umno s also trying to win back the hearts of the Malay community by stirring up racial sentiments and tensions, promoting hatred and creating chaos in a number of Pakatan rule states.

First, a massive illegal rally was organized by Umno in Penang to protest against plans outlined by the DAP-led state government to implement an open tender system which encourages competency, accountability and transparency. The new state government policy was apparently being twisted by Umno to sound like the DAP had came out with an anti-Malay policy in order to stir the anger of the Malays residing in the state. The police did nothing and did not bother to disperse the illegal rally because it was organized by Umno and it did not have a permit to assemble. The Penang state government however, tolerated the rally with much patient and managed to explain to the people on its new policies. In this case, Umno’s first coup attempt failed in Penang because the overall Malay community did not support the provocative move.

Then, Umno pursued further, this time created havoc and racial tensions in Selangor by alleging that a state executive councilor had instigated the people to protest against two mosques’ azans. As a result the state executive councilor was detained by the Umno inspired police force and put under a so-called ISA detention for few weeks where her whereabouts was kept secret. The state executive councilor was an innocent lady who knew nothing of the intended protest against the mosques’ azan. It was an Umno leader by the name of Dr Mohd Khir Toyo who had stirred up the racial and religious tension in hope that there will be a riot in the state thus allowing the federal government to declare an emergency rule in the state and to have the military called in to take over the state administration from the Pakatan state government. In this case, Umno’s second coup attempt failed in Selangor as the people of the state had fully rallied behind the Pakatan-led state government.

Third, the then Penang Umno Bukit Bendera division chief Datuk Ahmad Ismail again stirred up racial tension in Penang by calling the Malaysian Chinese as Squaters and Temporary Residents of this country. It resulted to massive protest from various Chinese guides and associations and even Umno’s coalition partners in the BN like MCA and Gerakan sounded their protests heavily on their political master and Datuk Ahmad’s racist statement.

Due to this, journalist Tan Hoon Cheng who had reported what Datuk Ahmad said was made a scapegoat and she was unreasonably arrested and detained under the ISA for nothing. The real culprit, Datuk Ahmad escaped justice because he is a prominent Umno leader and closely link to the prime minister.

Not enough with Hoon Cheng’s ISA detention, Umno leaders in Penang ran wild and even called for the journalist to be executed by shooting because she reported the truth. We could remember that Penang Umno secretary Datuk Azhar Ibrahim personally called Hoon Cheng to be killed because she exposed Umno’s racist activities. And the police did nothing despite police reports were lodged by DAP, Gerakan, MCA and other Chinese community leaders. The police could not take action against these Umno racist due to the fact of the supremacist position that Umno leaders enjoyed in this country. This is really frustrating.

In Perak, the Umno leaders successfully engineered a coup d’etat that toppled the Pakatan state government after they enticed two of its state executive councilors and the state assembly deputy speaker to jump ship.

In aftermath of the rebellion, Umno established a rebel state government to take over the state administration from the Pakatan side. The Umno rebel government also used its newly acquired powers to seal off the Perak state legislative assembly building to prevent the state assembly from convening its meeting thus, resulting to the sitting held under a tree outside the state legislative building.

Police and paramilitary personnel were dispatched in number of regiments and battalions to prevent Pakatan leaders from entering the state legislative assembly building and the state secretariat. Apart from that the Umno-led security forces had also surrounded the Sultan’s palace in Kuala Kangsar in order to prevent any Pakatan leaders from seeking an audience with his royal highness to explain the actual situation.

Then, later the Pakatan’s Perak state assembly speaker was ousted in another coup d’etat engineered by Umno in an unconstitutional manner and he was replaced by a strange man who was not even a state assemblyman. And when the speaker tried to resist his coup plotters, the Umno rebels called in their security force and have him forcefully removed and dragged out from his chambers and locked in a dark room for few hours before he was released. These security men did not act professionally nor constitutionally but rather politically pro-Umno against the Pakatan state government leaders in order to maintain their livelihood.

These policemen really had no choice. They are all under the jurisdiction of the home ministry whose minister is a vice president of Umno, the dominant party of the BN coalition. And if they resist their political masters, what will they get in return? Everyone knows.

From here, you could clearly see that even though Pakatan Rakyat is governing some states that they had won right now, they are completely defenseless against the mighty institutions of the Umno dominated federal government like the police force, the military, paramilitary forces, prisons department, judiciary, MACC and the mainstream medias like RTM, TV3, NTV7, Radios, Berita Harian, Utusan Malaysia, NSTP, the Star, etc.

It is very clear that the Pakatan state government had nothing to defend themselves against any onslaughts from the Umno-led federal government and their powerful institutions. What if Umno decides one day that they had enough with all the Pakatan state governments, and decides to declare a state of emergency in these states to forcefully take over the governance of these states with the police and military forces mobilized into action on their behalf?

What can the Pakatan state governments do then? Just sit there and watch their administrations being toppled like that? Are there any other choice? Mobilize their supporters and members to protest against the Umno dominated police and military forces? This would not help much as it may somehow result to bloodshed or massive death among our people if Umno decides to offensively crackdown on Pakatan Rakyat.

Therefore, it is extremely important that the Pakatan Rakyat leaders should seriously consider this option to establish their own security force within their institution and we stress that a Pakatan-led security force is essential to create a balance of power with the Umno-led security forces which can be seen today in its effort to crackdown the activities and influences of our Pakatan state governments and to ensure the stability, security and the safety of their people are maintained in the respective states.

Take Perak by example, Selangor and Kedah might be next. You have to take up this option.

Bad taste in mouth at DAP dinners

In Malaysiakini report, it stated that the police action in breaking up recent DAP dinner functions has got the organisers riled up and slammed the cops for denying them their right to free speech as enshined in the constitution.

First of all, what is wrong with the police and the home ministry? Are they trying to curb the influence of DAP and the other Pakatan Rakyat parties?

It looks like the police force has been Umnonised by the BN-Umno to serve their own interest. No wonder the crime rates are high up today just because the entire force has been mobilised for Umno's sole political agenda.

That is why we really need the Independent Police Complaints and Misconduct Commission (IPCMC) to oversea such power abuses carried out by Umno and its BN component parties.

Written Judgment missing

The Appeal Court had on 22 May gave a verbal judgment confirming that Perak rebel leader Dr Zambry Abd Kadir was the rightful menteri besar of Perak thus, overruled an earlier decision made by the High Court declaring that Datuk Seri Mohd Nizar Jamaluddin was the lawful menteri besar of the Perak.

Well, the situation now is getting tense, Datuk Nizar wanted to file an appeal against the Appeal Court's decision but the Appeal Court judges had yet to finalise their written judgment which they made on 22 May verbally. Why are these judges delaying their judgments in writting? Did they really know how to write their judgment?

Or is this a sabotage effort from someone at the top instructing those judges to delay the written judgment so Datuk Nizar would not be able to file a proper and detail appeal against the judgment?

The Appeal Court had earlier promised that they will provide the written judgment within seven days from the date of the judgment day, that is 22 May but to-date nothing has been issued to Datuk Nizar so far.

And now Datuk Nizar is faced with the ending of the 30 day deadline to file an appeal to the Federal Court just because of the purposely delayed written judgment from the Appeal Court.

This is a very clear act of attempt to sabotage Datuk Nizar's effort to file an appeal against the Appeal Court's decision.

PAS wants DAP, PKR in unity talks

Malaysiakini reports that PAS told Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak that it will hold unity talks with Umno only if PKR and DAP are included in the talks.

The statement was released by PAS Secretary-General Datuk Mustafa Ali today.

We view Mustafa's state as PAS' positive move to ensure the spirit of comradeship within the Pakatan Rakyat coalition is maintained and whenever any issues or matters in relation with a component party with another outside the coalition must be brought up and consulted amongst component parties.

A good start for the new PAS secretary-general for his move to ensure the unity in Pakatan Rakyat is preserved.

However, PAS must be very careful that any talks of "unity" offered by the BN-Umno coalition must be carefully reviewed and studied. It may be a trap set by them in order to break up the Pakatan Rakyat's coalition.

A grave distortion of the constitution

Malaysiakini reports that the decision by the five members of the Federal court who declared that the Elections Commission has the power to over-rule the Speaker is nonsensical.

In this case, the powers of the Speaker be it Dewan Rakyat or State Assembly will be overruled by EC on what cause ? What kind of analysis will the EC able to determine if the decisions they had made did not contravene with the one made by the Speaker ? Who is actually running the state legislative assembly or parliament now ? The EC or the Speaker ?

The EC current comes under the jurisdiction of the Prime Minister's Department and where the chairman of the EC reports directly to the Prime Minister Najib Razak. From the basic establishment it has already made known that a conflict of interest had in fact exist in this relationship.

In fact, the EC should be put answerable to the parliament instead of the Prime Minister's Department in order to affirm its neutrality stance in the eyes of the public.

And now the Federal court ruled that EC could interfere in the Speaker's decision. Is this part of the democratic process ? What if a state ruled by an opposition front and EC is not happy with it and decided to call for a fresh election if the federal government want to do so ?

BN-Umno is using the Federal court to rule on its favour in order to provide more powers to EC to act on its behalf. These actions are undemocratic and unconstitutional. It is reaching towards the dictatorship path.

PKFZ scandal, PAC useless

The key persons in the Port Klang Free Zone (PKFZ) scandal which cost the BN-led federal government millions of Ringgit in losses will not be hauled up for enquiry.

Tun Dr Ling Liong Sik and Tan Sri Chan Kong Choy have to take full responsibilities and answer to all Malaysians for the failure of the PKFZ project which saw a great wastage of public funds in millions of Ringgit unnecessarily.

It does not mean if persons with titles of Tun or Tan Sri shall be immune from all prosecutions and court of laws. If they are wrong and proven guilty, they should be hauled up and punished accordingly.

The current parliamentary Public Accounts Committee (PAC) which is chaired by a BN cabinet minister Datuk Azmi Khalid is a useless entity as the chairman is too powerful and one-sided. The members of the PAC in majority had wanted both Tun Dr Ling and Tan Sri Chan to be summoned before the PAC hearing to testify on the PKFZ scandal but Datuk Azmi with his wide powers as PAC chairman overruled the PAC majority by refusing to summon the two former MCA leaders.

Besides Tun Dr Ling and Tan Sri Chan, the others were former Port Klang Authority (PKA) chairman Datuk Chor Chee Heung who is now a deputy finance minister in Najib’s government and former PKFZ general manager Datik Paduka O.C.Phang.

Well, since the BN-led federal government had made the PAC a redundant entity and exist only by name, let us see if the Malaysian Anti Corruption Commission (MACC) would haul up all these PKFZ key persons who are responsible for the PKFZ losses and failures.

From this point, we could clearly see that the taxpayers’ hard earned money varnished just like that. This is completely disgusting and injustice. We all worked so hard every day to earn that money and remit our tax to the government and these people just took all those money away into their pockets.

We want to ask Najib, if all these hanky-panky continue, what is the use of your “People First” and “Performance Now” slogans that you are promoting? They are completely useless and baseless as it is a mere cover up, we supposed.

Every time whenever a new BN prime minister is installed a new slogan will be introduced to the people based on his new leadership but did the new administration really initiate any changes or improvements? The answer is a no. it is a mere window dressing in order to “reform” an old order into a new one. Only rebranding has been carried out and not reform.

After PKFZ scandal, there will be another PKFZ-type debacle to come very soon as long as BN is still around. The future of our country under the BN rulers is at stake and the risk will continue to be at its highest level.

More on PKFZ scandal right over here

RM4.1 million facility for Mat Rempits

We were recently informed that the Terengganu Umno state government intends to build a race circuit to facilitate the so-called Mat Rempits to race in the track, so that they could upgrade and improve their skills and stunts.

And that race circuit will cost about RM4.1 million. The state government is already out of their mind. Spending public funds to build a facility just to cater these criminal gangs to polish their skills and stunts.

Just what kind of state government is this anyway? Wasting the people's money to entertain the greeds of these criminals or are they trying to use all those public funds to feed the Umno contractors? Who knows !

First you got your Sultan Mizan Stadium shake up and collapsed and now you are supporting these gang of road criminals.

Hidden crisis in the BN fold

As we all know, whenever Pakatan Rakyat component parties are practicing their democracy from within and expressing their different thoughts and views respectively in public, the Barisan Nasional (BN) particularly Umno is quick to take advantage on the situation by saying that the opposition alliance is in brink of collapsing.

Why did they do that? Because they wanted to divert the people’s attention from their massive internal bickering in both BN and Umno itself. Umno’s factional infighting intensified with most of its reform minded leaders were either being sidelined or sacked from the party. Of course we all remember that Datuk Zaid Ibrahim was sacked from the party for his outspoken and reformist views.

MCA’s team A led by Datuk Ong Tee Keat (party president) is giving no way to the party’s team B which is led by Dr Chua Soi Lek (deputy president). Efforts by both factions to outdo each other are beginning to hurt the party very much from within. Both factions are also uploading their canons to be fired at each other whenever there are opportunities to do so.

MIC’s supreme leader, Datuk Samy Vellu had successfully kicked out his potential challenger Datuk M.Muthupalianappan in the recent party elections, while PPP’s Datuk M.Kayveas kicked out his suspected presidential rival Datuk T.Murugiah, accusing him of money politics.

Gerakan’s outspoken party vice president Huan Cheng Guan is on his way for expulsion after being issued a show-cause letter for his lashing on the party’s central leadership. Looks like party president Dr Koh Tsu Koon is not going to give way and he is now working towards a collective decision from the party central committee to have Huan expelled from the party.

It seems that most of the BN component parties are facing the similar problems. All potential rivals or reform minded leaders from within are systematically curbed or eliminated to prevent any challenges to the present conservative leaderships in those component parties.

It is a clear fact that BN is operating like a secret society, where its component parties are trying to cover up their own weaknesses or divert the people’s attention to other politicized issues. It is a waste that all those young leaders in the BN are not groomed and appreciated at all. They were merely tools being used by their party elders to seek support from the young voters.

Most of the leaders of these BN component parties are resisting every effort to reform and change of which will definitely see their powers and stature being affected. And if these happens, those party elders are set to lose all their positions and powers they had long enjoyed for decades.

Then when the press or newspapers are trying to check for information regards on their internal feuds, they are quick to maintain that their respective parties are still united and strong as before. They are covering their open secrets which are already known by the people, hoping to avoid any embarrassment or being scrutinized by the people or voters.

Nizar to appeal against judgment

Datuk Seri Nizar Jamaluddin is look set to file an appeal against the Appeals Court’s ruling on last May declaring Perak rebel leader Dr Zambry Abdul Kadir as the rightful menteri besar of Perak.

The problem that Datuk Seri Nizar would be facing right now is, he has yet to obtain the written judgment made on 11 May by the Appeals Court judges who presided the hearing and ruled in favour of Dr Zambry. The judgment was in fact made verbally.

Where is the written judgment then? What take those judges so long to prepare and write down their judgment of the day? Do these judges in the Appeals Court know how to write their judgments?

Or are they waiting for Datuk V.K.Lingam to help them draft their judgments? Is there a motive to delay the written judgment so that Datuk Seri Nizar would have a difficult time in filing a proper appeal against the said judgment? We supposed it could be a sabotage going on to prevent Datuk Seri Nizar from obtaining a proper court hearing for his appeal against the ruling.

Umno and its Perak rebel state government is trying every effort to manipulate the court in order to rule in their favour and against the constitution and the people as well.

The current administration in Perak is now being run by the rebels who seized power in an Umno-sponsored coup d’etat last February and it is not an elected state government as they proclaimed. It is a rebel state government run by Umno and their lackeys from MCA, MIC, Gerakan and PPP

Mustafa: Stop all talks on unity gov't

Malaysiakini reports PAS elections director Mustafa Ali today urged all his party leaders to stop issuing confusing statements relating to unity talks with Umno.

We view his statement to be positive move and he had contributed in maintaining the unity amongst Pakatan Rakyat component parties.

As such, we also would like to urge all parties to refrain from making anymore statements which would eventually affect the current stature of the Pakatan Rakyat coalition.

We also urge all Pakatan Rakyat component party leaders to brainstorm their current policies and the recent statements they had made in their upcoming Leadership Council meeting.

Do remember, BN-Umno would take this opportunity to manipulate the entire situation to our disadvantage and we need to be very careful of our current political security.

BN component parties in crisis

In aftermath of the general elections last year several Barisan Nasional (BN) component parties had came down with severe problems, tussles and crisis which are affecting the credibility BN coalitionas a whole.

Umno, the major and leading component party of the BN coalition is downed with intense bickering and infighting as well as factional disputes involving its leaders in Perlis, Kelantan and Terengganu tussling with each other to hold on to their respective positions. As the result, most of its state leaders were replaced by party national leaders who are not even from the states concerned, thus making these parachuted new state leaders difficult to understand the needs of the local Umno leaders and members.

Perlis started its sword fighting when the then long-serving menteri besar was suddenly replaced by a politically unknown after the general elections. In Kelantan, factional tussles are clearly shown in public with not much success of calming the situation which is getting worst. In Terengganu, the long-serving menteri besar was also abruptly replaced by a relatively unknown low-key politician after the last general elections.

And now, the situation in Terengganu is expected to go on from bad to worst. State Umno leaders and their state assemblymen issued threats to harm each other over their differences and tussles. The ten Umno assemblymen even boycotted the state assembly proceeding earlier citing “security” reasons for doing so.

If situation turns worst, a no-confidence vote or possibility of a Perak style coup d’etat is expected to take place in an attempt to overthrow the current menteri besar who is from the same party.

In MCA, the party’s president Datuk Ong Tee Keat and his deputy president Dr Chua Soi Lek continue to tussle in public in order t outdo each other and had since made clear of their factional rivalry. Datuk Ong is not going to compromise or give way and so does Dr Chua himself.

In MIC, old guards under the leadership of Samy Vellu continue to hold firmly on the party, resisting any attempt to change or reform the party and preventing young bloods from taking over. Any potential rivals or future opponents are swiftly identified and crushed in order to curb their influences.

Gerakan, with Dr Koh Tsu Koon now at helm as party president faces a big challenge now trying to hold the party together after its massive defeat and their Penang base tumbled in last year’s general elections. Most of its prominent leaders had since left the party for Pakatan Rakyat component parties or went into “semi retirement”. The latest headline recently is the party’s vice president Huan Cheng Guan had given an indication that he too will soon leave the party citing dissatisfaction and non-reform of the party’s top leadership.

The People’s Progressive Party (PPP) is embroiled into yet another leadership crisis after decades of factional struggle with both Datuk M.Kayveas and Datuk T.Murugiah claiming the party presidency and now with two party presidents and two supreme councils at helm. The Registrar of Socities (ROS) is also going after the PPP leaders for their failure to submit their annual returns and accounts of several years.

The soon to be BN new component party, Indian Progressive Front (IPF) is also embroiled into leadership crisis, following the death of its founder president Tan Sri MG Pandithan. The initial faction currently presided by the wife of the late president while the other faction was lead by a rival leader who claimed to have support from branches and divisions that made him an acting party president. Both rival factions in IPF are expected to hold their party elections in order to “legalize” their claims to the respective positions and their rival supreme councils as well. Will IPF be able to make it into the BN fold then?

Looks like the BN is beginning to disintegrating from within, starting from the very top Umno, MCA, MIC, Gerakan, PPP and then ………….all will fall apart.

If BN still resist change and did not want any reform, let it be. We already had an alternative now. Let us not waste our time and get on with it.

Gerakan leader to quit party soon

Gerakan vice president Huan Cheng Guan is expected to leave the party soon citing disillusionment with the Gerakan’s top leadership for refusing to heed the lesson of its defeat in Penang to Pakatan Rakyat during the general elections last year.

Besides, Huan also confirmed that, if he leaves, he will bring along about 5000 party members to join his departure. Huan, who lost the Bukit Tambun state seat to DAP in the last general elections said he was considering joining another political party but did not name of the party that he is eyeing for.

It looks like Gerakan is beginning to lose all its prominent leaders. Last year, party deputy secretary-general Lee Kah Choon quit the party to join the Penang state government’s investment arm, while former Penang Gerakan vice chairman Dr Toh Kin Woon quited the party to join Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) and former Gerakan wanita chief Rhina Bhar left the party citing that the party was swaying from its original struggle and her disappointment with the party’s top leadership.

Gerakan’s Federal Territory state liaison committee chairman Dr Tan Kee Kwong also resigned from the party last year to join PKR and later took up a position with the Selangor state government.

PKR's Mansor won with 5,558 majority

Mansor Othman is on the way to become Penang's new Deputy Chief Minister after winning Penanti by bagging 6,052 votes. His nearest rival is a former Gerakan divisional leader Nai Khan, 494 votes, followed by Aminah, 392, and Kamarul, 56.

All the three independent candidates lost their deposits. Congratulations Mansor on your victory.

Agreeing Chin Peng to return does not mean reviving communism, BN-Umno’s double standard politicking and racist approach

For over the past few weeks, we had heard a lots of comments on Ong Boon Hua @ Chin Peng, the secretary-general of the now defuct Communist Party of Malaya (CPM) who wanted to return to his homeland called Malaysia.

Many supported the idea on his intended return and many also did not. For those who supported his return to our nation are merely on humanitarian grounds. And for those who are against his return, were those who had said the war and cruelty he caused during the emergency from 1948 to 1960 is unforgettable and remorseful.

Then the information, cultural and heritage minister Datuk Rais Yatim who is also an Umno supreme council member, came out aggressively and attacked those who supported Chin Peng’s return as an attempt to revive communism. And so does all the Umno leaders and the party’s controlled media, mainly the Utusan Malaysia and RTM. Looks like the BN-Umno led federal government had made out a racial overtone in their anti-Chin Peng campaign to make sure this little old man dies in exile.

BN-Umno reasoned that Chin Peng’s war atrocities are too much to allow his return to Malaysia. His application for return to our nation cannot be justified due to his previous led CPM insurgency. We think the BN-Umno leadership is trying to manipulate the history side of this man and his party who also once fought the British colonialism and the Japanese occupation. We must also remember that Chin Peng and the CPM did really contribute a little more than Umno in fighting for the Malayan independence.

Let us not argue so much, and take a look back the history of our independence struggle. We hope Umno will not turn this tide into a racial tension in order to gain some political mileage. What Datuk Rais and the rest of the Umno leaders said on the Chin Peng issue is very much demonstrating their fear and worries of losing their political battle of which there are set to lose now, due to their declining influence.

If there are attempt to revive communism, why didn’t the BN-Umno federal government break its diplomatic relationship with PR China (who once actively supported and armed CPM’s insurgency), DPR Korea (North), SR Vietnam, Lao PDR and Cuba? But instead encouraged the advancement of diplomatic and economic activities with all these socialist and communist countries?

We all remember the atrocities and war crimes committed by the Empire of Japan’s Imperial Army and Navy during from the 1930s to 1945. We all remember what the Japanese did to us during their occupation in Malaya and the rest of the countries in Southeast Asia, Asia Pacific, North Asia and their brutal attack on the US Pacific Fleet Command base in Pearl Habour. Chin Peng and the CPM fought those invading Japanese imperial force bravely and most of them sacrificed and died defending their homeland called Malaya at that time from Japanese invasion and atrocities. Had ever Umno or BN exist at that time to defend Malaya during the war?

And the atrocities and war crimes committed by the Empire of Japan’s Imperial Army and Navy during from the 1930s to 1945 are far more worst than what Chin Peng and CPM did to Malaya from 1948 to 1960. Yet the BN-Umno federal government decided to forgive the Japanese for what they had did to our forefathers and welcomed them into our nation with their expertise and technologies. Even the Americans too forgave them and they are now allied to them politically and militarily

Therefore, if BN-Umno federal government forgave the Japanese for their past war crimes and atrocities that they had committed on our forefathers, does that mean BN-Umno had embraced and supported what the Japanese had did during the Second World War? If this is what BN-Umno had earlier mean, those who supported Chin Peng’s return are showing signs of an attempt to revive communism.

As such, we can also say that BN-Umno’s acceptance to the Japanese business and technological establishment in our nation is a sign of their attempt to revive and support the atrocities of the Japanese Imperial Army on our people.

From here, we could clearly see that there is a hidden motive in BN-Umno who is going all out making a big issue on Chin Peng and the revival of communism and we wonder if Chin Peng were a Malay, would their stand and emotions be the same?

You can judge how fair is BN-Umno in handling their racial matters. Their federal government, together with their wholly-owned press Utusan Malaysia are currently campaigning very hard to label Chin Peng as a “cruel” communist leader who should not be allowed to return the our country, while the other “cruel” communist leaders such as, CPM chairman Rashid Maidin and CPM central committee member Shamsiah Fakeh were allowed to return to their home in Malaysia earlier.

So, it does have to do with race and double standard practice. It is proven here and they cannot hide the facts. The BN-Umno is in fact far worst then the communist now, their administrations are full of evil, reigning with treachery, manipulation, power abuses, money politics, cronyism and corruptions.

Perak rebel state govt “legalized”

The court of appeal had on 22 May ruled that the Perak rebel leader Dr Zambry Abd Kadir and members of his rebel state government as the rightful state administration in Perak thus, out ruled the 11 May judgment made by the Kuala Lumpur High Court which recognized Datuk Seri Nizar Jamaluddin and his state government as a legitimate one.

But the court of appeal’s decision is not expected to bring an end to the Perak constitutional crisis. The judgment made by the court of appeal had clearly ignored the state constitution as a whole, due to the fact that their decisions did not reflect their understanding on the provisions of the state constitution.

Besides, the decisions by the court of appeal on 22 May had sparked more unhappiness of the people on Umno and its BN federal coalition government. The people are already disgusted with the way Najib and his cronies had engineered the coup d’etat on last February which saw the legitimate state government being toppled in Perak.

And yet Dr Zambry shamelessly claimed that his rebel government is “elected” by the people. Perhaps, he is still day dreaming and definitely in a total denial mode. The rebel government led by Zambry came to power via coup d’etat and it was not elected by the people. The real fact is Zambry’s rebel government is elected by only three persons (who sat in the court of appeal).

The court of appeal’s decision also clearly shows that it is a pro-Umno institution and the people would see it as an instruction from the executive powers in Putrajaya to the top judiciary to decide on its favour. The people of Perak are gravely disappointed, upset and disgusted with the way Umno handle and ruin Perak.

Apart from that, the court of appeal’s ruling also suggested that the rulers now had even more powers than what it has been vested under the constitution. That means the constitution had been undermined and it is a useless document now. The dissolution of the Perak state assembly to pave way for a fresh election is urged by many people of Perak and their counterparts from other state as well. This is the only way and the best option to resolve the constitutional crisis.

We strongly believe that the people are the ones who should decide on who should rule and govern their state and not the court anymore. However, we all know Umno and its BN lackeys would not dare to a hold a fresh election because they knew that they will lose their power if they do so. That is why Umno and their BN lackeys are afraid and scared of going back to the people. They are now afraid and scared of the people’s verdict and they are hiding behind the court of appeal.

Those Umno leaders and politicians are really cowards entirely.

Oppressive laws restricting human liberties, freedom and justice

Since from day one, we were all given to understand that the Federal Constitution of our country called Malaysia is the highest instrument of law in our beloved nation.

As such, should any conflicts or misinterpretation arise in defining and implementing other sets of legislations and laws in our country, the Federal Constitution should therefore be referred to as a final tool in order to determine if those sets of legislations and laws goes by the relevant articles of the Federal Constitution.

Unfortunately our Federal Constitution which we thought is able to protect us has been undermined by these sets of legislations and laws. These sets of legislations and laws had all the time overruled the Federal Constitution in a lot of matters concerning human liberties, freedom and justice as well.

We are deeply concern that our highest instrumental of law (the Federal Constitution) would be sidelined very soon, as our nation is seeing its way to become a police or fascist state.

And when a police or fascist state takes its effective rule, these draconian legislations and laws shall therefore overrules the Federal Constitution completely. The Federal Constitution is on its way to suspension. Unless the entire situation differs to otherwise, the Federal Constitution of our country today will become redundant and useless, merely as a symbol or perhaps a history.

Let us review some of the articles of the Federal Constitution which are now being restricted by these sets of draconian legislations and laws which are deemed oppressive and restricting human liberties and our freedom.

Article 5 of the Federal Constitution confirms the liberty of any persons was restricted and oppressed by the Internal Security Act (ISA) 1960, Restricted Residence Enactment (Cap 39; Sec 117 Criminal Procedure Code Cap 6).

Article 6 which guarantees our people from slavery and forced labour was overpowered by Essential (Self-Reliance) Regulations 1975 and the National Service Ordinance, while Article 9 which states Protection against Banishment and Freedom of movement was overruled by the Internal Security Act (ISA) 1960, Banishment Act 1948 and Immigration Acts 1959 and 1963 respectively.

Article 10 (1)(a) which guarantees our Freedom of Speech and Expression is being overly restricted by Seditions Act 1948 (including amendments 1971), Official Secrets Act 1972 (including amendments 1986), Printing Presses and Publishing Act 1948 (including amendments 1988) and Control of Imported Publications Act 1959.

Article 10 (1)(b) which guarantees our Freedom of Peaceful Assembly was being bound by Public Order (Preservation) Ordinance 1958 and the Police Act 1967 (including amendments 1988). Article 10 (1)(c) which states our Freedom of Association was apprehended by the Trade Unions Act 1959 (including amendments of 1980 and 1989), Societies Act 1966 (including amendments 1981), University and University Colleges Act 1971 (including amendments 1975) – concerning Discipline of students rules and Discipline of staff rules.

Again Article 10 (1)(c) which states our Freedom of Association and our rights to Industrial Action including strike was effectively being prevented by Essential (Prohibition of Strikes and Prescribed Industrial Actions) Regulations 1965 and Industrial Relations Act 1967 (including amendments 1971 and 1975 respectively).

Article 121 which described the Principle of Judicial Review was harshly overruled and amended in 1988, followed by another amendment to the Internal Security Act in 1988, followed by another major revamp in 1989.

It is very clear fact that the BN-Umno federal government uses these draconian legislations and laws to curb and restrict the liberties and freedom of our people and at the same time restrict the rising influence of a the newly emerging opposition coalition Pakatan Rakyat under the pretext of “national security”, according to them.

Such harsh legislations and laws had also instilled a culture of fear and worry among our people to such an extent that even they agreed they are living under a stressful condition similar to an authoritarian police, fascist state or military rule.

As the result, most of us are too afraid to voice our protest or express freely our opinions and thoughts. Most of us are also afraid of debating current issues and matters concerning the well-being our beloved nation and the way it is being run with.

So, does our Federal Constitution protect our people effectively and how powerful is our country’s highest instrumental of law in standing against all these draconian legislations and laws?

So long as the BN-Umno still rules the country, our Federal Constitution shall remain in a shamefully disrespect manner.

DAP MP, state rep arrested at candlelight vigil

Malaysiakini yesterday reported that DAP MP Teo Nie Ching and state assemblyman Jenice Lee plus nine others were arrested at a vigil to 'mourn the death of democracy'.

The vigil was organised peacefully in front of Selangor State Executive Councillor Teresa Kok's service centre. Why are they arrested? Is the Umno dominated police force seeking to avenge their defeat and their losing popularity? What wrong had all these innocent people done?

Why didn't the police arrest leaders and members of Umno who are out there terrorising the people with their threats and racist activities?

Crimes in our country is getting worst and the police are not doing their actual job to curb such negative elements but instead helping Umno to curb the rising political influence of PKR, DAP and PAS just because Umno themselves are losing out.

Khir Toyo suspended one year

Malaysiakini reports that the Selangor assembly's rights and privileges committee has suspended opposition leader Dr Mohd Khir Toyo for 12 months from the House yesterday for ignoring an inquiry set up by the Speaker to hear his wrong doings and misued of public funds.

Apart from his suspension, Khir Toyo's allowances as a state assemblyman were also frozen for insulting the committee and the House continuously.

He said he will challenge his suspension. What challenge is he going to mount? Call in the police, FRU and the military to forcefully evict the state assembly Speaker from office like what his party had done it in Perak? He is demonstrating his supremacist ideas and characters again.

Khir Toyo should admit his guilt and "bertaubat" on all his previous wrongdoings and power abuses during his reign as the menteri besar.

Speaker vs Speaker - Round 2

Malaysiakini reports that ousted speaker V Sivakumar is seeking a court injunction against BN-installed speaker R Ganesan from obstructing him in exercising his duties.

We hope Sivakumar would proceed with his application for a court injunction as soon as possible without delay to prevent the illegally installed rebel speaker from discharging his duties unconstitutionally.

As a legitimate speaker, Sivakumar was ousted by an unclear and improper vote of no-confidence against him before the Raja Muda of Perak officially opens the state assembly sitting. That means Sivakumar was illegally removed before the state assembly commence its sitting.

Looks like the Umno rebels who had launched a third coup d'etat on 7 May last week mistakenly toppled Sivakumar before the state assembly sitting commence, where in actual fact a vote of no-confidence should only be carried out during the state assembly proceedings.

It shows that the Umno rebels also had not confident with their recently self proclaimed majority and had to rely solely on undemocratic, unconstitutional and violent measures to forcefully remove Sivakumar from his position.

Earlier reports also indicated that an Umno man even brought a gun into the state assembly for standby in case if Sivakumar is too strong to be manhandled. Such an act is so violent and Sivakumar may end up being killed if he persist further.

What if Sivakumar got killed? Umno will make history for itself. A bloody coup d'etat perhaps.

The ball is in sultan's court

Malaysiakini reports that public pressure is once again on the Perak sultan to dissolve the State Legislative Assembly to break the three-month-long political impasse.

And we believe and hope that the sultan will make an accurate and correct decision this time to dissolve the state assembly as soon as possible in order to pave way for another state elections. Let the people decide on who should govern the state.

Umno would try every ways and means to avoid a state elections as they are afraid the people would once again reject them, like on 8 March 2008 last year. Umno is afraid of losing for the second time.

Some unconfirm source also indicate that the Perak rebel leader Dr Zambry Abd Kadir might declare a state of emergency in order to curb the people's pressure as well as the Pakatan Rakyat's popularity via military presence and curfew. Will Dr Zambry do that anyway?

And if Zambry does, what will happen to Perak then?

Call for Snap Elections in Perak

As we had seen the political and constitutional crisis turned from bad to worst, following the coup d'etat and power seizure by a terrorist organisation called Umno.

When Umno toppled the state government on last February, they installed their rebel state government and its rebel leader Dr Zambry Abd Kadir becames the menteri besar of the illegal administration.

After the Kuala Lumpur High Court declared Datuk Seri Nizar Jamaluddin as the lawful menteri besar, Dr Zambry fearing of losing his position quickly obtain another court order to have himself back to office the next day.

More and more people both from inside and outside of Perak are calling for snap election as the situation is worsening because of Umno's continuous onslaught. Even MCA and Gerakan are now getting fed up with their supreme master and had started demanding that Umno should "let go" and hold a fresh election in order to obtain the people's mandate.

But Umno seems to refusing advice even from its BN component parties. They knew they will lose badly this time if a snap election is called, and that is why they wanted to cling on to power even if by illegal ways or means. At then end, should situation worsens, Umno might even resort to violence in order to subdue the electorate and the people.

What now? Its all up to the Sultan and Raja Muda of Perak.

Court rules Nizar is legitimate MB

Malaysiakini ~ In a landmark decision yesterday, the Kuala Lumpur High Court has declared that BN-Umno's Zambry is not the lawful MB and Datuk Seri Nizar Jamaluddin as the sole legitimate Menteri Besar of Perak.

Justice has been served. The rebel state government under its rebel menteri besar Dr Zambry Abd Kadir must vacate their offices immediately.

Furthermore, the legitimate state government which was put back to power yesterday must act tough on those state civil servants who had collaborated with the rebels to topple the state government.

Suspending the state secretary, state legal advisor and the state assembly secretary aren't enough. These rebel collaborators should in fact be expelled from the state administration with immediate effect.

There is no point of keeping these people in the state government anymore if do not wish to work or cooperate with the state leaders. Keeping them in their positions by just suspending them is just waste of time, money and public funds.

Sack them all, and get a replacement in as soon as possible in order to get things done.

More candle vigil should be organized

To commemorate the darkest ever experience in our democracy, justice, freedom and equality, we should organize as many candle vigil as possible in order to create more awareness amongst our people and community.

Let us all realize that we are doing this in a peaceful and harmless manner and those who had already organized the candle vigil are not violent people or criminals as what the police had claimed. Candle vigil is indeed a peaceful forum aimed to support our brothers and sisters who had been simply arrested and thrown into prisons and tortured just to serve the interest of Umno.

From now on, Umno had marked a lot of black happenings in our nation with most of their shameless and violent acts. We feel ashamed that our country is being ruled and dominated by the racist and fascist based Umno. They are now threatening our entire nation with imprisonment, oppressive laws, concentration camps and ISA.

We wish to inform them that we will not bow out or run away. We will stand still with our strongest ever will to fight on in order to preserve our beloved nation from being destroyed by the oppressing racist and fascist rulers.

Long Live Democracy!

Third coup d’etat in Perak, beginning of dictatorship

As we had all knew the third coup d’etat in Perak had already happened. Umno again launched the coup to completely seize control of the entire government machinery in Perak by ousting the State Assembly Speaker V.Sivakumar via force and fist.

Now, Perak Umno is in complete control of the state and had established an effective dictatorship. Unconstitutional and undemocratic measures were taken to continue curbing the rising influence of the Pakatan Rakyat by making mass arrest of human rights activist, politicians, elected representatives, NGO leaders in order to prevent the truth from being channel to the people and the grassroots.

Despite being ousted, we still considered our V.Sivakumar the legitimate Speaker of the Perak State Assembly. He is the father of Perak Democracy and the pillar of Perakians struggle for Democracy. In fact, Sivakumar had shown a great courage in standing against the combined mighty forces of the federal government, the corrupt royalties, and the Umno dominated police and security forces.

Sivakumar had held on, demonstrating a will of steel and he still held on despite being physically abused and removed from the Speaker’s chair by many Umno henchmen. We understand that Sivakumar is also slightly injured due to the struggle to remove him but we advise him not to worry and continue wearing those physical scars dutifully in the name of democracy, freedom, justice and equality. Sivakumar will be remembered as the defender of Perak democracy until the 13th general election.

Let us all not recognize the Umno dictatorship in Perak. Their administration is illegal because their power was obtained via power seizure by illegitimate means. The current administration in the state is call the Perak Umno Rebel State Government or in Malay language “Kerajaan Pemberontak Umno Negeri Perak”. This is a clear fact Umno now administers the state via a rebel state government, as it was not elected by the people. The governance that Umno obtained today was by coup d’etat. Umno toppled a legitimate state government and proclaimed themselves into power by force.

And did you know Tan Sri Musa Hassan, the head of the Umno dominated police force said few days ago that they do not have enough police personnel to combat crimes in our entire nation. Guess what?

They had assembled thousands of their police personnel from other parts of the nation in Perak to serve the interest of Umno in the state, to install the Umno rebel state government, to assist the coup d’etat to take place in Perak and to assist in toppling the elected state government in Perak. The police personnel had in fact being majorly concentrated in political affairs rather than combating crimes. That is why crimes in our nation are on the rise.

The police are not interested in combating the crimes in our nation but they are only interested in furthering the interest of Umno because their party leader is the minister of home affairs in the Umno-dominated federal government.

From February until now, the way the power seizure was organized showed that the Umno state assemblymen and their leaders are no better than highway robbers or “mat rempits”. Can this kind of political animals be lawmakers for our people? It would be a real joke.

7 May shall be best remembered as a definite OneBlackMalaysia indeed. Innocent people are simply thrown into prison and threatened for nothing else but to further the interest of Umno. Well, after all Umno is above the law and the constitution. With their “ketuanan” and supremacist power, they are able to do whatever they want and even the police cannot question their privilege and powers. Very soon, with Umno still at helm, our nation will turn into a lawless nation and it had just started in Perak.

Therefore, we urge Pakatan Rakyat state governments of Kedah, Penang, Selangor and Kelantan, beware! Umno may launch a coup d’etat to topple your administrations too. They had done it in Perak and they will do so in your states.

Democracy in our nation had been degraded. Let us seek aid from the international community to scrutinize our federal government and check the imbalances, injustice and irregularities experienced by our people here.

Black 7 May in Perak

Yesterday was the darkest ever chapter in Perak and we are sure all our fellow Perakians also felt ashamed of what had happened in their state. First our legitimate state government has been overthrown, then our democratic platform i.e. the state legislative assembly building has been sealed off and our state assemblymen were prevented from any sitting, and now our legitimately elected Speaker has been violently removed from his position.

All these undemocratic, unprincipled, unconstitutional and barbaric acts were carried out by none other than the United Malays National Organization or better known as Umno. They toppled a state government elected by the people and established a rebel state government to administer the state with an iron fist. All opposition to the rebel administration has been curbed with mass arrest of Pakatan Rakyat leaders and elected representatives to prevent them from channeling the truth to our people.

With the backing from the federal security forces, the Umno-led rebel state government had also censored all news reports which are deemed critical to their unlawful administration and established false news and reports in order to cheat the people and provide inaccurate information to the nation. They tried their very best to cover as many truth as possible.

The Umno-led rebel state government is now terrorizing the people in Perak, threatening them with arrest, charges under seditious law, penal codes, or even ISA so no one would dare voice their opposition or discontent towards the rebel administration.

The Umno-led rebel state government under rebel leader Dr Zambry Abd Kadir called the Pakatan Rakyat “biadap” during his press conference yesterday. We wish to respond to his statement by calling him and his lackeys “kurang ajar” and “banjingan” for their arrogance, violence, threats and their use of force against the will of our people.

We are not being rough towards anyone here, but we simply could not find any suitable word to describe these Umno men other than “kurang ajar” and “banjingan” because this is what they are. They had in fact already destroyed the entire democratic institution and the constitution of the state by launching a coup d’etat to topple the people’s state government elected on 8 March 2008. These Umno men were infact worst then animals and do not even fit to be apes as well. They are all inhuman because there are no sense of humanity in them.

Therefore, what did our dear friend Wong Chin Huat said “wear black” is accurately correct. Everyone of us should continue our silent protest by wearing black shirts, black t-shirts, black pants, black hats, black caps, black armbands or you can even raise a black flag to commemorate the death of democracy in Perak and the beginning of dictatorship in our beloved nation.

As long as Umno is still in power, Democracy Rest in Peace.

Read more in our Bahasa Malaysia version.

Perak 7 May sitting illegal

The Perak state assembly sitting which is scheduled on 7 May is deemed illegal because of three major reasons and if this session proceeds, then those Umno coup plotters are making a fool of the state constitution and the people of the state.

We wish to inform our fellow Perakians that the Perak state assembly sitting which is scheduled on 7 May is deemed illegal because: -

1) It was called by a Rebel State Government who seized power from the Legitimate State Government on last February.
2) The Speaker V.Sivakumar was not aware of the sitting, where in actual fact he should be the first person to be informed of the plan.
3) The signatory of notice to call for the state assembly sitting was suspended assembly secretary Abdullah Antung. Therefore, whatever documents signed by an official who is suspended from his position is considered null and void.

We urge our fellow Perakians to stand up steadfastly to protest and condemn these illegal, undemocratic and unconstitutional acts by Umno and its BN lackeys.

Zambry may use force

The Perak Umno-led rebel state government under the leadership of Dr Zambry Abd Kadir had planned to table a motion at the state assembly sitting scheduled on 7 May to oust Speaker V.Sivakumar from his seat and replace him with a member of the rebel coalition (BN).

As speaker, Sivakumar has the right to reject the motion as did the Dewan Rakyat speaker who often rejects motions table by our members of parliament.

The real concern here is, if Sivakumar decides to reject the motion by Dr Zambry to oust him, will the rebel menteri besar forcefully evict Sivakumar from his seat? There is certainly a possibility as much preparation has been made by Umno and its rebel state government to prepare for the event on 7 May.

The presence of the federal security force and police personnel had been doubled in all over major towns and cities in the state is a sign the rebel state government is determine to seize total control over the administration of the state ever since the Umno coup plotters overthrown the legitimate state government and sealed the state assembly building.

If the 7 May plan proceeds, this will be the third coup plot against a legitimate position of an official elected to serve the state. The first coup was launched to topple the legitimate state government and later Umno launched a second coup with the help of the police and security forces to confiscate and seal the state assembly building in order to prevent the state assemblymen from discharging their duties of the state.

And when the 7 May coup comes into action, is the rebel state government going to declare a state of emergency and detain all Pakatan Rakyat state leaders under the internal security act (ISA)? There is a possibility it might happen as the Umno coup plotters are now desperate and wanted to hold on to power despite mass protest from the people of the state.

By detaining all Pakatan Rakyat state leaders would also help them to curb the rising influence of the new coalition in order for Umno to tighten their grip in the state.

EC finally gave nod to the PSM clenched fist logo

After being publicly criticized for rejecting the Parti Sosialis Malaysia (PSM ) clenched fist logo, the Elections Commission (EC) had finally approve “in protest” the logo which they had earlier viewed as morally unsuitable and having connotations of violence.

This move is clearly political motivated and it really baffles us. This shows the stupidity and foolishness of the EC commissioners. They claim themselves to be neutral but in fact most of them are pro-Umno. They claim themselves to be an independent body but it is clear that, EC is under the Prime Minister’s Department and the EC chairman reports directly to the Prime Minister and not the Yang DiPertuan Agong.

What we knew all these while is Umno is one of the most violent political forces in our nation. Their party members speak of violence, bloodshed, threats onto other ethnicities and rule above the law. Their party logo is weapon called “keris” which could cause harm, injury and death to the public and create disorder in our nation.

Therefore, why not EC review Umno’s logo to check if it is morally unsuitable and having connotations of violence and if otherwise, let us know your reasonable facts.

More policemen in Perak state

According to the Perak police chief DCP Datuk Zulkifli Abdullah on 30 April last month, more policemen will hit the streets in the state with the focus on major towns in Ipoh, Manjung, Hilir Perak and Taiping.

What happened? Are all these based on the request by the rebel state government led by Umno to assist them to secure their position in the state? Or is it because of the Umno’s coup d’etat which toppled the legitimate state government last February had indeed caused the crime rate to increase in the state due to political disorder in the state created by them?

Well, there are a number of factors which contributed to the increase of the federal-backed security forces in the state. First, the expected illegal state assembly sitting scheduled on 7 May. Perak Umno leaders are expected to use force onto Speaker V.Sivakumar should he decides to reject the motion to oust him by rebel menteri besar Dr Zambry Abd Kadir. Some source said Sivakumar is likely to reject the motion to oust him and when this happen, Dr Zambry will call in the security personnel to force him out of office in order to place their lackey from MIC to the speaker’s seat.

This will be considered as Umno’s second coup against the people of Perak and a total insult to the state constitution. From the beginning of the constitutional crisis in the state since last February, we could clearly see that the state constitution had been lying uselessly in the files of the state, as Umno had used its ketuanan positionto overrule the effective law of the state.

Therefore, it is expected once Sivakumar is forced out of his Speaker’s seat via security eviction, Dr Zambry will place another motion at the state assembly to suspend the state constitution. In Umno’s case, the suspension of the state constitution is vital as the court judgment is expected to make some references to the state constitution pending its decision to ascertain if Dr Zambry is an illegal menteri besar.

So, once Dr Zambry successfully suspends the state constitution, Umno would be able to justify its case in the court as ruling the state in an emergency order because the state does not have a constitution in force when it is suspended.

As the political disorder created by Perak Umno continues, crime rates are also on the rise as the rebel state government is only currently focusing on how to secure its position in the state and the people are clearly being neglected. In fact the rebel state government had no time to pay any attention to the people and the welfare of the state as they are now afraid of losing its grip and power. They even ignored the people’s request to dissolve the state assembly to pave way for a fresh election in order to resolve the current political and constitutional crisis.

When the rebel state government is unable to handle the situation, they called in more policemen to handle the entire situation, at the same time gives them an advantage to secure their governing power in the state by harassing and threatening the state’s Pakatan Rakyat leaders whose state government was ousted in last February’s Umno sponsored coup d’etat.

If Umno keeps its grip illegally continuously on the state administration, the political situation in the state is not going to improve at all. The Umno “swine flu” is going to spread all over the state if they continue to be like this.

Perak rebels seeks to remove Sivakumar as Speaker

As expected, rebel menteri besar Zambry Kadir has sought to table a motion to remove Perak state legislative Speaker, V Sivakumar, at a May 7 assembly sitting he has called.

Abdullah Antong Sabri, the assembly secretary whom Sivakumar suspended for insubordination, signed and sent out the notices for the motion on Apr 27. Elected representatives were asked to submit their nominations for Sivakumar’s replacement by Apr 30.

However, Pakatan Rakyat was unfazed by the latest manoeuvre against Sivakumar. A DAP leader and the first ethnic Indian in the country to become a Speaker of a legislative body, Sivakumar has been a key force in helping the Pakatan resist the Umno-BN’s coup d'etat of the Perak state government.

“This is unusual and will be the first time such a move has been made in Malaysia,” said Perak DAP Secretary and Pantai Remis assemblyman Nga Kor Ming.

According to Nga, the Speaker had the right to reject or accept any motion, including one aimed at himself. He also lashed out at Zambry for using Sivakumar’s suspended secretary to issue the notices.

“This shows that they think they can do whatever they want. We will let the Speaker decide on the motion,” Nga said.

The Pantai Remis representative, who is also a prominent lawyer, warned that Zambry’s latest move was in contempt of the High Court, where there is still an ongoing lawsuit challenging Zambry’s legitimacy as Menteri Besar.

Pakatan leaders will also be meeting on Thursday to chart out their next course of action. Said Perak DAP Chairman and Sitiawan assemblyman Ngeh Koo Ham: “Since the notice is illegal and hence void, we will not be responding to it. It is just another piece of paper, floating around.”

Penanti poll on 31 May

The Penanti by-election will be held on 31 May , the prime minister's department's Election Commission (EC) announced yesterday morning. This time the EC had given up hope and decided to set the polling on Sunday.

Despite so many attempts by EC to reduce voter turnout to favour the BN-Umno rulers in the previous by-elections, voters turnout seems to be increasing and so does the majorities won by Pakatan Rakyat candidates.

This shows the voters are more determine nowadays to ensure changes in our nation.

Perak state assembly sitting on 7 May illegal

The state assembly sitting in Perak scheduled on 7 May next month which was called by the rebel menteri besar Dr Zambry Abd Kadir is deemed illegal because it did not adhere by the procedures of the state assembly and therefore, unconstitutional.

Besides, the Speaker V.Sivakumar was not even aware of the intended state assembly sitting which was planned by the rebel state government believed to be aimed at ousting him.

According to the Speaker’s newly appointed state assembly secretary Misbahhul Munir Masduki, the former state assembly secretary Abdullah Antung was suspended from his position because he had breached the procedures of the assembly by receiving an unconstitutional instruction from the rebel menteri besar to convene for the assembly sitting without the knowledge of the Speaker.

The call for the state assembly sitting should be made by the Speaker himself who will then instruct the assembly secretary to inform the Sultan for consent to convene the assembly sitting. Upon obtaining the consent from the Sultan, the Speaker will then issue the notices of invitation to all state assemblymen to attend the state assembly sitting.

The situation now is otherwise, the rebel menteri besar Dr Zambry Abd Kadir was making the call and instructed the former state assembly secretary Abdullah Antung to convene the sitting on his behalf, without even informing the Speaker. Since the Speaker was unaware of the sitting, who illegally signed the notices of invitation then? Did Dr Zambry himself sign it as “acting speaker”? Or Abdullah might have signed it by putting “bagi pihak Speaker”.

In this case, Dr Zambry illegally acted as a speaker, thus sidelining Sivakumar completely. The rebel menteri besar had in fact ignored the constitutional rights and powers of the Speaker and insulted the state constitution.

After proclaiming himself a menteri besar of the rebel state government, Dr Zambry now wanted to proclaim himself a speaker to chair the state assembly. Perak Umno is about to stage a second rebellion and coup d’etat against the state of Perak and its constitution.

Ketuanan Umno is now above the law, above the constitution, above the sultanate or they might even claim to be above Allah s.w.t. or God in near future.

Bersih: EC chairman should resign

The Coalition for Clean and Fair Elections (BERSIH) said Election Commission (EC) chairman Tan Sri Abdul Aziz Mohd Yusof’s position would be untenable if he continues to act like a Barisan Nasional (BN) election agent.

Ia statement to the media BERSIH said all state officers should observe administrative neutrality. "If Abdul Aziz cannot control his partisan behaviour, he should just quit his job and work full-time as a BN election agent or lead a lobby group advocating for the abolition of elections," the statement said.

"Abdul Aziz is constitutionally duty-bound to ensure free, fair and clean elections, his job is not to prevent elections and by-elections especially when it looks like BN cannot ensure victory," the coalition said.

BERSIH said Abdul Aziz’s earlier statement that he will study the possibility of not having a by-election in Penanti -right after Najib gave the excuse of by-election fatigue shows that the EC is a parrot that echoes BN’s opinions.

"Also, the EC’s insistence on studying and deciding if a seat is vacant rather than accepting the Legislature Speaker’s judgment, in Perak and now in Penanti, is both partisan and malicious," the statement said.

Lastly, Abdul Aziz’s earlier comment that the voting pattern in Kuala Sepetang was worrying was also gravely inappropriate and uncalled for. The EC’s job is to administer elections, not make patronizing, partisan and unsolicited advice on the outcome of elections, it added.

BERSIH said as elections, including by-elections are core to a representative democracy, EC must not propose any changes to deprive voters of their right to decide who they want to represent them.

"If the principle of "no taxation without representation" is violated, a government which collects tax revenue will be reduced to nothing but a mafia outfit which extorts protection money from the people," the statement said.

The coalition also urged EC to push for the lifting of Article 48(6) which bars an elected representative from re-contesting for five years after resigning from the seat.

Elections are like job interviews. An employee has the right to resign and seek reappointment under different conditions. Whether the person is to be employed depends on the prospective employer - Agencies.

Third coup d’etat expected in Perak

Another coup d’etat is expected to take place in Perak on 7 May next month when the state assembly sitting is to be convened by the Perak rebel menteri besar Dr Zambry Abd Kadir.

Why do we see this as another coup attempt? Because Dr Zambry and his rebel state government wanted to overthrow the state assembly speaker V.Sivakumar with unconstitutional and undemocratic means. Sivakumar as speaker was not notified at all on the planned state assembly sitting on 7 May organized by the rebel state government.

That means in their motion to convene the state assembly proceeding, the speaker does not exist at all. Dr Zambry had in fact taken over the role of the speaker from Sivakumar and this action clearly shows disrespect on the normal democratic process and totally unconstitutional. Besides, it was also reported that Dr Zambry and his rebel state government also planned to oust Sivakumar when the state assembly convene on 7 May.

First of all is this state assembly legal? It is an illegal one as the speaker was sidelined from the entire process and proceedings, from planning, administration, notification right down to documentations. There is no justice at all now in Perak, which is now under the dictatorship of the rebel state government led by Umno.

Umno supremacist had reign control all over Perak now. They are above the law and they can do anything they like according to their wish and so on. With Umno in power now in Perak, the drug-related ecstasy pills business which being managed by Umno Grik division is also fast expanding.

The second coup d’etat previously was Perak Umno mobilized their supporters and with the assistance of the federal security forces stormed the state assembly building and prevented our state assemblymen from convening a sitting despite being called by the speaker. By storming and confiscating the state assembly building at that time means denying the democratic rights of the state assemblymen and the people who had voted in their representatives to speak for them.

Well, every one of us knew what was the first coup d’etat like. It happened when three state assemblymen from Pakatan Rakyat became independent, and the Perak Umno state assemblymen quickly convened their state assembly sitting at the Perak Umno headquarters which is chaired by their self-proclaimed “speaker” Najib Razak, because they did not want the lawful speaker Sivakumar to step into the Perak Umno building. The result of the state assembly sitting in the Perak Umno headquarters was a no-confidence motion was passed by all the Umno state assemblymen together with the three recently turned independent state assemblymen, which toppled the elected Perak state government under the leadership of Datuk Seri Nizar Jamaluddin.

Therefore, when the third coup d’etat takes place on 7 May, Perak Umno is expected to mobilize their radicals and the federal security forces again to prevent the democratic rights from taking its place in Perak. Democracy is already dead in Perak. A ruthless rebel state government is now in charge.

Dr M to lead Umno campaign in Penanti

We are so glad to hear that former prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohammad is willing to lead the Umno’s campaign machinery in the upcoming by-election in Penanti state constituency.

Let us all welcome him and his team to campaign for their Umno candidate and the results would be terrific and wonderful.

As reported in the Malaysiakini recently, Dr Mahathir had stated his willingness to lead the Umno campaign machinery to storm the PKR stronghold as part of his revenge against PKR Advisor Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim. Dr Mahathir wanted to “finish off” Anwar once and for all via the Penanti by-election.

In order for him to seek revenge on Anwar, Dr Mahathir is now seems to be pressuring the current Umno president and prime minister Datuk Najib Razak have the party contest in the by-election. Earlier Najib had indicated that the party may not be contesting in the by-election citing wastage of party and government funds, added that the by-election was nothing but a PKR political ploy which the Umno should not be involved with.

While the Najib faction favours a no-contest in Penanti, the Mahathir faction is putting up its pressure onto the Najib faction to take up the contest at the state constituency which is pre-dominantly a Malay majority area.

Will the Najib faction bow to Mahathir’s pressure then? And if Najib were to bow to Mahathir, what will Najib be at the end? Looks like Mahathir is beginning to overshadowing Najib and is he willing to allow Mahathir to control his administration?

Read more in our Bahasa Malaysia version.

Gerik Umno youth leaders arrested for drugs

We got to know from our fellow bloggers via Malaysiakini that four leaders of the Umno youth belonged to Umno Gerik Division has been arrested by the Thai police force in Betong for smuggling drug-related ecstasy pills last week on 10 April.

According to a reliable source, the division Umno youth leaders were then being detained at a police lock up in Bentong police station awaiting trial. Then on 12 April, it was reported that the Gerik Umno division chairman who is also the former Perak menteri besar, Datuk Seri Tajol Rosli Ghazali had gone over the Betong, Thailand together with the division information chief to seek their release from the Thai police detention.

In order to seek the release of his youth divisional leaders, Tajol had to fork out about RM60,000 to pay the Thai police in order to have the drug charges against them dropped.

According to another source who is attached to the Gerik District Police headquarters, the police here has been observing these Umno youth leaders’ activities who frequently misused the party division’s van for some time but due to the pressure of some local top Umno leaders in Gerik, there is nothing they could do as attempts to arrest them at the Perak side were always blocked following interference from the local top Umno leaders.

Fed up and frustrated with the situation, the Gerik police decided to inform their counterparts in Thailand in order to have them arrested at the other side of the border.

And this is what Umno’ supremacist order is. Umno leaders who hold onto their ketuanan always enjoy being above the law and they are doing what they like be it against the law and order. Because they are above the law!

Pressure piles on T'ganu MB to step down

Malaysiakini ~ Eighteen of the 24 Barisan Nasional-Umno elected representatives in the state are now pushing for the unpopular Ahmad Said to relinquish his post as Mentri Besar of Terengganu.

Looks like a civil war in within BN-Umno is ongoing. They rebel against their own leadership in the state. BN-Umno not only have to face Pakatan Rakyat but they will have to face their rivals from within their party as well which is indeed more tense.

Well, let them fight to their death.

Umno can never learn

We just still cannot understand why BN-Umno still cannot realize and do not want to learn from their mistakes they had did and are still doing now.

In the case of Pakatan Rakyat, they did as per their principles and stand. Once they find they can no longer accept their elected representatives tainted with corruptions, they will remove them from office.

We see this as a noble thing to do as once you are perceived as tainted or corrupted, you will be always subject to threats and it will compromise your ethics and works. Apart from that, if you are tainted and corrupted, the institution that you are working for will also be affected as people may perceive the entire institution as tainted as well.

We all know that more people are getting tired with by-elections one after another but the people also knows that this is the right move to flush out all compromised representatives and leaders.

This is supposedly how our private sectors are doing it to their employees to ensure integrity of a company is not tarnished with such practices. And our country’s system should also be working in such manner to ensure integrity of public office is maintained.

From here, we could also see that Umno and its BN lackeys are still in denial mode. Their leaders, ministers, deputy ministers and mentris besar had been tainted and corrupted for decades and no one dare to take measures to remove them from office. And that is why the entire institution of the BN and Umno all over the nation completely tainted with corruptions, money politics, power abuses and a lot more.

And yet they still dare, shamelessly talk about other people who are out there doing their best to ensure their housekeeping is in order.

BN and Umno should look at themselves at the mirror first before they comment and condemn other parties for conducting their own clean up. In fact, BN and Umno themselves have been tainted for decades and they did not bother to ensure the integrity of their organizations are maintained but instead letting it spread from bad to worst in order to benefit and enrich their cronies and political allies.

Now, BN and Umno are complaining that they are running out of funds and money because of too many by-elections which they have to contest and blamed Pakatan Rakyat of playing politics in such way. If they are really short of funds or cash right now because of the previously several failed by-elections contests, then they should not contest in the upcoming by-election in the Penanti state constituency and let Pakatan Rakyat win unopposed. Don’t blame Pakatan Rakyat just because you cash and funds has been reduced.

BN and Umno should also realize that, knowing that they are going to lose most of the by-elections, they still stubbornly contested it and misused all the government machineries and funds to support them by providing the strongest ever resources to their candidates. Isn’t all these wastage of public funds and money?

And if BN and Umno were to realize their potential losses and mistakes earlier, they would have withdraw from most of the by-elections and avoid any further contests. With this, they will be able to help save billions of ringgit.

So, why blame Pakatan Rakyat for all your funds drained dry? BN-Umno should blame themselves and not Pakatan Rakyat and not the people for being “ungrateful”. Their mindsets, thinking and maturity are still behind time and they are almost outdated with no political wisdom at all.

It is a clear fact that BN and Umno are still in denial mode, they felt too hard and too difficult to change, to reform and diverse, and that is why they can never change at all.

Read more in our Bahasa Malaysia version.

In that case, give us a walkover

If the Penanti by-election was a waste of time and money as suggested by the prime minister, Anwar suggested that BN spared the trouble by letting PKR retain the seat.

What the PKR advisor said is reasonable, if BN and Umno feel that it will be waste of time and money and they are not confident of capturing the seat, don't contest the seat as they too will be wasting their money, time and resources.

Furthermore, it was BN and Umno who are spending billions of ringgit via government machineries to assist its candidates who are contesting while Pakatan Rakyat's resources are limited.

It is certain that BN and Umno's fundings are now drying up and that is why they are complaining about wasting time and money. If they have think of that earlier, and withdraw their candidates from the earlier by-elections, billions of ringgit could as well being saved.

Fairus resigns as Penanti assemblyman; by-election imminent

Former Penang deputy chief minister Mohammad Fairus Khairuddin yesterday resigned as Penanti state assemblyman, confirming weeks of speculation that a by-election for the Penanti state seat was likely.

In a press statement, Mohammad Fairus, 33, said he took this step to resign as a state representative to protect the interest of his party, Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR).

The politician tendered his resignation as DCM I and state executive councillor effective April 8 and since then, PKR has yet to name a replacement.

Party's request baffling

By: Kalaichelvan

ONE is baffled by MIC’s argument that it needs more cabinet space to serve the Indian community better when one wonders why the need for cabinet positions to serve the community?

Political parties like Parti Sosialis Malaysia have been serving the communities without any cabinet positions so what is MIC’s point here or is MIC requesting the additional space for serving its members better?

Political parties in Malaysia often struggle to differentiate between their own members and the communities they are to serve when it comes to enriching the people. But why is MIC asking for more cabinet positions when its president only requested for one minister and two deputies in his meeting with the prime minister just two days before the announcement of the new cabinet?

They got what they asked for and this is the same president, who for the last 30 years was happy with the 1+2 cabinet space when he himself was a minister in the cabinet. He may have occupied a bigger space in the cabinet before but the Indian community has none the less never benefited from it then, so why should it now when nothing else has changed with MIC?

One should negotiate for more from a position of strength and not from a position of weakness, which is what MIC is today and sinking further by the day. There have been no signs of recovery from its disastrous performance in the last general elections; the Indian community has by and large walked away from MIC, rendering it irrelevant to its welfare and its re-branding exercise is all form without content. This latest song and dance by MIC for more cabinet space is yet another sign of desperate times signalling the nearing to the end of an ailing political party that was once relevant to the Indian community.

Eli Wong to remain as exco, state rep

Selangor Menteri Besar Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim today announced that Elizabeth Wong will remain as both state executive councillor as well as Bukit Lanjan assemblyperson. She will report for work again tomorrow morning after a long vacation.

'This is the hardest decision that I have to make in my life and it is with the greatest humility that I accept the Selangor state’s offer to remain in office,' says Elizabeth Wong who had just confirmed she will stay on to both of her state positions to continue serving the people and the state. Latter in her statement, she also thank the Sultan of Selangor for his guidance and advice.

Welcome back Eli !

BN (Umno) rebels move to oust Terengganu MB

Malaysiakini ~ 10 BN (Umno) backbenchers did not turn up at Terengganu state assembly sitting today in a move related to their bid to oust Menteri Besar Ahmad Said.

Then later today, the 10 BN (Umno) rebels who ‘boycotted’ the Terengganu state assembly sitting yesterday, turned up at the morning sitting today after being warned by Umno president Najib Razak that stern action would be taken against them.

It seems that the rebellion had failed to materialised because of the threat from the party's top leadership and those rebels have to bow down in order to maintain their positions and wealth.

Anyway, this is Umno's civil war and if they want to fight, just let them hate, hate, fight, fight and fight to their last drop of blood. They are all fond of these.

Muhyiddin said Chinese were being ungrateful

The newly appointed deputy prime minister and Umno deputy president Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin recently said that the Chinese voters are being so ungrateful in voting for the Pakatan Rakyat and continue deceiving Umno and Barisan Nasional in the recently concluded by-elections.

Looks like Muhyiddin and his Umno colleagues are still in denial mode. They still do not believe in the spirit of democracy and choose instead to blame the entire Chinese community for their continuous election failures and defeats.

They cannot realize what went wrong in their party and their beliefs. They had forgotten what they had did to Perak recently and what they had done to the other innocent people by harassing and arresting them, then put them in prisons and detentions without trial.

Muhyiddin and his Umno colleagues had forgotten that they talked about racism, political hatreds, revenge, violence and incite provocations. They thought by showing off their threats and warnings, our people would be afraid and vote for them in fear.

The Umno mindsets are totally outdated and cannot be changed anymore. Umno did not want to see a full, free and fair system of parliamentary democracy in Malaysia and denied that Malaysians had made their choice but put the entire blame instead onto the Chinese community.

As we had already knew, Umno had blatantly rejected Gerakan’s Malaysian Malaysia, DAP’s Malaysian First and even the Vision 2020’s Bangsa Malaysia. So, what does Najib’s OneMalaysia actually mean?

OneMalaysia will definitely fail just like Bangsa Malaysia had, because as long as Umno continues its reign over our nation, ketuanan Melayu (actually ketuanan Umnoputras) will always be there. Their arrogance and supremacist ideas will remain. How is OneMalaysia going to be materialized anyway?

Muhyddin’s statement also gives a very, very clear impression that the Umno leadership had refused to accept the facts and verdict that happened in the “8 March political tsunami” last year.

Besides, Najib’s OneMalaysia slogan and concept had also made some Umno leaders uneasy as if this concept is materialized, it may jeopardize their ketuanan and supremacist position in the party and our nation.

So, is OneMalaysia really going to be translated into a firm directive, policies and programs? On one condition, Umno must be disbanded at all cost and will Najib able to accept that?

Can Umno really change?

Based on the recently concluded by-elections, we had saw, heard and witnessed the election campaigns of Umno and its BN component parties.

Their campaign styles were all conservative, outdated and irrelevant. In fact none of their activities impress the people. Same old topics, repeated from during Tunku Abdul Rahman’s and Tun Abdul Razak’s era.

Umno and their BN lackeys always talk about race instead of respect, development instead of democracy, faith instead of friendship and finally treason instead of trust.

In fact, their campaigning activities had already shown that their maturity after ruling our nation for about 52 years is still zero. They still cannot realize what are their mistakes and irrelevance after ruling this nation for so long.

Just simply one basic example and this they had repeatedly failed despite their so-called “post mortem”. The Umno campaigns in the Malay areas, their MCA colleagues are assigned to campaign in Chinese areas and townships while MIC was send into Indian dominated areas, telling the same old stories over and over again all the time. Umno calling for Malay unity, MCA calling for Chinese unity and MIC talked about Indian unity. Just what kind of unity are all these?

When Umno campaigns, they talk about race and comes hatred, after that warning, then police report lodged against this and that. They actions seem to be very revengeful all the time. They are always very angry all the time.

MCA will talk about development, education, building roads and organizing free dinners for the people, while MIC continues with its usual “tanahair kita” theme, which was often mentioned by Samy Vellu.

This means Umno and its BN colleagues had already ran out of ideas. They did not have any new and reform programs for the people or they are just denying all these because if they renew and reform, they are afraid they might lose their positions and powers that they had being with it for so long.

Umno and BN are afraid of respect, democracy, friendship and trust as all these criteria will certainly jeopardize their positions and powers that they had been enjoying 52 years ago. They wanted to hold on as long as possible in order to accumulate more wealth.

Therefore, competency, accountability, transparency, justice, equality, democracy and freedom will one day wipe out both Umno and its BN component parties naturally. It will come soon.

Nik Aziz okays to Perak DAP secretary

The PAS Mursyidul Am and Kelantan Mentri Besar Datuk Nik Aziz Nik Mat gave his blessings to Perak DAP secretary Ngar Kor Ming who came under fire from Umno for reciting Quranic verses during the Bukit Gantang’s by-election campaign.

During a ceramah where Ngar spoke, some Quranic verses were recited in order to explain to the people on the current political situation in Perak. As the result, a pro-Umno NGO called the Malay Unity Action Force had lodged a police report against him by twisting the facts that Ngar had insulted the Quran.

This clearly shows the stupidity of Umno and its lackey Malay Unity Action Force in harping into such issue to gain political mileage and at the same time to provoke anger, hatred and revenge on Pakatan Rakyat. They tried to twist the facts and truth so the people would believe them.

Lucky for Pakatan Rakyat, the people understood the entire situation and voted for Datuk Nizar Jamaluddin by giving him an increased majority, thus sending him straight to the parliament. With the victory in Bukit Gantang, it also demonstrated that the people had rejected Umno’s coup d’etat which toppled the legitimate state government on last February.

Seven who took part in human rights march to know fate on 16 April

Seven people, including four lawyers, will know if they are to enter into defense for the charge of taking part in an illegal assembly in a human rights day march two years ago.

According to the prosecution and the police, the seven who were charged are disrupting public harmony at that time. We wish to question the authorities, what kind of activities had these people done to disrupt public harmony and did they do it? Can the authorities prove it? This is political motivated. Just because they are against BN-Umno government’s ketuanan style of reign supreme over oour people, the authorities are quick to arrest these innocent people who merely wanted their rights and voice heard. They wanted things to be cover-up from the public.

And the defense attorneys, who are representing the seven had their strong good reasons, it was a peaceful walk and did not disrupt nor provoke anyone. The gathering was merely a remembrance to those who observe the human rights day. It was the authorities who had provoked the entire situation so it became unruly and the police could march in start making unwarranted arrest.

This is clearly a violation of human rights.

Is Najib’s cabinet entirely clean?

When Datuk Najib Razak took his oath as prime minister, he promised our people that his government would be a clean one.

Was it really clean or how clean was the cabinet? And from the announcement of the new line-up made last week, it does not look impressive at all. The new cabinet line-up could have been drafted by former prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir and Najib could have merely made the presentation on his behalf. The question here, is Mahathir ruling from behind scene?

Then man who was once well known for his keris wielding in the Umno youth, named Hishammuddin is now a holding a powerful position as home minister, while the guy who actually helped to engineer the coup d’etat in Perak, Zahid Hamidi has been rewarded with the defense minister position which made him overall responsible for the country’s armed force.

This situation is rather unwanted by many people. Hishammuddin as the new home minister will rest control over the police and security force to avenge those who had went against him and the keris previously, while Zahid Hamidi was given the defense minister’s position as a reward because of his active role in toppling the Perak state government on last February and installed a rebel state government led by Perak Umno. This will give Zahid an advantage to use the military against the Pakatan Rakyat should the situation in the Perak constitution crisis runs out of control.

And the rest of the members of the new cabinet are not new at all. Najib’s line-up which is essentially the same people and some of Mahathir’s men were brought in or retained, with only a few new faces who are in less effective positions.

Besides, some of the ministers appointed are not even elected representatives of the parliament or rejected by our people in the general elections last year. Those who lost in last year’s poll were Tan Sri Dr Koh Tsu Koon and Datuk Shahrizat Jalil, to name a few, appointed as ministers after they were quickly sworn in as members of the senate. Getting someone rejected by the people into the cabinet is totally unwarranted.

Therefore, there’s nothing a new nor clean at all in Najib’s new cabinet line-up. Much of the Umno’s old guards and conservatives had been retained in the new administration. Were most of them drafted by Mahathir? There is some suspicion as his son Datuk Muhkriz has been appointed a deputy minister. Umno youth chief and son-in-law of former prime minister Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, Khairy Jamaluddin who has a very high profile political ambition has been clearly sideline from any position in the new administration.

It has been reported that Khairy’s exclusion and Muhkriz’s appointment has been the request of Mahathir. It also looked very quite awkward when Umno youth deputy chief Razali Ibrahim has been appointed a deputy minister which clearly indicated that Khairy had received a total black out from Najib.

And what will happen then? When Razali begin to consolidate his power as a deputy minister, he will flex his muscles in the Umno youth in future which may pose a serious threat and challenge to Khairy’s credibility and position as the movement’s number one. Sooner or later, a power struggle in the Umno youth will began to erupt.

Najib’s decision not to appoint Khairy as traditionally, other Umno youth chief got, was to curb his rising influence in the party that he build up previously with the help of his premier father-in-law. Khairy who was once known as the 4th floor kid who make decisions and flexing his influence from behind, is now being targeted by Mahathir’s men who all along wanted his powers in the party curbed.

In this case, Khairy’s ambition to become a prime minister one day is now gone. His political direction is now becoming uncertain and so do most of his strong supporters and fund backers. Is Khairy going to sit down and let Najib step on him forever? It is certain that Khairy with only a party position in his hand will be finding ways to rebuild his political ladder again. He is not letting opportunities go by just like that and he will fight his way through to claim his rightful position in the government. But will he succeed? Mahathir’s men are surrounding and watching him!

Factional fighting in Umno is also continuing based on the fact that Najib’s administration does not properly represent every faction from within the party. Tun Abdullah’s faction, Khairy’s faction and the other smaller ones are beginning to voice their dissatisfaction over Najib’s choice and his endorsement of Mahathir’s interference.

Besides, we must also remember that Najib was also a suspect involved in the death of a Mongolian lady named Altantuya Shaaribuu. Even though two of his former bodyguards were found guilty and sentenced to death by hanging, Najib’s reputation has been dealt with a blow because of his close connection with this case. In fact, in order to have this case closed as quickly as possible, a plan has been hatched between the judiciary and the 4th floor to have these two men sentenced to death, so the truth will not be uncovered forever.

Therefore, the new administration is very, very unclean and the list is too long for us to elaborate further. If there’s no more by-election right now, we will have to wait for the 13th general elections in four years time in order to effect a stronger change onto our nation.

BN and Umno badly defeated in two by-elections

We had seen recently that Pakatan Rakyat’s PKR and PAS candidates had handsomely won their respectively state and parliamentary seats with increased majorities despite open and continuous attacks by both BN and Umno to undermine the opposition coalition with negative reports and publicities.

Still Pakatan Rakyat overcame all these obstacles without any problems. In Bukit Selambau, PKR’s S.Manikumar won with 10,229 votes with a majority of 2,403 which was higher than 2,362 which they gained in last year’s general election. At Bukit Gantang, PAS won the seat in 2008 with a majority of 1,566 votes but this time round with Near Jamaluddin contesting, he gained with an increased majority of 2,789 votes where he garnered 21,860 votes.

It proves that the people of both constituencies had not forgiven BN and Umno yet for what they had done i.e. racism, violence, threat, ISA, corruption, money politics and a lot more.

In Perak’s Bukit Gantang, the result was very clear. The people openly demonstrated their dissatisfaction and rejected Umno’s coup d’etat on February which saw the legally elected state government has been undemocratically toppled and replaced with a rebel state government led by Umno.

It was a moral victory for Nizar who once lead the Pakatan Rakyat state government in Perak until four of its state assemblymen defected after being enticed by Umno who later capitalized the defection by seizing power by undemocratic means i.e. having called for an illegal state assembly sitting at the Perak Umno headquarters to pass a “no-confidence” motion to topple Nizar and his state government.

In this case, the Umno-led Perak rebel state government must accept their defeat and call for the dissolution of the state assembly to pave way for a new state election. First of all, will they dare to face the people again? Certainly not, they are too scared of the people’s power.

In Kedah’s Bukit Selambau, it has been clear despite so many attempts by BN-Umno to discredit Pakatan Rakyat with numerous publicities of “defection” of PKR members, Manikumar managed to overcome the attack by gaining a far more sounding majority.

The loss for the BN’s candidate from MIC also dealt another blow to its party president Samy Vellu who himself had lost his Sungai Siput parliamentary seat in last year’s general election.

The victories have brought to four by-elections wins by Pakatan Rakyat after the earlier victories in Permatang Pauh and Kuala Terengganu. It significantly shows that the Malaysians want to change irrespective of the new prime minister. The people still want change and they are stronger in their support for Pakatan Rakyat.

There is nothing else BN and Umno could do now. The people are fed up with their old style of conservative stories and politics, coupled with already widely known corruptions, money politics, supremacist ideas, violence, threats and racist politics.

What belittling Islam?

We heard that a police report has been made by the Malay Unity Action Force president Osman Abu Bakar who is also an Umno member, against Perak DAP Secretary Nga Kor Ming for belittling Islam in a ceramah at Changkat Jering, Perak.

We understood that Nga merely referred to some words in Surah Al-A’raf during his political ceramah. Nga referred to the Quranic verse as a guidance and example to inform the people on Pakatan Rakyat’s program for the people. What is wrong with that?

Let’s say if he were to recite the verse inaccurately, it does not mean he had insulted Islam or belittled Islam. He tried his best to recite the verse and he did not try his best to insult Islam. What Osman Abu Bakar claimed on his police report was definitely nonsense and he has being a radical racist narrow minded guy who only wanted to serve the interest of Umno and his own.

Osman is trying to politicize the Quranic verse in order to provoke racial tension and if this happens, Umno will have the opportunity to call in the security force to arrest these guy and that guy, and locking them up into ISA for “national security” reasons.

Even the Mursyidul Am of PAS and Kelantan Mentri Besar Datuk Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat had confirmed that there is nothing wrong if a non-Muslim were to recite a surah from the Quran, provided that he did not insult or criticize it. Did Nga insult or criticize Islam? No he didn’t at all. It was Osman who had in fact insulted Islam by politicizing it and brought the matter to the police for no reason.

What we could see here is Osman is trying to play with the religion in order to provoke racial and political tensions. This is clearly an Umno’s intention.

We still remember that an Umno leader from Penang had also belittled Buddhism by saying that Buddhism is a religion with a lower standing in this country. He is Shabudin Yahya, the Umno state assemblyman for Permatang Berangan. He said “this is something scary because Islam is seen as having a same standing as Buddhism which was founded by a man named Gautama Buddha”. This is clearly insulting Buddhism, because what he said really belittled Buddhism.

So, because of Umno supremacy, its party leader had the right to insult and belittle anyone they wish to but when someone tried to recite a Quranic verse because he made it as his guidance even if he is not a Muslim, Umno will definitely say this guy is insulting Islam. Is this fair?

Umno had nothng at all. They just like to instill hate, hate and nothing but hate.

PKR: Mass defections from Kedah PPP

The mass defections, which included People's Progressive Party Vice President V. Nagarajan, meant that PPP, a BN component party has lost almost its entire membership in Kedah.

This shows the BN and Umno no longer have its support from the Kedahans. The Kedah PPP are fed-up and had enough with Umno's supremacist and manipulation over the other BN component parties.

We wish to congratulate PKR Advisor Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim for his success in bringing down one of the BN component party in Kedah and brought them into our Pakatan Rakyat fold.

Our final countdown is 7 April. We wish Pakatan Rakyat's PKR candidate all the best in their by-election. May the victory be with us.

Bukit Gantang: Reject the Umno rebel state government in Perak

It will be a referendum in Perak. On 6 February 2009, Perak Umno launched a coup d’etat to topple the Perak state government which was elected by the people on 8 March 2008 general election last year.

After the legitimate state government was overthrown, a rebel state government was briefly established by Perak Umno to replace the former. After the Umno rebel state government came to power, the state legislative assembly was suspended from its proceedings with the help from the police and other security force. State assemblymen were barred from entering the state legislative building for fear of popular vote that will undermine the Umno rebel state government’s legitimacy.

Therefore, let us all show Umno how illegitimate and treason they are in Perak. Umno had recently killed democracy in Perak, denying the Perakians their rights, their choice of government and their right to speak up.

Let us all give our votes to Pakatan Rakyat candidate Datuk Seri Mohd Nizar Jamaluddin of PAS in the Bukit Gantang parliamentary by-election on this 7 April.

Go-go girls’ concert: Zahid insulted the Chinese community

During his campaigning rounds for the by-election in the Bukit Gantang parliamentary constituency, the Perak Umno liaison deputy chief and minister in the prime minister’s department Datuk Ahmad Zahid Hamidi proudly said to the press that it is the culture of the Chinese to have sexy girls dancing on the stage.

The go-go girls’ concert was jointly organized by both Umno and MCA as part of the campaign for the Bukit Gantang parliamentary by-elections aimed to fish voters from the Chinese community to support the BN candidate.

Datuk Ahmad Zahid’s statement clearly shows that he portray the Chinese community as low-class citizens whose culture is drinking, eating and watching sexy beautiful girls doing stage performance.

Datuk Ahmad Zahid had insulted the Chinese community by portraying them in a lowest level. Besides, he together with the other BN-Umno leaders also insulted women by using sexy girls to fish for votes. By using sexy girls to fish for votes also means they had already portrayed women as low-class, cheap and willing to be used for any means.

Datuk Ahmad Zahid’s statements and actions were clearly barbaric, racist, disgusting, degrading and uncivilized with its aim was to demean the Chinese community and their culture.

Again, another political barbarian from Umno!

Disneyland scandal in Selangor

The loser of the Umno youth chief race, Dr Mohd Khir Toyo had created yet another “good name” for himself and so does his fellow Selangor Umno leaders and their spouses.

Dr Mohd Khir Toyo and his fellow Umno leaders who formerly governed Selangor had spent more than RM1.7 million of public funds to visit two Disneyland theme parks in the United States and France with their respective spouses and children.

These two trips which were organized in 2007 and 2004 were in addition to the two other trips to Disneyland parks in Hong Kong and Tokyo.

According to the chief executive officer of the state investment arm called Permodalan Negeri Selangor Berhad (PNSB) Datin Khairiyah Abu Hassan who attended the hearing conducted by the Selangor Select Committee on Competency, Accountability and Transparency, PNSB paid for all those trips in full sum on instruction from Dr Khir Toyo who was at that time mentri besar and PNSB chairman.

Datin Khairiyah also testified to the select committee that Dr Khir Toyo’s entourage which also includes their families merely visited the theme parks as ordinary members of the public. Besides, Datin Khairiyah also confirmed that there were no reports file in accordance with procedures after the visits.

And there goes another discovery of Umno’s blatant power abuse and corruption during their years of governance in Selangor. These Umno leaders together with their spouses made use of the public funds mean for the betterment and development of the state for their personal enjoyment and luxurious livings.

The Selangor Select Committee on Competency, Accountability and Transparency which will be reporting its finding to the state legislative assembly should take its action as soon as possible by reporting these power abuses and corrupt activities to the Malaysian Anti Corruption Commission (MACC).

However, we doubt MACC will act against Dr Khir Toyo and other Selangor Umno leaders because Umno is still in power at the federal level and MACC will have to act only on the jurisdiction of the prime minister. Will MACC act independently or not? We will not know until we see them doing it, but with full heartedly or half heartedly? Is MACC really independent?
And if MACC decided not to pursue with this case, we understand because Umno leaders powerfully reign supreme over the others. They are the supremacist and untouchable.

Another political barbarian from Umno!

Those who encouraged poverty should be condemned

The detractors of the Penang Pakatan Rakyat state government’s effort to eradicate poverty in the state should be condemned as traitors who were out to sabotage the welfare of our people.

What is wrong of giving money to the poor? Is it right that Umno and BN leaders give money for corruption? In fact, the Umno and BN leaders should come up to publicly apologize to our people for their corruption which was rampant during their governance.

As the result of the corrupt practice of these Umno and BN leaders, the state had loss millions in funds which was simply wasted and used for their own political and business agendas.

These Umno and BN leaders are questioning the Penang Pakatan Rakyat state government’s success because they cannot even answer why they could not eradicate poverty during their past 51 years of governance. They are just criticizing because they are already out of their minds and still in a denial mode.

Or maybe these Umno and BN leaders are simply too lazy to check the facts before criticizing the Penang Pakatan Rakyat state government’s effort to help the poor in the state for their own political agenda. They just wanted to sabotage the effort so they could blame the Penang Pakatan Rakyat state government.

Therefore, these Umno and BN leaders must be condemned for their anti-people and anti-welfare stand.

15 evidence of Umno’s treason against the Malay Rulers

Kelantan Mentri Besar Datuk Nik Aziz Nik Mat had recently exposed about 15 clear fact evidences of Umno’s treason against the Malay Rulers and the Constitutional Monarchy which are as follows:-

1. The founder of Umno Datuk Onn Jaafar was thrown out of the Johor Royal Palace in 1920 and he took refuge at Singapore because of his criticism against the Sultan of Johor on his property and debts by his royal family members;

2. In 1974, Tan Sri Ghazali Jawi, the father of former Datuk Seri Tajol Rosli refused to resign as Mentri Besar of Perak despite of his written agreement with the Sultan of Perak earlier indicating that he would only hold the position for two years. As the result of his broken pledge, the Sultan of Perak was displeased with his rudeness and actions. Then recently Tajol Rosli said Umno never commit any treason. So, what about his father’s action?

3. In 1979, the then Mentri Besar of Pahang Datuk Abdul Rahim Bakar quarreled with the Sultan of Pahang. As the result of this, pro-Umno medias waged their criticism against the Sultan.

4. In 1983, Umno initiated to reduce the powers of the Yang Dipertuan Agong which regards to rights to declare a state of emergency. In protest of Umno’s move, the Council of Malay Rulers rejected the proposal where Umno in response to the rejection mounted a nationwide criticism against the Malay Rulers via its party controlled media and press.

5. During the Umno general assembly in 1991, the Sultan of Kelantan was widely condemned and blamed by Umno leaders and delegates for the party loss in Kelantan to PAS during the general elections.

6. At the Umno general assembly too in 1991, Umno delegates had openly called for investigation on properties and monies accumulated by the Malay Rulers. The report was widely published in Utusan Malaysia as a headline. Isn’t this treason?

7. Umno leaders and members held a mass demonstration against the Sultan of Kelantan and handed over their memorandum to him on their disagreement with the sultanate. Why didn’t the police fire their tear gas to disperse the demonstration which was without permit and illegal at that time?

8. On 18 January 1993, Umno leaders had actively initiated an amendment to the Federal Constitution to allow Malay Rulers to be charged in Special Court for their offence and any other matters. When the Malay Rulers request the move to be withheld in order to have more time to review it, Umno wage a massive press war against the Malay Rulers with various criticisms and condemnations.

9. In the year 1993 too, massive rallies organized by Umno without permits were held Alor Setar, Bagan Datoh, Seremban, Batu Pahat and Melaka to show their support to the then prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad wage their anger and condemnation against the Malay Rulers.

10. Gua Musang MP Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah once asked which one of these is more dangerous: the constitutional amendments in 1993 or the disrespect on the Sultan of Perak on 6 February 2009. According to Tengku Razaleigh, he did not agree with Bukit Gelugor MP Karpal Singh’s intention to sue the Sultan of Perak in the court but also agreed that Karpal has the right to do under the provision of the Federal Constitution which was amended in 1993. All the sudden Umno shouted and yelled at Karpal, and organized demonstrations against him in front of his residence. Actually, Umno members should hold demonstrations in front of the Umno headquarters too because it was their party leader who had first went against the royal institution.

11. A Kelantan Umno leader, Datuk Annuar Musa supported the illegal installation of Tengku Ibrahim Inderaputra as a Sultan in an effort to topple Sultan Ismail Petra of Kelantan. Such move by an Umno leader is clearly a disrespect, disgraceful and treason against the royalty.

12. The former Mentri Besar of Perlis Datuk Seri Shahidan Kassim openly declared that he had sufficient evidence to show that the present Sultan of Kelantan Tuanku Ismail Petra was not qualified for the throne.

13. Umno information chief, Tan Sri Muhammad Muhammad Taib called Datuk Seri Mohamad Near Jamaluddin a traitor. Hasn’t he forgotten that he once absconded with the Sultan of Selangor’s daughter, Puteri Ku Yah? Due to the Sultan’s anger on Tan Sri Muhammad’s disrespect, his Datukship was withdrawn. The fact is this is also a treason.

14. After last year’s general elections, 23 of the 24 Terengganu state assemblymen threatened to boycott the swearing in of Datuk Ahmad Said as the new Mentri Besar. The rival Umno leaders made open statements condemning the Sultan of Terengganu’s alternate choice for the Mentri Besar position and insisted on wanting their Datuk Seri Idris Jusoh as the Mentri Besar. Umno members who supported Datuk Idris held demonstrations in front of the palace and took up banners and placards calling the Sultan “an animal”. Why didn’t the police arrest the Umno leaders and members for insulting the Sultan but only arrest people who demonstrated in front of Istana Kinta in Kuala Kangsar, Perak on 6 February 2009?

15. Datuk Seri Shahidan Kassim boycotted the swearing in Datuk Seri Dr Mohd Isa Sabu as the new Mentri Besar of Perlis because he was not reappointed to the said position.

So, it has been clearly shown who were the real traitors and who had committed treason against the Malay Rulers and the Constitutional Monarchy. Umno is the real traitors and they committed treason against the Malay Rulers and our nation as a whole.

BN sponsored phantom voters

What is phantom voter? Phantom voter is a person who is not residing in a parliamentary or state constituency but who is a voter in that constituency. A phantom voter is also considered not a local or a person who is born and bred in that particular area. A phantom voter is also seen as a stranger in that particular area and could have never been to the said area unless there is an election going on. Phantom voters are normally heavily sponsored by the BN via offers of cash, valuables and benefits like free transportation, food, lodgings, accommodations as well as limited shopping incentives for their votes cast in each electoral constituencies.

Well, a very large number of phantom voter were discovered by PKR elections operations team recently confirming that a housing estate was fully infested by these phantom voters believed to have been implanted by BN and Umno in order for them to gain additional and more votes in the by-election or general elections.

What did the PKR members actually found? A particular single storey terrace house with only three rooms situated in a “Taman” housed about sixty (60) over people in it, but upon checking with the actual residents who were staying there, they are no such persons residing there and they do not even know who are all those sixty over persons listed in the electoral list. So these sixty over people with an address situated at a single storey terrace house with only three rooms are definitely call Phantom voters. Why? Because they are actually not genuine voters and they do not even belong to that constituency.

And whenever such allegations arise, BN and Umno are quick to deny it, because they already got their backings from the Election Commission (EC) as well. The EC in order to assist BN and Umno, often view such claims as non-existence. The EC instead twisted the facts by saying that “ghosts” are wondering souls of dead persons and there is no such thing of “ghosts” being able to vote. They are all in fact trying to cover-up facts and confuse the people on the definition of phantom voter.

Now let us shift our attention to Umno. During their party’s divisional and branch elections held last year, they are a lot of allegations by their own local party leaders and members that phantom voters exist in their divisional and branch levels too. And the Umno top leaders never deny the existence of phantom voter inside their party and in fact some even acknowledged that phantom voters did really exist in their party by saying that such happenings are common in their party politics.

As such, you could see the chain reaction here, if money politics exist in Umno, there are sure to have phantom voters in the party as well. And these party phantom voters are also given the same exclusive treats like what BN is giving to the electoral phantom voters when there is a general or by-elections.

No matter how much BN and Umno firmly denying the existence of phantom voters, we all know the facts and figures. We all know who is actually cheating us all these while. They are doing these just because they are the federal government and had their control over the related authorities and departments which are able to assist them in such manipulations.

That is why we must reject BN, Umno, money politics, corruptions and phantom voters at all cost.

Umno has keris, why not the 'clenched fist'?

Parti Sosialis Malaysia (PSM), which recently won a decade-long battle for recognition, faces a new hurdle after the election commission (EC) rejected its "clenched fist" symbol as too violent.

What sort of people in EC who made such an uncivilised decision? The "clenched first" being too violent. To us, the Umno's "keris" is the most violent. It symbolised hatred, kill, violent, threat and terrorism.

The EC decision on not accepting PSM's logo for the use in general election is clearly a political motivated one. The registrar of societies had already approved the registration of PSM, so is EC trying to sabotage PSM's existence and its rights "on behalf" of Barisan Nasional?

This action also clearly symbolised BN-Umno's ketuanan to curb human rights, freedom of speech and freedom of association.

Money politics continue in by-election campaigns

The nominations for the by-elections for Bukit Selambau in Kedah, Bukit Gantang in Perak and Batang Ai in Sarawak had started on 29 March with candidates from both Pakatan Rakyat, Barisan Nasional and the independents being endorsed for contest on 7 April.

And there comes money politics pouring in from BN and Umno election machineries with all sorts of promises and pledges to uphold the constituencies with developments, new roads, new lanes and “new state governments” as well.

BN and Umno campaign machineries, with the assistance of the federal government departments are doing all it can to trick and cheat the voters into believing in their promises and pledges. During the one week campaign grace period for these three constituencies, millions of Ringgit will be pouring in, thanks to Umno’s continuous practical money politics.

Besides, BN and Umno will also be working hand in hand with the election commission, the police and other federal government agencies to ensure that phantom voters will be safely ferried into these constituencies during the voting day on 7 April. Possible manipulated postal votes will also be on standby should the BN and Umno feel that the votes seen are not accounted on their side in a week’s time.

As such, Umno cannot eradicate money politics, as it has been in their roots ever since. The Bukit Mertajam Umno division chief had already said it during the party general assembly.

Hisham wants teachers to be active in politics

The News Straits Times press had on 29 March reported that the Umno newly elected vice president and education minister Datuk Hishammuddin Hussein had suggested in the Umno general assembly that school teachers to be allowed to get involved in politics.

If allowed and implemented, school teachers nationwide will be actively participating in politics and they will lose focus as educationist. Hishammuddin’s suggestion to allow teachers to take active part in politics is just like asking our children to give up education completely.

We also view Hishammuddin’s suggestion as being political motivated as majority of the teachers in the national based schools are Umno members.

Therefore, once these school teachers are allowed to take active role in politics, the educational needs of our children will be totally neglected as these politician teachers will tend to leave their work behind by taking emergency leave, no pay leave or even medical leave to attend political gathering and functions.

And again, once these school teachers are elected to hold party positions in Umno, will they have the sufficient and quality time to focus on the educational aspects of our children? Will they have the sufficient time to provide quality teachings and guidance to our children in the schools?

The answer is, they will not even have time to provide focus to our children once they are active in politics. With these teachers losing focus on their professionalism to serve their own political needs, our children and the parents are the ones who are going to suffer.

The parents upon seeing their children having insufficient education in schools will resort to sending them to tuition centers to ensure their kids would not be left out. And the children themselves will then feel the pain and suffer due to overstrained and pressure they endured the entire day with lack of proper rest and attention.

So, the consequences are our children are going to suffer the most when school teachers are allowed to take active part in politics. And if this is allowed and implemented, it is going to benefit Umno entirely and as the result the educational qualities is going to lose out eventually.

Umno is trying to make use of our children for their own political gains. This is disgusting and inhumane.

Read more in the Bahasa Malaysia version.

Change or no change makes no difference in Umno

Yesterday night, we saw the results from the Umno polls and its elected members of the supreme council.

There is actually no change at all. The line-up in the new leadership still consist of old guards and conservatives. The only change that Umno undergone yesterday was a transition from Pak Lah's men to Najib's men.

This is not change at all but only an exchange. Umno is still the same like the last or previous Umno. It did not demonstrate its willingness to open up and be multi-racial in its stand as well as its policies. It is still a political party that emphasize high supremacy over others with its racist jargons and normal threats towards others should anyone tries to mention about justice, equality, democracy and freedom. Money politics and corruption will still continue in the party as usual.

So, why do we need to focus so much on Umno's general assembly unnecessarily? Let us not waste our time on Umno.

Umno is the real power crazy traitor

In his final speech as Umno youth chief, Hishammuddin Hussein warns the delegates of the one who 'sows the seeds of hatred and will turn against his own race'.

Since from the beginning, we had already seen who were the real power crazy traitor who had sowed the seeds of racist, hatred and violence against other race.

This shows Umno's attempt to cover up their own extremism by trying to put the blame onto others. Umno is now blamming those who stood up for justice, equality and democracy for leading the nation into chaos.

Umno's Hisham bars Pakatan leaders from schools

According to Malaysiakini today, a list issued by Education Minister Hishammuddin Hussein to all schools in Selangor allowed only 73 leaders from BN to attend events in the schools in the state.

Looks like Hishammuddin and Umno is very revengeful towards the Selangor Pakatan Rakyat State Government and did not want the Pakatan officials to attend the schools' functions in the state.

This move is clearly a sabotage act by Umno and its BN lackeys in order to create instability in Selangor by instilling hatred and anger, at the same time provoke other sentiments which is deemed harmful to the state government and its people.

Bar Council done a good job in upholding justice, freedom and equality

We would like to congratulate the Bar Council for their continuous effort in upholding justice, freedom and equality.

Well done and Good Job! We know some Umno leaders are now abusing the government machinery for their political gains to threaten the Bar Council to stop their quest to protect the federal constitution, the people and the nation.

We wish to remind the Bar Council not to be afraid by the cowardice act shown by these Umno leaders. Their objectives are not to protect the Malay rulers or the Malay community but they are simply doing all these provocations issuing threats in order to protect their own interest, power and wealth.

Therefore, the Bar Council is here to stay and we shall always support their effort to uphold justice, freedom and equality for all Malaysians regardless of their race, religions and backgrounds.

Let us all condemn Umno for their continuous blatant acts of violence, barbarism, racism, terrorism, corruptions, money politics and power abuses which had resulted to our people’s suffering, fear and worries on the insecurity of our nation.

Read more in our Bahasa Malaysia version.

Minister abused his government position to get rooms for his supporters

The minister of higher education Datuk Mohamed Khalid Nordin, one of the top contenders for the Umno vice president’s post had openly admitted that he had used the ministry’s official letterhead to book some 70 hotel rooms for Umno Pasir division members and delegates for the upcoming Umno general assembly.

A confirmed source had also state that a government cheque had been issued as a deposit to obtain the hotel rooms for the party delegates.

Datuk Mohamed Khalid also reasoned that he had instructed the usage of the ministry’s letterhead to book the hotel rooms because it is very difficult to book hotel rooms during the Umno general assembly period. What does he actually mean by that?

This is clearly an abuse of power and corrupt practice. Just because he wanted to contest and win a party vice president position, he uses his government position to serve his own interest in Umno.

Therefore, the Malaysian Anti Corruption Commission (MACC) should start investigating this power abuse and corrupt practice as soon as possible.

NGOs planned protest against Bukit Aman

A coalition of NGOs consist of about 50 organizations had planned to hold a mass protest ring in front of the police headquarters in Bukit Aman to shown their dissatisfaction on certain unresolved issues.

It also shows the public discontent on the police force is also growing following the BN federal government’s decision not to establish the Independent Police Complaints and Misconduct Commission (IPCMC) but to do with only a less effective Enforcement Agencies Integrity Commission (EAIC).

Besides, the highlights of the NGOs’ protest will also be focusing on the unresolved case of A.Kugan’s death while he was under investigation for suspicion in a car theft syndicate. They are now emphasizing why no action taken against Kugan’s killers from the police force.

Come on Tan Sri Musa (the inspector-general of police), it does not mean by hauling up your officers who murdered Kugan will make you or your entire force lost your faces. You have to accept that this is a process of justice and the murderers be it your policemen or whoever it is must face the judiciary process. They had murdered a guy who is under investigation.

If you keep on covering your face or being arrogant, Kugan will even become a national hero or perhaps a national statesman because he is a murder victim now. People are making a fame of him because your officers murdered him. Even if Kugan had committed a crime by stealing some vehicles to make ends meet, he should be allow to go through the judiciary process and from there he will be judged by the court if he is guilty or not.

The IGP should not blame the entire episode on Kugan. The more you blame him the more heroic he becomes and he might be turned into a Tun or Tan Sri type of guy by the people who fought for him. Those policemen who murdered him should be blamed for their impatience in their interrogations and their disrespect to the judiciary process.

If you let justice serve on Kugan accordingly, you don’t have to through such suffering situation. You asked for it, the entire police force asked for it. You cannot blame all these on the people, Kugan’s family and the whole. We did not go against you simply because we wanted to. We wanted justice, not to make Kugan a winner or you a loser. Justice means equality. You must serve everyone equally and not one-sided like what you have been doing in Perak right now.

As member of the police force, you must serve the people and preserve the nation’s security and not only serve the interest of a particular political party just because the leader of the political party is your home affairs minister.

Pakatan Rakyat cannot but BN all can in Perak

The police on the instruction from the home affairs ministry had banned series of ceramahs in Bukit Gantang, Perak led by Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim and Datuk Seri Mohamad Nizar Jamaluddin.

But the police on the instruction from the home affairs ministry had allowed ceramahs by BN and Umno to be held all over Bukit Gantang in order for them to gear up for the by-election at the said parliamentary constituency.

Apart from that, BN and Umno were allowed to raise their party flags and election banners now while the Pakatan Rakyat parties are not allowed to do so. Wasn’t that supposed to be in the Elections Act stating that party flags and banners as well as campaigns are only allowed once the nomination takes place?

The Elections Commission (EC) also did not act against BN and Umno for putting up their party flags and banners prior to the nomination day. It has been clearly shown that the EC is truly a pro-BN as the entity is still under the jurisdiction of the prime minister’s department even though EC is a commission status and was supposed to be “responsible to the parliament”.

So, are the police and EC actually apolitical or should we call them the Umno police and the Umno EC?

Factional rifts in Umno worsens

Looks like the factional rifts in Umno had worsens following the recent decision made by the party’s disciplinary committee to disqualify potential deputy presidential candidate Datuk Mohd Ali Rustam from contesting in the party polls.

But the Umno disciplinary committee decides to allow the Federal Territory youth chief Datuk Norza Zakaria to contest in the party polls instead. Datuk Norza was recently charged in the court for money politics and corruptions in the party.

It seems that the Umno disciplinary committee is behaving one-sided, barring Ali Rustam from contesting in the polls because he is guilty of money politics and corruptions in the party and allowing Norza to contest but he is also guilty of money politics and corruption.

The situation here is Ali Rustam is being probed by the Umno disciplinary committee while Norza is being investigated by the Malaysian Anti Corruption Commission (MACC). What has been decided by the Umno disciplinary committee is being upheld, while what has been investigated by MACC was not recognized by Umno, reasoning that Norza has not been found guilty yet by the court and the proceedings are ongoing.

So, MACC should also charge Ali Rustam in this case or Ali Rustam should voluntarily surrender to the MACC so he could be investigated like what had Norza being treated with.

The differences of treatment carried out by the Umno disciplinary committee had been clearly seen as a factional rift in the party had intensified. Party president-elect Datuk Najib Razak will take office soon and he wanted to see his men on his line-up. That is why he needed to purge as many rivals as he could in order for him to consolidate his grip in both party and the government.

Why did Pak Lah lied to Sarawakians ?

On 16 March recently, our prime minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi had confirmed to the press that the Brunei had dropped its territorial claim on Sarawak’s Limbang district following an agreement reached between the Sultan of Brunei and Pak Lah himself.

But on 19 March, the Brunei second foreign affairs and trade minister Datuk Lim Jock Seng had denied claims by Pak Lah that the sultanate and Malaysia had already resolved their territorial dispute over Limbang in Sarawak.

The question is why did Pak Lah lied to the Sarawakians at the first place? What were the political motives behind such an inaccurate statement made by Pak Lah? Has Pak Lah lied in order to give credit to Sarawak chief minister and state Barisan chairman Tan Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud in order for him to gain some grounds in the coming Sarawak state elections?

Looks like Tan Sri Abdul Taib had already felt the pressure from within his state and the growing influence of the opposition coalition who is going all out to ensure their victory. Abdul Taib is feeling the pinch right now. He had realized that he has been staying in power for too long and in fact the longest in our nation’s history. His monopolization in power, businesses and power abuses in Sarawak had became a talk all over the state and the people are now fed up with this kind of rules. That is why he is banking on Pak Lah assistance on the Limbang dispute in order for him to regain his ground and popularity.

But the Sarawakians knew better. They had been sidelined and divided for over decades by the Sarawak BN so that those in power could monopolize the state’s resources and enrich themselves. The state’s natives are still being left as it in decades ago. No change, nor any developments actually take place in most of the lands in that state. Corporate leaders having close connections with the Sarawak BN leaders were given exclusive rights and permits to conduct loggings in the state’s forest which forcefully misplaced thousands of natives from their homes, lands and farms.

Well, we are all hoping for the best that could take place in Sarawak soon. We hope that all Sarawakians will now come forward to demand for a change and to claim back their legal rights to decide what is best for their state and the people. And they could engineer the change by voting in the coming state elections.

The Batang Ai by-election will also be a testing ground for both Pakatan Rakyat and BN. IN the last state election, we could see one of the state BN’s component SUPP losing its influence when many of its candidates had lost to DAP. And in the last general elections, PKR and DAP also gained some grounds by winning some parliamentary constituencies.

Therefore, the people there could seek the change by voting Pakatan Rakyat. The people there needed a New Sarawak to emerge and rule by their own people.

Perda denies it being part of Bandar Perda development

The Penang Regional Development Authority (Perda) chairman and Penang Umno secretary Datuk Azhar Ibrahim denied that the federal development authority which he currently chairs had jointly build and developed Bandar Perda.

According to Datuk Azhar, Perda had nothing to do with Bandar Perda at all. And now the fate of some high profile occupants are uncertain, as the supplier for chill-water had confirmed that its bills had not been settle nor paid promptly. Those occupants who are expected to face a possible stoppage in their air-conditionings starting this Friday are the Seberang Perai Tengah District Police headquarters, Jaya Jusco Shopping Mall, the Seberang Perak Municipal Council (MPSP) complex, the Lembaga Hasil Dalam Negeri (LHDN) and several other establishments.

A check at the major property developer Aseania Development Sdn Bhd website shows that Bandar Perda was a privatized project jointly undertook by both Aseania and Perda. That means Bandar Perda township is clearly a joint-venture project carried out with Perda’s active participation.

Meanwhile, the supplier had already informed the state authorities that it cannot afford to pay the sum of RM800,000 owed to Tenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB) anymore. TNB had given a notice to the said supplier until this Friday to settle the outstanding bills.

According to the agreement, the occupants of affected buildings in Bandar Perda are required to pay their air-conditioning bills to Aseania Development Sdn Bhd which in turn will channel the payment to the chill-water supplier. It has also been confirmed that most occupants had promptly paid their air-cond dues to Aseania Development Sdn Bhd which is owned by a Bukit Mertajam Umno divisional leader and it is uncertain if Aseania had really channel the payment to the chill-water supplier.

As a partner in developing Bandar Perda, Perda’s continuous denial of any responsibility clearly demonstrates their irresponsible attitude towards the well-being of the people and the businesses situated in the said township. They are running away from the facts and refuse to be part of Aseania when such crisis happens. Aseania belongs to Umno too, and to avoid further embarrassment, Azhar denied Perda’s involvement.

From here, we could see both entities belong to Umno and one part of it is trying to run away. Are there any motives or cover-ups? We hope the relevant authorities could start their probe as soon as possible to ascertain if there are any elements of corruptions or power abuse involved.

Why Karpal Singh was charged? The Umno racists are spared!

DAP National Chairman and MP for Bukit Gelugor Karpal Singh was charged in the court recently under the Sedition Act 1948 for calling on the Sultan of Perak to be taken to court for his recognition onto the Perak Umno rebel state government which was established following the coup d’etat initiated by Umno.

Karpal was merely giving his opinion on the way the Sultan of Perak had managed the constitutional crisis in the state. In 1993 Umno under the then leadership of Dr Mahathir Mohammad had openly sought to reduce the powers of the Malay Rulers and to curb their royal immunity as well by initiating the amendment to the federal constitution. Then Umno at that time also supported the establishment of a special court in order to hear grievances forwarded by the people against the Rulers.

So it was Umno then under the leadership of Dr Mahathir who had abolished the immunity of the Malay Rulers in order to pave way for the people to comment, constructively criticize and to allow Rulers to be taken to a special court should any grievances arise.

Last year, when the then Bukit Bendera Umno division chairman Ahmad Ismail called our Malaysian Chinese as “pendatang” and “penduduk sementara”, numerous police reports has been made against him and there are many people who urge the authorities to charge him in the court for his seditious and racist acts which could harm the national unity of our nation.

But the police only accepted the reports and just threw it into the waste paper bins and forget about it. This is because Ahmad Ismail was a prominent Umno leader who had close connections with the Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi. That is why the police dare not act against him even if his remarks and statements were seditious and racist which could endanger the national security of this nation.

So does former Selangor Umno mentri besar Dr Mohd Khir Toyo, who provoked a racial outbreak in the state by accusing Selangor State Executive Councillor Teresa Kok of organizing petitions against the Muslims for their loud azans at the mosque. A number of police reports were made against Khir Toyo for inciting racial hatred in this manner, but the police again failed to act or charge him in the court for his seditious and racist statements.

When Karpal Singh was speaking of justice and carried out his duty to defend and champion the democratic principles for the people, he was immediately hauled up into the court to be charged under Sedition Act 1948. What kind of justice is this? As long as Umno rules and dominates, there will be no justice at all to anyone of us.

When Perak Umno initiated a coup d’etat to topple the Perak state government their actions were immediately legalized as correct. When Perak Umno established the rebel state government, and the Sultan of Perak accidently and mistakenly recognized it, we were all condemned as traitors and alleged that we had committed treason just because we try to correct the wrong and we insisted that there is a constitutional crisis in Perak.

Again during the Umno general assembly few years back, a large number of party delegates in their speeches had called on their party leaders to wage war on our Malaysian Chinese community, but no action was taken by the police to have all these racist and violent culprits detained and charged in the court for their subversive activities. The police were afraid of them because Umno is very powerful.

If changes are not made now, maybe one day we could see the entire institution of this country being Umnonized. Soon, there will be an Umno police force, an Umno military force, an Umno attorney-general, an Umno supreme court, an Umno constitution, and everything that is Umno or it might be worst with an Umno monarch having absolute power ruling over us.

Right now, we could even see that the basic institution in our country’s administration has been collectively Umnonized without our knowledge or without ourselves realizing it that such dangerous moves had been systematically organized.

Therefore, if we as rakyat do not do something right now to uphold justice and unity, our generations to come will not be able to live in this country anymore as Malaysians. We as Malaysians must act now to stop Umno from further destroying our nation.

Mohd Ali Rustam disqualified from Umno election candidacy

One of the top contenders for the Umno deputy presidency, Datuk Mohd Ali Rustam has been disqualified by the party disciplinary committee recently. Ali Rustam was disqualified from contesting any positions in the party because of his active involvement in money politics.

Actually there is no such word of “money politics”. The word “money politics” was created by Umno leaders in order to confuse the people on its definition from the real facts. The actual word for such wrongs is in fact called corruption or bribery. Ali Rustam was disqualified because he was guilty of corruption for trying to bribe Umno delegates into voting for him and it has been proven by the party disciplinary committee after calling up several witnesses to testify during their inquiry.

Since his corrupt practice has been proven and because of his offence, he has been disqualified from the party elections, why is the Malaysian Anti Corruption Commission (MACC) keeping quiet? Wasn’t the MACC supposed to come in and detain Ali Rustam, who is also Malacca chief minister and charge him for corruption as well. The evidence has been shown and proven, so what is MACC waiting for?

Or is MACC afraid to act against Ali Rustam because he is still a head of a state government? Was MACC prevented from acting against Ali Rustam by both the Umno president and deputy president as well?

Umno caught some of its prominent leaders for corruption but did not want to release them to MACC for prosecution. And MACC did not want to act reasoning that there is no report lodged, that is why they did not file the case. Double standards and pretenders!

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Everyone has their right to an attorney

Because of the influence from the Perak Umno rebel state government, the Ipoh High Court had denied Perak State Assembly Speaker V.Sivakumar’s right to have an attorney to represent him in his suit against the rebel state administration.

They reason that since Sivakumar as a Speaker is a public or civil servant, he has no right to engage an attorney of his own to address his case in the court against the rebel state government led by Umno. According to Umno he could only be represented by the state legal advisor.

This ruling does not make any sense at all. In this case every public or civil servant who has a case to be heard in the court will have to engage the state legal advisor or attorney-general to act on their behalf. A teacher is a public servant, a customs officer is a public servant, a municipal council worker is a public servant, the driver of the prime minister’s official vehicle is a public servant, a clerk attached to the treasury department is a public servant, a cleaner working in the prime minister’s official residence is also a public servant.

So does the attorney-general or state legal advisor have to answer to the calls of all public servants who are in a legal tussle or whatever case they may have to face? Why can’t a public servant have their every right to choose or select an attorney of their own to represent them? What is wrong with the judicial commissioner who sat in the chambers of Ipoh High Court? Why can’t he use the common sense to make the judgment correct but choose to depend blindly on the standard proceedings of the government which applies generally to only specific application and not as the entire service?

Well, the Court of Appeal had finally given its judgment and allowed Sivakumar to have his rights back to seek his own attorneys to represent him. Sivakumar’s basic human rights had been restored after being denied by the Ipoh High Court judgment.

The Perak Umno rebel state government had tried to prevent Sivakumar from advancing his legal suit against them by misusing the stature of the state civil service for their political ends.

The federal constitution guarantees all its citizens their rights to an attorney. And by depriving one’s right to an attorney means insulting the federal constitution as well. As such, Umno had in fact insulted the federal constitution.

6 bloggers charged in court

6 bloggers were hauled up by the police recently and charged in the court for alleged “insult” of the Sultan of Perak over the Umno’s coup d’etat in Perak.

The 6 bloggers who were charged in the court were actually trying to inform the public and the people the truth and facts on the crisis and to expose Umno’s political terrorism. As such, these bloggers were not guilty.

Umno via its police force hauled up these bloggers because they were afraid that these blogger will eventually expose their wrongdoings to the people. Umno is afraid that the truth will prevail and in order to cover up their misdeeds, they instructed their police force to act against the bloggers so the other bloggers will be afraid to voice their opinions and truth.

Umno is in a denial mode, they refused to accept the fact that they had became irrelevant and the people no longer support their policies and supremacist ideas.

We strongly believe that the rest of the bloggers are also supporting their fellow bloggers who were charged in court for expressing the truth in public.

We are repeating our call now! Disband the Umno rebel state government and dissolve the state assembly to pave way for a new state election.

EAIC a powerless entity

Most of us are gravely disappointed with the tabling of the Enforcement Agency Integrity Commission (EAIC) bill in parliament on last Wednesday.

The bill clearly shows that it failed to address the fundamental characteristics of a complaint as it lacks the independent enforcement powers to provide effective checks and balances in a fair and transparent manner.

The attorney-general who is a political appointee of the prime minister will be vested with full powers in decision making in the EAIC thus, defeating the notion of a case being handled and disposed of in a truly independent, just and credible manner.

Grave concerns were also raised on the effectiveness and efficiency of the EAIC in handing and covering about 21 public enforcement agencies. It will definitely make the commission redundant and ineffective in its function as it will be impossible for a single commission of such limited capacity and resources to be able to handle all cases of about 21 public enforcement agencies of vast different procedures and operational orders.

Therefore, we urge the federal government to go back to original proposal of setting up the Independent Police Complaints and Misconduct Commission (IPCMC) as recommended by the Royal Commission on the Police Force in the year 2006, instead of going round and round giving numerous excuses and reasons to avoid the IPCMC bill.

Tunku Aziz urged feds to rethink Allah ban

DAP National Vice Chairman Tunku Abdul Aziz Tunku Ibrahim had urged the federal government to rethink its insistence on banning Christians from using the word “Allah” in the religious service before the high court confirm its ruling.

The minister in the prime minister’s department Datuk Ahmad Zahid Hamidi had been reported earlier as saying that he wanted all states without a ruler like Penang, Melaka, Federal Territories, Sabah and Sarawak to follow the gazette ban on the word “Allah” for non-Muslim publications.

As such, it is very unfair for Zahid to force all those states to gazette the ban without taking into account of the court’s judgment.

It is very clear that Zahid and the rest of the Umno leaders are using this sensitive issue simply to fight for positions in their party elections which is due to be held at the end of this month.

The home minister Datuk Syed Hamid Albar had issued a gazette on last 16 February allowing the use of the word “Allah” in non-Muslim publications, only to reverse his decision later, reasoning that it was an error.

Tunku Aziz also mentioned that what is important is to accept the reality that Malaysia is a country where we share our lives and nobody has the right to portray himself as superior to another.

Perak NGOs call for immediate dissolution of state assembly for fresh elections

About twenty over non-governmental organizations (NGO) in Perak had made an appeal to the Sultan of Perak to dissolve the state assembly to pave way for a fresh state election.

It has also been reported that ten thousand signatures has been collected during the campaign around the state’s cities, towns and villages to explain to the people on the current constitutional crisis. The signatures collected had shown that the people wanted a fresh election and did not recognize Umno’s rebel state government as a legitimate one.

Among the twenty over NGOs who rallied for the Sultan to dissolve the state assembly were twenty three Chinese associations and guilds, the Perak Bloggers Network, four Islamic associations consisting of Jamaiy Negeri Perak, Kumpulan Prihatin Pertubuhan Islam bukan kerajaan Negeri Perak, Yayasan Amal Negeri Perak and the Biro Kebajikan Pusat Khidmat Sosial Islam Negeri Perak.

It shows that the people of Perak are already fed up with Umno’s lies, falsehood and undemocratic manipulation in the state’s politics and wanted a fresh election as soon as possible. The uprising of the Perakians had begun.

A fresh election is the only solution to the current constitutional crisis. Let us all support the call for a fresh state election and condemn Umno’s treason.

He Still Does Not Understand

The three young future country leaders, former Selangor MB Datuk Seri Dr Khir Toyo, Umno Youth Deputy Chief Khairy Jamaluddin and Jerlun MP Datuk Mukhriz Mahathir recently expressed their governance views on a TV series.

One of the three will certainly be the next Umno Youth Chief. And thus, their political views attracted extra attentions from the public. However, their remarks in the show shocked me and these future leaders scared me.

Particularly Dr Khir. How do you think the former Selangor MB, who have lost his state regime in the 8 March 2008 general elections, makes a self-examination?

His reasoning was, Umno lost support because the party's Malay racism and Islamism are not yet fully carried out. He believed that as long as Umno further promotes Malay agenda and Islamic policies, the party will be able to turn the tide in the next general elections.

If you think these are already the most extreme and absurd remarks, you are wrong. Dr Khir has always been unexpected. He said that it is a desecration to the Malay Privileges to allow non-Malays enjoy the same status as Malays. Similarly, non-Muslims should not enjoy the same status as Muslims.

Attention! The remarks were not made in the Umno General Assembly. Instead, the remarks, meant to dedicate to the whole nation, were made in a TV series last month on 17 February.

It was the inspiration Dr Khir got from the 8 March 2008 general elections: Umno must be more rightist to draw closer to Malay Sovereignty and Islamism.

Dr Khir still did not understand that the Selangor BN suffered a great loss was because the people could no longer tolerate Malay racism and theocracy. Also, they could no longer tolerate a corrupt, power abuse, bias and extreme government. And he was the then state government leader.

After the collapse of the Selangor state government, Dr Khir wished to revive in a new guise by making use of Umno Youth, so that he could extend his political life, expand his territory and realise his ambitions.
According to the current situation, he has the highest chance. Don't ask me why, it is an Umno's tradition.

And we heard that Umno wants to reform and BN is going to restructure. Yes, under the leadership of Dr Khir.

By: Tay Tian Yan, Translated by: Soong Phui Jee - Sin Chew Daily

New administration in Perak is a rebel state government until the state assembly is dissolved and a fresh state election is called

The current administration running the Perak state is called the Umno rebel state government. Despite Umno’s repeat of its legitimacy in the power seizure and its recognition by the Sultan of Perak, the people will not be easily fooled by such stature made by Umno.

It is a fact that the Perak state is currently run by a rebel state government led by Umno Perak with its lackeys MCA, Gerakan and PPP acting as mere office boys or just like ball keepers. The Sultan of Perak had made a mistake in recognizing the rebel state government and it might be due to the pressure put on him by Umno who authorized the federal security forces to surround the Kinta Palace where the Sultan resides. Therefore the Sultan did not fully commits the mistake. He was pressured into making the wrong decision.

The power seizure initiated by Umno in Perak happened when three state assemblymen from Pakatan Rakyat had decided to switch their support to Umno. Two of the three state assemblymen who are now facing charges on corruption and power abuse are believed to have made a deal with Umno and the federal government to have their charges dropped later after their defection.

When the defection of these three state assemblymen has been formalized, Umno together with them held the state assembly sitting in the Perak Umno headquarters chaired by Umno deputy president Najib Razak.

The situation of the state assembly sitting in the Perak Umno headquarters was the Speaker was not present to chair the meeting at all. Secondly, the state assembly sitting was held in the Perak Umno headquarters and not in the State Assembly Building as required. Third, the state assembly sitting in the Perak Umno headquarters was not attended by other state assemblymen from Pakatan Rakyat. Fourth, the state assembly sitting in the Perak Umno headquarters who passed a no-confidence vote against the Pakatan Rakyat state government in a press conference chaired by Najib was illegal.

Why the state assembly sitting was held in the Perak Umno headquarters and chaired by Najib. When Umno claimed that they already have the majority to form a new state government, they did not ask for the state assembly sitting to be convened in the State Assembly Building with the presence of the state assemblymen from Pakatan Rakyat in order to prove the stature of their majority and to put a no-confidence vote to dissolve the then state government in a lawful manner.

But instead these Umno state assemblymen cowardly held their state assembly sitting in the Perak Umno headquarters without the presence of the Speaker, other state assemblymen nor any official notice of requisition in order to formalize the sitting in a proper quorum.

Therefore, the state assembly sitting in the Perak Umno headquarters was totally illegal and so does the results of its proceedings. In this case, the new administration is also an illegal one called the rebel state government. It is a fact. Umno is still in a denial mode.

Umno similar to Hezbollah

In the a report released by New Straits Times press on 7 March recently, Penang Umno secretary and Penaga state assemblyman Azhar Ibrahim had stated that the state DAP organized program to help the hard core poor via the sales proceed of the party’s newsletter Rocket was similar to the tactic used by the banned Al-Arqam sect.

According to Azhar, the program organized by DAP was insincere and aimed to enslave the participants into helping DAP blindly and the initiatives was merely used for the party’s political gain.

We wish to condemn the statement made by Azhar as been wild and made without having the actual facts being checked first. His accusation and subsequent labeling of DAP being similar to Al-Arqam are also completely baseless and a wildest lie we had ever heard.

Let us take a look at Umno and what we could see if they too have any similarity. Well, it is clear the Umno’s racist, supremacist, war-like, threats, arrogant, violent and undemocratic policies are similar to that of Hezbollah of Lebanon.

We had all seen and heard of Umno’s policies lauded by their leaders of all levels in their party general assembly previously, we had all seen and heard of Umno’s threat and its racist jargons calling for ethnic cleansing in our nation, to soak their “keris” with our blood and to burn cities in event of their party’s position being sidelined or should they fall out of favour.

And this is Umno, the Malaysia’s Hezbollah. What will become of our nation if Umno were to continue its governance in future? We cannot let them ruin our entire nation anymore. We must prevent Umno or Hezbollah from exceeding their racist and violence into our communities.

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Is Malaysia not technically in recession?

The second finance minister Tan Sri Nor Mohamed Yakcop had recently stated in the parliament that our nation is not in the throes of a technical recession but only facing a certain challenging times.

So, the BN federal government is asking our people not to worry and be happy. Despite the upcoming effects on the country’s economy following the widespread global economic crisis, the BN is still in denial mode and nothing concrete has been carried so far to address the growing inflation and high unemployment rate in our nation.

The previous statement made by the deputy human resources minister Noraini Ahmad saying that there will be about 100,000 employees out of job this year via retrenchments, layoffs and voluntary separation scheme following the recent global economic crisis which had in fact spread over to our nation. The closure and suspension of businesses by some multi-national companies were the brief impacts of the crisis. Some MNCs which huge workforce are beginning to reduce its employees drastically and have their manufacturing plants shut down, forcing employees to take up pay cuts or surrendering their various benefits in exchange of continuing employment and so on.

And now the BN federal government formally announced that they will not establish the retrenchment fund as proposed earlier but instead choose to enrich some political link businesses by awarding them with various training contracts to upgrade retrenched workers.

Instead of using the taxpayers monies to enrich these businesses, why not use the fund to help those retrenched workers directly? Why choose a third party to handle the situation instead? Wouldn’t that be more costly in terms of fund management and its effectiveness?

These retrenched workers needed whatever help and assistance possible in order to have their feet up again to support their family, children, home and their basic needs so that they could continue shoulder on.

The BN federal government is in total ignorance. They are abandoning our people in order to further their own political interest.

Who embarrass the nation in the eyes of the world?

According to the Perak Umno rebel state government’s mentri besar Dr Zambry Abdul Kadir the emergency session of the state assembly held under the tree was to embarrass the nation in the eyes of the world.

It was Umno who had already embarrassed the nation in the eyes of the world from day one starting from the coup attempt organized at the Perak Umno headquarters right to the day when Umno held its illegal state assembly sitting also in the Perak Umno headquarters to topple a legally elected state government by proclaiming the rebel state government.

Umno toppled a legally elected state government by force, in an unconstitutional manner, in an undemocratic way, and in order to enforce their rebel administration, they got the federal security force to surround the Kinta Palace to force the Sultan of Perak to recognize their rebel administration.

That has actually already embarrassed the nation in the eyes of the world. And now they are creating more and more chaos and threats in order to curb the people’s uprising and to cover up their misdeeds.

Then they order the federal security forces to storm and seal the state assembly building and prevent our state assemblymen from convening a meeting for our people. That is why the state assembly sitting has to be held outside the building under a tree.

Umno had actually embarrassed the people of Perak and the nation in the eyes of the world just because they wanted to achieve their own political agenda, power and prestige. Umno had created a jungle rule in Perak.

MACC investigating Perak Speaker

The Malaysian Anti Corruption Commission (MACC) is still an old brand of Anti Corruption Agency despite its recent rebranding and upgrading. They are not doing what they are supposed to do, to combat corruption at all levels.

But instead they are now helping the BN-Umno federal government to combat their political opponents, by targeting Pakatan Rakyat leaders with unnecessary threats of harassments, investigations and interrogations like the police are doing now.

They are helping the BN-Umno leaders to curb Pakatan Rakyat influence by taking up various imagining corruption and power abuse allegations on its leaders in order to create a bad reputation on PKR, DAP and PAS leaders.

Looks like the MACC is still ineffective in combating corruptions, they are interfering deeper into the political stream especially the current Perak constitutional crisis.

The MACC do not care of the rampant corruption and money politics in Umno at all because because MACC is still accountable to the prime minister’s department whose office was led by the Umno president himself.

So do you think will MACC ever dare step into Umno to probe into their corruptions when their boss is the Umno president and prime minister?

Who acted in an uncivilized manner?

Umno supreme council and tourism minister Azalina Othman Said had described that the Perak state assembly’s emergency session under a tree as an uncivilized act.

We wish to remind Azalina of her words on who actually acted in an uncivilized manner. It was Umno who had acted in uncivilized manner. Remember it was the Perak Umno state assemblymen who did it first by organizing their own state assembly session in the state Umno headquarters instead of having it in the state assembly building in order to proclaim the formation of the Umno rebel state government.

The state assembly session in the state Umno headquarters was not even chaired by the speaker but was done by the Umno deputy president instead. Such action was clearly a coup d’etat, seizing power in an undemocratic manner, treason to the people and constitution, thus an uncivilized act.

It was Umno who had confused the people

An Umno vice president and Melaka chief minister Mohd Ali Rustam had recently said that PKR and PAS are disrespecting the Malay rulers, the Malay rights and creating confusions among Malaysians and said that it was because of PKR and PAS, DAP is now insulting the sultans and touching on sensitive issues and their leader behaving like “kurang ajar”.

From the statement made by Ali Rustam, it shows that he is frustrated because the people had begun to abandon Umno and BN in a very large move and he could feel it. That is why he is frustrated and uttered the word “kurang ajar” on PKR, PAS and DAP leaders for their roles in letting facts known to the people.

Umno is worried that the people would one day know the entire truth. That is why they are trying to cover up their misdeeds by blaming the Pakatan Rakyat of confusing the people. It was actually Umno who is confusing the people, because they are in control of all the mass medias and newspapers, where Pakatan Rakyat did not even have full access to these channels.

MCA factional tussle worsens, party became hopeless and so does the other BN coalition parties

As the factional tussle in MCA between supporters of both party president Ong Tee Keat and deputy president Dr Chua Soi Lek worsens, the party had turned a hopeless political organization with no effectiveness in serving the Malaysian Chinese community anymore.

Because of the MCA’s continuous infighting, Umno is taking advantage in monopolizing all the powers within the Barisan Nasional coalition, as leaders of MCA had no time to seek for a better bargaining power in the coalition.

Gerakan although a multi-racial party in name but a Chinese dominated one had its parliamentarians reduced in the last general elections. Gerakan was also wiped out from Penang because of its subservient nature to Umno. Thus, effectively demonstrating that the Malaysian Chinese interest and representation in the Barisan Nasional coalition has became irrelevant to the fact that the Malaysian Chinese community had already given up hope on the Barisan Nasional Chinese leaders. Most of them are widely seen as overly subservient to Umno who dominates the coalition with its tough racist policies of which the component parties had no rights to object to.

Therefore, it is up to DAP and PKR now to widen its representation in the Malaysian Chinese community. With its increased parliamentarians and state assemblymen in the last general elections, its proves that the Malaysian Chinese community had switched their support dramatically from Barisan Nasional to Pakatan Rakyat in ensuring that their rights are being looked into in every aspect.

But still, with the rising influences of the leaders from the DAP and PKR fold, Umno is seen to have intensify its racist onslaught on the two Pakatan Rakyat component parties by engineering coup d’etats, sexual scandal, and several inducements to incite defection over to the Barisan Nasional.

Umno’s aim was to destabilize the effective governance of the Pakatan Rakyat by injecting unnecessary challenges and politicking in the Pakatan Rakyat held states thus blaming the later in event of ineffective services to the people. This is in fact a clear sabotage carried out by Umno.

Although there are several disagreements on the way Umno handles its politicking, back door deals and undemocratic way of power seizure, the Barisan Nasional component parties like MCA, MIC, Gerakan and PPP could not do much to caution its dominant partner because their lack of parliamentarian representation had eroded their negotiating powers from within.

As such, there became useless like a lame duck as they could not seek a fair power sharing for themselves in order to speak for the communities that they claimed to be representing. Umno become more powerful and dominant, where those Barisan Nasional component parties had no other choice but to continue to be subservient to their dominant partner in order to survive.

So, in actual fact the Barisan Nasional doesn’t exist anymore. Its component parties like MCA, MIC, Gerakan and PPP are mere decorations or window dressing to show that it has a coalition but it is Umno who calls all the shots by its own ways and means. Its coalition partners would always say yes and agree to what Umno dictates.

Karpal Singh, victim of Umno youth’s violent and “ketuanan” campaigns

In this “bullets” episode, Bukit Gelugor MP Karpal Singh being a wheelchair-bound man with disability to walk and move about freely but yet, he still serves his people and nation well despite all those short comes.

And yet today, Karpal has been a victim of Umno youth’s violent campaign just because he wanted to end their immunities that they are enjoying and bring all those who were behind the “bullets” episode to justice.

Why did the Umno youth members stormed the parliament attempting to assault Karpal? The Umno youth are guilty conscious and wanted to cover-up the “bullets” episode by diverting the attention to their grievance,at the same time, trying to ensure their immunities are not violated.

The Umno youth members felt that their guilt has been overblown by those who wanted justice into such a criminal act. In fact sending the bullets to an innocent person’s house was already a criminal act. We all know who had demonstrated in front of Karpal residence the other day and we also know who had shown the violent acts and issue threats in front of Karpal’s residence the other day.

The Umno youth members felt their guilt because of Karpal’s attempt to expose them and to end their immunities. When the Umno youth members attacked Karpal at the parliament compound, the security personnel and the police who are directly under the home ministry managed by an Umno supreme council did not act against those attackers, because they were instructed not to do so, just because those attackers were also Umno youth members.

Just imagine if those attackers were not from Umno and they were from other political parties, they are sure to be caught, beaten-up and thrown into the nearby police lock-ups immediately. As those attackers were Umno youth members, the home minister did not want the authorities to act against them. This is what Umno’s “ketuanan” means.

Umno’s “ketuanan” also guarantees its members are immune, above the law, above the sultanate, above god and above the federal constitution. That means, like it has been shown in the past few years, Umno reserves the right to organize violence, promoting hatred, organize their so-called band of militias and wage war onto the people and the entire nation if anyone found to have spoken against them, vote against them, criticizing them and so on. The act of criticizing Umno and exposing their wrongdoings are all seen as committing treason against the country, against the sultanate and against the constitution.

But with Umno’s “ketuanan” they are exempted from all such labels which they put on other people, in 1993 they could undermine the sultanate and withdraw their powers and immunities without much problems, during the past years, they issued threats of wanting to burn down the Selangor Chinese Town Hall and wanted to organize violence, promoting hatred, bloodshed, to burn down Kuala Lumpur and their numerous threats to repeat the May 13 incident if they were to lose in the general elections again and so on, hoping to scare the people into continuing to vote them so that such violence will not occurred.

Because of Umno’s “ketuanan” they are of cause also exempted from the law and constitution. They act in such a way because they said that they are immune, above the law, above the sultanate, above god and above the federal constitution.

Why did they hate us so much?

Almost everyday, the name and word Umno has been regularly mentioned in media and other mainstream communication channels. Well, it does not mean Umno is popular. It is because Umno had became too irrelevant until they desperately needed the media and press to assist them in furthering their outdated political agendas so that the people will hear, see and “understand” their policies.

After the 8 March general elections last year, these Umno leaders are frustrated and shocked with their losses and defeats after 50 years of their firm grip in power. They where shock in disbelieve that five states had eventually fell into Pakatan Rakyat’s hands.

When they were defeated, these Umno leaders put the blame on Pakatan Rakyat for their extensive campaigns, the bloggers, the younger generations and our people. These Umno leaders blamed us because of their defeat they had also lost much of their profit making channels in our nation. These Umno leaders blamed us because their positions in the party, government and businesses are not at stake.

And that is why they hate us so much, because we did not vote for them but choose Pakatan Rakyat instead. The hate us so much because they had lost their two-thirds majority in the parliament and their powers has been drastically reduced to a mere balance only to govern.

They denied that they themselves were the contributors to their own defeat. They said that their defeat were because the people sabotaged them, disowned them and disbelieve in them. And that are the only reasons that the Umno leaders had till today. They deny every single fault if they were to be from their party. They are still in a very denial mode. These Umno leaders are hiding their heads under the sand just like the ostrich.

That is why these Umno leaders are resorting to various undemocratic, uncivilized, dictatorial and unjust means to ensure that they remain in power. They are now ensuring that all federal government security organs are fully utilized in order to curb the rising influence of the Pakatan Rakyat and the people’s dissatisfaction. These Umno leaders are now working very hard to put the Internal Security Act, Sedition Act, Official Secrets Act, Printing Press Act, etc into full use so that the people would not dare to speak out and expose their misdeeds in public.

They wanted to ensure that the people listen to them and their instructions carefully and obediently without any further questions. If condition warrants they may push their policies into a harsher implementation and ensure tougher enforcements are in place to proceed with their plans.

There they goes, Perak Umno launched a coup d’etat to topple the legitimate Perak state government and installed its leaders and members in the rebel state government after putting their pressure on the Perak Sultanate to recognize their power seizure. Apart from Perak, they are also planning to hatch similar plots in Selangor and Kedah but had put their plans on hold after their attempts were exposed.

Then, when certain people wanted to come forward to report their misdeeds to the relevant authorities, these Umno leaders claimed that they were liars and promised to avenge such reports by threatening those who had reported against them with imprisonment and security detentions.

Besides, their leaders in the youth wing especially, are also getting more violent and racist, attempting, warning and threatening the population with murders, violence, war, supremacy, “bullets” and so on. The Umno youth wing had became more like a Nazi storm trooper where they could attack and condemn any meetings or gatherings which speak against them, criticizing them or uprooting their misdeeds.

These has become of Umno who will turn our nation into a Nazi police state one day. Will we be able to rid off Umno before they could ever rid our nation off the map? We better make our decisions fast.

We must therefore insist a final solution on the Umno’s question fast! Let us all show them that this nation belongs to us and they do not own this nation as they claimed.

We want to preserve the peace, harmony and unity in our nation which we have been maintaining for the past fifty one years. We must preserve these harmonious entities of ours for our generations to come.

Toll hikes differed to end of this year, some in Umno were unhappy

After received much protest from the public on the toll hikes in several highway concessions, the BN federal government had agreed to differ the plan to the end of this year. The people are now relieved after the toll hikes has been differed and will BN make another attempt to do the same in the middle of this year?

Well, when the toll hikes were differed, some Umno state and divisional leaders were in fact disappointed with their top leader’s move. Most of these second and third level Umno leaders were actually owners and directors of several toll concessionary companies which manage those highways and collect the tolls.

By differing the toll hikes would also means differing the profit margins and gains by these Umno linked concessionary companies.

And these unhappy Umno leaders will then voice their dissatisfaction in the coming Umno general assembly which is expected to be held soon. The party assembly is also expected to oversee the power transition from the current Pak Lah’s premiership to his deputy Najib Razak.

The discontent and dissatisfaction among the Umno delegates will also expected to see many of Pak Lah’s men to be voted out in favour of Najib’s henchmen. It is not known if Pak Lah’s son-in-law Khairy Jamaluddin will be able to make it in the Umno youth chief race or otherwise. Some source had also mentioned that Khairy may dump his father-in-law in order to further his own political aspirations.

Well, all these transition effects were mere speculations among Umno delegates and members. Some said when Najib take on the premiership, harsher measures and policies are expected to take place, which include the differed toll hikes may also see its increase moving back to its original plan in order to please the Umno linked concessionary companies where several of its party leaders are directors and major shareholders.

Then, after that will Umno ever listen to the people again?

Economy and nation in chaos under Umno

As the global economic crisis worsens, our nation had started to feel the impact with more and more closure of businesses and multi national companies nationwide. As the result, the unemployment rate had also increased dramatically with more of our people are expected to lose their jobs in coming months.

Source released from the human resources ministry recently also reported that about 100,000 employees nationwide are expected to be without jobs by end of this year.

So, what are the measures undertaken by the Barisan Nasional federal government so far? Why are they still delaying federal assistance to our people who were retrenched and laid off by their employers? What effective action plans has carried out so far?

Well, their recent action plan was to topple the elected Perak state government of which they already had done so. Then they “dispatched” two live bullets to Karpal Singh’s house in Penang. And their subsequent action plan was to ensure the resignation and departure of a Selangor state executive councillor as soon as possible following the release and exposure of her private and personal effects in public.

Selangor Mentri Besar Tan Sri Abdul Khalid Ibrahim was also not spared from the list of the BN federal government’s action plan. He was accused of corruption in his previous contribution of cows to a village for their Aidil Adha celebration, and maintenance and milage claims for the usage of his personal vehicle for official purpose.

Their latest action plan was to call for Penang Chief Minister and DAP Secretary-General Lim Guan Eng’s citizenship to be revoked because he did a right thing to foster national unity by establishing a religious goodwill council in Penang.

Then, we heard Umno deputy president Najib Razak who pledged to avenge those who had reported to the Malaysian Anti Corruption Commission (MACC) on attempts by some Umno leaders to buy over some Pakatan Rakyat state assemblymen and members of parliament with millions of Ringgit in offer.

Another action plan was they decided to burden the people by increasing the highway tolls with immediate effect from March onwards.

Looks like the BN federal government under the leadership of Umno is busy politicking and politicking, creating more and more disturbance and uncertainties in the nation in order to have their racist political agendas achieved.

It is clear that the BN federal government under the leadership of Umno wanted to punish the electorate with such action plans by depriving our people of their economic rights.

The global economic crisis is worsening and the unemployment rate is rising at a very fast phase, but the Umno’s cronies, the Umno’s contractors, the Umno’s corporate partners are getting wealthier and wealthier. They are throwing their monies and cash almost everyday like there is nothing is happening.

We cannot let these Umno leaders do this to us anymore. We must come up with our action plan to save the nation from being ruined by them.

Shabudin insulted Buddhism, Christianity, Taoism and Bahai

The Penang Pakatan Rakyat state government had on early of this month set up a Religious Goodwill Council to foster and develop interfaith understanding and harmony among the various communities in the state.

This is Pakatan Rakyat’s effort to explore and build common universal values between religious communities. It helps to improve religious co-existence and understanding in our society.

It has been very unfortunate and disappointing that the Umno Permatang Berangan state assemblyman Shabudin Yahya had condemned the Penang state government’s effort as disrespect towards Islam as the country’s official religion.

Shabudin also claimed that the formation of an “interfaith council” by DAP, PKR and PAS in Penang state is something scary as the state government had made Islam to be seen as having the same status as Buddhism which was founded by a man called Gautama Buddha as well as Christianity, Taoism and Bahai.

Shabudin and Umno now insulted other religions in the name of Islam (or their political agenda) in order to create public disorder in the state by giving false information to the people on the state.

Besides, Shabudin and Umno also aimed to create disharmony amongst the multi-racial and multi-religious communities, hatred among all Malaysians and ethnics, so they could request the (Umno) federal government to declare a state of emergency in the Penang and Umno would move in eventually to take over state government by force.

Umno had became irrelevant and a poisonous sore in our nation’s politics. Just because they had ran out of ideas to entice the people to support them, Umno had resorted to instill and promote hatred and more hatred across the country in order to emerge as a particular race champion in event of an ethnic clash in our nation.

So, this is Umno with its fascist and racist policies of hate, hate, hate and nothing but only hatred toward the other community.

Therefore, we all Malaysians must come together and work towards preserving our national unity and we must also fight to prevent Umno from furthering its hate agendas in our nation. All of us must treasure our peaceful, harmonious and united multi-racial, multi-religious society in this nation for the benefits of our families, relatives, children, grandchildren and our next generations to come.

We must not let Umno ruin the national unity and peace of our nation anymore. Let us all put a stop to their racist and violent political venture now !

Umno is very revengeful towards Pakatan Rakyat

Umno who is controlling education ministry had made an instruction to all state education department directors to instruct all school principals and teachers not to attend any events organized by Pakatan Rakyat and not allowed to invite any Pakatan Rakyat officials to officiate any events organized by schools.

As the result, the DAP state assemblyman for Subang Jaya Hannah Yeoh was not allow to attend her own secondary school alumni dinner held at the school.

Then, Penang Deputy Chief Minister Professor Dr P.Ramasamy was not allowed to attend nor officiating several functions organized by some Tamil primary schools in the state.

And recently, SRJK © Sin Ming is now being targeted by the education ministry and the Selangor education department for inviting Selangor Mentri Besar Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim and Parliamentary Opposition Leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim to officiate the school’s four storey building.

The principal and teachers of SRJK © Sin Ming were told by via the education department’s circular that they are not allowed to attend the event in their school because they are civil servant under the federal jurisdiction which is still under the BN-Umno.

Just because Pakatan Rakyat had taken over several states in the last general elections, government agencies under the federal jurisdictions has been told to disallow all their officers and employees from having any communications or attending any events organized by Pakatan Rakyat state governments.

Umno is currently at a very desperate position and their move is to sabotage various channels and communications which are aimed for the betterment of the people. Umno is now avenging its defeat on the people for voting the Pakatan Rakyat into power during the last general elections. Umno is now punishing the people in these Pakatan Rakyat held states and showing the people the consequences of not voting BN-Umno.

Umno is still in a denial mode.

Senior MPSP official under investigation resigns

A Seberang Prai Municipal Council (MPSP) department head has resigned after the council initiated a domestic inquiry into his department’s activities.

Council president Farizan Darus confirmed that Md Pilus Md Noor had voluntarily quit as building department director from March 1 after having served the council for about 20 years.

Farizan said Md Pilus, who is in his 50s, had been relieved of his official duties since Jan 22 to facilitate internal investigations following complaints against him.

Last month, Chief Minister and DAP Secretary-General Lim Guan Eng gave the council a two-month ultimatum to clean up its act and to boost productivity. Lim ordered Farizan to take action against incompetent officers and contractors that gave the council a bad name.

State Local Government, Traffic Management and Environment Committee chairman Chow Kon Yeow also declined to elaborate on Md Pilus abrupt exit. He said the state government had asked the council to initiate a clean-up of its administration.

"We began by going through the council’s accounts and then focus on staff,” he said. Chow who is also Penang DAP State Chairman said the state wanted the council to be more efficient and accountable to ratepayers.

Guan Eng laments red tape over trust fund

Red tape and bureaucratic procedures have prevented the state government from opening a trust fund to help wipe out hardcore poverty in Penang, said Chief Minister and DAP Secretary-General Lim Guan Eng.

He said although it had been over a month since state Health, Welfare and Caring Society Committee chairman Phee Boon Poh discussed with state officials, a bank account for the fund has yet to be opened.

“The account is vital so that the corporate sector and public can obtain tax exemption on their contributions to the fund.

“Unfortunately, this delay has hampered efforts to wipe out hardcore poverty in Penang by our original March 8 deadline,” he told reporters after opening the Bagan constituency free medical camp in Lucky Garden, Raja Uda, here yesterday.

Penang has 904 hardcore poor families with a monthly income of RM400 or less, Lim said, noting that the state wanted to raise their monthly income to RM500 - Agencies.

PR leaders invited to school function; Principal and teachers absent

In a departure from the norms, the board of directors of SJK (C) Sin Ming in Puchong invited Selangor Mentri Besar Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim to officiate the opening of its new school block-cum-multi-purpose hall on Sunday, Sin Chew Daily reported today.

Also present were Parti Keadilan Rakyat adviser and Parliamentary Opposition Leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, Selangor exco members Teresa Kok and Ronnie Liu, Dong Zong (United Chinese School Boards Committee) president Dr Yap Sin Tian and representatives from the school's parent-teacher association (PIBG).

However, conspicuously missing from the ceremony were the school's principal and teaching staff.

School board chairman Chai Yun Ping said the school was informed by the state education department verbally a week ago that its staff and pupils were not allowed to attend Sunday's ceremony. "The department did not give any reason but said the principal and teachers must follow the directive as they get their salary from the federal government," said Chai.

Meanwhile, Khaild promised the school that he will look into the problem facing the school in acquiring an empty plot next to the school for expansion.He said if necessary the state government will exercise the power vested in it to compel the land owner to sell the plot to the school.

The mentri besar later pledged a RM50,000 grant for the school. Anwar, meanwhile, demonstrated his Chinese calligraphy skill and raised RM150,000 for the school with his writing of famous Chinese scholar Confucius' saying, "All within the Four Seas are Brothers".

Explaining the meaning of the saying, Anwar stressed the need for all races in the country to work together and to understand one another - Agencies.

Perak crisis: Umno seeks QC's opinion from London

It was reported that a senior constitutional lawyer left Kuala Lumpur yesterday for London to engage the services of a Queen's Counsel on behalf of Umno to advise the party on the Perak constitutional crisis.

Looks like Umno is not confident of winning the legal suit file by the Perak Pakatan Rakyat recently to challenge the legitimacy of the Perak Umno rebel state government. Umno did not have much qualified lawyers to advice them on the Pakatan Rakyat's legal suit or is it because no lawyers in Malaysia who are willing to team up on behalf of Umno because they too do not recognise the Perak Umno rebel state government which was installed via a coup d'etat with an illegal state assembly sitting held at the Perak Umno headquarters.

Yes, this is a fact. Umno seized power by holding its own state assembly sitting at the Perak Umno headquarters to claim power. The state assembly sitting held at the Perak Umno headquarters was not even chaired by the state assembly speaker because the speaker was from DAP and they certainly would not allow a DAP member into an Umno building. As such, the state assembly sitting was chaired by the Umno deputy president Najib Razak instead, in his capacity as both coup leader and state Umno chief.

About Religious and Racial Conflicts

Many of our social problems today are extended into religious and racial conflicts. In fact, most of the time, religion and racial issues are the cause of these conflicts. The purpose of religion is to guide mankind to develop unity and harmonious life and practice humane qualities.

Today, however, religion is often being used to discriminate against other religions and to develop jealousy, hatred and hostility. Actually today, human beings are not using religion to maintain peace and harmony but to create superiority or inferiority feelings. Such hostile and unhealthy religious competition or domination had even created bloodshed in many part of the world.

Some religious leaders or groups have been guilty of praising their own beliefs as part of their valuable religious customs and traditions, while ridiculing other religious beliefs and traditions as being inferior. Some others use religions for material gain, political power, self-glorification, reign supreme over others, and worldly powers. Religion itself has become a major problem.

Those who use religion and racial issues for worldly material gain and political power also face fear, worry, insecurity, enmity and difficulty of maintaining their power and authority. This clearly shows that