UMNO prefers Ong Tee Keat out?

In Malaysiakini Chua: It's baffling Umno not defending Ong the former-MCA-now-PKR man, Chua Jui Meng, acting in his new role as char koay teow man, stated the obvious, that not one, yessiree, not one single UMNO minister inclusive of the PM, has defended Ong Tee Keat over the latter’s exposure of the Port Klang Free Zone (PKFZ) issue.

UMNO has been deafening in its absolute silence over Ong's handling (exposure) of the corruption-scam crisis.

Chua said: "Ong is the president of the second largest BN component party and no one from Umno is protecting him. All these years, UMNO leaders have come out in the open to defend their under-attack colleagues from component parties. I find it strange."

I don’t!

Some three years ago, around September 2006, a then deputy Education Minister, Ong Tee Keat aroused the ire of Hishamuddin Hussein when he (Ong) exposed the corruption in a school.

Hishamuddin's cousin, Najib (then DPM) managed to get the Education Minister to apologise for his deputy’s (Ong’s) exposure of the rot in the education domain. Ong had refused to apologize wakakaka so his boss had to do it.

But much to the cabinet’s embarrassment, Samy Vellu confirmed what Ong exposed in that particular case, that corrupt school administrators couldn’t account for 90% of the maintenance funds, yes, 90% and not just 10% of the funds.

The word used was ‘embezzlement’. Ong Tee Keat exposed it, Hishamuddin was mad he did. Najib made him apologise (Ong refused and so his Minister-boss did).

Ong Tee Keat had then discovered UMNO didn’t like the exposure of acts of corruption by the government lil’ napoleons or BN insiders. I believe that’s what Chua Jui Meng is now saying, that UMNO is once again mad with Ong for repeating his ‘mistake’, with the current PKFZ issue, ...

... which, BTW, the current DPM wants settled in an ‘amicable’ manner, though what he had meant by that, one can only guess.

In my post "No sorry please, we're UMNO Youth leaders" I wrote of that affair:

On the cabinet reprimand of Deputy Higher Education Minister Ong Tee Keat’s criticism of alleged embezzlement of school maintenance funds, since then confirmed by Humpty Dumpty, Hishamuddin dug in deep himself. He said the reprimand [of Ong] had to be made.

Obviously the subsequent vindication of Ong's statement by the Works Minister wasn't enough to restore a just apology to the man who was unjustly reprimanded for exposing corruption.

Hishammuddin said his ministry has thousands of staff, and it was not possible to keep an eye on all of them to ensure that they do a proper job. He said it was not fair for Ong to specifically pick two Chinese schools in his complaint and to publicly criticise another ministry. He averred that when there were problems, they must be dealt with quickly, instead of turning them into a racial issue.

Bull Hisham! It's everyone's duty to expose corruption, not just Ong's. And in fact, Ong did not air that alleged embezzlement as a racist issue. He merely highlighted corruption. There was no mention of race. That the schools were vernacular in character was never the issue - the missing 90% of the maintenance funds was.

It was Hishamuddin who turned it into an anti-Ong issue because he obviously didn’t like the idea of an MCA bloke highlighting alleged corruption in his ministry. His act of political intimidation against Ong could be seen as an act against the exposure of corruption.

Even DPM Najib knew that there had been, to use Humpty's word, 'irregularity', which was why he stressed on cross-ministerial procedures as the reason to reprimand Ong while in the same breath, stating the 'facts' of the case was a different issue. He stated: “I don’t want to talk about facts, that’s another issue".

The DPM of the nation didn't want to talk about facts of an issue, that have direct bearing to a case of corruption? Kalah ta'apa, gaya mesti ada - form takes precedence over substance.

For more, read my earlier postings:

(1) Najib's facts, principles, goose & gander
(2) Corruption 'Fact' for DPM Najib & Hishamuddin
(3) What the cabinet reprimanded Ong Tee Keat for!
(4) Najib riled with Ong Tee Keat's last laugh!
(5) Int Sec Ministry gagged Chinese press on alleged embezzlements
(6) MCA at a crossroad

So I am hardly surprised that UMNO would be moving to oust Ong Tee Keat, a loose cannon in the BN scheme of never washing dirty linen in public.

In MCA's history there were/are three of its presidents who didn't/doesn't quite meet UMNO's requirements, namely, Lim Chong Eu, Tan Kwon Swan and Ong Tee Keat.

These were what happened to them: (a) Tunku cunningly manoeuvred Lim Chong Eu out in favour of Tan Siew Sin; (b) Tan Kwon Swan however made life easy for Dr Mahathir when he was arrested by the Sings; and now (c) Ong Tee Keat may well be the 3rd on UMNO's political hit list.

And what sort of Chinese politician would be UMNO's ideal partner? Ask Hishamuddin - anyway, the answer lies here - check the 2nd photo! ;-)

Anyway, back to Ong Tee Keat - Ong said of his intention to expose the PKFZ scam: I am willing to dismantle this time-bomb and if I fail, I will be the first to die.

In a way, I am waiting for death. Do you think Malaysians are stupid? Voters want transparency and accountability. Don't blame the blogs for posting gossips and speculations (on the PKFZ).

I am fighting for real and Ong Tee Keat never fakes his fights. As long as I have this breath, I will carry on this task.

If he doesn't succeed, he knows that it’s not only him who will ‘die’ but the MCA as well.

After 'ultra vires' comes 'lacuna'

The Malaysian Insider’s Legalities complicate Kartika’s caning refers to the case of Kartika Sari Dewi Shukarno who was to be whipped this week for drinking beer.

Kartika Sari Dewi in Indonesian means the ‘goddess of the essence of the star’ (wow). And with such a name perhaps she has been protected by a Higher Being.


Syariah experts have discovered a lacuna in the court’s punishment decree against her, which may possibly prevent the authorities from caning her.

By the way, in case any Utusan reporter is reading this, ‘lacuna’ does not mean any insult to Islam, DPM Muhyiddin or Rais Yatim wakakaka.

According to Terengganu Chief Syariah Judge Datuk Ismail Yahya, and supported by senior civil law lecturer Professor Shad Saleem Faruqi, Kartika was fined RM5,000 and given six lashes by the Pahang Syariah Court for the offence of yamseng-ing on 12 July 12 two years ago at a nightclub in Cherating but no jail sentence.

In Malaysia only the prison department and no one else may cane a prisoner.

As Kartika wasn’t sentenced, she is not a prisoner, thus she needn't go to prison. Therefore how is the authority going to cane her?

Well, according to the Malaysian Insider, Islamic Development Department (Jakim) legal adviser Mohd Zulbahrin Zainuddin unsurprisingly asserted it requires just a warrant to require Kartika to turn up at the prison for sentence to be carried out.

He mumbled unconvincingly: “Kartika will just be detained. The prison is just a place for her to wait. If Kartika wants to object, she has to go to the Syariah High Court and file an appeal. Since she has not done so, it is considered a straightforward case.”

Not so, said Professor Shad Saleem Faruqi, arguing that a detention order (via a warrant to detain) is in fact a second sentencing, i.e, an additional penalty to the caning and RM5,000.

And as Kartika has paid the RM5,000, she can’t be jailed in lieu.

But she can’t be cane unless she is jailed. And she can't be jailed as there's no jail sentence imposed on her - the 'lacuna' that Professor Shad mentioned.

“We’ve got a lacuna, that is the person who is to be whipped must be jailed. According to the law, nobody can be deprived of his life or liberty, except by the law. In this case, the law came to an end when the trial ended.”

“The judge imposed only two punishments [i.e. RM5,000 and caning]. He cannot now turn around and impose a third punishment. This is illegal. It’s almost like double jeopardy.”

Shad also quoted Article 7 of the Federal Constitution which states that if a person has been convicted of an offence, he or she could not be tried again for that offence.

“Kartika was not sentenced to jail initially. It would be unjust for the court to impose a new penalty.”

“Only the Syariah Appeal Court can deal with this matter now. So, the DPP should appeal to have the sentence increased. But the judge of the first instance should not be increasing the sentence himself. That is wrong.”

Shad explained: “There are only two types of detention: remand and prison. It can’t be remand because Kartika was convicted. And it can’t be imprisonment because she was not given a jail sentence.”

Terengganu Chief Syariah Judge Datuk Ismail Yahya warned Jakim that the whipping will be ultra vires [any Utusan reporter around? Wakakaka] and opened the authorities to a legal suit.

He advised: “Kartika can sue. This is because her detention, and subsequently the whipping, is illegal.”

For those Utusan reporters and Islamic Development Department (Jakim) legal adviser Mohd Zulbahrin Zainuddin, I say not ‘lacuna’ nor 'ultra vires' but:

Alhamdulillah Allahu-Akhbar

Siapa ponteng DNA sampling?

Extracts from Malaysiakini Letter reveals top MACC man, politician collusion.

The mystery letter which emerged at the Teoh Beng Hock inquest yesterday is believed to contain claims connecting a top ranking MACC officer to the interrogation of the political aide, which could have led to his death.

It further alleged that the top official was questioning Teoh on the day the DAP man was found dead. However the letter did not state on how Teoh died or if the officer was directly involved in his death.

The MACC officer has been identified by Kapar member of parliament S Manikavasagam as Selangor MACC deputy chief commissioner Hishamuddin Hashim.

The MACC insider letter stated:

(1) The officer did not punch out from work when he left Plaza Masalam where the Selangor MACC is located on that day. However, the letter stated the time of him leaving the office. This is important as it could show that this officer was the last person to have seen Teoh on that day, alleged the letter.

(2) The officer did not provide his DNA samples along with his other colleagues. He only gave a sample privately at a later day.
That he ordered his officers to wipe clean the window from where Teoh had apparently fallen from.

The letter also stated (from Star Online Teoh Inquest: Letter names officer and BN leader) that:

… the officer gave his DNA in the privacy of his office instead of the conference room where all the officers, including the state director, had assembled to be swabbed.

“Why was his DNA sample given in secrecy? Was it his own sample that was given? We MACC officers are puzzled why none of the samples extracted matched that of the mysterious male samples (found on Teoh’s blazer and belt).” […]

One incriminating accusation in the letter is about the method the officer used as his interrogation technique – by holding the front portion of a person’s belt and lifting him several times before shaking him.

(Government forensic pathologist Dr Khairul Azman Ibrahim had opined at the inquest earlier that it was possible that Teoh had been held up by the belt as it had a tear at the buckle region.)

Well ...

Kg Buah Pala - end of the road!

The court has passed the death sentence
On High Chaparral, the village of Buah Pala
Signalling the final chapter of a resistance
That was further weakened by bull charisma

The villagers mortally wounded long ago
Were ill served by the new false prophets
Misleading the residents from woe to woe
Treating innocent hopefuls as mere puppets

Once where real bull poo fertilize the land
Sheer utter bull now corrupts the pristine air
Confusing the villagers with sleight of hand
By their exploitative braggadocio and dare

Resist, hold fast, give way not a millimeter
From way behind they shouted ferociously
We’re sure to win, but comes September
Those ‘brave’ voices will just be a memory


See Malaysiakini - Federal Court strikes out Buah Pala residents' application

Dodgee Dimsum's Statutory Declaration

I have been reliably informed that:

(a) the Bar Council has an ulterior motives in whistle-blowing to the media that UMNO candidate for the Permatang Pasir by-election Rohaizat Othman was a disbarred lawyer;

(b) in doing so as per (a) above, the Bar Council is attacking a hallowed Malay institution (I'm still working out the religious angle - Damn! Where's that Kulim bloke when one needs him?);

(c) the sin of the Bar Council is all the greater in (b) above because Rohaizat Othman is not only a hero, but a handsome hero (nah nah nah to PAS!);

(d) that Rohaizat Othman's former business partner Yusri Isahak won't be welcomed when he attempts to lodge a police report against certain parties for attempting to make him take the rap for Rohaizat Othman;

(e) the Star Online amazing headline is about H1N1 swine fever when every other news media outlet has been talking about the headlines breaking news of an insider letter exposing a senior MACC officer's alleged culpability in the murder of Teoh Beng Hock;

(f) DPM Muhyiddin Yassin wants the PKFZ alleged billion ringgit scam to be resolved 'amicably', but for MACC to continue its aggressive pursuing of the Selangor DAP ADUNs for an alleged misuse of a humongous sum of RM2,400.

(g) DPM Muhyiddin Yassin revealed another (earlier) attack on a Malay institution where Lee Kuan Yew threatened to wage war on Malaysia.

(h) DPM Muhyiddin Yassin said because of (g) above, Malaysia capitulated to Singapore on the Island-nation's demand for Malaysian water (sob, lose face oledy).

I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the same to be true (otherwise go blame Malaysiakini, The Malaysian Insider and Star Online).

Dodgee Dimsum

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The Yum-Cha Chronicles:
(1) Apology - A letter to the minister
(2) Bloggers - A letter to the ministry
(3) Drama queens & kings wanted
(4) May 13 Book - a letter to the minister
(5) Appreciation - a letter to the minister
(6) Goblok to Golek - a letter to the minister
(7) MGR-ish makeover - a letter to a minister
(8) Bahasa Mělayu - a letter to Yang Běrhormat
(9) 'Convincibility' - A letter to Yang Amat Berhormat
(10) Political defections - a letter to a future PM
(11) Healing the nation's wounds - a letter to the PM

2nd pathologist conceded Teoh could have been forced onto 14th floor window sill

So the second pathologist has asserted the likelihood of Teoh’s suicide, with so-called scientific justifications … such as …

… On why he believed Teoh had deliberately thrown himself off the building, Dr Prashant … blah blah blah …, and

… He also said Teoh had probably squatted on the window sill before the plunge as marks on both the shoes co-relate with the width of the window sill … blah blah blah …

or has he?

In today’s Star Online Teoh Inquest : No signs of assault found, when questioned by Gobind Singh Deo, “… on whether a person would freeze up in fear if he were being held in that position on the window sill, Dr Prashant said yes, adding that there would also be not much of a struggle.”

The cross-examination went as follows:

Gobind: Do you agree that someone could have held him there in that position?

Dr Prashant: It is possible.

On Dr Prashant’s testimony that there were “disturbances” in the area around the window, like smudges and finger drag marks, Gobind asked the pathologist if these could be due to some form of resistance.

Dr Prashant: Yes.

Gobind: Shows that the person standing there had resisted falling?

Dr Prashant: Possible, sir.

The annoying thing is the pathologist had provided only one possibility (suicide) when there were others just as likely (like being threatened with scare tactics as scenario-ized by Gobind Singh).

Why must he only present the one the MACC (and Police) wanted?

Why not say, “Look, from the forensic evidence gathered (limited as these may be) there are a number of possibilities … blah blah blah …”

Indians - 50 more years of marginalisation?

Recent polls have shown that the Indian 'tsunami' has subsided into gentle lapping wavelets, kissing the golden sand of the Malaysian beach, where the swing back to the BN has been around 76%. Wow, the faithful has returned to the fold.

I suppose we can say there is now tranquility, serenity and of course the likelihood of betrayal for Indians in the fair land of Malaysia.

Malaysiakini Hindraf: Where's the money, buddy? reported:

Hindraf activist V Ganabatirau has accused the outlawed movement's leader P Waythamoorthy of using millions of ringgit collected from the people for his personal use while in self-imposed exile in London.

Ganabatirau said funds collected by Hindraf, which ran into millions, were meant for the families of those 5 detained under the ISA, but alas, not one sen had ever reached their families.

However, when questioned, Waythamoorthy claimed the funds were meant for a civil suit against the British (colonial) government for its neglect of Indian Malayans.

An angry Ganabatirau retorted that the suit has expired as civil matters must be pursed within three months after being filed.

Worse than that, Ganabatirau said in outrage: "I believe that the suit was deliberately allowed to expire so that he [Waynamoorthy] could enjoy his exile and the good life in London.”

He then pointed out that Waythamoorthy did not condemn RS Thanenthirran for using the title Makkal Sakthi as the name of his new political party, when that title was coined by Ganabatirau and K Vasanthakumar for the Hindraf movement.

Ganabatirau reminded us that Thanenthirran in forming the Makkal Sakthi Party had immediately made overtures to the BN government which then led to the possibility of Waythamoorthy's return to Malaysia.

And Ganabatirau further questioned Waythamoorthy's motives in blaming Pakatan Rakyat for the Kampung Buah Pala fiasco. Oh yes, while we are on this issue, don't forget his brother Uthayakumar as well - yes, we did wonder about these two brothers attacking the DAP which had supported them when they were in strife.

Ganabatirau sneered: "Who does he [Waynamoorthy] want to please to ensure his safe return?"

Finally Ganabatirau twisted the knife of insult by one further turn when he said of Waynamoorthy: "He is a chicken. If there is a forum, he would ask me whether there were police or SB (Special Branch personnel) in the vicinity before coming to give a speech."

Hmmm, perhaps Waynamoorthy and his brother see themselves as the logical replacement for Samy Vellu as the new Kapitan for the Indian community.

No doubt with that representation in the BN, there will be all the attendant rewards of Datukship and ministerial apppointments.

I hope there won't be another 50 years of marginalisation for the poor Indians?

If true, then it's aiyoyo, why have Siva, Krishna and Brahma punished their children with such leaders?

Teoh severely beaten on face and head prior to fall? DNA on belt deliberately contaminated?

The half-past six lawyer finally succumbed to brilliant questioning by Malik Imtiaz Sawar, who has been acting for the Selangor State government.

While not yet facts, the 180-degree about-turn revelations by the piffling pathetic pathologist have presented the following possibilities, in fact far more probable than his earlier bull about Teoh’s suicide:

(a) Teoh might still have been alive after his body hit the floor as his hands were found clenched in a fist, as this last breath gesture most likely indicated that poor Teoh had attempted to grab on to or reach for something to hold onto when falling or, alternatively, were clenched to endure the pain he probably felt when he landed.

It’s just f* horrible - those MACC bastards!

(b) The piffling pathetic pathologist admitted it was possible that Teoh's fractured skull could have been the result of severe hitting even before he had fallen (or was thrown out), mind you, not that he willingly provided this information ...

... ‘twas only after Malik asserted through a reconstructed scenario, that if Teoh had fallen, he would not have suffered head injuries.

(c) Malik challenged the pathologist’s half-past six speculation (that’s what the f*-er had been doing) that the unknown DNA found on Teoh's waist belt and at the back of his blazer were results of contamination.

The cross-examination went like this:

Malik: So are you saying the Klang hospital contaminates exhibits?

Khairul: I will have to admit that.

Malik: I am wondering why are steps being taken to undermine the DNA evidence?

Khairul: There is a possibility of contamination.

Mailk: Do you know for a fact it was contaminated, you don't know, do you?

Khairul: I don't know.

Real chowkarnar!

(e) Malik also said that there could possibly be ‘penetration’ of Teoh’s anus area, but he mentioned it was very hard to confirm that as the injuries around there were very extreme.

Nonethless Malik said we couldn’t discount the possibility that there might have been penetration - WTF!

Additionally he stated that indications of abrasions on Teoh's buttocks could have been caused by a thin wooden instrument, but again, due to the horrendous damage there, could not pin-point what instrument had been used.

(f) Malik also put forward a hypothesis; that Teoh was surrounded by individuals - a form of oppressive bullying intimidation tactic - before he fell. And when he fell someone could have grabbed his hand and snapped his wristwatch as the watch is yet to be found.

The pathologist grudgingly agreed to that possibility.

(g) Then again, subjected to good cross-examination, the pathologist admitted there is a possibility that the injuries on Teoh's face could have been caused by beating.

Oh, those MACC mother f*-ers!

(h) It was also possible that Teoh had horribly perished much earlier than had been officially presented.

(i) Malik rounded up by lambasting the pathologist for assuming that there were no injuries before the fall and worse, that half-past six bloke had earlier speculated that Teoh committed suicide when there was no such evidence.

Much as the authorities have been spinning a conspiracy theory that Teoh had wanted to ‘squeal’ on his DAP boss (part of the current UMNO demon-isation campaign against the DAP), and that if Teoh didn’t commit suicide, he was ‘killed’ by DAP thugs, whatever little evidence exist (thanks to the no-effort by both the police and pathologist) they were enough to ring alarm bells that something horrible, very very horrible had happened to Teoh Beng Hock.

But these revelations are enough to send a chill through our bodies, that in Malaysia, such Evil with a capital ‘E’ exists in the very agencies that are supposed to protect us.

Is there no limit to their iniquities?

Based on news reports from:
(1) Malaysiakini 'Teoh could have been injured before fall'
(2) Star Online Teoh Inquest Day 9: 'Facial injuries may be due to beating'
(3) The Malaysian Insider Teoh may have been injured before death fall

Inquest pathologist backed MACC - that Teoh committed suicide

Malaysiakini - Counsel: Suicide theory baseless.

Predictably - and most Malaysians, regardless of political affiliations, yes, even some BN people, would have arrived at the same cynical contemptuous conclusion as I did - the government appointed pathologist at the inquest of Teoh Beng Hock's death suggested that the most likely cause of Teoh’s death was what had been asserted by MACC in the first place – suicide.

Suicide by a man who was, on the day following his interrogation by MACC, to marry the mother of his unborn child?

Suicide by a man who, just prior to being hauled in MACC, had rang up his best man to remind him of the wedding?

Gobind Singh Deo, the lawyer for Teoh’s family, said pathologist Dr Khairul Azman Ibrahim, had come to the inquest merely as a witness to give his theories of Teoh's suicide without any evidence.

He thundered: "I put it to you that you are wrong. This is not a case of the deceased jumping and committing suicide because there is no shoe print or fingerprint on the window. This theory on suicide is based on non-existing facts because you, yourself, did not conduct checks to support the theory.”

When cross-examined by Gobind, the pathologist sounded like a stuck record, with his confession of NOT checking for vital evidence – see following extract from the Malaysiakini news report:

Gobind: Would you agree with me that there was a possibility of the deceased being thrown out first, then the shoe?

Khairul: Yes, there was a possibility.

Gobind: Did you test the shoe for fingerprints?

Khairul: No.

Gobind: Isn't it significant?

Khairul: Yes. But we have no facilities.

Gobind: Why not? You could have directed someone. You are the forensic expert on the scene.

Khairul: I expected the police to do it.

Gobind: But you didn't make sure that they did it because it would have indicated a homicide. Were you covering it up?

YET, yes, YET this witness had the nerve to propound a likely case of suicide by Teoh Beng Hock. What a half-past-six conclusion!

It reminds me of another bloke like him in the Udayappan inquest – see my post Was Udayappan Beheaded After His Death?

In that case in 2006, Coroner Nazran Mohd Sham claimed there was no foul play after returning an open verdict (yes, that's right, an 'open verdict') into Udayappan’s death, contradicting himself in the same breath.

He pompously said the court could not be involved in a guessing game as to the cause of death by basing its finding on assumptions, and YET, yes, YET he himself assumed there was no foul play. Another half-past-six verdict.

As I had commented, if the coroner couldn’t determine the death "was a result of natural causes, an act of God or an accident", how could the coroner say there’s no foul play?

He made it worse by then going on to assert there was nothing to contradict police evidence of Udayappan’s escape, claiming: "The fact is that the deceased found a way through the fence to escape and jumped into the river behind the station."

Fact? I questioned his use of this word ‘fact’!

How did the coroner know that "there was nothing to contradict police evidence of the late Upayappan's escape", ending in his jump into the river?

Did he rely solely on the police report?

If so, could that report from an 'interested party' in an allegation of police abuse be claimed as a 'fact'?

Should he have relied solely on a report by an ‘interested party’, considering the inquest had been for the specific purpose of verifying an allegation associated with a death of a police detainee?

That’s the problem with these half-past-six government officials.

Back to the current inquest on Teoh’s death – did the pathologist consider that his all-too-premature conclusion actually contradicted those of DNA expert Dr Seah Lay Hong of the Chemistry Department, who testified that there were DNA traces of two unknown males on Teoh's waist belt and at the back of his blazer. At least she checked, unlike the pathologist!

Teoh’s trousers were also noted to be torn at his back.

This group of evidence would appear to suggest a possible scene of Teoh being dangled by his belt-trousers outside the 14 floor window by some unknown person or persons (maybe to frighten Teoh into providing the ‘required evidence’) before the trousers gave way to disastrous consequences for Teoh.

Why have these evidence been ignored by the pathologist?

Why?

Stupid question – it’s predictable!

Untuk agama, raja dan bangsa

Malaysiakini - I won't give in, says defiant Hasan - extracts follow:

Far from intimidated by the prospect of facing a disciplinary hearing, Selangor PAS commissioner and exco member Hasan Ali is “even more determined” to uphold his party's Islamic principles. […]

Retorted Hasan today: “I won't (give in to) such threats. I will keep fighting for Islam... I am ready to face any action by the top leadership, even if I am stripped of my position for what I did.”

The Malaysian Insider - Legal observers criticise Karpal sedition charge – extracts follow:

The controversial trial of a Malaysian opposition leader for sedition started today, drawing criticism from international legal observers amid increasing opposition fears of a crackdown on dissent.

Karpal Singh, chairman of the Democratic Action Party (DAP), is being tried for comments he made in February, where he said the sultan of Perak could be taken to court over endorsing the government takeover of an opposition-ruled state. […]

Karpal, an MP, faces a fine and up to three years in prison if convicted. He told reporters he had “no doubt” the case against him was politically motivated.

“A lot of statements from Barisan Nasional (BN) leaders including the prime minister who has said action should be taken against bloggers who put up seditious material. I think that appears to be the trend,” said Karpal.

Malaysia’s police chief today was reported by the Berita Harian Malay language newspaper as saying that two other DAP MPs are to be investigated for sedition.

The state government of Perak will also pursue action against two bloggers who it says made comments that insulted the royal family of Perak, which the Perak chief minister said amounted to “sedition and probably treason”, the New Straits Times reported today.

Jeffrey Miles from the International Association of Lawyers, one of four observers representing various international legal bodies, said sedition laws have been “very rarely” applied in other Commonwealth countries.

“The last case I can think of was in the 1950s in Australia during the Cold War, where a member of the Communist Party was prosecuted,” he said

What’s the similarity between the two?

Danger in our midst against freedom of choice

This editorial from The Malaysian Insider resonates so much with my feelings that I produce it here, chapter and verse, for your reading pleasure

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The freedom of choice — The Malaysian Insider

It really isn’t about beer. It is about freedom of choice.

The choice of a shopkeeper to sell anything and everything permitted by the laws of the land. The choice of a consumer to choose to buy anything sold in a shop.

As it is a choice to choose which ever political party that represents your views. Or not choose a political party that is an affront to your views. It is as simple as that and the reason for elections, for everyone in a democracy to vote in a government of their choice with the majority getting their choice.

And thus, the seizure of beer from a 7-Eleven convenience outlet in Selangor is against the law. It has nothing to do with religion. Are Muslims so weak-willed that the mere presence of beer on sale will turn them against their faith?

That is as ridiculous as the idea that being sprayed with holy water from a Roman Catholic Church will turn a Muslim into a non-Muslim.

Politicians can jump on the bandwagon, preach from the pulpit, scream in the streets and protest for and against the sale of beer but that really is a just a symptom of the main issue — choice.

But the PAS lawmakers are not alone at this, in restricting choice.

The Selangor Barisan Nasional government did the same years ago, when the Roman Catholic Church applied for a piece of land to build a cathedral in Shah Alam in 1977. They got a plot of land in Section 24 eight years later when the previous Sultan of Selangor queried “if non-Muslims ever pray” as he rarely saw temples and churches in his state.

However, the Shah Alam Municipal Council halted the construction in August 1993 on orders from then-mentri besar Tan Sri Muhammad Muhammad Taib who queried the need for a cathedral. The church was finally re-sited after two more attempts and opened in 2005.

It all boils down to the freedom of choice to worship the Almighty in any way one deems fit. And it took the sultan to get the government of the day to ensure his citizens enjoyed that right.

Does it take a sultan, who is unelected and holds a hereditary position, to figure out the desires of the people? Of what use then are the politicians who court us during election campaigns with promises of reforms, rights and rosy futures.

Where does it stop if they can claim majority rights and religious reasons to stop Malaysians from having a place to worship, from stopping people from selling or buying what is legal?

Why do they waste time on trivialities like this when the bigger issues of corruption and a slowing economy should be the focus?

Perhaps because they have a choice of issues to work on. Perhaps they forget Malaysians too have a choice every election.

Who is the real bastard?

Malaysiakini - PKR, DAP lock horns over Teoh's child.

The Kulim Wonder condemns DAP Youth chief Anthony Loke for criticising Dr Mohd Ridhuan Tee.

Ridhuan Tee had the bloody insensitive gall to make cruel and heartless remarks over the issue of Teoh Beng Hock’s unborn child. In outrage over those cruel remarks against a dead man who couldn't answer back, Loke wrote a letter to Sin Chew to lambast Ridhuan Tee. The letter was picked up by the Bar Council website. The letter is as follows:

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It is sickening to see that a person with supposedly strong academic credentials and high religious stature can produce such cruel and heartless remarks over the issue of Teoh Beng Hock’s unborn child.

By twisting a dreadful tragedy with his zealous agenda against “bastard children” in his Utusan Malaysia article, Dr. Mohd Ridhuan, the vice-president of the Malaysian Chinese Muslim Association, has caused immense emotional damage to Teoh’s family.

Whatever superficial sympathy Dr. Mohd Ridhuan has for Teoh’s family is lost when he chooses to harp on the status of the child, whom he labels as an illegitimate child. Dr. Mohd Ridhuan has also compared Teoh’s child to the children of “Malay-Muslim girls who have sex with Muslim or non-Muslim partners with or without consent”, who are born without taking their father’s names.

By comparing, with blatantly racist language, an unborn child of an engaged couple who is painfully separated by the fiance’s mysterious death, to children who are results of unplanned conception, Dr Mohd Ridhuan has shown everyone how low he can go to hurt other human beings with broken logic.

As if that wasn’t enough, Dr. Mohd Ridhuan produced another hurtful article to slam his critics, labelling two Chinese language dailies – China Press and Nanyang Siang Pau – as racist, for highlighting his own racist outbursts. You can’t get more hypocritical than that.

DAPSY condemns in the strongest possible terms, the decision by Dr. Mohd Ridhuan to produce such insensitive, racist, zealous and hypocritical writings and the decision by Utusan Malaysia to publish them. DAPSY calls on Dr. Mohd Ridhuan to immediately apologize to Teoh’s family and to China Press and Nanyang Siang Pau, for all they have done is to reveal and reject his nasty character.

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In Malaysiakini the Kulim Wonder asked if it was DAP's policy to legitimise 'pre-marital sex' and 'children born out of wedlock'. He demanded that DAP recognizes "Mohd Ridhuan has the right to express his opinion. He is of Chinese descent, and is well aware of the community's traditions and culture.”

Then, cheekily or more likely, hypocritically, he asked "Is DAP Youth unable to accept differences of opinion? Must we always dance to the beat of DAP and whoever who does not agree with DAP is an enemy and must be condemned."

And isn't the Kulim Wonder the politician most renowned for his intolerance, a fact ironically borne by his condemnation of Loke’s opinion of Mohd Ridhuan! And do ask the Bar Council about his thuggish behaviour.

The demographic breakdown in the federal constituency of Kulim is 67% Malays and 33% non-Malays.

Since Anwar Ibrahim dares not discipline him, I want to remind Pakatan supporters in Kulim that comes 2013, if the Kulim Wonder has the balls to still stand in that constituency again, punish him real kau kau for his bigotry.

Kg Buah Pala misled by instigating outsiders

The Malaysian Insider - Guan Eng washes his hands off Buah Pala after residents reject homes

Lim GE has given up hope for reason from the villagers of Kg Buah Pala when the residents rejected what the DAP government had worked out for them regarding their land problem, compensation in terms of a double-storey terrace house for each family.

Instead they asked for a whooping RM3.5 million each. Looks like whoever has advised them to demand this unrealistic Godzilla amount has virtually ensured the villagers would lose all in the end.

But I suppose the villagers' loss and the consequential frustration and anger may ensure their future protest votes will go to the sh*t-stirrer posing as an ethnic warrior. Déjà vu formula?

Sadly, the Kg Buah Pala protest also saw two disturbing incidents:

(1) A few Hindraf leaders taking on a racial stand by accusing the State of helping to destroy what they claim was an 'Indian' heritage area.

Hey, if it’s about heritage area, then say ‘heritage area’ – why described it as an ‘Indian heritage’ area, where by doing so, they had attributed the State with racist motives, an example being the shameful under-the-belt accusation of the DAP government being more concerned about pigs than Indians?

(2) The pathetic dog-in-the-manger attitude of some Hindraf leaders boasting it had made an appeal to UNESCO to revoke Georgetown’s heritage city status for allowing Kampung Buah Pala to be destroyed and re-developed.

We should be concerned with their childish spoilt-brat destructive mentality.

Now, Waythamoorthy in Malaysia-Today has the ill-manner (biadap-ness) to describe Professor Ramasamy in derogatory fashion as a mandore of Lim GE. How terrible!

Waythamoorthy's parents would be and indeed should be appalled by his crude, rude and boorish behaviour.

In The Malaysian Insider Lim GE lamented of the poor villagers being misled by certain sh*t-stirrers. He stated:

... he believed the Penang public was angry at the latest development in the controversy since the villagers had rejected the offer from the developer.

“Don’t forget we’re trying to offer you a house."

“Now we even have people from Selangor speaking on behalf of the residents. Maybe they can fight for them and demand for a RM3.5mil house."

“Those outsiders, they have their own houses to go back to. Even some of the residents’ association members have other houses.”

Yeah, that so-called leader's 'go for broke' is okay for him as he's not the one losing it all - as Lim GE said, he has his own house to go back to, but alas, not the villagers. Maybe he can provide a roof for them?

I feel sad for those poor villagers as by rejecting the compensation they will lose everything with nothing in the end to show as compensation, thanks to the vicious instigations of those by-far-too-clever outsiders from KL.

These people have attempted to present Lim GE as a betrayer of the people of Kg Buah Pala, but Penangites know those batu-api 'outsiders' have been the real betrayers.

Beer, betrayal and bullsh*t

The Malaysian Insider - DAP claims good ties with PAS, blames Hassan Ali for beer dispute.

Tony Pua of the DAP lamented: “What I’m talking about is what everyone is talking about. Everyone knows he has ambitions!”

And who’s that bloke “who has ambitions”?

PAS Hassan Ali!

He's the man who (1) supported an illegal seizure by the Shah Alam town council’s enforcement officers of a trader’s goods, and (2) demanded DAP Ronnie Liu stepped down as State exco member for local councils when Liu moved in to correct that abuse of power by the MBSA.

In regards to (2) above, The Malaysian Insider reported: Despite the fact that the Shah Alam mayor had acknowledged the seizures were unlawful, Hassan had used the seizures to call for Liu's removal ...

So Hassan Ali performed a double jeopardy, namely, (1) supported an illegal act, an abuse by State authority of power (shades of BN), and (2) attempted to silence a man who remedied that abuse of power (further shades of BN). I’ll come back to these 2 points shortly.

The issue of not selling beer in Muslim-majority areas is understandable and even acceptable to most reasonable and tolerant non Muslims, but that's not the issue. It's Hassan Ali's double jeopardy we need to be concerned with - those are dangerous behaviour for a politician.

Hassan Ali’s ambitions are alleged to be related to his secret ‘Malay unity talks’ with former (UMNO) MB Khir Toyo.

Pua said today in response to Hassan’s outrageous demand for Ronnie Liu to step down: Dr Hassan’s reckless actions, which were taken without any consultation with either the state executive council or the state Pakatan Rakyat leadership, firmly begs the question of his hidden agenda.

Yes, we sure would like to know his secret agenda.

It should be noted that both federal and state PAS leaders have distanced themselves from Hassan Ali.

Many believe he has been (consciously or unwittingly) peddling the work of UMNO. Let's face it, Hassan has never felt comfy working with the DAP and even non-Malay members of PKR. And it’s hardly surprising that the only people who supported him have been UMNO …oh, and of course the Kulim Wonder who is acknowledged by his PKR colleagues as an embarrassing aberration in their party.

Perhaps UMNO is where Hassan belongs; and perhaps that’s where he will eventually end up in.

But what of those two issues I mentioned coming back to, namely Hassan Ali's dangerous double jeopardy, where he:

(1) supported an illegal act, an abuse by State authority of power, and
(2) attempted to silence a man who remedied that abuse of power.

As I mentioned, and I reiterate, these are very dangerous behaviours for a politician. What if one day he assumes a position of high political power?

If he can support an illegal seizure of goods, what other non-constitutional non-legal policies or actions will he condone, support or even promote when he is, say, the MB of Selangor or worse, the PM of Malaysia?

And of course, if anyone were to question or challenge or remedy these non-constitutional illegalities, would you be surprised if he were to silence that person as he tried to do with Ronnie Liu?

Déjà vu ISA?

Net censorship - UMNO's hyper hypocrisy

Extracts from Malaysiakini Gov't mulls China-style Net censorship:

A senior official with the National Security Council (NSC) confirmed reports that the coalition government was considering imposing controls - effectively scrapping a 1996 guarantee that it would not censor the Internet.

"It is to keep out pornographic materials and bloggers who inflame racial sentiments. We need to maintain racial harmony. We cannot have full-blown democracy like in the United States," he told AFP.

Godzilla bullsh*t ... because the UMNO mainstream mouthpieces have been publishing racially inciting articles, seditiously demanding of the Malays as to whether they have the balls to stand up to the 'nons', and that the DAP has been on a Malay bashing campaign to 'belittle Malay leaders and Malay institutions' (such as the police and MACC).

If anyone inflaming racial sentiments is to be kept, it should be the UMNO mouthpieces like Utusan, NST and Berita Harian .

Malay language mainstream media's racist game - will Najib ever speak up?

Sim Kwang Yang wrote a fine article in Malaysiakini titled The Umno dilemma.

He talked about PM Najib being aware of the new mood of the electorate, and of the Pakatan offering the rakyat the Ketuanan Rakyat as a far more attractive and inclusive alternative to UMNO’s Ketuanan Melayu.

Najib, as Sim observed, attempted to meet the new mood by making and managing the required change to his advantage, in offering a new political ideology to win back the middle ground.

As Sim said: Najib immediately announced plans for Umno's reform. The top party leadership was to be elected directly by the grass-root members in future, to eradicate money politics during party election, a measure that was first mooted by Ku Li.

He then proposed a series of 'liberalisations', and created the new old 1Malaysia slogan. Sloganeering is part and parcel of Malaysian politics, and gullible middle-ground Malaysians with a tendency for wishful-thinking are particularly susceptible to it.

For a while, it looked like the new Najib administration did have a fresh new mask to change the public perception of Umno.

But alas, as Sim noticed: Usually, when the Umno ... boss comes up with a new slogan, you hear it being echoed ad infinitum down the line by leaders at various levels like loyal parrots.

This time though, the various proposals by the new PM were welcome by a deafening silence from his own people.

The only voice was the stinging remark by the former PM Dr Mahathir Mohaham, reiterating Umno's communal ideology, as if to rebuke Najib's 1Malaysia policy.

This is significant. Utusan Malaysia, the bastion of Umno propaganda machinery and official organ of Umno ideology, was seen soon after to make every political issue into racial one, from Teoh Beng Hock's death, to the anti-ISA mass rally on Aug 8.

So, it shouldn’t be surprising to see provocative pieces coming out from the UMNO (perhaps no longer Najib's) controlled media, such as the recent sh*t-stirring invocation to Malays to have a bit of balls and stand up to those arrogant rapacious ‘nons’.

That such seditious incitement of the 'Malays are cowards' article was permitted to be published without a peep from Najib would point to either his complicity in or his helplessness against the insidious untuk bangsa clarion call, the latter case notwithstanding his claim to be a warlord of UMNO.

UMNO die-hards believe that the ethno-centric clarion call could re-marshal the faithful and perhaps more back its keris-ed banner. The by-election results in both Bukit Gantang and Manek Urai seem to support this belief.

Today, another of those seditious incitements published in Berita Harian, was picked up by The Malaysian Insider, titled Kaitan demonstrasi, kempen hentam Melayu — Abdul Rahman Sulaiman

It said: Sesiapa saja yang mengikuti gelagat politik DAP akhir-akhir ini akan dapat mengesan satu pola yang lebih mirip atau menjurus ke arah satu kempen atau gerakan terancang memburukkan kepemimpinan atau institusi Melayu.

Quick tranlation: Observers of DAP would have seen in its politics a pattern of campaigning to belittle Malay leaders and institutions.

Yes, we've heard that one before when the demands for MACC to account for a death in custody.

I need only paste here the article's last three paragraphs for you to see what the article has inflammatorily argued as the DAP's Malay bashing campaign, a swift escalation of the earlier ‘Malays are cowards’ instigation:

Adalah dipercayai bahawa pembabitan dalam demonstrasi menentang ISA pada Sabtu lalu juga sebahagian daripada kempen menghentam Melayu itu dalam erti kata kerajaan yang dijadikan sasaran dianggap sebagai kerajaan Melayu.

Malangnya, strategi berkenaan nyata meleset apabila sebahagian besar pembabitan terdiri daripada orang Melayu sehingga ada di kalangan mereka berasa diperbodohkan penganjur.

Sampai bila kempen menghentam Melayu ini akan diteruskan? Apakah Melayu sanggup membiarkan persepsi bahawa yang malas itu Melayu, yang rasuah itu Melayu dan yang bodoh itu Melayu berterusan tanpa penyudah?

Expect Najib to remain silent on this racist incitement.

Obviously UMNO believes in pursuing its untuk bangsa strategy, which has been why DPM Muhyiddin had described Anwar Ibrahim as a traitor to the Malay race, while the UMNO mouthpieces like Utusan has termed PAS as a tool of the DAP to divide and rule the Malays.

But alas, despite that insult to PAS, people like Dr Hassan Ali and the Kulim Wonder have one way or another convinced UMNO it’s on the right (racist) path.

Sim termed his article The UMNO Dilemma because (as he wrote):

... the racial tirade is also revealing. It shows the inability of Umno to create a new narrative to meet the changing reality of Malaysia. When provoked into action, their reflex reaction is to revert back to the tired, archaic, irrelevant, fossilised and outdated, discourse of their past.

In effect, their racial discourse can only please the believers, but will do nothing to win over converts from the non-believers. It will alienate the Chinese and the Indians even more, thereby negating all BN effort to win back the middle ground.

It all goes to show how hard it is for an old political party that is used to enjoying political hegemony to reform itself when it is on the decline. Simply put, Umno is full of too many warlords with too much political baggage and too much vested interests. It has become like a dinosaur with a small head and a huge body, that finds it simply too sluggish to move anywhere, metaphorically.

Well fine, but where’s the dilemma?

Sim also wrote:

They see the various races as monolithic entities going at one another's throat. Apparently, they are stuck in the time capsule of the 1960s. In reality, there are no such monolithic racial entities. The social economic changes in the country in the past decades have allowed the various ethnic entities to evolve into very complex, diverse, and multi-layered organisms.

I looked at dramatic images of the mostly Malay police force beating down on the mostly Malay anti-ISA protestors, and I see the deep wound inflicted by Umno on the Malay soul. Such a scene was unthinkable mere decades ago!

malaysiakini photo

In short, political propaganda must fit some of the reality of lived experience. The chief worry of the Malay men and women, especially those in the urban centres of Malaysia, is the task of keeping or seeking a good job, rising price hikes in all things necessary for basic daily living, avoiding criminals, and the children's education.

In this struggle for survival, many see the government as the culprit of their sufferings, and not the Chinese or the Indians, who suffer alongside them.

I'll be kind to Najib and give him the benefit of the doubt and say, maybe he sees what Sim has said, that in this struggle for survival, many see the government as the culprit of their sufferings, and not the Chinese or the Indians, who suffer alongside them, but alas, obviously not Muhyiddin Yassin and many other top UMNO leaders.

And what do those mutes stung by hornets, namely MCA, Gerakan, MIC, and PPP, have to say?

Selangor PAS - perverted delight in being lil' Napoleons?

Malaysiakini - Now a rift in Selangor Pakatan?

Why I believe Hassan Ali should be ashamed of his conduct for defending the Shah MBSA’s seizure of beer from a 7-11 shop in Selangor’s capital and demanding the removal of Ronnie Liu from the latter’s position as the exco member for local government:

(1) There’s no such law to support the illegal confiscation - shame on him!

(2) If Hassan Ali is concerned about sales of beer in a Malay-majority area, why not inform or advise 7-11 to stop the sales, instead of SEIZING the goods?

Why must people like Hassan Ali find it necessary to resort to such draconian tactics?

I recall those asshole lil’ Napoleons illegally barging into the hotel room of an elderly American couple in Langkawai and frightening the sh*t out of the poor dear. She flew straight back to America, no doubt with many a tale of scary Malaysian Talibans to tell her friends - and in Malaysia's Tourism Year too!

Then there was the sad case of the religious police forcing Muslim females apprehended at Zouk to urinate in front of those perverts? Sickening Sheiks of Syiok-Sendiri!

Those wonders seem to revel in disgusting depraved delight in their bullying, threatening and harassing of people. Does those illegal and dictatorial acts titillate the wanking wonders’ weenies?

(3) Who the f* is Hassan Ali to criticise Ronnie Liu when the latter had been standing up for the fundamental and legal rights of 7-11? Double shame on Hassan!

In fact Hassan Ali should be the one expelled from the exco for condoning illegal seizures of trader's goods and criticising (Ronnie’s) correct redress of the abuse by MBSA.

Grade A non-biodegradable bovine poo

The Malaysian Insider reported in MACC chief gets death threat linked to Teoh’s death

Top anti-graft buster Datuk Seri Ahmad Said Hamdan was threatened with being shot to death in a letter received on July 24 from unknown persons seeking revenge for the mysterious death of political aide Teoh Beng Hock, the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) said yesterday.

Yeah right, and I'm the Shahanshah of Shambala. The MACC basically wants to replace Teoh Hock Beng with this bloke as the Victim.

PAS Selangor - musuh dalam selimut?

Some years ago I was with a group tour in France. There was a Pakistani man in our group of mainly Malaysians, Sings, Japanese, British and Aussies and Americans.

For convenience of reference, I’m going to give him a name in this post – let’s call him Hassan.

Whenever we stopped for breakfast, lunch, tea or dinner, Hassan would whinge and whine about him being a Muslim being forced to eat non-halal food, even when the dish was just a poulet roti (roast chook) with salad.

Many Malaysians including the non Muslims defended him, explaining to the ang-mor that halal or kosher food wasn’t just about no-pork, but involved the Muslim ritual slaughter and preparation, etc.

Midway through the tour, his non-stop complaints about violations against his religious diet had already assumed legendary dimension, though we noted his appetite didn't suffer.

Many acknowledged and respected his rights to do so (complained about the food). One way or other, we all kowtow-ed to his religious piety …..

… until we came to the Moulin Rouge.

Good olde Hassan showed his appreciation of the can-can sweeties as much as kaytee did; in fact, he was far more vociferous in his admiration of those delectable’s than shy me.

But what was far more interesting (or revealing about Hassan) was his Thor-ish quaffing of champagne.

Needless to say, the Malaysians pointed out his Islamic inconsistency to him. Hassan just ignored us and continued being Thor as challenged by King Utgardaloki.

The point of this recall is not just about Hassan's hypocrisy but that one can’t force people to do this or that. The best restraint or discipline would be one that comes from within oneself …..

… which brings us to Selangor PAS commissioner Hassan Ali who wants
Ban alcohol in Muslim areas in Selangor.

While many non-Muslims would argue about his insensitive infringements on the rights of non-Muslim, what galls me has been his utter bullsh*t that: “It has been decided at the MBSA full board meeting that the selling of alcohol in Muslim areas should not be happening, and the decision is unanimous”.

“It means, it can act on whatever it has decided. The guidelines have been passed and unless the state government steps in and amends it it should be adhered to.”

However, Ronnie Liu backed by Shah Alam Mayor Mazalan Mohd Noor told him to porrah.

Liu confirmed that there was no full board meeting ever held to approve the ban on alcohol by local authorities.

Malaysiakini reported:

According to Shah Alam Mayor Mazalan Mohd Noor who was with Liu, the full board meeting referred to by Hasan were ‘merely discussions’.

Mazalan stressed that Liu had acted within his powers when he asked the enforcement officers regarding the seizure of alco

Mazalan also said the local authority did not have the jurisdiction to seize alcohol from convenience stores unless they are found selling it to Muslims and minors.

Incidentally, Selangor PAS commissioner Hassan Ali has been the man who held ‘unity talks’ with the Raja of the RM24 million Bali Hai. Now, that's hypocrisy!

Healing the nation's wounds - a letter to the PM

Dodgee Con-Sultan Macc-Numb Solutions
8888, Jalan Barnjee
Taman Hor Beh Thart
Pulau Pinang

Kepada:
Yang Amat Berhormat
Datuk Nar Jee Razy

My dear dear Yang Sangat Amat Berhormat Datuk,

I cannot tell you how much I admire your outstanding, firm and assertive stand as the No 1 political leader of our beloved nation when I see the following headlines in Malaysiakini:

(1) Snap polls in Perak by year end?
(2) Don't expect Umno to abolish ISA

Datuk, you are definitely in charge – no two ways about it! You have made your point that you are certainly helming ;-) the nation.

But alas, and I hope you will not consider me imprudent in this comment, that it has been achieved at great cost. But we know great leaders are always prepared to make sacrifices, especially of others and even our own expendable fools.

However, if I may be so bold as to offer my advice, the usual quality stuff typifying the strategic thinking of Dodgee Con-Sultan Macc-Numb-Solutions, the time has arrived for healing of the nation’s wounds, yes those emotional injuries wrought by the divisive acrimonious below-the-belt politicking over the past few months, aggravated in no small part by unprofessional partisan lil' Napoleons of whom your predecessor had warned us.

As a Malaysian I know of two things that can heal wounds. The first is the most muhibbah activity known to Malaysians, which is still unsurpassed in its amazing ability to unite our richly diverse ethnic groups.

I am of course referring to the joy of ‘empat ekor-ing’, our national and most favourite sporting activity.

Participation in this activity transcends race, age, gender, social status and sexual proclivity. No other activity sees such a healthy social political ethnic mix of enthusiasts.

Even the alleged corrupt traffic cops (and needless to say, how unfair these allegations have been) have shown remarkable restraint and respect for the usually unlawful double and triple parking outside the agencies managing this activity.

The general duty police and the FRU have equally demonstrated incredible tolerance for the massive noisy illegal assemblies at these locations. And it is guaranteed that no one will be arrested for wearing black, if that person is so prepared to wear a taboo-ed (sial) colour in the field of 'empat ekor-ing'.

Such muhibbah interactions by the public and police could provide the necessary training experience to infuse the men in blue with the patience and forbearance to deal with other forms of assemblies, even those of politics.

It will be a classic win-win-win situation, except (literally) of course for those who pick the wrong numbers. But then, very few see such losses as a setback – au contraire, failures to win seem to motivate the participants to greater efforts. What a fantastic form of character building for our society.

‘Empat ekor-ing’ is the most culturally, socially and politically healthy sporting pursuit, which you, my dear Datuk, should stimulate, encourage, spread and sponsor. Majulah sukan untuk negara is far more preferable than demi bangsa dan agama.

Additionally, total immersion in the sport's mathematical permutation, its science of probability and the psychological benefits of daily motivation does not require making the unnecessary and politically embarrassing choice of English or Bahasa as a medium of participation. Any ethnic language would do. Another win for your govenment in supporting the use of mother tongue languages.

I could go on and on listing its multiple benefits to our nation and society, and naturally, your government. But suffice to say, Datuk, Dodgee Con-Sultan Macc-Numb-Solutions is hot to trot (excuse the deliberate pun) in offering wider opportunities and greater access for our rakyat to participate. I eagerly await your instruction for me to contribute to this nation building activity.

The second nation binding item may have one slight disadvantage, where unlike ‘empat ekor-ing’, the gentler gender may not be too receptive. But worry not, Dodgee Con-Sultan Macc-Numb-Solutions has formulated a solution for this deficiency.

I draw Datuk’s attention to a news item on the Star Online which headlined the relevant issue as Ex-topless newscasters left penniless by firm. It reported:

Newscaster of Naked News Korea — the first online news in Korean featuring topless female anchors — are demanding for their salaries after their company abruptly suspended operations.

The women, who would strip while reading news, claimed they had gone through a lot of suffering as a result of the suspension.

According to Nanyang Siang Pau, the subscribers to the service got angry when there was no change in the news content, forcing the website to stop its operations on July 24. The women said that when the website failed to live up to its initial targeted hits, the company’s top officials ran off without paying its workers.
It is as if heaven realizes our national need at this crucial period in our glorious history, and duly presents to us the availability of such trained and delectable services.

If we recruit those Korean ‘newscasters’ in a new news service called, say, Bogel Berita Bolehland (BBB), we would eliminate inter-ethnic acrimony, rivalry and suspicion as the usual proponents (including our 4-D punters and non punters) would be mesmerized, subdued and left tongue-hanging by the engaging international and domestic news. As a bonus we will have a better informed rakyat.

We could even have the news delivered in the Korean language, it being a known fact that Malaysian men have always wanted to study Korean (if delivered by these 'engaging' newscasters).

To remedy the gender bias, we adopt an equal opportunity policy, where we alternate female newscasters hourly with male staff recruited from Africa. Naturally a recruiting physical-medical examination is vital, purely to ensure that the H1N1 virus is not inadvertently imported.

And this news service may even put paid to the viability of other news media, friendly or otherwise, as no one then will bother to pay attention to other than Bogel Berita Bolehland which we keep firmly under the Info-Min’s control.

With its inception, you will bring about a new sophisticated but quiet dynamic leadership in Asian politics precisely at a time when it is needed in the wake of the global economic depression.

With such a concept, politicking including illegal assemblies or rallies will diminish to virtually zero, with a whole new Malaysian society united by 4-D activities, and informed by televised news where the Info-Min could sublimely insert your political message, for the good of the nation of course.

The icing on top of this amazing muhibbah cake, if Lotto and Lotteries are included, and 4-D goes 5 or even 6-D, will be the realization of popular public expectation (and hopes) of several Malaysian millionaires per week being created, where soon these millionaires may even outnumber those with Datukships, a formidable but still attainable target which Dodgee Con-Sultan Macc-Numb-Solutions stands ready to bring about in its support of Datuk’s anticipated affirmation of its inception. What amazing prosperity for the Malaysian rakyat!

I need to state my confidence that with this strategy by Dodgee Con-Sultan Macc-Numb-Solutions you will be the greatest Prime Minister of this great nation of ours, bringing upon this land peace, harmony and prosperity, and an informed society (through televised news and information).

I want to put on record my utmost loyalty to your esteemed leadership. Majulah sukan untuk negara.

Yang běnar,

Dodgee Dimsum

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The Yum-Cha Chronicles:
(1) Apology - A letter to the minister
(2) Bloggers - A letter to the ministry
(3) Drama queens & kings wanted
(4) May 13 Book - a letter to the minister
(5) Appreciation - a letter to the minister
(6) Goblok to Golek - a letter to the minister
(7) MGR-ish makeover - a letter to a minister
(8) Bahasa Mělayu - a letter to Yang Běrhormat
(9) 'Convincibility' - A letter to Yang Amat Berhormat
(10) Political defections - a letter to a future PM

Police remand kids, but allow criminals to roam our streets

I know I shouldn’t say “I told you so” but have a read of my yesterday’s post Anti-ISA protests magnified by FRU suppressions where I voiced my personal suspicion that the government’s seemingly mindless suppression of a peaceful protest rally was at the advice (or as I suspect, instigation) of the Police. I wrote:

Sometimes I wonder how stupid the relevant ministers had been to adopt such a counter-productive (for them) tactic - but more often than that, I wonder whether the Police had sinisterly, sinuously and successfully sold those dumbos the hardline approach ... obviously to enhance their own (police) importance and to suck the (so-called) political masters (or more likely, pundee morons) into total dependence on the men in blue.

And of course the IGP gets another highly undeserved extension to his contract.

Well, today, The Malaysian Insider published Kit Siang claims IGP out to get him, Pakatan leaders which read: DAP leader Lim Kit Siang has charged that the police are looking for him and other Pakatan Rakyat leaders in connection with yesterday’s anti-ISA rally in Kuala Lumpur because it is part of Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Musa Hassan's personal vendetta.

"Musa Hassan is wreaking personal vengeance against me and other Pakatan Rakyat leaders for the Parliamentary Roundtable last week calling for a new IGP to create a safe Malaysia," Lim said at a Kuantan DAP branch dinner last night.

Malaysiakini reported that PKR VP Sivarasa plus the wife and son of an ISA detainee, and to other children were also in custody.

Isn't it a shocking shame that teenagers have been remanded for days (presumably because they’re threats to ‘national security’?), whilst criminals are allowed to roam the streets, thanks to the incompetence of the IGP, whose contract was unfortunately extended for two years thanks to the incompetence of AAB.

In The Malaysian Insider’s Guan Eng says cops should remand criminals and not juveniles where we read of the DAP accusing the IGP for excessive, unwarranted and inhumane police action in crushing yesterday’s anti-Internal Security Act (ISA) rally.

Lim Guan Eng urged the BN government to disassociate itself from Musa and the harsh police action.

I say again what I had blogged yesterday, the Police under this awful IGP had, and continues to sinisterly, sinuously and successfully sold those dumbos the hardline approach ... obviously to enhance their own (police) importance and to suck the (so-called) political masters (or more likely, pundee morons) into total dependence on the men in blue.

Najib should consider sacking the IGP immediately or he'll be just as incompetent as AAB.

OK, maybe I shouldn't hold my breath waiting for the sacking ... but Najib should do us all a good turn (and unlike AAB, show his competence) by not extending the IGP's contract.

Anti-ISA protests magnified by FRU suppressions

photos from The Malaysian Insider and Malaysakini

Very stressful, hasn't it been in today's march against the ISA? Stressful for both the government and the protestors.

However, the organizers of the protest have assessed today's anti-ISA staged rallies as a success, and they are right. They have successfully captured the nation's and international attention that the Malaysian people are against the government's misuse of the ISA.

And the ar$eluck for the governmet is that this would be the general impression even if only 25% of the people supported the anti-ISA movement.

Worse, the attempted police suppression of the protesors has only martyr-ised each and every one of the participants ... exactly the outcome the Pakatan leaders would have wanted.

The government might have wished the protest rallies hadn't ocurred but alas, it did. In my opinion, the ministers (PM, Home and Information) handled the protests abysmally.

Visualize an alternative scenario - what if the government had allowed the peaceful protest to proceed unimpeded?

Yes, there would still be a protest march and ..... [consider an absence of the FRU with all its attention grabbing characteristics like chemical spraying machines, tear gas and praetorian guards and their baton charges] ..... then what???

The political effect would be very much, indeed significantly, reduced.

So why has the government chosen the option that could only aggravate and magnify the public dramas and political consequences of the anti-ISA rallies, unwittingly lending the Pakatan-led protestors far greater attention than would have been the case if there was no police/FRU interference.

Sometimes I wonder how stupid the relevant ministers had been to adopt such a counter-productive (for them) tactic - but more often that that, I wonder whether the Police had sinisterly, sinuously and successfully sold those dumbos the hardline approach ... obviously to enhance their own (police) importance and to suck the (so-called) political masters (or more likely, pundee morons) into total dependence on the men in blue.

And of course the IGP gets another highly undeserved extension to his contract.