November 6, 2009
Najib the prince, the master of palace manoeuvres.Hair Apparent Najib’s career had a head-start because of his prestigious family name,
Najib’s career had a head-start because of his prestigious family name, but as theskeletons in the cupboard appear to pile up, Najib faces ever more challenges. Abdullah’s downfall is, of course, in part the work of Najib the prince, the master of palace manoeuvres.
money politic welcome toPUTRA JAYA carnival
.Who killed Zakaria Mat Deros? And why? Does anybody know?
A Chinese proverb has it that it takes three generations to destroy an enterprise. The first starts it; the second builds on it; while the pampered third squanders it. Najib Razak is determined to truncate that process. He is set to destroy a once proud and successful organization – UMNO – which his late father was so instrumental in starting and building.
Justice vs faith: a clash of ideas If faith is faulty, fatwas follow between PAS &UMNO WHO IS RIGHT
Justice vs faith: a clash of ideasIf faith is faulty, fatwas follow between PAS &UMNO WHO IS RIGHT
You are wrong RPK YOU CANT STAND THE PRESSURE COME OUT OF PKR.Nathaniel Tan YOU RIGHT SAUDARA ANWAR IBRAHIM BUT WHEN HE WAS EXPELLED, HE MADE A POINT
THIS TAXIDRIVER IS WITH YOU ZORROW
Malaysia’s “Drama Minggu Ini” appears to be rich in political parties apparently entering self-destruct mode. High up in the headlines are the problems besetting Pakatan Rakyat, PKR and MCA.
The endless infighting and jostling, as well as the apparent impossibility of achieving true unity even within a party or coalition, compels us to ask: why is it politicians so often seem to put their own seemingly petty interests above those of their party, or of the nation as a whole?
Raja Petra Kamarudin, a friend I’m proud to know (and who is somewhat responsible for my current hairstyle), recently wrote anarticlecomparing Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim in somewhat unfavourable light to Alexander the Great, and the last general election to the French Revolution.
You are wrong Pete you just like other Barisan bloggers PENNY WISE POUND FOOLISJust because your name is out there in the public doesn’t automatically make everything you say to be more credible or truthful. It just gives you more exposure to make a total arse of yourself. You think everyone who reads your long-winded articles actually agree with your viewpoint? Are you really that arrogant?
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| Nathaniel Tanbelieves this world is full of people, he was born to love them all. He blogs atwww.jelas.info |
I don’t know enough about either to comment extensively on the comparisons, but I think on aggregate I wish to respectfully posit a slightly different perspective.
The tone of RPK’s article is, as is typical, one of reproach and warning. He writes:
“Anwar Ibrahim and many of the opposition leaders have this false feeling of grandeur about themselves. But they are not grand, and certainly far from great. They did not make March 8, 2008 happen. The people made it happen. And what the people make the people can break.”
I have no intention here of defending Anwar or anyone else, but I think it is inaccurate to place a false feeling of grandeur at the root of Pakatan’s problems. Pakatan’s leaders suffer from a platitude of problems, but I don’t think sheer arrogance is among the top five.
In trying to get to that root, I found myself thinking back to the momentous 2008 election. I remember that almost all of my office mates where I was working in PKR at that time eventually ran for public office and, I am proud to say, won.
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You are wrong RPK YOU CANT STAND THE PRESSURE COME OUT OF PKR.Nathaniel Tan YOU RIGHT SAUDARA ANWAR IBRAHIM BUT WHEN HE WAS EXPELLED, HE MADE A POINT
WHAT ARE YOU THE IBAN PEOPLE WAITING FOR? If you the rakyat votes in filth and evil, you deserve to get screwed BY YOUR OWN KIND
The problem lies very much with the existing narrow-minded and corrupt system, which continues to drain the country of its precious resources, smothers its brightest talents, and keeps exhausting its equitable and just value system.
365days after sept16 where are bastard assholes the mainstream media & UMNO bloggers if you all real anak jantan reply to this taxidriver
Filth and Evil never ever changes – it can hide, camouflage itself, but will never deliver benefits.
once a donkey always a donkeyafter reading this article, maybe the YES! PRIME MINISTER can implement 1Donkey policy. god knows what that might be.Her name is Marina Undau, living in Seri Aman in the interior of Sarawak. Her father is an Iban.
The 17-year-old girl has never had the slightest doubt of her own identity. She is an Iban, who in everyone’s perception is abumiputra from Sarawak.
She scored 9 A’s and 1 B in her SPM, a performance which could not be claimed as the best by national standards, but in the interior of East Malaysia, where education resources are scarce, such results should be more than enough to make her family proud.
Under the country’s help-the-underprivileged policy, Marina should be entitled to some special care. She should be more eligible than other bumi students in resource-rich West Malaysia to be sent overseas.
But she has been denied the opportunity.
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wHAT ARE THE IBAN PEOPLE WAITING FOR? If you the rakyat votes in filth and evil, you deserve to get screwed People get the governance they deserve
JUDICIARY IS THE CESSPOOL OF CORRUPTION IN THE COUNTRY IT IS THE FOUNTAINHEAD..you have this Dickhead Nalla Karuppan mother fucker who together with Shafie Abdullah frame ANWAR, HE GOT MILLIONS FOR STAYING IN JAIL.
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we will know if the charges are to be dismissed on the basis of the hospital reports or if the trial is to proceed. If it does proceed, a Rubicon will be crossed and chances of getting justice slimmer. The courtroom battle will certainly be fierce. In 1998 Anwar’s defence team was cowed and threatened with contempt by the judge whenever they tried to put up a creditable defence but they are prepared now and if nothing else will give the establishment a severe black eye.
It would be easy to leave the question dangling and say the chance is 50-50 but after weighing all the factors my personal opinion is that Anwar will escape conviction.
A Nation Fights for its Future
Anwar’s fight to clear his name in his coming court battle will be a defining moment for Malaysia. This is not about one man’s fight for justice but an indicator of the path the nation is taking. As long as our democratic institutions are damaged, no Malaysian is safe from unjust prosecution and well-connected guilty ones can escape justice. It also means that there is no check and balance to prevent or remedy all manner of abuses and wrongdoings such as endemic corruption and plundering of resources.
The nation waits with bated breath as we stand at a crucial fork in the road to nationhood, wondering if we will take the path to a maturing democracy or slide down the slippery slope to a failed state like Zimbabwe and Myanmar.
Whether we agree or disagree with the politics of the man himself, let us all hope that this trumped-up case is dismissed as it should. This battle for justice is not just for Anwar but for everybody, not just for Anwar but for all Malaysians.
Ø There is also blackmailing going on. This particular Judge from Punjab & Haryana High Court who is allegedly being given a clean chit, had threatened that she alone is not involved and if persecuted she would expose all names. Is it not blackmailing?
Ø In my humble opinion,JUDICIARY IS THE CESSPOOL OF CORRUPTION IN THE COUNTRY. IT IS THE FOUNTAINHEAD.
Ø Least educated or qualified people occupy the highest position in judiciary. I am sorry to say that many of Judges do not have basic knowledge of English to read, understand and interpret law.
Ø What we need is a common code of conduct for all public servants, be it bureaucracy, members of legislatures, elected representative, constitutional appointees, and Judges. They must declare their assets every year, criminal record, if any, so on and so forth.
Ø And lastly pardon my saying this, what about Journalists, Newspapers & Electronic Media. You are wise enough to appreciate what I mean. We cannot wait for another sixty years for freedom; it should come to us now, and we would get it.
Ø I have not said anything worse that what you have said for Prashant Bhushan.
We just don’t seem to get it. The normal standards of accountability don’t apply to judges. We are unable to grasp their argument that, much as it is desirable in other institutions, transparency in the judiciary will compromise its independence, a larger constitutional value. Hence, we persist with the folly of expecting judges to be swept away by the wave of transparency triggered by RTI.
This is evident from the two latest attacks on judges on July 17. First, this incorrigible sceptic, Prashant Bhushan, mobilised a statement from 25 eminent citizens denouncing a proposed Bill, which prohibits the declarations of assets made by judges to their respective chiefs from being made public. The statement fails to appreciate Law Minister Veerappa Moily’s sensitivity in coming up with a draft that reflects a consensus among judges. As if that were not bad enough, the statement is cheeky enough to suggest that, following the example of their American counterparts, our Lordships too should be transparent about their assets so that we could point out any “unusual accretion” or “false declaration”.
But it is not just civil society that is being irreverent to judges. For, the same day, just before shutting for the weekend, the Central Information Commission (CIC) released an order where it repeated its folly of trying to bring the Chief Justice of India under the ambit of RTI. It once again demolished the CJI’s position that he need not disclose any information lying in his custody as he was independent and distinct from the Supreme Court, which is a public authority under RTI.
It may be recalled that when CJI K G Balakrishnan had first taken this view about a year ago, it was very much in the context of declarations of assets. Since those declarations were in his custody, the CJI held then that the Supreme Court registry would not entertain any RTI queries concerning them. Yet, in its latest order in another case, the CIC defied the CJI saying, “The institution and its head cannot be two distinct Public Authorities. They are one and the same. Information, therefore, available with the Chief Justice of India must be deemed to be available with the Supreme Court of India.”
Like us, the CIC too doesn’t seem to get it. The general logic doesn’t apply to judges. When others take refuge in opacity, we are justified in suspecting that they are hiding corruption. But when judges wrap themselves in a veil of secrecy, we have to take it that they are actually doing so for our good, so that they are not distracted by allegations of corruption against themselves.
One way of coming to terms with this distinction is to re-adopt the outdated notion that king could do no wrong. Going by his logic, Justice Balakrishnan does seem to suggest some such blanket immunity to judges. If some judge has made an unusual accretion to his assets or has made a false declaration of them, it should be no cause for concern to us, the consumers of justice. It’s time we realised that judges have their inscrutable reasons. We should just be grateful to them for whatever justice they dispense to us, in their magnanimity and in their good time. Don’t bring the notions of accountability and transparency into this one-of-a-kind relationship.
On February 10, the Supreme Court threw out yet another petition seeking to reinstate L K Advani as an accused in the trial of the conspiracy to demolish Babri Masjid. This is despite a host of circumstances pointing to the probability of Advani, NDA’s prime ministerial candidate in the upcoming election, being involved in the conspiracy. Not the least of which was his notorious rath yatra in the run-up to the demolition. And the testimony of the IPS officer in charge of his security, Anju Gupta, stating that his speech on the spot minutes before the demolition had added fuel to the fire.
On February 13, in the first of the Nithari serial killing cases to be decided, a trial court pronounced death sentence on Moninder Singh Pandher for a murder that took place when he was far away in Australia. And for the murder of a girl who he did not even know. As the prosecution admitted, there was no evidence to suggest that it was at Pandher’s instance that his servant Surender Koli had raped and killed 14-year-old Rimpa Haldar, the victim who lived in a slum near his house. Yet, Pandher was held to be a conspirator mainly because his sexual profligacy was found to have brought out depravity in his servant.
The two interpretations of criminal conspiracy could not have been more different: ultra liberal in the case of Advani and stretched in the case of Pandher. Neither interpretation seems justified in the given facts and circumstances. Both the interpretations raise questions about the rigor and detachment with which the judiciary at all levels performs its job.
November 5, 2009
NAJIB YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE ,ASK MACC produce more television drama series ON THE KILLING OF ONG TEOH BENG
I had the honour and responsibility, after PAS parliamentarians nodded to my request to move a standing order to get the Prime Minister to be impeached and be referred to the Committee of Privileges for what I consider a downright lie aimed at misleading the August House, when answering the question raised by YB Kubang Kerian.
YB Salahudin Ayub (Kerian Kerian) has asked the Prime Minister on ‘Question for Oral Answers’ on Wednesday, 4 November, 2009, to state when the oil royalty claims by the Kelantan state Government be paid by Petronas. The acrimonious debate first mooted by Dato’ Husam Musa as an EXCO of the state government of Kelantan has been raging unabated eversince Manik Urai by-election. The Kelantan oil royalty issue continues to take centre-stage amongst PAS’ law-makers especially those from Kelantan in the current debate on the PM’s Maiden Budget.
PAS has always claimed that the Malaysia and Thailand joint development area (JDA) remains part of Kelantan. Kelantan is claiming oil royalty from the Thai-Malaysia joint venture in the JDA, Malaysia-Venture in the CAA and also the gas extraction from the P301. Production in the JDA started in 2004, while the CAA in 1997 and PM301 is expected to start production in 2011. By virtue of the Petroleum Development Act, 1974, signed between Petronas and the various state governments (including Kelantan back in 1975), Kelantan, like Sabah, Sarawah and Terengganu, is deserving of the oil royalty. The contentious issue hence is only in regard to determining the quantum of royalty.
The PM on that eventful day had decided to come and reply it himself. Most unfortunately he had decided to mislead the House. Firstly, he announced that Kelantan is not deserving of the oil royalty as the oil site is further than 3 nautical mile from the shore of Kelantan , a condition he alleged to a criteria for the award of the oil royalty. Secondly, like the Wang Ehsan awarded to Trengganu, the cabinet is gacious enough to be giving the same to the people of Kelantan but it will be channelled through the JPP (Jabatan Pembangunan Persekutuan), a body established by the BN government in all states under the opposition. This is totally in contradiction with the spirit and letter of Federalism. Thirdly, as he had placed the condition of 3 nautical miles, he therefore indirectly has made Sabah and Sarawak ineligible to the oil royalty as their oil wells are in fact further than that of Kelantan.
Referring to the Petroleum Development Act, 1974, no reference and mention of the requirement of 3 nautical miles was made. The PM must have known or at least be made to know of this fact. Either he is selectively choosing to be oblivious or he is in fact contravening the provision of the Act, hence has no respect and little regard for the “Sanctity of Contract”. That doesn’t bode well to the international and local business community. That damages further the already tarnished image of our (read BN) little regard for the law and contract of the country.
I have no other choice but to refer the PM to the Committee of Priviliges to be disciplined for deliberately misleading the August House.
Attempt to refer PM to Select Committee thwarted
“We disagree with just about everything this Administration has done. But we respect the opinions of our political opponents. Vote ANWAR. that the BARISAN be held accountable for whatever happens until our next election.”
I say it’s a huge winner.
THAT will NOT scare folks. And make no mistake about it, WONT WORK WITH WE MALAYSIANS
NAJIB, ONE MALAYSIA ATAU MULTI CRISES IN SOCIETY
And the tyrants looked at them and desired what they owned
And plotted and planned to take it.“Dispossess them!”
“Massacre them!”
“Use all necessary force to bring them to submission!”And the dispossessed cried for mercy.
Yet, no one heard.
“ reformasi” They yelled.And the tyrants cried “ISA THEM KUGAN THEM!”
“Starve and beseige them!”
“Use all necessary force to bring them to submission!”And to the world the tyrants raged: “Security!”
And the sycophants cried in defense of the tyrants.Then Conscience spoke and asked.
“Who will secure the starved, beseiged and dispossessed?”
Silence.
“Accountability!”Corrupt political leadership does not attractive men of outstanding integrity; neither can it be expected to enact effective laws to maintain high integrity in government. That truism has practically reduced our options to only one – a change of political leadership. That is, if we are still serious about restoring the rule of law and the pursuit of excellence for the country. ”He is not immune from action under the law. Investigation can be made if he had acted beyond the scope of his official duties,” MACC’s Legal and Prosecution Division Director Datuk Abdul Razak Musa told reporters.
so is najib when when he sent theabuse of power liketext message correspondence is between yab dato’ sri mohd najib tun abdul razak, deputy prime minister of malaysia, and dato’ shafee abdullah“tentative” charge and that “all is not lo
Fear is, and has always been, the hallmark of political tactics. The people will only willingly submit to tyranny if they are made to believe that without government a fearful state of affairs might obtain. No other emotion can bypass rational argumentation, grab allegiance and push people to violence like fear.
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