. the former law minister said that the time could be better spent on debating more important issues.
UMNO is based on corruption. It can never get rid of corruption. It can never properly protect whistle blowers. The only way to get rid of corruption is to get rid of UMNO - the mother of corruption.
My exact thoughts, Zaid! And probably millions other rakyat feel and think of the same thing too. Now those buggers are using the Parliament to shiok themselves at the expense of the rakyat. Those govt ministers and MPs are totally unprepared to debate and legislate. Let's call for a referendum or a recall of the govt now!
It is ridiculous that we rakyat, as constituents of the elected MPs, have no rights to recall their non-performing reps or even the govt. What democracy are we talking about? Once we cast our votes we give our our rights to hold them responsible for delivery of the promises that they made when they came begging for our support?
We remember this when the next election campaign comes around, my fellow rakyat.
Those who do not speak up for us should be rejected, whether it's BN or Pakatan.
Those who insult us, must be kicked out.
Those who love to patronize us like we are 3-yr old kids, must be taught to earn our respect. Get them out for at least a term.
Remember, we hold the power, not these bunch of buffoons.
By Stephanie Sta Maria
KUALA LUMPUR: Pakatan Rakyat troubleshooter Zaid Ibrahim is vexed that the government is using
In an exclusive interview with FMT, the former law minister said that the time could be better spent on debating more important issues.
“It's most unfortunate that hours of airtime are devoted to people like (former PKR MP for Bayan Baru) Zahrain (Mohamed) Hashim and (Pasir Mas MP) Ibrahim Ali instead of debating real issues.
“This only shows that the government is not interested in serving the people,” he added.
The lawyer-turned-politician accused the government of harping on these trivial issues in order to create a smokescreen to conceal the bigger problems.
“The government is hiding the real problems. It doesn't want the people to know why the ISA (Internal Security Act) has not been repealed, why the GST (tabling of the Goods and Services Tax Bill) was postponed and what is the true state of the economy. So it uses rubbish as a diversion,” he said.
Using the same old tactics
In desperation, Zaid said the government resorts to using familiar strategies to quash the opposition, including ridiculing Anwar and attempting to “put him away”.
“This is how stupid the government is,” he said. “But let them continue believing it will work. Pakatan will get more support and we will win the next election. I am confident of that.”
Meanwhile, Zaid said he is not perturbed by Zahrain's statement that more PKR elected reps would quit the party in the future.
The PKR supreme council member encouraged those who are not interested in the party's struggle to resign rather than being a burden to the party.
Lim Kit Siang wasted no time in pouncing on Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s rebuttal to alleged abuse of power.
The DAP Parliamentary leader today scoffed at the deputy prime minister’s defence that the SMS exchange with lawyer Datuk Shafee Abdullah over the Altantuya Shaariibuu murder investigation was “a private matter”.
Malaysia Today carried a report detailing what it alleged was an exchange of text messages between Najib and Shafee, the prominent lawyer who represented Abdul Razak Baginda, the close associate of Najib who was eventually charged with abetting two police officers in the murder of Altantuya in 2006.
In one SMS, Najib allegedly tells the lawyer that Razak — his advisor — “will face a tentative charge but all is not lost”.
“He did not deny the exchange took place. What about the case of P. Balasubramaniam? Does he deny that he had contact with the Inspector-General of Police?” Lim said while debating the 2009 Budget.
Balasubramaniam had made a statutory declaration that Abdul Razak received an SMS from Najib stating that the IGP Tan Sri Musa Hassan would “take care” of the Altantuya case.
However, a second SD surfaced in which Balasubramaniam disavowed the first SD, claiming he was made to sign the SD under duress.
Dubbing the finance minister as the “de facto prime minister” in reference to Najib being designated as Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Badawi’s successor after Umno party polls in March, the Ipoh Timur MP echoed Opposition Leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim’s call for Najib to be investigated.
“We do not want just personal belief,” he said, referring to Abdullah’s defence of Najib in stating that his deputy is a “good person”.
“He must be cleared by a Royal Commission Inquiry so that we can be proud to have a 100% clean prime minister. Or otherwise,” Lim said.
Lim also told the Dewan Rakyat that the IGP and attorney-general Tan Sri Abdul Gani Patail should resign over abuses of power.
Citing an unnamed source, he claimed that an investigation by solicitor-general Idrus Harun in July had found that the AG had fabricated evidence against Anwar in the “black-eye” incident 10 years ago.
“How can we have a criminal as an AG?” he exclaimed.
Anwar had also filed a police report in July claiming abuse of power by Abdul Gani — then a senior deputy public prosecutor — and Musa’s role in the scandal surrounding the former deputy prime minister’s black-eye.
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Malaysia dont need this kind of leadership more than ever. We need a prime minister who sees government not as a tool to enrich well-connected friends and high-priced warlords, but as the defender of fairness and opportunity for every malaysians. That's what this country has always been about, and that's the kind of prime minister we intend have
We cannot settle for a second Gilded Age in malaysia And yet we find ourselves once more in the midst of a new economy where more wealth is in danger of falling into fewer hands; where the average CEO now earns more in one day than an average worker earns in an entire year; where are struggling like never before to pay their medical bills, or their kids' tuition, or high gas prices, all while the profits of the drug and insurance and oil industries have never been higher.
And once again, we are faced with a politics that makes all of this possible. In the last 25 years, our leaders have sell their soul to the highest greeser who have turned our government into a game only they can afford to play - a game played on a field that's no longer level, but rigged to always favor their own narrow agendas. Seen as a possible future Prime Minister, anwar Ibrahim provides an active voice for demanding free and fair elections in
devout Muslim leader was an impressive and eloquent advocate of tolerance, democracy and human rights
shocked by his arrest and trial in 1998 on charges of corruption and sodomy. His real "crime" had been to challenge Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, whose; impressive’ record will be forever stained by his treatment of Anwar. Many see Anwar as the possible saviour of
-- if Anwar does not do so before then, that is. I know that when Najib finally takes over pete will probably be sent to jail for a number of years. But until then he still have four months hope and he is going to use those remaining four months to aggressively campaign for the Peoples’ Declaration to become our new election declaration on how this country should be run, never mind who it is that will be running this country not najib the clone in making of mahatir.
So, Anwar or whosoever aspires to be the next prime minister. You are now on notice. The rakyat are giving you a yellow card
We need someone with strong vision and understand our present top most serious issues affecting the country.
. The current crop from BN are the third generation leaders who have been bred and raised with acquiring power and wealth as their main purpose in life. It truly shows in their corrupt and arrogant manner of distancing themselves from the rakyat
Let us not disrupt PR's journey,
Definitely too harsh and too early
Unlike UMNO goons and Fat Rosie
Anwar cannot deliver on the 16Sept, after all the buildup and support given. Where is Anwar's credibility after that? Stroking the people's sentiments and building hope and abandoning it is a serious setback. WHY PUT ALL THE BLAME FOR
NOT DELIVERING ON ANWAR., THIS IS WHAT THEY WANT TO FIGHT AMONG OURSELVES. WHO IS ABANDONING WHO ?PETE I UNDERSAND YOUR POSITION , I THINK WE CAN STILL DO IT . WE GO ALLOUT JUST
LIKE WE CALL FOR PEOPLES POWER,
THE PALIMENTENTARY SEATS THAT IS TO BE SAVE 35 SEATS WE GO TO
VOTERS TELL THEM WHY NAJIB CANNOT BE THE PRIME MINISTER
THIS VOTER HAS TO PETITION THEIR MPS TO MAKE INDEPENENT DECISION
THEY DON’T HAVE JOIN PR THEY CAN BE INDEPENTANT BUT SUPPORT THE MOTION TO DEFEAT THE GOVERNMENT WE HAVE 3MONTHS LET ALL THE PEOPLE WORK FOR THE GOOD OF THE PEOPLE. WHEN THE VOTERS DEMAND THE WILL WORK. Let's support him to save the country,
For the sake of rakyat and our progeny....
IN WAITING TO BE KICKED
OUT
Most have seen NAJIB as an unprincipled opportunist – conniving and duplicitous as he pushed ROSMA to the forefront.![[umrahnajib.jpg]](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjp6B8M76LfHbpVVObpTQtnMH3Gm8e7Hl_vS8Eng6of8Vso60HJDKf_GQHd4CO8eGzdLIYQv2tJda48gFWy7g5BDitTP-vzgPpdbj7HhoCQ2_vu9PhfzpXKL-BkWNC8xhXfDiNSQtvCToYn/s1600/umrahnajib.jpg)
Is this the man?
The custodian of the dying ember?
The man who generations to come will remember as the last man standing, before the new dawn set in?
OR
Is this the man who is going to set in an even more harsh regime?
To ensure he and his team will have a long run on the nation?
Driven by chauvinism, and detested by the international as well as the domestic society?
Is this the start of a dynasty in the Malaysian Public Life?
Does this mean that we Malaysians are so incapable that we need a select few families to tell us how to live our lives?
Are we so dependent that all aspects of our lives need to be controlled?
Are we so handicapped that we need these political dynasties to teach how to interact with each other?
CAN WE THE MALAYSIAN PEOPLE RISE TO THE OCCASSION WHEN THE NATION NEEDS US?
CAN
Lim Kit Siang wasted no time in pouncing on Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s rebuttal to alleged abuse of power.
The DAP Parliamentary leader today scoffed at the deputy prime minister’s defence that the SMS exchange with lawyer Datuk Shafee Abdullah over the Altantuya Shaariibuu murder investigation was “a private matter”.
Malaysia Today carried a report detailing what it alleged was an exchange of text messages between Najib and Shafee, the prominent lawyer who represented Abdul Razak Baginda, the close associate of Najib who was eventually charged with abetting two police officers in the murder of Altantuya in 2006.
In one SMS, Najib allegedly tells the lawyer that Razak — his advisor — “will face a tentative charge but all is not lost”.
“He did not deny the exchange took place. What about the case of P. Balasubramaniam? Does he deny that he had contact with the Inspector-General of Police?” Lim said while debating the 2009 Budget.
Balasubramaniam had made a statutory declaration that Abdul Razak received an SMS from Najib stating that the IGP Tan Sri Musa Hassan would “take care” of the Altantuya case.
However, a second SD surfaced in which Balasubramaniam disavowed the first SD, claiming he was made to sign the SD under duress.
Dubbing the finance minister as the “de facto prime minister” in reference to Najib being designated as Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Badawi’s successor after Umno party polls in March, the Ipoh Timur MP echoed Opposition Leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim’s call for Najib to be investigated.
“We do not want just personal belief,” he said, referring to Abdullah’s defence of Najib in stating that his deputy is a “good person”.
“He must be cleared by a Royal Commission Inquiry so that we can be proud to have a 100% clean prime minister. Or otherwise,” Lim said.
Lim also told the Dewan Rakyat that the IGP and attorney-general Tan Sri Abdul Gani Patail should resign over abuses of power.
Citing an unnamed source, he claimed that an investigation by solicitor-general Idrus Harun in July had found that the AG had fabricated evidence against Anwar in the “black-eye” incident 10 years ago.
“How can we have a criminal as an AG?” he exclaimed.
Anwar had also filed a police report in July claiming abuse of power by Abdul Gani — then a senior deputy public prosecutor — and Musa’s role in the scandal surrounding the former deputy prime minister’s black-eye.
Well, more good malay have risen to speak out to end this. It's very shameful for the so called lawmakers to treat the August house as a coffeeshop. Instead of debating issues of national interest that they are suppose to do as a lawmakers, they are debating nonsense like burning Utusan newspaper, who is more Malays and
character assasination.With Zahrain allegation that also implicate HRH and the army, this guy will bring out more shit in the August house. Ghapur had fired the first salvo and you can expect more to come and most probably the August house will be turn into a circus.
It is fantastic that Zaid Ibrahim, next Attorney-General in waiting, or perhaps even next Pm in waiting, are sharing more of his views and intellectual ideas/direction, past weeks, to go with Anwar/PKR/PR.
Thrash ISA. We have stopped listening to you. For Malaysi