Mahathir tell us honestly, how much monies NAJIB had robbed from the country? many many billion, You lose to Soros in shares and forex amounting to Billion. You started AP and Indah water to cheat us Malaysians , How come when you were in control, GLC went bankrupt such as UEM , Renong and now MAS and Proton are in the same footing. You are world no2 corrupted person and what you expect your junior to do? He is now following your style of corruption. He had borrowed from China and soon IMF and his instinct his good. If he loose, GE13 then PR will pay for his loan. Now, he know he had no confidence of winning GE13, he is turning into Christmas Father, giving incentive to Taxi Drivers , 1M fund and many more are coming before election. Mahathir, you as his God father, tell him that he had performed over his limit and it had to stop.Don't simply throw Malaysian Ringgit like toilet papers.Its our tax money and we dammed work hard for it
Poor old man, it does appear to me that he can "sleep no more, for Mahathir has murdered sleep." He himself has caused all these problems by "living beyond our means" with his mega projects, making his cronies (Francis Yeoh, Vincent Tan, Syed Mokhtar, Ananda Kishnan, etc., and his sons) super rich.
His present statements sound profound, unlike the Mahathir we knew. Why?
He is scared stiff of the fall of BN, an event he tries daily to avert, but one that will most likely send him to linger the rest of his remaining life in shame when once he was the Lord of all he surveyed. He is more scared of the eventualities than I am afraid of your reader "Lord Jim" who seems to enjoy attacking a defenceless lady. BN will go for broke by taking a gamble by giving away every penny available in the Government coffers hoping that they may win GE 13. In the event they do not win the pink lipped clown and his cronies will all board sampans and boats and make a quick getaway to Indonesia. Dr Mahathir will try to scramble with his suitcases full of money into one of the boats. They will gladly take him along, but mid sea they will dump him and keep the suitcases for themselves.
And just like the mythical Emperor who wore no clothes, the 58-year old Malaysian leader is now being peeled and exposed for hypocrisy and accused of harboring dark intentions to retain power by force as have many of the world's disgraced despots.
Just months ago, Najib was crowned co-champion of "double-talk" by the influential Washington Post which is read by the likes of President Obama and other top US leaders. The Washington Post lashed out in a stinging editorial after Najib controversially deported Saudi journalist Hamza Kashgari home to face certain torture and perhaps even death. The blunt language used by the US paper raised eyebrows and caused many to cough nervously in the corridors of power in Putrajaya, the Malaysian administrative capital.
But no, Najib and his advisers would not take the hint and clean up their act. Stubbornly, they clung to the belief that because they controlled the local mainstream media, they held the upper hand. If they told a lie often enough, the people and the world would believe them!
However, it did not work. Not only have Najib's attempts to pass glib sleight-of-hand laws that strengthen his own grip on power under the guise of 'reforms' been seen through, he has been slammed locally whilst a reputable Canadian newspaper has now categorized him as being a "false democrat".
"False democracies give the impression of being freer than they really are, which means they rarely face the kind of international pressure that the ally nasty regimes get," said the article published on June 8 by The Globe and Mail.
Like Mubarak & Co, Najib will use all ways to cling on
Entitled 'A 21st-century checklist of the new autocrats', the article also places Najib in the same league as the world's worst autocrats. The author Mark Mackinnon had categorised autocrats into four groups - false democrats, mad egotists, violent populists and callous capitalists.Najib was put into the first category, along with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi and Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen. The 'ex-members' of the club are former Yugoslavia president Slobodan Milosevic and former Egypt president Hosni Mubarak.
Mackinnon said such leaders "hold elections but have no intention of giving up power" and their "serious political rivals are jailed and their parties are outlawed on legal technicalities".
According to Opposition stalwart Lim Kit Siang, Najib was clearly very upset by the article. But no denial would hold any traction unless Najib issued a public pledge that he and his Umno party would pass over power peacefully if they lost at the ballot boxes, Lim said in response to news that the Malaysian Foreign Affairs Ministry had challenged the Canadian article.
"A week ago, I had asked Najib to declare publicly whether he is prepared to accept the verdict of the electorate to ensure a peaceful transition of federal government if Pakatan Rakyat wins the next general election," said Kit Siang, who also the MP for Ipoh Timur.
"It is significant that at the post-UMNO Supreme Council press conference last Friday, Najib studiously avoided answering this question when it was posed by the press. Hence, the question Malaysians and the world are asking is whether Najib is a false democrat who holds elections but has no intention of giving up power."
Najib now in int'l rogues gallery: GE-13 promises to be "interesting"
"Mr Milosevic and Mr Mubarak were ousted because citizens used the political space allowed them in a false democracy... The next election in Malaysia promises to be interesting," said Mackinnon.
However, in a rebuttal published today, the Malaysian Foreign Affairs Ministry detailed a list of reforms initiated by Najib over the past three years, describing these as "an impressive track record by anyone's standards".
The reforms included the abolition of Internal Security Act, ending of a 60-year state of emergency, measures to increase media freedom, amendment to the Universities and University Colleges Act, the enactment of the Peaceful Assembly Act, announcement to review the Sedition Act, repeal of the Banishment Act and the Restricted Residences Act, as well as the implementation of electoral reforms.
"This view does not tally with the fact that the opposition won an unprecedented number of seats in the last election.Next time round, Malaysians will again be free to choose who they want to lead their country - and while the prime minister takes nothing for granted, he hopes he will be given a mandate to continue Malaysia's transformation," fumed foreign ministry under-secretary Ahmad Rozian in his letter.
Had Julian Assange been an Indian, the media here would have gone into overdrive accusing the Indian state of victimizing a good man. It would have said that we don’t have freedom of speech – forgetting how much rubbish it is allowed to get away with on the same grounds. That our democracy is a farce. That we threaten and legally blackmail those who dare to expose the dirty corruption in our government. Blah blah blah. All such people must be really disappointed that the mecca of democratic values and freedom of speech – the West – is behaving in this manner against a person who was one of the finalists for the Time Magazine of the Year for 2010 and a nominee for the Noble Peace Prize for 2011. They must surely believe that the fact that he didn’t win either is another evidence of how illiberal the West has become….
I have always held that Assange was a dangerous element and that he should be arrested and jailed for good. What is his core business? To steal and publish confidential stuff. If the information is not confidential, it is of no interest to him. If it didn’t embarass different governments and countries and cause a sensation around the world, it was not of any use. It mattered little to him that delicate diplomatic relations between countries could be jeopardized by his irresponsible exposes. He would find ways to get access to confidential government documents – perhaps even by illegal inducements. His excuse would be that someone or the other gave the information to him; that he wasn’t involved directly in acquiring anything. This is the most standard trick anyone has when running a business of this sort. Media in India does this all the time. They run proxy campaigns on issues of interest to them. They prop up “informed sources” without naming them to put out stories that they may have themselves created. It’s good that this farce is being brought to an end for Assange. Hopefully, this farce will be brought to an end for the Indian media as well.
Julian Assange is now running like a coward. The London courts have all ordered his extradition to Sweden to face trial in what must look like very minor crimes – rape and sexual assault of two women in that country. Like a coward, he has sought refuge in Ecuador. Ecuador? A country that suffered military dictatorship till the late 1970s? Why would the champion of free speech go to a country that is not particularly well known for freedom of speech and democracy itself?
Julian Assange should be taken to America and tried for treason like he fears. What he has done by revealing American defence secrets is nothing short of treason. It’s the same with all the other diplomatic stuff that he routinely finds and publishes. The fact that he was considered a super here by the public is no reason for him not to pay for his crimes. No one should be allowed to steal state secrets. State secrets are part of the requirement of governance. India has many such state secrets. It may say one thing in public on a sensitive subject, but may practice a totally different thing in reality – all for the good of the Indian public. What if documents related to nuclear codes were put out in public and that compromised our entire security regime? Would that be an example of free speech or treason?
Assange was rightfully denied the Time Magazine of the year award in 2010. He didn’t deserve it at all. There was nothing creative or useful in what he did. There are moles in all government departments. Laying hands on confidential stuff is hardly creative stuff. All that you have to do is to provide a platform to publish the stuff. It’s the same with our news TV channels. They claim they have done “scoops”, but in reality the material itself lands up on their desks. Those who have the scoop decide who they want to give it to. Julian Assange should have been smarter; he should have gone about his business covertly. The way smugglers and traitors go about theirs. But then psychotic people like Assange think that by publishing openly, they are being “brave”. I think Assange was plain stupid. Such bravery is misplaced…..and even if the public applauds such people, the law eventually gets them.
Assange should be sentenced to the maximum punishment that the US law provides for treason. Rather than thinking of him as a crusader or an activist, he must be considered as one endangering world peace. It is not difficult to imagine how revelations of confidential documents can reduce friends to enemies, convert peaceful neighbourhoods into war zones. Assange and people like him are a threat to society. They encourage ordinary people to reveal confidential information. It is they who get caught, not people like Assange. It is Bradley Manning – the American military soldier who gave confidential American defence info to Assange – who got arrested on charges of treason. He may even be hanged for this. And yet, people like Assange have been enjoying their lives without fear….in fact with much public adulation. Its time this farce is brought to an end.
The real truth is that a stable and peaceful world needs a few curbs on freedom of speech. Assange’s business was inherently illegal. Freedom of speech was just a façade. Assange was a criminal himself in his earlier life – a hacker. He was let off lightly by the Australians when he was caught. Rather than reform himself, he became even more sinister. Wikileaks should have been stopped much before it went this far. But it’s better to be late than never. Assange should now be put behind bars and Wikileaks shut down.….
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