Firstly, let me praise the new de facto Law Minister, Datuk Seri Nazri Aziz for his prompt seven-hour response to my parliamentary speech on the 2009 budget yesterday on the outcome of investigations into Anwar Ibrahim’s police report against the Attorney-General Tan Sri Abdul Gani Patail for fabricating evidence over his “black eye” incident ten years ago.
Nazri’s prompt response should be an example to all Ministers with regard to serious allegations whether made in or outside Parliament if the government is serious about accountability, transparency, integrity and good governance.
I raised many issues in my 2009 budget speech in the past two days which have caused a tsunami of crisis of confidence affecting the Prime Minister, the Prime Minister-in-waiting, the Attorney-General, the Inspector-General, the judiciary on a whole spectrum of issues whether on anti-corruption, human rights or nation-building.
For instance, I had called for the immediate resignation of the Inspector-General of Police, Tan Sri Musa Hassan for failing in his most important task to reduce crime and make Malaysians, investors and tourists feel safe again in the country, and instead, he appeared to be more interested in being a lobbyist or canvasser for mega police projects like the mega police helicopter and the RM4.2 billion wireless digital “E-Police Force Solution”.
I have also given other reasons for my call on Musa Hassan to resign as IGP to allow the Deputy Inspector-General Police to take over in order to boost the service morale of the police rank-and-file.
Why has there been no equally prompt response like my call for the resignation of Gani Patail to resign as Attorney-General in Parliament yesterday?
Similarly, I had called for a Royal Commission of Inquiry to clear the Prime Minister-in-waiting, Datuk Seri Najib Razak from all the allegations and innuendos haunting and hounding him, including the C4-murder of Mongolian Altantunya Shariibuu, defence commissions for the French Scorpion submarines and the Russian Sukhoi jetfighters so that Malaysians, regardless of political differences, can feel proud of him as the nation’s sixth Prime Minister next March with regard to his undoubted honesty, reputation and integrity, why is there no prompt or instant response?
It has been reported from Barisan Nasional backbencher sources that Najib has this morning again denied any abuse of power in the Altantunya murder case – referring in particular to the exchange of SMS messages between him and Abdul Razak Baginda’s lawyer, Datuk Shafee Abdullah – the facts of which have not been denied by Najib.
Why then is Najib not prepared to take up the challenge to set up a Royal Commission of Inquiry to categorically clear him of all the allegations swirling around him – it is no exaggeration to say that no top political leader in the country in the nation’s 51-year-history had been haunted and hounded by so many allegations and all very serious ones as now the case with Najib?
If Najib has nothing to hide – and he has been making such an assertion – why is he not accepting the opportunity of a Royal Commission of Inquiry which would clearly him categorically and definitively, not only in the eyes of Malaysians but the international community?
Let me come now to Nazri’s response.
I said in Parliament yesterday that I have been informed that the Solicitor-General has come to the finding that the Attorney-General had abused his powers in the fabrication of evidence in Anwar’s “black eye” incident ten years ago.
Nazri denied and said that the Anti-Corruption Agency (ACA) is still investigating Anwar’s police reports on the matter against the Attorney-General and the Inspector-General of Police.
What is pertinent is Nazri’s admission that he had not contacted the Solicitor-General.
Unless there is a stronger rebuttal, I stand by what I said in Parliament.
What is of public interest is why the authorities are taking so long to complete investigations into Anwar’s report against the Attorney-General and the outcome.
“What is pertinent is Nazri’s admission that he had not contacted the Solicitor-General.”
Should he?
“If Najib has nothing to hide – and he has been making such an assertion – why is he not accepting the opportunity of a Royal Commission of Inquiry which would clearly him categorically and definitively, not only in the eyes of Malaysians but the international community?”
Don’t you know once he swore at the masjid that he is innocent, that’s even better than going through the RCI?
///Why has there been no equally prompt response like my call for the resignation of Gani Patail to resign as Attorney-General in Parliament yesterday?///–Kit
Assuming the AG refused to resign, and the PM refuses to fire him, is there a way to dismiss the AG?
“For instance, I had called for the immediate resignation of the Inspector-General of Police, Tan Sri Musa Hassan for failing in his most important task to reduce crime and make Malaysians, investors and tourists feel safe again in the country, and instead, he appeared to be more interested in being a lobbyist or canvasser for mega police projects like the mega police helicopter and the RM4.2 billion wireless digital “E-Police Force Solution”.”
Instead of going back to basics, it is wasting the public’s money on very expensive peripherals.
What happened to the much touted shortage of 60,000 policemen? What have they done to solve the problem?
Recently, certain new housing estates have become the haunt of robbers who have a complete disdain of law enforcement because it is completely non existent.
The reason given was that they don’t have enough manpower.
So, the residents are left to the mercy of the robbers!
Nearer to the heart of Kuala Lumpur, there were news items of criminals extorting from traders and shop owners and those who refused to pay or who dare to report them were badly beaten up.
Years ago, or rather decades ago, this country was a peaceful place to live in. Why? For the simple reason that there were policemen on beat duty and beat bases were liberally located.
However, nowadays, does anyone ever see policemen around, let alone doing beat duty?
It doesn’t take a genius to prevent crimes from being committed. But instead of spending money on basics like employing more police personnel or perhaps installing CCTV, it is deemed fit to waste it on super high-tech items.
As everyday goes by, it seems that the need for PR to take charge of the country grows greater.
A formal police report must be made to facilitate investigation into the missing records at the Airport.
When the pressure builds to the max, the can of worms would be thrown out for all to see. Keep the pressure on…
As I said in another blog, the credibility of this govt. is sliding as rapidly as stock exchanges around the world. In another country that truly practises democracy the govt. would have had to resign a long time ago.
A lot is out of order in the country.
We can pore over reports where tons and tons of money had been spent by the government on so many projects, but the results have been dismally lacking. Doesn’t anybody smell anything fishy?
Perhaps the rot had even subsided to the extent that the traces are about to be erased? Can anybody do something to arrest whatever traces that remains so that proofs of misappropriation could be rolled out for all to see?
What has become of this once great little nation called Malaysia?
The government has always urged ALL Malaysians to make the nation great by contributing their energy, resources, talents, and whatnot.
But on the other hand, certain party is claiming that they have more rights than the rest. So, it is ALL contribute, but, A little section make all the claims? What is this?
Seems like some people have not even grown out of their infantile mind. When would they wean themselves off Big Mama’s feeding?
Everyone else is supposed to have grown up and play their part, but one other segment is still pampered with “sugar” and whatnot.
Isn’t that holding back everyone else? Perhaps they will never grow? Stunted? Lacking of “growth hormones”? Where is the doctor? Seems like a major surgery or procedure is required to make them grow normally like everybody else?
Silence means a lot of things.
Sometimes silence can also mean “yes”.
“Why then is Najib not prepared to take up the challenge to set up a Royal Commission of Inquiry to categorically clear him of all allegations swirling around him -……..”. YB Kit.
The trouble is that how answers like “I do not this Mongolian girl”, or swearing on the Quran in the mosque or Badawi’s clumsy answer when asked about the SMS exchange on the Altantuya’s murder ‘I can’t believe Datuk Najib wants to abuse power.If he’s the one who is inclined to abuse power,how then should he be my successor.’ can be thought to be sufficient to wipe out allegations swirling around him leaves one completely incredulous and stunned, and the only reason that comes to my mind is the arrogance of power arising from 51 years of unbroken continuous rule.It has never occur to them that by not investigating these allegations and these are all serious allegations (from murder of Altantuya to the Scopene submarines and Eurocopter purchase to the SMSes exchanged between him and lawyer) the credibility of the government is put in question.
We are all waiting for PR to take over the govt. soon and the fun will begin for all to see who have the last laugh.
Pray and hope I don’t have to wait too long.
I read somewhere of your rampage in parliament YB, the rampage of righteousness, I remembered the Lord who rampaged against the desecretion of His Father’s temple in the Bible.. keep on at it YB, it’s about time the august house needs a cleansing.
I can see something coming. The pm chair is not comfortable to sit on at all. That is hardly surprising for the position that came with the seat is not one of comfort but one of duty and responsibility and above all, of blame. Yes, of blame for that is the first rule of management – everything is his fault.
Of course, the previous pm’s (and i include badawi because he is as good as gone) have made things extra difficult for najib. The economy too is particularly unkind to him and umno. And he has also himself to blame for getting himself involved with all sorts of issues (from c4 to helicopters). That’s what the news say anyway. Something which he has denied.
His absence from parliament at the start of the current session is not the best thing for him. He has no reason not to attend. He has a duty to appear and to address any question mps may have.
Arrogance? or panic reaction? Either way, that sort of behaviour is not consistent with that of a leader – pm of a country. That sort of behaviour would not give people a lot of confidence and trust. That sort of behaviour would cultivate suspicion.
I can see him falling even before he starts.
Hantus actually is afraid of human beings.
It is whether Najib can round up another team of RCI …favourable to him..or not.
He must have found out..those hantus…following him…also said..gone case..be it hantus RCI or honourable RCI men……both will find him guilty as hell.
Expected the unexpected from UMNO…like banning HINDRAF.. and all will be well for Malaysians…to patiently wait…next election…to chase ..all hantus away for good.
Ghostbusters are waiting.
Remember Mahatma Gandhi. Real price of good governance does not come easy. Remember that. Remember Martin Lutherking, he too were in the parallel scenario as in Malaysia. KKK was powerful then. Just like UMNO. But MARTIN LUTHERKING WON by reducing them to a bunch of useless rednecks. Rakyat Malaysia’s goal should be to reduce UMNO to be like KKK of USA. Good luck to all rakyat Malaysia may your dreams of good governance come true. Remember what RPK said, KEEP THE FLAME BURNING. DO NOT BE DISTRACTED BY PETTY ISSUES.
There are a lot of allegations against the DPM who is considered more suitable to take over the position of PM than a person who has not obtained two-third majority in parliament. The selection of DPM is based not on the appointment by AAB, but on nomination and election by UMNO members.
From a quarter of the 191 UMNO Divisions that have conducted their meetings, all of them have nominated only Najib as President. It shows that the Division representatives who are deciding UMNO GA policies and election do not consider what Najib has or has not done as alleged was important to determine whether Najib was suitable as President of UMNO or PM of Malaysia. It cannot be claimed that these delegates attending the GA nest march are not well informed about the allegations, or that they accepted the assurance by AAB that Najib was a good man. They are selecting Najib for the reasons best known to the delegates. What is clear is the core values they like to see in their leader are different from what ordinary citizens in Malaysia or the world over would consider important and prerequisite of their leaders.
It is said that the people deserve the leaders they elect. In the case of Malaysia, only two thousands persons select the PM, and the others should suffer silently. The political system in Bolehland is sick.
“What is pertinent is Nazri’s admission that he had not contacted the Solicitor-General.”
Is there a need when the main purpose of his reply is to lie. Apparently, Najib’s only defence has been to deny everything and anything said against him.
I wonder what he has to say about his Hindu ritual. Also deny?
Why the authorities are taking so long to investigate various allegations?
It is because all powers are concentrated in the Executive (the government).
The one who does wrong, the one who investigates the wrong, and the one who adjudicates and determines whether a wrong has been done and what to do about it all belong to same class and group between whom there is an implicit understanding to protect one another from having account for what everyone else within that favoured group does. One canot prise open another’s closet to look at the skeletons when one also has skeletons in one’s cupboards.
Abuse of power within ruling class will be perpetrated and cannot be checked if there were no checks and balances and separations of powers.
The only party that could demand accountability is the ordinary people, vigilant of their rights and expressing their will through the ballot box.
For that the rakyat must have shared norms – shared norms of what is acceptable standards of governance and what is not.
Being a multiracial, multicultural, multireligious and polyglot society, we have more differences that divide than shared norms that unite for collective action to dislodge those who abuse power.
What Loh wrote in second para of his posting Today at 18: 56.56 has direct reference. He said, “…. It cannot be claimed that these delegates attending the GA nest march are not well informed about the allegations, or that they accepted the assurance by AAB that Najib was a good man. They are selecting Najib for the reasons best known to the delegates. What is clear is the core values they like to see in their leader are different from what ordinary citizens in Malaysia or the world over would consider important and prerequisite of their leaders…….”
I am not to sure on the part that “ordinary citizens” have the same views.
Until all sectors of rakyat could forge sufficient shared norms on values like separation of powers, accountability etc to form the critical mass to take collective to evict substandard politicians, the kind of misfeasances raised in this thread will perennially recur, complained against and nothing could be done much about them.
If tomorrow all society activists NGOs and Opposition leaders are rounded up and detained under ISA, will there be sufficient shared norms culminating in common outrage for majority to take to the streets and confront the government’s force?
Likely no.
Zaki has been appointed the new Chief Justice. He is linked with UMNO. So, even if RCI finds there are grounds to charge Najib, he will eventually be let off by the court.
Malaysia is suffering from a host of confidence crises – it seems that the rakyat are living in a fox den. Wonder who will be the next victim to get devoured!
While the world financial crisis deepen our country has been worst by all those leaders who has failed to admit what have been wrong with them. They still keep deny or just brush aside all accusation against them with out any hints of shame or urgency to reply or rebut if they are not as what has been accused of.
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The PM in-waiting should have a non-blemished record if he is to lead the government of the day. He should appear in Parliament to make a ministerial statement to deny all allegations of impropriety against him. That is the least he can do.
The PM-in-waiting has almost used all the avenues available to him, to the extent of abusing the national institutions…judiciary and police. He is cornered, the only option open to him to escape justice, is to have a UMNO …to be the new CJ. It is obvious why Zaki is appointed the new CJ…definitely, not for his seniority and the brightest mind in justice dept.
The signs are beginning to show UMNO regime is crumbling and we will see more desperate acts to follow.
with the appointment of zaki, democracy in malaysia is further eroded, our constitutional rights are further watered down and judiciary independence is out of the window. isnt this the same guy who eloped with a middle aged woman to thailand to get married just to have some legover and then some months later decided to divorce her through mobile using sms? if its the same guy, then it certainly does not say much about the integrity, character and professionalism of the CJ.
with the banning of hindraf, zaki as cj against the petition and bar council’s recommendation najib as pm-in-waiting and the coming back of tdm as defacto pm resulting in judiciary independence and our constitutional rights out of the window, is malaysia heading down the same road as zimbabwe?
cerpen ringkas imaginasiku bertajuk orang orang aku.
ah…aku bakal ditabalkan ketua segala ketua. kedudukan aku di atas jika tidak dijaga ibarat tiang bendera di puncak kinabalu. akan ditiup dan diterbangkan angin walaupun sepoi sepoi bahasa. kedudukan aku mendorong dan mengundang segala hasad dengki yang terkenal dikalangan orang orang seperti aku. aku bersusah payah sehingga ke tahap ini. aku terpaksa memendam perasaan budak mainan tabiatku untuk terus ke puncak jaya. aku terpaksa berhati hati dengan tabiatku kerana andai tersilap langkah buruk padahnya. namun aku yakin dengan orang orang yang aku tanam di sekelilingiku pada masa dahulu dan masa akan datang. aku juga ada senjata sifor yang menguatkan keyakinanku. barang siapa yang mencucuk aku akan aku gunakan sifor ku ini. aku dibekalkan sifor ini oleh orang orang aku. aku yakin aku kebal. seranglah aku jika berani, askar orang kiri aku. tangkaplah jika berani, polis orang kanan aku. dakwalah aku jika berani hakim besar orang suruhan aku. aku juga berwang. satu bank negara aku punya. adik aku juga berpunya bank yang aku hadiahkan semasa ulang tahunnya yang ke 30. nescaya aku selamat kerana aku telah bersumpah agar aku diselamatkan dan diberkati.
Uncle Lim,
We are doomed with Zaki’s appointment as the new Chief Justice of Malaysia.
The new darker age of Malaysian judiciary has arrived.
Reponding to what wanderer posted 21:22.45 –
By Article 122B (1) of our constitution, the Yang di-Pertuan Agong would appoint Zaki Tun Azmi as Chief Justice on advice of PM. What could the King or us do? Its in the Federal Constitution!
Now PM is prepared to even resign for UMNO’s interest and unity, so what’s his problem in recommending Zaki, who was UMNO’s lawyer and served on Umno’s Disciplinary Board Appeal? You expect he would appoint the top judge from the ranks against or indifferent to UMNO???
In common law tradition, the ideal is that Judiciary must not only be independent but also “seen” independent.
We were not happy with a long line of preceding Chief Justices beginning with Tun Hamid, Tun Eusoffe Chin and then Tun Ahmad Fairuz along with disclosures in the Lingam Video Clip.
Now none of them was an UMNO lawyer before! So?
Many of us were also skeptical about Dato Zaid Ibrahim being appointed minister in charge of judicial reforms. He was UMNO’s lawyer too, benefitting in early legal career from much of UMNO’s related privatisation contracts during Dr Mahathir’s era but today he proves some independence of thought and we’re full of praises.
People can change. Of course one may say appointment to Minister is not like appointment to top post for judiciary (inedpendence of judiciary and all that) but since when we have ever had a totally independent judiciary to the extent of not only independent but also seen independent? Are we kidding ourselves?
First of all, Malaysia is not the UK. We have to revise our expectations several notches downwards in this respect.
But even in UK the top judge – the Lord Chancellor – is appointed by Queen on the advice of also the Executive/Prime Minister and worse than here is both a senior cabinet minister as well as head of the judiciary charged with appointing judges and sitting as a judge himself! So where is the perceived political independence from the Executive/PM/government even in the UK if you judge from the appointment mechanism? At least here our CJ is not cabinet minister (though our AG is)!
Now the other bastion of Separation of Powers – the US – even there I believe Supreme Court Judges are appointed by the President though by way of greater check and balance Congress must approve. If we had that check and balance here in that Parliament must approve CJ’s appointment, would it be any different if the ruling government had parliamentary majority? YB Kit may object, but Parliament will by majority endorse….
Continuing ….
If truth be said, independence and fairness is in the hearts of judges nurtured from the common tradition and culture of the people : if they’re freedom loving with hold dear the sense of fair play, so will their judges be, a mirror of the norms of the larger society…..Converrsely if the culture of larger society is feudal & corrupt, so will the Judges or even Ministers be the mirror reflection…
So maybe we should not make a big issue at this juncture by not giving Zaki Tun Azmi a chance to carry out his so called national duty before prempting and criticising him.
After all, he has got quite good pedigree. Compared to the preceding three CJs, Zaki was senior partner, then consultant with legal firm Shahrizat Rashid & Lee. He brings with him actual legal practice experience. His father Tun Azmi Mohamed was Lord President from 1966 to 1974.
Yes he is “parachuted” but if – assuming – he has merits in the job, what’s the beef? Would we prefer more senior and less capable judges rising?
Then there are reservations related to his controversial marital life, his testosterones alleged running wild etc but lets leave this personal aspect out of public domain since who amongst some of the most prominent amongst leaders of men (some eg of American presidents, Keneddy, Eisenhower, Clinton) are not controversial in this respect of private sexual morality? If you believe evolutionary biology testosterones bear direct relationship with capability of Alpha Males and capability and power are Aphrodesaic making moral infractions for these people harder to contain than average joes like us preserving our middle class morality, and for some pretensions of sexual moral propriety.
I thought we are endeavouring to be more broad minded judging from our “fallen” ex health minister Dr Chua Soi Lek now getting sufficient support to give a go at the MCA Deputy President Post!
The upshot of the above is that may be we should judge a person by his record and performance rather than prempt by his past affiliation and association.
There is no perfect guy around, no certainty that even if such a man be found, he won’t turn bad when sitting in that exalted position.
There is much to be said that we should consider giving the man – or any man – a chance and judge him for what he does or performs on record than just repute.
Typo correction in bold capitals – “if they’re freedom loving AND hold dear the sense of fair play, so will their judges be, a mirror of the norms of the larger society…..”
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///It is said that the people deserve the leaders they elect. In the case of Malaysia, only two thousands persons select the PM, and the others should suffer silently/// – Loh.
Don’t forget : there were people in hundreds of thousands selecting as well that two thousands persons. :)
lets face it guys….its been a norm and a fact that these idiots think we cant do a thing abt them.its all abt umno and nothing else.everyone up thr in umno thinks they are god.look at all these idiots….fat fakking lousy liars and full of sins in their entire life.its $$$ they are after and they are robbing us in broad daylight…so wat can we do abt them….basically…they think we are powerless against them.its been like this since the mahathir era.so…who do we blame…is it really umno …or those useless suckers using umno for their so called ketuanan sh*t.
p/s: and i wont forget that sh*tty perverted idiot who made the remark on using the kris and bathing it with other races blood.
Greetings!
Malaysia government has pour tonnage of money developed corridors and IT instances. It’s hard to believe that they can’t clear/delete the relations all the cases even though they can fabricate evidences to charge someone long time ago.
Simple, just drop all the cases and Free DSAI, RPK and others b’cos there was no case charge against them.
Najib, a man with many political baggage and skeletons in his closet, will be a liability to this country. Now everyone can blackmail him: right, left, front and back.
UMNO: the party of the corrupts, the racists, the parasites, the economic pirates and the trouble-makers for the past 51 years are delighted. Now the gate to rape this country will be wide-open and Najib cannot stop it because he will be blackmailed if he does.
Foreigners: I am sure there are foreigners, such as governments, big businesses and mafia who would possess or have purchase some dirt on the PM-to-be. Just imagine how they could cash this chip in and get what they want through blackmail?
Can Malaysia afford to have this man as the next PM? In order to ride out of this predicament, Najib would have to be very cruel and autocratic. God help Malaysia from this monster!
sorry to digress from the issue . I understand that chikungunya or some disease is ravaging many parts of Pahang. Why is the Health Ministry working so slow. Just Karak , Telemong & Sg Lembing there are so many cases. There seems to be a blackout of news.
I believe citizens deserve better from the Ministry of Health.
The current Minister is also sleeping and should quit !!!
Kepada Yang berhormat,
Bersyukurlah kerana YB sekarang seorang pemimpin, bergelar ‘Yang Berhormat’ pula dengan gaji besar dan kehidupan mewah. Rakyat terlalu memerlukan perhatian YB. Mungkin kisah ini juga berlaku di kawasan YB. Bacalah dan berkhidmatlah…..
Dengan kederat seorang tua yang kurang sihat, kerja yang termampu dilakukan oleh Pakcik Zainal yang hidup bersama seorang isteri dan seorang anak perempuan hanya mengambil upah membersih kebun orang dikawasan berhampiran.
Antara perbualan saya dengan Pakcik Zainal,
“Ada orang datang melawat Pakcik di sini?”.
“Ada.” Kata Pakcik Zainal.
“Bila?”. Tanya saya.
“Masa dia orang nak minta saya mengundi, dia orang datanglah.”
“Sudah berapa lama Pakcik tinggal di sini?”
“Lima tahun”
http://kerajaanrakyat.com/?p=1848
Malaysia is doomed!
Isn’t Malaysia an interesting country. With great abundance of natural resources, great geographic position, great hardworking people but still we are still a third world country after 51 years. From the quality of our ministers I personally do not think we can achieve vision 2020. Just look at the make-up of the ministers, so what if their father or grandfather has been in high position…that doesn’t make them better politicians or leaders. As for Najib, I hope he is cleared from all accusations before he took over premiership. It would be embarassing to have someone tainted to be leading this country….make Thaksin of Thailand looked so noble.
The Curse is still there since it was started by the MaMathir.
Everybody is watching closely, surely and happily.
Badawi was right about one thing.??e is the last of a generation of leaders – a generation that still has some pride and would resign over their dignity.
You want to know why Najib won’t resign? The man is shameless. You have to pry the job from his cold dead hand like that of Samy Vellu…
According to Thinking Two at 10:05.27, “ the Curse is still there since it was started by the MaMathir…Everybody is watching closely, surely and happily”.
Whether there is anything to be watched “happily” about is really doubtful.
It is more likely we should watch events unfolding with concern and precaution than glee and amusement.
The country is now taking a most dangerous turn since 8th March & Permatang Pauh and Pak Lah’s imminent exit.
It should be obvious by now that those in power for 45 years have so much vested interest at stake in the system that losing power whether through a vote of no confidence in parliament or even a general election 4 years down the road is NOT an option…..
At the same time they can neither reform nor reinvent except in cosmetic terms.
The threat of Anwar/PR taking over has therefore given (1) opportunity for intra factionalism and internecine power struggle amongst this group from the excuse of who should best lead to thwart PR’s threat – and there will be no end to selective release of scandalous information to stir swirling allegations to undermine one another – and (2) the desperate falling back to old and tried formula of combining repression (recent ISA detentions, ban of HINDRAF etc) and playing the race/communal card (making bogeyman of Theresa Kok and HINDRAF) and exploiting racial insecurities for the ends of shoring up political power.
The ugly face of racial and religious politics will rear itself more and more and those who fan racial flames to shore up their power will turn around and accuse those who oppose them as fanning racial flames as a justification for further repression. Creating artificial crisis and civil disturbance by mischief makers is also no more an academic speculation.
It is unprecedented that all levers of power – from PM’s position to DPM’s position, to AG’s position to IGP’s position to CJ’s position – are now challenged, so by Newton’s law of every action gets a reaction and every strong action gets a stronger reaction, why is likely to happen?
And all these political uncertainties are happening to the country at a time of coincidental maximum economic peril, a large part of which is the global system going haywire (Credit Bust/Break in Credit Cycle from Sub Prime paper shuffling & too much artificial manipulation of World’s commodity prices/currencies not dictated by real Supply & Demand) all beyond our control.
Just when we thought we were seeing skies change after 8th March and Permatang Pauh, the first streaks of dawn are now fast changing to darkening night.
The Conference of Rulers issued a statement on the social contract as follows:
‘It is not proper to dispute and question this social contract and more so to subject this to review or change because it is the primary basis of the formation of Malaysia”
It is pertinent to note that the constitution of Malaysia based also on the federal consitution of Malaya. It is not proper to dispute what has been enshrined in the constitution, and thus as far as social contract is concerned, whatever has been provided for the rights of Malays and non-Malays should not be amended. For the social contract to be meaningful, the rights provided should not be changed. Article 153 of the Federal constitution is one article particularly relevant to the relative position of non-Malays versus Malays. That article originally provided for a review of it after 15 years. The provision of the review should not be removed, even though after the material time, the article are considered still to be required, and will still be subject to further review.
The governemnt should take heed of the statement by the 215th Conference of Rulers and reinstate whatever provisions there were in the Federal constitution which relate to the rights of the various communities, Malays and non-Malays alike. The future generations should be informed of the rationale for the provisions of privileges for the communities concerned.
///Then there are reservations related to his controversial marital life, his testosterones alleged running wild etc but lets leave this personal aspect out of public domain since who amongst some of the most prominent amongst leaders of men (some eg of American presidents, Keneddy, Eisenhower, Clinton) are not controversial in this respect of private sexual morality?///–Jeffrey
The testerone level could not be subject to conscious control because it is the DNA that decides to propogate. It is interesting that successful people in career and other achievements would have been able to produce a large number of offsprings if not for the ‘filtering devices’. But the converse need not be true.
Loh, once you say “the testerone level could not be subject to conscious control because it is the DNA that decides to propogate”, you’re talking along science or pseudo-science of evolutionary biology (ala Darwin) which the Religious world over are uneasy and won’t readily accept. But biology, as you said, works on the sub-conscious that teachings, moral and religious, acting as “filters” cannot entirely suppress. Hence we hear so much of the consequences of repression of the natural biological instinct in cases of clergy men of cloth engaging in child sexual abuse and the antics of men from Middle Eastern societies once their planes take off from their place. The greater the repression the greater the hypocrisy, as happening more and more here with greater sexual conservatism instead of openness. :)
Sorry the “filters” I used not in the same context as ‘filtering devices’ you used in your posting.
clearly, that anwar’s case they were so fast to complete investigation..muahahhaa..if abt anwar’s allegation they will take years to complete their investigation…
Dear YB Kit Siang, I thought the Prime Minister in Waiting is Anwar… What happened Sir. I m confused…. Why is his allegation must be prioritised to be investigated rather than Muthu the dispatched guy cases? Is it true that Najib is involved in the murder of Altantunya and should be send to hell ( hell here means to the worst i think)? If you have evidence , Its also your job as the Timbalan Ketua Pembangkang to show us so we will have a PM who is a Murderer.