— Tota
The Malaysian Insider
Jul 19, 2012
JULY 19 — In English history there is King Æthelred The Unready. He earned this nickname because he was never ready for anything good or wise. Bolehland displays many similar characteristics to qualify to be called “Malaysia The Unready”.
The Umno-dominated BN government has shown a stubborn refusal to make Malaysia a truly democratic state where the rule of law, civil rights and liberties, equality and justice are respected and practised. The Umno-dominated BN government’s mantra is that Malaysia is not ready for so many things that are basic in all truly democratic and progressive countries.
Malaysia The Unready is not ready to:
● make Malaysia a truly democratic, secular state as enshrined in the Constitution.
● make Parliament democratically functional with an elected Speaker.
● have an elected Senate.
● elect office-bearers from kampung to Parliament level as is done in Indonesia.
● hold local council elections to create a participatory democracy.
● introduce proportional representation.
● share power and resources between the federal and state governments
● hold free and fair elections without electoral fraud and shameless gerrymandering.
● establish a true meritocracy.
● make every Malaysian equal in every way.
● establish rule of law and not rule by law.
● abolish all repressive and oppressive laws like the newly minted laws denying the right to assemble and march in protest, the Sedition Act, the Printing Presses and Publications Act, and the Universities and University Colleges Act.
● restore human rights, individual rights and liberties like freedom of speech, the right to dissent and the right to assemble.
● lower the voting age to 18.
● register automatically those eligible to vote.
● appoint an Ombudsman.
● make the civil service, the judiciary, the MACC, the Election Commission, the police, and the Registrar of Societies truly independent and free from executive control and manipulation.
● abolish the post of Attorney-General and have an independent Public Prosecutor like the US or an independent Director of Prosecution as in the UK.
● abolish all ethnicity-religion based policies.
● abolish the NEP and replace it with needs-based policies.
● appoint a Law Reform Commission to modernise archaic laws like the ones with ouster clauses which deny justice to litigants against ministers whose decisions are presently not subject to judicial review.
● sign all UN Conventions.
● legislate a Race Relations Act.
● legislate a Freedom of Information Act.
● establish an Interfaith Commission.
● accord all religions equal importance and respect.
● appoint a fair number of non-Malays as governors (in Penang, Malacca, Sabah and Sarawak).
● overhaul completely the education system which is an absolute disaster now.
● increase ethnic minority representation among VCs, Deputy VCs and deans in public universities.
● institute fair ethnic representation in the police, army, navy and air force.
● establish an independent print and electronic media to enable all voices and views to be heard.
● establish a public register for government servants and politicians to declare their income and assets.
● wipe out corruption by punishing the “big fish”.
● establish genuine gender equality.
● respect the people’s choice and will — no more “Peraks”!
● promote Ketuanan Rakyat — not Ketuanan Melayu.
● promote Agenda Rakyat — not Agenda Melayu, which makes 1 Malaysia a big farce, hoax and a gimmick.
With so many lacks, who was the goon who said that Malaysia is the world’s best democracy? — aliran.com
It has to be unready so that the regime in power can cling on to the gravy train and line their pockets.
///Instead the usual crime-fighting gear, the men in blue came armed with a smile, goodie bags and musical instruments.///–Malaysiakini
Can the music change the mind of potential criminals?
This author wants UMNO/BN to commit hara-kiri!
The UMNO politicians are unready for all those because they have not made enough. But would any human say enough is enough when they can act with impunity?
Democracy as a specie of government has many forms. This is not unlike say the humans. We have first and foremost the umnoputras. Then somewhere far far behind we have the rest like caucasians, etc etc etc. So too we have pure democracy, true democracy, semi-democracy, etc etc etc. And right on top of the pack at one time was jib’s BD or best democracy. Now this pole position is being taken over by another form of democracy. As expected, in this universe no one is as supreme as umno. So the top of pile is occupied by another creation of jib of the supreme umnoputra. It is actually an updated version of BD and its official name is LBD or in full Lagi Best Democracy.
Jib jib boleh.
Ros ros cantik!
But…. but… we have Jibby the Eveready! Eveready to kabooom that poor Mongol gal with c4!
‘Malaysia The Unready is not ready to:….’
Right. Right. Right. Correct. Correct. Correct.
1Malaysia is in urgent need of a fresh Battery like that Ever battery to give it a fresh spurt in life.
The old BN battery is already flat out and almost dead. Can’t recharge any more. The newspaper man might want it for a ringgit or a few sens for recycling to Zimbabwe.
BY NEXT YEAR
Tan Siew Sin, before NEP, predicted that with NEP, Malays will ALWAYS BE UNREADY…