Tuesday, July 19, 2011

This is how they cheat us!

This is how they cheat us.....

Still don't believe they cheat? Goto this website http://daftarj.spr.gov.my/semakdm/ and key in all the IC numbers available and wallau everyone staying in the same house!!!

Friday, July 1, 2011

Satu Alamat, 88 pengundi.. Apa penjelasan SPR?

SPR adalah sebuah Badan yang bernaung di bawah institusi Raja-Raja Melayu dan bertanggungjawab mengawal selia proses pilihanraya negara ini. Ianya sewajarnya adalah sebuah Badan yang bebas dan berkecuali dari mana-mana parti politik samada dipihak Kerajaan mahupun Pembangkang.

Bagaimanapun semalam Timbalan Pengerusi Suruhanjaya Pilihanraya iaitu Wan Ahmad Wan Omar telah mengeluarkan satu kenyataan yang boleh menjejaskan kredibiliti SPR sendiri.

Dalam kenyataannya yang jelas menunjukkan beliau memihak kepada Barisan Nasional, Wan Ahmad telah mendakwa perhimpunan Bersih 2.0 pada 9 Julai ini digunakan oleh Pakatan Rakyat untuk meraih sokongan bagi membina momentum untuk gagasan itu menawan Putrajaya.

Hujah yang sama telah digunapakai oleh Perdana Menteri Najib Razak beberapa hari sebelum itu.

Wan Ahmad turut mendakwa pembangkang risau menyaksikan kebangkitan BN dan mahu menggerakkan Bersih kali kedua setelah menyaksikan bagaimana perhimpunan tahun 2007 membawa kepada 'tsunami' politik yang memberi kemenangan besar kepada PR pada PRU 2008.

Kenyataannya boleh dibaca di SINI.

Mungkin Wan Ahmad mempunyai terlalu banyak masa terluang hingga membolehkan beliau memikirkan akan agenda Pakatan Rakyat dalam perhimpunan BERSIH 2.0 akan datang ini..

Hal yang sepatutnya beliau mendiamkan diri bagi menunjukkan bahawa beliau seorang yang mempunyai kredibiliti dan bertanggungjawab terhadap tugas yang diamanahkan terhadapnya oleh Raja-Raja Melayu.. bukannya sibuk untuk memberikan ulasan..

Beliau sepatutnya membuat semakan terhadap daftar Pemilih yang baru dikemaskini Mei lalu, jika beliau serius akan tanggungjawabnya beliau harus menjelaskan bagaimana sebuah rumah yang kecil ini boleh terdapat seramai 64 pengundi didalamnya.. dan bagaimana pula sebuah lagi rumah yang berada dikawasan yang sama boleh mempunyai seramai 88 pengundi pula?

Rumah kecil ini mempunyai 65 pengundi..

Ini adalah pemilih yang beralamat 1138 kesemuanya ialah 64 Orang, nombor dihadapan senarai adalah nombor siri dari Daftar Pemilih dan nombor terakhir adalah alamat rumah.

15 330422085529 L 1933 MOHD YUSOF BIN MOHD SOOM 1138
48 410403085435 L 1941 MOHD HUSSIN BIN CHAT 1138
44 410108075218 P 1941 RAMLAH BINTI MAT ALI 1138 TBP
76 441202085836 P 1944 EMBIN BINTI ABD RAHMAN 1138
86 460819025036 P 1946 KHATIJAH BT HASSAN 1138
95 470102075254 P 1947 KARTHIYANI A/P PERUMAL 1138
98 470302025470 P 1947 SITI ASA BINTI ARIFIN 1138
114 480928075516 P 1948 MANGGAKASSIN A/P PARMAL 1138
115 481214045168 P 1948 MARIAM BINTI SAAD 1138
125 491107025478 P 1949 SITI JAMALIAH BINTI MD MIN 1138

187 540612025178 P 1954 KECHIK BINTI HAMID NT 1138
194 541029025212 P 1954 RAFTAH BINTI HASSIM 1138
246 561118075201 L 1956 MOHD RASHID BIN MD NOOR 1138
263 571007085860 P 1957 ROBIAH BINTI DIN 1138
273 580328075625 L 1958 MURAD BIN HASSAN 1138
282 580925075498 P 1958 ZAHARAH BINTI MD NOOR 1138
297 590316085577 L 1959 MAT ZAIN BIN MOHD YUSOF 1138
313 590925025721 L 1959 SAMSUDIN BIN REJAB 1138
335 610414085007 L 1961 MARATHAIYAH A/L PACHAVANAM 1138
338 610607075569 L 1961 RUSLI BIN MD NOOR 1138

342 610816025939 L 1961 ABU HASSAN BIN REJAB NO 1138
346 610907075659 L 1961 K PRAMASIVAN A/L P KALIMUTHU 1138
357 620410075724 P 1962 MARIAMA A/P CHELLIAH 1138
372 621204075445 L 1962 KARIM BIN MD.NOOR 1138
373 630101025634 P 1963 SABIRAH BINTI GHAZALI NT 1138
402 641007025009 L 1964 RAMLI BIN ZAHID 1138
408 641121025838 P 1964 BAHIYAH BINTI REJAB NT 1138
418 650712075495 L 1965 MOHAMAD BIN SHAARI 1138
430 660322075800 P 1966 SALASIAH BINTI MD NOOR 1138
439 660531075081 L 1966 AZHAR BIN ISMAIL 1138

455 670407076123 L 1967 AZHAR BIN MD NOOR 1138
475 680406075646 P 1968 JAYABHARATHI A/P VETTANATTAYIL 1138
479 680523106341 L 1968 EWAN BIN ZULKIFLI 1138
496 690220035733 L 1969 ROSLAN BIN ABDUL 1138
498 690516075216 P 1969 AMUTHAVALLI A/P SUBBAYAH 1138
506 691020075655 L 1969 AZNI BIN MD NOOR 1138
519 700618075117 L 1970 SHAMSUDDIN BIN DIN 1138
520 700626085219 L 1970 AMIR BIN HASAN 1138
524 701118075983 L 1970 KAMARUDIN BIN MD NOOR 1138
528 710114086030 P 1971 JULIANA BINTI KAMARUDDIN 1138

550 720605075351 L 1972 KAMARUDDIN BIN DIN 1138
552 720621025397 L 1972 ISMAIL BIN MOHD YUSOF 1138
568 730713075657 L 1973 KAMARUL ZAMAN BIN REJAB 1138
584 741210075253 L 1974 IBRAHIM BIN MOHD YUSOF 1138
585 741227075559 L 1974 MUHAMAT BIN ABDUL HAMID 1138
595 750606086594 P 1975 JAMILAH BINTI MOHD YUSOF 1138
596 750710075588 P 1975 ROSLINDA BINTI MOHD RANI 1138
610 761223025624 P 1976 NORAINI BINTI ABDAUL RASHID 1138
614 770205075542 P 1977 MANJULA A/P KRISHNAN 1138
616 770422086221 L 1977 JOHAR BIN AHMAD 1138

624 771203075869 L 1977 NAZRI BIN ABDUL HAMID NO. 1138
628 780220076227 L 1978 KUMARAN A/L KRISHNAN 1138
635 781221075159 L 1978 AZMAN BIN HASAN NO 1138
644 790822075001 L 1979 THURAIRAJ A/L KRISHNAN NO 1138
657 800806075593 L 1980 MUHAMAD ASRI BIN ABDUL RAZAK 1138
659 800902075323 L 1980 VISVA A/L KRISHNAN 1138
667 810410075182 P 1981 HANIZA BINTI ABDUL HAMID NO 1138
687 820621086200 P 1982 AIDA BINTI HASAN 1138
700 830414075583 L 1983 HAMZAH BIN MAT ZAIN NO 1138
704 830526075561 L 1983 MOHD REDZWAN BIN ABDULLAH 1138

748 850828075450 P 1985 SUHASINI A/P K PRAMASIVAN 1138
754 860302355465 L 1986 YASSIN BIN ABDUL HAMID 1138
758 860823565556 P 1986 NORAIZADATHULAKMA BT MAT RODZI 1138
773 880528355335 L 1988 MUHAMAD SAHLAN BIN SAMSUDIN 1138

Dan ini pula Rumah yang beralamat 1155, jumlah pemilih di sini ialah 88 orang,nombor dihadapan senarai adalah nombor siri dari Daftar Pemilih dan nombor terakhir adalah alamat rumah.

1 140707755111 L 1914 SHEIK DAWOOD S/O MOHAMMED GANI 1155
6 280702755029 L 1928 SINNAPPAN A/L MUNUSAMY 1155
7 281008075239 L 1928 NARAINA @ V.K VELOO A/L KALLIMUTHU 1155
24 360902025020 P 1936 MON BINTI YUSOF 1155
37 390601025104 P 1939 CHE GAYAH BINTI MAT DAUD 1155
40 400616085659 L 1940 CHE AHMAD BIN CHIK 1155
45 410210025022 P 1941 THANALECHEMY A/P SUBBAREDY 1155
67 431211085089 L 1943 MUNISAMY A/L MUNISAMY 1155
80 450915075026 P 1945 GOVINDAMMAL A/P SAMIAYAH 1155
90 461103075024 P 1946 RUKUMONY A/P MUTHIAH 1155

101 470528025078 P 1947 PADAVETTA A/P SINNIAH 1155
111 480831075528 P 1948 ANJALAI A/P MUNIAN 1155
116 490218085065 L 1949 SATIWELL A/L R NABBU 1155
120 490812025073 L 1949 RETNASAMY A/L SUBBIAH 1155
127 500217085836 P 1950 MURUGAMAH A/P MANIKAM 1155
128 500312025495 L 1950 MD ISMAIL BIN MYDIN PITCHEY 1155
133 500630075068 P 1950 PANJALAIE A/P S.MOTIYE 1155
135 500818025302 P 1950 KUPPAMMAH A/P SUBRAYA 1155
136 500908075354 P 1950 MUNIAMAH A/P RAMAN 1155
137 501003025293 L 1950 PALANYAPPAN A/L SUBRAMANIYAM 1155

155 521101075399 L 1952 SEGAR A/L SUBRAMANIAM 1155
157 530110025267 L 1953 GOVINDARAJOO A/L RAMAN 1155
160 530310025173 L 1953 PERUMAL A/L PERUMAL 1155
161 530322075426 P 1953 ALICE MARY A/P ANTONISAMY 1155
180 531214075351 L 1953 MARIAPAN A/L VELOO 1155
189 540831085218 P 1954 ENDRANI A/P ARUMUGAM 1155
197 550118025155 L 1955 SUBRAMANIAM A/L S.AHNIMANNAN NO 1155
198 550129025441 L 1955 GANESAN A/L SOORAPPAN 1155
207 550415025530 P 1955 MARIAMAH A/P RAJAGOPAL 1155
210 550608025668 P 1955 MANIEE A/P JOSEPH 1155

218 551227025087 L 1955 NAGAPPAN A/L MUNUSAMY 1155
225 560404085967 L 1956 ARUMUGAM A/L PARAMASIVAM 1155
227 560409075450 P 1956 RANGAMAH A/P NALAIAH 1155
230 560415026006 P 1956 RAMAMAH A/P GOPAL 1155
232 560522075022 P 1956 RAJASPORY A/P GOVINDARAJOO 1155
234 560602075006 P 1956 BALOMANI A/P ASIRVATHAN 1155
261 570906025605 L 1957 KRISHNAN A/L NADARAJAH 1155
265 571024075189 L 1957 BEATLICE A/L ASUVATHAM 1155
266 571101026189 L 1957 VIJAYAN A/L MURUGIAH 1155
268 571105075500 P 1957 V.MARY A/P VANATHAIAH 1155

280 580828075066 P 1958 HESHAH BEE BINTI M.M KADER BAWA RAWTHER 1155
285 581106025088 P 1958 HABIDAH BINTI KASSIM 1155
295 590301075931 L 1959 NARAYANASAMY A/L V.K.VELOO 1155
298 590318025367 L 1959 RAVITHIRAN A/L NADARAJAH 1155
299 590318075735 L 1959 DAVID A/L AZIRVATHAM 1155
304 590520025926 P 1959 YASODAH A/P GOVINDASAMY 1155
317 591222075508 P 1959 SHARIPAH B BINTI MAHMUD 1155
322 600407075602 P 1960 SANTHANAMARY A/P AROKIASAMY 1155
324 600515075132 P 1960 PUSPERVALLI A/P NADESON 1155
326 600531075116 P 1960 LAGMI A/P SANNASEE 1155

331 601024085840 P 1960 AMUTHA A/P SUBRAMANION 1155
349 610925105946 P 1961 SELVARANI A/P MURUGIAH 1155
350 611001026038 P 1961 AMUTHA A/P NARASU 1155
380 630421085003 L 1963 SHAMUGAM A/L MUNISAMY 1155
381 630517086617 L 1963 VASOO A/L SUBRAMANION 1155
382 630617025782 P 1963 MURUGAMAH A/P NADARAJAH 1155
397 640531075972 P 1964 PLOMINA A/P KUPPUSAMY NO 1155
399 7432554 640628086483 L 1964 JAYABALAN A/L MUNISAMY NO 1155
425 651218075275 L 1965 MUNIANDY A/L NARAINA @ V K VELOO NO 1155
427 660203086304 P 1966 VASONDA A/P SUBRAMANIAM 1155

449 670227075289 L 1967 PUVANASWARAN A/L NARAINA @ V K VELOO 1155
456 670409025741 L 1967 CHANDRAN A/L PONNAN 1155
463 670719085934 P 1967 PARAMESWARI A/P MUNISAMY 1155
478 680522075491 L 1968 V SEVANASAN A/L V K VELOO 1155
517 700518075611 L 1970 RAVY A/L RAMASAMY @ SUBRAMANIAM NO 1155
527 701213075009 L 1970 SUTHAGAR A/L SUBRAMANIAM 1155
570 730805086222 P 1973 SARALA A/P S SEGAR 1155
579 740710075212 P 1974 MANGALANAYAKEY A/P V SINNAIAH NO 1155
597 750730075198 P 1975 MUNISPERIE A/P SUBRAMANIAM 1155
613 770202085657 L 1977 MANICKAM A/L VERASAMY 1155

618 770723075016 P 1977 RATHNADEVI A/P DHEVAN NO. 1155
623 771127065641 L 1977 VIJAYA KUMAR A/L KARIAMALAI NO 1155
632 780814075256 P 1978 YOGESWARY A/P SUBRAMANIAM 1155
637 790430075141 L 1979 KARUNAGARAN A/L RAJU NO 1155
655 800613075546 P 1980 RAJESWARY A/P RAMASAMY 1155
664 810213075597 L 1981 VERARAKAYAN A/L VIJAYAN 1155
680 820207026050 P 1982 HEMALATHA A/P PERUMAL 1155
692 830113075619 L 1983 MEYYELAHAN A/L VIJAYAN NO 1155
703 830524075744 P 1983 RAJAKUMARI A/P SUBRAMANIAM 1155
705 830527075643 L 1983 NORIES A/L GNANAPRAGASAM 1155

706 830530075783 L 1983 PRABAGARAN A/L RETNASAMY 1155
707 830609086303 L 1983 VELU A/L BALAN 1155
710 831009026096 P 1983 THILAGAVATHI A/P PERUMAL 1155
729 840914075976 P 1984 MAGESWARY A/P BALAN 1155
730 841113075540 P 1984 ANGELINA A/P GNANAPRAGASAM 1155
747 850819075811 L 1985 BASKARAN AL VIJAYAN 1155
774 880611075254 P 1988 LINDA A/P GNANAPRAGASAM NO.1155
779 890311016294 P 1989 MALA A/P BALAN NO 1155

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Sunday, July 17, 2011

My Bersih unremarkable walk

My Bersih Rally experience
Many had written on their experiences in Bersih Rally. I am now only writing about it because there are some friends still calling or texted me asking how was my first hand experience.

Left Melaka at 11AM on Friday July 8 2011, having the foreknowledge that the roads are being blocked.
One taxi driver noticed that the Melaka Ayer Keroh toll had been blocked by police since as early as July 1st. 2011.
Reached Swiss Inn on Petaling Street at 1.30PM.
Woke up on Bersih day July 9 2011, Saturday 7.30AM. Ventured out alone, while my son, Leon and daughter, Michelle were sleeping soundly.

First thing I noticed that the streets were with very few people and hardly any vehicles. Thanks to the police who had done a complete shut down on KL.
My hotel was just a few minutes walk to the Merdeka Stadium. When I was near the Stadium I saw the police just beginning to put up barricades with barbed wire. Later I went up to the entrance of the stadium. It was shut closed but there were policemen every where. At first I was discreet taking videos. Subsequently there were more and more reporters taking photos, the police didn't seem to mind, I also became bold taking video out right in front of police in the bright day light.
While on my way down the stadium the army man in green who appeared to be the leader among them asked me where I came from and told me not to take photos because I have no authorization name cards like the reporters.

Lost tract of time, later after meeting Philip Low, my "shifu" who brought me to Bersih in November 10 2007in my hotel to exchange notes what was going. While we walked out of the hotel, we heard one small group of about 10 people singing Negaraku, we joined them....the rest is history.
I did not have the opportunity to face the water cannons nor the tear gas where I was. My wife said lucky of me, by the grace of God I came out unharmed.
My first hand experience int both Bersihs taught me that the people were having orderly, peaceful walk to appeal for a better Malaysia. Many came on their own accord with own money without any direction from anyone or parties. Of course there were among the crowd, some Keadilan, DAP and PAS party members. The political parties alone would not have brought that many people. Why do I say so? Just take a look how many Umno youth or Perkasa brought...they just talked BIG like Najib who said he can conquer KL because he has 3 million Umno members. I doubt.
Among the free people who came to the Rally are many lawyers, doctors and other professionals. We took all the trouble to walk is because we want the country changed for the better for our children's children.

Ambushed Like Animals, I Had to Walk-Crawl

Friday, July 15, 2011

Sarawak to hold reform rally in August

Najib ‘troubled’ by people’s willingness to act

Bersih’s Ambiga is tool of the rakyat

BN’s stupidity is Godsend for Bersih

Minister Liow, photos and videos don’t lie

My march for the real one Malaysia

Bersih 2 – no “Bodoh Melayu, Babi Cina or India Keling” feeling

Something unspeakably holy about Bersih 2.0

Monday, July 11, 2011

PM: Govt to uphold democracy one day after Bersih 2.0

An unprecedented massive gathering of the ordinary folk for the walk of Democracy on July 9 2011, must have prompted Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Rajak to mobilise his supporters of 6,000 people in a show of force at an information session at the Putra World Trade Centre yesterday, just one day after a crowd of no less than 50,000 people who braved themselves against all intimidations, police tear gas and water cannons near the Merdeka Stadium, Kuala Lumpur.

He said Umno could mobilise its supporters in bigger numbers than the street protesters, but did not wish to do so. We all agree that he has all the power and resources to do that. However, the point is not about his ability to do so. What he is not aware is that the majority of us who walk peacefully on the streets were ordinary folk who came on our own initiative. How many people do you think the opposition parties could mobilise? More than Umno youth or Perkasa? Just take a look how many people Umno and Perkasa brought? We the masses were mostly coming to appeal for a free and fair election on our own expanse simply because we are fed up of the way we have been governed. Malaysians from all walks of life have enough of a regime that used a deceptive electoral system to secure unfair gain. A 54 year-old regime that have over stayed its welcome yet remain in power by fraud.
I have one thought lingering in my mind after the Bersih 2.0 walk, "How I wish Najib could just come and see the Bersih 2.0 walk, he could have gain himself many insights." He appears to have lost touch with what is going on in the hearts and minds of the people.

Sunday, May 29, 2011

What? Annual fee of RM100.00 to treat drug addiction!

Dear Brothers and Sisters in Jiwa Baru Expert Meeting 2011,

Just came back from the enchanting Langkawi at 5PM, was about to take a nap; I was thinking about my part in gathering you all to speak out in one voice against the implementation of the requirement of annual fee of RM100.00 for us to treat drug addicts is enough to stop my sleepiness.

I have just modified my previous People’s Power blog to JIwa Baru which you can see have not been active for sometime because I was busy preparing for the FRACGP exams till the beginning of this May.

Many of us including Dato’ Dr. Lim Boon Sho, Dr. Ibrahim Aziz, Dr. S Kanapathy, Dr. Lee Teik Leong, Dr. Loo Cheng Wee, Dr.Liew Jia Shian, Dr. Shih Choon, Dr. of Klinikria, Dr. Farid M, Dr. Jeffrey Nge, Dr. Lokman Mustapha, Dr.FSW, Dr. Tan KL and many others.
Here you are, I managed to get the above names and email addresses on the last minute before we flew home just now.
Hope that every one of you respond and write in, speak your mind, so that we can gather more of our colleagues in this treating community to protect our right.
To call for a meeting of all of us is too difficult.
Let us communicate through this blog to see where we can go as we go along.

Cheers!
Hope to hear from you all.
Warmest regards,
Fort

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Suicide

Suicide
I am saddened to read the demise of a secondary school girl in Melaka, Sally Lee fell to her death in School.
I like to extend my condolences to her family members and love ones.
I am writing this to create the awareness in our public that if we ever hear or read anybody declare that he/she want to end his life, we need to take it seriously. It is better to err on the side of taking it as true rather than dismissing it as a joke.
We can explore the real intention of such expression of suicide by asking open-ended questions such as- “Can you tell me more what do you mean?”
Hopefully we can have more information concerning how serious the threat is. We are to find out whether he/she has thought of how to do it, where and etc. We can also find out whether she has written her last words to her loved ones.
Once we see that there is substantial intention to end one’s life we can always find help from school teachers, counsellors or doctors for initial help.
Never take for granted the threat to attempt suicide as a joke!

13-2-2011

Friday, September 17, 2010

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Thursday, August 19, 2010

Cannot be suicide

How can it be?
Today the Sun paper August 19,2010 front page.

It's NOT suicide

I have come across a lot of people who attempted suicide or commited suicide-- they are never in a situation like our late Teoh Beng Hock.
TBH was brought in for questioning not for his own problem, but his boss. He was about to get married and has an unborned son. Suicide is out of the question even if he is guilty of whatever wrong doing.
Suicide is only carried out by people who is suffering from depression. And this take a long time to plan and carry out to kill oneself. A person need to have at least 2 weeks of depession symptoms before he can be diagnosed having depression.
What a joke to say that TBH death was suicide-- is like telling the public to believe that Altantuya was murdered by the two policeman! What a joke!
The other thing is the suicide note. It is only written by some one who has a lot of time to plan, not in an acute situation of sudden onset in TBH's case. That is another joke!

Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Some BN leaders are living in their own world

Now the MCA president is talking about merit-based and need-based system to contribute to Malaysia being globally competitive. The more urgent need is to get down to doing it. I think BN needs to speed up the reform, if not I am afraid it will be too late. What Dr Chua said about some BN leaders are still living in their own world and will push MCA to its doom will turn up to be true. Hopefully not!

Please read the report below by Clara.

By Clara Chooi, The Malaysian Insider

KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 16 – An all-out war appears to have broken out between Barisan Nasional allies MCA and Umno, with Datuk Seri Dr Chua Soi Lek accusing “some BN leaders” of failing to recognise past failures and claiming that they would eventually cause the MCA’s demise.

The MCA president said that the party was not afraid to side with its opposition foe DAP in issues that benefited the community and would not run away from making its stand known.

Dr Chua also indirectly named Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein as one of the BN leaders he was referring to, claiming that this was shown in the Umno vice-president’s blunt reminder to the MCA yesterday to stick with BN’s struggles.

“Hishammuddin’s statement yesterday that the MCA should not forget the struggle of the BN when fighting for Chinese demands shows that some BN leaders have yet to learn from the 2008 general election and do not understand the urge of the people to reform,” he said in a statement here today.

It was reported today that the Umno vice-president had “reminded MCA to stick with the struggles” of BN when championing the rights of the Chinese community.

Dr Chua said that based on the results of Elections 2008, the new MCA leadership understood the need for it to change to regain the people’s trust and support.

“If some BN leaders continue to live in their own world, they will certainly push MCA to its doom and will not bring the ruling coalition any good,” he claimed.

Dr Chua said that while the party respected Hishammuddin’s views, the latter should not blame MCA for deviating from the objectives and struggles of the BN.

“He cannot blame us for deviating from the objectives and struggles of the BN simply because MCA has a different voice from him or other component party leaders,” he said.

Dr Chua defended the new, stronger stance of the present MCA leadership under his presidency, claiming that the party’s political struggle was “totally reasonable and legal”.

“MCA will push hard for the implementation of the 13 resolutions passed during the Chinese Economic Congress held on Saturday because the resolutions are not only related to the Chinese community but also the future of the country’s economic development.

“MCA reckons that it has the responsibility to reflect the wishes of the Chinese community due to globalisation. Otherwise, not only MCA will lose the community’s support, it will not be able to also justify its political existence,” he said.

On Saturday, the MCA’s Chinese Economic Congress called for economic liberalisation and that a merit-based and needs-based system would contribute to the path for Malaysia to be globally competitive.

Dr Chua’s strong words of rebuke against Hishammuddin today continues to fan the fires already brewing between the Umno and MCA.

Dr Chua is speaking up to get Chinese support

Dr Chua is speaking up publicly to get Chinese support. MCA used to negotiate behind closed door with UMNO.

Please read the below article by Syed.

MCA-Umno tension worsens with Chua joining the fray

Mon, 16 Aug 2010 19:31

By Syed Jaymal Zahii

KUALA LUMPUR: The wedge between Umno and its Chinese allies appears to be deepening with MCA president Dr Chua Soi Lek lashing out against leaders from the Malay party for its failure to acknowledge its weaknesses which he said would cause MCA's "doom".

Chua also made an unprecedented statement certain to hit raw Umno nerves when he said that MCA wouldn't mind sharing similar views with rivals DAP for the benefit of the community and choose to run away from making a stand.

The statement was apparently made against Umno leaders and particularly vice-president Hishammuddin Hussein who warned MCA yesterday against deviating from Barisan Nasional's struggle.

"Hishammuddin bin Tun Hussein's statement yesterday that MCA should not forget the struggle of Barisan Nasional when fighting for the Chinese's demands, shows that some Barisan Nasional leaders have yet to learn from the (last) general election and do not understand the urge of the people to reform," he said in a statement issued today.

Chua said the outcome of last general election which saw BN performed dismally signalled a need for change and that MCA must follow suit to remain relevant among the voters.

If this requires MCA to stick it out against Umno in terms of championing the interest of the Chinese community, so be it said Chua.

"MCA will not run away from speaking up for the Chinese community... if some Barisan Nasional leaders continue to live in their own world, they will certainly push MCA to its doom and it will not bring the ruling coalition any good.

"The new MCA leadership strongly believe that its political struggle is totally reasonable and legal," he said, adding that his party will push hard for the implementation of the 13 resolutions passed during the Chinese Economic Congress held on Saturday.

The bold resolutions call on the Najib administration to liberalise the economy further, with some calling for the gradual removal of the 30 percent Bumiputera corporate equity and the increase participation of non-Malays in government linked companies.

The calls made were a break from tradition where MCA would often prefer to discuss on such sensitive matter behind closed doors.

Having a different voice

This suggests a shift in MCA's stance and the Chinese party, which is drastically losing support, is doing whatever it takes to regain the trust and votes of the nation's second biggest ethnic electorate even if it has to defy Umno's ways of doing things.

But Chua maintained that the difference in opinion does not necessitate a rift between the country's two major parties.

"MCA respects the view of Hishammuddin but he cannot blame MCA for deviating from the objectives and struggles of Barisan Nasional simply because MCA has a different voice from him or other component party leaders," he said.

"MCA reckons that it has the responsibility to reflect the wishes of the Chinese community due to globalisation. Otherwise, not only MCA will lose the community's support, it will not be able to also justify its political existence," added the former health minister.

The tension between Umno and MCA seemingly started when the latter called for Hishammuddin, the home minister, to rescind the ban on non-Muslim usage of "Allah" after he admitted the ban was a regrettable decision.

This prompted a rebuke from Deputy Prime Minister and Umno No 2 Muhyiddin Yassin who questioned MCA's intentions in sharing the same stance as the DAP on the matter. He eventually issued a gag order on the issue.

Chua, however, sparked more controversy just as the tension was dying down when he blasted PAS and Umno indirectly for using the religious and race card to win support and this has led to "non-progressive policies" which has deeply affected non-Malays and also the nation's economy.

He denied attacking Umno when asked for clarification later but his blunt statements on the need to protect Chinese interest amid Umno's alleged hegemony signals a party that is ready to part with the traditional relation it has so far shared with its Malay counterpart.

NEP

Most of us if not all know of the Ali-Babas who benifited from NEP.
Zaid has written the below article which is very enlightening...please go ahead and read it!
The question is how much money had been plundered off by the Umno-putras and Connected-putras( Chinese-putras, Indian-putras and etc) since the establishment of NEP some 40 years ago. No wonder our country is so incompetative and so much brain-drain! Are we going to allow this to continue? What can we do?

Aug 15, 2010
NEP and the Chinese
By Zaid
The success stories of the Chinese under NEP are plentiful and are well known. NEP for this purpose means hugely lucrative patronage preference system. As the Prime Minister’s brother Nazir Razak himself says, the NEP has become bastardised. What he doesn't say explicitly is that the NEP, which was set up with noble aims of eradicating poverty irrespective of race, has become a system that is opaque, corrupt, non-accountable and highly secretive.

Through this system which was corrupted by UMNO leaders, there are quite a few Chinese who have made it very big because of the NEP. These include Vincent Tan, Francis Yeoh, the young 28-year-old Jho Low (Low Taek Jho) and Liew Kee Sin of SP Setia fame. How did they do it? We should know so that we can learn and so that other Chinese can emulate them.

Mr Liew who is so happy with the NEP and admits he is one of the NEP’s success stories. He was an officer at a small merchant bank. But he knew how to move in the right circles. He befriended two lawyers - Rashid Manaf and Zaki Azmi (now the Chief Justice). Both Rashid and Zaki did not have any business history, but they were nice people and friendly. They didn’t make much from the law practice either. Neither did I. But somehow, as businessmen, they were successful when they became lawyers to UMNO. Their friendship with Mahathir, Daim, Samy Vellu benefitted their business. Wasn’t SP Setia previously owned by SPK which was controlled by Mahathir’s friends Abdullah Ahmad (Kok Lanas) and Ramli Khushairi? And Liew became a shareholder with Rashid and Zaki? Didn’t they say that SPK used to belong to UMNO leaders and civil servants? Yes, Liew is an NEP success story.

Vincent Tan made it big because he was able to convince then PM Mahathir Mohamad in the 1980s that gambling was bad for Muslims and the Islamic Government Mahathir was touting then should not be involved in it. It was a simplistic argument which was acceptable to Mahathir because Mahathir wanted his friend Vincent Tan to make money.

So he privatised Sports Toto and other “haram” activities, such as slot machine licences and sports betting to Vincent. But to be successful, Vincent had to have a Mahathir relative as his “partner”. Vincent asked a nice gentleman, Mahathir’s nephew, who headed the national news agency Bernama then, to be his partner, with Mahathir’s blessings. But I doubt this nice guy got much in the end as Malay partners dont last very long in this high stakes game. The rest is history. Vincent built his fortunes on these “haram” activities. An NEP success story, certainly.

Francis Yeoh’s father Yeoh Tiong Lay started a construction company which for 30 years could not make the top grade. Until Francis convinced Mahathir in the 1980s to give him the construction of hospitals in the peninsula. Then came the lucrative Independent Power Plant (IPP) where, till today, YTL is given the highest payments for the Power Purchase Agreement where Tenaga buys all power from YTL, whether they need it or not. Then Tenaga chairman Ani Arope objected and Mahathir forced his resignation. Today, YTL has cash reserves of more than RM9 billion and where is it going – buying expensive power plants in Singapore, paying the highest price for land in Orchard Road, and owning probably half of Sentosa Island... Another NEP success story. Oh, yes, the Bumiputra partners for Francis? Maybe people should ask Mokhzani and Mukhriz Mahathir...

They say young Jho Low is close to the PM; or more importantly his wife. And perhaps, Rosmah Mansor’s eldest son. He is here, there and everywhere. I must congratulate The Star on its “worldwide exclusive” with Jho Low. Wonder who made the call for Jho to be interviewed?

Jho was there when IMalaysia Development Fund was launched by Najib; he was on holiday with the PM in Monte Carlo last year and also just two weeks ago in St Tropez. Foreign news reports say young Jho (friend of Paris Hilton) had a hand in getting the Government to guarantee the IMalaysia Development fund raising RM5 billion on a 30-year Islamic notes at coupon rate rate of 5.75% when the normal debt sovereign risk of a country like Malaysia can easily be issued at 4.1 to 4.2% interest. Why pay the extra 1.6 to 1.7% on a RM5 billion loan over 30 years which means an extra interest payment of about RM2.4 billion? (How the lenders must be happy with that extra income! And I am sure they were generous to those who helped approve this).

And now rumours are swirling in banking circles about 1MDB’s annual accounts that show only RM4.3 billion of that RM5 billion remaining on its books. Wonder how that RM700 million was spent? There we are – Jho Low, suatu lagi kejayaan Dasar Ekonomi Baru (NEP).

So the Chinese knew all along what to do and they did not need Liew Kee Sin to tell them the benefits of the patronage under the so called NEP. But how many “Chinese-putras” get to know the well-connected “UMNO-putras”? That is the question.

So a more enlightened and equitable economic system is needed; where everyone has a fair chance to strike gold without having to be well connected.... without having to have someone as your lackey or point man in Putrajaya. Is that too much to ask?

Friday, August 13, 2010

Help the poors, yes. Stifling the brilliant, NO!

I read the below letter sent by a friend...I felt angry, disappointed and at the same time felt strengtened in my resolve to work harder in what I can do for a better Malaysia.
Many of us have our own story to tell...I told a group of friends my part of the story how I could not find a place in Malaysia. After that to my horror a doctor told me he almost committed suicide because he was discriminated against like the brilliant doctor below...from this I can deduce that there is a whole generation or more brilliant people who had been deprived. How is our nation going to be competitive when the brilliant ones are migrating?
Don't get confuse with restructuring society by helping the poors. I do not think anyone will be against it. What need to be stopped is the discrimination and stifling of the bright and brilliant.
You can read the letter below...hope that we can gather more people to help our nation and simply refuse to let the politicians to continue manipulating the masses to perpetuate their rule.

A Letter to Lim Kit Siang
National Express: Wednesday, January 6, 2010

Dear Mr. Lim Kit Siang,
I have utmost respect and admiration for your tenacity in remaining in Malaysia to champion the cause of justice and equality and fight for a Bangsa Malaysia.
My heart broke when I read about your article regarding the honest cyber cafe operator especially when he wondered if he ‘had chosen the wrong country’ to start and operate his business.
I see my situation summed up in that phrase. You have said before that the best and brightest are leaving this country. Well, I am making every preparation to leave. I have consistently scored straight A’s in every public exam and placed among the top 3 of my form. In university, I studied medicine and am among the top scorers. I have just graduated and scored near perfect results in a medical licensing examination that will enable me to work abroad and further my studies.

I was born a Malaysian yet I cannot see myself as a Malaysian. As a Chinese, I feel that I am being discriminated against. I feel that the government is trying its hardest to sideline me just because of my race. I look around and see this discrimination manifested in various forms. From the issue regarding religious conversion to the allocation of places in local universities, the stench of discrimination is sickening.
It was horrifying to note in my batch of medical students, there were a substantial number of malay students who actually did not apply for medicine but were sent to study it. It is disgusting to think that many STPM straight A scorers are deprived of a chance to study medicine while the government gives the places to people who are not even sure that they want to study medicine.
I have seen how racial politics sully the environment in the university and how unqualified people are in high posts at the expense of far more intelligent and qualified individuals just because they are Malay. I have heard the terrible statements made by delegates at the recent UMNO General Assembly about revoking my citizenship rights should I question their special rights.
I have seen the videos on YouTube where UMNO MPs have the audacity to ask us to ‘keluar’ of the country if we don’t like what they are doing to it. And I see the pathetic attempt by the PM to ‘discipline’ these racists. I hate the fact that Gerakan and MCA have done NOTHING to fight for my rights instead of just kow-towing to UMNO for their own gains.
Patriotism isn’t about singing the national anthem or raising the flag. It isn’t about accepting at face value everything the government says. It isn’t about attending merdeka celebrations. It is about feeling accepted as part of your nation. It is about knowing that your nation accepts you as a son or daughter. It is about realizing that being a part of a nation entails certain responsibilities. That is my definition of patriotism.
And right now, as a Malaysian, I am feeling anything BUT patriotic. 50 years of independence? So what? What has it done for me? Whoopee. I have a chance to change my life. I will change my destiny. I could not choose the country where I was born but I can very well choose the country that I will swear my allegiance to. I want a country that will recognize me as a citizen and grant me rights equal to that of all other citizens. I want a country that has the wisdom to recognize my potential and talents and reward me accordingly. I want a country where the government fears its people and conducts itself in a manner worthy of respect and honor.
This is not my nation. I am leaving. Mr. Lim, I salute you and all those like you who can find the strength and energy to fight for an ungrateful bunch of people. How many actually held mass protests, hunger strikes or rose up to defend you and your family when you or your son was imprisoned for fighting for us? How many did more than just shake their heads and move on with their petty little lives? None that I know of. Yet you continue to defend their rights.
You are an amazing man, Mr. Lim and I truly admire you for that. Unfortunately, I have a bright future ahead and I will not waste it in this country. It is not my nation.
Thank you for fighting the good fight.

(Author’s name withheld for privacy)

More than 300,000 people had emigrated during the past 18 months.

Here is another one (qualified) on the way out......

Monday, August 9, 2010

Whatever you sow, you shall reap

Dirty double lives

By Silent suffering wife

Starmag Sunday 8 August 2010d

I read the below letter from The Star and wonder how many men in our society are living double lives.

Dirty double lives

ON July 11, Thelma had this advice for Confused Cameron Highlands (“Dirty old man”, Dear Thelma, Heart & Soul, StarMag): “At this point in your lives, do you still feel the need to watch over a man who is less virile and sexually subdued? If visiting erotic websites is the only way for him to keep his pride and ego up while his libido and prowess wilt, what is your worry?”

When a man’s libido wilts, that is precisely the time to worry! Don’t forget there’s a wide range of drugs to get him up and going.

I was secretly pleased when my 60-year-old husband couldn’t “get it up”. He seemed to have lost his libido, too, and I believed his flabby physique would prevent him from straying.

Imagine my shock when I discovered that he had shamelessly gone on merry jaunts, visiting prostitutes both locally and abroad, after having his virility restored by consuming pills and herbal concoctions recommended by his buddies!

He became so “addicted” that he even embarked on a torrid affair with a bar girl in Manila, promising to father a “football team” of children with her.

“I miss you and I love you, sweetheart. Put that in your head,” he crooned into his mobile while sitting on the toilet seat, unaware that I was standing by the door. “If you need money, text me and I will send you some.”

Since that day, his words have stayed in my head like a stuck tape recorder. My 35 years of love for him, and loyalty and devotion lay shattered at my feet.

I confronted him and despite our subsequent row, he blatantly keeps a stock of those pills and condoms in his briefcase. He never leaves home without them.

I believe many “old” men are living dirty double lives. They act like pitiful, woe-is-me-l-can’t-get-it-up husbands.

But once they’re safely out of the sight of their gullible wives, they consume sex-enhancing drugs and become roaring tigers. Their fat wallets make them instant sugar daddies to sweet young things, most of whom are much younger than their own daughters.

Silent suffering wife,
Selangor

tarmag@thestaar.com .my

It is very strange that the Bible has a lot of passages warning men about women and not the other way round.

Proverbs 6:20-35 (New International Version)

Warning Against Adultery

²⁰ My son, keep your father's commands
and do not forsake your mother's teaching.

²¹ Bind them upon your heart forever;
fasten them around your neck.

²² When you walk, they will guide you;
when you sleep, they will watch over you;
when you awake, they will speak to you.

²³ For these commands are a lamp,
this teaching is a light,
and the corrections of discipline
are the way to life,

²⁴ keeping you from the immoral woman,
from the smooth tongue of the wayward wife.

²⁵ Do not lust in your heart after her beauty
or let her captivate you with her eyes,

²⁶ for the prostitute reduces you to a loaf of bread,
and the adulteress preys upon your very life.

²⁷ Can a man scoop fire into his lap
without his clothes being burned?

²⁸ Can a man walk on hot coals
without his feet being scorched?

²⁹ So is he who sleeps with another man's wife;
no one who touches her will go unpunished.

³⁰ Men do not despise a thief if he steals
to satisfy his hunger when he is starving.

³¹ Yet if he is caught, he must pay sevenfold,
though it costs him all the wealth of his house.

³² But a man who commits adultery lacks judgment;
whoever does so destroys himself.

³³ Blows and disgrace are his lot,
and his shame will never be wiped away;

³⁴ for jealousy arouses a husband's fury,
and he will show no mercy when he takes revenge.

³⁵ He will not accept any compensation;
he will refuse the bribe, however great it is.

My comment: I have a story of a man, let us call him Keong. He is around 55 year-old, married with a very good responsible wife, has a few grown up children doing well and settling in a nearby country.

Keong sold off some of his properties and took an adventure to a nearby country, brought back a foreign wife who is younger than his own children. Saw once the wife took good care of him by wiping his mouth.

To cut the story short, when Keong finished using the money, I guessed, she went back to her home country, no more to be found.

The last thing I knew Keong had been diagnosed to have HIV positive.

Saturday, August 7, 2010

'Who Am I? What have I done...?"

I am greatly touched my a Malay who wrote the letter below concern Guan Eng imprisonment. He asked "Who Am I? What have I done...?" This had caused me to ponder of my own journey as a Malaysian...many times, we just take care of what is "OURS"...hardly care for others...Hope that God will have mercy on us...He put us here on earth for temporary assignment, temporary trial and temporary test...Let's us encourage each other to be faithful...I think what Narmi had written has encouraged me to do my part...hopefully you can do your part for a better Malaysia, our beloved country...

A heartfelt letter to Lim Guan Eng when he was IMPRISONED BY Mahathir

If U have not read this letter yet ....Please read and pass on:

An old letter re-emerged.

A heartfelt letter to Lim Guan Eng when he was in prison- written by a Malay and published in December 1998

HEART TO HEART:

“What comes from the lips reaches the ear, what comes from the heart reaches the heart ..”

Arab Proverb

AN OPEN LETTER TO LIM GUAN ENG WHEN HE WAS IMPRISONED BY DR.M:

GOD WORKS IN MYSTERIOUS WAY

Dear Guan Eng,

As you languish in prison, I have had plenty of time to reflect on you and your idealism.

Rightly or wrongly, the Democratic Action Party has long tried to have a ‘Malaysian’ character when the vast majority in the country still perceive it to be essentially a political party for the ethnic Chinese.

I realize that recently people like you have tried hard to attract Malaysians, especially Malays, to make the DAP truly Malaysian, but not too successfully, in my view. Then came an explosive event- the Rahim Thamby Chik case- which made a lot of Malays sit up and change their perceptions of the DAP. That case rocked Malay society to its very foundation.

Your conduct and role in pursuit of truth in that scandal earned my deepest admiration. The series of events following that scandal, culminating in the judicial proceedings against you, have turned out to be a classic example of how a verdict in a ‘court of law’ has become subordinate to the ‘ court of public opinion’.

Ask any Malay mother anywhere. Few would agree that the famous grandmother in that scandal should have been abandoned by UMNO, and the under-aged girl should have been so blatantly violated , abused and her family silenced and does not know her rights.

By your words and deeds, you challenged the government, police, media, and the judiciary, and exposed yourself to certain incarceration and vindictive punishment by Dr. Mahathir and the political elite.

I have always believed that God works in mysterious ways.

Inexplicably, He chose you to put the DAP into sharp focus. He chose you to force Malaysians to look at themselves and reflect on the abuse of basic values in our society.

To that extent, God in His wisdom made the DAP no longer just a Chinese political party, but, overnight, into a truly Malaysian one which fights for the deprived.

I am a Malay with a family of my own. I shall remember you as a Chinese father who fought for the rights of an ignorant poor Malay grand-mother and her sexually abused grand-daughter.

I know that when you decided to take on the case, you knew the price for your action would be heavy for you and your family, personally and politically.

Today, you are still paying the price. You languish alone in prison.

Ironically, as in Nelson Mandela’s case, the longer they lock you up,the greater will be your stature, the more powerful the focus on the issues you fought for.

I also know that, all through this, you can look into the eyes of your wife, children and parents,and say, with deserved pride and honour, that ‘Guan Eng has not prostituted his dignity, decency and self-respect in the face of oppression and tyranny’.

You have truly given new meaning to the maxim, ‘Politics With Honour’.

More importantly, you have made me look in the mirror and ask, ‘Who Am I? What have I done to speak out against the evil forces which confronted two Malay kampong women? Why have I remained silent? Have I lost my decency and self-respect?’

In all honesty, I cannot say I have the guts to look into the eyes of my family members and say I have done them proud. I have kept silent.

I owe it to you, Guan Eng, for opening my eyes and stirring my conscience.

Our inaction and apathy have allowed oppression, tyranny and injustice to continue. We have to search our hearts and souls to find ways to make up for our negligence and ineptitude.

To you, Guan Eng, I offer prayers from my family. May the blessings of the Almighty continue to give you strength, courage and tenacity to do what is right and just for all Malaysians.

Yours Sincerely,

Narmi Saila

Petaling Jaya,

Selangor

(This letter was published in the December 1998 issue of ALIRAN MONTHLY.)

Today, God has chosen to empower Lim Guan Eng to rule Penang as Chief Minister

Saturday, September 12, 2009

Open up logging zones

Saturday September 12, 2009. The Star paper
Open up logging zones, urge groups
By STEPHEN THEN
MIRI: Concerned groups want the Sarawak Government to open up the timber concession zones and stop timber giants from having total control over these areas – home to thousands of natives.
Their call follows confirmation by the Women, Family and Community Development Ministry that Penan girls and women had been raped in these areas.
Former Catholic priest turned social activist Michael Jok said the reports of sexual abuse of the Penans should be reason enough for the state government to step in.
“There are thousands of natives living in these logging concession zones.
“At present, anybody who wants to visit these natives must get a written permit from the timber bosses.
“Without these permits, it is impossible to pass through the many security checkpoints inside the timber camps,” he told The Star yesterday.
Jok, chairman of the Sarawak Indigenous Natives Rights Association, said the barriers had made it difficult for even those sending food aid to reach the natives.
Sahabat Alam Malaysia field officer for Sarawak, Jok Jau Evong, said the security barriers were found in every timber concession zone in Sarawak.
“NGOs are often prevented from entering even if we apply for permits.
“This sort of totalitarian power is unhealthy. The Government must remove it,” he said.
Borneo Resources Institute coordinator for Sarawak, Raymond Abin, said there had been occasions where even politicians had been barred by the timber camp security from crossing into the native settlements.
My comments:
I was surprised when I heard from a pastor friend that he needed permission to travel on the logging road to visit the Penan. After reading today's article, I understand what happened! We strongly urge the government to stop this practice of the timber bosses of monopolising the road even though they are the ones who opened the road. They don't own the land nor the forest.

Penan rape victims- ways to protect them

Saturday September 12, 2009 The Star paper.
Penan ‘rape victims’ refuse to talk, say police
KUALA LUMPUR: Efforts by the police to investigate the alleged rape of Penan girls and women in rural Sarawak are being hampered as the victims refuse to talk, said CID director Comm Datuk Seri Mohd Bakri Mohd Zinin.
“The police conduct investigations within the perimeters of the law and offenders are brought to court only when there is sufficient evidence,” said the CID director in a statement.
Since 1995, the police have investigated 14 reports of alleged rape in Baram. Only four cases involved Penan women – three of them were reported last year.
In January, a task force comprising Bukit Aman and Sarawak police officers was formed to investigate the rape allegations.
The team headed by Comm Mohd Bakri conducted investigations in nine settlements.
The police had asked non-governmental organisations in Sarawak to bring witnesses when they met in January and August, but none had done so.
In Kuching, Deputy Chief Minister Tan Sri Alfred Jabu said the state government would study the report by the ministry before deciding on what action to take.
Meanwhile, Shelter Home executive director James Nayagam said the fact that the report on abused Penan women and girls took so long to complete, with the abusers still at large, showed the lack of a proper system to protect sexually abused children.
The police excuse that they could not act on the culprits due to lack of details was not acceptable, he said.
“These girls already have babies,” he said, adding that DNA tests could be done to prove who fathered the children
My comments:
I think one way to overcome the problem is to assign female social welfare officer to visit the abused Penan women as soon as report is made. If these girls already have babies, DNA tests could be done and the fathers could be quickly traced. If there are no babies, when reports are made, the victims could be easily tell who are the culprits. Any suspects who frequent the penan area could easily be rounded up for investigation. This will serve as a protection and prevention for further abuse!

Friday, September 11, 2009

Do unto others...

Do unto others….
by Hussein Hamid
Over the years we have time and time again witness the public unraveling of UMNO not by its detractors but by its own. Dato’ Onn Jaafar. Tunku Abdul Rahman. Tun Hussein. Tun Mahathir. Tun Musa Hitam. Tan Sri Tengku Razaleigh. A veritable list of Malays who have made history – who are our history. I am the same age as UMNO. Sixty-Three years old this year. What does the future holds for UMNO?
In March this year the outgoing Prime Minister and President of UMNO made this comment of UMNO in his last speech as UMNO’s President.
“Longevity in power has led to complacency and a number of Umno leaders are increasingly out of touch with the ordinary people who have been the source of Umno’s strength for so long.We must rid ourselves of our arrogance and the conceit that we are the only ones who are right, that we are the only ones who know all. Distance ourselves from corruption. Let us be equal in our concern for all, be they Malays or non-Malays, party members or those who support our opponents.
Materialism has seeped into the party, making a number of party members greedy and avaricious, hence creating the negative perception that Umno is a corrupt party.
We were intoxicated by own achievements and we became complacent. We believed that we had become all powerful. We have put our own positions within the party first, instead of being concerned over Umno’s position in the eyes of our citizens and the nation”.
That in a nutshell is what UMNO has become today from some one who knows.
And yet what do we have today? UMNO is still out of touch with the reality around it. If not why would it think that the people of Permatang Pasir would accept a disbarred lawyer as its candidate? Why would it think that the ISA is still relevant in our time? Why would it use MACC as its agent for its harassment of the Opposition rather then undertake the task of ridding the country of corruption.and the list goes on.
If I can see that all this is not doing any good to UMNO, why can’t they? If I can see that this will only result in creating further rift between UMNO and the people in Malaysia – why can’t they? Is it so hard to understand that as our Political leaders they must show courage in making moral decisions that will earn them our respect? And yet when there was occasion to do so as in the Section 23 Cow-head demonstration –they drag their feet and react only after the fact. After public opinion made their disgust of Hishammuddin defense of the guilty party so clear that all the AG could do was to go after the guilty party. To do anything else would be unwise.
But for Najib and Muhyiddin that seems so hard to do. To admit mistakes made. To make decisions for all rather then for themselves. To step back from the abyss that now confront them for surely when you are at the edge the right thing to do is to step back. When can we expect to have these leader reach out to us and go forward with us rather then to constantly refer to us as being unready, immature and unable to understand that the things they do are for the common good rather then for just the Malays or UMNO alone. After having put up with fifty years of UMNO’s less then sterling performance in good governance I think we are entitled to see that UMNO will do rather then what they promise to do.
You have put away all of our leaders under ISA. Not one, not two but all of them. At every opportunity you have harass them and their families – separating them form their loved ones and intrude into their lives to demean and strip them of any dignity that they still have. Tell me Najib how will you feel if I bare for all to read your alleged infidelities. How did it feel to be linked to Altantuya – did it not cause you pain and embarrassment in facing your family – whether the accusation are true or false? Muhyiddin. How would you feel if, when push comes to shove, your personal weaknesses and faults are exposed for all to know? No these are not all part of the political scenario in Malaysia. YOU all made it part of the Political Scenario in Malaysia.
Najib Sometimes I wonder how it is possible for you to involve yourself with the sordid business of people like Saiful and the State Assemblymen from the Perak Government who left their own party to become independent. For God sake you are the Prime Minister. You must not only do the right thing for our country but also must be seen to be doing the right thing. Even the whiff of corruption and money politics should have you running quick smart in the opposite direction from where it is coming. But no – we see these people being feted and thank by you for their deeds, which are certainly viewed by the population with disgust and contempt.
Since March this year you have consistently been reacting to situation as they occur. No leadership. No reaching out to the masses with sensible and enlighten leadership. Your preoccupation in trying to eliminate the Opposition does not do you any good. Remember then the opposition garners more then 50% of the votes at the last elections. In simple terms that means that they are the elected representatives of half the population of this country. Work with them. They will not go away. There are too many of them to eliminate.
Engage in constructive dialogue with Pakatan Rakyat. Anwar has not ‘gadai hak melayu’. He is a man that has been able to remain relevant in spite of spending six years in Prison. He was able to hold the opposition together in the last election without the machinery that UMNO has – working on a shoestring budget – but relying and getting the commitment and focus from those who had had enough of the politics that UMNO offered. And UMNO offered money, position and much more – Anwar offered only the promise of things to come. The promise of hope. What he accomplished with the assist of everybody in opposition is beyond your comprehension and certainly beyond our expectation.
Now consider this Najib. What do you think he and Pakatan Rakyat can now do? They are now with a bit more experience, a bit more commitment and with the last election behind them – methinks the next election will only be a promise of better things to come for them.
I see that your way of handling the situation is to annihilate, destroy and wipe Pakatan rakyat into oblivion. Do you think this is possible with the numbers that they have? Yes you can see that Anwar and the leaders of the opposition are all within range of your fire power…but remember Najib when they are within range – so are you. Attempting to portray Anwar as a traitor to the Malays while simultaneously playing the race and religion card is surely not the thing to do now. Try constructive détente. I am sure Anwar, Kit Siang, Karpal and Tok Guru will be caught of guard if you do so.

Monday, July 13, 2009

NEP has expired

Razaleigh – NEP has expired. Time for New Deal
Speech by Tengku Razaleigh at HELP University College, KL; July 10, 2009
Thank you for inviting me to address you. It’s a pleasure to be here, and to learn from you. You have asked me to talk about Najib’s First 100 Days, and this lecture is in a series called Straight Talk. I shall indeed speak plainly and directly.
Let me begin by disappointing you. I am not going to talk about Najib’s First 100 Days because it makes little sense to do so.
Our governments are brought to power for five year terms through general elections. The present government was constituted after March 8, 2008 and Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak’s tenure as Prime Minister resulted from a so-called “smooth transfer of power” between the previous Prime Minister and himself that took a somewhat unsmooth twelve months to carry out. During those months, Najib took on the de facto leadership role domestically while Abdullah warmed our international ties. The first 100 days of this government went by unremarked sometime in June last year.
Not only is it somewhat meaningless to talk about Najib’s First 100 days, such talk buys into a kind of political silliness that we are already too prone to. It has us imagine that the present government started work on April 2 and forget that it commenced work on March 8 last year and must be accountable for all that has been done or not done since then. It has us forget that in our system of parliamentary, constitutional democracy, governments are brought to power at general elections and must be held accountable for promises made at these elections. It leads us to forget that these promises, set out in election manifestos, are undertaken by political parties, not individuals, and are not trifles to be forgotten when there is a change of individual.
It is important that we remember these things, cultivate a more critical recollection of them, and learn to hold our leaders accountable to them, so that we are not perpetually chasing the slogan of the day, whether this be Vision 2020, Islam Hadhari or 1Malaysia. As PR Professionals, you would see my point immediately. Slogans without substance undermine trust. That substance is made up of policies that have been thought through and are followed through. That substance is concrete and provided by results we can measure.
Whether or not some of our leaders are ready for it, we are maturing as a democracy. We are beginning to evaluate our governments more by the results they deliver over time than by their rhetoric. As our increasingly well-educated and well-travelled citizens apply this standard, they force our politicians to think before they speak, and deliver before they speak again. As thinking Malaysians we should look for the policies, if any, behind the slogans. What policies are still in place and which have we abandoned? What counts as policy and who is consulted when it is made? How is a proposal formulated and specified and approved before it becomes policy, and by whom? What are the roles of party, cabinet, King and Parliament in this process? Must we know what it means before it is instituted or do we have to piece it together with guesswork? Do we even have a policy process?
The mandate Najib has taken up is the one given to Barisan Nasional under Abdullah Badawi’s leadership. BN was returned to power in the 12th General Elections on a manifesto promising Security, Peace and Prosperity. It is this manifesto against which the present administration undertook to be judged. The present government inherits projects and policies such as Islam Hadhari and Vision 2020. If these are still in place, how do they relate to each other and to 1 Malaysia? How do we evaluate the latest slogan against the fact of constitutional failure in Perak, the stench of corruption in the PKFZ project and reports of declining media freedom? What do we make of cynical political plays on racial unity against assurances that national unity is the priority?
It is not amiss to ask about continuity. We were told that the reason why we had to have a yearlong ‘transfer of power’ to replace the previous Prime Minster was so that we could have such policy continuity. The issues before the present BN government are not transformed overnight with a change of the man at the top.
Let me touch on one issue every Malaysian is concerned with: security. The present government made the right move in supporting the establishment of the Royal Commission to Enhance the Operations and Management of the Police in 2004. Responding to the recommendations of the Royal Commission, the government allocated the PDRM RM8 billion to upgrade itself under the 9th Malaysia Plan, a tripling of their allocation under the 8th Malaysia Plan.
Despite the huge extra amounts we are spending on policing, there has been no dent on our crime problem, especially in the Johor Bahru area, where it continues to make a mockery of our attempts to develop Iskandar as a destination for talent and investment. Despite spending all this money, we have just been identified as a major destination for human trafficking by the US State Department’s 2008 Human Rights Watch. We are now in the peer group of Sudan, Saudi Arabia and North Korea for human trafficking. All over the world the organized cross-border activity of human trafficking feeds on the collusion of crime syndicates and corrupt law enforcement and border security officials. Security is about more than just catching the criminals out there. It is also about the integrity of our own people and processes. It is above all about uprooting corruption and malpractice in government agencies, especially in law enforcement agencies. I wish the government were as eager to face the painful challenge of reform as to spend money. The key recommendation of the Royal Commission was the formation of an Independent Police Complaints and Misconduct Commission. That has been shelved.
Royal Commissions and their findings are not to be trifled with and applied selectively. Their findings and recommendations are conveyed in a report submitted to the King, who then transmits them to the Government. Their recommendations have the status of instructions from the King. The recommendations of the Royal Commission on the Police have not been properly implemented. The Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Lingam Video clip might as well not have been conducted, because its findings have been completely ignored. Both Commissions investigated matters fundamental to law and order in this country: the capability and integrity of the police and of the judiciary. No amount of money thrown at the PDRM or on installing CCTV’s can make up for what happens to our security when our law enforcers and our judges are compromised.
Two Royal Commissions undertaken under the present government unearthed deep issues in the police and the judiciary and made recommendations with the King’s authority behind them, and they have been ignored. The public may wonder if the government is committed to peace and security if it cannot or will not address institutional rot in law enforcement and the rule of law.
The reform of the police and the judiciary has been on the present government’s To Do list for more than five years.
I want to reflect now upon where we stand today and how we might move forward. We are truly at a turning point in our history. Our political landscape is marked with unprecedented uncertainty. Nobody knows what the immediate future holds for us politically. This is something very new for Malaysians. The inevitability of a strong BN government figured into all political and economic calculations and provided a kind of stability to our expectations. Now that this is gone, and perhaps gone for good, we need a new basis for long-term confidence. No matter who wins the next General Election, it is likely to be with a slim majority. Whatever uncertainty we now face is likely to persist unless some sort of tiebreaker is found which gathers the overwhelming support of the people.
We need to trust less in personalities and more in policies, look less to politics and more to principle, less to rhetoric and more to tangible outcomes, less to the government of the day and more to enduring institutions, first among which must be the Federal Constitution.
We need an unprecedented degree of openness and honesty about what our issues are and what can be done; about who we are, and where we want to go. We need straight talk rather than slogans. We need to be looking the long horizon rather than occupying ourselves with media-generated milestones.
Those of us who think about the future of Malaysia have never been so restless. The mould of our past is broken, and there is no putting it back together again, but a new mould into which to pour our efforts is not yet cast. This is a time to think new thoughts, and to be courageous in articulating them.
Such is the case not just in politics but also in how the government manages the economy. In a previous speech I argued that for our economy to escape the “middle income trap” we need to make a developmental leap involving transformative improvements in governance and a successful reform of our political system. I said the world recession is a critical opportunity for us to re-gear and re-tool the Malaysian economy because it is a challenge to take bold, imaginative measures. We must make that leap or remain stuck as low achievers who were once promising.
We are in a foundational crisis both of our politics and of our economy. In both dimensions, the set plays of the past have taken us as far as they can, and can take us no further. Politically and economically, we have arrived at the end of the road for an old way of managing things. The next step facing us is not a step but a leap, not an addition to what we have but a shift that changes the very ground we play on.
This is not the first time in our brief history as an independent nation that we have found ourselves at an impasse and come up with a ground-setting policy, a new framework, a leap into the future. The race riots of 1969 ended the political accommodation and style of the first era of our independence. Parliament was suspended and a National Operations Council put in place under the leadership of the late Tun Razak. He formed a National Consultative Council to study what needed to be done. The NCC was a non-partisan body which included everyone. It was the NCC that drafted and recommended the New Economic Policy. This was approved and implemented by the Government.
The NEP was a twenty year programme. It had a national, and not a racial agenda to eradicate poverty and address structural inequality in the form of the identification of race with occupation. It aimed to remove a colonial era distribution of economic roles in our economy. Nowhere in its terms is any race specified, nor does it privilege one race over another. Its aim was unity.
The NEP’s redistributive measures drew on principles of social justice, not claims of racial privilege. This is an important point. The NEP was acceptable to all Malaysians because its justification was universal rather than sectarian, ethical rather than opportunistic. It appealed to Malaysians’ sense of social justice and not to any notion of racial privilege.
We were devising a time-limited policy for the day, in pursuit of a set of measurable outcomes. We were not devising a doctrine for an eternal socio-economic arrangement. Like all policies, it was formulated to solve a finite set of problems, but through an enduring concern with principles such as equity and justice. I happen to think it was the right thing for the time, and it worked in large measure.
Curiously, although the policy was formulated within the broad consensus of the NCC for a finite period, in our political consciousness it has grown into an all-encompassing and permanent framework that defines who we are. We continue to act and talk as if it is still in place. The NEP ended in 1991 when it was terminated and replaced by the New Development Policy, but eighteen years on, we are still in its hangover and speak confusingly about liberalizing it. The NEP was necessary and even visionary in 1971, but it is a crushing indictment of our lack of imagination, of the mediocrity of our leadership, that two decades after its expiry, we talk as if it is the sacrosanct centre of our socio-political arrangement, and that departures from it are big strides. The NEP is over, and we have not had the courage to tell people this. The real issue is not whether the NEP is to be continued or not, but whether we have the imagination to come up with something which better serves our values and objectives, for our own time.
Policies are limited mechanisms for solving problems. They become vehicles for abuse when they stay on past their useful life. Like political or corporate leaders who have stayed too long, policies that overrun their scope or time become entrenched in abuse, and confuse the means that they are with the ends that they were meant to serve. The NEP was formulated to serve the objective of unity. That objective is enduring, but its instrument can come up for renewal or replacement. Any organisation, let alone a country, that fails to renew a key policy over forty years in a fast-moving world is out of touch and in trouble.
There is a broad consensus in our society that while the NEP has had important successes, it has now degenerated into a vehicle for abuse and inefficiency. Neither the Malays nor the non-Malays approve of the way it now works, although there would be multiracial support for the objectives of the NEP, as originally understood. The enthusiasm with which recent reforms have been greeted in the business and international communities suggests that the NEP is viewed as an obstacle to growth. This was not what it was meant to be.
It was designed to promote a more equitable and therefore a more harmonious society. Far from obstructing growth, the stability and harmony envisaged by the NEP would were to be the basis for long term prosperity.
Over the years, however, and alongside its successes, the NEP has been systematically appropriated by a small political and business class to enrich itself and perpetuate its power. This process has corrupted our society and our politics. It has corrupted our political parties. Rent-seeking practices have choked the NEP’s original intention of seeking a more just and equitable society, and have discredited the broad nation-building enterprise which this policy was meant to serve.
Thus, while the NEP itself has expired, we live under the hangover of a policy which has been skewed from its intent. Instead of coming up with better policy tools in pursuit of the aims behind the NEP, a set of vested interests rallies to defend the mere form of the NEP and to extend its bureaucratic sway through a huge apparatus of commissions, agencies, licenses and permits while its spirit has been evacuated. In doing so they have clouded the noble aims of the NEP and racialized its originally national and universal concerns.
We must break the stranglehold of communal politics and racial policy if we want to be a place where an economy driven by ideas and skills can flourish. This is where our daunting economic and political challenges can be addressed in one stroke. We can do much better than cling to the bright ideas of forty years ago as if they were dogma, and forget our duty to come up with the bright ideas for our own time. The NEP, together with the Barisan coalition, was a workable solution for Malaysia forty years ago. But forty years ago, our population was about a third of what it is today, our economy was a fraction the size and complexity that it is now, and structured around the export of tin and rubber rather than around manufacturing, services and oil and gas. Forty years ago we were in the midst of the Cold War, and the Vietnam War raged to the north. Need I say we live in a very different world today. We need to talk to the facebook generation of young Malaysians connected to global styles and currents of thought. We face global epidemics, economic downturns and planetary climate change.
We can do much better than to cling to the outer form of an old policy. Thinking in these terms only gives us the negative policy lever of “relaxing” certain rules, when what we need is a new policy framework, with 21st century policy instruments. We have relaxed some quotas. We have left Approved Permits and our taxi licensing system intact. We have left the apparatus of the NEP, and a divisive mindset that has grown up around it, in place. Wary of well-intentioned statements with no follow-through, the business community has greeted these reforms cautiously, noting that a mountain of other reforms are needed. One banker was quoted in a recent news article as saying: “All the reforms need to go hand in hand..Why is there an exodus of talent and wealth? It is because people do not feel confident with the investment climate, security conditions and the government in Malaysia. Right now, many have lost faith in the system.”
The issues are intertwined. Our problems are systemic and rooted in the capability of the government to deliver, and the integrity of our institutions. It is clear that piecemeal “liberalization” and measure by measure reform on a politicized timetable is not going to do the job.33.What we need is a whole new policy framework, based on a comprehensive vision that addresses root problems in security, institutional integrity, education and government capability. What we need to do is address our crisis with the bold statecraft from which the NEP itself originated, not cling to a problematic framework that does little justice to our high aspirations. The challenge of leadership is to tell the truth about our situation, no matter how unpalatable, to bring people together around that solution, and to move them to act together on that solution.
If the problem is really that we face a foundational crisis, then it is not liberalization of the NEP, or even liberalization per se that we need. From the depths of the global economic slowdown it is abundantly clear that the autonomous free market is neither equitable nor even sustainable. There is no substitute for putting our heads together and coming up with wise policy. We need a Malaysian New Deal based on the same universal concerns on which the NEP was originally formulated but designed for a new era: we must continue to eradicate poverty without regard for race or religion, and ensure that markets serve the people rather than the other way around.
Building on the desire for unity based social justice that motivated the NEP in 1971, let us assist 100% of Malaysians who need help in improving their livelihoods and educating their children. We want the full participation of all stakeholders in our economy. A fair and equitable political and economic order, founded on equal citizenship as guaranteed in our Constitution, is the only possible basis for a united Malaysia and a prerequisite of the competitive, talent-driven economy we must create if we are to make our economic leap.
If we could do this, we would restore national confidence, we would bring Malaysians together in common cause to build a country that all feel a deep sense of belonging to. We would unleash the kind of investment we need, not just of foreign capital but of the loyalty, effort and commitment of all Malaysians.
I don’t know about you. I am embarrassed that after fifty years of independence we are still talking about bringing Malaysians together. I would have wished that by now, and here tonight, we could be talking about how we can conquer new challenges together.

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