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2009-04-08T00:59:00.001+08:00

No one party won the by-elections.

Its status-quo. All BN, PAS and PKR only managed to defend their seats. No change. New six-day old PM Najib Razak leadership is yet to be truly tested.

BN won Batang Ai - long house voters for long only know the BN symbols on ballot papers. They were unfamiliar with PKR symbol. They are well taken care of by the politics of development of BN government under CM Taib Mahmud and are well in comfort zone.

PKR won Bukit Selambau - with the help of Malay voters who did not want Kedah government under the humble and soft spoken PAS MB Azizan's rule dented by losing the state seat. The Indian voters are still the same,not happy with the MIC under 'whole life' President Samy Vellu for not taking care of their welfare and rights.

PAS won Bukit Gantang - as the Malay voters still sympathised with technically ousted Perak MB Nizar Jamalluddin. The Chinese voters are still not happy with MCA Chinese leaders for not doing much to help their folks. The Indian voters not favouring PPP or MIC for the same reasons.

The latest development in UMNO politics, the new PM's 'wow factors' of ISA detainees release, 'peoples first, performance now' slogan, one Malaysia policy, clean leadership and with integrity, etc., doesn't help much as it still have yet to sink into the hearts and minds of the people. Thus, these by election results are not really a referendum on Najib, or Pakatan Rakyat gaining strength, but just to maintain the status-quo as the fever of the 12the General election has not yet dissipated.

2009-02-10T01:54:00.003+08:00

BEKAS MB PAS PERAK NIZAR PEMUSNAH BANGSA MELAYU
Nizar dari awal lagi sebaik menjadi mb perak selepas pru 12 2007 sememangnya tidak menghormati raja melayu. kes pertama ialah soal pertukaran pengarah majlis agama islam perak yang dibuatnya tanpa merujuk kepada raja perak seperti yang diperuntukan oleh perlembagaan negeri perak yang menyatakan apa-apa hal yang menyentuh agama islam mesti dirujuk pada raja. dan terakhir ialah pada awal bulan februari 2009 bila beliau enggan meletak jawatan mb setelah dititah raja perak selepas beliau kehilangan sokongan majoriti di dun apabila tiga adun pr lari meninggalkan pr dan menyokong bn.

sebenarnya nizar dan pas adalah sebuah politik yang tidak menyukai kepada pemerintahan beraja kerana mereka berpendapat ia bertentangan dengan islam. mereka sebenarnya berjuang mahu menubuhkan pemerintahan yang diketuai oleh ulamak. mereka mahu menjadikan malaysia seperti sebuah republik. mereka menjadikan beberapa negara seperti iran yang pada satu masa dikuasai oleh shah iran tetapi kemudiannya ditumbangkan oleh revolusi rakyat, sebagai contoh. mereka hendak menghapuskan sistem pemerintahan beraja dan menggantikannya dengan sistem mullah.

sebab itu dari awal lagi nizar dan pas mengenepikan raja perak dalam semua tindakannya. pas lah yang nanti akan menghapuskan orang melayu dan bangsa melayu di tanah melayu kerana mereka berpegang bahawa semangat kebangsaan adalah bertentangan dengan agama islam.

2009-01-20T01:38:00.003+08:00

How To Save Palestine? Just Armed Them With Mighty Weapons!!
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2009-01-05T14:49:00.006+08:00

SELAMATKAN IJN

Institut Jantung Negara adalah ilham Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad. Ia menjadi ilham setelah bekas Perdana Menteri keempat negara itu dibedah oleh doktor tempatan, dibaca anak Melayu, di Hospital Besar Kuala Lumpur. Ia tidak menjadi ilham kepada pemimpin sebelum dan selepasnya kerana pemimpin-pemimpin terdahulu mengubati jantung mereka di luar negara. Yang demikian tiadalah keinginan untuk membina satu dalam negara.

Kini setelah berjaya, IJN yang telah merawat ribuan rakyat Malaysia terutama yang kurang berkemampuan, hendak diambilalih oleh sebuah syarikat kelapa sawit Sime Darby yang matlamat utamanya mencari keuntungan semata-mata.

Eloklah, Sime Darby tidak mengusik IJN kerana belum pasti ia dapat menjayakannya terutama dalam memenuhi tuntutan rakyat jelata yang hendak mendapatkan rawatan di institut jantung yang berwibawa itu. Eloklah Sime Darby membuka pusat jantung sendiri dan di seluruh negara kalau betul kononnya IJN sudah tidak mampu menampung permintaan rakyat. Atau mempertingkatkan kemampuannya di hospital yang dikendalikannya di Subang Jaya itu. Itu lebih elok daripada mengusik IJN yang telah berjalan dengan lancar.

Apapun, terdapat tanda-tanda menunjukkan usaha hendak mengambilalih IJN adalah semata-mata mencari keuntungan dan bukannya untuk demi rakyat mendapatkan perubatan yang terbaik. Kerakusan pihak-pihak tertentu inilah yang menimbulkan kemarahan dan kebencian yang meluap kepada pihak yang memegang kuasa yang mengikut telunjuk saja ke mana arah yang dibawa oleh pedagang-pedagang yang menjadikan duit ringgit tuhan mereka!

2008-12-29T16:33:00.002+08:00

TUNKU MUKHRIZ NEW NEGERI 9 RULER
December 29, 2008 16:23 PM

KUALA PILAH, Dec 29 (Bernama) -- Tunku Mukhriz Ibni Almarhum Tuanku Munawir is the new ruler (Yang DiPertuan Besar) of Negeri Sembilan.
-- BERNAMA

Tunku Muhriz
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Tunku Muhriz (1945-) is the only son of Tuanku Munawir ibni Almarhum Tuanku Abdul Rahman, the Yang di-Pertuan Besar (hereditary ruler) of the Malaysian state of Negeri Sembilan from 1960 to 1967, and of his consort, Tunku Ampuan Durah binti Almarhum Tunku Besar Burhanuddin.

Created Tunku Besar, or heir presumptive, in 1960, Tunku Muhriz was by-passed by the Council of Undang upon his father's death. Instead, the council chose his half-uncle Tuanku Jaafar ibni Almarhum Tuanku Abdul Rahman, a diplomat. It has been suggested that the then-Prime Minister of Malaysia, Tunku Abdul Rahman, instructed the council not to choose Tunku Muhriz on account of his youth (he was then eighteen).

Currently still Tunku Besar, Tunku Muhriz is more involved in the business world. It is expected that Tuanku Jaafar has arranged for the succession of his own son Tunku Naquiyuddin, currently Tunku Laxamana, having effectively sidelined his popular nephew.

2008-12-26T17:17:00.014+08:00

Initiators, Inheritors, Innovators
Ooi Kee Beng

THERE are leaders who are followed for their agenda or vision, and who succeed in creating an institution that outlasts them.

These are the initiators.

Then there are leaders who follow and propound the agenda or vision of the institution whose top position they have occupied.

These are the inheritors.

And thirdly, there are leaders who manage to alter — even radically — the agenda and vision of the institution that they lead.

These are the innovators.

In the case of Malaysia’s United Malays National Organisation (Umno), one may say that the first president of the party, Mr Onn Ja’afar, falls in the first category.

He founded the party in May 1946. However, in August 1951, when he tried to open the party to non-Malays — his reasons for wanting this are still hotly-contested — party members wouldnot go along with it, and he had to resign.

His attempt at reforming the institution he founded five years earlier — in other words, at being the third type of leader — failed.

We see him moving on to becoming an initiator again. He immediately founded the multiracial Independence of Malaya Party (IMP). But after losing elections to the Umno-led Alliance coalition, he dissolved the party in 1953 and created a third party, Parti Negara. This third party fell apart following his death in 1962.

The second Umno president, Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra, was a much more flexible character who, despite becoming the leader of a Malay ethnocentric party in 1951, ended up heading a multiracial coalition of race-based parties. As an innovator, he seemed a success in many ways.

However, the riots of May 13, 1969 caught him by surprise. Having lost credibility as a result, he played a minor role until his retirement in September 1970, and the leadership of the country was inherited by his deputy,Mr Abdul Razak Hussein.

We now know that by the end of 1969, the Premier-in-waiting had already learned that he was terminally ill. This knowledge could not but have influenced many of his policies in the early ’70s.
His time in power, a time of considerable innovation, is best understood if divided into two parts. From May 1969 until August 1973, he received invaluable help and support from his deputy, Home Affairs Minister Ismail Abdul Rahman. Indeed, that regime is often referred to as the Razak-Ismail administration.

Mr Ismail would jump in as Acting Prime Minister whenever Mr Razak was out of the country, something he had done in the ’60s when the Tunku and Mr Razak were not around.

The trusted Mr Ismail, who was suffering from ill health as well, was the only person in the government who knew of Mr Razak’s illness. Together, the two men forged many policies between 1969 and 1973 in great haste. They feared they would not get to finish what they had set out to do, which was to return Malaysia to parliamentary rule as soon as possible, and to remedy socio-economic conditions so that racial riots would not occur again.

However, it was Mr Ismail, the supposed successor, and not Mr Razak, who died first, falling victim to a heart attack on Aug 2, 1973. Mr Razak stayed alive for another two-and-a-half years, with his brother-in-law, Hussein, the son of Mr Onn Ja’afar, as his deputy.

The difference in quality of the innovations carried out by the robust and visionary Razak-Ismail administration on the one hand, and its inheritor, the Razak-Hussein administration on the other, is still in need of proper study.

Mr Hussein Onn was a well-trained lawyer but whose position within Umno was not very well-grounded. On taking over from Mr Razak in January 1976, he tried to govern as systematically as possible, keeping to due process as much as he could. He was in many ways more an inheritor than an innovator.

Next, we have Mr Mahathir Mohamed. After becoming Prime Minister in 1981, this inheritor quickly set about changing the modernisation direction of the country in radical ways.

He was without question an innovator par excellence. This was shown to good effect when Umno was declared illegal in 1988 following internal struggles. Former Premiers Tunku Abdul Rahman and Hussein Onn came forth and initiated a new party, Umno Malaysia. In response, Mr Mahathir initiated the Umno Baru. His party won in the competition between the two, no doubt aided by the fact that he was the incumbent Prime Minister.

After 22 years of more innovation than the country could take, Mr Mahathir resigned in October 2003. Mr Abdullah Badawi was chosen ahead of Najib, son of former Premier Razak, to inherit the party presidency.

Much hope was placed by voters in the new Premier being as much of an innovator as he claimed he was. However, most of his intended reforms were not carried out, and he paid badly for it at the polls earlier this year. Mr Abdullah is now scheduled to hand over power in March next year to Mr Najib.
What is of interest to Malaysians during this transitional period is what type of leader the Premier-in-waiting will be. Will he act as a mere inheritor and preserve whatever he can of his inheritance, or will he be the radical innovator that Mr Abdullah failed to be?

No doubt, Malaysia’s newly-empowered voters will give us the answer sooner or later.

The writer is a fellow at the Institute ofSoutheast Asian Studies. His latest bookis March 8: Eclipsing May 13 (with JohanSaravanamuttu and Lee Hock Guan, Iseas).

2008-12-18T22:56:00.008+08:00

ANTARA PAK MAN TELO, CHARLES PONZI DAN BERNARD MADOFF

Seorang Melayu, seorang Itali dan seorang Amerika. Tiga manusia yang berbeza kulit, bahasa, budaya dan agama, dan dari pelusuk dunia yang berbeza. Tetapi tiga manusia ini mempunyai persamaan dalam cita-cita, citarasa dan matlamat iaitu mengadakan sekim cepat kaya atau skim piramid dengan memperdaya mereka yang hendak cepat kaya dan haloba tanpa berusaha.

Osman Hamzah (tiada gambar), orang Taiping, Perak atau lebih dikenali sebagai Pak Man Telo telah mewujudkan satu skim cepat kaya yang paling terkenal di Malaysia. Ramailah rakyat terutamanya, atau memang semuanya, Melayu terpedaya dengannya. Pak Man Telo dikatakan telah menipu kira-kira 50,000 pelabur dengan dana sebanyak RM99 Juta. Yang hebatnya pada asalnya beliau hanyalah seorang penduduk kampung biasa yang bekerja sebagai wartawan sambilan. Beliau telah ditahan pada 1990 dan dibuang daerah dan meninggal dunia di Terengganu pada 1997. Selepas kes beliau, banyak lagi skim-skim cepat kaya atau piramid wujud kemudiannya. Tetapi manusia yang tidak pernah belajar atau kerana haloba terus tertipu.....

Bernard Madoff, 70 tahun, dari New York, Amerika Syarikat baru sahaja ditangkap oleh polis kerana disyakki memperdaya pelabur-pelabur besar dunia (tidak pasti lagi samada pelabur Melaysia juga terkena) sejumlah AS$50 billion. Beliau berjaya menipu para pelabur dan pihak berkuasa kewangan Amerika Syarikat selama 40 tahun!! Beliau akan dibicarakan tidak lama lagi.

Charles Ponzi juga beroperasi di Amerika, berjaya memperdayakan pelabur-pelaburnya sejumlah AS$10 juta pada awal tahun 1920-han. Beliau telah menjadi buah mulut ramai pada waktu itu hingga nama beliau Ponzi telah dijadikan istilah dalam kamus yang membawa maksud skim cepat kaya atau inggerisnya "Ponzi scheme".Beginilah hebatnya manusia apabila masuk bab hendak menipu orang. Tidak kira bangsa, kalau sudah hendak menipu dia akan menipu. Yang malangnya yang ditipu ialah mereka yang mudah terpedaya atau cepat percaya kalau bab-bab hendak dapat wang cepat melalui jalan pintas! Wallahualam.

The Original Ponzi Scheme
Charles Ponzi's Name Means Investment Fraud Today
© Jill Browne
How the Ponzi Scheme got its name - a short version of Charles Ponzi's story.

Charles Ponzi Was A Real Person
In the field of investment or securities fraud, the phrase "Ponzi scheme" is often heard.
According to the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, Charles Ponzi raised over a million dollars in three hours in 1921. People thought he was selling them an investment that would give a 50 percent return in 90 days. It sounds too good to be true today, and it was too good to be true then.
By the time the court caught up with him, Ponzi admitted to taking $10 million from investors, many of whom were neither wealthy nor sophisticated. The actual amount could have been $15 million or more. He returned $8 million before his trial.
The Promotion Behind the Original Ponzi Scheme
Ponzi was a convicted criminal before he concocted his most famous scheme. Many would say he had no intention of ever making an effort to actually run the supposedly honest business that he was promoting. Writer Mark C. Knutson, in "The Ponzi Scheme" (1996), has taken a close look at the scheme and concluded it would be impossible to run it at any scale, and certainly not at the scale Ponzi proposed.
What Charles Ponzi told investors was this. He could buy International Postal Reply Coupons cheaply abroad and then turn them into American postage stamps. Then he would sell the postage stamps and get lots more money than what they had cost him to buy. This was because of an apparent arbitrage opportunity arising from foreign exchange rates. An American dollar could buy more coupons in Bulgaria (for example) than in the U.S., because the value of the coupon was set in local currency, regardless of the prevailing exchange rate. However, no matter where the coupons were purchased, they could be exchanged in the U.S. for the same thing, a U.S. postage stamp.
What Mark C. Knutson points out is that Ponzi would have needed armies of wheelbarrow-pushers just to carry the tens of millions of coupons he pretended to have bought. Turning the coupons into cash would also have been problematic, but not for Ponzi. He may have begun with the intention of working the arbitrage as described, but those intentions seem to have quickly evaporated. No matter what Ponzi told investors, he did not use their money to buy coupons.
What is a Ponzi Scheme?
Charles Ponzi's modus operandi was not new, but now bears his name as some kind of tribute to the vast scale with which he performed it.
Very simply, a Ponzi scheme is one where the promoter "robs Peter to pay Paul". The actual venture, whether it's postal coupons, real estate, racehorses, or anything else, does not make enough money to pay back the investors and give them the big profits they are expecting. The promoter, desperate to keep the scheme going, uses the money from new investors to pay the old ones. The most successful schemes go on for a long time by keeping investors just happy enough not to complain, and to never ask for their money back. When the investment comes due, a Ponzi scheme promoter will try very hard to get the investor to reinvest their money.
Even if the promoter of a Ponzi scheme doesn't keep any money for himself (and that would be unheard of), the scheme will collapse as soon as the payments going out exceed the money coming in. Since the whole point of the Ponzi scheme is to make money for the promoter, typically a large portion is spent or hidden early on. Charles Ponzi lived a lavish life for a little while, enjoying the fruits of his criminal ingenuity.
People were more than eager to give him their money.
A Ponzi Scheme is Not an Investment
Arguably, a payment to someone running a Ponzi scheme is not an investment at all. It's a gift. The money will not be paid back, and the promoter will disappear like Santa Claus on Boxing Day.
Charles Ponzi's End
Ponzi himself was found out by the investigative journalism of the Boston Post, and the whole scheme quickly tumbled down. He was convicted of mail fraud, sentenced to jail for five years, and eventually deported from the United States. He died alone and apparently poor in Brazil in 1949. His name lives on infamously.

2008-12-08T23:24:00.003+08:00

Tragedi Tanah Runtuh Bukit Antarabangsa

Tragedi ini membuktikan betapa manusia tidak pernah mahu belajar dari sejarah. Kejadian tanah runtuh yang berlaku sebelum ini di Malaysia dan di tempat lain di serata dunia menunjukkan samada manusia ini mudah lupa atau sengaja lupa kerana kerakusan kepada keuntungan dan wang ringgit.

Tragedi terbaru ini harus dipersalahkan kepada badan penguatkuasa iaitu Majlis Perbandaran Ampang Jaya. Tidak boleh ditolak bulat-bulat jika ada dakwaan yang menyatakan tragedi ini berlaku akibat tamak haloba atau rasuah di kalangan pegawai dan kakitangan MPAJ yang mudah meluluskan projek-projek yang diketahui boleh membawa malapetaka seperti memberi kelulusan membina rumah atau bangunan dilereng atau atas bukit.

Walau diketahui ia membahaya, rakyat diyakini oleh pemaju dan MPAJ bahawa ciri-ciri keselamatan dipatuhi maka projek perumahan itu diluluskan. Kalau benar MPAJ mematuhi 100 peratus peraturan dan undang-undang serta arahan Kerajaan Persekutuan mengenai bahaya dan larangan mendirikan binaan di lereng-lereng atau atas bukit, pastinya tidak akan ada projek binaan di kawasan seperti Bukit Antarabangsa.

Yang nyata disebaliknya ialah projek-projek tumbuh melata seperti cendawan di segenap pelusuk bukit hinggalah berlaku dengan mudahnya tragedi seperti ini apabila alam dirosakkan oleh manusia yang rakus akan wang ringgit dan mengutamakan habuan untuk diri sendiri. Dalam tragedi seperti ini, MPAJ bersalah! Pemaju bersalah! Pembeli pun bersalah. Eloklah masing-masing menerima padahnya daripada malapetaka ini atas atas perlakuan sendiri.

2008-12-08T23:20:00.000+08:00

WISHING ALL MUSLIMS SELAMAT HARI RAYA AIDIL ADHA!

2008-07-31T19:37:00.003+08:00

ANWAR LICIK BERTANDING UNTUK CETUS KEKACAUAN KERANA AKAN DITUDUH LIWAT

Dengan tiba-tiba Azizah lepaskan Permatang Pauh supaya suaminya Anwar Ibrahim dapat bertanding. Ini merupakan satu strategik licik Anwar. Anwar sudah tahu beliau akan ditangkap tidak lama lagi atas tuduhan liwat. Dengan menjadi calon untuk bertanding di Permatang Pauh dan apabila beliau tangkap, akan hebohlah satu dunia bahawa ia merupakan satu konspirasi untuk menyekat beliau daripada bertanding.

Amerika Syarikat, Perancis, Britain, EU, IMF dan konco-konco Amerika seperti biasa akan bantah kerajaan Malaysia pimpinan Abdullah Badawi kerana ia akan dianggap komplot jahat politik Kerajaan dan tindakan menangkap Anwar telah melanggar hak asasi dan demokrasinya.

Itulah yang Anwar mahukan. Beliau hendak menunjukkan kepada dunia bahawa betapa zalimnya Kerajaan Malaysia terhadap beliau. Beliau akan menuduh Kerajaan Malaysia menggunakan tuduhan liwat ke atasnya semata-mata untuk menghalangnya daripada bertanding dan betullah dakwaannya selama ini bahwa semua ini merupakan satu konspirasi jahat Kerajaan Malaysia terhadap beliau.

Maka, akan hilanglah kes liwatnya yang memang inilah yang Anwar mahukan. Terlepaslah beliau dari tuduhan itu kerana ia merupakan satu konspirasi!

Dipetik berita-berita ini: Dan peta P44 Permatang Pauh

Wan Azizah Kosongkan Kerusi Permatang Pauh Untuk Beri Laluan Kepada Anwar

KUALA LUMPUR, 31 Julai (Bernama) -- Presiden Parti Keadilan Rakyat Datuk Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail meletak jawatan sebagai Anggota Parlimen Permatang Pauh berkuatkuasa serta-merta bagi memberi laluan kepada suaminya Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim untuk bertanding pada pilihan raya kecil nanti.

Wan Azizah, 55, berkata beliau telah menyerahkan surat peletakan jawatannya itu hari ini kepada Speaker Dewan Rakyat Tan Sri Pandikar Amin Mulia. 31 Julai, 2008 16:36 PM

Siasatan Kes Liwat Anwar Ibrahim Selesai: Syed Hamid

PUTRAJAYA, 31 Julai (Bernama) -- Siasatan kes liwat melibatkan Penasihat Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim telah siap sepenuhnya dan diserahkan kepada pejabat Peguam Negara untuk tindakan lanjut, kata Menteri Dalam Negeri Datuk Seri Syed Hamid Albar.

Katanya adalah menjadi prosedur pihak polis untuk menyerahkan kertas berikut kepada pejabat Peguam Negara sebaik sahaja proses siasatan selesai dilakukan. 31 Julai, 2008 19:18 PM

2008-07-17T19:23:00.001+08:00

PETIKAN CHEDET TENTANG LIWAT ANWAR

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7. Is the present complainant a copycat? Hardly likely. Few would care to make public such a very shameful thing as being sodomised. In fact, the last time at least two people came to see me claiming they were sodomised by Anwar. But they were unwilling to make a report or be witnesses in court. One of them, however, did see the imam of Masjid Negara (now Member of Parliament for PAS), to seek advise on the religious angle.

8. There are certain habits which are not easy to be rid off. Habitual smokers will tell you that. So will drug addicts.

9. It is of course up to the courts to decide i.e. if this case finally reaches the court. The court may find Anwar guilty. In which case he would appeal to even higher courts and even to special courts, which can be set up for him.

10. If he could make out that Saiful is a willing partner, then as in the case of Azizan, Saiful's claims would not be regarded as proof beyond doubt. Anwar would be let off.

11. Anwar has practically refused to swear on the Quran on his claim to be innocent. But Saiful is quite willing to do so in a mosque witnessed by religious people.

TERJEMAHAN........

.........7. Mungkinkah pihak yang membuat lapuran kali ini seorang yang cuba meniru? Agak mustahil. Tidak ramai yang sanggup kehadapan dan mengumumkan sesuatu yang amat mengaibkan seperti kena liwat. Sebenarnya, dalam peristiwa yang lalu, sekurang-kurangnya dua orang menemui saya dan membuat pengakuan mereka telah diliwat oleh Anwar. Tetapi mereka tidak sanggup membuat lapuran ataupun menjadi saksi dimahkamah. Bagaimanapun, seorang dari mereka telah pergi menemui Imam Masjid Negara (sekarang ini ahli parliamen PAS) untuk mendapatkan nasihat dari sudut agama.

8. Ada beberapa tabiat yang sukar untuk dibuang. Perokok tegar akan menyatakan sedemikian. Begitu juga penagih dadah.

9. Sudah pasti ini tergantung kepada mahkamah untuk menentukan dan inipun jika kes ini akhirnya sampa kemahkamah. Mahkamah mungkin mendapati Anwar bersalah. Dia kemudiannya boleh merayu kepada mahkamah yang lebih tinggi malahan kemahkamah-mahkamah khas yang diadakan untuknya.

10. Jika dia berjaya membuat Saiful kelihatan sebagai pasangan yang rela seperti didalam kes Azizan, maka kenyataan Saiful tidak boleh dianggap sebagai bukti yang tidak dapat dipertikaikan. Anwar akan dibebaskan.

11. Anwar telah menolak untuk bersumpah diatas Quran untuk membuktikan dirinya tidak bersalah. Tetapi Saiful sanggup untuk melakukannya didalam masjid dan disaksikan oleh alim ulamak.

2008-07-16T16:21:00.004+08:00

ANWAR ARRESTED

Malaysia's Anwar questioned in sodomy case
CNN - 21 minutes ago
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (CNN) -- Police in Malaysia arrested opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim on Wednesday for questioning about a sodomy cas

Malaysia opposition leader arrested
The Press Association - 5 minutes ago
A lawyer says Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim has been arrested just before he was scheduled to give a statement to police over sodomy allegations ...

Malaysia's Anwar arrested - lawyer
EcoDiario.es, Spain - 58 minutes ago
By Jalil Hamid KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysian opposition figure AnwarIbrahim has been arrested, his lawyer said on Wednesday,setting the stage for a ...

Malaysia's Anwar to meet police
Turkish Daily News (subscription), Turkey - 5 minutes ago
Malaysian opposition figure Anwar Ibrahim agreed yesterday to meet police on a sodomy complaint against him, hoping to avoid a potentially embarrassing ...

Malaysia's Anwar arrested before interrogation over sodomy accusation
The Canadian Press, Malaysia - 26 minutes ago
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Police arrested Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim on Wednesday about an hour before a deadline for him to appear at police ...

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(UPDATE) Malaysia's Anwar arrested: lawyer
ABS CBN News, Philippines - 56 minutes ago
KUALA LUMPUR - Malaysian opposition figure Anwar Ibrahim has been arrested, his lawyer said on Wednesday, setting the stage for a political showdown that ...

PRESS TV

Malaysian police arrest Anwar
PRESS TV, Iran - 16 minutes ago
A lawyer for Anwar Ibrahim, Malaysia's de facto opposition leader has said his client has been arrested by police on sexual charges. ...

2008-07-16T13:14:00.005+08:00

ANWAR IBRAHIM VS SHABERY CHEEK

Tiada perkara baru yang didebatkan dalam soal kenaikan harga minyak antara mereka berdua malam tadi. Semua yang ditimbulkan sudah pun menjadi pengetahuan umum. Tidak ada pun jalan penyelesaian.

Anwar ambil mudah sahaja. Berikan dia kuasa menjadi Perdana Menteri dengan kerajaan barunya, tahulah apa dia hendak buat. Tetapi Anwar tidak boleh kelentong setiap rakyat setiap masa. Bukan mudah mengawal harga minyak yang dikuasai oleh pedagang asing yang mementingkan untung semata-mata. Minyak yang ada di negara kita cukup makan sahaja.

Shabery pun tidak memperincikan kenapa kerajaan telah menaikkan harga minyak padahal inilah wadah yang terbaik untuk kerajaan memberi penjelasan yang meyakinkan. Beliau sibuk mengungkit kisah silam Anwar yang semua orang tahu kaki gempak dan kelentong. Beliau jelas tidak profesional dan meyakinkan.

Hasilnya, rakyat menghabiskan masa untuk menyaksikan mereka yang mempunyai kepentingan politik peribadi - seorang hendak menjadi Perdana Menteri dan seorang lagi mencari populariti dan tempat dalam hieraki UMNO - sedangkan rakyat masih terbeban dan terpinga-pinga dengan kehidupan yang semakin payah dan merunsingkan.

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Many people have said the debate was a good sign of the openness of the present government. They said the room for the freedom of expression has been unlocked . They said the winner is the Abdullah Badawi's government.

But they forget the real loser is the people! What 's the use of freedom of expression if it leads to nought, if the people continue to have empty stomach!!

2008-07-15T21:39:00.008+08:00

Harley-Davidson to buy MV Augusta for US$109m

Proton likely to get flak as it had sold the company for one euro in 2006

By S JAYASANKARAN
IN KUALA LUMPUR

AMERICAN motorcycle giant Harley-Davidson has, according to the Associated Press, agreed to buy MV Augusta for US$109 million, in sharp contrast to the one euro it paid when it bought the Italian bike-maker from Proton Holdings in 2006.

Harley-Davidson said in a statement out of Milwaukee last Friday that it was likely to seal the deal in weeks but the news is likely to unleash a firestorm of criticism against Proton, which was savagely assailed for the 2006 sale by no less a person than former prime minister Mahathir Mohamad, who conceived Proton back in 1984.

Proton, then under the leadership of Dr Mahathir protege Tengku Mahaleel Ariff, bought a 57.75 per cent interest in MV Augusta in December 2004 for 70 million euros (S$154 million). Dr Mahathir had stepped down as premier a month earlier but had been appointed Proton adviser by his successor Abdullah Ahmad Badawi at the time.

By 2005, Proton was floundering amid intense competition from better-quality Japanese models and relations between Tengku Mahaleel and the new Proton board, all appointed by Mr Abdullah, were tense. These culminated in the chief executive's contract not being renewed. Barely a year later, the company sold MV Augusta, with its debt of 107 million euros, for one euro.

Even so, the Harley deal would appear to vindicate both men and is likely to redound upon Proton and, by extension, Mr Abdullah and his administration, which has stoutly defended Proton's new management against the criticism of Dr Mahathir.

2008-07-15T20:43:00.004+08:00

TANGKAP SAJA ANWAR!

Anwar Ibrahim patut ditangap terus. Dialah punca negara tidak habis-habis kecoh. Rakyat sudah membuat pilihan siapa mereka mahu memerintah negara dan negeri-negeri pada pilihanraya lalu. Tunggulah lima tahun lagi kalau pun ingin menjadi Perdana Menteri. Biarkan rakyat putuskan siapa yang mereka hendak pilih seterusnya.

Tidak perlulah Anwar buat banyak gempak. Rakyat ramai juga yang susah. Polis terpaksa bertindak menjaga ketenteraman awam yang tidak terlibat dan tidak mahu terlibat. Dalam sejarah demonstrasi yang beremosi mana ada demonstrasi secara aman. Cukuplah. Apa yang berlaku di negara ini kini adalah pilihan rakyat juga.

KUALA LUMPUR, 15 Julai (Bernama) -- Penasihat Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim diberi tempoh sehingga pukul 2 petang esok untuk hadir ke Ibu Pejabat Polis Kontinjen Kuala Lumpur (IPKKL) bagi memberi keterangan berhubung kes liwat yang didakwa bekas pembantunya, Mohd Saiful Bukhari Azlan.

Pengarah Jabatan Siasatan Jenayah Datuk Mohd Bakri Zinin memberi amaran bahawa jika arahan itu diingkari, polis akan mengambil tindakan undang-undang termasuk menahan bekas Timbalan Perdana Menteri itu.

Mohd Bakri berkata tindakan undang-undang juga akan dikenakan terhadap sesiapa yang cuba menghalang tugas polis daripada menahan Anwar nanti. "Polis akan ambil tindakan undang-undang jika beliau tidak hadir dan sesiapa yang menghalang kerja kami akan dikenakan tindakan di bawah Kanun Keseksaan," katanya pada sidang akhbar di sini hari ini.

2008-07-15T18:28:00.005+08:00

MUHYIDDIN BOLEH KALAHKAN NAJIB?

Dipetik pandangan baru CheDet mengenai krisis kepimpinan dalam UMNO. Teori CheDet ini boleh pakai juga. Melihatkan Najib memberi kesetiaan melulu kepada Abdullah Badawi sampai tidak berani bersuara apa-apa dan bukan ketaatannya dicurahkan untuk kebaikan ahli dan parti UMNO, memang Muhyiddin boleh merampas jawatan Timbalan Presiden UMNO itu.

Muhyiddin telah menunjukkan kredibilitinya sebagai pemimpin yang berani bersuara walaupun terhadap Abdullah demi kebaikan orang Melayu dan UMNO.

Dr Mahathir Lihat Muhyiddin Boleh Kalahkan Najib Untuk Jawatan Timbalan Presiden Umno

KUALA LUMPUR, 15 Julai (Bernama) -- Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad berkata Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin mampu memenangi jawatan Timbalan Presiden Umno sekiranya beliau bertanding pada pemilihan parti Disember ini.

Bekas Perdana Menteri itu berkata sekiranya Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak berhasrat mempertahankan jawatan Timbalan Presiden Umno, beliau mungkin ditentang oleh Muhyiddin di mana keputusannya mungkin berpihak kepada Muhyiddin.

"Tanggapan umum terhadap Najib ialah beliau seorang pemimpin yang lemah dan tidak mempunyai pendirian sendiri," katanya kepada pemberita selepas merasmikan pejabat Kongres India Muslim di sini hari ini.

Dr Mahathir berkata Muhyiddin, yang sehingga kini tidak menyatakan jawatan yang ingin ditandinginya, boleh memenangi jawatan Timbalan Presiden kerana beliau lebih mudah diterima oleh anggota Umno yang menyokong Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi dan juga golongan yang tidak menyokong Abdullah.

2008-07-12T22:16:00.005+08:00

KEKALAHAN BN DI PRU12 SATU RAHMAT?

Dipetik PM Abdullah Badawi berkata kekalahan Barisan Nasional pada pilihanraya umum lalu membawa rahmat. Apa yang rahmat? Begitulah sikap Abdullah apabila hendak meleraikan dirinya daripada sebarang isu atau masalah.

Sebenarnya, Abdullah ini, seorang yang tinggi ilmu agamanya, menggunakan takdir sebagai alasan dalam apa perkara yang menimpanya. Dia akan bersikap ambil mudah, tidak kisah dan acuh tak acuh kerana apa yang berlaku akan dikatakannya sudah takdir.

Beliau langsung tidak mahu menerima hakikat masalah yang timbul dalam bukan sahaja BN and UMNO, malah negara adalah kerana kepimpinannya yang lemah tidak bermaya dan bervisi!

Nasib baik BN tidak kalah habis kalau tidak apa pula Abdullah akan kata. Takdir juga!

KUALA LUMPUR, 12 Julai (bernama) -- Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi menyifatkan keputusan pilihan raya umum 8 Mac lepas menyimpan pelbagai rahmat apabila berjaya mendidik Barisan Nasional (BN) untuk tabah menerima erti kegagalan dan kekecewaan dalam usaha murni berjuang untuk rakyat.

Perdana Menteri berkata keputusan yang menyaksikan kemerosotan BN itu bukanlah satu tragedi yang perlu diratapi selama-lamanya dan sebaliknya semua pihak dan parti komponen BN perlu bangkit mulai sekarang untuk memperkukuhkan perjuangan dan usaha mendekati rakyat.

"Apa yang berlaku, telahpun berlaku. Apa yang penting ialah reaksi kita selepas itu dan apa yang patut kita lakukan selepas itu.

"Kalau kita tidak sedia melihat perkara ini sebagai satu pengajaran, maka tentulah apa yang akan berlaku kepada kita ialah kesusahan yang berpanjangan... Ini adalah perasaan dan sikap saya sebagai Presiden Umno dan Pengerusi BN," katanya ketika merasmikan Perhimpunan Agung MIC ke-62 di Dewan Merdeka, Pusat Dagangan Dunia Putra di sini, Sabtu.

2008-07-12T22:08:00.006+08:00

BLOG DAN SMS TULAR BUDAYA FITNAH?

Dipetik seorang menteri berkata demikian. Sebenarnya sejak berkurun dulu lagi sewaktu belum ada internet dan telefon, tabiat menfitnah ni sudah wujud pun. Banyak kesultanan, empayar, dinasti, bangsa, komuniti, perhubungan, keluarga dan banyak lagi hancur musnah kerana mulut manusia yang berbisa ini!

Nampaknya alat-alat teknologi kemunikasi baru ini jadi kambing hitam kepada masalah politik dalam negara di bawah pimpinan PM Abdullah Badawi!

KOTA BAHARU, 12 Julai (Bernama) -- Budaya fitnah melalui blog dan khidmat SMS yang semakin menular kini dikhuatiri akan merosakkan tamadun bangsa dan menghancurkan negara jika tidak dikawal, kata Menteri Perpaduan, Kebudayaan, Kesenian dan Warisan Datuk Seri Mohd Shafie Apdal.

Beliau berkata kementerian memandang serius budaya itu kerana terdapat kecenderungan rakyat semakin mempercayai blog dan SMS sedemikian.

"Ini yang merisaukan kerajaan kerana budaya fitnah melalui blog dan SMS sudah ditahap yang boleh merosakkan budaya bangsa yang akhirnya boleh menghancurkan negara. Ia perlu dikawal segera," katanya kepada pemberita selepas melancarkan Program Jiranku Keluargaku di Padang Perdana di sini Sabtu.

Mohd Shafie berkata rakyat dinasihat menilai terlebih dahulu kandungan blog dan SMS yang diterima mereka sebelum membuat sebarang keputusan.

2008-07-10T20:32:00.004+08:00

ABDULLAH : WHAT ABOUT PM'S POST?

Although the UMNO presidency comes with the Prime Minister's post, Abdullah was very definitive not to mention any thing about his position as Prime Minister when he hands over the UMNO top post to Najib.

Maybe it will be automatic that the PM post will go to Najib as well but UMNO first need to get the BN component members' agreement as a mark of respect to them. Or will there be a separation of power in that UMNO President need not necessarily becomes PM?

Or is it a strategy not to make Abdullah a lame duck PM if he announces the exact date of his departure? Anyhow, many in UMNO are still not happy that Abdullah did not exit soonest. And one most important thing is that anything can happen or change in the next two years! Keep your fingers crossed!!

KUALA LUMPUR, July 10 (Bernama) -- Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi today announced that he would hand over the post of Umno president and Barisan Nasional (BN) chairman to his deputy Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak by middle of 2010.

He said the process of transferring the power had begun today and that with the decision, he would not be leading the BN in the coming general election expected to be held sometime in 2012 or 2013.

"I took the opportunity to inform the supreme council at the meeting just now that I have reached an agreement with Datuk Seri Najib that I will not be leading the BN in the 13th general election.

"And this will also mean that we have to set in motion the process of transferring the power. I informed the supreme council that the process would begin with the announcement I'm making today. "...that I plan to hand over the (Umno) president's post to Datuk Seri Najib by middle of 2010," he told a news conference after a close-door special briefing with Umno divisional leaders as well as leaders of the party's three wings -- Wanita, Youth and Puteri -- at the Dewan Merdeka, Putra World Trade Centre here today.

2008-07-08T21:24:00.004+08:00

PARLIAMENT IS THE SAME NO MORE

The Parliament today is no more the same as before the 12th General Elections. In the last Parliament, BN MPs could afford to play truant and doze off during parliamentary sessions. Prime Minister, Deputy Prime Ministers, Ministers and Deputy Ministers could absent themselves as they liked and let their Parliamentary Secretaries reply with half-baked answers to questions raised by the not so many opposition MPs on their behalf.

They could escape then. But now, the BN leaders and MPs are in the line of fire. They are peppered with questions - their roles as the Government are scrutinised, their policies and plans are dissected, their laws are examined, their conducts are probed, their riches are questioned, and so on.

The Parliament are no more the home of dumb MPs. They are now the clever, intellectual and shrewd ones. They put up intelligent and critical questions but sad to say, there are still those who talk and behave like monkeys in the august house

KUALA LUMPUR, July 8 (Bernama) -- The numerous questions raised by Opposition members in the Dewan Rakyat today agitated backbencher Datuk Bung Moktar Radin (BN-Kinabatangan) who asked for the rationale in allowing the questions. He was perplexed as to why the Opposition members were allowed more questions whereas the Barisan Nasional were the majority in the Dewan Rakyat.

"I want an explanation. I have been observing everyday, this is not fair. This House is not controlled by the Opposition but by the Barisan Nasional. Our numbers are more than the Opposition," said Bung Moktar.

2008-07-08T14:06:00.005+08:00

ANWAR TAKUT SUMPAH DENGAN AL-QURAN

Anwar Ibrahim seperti biasa akan memberi pelbagai alasan untuk menyelamatkan dirinya. Yang terbaru ialah apabila disuruh 'mubahalah' iaitu bersumpah dengan Al-Quran untuk membuktikan kebenaran yang beliau tidak terlibat dengan tuduhan liwat dengan pembantunya baru-baru ini, Anwar telah meletakkan pelbagai syarat.

Padahal, inilah jalan keluar yang paling mudah, cepat dan afdal untuk beliau meleraikan dirinya dengan kes liwat itu. Tidak perlu meminta kehadiran ulamak, sampai hendakkan ulamak dari luar negara, empat saksilah dan sebagainya. Anwar jelas berbolak-balik kerana beliau memang tidak mahu menjunjung Al-Quran kerana beliau amat takut terkena atau termakan sumpahan atau bala yang akan diturunkan ke atasnya oleh Tuhan jika beliau berbohong.
Jika beliau tidak bersalah Al-Quran boleh menjadi pegangannya. Soal aib tidak timbul kerana beliau boleh memberitahu dunia bahawa beliau tidak melakukan perbuatan terkutuk itu. Ia sebaliknya akan mengaibkan orang lain yang menuduhnya.

Pada Anwar, tepuk dada tanya selera!

2008-07-07T20:25:00.002+08:00

ABDULLAH BLAMES BLOGGERS

Bloggers Too To Be Blamed For Rumours And Speculation, Says Abdullah

KUALA LUMPUR, July 7 (Bernama) -- Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi wants bloggers to stop speculating and spreading rumours on the Internet as this is another cause of the unsettled political situation in the country.

"I want to tell the blogs to stop all these as they are also responsible for what has happened. The best thing they could do is to stop," he told reporters after holding several bilateral meetings on the sidelines of the 6th D-8 Heads of Government Summit here Monday.

The prime minister was commenting on the current political situation in the country, which seemed unsettled since the last general election in March.

"Slandering has become more rampant. One no longer cares whether the accusations are true or otherwise," Abdullah told Bernama Sunday.

"Whatever the truth, the truth will come out...don't worry about it," Abdullah said.

Asked how the government intended to stop these rumours and allegations on the Internet, he said :" When the truth comes out, all these will stop, we will make sure of that.

2008-07-02T18:53:00.003+08:00

ANWAR SUCCEEDS TO GET FOREIGN (U.S.) POWER

As predicted, Anwar managed to attract the attention of a foreign super power, the United States which is known to be Anwar closest ally, to his sodomy case. At least this time PM Abdullah able to show his mantle by responding bravely and swiftly against this world police!

KUALA LUMPUR, July 1 (Bernama) -- Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi Tuesday asked Wisma Putra to send a protest note to Washington following the warning issued by the United States (US) to Malaysia concerning the allegation of sodomy against Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) advisor Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim.

Describing the warning as interference in the affairs of the country, the Prime Minister said Malaysia had its own government, laws and enforcement and knew what needed to be done with regard to the case.

"It is a statement which tries to interfere in our country... we will certainly ensure that any investigation will be carried out properly, fairly and without cruelty to anyone.

2008-07-01T18:24:00.002+08:00

TUN DR. MAHATHIR: MALAYSIA'S MASTER BRAND BUILDER

KUALA LUMPUR, June 30 (Bernama) -- Former Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamed leads the list of those honoured with Brand Laureate Hall of Fame Award tonight.

He received a Lifetime Achievement Award as an acknowlegedment of his works as a Malaysia's master brand builder, said the Brand Laureate chief executive officer Dr K.K. Johan at the Brand Laureate Awards 2007/2008 Gala Dinner here tonight.

He said Dr Mahathir, during his tenure as Prime Minister, has positioned Malaysia as a respectable nation and a force to be reckoned in international arena.

Brand Laureate Award is to honour brand icons and statesmen in Malaysia and Asia Pacific region.

2008-06-30T18:19:00.005+08:00

ANWAR- THE GREAT BOLLYWOOD ACTOR

One interesting outcome from this latest 'bontot' event is the cleverness of Anwar in diverting the criminal case against him. Anwar is known for his dramatisation of events, if he wants something or trying to get out of the mud.

Remember the Baling case during his student days? Or the last trial - remember his arsenic poisoning? Remember his complaint about his back pain? Remember his dog collar always stuck on his neck when he went to courts? Remember he moved about on wheel chair? Now no back pain or neck pain. So fast cured!

Now the truth has come out, he went to the Turkish Embassy uninvited said the Turkish Ambassador. He just deposited himself there to get international attention. He got many friends outside Malaysia, who will believe him and will raise their concerns. That's what Anwar wants.

By the way, who wants to kill him? if that is the case, he has been assassinated a long time ago! Even before the opposition could win many state governments in the last elections. Anwar is best described as the best Hindustani or Bollywood actor. Pity his wife Azizah, she has to defend Anwar because he is her husband although she knows Anwar inside out.

2008-06-29T18:25:00.006+08:00

ANWAR IBRAHIM DITUDUH LIWATSekali lagi Anwar Ibrahim, mantan Timbalan Perdana Menteri dan Penasihat Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) dituduh liwat. Yang menuduhnya pembantunya yang mendakwa diliwat kali terakhir pada 26 Jun. Maknanya sebelum ini banyak kali lagilah dia diliwat. Ia sekarang menjadi kes polis.

Apa yang menarik, Anwar terus mendakwa ia satu 'fabrication' (satu tuduhan yang dibuat-buat) oleh pihak yang ingin menjatuhkannya ketika beliau sedang hendak naik semula di dalam arena politik Malaysia khususnya idamannya hendak menjadi Perdana Menteri.

Dalam kes liwat pertama dulu yang dakwaannya dibuat oleh pemandunya sendiri, bolehlah beliau dengan mudah menuduh Perdana Menteri masa itu iaitu Dr. Mahathir Mohamad yang merancangnya. Kali ini Anwar hendak tuding jarinya pada siapa pula?

Hendak menuduh Dr. Mahathir sudah tidak boleh lagi kerana bekas perdana menteri itu sudah bersara dan tumpuannya sekarang hendak menurunkan Perdana Menteri Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi. Dr. Mahathir mungkin lega kerana tindakannya memecat Anwar kerana alasan liwat dulu menunjukkan ianya ada asas dan kebenaran.

Penyokong Anwar yang masih percaya beliau menjadi mangsa politik sudah membuat pelbagai tohmahan yang tuduhan liwat kali ini merupakan satu konspirasi politik dan dipalitkan Timbalan Perdana Menteri Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak jika dilihat pada beberapa laman blog tertentu.

Kalau betullah hendak percaya pada teori konspirasi, elok lagi teori ini kerana ia lebih meyakinkan iaitu "Anwar sengaja dituduh liwat kerana hendak menghancurkan agendanya merampas Kerajaan pada 16 September ini apabila lebih 30 ahli parlimen Barisan Nasional dijadual terjun masuk ke kem pembangkang. Dengan beliau didakwa liwat nanti, pembangkang tidak lagi mempunyai pemimpin dan mereka yang hendak terjun akan berfikir dua kali samada hendak terjun atau tidak kerana orang yang membuat janji dengan mereka sudah tiada". Maka selamatlah Kerajaan BN dan Perdana Menteri Abdullah Badawi daripada ditumbangkan!

Tetapi apa yang nyata, yang menuduh Anwar ialah orang dalamnya atau inggerisnya 'inner circle', tidak kiralah tukang bancuh kopi, yang boleh bebas keluar masuk rumahnya dan berinteraksi dengan beliau.Sebagai orang politik, apa lagi yang Anwar ada untuk dijadikan alasan bagi menepis tuduhan liwat itu selain menuduh kesnya itu sebagai satu konspirasi politik.

Kali ini beliau tidak boleh lari daripada tuduhan itu kerana kali ini tiada lagi kambing hitam!
Good Luck Saudara Anwar!!!

2008-06-27T20:05:00.003+08:00

NAK TUNGGU SAMPAI BILA?

Dipetik berita Timbalan Presiden UMNO Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak belum dapat memberi kata putus samada hendak bertanding jawatan Presiden UMNO pada Disember ini atau tidak. Kalau beliau tidak gentar, apa yang beliau tunggu kini tidaklah dipastikan apa?

Lain kali jawablah dengan berlapik tetapi tegas seperti "kalau orang calonkan saya untuk jawatan itu, saya tidak akan menolak"!

Kalau lambat hendak beritahu, bimbang nanti, "yang dikendong keciciran yang dikejar tak dapat"!

KUALA LUMPUR, 27 Jun (Bernama) -- Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak hari Khamis berkata beliau belum membuat sebarang keputusan sama ada akan bertanding jawatan Presiden Umno pada pemilihan parti Disember ini.

Timbalan Perdana Menteri itu berkata belum tiba masa untuk beliau mengumumkan mengenai perkara itu.

"Saya akan buat ketetapan apabila sampai masanya, ada masa lagi," katanya selepas mesyuarat Dewan Tertinggi Barisan Nasional (BN) Khamis malam.

Mengikut peraturan Umno, calon jawatan Presiden perlu mendapat pencalonan sekurang-kurangnya 30 peratus daripada keseluruhan bahagian Umno di seluruh negara.

2008-06-26T20:51:00.005+08:00

MONEY FOR THE PEOPLE

Since when do the BN Federal Government needs to consult opposition-held Penang state government regarding projects with money coming out from its coffer? Too bad the Penang people who voted the present state government have to miss this modern transportation which could alleviate their traveling plights in the island city with its arrogant taxi drivers and hoodlum bus drivers.

I believe the money would go to the Malaysia heartlands - Seberang Perai (Penang), Kedah, Perak, Selangor, Sabah and Sarawak-as the government wants to woo and retain the Malay and Bumiputera voters for the 13th General Elections.

Penang CM Not Happy With Mid-term Review Of 9MP

PENANG, June 26 (Bernama) -- The Penang state government is disappointed with the decision by the federal government to put on hold the RM2 billion Penang Monorail and RM1.5 billion Penang Outer Ring Road (PORR) projects which were scheduled to take off during the Ninth Malaysia Plan.

Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng said the Penang government should be consulted before the federal government made any decision to hold back these projects because they would affect the state economy.

The Economic Planning Unit of the Prime Minister's Department (EPU), in the Mid-Term Review of the 9MP (2006-2008) said the government will spend RM160 billion on people-centred projects that will bring tangible benefits and improve the quality of life of the people for the remaining period of the Ninth Malaysia Plan from 2008 to 2010.

Projects that are not people-centred under the original Plan will be put on hold or deferred to the 10th Malaysia Plan. These include the RM2 billion Penang Monorail and RM1.5 billion Penang Outer Ring Road.

2008-06-24T16:20:00.004+08:00

JOURNALISTS BARRED FROM PARLIAMENT LOBBY

The Parliament has barred journalists from loitering in the lobby so not to create chaos during the parliament session, according to news reports today.

To the Malaysian press particularly the main stream media, my advice, don't cover Parliament at all! Wasting time listening to 'donkeys' and 'monkeys' from both the government and opposition sides, treating the parliament like a zoo.

It's better to go to the ground and cover the rakyat. Report their events, how are they surviving during the hardship now, their sufferings, what have the 'monkeys' and 'donkeys' done to their kawasan since they won the General Elections! The real thing is what's happening on the ground, whether the rakyat that voted them into Parliament benefited from it or not.

The parliamentarians can tell and claim anything in the august house. Whether it's true or not is a different matter because its their privilege to talk rubbish. The Parliament actually just a talk-shop!!! So pressmen stop going to Parliament unless you want to hunt the deers!!

2008-06-22T19:06:00.003+08:00

TIMBALAN PRESIDEN MIC
lebih kuah dari sudu

G. Palanivel sanggup menghina Tun Mahathir kerana hendak menjaga bosnya Samy Vellu. Palanivel bukan pemimpin India bervisi. Ia bernasib baik kerana Samy menggunakannya untuk menghapuskan Timbalan lama Subramaniam yang banyak tidak bersetuju dengan Samy dalam banyak hal. Bekas wartawan Bernama ini cuma berada di tempat dan waktu yang sesuai untuk melangkah naik atas tangga parti MIC hingga menjadi Timbalan Presiden.

Palanivel, kerana kulitnya sama dengan pemimpin hindraf dan juga sudah hilang jawatan dalam kerajaan Persekutuan, baru berani menyuarakan pendiriannya. Nyata sikapnya sebelum ini yang lembut dan bersahabat dengan kaum-kaum lain hanyalah pura-pura. Itulah kerana politik, orang seperti Palani akan sanggup menonggeng jauh ke bawah (inggerisnya stoop low). Orang macam ini tidak akan pergi jauh dalam politik majmuk Malaysia.!

2008-06-21T02:07:00.003+08:00

WHERE IS THE TRANSPARENCY?

The present Federal government has been talking about transparency, integrity and justice in the admnistration since Abdullah Badawi became PM. Many government decisions by the previous administration under former PM Mahathir Mohamad have been re-examined as they were said to be made opaquely, although Abdullah was also involved in deciding it as he was part of the past administration. Now it is time for Abdullah's administration to reveal the amount of ex-gratia given to the judges involved in the Tun Salleh Abbas' case as the money belonged to the rakyat - yours and mine! Why is it so secretive to mention it? Are the ex-gratias given were so little or too big an amount of money that the government is scared to reveal it? This may be trivial. But since the issue is about transparency, well it's worth to know about it. This KL Senator is right on course!

Syed Ali Wants Govt To Reveal Amount Of Ex-gratia Paid To Former Judges

KUALA LUMPUR, June 20 (Bernama) -- A senator Friday urged the government to reveal the amount of ex-gratia payments to six former judges who were either sacked or suspended from duties during the 1988 judicial crisis.Senator Datuk Syed Ali Al-Habshee said the government had the responsibility to reveal the amount as the payment involved "the people's money"."The people have the right to know," he told Bernama.He noted that Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Datuk Zaid Ibrahim had declined to reveal the amount each time the de facto law minister handed over the payment to the former judges.

2008-06-20T02:47:00.003+08:00

PM ABDULLAH MASIH DI AWANGAN

Selepas bermesyuarat dalam perjumpaan tergempar Barisan Nasional untuk membincangkan langkah Parti Maju Rakyat Sabah untuk mengusul undi tidak percaya kepada Abdullah sebagai Perdana Menteri di Parlimen, Isnin ini, Abdullah memberitahu persidangan akhbar bahawa perkembangan terbaru itu adalah satu perkara biasa dalam politik!!!

Katanya BN telah diberi mandat besar untuk memerintah negara dan beliau sebagai Perdana Menteri perlu meneruskan kerjanya dan pedulikan tindakan-tindakan yang cuba memesongkan tumpuannya.

Pendirian Abdullah ini ibarat si burung unta yang membenamkan kepalanya ke dalam pasir!!

2008-06-18T21:40:00.006+08:00

USUL TAK PERCAYA KEPADA PM PAK LAH

Ura-ura Parti Maju Rakyat Sabah untuk mengusul undi tidak percaya kepada Abdullah Badawi sebagai Perdana Menteri di persidangan Parlimen 23 Jun ini adalah satu tamparan paling hebat kepada beliau kerana sebelum ini beliau kerap berkata parti-parti Barisan Nasional di negeri bawah bayu itu taat menyokongnya.

Setiap kali pulang dari melawat Sabah, Abdullah berkata ahli-ahli parlimen BN di Sabah memberikan taat setia kepada beliau sebagai pemimpin BN dan Perdana Menteri Malaysia, walaupun banyak kehilangan kerusi dan tidak memperolehi majoriti 2/3 di Parlimen.

Berbilion-bilion ringgit telah dijanjikan Abdullah kepada Sabah dan Sarawak sebagai balasan kepada rakyatnya yang hampir kesemuannya mengundi BN.

Tetapi jelas itu tidak mencukupi kepada salah satu parti komponen BN itu. Sudah terang dan lagi bersuluh, bukan wang ringgit yang dimahukan oleh orang Sabah. Apa yang dimahukan ialah supaya Abdullah berundur dan tidak lagi menjadi Perdana Menteri kerana jika beliau terus memimpin, negara boleh hancur!

Samada Abdullah masih tidak faham mesej yang hendak disampaikan kepadanya sudah berkali-kali bukan sahaja oleh orang Sabah, malah ramai orang di Semenanjung, tidaklah dapat dipastikan atau beliau sengaja tidak mengendahkannya.

Apa yang telah dikomen oleh Abdullah mengenai tindakan parti dari Sabah itu ialah pemimpinnya iaitu Yong Teck Lee "tamak, kerana tidak dapat apa yang dimintanya".

2008-05-29T00:54:00.005+08:00

Government to engage bloggers in cyberspace

By SHAHANAAZ HABIB
KUALA LUMPUR: The Government will take on bloggers in cyberspace and respond to wild and baseless allegations raised in blogs.
Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said remaining silent was no longer an option.
He acknowledged that the Government had overlooked the need to engage the new media, which was a new dimension in shaping public opinion, in the recent general election.
The Government had not been savvy in engaging the new media and lost out in cyberspace, he said, adding: “But we live and learn.”
Najib said this during a question and answer session at the Asia Media Summit 2008 here yesterday.- The Star- 28 May, 2008

... a comment on Rockybru ...
The government has got it wrong again. The strategy is not about taking on the bloggers but listening to them. The bloggers are ordinary rakyat who are giving their views on matters affecting their life and survival. The job of the government is to listen to the rakyat's voice and apply it if it benefits the people and the nation and not to regard bloggers as a threat to the government or the position of those in power

2008-05-28T01:13:00.006+08:00

PEMIMPIN PEMUSNAH

..komen dalam Che Det..
Hari ini kerajaan beraja di Nepal akan terhapus. Dihapuskan atas nama demokrasi. Perlembagaan negara dipinda. Tidak mustahil ini boleh berlaku di Malaysia. Tanda-tanda sudah dilihat. Raja-raja Melayu dipersenda oleh orang Melayu dan bukan Melayu. Kerajaan pusat yang ada sudah hilang dua pertiga majoriti. Tidak dapat dibayangkan apa akan berlaku dalam pilihanraya umum ke 13?

...petikan dari CheDet...
(..Dan yang buruk sekali ialah kemungkinan Barisan Nasional kalah diperingkat Pusat. Apabila hilang kuasa diperingkat pusat, kehilangan kuasa ke atas kewangan negara, ke atas dasar-dasar negara, pentadbiran negara dan lain-lain kekuatan yang datang bersama dengan pemerintahan peringkat pusat, Barisan Nasional dan UMNO tidak mungkin lagi memperolehi kuasa di negara tercinta ini. Inilah musibah yang dijanjikan oleh pengekalan kepimpinan Dato Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi. Segala keistimewaan Bumiputra dan Melayu akan terancam dan mungkin hilang terus, walau apa pun janji oleh pihak lain.

...petikan dari berita...
New Nepal assembly sworn in, set to abolish monarchy
KATHMANDU (AFP) — A newly elected and Maoist-dominated assembly that will rewrite Nepal's constitution was sworn in Tuesday, setting the stage for the imminent abolition of the Himalayan nation's monarchy.
Political leaders said the assembly will dissolve the monarchy and sack the unpopular King Gyanendra, who ascended to the throne seven years ago after a palace massacre, when it holds its first session on Wednesday…..

2008-05-27T13:50:00.005+08:00

Defending the Lion City
.. a comment on Rockybru ..

Malaysians shouldn't worry about Singapore. They can't even catch the Jemaah Islamiah terror leader Mas Selamat Katari who escaped through a toilet window of an Internal Security Act cell. What more to attack Malaysia. Others will do it for them if they come under attack. What should be worrisomes to Malaysians are the strategic moves made by the republic at the expense of Malaysia and Malaysians to stay afloat for its survival. The Pulau Batu Puteh case is one of the very good examples. They have billion of dollars in sovereign wealth funds. They will buy into anything that strategically support its umbilical cord such as the strategic telecommunication companies in Indonesia and Thailand, and the world's top banks. What more the Iskandar project. They will be very happy if they can buy into all Malaysia's strategic positions and control it without going to war. But they are cautious because there are still nationalistic Malaysians who are watching them and will blow the whistle if they rear their ugly heads.

2008-05-25T20:13:00.000+08:00

EXTRACT OF MAHATHIR'S COMMENT ON THE RULE OF LAW

11. But supposing a Deputy Prime Minister writes a letter of recommendation for his sister-in-law to an official or minister of another country who could be expected to take a serious view of the recommendation because the writer is a Deputy Prime Minister of a friendly country and the recommendation is for his sister-in-law, does this constitute lobbying, or corruption or abuse of power. We need to know so that such letters of recommendation would not be written again. We need to know if they were written before, can action be taken against them now since we are now taking action on things which happened in the past. By being very clear about the past, the present and the future Malaysia would become highly regarded as the epitome of righteousness and the practitioners of the rule of law.

Extract of Bernama news

May 06, 2008 21:38 PM

Abdullah Says Not Associated With Oil-For-Food Programme Firms

KUALA LUMPUR, May 6 (Bernama) -- Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said Tuesday he has no association with two local companies, Tradeyear Sdn Bhd and Mastek Sdn Bhd, said to have been involved in the United Nations' Oil-for-Food programme in Iraq.

The prime minister said the two companies had been named in the report of the UN Independent Inquiry Committee but the statement that the companies "were closely associated with me is not at all correct".

Abdullah said this perception arose because of his family links with Faek Ahmad Shareef, one of the owners of Mastek, because Faek had been married to his sister-in-law Noor Asiah Mahmood, the younger sister of his late wife Datin Seri Endon Mahmood.

He made this clarification in a written reply to Wee Choo Keong (PKR-Wangsa Maju) who had asked the prime minister to state whether he intended to set up a royal commission of inquiry into the findings of the Independent Inquiry Committee into the UN Oil-for-Food programme which claimed that the two companies were closely associated with Abdullah.

The prime minister said the matter had been clarified in the third paragraph on page 161 of the full report of the independent inquiry committee.

"The report states that the involvement of Faek Ahmad Shareef is based on the perception of the Iraqi government personnel who saw him as the individual who could help overcome the economic sanctions by strengthening the relationship between the Iraqi and Malaysian governments," he said.

Besides, he said, the Iraqi government also regarded Faek as having the capability to bring more Malaysian trade delegations to Iraq.

"Note 324 on pages 161 and 162 of the full report of the UN Independent Inquiry Committee states that the committee found no evidence that I received benefits or rewards in any form from the oil transactions allocated to Mastek.

"Note 324 also clarifies that my only connection with the Iraqi government at that time was a letter to introduce a Malaysian trade delegation to the Iraqi vice-president then, Taha Yassin Ramadan," he said.

Abdullah said that with the explanation of the UN Independent Inquiry Committee, there was no reason for the government to set up a royal commission of inquiry to look into the findings.

-- BERNAMA

Does anyone dares to report it to the Anti Corruption Agency?

2008-05-24T01:40:00.001+08:00

HILANG SUDAH SATU TANAH AIR

Pulau Batu Puteh

Hilang sudah satu pulau milik negara kepada Singapura pada 23 Mei 2008 selepas Mahkamah Keadilan Antarabangsa di The Hague, Belanda memutuskannya demikian.

Walaupun cuma pulau batu, ia amat strategik daripada segi kedudukan kepada sesiapa yang memilikinya.

Banyak yang boleh dipelajari daripada pengalaman buruk ini. Sikap tidak ambil peduli atau ambil mudah, kealpaan atau kelalaian, tidak bijak atau cekap, dan tidak mempunyai pandangan kritis dan strategis dalam apa juga tindakan atau situasi yang berlaku di sekeliling telah membawa kemudaratan kepada kemerdekaan, kedaulatan dan maruah bangsa dan negara.

2008-05-20T14:22:00.001+08:00

Kenyataan penuh Dr Mahathir Mohamad tinggalkan UMNO
ISNIN, 19 Mei 2008

HARI ini, Mei 19, 2008 saya mengumumkan keputusan saya untuk keluar daripada UMNO. Isteri saya turut bersama.

Keputusan ini dibuat kerana UMNO yang ada sekarang bukan lagi UMNO yang ditubuh 62 tahun dahulu yang berjuang untuk bangsa Melayu, Agama Islam dan Negara Malaysia (Malaya); UMNO yang menggagalkan Malayan Union, memperjuangkan kemerdekaan Malaya dan Malaysia dan membangunkan Malaysia sehingga menjadi Negara yang termaju di antara Negara membangun di dunia.

UMNO yang ada sekarang hanya wujud untuk menyokong Dato Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, keluarganya dan tindakan serta dasar yang tidak secocok dengan kepentingan bangsa, agama dan negara.

Kepimpinan Dato Seri Abdullah jelas membawa kekalahan dan bencana kepada Barisan Nasional, UMNO, MCA, MIC, Gerakan dan PPP. Kemenangan UMNO di Sabah dan BN di Sarawak bukan kerana kepimpinan Dato Seri Abdullah.

Saya akan jelas satu persatu dasar-dasar dan tindakan Dato Seri Abdullah yang menjadikan Kerajaan pimpinannya dan parti BN dibenci oleh ahli-ahli parti komponen sendiri.

Walaupun sebelum perisytiharan ini saya adalah ahli UMNO tetapi sebenarnya selepas saya letak jawatan sebagai Perdana Menteri saya tidak dilayan sebagai ahli UMNO.

Saya tidak dibenarkan berjumpa ahli UMNO dan ahli UMNO tidak dibenarkan hadir apa-apa perhimpunan di mana saya dijemput sebagai jurucakap atau penyampai ucapan.

Menteri-Menteri yang dahulu berada dalam Kabinet saya tidak dibenarkan atau tidak berani atau tidak mahu jumpa saya lagi.

Jemputan oleh UMNO dan bukan UMNO kepada saya diarah ditarik balik oleh Mneteri Besar dan Polis.

Ramai pemimpin UMNO melepaskan kata-kata kesat kepada saya dan ada yang menyuruh saya keluar daripada UMNO walaupun mereka baru sahaja masuk UMNO. Tidak ada pemimpin UMNO yang pertahankan saya secara terbuka.

Wakil ke Perhimpunan Agong tidak dibenarkan menyuara pendapat mereka. Mulut semua orang ditutup.

Yang didengar hanyalah media arus perdana yang memuji Dato Seri Abdullah sehingga dia percaya dia begitu popular dan akan sapu bersih parti lawan dalam pilihanraya umum ke-12.

Hasilnya ialah kekalahan yang teruk bagi Barisan Nasional. Malangnya mesej yang hendak disampaikan oleh pengundi dan penyokong BN tidak dapat difahami oleh Dato Seri Abdullah.

Dia masih berkata dia menang. Ini sukar diterima oleh orang Kedah, orang Pulau Pinang, orang Perak, Selangor dan Wilayah Persekutuan.

Oleh kerana Dato Seri Abdullah buta mata dan pekak telinga dan tidak faham mesej ahli BN, oleh kerana ahli UMNO pun turut bersama, oleh kerana proses demokrasi tidak berjalan, oleh kerana UMNO yang ada sekarang bukan lagi UMNO yang ditubuhkan 62 tahun dahulu, saya berpendapat penyertaan saya sebagai ahli UMNO tidak bermakna dan tidak berguna lagi.

Justeru itu saya ingin umumkan bahawa saya sudah keluar daripada UMNO.

Saya ingin tegaskan bahawa saya bebas dan tidak menyokong mana-mana parti lawan.

Saya akan pohon untuk masuk UMNO apabila Dato Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi sudah berhenti daripada menjadi Presiden UMNO, Pengerusi BN dan Perdana Menteri Malaysia.

Dr Mahathir bin Mohamad (bekas ahli UMNO No 1)
Dr Siti Hasmah binti Mohd Ali (bekas ahli UMNO No 2)

2008-04-10T16:18:00.007+08:00

I owe nobody any apology, says Dr. Mahathir

PETALING JAYA: Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad has accused DAP chairman Karpal Singh of being a detractor who was moved by pure hatred.

In a two-paragraph open letter to Karpal Singh dated April 3, the former prime minister said the politician was like any of his other detractors who would never believe him (Dr Mahathir) no matter what he said.

“You are moved by pure hatred and I cannot respond to people who can never accept reality. My conscience is clear. I have done what was my duty, and I owe nobody any apology,” Dr Mahathir wrote.

The letter was a reply to Karpal Singh’s earlier open letter stating that the former prime minister had abused the provisions of Article 125(3) of the Federal Constitution during the 1988 judicial crisis.

This led to the setting up of the two tribunals which found Tun Salleh Abas, Datuk George Seah and the late Tan Sri Wan Suleiman Pawanteh guilty of misconduct.

In his letter, Dr Mahathir also said Karpal Singh would make use of his letter to tarnish his name further.

Dr Mahathir further said that the Bukit Gelugor MP was the most contemptible of politicians and individuals.

In a statement yesterday, Karpal Singh said he stood by whatever he had said in his letter to Dr Mahathir.

“As Dr Mahathir is much older to me, I do not propose to hurt his feelings in the vein by which he has described me,” he said, specifically pointing to the line where Dr Mahathir called him “the most contemptible of politicians and individuals.”

Karpal Singh also told Dr Mahathir to take his views in his stride and added, “I do not hate him.”

2008-03-28T15:37:00.001+08:00

Dr M speaks up on MB issue

By TUN DR MAHATHIR MOHAMAD

A concerned Malaysian has expressed his worry over the role being played by Sultans in the appointment of the Mentri Besar.

His Royal Highnesses have clearly refused to take the advice of the chief minister, that is the Prime Minister. Instead, they have chosen on their own a member of the state legislature to head the Government.

We hear a lot of opinions on the propriety of the action by the Sultan. Some say he has the right to do this while others point out that as a constitutional ruler he could not do this.

The Constitution says that the Ruler or Head of State must choose the elected member who enjoys the support of the majority of members in the legislative body to be the Prime Minister or the Mentri Besar. Subject to this provision, it is the Ruler who chooses and appoints the Prime Minister or Mentri Besar.

The Prime Minister, as Prime Minister has no role in the choice of the State Mentri Besar or Ketua Mentri. His naming of a candidate who should be the Mentri Besar is purely a party matter. Obviously if the state is captured by the Opposition party he cannot name the candidate.

However, if the Ruler chooses someone who does not enjoy majority support that person could be deposed at a sitting of the legislative body through a vote of “no confidence”.

After that another member can be appointed by the Ruler to take his place. But if for some reason there is no other candidate or the candidate with majority support is considered unsuitable by the Ruler, a new Government cannot be formed. The Ruler may then dissolve the legislative body and a new election may be held.

This new election may lead to the same impasse. The Ruler may not like the member with majority support.

However, it should be noted that this kind of thing never happened during the premiership of the four previous Prime Ministers. Concerned Malaysians should wonder why.

Is it just that the particular Ruler is being difficult, unwilling to accept the principles of democracy, wanting to return to feudalism and the absolute authority of the monarch?

I do not think so. There must be a reason why the Ruler refuses to accept the candidate named by the party. But the Ruler chooses not to reveal the reasons and indulge in public debates. He merely expresses his displeasure by refusing to do what normally the Rulers would do.

Concerned Malaysians must ask what has the particular candidate done which is so wrong that it incurs the displeasure of the Ruler.

There is a lot of talk in the town. Terengganu is blessed with petroleum deposits. It should get 5% of the total earnings from oil production. The Federal Government, fearing the previous PAS Government might use this money wrongly, had withheld payment.

But when the Barisan Nasional regained Terengganu, the money, now called “Wang Ehsan”, was lavishly spent by the Federal Government on Terengganu. It is not a small sum. Over these years “Wang Ehsan” totalled several billions.

We know that since the Barisan Nasional regained Terengganu in 2004 all kinds of projects have been developed in Terengganu. This includes The Monsoon Cup, luxury housing for sale to foreigners, Crystal Mosque and theme park, university etc. Some of these projects are very good but many are totally unnecessary and wasteful.

But what the Terengganu people are saying is that all these mega projects costing billions of Ringgit have been contracted out to people outside Terengganu. Terengganu contractors got practically nothing.

But additionally they say the contracts all went to one person and they are suspicious that behind this person are members of the first family. The rumours also say that the previous Mentris Besar were responsible for these things happening and of course they think that he might have benefited financially. The rumours went on to say that the Prime Minister might have influenced the Mentri Besar into doing wrong things.

These are all rumours. It will be quite impossible to prove anything as the perpetrators are skilled in hiding themselves.

This is not good for a Government keen to abolish corruption and be transparent. To clear its name an investigation should be made.

But the public is leery of investigations by government agencies and departments. Even Royal Commissions are not highly regarded. The people believe, not true of course, that the Government has been interfering with the work of the Anti-Corruption Agency, the Police and the Attorney-General’s Chambers. The say this is borne out by the results of investigations by these agencies.

When a Deputy Minister was accused of accepting money for the release of a detainee, the Attorney-General said there was no case because the detainee said he did not give any money to the Deputy Minister. It is so easy. If you have a case involving someone, all the enforcement agencies need to do is to ask him whether he was involved. If he says “no” then there is no case.

For some reason judges are finding that people accused of murder are not guilty because of insufficient evidence by the police. Yet people who are totally not involved in a case, who were not accused of any misdeeds and who did not appear in court at all and been given a hearing, are found guilty and publicly condemned.

The public cannot be blamed for not having faith in government agencies conducting investigations. The public cannot be blamed for suspecting cover-ups by the Government or, worse still, that the Government may be using these enforcement agencies to threaten people.

To clear its good name, the Government should get credible foreign agencies to conduct the investigations. Of course they must be given full access to the documents etc.

Now my detractors are going to say I did worse things when I was Prime Minister. Well if that is so let us have the foreign agencies investigate me also. I am aware that people are looking into possible misdeeds by me during my 22 years so as to threaten me and ask me to shut up. So far they have not found anything.

Not only have I not taken anything that was not due to me while I was Prime Minister but I have given back to the Government and the people everything that I had received as gifts during my tenure. The Government had offered me land in Kedah and Langkawi and I had refused to accept. I have a five-acre piece of land in Putrajaya which I paid for even though the Government was offering it to me free.

Unless there is a frame-up I think there should be nothing to pin on me. Even other accusations against me including the dismissal of judges were not my doing and I do not feel obliged to apologise. Ask the Tribunal to apologise.

The person asking that the Government should apologise for what happened to Tun Salleh Abbas may have forgotten that as President of the Muslim Lawyers Association, he fully supported the action that was taken. He castigated the Bar Council for condemning Tun Hamid Omar over the dismissal of judges. Now he wants to be more correct than correct. I wonder why.