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Pakatan Rakyat Boleh Jatuhkan Najib Menerusi Tengku Razaleigh

Super Admin — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 23:40:55 +0000

Rakyat apa lagi rakyat berbangsa Melayu tidak mudah untuk digerakkan mengikut apa yang diagendakan. Bukan mereka cerdik atau pintar tetapi begitulah sifat dan ciri-ciri yang ada kepada mereka, Bangsa Melayu adalah bangsa separuh masak - kebaratan pun tidak ketimurtengahan juga pun tidak. Sebahagian besar orang Melayu masih berfikir secara ortodoks.

Puak pembangkang khasnya Anwar Ibrahim yang kagen dan kempunan hendak menjadi perdana menteri masih berusaha dengan cuba menafikan pilihan raya ke-13 tempoh hari. Anwar yang boleh dipuji beliau tidak pernah berputuas asa dan boleh mengubah segala janji dan ikrar politiknya. Sebelum ini dia bermadah akan bersara dalam politik sekiranya Pakatan Rakyat tidak menang. Saya sudah menduga awal-awal kenyataan (janji) itu sebahagian sebagai gimik dan modal politiknya demi meraih simpati.

Maka dicarilah satu dalih atau alasan untuk mengatakan Pakatan Rakyat menang bagi membolehkan beliau terus berada dalam gelanggang politik. Maka angka 51% diambil untuk menghalalkan tindakan. Kononnya Pakatan Rakyat mendapat suara 51% undi popular berbanding dengan UBN yang mendapat 47%. Dengan figure-figure yang disihirkan itu maka halallah Anwar untuk memungkiri janji politiknya untuk bersara.

Apapun kita ucapkan selamat kepada Anwar dan Pakatan Rakyat. Memang mereka tidak akan berpuas hati selagi Najib tidak jatuh dan di kalangan mereka (Anwar) yang akan dinobatkan sebagai perdana menteri. Orang yang mengatakan politik Pakatan Rakyat, baik Anwar, Lim Kit Siang dan lain-lain sebagai gilakan kuasa, orang itulah yang sebanarnya 'sinting' kerana seakan tidak mahu memahami politik itu yang mahukan kuasa. 'Budak'lah orang yang bermain politik tetapi tidak mahukan kuasa.

Ayuh teruskan Anwar dengan cara anda. Selagi rakyat masih mempercayai degan cara anda, silakan. Cuma ingat sedikit sudah ada bidalan, sepandai-pandai tupai melopat akhirnya ke tanah juga. Setinggi mana bangar terbang akhirnya hinggap di belakang kerbau juga. Hidup ini asa lapan dimensi bukannya empat. Mungkin bidalan ini tidak tepat. Apa yang hendak diceritakan, rakyat mempercayai kita hari ini esok dan lusa, tetapi bukan selamanya. Makanya tektik dan strategi kena tukar.

Bagaimana pun di sini saya ada formul kecil bagaiman kalau hendak jatuhkan Najib sebagai perdana menteri tanpa menunggu pilihan raya umum ke-14. Formula ini saya tidak mengira UBN akan tumbang. Tetapi khasnya untuk Najib semata-mata. Formula ini agak janggal dan tidak masuk akal. Namun kerana politik itu kadang kala di luar norma rentas pemikiran manusia, maka formula ini boleh dikira masih waras dalam kancah politik dan ia boleh dicuba.

Untuk menggugurkan seseorang bukan semestinya menerusi pilihan raya umum. Pilihan raya adalah cara formal yang yang ketat dengan syarat-syaratnya.Tetapi mereka juga boleh digugurkan secara lain. Kalau semua orang berfikir untuk jatuhkan Najib menerusi pilihan raya, maka pilihan raya ke-14 masih jauh. Masih ada empat tahun 10 bulan lagi. Dalam masa itu Najib boleh mempersiapkan dan memperkemaskan dirinya. Najib boleh berusaha untuk mengukuhkan kedudukannya. Belum tentu PRU-14 jalan mudah dan rapoh menjatuhkan Najib.

Makanya masa itu jangan dinanti. Ambil peluang dan cari jalan pintas.

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Bila berbalah tentang dasar parti, jangan serang peribadi individu

Super Admin — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:55:53 +0000

Keputusan pilihanraya ke 13 sememangnya merupakan tanda aras dan memberikan banyak jawapan kepada isu-isu yang dibangkitkan oleh semua pihak sebelum pilihanraya itu diadakan. Malaysia sebagai sebuah negara yang memberikan semua rakyat hak untuk memilih akan memberikan semua jawapan yang di isukan dalam proses masing-masing mendapatkan sokongan dan kemenangan.

Negara kita baru sahaja melepasi pilihanraya umum yang sangat panas semasa mengharung waktu berkempen beberapa bulan sebelum itu. Seperti biasa setiap pihak memberikan janji dan memaparkan manifesto masing-masing untuk menambat hati rakyat.

Individu atau kumpulan yang menang bersukaria dan yang kalah berdukacita dan ada yang mengambil keputusan tidak menerima keputusan pilihanraya itu sambil memberikan tuduhan yang pilihanraya tidak diurus dengan baik dan ‘transparent’. Keputusan ini juga memperlihatkan ada unsur-unsur kesombongan pada diri individu dan kepimpinan parti-parti kerana merasakan partinya atau dirinya sendiri sudah besar dan tidak akan tercabar lagi.

Seperti biasa manusia mempunyai pemikiran sendiri dan memberikan pandangan secara baik dan jujur terhadap mana-mana parti yang terlibat dalam proses kemenangan dan kekalahan hasil pilihanraya itu. Banyak juga orang lupa jika kuat pada hari ini tidak semestinya kuat pada esok hari.

Otot yang besar akan menjadi lembek dan mulut yang celupar itu akan membisu apabila sampai masanya. Ada manusia yang berfikir yang mereka akan hidup sihat sentiasa dan tidak akan menghadapi hari tuanya semata-mata kerana merasakan diri mereka sudah hebat.

Kadangkala ada pemimpin kerana terlupa bahawa masa dan zaman sentiasa berubah sehinggakan lupa bila bercakap itu membezakan bercakap sebagai pemimpin parti atau sebagai individu. Ada yang tidak menyedari yang mereka itu sudah menjadi sombong semata-mata kerana merasakan yang mereka sudah berada di ‘cloud nine’, begitu glamor dan terlupa dari mana mereka datang dan kemana mereka akan pergi, sedangkan hidup masih panjang lagi perjalanannya.

Saya sendiri baru mengalami secebis pengalaman apabila saya memberikan pandangan yang sebuah parti yang memperjuangkan ‘multiracialism’ itu sebenarnya tidak melaksanakan apa yang mereka laungkan dan perjuangkan. Komen saya dipetik oleh akhbar media perdana tempatan dan komen saya yang saya berikan secara jujur itu mendapat reaksi bernadakan peribadi yang tidak sepatutnya keluar dari seorang yang berkedudukan sebagai seorang pemimpin besar parti itu.

Dia memberikan reaksi yang mengatakan saya ini bukannya orang penting (unimportant). Tidak pernah saya mengatakan saya seorang yang penting. Jika ada insiden-insiden yang saya mengakui diri saya sebagai penting tolong beritahu saya. Benar saya sememangnya tidak penting (unimportant) tetapi saya hanya memberikan komen sebagai ‘ordinary citizen’ atau seorang biasa yang melata dipinggiran politik ini. Saya bukannya seorang pemimpin pun.

Oleh kerana saya tidak penting (unimportant) itulah persoalan timbul kenapa komen saya itu diberikan reaksi yang begitu ganas bunyinya? Jika komen yang tidak digemari itu datangnya dari seorang yang tidak penting (unimportant) maka tidak ada sebab pemimpin itu memberikan reaksi terhadap komen saya itu dengan nada yang agak angkuh dari seorang pemimpin yang bakal mengambil alih teraju parti itu?

Saya dituduh kecewa kerana tidak menjadi calon dalam PRU 13 yang lepas dan ini merupakan komen yang sangat peribadi. Jika pun saya dijadikan calon ia tetap tidak melambangkan ‘multiracialism’ seperti yang dilaungkannya itu kerana ia akan hanya menambah bilangan Melayu di dalam senarai itu hanya menjadi dua orang sahaja dari seorang yang ada sekarang.

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Exodus, NST as Insider recruits

admin-s — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:00:37 +0000

The biggest newsmaker would have been Datuk Syed Nadzri, who is the media adviser of RedBerry: the ex Group Editor of NST was tipped to be joining joining The Star as one of its directors with executive power BUT my man at the newspaper says it's NOT true. The post of NST group editor is still vacant. Wallahualambisawab.

p.s. Lionel and team comprising my ex Malay Mail staff Rita Jong and Muzliza, among others, will be starting work at TMI tomorrow. Terrence will start work at fz-com on August 1.

The reason cops shouldn’t abuse suspects

admin-s — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:40:22 +0000

In my last post about the police, I asked why cops shouldn’t abuse “almost certainly” reprehensible prisoners.

Some suggested I should ask how I would wish to be treated if I were the suspect. Some said there’s a chance the person “looks like, but is not” the guilty person. Some reminded me of the axiom “innocent until proven guilty.”

There’s truth in all those statements, but we can go deeper.

It’s often difficult to gather evidence or find sufficient, reliable witnesses to prove a crime. Rapists in particular benefit from this difficulty. And, many witnesses will not testify for fear of reprisals by friends of the accused.

Yet, we insist that the burden of proof must be satisfied: we insist that the police must not only apprehend criminals, they must produce evidence that the suspects did indeed commit the crimes they are accused of. We insist the police must obtain the evidence quickly, without harming suspects. We insist that the police must protect those who testify about what happened.

We expect the police to be like the Lotus plant which lives, stands upright and displays its beauty even in filthy ponds – we each have to excel at what we do. Yet, the police have to deal with bad folks more frequently than the rest of us. Period. It’s not easy to remain different from the bad folks. And therein lies the challenge: bad folks taunt us; bad folks mock us; bad folks hurt us.

The reason even a suspect is entitled to due process, entitled to be treated as innocent until proven guilty, entitled to be punished only by a duly appointed court of law, lies in civility. Being civil means treating each other politely and courteously, as fellow citizens with equal rights and responsibilities. [Seehere my post about the UN, Malaysia and civilization.]

Civility is a response to dignity, seeing “worth” in people because they are people.

On the 10th of December 1948 the General Assembly of the United Nations passed The Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The Declaration begins with the word “dignity:”

“Whereas recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world,”

The Declaration was issued after the end of World War II, after atrocity upon atrocity had been committed upon citizens both by their own fellow-citizens and by citizens of other nations. The Declaration was one of several responses to the brutal treatment of civilians and Prisoners of War.

This is the first part of Article 11:

“Everyone charged with a penal offence has the right to be presumed innocent until proved guilty according to law in a public trial at which he has had all the guarantees necessary for his defence.”

So, why shouldn’t the police – or anyone else for that matter – abuse even “almost certainly reprehensible prisoners”?

It’s because what I do to others is a reflection of who I am.

And that, I believe, is the primary reason why some of us feel so angry about the abuse of even “almost certainly reprehensible prisoners.”

As I write this, I have in my mind’s eye a short video of a number of young men who robbed a liquor store of a bottle of whisky and the contents of a cash register, threatening the cashier and a couple of others with a parang. In the previous paragraph, I said “some of us” because I saw comments on FB by others who basically said “the police should beat/shoot them.”

Redefining the Malay Agenda

Super Admin — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 06:38:27 +0000

Uppermost in the UMNO vocabulary is the expression of the Malay Agenda, a potpourri of rights and entitlements that the party claims is fundamental for the Malays. This will be the main thrust of the party leaders’ speeches during the upcoming UMNO General Assembly. With the results of GE13 and the Chinese and Indian communities’ rejection of UMNO/the Barisan Nasional, it’s natural to expect that everyone will have a wild time bashing the Chinese. Some nutty ones will ask for the Treason Act to be enacted—they will want the Chinese to be sent back to China and Islam and the Malay Rulers to be strengthened. These are the kind of steps the unthinking Malays in UMNO will be clamouring for, but all that will lead to is yet another show of misplaced anger and another round of wasted time.

It would be far more constructive if they were to instead talk sensibly about why the Malay/Bumiputera community has been steadily leaving UMNO. It’s no use ridiculing them for being “ungrateful”; instead, focus on the plight of young voters and how to overcome their concerns. To get these young voters back, party leaders have to offer more than just slogans and speeches laden with racial overtones. They need to address corruption, abuse of power, the wastage of resources and mindless bureaucracy. If Malay leaders could be honest enough to admit it, they would recognise that giving more power to the Malay Rulers and “strengthening Islam” (whatever that means) will not solve these problems.

To be useful, the Malay Agenda has to be introspective. UMNO can continue to take the easy way out and just blame the Chinese, the ungrateful Malays and everyone else, but one of the most cited reasons why people are not supporting the party is the corruption of its leaders. Corruption denotes a system where those with money are able to overcome any policy or rule because the leaders are corruptible. So UMNO can shout “Hidup Melayu” loudly and clearly, but if the decision-maker, who is invariably Malay, can be bought then no policy or special privilege will save the Malays. Prime Minister and UMNO President Dato Sri Najib Razak mistakenly describes this as a perception problem, when it is all too real. To continue to deny this is a sign of weakness and unwillingness to address the future of his own people.

Then look at education; if Umno thinks they should get more Malays to the universities because they can increase the quota then think again; these unemployed or unemployable graduates will be the ones who will pull them down in the next election. Its better to have Malays / Bumiputras skilled at the highest level by giving them proper training in business and technical know how than sending them to universities .Just to increase the number of graduates so we have more than the Chinese is a silly strategy unless the standards are high and employment is assured. Learn from Singapore where they limit the number of graduates as a proportion of their population. Unemployed graduates and especially the unemployable ones are ripe for street marches.

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Breaking Rumours - Badawi Arranged Indonesian "Summit"

admin-s — Sun, 16 Jun 2013 19:22:14 +0000

And there was no face to face meeting between Anwar and Najib. Rumour is Indonesian president Yudhyono and his people acted as go betweens. Anwar met Yudhyono in Bali. Najib stayed in Jakarta. Either Yudhyono or an emissary shuttled between them.

The question is the PMO does not deny that Najib was in Jakarta. It was not a State visit. (Because at the same time Yudhyono was in Bali meeting with Anwar.)

So if it was not a State visit, what was Najib doing in Jakarta? And what was Anwar doing meeting Yudhyono in Bali (which he has not denied either).

I think if the Malaysian Press has any cojones, please ask the PM and Anwar what was their exact itenary in Indonesia. Who did they meet? Why? When? And also throw in the What, where and the how.

Rumours from the White House

admin-s — Sun, 16 Jun 2013 18:45:17 +0000

The current administration has an obsession with the American President, Obama since Dato Dr Jamaluddin Jarjis was sent to Washington to fill the position of Ambassador to United States.

The whole civil service machinery have been instructed to focus on his upcoming visit in September that no one seemed to be concerned with policy or 2014 budget discussion.

To the common political eyes, it could be Prime Minister Dato Najib's appreciation for Obama's surprise call to acknowledge Barisan Nasional's win. It ends Anwar's post GE propaganda.

However, the astute observer fear that the call of support may have it's price in the form of the Asia Pacific Trade Agreement or seldom referred as Bangkok Agreement. We were made to understand that in this region, it is only Malaysia that has not signed this dreaded agreement.

The neo-liberal advisers in the likes of Omar Ong and Nor Mohamed Yakcop are cheering for Najib to sign. But, it is the death nail to our economic sovereignty and will sent the majority of Bumiputera back to colonial days poverty..

However, the White House rumours we are writing about today is not of Obama's but of Tengku Razaleigh's Jalan Langgak Golf home in Kuala Lumpur.

Kept Alive

Talks of Tengku Razaleigh aspiring to be Prime Minister has not stopped despite him being in a late age of 76.

The tengkolok that cost him the '90 GE

It is partly because since 1984 (save for his years in Semangat 46 and a near miss in the 1990 general election), Ku Li, as he is seldom called, has consistently offered himself for the position of party Presidency at every UMNO party election.

Nothing less, not even to run for Vice President when he returned to UMNO, even though he has never held the position of Deputy President.

If there are such positions called Pengerusi Tetap (Permanent Chairman) and Timbalan Pengerusi Tetap (Deputy Permanent Chairman) in UMNO, Ku Li deserve the position of Calun Tetap untuk Presiden (Permanent Candidate for President) UMNO.

And, in recent years, it was kept alive through great spinning by online news.

These spinning can be as absurd as Ku Li's boy, Jadawi's claim that Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi will vacate his position for Ku Li in weeks after he swore in as Prime Minister in late 2003. No politician would ever do that, not even a sleepy one.

During the "reign" of Abdullah, much of the spinning by Ku Li's boys on Malaysia Today came in the form of a theme called National Correction. When Najib became Prime Minister, it was spinned by Raja Petra (not Ku Li's boys anymore) as one of the Third Force.

Playing the same chord was blogger Sakmongkol aka Dato Ariff Sabri who described Ku Li as the only person capable of putting Malaysia on strong footing. [Read here]

The suspicion is DAP's former Pekan assemblymen Dato Ariff Sabri's loyalty is with Aspan Alias's boss Ku Li. Sources claimed that they are parked in DAP to wait for the right moment and there are many of them spread all over in DAP, PKR and PAS.