I love it when I can say, “I told you so” (UPDATED with Chinese Translation)
I think two submarines failing to prevent 100 illegal immigrants from entering Sabah is a pretty good track record considering that the US has 71 nuclear-class submarines and they still can’t stop 11 million illegal immigrants from entering the country.
NO HOLDS BARRED
Raja Petra Kamarudin
Bishop Paul Tan said that despite the government knowing that Sunday is a holy day where Christians must go to Church and worship God, EC has fixed May 5th for polling. “This disrespect of the government of the Christian rights is to be denounced. It just proves that the government is not sincere in its 1Malaysia slogan.”
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“That is not democracy, that is communism,” said Datuk Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat. “If you want to vote, go vote. But don’t force people into choosing a party.”
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“Even I never worked that hard. But I must admit that the support (for BN) was very obvious (when I was PM). That’s why I won five elections, each one with a two-thirds majority (in Parliament),” said former Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad.
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So far it has been, as a friend remarked the other day, “a very American election”. With its mobilising and symbolic focus on PM Datuk Seri Najib Razak, the GE13 “pre-campaign” has been nothing if not “presidential”. When an election is focused, through one key initiative, upon the fate of the national leader who is uniquely identified with that measure, we may well characterise the campaign as presidential. — Clive Kessler.
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As I write this, 87 comments have been posted in my article Should Tun Dr Mahathir be put to death? The comments would have been more than 100 had I not deleted about 20 or 30 comments that were so out of topic.
Those 20 or 30 comments I deleted talked about the reason and manner that Tun Dr Mahathir should be killed. Others debated Christianity and the New and Old Testaments and so on.
If you are a student of English literature and if you had read George Orwell’s Animal Farm then you will know that the book is not about animals or farms. It is about Communism. Can you imagine Malaysia Today’s readers reading that book and then debating as to why pork is haram in Islam (and Judaism) and therefore pigs should not be elected the leader of the animals?
Nevertheless, that would be exactly what Malaysia Today’s readers would do. One reader said that I should go to Oxford and take an English language course so that I can learn how to write properly and, therefore, people can better understand what I am saying in my articles.
Sivarasa Rasiah, the ‘caretaker’ Member of Parliament for Subang, gave a talk in Kota Damansara two nights ago (with Bersih Chairperson Ambiga Sreenevasan in tow) and he commented that Malaysia wasted so much money buying two submarines and yet they could not stop the Filipinos from sneaking into Sabah. The United States has 71 submarines and yet they too can’t seem to stop the 11 million illegal immigrants from entering the country.
I think two submarines failing to prevent 100 illegal immigrants from entering Sabah is a pretty good track record considering that the US has 71 nuclear-class submarines and they still can’t stop 11 million illegal immigrants from entering the country.
Anyway, why is Ambiga escorting Sivarasa to a PKR ceramah when she said she is not campaigning for PKR? As they say in the legal fraternity (and Sivarasa and Ambiga are both lawyers): justice must not only be done but must also be seen to be done. Hence, being impartial is not good enough. Should you not also be seen to be impartial?
Bishop Paul Tan is angry that the government has fixed Polling Day on a Sunday. This, he appears to believe, is disrespectful to the Christians. In some Malaysian states, people have to work on a Sunday — while the day off is Friday. And this has been going on since long before Merdeka in August 1957.
Should now all the states in Malaysia fix Sunday as the day off while Friday be declared a working day? And will the Pakatan Rakyat run states make these necessary changes to show more respect to the Christians seeing that this is very important to the Christians?
Anyway, polling is from 8.00am to 6.00pm. Do Christians sit in church for 12 hours from 7.00am to 7.00pm? Would there not be at least 30 minutes free time in between church on Sunday when Christian voters can run out to cast their vote?
And what about when the elections and by-elections are held on a Saturday (which has happened before)? Is this not disrespectful to the Jews (and there are some Jews in Malaysia)? Would fixing elections on a Saturday be considered anti-Semitism?
Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat has classified those who force people into choosing a party as Communists. That is very interesting. That would mean many of you who post comments in Malaysia Today forcing others to support Pakatan Rakyat are Communists. And, as many of you said, Nik Aziz would never lie. Hence you people are definitely Communists and not Democrats as you pretend to be.
An even more interesting comment was the one by former Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad. “I won five elections, each one with a two-thirds majority,” said Dr Mahathir.
So, if 50% of the Malays voted opposition (PAS and Semangat 46 at that time) and yet Barisan Nasional won all the elections with a two-thirds majority, is it the Malays who are the culprits? I love it when I can say, “I told you so”.
Finally, Clive Kessler said that the 13th General Election has been transformed into a US Presidential election. That is what I said last month and now Clive Kessler is saying the same thing.
I love it when I can say, “I told you so”.
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儅我有機會說“我已經告訴過你了”時，我是很得瑟的。
美國的71艘核能推動潛水艇阻止不了1千1百萬非法移民，相比之下我覺得馬來西亞的那兩艘表現得不錯了：他們只阻止不了100多名非法移民。
原文：Raja Petra Kamarudin
譯文：方宙
陳保儸主教表示，雖然政府很清楚星期天是基督徒必須去教堂祈禱的聖日，但選舉委員會還是選擇在5月5號舉行選舉：“我們應該譴責政府對基督徒權益的不敬。很明顯的，政府根本就不像1個大馬口號般的真誠。”
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“這不是民主而是共產主意，”拿督聶阿芝如此表示。“如果你要投票那就去投吧，但請不要強迫其他人選（你的）黨。”
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“即使是我也從沒這麽用功過。但我必須承認（對巫統的）支持是很明顯的（儅我還是首相時）。這就是爲什麽我贏得了5次大選，而且每次都是（在國會裏）超過2/3的支持率，”前首相敦馬哈迪如是説到。
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至今爲止這是個，就像我朋友所講的，“很美式的選舉”。過於注重首相納吉的個人形象把第十三屆大選的‘選前活動’弄得很‘首領化’。儅一個選舉過於注重在那個國家領導人時，我們可以把那個選舉歸納為‘首領化’。—– Clive Kessler
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正當我編寫這篇文章時，我的《敦马哈迪应该被处死吗？ 》這篇文章已吸引了87個留言。留言總數本來是可以過百的，但我刪除了二三十個完全離題的留言。
那二三十個留言談的是馬哈迪應該被處死的原因，或他應該被處死的方式。有些談到的是基督教義，新約和舊約等等其他的。
如果你修讀英文文學或曾經讀過George Orwell的‘Animal Farm’的話，你肯定知道那本書講的根本就不是動物或農場；那本書談的是共產主義。你可以想象得到，儅MT讀者讀了那本書以後他們開始爭辯“豬肉對穆斯林來講是Haram的所以豬不能被選為動物首領”的情景嗎？
這正是MT讀者們會做的代誌。有一個讀者勸我去牛津進修英文以便我能正確地書寫文章，進而讓其他讀者能夠更清楚我寫的到底是什麽。
梳邦選區的‘代理’國會議員Sivarasa Rasiah于前天晚上在Kota Damansara給了個講座（Bersih主席安美嘉也有在場）。他批評大馬政府在花了那麽多錢購買兩艘潛水艇以後都還阻止不了菲律賓非法移民進入沙巴。美國擁有71艘核能推動潛水艇，但他們還是阻止不了1千1百萬非法移民的入境。
美國的71艘核能推動潛水艇阻止不了1千1百萬非法移民，相比之下我覺得馬來西亞的那兩艘表現得不錯了：他們只阻止不了100多名非法移民。
話説回來，爲什麽安美嘉會陪同Sivarasa 參與公正黨的講座呢？她不是講了她不會替公正黨助選嗎？法律人士常講的（安美嘉和Sivarasa倆都是律師）：公義不僅僅要被維護，它還需要被其他人看到它會被維護。所以說做事情只做一半是不好的，她又何必去做一半給人家看呢？
陳保儸主教為政府把投票日定在星期天感到生氣，他把這看成是對基督徒的不敬。在馬來西亞有些州屬星期天是工作天而星期五是休假日。這種情況是自我囯在1957年獨立以來就有的。那現在是否所有州屬都必須把星期天定為周末而把星期五定為工作日呢？而民聯的管理州屬又會否這樣做來表達他們對基督徒的尊重呢？
無論如何，投票時段是從上午8點到下午6點。那請問基督徒們必須花12個小時，從早上7點到下午7點來上教堂嗎？他們找不到30分鐘的空隙走出教堂來投票嗎？
那之前都舉行在星期六的大選和補選呢？這不會對猶太人不敬嗎（有小部分的猶太人定居在馬來西亞）？把投票日定在星期六會否被看成是反猶太主義呢？
聶阿芝把那些強迫他人一定要選他們本身的黨的人定位為共產主義者。這真的是很有意思，這代表了你們當中那些強迫他人一定要支持民聯的都是共產主義者。正如你們很多人所說，聶阿芝是不會説謊的，所以你們一定是共產主義者而不是民主主義者。
而更加有意思的是前首相敦馬的言論：“我贏得了5次大選，而且每次都是超過2/3的支持率。”
所以，儅50%的馬來人都投給反對黨（當時的伊斯蘭黨和46精神黨）但囯陣卻還能擁超過有2/3 的多數席位時，請問馬來人是罪魁祸首嗎？儅我有機會說“我已經告訴過你了”時，我是很得瑟的。
最後，Clive Kessler 説這次的大選已經變得很美式。這是我上個星期所說的，而直到現在Clive Kessler才講出同樣的東西。
儅我有機會說“我已經告訴過你了”時，我是很得瑟的。
