When you get the corrupted to guard against corruption, the MACC is what you get.

In his attempt to leave his legacy as not to be the lamest Prime Minister ever to lead Malaysia, Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi brain stormed the idea of the Malaysian Anti Corruption Commission. Set to be his greatest and defining achievement in his rather short term as the premier of Malaysia, MACC as all his other efforts has blown up right in his face.

Once thought as a positive and bold move by Badawi as he pushed hard for the bill for the establishment of the MACC through Parliament and finally getting the green light to proceed, many Malaysians welcomed the the commission as maybe, just maybe, the rampant corruption and power abuse might be kept in check. Till date the MACC instead of looking like a genius brain child of the PM looks like nothing but a lump of UMNO excreted poo.

Some pity should be shown to him after all he can't be blamed for being born some what short of a few marbles in the space between his ears. The thing that he is guilty of is his inability to learn from his past mistakes. The people that he have kept close to him and entrust to assist him in leading the country has all come back and bit him in the arse. His DPM, the snake Najib and the chief commissioner of MACC, Datuk Seri Ahmad Said Hamdan are all spineless crooks. Poors Badawi though as honestly there are no loyals among his ranks.

The MACC has proven that there will be no chance for a democratic and transparent government in Malaysia as long as BN and UMNO remains in power. The MACC's final outcome on their investigations into irregularities in UMNO has found the party to be clean, pure and pristine party only goes to show that MACC themselves should be investigated.

Prove of MACC is as corrupted is the very next day after they release the public statement of UMNO being free of any money politics and power abuse is an aide of a top minister in UMNO was caught with RM50,000 in his car. Of course it'll be hard for them to prove that the money will be used for buying votes as the UMNO general election nears. All the same, it'll be interesting to see what the MACC concludes what the money is for after their investigations. Whatever it is, I'm sure it'll be good reading for a laugh.....

Getting sacked from UMNO probably the best thing to have ever happened to Datuk Zaid

Former de-facto Law Minister Datuk Zaid Ibrahim has been sacked from UMNO with immediate effect s announced by Prime Minister and UMNO president Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi. Reasons for the sacking, Datuk Zaid attended one too many events that were organised by the opposition.

According to the lame Prime Minister, Datuk Zaid attending these opposition's events is against UMNO ethics and drastic action needs to be taken. The Prime Minister also said that UMNO does not practice double standards and will act tough against those who breach the party's code of ethics. Datuk Zaid will not be allowed to appeal the decision as the sacking was agreed and approved by the UMNO Supreme Council.

Think without doubt that the sacking is a blessing in disguise and probably the best thing to happen to Datuk Zaid. A man of such righteousness and vision as him should not waste his time in UMNO. All his efforts would only be filtered and suppressed by UMNO. Datuk Zaid's intentions to bring about change would have more effect and his message will reach further now that he is out of UMNO.

Thanks to Datuk Seri Abdullah and UMNO for yet again releasing another thorn from their party that I'm very sure will come back and prick them in the arse. Hmm.....maybe this is also a clever move by the outging Prime Minister to have all those influential individuals out of UMNO so they can make life a living hell for Najib as means of getting back after his successor forcibly forced him out of power.

Facing backwards and walking in reverse is not the way forward

PKNS or Perbadanan Kemajuan Negeri Selangor was set up on the 1st of August 1964 to 'encourage socio-economic growth and foster stability, harmony and social justice through property development projects and trade and industrial development and investments'.
It’s philosophy is to develop Selangor by generating ideas and activities for the benefit of the people and to contribute towards creating a united Malaysian society.

So if keeping in line with its fundamental objectives and philosophies why the much fuss about the appointment of Low Siew Moi as the acting General Manager of PKNS?? Is it because of incompetency or is it gender or racial discrimination???

Lets ponder on the first reason shall we...Incompetency. It is a fact that Low had served PKNS and its cause for over 30 years now with 11 of those years served as the Deputy General Manager. Without doubt that she has done well in serving the people of Selangor to be able for promotion till the Deputy GM post. So the question of her competency and ability is out the door.

Next ponder point would be gender discrimination. Loh Siew Moi being a female might have caused some unrest among male chauvinists in the organization but there was also dissatisfaction among female quarters. Chauvinism reason is not valid as I am pretty sure no matter how conventional our thinking in Malaysia maybe, majority of us Rakyat have accepted that female are equals. Who knows in the near future we might have our very own first female Prime Minister. So this may not be the actually reason as well.

If it is not the first two then the third would likely be it and it definitely is the worst reason of all…Racial discrimination. This issue is still ever so present in our society even after 51 years of independence. Modernization and development has not done any bit it seems to eradicate such thinking from majority of Malaysians. Sadly, the competence and well qualified Low is a non-bumiputera and one of us 'squatter Chinese' so her appointment has ruffled the feathers of many.

So the question next question now is, was PKNS established solely for employment of bumiputeras and its philosophy of 'develop Selangor by generating ideas and activities for the benefit of the people’ meaning development and benefit for only bumiputeras when Selangor is a very multi-racial state. If so then amendments to their ‘contribute towards creating a united Malaysian society' where the 'sian' in Malaysian should be omitted. This would make it clear for all Malaysians and those non bumiputeras like Loh will not waste her time and such conflicting issues will not arises.

Of course PKNS wasn’t established for such reasons. The UMNO led Government are bloody bullies but they are not ignorant and suicidal. It was establish to benefit all of Selangor multi racial community with of course the privileged and benefit of some big shot and their families being the main priority above anything else.

So how now brown cow??? Will PKNS decide on merit or on race discrimination???
Of course the right decision should be based on merit but with this issue arising in the first place goes to show PKNS doesn’t have a faintest idea of what’s right and wrong. Whether the person is Malay, Chinese, Indian, Iban, Kadazan Dusun or other ethnic races in Malaysia not mentioned here, if he or she is most qualified and capable then he or she should be appointed. As with the failure of the NEP, we cannot develop ourselves and our nation if race becomes the main criteria in deciding our leaders. They should not be choosen for the mere fact that they are Malay even though they are inefficient and incompetent. Best example, our current lame and weak PM, Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi.

Recently a minister made a statement in which he said that the bumiputeras and Malays in Malaysia are the ones that have been compromised a lot. His argument was that the bumiputeras and Malays make up 70% of the population in Malaysia and they are only allocated 30% of reserved rights of the economy as according to the NEP. If based on such statistics then yes he does have a point but if based on economics then he should retract his statement back up his arse. What use is it to reserve 30% of our economy if the ones awarded with it can’t make use of it. NEP was formed to bridge the gap between the Bumiputeras and Malays with other races but the problem is not the gap between races. The NEP objective should be to focus on closing the gap between the rich and privileged Malay families to other Bumiputeras and Malays.

Higher Education Minister Datuk Seri Mohamed Khalid Nordin asked, "The question is, what is the appropriate percentage of Malay and Bumiputera participation in the economy?".
Well, the answer Mr. highly educated minister is the appropriate percentage is as much as possible if the Malay and Bumiputeras merit their share based on self ability without such reserved rights and special privileges. Those capable ones will survive and prosper and the weak will wither and die. Then our nation’s economy will be true and strong as posers will not survive. This is the way it should be and have always been for the non-Bumiputera Rakyat. So tell us Mr. Minister, which race has been compromising all this while???

Malaysia cannot forge ahead if it keeps using old out dated policies. These policies is there to only benefit the few privileged UMNO Malays and Bumiputeras. The rest are also abandoned and left to fend for themselves. It is high time Malaysia be done with this kind of policies so we may develop, move ahead and prosper together.

Facing backwards towards the past and walking in reverse into the future is not the way to move forward.

The truth behind the May 13 tragedy!!!

The expected and unavoidable day has dawned. On the 12th September 2008, Malaysia Today editor Raja Petra Kamaruddin was arrested under the Internal Security Act or ISA.

Raja Petra's wife Marina Lee Abdullah said her blogger husband was arrested at 1.10pm at their residence in Sungai Buloh by a team of 10 police officers. She informed that Raja Petra and some 17 cds along with a computer was taken away at about 1.50pm but whereabouts of the detention was not known.

RPK was arrested under the ISA Section 73 (1) which deems him as a threat to national security, peace and public order further intensifies the 3 years party membership suspension of racial remarks loose tongue shotgun mouthed Datuk Ahmad Ismail as light weighted and pretty much nothing.

In light of this injustice by the corrupt and racist government of DSAAB, we hope and pray that RPK will be treated well and with dignity while under the ISA detention.

To madam Marina Lee Abdullah and all the family members of RPK, you are in our hearts and prayers. We hope that you will be strong in enduring these trying times.

The Government and UMNO led by DSAAB has become so obsess with the fear of the rapid rise in support for DSAI and the Pakatan Rakyat coalition that they are now resorting to the most dispicable and inhumane tactical move of all, playing the racial card. The recent Datuk Ahmad Ismail racist slur and the irresponsible behaviour of his supporters coupled by the DSAAB and UMNO Supreme Council so said to be 'stern action' against Ahmad further proves that racial politics does exist in the present Government.

Let us all remain calm, be rational and keep our emotions and statements in check. A repeat of that fateful bloody day of May 13 is not what we the modern, civilised Rakyat of Malaysia wants.
Let us not let the pea-brained DSAAB and his cronnies out smart us unlike the unfortunate relatives of ours in the past.

They say those who forget history are condemn and doomed to repeat its mistakes. History is something not to be forgotten and buried but should be made a lesson to us all so that we may refrain ourselves from the mistakes made by the ones before us.

In consideration to this, I bring to your attention an article by RPK. Please do read it and read it well. It is the truth of what actually conspired which led to that dark and bloody tragic day in Malaysian history.....13 May 1969;

In 1968, Umno fanned racial sentiments in a bid to 'unite' the Malays under its banner. Umno realised that the Malays were abandoning it in droves and it needed an issue to reunite the Malays. Further to that, the Prime Minister was being blamed for what Umno perceived as a loss of Malay support and the Young Turks in Umno wanted to also use this issue to pressure the Prime Minister into resigning.

Twenty years later, in 1988, Umno again went into turmoil with the emergence of Team A and Team B, which eventually split into Umno Baru and Semangat 46. Again, just like twenty years before that, the Malays had become disillusioned with the Umno leadership and there was a danger that Umno would suffer the same fate it did in 1969 if the general election was called.

The Umno leadership very cleverly got the Umno Youth and MCA Youth leaders to raise racial issues and bring the country to the brink of another ‘May 13’. This was when that infamous gathering at the TPCA padang in Kampong Baru was held and when Najib Tun Razak, the Umno Youth Leader, raised the keris and threatened to bathe it in Chinese blood.

Of course, this second ‘May 13’ never happened. What did happen instead was that Operasi Lalang was launched and more than 100 opposition leaders and activists were detained under the Internal Security Act. Najib and the MCA Youth Leader, Lee Kim Sai, however, were spared detention, although they were the two main players in the whole episode.

The ploy did not quite succeed though. In the 1990 general election, half the Malays swung to the opposition and Umno lost most of the Malay heartland to Semangat 46 and PAS.

Twenty years on and history is, again, being repeated. It appears like every twenty years Umno takes the country to the brink of a race riot in its effort to 'unite' the Malays and to ensure that it does not lose Malay support. And the 8 March 2008 general election, as well as the recent Permatang Pauh by-election, is proof that Umno has lost Malay support.

"The current situation is a repeat of 1969," said Umno in its brainstorming session held at the Umno headquarters to conduct a post-mortem of the election results. "Therefore, a 1969 'solution' will also be required."

This is very dangerous talk indeed. And Umno has been doing nothing but talking dangerously since March 2008, as evident in the recent episode in Penang. Maybe the culprit has since been punished. Yesterday, Umno’s Supreme Council decided to suspend Ahmad Ismail for a period of three years. But the damage has already been done and the suspension can’t turn back the clock. Racial sentiments have already been fanned and Malaysia, again, is being pushed to the brink of a race riot.

Malays, Chinese and Indians need to know how May 13 started. They must be made aware of what May 13 was really all about. They must be made to realise that the current sabre-rattling is nothing but the same ploy that Umno used back in 1968 and 1988 whenever it felt that it was losing Malay support. May 13 was not about race although it is being touted as so. May 13 was about ‘reuniting’ the Malays and about ousting the Prime Minister from office.

To forget history would be to repeat its mistakes. Let us not be taken in by Umno’s shadow-play (wayang kulit). They know they are rapidly losing power and they want to retain power through foul means by raising the spectre of May 13. Malaysians need to be matured and clever enough to reject this ploy. Umno can try, but whether it can succeed will all depend on whether we get suckered into this very dangerous race game.

Let me take you down memory lane and recap what I wrote nine years ago so that we may learn from this dark history and not repeat what went wrong. As follows is what I wrote in Harakah on 24 September 1999.

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A REPORTER’S ACCOUNT OF AN INTERVIEW WITH TUNKU ABDUL RAHMAN ON THE 13 MAY INCIDENT

The following statement is a factual account of the above-mentioned event given to me by the late Tunku Abdul Rahman (first Prime Minister of Malaysia) during an interview at his residence in Penang in 1972. I requested to discuss the above incident and was surprised when the appointment was given within three days.

His Secretary, a Chinese gentleman, allotted me one hour and advised me not to go into too much detail as this would tire the Tunku unnecessarily. In fact, the interview lasted three and a half hours. Because of the very surprising details provided to me, I think it would be best to report in a first-hand manner based on my notes written immediately after the interview.

"It was clear to me as well as the police that in the highly charged political atmosphere after the police were forced to kill a Chinese political party worker on May 4th, 1969, something was bound to happen to threaten law and order because of the resentment towards the Government by the KL Chinese on the eve of the general election. This was confirmed at this man’s funeral on the 9th May when the government faced the most hostile crowd it had ever seen.

Therefore, when the opposition parties applied for a police permit for a procession to celebrate their success in the results of the general election, I was adamant against it because the police were convinced that this would lead to trouble. I informed Tun Razak about this and he seemed to agree.

Now, without my knowledge and actually “behind my back”, there were certain political leaders in high positions who were working to force me to step down as a PM. I don’t want to go into details but if they had come to me and said so I would gladly have retired gracefully.

Unfortunately, they were apparently scheming and trying to decide on the best way to force me to resign. The occasion came when the question of the police permit was to be approved.

Tun Razak and Harun Idris, the MB of the state of Selangor, now felt that permission should be given, knowing fully well that there was a likelihood of trouble. I suppose they felt that when this happened they could then demand my resignation.

To this day I find it very hard to believe that Razak, whom I had known for so many years, would agree to work against me in this way. Actually he was in my house, as I was preparing to return to Kedah, and I overhead him speaking to Harun over the phone saying that he would be willing to approve the permit when I left. I really could not believe what I was hearing and preferred to think it was about some other permit. In any case, as the Deputy Prime Minister, in my absence from KL, he would be the Acting PM and would override my objection.

Accordingly, when I was in my home in Kedah, I heard over the radio that the permit had been approved.

It seems as though the expected trouble was anticipated and planned for by Harun and his UMNO Youth. After the humiliating insults hurled by the non-Malays, especially the Chinese, and after the seeming loss of Malay political power to them, they were clearly ready for some retaliatory action.

After meeting in large numbers at Harun’s official residence in Jalan Raja Muda near Kampong Bahru, and hearing inflammatory speeches by Harun and other leaders, they prepared themselves by tying ribbon strips on their foreheads and set out to kill Chinese. The first hapless victims were two of them in a van opposite Harun’s house who were innocently watching the large gathering. Little did they know that they would be killed on the spot.

The rest is history. I am sorry but I must end this discussion now because it really pains me as the Father of Merdeka to have to relive those terrible moments. I have often wondered why God made me live long enough to have witnessed my beloved Malays and Chinese citizens killing each other."

This was a conspiracy at the highest level and nothing short of a power struggle, with the 'Young Turks' then forming the pressure group. To achieve their ends, they very cleverly used race to make the Malays rise and push the Tengku aside.

Today, they are doing it again. This is dangerous politics. It may backfire and, instead, it may make the Malays rise against the non-Malays, like what happened in 1969 -- a fire raging out of control with no fire extinguisher in sight.

We must never allow our country to be turned into a racial battlefield again. Let politics be issues concerning policies, civil rights, good governance and justice. Let us not allow anyone to bring race and religion into our politics lest we suffer the fate of many countries around us where mass murders of entire families are made in the name of ‘bangsa’ and ‘agama’.

Rakyat's poll of the Badawimp administration...

1. For the first time, Abdullah’s popularity has plunged from a record high of 91 per cent in November 2004 to 61 per cent in January 2008 (just before the March 8 general election), down to 53 per cent in April 2008. With the unchecked free-fall in the past three months, Abdullah’s popularity rating has crashed below 50% in the latest survey to 42%.

2. The popular “satisfaction” quotient with the Barisan Nasional federal government has also fallen below 50%, with 54 per cent either “somewhat dissatisfied” or “very dissatisfied” with the Barisan Nasional government, while 44 per cent said they were either “very satisfied” or “somewhat satisfied”.

3. Only half of the respondents agree that the leaders in the Barisan Nasional government understand what the ordinary people are going through – with 16% for “strongly agree” and 34 per cent for “somewhat agree” while 47% polled negative (18% for “strongly disagree” and 29% for “somewhat disagree”); and 3% for “Don’t know”.

4. Asked on satisfaction with Umno “as a political party in reflecting the aspirations and needs of the people of Malaysia”, there was a resounding “No” from 58% of the respondents (25% “Very dissatisfied” and 33% “Somewhat dissatisfied”), with positive response only from 36% (10% “Very satisfied” and 26% “Somewhat satisfied”). There was 5% “Don’t know” and 1% “No response”.

5. On whether Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak would make a good prime minister, there was another resounding “No”, with 47% negative responses (21% “Strongly disagree” and “26% somewhat disagree”) as against 34% positive response (8% “Strong agree” and 26% “somewhat agree”). There were 17% responses for “Don’t know” and 2% for “No response.”

6. In November 2006, 72% expressed satisfaction “with the way thing are going in the country at present”. This has plunged to 63% in December 2007, 66% just before the March 8 general election, 44% in May and a dismal 28% in July 2008.

7. In October 2006, 59% viewed the economy favourably. This has plunged to 24% in July 2008. In Oct. 2008, 49% viewed favourably the “current economic conditions compared to three years ago”. This has plunged to 19% in July 2008. In Oct. 2006, 57% favourably “expected the economy to be one year from now”. This has plunged to 20% in July 2008.

8. 55 percent of the respondents do not believe the sodomy allegations leveled against Anwar. Only 11 percent believed in the allegations, while 26 percent said they did not know if the claims were true. Eight percent gave no response.

9. Two-thirds, or 66 percent, of the respondents believed that the accusations against Anwar Ibrahim were politically motivated.

10. The majority of the respondents polled showed that they have no confidence that the judiciary, the Attorney-General’s Chambers and the police would carry out their roles in handling Anwar’s Sodomy II case in a fair and independent manner – i.e. 50% against the judiciary, 53% against the Attorney-General and 55% against the Police.

Petrol price expected to go down from Sept 1

PUTRAJAYA: The price of petrol prices is expected to go down on Sept 1 following a Government decision to float pump prices according to world gasoline prices.

Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said in a statement Friday that the Government had fixed the subsidy to 30 sen per litre and will not increase the price to more than the present RM2.70 per litre this year.

The new price for petrol will be decided on the first of every month from now on. It will be based on prices of gasoline and not crude oil.

However, the new move does not cover the prices and subsidy for diesel, which is about 80 sen per litre.

According to analysts, the Government’s move shows that it anticipates a drop in world oil prices especially after the Beijing Olympics.

They said this would also ease inflationary pressure on the country’s economy thus enabling Bank Negara not to increase the interest rate.

World gasoline price was at US$129.19 per litre Friday. If the Government were to readjust the petrol prices immediately, pump prices will go down by 6 sen. -The Star (01.08.2008)

What can I say, not bad that DSAAB has the intention to lower the retail fuel price by a whooping 6 sen after increasing it from RM1.91 to RM2.69 per litre. Does DSAAB thinks that after the increase of RM0.78 and now a decrease of 6 sen will win the heart of the Rakyat back. Is he challenging our Malaysian public's intelligence???
Come on DSAAB, you gotta do better than that. We're not as stupid and cheap as you think just because you are. 6 sen...SHEESH!!!