Cheers for the Sultans again!!!

With the economic slowdown heading towards Malaysia and the political mess that we are going through, the ones with the sensible rational mind seems to be the Sultans. With the lack of political leadership from the country's leaders it seems that the Sultans are bridging that vacuum void.

Latest muscle flexing by the Sultans was the announcement by the Sultan of Selangor, Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah that there will be no "Datukshit" being conferred by the state this year. He also said that there will be no additional state functions and the state must be prudent in spending as not to waste the Rakyat's money.

The idiots and morons that are running the present government should take some leadership lessons and examples from the Sultans. Think in the fifty plus years of independence, never has there been a government so weak and lame as the present one. In this last five years can be seen that the usually untouchable big three component party of UMNO, MCA and MIC that makes up the Barisan Nasional coalition showing signs of dissatisfaction among each other and the lack of unity suggest that maybe a break up of the coalition is at hand in the near future. History in the making is what we could be witnessing soon, the demise of the BN coalition and the racist UMNO.

Must say it's been along time coming. Fifty odd years of the same old crap is just a little too long. Malaysia needs a change. The change though we do not know if it is for the better or for the worst but nonetheless a change is most welcomed. It is time that UMNO realise that the Rakyat are no more ignorant to the dangerous racial card that they keep pulling out of the bag. The Rakyat now are too intelligent and wants a more fair and transparent government with equal opportunity to all regardless of race, creed or religion. Over the years Malaysians have learn to live in racial harmony and have the outmost respect for each other. UMNO today is in trouble because they fail to realise this.

Evidently, can be seen as the Selangor Sultan has openly criticised the politicians using racial issues to gain political mileage for their own or party's benefits. The Sultan is right that the politicians should give the racial thing a rest and focus on more important matters, the economy. With the global recession and the risk of it hitting land fall in Malaysia soon, all the politicians are busy bickering about "Ketuanan Melayu" and privileges only. Don't they realise that when Malaysia goes into economic turmoil, what use is the privileges going to do??? If due to the economic crunch and civil unrest occures, what use is the "Ketuanan Melayu" then???

Hopefully the Sultans of Malaysia will continue to make noise and keep the politicians in line. With the Royals coming out from political obscurity and back into prominence, maybe that is just what Malaysia needs.

Freedom Writers

In light of the recent racial tension the nation has been going through after some idiotic statement made by some moronic individuals and all the never ending wars that are raging on in the world, a movie aired last night on HBO was a good and timely reality check.

The movie was aired last night on Astro's HBO channel 411 at 12 midnight and finished about 2am. The movie was released in 2007 with a a cast of superstars like Hillary Swank, Patrick 'McDreamy' Dempsey and Mario. The movie is based on a true story about how a teacher, Erin Gruwell and 150 teens used writing to change themselves and the world around them. The name of the movie.....

Freedom Writers

It's a movie about a group of outcasted teens who didn't want to be in school but was most probably there to get off the hostile gang infested streets and be safe to live to see another day.
As studying is not their main priority, hence their bad discipline and attitude not only towards the teachers but towards each other. Their new teacher, Erin Gruwell, who was a newbie educator herself, was resented because she was 'white'.

Watch the teacher's preserverance through adversities as ahe battles through the education board and system and the biasness of her fellow educators who dubbed these teens as " unteachable and high risk" students.

Watch as these teens who resent and hate anyone who was not of the same 'kind' as them. Take to heart as in the end, they understood that all human beings are equal regardless of colour, race, creed or religion. Once they wre enlightened it didn't matter whether they were white, black, American, African-American, Latin-American, Asian, male or female. Isn't that the way it should be.....The existence of prejudice that leads to resentment and hatred is because of the failure and laziness of each and everyone of us to even try to understand our fellow beings other than ourselves.

So pull out your Astro magazine and check the listing for the next screening and please do make time to watch it. Maybe make it the movie to watch on family night as it will be educational for kids as well.

It'll be 2 hours of very well invested time, I assure you that you won't regret it!!!

Advice : Go and have your toilet break before the movie starts and prepare ample drink for the movie is so good that you will not wanna leave your seat. Tissues are a must caused it'll send your through the emotional rollercoaster of highs and lows.

Trivia : At the hotel dinner for the kids, after their trip to the Holocaust Museum, all the Holocaust survivor character are played by actual Holocaust survivors!!!

More : The book with the same title, 'Freedom Writers', was published in 1999 and was written by the teacher, Erin Gruwell, is available for purchase. A website was even created so if after watching the movie and you are inspired and wanna know more, take part or even contribute to the cause, you may do so at http://freedomwritersfoundation.org

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’.

Tsu 'Immigrant' Koon vs. Ahmad 'Racist' Ismail

The racial tension now in Penang is almost at boiling point. The fact that now it is so much an issue of race no more about politics, tensions might boil over and threaten the peace and harmony of the nation. Police, FRUs and even the army has been put on standby to counter any civil uprising that might occur.

All these unhealthy tension is caused by just 1 insensitive man's remark, Datuk Ahmad Ismail saying that the Chinese were mere 'pendatang' or immigrant and squatters who does not deserve any rights in this country. The remark was made in a ceramah days before the Permatang Pauh by-election. No wonder the post election survey showed that most Chinese in that constituency did not even bother to turn up and cast their votes.

He has since refused to apologise for the remark and said it was 'taken out of context' by the members of the press who were present at his ceramah. DPM DSNTR was also present and has since came out publicly to apologise for the remarks of Ahmad. If it was really taken out of context by the members of the press then why did DSNTR with consent and agreement from DSAAB apologised??!!!

Gearakan President Tan Sri Koh Tsu Koon has criticised and condemn Ahmad for his remarks and now it's a bitch fight between the two. There has been some 'bad blood' between the two in the past and that makes the bickering and hair pulling even more intense.

These are some of the jabs, hooks, upper cuts, bitch slaps and some below the belt punches thrown by both at each other in the past few days.....

Welcome to the bitch fight battle royale between Koh 'Tai Chi' Tsu Koon vs. Ahmad 'Silat' Ismail.....

The Datukshit Ahmad Ismail and posse corner -

• Asked Gerakan to get out of BN as they have caused nothing but chaos among component parties.Called for Tan Sri Koh Tsu Koon's post of state BN chairman to be stripped and given to MCA.
• Accussed a few Gerakan leaders of exploiting and taking advantage of the issue.
• Made another very 'read between the lines' racist statement at a recent ceramah. He said that, "He (Tsu Koon) is a leader who is really good at Tai Chi but I would like to remind everyone not to forget that the Malays are equally good at Silat" -One would assume the use of the words 'Tai Chi' is to describe the Chinese immigrants and 'everyone' refers to a threat/warning to all those who are not Malay. How can he deny he is not racist when he issues such statements after the first one and why say 'not to forget that the Malays' when the issue in the first place was about discrimination of the Chinese as immigrants and not of the Malays!!! This coward racist pig is now trying to garner up courage to take the fight longer by stirring up sympathy and empathy from the Malay community by flaring up Malay sentiments so they will support him. Shameful how this sow making a mockery of the intelligence of his very own race.
• Insist that he will not apologise for his remark on August 23rd
• Another very racist 'read between the lines' remark of "We will not be pushed against the wall", with his supporters thumping tables and screaming "Hidup Melayu". -"We will not be pushed against the wall"?? Isn't it suppose to be just him?? The cockless cowardly pig can't fight his own battles and needs his mommy...BOOHOO!!! All respect to the Malays supporting him, please see the light that this sorry excuse of a racist arse is merely manipulating and using you to hopefully save his behind from being crucified.
• At the end of a press conference, his supporters took down a poster of Tan Sri Koh and tore it to pieces.
• When asked to comment on the action of his supporters, he said no such instructions was given and it was down by supporters from other divisions and not that of the Bukit Bendera. -Another shameless statement, to save his ass this time, he has hung out to dry the asses of the very people who supported him from other divisions. Is this the kind of snake you want as your MP??? .....Shameful!!!

Gerakan President Tan Sri Koh Tsu Koon and poosse corner -

• Tsu Koon has asked the PM, BN and UMNO to sack Ahmad from all post and to apologise for his remarks.
• Penang Gerakan Has severed all ties with the state UMNO after the latest Ahmad attack on their President.
• Penang MCA said it was severing ties with the Bukit Bendera UMNO as well.
• Wanita Gerakan has urged the PM to sack and strip Ahmad of his post and Datukshit
• Penang BN Youth Chief resigns as a mark of support to his party and President.

I would personally like to thank the Datukshit Ahmad 'Racist pig' Ismail for openning our eyes that there are race politics and discrimination used in BN and UMNO. The Ahmad issue has also further exposed the weakness and flaws of the DSAAB leadership.

Parti Gerakan and MCA has at last shown some balls and severed ties with the Penang state UMNO. Maybe DSAAB and UMNO should follow suit and cut all ties with Ahmad. Having a trouble making racist pig amongst their ranks will do them no good at all.

BTN - the racist course...

BTN’s racist and divisive indoctrination courses

Now that Najib has apologised to non-Malays for Ahmad’s statement, I would like to bring to the attention of Najib the pain endured by the young non-Malay JPA scholars who are required to go through a five-day Biro Tatanegara programme at certain camps in the country. To be fair, many moderate Malay students too cried and were hurt by some racist comments made by the instructors.

As part of the course, which is mandatory before they are sent overseas, all non-Malays are segrgated and given lectures on the history of the country and how the immigration of the Chinese and Indians had taken place. And finally how the Chinese and Indians were given citizenship. The Malays too had their own similar sessions.

The instructors blatantly told them that they should not question the rights and privileges of the Malays as the non-Malays should be thankful that they were given citizenship status and a place to stay on their soil. My daughter together with the other non-Malay students was shocked and went back to their dormitories depressed. And to the Malay students, the instructors told them to be aware of this fact and not to mix too freely with the non-Malays.

A Malay friend of my daughter came back crying to the dormitory saying that she could not take the racist position taken by the government authority. My daughter then began questioning the bumiputra policy and was disgusted with such blatant indoctrination. This incident has also made the students harbour anger and resentment. Their fear for the authorities and losing their scholarships made them keep their cool. I am not exaggerating here - ask all the JPA students to write in anonymously and you will know the truth.

These are young minds being polluted with racism. Tens of thousands of students have gone through this programme and more will be attending it in the future. So can you blame them when they exhibit their racist tendencies when in authority? How could the JPA allow such a syllabus for the cream of the nation, who will one day be entrusted to implement government policies fairly?

So, will Najib take responsibility for the racist syllabus and subsequently the racist remarks and apologise to the tens of thousands of students and parents who were hurt by such hurtful remarks? Of course knowing the BN government, it will deny this. Believe me, this is the ABSOLUTE truth.

My call to Najib is to immediately probe into this claim with the help of a multi-racial team of officers from Suhakam BUT please maintain the anonymity of the young children who have everything to lose. This blatant racism practised and preached by the Barisan Nasional government must stop immediately.

From an outraged Malaysian parent

 

   

   

   

   

 

Joke of the day...

Bukit Bendera UMNO Chief Datuk Ahmad Ismail had allegedly called the Chinese pendatang (immigrants) and was also reported to have said that “as the Chinese were only immigrants it was impossible to achieve equal rights amongst races” during a ceramah in Permatang Pauh in Aug 25. -The Star (31.08.2008)

In light of the recent racial tension that irresponsible quarters has aroused, another brainless UMNO leader had to come up with this dumb remark.

What DSAAB had to say, he just said that Datuk Ahmad didn't mean it. So what the hell did he mean?!!

How in the world did a dumb crap brained motor mouth jackass like him became a minister...