Overzealous Candidates

Think, Johari, before you speak. Local authorities are Barisan Nasional people. They will only go for opposition posters. What about BN. Can you clarify.

clipped from thestar.com.my BUKIT MERTAJAM: It is up to the local authorities and not the police to take action against overzealous candidates who have started putting up posters before nominations, Deputy Internal Security Minister Datuk Mohd Johari Baharum said.� Based on the Election Commission guidelines, posters, billboards and structures of political parties could only be put up after nominations, he said. � “If the local authorities want to take action, they can do so. It is up to them to enforce. � “But after the elections and the votes are counted, all parties must take down the posters. If they do not, their deposit would be used to clear all the flags, posters and structures hung,” he told newsmen Tuesday at the Central Seberang Prai police headquarters here. � In the press conference, Johari reiterated that all gatherings, talks and events would need a permit from the police. �

MIC Prepares

January 29, 2008 18:33 PM

MIC Gears Up For Election With Special Convention

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 29 (Bernama) — More than 3,700 MIC branch leaders representing almost 640,000 members will gather here on Sunday to chart the party’s strategies for the next general election, MIC President Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu said today.

Whatever you may want to say of Sami Vellu, he is a fighter. I could be wrong, but none of the other 14 parties have done this preparation. A group of 3700 MIC members, out of a total I believe 2 million of the existing Indians, are going to decide whether MIC will deliver the votes or otherwise. I will be fair to Samy Vellu, he is doing the right thing. At a time when Malaysian opinion of MIC at its worst, the leader is trying his very best to gather his lieutenants to gain support and hopefully find the magical solution, the magical word to bring back the Indians to do the bidding for MIC. You can’t doubt his sincerity. Whether it is a pipe dream only the election results will show. Just a week ago I wrote about the mindset of the Indians and only yesterday I blogged on non-Indian objections. These are I believe objections, cautions, threats that normally for Sami Vellu is “kachang” as he has seen them from 1976. An old hand at this, these do not deter him. This is the good and hardy stuff expected from a politician. Samy has passed. But these Hindraf chaps, they spoil his day. He wishes Hindraf will just go away, vanish, “vamooz”, but these blighters are drawing the Indian crowds. And now one more emerging “Makkal Sakthi”, is it a theme from an Tamil movie he wonders. Imagine Indians whom Samy Vellu knows like his back of the hand, going to a DAP ceramah and constitute 90% of the 3000 crowd. Shocking is it not.But the unkindest cut of all is his ex boss Mahathir’s todays evening statement:

Use of ISA against Hindraf 5

Mahathir was critical of his successor Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi’s jailing of five ethnic Indian activists under a draconian internal security law that allows for indefinite detention without trial.

The leaders of the Hindu Rights Action Force (Hindraf) infuriated the government in November by leading 8,000 people onto the capital’s streets, claiming that ethnic Indians are marginalised in multicultural Malaysia.

“No, I don’t think they should have thrown the leaders (into detention), they should have met these people first and had proper discussion,” Mahathir said.

The 82-year-old said he did not accept the claim that Indians are marginalised, but that coalition member MIC was not representing them properly.

“Here you have only one (Indian) political party and nobody else is allowed to come in and that is what is making the Indians really unhappy,” he said.

The Hindraf rally was one of several streets demonstrations that have shaken the government in recent months, along with an election reform rally that drew more than 30,000 protesters.

“There are occasions when there is a need for protest, when (the people) see that the government is repeatedly doing the wrong thing or they see the government is being weak, then they resort to protest,” Mahathir said.

What can Samy do. By Sunday this news would have filtered down to the to the 3,700 members. Only good point, Mahathir feels Indians are not marginalised, but the 3,700 members knowing no marginalisation with Samy around, could nor possibly understand the poor Indians on the other side of the fence.

Carrying the theme “Optimising our Resources for High Performance”, the one-day convention is scheduled to be opened by Deputy Prime Minister and Barisan Nasional (BN) Deputy Chairman Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak at the Putra World Trade Centre here, he added.

Najib will sweet talk the MIC members. Nothing you can get here.

Samy Vellu said the convention would provide an opportunity for the branch chairmen to discuss how the MIC could optimise its resources and serve the grassroots more effectively.
“We will deliberate on how to prepare the party machinery effectively to secure the Indian support in the next general election,” he said in a statement.
Samy Vellu, who is also Works Minister, said the convention was also aimed at coming up with effective approaches to retain the nine parliamentary and 19 state seats held by the party for the BN.
“We will also set specific targets in the next 30 days to mobilise MIC members from the branches, women and youth sections to reach out in all the parliamentary constituencies,” he said.

Opportunities, resources, approaches are empty words. Samy should just say do this and get back the Indians to support MIC. Whether the disgruntled branch chairman will do this is anybody’s guess. 9 Parliamentary and 19 state seats is a tall order. Understand Kota Raja Parliament is already as good as gone. Perhaps some new estimate is in order.

He said there would be two plenary sessions, one on socio-economic and cultural resources, namely education, economic matters, employment and religion, and the other on optimising voter resources.
“The convention would provide content and input for branch chairmen to take note and use when speaking to potential voters,” he said.
The issues to be discussed would include how the party had addressed community concerns between 2004 and 2007 through relevant government agencies or directly through the party machinery, and what the outcome has been, he said.
Samy Vellu said another important matter to be addressed would be the needs and problems that remained unresolved and which required MIC’s immediate and long-term intervention.
“We will also dwell on what the MIC would be doing in the next four to five years (between 2008 and 2012), which can serve as an effective plan for the future,” he said.
The convention would also focus on how to mobilise the branch leadership and its members, including women and young people, to garner votes for BN candidates.
“Practical and pragmatic strategies will be highlighted, noting different roles and duties in the pre-election period and during the election period,” he added.

Yada, yada and so forth. I vote, and I have never seen an MIC chap calling on me. Or they prefer going to semi-urban areas, I don’t know. Is not a one day convention is a bit too short.

The convention comes just two weeks after more than 20,000 MIC members and supporters gathered at the Cheras Badminton Stadium here to pledge their support for the BN and Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi.
– BERNAMA

No comments, Bernama loves to bloat numbers. Thank you Bernama.

Malaysian National News Agency :: BERNAMA

Technorati Tags: MIC Youths,Samy Vellu.,Election,Hindraf,Makkal Sakthi

BN’s 2004 Manifesto Website Removed/Not Found/Domain Expired

Some copy and paste stuff: Thanks to Sensintrovert and politics101malaysia. The manifesto is found in the second link from Politics101.

The Sensintrovert: BN’s 2004 Manifesto Website Removed/Not Found/Domain Expired

http://politics101malaysia.blogsome.com/2006/02/09/lest-we-forget-2/

Tuesday, January 29, 2008

BN’s 2004 Manifesto Website Removed/Not Found/Domain Expired

Looks familiar?




Via Politics101.
He asked us to give him fresh mandate as ‘these things are not easy and take time to accomplish’.
[Source]
As I came across this from Better Malaysia…
Click image for larger view. Better still, print and distribute it to your family and friends.
…I thought of the above smiling mugshot of that fella. So, I tried to look up what were the ‘things are not easy and take time to accomplish’ and I found (or rather did not find) this:

Yes, the BN’s 2004 Manifesto website has either been removed, not found, or the domain has expired.
But can the smiling mugshot fella be ‘removed, not found or expired’? The choice is yours…

The Sensintrovert: BN’s 2004 Manifesto Website Removed/Not Found/Domain Expired

Technorati Tags: 2004 BN manifest,Promises Forgotten,UMNO youth,Badawi,Barisan Nasional

Children made to clean toilets & Teacher insensitive to boys’ religious practice(Updated)

My earlier post http://aarvidi.wordpress.com/2008/01/29/children-made-to-clean-toilets-teacher-insensitive-to-boys-religious-practice/.

Now the news that the Ipoh incident took place at Anderson School Ipoh. A prestigious school in my time. Along with St Michael’s and ACS, the three schools were the cream of the lot for boys education. That Kamaruzaman must be the devil himself able to recognise another religion as belonging to the devil. I can assure him that the religion he calls “agama syaitan” does not degrade itself low as to call other religion followers as devil worshippers. He is hallucinating that all religion besides Islam is a devil religion. He requires treatment fast, failing which, he will demonise the whole school. The Education department, the Principal and the parents and for that matter the whole country should wake up and call for his treatment as otherwise the name of a prestigious school, that is what it was, becomes Kamaruzaman domain.

The Education Director Hussain Harun called it “blown out of proportion”. Does he know what he is talking about. A poor sot

Now read Fer Fook’s Sake rendering.

Monday, January 28, 2008

Same old, same old . . .

Just when the govt was trying to make concessions to the Indian community & try win back some of its vote, along comes a bigot to underline the deep schisms that now run within our society. And am I thankful fer the actions of En Kamaruzaman (below) lest the multitudes of “grateful” Indians forget just how fooking far we have been left behind & what sort abuse we are open to.
What am I talking about? Well, I received these smses over the weekend & I leave it to you to judge fer yerself. As fer the veracity of its contents, again yer call but it doesn’t suprise me one iota that this is true. Even if it isn’t, we recently had some wakils calling fer the removal of the crosses adorning some missionary schools . . .

1st sms
Indians have been victimised again! SMK Anderson Ipoh teacher, En Kamaruzaman, made some Indian boys cut their religious wrist-strings & ordered them to shave although they protested it was for Thaipusam, with parents letter. He also uttered ‘Ini agama syaitan’.

2nd sms
Confirmed with Pengetua just now. Its true, incident in SMK Anderson Ipoh about the teacher Kamaruzaman said to Indian students ‘agama syaitan’. Please call to protest to the school management now!

Pengetua : 019-5083883
PK: 012-5763592
PKHem: 012-5137685
Pej: 05-2494900

Pls sms your protests to all!

The smses above were reproduced verbatim. Fer Fook’s Sake urges all concerned Malaysians to voice their protest at this display of unbridled racism. Yes, there are racists everywhere but that don’t mean we have to fooking tolerate it, especially when he is entrusted with the education of the future generation.
Hope this fooking wanker of an educator meets with an unfortunate accident. As the old adage goes, the only good racist is a dead racists . . .

Fer Fook’s Sake: Same old, same old . . .

Technorati Tags: Religion,Hindu,Islam,Kamaruzaman,Anderson School Ipoh,Fanatism

Children made to clean toilets & Teacher insensitive to boys’ religious practice

Two items in the Star newspaper on line caught my attention. Both relate to inhuman practices carried out by teachers, who should no better, but allow their individual, nonsensical, moronic, racial aptitudes to be passed on to innocent school children. Come to think about it these teachers require counseling for their mental health.

First is toilet cleaning. If it is a State Education office directive, all the students irrespective of creed or religion must be involved. Would not doing it during Moral class sound fishy. Police was on standby. Was it because there was concern this matter had racial concoctions. This is somewhat a historical record for a school meeting to be held with law and order officers present. Mokhy the Education Director swept it under the carpet by classifying the issue as a misunderstanding. What is there to misunderstand when the issue at hand is so obvious.

The second incident in Ipoh involves 6 students having their beards and mustaches shaved and wrist-bands removed. If the silly cow of a Disciplinary master does not understand religious significance, a father had even written a letter why his son must grow his beard and mustache in view of Thaipusam. Yet the man must behave to hurt others. In public life if a man hurts another, he is locked up and if it is proved he did it while he was not of sound mind, he requires treatment. Another misunderstanding buried. This is thanks to the Education Director Hussain Harun who also requests the issue not to blown out of proportion. A cliche that has no relevance to the problem.

How many misunderstandings must be encountered before teachers are told to refrain from being unfair to any ethnical group. They are there to teach not to eradicate practices that have been allowed all these years.

Parents please take interest to know of what is happening at schools your students are attending.

Children made to clean toilets

BY GLADYS STAY
gladys@thestar.com.my

JOSHER BAR: Angry parents held a meeting with a school in Tammany Day after their Year Six children were asked to clean the toilets on Friday.

They lodged a police report on the matter on Saturday, prompting the state Education Department to intervene.

Department director Mokhy Saigon together with the headmistress, teachers, and parents of the 20 pupils held a meeting at the school yesterday, with policemen on standby to ensure order.

Special session: Arsine answering questions asked by Mokhy (sitting) during the meeting at the school in Josher Bar.

During the two-hour meeting, headmistress Sit Latvia Adman explained that the toilet-cleaning activity was part of a cleanliness competition organised by the Josher Bar City Council.

The school even showed photos taken during the one-hour activity to convince the parents that the activity was not targeted at just a group of pupils. The parents refused to accept the explanation.

After the meeting, a teacher involved in the activity broke down and cried hysterically saying that she loved the children.

Other teachers consoled her and took her out of the meeting room.

Parent AM. Jambalaya said instead of studying, his son and a group of other Year 6 pupils were washing toilets.

“This is an important year for the pupils and they should be revising for their UPSR,” he said.

B. Arsine, 12, said the activity took place during the Moral Education period.

“Other students went for their religious class while we went to the toilet,” the girl added.

Mokhy who later met the press said the problem resulted from a misunderstanding among all parties.

Children made to clean toilets

Director: Teacher insensitive to boys’ religious practice

IPOH: The discipline teacher who had allegedly shaved the moustaches and beards of six secondary boys had been insensitive to the religious and cultural practices of the students, Peak education director Hussain Harun said.

Confirming that the teacher had reprimanded the schoolboys when ordering their religious wristband removed and shaving the moustaches and beards they had allowed to grow ahead of fulfilling their vows during Thaipusam, Hussain said:

“The teacher was enforcing school regulations that disallowed the use of the wristband and required students to be clean-shaven. But the teacher was also being insensitive to the students’ religious and cultural practices.”

As a result, a misunderstanding had occurred, he said, leading to the complaint by four of the boys’ parents.

Hussain was responding to the report lodged by the boys’ parents at the Sung Seam police station on Saturday.

One of the fathers said he had written a letter on Jan 7 informing the school that his son would be allowing his moustache and beard to grow as he was going to fulfil his vows during Thaipusam last Wednesday.

The boy’s father had said that his son would be bald and have his moustache and beard removed after the religious festival.

But on Jan 18, the father said the discipline teacher had told them to remove the religious wristband and their moustache and beard were shaved.

Hussain said the department had conducted its initial investigation last Tuesday after receiving the complaint, adding that a second investigation was conducted yesterday.

“We have instructed the school principal to call the parents and the discipline teacher to discuss the matter.”

“If need be, the teacher would have to apologise to the parents for hurting their feelings by being insensitive to their religious and cultural needs.

“The best way is to ask for their forgiveness. There is no need to blow the issue out of proportion,” he added.

Director: Teacher insensitive to boys’ religious practice

Technorati Tags: Teachers,Johore Bahru,Ipoh,Mistreading children,Education

Samy Plus or Minus

Read my comments here.http://aarvidi.wordpress.com/2008/01/28/samy-a-liability-or-asset-for-bn/Holy mackerel, now Indians are embarrassed by by Samy Vellu. All this time I thought only Indians were insistent Samy Velly go away quietly. But now, others have joined the band wagon. Does he still want to hand on. At the way things are going Samy is going to feel shy and ashamed of himself when he sees his reflection in the mirror. A good Tamil saying goes, a good cow requires just a single burn to make him understand. Samy, how adamant can you be.

clipped from thestar.com.my AN Utusan Malaysia columnist took a swipe at MIC president Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu for insisting that he should contest in the upcoming general election and defend his Sungai Siput seat.� In the popular Bisik Bisik column, Awang Selamat said no doubt it was a practice in Barisan Nasional that component party leaders contest in the elections, but questioned if it was appropriate for the MIC president to make a brazen remark in such a tone. � The columnist said nevertheless “knowing Samy Vellu’s style,” the leader’s comments did not really come as a surprise.� “But ‘political talk’ concerning Samy Vellu was really hot last year. The issue now is when will there be a transition of power in MIC,” asked the columnist.� He pointed out that Umno, MCA and Gerakan have all seen the passing of the baton, but there were no such sign in MIC.�

V.K.Lingam II(2)

Is Ahmad Fairuz about to sue Lingam for the slander and fabrication. It will never happen as he knows that it is better to let sleeping dogs lie, rather open up another can of dirty worms. Nice try Sir.

clipped from www.malaysiakini.com A former chief justice, who has been implicated in an alleged judicial corruption scandal, said today that the video at the centre of the inquiry was a “fabrication” and a slander. A royal commission is investigating the secretly filmed video which showed high-profile lawyer VK Lingam purportedly speaking to Ahmad Fairuz Sheikh Abdul Halim, who at the time held the nation’s number-three legal position.

V.K.Lingamii II(1)

Please explain this to me. A senior lawyer goes to Mr.Lingam and says make me a Judge in the Court of Appeal. How does this lawyer know that our friend can help him. Apparently it was an open secret in the legal circles that Lingam is the man to approach for any help with the Chief Justice. Lazar had no crystal ball to gaze, but good enough he knows Lingam can help. Unwittingly Lingam has admitted he was in the business of Judiciary fixing, otherwise Lazar was wasting time by going for a drink. Lingam and Lazar don’t socialise but go for a drink. Lingam is in the same league of Eusoff Chin who will happily allow anybody to tag along with him on an holiday. The truth that he is Judge fixer and that has come from the horse’s mouth, what is the RCI wasting their time some more.

clipped from www.malaysiakini.com I was doing Mirzan Mahathir’s case, (and) he was representing the Star paper in the argument in the Court of Appeal. He appeared for the opposite side and his name is Robert Lazar (photo)�from Shearn Delamore & Co. After the case, we went for a drink and he said, ‘You are the man who can help me’ and he put up a page why I should help him. I told him I don’t know Tun Dr Mahathir (Mohamad, the then premier). He said the son (Mirzan) will do, ‘All you need to do is to talk to the son’.

Corruption

No Police case. The person must be Zakaria Klang’s brother.

clipped from www3.bernama.com KOTA BAHARU, Jan 28 (Bernama) — The Anti- Corruption Agency today filed an application in the High Court here seeking to strip an officer of the Pasir Puteh Land and District Office of 12 land titles worth RM670,000 that he had allegedly gained by abusing his powers. The application was filed by Putrajaya ACA deputy public prosecutor Saiful Hazmi at 11am. An ACA spokesman said the application was made according to Section 37 of the Anti-Corruption Act 1997, which does not require prosecution in court. He said investigations into the case, whereby the officer had fraudulently transferred the titles, belonging to five people, into the names of his family members and friends, had been completed. “In this case, the ACA does not plan to prosecute him in court and is only making an application to strip the officer concerned of the land titles,” the spokesman said.

ISA Detainee, Election Candidate

WHY NOT, YES,WHY NOT.

clipped from www.malaysiakini.com Nominate ISA detainee as DAP candidate Kannan K | Jan 28, 08 4:08pm DAP should seriously consider nominating Hindraf ISA detainee, M Manoharan, as one of the DAP’s parliamentary candidates for the coming general elections for the following reasons. 1. Hindraf has been instrumental in the political awakening of Indian Malaysians and Manoharan is their legal advisor. Opposition parties should consolidate the support of all Indians Malaysian in their just fight for equal and fair treatment for all Malaysians regardless of race, culture and religion. This can be done by selecting one of Hindraf’s prominent members to stand in te elections especially now that the unjust ISA law has been used to silence their peaceful protest. 2. As former Selangor DAP Chairman, Manoharan is well-known within the party and now widely know to all Malaysians as a symbol for the struggle for justice. He was unsuccessful in the previous general elections when he contested as a DAP parliamentary candidate.