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KTemoc Konsiders ……..: Silence is not golden
Food for thought. Do you agree to what Anwar is doing. If I vote for PKR and the PKR chap is bought over by Barisan Nasional, would I be happy with the choice I made. All these talk about cross-overs, and if it should happen, is it the electorates will or is it not; I want your votes, once elected the voter can go to hell, I am in power and choose what is best.
What Anwar is doing is for his self interest. He wants to lead the government. He would do it at any cost. But the consequences will be faced by the people. Pakatan Rakyat must show improvements in running the 5 states, they must build up confidence and may be in the next election they can tell the people we have proven our ability. No bribery and coercion please.
Tuesday, April 08, 2008
Silence is not golden
A letter to Malaysiakini by Chin Chai Ho on 08 Apr 2008
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I refer to the Malaysiakini report
Defections: Why Pakatan should wait.
Anwar Ibrahim promised the people through press conferences, ceramah and public statements when campaigning in the recent general election that he will eradicate all form of corruption when he comes into power.
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In 1994, when he was the Deputy PM to Tun Mahatir’s Government, Anwar was known to have orchestrated the cross-over by Sabah’s PBS newly elected MPs and state assembly persons to BN. He thought he was smart, although many others thought otherwise simply because this was unfair to the electorate in Sabah.
In the past weeks Anwar again revealed his true-self when he admitted that he was indeed negotiating with BN newly elected MP’s with the obvious subject of ‘cross-over’ to his camp.
In his manifesto for the recent election, he proclaimed to all and sundry that when he comes into power, his top priority is to eradicate corruption but even before the new parliament is convened he was already up to his old self – offering BN MPs material gain for them to cross-over to his camp.
Of course, he denied that there discussions on any ‘trading’ in his talks on the cross-overs but surely they cannot be talking and negotiating the price of Dayak or Iban hats – please Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim don’t belittle our intelligence.
The fact that he has admitted negotiating with the newly elected MPs to cross-over itself shows he would not hesitate to betray the electorate to serve his selfish ends. Such a corrupt practice is the highest form of corruption and stinks to the highest heaven.
It would be interesting for Anwar Ibrahim to explain that despite his promise of clean government, he is now resorting to unethical and immoral ways to get the very people he condemned and accused of corruption to join him.
For goodness sake give us a break. Surely the people can see his true intention. All he wants is the prime minister-ship and the power that goes with it.
Why are all the leaders of the BN component parties (except for the prime minister) suddenly so quiet to such a happening? Have all of them been so badly beaten that they have lost their voice even over such a serious matter?
To quote Martin Luther King Jr: ‘Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter’. Speak up and tell the people! Your country expects all of you to do your duty.********
kaytee has done his wee bit!
posted by KTemoc at 6:55 PM
13 Comments:
Anonymous said…
- Wah, how many post already on this subject? But I agree lah. I have also written to PKR advisor.
Y1- 7:35 PM, April 08, 2008
malayamuda said…
people are not happy with the racist stand of the BN.
Now with the internal fighting btwn UMNO and component parties, more poeple will be cheesed off.
UMNO call for Badawi’s resignation, MCA calling for Ong brothers resignation and MIC calling for Samy’s resignation.
Principled BN MP may not be too happy and decide to switch. Besides UMNO doesnt seem to have learnt any lesson from their debacle. Heard about how they have banned priests and temple musicians from India from working here ? Heard how they are planning to sabotage tourism in opposition controlled states just because UMNO fellows cant make money in the name of tourism ?
So shud we wait till 2012 to correct the system ?7:51 PM, April 08, 2008 Anonymous said…
SIAMESE TWINS? LIKE SONIA GANDHI, LIKE ANWAR IBRAHIM!
http://www.malaysia-today.net/2008/content/view/5706/84/8:28 PM, April 08, 2008 Anonymous said…
Not everyone who writes to Malaysiakini using PR names and purports to talk on behalf of the people is a PR member or smypathiser just like you can’t teach anyone a point in morality. UMNO members write up to buy more time as they strategise and make their moves. 8:30 PM, April 08, 2008 Anonymous said…
SIAMESE TWINS? LIKE SONIA GANDHI, LIKE ANWAR IBRAHIM!
“Dear SYXL, jangan cakap besar sangat lah. Baru menang 5 negeri dah nak cakap besar. Do you know all the states have no money and Umno can kill the opposition easily like it did Terengganu in 2000 which resulted in the state going back to Umno? When everything grinds to a halt let us see if the voters still want the present government or they go back to BN. Even if investors want to go to the states they still need federal government approval. Cut out your arrogance, all of you. The states are living on borrowed time, as is the entire country. Sure, semangat tinggi. But when the pockets are empty the semangat disappears very fast. Economy not important, you say. Not from 100% of the Chinese I have spoken to. Economy is everything, they tell me. If the opposition fails to develop the states then the Chinese will swing back to BN.
Wah, kalau dengar mereka cakap bukan main gagah lagi. Come back in
five years and let’s see whether you still gagah after being out of work and have no home or car.
What’s wrong with humility, even more so if we imagine we have won? But we really never won you know. We are still an opposition. And if you think the voters will stick with us never mind what happens to them, then you all have a lot of growing up to do.
Let me explain our problem in three simple words. Money, money,
money. And that is exactly what we don’t have. Chinese are the most capitalistic people in this world. I have absolutely zero confidence that the Chinese will stick with the opposition when the pockets run dry.”
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“Phew….okay, you all win. I admit defeat. I abandon the idea of a unity government and delete the concept of make peace with the vanquished. Anyway, just for your information, if the GE were to be held again, today, the 82 Parliament seats would drop to about half that, and the five states would be reduced to two at the most.
You see, many who voted for the opposition, in particular the Umno Malays, just wanted to cast protest votes to send a message to Umno-BN. They really did not think that the result would be the loss of the two-thirds majority in Parliament plus five states (in particular Penang, Perak and Selangor).
Now they regret doing so. They just wanted to give Umno-BN a slap, not lob the head off the shoulders. Imagine their shock when they discovered they overdid things and instead of just a slap they ended up cracking the skull.
But now that it has been done, it can’t be undone until the next election. But if they find that voting for the opposition was not so bad after all, then they might say, what the hell, and do it again. But if they feel threatened, then rest assured they will swing back to Umno-BN.
We have to be very careful what we do from hereon. Yes, WE, and I mean WE the opposition supporters, voted opposition because of the Umno-BN arrogance. The Umno Malays however did not vote opposition for that same reason. But if we display arrogance as well, then we shall frighten the shit out of the protest voters who did not really want to kill Umno but just teach it a lesson.
Vengeance should be the last thing on our agenda. We are not that strong yet to afford the luxury of being arrogant. Punishing corrupt officials of the past regime is another thing though. Even Umno people would support that. But screaming about an agenda of killing off Umno would undo all that we have gained on 8 March 2008.
No, I do not believe that the opposition will do better the next election, at least going by today’s sentiments. My worry is that the opposition would not even be able to maintain what it has won thus far and will instead see a slide. And whether we see it slide, maintained, or increased, will all depend on how we conduct ourselves. Our performance, and only that, will decide where the opposition goes from here. “
- Comments by YM RPK in his article, “Like Siamese Twins”
As most readers of MT would know by now, the gist of YM RPK’s article was that he proposed, in essence, that Pakatan form a Unity Government alongside with UMNO. Judging from the many reactions in the comments section, I can wholeheartedly say most, if not all of the MT readers (who also happen to be concerned voters themselves) REJECT and ABHOR such a concept. Moi included.
But, unfortunately, as YM RPK adroitly pointed out (or implied), many of us are still in Cloud Nine and not realizing that control of Federal Government funding apparatus and, more importantly, PETRONAS, still lies in the hands of UMNO.
As we have seen in the recent days, steps are now being taken by the UMNO Federal Government to channel as much as possible money that is DUE TO THE PAKATAN STATE GOVERNMENTS via other dubious means, Do not be fooled by Pak Lah’s Mr. Nice Guy exterior. He is as every bit the Crocodile Dr. M was, and knows that if Saudara Anwar takes over as PM, his S-I-L will end up in a zoo.
Now that we know the Mongolian Yak who has been designated King-In-Waiting, it is ever more urgent for Pakatan Rakyat to persuade MPs from East Malaysia to team-up with them to form the next government. Let us DENY the Yak the pleasure of a PM pension and his face from gracing the pages of our history books, yes? It will also keep his grubby hands from PETRONAS money, which would most likely, in any events, end up with Messrs. Alfred Dunhill or Messrs. Louis Vuitton.
So, to the Readers of MT and supporters of Pakatan. Keep your feet on the ground. Make no mistakes. This is all about WHO GET WHAT, WHEN, AND WHERE. YM RPK has repeatedly pointed out this fact, but very few seem to have taken it to heart. And right now, the strangulation of Pakatan State Governments has just begun. No Money, No Talk. And when you can Walk the Talk, you are going to get VOTED OUT.
As we have also seen, Pakatan’s coalition is also on slightly shaky grounds. DAP, who harbour nonsensical dreams of being KINGS, fail to realise that demographics are against them, and that being KINGMAKERS is more rewarding. Finance Minister, anyone?
PAS, who also dream a strange dream of Islamic State (whatever that is), knows that upholding Justice and eradicating Corruption is called for in Islam. If that is not an Islamic State in action, I don’t know what is. Nobody loses, right?
PKR, who dreams a wet dream of forming the Federal Government, may or may not be boasting when they claim to have 30 BN defectors at hand. A beautiful wet dream, for sure, but are you wooing the Right Brides and can you actually consummate the marriage in time?
Remember, allies are vulnerable when joined at the flanks during the heat of combat. Alliances can be undone by petty issues and grievances. DO NOT TAKE matters raised by Utusan Dayus or TV3 Suku as Truth itself. Clarify first, fire later. 8 March 2008 is your D-DAY as was on 6 June 1944 in the beaches of France. The question is: will it end up as a VJ DAY Parade OR a humiliating Dunkirk?
Finally, a message for Saudara Anwar. Please do not wait six months for a by-election in order to contest for a Parliament seat. You have 82 wise guys (and gals) in Parliament. If your boast of 30 BN defectors is true, why wait for six more torturous months? Datin Seri Azizah makes a fine PM. Remember Sonia Gandhi? Everyone in Congress wanted her to be India’s PM, but she declined in favour of Manmohan Singh. Yet, many visiting Head of Governments pay her a courtesy call when visiting India.
DO YOU TRULY WANT TO UPHOLD JUSTICE and ERADICATE CORRUPTION as you claim?
DO YOU TRULY WANT TO SEE MBs NIZAR, LGE, and KHALED be a model of a fair and transparent governance for all to see?
Then, please, Saudara Anwar, CARPE DIEM! Remember, you can always take your time to contest after the fact and assume the mantle of leadership. BUT NOT BEFORE, IN MY HUMBLE OPINION.
Return PETRONAS back to the hand of the Rakyat (and from the hands of UMNO) and go down in history books as Malaysia’s most outstanding and dedicated Statesman.
And PLEASE, make Dr. M look like a schoolyard bully in comparison.
By Robin Goodfellow
http://www.malaysia-today.net/2008/content/view/5706/84/8:33 PM, April 08, 2008 Anonymous said…
In your desperate attempt to smear someone for your nefarious and infantile project, you try to copy and paste the works of anyone who may be at least close to what you would have said. Have you ever asked yourself, how many people disagree with that? If someone is against defecting, how many want that to happen and how many write about it? You are cheap and sleazy. Burying your head in the sand. No wonder your dignity is non-exsistent. I thought pigs have that tendencies of… 8:36 PM, April 08, 2008 Anonymous said…
“So shud we wait till 2012 to correct the system?”
BN won with definite majority and Pak Lah maybe weak and need to be replaced, but that doesn’t mean that the whole UMNO machinery lack of leaders. They are few reasonable leaders. Let’s see what happen in UMNO AGM. PR must prove that they are able to run the country. So, start with the five states. Rakyat will patiently wait and observe their merits (or demerits).
UMNO is known devil, and been around since. Their damage is predictable but our new ‘heroes’ are yet to be seen. And our brethrens from PKR only have bad records to show in the past and yet to demonstrate anything real and beyond opportunistic politics.8:40 PM, April 08, 2008 Anonymous said…
For many silent malaysia, a vote for PR is actually a protest vote for BN. People want BN to be reformed. And the best way of conveying this is through the general election.
But matter seems to take a life of its own. So, PKR stop frog hunting8:44 PM, April 08, 2008 Jay said…
We have never seen, heard of an UMNO or BN MP bought, saying he wa sbought, was to be bought or was ready to cross over. But we have Pakatan MPs and ADUNs from Selangor to Perak offered billions, one says he was to be given 65 million. If Kaytee has any decency which his myobic ilk can’t posses at any given moment, he should tell us about that. Even if the man you hate for your own reasons were an evil man, many would support him if he were to be criticised by you because they know what drives you. So never imagine that your vomit will be lauded by anyone if they don’t agree with Anwar or his party.
(Bernama) IPOH, April 8 — The Anti-Corruption Agency (ACA) and police have commenced investigations into allegations by the DAP that one of its elected representatives was offered between RM10 million and RM65 million to join the Barisan Nasional (BN).
DAP vice chairman M. Kulasegaran said he had given a statement to the ACA regarding the matter Monday.
“ACA officers came to question me after they were informed by the police about the case. I gave them my full cooperation,” he told a press conference at the Perak DAP’s office here Tuesday.
Kulasegaran said police also recorded a statement from Tronoh Assemblyman V. Sivakumar yesterday and that he (Sivakumar) would be interviewed by the ACA today.
Sivakumar lodged a police report at the Ipoh police headquarters regarding the alleged buy-over attempts yesterday.
According to him, the offer was made through telephone calls and the short-messaging-service (SMS) after the BN lost the state in the March 8 election.
When the offers became to frequent, he was stressed by it and lodged the police report.
An ACA spokesman, when contacted, declined to comment on the matter.
Another Perak DAP assemblyman, A. Sivasubramaniam (Buntong) is also due to make a police report about alleged attempts to buy him over.
“I have been receiving offer after offer through telephone calls and SMS to join the BN. I am being offered up to RM80 million to jump ship,” he said.
Sivasubramaniam said he would be making the police report at the Buntong police station Wednesday.8:49 PM, April 08, 2008 Sabahan said…
If someone has evidence however little that any BN MP or ADUN was bought, engaged to be bought, why can’t that person proceed the ACA and lodge a complaint? If you are about integrity, honesty and accountability, you need to know that it doesn’t come through prejudice, unnuendos, selective editing, selective memory and selective choice. Pakatan has challenged BN to produce evidence of anyone bought, what else do we need? If you accuse someone, then show us the evidence. Or you think you are talking to feeble minds here? Oh, I never imagined that feeble minds believe that everyone is like them. That’s legendary by the way. A blind man thinks everyone is the same. Enjoy life as the world moves on….
Hurray!8:54 PM, April 08, 2008 Anonymous said…
“What will Anwar do after April 14? Que sera sera, the man says!”
The Malaysian Insider) JAKARTA, April 8 — De facto Opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim was coy about his plans after April 14 - when he is eligible to take part in politics - repeating that his interest is in ensuring a cohesive Pakatan Rakyat and improving the economic and social conditions in the five states under his coalition.
“What do I do next on the 14th, Que Sera Sera,” Anwar told reporters in Jakarta after giving a keynote lecture in conjunction with the 100th birthday of Indonesian ulama and novelist Hamka.
Under Malaysian law, convicts cannot take part in politics for five years after their sentence ends. Anwar was sentenced to six years’ jail for corruption on April 14, 1999 but served two-third due to good behaviour with the sentence ending April 14 2003. He was released from jail September 2, 2004 after he won an appeal against a sodomy conviction.
“But of course I look forward to… after all it is a decision by a corrupt court, a compliant court under the instructions of Mahathir. I don’t give a damn what they say,” he said.
He also disclosed that the pact had not decided whether to propose a motion of no confidence against Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi when Parliament convenes on April 28, 2008.
“We have made no decision on whether we want to propose a special resolution or motion of no confidence. We are more interested in governing the five states in a fair and transparent manner for all races.”
However, he cast doubts that Abdullah can last long as a prime minister.
“Now what Abdullah said that he is the prime minister and Anwar is the prime minister-in-waiting, that is his view. I hope he can still be prime minister for some time,” said Anwar, who was clad in a suit with a red checked tie.
He dismissed Abdullah’s remarks over the weekend that deputy prime minister Najib Abdul Razak would succeed as prime minister.
“He has been the anointed successor long before the Mongolian case and other controversies, it is of no consequence to us,” Anwar added.
The Opposition leader returns to Kuala Lumpur this evening from Jakarta.9:01 PM, April 08, 2008 wits0 said…
No, KayTee, Silence is not Golden but then, neither is mere selective ranting and venting. 9:03 PM, April 08, 2008 kl said…
I think i agree with the robin goodfellow article, in another 5 years, the PR will lose. Which makes it more imperative that PR get control of the govt now and not in 2012,…
In a David vs Goliath fight, no one faults David for using every means at his disposal to win.
Village Heads Who Resigned To Be Absorbed Under Rural And Regional Development Ministry
So it is very clear now. All states controlled by Pakatan Rakyat, will have mini Ministries separately, set up by the Federal Government. In all Pakatan Rakyat states there will be 2 administration, one elected by the people, the second selected by the Barisan Nasional. In time to come Barisan may also have a state assembly running parallel, to the existing one, and depending on the subject matter will be chaired by the Barisan Nasional Ministers from Kuala Lumpur.
Funding of the legal State Assembly is from state funds but the funding of the alternate state assembly will be from Federal funds, and the money for the spending will be carried by the Minister concerned in luggage bags; ask Muhammad squared and he with his experience will tell how this will be done.
This alternative Government thing started in Penang, the education department taking the lead, then Azalina the Tourist Minister said tourism memorandums of understanding with Opposition-ruled state governments will be terminated and Muhhammad squared says all federal projects will be channelled through the committee instead of the respective state governments. This is just the beginning other Ministries will follow soon.
Lets look at the village heads problem. They resigned and were not sacked. When you resign it is either you don’t want to work anymore or they fell insecure with the new state government. It is the village head’s choice. Why should Muhammad give them new jobs. The village and security committee is a state matter, why must this be disbanded. Surely new members can be appointed.
I am sure this matter will be debated in Parliament.
Village Heads Who Resigned To Be Absorbed Under Rural And Regional Development Ministry
SERI ISKANDAR, April 8 (Bernama) — All village heads in Perak, Selangor, Penang and Kedah, who have resigned from the post, will be reappointed by the Rural and Regional Development Ministry, its minister Tan Sri Muhammad Muhd Taib said.
Muhammad said the ministry, however, had not decided on the name of post for their reappointment.
He said the ministry might accept a proposal by the Perak Village Heads Association that the new post be named the federal development coordinating committee (JPPP), replacing the village security and development committee (JKKK).
There were about 2,000 village heads in the four states which are now under the Pakatan Rakyat (People’s Alliance)’s rule.
“The ministry will pay their allowances and all federal projects will be channelled through the committee instead of the respective state governments,” he told reporters after a meeting with 817 village heads here Tuesday.
On the claim by Perak Menteri Besar Perak Mohammad Nizar Jamaluddin that the village heads were forced to resign, Muhammad said, all the 817 village heads who attended Tuesday’s event did so voluntarily.
Cabinet Meetings To Move To Fridays
On the way to school, I was telling my grand-daughter, this man wanted to avoid problems and to do that decided to stay put in the house; the ceiling of the house fell on him. She laughed and in this mood I returned home. Another laughing matter was this piece in Bernama.
Most of you know the antics of Nazri Abdul Aziz the man from Padang Rengas in Parliament during the first term of 4 years Badawi’s rule. He is foul mouthed, with tendencies to run wild, aggressive and a trouble creator. He is loathed by the opposition as well as the people. He is crass and a yobo or ruffian belittling his background as a legal man. His shout of racist, was it 42 times, echoed through the vast chamber of Parliament and turned it to a market of hooligans.
Today he is back; the only regret is, he should have been moved to some other duties rather than comment on the doings of Parliament. He has the cheek to comment ‘be careful what you say, watch your behaviour, no sensitive issues, blah..blah..blah.’
Unless he has cloned himself to be a better behaved person, or has undergone some counselling courses to control his temper, I can see him as the first person in Parliament to break the advice he has given.
Nazri the ball is at your feet.
Cabinet Meetings To Move To Fridays
KUALA LUMPUR, April 9 (Bernama) — The Cabinet meetings usually held on Wednesdays will be moved to Fridays to enable ministers to be present at parliament sittings, said Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Datuk Seri Mohamed Nazri Abdul Aziz.
He said it also had to do with the planned 30-minute live telecasts of Parliament proceedings from the end of this month.
“Before this, during question time (Q & A) deputy ministers or parliamentary secretaries answer for ministers because they (ministers) sometimes are unable to be present.
“Now with this live telecast move, the ministers themselves will provide the answers as the people will be closely watching the proceedings,” said Mohamed Nazri on the “Bersemuka Dengan Media” talk show programme on the RTM1 television channel Tuesday night.
Also appearing on the programme hosted by Ahmad Sabri were BERNAMA assistant news editor Hafizah Kamaruddin and the operator of the Agenda Daily news portal, Hanafiah Man.
Nazri said he hoped the live telecasts would make parliamentarians more careful on what they say and about their behaviour in the august House.
“Although they have parliamentary immunity, they must be careful not to raise sensitive issues and if they do, they must be prepared to face the consequences,” he said.
He said if the trial run of the telecast (from 10am to 10.30 am each sitting day) was successful, the telecasts might be increased to 90 minutes daily, covering the whole of the Q & A session and should it be extraordinarily well received, the entire proceedings would be telecast live.
He said this had not been done earlier because it had been cost prohibitive, something like RM15 million if telecasts were held over 92 days of sitting.
“But because the people are demanding for it now, we must accede,” said Mohamed Nazri.
