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Posted: 03 Nov 2011 04:58 PM PDT

The famed actress is rumoured to be mulling an election debut and has been gracing functions organised by the Perak MB.

Of course, Malaysian politics is not complete without the "virgin" drama queen, Ummi Hafilda. She regularly dishes out defamation suits against people she was once infatuated with. Like a stalker who cannot accept rejection, she has the habit of popping up wherever Anwar is canvassing, to delight the crowds with her "golden showers".

Mariam Mokhtar, Free Malaysia Today

Last month, there was a ripple of excitement when rumours of a new Bond spoof surfaced in Malaysia. According to sina.com, the former Bond girl, Michelle Yeoh wants a starring role in GE-13.

Michelle needs no introduction. Her new co-star introduces himself with the quintessential charm of his predecessors, "My name is Bond, Jibby Bond."

Just like the original Bond movies, Malaysia's Bond spoof will also be action packed. There will be the thrill of the opposition thwarting the cheating of BN. There will be sabotage and dawn raids of back-door voters replacing legitimate ones.

There will be car chases as election observers follow lorries carrying ballot boxes from rural outposts to the counting stations. And there will be drama when exploding ballot boxes are dumped from helicopters into rivers, as they are flown from the Sarawak longhouses into town.

Extremists will demonstrate to intimidate the peace-loving public and to complete the effect, marauding groups of Rela members will look like private armies on the loose in our towns and cities. Didn't Prime minister Najib Tun Razak promise "blood, sweat and lives to defend Putrajaya"?

If it is true that Michelle is to participate in GE-13, she need only look as far as Putrajaya for her supporting cast. The whole Cabinet of actors, masquerading as senior politicians, is available. Even Umno diehards realise that politics in Malaysia is a world of make-believe, perhaps a tragicomedy.

BN is short of creative solutions to solve Malaysia's many woes. It cannot handle issues ranging from the economy to English in schools. It is short of good policies. However, BN excels in mock up trials and sex-videos.

If the Malaysian judiciary thought we will be titillated with semen stained briefs and other sordid details, they are mistaken.

The Cabinet thinks it excels in producing porno movies. What they have produced in the past only induces sleep. Even 15-year-olds can write better scripts and perform better sex-scenes.

Malaysian politics has been reduced to this: "Is it him in the video? No-lah, the belly's too big. Rubbish, the watch on his wrist proves it's him."

Which party will she join?

So it begs the question, why is Yeoh making her political debut in this general election? Was she put up to it by her father, the MCA stalwart of Ipoh? He is Yeoh Kian Geik, who is alleged to be a good friend of the Perak Sultan and denies that his daughter harbours political ambitions.

Yeoh senior said, "I don't think she will. She's never mentioned it to me. But I will ask her."

Perhaps introducing Michelle as a political candidate is another "cool" idea which originated from Alistair Campbell, the slippery and much hated publicity man who was once former British premier, Tony Blair's press secretary. Campbell is alleged to be "sexing-up" and giving Najib and his failing party, a new makeover.

So which party will Michelle join or will she contest as an independent?

Ipohites claim that Michelle is always seen at Menteri besar Zambry Abdul Kadir's functions but was not spotted at any, which ex-MB Nizar Jamaluddin arranged. Does this expose her loyalties?

If she were to join MCA, will the wags in Ipoh's coffee shops joke that MCA has both a porn star and a Hollywood superstar? Will this double act increase the number of people voting MCA/BN?

Will Ng Yen Yen, the vice president of MCA sanction the proposal? Perhaps she has.

This way, Michelle will divert attention from Yen Yen's excessive spending on tourism advertisements, her disastrous Malaysia tourism facebook campaign and her costly travel to promote Malaysia.

Michelle's career is not reported to be on the decline so why does she have to enter Malaysian politics? Will she be prepared for the back biting, scandalous revelations and airing of dirty linen in public? Even the bitching that must happen on the backlot of the film studios cannot compare with our dirty Malaysian politics.

Jean Todt, Michelle's husband was Malaysian ambassador of tourism. Many people were angry about this.

It was revealed in parliament that Todt's ambassadorial fee was RM593,400, the couple enjoyed RM388,000 worth of Malaysian holidays and that their flights alone cost RM360,000. Why choose a foreigner to promote Malaysia?

Why does MCA feel it has to resort to sex and glamour to reach out to the public? The line-up of "hot-chicks" at the recent MCA assembly is reminiscent of a karaoke bar, beer promotion or "naughty-house".

Will we, in the near future see the ex-Bond girl and Malaysia's own Jibby Bond 007, clad in tight leather, abseiling into the assembly hall?

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Mahathir, Taib like-minded culprits

Posted: 03 Nov 2011 04:55 PM PDT

Sarawak's PBB is a mirror image of Umno and like Umno, it wants to stay in power indefinitely.

Also during his tenure, the country saw massive borrowings from financial institutions and the public fund board like the Employees Provident Fund (EPF), a free fall of the ringgit currency, the hijacking of the independence of the judiciary, unfair power-sharing formula with other component parties, the curbing of the anti-corruption agency's powers and the suppression of the opposition and the human rights.

Awang Abdillah, Free Malaysia Today

The Barisan Nasional coalition concept was actually mooted by certain Sarawak leaders who had lived through the experiences of the Sarawak Alliance Party during its 1966 crisis and the fragile position of Pesaka Bumiputera Bersatu (PBB) while under the Sarawak coalition government in the early 1970s.

In the 1974 Sarawak election, the BN entity had helped to strengthen the performance of its Sarawak partners when it won 30 seats and Sarawak National Party (SNAP) which was in the opposition won 18 seats.

Following that election, the BN government faced yet another crisis when SNAP threatened to destabilise the coalition.

The federal-level BN quickly stepped in and helped to diffuse the crisis by negotiating for SNAP to enter into the BN fold in 1976.

Despite these hiccups, the overall BN concept of a multi-party alliance had worked at the time.

Unfortunately over the years and taking advantage of the federal BN protection, the domineering power of PBB at state level began to breed bad elements of bad governance.

The chief minister then, Abdul Rahman Yaakub, began to issue timber licences to his family members and cronies.

The Malays felt the PBB policies had marginalised them.

Domineering policies

Consequently, a new party, Parti Pajar, was formed demanding the removal of the chief minister.

The BN federal government at that time was under prime minister Hussein Onn.

Being a man of clean character, he eventually forced Abdul Rahman to step down in 1981.

Rahman's nephew Taib Mahmud took over from him the same year.

From 1981 onwards, the grand alliance under the BN brand started to show its true colour.

Events in Sarawak and Peninsular Malaysia began to slowly take a very ugly turn.

PBB and Umno, being the backbone of BN parties in Sarawak and the Peninsula respectively, started to adopt domineering politics to establish their political and economic hegemony over the state and the country respectively.

Like Sarawak, the federal government has sacrificed good governance and replaced it with massive abuses of power and corruption.

Elements of bad governance began to flow far and deep into all corners of the political and economic systems of the country.

Mahathir's Umno

The abuses of power and corruption began to get worse by the day .

The major abuses of the Dr Mahathir Mohamad-led government were the award of mega projects and businesses to family members , henchmen and cronies worth billions of ringgit.

Eventually, Umno established itself as the most powerful party in the country.

Mahathir believed that when Umno is powerful nothing can stop it from doing whatever it wants to do.

But what seemed to have escaped Mahathir is the fact that when an organisation has absorbed too much political and economic power beyond its abilities to handle it, it creates within its system a race to sustain and garner more power.

Umno divided

A power struggle from within began to take shape in the mid-80s, which eventually split the party down the middle.

In 1988, a faction led by Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah emerged to challenge Mahathir's leadership. The party crisis eventually led to the de-registration of Umno.

In 1998, another power struggle emerged. A strong faction led by former deputy prime minister Anwar Ibrahim began to challenge Mahathir.

This time, Anwar, who was the former deputy Umno president, managed to form his own party called Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR). It formed a pact with other opposition parties, PAS and DAP , and called themselves Pakatan Rakyat.

The results of the 2008 general election has changed the fate of Umno drastically.

In the 12th general election, the voters punched Umno on the head.

Now Umno seems to come to the realisation that not only has it lost so much power but it is now fighting for its own survival.

All kinds of desperate measures have come into play to arrest the decline.

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A queer case of Umno wrath

Posted: 03 Nov 2011 04:50 PM PDT

There is little the non-Malays can seek solace in when it comes to calling Malaysia their motherland. They are repeatedly reminded not to become too comfortable.

It is no secret that the country's polls have been nothing but dirty, with vote buying, rigging and money politics being the norm. When the July 9 rally demanded a clean-up, the event was declared illegal and the entity Bersih 2.0 banned and its chairperson, lawyer Ambiga Sreenevasan branded a traitor. Some pro-Umno characters went so far as to threaten her with gang-rape. Was the "power that be" worried for Ambiga's safety? Not at all!

Jeswan Kaur, Free Malaysia Today

Homophobic, pro-Malay and swear by Barisan Nasional – these are the pre-requisites that will make life comfortable in this country. If, however, you profess otherwise, be prepared to face the worst, as experienced by those who dare stand up for the truth.

When Article 153 of the Federal Constitution which guarantees Malay rights was debated by the non-Malays, blood shed was threatened by the ultra-Malays. The voices of the extremists were joined by leaders like Hishammuddin Hussein, now the home minister, who waved the Malay dagger or keris during the Umno general assembly, making it loud and clear that non-Malays better keep their mouths shut.

Even former prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad has warned the non-Malays to tread carefully, never forgetting that they owe it to the Malays for having Malaysia as their home.

When the non-Malays complained that the azan or the Muslim call for prayer was too loud for comfort, they were again threatened with violence.

Needless to say, there is little the non-Malays can seek solace in when it comes to calling Malaysia their motherland. They are repeatedly reminded not to become too comfortable on the very land they have been calling home for years.

Also warned to tread carefully in their home country is the LGBT community (gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender). The scenario in Malaysia is such that the LGBT community must best remain invisible and any attempt to make their presence felt will be dealt with severely, as is now the case with the Seksualiti Merdeka event.

The Seksualiti Merdeka festival, which celebrates the rights of the LGBT community, has been an annual programme since 2008, taking place at the Central Market's Annexe Gallery. This year's event, themed "Queer Without Fear" kicked off on Nov 2 and was to go on until Nov 13.

NGOs and political parties including PAS and Perkasa have strongly opposed the event, calling it a celebration of homosexual and transgender lifestyles.

In short, there are "conditions" if the non-Malays and the LGBT are to call Malaysia their "tanah tumpah darahku" or homeland.

Truth is always feared

When on July 9, the rakyat assembled on the streets to participate in Bersih 2.0′s "Walk for Democracy" to call upon the Barisan Nasional government to reform the electoral system, this call for the truth was haphazardly and viciously thwarted.

Now, it is the LGBT community's turn to face the wrath of the pro-Umno and BN loyalists. Ultra-Malay set-up Perkasa decided to pen down its objections against Seksualiti Merdeka in black and white before passing it off to the Inspector-General of Police Ismail Omar.

And Perkasa also wants Ambiga, who was due to officiate at the event on Nov 9, to be arrested.

Obnoxious parliamentarians like Bung Mokhtar (Kinabatangan MP) and Zulkifli Noordin (Kulim-Bandar Baru MP) deviated from the original agenda of the day and turned to condemning Seksualiti Merdeka.

Said Bung Mokhtar: "Lately, there is the issue of Sexualiti Merdeka, which Ambiga supports. Your Honour, I am asking for this activity to be blocked. It involves wild relationships that will damage the country and nation. It is planting the seeds for the emergence of wilder relationships."

Zulkifli had this to say: "This is an event that supports unnatural sex. On top of that, it is supported by Ambiga, who is the Selangor Caliph who spearheaded the illegal rally of Bersih. I hope the Dewan and the home ministry will reject this."

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Jumaat, 4 November 2011

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