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Stumped and Stupefied
Why we need BERSIH 2.0 to clean up the SPR?
Rakaman Video Penuh, Mat Sabu dilanggar Polis
The Amanah Agenda- part 1
Whatever were they thinking?
The Amanah gambit and Mustapha Ong
Menunggu perubahan yang tak kunjung tiba - AMANAH terpaksa menggerak langkah

Posted: 23 Jul 2011 05:44 PM PDT

It was bad enough when Utusan Malaysia expressed sympathy here for the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) for being blamed for Teoh Beng Hock's death. Then it shifts the blame by saying that DAP and its adviser Lim Kit Siang should be held responsible.What a silly spin!

Writing under the pseudonym of Awang Selamat, the Umno-owned daily's editors accused the opposition party of tricking Malaysians into forgetting the corruption allegation against its leaders by drawing focus to Teoh's death. How can Malaysians forget issues of corruption when we have lost millions and billions thanks to deceptive forms of corruption that have milked our country of its resources? For crying out loud, what on earth are they talking about?

Yes, - accusations for a paltry sum of RM2400 for which a promising young man died leaving behind his widow, son, family and friends - not forgetting the fact that the case has yet to reach closure.

As if that was not enough, it had the brazen audacity to say "Malaysians have been dragged too deep into this issue (Teoh's death) until we have strayed from the actual path. The real issue — corruption — has been buried."

Well, to a certain extent, that daily is right. The real issue — corruption — has been buried.

But its definition of corruption and the form of 'burial' differs from many other Malaysians who want to know why cases of alleged corruption amounting to millions and billions have not been investigated at all whilst TBH and Ahmad Sarbaini had to die, at whose hands exactly - we still do NOT know and the culprits are walking around FREE, but carrying within them - guilt and shame.

Their tirade continued in their appeal to MACC officers not to lose morale in their jobs and encouraging them to proceed with their "noble roles".

Noble roles?

Tell me - how can aggressive interrogation be noble?

Tell me again - why did MACC suspend the three officers then?

In another article, it even said that "it is common for witnesses in corruption cases to commit suicide to avoid shaming their families or organisation".

Normal? Er...do I smell warped perspectives of normality? Abnormality rears its ugly head! For sure, TBH is not a mere anomaly statistically!

You can access the RCI report at this link.

On July 22nd, the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) advisory board member Tan Sri Simon Sipaun said he found the verdict of the RCI very unexpected.

"I am just not convinced that Teoh would commit suicide simply because of aggressive interrogations by MACC officers. There is no credible reason or motive why he would take his own life. He was a young man about to get married. He has every reason to stay alive. He did not do anything wrong. When a person is innocent, his will to live is stronger and also to prove his innocence," he said.

"If the MACC officers concerned had broken the law, then the law should take its course."

Meanwhile, another MACC advisory board member Tan Sri Megat Najmuddin Megat Khas told The Malay Mail: "What is most important was that the RCI did not find that Teoh had been killed by someone, which was something that certain quarters had wanted."

On the interrogation issue, Megat Najmuddin said: "RCI has raised the bar on how MACC officers are to conduct interrogations. The MACC interrogators will need to find the threshhold of what is permissible. In an interrogation, you cannot be soft and expect to get answers. Certain techniques must be used to extract information. But it's not like they placed someone's head into a basin of water to get a confession, such as the 'water-boarding' tactic favoured by Western intelligence services against terrorist suspects."

He also said he was not condoning physical violence but that interrogation will involve "some kind of mental torture whether you like it or not" and that some people might accept that and some might not.

Putting that aside, let's dissect Utusan's unsupported allegation that "witnesses in corruption cases to commit suicide to avoid shaming their families or organisation".

According to page 20 of Annual Report 2008 of the National Suicide Registry Malaysia, majority of suicides (as based on the data) took place at home of the deceased 67.2%, followed by death in a residential place and suicide at a Farm/plantation.

Posted: 23 Jul 2011 03:48 PM PDT

This is not a very scientific analysis but if we plot the results of the election results over the past 50 years, we can see a very clear pattern. The results are skewed heavily towards BN (or its earlier form – The Alliance Party). Both are dominated by UMNO and UMNO used the SPR to distort the electoral process in their favour.

Consider the graph above. It is a plot of the parliamentary seats won by BN/Alliance vs the popular vote. In 1969, when the Alliance Party won 49.3% of the popular vote, they still managed to secure 66% of the seats. This is a glaring outcome of an unfair voting system. Above 50% of the vote, the advantage to BN became greater, so much so that in 2008, BN won 90.4% of the seats with only 63.9% of the votes.

At what % of the vote will BN secure 50% of the seats?

Projecting the % Seats line back to the 50% level, we find that BN only need 39.4% of the popular vote. In other words, even if the opposition parties were to win 60.6% of the vote, it is only a draw. By any measure, that's a 2/3 majority. This is the accumulation of several factors:

● Clean the electoral roll
● Reform postal vote
● Use indelible ink
● Free and fair access to media
● Minimum 21 days campaign period
● Strengthen public institutions
● Stop corruption
● Stop dirty politics

Have the Opposition Parties Improved Their Performance?

Yes! Since 1999, when Anwar became the leader of the opposition parties, they have managed to close the gap through better campaign strategies, the effective use of the internet and an active civil society support team. This is manifested in the graph below.

What this graph tells us is that BN have to get 46.3% of the popular vote to secure 50% of the seats. That's a 6.9% increase compared with past trends. If the BERSIH Demands are met, hopefully this gap can be close until we reach the stage when a party that 50% of the popular vote, it will get 50% of the seats. In practice, this will never be achieved.

Rakaman Video Penuh, Mat Sabu dilanggar Polis

Posted: 23 Jul 2011 03:35 PM PDT

PADA 9 Julai 2011, iaitu tarikh yang sama dakwaan Mat Sabu dilanggar kereta Polis sebelum ditahan, Portal The Malaysian Insider ada menyiarkan berita mengenai dakwaan tersebut, yang juga pada hari yang sama perhimpunan BERSIH 2.0 diadakan.

Jelas, terang dan nyata, Portal The Malaysian Insider melaporkan bahawa Mat Sabu dilanggar dengan sebuah kereta Polis sebelum ditahan, diulangi dilanggar dengan KERETA POLIS sebelum ditahan. Sila rujuk sendiri berita ini, klik! [The Malaysian Insider].

Polis dengan yakin dan bangganya mengeluarkan video untuk membuktikan Mat Sabu menipu. Tapi malangnya video yang dikeluarkan oleh Polis, menguatkan lagi dakwaan bahawa Mat Sabu memang benar dilanggar oleh kereta Polis sebelum beliau ditahan 9 Julai lalu.

Bermula pada durasi ke 2:18 di dalam video yang dibentangkan oleh Polis, jelas sekali menunjukkan bahawa kereta Polis berada pada bahagian kanan jalan (lorong yang salah), sementara motorsikal yang ditunggangi Mat Sabu dilihat tumbang di hadapan kereta polis tersebut.

Apa yang melucukan, Polis memutar belitkan cerita untuk menegakkan benang yang basah dengan cara mengalihkan isu. Polis mendakwa Mat Sabu tidak dilanggar oleh pajero (Land Rover) Polis. Memanglah! Sebab mat Sabu dilanggar oleh kereta proton waja Polis. Saksikan video di bawah dengan mata kepala anda sendiri.

Watch video at: http://darisungaiderhaka.blogspot.com/2011/07/eksklusif-rakaman-video-penuh-mat-sabu.html

The Amanah Agenda- part 1

Posted: 23 Jul 2011 10:24 AM PDT

It seems the main ingredients of an independent nation are being eroded and violated with irresponsible impunity. Our economy is slowly going to be run by powerful economic plutocracy. An elite group has taken over the planning and running of the country. We are simultaneously enthralled and goaded into believing that our economy can get better miraculously through stylish presentation using Microsoft PowerPoint authored by expensively paid consulting companies. Those people in Balakong, Sungai Besi and Jalan kelang Lama did not need power point presentations authored by McKinsey consultants. They didn't have to pay Idris Jala for leveraging on McKinsey people either!

The economic elite are working hand in hand with the political elite of this country so that from democracy, we are moving toward Plutarchy. Plutarchy is the combination of plutocracy- the rule of the wealthy and oligarchy- the rule of the few. These people are no longer talking about development costs of millions- they are now talking about billions- the billion Ringgit MRT, the billion Ringgit River of Life Project, no billion- no talk. How is our country's finances managed? Can we trust them?

Our founding fathers gave us a Westminster's type of democracy and we accepted it. We accept wholeheartedly that the way to form a government is through peaceful means and that is through fair and clean general elections. It must also mean that combatants and contestant are accorded the same facilities and treatment en route to forming a government.

We accepted also a constitutional monarchy whereby the Malay rulers accept unreservedly that this country belongs to the people. By that, the rulers accept that they are also subjected to the powers of the constitution, whereby, rulers are also governed by the rule of law and do not have unbridled and absolute discretionary powers.

What has happened then? The tipping point came in the late 80s when one person hijacked the democratic heritage and enthralled the nation with the glitter of fast-tracked material advancements. Since then, this country has traveled only on one option- divisiveness. Our heralded and self-congratulatory development is generally paid by the erosion of the democratic ingredients that we spoke of above. We praised and patted ourselves by calling our leaders, fathers of this and that. These terms are alas, empty phrases aimed essentially at according ourselves the feel good feeling.

The aim of Bersih for example, was directed at one of these- which is, fundamental in a democracy is the way we choose our government. It must be done in a fair and clean manner. We have chosen a free market economy but nowadays, what is free, is the freedom by certain cliques in our country to plunder and gobble up the economy. Hence we no longer speak of millions and even 100 of millions but billions. The traffic congestion which is the bane of people in the Kelang valley can easily be solved cheaper by construction of elevated highways. But powerful economic oligarchs proposed to build an MRT whose final costs cannot be determined as yet.

READ MORE HERE.

Whatever were they thinking?

Posted: 22 Jul 2011 09:57 PM PDT

I wonder who is advising the Malaysian PM in dealing with this issue? This action has just reduce your credibility to an even lower level (as if it was possible given that it has probably reached an all time low). I can only think of 2 reasons for your advisors to convince you to take such an extremely imbecile actions:-

1. If it is the PR company, no wonder they are charging such high price for their services.They are helping you damaging yourselves further so that they can step in for 'damage control' and convince you that you need their expertise if you wished to retain the people's support in the coming elections. See? They are doing double jobs! Malaysian Government, you have been duped! or..

2. Your advisors has the intelligence of a 3 year old (which is actually insulting to the 3 year olds) and finnesse of a bull in a china shop. May i suggest that you remove them immediately to protect your good image (Gasp! Assuming there is any left!) and cut down unnecessary expenditures on such unproductive advisors that only adds to your injury. For all we know, it may save Malaysians billions of ringgit in wastage on these advisors which coincidentally may probably be put into better use such as:-
a) buying new quality submarine that can actually function as it is meant to for legitimate purposes proposed by our Ministry of Defense

The Amanah gambit and Mustapha Ong

Posted: 22 Jul 2011 05:56 PM PDT

Yes I do have something to say and I will say it loud and clear based on my own personal conscience without fear or favour. I am only one of the minority voices within the minority in UMNO politics since my involvement from 1963. Although I am not in the league of Tengku Razaleigh, I share the same vision with Ku Li but I do not simply criticise my YDP Agong, party leaders, my government and this beloved nation which had given me so much in my 69 years as a patriotic citizen.

I had given more than 34 years of my life back to national service as a party official and government officer since the mid 60s with distinction and recognition from the nation. I am proud of my small contribution to the nation. Contrary to those who had criticised me for my bloggings in the cyberspace, I have never received any special favours and financial benefits from the party or government. I vouch that my success and that of my children are all due to our own hard work and not through political patronage from the UMNO leaders and the government. UMNO/BN had given me nothing absolutely although I have walked together with them in the corridors of power in my capacity as a party and government senior officer for more than half of my life.

Today, we have a different political and social scenario and the BN government had paid dearly for their mistakes and wrong doings as we had witnessed the loss of 5 state governments in the 2008 general election. UMNO and their crony BN component parties had not learnt their lessons and until today, 2011, they are still in total denial of what the majority of the people wanted across the political divides.

Former prime minister Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi was given the opportunity to lead UMNO and the BN government, through the popular support he had garnered in the 2004 general election but he had failed the electorate and the people in particular. Thus we had lost heavily to the opposition pact led by Anwar Ibrahim as proven in the 2008 general election. Anwar together with his PR partners are in the final lap of their attempt to overthrow the BN government under the leadership of Najib Tun Razak as a political run up to the 13th general election.

However, Anwar is in a political siege as he had yet to emerge clean from his personal encounters in his current ongoing sodomy II trial beginning in early August. Anwar had diverted a lot of public attention to other issues that he had created in order to neutralise the people's opinion about his dubious character that had badly affected his reputation and creditability as an opposition leader. By hook or by crook, Anwar wants to topple this government by force with all his unconventional strategies in order to capture Putrajaya and become the next prime minister of Malaysia.

Posted: 22 Jul 2011 05:19 PM PDT

Bagi sesiapa yang mengamati matlamat AMANAH ianya merupakan perjuangan dan usaha untuk membina hanya satu matlamat iaitu perpaduan di antara semua kaum yang telah berpecah belah kerana dipecah belahkan oleh pemimpin-pemimpin politik yang terdesak untuk mendapat sokongan. Jika kita telek dan kaji dengan serius sebenarnya perjuangan pemimpin kita terdahulu hanyalah satu, iaitu perpaduan kaum yang hakiki.

Jika perpaduan kaum yang hakiki itu tercapai maka mudah bagi siapa yang memimpin untuk membina negara dalam semua bidang, samada politik, ekonomi, sosial dan apa-apa yang diperlukan untuk kehidupan rakyat berbilang kaum. Semuanya ini telah hampir tercapai tetapi sejak hampir 3 dekad dahulu apabila kita dipimpin oleh pemimpin-pemimpin yang tidak mempunyai nilai sebagai pemimpin yang sesuai dengan keadaan negara kita, maka keadaan beransur-ansur mengalami perpecahan mengikut sentimen perkauman yang menebal.

Kemerdekaan dicapai dengan perpaduan di antara semua kaum. Jika tidak ada perpaduan kemerdekaan berkemungkinan tidak akan tercapai. Tetapi dengan ketelusan dan kejujuran bapa-kemerdekaan kita bersama rakan-rakan seperjuangan dari semua kaum kita telah berjaya membina dengan kukuh asas yang terpenting sebelum negara mengisytiharkan kemerdekaan itu.

Ini sahaja sepatutnya di sedari oleh semua pihak yang perpaduan di antara kaum itu merupakan perkara terpenting dan usaha yang pertama untuk dijayakan sebelum apa-apa perancangan boleh di laksanakan. Kita boleh menggubal apa sahaja dasar yang molek-molek, tetapi jika perpaduan di antara kaum itu tidak wujud segala dasar tidak akan mencapai kejayaan.

Walaupun dasar itu hanya untuk kepentingan pembangunan bagi hanya satu bangsa ianya tidak juga akan berjaya tanpa persetujuan dan restu kaum-kaum yang lain di negara ini. Contohnya DEB yang digubal untuk kepentingan Bumiputra bagi membolehkan kaum Bumiputra berdiri sama tinggi dan duduk sama rendah dahulu pun hanya di lancarkan dengan persetujuan kaum-kaum yang lain di dalam negara kita.

Itulah sebabnya BN telah mencapai kejayaan untuk mendapatkan sokongan bulat dari semua rakyat berbilang kaum. DAN itu pun sebabnya kehadziran wakil-wakil pembangkang di dalam dewan-dewan lagislatif kita boleh di kira sebagai 'insignificant'. Walaupun dasar itu ialah khas untuk Bumiputra tetapi pimpinan besar kita telah berjaya mendapatkan sokongan dari pimpinan kaum-kaum lain dan mereka bersama-sama memberikan sokongan terhadap dasar yang murni itu.

Semua kaum bersetuju merapatkan jurang berbezaan ekonomi di antara kaum itu akan membawa negara kearah huru-hara dan kepincangan yang akan merugikan negara keseluruhannya pada masa depan. Semuanya ini merupakan 'wisdom' yang ketara yang ada kepada pemimpin kita khususnya kapada YTM Tunku Abdul Rahman, Tun Razak dan Tun Husein. Nama-nama ini merupakan pemimpin-pemimpin yang berkorban dengan jiwa dan raga mereka tanpa memikirkan kekayaan dan harta yang menimbun untuk keluarga dan sanak saudara mereka.

Tetapi pemimpin selepas era itu tidak berjaya untuk menandingi kesabaran dan pengorbanan mereka , kerana selepas itu pemimpin sudah mula mengendung sekali nafsu untuk membina kekayaan mereka di samping membangunkan negara. Apabila pemimpin sudah ada kepentingan peribadi bermulalah kehilangan kepada nilai dan kualiti kepimpinan kita.

Jika pemimpin seperti Tunku, Razak dan Husein bersara dengan tiada apa-apa kekayaan yang dihimpunkannya pimpinan selepas itu lain pula keadaannya. Pemimpin selepas itu tidak lagi mahu menaiki penerbangan komersial tetapi terbang antara dunia dengan jet-jet eksekutif dan mewarisi kekayaan yang berbillion untuk anak-anak dan menantu mereka.

Di sinilah bermulanya kejatuhan nilai dan moral kepimpinan dan mengasuh rakyat untuk menjadi rakyat yang materialistik dan membiarkan harta kekayaan di kumpulkan dengan apa cara sekalipun waimma dengan rasuah dan salah guna kuasa yang tidak terkawal. Hasilnya kita sedang sama merasakannya sekarang. Politik tidak lagi mampu untuk membina perpaduan rakyat dan pengagihan kekayaan secara 'equitable' tetapi telah meruntuhkan segala institusi penting negara kita sehingga memusnahkan segala sistem unggul yang dibina oleh bapa kemerdekaan dan pimpinan kita yang terdahulu.

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Ahad, 24 Julai 2011

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