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- What unethical depths and bottomless pits are going to be plumbed by UMNO/BN leaders and their ...
- Is BN Replicating The Sabah Formula For The Coming GE?
- BTN masuk sekolah brainwash
- Mahathir Sepatutnya Ucap Terima Kasih Kepada Tunku
- Defiance is Gaining Momentum
- An Open Letter to the Prime Minister
| What unethical depths and bottomless pits are going to be plumbed by UMNO/BN leaders and their ... Posted: 21 Jan 2013 01:48 PM PST
Publishing lies and falsehoods already violate the most elementary ethics and canons of journalism, but to concoct lies and falsehoods just to extract political capital but utterly heedless of the pain and suffering they would cause to individuals who are already under great stress and pressure as NST had done to Wong Ho Leng and Irene Chang is a most wretched and contemptible deed, and only those who are inhumane and even inhuman can approve of such an action.
Lim Kit Siang Yesterday, I made a plea for an end to the politics of lies and falsehoods in the run-up to the 13th General Elections, which must be held latest in 156 days by June 27, but is expected to be held in less than 70 days.
I was referring to the latest defamation suit lost by UMNO mouthpiece, Utusan Malaysia, this time to Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, earning a rebuke by the judge, Justice V.T. Singham who found Utusan Melayu (M) Bhd and its chief editor Abdul Aziz Ishak as guilty of damaging Anwar's reputation and exposing him to ridicule and scorn.
In his judgment, Singham stressed that journalists and editors should be careful with what they write so as not to include comment, which may impugn somebody.
This was shown by another egregious lie and falsehood by the UMNO/BN mainstream media today – this time by New Straits Times in its false report headlined "Wife of ailing MP angry at DAP", (p.6) which was nothing but a pack of lies without an ounce of truth.
Quoting another rogue news portal, the NST claimed that Irene Chang, the wife of Sibu DAP member of parliament and Sarawak DAP Chairman Wong Ho Leng, "is said to have criticized the party for failing to provide or offer financial support to her husband, who has a brain tumour" and even quoting her as saying that "the party's leadership was heartless" and scolding DAP Secretary-General, Lim Guan Eng.
Publishing lies and falsehoods already violate the most elementary ethics and canons of journalism, but to concoct lies and falsehoods just to extract political capital but utterly heedless of the pain and suffering they would cause to individuals who are already under great stress and pressure as NST had done to Wong Ho Leng and Irene Chang is a most wretched and contemptible deed, and only those who are inhumane and even inhuman can approve of such an action.
What makes NST action most unforgivable is that Irene Chang had put the following clarification on her facebook yesterday: "I have been made aware of a certain article posted online and which reported me as having complained against our party leadership. "I am absolutely furious. There is absolutely no truth in this article. "I did not give any interview nor did I ever complain against our party or against anyone. More importantly, never did I ever feel, for a second that I have a cause to complain against our party or anyone in specific. " In fact, since my husband's medical condition was diagnosed, I have been too worried and concerned about his medical condition than to worry whether the party is providing any financial support or otherwise. "But having said this, I put on record that since our party leaders have been told of my husband's condition, each and everyone of them, have been unbelievably supportive and caring. "Both my husband and I have, in fact felt that we have been very blessed to know these people, who have somehow, crossed over the line from being political comrades to being very caring friends. "And my family and I have been very touched by the call for support for my husband by our Secretary General, YAB Lim Guan Eng, an appreciation of which was posted by our eldest daughter, Suzanne Gail Wong, in her facebook on 14th January 2013. "Therefore, it would be very unfair and unjust to let this article be passed around for people to pass judgment on our party leaders, our party and me, without any basis at all. I therefore strongly condemn this article for each and every sentence therein is a lie."
The question I want to pose to UMNO/BN leaders today is what unethical depths and bottomless pits are they and UMNO/BN mainstream media going to plumb before the 13GE? |
| Is BN Replicating The Sabah Formula For The Coming GE? Posted: 21 Jan 2013 10:51 AM PST
The 6P programme which ran from July 2011 to April 2012 had registered more than 1.3 million immigrants under the biometric system. Is BN replicating the Sabah formula for the coming GE? Paraman Subramaniam Chua Jui Meng had stated recently that the NRD has reportedly issued 2 million identity cards to foreigners to enable them to vote BN in the coming GE. He claims that the BN government will intimidate and abuse the government machinery to remain in power using the NRD and the Election Commission as its instruments. The figure 2 million does raise eyebrows in disbelief but recent revelations from witnesses testifying before the royal commission of inquiry (RCI) into the alleged citizenship-for-votes scam in Sabah has brought new light into this matter. Kee Dzulkifly Kee Abdul Jalil who was part of a special unit dubbed G17, which operated out of the Sabah National Registration Department (NRD) headquarters in Kota Kinabalu was responsible for processing the application forms for some 100,000 blue identity cards for Muslim immigrants mainly from Indonesia, Philippines and Pakistan and the issuance of some 200,000 letters of approvals for birth certificates for the children of immigrants, all within a space of just a few years. Former Sabah NRD Director Ramli Kamaruddin said that he received instructions from the deputy home minister Megat Junid Megat Ayub to issue identity card receipts to immigrants using the details of people who were already in the electoral roll but had never voted before. Yakup Damsah, a former Tamparuli NRD chief, revealed that he and a group of others signed a total of 40,000 blue identity cards within a month, based on the filled up application forms that consisted mostly of Muslim immigrants from Indonesia and the Philippines. His group was also involved in another operation in which they issued temporary identity card receipts (NRD receipts) with an expiry date, purely for the purpose of elections. Another former Sabah NRD officer, Mohd Nasir, said that between the years 1992-1995, the former Sabah Elections Commission director Wan Ahmad, handed over a list of 16,000 names to be made into 'bumiputera Islam voters' so that it will provide unqualified immigrants with identity card numbers which could be used to vote in the elections and thereby altering Sabah's electoral demographics in the 1990's. This illegal operation was codenamed 'Ops Durian Buruk'. It is believed that all these alleged electoral tinkering had brought about the outcome of election results which overall favoured the BN government. What we can conclude from these witnesses is that way back almost 2 decades ago, it was possible to manually register foreign immigrants as voters as fast as 40,000 people within one month. Existing voters who are already in the electoral roll but have never voted before could be potential targets to be 'cloned' and used by foreign immigrants to cast votes on Election Day. The probability of a foreign immigrant being registered as a voter under the 'bumiputera Muslim' category is very high. This process can be executed with relative ease and in discreet, involving just a handful of people. The 6P programme which ran from July 2011 to April 2012 had registered more than 1.3 million immigrants under the biometric system. Is BN replicating the Sabah formula for the coming GE? If they are then PR chances of winning will be greatly reduced!
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| Posted: 21 Jan 2013 10:45 AM PST efX3Lo1Asy0 Dengan bertemakan 'Anwar Pengkhianat Negara' seorang penceramah dipercayai dari BTN menyampaikan ucapan di hadapan sekumpulan pelajar Sekolah Menengah. Amat mendukacitakan, budak sekolah yang tak layak mengundi pun dipujuk supaya balik rumah nanti beritahu ibu ayah mereka supaya menyokong umno BN - Politik badut semakin dijadikan bahan lucu untuk menghiburkan rakyat. Or watch at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efX3Lo1Asy0
Khaled: Govt has no intention of brainwashing students(The Star, 22 Jan 2013) - The Government has no intention of brainwashing students through campus activities, said Higher Education Minister Datuk Seri Mohamed Khaled Nordin. He said the allegation that the Government had been brainwashing students via activities such as forums was not true since it defeated the purpose of higher education. "There is no intention whatsoever to brainwash the students, it will not help us to achieve our aim to instil critical thinking skills among the students," Mohamed Khaled told reporters here. He reiterated that neither the ministry nor Universiti Utara Malaysia were behind the public forum held at UUM involving undergraduate K.S. Bawani and SW1M president Sharifah Zohra Jabeen Syed Shah Miskin. The forum became a controversy when a video clip emerged on YouTube showing Sharifah Zohra Jabeen berating Bawani over free higher education.
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| Mahathir Sepatutnya Ucap Terima Kasih Kepada Tunku Posted: 21 Jan 2013 10:40 AM PST
Mahathir Sepatutnya Ucap Terima Kasih Kepada Tunku. Kalau kewarganegaraan itu tidak diberi kepada bapanya, mungkin hari ini Mahathir berada di tanah air bapanya iaitu di Kerala. mamak juga Ayah Mahathir adalah pendatang dari Kerala, Selatan India etnik Malayalam. Iskandar Kutty berhijrah ke Tanah Melayu dan memeluk Islam serta berkahwin dengan orang Melayu dan menukar namanya kepada Mohamed.Mahathir patutlah mengenang budi kepada Tunku, tanpa Tunku mustahilnya Mahathir dapat menjadi pemimpim Melayu. Tanpa Tunku, Mahathir tiada lagi berperluang memperlaungkan `Hidup Melayu, Berjuang untuk Agama, Bangsa dan Negara'.
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| Posted: 21 Jan 2013 10:26 AM PST Kee Thuan Chye I love the new spirit of defiance among Malaysians. I think we have come of age in realizing that we must stand up for our rights. And that it's not wrong to do so. After all, as the American political activist Howard Zinn puts it, dissent is the highest form of patriotism. * Kee Thuan Chye is the author of the bestselling book No More Bullshit, Please, We're All Malaysians, and the latest volume, Ask for No Bullshit, Get Some More!
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| An Open Letter to the Prime Minister Posted: 21 Jan 2013 10:14 AM PST
Mr PM, do not keep quiet when the rakyat needs you most to speak and to provide leadership. Ibrahim Ali and Dr Mahathir will not be what they are today, frequently inciting racial and religious flame, had you spoken out and put them in place. You are the PM and not Dr Mahathir. Lembu Susu Dear Mr Prime Minister, Mr PM, in your speech, you have repeatedly presented yourself as the PM for all Malaysians and you have rightly said it so. But there has been many incidences that show what you said do not match what you do, and this, I am afraid will affect your honor and reputation. The recent outburst by Ibrahim Ali, calling the Muslims to burn the Alkitab created a wave of anger, frustration and tension for the peace-loving citizens of Malaysia. The rakyat also has not forgotten the call and the threat of the May 13 repeat during the Umno Assembly last year, and it was alarming; especially for those who have lived through that difficult period. But you were extremely quiet, when the rakyat needed you most. Malaysia cannot afford another May 13 repeat. There is too much at stake and no one wins if it ever happens. Everyone will lose, and I am afraid that the Malays will lose the most. You know that the NEP has created a group of Malays that are dependent on the Government's support to survive. They have very little self-resilience to take a shock proportion to a May 13 repeat. (The reality is that we need every race in Malaysia to make Malaysia, Malaysia. No one race is superior to another. Every race is important and needed in the development and building of Malaysia. The Malays cannot say that they do not need the Chinese, neither can the Chinese say that to Indian, or to the Ibans, or Kadazan Dusun, etc., that they do not need them. All are needed and all must have a place in Malaysia because they are born here.) May I appeal to you, Mr PM, to use all your power vested in your position, to stop any threat of a repeat of May 13. You must nip it at its bud. You have the Police, the Judiciary, the Parliament, the armed forces, and the whole rakyat with you to do everything possible to quench any 'May 13' fire that anyone may want to stoke. Malaysia is unique. We have existed in harmony for many years as a multi-racial and multi-religious country. Every race and religion has restrained themselves to preserve the peace and harmony that we cherish so much. Many people in the past, have given up their lives and blood to fight for the peace we now enjoy. But this peace and harmony is fragile. It cannot be allowed to be attacked by selfish politicians and leaders. It must be preserved at all cost. If I can say, you are appointed by Allah for such a time as this to preserve the peace, unity and harmony of this country. Because of this responsibility, you must not allow anyone to stir or stoke racial or religious sentiments for their own personal gain. Malaysia must wake up to the fact, that though Islam is the religion of the Federation, Malaysia is still a multi-racial and multi-religious country where freedom of religion is enshrined in the Constitution. No one should impose their beliefs onto another religion. There must be mutual respect for each other's faith. You must not allow the issue on the word "Allah" to get out of hand. Every religion will have their beliefs contrary to another religion. This is alright as the Constitution guarantees the freedom of religion. But no one should be allowed to tell another religion what word they can use and what word they cannot use. If this is allowed, there will be war. So, please, Mr PM, do not keep quiet when the rakyat needs you most to speak and to provide leadership. Ibrahim Ali and Dr Mahathir will not be what they are today, frequently inciting racial and religious flame, had you spoken out and put them in place. You are the PM and not Dr Mahathir. I hope being a PM you can see yourself above politics, race and religion. You act because you also love Malaysia and want to see Malaysia live in harmony, as you have constantly boasted to other countries of Malaysians, in spite of the different races and religious beliefs, Malaysians can exist in harmony and peace. |
Worse, she went on and on haranguing Bawani and blustered about irrelevant things like animals having problems, after she had used a line on the latter echoing the jibe often used by BN politicians – if you don't like things the way they are, get out of Malaysia.
The support she is now getting from fellow students and student organizations is a welcome sign that Malaysian youths are becoming a viable force. Unlike those at the UUM forum who applauded like sheep even when Sharifah Zohra waxed about the problems of sheep and sharks, the enlightened ones know what's right and wrong and want to play a role in the determination of their future. They have regained their voice, suppressed for decades by the Universities and University Colleges Act (UUCA). To them, Sharifah Zohra is a representative of the oppressive Establishment, so they have now challenged her to face Bawani in a debate on free education.
The number of street protests in the last few years attest to this. Despite the warnings of the police and the Government to take action against the protestors, the people have not been cowed. The reason is clear: They have no more respect for authority. After all, the holders of authority are rotten and do not deserve respect.
Some pundits had predicted that there would be fewer participants this time than there were at the Bersih 3.0 rally on April 28 last year, but the fears were unfounded. The event started at 2pm, but by 2:30pm, the stadium was completely packed. People filled the terraces and the whole field. Despite the blazing heat of the afternoon sun.
Sasterawan Negara A Samad Said, who read a poem at the rally, said he had dreamed of one day seeing a sea of people coming together for a common cause; he was happy that this dream had now come true. There was indeed a sea of people before him – in yellow, green, red and other colors.
On the way home in the LRT, I sat next to a young man who had come all the way from Kedah. A college student. In fact, many students attended the rally although their universities banned them from doing so. They didn't care. The young man from Kedah said change is a must; that's why he came to support the gathering.
They, too, must surely realize that defiance is on the rise and change can't be far away.
Heroes and heroines are emerging like never before. We had Anne Ooi a.k.a. Aunty Bersih in Bersih 2.0; student Adam Adli who refused to apologize to Umno President Najib Razak for lowering the latter's flag at Umno headquarters; 19-year-old Ong Sing Yee who was handcuffed for stomping on Najib's picture during the Janji Demokrasi rally; 71-year-old Aunty Mei who demanded an apology from Pahang Menteri Besar Adnan Yaakob for a callous remark he had made; bank clerk Johar Mohamad, the alleged whistleblower in the National Feedlot Centre (NFC) scandal; the men and women who took part in the anti-Lynas Green March from Kuantan to Kuala Lumpur, led by Wong Tack.
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