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Posted: 13 May 2013 06:37 PM PDT

Saya menyebut dalam posting saya yang lepas yang kita telah banyak belajar dalam pilihanraya ke 13 yang baru lepas ini. Satu lagi isu ialah isu rasis dan tuduh menuduh di antara BN dan Pakatan terutamanya DAP. UMNO kata DAP rasis dan DAP pula menuduh UMNO itu rasis. Bagi saya ini adalah isu pasca pilihanraya kerana sekarang timbul isu penipuan yang dilakukan oleh BN dalam PRU yang lepas. Isu perkauman menjadi-jadi selepas PRU ini masing-masing pihak menuduh di antara satu dengan lain sebagai parti rasis.

Apa yang saya belajar sejak setahun dua yang lalu sehingga saat ini saya sudah tidak mempercayai lagi isu rasis ini akan selesai dengan mudah kerana isu itu adalah alat mainan politik kedua-dua belah pihak. Selagi ada penawaran untuk mentadbir negara setiap lima tahun sekali isu rasis ini akan tetap timbul kerana tiada kejujuran masing-masing untuk membinasakan isu rasis buat selama-lamanya.

UMNO, MCA dan MIC dikatakan rasis kerana kewujudan parti-parti itu berdasarkan kepada bangsa masing-masing. Jika dikumpulkan ketiga-tiga parti ini sebagai satu gagasan iaitu BN tadi, maka BN juga adalah sebuah parti yang formal kewujudannya sebagai 'multiracial'. BN itu pendeknya adalah multiracial.

Pakatan Rakyat tidak pernah terdaftar sebagai satu parti dan DAP, PAS dan PKR itu berdiri di atas identiti masing-masing. DAP itu dikatakan sebuah parti 'multiracial' kerana perlembagaannya membolehkan bangsa lain termasuk orang Melayu sendiri seperti saya menyertai parti itu. Jika dibandingkan di antara BN dan DAP, 'apple to apple', BN adalah lebih 'multiracial'. Di sebaliknya DAP hanya mempunyai peruntukan dalam perlembagaannya yang membolehkan setiap bangsa menyertai parti itu tetapi parti itu menampilkan sifat parti yang jauh daripada parti 'multiracial'.

Pada praktisnya, DAP dikuasai oleh kaum Cina dan seorang dua Melayu di dalamnya sudah menjadi persepsi ramai sebagai 'window dressing' dan dalam politik itu merupakan perkara biasa. Hanya apabila seseorang itu membuat penilaian politik dan akademiknya sahaja yang tahu hakikat yang sebenarnya. Peruntukan perlembagaan dengan keadaan sebenarnya adalah berbeza dan lama kelamaan rakyat akan dapat menghidunya.

Tetapi itu bukanlah satu kesalahan DAP. Jika DAP bergiat untuk menjadi parti 'multiracial' dan dikuasai kaum Cina itu adalah haknya untuk berbuat demikian, lebih-lebih lagi sebelum pilihanraya yang baru lepas ini. Situasi semasa itu seolah-olah Pakatan Rakyat akan mendapat kemenangan besar dan akan berkuasa. Maka DAP terlupa yang mereka adalah parti 'multiracial' kerana keseronokan menunggu mendapat kuasa buat pertama kalinya.

Tetapi hanya satu perkara yang perlu diperbaiki dalam parti ini iaitu, jangan buat 'preaching' bahawa parti itu multiracial tetapi hakikatnya keadaan 'multiracial' itu tidak wujud. Jika ia wujud pun hanyalah sekelumit sahaja. Oleh kerana masing-masing masih mahukan kekuatan kewujudan mereka berdasarkan kepada kaum tidak ada siapa yang boleh berbuat apa-apa. Buatlah apa yang masing-masing hendak lakukan.

Pendeknya di antara kita semua ini jangan lagi bermain dengan isu rasis ini kerana nampaknya kedua-dua belah pihak masih rasis jika dipandang dari sudut yang berlainan. Bagi saya hanya PAS sahaja yang tidak pernah menyebut tentang isu rasis kerana parti itu hanya mengutamakan isu Islam dalam perjuangannya yang tidak mengira kaum dan cara hidup masing-masing. PAS juga telah menurunkan beberapa orang calon dari agama lain baru-baru ini bagi membuktikan bahawa Islam itu adalah agama yang memimpin semua pihak, samada dari segi bangsa dan agama.

Tujuan saya menulis isu ini ialah untuk meminta semua jangan menuduh di antara satu dengan lain sebagai rasis, kerana pada hakikatnya semuanya ada isu rasis. Yang membezakannya hanyalah dari sudut mana kita melihatnya.

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The fantasy of Anwar Ibrahim?

Posted: 13 May 2013 02:36 PM PDT

It's the usual kaytee 'methinks'.

I appreciate Anwar Ibrahim must be downright disappointed by Pakatan Rakyat not winning majority rule in the recent general elections, more so when he had vowed to retire if his side didn't win majority rule. And it's a vow he has recently backtracked from, citing he still has mucho "unfinished work" to be done.

For nearly 15 years, this man has waited for his moment, to fulfil what he believes to be his destiny, to become PM of Malaysia.

But alas, time and time again, fate (and elections) failed him. Did he make the vow to retire in an optimistic belief that surely this time, fate couldn't be that cruel again and he would triumph?

He is obviously and totally dismayed and demoralized by the outcome of GE-13, and his defiant stand finds sympathies nationwide what with the public lack of trust in the EC's integrity and impartiality ...

... aggravated by the Commission's lack of professionalism, for example, in the so-called indelible ink affair, with the Chairman and his deputy not only making implausible excuses but constantly changing them - eg. from the initial 'staff didn't shake the bottle properly' to 'deliberate dilution of the ink's indelible properties to meet Islamic ablution requirements' (if so, then why bother with the indelible ink when by its dilution the EC has deliberately make it not indelible?) to the most idiotic of all, that 'the erase-ability of the so-called indelible ink didn't matter as the voters won't be able to vote the following day', etc - and that's only one of EC's numerous problems with its lack of professionalism.

Nonetheless, I do have concerns with Anwar's rolling series of Perhimpunan Blackout 505.

The first at Kelana Jaya was a success and I believe the message or point to be made on Pakatan's disagreement, dissatisfaction and disgust with the conduct of the polls has been made in a very powerful and inescapable notice.

But like all good things, overdo it and the powerful message will lose its impact. Along the way, earlier sympathies gained will gradually or even swiftly leached away, leaving behind growing irritation at the rallies.

PAS has indirectly shown its disenchantment with Anwar's style of protests in Harakah's Blackout 505: PAS serah kepada negeri where its top leadership has diplomatically left participation to the discretion of the party's state leaders, meaning PAS central leadership doesn't support it. It's obvious Pak Haji is distancing himself from Anwar's continuing protest rallies.

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BN is effectively a minority government

Posted: 13 May 2013 11:52 AM PDT

In assessing the results of the long-awaited 13th general elections, it is imperative that one considers the actual conditions under which the elections were conducted.

Uninformed observers, particularly from overseas, assume that because Malaysia has a Westminister-style parliamentary democracy, our elections are conducted freely, fairly and in the spirit of fair play.

The reality is that our elections are never held as they are in mature democracies like the United Kingdom, India or Australia.

They are rather akin to another Commonwealth country, Zimbabwe, where Robert Mugabe has been in power for some 33 years, and where the ruling party always wins because it thinks it has a divine right to rule, and will cheat to remain in power. Institutions intended to be independent and impartial have never acted independently and impartially.

First, the Election Commission (EC). It does not even give the semblance of being an independent umpire in a contest between two coalitions.

Instead, the EC has been most partisan, always favouring the ruling BN. Bridget Welsh, a well-respected and independent scholar, highlighted in Malaysiakini, the impact of the increased numbers in the electoral roll which were out of line with historical patterns of voter registration.

As examples, she referred to the 21 percent increase in Bachok and 29 percent in Bukit Gantang. Apart from irregularities concerning early and postal voting of some 240,000 voters, double voting and phantom voting have also allegedly took place. Many others have already written about these flaws in the voting process.

Secondly, in appearing to uphold law and order, the police force had been equally partisan, and reportedly going to the extent of transporting and protecting newly-arrived ballot boxes which contained sufficient votes to tip the balance in favour of BN in closely contested seats.

When Malaysian voters attempted to ensure that nothing untoward like that would happen, the police brought in FRU trucks with heavily-armed police ready to intimidate civilians attempting to prevent abuse.

Thirdly, the mainstream media's sole function has been to print lies and distortions while not giving any mention to any good point that Pakatan may have made.

Fourthly, the caretaker government gave out money and other gifts which, by any yardstick, would constitute bribes and electoral offences. Yet, nothing was done to stop them.

Finally, and perhaps the worst offence committed by BN, with total complicity by EC, was allowing foreigners to vote.

In every nation, only citizens enjoy the privilege of voting in national elections. It is part of nationhood and citizenship. Article 119 (1) of the federal constitution confines the right to vote to citizens, and they further have to comply with residential and registration requirements. Yet, foreigners were allowed to vote in the thousands.

A stolen election

The scandal involving planeloads arriving in Malaysia days before polling has not been credibly answered. One wonders whether any other ruling party in the world will go to the extent of what BN has done. Mugabe may have to copy BN in this trick. All those who participated in this unconstitutional and wholly unacceptable conduct are guilty of treachery and treason.

Most Malaysians knew that this election would be stolen. That is exactly what happened on Sunday, May 5 between 5pm when the polls closed and when the results were announced.

The BN game-plan was to focus on about 30 parliamentary states. Winning them at all costs would ensure a return of power. Thus, they were not interested in Karpal Singh's seat in Bukit Gelugor which he won by 42,000 votes or Seputeh where Teresa Kok increased her formidable majority to 61,000 seats.

Rather, the focus was on closely contested seats. In these seats, recounts were ordered, which invariably resulted in BN victories. The results were announced very late. There was always a break in the chain of evidence, that is, between the sealing of the ballot boxes after counting in the voting centres, and the subsequent recounts and final announcement of results seven or eight hours later.

With the benefit of hindsight, it becomes clear why in the last week before the elections when all the evidence suggested a surge for Pakatan, the Umno "war room" was confident of winning 140 to 150 seats: they had "insider information" about cheating. The evidence is slowly being uncovered and no doubt by the time these results are challenged in court in the coming weeks, the picture would be much clearer.

Kredit: www.malaysia-today.net

Selasa, 14 Mei 2013

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