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- I have been saying this for some time: relook preventive law to rein in criminals
- RM350 million, that's how much UMNO gotta spend to defeat the Red Bean Army by PRU14!
- Civility in politics
| I have been saying this for some time: relook preventive law to rein in criminals Posted: 25 Jun 2013 01:43 PM PDT The Prime Minister stated then that the Government was ready to make changes in the law in accordance with the current needs of contemporary society. This landmark decision by the Government was a victory for the champions of human rights. However, for the research team on crime and policing from Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM), we knew that the country was going to see a significant surge in violent crimes, especially those involving gangs and recidivists (repeat offenders), based on our fairly extensive research on this subject. In 2010, our team recommended that the Restricted Residence (RR) Act be repealed as it was obsolete in our high-tech communication-savvy modern Malaysian society. But we recommended that the EO be sustained with amendments to prevent any abuse. The EO is a preventive law that was originally developed to deal with subversive elements that threatened national security and specific criminal elements that threatened the safety of society. Although the EO has been criticised as a draconian, inhumane and undemocratic law, it cannot be denied that it served its purpose in effectively dealing with terrorists, secret societies, criminal gangs, recidivists and organised/syndicated crime members. Most of the detainees under the EO in the last three decades were those alleged to be involved in violent gang activities, extortion, kidnapping, gaming, and in executing the day-to-day operations for organised/syndicated crime bosses. Almost 2,000 of these undesirable criminal elements were released after the repeal of the EO last year. |
| RM350 million, that's how much UMNO gotta spend to defeat the Red Bean Army by PRU14! Posted: 25 Jun 2013 01:27 PM PDT The proposal is in, I was told. Party sec-gen Tengku Adnan is thoroughly studying it. Shocking, you say? Hogwash, certainly. What UMNO needs to do is get its leaders, including those experts, to serve the people from now until Najib Razak or whoever is PM then calls for the next general election. Turun padang and meet the people face-to-face in the real world, not in the virtual one. There is no substitute for sincere hard work. Whose idea was it in the first place to have a department of social media that employs full-time tweeps, facebookers, instagrammers, bloggers and cybertroopers? What madness! Read more at: http://www.rockybru.com.my/2013/06/rm350-million-thats-how-much-umno-gotta.html
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| Posted: 25 Jun 2013 01:20 AM PDT Both combatants have made it a habit of kicking off each parliamentary term by posing together and shaking hands, all to show the people that they are gentlemen. But this moment of civility inevitably descends into mutual vilification as both sides wage no-holds-barred political war against one another over the next five years. I hope, however, that this time both men make a genuine attempt to be civil so that the politics of hate and recrimination in the country can be mitigated. This would be an immense relief to all of us. Being civil is essential for democracy to take shape and mature. On a basic level, it simply means that both men must be willing to be nice to one another. Civility in the context of their political relationship, of course, means more than that: it means knowing how to communicate effectively, to play fair, to adopt polite behaviour and to be open when dealing with one another as much as possible. Both parties must be willing to use this approach and forsake gutter politics, focusing instead on bringing about the best in each other. Civility costs nothing. At a time when the nation is festering with racial distrust and even hatred in some quarters, the leaders of both factions share the responsibility of cooling things down. The rakyat is tired of listening to endless recriminations, accusations and shouting matches. They want to start hearing positive news. They want a good exchange of policy statements that's conducted in a civilised manner so they can appreciate the wonderful things that we have in the country. READ MORE HERE
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