Sermons by the Si...

Datuk Musa Aman -- good boy that he is! -- did not follow Desis' advice yesterday to seek an audience with Sabahans. Instead the State UMNO people sought his audience -- now we know who the Emperor of Sabah is and where he stays. Maybe Sabahans are patient ones, will wait until August 31, 2006 and gather at ... Or Sabahans are super-patient ones, and wait for the next State Elections and follow the Sarawak script, you electors, hear me? Ear me?

"Friends, Sabahans and countrymen, lend me thy ears ...


From The Star, page N3,

Saturday July 29, 2006


Musa: No decision yet on when to resume project


KOTA KINABALU: Sabah Chief Minister Datuk Musa Aman has not made any decision yet on when to resume construction of the RM4.5mil clubhouse project on the environmentally-sensitive diving haven of Pulau Sipadan.

Musa, however, brushed aside calls to scrap the Sipadan project and stop the logging at the Malua and Ulu Segama forest reserves which had been bequeathed as Malaysia’s biodiversity gifts to the world.

He said everything that needed explaining on both controversial moves affecting the environment had been done.

“As long as we don’t have to hide anything, we don’t have to worry,” he said after chairing a two-hour monthly Sabah Umno liaison committee meeting.

Musa, who briefed the committee on his meeting with Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi over the Sipadan project, among the other matters, said the state Umno leaders accepted his explanation.
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And now the second sermon -- by the Si-fool?

I'm reproducing the report in full because precisely it deserves fool coverage.

"Friends, Malaysians, countrymen, don't say I did not perform my duty to bring this important sermon to your attention...


Page N16, same newspaper, yes The People's Paper.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Here starts the ZAM's item ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Zam: Don’t create issues

KUALA LUMPUR: The media should not create “unnecessary contentious” issues when the situation in the country is peaceful, and the market for newspapers is seldom threatened by media-related laws, said Information Minister Datuk Zainuddin Maidin.

He said the media should not be used as a tool for so-called *“freedom fighters,” adding that media practitioners knew that their daily operations would not be affected unless they flouted the Sedition Act 1948 and the Printing Presses and Publications Act 1984.


Zainuddin: ‘The Government means business in this matter’
“The Cabinet has been informed that **certain newspapers are inclined to exploit certain religious and racial issues and create unnecessary contentious debate,” he told a press conference at Angkasapuri here yesterday.

He cited the recent issue on Universiti Putra Malaysia’s “Ethnic Relations Guide Book” as an example where some reports had not been based on facts and were biased.

Zainuddin said the Government had obtained proof that ***certain local newspapers had published news, articles and interviews that were meant to question the status of Islam as the country’s official religion.

He said the newspaper organisations should learn from the country’s history which showed that they were involved in creating instability which resulted in the May 13, 1969, tragedy. Following this, the Government had to take action again against the media firms, launching “Ops Lalang” in 1987.

He reiterated that the Government would not compromise with any media organisation which incited religious and racial sentiments.

“The Government means business in this matter and will be guided by the country’s way of resolving problems to ensure +ethical newspapers.”

Zainuddin said the Prime Minister’s directive to the media to stop the publication and printing of sensitive issues relating to religion and race was not a gag order but a continuation of the Government’s policy, which had been ignored by certain media companies.

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DESIDERATA: Pre-, during and post-Da Vinci Code, it looks like many Malaysians -- not excluding Desi and some Ministers, see the ppower of writers by association! -- are still speaking in CODE.
Or sisdar Helen, am I or da minister speaking tongue-in-chic?
(My APologies to the likes -- almost used 'ilk'! -- Mave SM and Anak Merdeka (she's gone MIA for sometime, in Kota Baru reporting LIVE, isIT?) and Howsy, whose exuberance in editorialising theSien blog truly aMACEs Desi!)

I have a good reason for using code-ine, as I stated that the motive is to try to work some of my lazy ER' brain cells getting stale through affluent living and Sodamn and Gomerpylic indulgence, that they know the meaning of Da Rationale when engaging this demanding DesidERRATIC one.

See you, say no more but caution that yopu note the asterisks *, **, *** and ah, that cross +. Try to desi[phere why I did that, will you, lazy bummers who make good my Saturday. Now I'll pass the collections bags around so my flock can show their love for Desi to help sponsor my trip to Kota Kinabalu come Hari Merdeka...

Now go Obedient ones, Say: "Si, si" to the two Sermons by the Si.