Following are TWO REFERENCES for my thoughts Today in Malaysia which will follow after Hi-Tea (ie about 5.00pm), so bear with me. YOU HAVE BORNE WITH THE HALF-PAST-6 BN GOVERNMENT FOR 51 YEARS AND YET BREATHE, I GUESS BEARING WITH Half-Past-7 YL FOR ONE AFTERNOON WON'T BE CONSIDERED "OPPRESSION"! If some of my ER wanna sue me, I advise that you turn your telescopic sights to this Lawyer-Made-a-Fool-by-Dollah!:(
Foolish Wan!
Extracted from:
http://mt.m2day.org/2008/content/view/12010/84/
Blocking Access To Malaysia Today Website Is Not Censorship, Says Syed Hamid
Posted by kasee
Sunday, 31 August 2008 10:17
Home Minister Datuk Seri Syed Hamid Albar has defended the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC)'s decision to block access to the Malaysia Today website, saying the move was not an act of censorship against the online portal.
Instead it was to prevent the abuse of cyberspace to circulate lies, he said.
"I think this is where we must know our boundary... there should be self-censorship and sense of responsibility.
"If you act beyond that, it leaves your authority with no choice... I think other countries have also taken some form of action," Syed Hamid said after attending the Kajang Prison pre-National Day celebration here Saturday.
Syed Hamid was asked to comment on former Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad's claim that the government had reneged on its promise not to censor the Internet.
Dr Mahathir, in his posting dated Aug 29 on his blog www.chedet.com, said that when a government made a promise and reneged on it, "then not only would the government lose credibility but also any respect the public may have for it."
Meanwhile, Syed Hamid said the RM5.4 billion allocation given to the police in the 2009 Budget would help the force to acquire new assets.
"I hope that when the government shows its empathy to the needs of members of the force, it will give them reason to work harder," he said.
Syed Hamid also hoped that the increase in the special incentive -- from RM100 to RM200 a month effective Jan 1 next year -- would spur the force to work hard to restore public confidence. - BERNAMA
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Mr DNA Bill rushing through Monkeys' House at rocket sped, second time around in one year!
Foolish Master Wan!
Also Cut&Paste from:
http://mt.m2day.org/2008/content/view/12051/84/
Malaysia pioneering use of DNA as a tool for political suppression?
Posted by Super Admin
Monday, 01 September 2008 10:44
While the US and UK crank up the drive for mass internment of identities in DNA databases, the government in Malaysia is being accused of focusing its DNA roundup on the political opposition.
While the US and UK crank up the drive for mass internment of identities in DNA databases (see "Homo Delinquens: The Race of Born Suspects" at http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/10/26/18323702.php), Malaysia is being accused of focusing its DNA roundup on the political opposition. Although the US and UK genetic dragnets have met only token opposition (lip service by the ACLU crowd), the Malaysian government's proposal for forced DNA sampling of all "suspects" hit opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim very personally - so he is leading a heated battle against the proposal.
Anwar was deputy premier and groomed by Malaysian and Western rulers to succeed the country's then-reigning patriarch, Dr. Mahathir. But after a bitter feud with Mahathir, Anwar was convicted of sodomy in 1998, following a graphic trial in which a mattress on which he was alleged to have had sex with his family driver was repeatedly produced in court. All homosexual sex is illegal in Malaysia, punishable (as "sodomy") by up to 20 years in jail if convicted. He was freed from jail in 2004 after a court quashed his sodomy conviction.
But now he faces new charges of sodomizing a 23-year-old male aide. Anwar has refused to give a DNA sample in the present sodomy case. His supporters fear if a sample is taken, it would be tampered with so as to incriminate him at his upcoming new trial. So hours after Anwar was sworn in to Parliament, following a landslide election victory that returned him to Parliament after ten years' absence, he led a walkout to protest the proposed legislation. He said that the opposition had demanded the setting up of a select committee to study the bill first.
"We have walked out because they have refused to respond" to the request, he said. "So there's no point in staying and participating in this debate."
During the debate, Anwar said:
"The government had tabled this Bill on Monday without giving the opportunity to the members of parliament, including our friends who are still on the other side, to study it. And it was tabled in haste.
"This Bill is agreed upon by rapacious politicians but opposed by all experts and non-governmental and human rights organisations....it is clear that the current government and cabinet are afraid of the people's voice," he said.
The Home Minister responded with the classic police state line:
"I don't think they (the opposition) should attribute a sinister motive to it. If there is a case in court and you are not guilty, why should you worry about this bill?"
The ruling coalition has a majority in parliament and the bill requires a simple majority to pass.
Perhaps the the US and UK opposition (if it exists) should be paying close attention to what's happening in Malaysia, and consider the possibility of it happening at home. http://www.indybay.org/
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Continued @10.56PM because the Hi-Tea stretched into Dinner and edged slowly but surely towards Supper -- Ah, I told my ER DEsi is a capitalist during the wickends plus on holiday!:)
Yesterday, in my Introduction of this optimistic Essay, I began:
"...and for once after many miserable anniversaries, Desi is hopeful on the 51st birthday."
Marh 8, 2008 demonstrated a groundswell of the Rakyat's support for CHANGE. They responded eeadily and forcefull for CHANGE, reducing the BN's traditional overwhelming dominance in Parliament to less than two-thirds, for a historic first time in 12 General Elections since 1957, which saw the birth of Malaya on August 31st.
Auguts 16, 2008 demonstrated a re-affirmation that the Rakyat has nto changed its mind about its Quest4CHANGE, as the majority of 58,000 voters in Permatang Pauh spoke on our behalf.
The TWO REFERENCES above showed that the Barisan Nasional had not heard the messages sent up on March 8, thenn reiterated on August 26 -- by continuing its stubborn politics of OPPRESSION and DERELICTION OF DUTY TO THE RAKYAT.
It's caring Malaysians like Raja Petra Kamarudin who lead the fight against the BN government still trying to OPPRESS THE MINDS OF THE PEOPLE. This King of Bloggers stands as the vanguard against misguided BN leaders like Syed Hamid who believe they can intimidate the writers in cyberspace into silence by threats of imprisonment and multi-million ringgit suits. How wrong can some deluded UMNO leaders get? The Rakyat Today are well informed by online information channels like Malaysia Today and no more soul'd out by the propaganda churned out by the MSM editors-in-chief acting as echo-chambers to UMNO, MCA and MIC-key mouse, FOR A FEW MILLION DOLLARS MORE.
Giving credit where creit is due, indirectly we also give thanks to one fomrer PM, who unwittingy perhaps, for oce stood on the same side of a substantial sectio of the Rakyat. Quoting him from the news report, I am gratified by his stance reiterated about the Internet's independence from censorship as initiated by Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad in promoting the MSC, where resides the Blogsphere, viz: "
Dr Mahathir, in his posting dated Aug 29 on his blog www.chedet.com, said that when a government made a promise and reneged on it, "then not only would the government lose credibility but also any respect the public may have for it."
Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim had in the 10-day campaign in Permatang Pauh fought on a theme of FREEDOM (MERDEKA) FROM OPPRESSION -- when the Rakyat live in fear of a dictatorial regime, climate of rising crime, and growing poverty as prices of fuel and food items continue to spiral. And the government coninues its orgy of wanton spending, waste, seepage and leakage, all because the current rime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi has for five years government by PRONOUCEMENT OF GOOD INTENTIONS, AND SOME ADMONISHMENT OF WRONGDOINGS (WITH HARDLY ANY PUNITIVE ACTION!). So it'sno surprise that Public Enemy Number One -- CORRUPTION -- REMAINS ENTRENCHED BY THE UMNO CULTURE OF GRRED, MORE GREED, A GREED THAT NOWS NO BOUND.
And now in the party he leads, the PKR de facto leader, now Opposition Leader, Sdr Anwar Ibrahim, lies that glimmer of HOPE at the end of the tunnel.
On the haste with which the BN dominated Parliament tried to encircle Anwar Ibrahim after broke down the Permatang Pauh walls of oppression, with tabling the neww DNA Idenitification Billprecisely aimed at the PM-in-waiting when all else has failed, the protagonist said, vis:
"This Bill is agreed upon by rapacious politicians but opposed by all experts and non-governmental and human rights organisations....it is clear that the current government and cabinet are afraid of the people's voice," he said.
Yes, The People's Voice.
Your voice. OUR VOICE.
In whispered tone, Desi's Midnight Voice in Furong too.
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