ONE who is currently still with Part Keadilan Rakyat -- thank God for that! -- doing honourable service. This Desi would continue to help "rise" up the down staircase. May God continue to bless us with such Wakil Rakyat. Amen.
The other is no more with PKR -- THank God for that too! -- who Desi would give a shove to help him go down with the up staircase! May God have mercy on Desi for having such murderous thoughts! -- Amen.
Sex Video: A Desperate Gamble of a Dying Regime
The Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department, Dato Seri Mohamed Nazri Aziz, is pushing for a Royal Commission to enquire whether the man in the sex video is Anwar Ibrahim. The Minister said earlier the three Datos who exhibited the video are whistle blowers. Certain UMNO leaders past and present also appear to have a fervent need for the public viewing of the video without regard to the sensitivities of the people, in particular the children. The Inspector General of Police Ismail Omar also took the unusual step of announcing the video is authentic while further investigations were needed to determine whether the three have committed any offence. When all these are considered, the only reasonable inference ordinary Malaysians can make is that this sex video is another smear campaign. UMNO has a fixation to paint Anwar as a sexual deviant. This has been relentlessly pursued to put an end to his political career. As a consequence, Malaysians have to bear with regular and repeated servings of sex scandals allegedly committed by Anwar. In trying to portray Anwar as being immoral and therefore unfit to lead, this sex video instead exposed the moral decay within UMNO. The release of the sex video by the trio of UMNO veterans is a desperate gamble to cling to power at all costs. Far from a coup de grace over Anwar’s head, this sex video has become the death throes of a doomed UMNO regime.
The police know whether the three Datos have committed an offence by looking at Section 5(1) of the Film Censorship Act 2002. The section provides that no person shall have in his possession, circulate or exhibit any film which is obscene or is otherwise against public decency. Section 5(2) provides that anyone who contravenes Section 5(1) commits an offence and on conviction shall be liable to a fine or imprisonment or both. The trio in the media conferences admitted they exhibited the video. Anyone who has seen this video confirms it is obscene. Why is there the hesitation to act? Is it because they are from the same side?
To set up a Commission of Enquiry to determine whether Anwar is the man in the video the matter must fall within the provisions of Section 2(1) of the Commissions of Enquiry Act 1950. Section 2(1) provides that a Commission may be set up to enquire into the following:-
(a) The conduct of any Federal Officer;
(b) The conduct or management of any department of the public service;
(c) The conduct or management of any public institution; or
(d) Any other matter in the opinion of the Yang Di-Pertuan Agong is for public welfare.
A Commission can only be set up in this case if it is for public welfare. Therefore in order for Anwar’s moral character to be a matter of public welfare the Government must concede he is going to be the next Prime Minister. If the future Prime Minister is to undergo such an enquiry then Anwar is right to ask for an enquiry on the present Prime Minister. Never in the history of our nation did we have a Prime Minister with so many clouds hanging over him. Applying Nazri’s brand of logic for the RCI because Wan Aziza denied the man in the video is Anwar then enquiries on the Prime Minister must be conducted since he denied his involvement in those matters. This has not been done. The double standard is therefore clear for all to see.
Anwar’s reply to Nazri’s proposal for a Commission of Enquiry that the Government first hold enquiries on Altantuya, Port Dickson, the deaths of Teoh Beng Hock and customs assistant director, Ahmad Sarbani Mohamed, succinctly sums up the moral hypocrisy that have beset the UMNO stalwarts. Roger Malcolm Mitchell said:
“The devil decries evil
Virtue is his guide
To find the hidden villain
Listen to the loudest voice”
The loudest voice belongs to the moral hypocrite. Although they can try to convince themselves that transgressions by Anwar and opposition members must be condemned rigorously while those on their team can be overlooked, they have to convince the Malaysian public that what they have done is acceptable conduct. Double standards can never be accepted. They may be able to give to each other “self-proclaimed halos” and preach to the public “to do as I say but not as I do” but the people can see through this. Moral hypocrisy allows them to gain the benefits of appearing virtuous without incurring the costs of personal virtuous behavior. Malaysians have unfortunately until recently kept silent on this and thereby encouraged this behavior. The question for Malaysians is that even if these leaders can deceive themselves into believing they are acting for the common good in releasing the sex video, can we Malaysians deceive ourselves? For some, moral hypocrisy is a useful tool for self-delusion but for many of us it will not be enough to overcome our conscience to do unto others as we would have others do unto us. Our minds cannot justify double standards and our hearts cannot accept as right what we know is wrong. The decay in UMNO set in because they have been in power for too long. Malaysians have allowed UMNO’s self-delusion to fester and it has become gangrene. Jesus told the Scribes and Pharisees who wanted to stone the adulteress that “He who has no sin cast the first stone “. One by one, they left until only Jesus and the woman were left and Jesus said “Go and sin no more”. We should be grateful the UMNO veterans were not there, otherwise Jesus would have run out of stones!
UMNO having cast the stone outraged our society’s dignity and insulted our intelligence. They think that once we see this grainy black and white video of a pot-bellied contortionist performing with such rigor that would be physically too demanding for an Olympian much less a sixty-four year old with a bad back, we will all rush out and vote for UMNO and BN. They have obviously not heard what Eleanor Roosevelt said:
“Great minds discuss ideas;
Modest minds discuss events
Small minds discuss persons
Sadly, they think we not only have small minds but also feeble ones that will make us vote for the corrupt, oppressive and arrogant because of what the man and the woman were doing in the video. NGO’s like Suaram have condemned the sex video. Enalini Elumalai, Suram (SUARAM ~~ Correction by Desi) coordinator in a press statement urged Malaysians to reject “sexual politicking” as it is shameful and an insult to the dignity of all Malaysians. The President of the Malaysian Consultative Council of Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Sikhism and Taoism (“MCCBCHST”), Reverend Dr Thomas Philips said MCCBCHST viewed the video with disgust. He said their aim in publicly humiliating our elected opposition leader of Parliament offends the sensitivities of decent people no matter what race or religion they belong to. Mohd Roslan Md Nor, the secretary general of The Malaysian Ulama Association (“PUM”) in a statement said those calling for a screening of the video in Parliament are “suffering from a cancer of rubbish politics.” He said the trend of trying to degrade and spread slander is not Malay Muslim culture. Moreover, it is illegal and unethical anywhere around the world. Recording, possessing and distributing the video is clearly haram. By releasing the video at the same time the Sarawak assembly was dissolved, they hoped it would help BN in the state elections. They should have released the bibles and not the video.
They forget it is issues, policies and reforms that are what we want to know and would determine the people’s vote. We do not want to see a sleazy video. We want to watch a debate between Anwar and Najib on Pakatan Rakyat’s Orange Book versus BN’s 1 Malaysia. We want to know who has the courage of conviction to make the structural reforms so badly needed for our nation to regain its competitiveness. We want to see who has the strength of character to rebuild our education system so our children can think creatively, innovatively and stand amongst the best in the world. These are the issues that should determine our votes.
We have enough of allegations of sodomy, sexual impropriety and every other type of smear politics that can be invented to steal an election with the cooperation of a controlled media that is so derelict in their duty of responsible reporting that what they write should be labeled as black propaganda and not news. If UMNO and Barisan Nasional are to win an election on the basis of smear politics it will give the signal that this is the way to go for all future elections.
The solution lies with us, the people. When we are at the ballot boxes, we have to punish and show our disgust against those who indulge in “gutter politics’” by voting them out. We must teach them a lesson that they will not forget or we will forever be dealing with the garbage of cesspool politics.
William Leong Jee Keen
Member of Parliament for Selayang
10th April 2011
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'Datuk T not the wrongdoer'
2011/04/10
By Alang Bendahara and Rahmah Ghazali
From news@nst.com.my on yesterday's news
(REDEFINED as history today which applies to the subject yes?:( ~~ Desi)
KUALA LUMPUR: Former PKR deputy president Dr Chandra Muzaffar lashed out against critics who targeted the men behind a sex video allegedly featuring opposition leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim with a prostitute.
Joining the fray on the sex video scandal, Chandra said it was the wrongdoer and not those who exposed the wrongdoing that should be targeted.
The former PKR deputy president said he was disappointed with some quarters whose focus had gone astray.
"It is not the individuals who expose the wrongdoing who should be our target, but the wrongdoer himself and his wrongdoing," said Chandra, who was once a staunch Anwar ally, told the New Sunday Times yesterday.
The men behind the video, the "Datuk T" (trio), have become the subject of attacks by the opposition and some parties for possession and distribution of pornography, which they said was tantamount to a criminal offence.
The trio, comprising former Malacca chief minister Tan Sri Rahim Thamby Chik, businessman Datuk Shazryl Eskay Abdullah and Per- kasa's treasurer-general Datuk Shuib Lazim, claimed responsibility for the public screening of the video to selected journalists on March 21 at Carcosa Seri Negara.
Using an analogy of corruption as an example, Chandra said people should condemn the person who committed the act rather than those who exposed the act.
"Why should we be so obsessed with those who wash dirty linen in public when actually we should be chastising those who dirty the linen in the first instance?"
Chandra, who is now a social activist and an academician, also gave his support for the establishment of a royal commission of inquiry (RCI) to determine the identity of the man in the video despite objections from Anwar's family and supporters.
He said they should have no compunctions about the establishment of the royal panel if they were convinced that Anwar had done no wrong.
However, he warned the opposition leader of serious repercussions if it was proven otherwise, "as others in similar circumstances have done".
"If, on the other hand, Anwar is prepared to come to terms with the truth, he should resign from his position as leader of the opposition and cease to be the ketua umum (de facto leader) of the opposition grouping".
He further reminded the public not to have illusions about the man named Anwar, emphasising that it was not only just the latter's alleged "sexual misdemeanours" that made him abandon the opposition ship 10 years ago.
"There were graver issues pertaining to money politics, ethnic relations and international affairs that compelled me to part company with Anwar.
"Ten years ago, when I quit (the party), I appealed to Anwar and his wife, Datuk Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail, in public to be honest to their conscience. I am still waiting."
Although there were many calls supporting the setting up of a RCI to probe the sex video clip, the Bar Council, on the other hand, went against the tide by saying that such a suggestion was "misguided".
Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Datuk Seri Mohamed Nazri Abdul Aziz said on Friday he would table a proposal to establish the royal panel to the cabinet.
In a statement issued yesterday, Bar Council president Lim Chee Wee said an RCI was only set up to enquire into matters of public importance, commonly involving public institutions, as stated under the Commissions of Enquiry Act 1950.
Read more: 'Datuk T not the wrongdoer' http://www.nst.com.my/nst/articles/04chand/Article/#ixzz1JAA44htH
DESIDERATA:
This following COMMENT is added as an afterthot meant ONLY for two persons in wheelcahirs; another wheelchair-bound turncoat is HEE YET FOONG who Desi would have liked to shove down that up staircase.With no hesitation. You dared to ArSeK why? Hey, get Oooch of here/hear!
I know the duo suffer from God-decided defect and many Malaysians could have given them lots of sympathy and benefits "in lieu" for their handicap. But Desi feels strong enough on rare occasions to withdraw his "charitable" thoughts, so here goes with no iota of apology to the two dastardly subjects...THE INTELLECTUAL PRETENDER FOR HOLDING DOUBLE STARDARDS AND TWISTED VIEWS IN CONSISTENT WITH HIS ALIRAN DAYS' STANCES; and THE OTHER DEPUTY SPEAKER WHO SINGLE-HASNDEDLY SOLD OUT THE ELECTORATE OF THE SILVER STATE FOR "A FEW PIECES OF GOLD"!
Parting view for similarly "challenged" Malaysians, I apologise you "happen" to be in similar physical e/straits, but prayerfully in Desi's mind, NOT at all of similar mental bent as the two dastardly curs who have abused God's gift of a mind in a God forsaken way as compared with a serving Wakil Rakyat from Selayang who knows how to use God's gift the admirable way.
May God -- however you deem Him to be -- save us all from the dastards and curs who foster DESPAIR in many of us, and bless us with more Williams walking the right path thus giving Malaysians some HOPE. ~~ YL, Desi
Monday, April 11, 2011
Sunday, April 10, 2011
Near nuclear blowout, in Japan, near official business shutdown in US
YES, Nostradamus' spirits have permeated the air since the year 2011 dawned.
March 11 saw the 9.0magnitude earthquake and tsunami that almost knocked out the northern part of Japan. And the Fukushima nuclear plant almost scare the life out of everybody within breathing distance of Sendai and Fukushima; and a month after that fateful morn, Japan is still in the throes of a nuclear blowout.
Meanwhile, the African continent continues to see a People's Blowout of their Heads of state or government -- Egypt, Tuniasia, Yemen, Syria, Ivory Coast ... and the NATO-led forces in implementing a No-Fly Zone in Lybya has now led to a sort of "stalemate" because Presient for over 40 years Muammar Ghadafi refused to yield to US-led military might and diplomacy, and a prolonged "war" there might just lead to another decade of blowout in United States' "big brother" role in world affairs. WHICH brings back memories of the prolonged Vietnam war in the 1960s, and the invasion of Iraq by then President George Bush Jnr which must have contributed to the country's mounting debts...
WHICH meanwhile, almost cost US President Barack Obama his administration's nigh-government BLOWOUT. The PREDICTED SHUTDOWN was avoided by last-minute compromises by both the Democrats and Republicans (and I just read about this over CNN's news cast an hour ago as I write this post on Sunday Malaysian time 12.45AM April 10.
So as Malaysians go for state elections in Sarawak with polling set for April 16, will we see a continued slide into chaos and police state in dear NegaraKu.
Another death at the MACCof a senior Customs officer Ahmad Sarbani, re-echoes the mysterious death of Teoh Beng Hock some two years ago also at another MACC headquarters.
How many years of corruption must Sarawakians bear before they wake up,open their eyes to realise that their ballots they cast on April 16 may yet prevent a nationwide BLOWOUT of Malaysia's54-year-old democracy under the BN-UMNO regime.
DON'T THE VOTERS OF SARAWAK SEE THE SIMILAR FACES OF 30-YEARS-PLUS PLUNDER BY HOSNIMUBARAK OF EGYPT and TAIB MAHMUD'S PLUNDER OF THEIR LAND BLESSED WITH GOD'S GIFTED NATURAL RESOURCES MAINLY ENJOYED BY THE CHIEFMINISTER FOR THREE DECADES AND FAMILY AND CRONIES...?
tHE ANSWER, MY FrIENDS,IN NOT BLOWING IN THE WIND. iT'S IN THY SACRED HANDS HOLDING THAT SACRED BALLOT PAPER!
May God give thee wisdom to "V"ote wisely for Change cometh April 16. GBless, Amen/Amin
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March 11 saw the 9.0magnitude earthquake and tsunami that almost knocked out the northern part of Japan. And the Fukushima nuclear plant almost scare the life out of everybody within breathing distance of Sendai and Fukushima; and a month after that fateful morn, Japan is still in the throes of a nuclear blowout.
Meanwhile, the African continent continues to see a People's Blowout of their Heads of state or government -- Egypt, Tuniasia, Yemen, Syria, Ivory Coast ... and the NATO-led forces in implementing a No-Fly Zone in Lybya has now led to a sort of "stalemate" because Presient for over 40 years Muammar Ghadafi refused to yield to US-led military might and diplomacy, and a prolonged "war" there might just lead to another decade of blowout in United States' "big brother" role in world affairs. WHICH brings back memories of the prolonged Vietnam war in the 1960s, and the invasion of Iraq by then President George Bush Jnr which must have contributed to the country's mounting debts...
WHICH meanwhile, almost cost US President Barack Obama his administration's nigh-government BLOWOUT. The PREDICTED SHUTDOWN was avoided by last-minute compromises by both the Democrats and Republicans (and I just read about this over CNN's news cast an hour ago as I write this post on Sunday Malaysian time 12.45AM April 10.
So as Malaysians go for state elections in Sarawak with polling set for April 16, will we see a continued slide into chaos and police state in dear NegaraKu.
Another death at the MACCof a senior Customs officer Ahmad Sarbani, re-echoes the mysterious death of Teoh Beng Hock some two years ago also at another MACC headquarters.
How many years of corruption must Sarawakians bear before they wake up,open their eyes to realise that their ballots they cast on April 16 may yet prevent a nationwide BLOWOUT of Malaysia's54-year-old democracy under the BN-UMNO regime.
DON'T THE VOTERS OF SARAWAK SEE THE SIMILAR FACES OF 30-YEARS-PLUS PLUNDER BY HOSNIMUBARAK OF EGYPT and TAIB MAHMUD'S PLUNDER OF THEIR LAND BLESSED WITH GOD'S GIFTED NATURAL RESOURCES MAINLY ENJOYED BY THE CHIEFMINISTER FOR THREE DECADES AND FAMILY AND CRONIES...?
tHE ANSWER, MY FrIENDS,IN NOT BLOWING IN THE WIND. iT'S IN THY SACRED HANDS HOLDING THAT SACRED BALLOT PAPER!
May God give thee wisdom to "V"ote wisely for Change cometh April 16. GBless, Amen/Amin
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Saturday, April 09, 2011
I believe the substance of this STAR's report...
WHICH IS A VERY RARE OCCASION!
From The Star Online:
Saturday April 9, 2011
Ahmad Sarbani would never take a bribe, says family
Reports by LOURDES CHARLES, NELSON BENJAMIN, FLORENCE A. SAMY, TEH ENG HOCK, LESTER KONG, YUEN MEIKENG, STEVEN DANIEL and AUSTIN CAMOENS
PETALING JAYA: Family members of late Selangor Customs Department assistant director Ahmad Sarbani Mohamed do not believe that the deceased was corrupt.
His younger brother Hassan, 53, said Ahmad Sarbani was a respectable man who would never have taken a bribe.
“My brother was a hardworking and responsible person. We do not believe he was corrupt,” he said when met at the Customs Department quarters in Kelana Jaya yesterday.
He said that Ahmad Sarbani, the eldest of eight siblings, was a happy-go-lucky, friendly and caring person.
Hassan said he and his family were deeply saddened by reports in several dailies claiming that his brother was corrupt.
“Just look at how he lived. Certain media reports claimed he was involved in money laundering and corruption. Then why did he stay at the Customs quarters if he had so much money?” he said.
Hassan also hoped that the media would allow his family to grieve in private.
DESIDERATA:
That Ahmad Sarbani rode a motor-cycle to the MACC showed he was a humble man, not inclined to drive the latest model of an imported car which is quite the norm of civil servants who have reached a "senior" rank close to Ahmad Sarbani's.
I too believe that PM Najib Razak was too quick to take the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) head's word that Ahmad Sarbani went to the MACC office voluntarily to make an amendment to a statement he had given to the MACC a few days earlier.
At 8.36AM in the morning? Voluntary?
You think Ahmad Sarbani would want to see more of his interrogators' faces, smiling eh?
Najib and the MACC owe the family of the late Ahmad Sarbani's family AN APOLOGY IF THERE HAD BEEN ANY PERCEPTION CREATED IN THE PUBLIC MIND THAT AHMAD SARBANI HAD COMMITTED "SUICIDE" FLOWING FROM ANY STATEMENT MADE BY ANY MACC OFFICIAL.
Desi believes that at the tremendous sacrifice of an innocent Malaysian life, there has been DIVINE INTERVENTION to throw more light on Teoh Beng Hock's case because if anyone recalled, in the very early days of TBH's death at the MACC SElangor Hq, the top officers ordered an investigation into Teoh's death based on suspicion of that young man taking his own life. YES -- A PRESUMPTION OF "SUICIDE" WHICH IS PREJUDICIAL TO ANY INVESIGATION!
Now how would MACC explain Ahmad Sarbani's death?
I thank God, or Allah to the late Ahmad Sarbani's family, for the mysterious ways Justice in Malaysia moves.
May God, however you deem Him to be, rest Ahmad Sarbani's soul in Heaven. May God/Allah be always shedding light, protection and forebearance on the family he left behind.
May God bless the GOoD people of Malaysia, and condemn those evil-doers who lurk in the darkest nook and cranny in high and dark places. ~~ Amen/Amin
From The Star Online:
Saturday April 9, 2011
Ahmad Sarbani would never take a bribe, says family
Reports by LOURDES CHARLES, NELSON BENJAMIN, FLORENCE A. SAMY, TEH ENG HOCK, LESTER KONG, YUEN MEIKENG, STEVEN DANIEL and AUSTIN CAMOENS
PETALING JAYA: Family members of late Selangor Customs Department assistant director Ahmad Sarbani Mohamed do not believe that the deceased was corrupt.
His younger brother Hassan, 53, said Ahmad Sarbani was a respectable man who would never have taken a bribe.
“My brother was a hardworking and responsible person. We do not believe he was corrupt,” he said when met at the Customs Department quarters in Kelana Jaya yesterday.
He said that Ahmad Sarbani, the eldest of eight siblings, was a happy-go-lucky, friendly and caring person.
Hassan said he and his family were deeply saddened by reports in several dailies claiming that his brother was corrupt.
“Just look at how he lived. Certain media reports claimed he was involved in money laundering and corruption. Then why did he stay at the Customs quarters if he had so much money?” he said.
Hassan also hoped that the media would allow his family to grieve in private.
DESIDERATA:
That Ahmad Sarbani rode a motor-cycle to the MACC showed he was a humble man, not inclined to drive the latest model of an imported car which is quite the norm of civil servants who have reached a "senior" rank close to Ahmad Sarbani's.
I too believe that PM Najib Razak was too quick to take the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) head's word that Ahmad Sarbani went to the MACC office voluntarily to make an amendment to a statement he had given to the MACC a few days earlier.
At 8.36AM in the morning? Voluntary?
You think Ahmad Sarbani would want to see more of his interrogators' faces, smiling eh?
Najib and the MACC owe the family of the late Ahmad Sarbani's family AN APOLOGY IF THERE HAD BEEN ANY PERCEPTION CREATED IN THE PUBLIC MIND THAT AHMAD SARBANI HAD COMMITTED "SUICIDE" FLOWING FROM ANY STATEMENT MADE BY ANY MACC OFFICIAL.
Desi believes that at the tremendous sacrifice of an innocent Malaysian life, there has been DIVINE INTERVENTION to throw more light on Teoh Beng Hock's case because if anyone recalled, in the very early days of TBH's death at the MACC SElangor Hq, the top officers ordered an investigation into Teoh's death based on suspicion of that young man taking his own life. YES -- A PRESUMPTION OF "SUICIDE" WHICH IS PREJUDICIAL TO ANY INVESIGATION!
Now how would MACC explain Ahmad Sarbani's death?
I thank God, or Allah to the late Ahmad Sarbani's family, for the mysterious ways Justice in Malaysia moves.
May God, however you deem Him to be, rest Ahmad Sarbani's soul in Heaven. May God/Allah be always shedding light, protection and forebearance on the family he left behind.
May God bless the GOoD people of Malaysia, and condemn those evil-doers who lurk in the darkest nook and cranny in high and dark places. ~~ Amen/Amin
Friday, April 08, 2011
mGf Din Merican has given the IGP a piece of his mind...
I borrow his post to express that's a piece ofvmine mind too! Salute myGOoDfRiend once championing the PKR cause,now more independently fighting the Malaysian cause across the political divide. Thanks a million, matey Din, the next endless round of Kpoi Bru at Subang Jaya on Desi! Or shall we head for San Francisco and wear some flowers in our (dwindling) hair?:) ~~ DesiFOOLofErrata sometimes
April 8, 2011
Angels of Death in Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC)
by Din Merican
Last week, I had described the nationwide blitz by the MACC on the Royal Malaysian Customs Department as nothing more than an April Fool’s joke. The MACC thought that they had pulled a big stunt against Malaysians as a diversion to cover up for their officers who were caught with pornography in the Teoh Beng Hock Royal Commission of Inquiry (TBH RCI). Instead, Teoh’s ghost has struck back at the MACC with a vengeance – in the death of Deputy Director Ahmad Sarbani Mohamed of the Royal Malaysian Customs.
The Mysterious Death of a Public Servant
If Teoh was a fragile young Chinese man; if Teoh’s faith that did not prohibit suicide and if Teoh was too weak to withstand pressure, can the same be said of Ahmad Sarbani? Here was a Deputy Director of Customs, 56 years of age, known to have strong family and religious values with a wife and 5 children, known to be humble and well liked by all, and also a pious Muslim. So what could have driven him to his death?
A Malaysian Insider report by Asrul Hadi Abdullah Sani had this caption “ Mustahil Sarbani boleh bunuh diri, kata rakan-rakannya” (Impossible for Sarbani to commit suicide, say his friends) and quoted that many of his friends expressed utter disbelief that he could commit suicide. That article even cited his childhood friend, Ridzuan Mohamad as saying to the Malaysian Insider that the theory of suicide is utter nonsense – “Saya sangat rapat dengan dia dan dia seorang yang rendah diri. Saya merasakan tuduhan SPRM ke atasnya mengarut. Jika benar, tunjukkan bukti. Cara mereka menyoal siasat dia tidak adil,” ( I am very close to him and he is a humble person. I feel MACC’s accusation is utter rubbish. It it is true, show proof.The way they investigated him is unjust),he said.
Another of his old friend, Ashaari Isa, also dismissed as utter rubbish to the MACC for saying that Ahmad Sarbani jumped off a building -“Itu yang SPRM mahu berkata, tetapi bagi mereka yang mengenali dia secara peribadi adalah mustahil!”(That is what MACC wants to say, but to those who know him personally, this is strange). Yet another friend and Customs Officer, Ridzuan said that it is totally illogical that Ahmad Sarbani could have committed suicide because he had always maintained his innocence – “Malam tadi dia panggil saya dan memberitahu saya bahawa dia sedang disoal siasat oleh SPRM. Dia berkata dia rasa tidak bersalah kerana tidak melakukan apa-apa kesalahan. Personaliti dan tingkah laku dia adalah bukti dia seorang yang kuat beriman”. (Last night he called and told me that he was being investigated by MACC. He said that he feels he is not wrong as he has not committed any offence. His personality and conduct show that he is a man of Faith.) There you have it, Ahmad Sarbani is a man of faith and Islam forbids suicide! So what more excuse MACC for this death?
IGP Ismail Omar Again: A Shameful Knee-Jerk Reaction
Yet, in a most shameful knee jerk reaction, the Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Ismail Omar said that the deaths of Ahmad Sarbani Mohamed and Teoh Beng Hock should not be equated simply because both were found dead in the MACC premises. According to Ismail -“The facts of the two cases are different. We can’t conclude that something has gone wrong.” While his own officers are still investigating, he seem to have drawn his own conclusions. Shameful statement IGP!
The morale of his Police Force is almost decimated by MACC raids, his men have suffered victimisation by the MACC, the Director of CCID and 6 rank and file policemen have been charged by the MACC. And despite their acquittals, IGP Ismail Omar does not have the courage to lift their suspension or reinstate these innocent officers. What has he done to come to their defence or correct the errors of the past? Instead, here he is defending the MACC. Disgusting IGP!
We have two deaths at the hands of the MACC and IGP Ismail Omar does not think something has gone wrong? He is better off keeping his stupid mouth shut, at least until he gets his facts in order. So, let’s look at the facts. Are these two cases really different?
MACC’s credibility and reputation tarnished
Teoh was taken to the MACC Selangor office at Plaza Masalam on a hyped up investigation, interviewed throughout the night to the point of exhaustion, said to have been released at 3am and then said to have jumped off the building and died at 6am. Very conveniently, that meant that Teoh was no longer under MACC custody at the time of his death. So, MACC is not responsible.
Ahmad Sarbani was taken to the MACC KL Office at Jalan Cochrane on a hyped up MACC investigations against Customs Department for fleecing the government of tax revenue to the tune of RM 108 billion. According to the MACC official statement, he was released on Saturday April 2. Then on Wednesday April 6 at 8.26am, he came back “voluntarily” riding a kapchai motorbike to the MACC office “without an appointment”. The MACC IO did not yet have the chance to interview him further. An hour later, Ahmad Sarbani was found dead on the tarmac of a badminton court of the MACC building. Very conveniently, that meant that he was not yet under MACC custody at the time of his death. So, again MACC is not responsible.
But can we believe whatever the MACC says? Can the MACC claim to be accurate in their disclosures? Can the MACC be trusted to tell the truth? Can the MACC be believed at all?
But can we believe whatever the MACC says? Can the MACC claim to be accurate in their disclosures? Can the MACC be trusted to tell the truth? Can the MACC be believed at all? We need not go very far to know all that. In the TBH RCI, the Royal Commissioners were aghast to discover that:
a) MACC officers do not follow the law as stated in the MACC Act;
b) MACC officers do not have search warrants when conducting searches;
c) MACC officers do not issue written orders to request witnesses to come for statements but just force them to come;
d) MACC officers have more than one investigation diary with different contents;
e) MACC officers doctor their investigation diaries on the pretext of corroboration;
f) MACC officers do not record statement based on what is said by a witness;
g) MACC officers put words into witness’ and suspects’ mouth;
h) MACC officers do not know the difference between a witness and a suspect;
i) MACC officers think it is alright to frighten a witness so long as they get the answer that they want;
j) MACC officers consider the words of caution that statements are given “without inducement, threat or promise” as mere formalities and are devoid of meaning;
k) MACC officers do not know the distinction between interview and interrogation;
l) MACC officers watch pornography while interrogating and recording statements.
These weaknesses of the MACC have been admitted by its Deputy Chief Commissioner, Dato’ Shukri Abdul, at the TBH RCI. This laundry list can go on endlessly, but that should be enough for answering the question as to whether the MACC can be believed when they say anything at all. Thus, with all that the TBH RCI have found out about the MACC officers, can the MACC Director of Investigations, Datuk Mustafar Ali, be trusted when he gave the press statement that Ahmad Sarbani had come to the MACC office voluntarily and without appointment. Something does not sound right here. Can Malaysians be faulted for being cynical of the MACC’s statement and claim of innocence in Ahmad Sarbani’s death?
Nazri Aziz’s Statement
Thus, the statement by the Minister in the PM’s Department, Nazri Abdul Aziz, that the MACC had not a clue that Ahmad Sarbani Mohamed was going to meet his untimely death yesterday was stating the obvious. In a really silly defence of the MACC Chief Commisioner, Dato’ Abu Kassim, Nazri said “The MACC doesn’t kill people. It investigates”.
Hello! Two people already died at the hands of the MACC in the two years of the MACC’s existence. That is one for every year – an impressive statistic indeed.
Sarawak Elections
It is also shameful that PM Najib on his election walk about campaign in Santubong, Sarawak had defended the MACC by saying that the MACC was doing its job – “But we must remember that what they are doing is still trying to save the country’s money. The government has fought long to cleanse the Customs.”
By that statement, PM Najib appears to have justified Ahmad Sarbani’s death as a cleansing exercise of the Royal Malaysian Customs. Instead of extending his condolence for the death of a public servant, the PM has shown a prejudiced mind. How unfair on the dead man and his family. How unfair on all the Customs officers who attended the funeral yesterday afternoon at Kota Damansara Muslim cemetery.That Sir, is prejudging the issue of Ahmad Sarbani’s guilt. That, Sir, shows you have been ill advised by your paid advisers. That Sir, will only anger the Customs officers who are already grieving the loss of their brother in blue whose grave is still moistly earthen red (tanah kubur masih basah). That Sir, may cost you the support of the Customs officers and other civil servants come GE 13. Until you realize the monster that the MACC has become, the systematic decimation of our public institutions will continue. That Sir, could be the downfall of your government.
Lest my friend Rosli Dahlan’s humiliation is forgotten
While I express my outrage (and those of other Malaysians) at this most recent incident, I should remind Dato’ Abu Kassim that the disgrace he and the MACC is suffering now may also be divine retribution for the humiliation that the MACC orchestrated against my friend lawyer, Rosli Dahlan, in October 2007.
In a report by Lydia Gomez of The New Straits Times dated October 13, 2007 captioned “ACA out to humiliate me, lawyer tells Sessions Court”, Rosli Dahlan spoke from the dock that his brutal arrest and being paraded in court one day before Hari Raya was the MACC’s way to humiliate him. Since then, Rosli had sued many officers of the MACC and the A-G’s Chambers for RM 50 million. On the day he was acquitted last December, Rosli made a short speech vowing that he will expose and hunt down these rogue elements in the government.
I applaud Rosli’s courage because I agree with him that too often the mainstream media has been unfair by sensationalizing adverse unverified stories and is party to conspiratory conduct with rogue elements in the government. The public perceives that the MACC and the MACC Act have been used as a tool of oppression and have been flagrantly manipulated to achieve certain objectives. I fully agree with Rosli’s closing statement that “Malaysians, must remain vigilant against elements that can turn this country from one governed by the Rule of Law to one that is enslaved by the Rule by Law.”
For now, I would like to just rid these Angels Of Death in the MACC!
Footnote: Teoh Beng Hock, Kugan and now Ahmad Sarbani lost their lives in strange and unexplained circumstances, all under the custody of the Malaysian authorities. Recently, my wife, Dr. Kamsiah and I were having our Mee Rebus at the halal stall in a Chinese Restuarant in Leboh Pasar Besar, Kuala Lumpur, opposite the Malaysian Bar Council Building.
At the entrance wall of Bar Council, we noticed two bantings, one read “In Memory of Teoh Beng Hock” and the other stated that between 2003-2007 some 6000-odd Malaysians (I cant recall the exact number) died while under custody of the Malaysian authorities. We were shocked.
I am now wondering, given all these strange happenings whether Malaysia is a Police State or a thriving democracy which upholds the Rule of Law (ref. Rukun Negara). But I have no doubt in my mind that–and to paraphrase William Shakespeare– there is something is rotten in the state of Malaysia. Fix it, Mr. Prime Minister, before the rot spreads and Malaysia will be in the state of terminal moral decay.
April 8, 2011
Angels of Death in Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC)
by Din Merican
Last week, I had described the nationwide blitz by the MACC on the Royal Malaysian Customs Department as nothing more than an April Fool’s joke. The MACC thought that they had pulled a big stunt against Malaysians as a diversion to cover up for their officers who were caught with pornography in the Teoh Beng Hock Royal Commission of Inquiry (TBH RCI). Instead, Teoh’s ghost has struck back at the MACC with a vengeance – in the death of Deputy Director Ahmad Sarbani Mohamed of the Royal Malaysian Customs.
The Mysterious Death of a Public Servant
If Teoh was a fragile young Chinese man; if Teoh’s faith that did not prohibit suicide and if Teoh was too weak to withstand pressure, can the same be said of Ahmad Sarbani? Here was a Deputy Director of Customs, 56 years of age, known to have strong family and religious values with a wife and 5 children, known to be humble and well liked by all, and also a pious Muslim. So what could have driven him to his death?
A Malaysian Insider report by Asrul Hadi Abdullah Sani had this caption “ Mustahil Sarbani boleh bunuh diri, kata rakan-rakannya” (Impossible for Sarbani to commit suicide, say his friends) and quoted that many of his friends expressed utter disbelief that he could commit suicide. That article even cited his childhood friend, Ridzuan Mohamad as saying to the Malaysian Insider that the theory of suicide is utter nonsense – “Saya sangat rapat dengan dia dan dia seorang yang rendah diri. Saya merasakan tuduhan SPRM ke atasnya mengarut. Jika benar, tunjukkan bukti. Cara mereka menyoal siasat dia tidak adil,” ( I am very close to him and he is a humble person. I feel MACC’s accusation is utter rubbish. It it is true, show proof.The way they investigated him is unjust),he said.
Another of his old friend, Ashaari Isa, also dismissed as utter rubbish to the MACC for saying that Ahmad Sarbani jumped off a building -“Itu yang SPRM mahu berkata, tetapi bagi mereka yang mengenali dia secara peribadi adalah mustahil!”(That is what MACC wants to say, but to those who know him personally, this is strange). Yet another friend and Customs Officer, Ridzuan said that it is totally illogical that Ahmad Sarbani could have committed suicide because he had always maintained his innocence – “Malam tadi dia panggil saya dan memberitahu saya bahawa dia sedang disoal siasat oleh SPRM. Dia berkata dia rasa tidak bersalah kerana tidak melakukan apa-apa kesalahan. Personaliti dan tingkah laku dia adalah bukti dia seorang yang kuat beriman”. (Last night he called and told me that he was being investigated by MACC. He said that he feels he is not wrong as he has not committed any offence. His personality and conduct show that he is a man of Faith.) There you have it, Ahmad Sarbani is a man of faith and Islam forbids suicide! So what more excuse MACC for this death?
IGP Ismail Omar Again: A Shameful Knee-Jerk Reaction
Yet, in a most shameful knee jerk reaction, the Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Ismail Omar said that the deaths of Ahmad Sarbani Mohamed and Teoh Beng Hock should not be equated simply because both were found dead in the MACC premises. According to Ismail -“The facts of the two cases are different. We can’t conclude that something has gone wrong.” While his own officers are still investigating, he seem to have drawn his own conclusions. Shameful statement IGP!
The morale of his Police Force is almost decimated by MACC raids, his men have suffered victimisation by the MACC, the Director of CCID and 6 rank and file policemen have been charged by the MACC. And despite their acquittals, IGP Ismail Omar does not have the courage to lift their suspension or reinstate these innocent officers. What has he done to come to their defence or correct the errors of the past? Instead, here he is defending the MACC. Disgusting IGP!
We have two deaths at the hands of the MACC and IGP Ismail Omar does not think something has gone wrong? He is better off keeping his stupid mouth shut, at least until he gets his facts in order. So, let’s look at the facts. Are these two cases really different?
MACC’s credibility and reputation tarnished
Teoh was taken to the MACC Selangor office at Plaza Masalam on a hyped up investigation, interviewed throughout the night to the point of exhaustion, said to have been released at 3am and then said to have jumped off the building and died at 6am. Very conveniently, that meant that Teoh was no longer under MACC custody at the time of his death. So, MACC is not responsible.
Ahmad Sarbani was taken to the MACC KL Office at Jalan Cochrane on a hyped up MACC investigations against Customs Department for fleecing the government of tax revenue to the tune of RM 108 billion. According to the MACC official statement, he was released on Saturday April 2. Then on Wednesday April 6 at 8.26am, he came back “voluntarily” riding a kapchai motorbike to the MACC office “without an appointment”. The MACC IO did not yet have the chance to interview him further. An hour later, Ahmad Sarbani was found dead on the tarmac of a badminton court of the MACC building. Very conveniently, that meant that he was not yet under MACC custody at the time of his death. So, again MACC is not responsible.
But can we believe whatever the MACC says? Can the MACC claim to be accurate in their disclosures? Can the MACC be trusted to tell the truth? Can the MACC be believed at all?
But can we believe whatever the MACC says? Can the MACC claim to be accurate in their disclosures? Can the MACC be trusted to tell the truth? Can the MACC be believed at all? We need not go very far to know all that. In the TBH RCI, the Royal Commissioners were aghast to discover that:
a) MACC officers do not follow the law as stated in the MACC Act;
b) MACC officers do not have search warrants when conducting searches;
c) MACC officers do not issue written orders to request witnesses to come for statements but just force them to come;
d) MACC officers have more than one investigation diary with different contents;
e) MACC officers doctor their investigation diaries on the pretext of corroboration;
f) MACC officers do not record statement based on what is said by a witness;
g) MACC officers put words into witness’ and suspects’ mouth;
h) MACC officers do not know the difference between a witness and a suspect;
i) MACC officers think it is alright to frighten a witness so long as they get the answer that they want;
j) MACC officers consider the words of caution that statements are given “without inducement, threat or promise” as mere formalities and are devoid of meaning;
k) MACC officers do not know the distinction between interview and interrogation;
l) MACC officers watch pornography while interrogating and recording statements.
These weaknesses of the MACC have been admitted by its Deputy Chief Commissioner, Dato’ Shukri Abdul, at the TBH RCI. This laundry list can go on endlessly, but that should be enough for answering the question as to whether the MACC can be believed when they say anything at all. Thus, with all that the TBH RCI have found out about the MACC officers, can the MACC Director of Investigations, Datuk Mustafar Ali, be trusted when he gave the press statement that Ahmad Sarbani had come to the MACC office voluntarily and without appointment. Something does not sound right here. Can Malaysians be faulted for being cynical of the MACC’s statement and claim of innocence in Ahmad Sarbani’s death?
Nazri Aziz’s Statement
Thus, the statement by the Minister in the PM’s Department, Nazri Abdul Aziz, that the MACC had not a clue that Ahmad Sarbani Mohamed was going to meet his untimely death yesterday was stating the obvious. In a really silly defence of the MACC Chief Commisioner, Dato’ Abu Kassim, Nazri said “The MACC doesn’t kill people. It investigates”.
Hello! Two people already died at the hands of the MACC in the two years of the MACC’s existence. That is one for every year – an impressive statistic indeed.
Sarawak Elections
It is also shameful that PM Najib on his election walk about campaign in Santubong, Sarawak had defended the MACC by saying that the MACC was doing its job – “But we must remember that what they are doing is still trying to save the country’s money. The government has fought long to cleanse the Customs.”
By that statement, PM Najib appears to have justified Ahmad Sarbani’s death as a cleansing exercise of the Royal Malaysian Customs. Instead of extending his condolence for the death of a public servant, the PM has shown a prejudiced mind. How unfair on the dead man and his family. How unfair on all the Customs officers who attended the funeral yesterday afternoon at Kota Damansara Muslim cemetery.That Sir, is prejudging the issue of Ahmad Sarbani’s guilt. That, Sir, shows you have been ill advised by your paid advisers. That Sir, will only anger the Customs officers who are already grieving the loss of their brother in blue whose grave is still moistly earthen red (tanah kubur masih basah). That Sir, may cost you the support of the Customs officers and other civil servants come GE 13. Until you realize the monster that the MACC has become, the systematic decimation of our public institutions will continue. That Sir, could be the downfall of your government.
Lest my friend Rosli Dahlan’s humiliation is forgotten
While I express my outrage (and those of other Malaysians) at this most recent incident, I should remind Dato’ Abu Kassim that the disgrace he and the MACC is suffering now may also be divine retribution for the humiliation that the MACC orchestrated against my friend lawyer, Rosli Dahlan, in October 2007.
In a report by Lydia Gomez of The New Straits Times dated October 13, 2007 captioned “ACA out to humiliate me, lawyer tells Sessions Court”, Rosli Dahlan spoke from the dock that his brutal arrest and being paraded in court one day before Hari Raya was the MACC’s way to humiliate him. Since then, Rosli had sued many officers of the MACC and the A-G’s Chambers for RM 50 million. On the day he was acquitted last December, Rosli made a short speech vowing that he will expose and hunt down these rogue elements in the government.
I applaud Rosli’s courage because I agree with him that too often the mainstream media has been unfair by sensationalizing adverse unverified stories and is party to conspiratory conduct with rogue elements in the government. The public perceives that the MACC and the MACC Act have been used as a tool of oppression and have been flagrantly manipulated to achieve certain objectives. I fully agree with Rosli’s closing statement that “Malaysians, must remain vigilant against elements that can turn this country from one governed by the Rule of Law to one that is enslaved by the Rule by Law.”
For now, I would like to just rid these Angels Of Death in the MACC!
Footnote: Teoh Beng Hock, Kugan and now Ahmad Sarbani lost their lives in strange and unexplained circumstances, all under the custody of the Malaysian authorities. Recently, my wife, Dr. Kamsiah and I were having our Mee Rebus at the halal stall in a Chinese Restuarant in Leboh Pasar Besar, Kuala Lumpur, opposite the Malaysian Bar Council Building.
At the entrance wall of Bar Council, we noticed two bantings, one read “In Memory of Teoh Beng Hock” and the other stated that between 2003-2007 some 6000-odd Malaysians (I cant recall the exact number) died while under custody of the Malaysian authorities. We were shocked.
I am now wondering, given all these strange happenings whether Malaysia is a Police State or a thriving democracy which upholds the Rule of Law (ref. Rukun Negara). But I have no doubt in my mind that–and to paraphrase William Shakespeare– there is something is rotten in the state of Malaysia. Fix it, Mr. Prime Minister, before the rot spreads and Malaysia will be in the state of terminal moral decay.
Thursday, April 07, 2011
The battle for Sarawak has begun, and Desi has an humble message
TO FELLOW MALAYSIANS RESIDENT IN SARAWAK WHO HAVE REGISTERED TO VOTE WISELY. Your future and your children's future depends on your very sacred vote that cometh around once every four-five years.
Desi has penned a simple appeal to all voters in the 71 state constituencies --all contested by straight fights between BN and PR in 27 seats, and the rest all multi-cornered from 3 to 6!-- to "forget" the Independents; narrow down your choice to just between the incumbent Barisan Nasional (BN) who had ruled Sarawak for umpteem doggone years and proven too corrupt to be tolerated anymore, and the relatively young coalition Pakatan Rakatan (PR) which is the only viable group comprising DAP, PKR and PAS who can form the alternative state government.
Dear Sarawakians, your choice has a bearing in the crossroads 13th General Elections which the BN federal government will time to call anytime from now till its end ends in two years.
Let me just reprise my short post I wrote when the Egyptian people rose up to overthrow the President Hosni Mubarak who ruled Egypt for 30 long years. It was a demonstration of PEOPLE'S POWER.
******************* "Reprise or Reprisal:)-- Dear Sarawakians, Thy Choice!"
Saturday, February 12, 2011
Egypt: People's Power Triumphs
Watching CNN and CCTV this evening from 6.00pm gave Desi a lift.
Yesterday it was still uncertain whether Hosni Mubarak would be defeated.
Finally,he admitted defeat -- at the hands of millions of brave Egyptians who took to the streets in a show of yes, PEOPLE'S POWER!
Yes, finally Mubarak has resigned, with some score of lives being the price paid.
There is a message for dictators all over the world. After 30 years, Mubarak should thank his lucky stars he has still an escape route. That his head had not been chopped off.
There is also a message for Malaysians too.
There is a special message to Sarawakians who have been living for 30 years under the rule of one head whose time has come -- to be chopped off. Figuratively...and literarily?
I urge the people of Sarawak to follow the fine example of the Egyptian people. Demonstrate people's power when the next Sarawak State elections are called -- deadline is July 2011.
The clock is tiktoking for a "local" Mubarak by the name of Taib Mahmud. "30" is an unlucky number for some, but a lucky one for Egyptians. Sarawakians, rise up and make "Thirty" lucky for all Malaysians too!
Set a fine example to the rest of the country's citizens, brethren in Sarawak.Land below the wid will blow the dictator of 30 years into the wilderness, hopefully after his is held to account for the millions he and family have plunderedfrom the State. Justice must prevail. People's power must triumph. God bless the people who must do the right thing, at the right time.
God save us from the dictators and the daylight robbers, Amen.
posted by desiderata at 10:31 PM
Desi has penned a simple appeal to all voters in the 71 state constituencies --all contested by straight fights between BN and PR in 27 seats, and the rest all multi-cornered from 3 to 6!-- to "forget" the Independents; narrow down your choice to just between the incumbent Barisan Nasional (BN) who had ruled Sarawak for umpteem doggone years and proven too corrupt to be tolerated anymore, and the relatively young coalition Pakatan Rakatan (PR) which is the only viable group comprising DAP, PKR and PAS who can form the alternative state government.
Dear Sarawakians, your choice has a bearing in the crossroads 13th General Elections which the BN federal government will time to call anytime from now till its end ends in two years.
Let me just reprise my short post I wrote when the Egyptian people rose up to overthrow the President Hosni Mubarak who ruled Egypt for 30 long years. It was a demonstration of PEOPLE'S POWER.
******************* "Reprise or Reprisal:)-- Dear Sarawakians, Thy Choice!"
Saturday, February 12, 2011
Egypt: People's Power Triumphs
Watching CNN and CCTV this evening from 6.00pm gave Desi a lift.
Yesterday it was still uncertain whether Hosni Mubarak would be defeated.
Finally,he admitted defeat -- at the hands of millions of brave Egyptians who took to the streets in a show of yes, PEOPLE'S POWER!
Yes, finally Mubarak has resigned, with some score of lives being the price paid.
There is a message for dictators all over the world. After 30 years, Mubarak should thank his lucky stars he has still an escape route. That his head had not been chopped off.
There is also a message for Malaysians too.
There is a special message to Sarawakians who have been living for 30 years under the rule of one head whose time has come -- to be chopped off. Figuratively...and literarily?
I urge the people of Sarawak to follow the fine example of the Egyptian people. Demonstrate people's power when the next Sarawak State elections are called -- deadline is July 2011.
The clock is tiktoking for a "local" Mubarak by the name of Taib Mahmud. "30" is an unlucky number for some, but a lucky one for Egyptians. Sarawakians, rise up and make "Thirty" lucky for all Malaysians too!
Set a fine example to the rest of the country's citizens, brethren in Sarawak.Land below the wid will blow the dictator of 30 years into the wilderness, hopefully after his is held to account for the millions he and family have plunderedfrom the State. Justice must prevail. People's power must triumph. God bless the people who must do the right thing, at the right time.
God save us from the dictators and the daylight robbers, Amen.
posted by desiderata at 10:31 PM
Wednesday, April 06, 2011
Citizen Nades, Always a Pleasure Read!
A step forward for transparency
By R Nadeswaran, The Sun
BEING exposed and having used the Freedom of Information Act in the United Kingdom extensively over the past six months, the passing of a similar piece of legislation in Selangor last week must be met with some sort of elation. The fact that it was passed unanimously reflects that parties on both sides of the political divide deem it fit to be more open and transparent. This bodes well for transparency which is one arm of good governance, with accountability being the other.
It is also good news for journalists whose work has always been hindered by roadblocks with red tape and inefficiency. The assumption is that when the bill becomes law after getting the royal assent, there will be queues of people sending in requests and that the information requested will be given immediately. Many would be seeking details of tenders, land transactions (especially those which involve alienation of state land) and expenses incurred by state departments, agencies and subsidiaries.
There could be some setbacks. First, our civil servants have not been trained to be open and make on-the-spot decisions and hence will always "run upstairs" for permission or authorisation. Knowing how the system works, this process could take days if not weeks. Second, how good are our filing and retrieval systems? Lawyers specialising in conveyance will tell you that it takes weeks for a file search at the Land Office and months before a transfer can be effected on the Land Register. Third and more importantly, what is there to stop a civil servant to intentionally refusing to provide the information knowing that it would embarrass his colleagues or their previous political masters?
In the UK, if you are unhappy with the response, you can request an independent internal review of the handling of the request for information by submitting a complaint within two months to the head of the performance team in each department or ministry. Can we expect the same? Not likely, judging from experience.
Although the Local Government Act expressly provides for ratepayers access to minutes of council meetings, not all councils make them available. One such request to the Petaling Jaya Municipal Council some years back was met with a stern "No" and when told of the provisions in the law, the retort was: "Go and get a court order. Only then can we release the minutes." Things may have changed since, but the worrying factor is whether attitudes and work culture can change.
PORT Klang, the gateway to trade in and out of the country has been in the news for all the wrong reasons and just as we thought the ghosts of the past had been buried; it has been resurrected, no less than by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC). The arrest of 62 officers from the Customs Department, most of them based in the port, reinforces the theory that any contraband can get into the country legitimately with the sight of crispy hard cash.
It has always fascinated many on how stolen luxury cars end up in foreign shores within hours of them disappearing from parking lots and how fire-crackers can appear on shop shelves and on the streets despite their import being banned. Now we know why! We have been told that the well co-ordinated swoop by the MACC was carried out after months of painstaking investigation and surveillance.
Many would like to believe that this is the turning point for the MACC and the country’s fight against corruption. It augurs well for the people who want a corruption-free system where transactions are totally above-board. Having a system which has engrained itself in graft is no good for everyone – the government, its people and even people who want to invest in our country.
But this case alone is insufficient to restore the people’s faith in the system, especially the MACC. It should continue relentlessly its campaign to weed out irregularities carried out by all and sundry and no exceptions should be made – from the office boy to the minister. If there’s even a hint of biasness or favouritism, all the good work that has been done will go down the drain.
By R Nadeswaran, The Sun
BEING exposed and having used the Freedom of Information Act in the United Kingdom extensively over the past six months, the passing of a similar piece of legislation in Selangor last week must be met with some sort of elation. The fact that it was passed unanimously reflects that parties on both sides of the political divide deem it fit to be more open and transparent. This bodes well for transparency which is one arm of good governance, with accountability being the other.
It is also good news for journalists whose work has always been hindered by roadblocks with red tape and inefficiency. The assumption is that when the bill becomes law after getting the royal assent, there will be queues of people sending in requests and that the information requested will be given immediately. Many would be seeking details of tenders, land transactions (especially those which involve alienation of state land) and expenses incurred by state departments, agencies and subsidiaries.
There could be some setbacks. First, our civil servants have not been trained to be open and make on-the-spot decisions and hence will always "run upstairs" for permission or authorisation. Knowing how the system works, this process could take days if not weeks. Second, how good are our filing and retrieval systems? Lawyers specialising in conveyance will tell you that it takes weeks for a file search at the Land Office and months before a transfer can be effected on the Land Register. Third and more importantly, what is there to stop a civil servant to intentionally refusing to provide the information knowing that it would embarrass his colleagues or their previous political masters?
In the UK, if you are unhappy with the response, you can request an independent internal review of the handling of the request for information by submitting a complaint within two months to the head of the performance team in each department or ministry. Can we expect the same? Not likely, judging from experience.
Although the Local Government Act expressly provides for ratepayers access to minutes of council meetings, not all councils make them available. One such request to the Petaling Jaya Municipal Council some years back was met with a stern "No" and when told of the provisions in the law, the retort was: "Go and get a court order. Only then can we release the minutes." Things may have changed since, but the worrying factor is whether attitudes and work culture can change.
PORT Klang, the gateway to trade in and out of the country has been in the news for all the wrong reasons and just as we thought the ghosts of the past had been buried; it has been resurrected, no less than by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC). The arrest of 62 officers from the Customs Department, most of them based in the port, reinforces the theory that any contraband can get into the country legitimately with the sight of crispy hard cash.
It has always fascinated many on how stolen luxury cars end up in foreign shores within hours of them disappearing from parking lots and how fire-crackers can appear on shop shelves and on the streets despite their import being banned. Now we know why! We have been told that the well co-ordinated swoop by the MACC was carried out after months of painstaking investigation and surveillance.
Many would like to believe that this is the turning point for the MACC and the country’s fight against corruption. It augurs well for the people who want a corruption-free system where transactions are totally above-board. Having a system which has engrained itself in graft is no good for everyone – the government, its people and even people who want to invest in our country.
But this case alone is insufficient to restore the people’s faith in the system, especially the MACC. It should continue relentlessly its campaign to weed out irregularities carried out by all and sundry and no exceptions should be made – from the office boy to the minister. If there’s even a hint of biasness or favouritism, all the good work that has been done will go down the drain.
IF I never sing another song
OR I never write another verse
I would be sad
Cos it's bad
to waste God' giften talent
God's talent misplaced
It's acceptable
God's talent wasted
Unforgiveable
This WedNURSEday April 6, 2011 I feel I've knot yet risen to the peak of my versifying
I await that day when I can pen words that flow
With Love
sadness
gladness
badness
Ala Wednesday's Child
Born Free
Walk Away...
IF I can't create beaut lines of my own
I can borrow
Today's another that sort of die
It's okay, it's stealin' from one of my faves
Matt Monro's...:):):):):):):)
In my heyday
Young girls wrote to me
Everybody seemed to have time to devote to me
Everyone I saw all swore they knew me
Once upon a song
Main attraction, couldn't buy a seat
The celebrity celebrities were dying to meet
I've had every accolade bestowed on me
And so you see
If I never sing another song
It shouldn't bother me
I've had my share of fame
You know my name
If I never sing another song
Or take another bow
I would get by, but I'm not sure how
Always posing, but you love it all
Though you have to learn to act like you're above it all
Everything I did the world applauded
Once upon a star
Framed citations, hung on every wall
Got a scrapbook full of quotes I can't recall at all
There were times I felt the world belonged to me
And so you see
If I never sing another song
It shouldn't bother me
I've had my share of fame
You know my name
If I never sing another song
Or take another bow
I would get by, but I'm not sure how
la la la la la la la la-la . . .
I would be sad
Cos it's bad
to waste God' giften talent
God's talent misplaced
It's acceptable
God's talent wasted
Unforgiveable
This WedNURSEday April 6, 2011 I feel I've knot yet risen to the peak of my versifying
I await that day when I can pen words that flow
With Love
sadness
gladness
badness
Ala Wednesday's Child
Born Free
Walk Away...
IF I can't create beaut lines of my own
I can borrow
Today's another that sort of die
It's okay, it's stealin' from one of my faves
Matt Monro's...:):):):):):):)
In my heyday
Young girls wrote to me
Everybody seemed to have time to devote to me
Everyone I saw all swore they knew me
Once upon a song
Main attraction, couldn't buy a seat
The celebrity celebrities were dying to meet
I've had every accolade bestowed on me
And so you see
If I never sing another song
It shouldn't bother me
I've had my share of fame
You know my name
If I never sing another song
Or take another bow
I would get by, but I'm not sure how
Always posing, but you love it all
Though you have to learn to act like you're above it all
Everything I did the world applauded
Once upon a star
Framed citations, hung on every wall
Got a scrapbook full of quotes I can't recall at all
There were times I felt the world belonged to me
And so you see
If I never sing another song
It shouldn't bother me
I've had my share of fame
You know my name
If I never sing another song
Or take another bow
I would get by, but I'm not sure how
la la la la la la la la-la . . .
Tuesday, April 05, 2011
I too watched the 1min47sec video...
My conclusion is that the man in te video was NOT DS Anwar Ibrahim.
My Q from day 1 following reports of the video being screened to a select group of journalists at Carcosa Seri Negara -- Hey IGP: WHEN ARE YOU GUYS GONNA NAB THE Datuk T STOOGES?
05 April 2011
Man in sex footage isn't Anwar, says family...
The family of the embattled Anwar Ibrahim has denied claims that he is the man in a sex video, part of which was posted online yesterday. His wife and PKR president Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail said the video is "the clearest proof yet" that her husband is not the man having sex with a prostitute.
"We as a family decided to watch the video posted on the Internet, and it is clear that the body and physique of the actor in the video is extremely different from the body and physique of Anwar Ibrahim," she told a press conference at their family home in Kuala Lumpur. Wan Azizah was referring to a snippet of the sex video posted on an anti-opposition website yesterday afternoon.
Also present at the press conference were DAP chairperson Karpal Singh, Selangor Menteri Besar Abdul Khalid Ibrahim and Anwar's daughter Nurul Izzah. Wan Azizah said her “entire family” made the decision to view the snippet posted online only after they were sure that sexual acts were not depicted.
"This video is the clearest proof yet that for all those who truly know Anwar, this new accusation is none other than a vile, false and baseless accusation."Who else would know the man as intimately as us, his closest and nearest family members, who have been through thick and thin with him, from the moment he took in the mainstream leadership of this country through the dark days when he slowly recovered from all the pain he endured when he was imprisoned?”
Nurul Izzah said their family has been continuously frustrated, as they have been forced to "follow their script". "The fundamental issue remains, why haven't there been any arrests? Why are we being persecuted? It is quite crazy actually," she said.
'Citizen can arrest Datuk T'
Karpal pointed out that inaction over Anwar's police report against the 'Datuk T' trio - who have claimed responsibility over exposing the video - is akin to dereliction of duty by the police. He said the trio - former Malacca Menteri Besar Abdul Rahim Thamby Chik, businessman Shazryl Eskay Abdullah and Perkasa treasurer Shuib Lazim - had openly defied several laws by screening the video.
Instead of their being arrested, it is Anwar's family that is being persecuted, he said. Karpal stressed that if there is still no move by Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Ismail Omar to arrest 'Datuk T', it is within the legal bounds for the public to apprehend them through a "citizen's arrest".
"When a crime has been committed, any citizen can arrest and present a suspect to the police station... But we should not let it reach that stage. The IGP must do his duty," he said.
Khalid said it is unfair and "disgusting" that Anwar's family has had to endure so much in relation to the video, which has not even been proven to involve him. Both he and Wan Azizah reacted with offence to repeated questions from a reporter as to what they thought of the authenticity of the video.
Khalid said there are more important things to do than discuss than "whether or not there are pants on a man".
Wan Azizah immediately interjected, saying: "Authentic or not, that is not the issue. The point is that it is not Anwar in the video."
source:malaysiakini
My Q from day 1 following reports of the video being screened to a select group of journalists at Carcosa Seri Negara -- Hey IGP: WHEN ARE YOU GUYS GONNA NAB THE Datuk T STOOGES?
05 April 2011
Man in sex footage isn't Anwar, says family...
The family of the embattled Anwar Ibrahim has denied claims that he is the man in a sex video, part of which was posted online yesterday. His wife and PKR president Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail said the video is "the clearest proof yet" that her husband is not the man having sex with a prostitute.
"We as a family decided to watch the video posted on the Internet, and it is clear that the body and physique of the actor in the video is extremely different from the body and physique of Anwar Ibrahim," she told a press conference at their family home in Kuala Lumpur. Wan Azizah was referring to a snippet of the sex video posted on an anti-opposition website yesterday afternoon.
Also present at the press conference were DAP chairperson Karpal Singh, Selangor Menteri Besar Abdul Khalid Ibrahim and Anwar's daughter Nurul Izzah. Wan Azizah said her “entire family” made the decision to view the snippet posted online only after they were sure that sexual acts were not depicted.
"This video is the clearest proof yet that for all those who truly know Anwar, this new accusation is none other than a vile, false and baseless accusation."Who else would know the man as intimately as us, his closest and nearest family members, who have been through thick and thin with him, from the moment he took in the mainstream leadership of this country through the dark days when he slowly recovered from all the pain he endured when he was imprisoned?”
Nurul Izzah said their family has been continuously frustrated, as they have been forced to "follow their script". "The fundamental issue remains, why haven't there been any arrests? Why are we being persecuted? It is quite crazy actually," she said.
'Citizen can arrest Datuk T'
Karpal pointed out that inaction over Anwar's police report against the 'Datuk T' trio - who have claimed responsibility over exposing the video - is akin to dereliction of duty by the police. He said the trio - former Malacca Menteri Besar Abdul Rahim Thamby Chik, businessman Shazryl Eskay Abdullah and Perkasa treasurer Shuib Lazim - had openly defied several laws by screening the video.
Instead of their being arrested, it is Anwar's family that is being persecuted, he said. Karpal stressed that if there is still no move by Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Ismail Omar to arrest 'Datuk T', it is within the legal bounds for the public to apprehend them through a "citizen's arrest".
"When a crime has been committed, any citizen can arrest and present a suspect to the police station... But we should not let it reach that stage. The IGP must do his duty," he said.
Khalid said it is unfair and "disgusting" that Anwar's family has had to endure so much in relation to the video, which has not even been proven to involve him. Both he and Wan Azizah reacted with offence to repeated questions from a reporter as to what they thought of the authenticity of the video.
Khalid said there are more important things to do than discuss than "whether or not there are pants on a man".
Wan Azizah immediately interjected, saying: "Authentic or not, that is not the issue. The point is that it is not Anwar in the video."
source:malaysiakini
Monday, April 04, 2011
I am PR-ing an UMNO Blogger's write!:)
Because as a writer with a coscience, the TRUTH matters, no matter who it hurts, BN or PR. I wish there are more bloggers like SakMonGolAK47! Desi plans to feature him as a speaker should BUM2011 proceed, InsyaAllah! Bles theBUMmers who strive for Malaysia and Truth so we all can be saved from the Evil-doers and Corrupters! -- YL, Desi
Monday, 4 April 2011
The Sarawak elections
The blogger donplaypuks says Sakmongkol is read by people who think UMNO should rule 70% of this country and possibly the other 30% too.
70% should be ok. Leave out that 30%. In that 30% not ruled, include Sarawak.
This business of writing about the alleged sexcapades of Anwar Ibrahim is tiring. He is campaigning intensely in Sarawak. He wants to reduce the value of the PM's fixed deposit. He seems to be unfazed by the allegations. I have written that Anwar is insulated and desensitized beyond reach. He just does not bother about allegations, impending court cases etc. he doesn't have to because if PR wins Putrajaya, the tables will be turned.
That spells danger for Najib and his administration.
If he behaves as such, that means the UMNO boys have failed to capitalize on the issue of the smut video. They have not handled this issue well. All the 3 people behind the video got were their 10 minutes moment of fame or notoriety depending on how you look at it. They have not done a great service for UMNO. Additionally, if showing the smut video in public contravenes the law, they will get punished.
They failed to inflict maximum damage and instead were looking for 10 minutes moment of fame and glory. Otherwise, how do you explain the bravado and swagger that were clearly shown by the press conference by them? They thought they can impress UMNO and the UMNO president.
Perhaps this was the element that encouraged some people in the MSM to regard the action of the trio as heroic. If the 3 people believed it was Anwar and had wanted to inflict the maximum damage, in the shortest time with minimum cost, they should have produced thousands of VCDs and distributed them all over. Chua Soi lek's smut video for example, was distributed into letterboxes at homes. Chua soi lek didn't know what to do other than `heroically' owning up.
So, Anwar isn't bothered at all. He wants to kick this government out and is zeroing in on Sarawak. If UMNO doesn't bother, then they are dancing to Anwar's tune. UMNO and the Najib administration must bother. To hear it from the mainstream paper boys, they write as if PR and Anwar don't have a rat's ass of a chance. Well, they write so at their own peril.
There are so many issues in the Sarawak elections. Topping it is the issue of the management of the state under the leadership of `pek moh' Taib Mahmud. What has Taib Mahmud become? He may have become a Polonius the character in Hamlet who is a busy-body, who is accordingly officious, garrulous, and impertinent. In Act II Hamlet refers to Polonius as a "tedious old fool. Taib Mahmud has become that, after 30 years of unchallenged rule that has bred insensitivity and arrogance of the highest level.
Even after 30 years of rule, the majority of the people in Sarawak must be wondering, where has the state's wealth gone to? The answer, it has gone mostly to Taib and his gang. Sarawak has become a byword of unbridled corruption. This is the main issue in Sarawak.
People of Sarawak must now read through Taib's promises of better development and better welfare as not inspired by a desire to really improve the welfare of the people; people of Sarawak must now know that Taib Mahmud is driven by a desire to perpetuate his hold on to power and that of a dynasty he intends to leave behind.
Why doesn't he quit now before the elections? Because he wants to put in place his grand plan. Who is to succeed him? He wants to fish out his sons to become his successor or an outsider, so deep with him who can be counted on to look after his vast interests.
We don't have to come out with the list of pillage and plunder. The people simply know, it's happening at a grand scale. The telltale signs of corruption, pillage, theft and larceny of the state's wealth have been extensively documented. The expose about Taib Mahmud family's fabulous wealth, tales of lavish parties, palatial homes all over the world, monopolistic business practices, decadent living and so forth.
While the majority languished in rudimentary appointed long houses and hovels, the elite and the rich entertained themselves in the most decadent of lifestyles. None more tasteless and insensitive than the marriage of Taib Mahmud's niece on a luxury yacht. I think, the people of Sarawak do no have to think twice in kicking out these modern day Marie Antoinettes and the freeloaders on board the luxury yacht on that day.
The people of Sarawak have no other choice but to kick out all the corrupt politicians. Don't bother even if the party is backed by UMNO or the BN. we simply can't allow a corrupt regime to prolong. If UMNO continues to support Taib Mahmud's administration, it places itself on the side of the corrupt, the pillagers and the plunderers of the state's wealth. It simply stands on the side of the people's enemy.
I am writing this article for the people of Sarawak in mind. I believe there will many changes this time around. Taib Mahmud and his coalition will lose a majority of the urban seats. These seats will be won mainly by the DAP. I think the BN leadership has underestimated the will of the dayaks whom they think are easily taken in by the usual talk of development. From what I hear, the dayaks on the whole are resolute in wanting to kick out Taib Mahmud.
If the Najib administration is serious in wanting to bolster its credibility with the people of Sarawak and show it is one with them, Najib as the BN leader must ask Taib Mahmud, Alfred Jabu and George Chan to leave. All have chosen themselves to stand for re-election.
George Chan announced he was leaving politics during the last state elections and he didn't. Taib Mahmud has promised to leave, but as soon as the PM and DPM left Sarawak, announced that he will leave on his own time and terms. The people of Sarawak must help him decide then by kicking him out.
Bring in new faces, winnable, clean and uncorrupted. Forget the fallacy of thinking Sarawak can't be governed without people like Taib Mahmud. It's not like Sarawak is going to die if Taib Mahmud is not CM. and I think, its time Sarawak has a dayak as CM.
DESIDERATA: The points highlighted (THUS BOLDED) are ine; hope the blogger-host accepts my grateful prayers for his generous sharing.
Another sane voice from UMNO -- a rare species! -- follows. My only lament is that the prince is IN THE WRONG PARTY. My humble advice is he should joing PR/PKR to contest in the 13GE. ~~ Updated @8.13PM...
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From Harakahdaily:
No one believes it, says Razaleigh on porn clip
Harakahdaily
KUALA LUMPUR, Apr 4: Gua Musang member of parliament and former Finance minister Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah (pic) has described the latest sex accusation against Anwar Ibrahim as shameful and despicable.
Saying the public would not buy the story following a pornographic clip targeting Anwar released by several UMNO leaders recently, Razaleigh said such acts of humiliating others were neither part of Islamic nor Malay culture.
“I don’t think the people accept this... If we see Anwar’s first case in 1998, the people did not accept. Even after bringing a mattress, pillows, no one believed. I still remember when I made a dialogue session in Gua Musang, the people asked, 'Is this Malay?'
"So shameful,” said Razaleigh as quoted by TV Selangor.
Razaleigh said those behind the clip were indulging in gutter politics and had smeared the image of the country and the Muslim majority.
“Malaysian are generally civilised and have a good culture, why must we follow bad culture?
"What’s the point of doing such despicable thing in public,” he asked.
Authenticity
Meanwhile, PAS Youth chief Nasrudin Hasan Tantawi said the authenticity of the clip was not the issue if the person in the clip was not Anwar as alleged.
His reaction came following a statement by inspector general of police Ismail Omar who said the clip was authentic.
Titiwangsa MP Dr Lo’ Lo Ghazali said she would not accept the IGP’s latest statement because the police had yet to arrest the 'Datuk T' trio, comprising of former Melaka chief minister Abdul Rahim Tamby Chik, businessman Shazryl Eskay Abdullah and Perkasa treasurer Shuib Lazim, who confessed to possessing and screening the porn clip.
“If the party involved in playing the porn clip comes from Pakatan Rakyat leadership, imagine the response of the IGP and the police in general” she quipped.
Monday, 4 April 2011
The Sarawak elections
The blogger donplaypuks says Sakmongkol is read by people who think UMNO should rule 70% of this country and possibly the other 30% too.
70% should be ok. Leave out that 30%. In that 30% not ruled, include Sarawak.
This business of writing about the alleged sexcapades of Anwar Ibrahim is tiring. He is campaigning intensely in Sarawak. He wants to reduce the value of the PM's fixed deposit. He seems to be unfazed by the allegations. I have written that Anwar is insulated and desensitized beyond reach. He just does not bother about allegations, impending court cases etc. he doesn't have to because if PR wins Putrajaya, the tables will be turned.
That spells danger for Najib and his administration.
If he behaves as such, that means the UMNO boys have failed to capitalize on the issue of the smut video. They have not handled this issue well. All the 3 people behind the video got were their 10 minutes moment of fame or notoriety depending on how you look at it. They have not done a great service for UMNO. Additionally, if showing the smut video in public contravenes the law, they will get punished.
They failed to inflict maximum damage and instead were looking for 10 minutes moment of fame and glory. Otherwise, how do you explain the bravado and swagger that were clearly shown by the press conference by them? They thought they can impress UMNO and the UMNO president.
Perhaps this was the element that encouraged some people in the MSM to regard the action of the trio as heroic. If the 3 people believed it was Anwar and had wanted to inflict the maximum damage, in the shortest time with minimum cost, they should have produced thousands of VCDs and distributed them all over. Chua Soi lek's smut video for example, was distributed into letterboxes at homes. Chua soi lek didn't know what to do other than `heroically' owning up.
So, Anwar isn't bothered at all. He wants to kick this government out and is zeroing in on Sarawak. If UMNO doesn't bother, then they are dancing to Anwar's tune. UMNO and the Najib administration must bother. To hear it from the mainstream paper boys, they write as if PR and Anwar don't have a rat's ass of a chance. Well, they write so at their own peril.
There are so many issues in the Sarawak elections. Topping it is the issue of the management of the state under the leadership of `pek moh' Taib Mahmud. What has Taib Mahmud become? He may have become a Polonius the character in Hamlet who is a busy-body, who is accordingly officious, garrulous, and impertinent. In Act II Hamlet refers to Polonius as a "tedious old fool. Taib Mahmud has become that, after 30 years of unchallenged rule that has bred insensitivity and arrogance of the highest level.
Even after 30 years of rule, the majority of the people in Sarawak must be wondering, where has the state's wealth gone to? The answer, it has gone mostly to Taib and his gang. Sarawak has become a byword of unbridled corruption. This is the main issue in Sarawak.
People of Sarawak must now read through Taib's promises of better development and better welfare as not inspired by a desire to really improve the welfare of the people; people of Sarawak must now know that Taib Mahmud is driven by a desire to perpetuate his hold on to power and that of a dynasty he intends to leave behind.
Why doesn't he quit now before the elections? Because he wants to put in place his grand plan. Who is to succeed him? He wants to fish out his sons to become his successor or an outsider, so deep with him who can be counted on to look after his vast interests.
We don't have to come out with the list of pillage and plunder. The people simply know, it's happening at a grand scale. The telltale signs of corruption, pillage, theft and larceny of the state's wealth have been extensively documented. The expose about Taib Mahmud family's fabulous wealth, tales of lavish parties, palatial homes all over the world, monopolistic business practices, decadent living and so forth.
While the majority languished in rudimentary appointed long houses and hovels, the elite and the rich entertained themselves in the most decadent of lifestyles. None more tasteless and insensitive than the marriage of Taib Mahmud's niece on a luxury yacht. I think, the people of Sarawak do no have to think twice in kicking out these modern day Marie Antoinettes and the freeloaders on board the luxury yacht on that day.
The people of Sarawak have no other choice but to kick out all the corrupt politicians. Don't bother even if the party is backed by UMNO or the BN. we simply can't allow a corrupt regime to prolong. If UMNO continues to support Taib Mahmud's administration, it places itself on the side of the corrupt, the pillagers and the plunderers of the state's wealth. It simply stands on the side of the people's enemy.
I am writing this article for the people of Sarawak in mind. I believe there will many changes this time around. Taib Mahmud and his coalition will lose a majority of the urban seats. These seats will be won mainly by the DAP. I think the BN leadership has underestimated the will of the dayaks whom they think are easily taken in by the usual talk of development. From what I hear, the dayaks on the whole are resolute in wanting to kick out Taib Mahmud.
If the Najib administration is serious in wanting to bolster its credibility with the people of Sarawak and show it is one with them, Najib as the BN leader must ask Taib Mahmud, Alfred Jabu and George Chan to leave. All have chosen themselves to stand for re-election.
George Chan announced he was leaving politics during the last state elections and he didn't. Taib Mahmud has promised to leave, but as soon as the PM and DPM left Sarawak, announced that he will leave on his own time and terms. The people of Sarawak must help him decide then by kicking him out.
Bring in new faces, winnable, clean and uncorrupted. Forget the fallacy of thinking Sarawak can't be governed without people like Taib Mahmud. It's not like Sarawak is going to die if Taib Mahmud is not CM. and I think, its time Sarawak has a dayak as CM.
DESIDERATA: The points highlighted (THUS BOLDED) are ine; hope the blogger-host accepts my grateful prayers for his generous sharing.
Another sane voice from UMNO -- a rare species! -- follows. My only lament is that the prince is IN THE WRONG PARTY. My humble advice is he should joing PR/PKR to contest in the 13GE. ~~ Updated @8.13PM...
**************************************
From Harakahdaily:
No one believes it, says Razaleigh on porn clip
Harakahdaily
KUALA LUMPUR, Apr 4: Gua Musang member of parliament and former Finance minister Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah (pic) has described the latest sex accusation against Anwar Ibrahim as shameful and despicable.
Saying the public would not buy the story following a pornographic clip targeting Anwar released by several UMNO leaders recently, Razaleigh said such acts of humiliating others were neither part of Islamic nor Malay culture.
“I don’t think the people accept this... If we see Anwar’s first case in 1998, the people did not accept. Even after bringing a mattress, pillows, no one believed. I still remember when I made a dialogue session in Gua Musang, the people asked, 'Is this Malay?'
"So shameful,” said Razaleigh as quoted by TV Selangor.
Razaleigh said those behind the clip were indulging in gutter politics and had smeared the image of the country and the Muslim majority.
“Malaysian are generally civilised and have a good culture, why must we follow bad culture?
"What’s the point of doing such despicable thing in public,” he asked.
Authenticity
Meanwhile, PAS Youth chief Nasrudin Hasan Tantawi said the authenticity of the clip was not the issue if the person in the clip was not Anwar as alleged.
His reaction came following a statement by inspector general of police Ismail Omar who said the clip was authentic.
Titiwangsa MP Dr Lo’ Lo Ghazali said she would not accept the IGP’s latest statement because the police had yet to arrest the 'Datuk T' trio, comprising of former Melaka chief minister Abdul Rahim Tamby Chik, businessman Shazryl Eskay Abdullah and Perkasa treasurer Shuib Lazim, who confessed to possessing and screening the porn clip.
“If the party involved in playing the porn clip comes from Pakatan Rakyat leadership, imagine the response of the IGP and the police in general” she quipped.
Sunday, April 03, 2011
MACC officers prefer watching porno to doing work...
as revealed the past few days at the inquiry into political aide Teoh Beng Hock's mysterious death...
BUT DO YOU BLAME THEM? No, because their highest ranked su[erior IGP says "It's OK!" Where got offence waht? he dared aRsEk journalists recently when queried by newshounds why the DATUK T stooges were not charged for possession and screening a pronographic film.
So parents, don't blame your below-16 schoolgoing children should they be found out viewing porno sites instead of doing research on Bill Gates or Waren Buffer or Desiderata. They have IGP's law on their side/pronosite!:(
Now let's ENJOY myGOoDfRiend KimQ's POV on more/aMore MACC's shenanigans!:(
MACC fiasco over Taib Mahmud scandal
By Kim Quek
The credibility of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) took a heavy beating when its two top officials floundered badly in a press conference over its failure to act against the notorious chief minister of Sarawak Taib Mahmud. The latter has been in the limelight lately due to frequent exposures in the Internet of his fabulous wealth and massive land grabs, for which numerous reports have been lodged with MACC.
In the press conference to present the annual report of MACC’s complaints committee on Mar 31, both chief commissioner Abu Kassim Mohammed and committee chairman Mohd Nor Abdullah were confronted by journalists over MACC’s deafening silence over long standing accusations against the chief minister. While Abu Kassim’s answers were hopelessly evasive, Mohd Nor’s reaction was outright obnoxious. The duo has conveyed this unmistakable message: chief minister Taib Mahmud is off-limits, don’t you dare to push us further!
To reporters’ various questions such as: whether public complaints have been received, whether files have been opened, how many cases are there, will there be charges, chief commissioner Abu Kassim gave only irrelevant answers, such as: we have to investigate all corruption, we cannot turn away any investigation, silence doesn’t mean inaction, etc. As questions persisted, he eventually repeated like a parrot to all further questions: “When there is a complaint, it will investigate”.
Mohd Nor, who was sitting next to Kassim, stepped in to warn the reporters to back off. Obviously basking on his credential as a former court of appeal judge, he asked reporters not to breach the Printing Presses and Publication Act (PPPA), which stipulates that news can only be published if there is reasonable cause to believe it is true. He said: “If you ask me whether there is any investigation on the chief minister, you may have breached the Act, as you already have the pre-conception of the CM’s corruption. You cannot ask me that. You cannot fish for evidence. Have you done your investigation? Inquire the truth first, then ask.”
While Abu Kassim’s utter timidity to touch on anything relating to the chief minister merely confirms what is already public knowledge - that MACC is completely impotent to deal with any corruption case of ruling Barisan Nasional’s heavy weights, it is Mohd Nor’s menacing and stupid threats to news media that has riled the otherwise complacent public.
Mohd Nor talked as if we are ignorant of the mountain of evidence of corruption and abuse of power by Taib Mahmud unearthed and circulating in the Internet. Evidences against him were so voluminous and detailed that they formed a 2 inch-thick book which was formally handed to MACC. And reports that were lodged almost one year ago have met with only silence from MACC.
The reports against Taib are mainly based on the website Sarawak Report (http://www.sarawakreport.org) which chronicles Taib family’s multi-billion ringgit fortunes in the form of oversea real estate properties, Malaysian enterprises and large areas of land in Sarawak. The Sarawak Report website carries amazing details of Taib family’s assets, complete with proof of ownership extracted from companies registries and land registries. Perhaps it is these meticulous details appearing as incontrovertible proof that have unnerved MACC, causing its two top officials to make a fool of themselves in public.
As an example of the vast pool of information made available in Sarawak Report, the website recently uploaded the entire database of the Land and Survey Department of Sarawak that shows more than a thousand plots of land acquired in recent years by the state, much of which have been passed on to Taib’s close relatives and cronies at dirt cheap premiums. Many of these plots of lands, which total more than 1.5 million hectares, were in fact NCR lands, secretively sequestered from the natives, whose complaints have resulted in more 200 land litigatons. The few cases that have been heard by the courts have ended in favour of the native landowners, indicating the illegality of Taib’s land grab.
As proof that Taib’s family have been major beneficiaries of these illegal land grabs, names of some 50 companies featured in the Land Register as original recipients of land from the state were listed, each identified with members of Taib’s family.
Another piece of bad news for the embattled chief minister,is the recent disclosure of a so-called black list of 49 companies spread worldwide, each linked to Taib’s family. This list, announced by Bruno Manser Fund, a Swiss NGO dedicated to the cause of the oppressed Sarawak natives, shows 13 of these companies are located in Malaysia, 10 in Australia, 9 in Canada, 7 in Hong Kong, the balance in UK and other parts of the world.
The beauty of the entire Taib corruption episode is that Taib himself never really denies the existence of his family’s vast assets.
In an interview during the cyber campaign launched recently by him to fend off the various accusations, he attributed his family’s fortune to the entrepreneur genius of his daughter Jamilah. Taib explained that when he left the federal government three decades ago, he gave some money to Jamilah from his gruity to start off her business in Canada. Due to her business acumen, that business eventually snowballed into an international business empire.
While one is still stretching his imagination as to what little credibility could be given to Taib’s rag-to-riches story, the answer came in another interview of Taib. To buttress the veracity of his story, Taib elaborated further that he had no choice but to do business abroad 30 years ago where his well-educated children were doing business. He said:
"I don't want conflict of interests to haunt me all the time. If I do business inside the country, people will say I use my influence to enrich myself, so we did it outside the country."
What a terrible lie that was! Who in Sarawak doesn’t know that the state’s largest conglomerate CMS is the flagship of Taib family’s business empire which creams off the juiciest contracts from the state, much to the revulsion of the local business community?
With that blatant lie, what credibility can we give to Taib’s self-made billionaire story?
Facing such awesome evidence of massive corruption, the chairman of MACC’s complaints committee had the gall to make legal threats to inquisitive inquirers, as if Taib Mahmud is a victim of dubious accusation!
The Taib Mahmud story is only one of many of Barisan Nasional's numerous mega corruption scandals involving its reigning elites which have been routinely neutered by our law-enforcing institutions, be it MACC, police, attorney general or the judiciary.
And the latest theatrics of MACC described here only confirms that nothing has changed despite Prime Minister Najib Razak’s much trumpeted reforms via his numerous slogans.
Kim Quek
02.04.2011
BUT DO YOU BLAME THEM? No, because their highest ranked su[erior IGP says "It's OK!" Where got offence waht? he dared aRsEk journalists recently when queried by newshounds why the DATUK T stooges were not charged for possession and screening a pronographic film.
So parents, don't blame your below-16 schoolgoing children should they be found out viewing porno sites instead of doing research on Bill Gates or Waren Buffer or Desiderata. They have IGP's law on their side/pronosite!:(
Now let's ENJOY myGOoDfRiend KimQ's POV on more/aMore MACC's shenanigans!:(
MACC fiasco over Taib Mahmud scandal
By Kim Quek
The credibility of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) took a heavy beating when its two top officials floundered badly in a press conference over its failure to act against the notorious chief minister of Sarawak Taib Mahmud. The latter has been in the limelight lately due to frequent exposures in the Internet of his fabulous wealth and massive land grabs, for which numerous reports have been lodged with MACC.
In the press conference to present the annual report of MACC’s complaints committee on Mar 31, both chief commissioner Abu Kassim Mohammed and committee chairman Mohd Nor Abdullah were confronted by journalists over MACC’s deafening silence over long standing accusations against the chief minister. While Abu Kassim’s answers were hopelessly evasive, Mohd Nor’s reaction was outright obnoxious. The duo has conveyed this unmistakable message: chief minister Taib Mahmud is off-limits, don’t you dare to push us further!
To reporters’ various questions such as: whether public complaints have been received, whether files have been opened, how many cases are there, will there be charges, chief commissioner Abu Kassim gave only irrelevant answers, such as: we have to investigate all corruption, we cannot turn away any investigation, silence doesn’t mean inaction, etc. As questions persisted, he eventually repeated like a parrot to all further questions: “When there is a complaint, it will investigate”.
Mohd Nor, who was sitting next to Kassim, stepped in to warn the reporters to back off. Obviously basking on his credential as a former court of appeal judge, he asked reporters not to breach the Printing Presses and Publication Act (PPPA), which stipulates that news can only be published if there is reasonable cause to believe it is true. He said: “If you ask me whether there is any investigation on the chief minister, you may have breached the Act, as you already have the pre-conception of the CM’s corruption. You cannot ask me that. You cannot fish for evidence. Have you done your investigation? Inquire the truth first, then ask.”
While Abu Kassim’s utter timidity to touch on anything relating to the chief minister merely confirms what is already public knowledge - that MACC is completely impotent to deal with any corruption case of ruling Barisan Nasional’s heavy weights, it is Mohd Nor’s menacing and stupid threats to news media that has riled the otherwise complacent public.
Mohd Nor talked as if we are ignorant of the mountain of evidence of corruption and abuse of power by Taib Mahmud unearthed and circulating in the Internet. Evidences against him were so voluminous and detailed that they formed a 2 inch-thick book which was formally handed to MACC. And reports that were lodged almost one year ago have met with only silence from MACC.
The reports against Taib are mainly based on the website Sarawak Report (http://www.sarawakreport.org) which chronicles Taib family’s multi-billion ringgit fortunes in the form of oversea real estate properties, Malaysian enterprises and large areas of land in Sarawak. The Sarawak Report website carries amazing details of Taib family’s assets, complete with proof of ownership extracted from companies registries and land registries. Perhaps it is these meticulous details appearing as incontrovertible proof that have unnerved MACC, causing its two top officials to make a fool of themselves in public.
As an example of the vast pool of information made available in Sarawak Report, the website recently uploaded the entire database of the Land and Survey Department of Sarawak that shows more than a thousand plots of land acquired in recent years by the state, much of which have been passed on to Taib’s close relatives and cronies at dirt cheap premiums. Many of these plots of lands, which total more than 1.5 million hectares, were in fact NCR lands, secretively sequestered from the natives, whose complaints have resulted in more 200 land litigatons. The few cases that have been heard by the courts have ended in favour of the native landowners, indicating the illegality of Taib’s land grab.
As proof that Taib’s family have been major beneficiaries of these illegal land grabs, names of some 50 companies featured in the Land Register as original recipients of land from the state were listed, each identified with members of Taib’s family.
Another piece of bad news for the embattled chief minister,is the recent disclosure of a so-called black list of 49 companies spread worldwide, each linked to Taib’s family. This list, announced by Bruno Manser Fund, a Swiss NGO dedicated to the cause of the oppressed Sarawak natives, shows 13 of these companies are located in Malaysia, 10 in Australia, 9 in Canada, 7 in Hong Kong, the balance in UK and other parts of the world.
The beauty of the entire Taib corruption episode is that Taib himself never really denies the existence of his family’s vast assets.
In an interview during the cyber campaign launched recently by him to fend off the various accusations, he attributed his family’s fortune to the entrepreneur genius of his daughter Jamilah. Taib explained that when he left the federal government three decades ago, he gave some money to Jamilah from his gruity to start off her business in Canada. Due to her business acumen, that business eventually snowballed into an international business empire.
While one is still stretching his imagination as to what little credibility could be given to Taib’s rag-to-riches story, the answer came in another interview of Taib. To buttress the veracity of his story, Taib elaborated further that he had no choice but to do business abroad 30 years ago where his well-educated children were doing business. He said:
"I don't want conflict of interests to haunt me all the time. If I do business inside the country, people will say I use my influence to enrich myself, so we did it outside the country."
What a terrible lie that was! Who in Sarawak doesn’t know that the state’s largest conglomerate CMS is the flagship of Taib family’s business empire which creams off the juiciest contracts from the state, much to the revulsion of the local business community?
With that blatant lie, what credibility can we give to Taib’s self-made billionaire story?
Facing such awesome evidence of massive corruption, the chairman of MACC’s complaints committee had the gall to make legal threats to inquisitive inquirers, as if Taib Mahmud is a victim of dubious accusation!
The Taib Mahmud story is only one of many of Barisan Nasional's numerous mega corruption scandals involving its reigning elites which have been routinely neutered by our law-enforcing institutions, be it MACC, police, attorney general or the judiciary.
And the latest theatrics of MACC described here only confirms that nothing has changed despite Prime Minister Najib Razak’s much trumpeted reforms via his numerous slogans.
Kim Quek
02.04.2011
Saturday, April 02, 2011
Govt-Petronas CON CONtinues...
The BN gomen and the national oil corporation CONtinue to treat the Malaysian people as either kindie kids or nincompoops, viz:
RON97 Petrol Up 20 Sen
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Saturday, 02 April 2011 07:20
KUALA LUMPUR -- The price of RON97 petrol went up by 20 sen to RM2.70 per litre effective midnight last night, according to the Petroleum Dealers Association of Malaysia (PDAM).
PDAM deputy president Datuk Zulkifli Mokti said the increase was due to the rise in the price of crude oil toUS$114 per drum this week from US$105.
"This is due to the crisis in the Middle East," he said when contacted by Bernama.
Zulkifli said the price was likely to increase in the future due to the situation in the Middle East which he added could prolong.
On Jan 31, the price of RON97, which was floated according to the prevailing oil market price, rose by 10 sen to RM2.50 per litre.
RON95 petrol remains at RM1.90 per litre.
(Bernama)
DESIDERATA: I've lamented again and again that the BN idiots are pulling wool over our eyes, in cahoots with PETronas.
Malaysia is a NETT producer of petroleum, furthermore,our petroleum is of premium grade and hence commands a higher price over the imported petrol.
For common senSE will tell you that each time the world crude rices rise,our country will get higher revenues and profits. By right if Petronas truly holds the nation's black gold resource in trust for the Rakyat, the pump prices, whether RON95 or RON95, should go down now that their world prices recently have gone to above USD100per barrel.
So how now, people?
Desi: Get rid of the BN gomen-lah at the forthcoming Sarawak State Elections, for starters.
For the main menu, throw the BN gomen out from Putrajaya at GE13, can or knot?
RON97 Petrol Up 20 Sen
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Saturday, 02 April 2011 07:20
KUALA LUMPUR -- The price of RON97 petrol went up by 20 sen to RM2.70 per litre effective midnight last night, according to the Petroleum Dealers Association of Malaysia (PDAM).
PDAM deputy president Datuk Zulkifli Mokti said the increase was due to the rise in the price of crude oil toUS$114 per drum this week from US$105.
"This is due to the crisis in the Middle East," he said when contacted by Bernama.
Zulkifli said the price was likely to increase in the future due to the situation in the Middle East which he added could prolong.
On Jan 31, the price of RON97, which was floated according to the prevailing oil market price, rose by 10 sen to RM2.50 per litre.
RON95 petrol remains at RM1.90 per litre.
(Bernama)
DESIDERATA: I've lamented again and again that the BN idiots are pulling wool over our eyes, in cahoots with PETronas.
Malaysia is a NETT producer of petroleum, furthermore,our petroleum is of premium grade and hence commands a higher price over the imported petrol.
For common senSE will tell you that each time the world crude rices rise,our country will get higher revenues and profits. By right if Petronas truly holds the nation's black gold resource in trust for the Rakyat, the pump prices, whether RON95 or RON95, should go down now that their world prices recently have gone to above USD100per barrel.
So how now, people?
Desi: Get rid of the BN gomen-lah at the forthcoming Sarawak State Elections, for starters.
For the main menu, throw the BN gomen out from Putrajaya at GE13, can or knot?
DSAI on IGP's statement of sex video being "authentic"...
Press Release on IGP’s Statement On The Sex Video Case
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By Anwar Ibrahim
Categories: Analisis, Anwar, Demokrasi, Hebahan, Isu Semasa, KeADILan, Mahkamah, Malaysia, Media, Pakatan Rakyat, Parlimen, Pilihanraya, Politik and Umno
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PRESS RELEASE
Today the Inspector General of Police Tan Sri Ismail Omar rushed to make a statement that the ‘ Datuk T ‘ sex video is allegedly authentic. This announcement in no way proves that Opposition leader Dato Seri Anwar Ibrahim is the person appearing in the sex video. From the very first instance, Dato Seri Anwar Ibrahim has stated categorically and unambiguously that he is not the person in the sex video. The issue of the authenticity of the video is a red herring,and a politically motivated attempt at confusing the issue so as to smear and tarnish Dato Seri Anwar Ibrahim’s reputation.
What is of real public concern is why the police and A-G’s Chambers have yet to institute criminal proceedings against the three persons who have publicly confessed to being guilty of possessing and publicly exhibiting the obscene video which are offences under s.292 Penal Code and s.5 Film Censorship Act 2002. Why the special treatment meted out to these particular offenders? Unusually, the IGP made his announcement on the aspect of the authenticity of the video despite admitting also that the probe on the sex video is not yet complete. We call upon the IGP not to dance to the tune of the BN and to carry out police investigations fairly, impartially and professionally. We call upon the IGP and AG to stop the delaying tactics and to take action against the real criminals in the sex video fiasco immediately.
N SURENDRAN
VICE PRESIDENT
KEADILAN
DESIDERATA: The above Press Release is copied from anwaribrahim.blog.com
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By Anwar Ibrahim
Categories: Analisis, Anwar, Demokrasi, Hebahan, Isu Semasa, KeADILan, Mahkamah, Malaysia, Media, Pakatan Rakyat, Parlimen, Pilihanraya, Politik and Umno
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PRESS RELEASE
Today the Inspector General of Police Tan Sri Ismail Omar rushed to make a statement that the ‘ Datuk T ‘ sex video is allegedly authentic. This announcement in no way proves that Opposition leader Dato Seri Anwar Ibrahim is the person appearing in the sex video. From the very first instance, Dato Seri Anwar Ibrahim has stated categorically and unambiguously that he is not the person in the sex video. The issue of the authenticity of the video is a red herring,and a politically motivated attempt at confusing the issue so as to smear and tarnish Dato Seri Anwar Ibrahim’s reputation.
What is of real public concern is why the police and A-G’s Chambers have yet to institute criminal proceedings against the three persons who have publicly confessed to being guilty of possessing and publicly exhibiting the obscene video which are offences under s.292 Penal Code and s.5 Film Censorship Act 2002. Why the special treatment meted out to these particular offenders? Unusually, the IGP made his announcement on the aspect of the authenticity of the video despite admitting also that the probe on the sex video is not yet complete. We call upon the IGP not to dance to the tune of the BN and to carry out police investigations fairly, impartially and professionally. We call upon the IGP and AG to stop the delaying tactics and to take action against the real criminals in the sex video fiasco immediately.
N SURENDRAN
VICE PRESIDENT
KEADILAN
DESIDERATA: The above Press Release is copied from anwaribrahim.blog.com
Friday, April 01, 2011
A Malaysian tale worth retelling! Just stay alert for the next billion $
WAITING AROUND D CORNER! Mayhaps at Temian Koner where crzazy cowboi like Desi and Johnny and Andy gather to banter, also to daydream...about getting there/dare. Where lies the millions...
This was forwarded yesterday -- when all my troubles seemed brewing and here/hear to stay! -- when koboi Johnny-didnt-cometh-lately sent me the following Malaysian story worth emulating. Hey, let Desi have the front seat, K:). Go have that front seat at K rah OK!:(
Da $31billion Man
Interesting to know that the Pen Drive was invented by a Malaysian Chinese who could not get into one of our local universities. He had to study in Taiwan.
Pua's mighty 'Pen'
S. INDRAMALAR speaks to the creator of the now indispensable Pen Drive
Fact file
Name: Pua Khein Seng
Age: 31
Hometown: Sekinchan, Selangor
Education: SJKC Yeok Kuan, Sekinchan; Pin Hwa
Independent school, Klang; Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
Occupation: Engineer/ president of Phison Electonics Corp
Current base: Taipei , Taiwan
Years abroad: 12
WHEN he set off for Taiwan in 1993, Pua Khein Seng's only aim was to complete his degree in Electrical Control Engineering at the renowned Chiao Tung University and return home to work in Malaysia
Never did he envision himself heading a multi-million dollar Taiwanese company that developed the world's first USB flash removable disk, which they called Pen Drive .
Pua Khein Seng went to Taiwan to get his engineering degree but ended up staying on, starting his own company and inventing the pen drive.
"I went to Taiwan to pursue my undergraduate degree. I chose Taiwan only because it was too expensive to study either in the United States or Singapore
"However, I did well in my undergraduate programme and was offered a place to do my masters," explained Pua, who was back in Kuala Lumpur recently for a holiday.
After completing his Masters in July 1999, Pua worked for about six months in a local company before deciding to set up his own venture company with four fellow engineers who had studied with him at Chiao Tung.
"We were confident that we had the know-how and ability to start our own business, which is focused on USB technology. The company is called Phison because there are five of us – two Malaysians and three Taiwanese engineers," said Pua, 31, who hails from Sekinchan, Selangor.
Phison Electronics Corporation was set up in November 2000 and within six months the young entrepreneurs came up with their first invention – a USB storage device called Pen Drive
"We were the first company in the world to develop the USB Drive SoC (System On Chip) and we were very confident that the market for USB will be huge. At the time, no one believed in us so we had to do everything ourselves – from developing the technology, the chips to the product itself.
"We were only 27 years old at the time and inexperienced. But we were confident that we could design good systems and chips but we didn't know anything about selling. So, we sought partners or traders who could help sell our products for us," Pua added.
Through smart partnerships and shrewd strategies, Phison soon made its way into European, American and Japanese markets. One quick move was securing Japanese tech giant Toshiba as Phison's largest shareholder and customer.
"We launched Pen Drive in June 2001 and by August the same year, we broke even! From September 2001, we were reaping monthly profits from our invention and there has been no turning back since."
Having established himself in Taiwan , Pua is in the midst of setting up Phison's branch in Malaysia , due to begin operations this February.
"I am starting a branch in Malaysia because this is my country. I would like to do contribute to its development.
"We have about 100 engineers at Phison in Taiwan , 20 of whom are Malaysians. Though they studied in Taiwan , I had to re-train all the engineers I hire because, like most fresh graduates (in this field), they are not industry-ready upon graduation.
"Unfortunately, some of the Malaysian engineers want to return home after a couple of years because they are homesick, about to start a family and so on. Some prefer to work in Singapore , as it is closer to home. Instead of losing them to competitors, I decided to set up an office in Malaysia where they can still work for me," said Pua.
Another problem faced by returning computer engineers from Taiwan , Pua added, was the lack of job opportunities for hardware engineers in Malaysia .
"There is no environment or support for design engineers here in Malaysia. One of my Malaysian engineers
from Phison returned home and ended up as a teacher in a Chinese school! I was shocked and thought, 'After all that training and re-training, he is going to just teach?' I told him to hold on till I open up the Phison branch in Malaysia ."
Though he has been in Taiwan for the past 12 years and married to a Taiwanese, Pua is not sure how much longer he will remain there.
"I have really no idea where I will be in 20 years. Maybe Taiwan , maybe Malaysia , maybe somewhere else ... it all depends on my business. The industry is moving so fast that I cannot predict what or where I will be," he said.
For the moment though, Taiwan is home for Pua, his wife and two children even though he misses the Malaysian way of life.
"I come home once a year for Chinese New Year and will usually stay for about two weeks. There are several things I really miss about Malaysia
One is the food! For the past 12 years I have been craving for
Malaysian food ... I miss laksa, curry noodles, chee cheong fun and all the other delicious dishes we have here.
"I also miss the lifestyle and quality of life here. When I come back, I am always amazed to see people hanging out and relaxing at mamak shops at night. In Taiwan , most people would still be at work at that time of the night!
"Before I got married, I used to work for 15 to 17 hours a day, everyday. Now that I have children, my wife has forbidden me to stay so late. Now, I go to work at 9am and come home by 11pm. These hours are quite normal for the Taiwanese."
The man who invented USB pen-drive is a young modest Malaysian who can't even get into a local University but invented the most versatile, indispensable computer peripheral today. And helped his adopted country, Taiwan made $31bil in the process. The rest is history....
This was forwarded yesterday -- when all my troubles seemed brewing and here/hear to stay! -- when koboi Johnny-didnt-cometh-lately sent me the following Malaysian story worth emulating. Hey, let Desi have the front seat, K:). Go have that front seat at K rah OK!:(
Da $31billion Man
Interesting to know that the Pen Drive was invented by a Malaysian Chinese who could not get into one of our local universities. He had to study in Taiwan.
Pua's mighty 'Pen'
S. INDRAMALAR speaks to the creator of the now indispensable Pen Drive
Fact file
Name: Pua Khein Seng
Age: 31
Hometown: Sekinchan, Selangor
Education: SJKC Yeok Kuan, Sekinchan; Pin Hwa
Independent school, Klang; Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
Occupation: Engineer/ president of Phison Electonics Corp
Current base: Taipei , Taiwan
Years abroad: 12
WHEN he set off for Taiwan in 1993, Pua Khein Seng's only aim was to complete his degree in Electrical Control Engineering at the renowned Chiao Tung University and return home to work in Malaysia
Never did he envision himself heading a multi-million dollar Taiwanese company that developed the world's first USB flash removable disk, which they called Pen Drive .
Pua Khein Seng went to Taiwan to get his engineering degree but ended up staying on, starting his own company and inventing the pen drive.
"I went to Taiwan to pursue my undergraduate degree. I chose Taiwan only because it was too expensive to study either in the United States or Singapore
"However, I did well in my undergraduate programme and was offered a place to do my masters," explained Pua, who was back in Kuala Lumpur recently for a holiday.
After completing his Masters in July 1999, Pua worked for about six months in a local company before deciding to set up his own venture company with four fellow engineers who had studied with him at Chiao Tung.
"We were confident that we had the know-how and ability to start our own business, which is focused on USB technology. The company is called Phison because there are five of us – two Malaysians and three Taiwanese engineers," said Pua, 31, who hails from Sekinchan, Selangor.
Phison Electronics Corporation was set up in November 2000 and within six months the young entrepreneurs came up with their first invention – a USB storage device called Pen Drive
"We were the first company in the world to develop the USB Drive SoC (System On Chip) and we were very confident that the market for USB will be huge. At the time, no one believed in us so we had to do everything ourselves – from developing the technology, the chips to the product itself.
"We were only 27 years old at the time and inexperienced. But we were confident that we could design good systems and chips but we didn't know anything about selling. So, we sought partners or traders who could help sell our products for us," Pua added.
Through smart partnerships and shrewd strategies, Phison soon made its way into European, American and Japanese markets. One quick move was securing Japanese tech giant Toshiba as Phison's largest shareholder and customer.
"We launched Pen Drive in June 2001 and by August the same year, we broke even! From September 2001, we were reaping monthly profits from our invention and there has been no turning back since."
Having established himself in Taiwan , Pua is in the midst of setting up Phison's branch in Malaysia , due to begin operations this February.
"I am starting a branch in Malaysia because this is my country. I would like to do contribute to its development.
"We have about 100 engineers at Phison in Taiwan , 20 of whom are Malaysians. Though they studied in Taiwan , I had to re-train all the engineers I hire because, like most fresh graduates (in this field), they are not industry-ready upon graduation.
"Unfortunately, some of the Malaysian engineers want to return home after a couple of years because they are homesick, about to start a family and so on. Some prefer to work in Singapore , as it is closer to home. Instead of losing them to competitors, I decided to set up an office in Malaysia where they can still work for me," said Pua.
Another problem faced by returning computer engineers from Taiwan , Pua added, was the lack of job opportunities for hardware engineers in Malaysia .
"There is no environment or support for design engineers here in Malaysia. One of my Malaysian engineers
from Phison returned home and ended up as a teacher in a Chinese school! I was shocked and thought, 'After all that training and re-training, he is going to just teach?' I told him to hold on till I open up the Phison branch in Malaysia ."
Though he has been in Taiwan for the past 12 years and married to a Taiwanese, Pua is not sure how much longer he will remain there.
"I have really no idea where I will be in 20 years. Maybe Taiwan , maybe Malaysia , maybe somewhere else ... it all depends on my business. The industry is moving so fast that I cannot predict what or where I will be," he said.
For the moment though, Taiwan is home for Pua, his wife and two children even though he misses the Malaysian way of life.
"I come home once a year for Chinese New Year and will usually stay for about two weeks. There are several things I really miss about Malaysia
One is the food! For the past 12 years I have been craving for
Malaysian food ... I miss laksa, curry noodles, chee cheong fun and all the other delicious dishes we have here.
"I also miss the lifestyle and quality of life here. When I come back, I am always amazed to see people hanging out and relaxing at mamak shops at night. In Taiwan , most people would still be at work at that time of the night!
"Before I got married, I used to work for 15 to 17 hours a day, everyday. Now that I have children, my wife has forbidden me to stay so late. Now, I go to work at 9am and come home by 11pm. These hours are quite normal for the Taiwanese."
The man who invented USB pen-drive is a young modest Malaysian who can't even get into a local University but invented the most versatile, indispensable computer peripheral today. And helped his adopted country, Taiwan made $31bil in the process. The rest is history....
Thursday, March 31, 2011
Old Faithful KimQ Fights On...
Tragedy of election under repression
By Kim Quek
At this time when Barisan Nasional (BN) leaders are indulging in an orgy of throwing public funds to buy votes in the current Sarawak state elections with polling only days from now (on April 16), it is indeed heartening to hear the Coalition for Free and Fair Elections’ (Bersih 2.0) categorically insisting that all forms of material inducement for votes including election promises constitute an election offence.
Bersih 2.0 chairman Ambiga Sreenevasan’s statement came in the wake of Transparency International Malaysia (TI-M) President Paul Low’s reservation as to whether election promises could be considered bribery and Minister Nazri Aziz’s outright denial of any election goodies handed out during election as corruption.
Anyone who has read through Sections 10 and 11 of the Election Offences Act 1954 should not have the slightest doubt that the rampant bribery that is going now in the form allocation of funds for a sundry of projects and purposes by BN leaders is indeed serious election offences.
These election goodies are no vague promises but actual allocation of funds with specific quantum to specific recipients or for specific projects. In short, these intended disbursements are executive decisions already made by the BN political leadership, for the obvious purpose of inducing the voters to return BN to power.
CLEAR-CUT BRIBERY
Section 10 of the Act defines bribery, in meticulous and elaborate details, as material benefits or promises in all forms dished out to induce votes. And Section 11 provides that such offences of “treating, undue influence and bribery” shall be punishable under the Criminal Procedure Code. These laws are so clear-cut that there should not be any room for any offender, enforcement body or the judiciary to wiggle its way from being accountable to the law.
Take for instance the announcement presently made (on Mar 30) by the Deputy Prime Minister cum Education Minister Muhyiddin Yassin in Kuching, Sarawak, that allocations of a total of RM73.68 million were made for 3 types of schools in Sarawak. He said RM25.68 million was for 130 missionary schools, RM20 million for 197 Chinese type national schools and RM28 million for 1,266 national schools.
Muhyiddin further said that RM50,000 would be given to each missionary school in the near future through BN representative in the area concerned. The allocation’s initial disbursement of RM6.5 million to these schools will be followed by payment of the balance in the second round.
Now, isn’t that the clearest act of bribery? Any fool can see that such a sudden announcement of avalanche of ad hoc funds to the schools in the state only days before polling was intended to induce the electorate to vote in favour of BN.
And why single out Christian missionary schools for early payment? The reason is that Christians have been riled up by BN government lately through detention of their Malay language Bibles and such promise of early disbursement would at least soothe some ruffled feeling to minimize electoral damage. And why only disburse through BN representatives? This is of course a subtle blackmail that unless the BN candidate in your constituency is returned in the election, you may not get the promised cash endowment.
EC MUST ACT
Muhyiddin and BN are therefore guilty of not only bribery and blackmail, but also abuse of power, as the funds that are used to buy votes are not BN money but public funds that belong to the people.
I see no reason why the Election Commission (EC) should not immediately give a stern notice to Muhyiddin that he has committed election offences; and the EC should also promptly make a report to both the police and the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission with a view to take the necessary action for prosecution under the Criminal Procedure Code.
BN leaders have been observed to flout election laws with increasing abandonment as exhibited in their openly corrupt conduct in the last few by-elections; and the current Sarawak elections may yet see them achieving new heights in this direction.
Only two days before the dissolution of the Sarawak state assembly, both Prime Minister Najib Razak and his deputy Muhyiddin individually made announcements in Sarawak allocating funds that total well over RM300 million.
On that day (Mar 19), Najib announced in Serian that BN had allocated RM252 million for infrastructure projects that included rural electrification, clean water supply, roads and health clinic for the 7,700 households in the district.
On the same day, Muhyiddin announced in Sri Aman that BN had allocated a total of RM81 million of funds for the area. These include RM60.8 million for building a school in Lingga, RM18.5 million for the 15km Stumbin-Tanjung-Bijat-Stirau road, RM50 million to upgrade the Sembau-Stumbin road, RM1 million for flood mitigation projects at 5 Malay villages and RM600,000 for several longhouses.
There are of course many other goodies, announced and unannounced, big and small, such as the 2,000 Ha of land awarded to Chinese schools for generating incomes to supplement their operating expenditures, and the ubiquitous 1Malaysia NGO organizing sumptuous meals daily, complete with stage shows and lucky draws to make the electorate happy, compliments from BN of course.
We have not reached the formal campaign period yet, which will officially start on nomination day which falls on April 6. God knows how many more millions of public funds will be abused and dumped on the Sarawak electorate and how many more ingenious inducement will be unleashed to procure votes for BN.
COLLAPSE OF LAW ENFORCEMENT
The scenario of DPM Muhyiddin being nabbed by law as suggested earlier is of course a theoretical construct. In reality, none of the errant BN leaders is at risk of being convicted. This is due to the fact that the entire chain of law enforcement from EC and police to prosecutors and judges function more as henchmen of the incumbent power to preserve its rule, rather than as institutions which owe their loyalty to the country and the people.
Under these circumstances, the only constitutional redress lies with the electorate – if only they would exercise their votes to mete out punishment to the political leadership that has betrayed people’s trust. But that is a big IF.
The prerequisite to the people acting wisely as the final arbiter is that the people must first be enlightened of the truth. In a democratic country, this is no problem, as the people are well informed by an independent and free media. In fact, such flagrant transgression of election laws could never have happened in a democracy, for the ruling party would have been hounded out of office by unstoppable media onslaught alone without waiting for the electorate to do the sacking. But not so in a repressive country like Egypt under Mubarak or Tunisia under Ben Ali, or for that matter, the Umno hegemony.
The reason is simple, in addition to iron-fisted control through repressive legislation and degraded institutions, the country’s tightly-controlled mass media ensures that the majority of people are kept in the darkness.
REPRESSION LEADS TO PEOPLE POWER
The people of Egypt and Tunisia succeeded in overthrowing their autocratic rulers, people power style, only because of the presence of a combination of factors, among which is the break out of information stranglehold through skilful utilization of modern information technology such as Internet and hand phones. These devices enabled a large section of the populace to be instantly informed of the latest true picture, as well as facilitated prompt mobilization of mass movement.
While it is outside the scope of this article to look into the various factors contributing to these people power phenomena, one important lesson we must learn is about elections in a repressive country.
Take the case of Mubarak who reigned for three decades. At the last election in 2005 when he was re-elected for a fifth six-year term, he garnered 88% of the votes cast in a ‘democratic’ election. But when the people power came, he was literarily chased out of office through irrepressible anger expressed by almost unanimity of masses across the land. If the thumping majority he received in every one of the past five elections over three decades had been obtained through really democratic elections, is it conceivable that the entire population would have turned violently against him overnight?
The lesson is that the so-called democratic elections held under repressive conditions, such as those in Egypt, Tunisia and Malaysia, are potential time-bombs. The explosion will come when there are enough people who come to know the truth, ignited by a spark in a combustible atmosphere.
Let BN be warned that its unrestrained violation of democratic norms are moves that are channeling the country towards that regrettable destiny.
Kim Quek
31.03.2011
By Kim Quek
At this time when Barisan Nasional (BN) leaders are indulging in an orgy of throwing public funds to buy votes in the current Sarawak state elections with polling only days from now (on April 16), it is indeed heartening to hear the Coalition for Free and Fair Elections’ (Bersih 2.0) categorically insisting that all forms of material inducement for votes including election promises constitute an election offence.
Bersih 2.0 chairman Ambiga Sreenevasan’s statement came in the wake of Transparency International Malaysia (TI-M) President Paul Low’s reservation as to whether election promises could be considered bribery and Minister Nazri Aziz’s outright denial of any election goodies handed out during election as corruption.
Anyone who has read through Sections 10 and 11 of the Election Offences Act 1954 should not have the slightest doubt that the rampant bribery that is going now in the form allocation of funds for a sundry of projects and purposes by BN leaders is indeed serious election offences.
These election goodies are no vague promises but actual allocation of funds with specific quantum to specific recipients or for specific projects. In short, these intended disbursements are executive decisions already made by the BN political leadership, for the obvious purpose of inducing the voters to return BN to power.
CLEAR-CUT BRIBERY
Section 10 of the Act defines bribery, in meticulous and elaborate details, as material benefits or promises in all forms dished out to induce votes. And Section 11 provides that such offences of “treating, undue influence and bribery” shall be punishable under the Criminal Procedure Code. These laws are so clear-cut that there should not be any room for any offender, enforcement body or the judiciary to wiggle its way from being accountable to the law.
Take for instance the announcement presently made (on Mar 30) by the Deputy Prime Minister cum Education Minister Muhyiddin Yassin in Kuching, Sarawak, that allocations of a total of RM73.68 million were made for 3 types of schools in Sarawak. He said RM25.68 million was for 130 missionary schools, RM20 million for 197 Chinese type national schools and RM28 million for 1,266 national schools.
Muhyiddin further said that RM50,000 would be given to each missionary school in the near future through BN representative in the area concerned. The allocation’s initial disbursement of RM6.5 million to these schools will be followed by payment of the balance in the second round.
Now, isn’t that the clearest act of bribery? Any fool can see that such a sudden announcement of avalanche of ad hoc funds to the schools in the state only days before polling was intended to induce the electorate to vote in favour of BN.
And why single out Christian missionary schools for early payment? The reason is that Christians have been riled up by BN government lately through detention of their Malay language Bibles and such promise of early disbursement would at least soothe some ruffled feeling to minimize electoral damage. And why only disburse through BN representatives? This is of course a subtle blackmail that unless the BN candidate in your constituency is returned in the election, you may not get the promised cash endowment.
EC MUST ACT
Muhyiddin and BN are therefore guilty of not only bribery and blackmail, but also abuse of power, as the funds that are used to buy votes are not BN money but public funds that belong to the people.
I see no reason why the Election Commission (EC) should not immediately give a stern notice to Muhyiddin that he has committed election offences; and the EC should also promptly make a report to both the police and the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission with a view to take the necessary action for prosecution under the Criminal Procedure Code.
BN leaders have been observed to flout election laws with increasing abandonment as exhibited in their openly corrupt conduct in the last few by-elections; and the current Sarawak elections may yet see them achieving new heights in this direction.
Only two days before the dissolution of the Sarawak state assembly, both Prime Minister Najib Razak and his deputy Muhyiddin individually made announcements in Sarawak allocating funds that total well over RM300 million.
On that day (Mar 19), Najib announced in Serian that BN had allocated RM252 million for infrastructure projects that included rural electrification, clean water supply, roads and health clinic for the 7,700 households in the district.
On the same day, Muhyiddin announced in Sri Aman that BN had allocated a total of RM81 million of funds for the area. These include RM60.8 million for building a school in Lingga, RM18.5 million for the 15km Stumbin-Tanjung-Bijat-Stirau road, RM50 million to upgrade the Sembau-Stumbin road, RM1 million for flood mitigation projects at 5 Malay villages and RM600,000 for several longhouses.
There are of course many other goodies, announced and unannounced, big and small, such as the 2,000 Ha of land awarded to Chinese schools for generating incomes to supplement their operating expenditures, and the ubiquitous 1Malaysia NGO organizing sumptuous meals daily, complete with stage shows and lucky draws to make the electorate happy, compliments from BN of course.
We have not reached the formal campaign period yet, which will officially start on nomination day which falls on April 6. God knows how many more millions of public funds will be abused and dumped on the Sarawak electorate and how many more ingenious inducement will be unleashed to procure votes for BN.
COLLAPSE OF LAW ENFORCEMENT
The scenario of DPM Muhyiddin being nabbed by law as suggested earlier is of course a theoretical construct. In reality, none of the errant BN leaders is at risk of being convicted. This is due to the fact that the entire chain of law enforcement from EC and police to prosecutors and judges function more as henchmen of the incumbent power to preserve its rule, rather than as institutions which owe their loyalty to the country and the people.
Under these circumstances, the only constitutional redress lies with the electorate – if only they would exercise their votes to mete out punishment to the political leadership that has betrayed people’s trust. But that is a big IF.
The prerequisite to the people acting wisely as the final arbiter is that the people must first be enlightened of the truth. In a democratic country, this is no problem, as the people are well informed by an independent and free media. In fact, such flagrant transgression of election laws could never have happened in a democracy, for the ruling party would have been hounded out of office by unstoppable media onslaught alone without waiting for the electorate to do the sacking. But not so in a repressive country like Egypt under Mubarak or Tunisia under Ben Ali, or for that matter, the Umno hegemony.
The reason is simple, in addition to iron-fisted control through repressive legislation and degraded institutions, the country’s tightly-controlled mass media ensures that the majority of people are kept in the darkness.
REPRESSION LEADS TO PEOPLE POWER
The people of Egypt and Tunisia succeeded in overthrowing their autocratic rulers, people power style, only because of the presence of a combination of factors, among which is the break out of information stranglehold through skilful utilization of modern information technology such as Internet and hand phones. These devices enabled a large section of the populace to be instantly informed of the latest true picture, as well as facilitated prompt mobilization of mass movement.
While it is outside the scope of this article to look into the various factors contributing to these people power phenomena, one important lesson we must learn is about elections in a repressive country.
Take the case of Mubarak who reigned for three decades. At the last election in 2005 when he was re-elected for a fifth six-year term, he garnered 88% of the votes cast in a ‘democratic’ election. But when the people power came, he was literarily chased out of office through irrepressible anger expressed by almost unanimity of masses across the land. If the thumping majority he received in every one of the past five elections over three decades had been obtained through really democratic elections, is it conceivable that the entire population would have turned violently against him overnight?
The lesson is that the so-called democratic elections held under repressive conditions, such as those in Egypt, Tunisia and Malaysia, are potential time-bombs. The explosion will come when there are enough people who come to know the truth, ignited by a spark in a combustible atmosphere.
Let BN be warned that its unrestrained violation of democratic norms are moves that are channeling the country towards that regrettable destiny.
Kim Quek
31.03.2011
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
BUMming around, aand Desi ofTEN begs to differ wit' Rockybru!
We engage in socio-political discourse based on one core principle -- WE MUST BE AGREEABLE IN OUR DISAGREEMENT.
I have no problem with Datuk Ahirudin Attan being a pro-UMNO blogger; likewise he and his cronies, with are many, don't have [roblems with me being pro-PKR (and by extension, pro-Anwar).
I am proud to have served as Organising Committee chair for FOUR annualoutings of Bloggers United Malaysia/Bloggers Universe Malaysia (BUM), with the last referenced at bum4msia.wordpress.com, and beside me, Rockybru had been the constant Co-chair. I've with the conclusion of each BUM gathering, all four at the Lakeview Club, SJ, appealed to Rocky that he should Chair the BUM events the following year, and each time he begged to decline, and Desi became the "reluctant" chairman, and I could feel the chair creaking at higher desibels each subsequent time.Mayhaps I'm putting on weight -- such is the good life as a Kapitalist writHer during the wickedends:) while I semi-stuff during the socialistik weAkdies!:(
On lust hazy lazy mazy Sundae, I popped by at rockybru.com.my, wanting to pop in an urgent Off-topic msg about BUM2011 when I saw a subtly anti-Anwar peice by the host.
I penned a short commment here/hear which leads off today's post -- this ismy cyberhome, so I give priority to Desi's OP, OK! I owe Rocky no loyalty except as a BUMmer who will buy him endless rounds of tehtarik as long as he and his kakis hit Furong anytime/anydime. Vice versa, I hit him back more by being present at Jalan TangC's NPC at the write time!
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desiderata said...
Dear Rockybru: I have come here/hear but only under very sspecial circusmtances do I pen my opinion. This is one,hear goes:)
Yes, by giving a DNA sample -- which police already haveAnwar's, by the way, from previous investigations, remember? -- the former DPM might satisfy people ofyour thinking. BUT the fundamental right of anyone in NOT giving a DNA sample, and in Anwar's case, the diligent judge must have agreed, is ANWAR's human right to exercise ALONE.
Think about this point, dear friends hear: A DNA can be PLANTED INTO ANOTHER MALE'S ANUS.
But to plant semen -- which had to be fresh or the millions of sperm would die quickly outside the human body -- would be the most challenging of tasks...and that will be the TEST IN THE SODOMY @ CASE.
Even if Anwar's DNA could be proven to have been in Saiful's anus, IT COULD HAVE BEEN PLANTED... I rest my case here as MORE EVIDENCE will come out. I just pray the court is not of Augustine Paul's standard lah!:( -- YL, Desi, fullOFerotica sometimes
7:43 AM
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And rockybru's knotty peace follows:(:(:(OR to his many supporters :):):)
See how Demoktratik Desi's, he even allows you to beg to differ at his cyberhome, and not sarcastically run you down with a dismissal like wan royalblooger-in-exile does to his differers.
Sunday, March 27, 2011
Of getting laid, lies and liars
Anwar's (o)mega opportunity. I wrote in my column in the Paper That Cares Of Sex, Lies and Politicians (24 March, 2011) that "this is not the first time Malaysia has been rocked by a sex video scandal involving prominent politicians". We've been on this road before. Twice before. Chua Soi Lek, who was also a victim, resigned and then made one of the most spectacular comebacks in Malaysia's political history!
In the so-called Anwar sex video scandal, the ball is now in the court of the three men who called themselves Dato T, to prove the video in their possesion is authentic and not a hideous attempt to bring down an enemy.
If the video was indeed doctored as claimed by Anwar and loyalists like Nik Nazmi, the three must be charged and sent to jail.
If it's authentic, well, life will still move on and Malaysians know it.
They will probably not discount the possibility of a comeback. Or, at least some of them won't rule it out.
Anwar has a great opportunity here to make an even more spectacular comeback than CSL. All he needs to do, as Soi Lek himself has stated, is to prove that he is NOT the man in the sex video. So eeeeasy. Reformasi failed before and it will be harder to make it work this time. Please don't squander this opportunity like he did on the DNA issued.
In my posting I am Not Male Y, I wrote:
This is Anwar's best chance to prove to all that he is not "Male Y" and that he is a victim of conspiracy, indeed. All he needs to do is volunteer his own DNA sample and let the truth finally prevail.
His coterie of advisers, however, had advised him against volunteering. They also advised Anwar to fight tooth and nail against the prosecution's attempt to get the judge in the Sodomy ll case to compel Anwar to give his DNA sample. I thought that it was bad advice. I think Anwar is being ill-advised.
p.s. In case you're wondering, the picture above shows an Omega watch BUT not the one that Wan Aziz is allegedly keeping for her husband, h e r e. No I don't have an Omega but if could, I would like to have this one. Because it's close to orange.
I have no problem with Datuk Ahirudin Attan being a pro-UMNO blogger; likewise he and his cronies, with are many, don't have [roblems with me being pro-PKR (and by extension, pro-Anwar).
I am proud to have served as Organising Committee chair for FOUR annualoutings of Bloggers United Malaysia/Bloggers Universe Malaysia (BUM), with the last referenced at bum4msia.wordpress.com, and beside me, Rockybru had been the constant Co-chair. I've with the conclusion of each BUM gathering, all four at the Lakeview Club, SJ, appealed to Rocky that he should Chair the BUM events the following year, and each time he begged to decline, and Desi became the "reluctant" chairman, and I could feel the chair creaking at higher desibels each subsequent time.Mayhaps I'm putting on weight -- such is the good life as a Kapitalist writHer during the wickedends:) while I semi-stuff during the socialistik weAkdies!:(
On lust hazy lazy mazy Sundae, I popped by at rockybru.com.my, wanting to pop in an urgent Off-topic msg about BUM2011 when I saw a subtly anti-Anwar peice by the host.
I penned a short commment here/hear which leads off today's post -- this ismy cyberhome, so I give priority to Desi's OP, OK! I owe Rocky no loyalty except as a BUMmer who will buy him endless rounds of tehtarik as long as he and his kakis hit Furong anytime/anydime. Vice versa, I hit him back more by being present at Jalan TangC's NPC at the write time!
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desiderata said...
Dear Rockybru: I have come here/hear but only under very sspecial circusmtances do I pen my opinion. This is one,hear goes:)
Yes, by giving a DNA sample -- which police already haveAnwar's, by the way, from previous investigations, remember? -- the former DPM might satisfy people ofyour thinking. BUT the fundamental right of anyone in NOT giving a DNA sample, and in Anwar's case, the diligent judge must have agreed, is ANWAR's human right to exercise ALONE.
Think about this point, dear friends hear: A DNA can be PLANTED INTO ANOTHER MALE'S ANUS.
But to plant semen -- which had to be fresh or the millions of sperm would die quickly outside the human body -- would be the most challenging of tasks...and that will be the TEST IN THE SODOMY @ CASE.
Even if Anwar's DNA could be proven to have been in Saiful's anus, IT COULD HAVE BEEN PLANTED... I rest my case here as MORE EVIDENCE will come out. I just pray the court is not of Augustine Paul's standard lah!:( -- YL, Desi, fullOFerotica sometimes
7:43 AM
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And rockybru's knotty peace follows:(:(:(OR to his many supporters :):):)
See how Demoktratik Desi's, he even allows you to beg to differ at his cyberhome, and not sarcastically run you down with a dismissal like wan royalblooger-in-exile does to his differers.
Sunday, March 27, 2011
Of getting laid, lies and liars
Anwar's (o)mega opportunity. I wrote in my column in the Paper That Cares Of Sex, Lies and Politicians (24 March, 2011) that "this is not the first time Malaysia has been rocked by a sex video scandal involving prominent politicians". We've been on this road before. Twice before. Chua Soi Lek, who was also a victim, resigned and then made one of the most spectacular comebacks in Malaysia's political history!
In the so-called Anwar sex video scandal, the ball is now in the court of the three men who called themselves Dato T, to prove the video in their possesion is authentic and not a hideous attempt to bring down an enemy.
If the video was indeed doctored as claimed by Anwar and loyalists like Nik Nazmi, the three must be charged and sent to jail.
If it's authentic, well, life will still move on and Malaysians know it.
They will probably not discount the possibility of a comeback. Or, at least some of them won't rule it out.
Anwar has a great opportunity here to make an even more spectacular comeback than CSL. All he needs to do, as Soi Lek himself has stated, is to prove that he is NOT the man in the sex video. So eeeeasy. Reformasi failed before and it will be harder to make it work this time. Please don't squander this opportunity like he did on the DNA issued.
In my posting I am Not Male Y, I wrote:
This is Anwar's best chance to prove to all that he is not "Male Y" and that he is a victim of conspiracy, indeed. All he needs to do is volunteer his own DNA sample and let the truth finally prevail.
His coterie of advisers, however, had advised him against volunteering. They also advised Anwar to fight tooth and nail against the prosecution's attempt to get the judge in the Sodomy ll case to compel Anwar to give his DNA sample. I thought that it was bad advice. I think Anwar is being ill-advised.
p.s. In case you're wondering, the picture above shows an Omega watch BUT not the one that Wan Aziz is allegedly keeping for her husband, h e r e. No I don't have an Omega but if could, I would like to have this one. Because it's close to orange.
Monday, March 28, 2011
Of someone who thinks he's above all politics...
And yet is playing politics to the hilt ...Ten or twenty million in the coffers by way of a generous philanthropist/s eh!? Of one heading MCLM who self-glorifies himself and co-pilot and believes they are the saviors of the Malaysia others, especially the Pakatan Rakyat components, have fought for since Independence, and he and his Johnny-cometh-lately and similar ilk-troppers like enter the stage just a decade ago, and constantly run others down...
Here's one "discerning voice" I must thank in advance for borrowing his/her thoughts I sighted at another web portal:
"Here be Harris, the pied piper seeking his path for salvation... piping a melodious tune...promising justice, freedom and emancipation from the crutches of human folies ... and take us away to Utopia there never will be !! For in truth and in reality, the way of the world is not how we make it ... but how HE chooses to script it !! ..for we are mere actors that struts and frets on stage and then is heard no more !!! There are no solutions to all the human issues, the product of human imperfections! It is not an issueof race, of Malays, of Islam or of any religion ...but an issue of the frailities of the humankind, of ignorance, of avarice, hypocrisy, etc So dear brother, salivate if you must in the adulations of your fellow citizens ... but I believe there is no perfect world, perfect human... and we should understand our being within this construct !! All greatness is HIS and HIS alone. "
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AND another commneter calling himself "Better My" has this to say:
Anonymous Better My said...
You sait it yourself: Now, that will be very interesting if Azmin Ali rejects Haris Ibrahim's MCLM-offered candidates."
11:19 AM, February 16, 2011
Cut through most of the bullshit that you are talkign about, it comes down to this.
MCM keeps on saying contradictory things on the run. Will they go for contest as independent if their candidates are rejected by PR? That was their openly stated plans at times and then silence on this at other times.
MCM is never going to change the govt, just reducing the chances of PR getting the govt, they are toally without structure and just making hypcortical noises that they can can never the results they want.
If you really belive in the cause, Ktemoc, you would spend more time arguing for the chance to be given to PR to get to the office to open Malaysia to a more free, open and democratic country, despite the imperfections and weakness of canditates selection in the past. theya re the only party that can delvier the goods, Otherwise, all yourour blogging in your site and elsewhere is a total waste of time
Talk for talk sake, activist for activism sake is pure garbage, like what rpk haris are doing. There has to be an end results to al these talks and it is critical that the end results are acheived in the next GE, befor ehte extremist malay take over as they would have delivered the votes to bn.
I am NOT PR registeed party apparachcks person. Never attened any party meeting. I just want good things for all in Malaysia, because I have experienced many good things for myself, a far cry from the daily garbage thrown at rakyat, that you appear unaware of, if you have, you are incapable of sharing them with others with your selfish attritudes in malaysia.
6:13 AM, February 18, 2011
Here's one "discerning voice" I must thank in advance for borrowing his/her thoughts I sighted at another web portal:
"Here be Harris, the pied piper seeking his path for salvation... piping a melodious tune...promising justice, freedom and emancipation from the crutches of human folies ... and take us away to Utopia there never will be !! For in truth and in reality, the way of the world is not how we make it ... but how HE chooses to script it !! ..for we are mere actors that struts and frets on stage and then is heard no more !!! There are no solutions to all the human issues, the product of human imperfections! It is not an issueof race, of Malays, of Islam or of any religion ...but an issue of the frailities of the humankind, of ignorance, of avarice, hypocrisy, etc So dear brother, salivate if you must in the adulations of your fellow citizens ... but I believe there is no perfect world, perfect human... and we should understand our being within this construct !! All greatness is HIS and HIS alone. "
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AND another commneter calling himself "Better My" has this to say:
Anonymous Better My said...
You sait it yourself: Now, that will be very interesting if Azmin Ali rejects Haris Ibrahim's MCLM-offered candidates."
11:19 AM, February 16, 2011
Cut through most of the bullshit that you are talkign about, it comes down to this.
MCM keeps on saying contradictory things on the run. Will they go for contest as independent if their candidates are rejected by PR? That was their openly stated plans at times and then silence on this at other times.
MCM is never going to change the govt, just reducing the chances of PR getting the govt, they are toally without structure and just making hypcortical noises that they can can never the results they want.
If you really belive in the cause, Ktemoc, you would spend more time arguing for the chance to be given to PR to get to the office to open Malaysia to a more free, open and democratic country, despite the imperfections and weakness of canditates selection in the past. theya re the only party that can delvier the goods, Otherwise, all yourour blogging in your site and elsewhere is a total waste of time
Talk for talk sake, activist for activism sake is pure garbage, like what rpk haris are doing. There has to be an end results to al these talks and it is critical that the end results are acheived in the next GE, befor ehte extremist malay take over as they would have delivered the votes to bn.
I am NOT PR registeed party apparachcks person. Never attened any party meeting. I just want good things for all in Malaysia, because I have experienced many good things for myself, a far cry from the daily garbage thrown at rakyat, that you appear unaware of, if you have, you are incapable of sharing them with others with your selfish attritudes in malaysia.
6:13 AM, February 18, 2011
Sunday, March 27, 2011
Rumination -- NegaraKu, what the hell is going on in Malaysia?
The events in the past week starting with the Datuk T sex video episode has plunged my country into below gutter level of political depths. Sodomy 1 from 12 to 13 years ago was not enough, the powers-that-be invented Sodomy 2. Now the T stooges staged a sex video ala Chua Soi Lek having sex with a woman NOT his wife. Except the former Health -- is it Hell? -- Minister Chua confessed quickly enough to the offence, got his family's forgiveness, I presumed. BUT THE NOW MCA PRESIDENT IS STILL HAVING THE SWORD OF DAMOCLES HANGING OVER HIS HEAD. Anytime the UMNO chief fancies to remove the next senior to UMNO in the BN coalition chief, Chua's head will fall... AND THE IRONY, as I wrote in my post yesterday, CHUA STUIP]DLY WADED INTO DANGEROUS H2O BY CALLING ON ANWAR IBRAHIM TO PROVE OR REFURE WITH EVIDENCE HE WAS THE ACTOR IN THE DATUK T SEX ROMP!
As todie is Sundae, Desi sometimes wades into dangerous waters too. Once I almost drowned swimming in a mining pool in Mambau, NS; another escapade from tsunami-like experience would have been my fate had the water risen to TWO FEET from about one foot and my old Toyota car did not stall while I navigated the stream along Jalan Ampang wan evening quite eon years ago.
But today I'm not talking about my cowboy existence.I'm talking about the state of the nation of my homeland called Malaysia.
I told mGf Din and Mohd Nor at late breakfast just four hours ago in Furong taht I feel very ashamed of Malaysia after the Datuk T story broke.
The RMPF/PDRM showed its double standards.
And "immoral" politikuses with a past shelf-life are trying to pull a fast one on us EVEN AS SODOMY 2 IS TIGHTENNING A ROPE AROUND A FORMER DPM.
HOW LOW WILL MALAYSIA GO?
Din and Mohd Nor agreed with me the MALAY MALAYSIAN community now hang its face in "shame" indescribable. A Chinese Malaysian like Desi also bows his head low. Koboi Ng wit' me like a true C&W diehard sings "Hang down your head Tom Dolley, Hang down your head and cry...". But tears cannot wipe out the shame on Malaysians' faces the past week, the international villagers are laughing at US named Malaysains...
Do politicians have not an iota of decency un their heart?
Don't they have a human trait called milk of conscience towards fellow humankind?
IF given a choice, I would ask these Trio of Datuks to do as what I give stanard replies to all the Negerian scammers via email offering Desi a fortune falling from the sky:
"GO DIG A HOLE LARGE ENOUGH TO HOUSE YOUR FAMILY AND LOVED ONES, if you have any, AND ENJOY THE LOOT! I have enough for my tehtarik dan e-rotic cHanai, cukuplah!"
As todie is Sundae, Desi sometimes wades into dangerous waters too. Once I almost drowned swimming in a mining pool in Mambau, NS; another escapade from tsunami-like experience would have been my fate had the water risen to TWO FEET from about one foot and my old Toyota car did not stall while I navigated the stream along Jalan Ampang wan evening quite eon years ago.
But today I'm not talking about my cowboy existence.I'm talking about the state of the nation of my homeland called Malaysia.
I told mGf Din and Mohd Nor at late breakfast just four hours ago in Furong taht I feel very ashamed of Malaysia after the Datuk T story broke.
The RMPF/PDRM showed its double standards.
And "immoral" politikuses with a past shelf-life are trying to pull a fast one on us EVEN AS SODOMY 2 IS TIGHTENNING A ROPE AROUND A FORMER DPM.
HOW LOW WILL MALAYSIA GO?
Din and Mohd Nor agreed with me the MALAY MALAYSIAN community now hang its face in "shame" indescribable. A Chinese Malaysian like Desi also bows his head low. Koboi Ng wit' me like a true C&W diehard sings "Hang down your head Tom Dolley, Hang down your head and cry...". But tears cannot wipe out the shame on Malaysians' faces the past week, the international villagers are laughing at US named Malaysains...
Do politicians have not an iota of decency un their heart?
Don't they have a human trait called milk of conscience towards fellow humankind?
IF given a choice, I would ask these Trio of Datuks to do as what I give stanard replies to all the Negerian scammers via email offering Desi a fortune falling from the sky:
"GO DIG A HOLE LARGE ENOUGH TO HOUSE YOUR FAMILY AND LOVED ONES, if you have any, AND ENJOY THE LOOT! I have enough for my tehtarik dan e-rotic cHanai, cukuplah!"
Saturday, March 26, 2011
CSL steps into dangerous terrortry foolishly...
The former Minister of Health whom I held in high esteem for outstanding performance at the Health/Hell Ministry, performs badly in sociological environment. Already confessed culprit in a sex video of him having sex with a woman NOT his wife, Chua dared Anwar Ibrahim to prove his innocence -- that s,he's NOT the man shown having sex with a woman as disclosed by Datuk T. (Aside, by none other than one-third of a composite Datuk T who escaped an alleged charge of statutory rape of a minor while serving as CEO of Malacca state because BN-UMNO bent the law to protect its toe-liners.) As expected Rahim Thamby Chik cheekily offered he felt that Anwar was not fit to be a potential Prime Minister; Desi chicly asked: So art thou better equippped to be a PM? Ready to step into Najib's shoes eh? YES? -- Leapfrogging over Muhyddin Yassin? NO?
mGf -- which stands for myGoOGfriend -- Donplaypuks aka ES Shankar has this short rebuff to CSL: "Saturday, 26 March 2011 14:52 posted by donplaypuks
"The onus is on Anwar to prove that he is not involved in the video and it is a golden opportunity for him to prove that he is innocent and give his fullest cooperation to the police in the course of the investigation,” Dr Chua told reporters..."
Yet another BN/MCA Minister who doesn't know the Constitution or Law.
There is no onus on anyone to prove their innocence. It is up to the accuser and prosecution to prove the charge FIRST!!
Stupid! Stupid! Stupid!"
mGf -- which stands for myGoOGfriend -- Donplaypuks aka ES Shankar has this short rebuff to CSL: "Saturday, 26 March 2011 14:52 posted by donplaypuks
"The onus is on Anwar to prove that he is not involved in the video and it is a golden opportunity for him to prove that he is innocent and give his fullest cooperation to the police in the course of the investigation,” Dr Chua told reporters..."
Yet another BN/MCA Minister who doesn't know the Constitution or Law.
There is no onus on anyone to prove their innocence. It is up to the accuser and prosecution to prove the charge FIRST!!
Stupid! Stupid! Stupid!"
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