Spot the liar.

http://sloone.wordpress.com/2009/09/01/spot-the-liar/

Spot the liar.

Who’s the liar, can you guess?
1. This UMNO blogger says the cow head protestors are PKR + PAS members (here). His remarks are of course supported by Rocky Bru who is sad that 52 reports had been lodged against them.
2. Khalid Samad confirms they are not from PAS as he has been the sec-gen of PAS Shah Alam for ten years. If they are/were, he suggests their membership be terminated as their action (here) was against Islamic principles (here).
3. My own check shows that their names are not on PKR list. I was told one of the person leading is the brother of a former adun of Kota Anggerik (Shah Alam who lost in the 2008 elections?)
Who should I believe?
It’s been days since the event occured and out to shame Najib stupid slogan of 1malaysia, people first and performance first. Bullshit it is. He’s also “instructed” the police to take action, but all we see is TALK ONLY, NO ACTION!
The same goes for the idiotic Moo-deka message from the PM (that we do not choose) that we must tear down the walls that divide. What walls? The one that UMNO/BN set up themselves! Hey tear down your own walls first!
ISA minister Hishamuddin Keris has also issued “a stern warning”. Only a warning? What double standards!
I can only come to the conclusion these people are supporters of UMNO because if they were otherwise, for example, if they were ordinary citizens, NGO activists or Opposition members/ supporters, the police would have acted swiftly and brutally!!!
Don’t you think so?
Hey UMNO machais, we are not so stupid to listen to your spinning lah.

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SELANGOR: N40 - Kota Anggerik
Voters: 38,442

Party: UMNO
Candidate: Datuk Ahmad Nawawi b Dato M. Zin
Votes: 13538

Party: PKR
Candidate: Yaakob Sapari
Votes: 15738

Majority: 2,200

SAPP MENIUPKAN ANGIN PERUBAHAN!

SAPP MENIUPKAN ANGIN PERUBAHAN!



Written by Admin
Monday, 31 August 2009 23:11

PARTI Maju Sabah (SAPP) semakin mendapat tempat di kalangan rakyat negeri ini terutamanya masyarakat Bumiputera dan angin perubahan itu amat ketara sejak kebelakangan ini.

Presiden SAPP Datuk Seri Panglima Yong Teck Lee berkata, rakyat kini mula bertukar arah menyokong parti pembangkang berdasarkan kepada keputusan beberapa pilihan raya kecil di Semenanjung Malaysia.

"Setiap kali melihat berita di kaca telivisyen atau membaca akhbar harian samada tempatan atau kebangsaan, kita dapati Barisan Nasional (BN) kalah dalam semua pilihan raya kecil.

"Ini membuatkan SAPP bertambah semangat untuk berjuang mendapatkan autonomi supaya pentadbiran negeri dikuasai secara mutlak oleh Kerajaan Negeri tanpa sebarang telunjuk dari Kuala Lumpur," katanya.

Bekas Ketua Menteri itu berkata demikian ketika menyampaikan bungkusan Hari Raya Aidilfitri kepada para penduduk kampung di Kampung Cenderamata 2, Likas, di sini hari ini. Bungkusan itu antara lain mengandungi paket gula seberat 1kg, tepung, kopi dan bahan keperluan harian lain.

Majlis itu diadakan di perkarangan rumah seorang pemimpin masyarakat tempatan, Encik Mulkaseh Renda, kerana SAPP tidak dibenar menggunakan Dewan Serbaguna Likas berdekatan setelah keluar dari gabungan pemerintahan BN.

Dewan itu di bina hasil usaha para pemimpin SAPP satu ketika dulu.

Walaubagaimanapun, sambutan masyarakat setempat terhadap majlis itu amat menggalakkan apabila ramai penduduk termasuk dari kampung berhampiran terutamanya masyarakat Bumiputera Islam yang kini mengerjakan ibadah puasa hadir beramai-ramai.

Turut hadir pada majlis itu ialah Timbalan Persiden merangkap Ahli Parlimen Sepanggar Datuk Eric Majimbun, Timbalan Presiden merangkap Ahli Dewan Undangan Negeri (ADUN) Likas Datuk Liew Teck Chan dan Setiausaha Agung Datuk Richard Yong,

Hadir sama, antaranya, tiga Naib Presiden iaitu, Datuk Rashid Gador, Encik Don Chin dan Datuk Chua Soon Bui yang juga Ahli Parlimen Tawau serta beberapa pemimpin lain..

Tidak ketinggalan memeriahkan majlis itu ialah Ahli Majlis Tertinggi (AMT) SAPP merangkap Pengerusi CLC Bongawan, Haji Jaafar Ismail, Samsuddin Awang Aman (AMT), Timbalan Pengerusi Tetap SAPP Awang Talip Awang Bagul dan Suaib Mutalib (AMT).

Kerajaan BN mendapat tamparan hebat apabila kalah teruk pada pilihan raya kecil Dewan Undangan Negeri (DUN) Permatang Pasir di Pulau Pinang . Sebelum itu BN juga kalah pada beberapa pilihan raya kecil sekitar Semenanjung Malaysia .

Teck Lee berkata, SAPP yakin akan beroleh kejayaan besar pada pilihan raya umum akan datang kerana rakyat Sabah kini mula sedar bahawa hanya parti politik berasal dari negeri ini saja yang mampu membela nasib mereka.

Beliau berkata, SAPP juga mendapat sokongan hebat di kawasan Pantai Timur Sabah seperti di Sandakan, Tawau dan Lahad Datu.

Katanya, sebagai sebuah parti politik berteraskan rakyat, SAPP akan meneruskan usaha membantu meringankan beban hidup rakyat tidak kira samada ketika berada dalam kerajaan atau sebagai pembangkang.

Teck Lee berkata, kejayaan menjadikan Kampung Cenderamata 2 daripada penempatan setinggan kepada perkampungan sah dari segi undang-undang adalah salah satu dari hasil usaha SAPP.

Katanya, kos tambang bas yang bertambah mendadak ekoran pengenalan perkhidmatan bas bandaraya akan ditangani dengan baik supaya bebanan hidup rakyat dapat diringankan.

Katanya, rakyat yang bergantung kepada pengangkutan awam terpaksa mengeluarkan wang lebih sebanyak RM1 setiap seorang untuk berulang-alik ke bandaraya kerana kos tambahan yang terpaksa ditanggung apabila menggunakan bas bandaraya.

Beliau berkata, selain bebanan kos tambahan para penumpang juga terpaksa mengharungi kepayahan kerana mesti turun di terminal bas berdekatan Wawasan Plaza sebelum meneruskan perjalanan ke destinasi yang ingin di tujui.

Teck Lee memberi jaminan bahawa SAPP akan berusaha menyelesaikan masalah ini sehingga kos tambahan sebanyak RM1 itu terhapus dengan sendiri.

Voters Drawing the Line

Voters Drawing the Line


Posted by admin
Monday, 31 August 2009 12:17
The surprise was not that Rohaizat Othman successfully hoodwinked UMNO leaders to secure the nomination rather how easily those senior leaders were taken in by this shyster. Now that their candidate has been thrashed, those UMNO leaders were belatedly bemoaning the fact that their chosen man had been less than truthful to them. That is the quality of UMNO top leadership, folks!
THE CORRIDORS OF POWER

M. Bakri Musa

In the heyday of UMNO the joke was that the party could field a dog as an election candidate and it would still win. The party leaders must still harbor that delusion for in the recent Permatang Pasir state by-election they fielded a disbarred lawyer. This time however, voters wisely drew the line at the dog.

The surprise was not that Rohaizat Othman successfully hoodwinked UMNO leaders to secure the nomination rather how easily those senior leaders were taken in by this shyster. Now that their candidate has been thrashed, those UMNO leaders were belatedly bemoaning the fact that their chosen man had been less than truthful to them. That is the quality of UMNO top leadership, folks!

Even after the sordid details of the man’s sleazy professional past and checkered personal life had surfaced, UMNO leaders still vigorously defended their choice. They had the nerve to suggest that those critics were trying to smear the UMNO candidate. Those UMNO leaders obviously did not realize that their man was already soiled.

Reflection on Muhyyuddin

Consider UMNO Deputy President Muhyyuddin Yassin’s comments. He went to great lengths defending the integrity of his party’s standard bearer. He likened the Bar Council’s sanctions as nothing more than a traffic violation! I recognize that traffic in Malaysia is terrible, but really! I wonder what it would take to be branded a crook and thus be disqualified by Muhyyuddin’s reckoning. I am making a huge assumption here, that is, the man has some standards.

A commentator in the mainstream media reported that Muhyyuddin was apparently livid on hearing the details of Rohaizat. Only his severe poker face belied his anger, so she claimed. If Muhyyuddin was truly angry he sure did not reveal it in his actions; he was ‘gung ho’ right to the end. That commentary revealed more about the writer – ‘sucking up’ to Muhyyuddin so early on. She should try a better excuse next time.

It is a recent tradition with UMNO that its deputy leader be in charge of by-elections. This Permatang Pasir election was the first to be under the direct leadership of Muhyyuddin. Hence his comments and actions bear scrutiny.

Muhyyuddin’s decision to continue with Rohaizat’s candidacy despite all the revealed blemishes says volumes on the judgment as well as ethical standards of Muhyyuddin. Not to scare readers, this character is also Deputy Prime Minister, and going by our recent history, he could very well be Prime Minister one day.

If a two-bit disbarred country lawyer could easily dupe Muhyyuddin, imagine him as Prime Minister negotiating with his counterpart across the causeway on selling our precious fresh water, or his participating in crucial international treaty conferences! That is a scary thought.

The brief Permatang Pasir election campaign revealed more than we ever wished to know about this crooked lawyer and his equally slimy personal life. While Rohaizat was disbarred by the Bar Council, he could still practice in the Sharia court. This is the same court that recently sentenced a young mother to be whipped for drinking beer. That should tell us something of the ‘Islamic’ (at least the Malaysian variety) standard of ethics.

To me, the Permatang Pasir campaign revealed more about UMNO, specifically its culture and top leaders. What has been revealed should scare all Malaysians who are concerned with our nation’s future.

Muhyyuddin’s ethical blind spot was disturbing enough. More reprehensible was his performance during the campaign. He fell into the predictable pattern of past ambitious UMNO leaders-in-waiting. There he was, freely and irresponsibly playing up the race card, eerily reminding me of Najib’s and Hishammuddin’s brandishing of their kerises. Aspiring UMNO leaders like Muhyyuddin have this primitive urge to display their chauvinistic manhood during tough election campaigns. That is their culture.

Unfortunately, as the party still garnered over a third of the votes (presumably Malay votes), UMNO leaders will continue with their bigotry. Now they are blaming non-Malay (specifically Chinese) voters for abandoning Barisan.

UMNO of The Future

To be sure there were a few – very few, in fact only two – UMNO leaders who spoke out against Rohaizat, and did so early. Mahathir wondered out loud whether a liar could be a people’s representative. Tengku Razaleigh was much more forceful, “… UMNO is projecting the image that it lives by a different moral code from the rest of Malaysia.”

“Either that, or this is the best we can do,” he continued. Indeed!

Alas, both Mahathir and the Tengku represent UMNO’s past. To gauge UMNO’s future, look at the leaders of its Youth and Puteri wings. They not only endorsed Rohaizat but aggressively campaigned for him. I would like to ask UMNO Youth leader Khairy Jamaluddin specifically whether he feels that a disbarred lawyer and a man who lied about his wife is a worthy representative of UMNO.

The situation with UMNO Puteri is even more interesting. I wonder how those pretty young girls in their distinctive pink baju kurong feel about campaigning for a man who took a second wife secretly, and then lied about it publicly. The Puteris’ stand-by-your-man stance may be praiseworthy in other circumstances but not when your man is a cheat and a crook. Instead of campaigning for him, Puteri members should be contacting the second wife to see whether her man had been providing for her.

The Permatang Pasir by-election could have been a splendid opportunity for UMNO to shine if only their leaders had been smarter and pursued a radically different tack. Imagine if upon knowing the sordid details of Rohaizat, UMNO leaders publicly admitted their mistake and demanded their candidate withdraw on pain of being expelled from the party.
Yes that would give PAS a walk-over, but that would not have changed the end results. Besides, UMNO had done this a few months earlier in the Penanti by-election. Think however, the message the party and its senior leaders would have sent to their members and Malaysians generally, and the impact that would have on all. UMNO would have won a great moral victory. As it is, UMNO lost the election as well as the moral high ground. The party had set a new low on what is acceptable.
Judging from the post-election comments by UMNO leaders, from Najib Razak and Muhyyuddin on down, UMNO has yet to learn this pertinent lesson from this latest debacle. The party still harbors the delusion that even its flawed candidates could still win.

The next time around expect UMNO to reach even lower to a new bottom in their search for talent. I must admit it would be difficult to find someone more unworthy than a disbarred lawyer. Trust me however, UMNO will find one.

http://mt.m2day.org/2008/content/view/26292/84/

Permatang Pasir: PR menang di semua saluran

Permatang Pasir: PR menang di semua saluran


Posted by admin
Wednesday, 26 August 2009 17:22
Lim Hong Siang, Merdeka Review

Pakatan Rakyat berjaya menyapu bersih semua saluran pengundian di DUN Permatang Pasir semalam, sementara menjauhkan jurang antara PR dengan BN dengan rekod 6-1, dalam pilihan raya kecil sejak Malaysia dilanda tsunami politik pada 8 Mac 2008.

Begitu juga apabila UMNO-BN dihampakan dengan 10 undi sahaja, di saluran pengundian kedua di Kampung Pelet, kawasan yang terdiri daripada 72% pengundi Melayu.

PAS-PR memperolehi 185 undi, berbanding UMNO-BN dengan 175 undi.

Antara sembilan daerah mengundi, PAS-PR menang dengan margin majoriti yang paling selesa di Cross Street, dengan menyapu 75% undi.

Cross Street terdiri daripada lebih 80% pengundi bukan Melayu.

Sebaliknya, di daerah mengundi yang terdiri daripada 93% pengundi Melayu, Kubang Semang, menyaksikan PAS-PR merangkul 74% jumlah undi.

Di daerah mengundi seperti Sama Gagah, Permatang Pauh dan Permatang Tengah, PAS-PR berjaya mencatat nisbah jumlah undi 7:3, berbanding UMNO-BN.

UMNO-BN hanya mampu merapatkan jurang di daerah mengundi seperti Permatang Ara (43% undi), Kampung Pelet (42% undi) dan Bukit Indera Muda (40% undi).

Dari struktur kaum pengundi, kawasan tersebut adalah kawasan Melayu majoriti, dengan Permatang Ara 97% pengundi Melayu, Kg.Pelet 72% pengundi Melayu dan Bukit Indera Muda 96% pengundi Melayu.

Pengundi muda tetap memihak PR

Walau bagaimanapun, PR kekal dengan kelebihannya di saluran pengundian ketiga dan keempat, memperlihatkan sokongan pengundi muda terhadap pakatan politik baru ini.

Walaupun di kawasan yang majoritinya pengundi Melayu, misalnya di ketiga-tiga daerah pengundian di mana UMNO-BN "berjaya merapatkan jurang", golongan pengundi muda tetap bersama PR.

Di Permatang Ara misalnya, UMNO-BN kalah dengan satu undi di saluran pengundian kedua, tetapi kalah dengan 152 undi majoriti (PAS 349: BN 197) di saluran ketiga.

Di daerah mengundi Permatang Tengah misalnya, dengan majoriti 89% pengundi Melayu, jumlah undi di saluran pengundian ketiga, keempat dan kelima menyaksikan bagaimana UMNO-BN tewas dengan 491 undi majoriti, apabila PAS-PR memperolehi 804 undi dan UMNO-BN mendapat 313 undi.

UMNO-BN dijangka tidak berubah

Jelas, kelebihan UMNO-BN hanya pada saluran pengundian pertama dan kedua, iaitu golongan pengundi yang umurnya lebih lanjut, di kawasan pengundi Melayu majoriti.

Peningkatan sokongan Melayu mungkin tidak jelas, khususnya di kubu politik Anwar Ibrahim. Tetapi, mungkinkah keputusan ini cukup untuk memberangsangkan pemimpin UMNO?

Pengarah Strategi PKR, Tian Chua meramalkan bahawa UMNO-BN akan terus dengan propagandanya seperti "Anwar pengkhianat", "DAP hina Islam" dan sebagainya, memandangkan peningkatan undi 1% pun mungkin memberi kepuasan kepada UMNO.

"Sememangnya kami (PR) juga bimbang akan kehilangan undi Melayu, tetapi selagi kami mengambil pendekatan yang sederhana, mengekalkan sokongan dari struktur pengundi yang sedia ada, maka UMNO-BN akan musnah dengan sendirinya," jelas Tian Chua kepada MerdekaReview.

Kelas pekerja bersama PR

Ahli Parlimen Batu ini mengingatkan bahawa golongan yang tidak mengundi semalam adalah dari kelas pekerja, yang tidak mempunyai cuti, malah mungkin keberatan untuk balik mengundi kerana tambang kenderaan yang mahal.

Beliau yakin bahawa penurunan peratus pengundian sebanyak 10%, dikenalpasti sebagai pengundi pekerja yang akan mengundi untuk PR.

Maka, kemenangan PAS-PR semalam mengukuhkan keyakinan PR bahawa strategi dan pendekatan yang sama wajar diteruskan, untuk berdepan dengan PRU ke-13.

Cuma, bagaimana pula dengan UMNO-BN?

http://mt.m2day.org/2008/content/view/26125/84/

Terbitan Baru

Saturday, August 22, 2009

AKHBAR DAN BUKU BARU DI PASARAN
Dua buah buku di pasaran iaiatu kisah KM pulau Pinang dan juga kisah bagaimana BERSIH berjaya di laksanakan tanpa kekecohan besar.

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Himpunan Muhyiddin

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4aJ9fDDJhI

Why do Malaysians march?

Why do Malaysians march?

Yeo Yang Poh

On the move ... a section of anti-ISA protesters near the National Mosque in Kuala Lumpur on Saturday.

WHY march, when the government has said that it will review the Internal Security Act?

Why march, when there are other very cosy ways of giving your views and feedback?

One would understand if these were questions posed by nine-year-olds. But they are not. They are questions posed by the prime minister of this nation we call our home. Answer we must. So, why?

Because thousands who died while in detention cannot march or speak any more. That is why others have to do it for them.

Because persons in the corridors of power, persons who have amassed tremendous wealth and live in mansions, and persons who are in the position to right wrongs but won’t, continue to rule our nation with suffocating might. And they certainly would not march. They would prevent others from marching.

Because the have-nots, the sidelined, the oppressed, the discriminated and the persecuted have no effective line to the powerful.

Because the nice ways have been tried ad nauseam for decades, but have fallen on deaf ears.

Because none of the major recommendations of Suhakam (including on peaceful assembly), or of the commissions of inquiry, has been implemented.

Because the proposed Independent Police Complaints and Misconduct Commission (IPCMC) is not in sight, while corruption and insecurity live in every neighbourhood; and (despite reasoned views expressed ever so nicely in opposition) Rela (people’s volunteer corps) is being brought in to make matters even worse.

The proponents in “Su Qiu” (remember them?) were not marchers. In fact it is hard to find nicer ways than “su qiu”, because the term means “present and request” or “inform and request”. In terms of putting forward a view or a request, it is the height of politeness. Yet they were labelled “extremists” – they who did not march.

And now you ask, why march?

Because you gave non-marchers a false name! You called them the “silent majority”, who by virtue of their silence (so you proudly argued with twisted logic) were supporters of government policies since they were not vocal in raising objections. You claimed to be protecting the interest of the “silent majority”. Now some of them do not want to be silent anymore, and you are asking why?

Yes, because double standards and hypocrisy cannot be covered up or explained away forever; and incompetence cannot be indefinitely propped up by depleting resources.

Because cronyism can only take care of a few people, and the rest will eventually wake up to realise the repeated lies that things were done in certain ways purportedly “for their benefit”.

Because the race card, cleverly played for such a long time, is beginning to be seen for what it really is – a despicable tool to divide the rakyat for easier political manipulation.

Because it does not take much to figure out that there is no good reason why Malaysia, a country with abundant human resources and rich natural resources, does not have a standard of living many times higher than that of Singapore, an island state with no natural resources and that has to import human resources from Malaysia and elsewhere.

Because, in general, countries that do not persecute marchers are prosperous or are improving from their previous state of affairs, and those that do are declining.

Because Gandhi marched, Mandela marched, Martin Luther King marched, and Tunku Abdul Rahman marched.

Because more and more people realise that peaceful assemblies are no threat at all to the security of the nation, although they are a threat to the security of tenure of the ruling elite.

Because politicians do not mean it when they say with a straight face or a smile that they are the servants and that the people are the masters. No servant would treat his master with tear gas, batons and handcuffs.

Because if the marchers in history had been stopped in their tracks, places like India, Malaysia and many others would still be colonies today, apartheid would still be thriving in South Africa, Nelson Mandela would still be scribbling on the walls of Cell 5, and Obama would probably be a slave somewhere in Mississippi plotting to make his next midnight dash for the river.

And because liberty, freedom and dignity are not free vouchers posted out to each household. They do not come to those who just sit and wait. They have to be fought for, and gained. And if you still want to ask: why march; I can go on and on until the last tree is felled. But I shall obviously not.

I will end with the following lines from one of the songs sung in the 1960s by civil rights marchers in the US, without whom Obama would not be able to even sit with the whites in a bus, let alone reside in the White House:

“It isn’t nice to block the doorway

It isn’t nice to go to jail

There are nicer ways to do it

But the nice ways have all failed

It isn’t nice; it isn’t niceYou’ve told us once, you’ve told us twice

But if that’s freedom’s price

We don’t mind ...”

Yeo Yang Poh is a former Bar Council president.

Comments: letters@thesundaily.com.
Updated: 09:29PM Sun, 02 Aug 2009

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