A doctored photo featuring Wanita MCA deputy secretary-general Tan Cheng Liang, who is vying for the wing’s chairperson post, marred the Wanita MCA polls today.

It has an image of Tan’s face doctored onto a female figure posing in a red swimsuit. A speech bubble reads, “For the sake of victory, I am willing appear in skimpy clothing.”

In the background is the image of a man kneeling over and vomiting heavily.

Speaking angrily to reporters while voting was going on, Nibong Tebal division Wanita chief Khor Mei Li said the photograph has been circulating among the delegates for days.

Khor accused Tan’s rival Heng Seai Kie of being the culprit.

“For today’s malicious and despicable act, Heng is not fit to lead Wanita MCA, nor does her team. If they win, I will boycott them,” she said.

Asked how could she be so certain, Khor replied, “If it wasn’t Heng, would Tan have done it herself?”

Contacted later, Heng told Malaysiakini that she was “not aware of this issue, for I have not received nor seen the picture”.

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What do you think about live-in-relationships?
It is as sacred as the institution of a real marriage.

Your view on sex before marriage?
It’s must!!!!!!

What is your meaning of love and loyalty?
It is certainly not limited to fidelity. It’s about real friendship and passionate companionship.

What is the best thing you did for a guy?
Yet to do

What is the one thing that you expect from your partner?
Genuine admiration for who I am and what I do.

Will you forgive a cheating partner?
Yes! Most people deserve a second chance.

What do you think about sex and its importance in a relationship?
Real and passionate love tends to lead to physical intimacy which strengthens the relationship.

Subscribers of open marriages say monogamy is like living a lie, but is there really space for a third in a marriage?So call me conventional, old-fashioned, not with-it, or what you will. But when actor Irrfan Khan spoke in favour of open marriages I did not join the crowd of admirers applauding his ‘honesty’. Most of the applause anyway came from men; women were wary. What Irrfan had done was to lay bare an eternal male fantasy, and stoke a woman’s essential fear. He gave expression to what he called a “sanctified marriage” but what actually can at best be termed “sanctified infidelity”.From a time when we taught the world a few lessons in sex to becoming a repressed society, Indians are indeed one sexually confused lot A bitterly weeping Kumud (Jennifer Winget) mourns the loss of her virginity in Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s evocative television romance Saraswatichandra, “Mardon ko mohh ka shraap hota hai, aur auraton ko maryada ka varr… mujhe apne aap ko rok lena chahiye thha…!” (Men are afflicted by the curse of extreme attachment, while women have the blessing of propriety. I should have held myself back!) he male lead, a befuddled Saras (played by Gautam Gode) cannot understand her misery. “Issme paap kya hai? Kal hum jis duniya mein thhe wo sirf hum dono ki duniya thhi…Ye hamara hakk thha!” (What’s sinful in our coming together? This is just between the two of us, it is our right!) To this Kumud replies that love follows some principles, which they have ignored! I do not agree that one gets married only because of societal compulsions, but yes, these may help keep many a marriage together. One of the essential stages of loving is to become so attached that you wish to not just share moments, but an entire lifetime with your loved one. You want to make a home and babies and share the pleasures of life with each other, be responsible for each other’s happiness and live in the security and knowledge that you are bound to each other by more than just that frivolous thing called romantic love. And this security comes from marriage. Love may ebb and flow, but marriage keeps you from walking off at the first visible hurdle. Kids hold you back even after several hurdles. Our love — even for those we are bound by blood to — has an essential element of duty to it. Most of the time, you do things for parents, siblings or children because you are duty-bound to do them. Pure affection and sincere emotions do not necessarily dictate everything we do for our blood relatives. Similarly a sense of duty and responsibility are an essential part of our love for a spouse, and the marriage contract spells that need for responsibility as much as blood does. , even one affair outside marriage carries with it the risk of breaking it up. With 10, the logistics would become impossible to handle. Proponents of an open relationship talk about the liberating effect of discussing other liaisons with their spouses, but they also agree that juggling lovers and trying to keep jealousy at bay can raise stress levels dangerously, often resulting in explosive situations; it is difficult for us to accept a love that is not exclusive. Supporters of polyamorous relationships claim they are far more honest than those plodding along in boring monogamous ones. But to me, a swinger is more honest to himself and to those he/she has relationships with. Having a series of lovers and intimacies one after another without promise of commitment is better than having them all simultaneously. And marriage should come only when one is ready to commit to that one relationship. Accidents may happen along the way, but a planned infidelity runs contrary to normal human emotions and would spell chaos in society. I would like to think that Irrfan was doing more than confessing a sexual deviancy; he was talking of options and the power of choice – of marriage and fidelity as a choice, rather than a societal compulsion. Irrfan compounds the confusion further, “If you ask me, I would respect a marriage where the man and woman have the freedom to sleep with anyone. There is no bondage.” Of course, Irrfan stresses too much on the “sleeping with” bit. A marriage is not about just sex. If you look at sex as just a momentary act, a release for stress and a means to feel good about yourself, it may sound fine to have it anywhere, any time, with anyone. But look at it as a woman does – a means of coming intimately closer to the one you love. That can certainly not be shared with 10 people. And look at it the way scientists do. The act of sex releases chemicals that bring a couple closer to each other. Scientists opine that two powerful hormones that are released after sex — oxytocin and vasopressin — are responsible for feelings of deep commitment and attachment between two people. And so, if in your experiments, you are attracted by and get attached to one of the outsiders, there is bound to be a lessening of attachment to the significant one, essentially rendering the open marriage into a broken marriage. Rightly do some therapists call an open marriage a recipe for disaster, jealousy, hurt and disappointment. “I think a sanctified marriage is when you have an option to sleep with 10 people, but you are still choosing that one person to live with,” said Irrfan. People wondered if he was hinting at being in an open marriage. Or was he a swinger? While an open marriage or a polyamorous arrangement implies a relationship with more than two people at the same time, a swinger swings from person to person, merely HOT!!! Tiger Show by Shaila Nair Shaila Nair Who? Well, she is wife of Vel Paari, son MIC president Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu … Very hot looking wife of Vel Paari, Shaila Nair talks very dirty in this clip (in English) to her lover All that talk about first impression and lasting ones… well, that’s not all jazz you know. Whoever said it sure knew what they meant. And guess what, if you want to seduce someone, you’ve got to do more than just dress and speak the role, you have a secret yet powerful tool at easy disposal, your eyes. Making the right eye contact and giving the right signals via your eyes to the person you are interested in means about 50 per cent of your work done. The truth is that most of the communication that occurs between two people who are interested in each other is wordless, it’s all about the looks. readmore Indian women have a certain allure to them, a sultry exotic sex appeal. You just know that once you get them in private, they let loose. Hot, sexy Even the experts will vouch for this. In fact, communication and body language counsellors opine that the basic components of eye behaviour are easy to master once a person knows how they work. So, if you want to ensure that you always use your eyes fluently and with dazzling effect, here are four simple steps you need to follow. In the case of Eskimos, the children learn of sex matters from their family itself, as soon as they are able to form ideas. Since they live in small dwellings, it is a matter of observation that all the family functions including sex between parents or, other elderly couples being conducted right before their eyes (Garber 1935:216). It is also very interesting to quote here the observation made by Garber (1935:216): “I found several instances in which girl’s mother, by physical manipulation, prepared her small daughter for the process of copulation in order that complete satisfaction might be assured to the prospective husband”. Some tribals, specially the Chenchus of Andhra Pradesh, have sexual intercourse in day time since, they feel that intercourse at night lead to the birth of blind child. Also, they have sex in deep forest area as, they believe that their home is not a hygienic place to have sex     These sex videos have the biggest bush on a chick I have ever seen, this girl look like she has a grizzly bear in a head locked between her legs. Namrata Shrestha sex tape and Namrata Shrestha scandal are among the top searches on the Internet from Nepal. In total there are three videos, two of which overlap. All three videos are posted below instead of trying to merge the two overlaying videos into one and post Download Just for a second, wait and think. Had you found out that your husband is cheating not only on you but your kids as well — would you approve of it? Let it pass by? Cheating in any form is disgraceful. More than that, you can never guarantee that he will leave his wife and kids and accept you legally.     …

You have grabbed eyeballs with your Kamasutra moves and are all set to thrill people, but any advice you would like to give to your followers?
Here’s a look at the Bollywood actresses who raised the temperatures with their drenched look: Katrina Kaif: Her dare bare approach in a wet seductive rain dance sequence shot her to fame in Bollywood.

…Katrina Kaif sister Isabelle Kaif caught on leaked sex video resulting in a scandal? 

Why are the bloody MPs keeping. This treason of the highest order an unforgiveable betrayal of trust voters reposed in themThis has been morally degrading and has turned politics predatory. But things still remained functional. Till prosperity threw up a body of people whose progress in life has little to do with state patronage and who thus resent being subjected to poor governance and extortion.

I always thought that nobody is invincible and untouchable except the Almighty! The question that invariably accompanies this would be: What “hold” has the AG on Jib? Something to ponder over
One can drive a very large truck of suspect cargo through the door marked ‘patriotism’. Once the integrity of the nation is invoked and the spectre of social and communal unrest is seen as being at stake, the state buys for itself a lot of room for actions that might have otherwise seemed unpalatable. In that sense, the decision to impose some kind of regulation The purpose in introducing this law is to gag the opposition and civil society critics of the regime. The recent exemption of Umno Youth from being prosecuted under Section 114A by the police is proof this legislation is directed at silencing the enemies of the regime. There is a third way of repealing Section 114A of the Evidence Act. Press the reset button on GE13 and begin anew as a nation to rebuild and restore our twisted legal system and broken down state institutions.

The contentious Section 114A of the amended Evidence Act can be abolished via a constitutional challenge, said Bar Council president Lim Chee Wee.

In an email response, he said Articles 5(1) and 8(1) of the federal constitution state that ‘no person shall be deprived of his life or personal liberty save in accordance with law’, and that everyone has equal protection of the law.

Furthermore, under Article 11 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, every individual is innocent until proven guilty when charged with a penal offence.

“Our Federal Court (has) reiterated that our criminal justice system stands on the twin pillars of the burden of proof lying with the prosecution and the common law principle of presumption of innocence. (These) together safeguard the guarantee of the right to a fair trial,” Lim said.

He explained that the argument with Section 114A is that it goes against the presumption of innocence, and that it is harder to prove guilt in case of offences involving the Internet.

This is because of free access leaves the network host responsible any inappropriate action.

Another way of resolving the situation, Lim said, would be by asking Parliament and Attorney-General Abdul Gani Patail (right)to persuade the authorities and the government’s chief legal adviser to remove the amendment from the statute books.

According the Star, the Bar Council had met Abdul Gani last Friday at his office in Putrajaya.

Section 114A was introduced as an amendment to the Evidence Act in April.

It presumes that any person or organisation whose name is carried together with any online publication is the author of that content. 

If the person or organisation is not the author, it is up to them to prove innocence. The same applies to network owners whose Internet connectivity is used by others for ‘illegal’ activities.But instead, the government has chosen to act with staggering incompetence and transparent dishonesty, in deciding to use this discretion by trying to block  a reported 300 items that include websites and 21 twitter handles, many of which have nothing to do with Assam or what happened thereafter. As persuasive the list of those blocked is a bizarre one, as it includes journalists and politicians among others, and the names indicate that the Government ‘s intentions are mala fide in that there is a clear attempt to muzzle dissent as well as plain stupid given that there are some on the list who by the widest stretch of imagination, cannot be seen as a threat to anything, let alone something as lofty as the integrity of the nation.  What the state has effectively done is to confirm all anxieties that existed about its real intentions. That it has a fundamental discomfort with criticism and a deep hostility towards any attempt to ridicule its actions and that it will use any excuse it gets to launch an attack on the freedom of expression on the Internet. Besides, even if the attempt had been honest in trying to stop rumour-mongering, the actions taken were hardly likely to have the desired impact. The digital world is too agile and inventive for the lumbering machinery of the government to match up to, and would easily bypass these crude attempts at blocking the flow of information.But there is an issue with social media that needs some introspection. When all readers turn broadcasters, what happens to the rights of those who are being written about? Earlier the freedom to expression was effectively outsourced to mainstream media and while it strove to represent public opinion, it did not allow the public to express itself directly, except in highly controlled ways. Getting a letter published in the Letters to the Editor space, for instance, was often a heroic struggle. Traditional media is governed, on paper, by a set of guidelines and rules that attempt to provide protection to those impacted by what they publish or broadcast and legal redress is available to those that feel aggrieved by the same. In reality, particularly in India, the act of going to court and pursuing a case of defamation is so difficult, expensive and time-consuming that the right for redress often  remains theoretical. The protection, such as it is exists, comes because news organisations have some internal guidelines about what they will or will not publish, and imperfect as they increasingly might be, at least they exist.

 Gani, squeeze najib’s balls harder and the matter would be put to restt Silence is golden for all. Najib will do nothing since AG has Najib’s marbles in his hand on many issues including Altantuyu & submarine controversy. 

a nation led by thieves and plunderersEx-Attorney-General Talib should aim his questions to not only Gani, his successor, but also the Government led by Datu Seri Najib. ” Elegant silence ” on the part of all Ministers and AG is not an option. The loss of territory, Pulau Batu Puteh , is of national interest, urgent and important. The poor show at the International Court of Justice is a shame. How could our leaders treat this sovereignty of Pulau Batu Puteh so very lightly? And most surprisingly, the Home Minister requires a Police Report while the SD is a sworn statement by ex-CId man! Is the HM trying to erase the issue from the public domain? Undoubtedly, this is a hot potato; nobody like sto touch it! But the peopel of Malaysia, and especially teh HRH the Sulktan of Johore, have a strong interest By calling the AG by the ex-AG is barking up the wrong tree! He should have directed the issue to the PM .Talk to the father, and not the son o r the servant, please! Note that you could not hookwink the ICJ ! MPs speak out. Why are they so silence? Does it means treason is accepted to all BN representatives? Malaysians have to remember this when the vote in futur

Abdul Gani Patail guilty of dishonest practices, as bribery; lacking integrity; crooked :debased in character; depraved; perverted; wicked; evil:The biggest irony of our times is that people perceive all politicians as ‘thieves’ but at the same time they are also forced to elect them to Parliament again and again to rule the country.  And, these ‘thieves’ pick up people similar to them from all walks of life and every profession to build a nexus they need to loot the country. Do we have any choice?As expected, Majority in the corporate sector is also neck deep in corruption. The entire ruling class is corrupt. This class includes not only politicians but also those in media, social activists, academia, intellectuals, corporates and all privileged ones who always prefer to be on the right side of the power. Scams have taken place in every regime. All parties take help of corrupt, criminals,  and communalism. We have also seen how they ganged up to defeat Najib readying reference to Agong to remove Abdul Gani Patail’. Politicians know that the issue of corruption will not affect their electoral prospects, hence they continue to be brazenly corrupt. Mahathir  is putting all the blame of corruption under on the Team  Najib and Rosmah, making space for Team Mahathir   to take over before the next G14 elections. It’s corruption and misrule. But at the same time public memory is short. Hence, Mahathir is trying to offset his losses through resigning. It is being projected as a `tough stand’ taken by Najib against corruption.Veteran newsman A Kadir Jasin believes that there is more than meets the eye with regard to Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s resignation as Petronas adviser.Veteran newsman A Kadir Jasin believes that there is more to what meets the eye with regard to Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s resignation as Petronas adviser

The deputy consul general Devyani Khobragade case that has led to outrage in India and evoked an unsympathetic reaction in the United States is a classic case of where most people can’t see the wood for the trees. A large section of the international press and the American society has described the Indian fury in racist, sanctimonious and orientalist terms and many commentators in India have resorted to defensive logical fallacies such as the deputy consul general’s unaffordability to hire domestic help on her salary in the US.

Both these analyses are flawed because the case is neither about cultural sensitivities nor bourgeois sensibilities of Indians. The Indian state would not have bothered itself to come in defense of, if instead of Ms. Khobragade, it were an Indian IT professional accused of visa fraud and human trafficking in the US.The Indian disappointment is centered around diplomacy and diplomacy alone. The entire Khobragade episode is about international relations between, in President Obama’s words, two “close allies and partners” which expect diplomatic courtesies and pardons for violations and transgressions under international treaties and due to bilateral tacit understanding.

Though it is a disgrace that a representative of the Indian state abroad has brazenly violated the law of a foreign country with admissible evidence of mistreating her own domestic employee Ms. Sangeeta Richard but like it or not, Ms. Khobragade is not an ordinary Indian who could have been judged and treated like any Non-Resident Indian violator of the US laws. Yes, the Orwellian idea ‘all are equal but some are more equal than others’ applies to state diplomats more than any other professional or any other community in the world. And it is not necessarily a contemptuous disparity.

A lot of diplomats work in hostile and dangerous political environments of the host countries. Indian and Pakistani diplomats in each others’ countries, for example, work under tremendous adversarial circumstances. They are often accused, rightly or wrongly, of breaching the native law. But what prevents their prosecution and further deterioration of international relations is the Vienna conventions on diplomatic and consular relations.  In other words, Vienna conventions remain the pillars on which diplomacy is pursued across the world. To reject them is to reject diplomacy. The loss of faith in the idea of diplomacy is the loss of faith in the art and practice of mediation, negotiations, arbitration over strategic issues including conflicts between nation-states. That surely is not what any nation-state would vote for in a globalized world that is so economically interdependent and so closely connected right now.

Ms. Khobragade, deputy consul general in Indian consulate in New York represents the Indian state in the US and hence should have remained immune to the laws that are extended to ordinary citizens. She was entitled to diplomatic immunity under the 1963 Vienna Conventions of Consular Relations (VCCR) treaty at the time of and after her arrest. Not only was her immunity withdrawn but she was subjected to humiliating strip and cavity searches, DNA tests, lodged with drug addicts- a “standard” treatment given to terrorists and hard core criminals. That’s not what the US does to diplomats or expects any other country to do to its diplomats. Remember Raymond Davis? When the US was protesting Raymond’s arrest in Pakistan, its major argument for his release was diplomatic immunity. It is a different matter altogether that the US eventually made alternative arrangements to rescue Raymond once it was revealed that he had been a CIA contractor.

If American diplomats and I emphasize on diplomats, can get away with anything including murder under the Vienna treaties on diplomatic and consular relations, does America really have the moral and legal authority to hold accountable the diplomats of other countries? If this is an unfair question because the US domestic law supersedes the international law when it comes to violations committed by foreign diplomats in the US, then the international community might as well revoke all the diplomatic immunity across the world and scrap the Vienna conventions. That, though, is a preposterous idea because diplomats and consuls by the very nature of their job deserve immunity.

A case for diplomacy, however, is not a case for absolute diplomatic impunity. Neither American diplomats nor the rest of the world diplomats should get away with serious crimes like murder or rape. The Vienna international treaties should be reviewed by the member countries that are bound by them. Perhaps, the signatory countries should make it mandatory that they try their own diplomats for crimes committed abroad. But until the international community reviews and amends the Vienna treaties, only American diplomats cannot claim entitlement to absolute diplomatic immunity. The rest of the world’s diplomats are entitled too. The Indian outrage against the US mistreatment of an Indian consular general, therefore, should be seen in this context. It is a justified indignation felt by Indians because the US went out of its usual way to insult and maltreat a symbol of the Indian state.

But Indians should not expect sympathy for their anger when they try to defend the accused with inane arguments like Ms. Khobragade could not pay her employee more than what she earned herself.  An Indian’s unaffordability to hire domestic staff abroad does not grant him or her the moral right to violate a foreign country’s domestic laws. Violation of the US visa law and the US minimum wage law by Indians is not unusual. Such violations are in accordance with the behavior of a fringe among Indians in America. Their casual approach to the US law emanates from the native mindset of Indians who are habitual of working around and bypassing the system or are used to preferential treatment due to their power and position at home. This attitude, at times, might even lead them to mistake diplomatic immunity for absolute freedom to violate laws. But most Indians behave themselves in the US after realizing the heavy penalties one is to pay for violations in a highly law-enforcing and egalitarian country. Indian diplomats too need to remember that any act of transgression on their part is a blot both on the Indian state and society.

AG’s consent paves way for exit of Justice Ganguly

Attorney general G E Vahanvati on Friday okayed the Centre’s move to start the process for Justice A K Ganguly’s removal from the post of West Bengal Human Rights Commission chairman by sending a presidential reference to the Supreme Court on the ground of “misconduct”.

Vahanvati’s late evening opinion endorsed law minister Kapil Sibal’s view that a strong case for initiation of removal proceedings against Justice Ganguly was made out after a three-judge fact-finding panel of the SC recorded that prima facie the retired judge appeared to have shown “unwelcome sexual behaviour” towards a law intern in a Delhi hotel in December last year.

With Justice Ganguly digging in his heels despite demands for his resignation from members of Parliament and political parties, the government decided to take recourse to the removal process provided under Section 23(1A) of the Protection of Human Rights Act, 1993.

Section 23(1A) says, “The chairperson or any member of the state commission shall only be removed from his office by order of the President on the ground of proved misbehaviour or incapacity after the Supreme Court, on a reference being made to it by the President, has, on inquiry held in accordance with the procedure prescribed on that behalf by the Supreme Court, reported that the chairperson or such member, as the case may be, ought on any such ground to be removed.”

Vahanvati said, “In my opinion, a clear prima facie case is made out (on alleged prima facie misconduct of Justice Ganguly) which justifies an inquiry under Section 23(1A) of the Protection of Human Rights Act by sending of a reference by President to the Supreme Court.”

The question creating some doubts in the government was whether the three-judge committee’s views constituted enough grounds for sending a presidential reference for initiation of inquiry by the Supreme Court into alleged grounds of misconduct, which is the alleged sexual harassment of the law intern.

Vahanvati’s opinion endorsing initiation of removal process was based on the SC’s judgment on a PIL seeking a direction to the Centre to send a presidential reference to the apex court as part of the process for initiation of proceedings for removal of Justice K G Balakrishnan as chairperson of National Human Rights Commission.

Addressing the legal doubt on what was the “standard required for the President to make a reference to the Supreme Court”, he said as per the law laid down by the SC in Justice Balakrishnan’s case, the President could send a reference if there existed a prima facie case of misconduct.

Vahanvati said the facts of the case relating to Justice Ganguly certainly fell within the “prima facie misconduct” standard laid down by the apex court and opined that the President would be well within his powers to send a reference on this issue to the apex court.

On the basis of the TOI story on the law intern’s allegation against Justice Ganguly, the three-judge committee had recorded statements of the girl, the retired judge and also affidavits submitted by her.

After an expeditious fact-finding exercise, the panel gave a report to Chief Justice P Sathasivam on November 28. It had concluded, “The committee is of the considered view that the statement of the intern, both written and oral, prima facie discloses an act of unwelcome behaviour (unwelcome verbal/non-verbal conduct of sexual nature) by Justice (retired) A K Ganguly with her in the room in hotel Le Meridien on December 24, 2012 approximately between 8 pm and 10.30 pm.”.readmore Datuk Seri Muhammad Shafee Abdullah with Abdul Ghani Patail as bedfellow Judiciary will be sizzling hot

the AG’s office must show excruciating circumstances to allow a private practitioner to represent this office. What are these circumstances?Shafee’ s claim that the meeting with Mahathir was just to pay respects especially with the presence of Mat Zain and Ramli Yusuf is just taking the Court of Appeal judges for fools. But then the judges were cool with this. Which way are our courts going ? Also Transformation for the worse ? The disgusting Judiciary with absolutely no qualms about just repeating whatever was said by Shafee! This is a kangaroo court with all these members of the Judiciary not fit to be there at all! Only in Malaysia we can have these kind of court. Hearings judgment served only one useful purpose. The sheer scale of its magnanimity towards the accused .lit a fuse under the volcano of collective guilt. The lava is spewing from myriad crevices, scorching and burning many-layered masks that have hidden deceit for a generation. As memories were stoked, officials, some perhaps frustrated by the fact that their silence had not been rewarded, revealed how successive governments had intervened to slow down the judicial process and sabotage any chance from this point on, Mahahthir Mohamad and Najib Razak have sealed their doom. Leniency can no longer be offered these obscene and perverted criminals of the first order. Our judiciary under the sinful AG will never change.Don’t do the math. It may turn you into a cynic.

This is the only place on earth where we will find a lawyer in private practice who defends high profile politically-linked clients but at the same time be appointed by the government of the day to act as the public prosecutor.Feel disgusted and very sad of the stature of judiciary. These judges have been trained in jurisprudence. If they have at least an iota of conscience, they won’t submit to the political masters. They must know that money and promotion are not everything in life. They have to answer God and face their karma for their own destruction.

On one hand, he defends all political figures who wield a lot of influence in government decision-making and on the other, he acts as the public prosecutor who is also the government’s legal advisor and protector of the public interest. In a country of limitless possibilities, this is another twisted tale. I hope the wisdom and uprightness of justice will prevail.

Despite being a former colony of Britain and having English common law as our basis, we seem to have completely forgotten our basic natural justice jurisprudence. This is what happens when we have the same government in power since independence.

Shafee is mired in controversyis a classical instance of a crumb dipped in the pickle of hypocrisy.A three-man Court of Appeal bench led by Datuk Aziah Ali ’s judgment served only one useful purpose. The sheer scale of its magnanimity towards the accused lit a fuse under the volcano of collective guilt. It cannot be all the affidavits signed by Mr. Mat Zain bloated. If it did the court could ask for another copy. Something is strange as it is illogical for anyone attempt to bloat their ic number to cover their identity. After seeing so many election petition being dismissed on various grounds I am paying more attention to what Mat Zain said later today. I think imprisoning Anwar would make him a Mandela. but then again desperate people will do desperate things.The lava is spewing from myriad crevices, scorching and burning many-layered masks that have hidden deceit for a generation. As memories were stoked, officials, some perhaps frustrated by the fact that their silence had not been rewardedAnwar’s second application lacked merit.She said Datuk Mat Zain Ibrahim’ statutory declaration which Anwar relied upon could not be used. its collaborators, including judges of course, have sustained themselves with a lie, that it is disaster since  design is an exact replica of an sodmy 1Why is Shafee so desperate to prosecute Anwar on the fiat of the AG? Even if the AG approached him, Shafee could have declined. It all points to a personal agenda to get Anwar convicted.The political establishment assumed that June 7 would be just another day in a long calendar, possibly punctuated by an occasional, futile scream. The court was fortified, and entry denied to petitioners, victims and media. My one memory of this courtroom, gleaned from television, shall be of the smug grin of an obese Ghani Patail laughing at Anwar  contorted by rage and frustration, who knew that the system which had stolen his right had also cheated .

The purpose of a criminal trial is to see justice being done and not to secure a conviction at all costs. Does it serve the public interest and the need to do justice if Shafee is allowed to conduct the appeal? Clearly not.

Shafee is mired in controversy; has his own ambition to become the next AG; and has consistently made prejudicial comments against Anwar in public and private. He is not a fit and proper person to conduct the appeal for the public prosecutor.

How can Shafee hope to be impartial and objective when he has a personal hatred for the accused? Any reasonable right-thinking member of the public would come to the conclusion that the prosecution cannot possibly be fair and objective with Shafee at its head.

Anwar filed the application on December 6 after the statutory declaration (SD) of the former Kuala Lumpur Criminal Investigation Department chief was made public on December 2.

Anwar said Shafee was not a fit and proper person to be a Deputy Public Prosecutor (DPP) due to the revelation in the SD.

Mat Zain, in his 31-page SD, said he went with Shafee and former Commercial Crime Investigation Department director Datul Ramli Yusof to Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s house during the Hari Raya period this year, where they allegedly discussed the wrongdoing of Attorney General (AG) Tan Sri Abdul Gani Patail.

Aziah said the central issue to be decided was whether Anwar’s application was sustainable and it depended on the SD.

“Our plain reading is that the SD is not relevant as it mainly related to the black eye incident which had been decided on earlier,” she said.

She said the bench also concurred with Shafee, who appeared as counsel, that the SD was hearsay evidence and Mat Zain was not available to ascertain the truth.

She also said there were latent defects in the SD as Mat Zain did not provide his identity card number and address, which had been blotted out in the document.

There was no conceivable evidence as to why Mat Zain refused to give these details, Aziah said.

“For this reason, the SD cannot be accepted as cogent evidence and the application must be dismissed.”

the authority of state abandoned the responsibility of state. Excuses, evasions and lies have shifted over 26  Mahathir  till Najib years; this central truth has not.A nation that cannot uphold its law cannot preserve its order. Why do we say “law and order” rather than “order and law”? Simple. Law comes before order. Law defines the nature of order. Law is the difference between civilization and chaos. Law is evolutionary: the edicts of tribes, chiefs and dynasties lifted human societies from scattered peril to structured coexistence. The laws of democracy have vaulted us to the acme of social cohesion, for they eliminated arbitrary diktat and introduced collective will. The divine right of kings is dead; it has been reborn as the secular right of an elected Parliament.Cynicism is never irrational. The irrational, often wrong, sometimes right, are impelled by instinct, heart or even conscience. Cynics are morality-proof. They prefer data to truth. What is justice? It is not just to be done but must be seen to be done. Much leeway should be given to the accused to have a fair trial Instead of giving convincing facts to rebut allegations against him, Shafee went on a rampage of personal attacks against former Kuala Lumpur Criminal Investigation Department chief Mat Zain Ibrahim.

And so, the main accusations against him remains effectively undemolished – that he had illegally concealed to the court his knowledge of AG Abdul Gani Patail’s alleged fabrication of evidence, in particular, that related to Anwar Ibrahim’s ‘black eye’ incident, for which Mat Zain had furnished unchallenged evidence of specific nature.

Compounding the case against Shafee is his role as lawyer for BN and its top guns including Najib, his wife and Dr Mahathir Mohamad, all of whom regard Anwar as their sworn enemy.

And with the Anwar sodomy trial universally recognised as political persecution, could the Malaysian judiciary be possibly seen to be doing justice if Shafee is accepted as lead prosecutor?

Shafee  has set the gold standard for cynicism. It operates on four axioms: public memory is a dwarf; anger is effervescent; media can be massaged at the appropriate moment; any public crisis can be assuaged with crumbs, while the promotion of private interests continues off-screen.

Lawyers for Liberty is extremely concerned (although not surprised) with the Court of Appeal’s dismissal of Anwar Ibrahim’s application to disqualify private lawyer Muhammad Shafee from leading the Attorney General’s Chambers’ appeal against Anwar Ibrahim’s acquittal for sodomy.

Shafee’s appointment as Deputy Public Prosecutor smacks of desperation and sets another bad precedent, sending the wrong message that the authorities will go to extraordinary lengths to secure the conviction of UMNO’s political adversaries.

Shafee is a well known UMNO lawyer and has appeared in court and advised in several matters that concern UMNO’s interests and has admitted so in his CV. He has acted and advised former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad and Prime Minister Najib Razak and his wife Rosmah Mansoh, all known and bitter political adversaries of Anwar Ibrahim. Shafee is also presently defending a few high profile defamation cased filed by Anwar Ibrahim.

It cannot be over emphasised that the Public Prosecutor represents the State, the community at large and the interest of justice, and not UMNO. The purpose of a criminal prosecution is not to obtain a conviction but to place fairly and independently before the courts all available evidence to what is alleged to be a crime. While the Public Prosecutor is not ultimately responsible for determining the guilt or innocence of an accused person, he or she must ensure that an accused receives a fair trial.

In spite of Shafee’s obvious conflict of interest and unsuitability, and the AG’s Chambers’ wealth of resources and hundreds of well qualified Deputy Public Prosecutors available, he has now been appointed to lead the appeal against Anwar Ibrahim.

Shafee’s appointment further tarnishes the already battered reputation of the AG’s Chambers and reinforces public perception that the AG’s Chambers is not independent and acts at the behest of Ghani to prosecute the opposition on trumped up charges or for political offences.

Like Caesar’s wife, Shafee acting as a prosecutor must be above any trace of suspicion. One certainly cannot believe without flight of fancy that Shafee will afford Anwar Ibrahim a fair trial and treat him equally and without discrimination as he is entitled to under the Constitution.

In light of all the controversies, we call upon the Attorney General to withdraw Shafee’s appointment as DPP and to work towards restoring public confidence of the rightful role of the Public Prosecutor, one that is dignified, just and free from political interference.

The Centre on Friday made a strong case for review of the Supreme Court judgment re-criminalizing consensual gay sex between adults, saying it was time India trashed a British imposed archaic sodomy law that breaches the privacy of the LGBT community, punishing them for their sexual preference.

The Centre’s review petition, settled by its top law officer, attorney general G E Vahanvati, was unusually sharp in criticism of the December 11 judgment of Justices G S Singhvi and S J Mukhopadhaya when it said the apex court failed in its constitutional duty to protect the LGBT community’s fundamental rights.

The review petition, which matched the 98-page judgment in length, was also refreshingly frank in expressing solidarity with the LGBT community when it said, “Section 377 criminalizes the only form of sexual expression, that is penile-oral or penile-anal sex, of homosexual men and transgender/hijra persons.

“The judgment strikes at the root of the dignity and self-worth of homosexual men and transgender/hijra persons. The Supreme Court has not addressed this issue at all, despite a clear finding from the Delhi High Court on the same.” The Centre also sought an open court hearing on its review petition.

Petitions seeking review of a judgment are heard in chamber by the same bench which had pronounced the verdict without the presence of advocates. In an overwhelming majority of cases, review petitions are summarily rejected.

The Centre’s strong arguments favouring decriminalization of same-sex relationships comes after Congress president Sonia Gandhi and party vice-president Rahul Gandhi criticized the SC ruling upholding the validity of Section 377.

Since Justice Singhvi, who authored the judgment, has retired, Chief Justice P Sathasivam will now nominate another judge to sit in chamber along with Justice Mukhopadhaya to consider merits of the Centre’s argument for a reconsideration of the December 8 judgment.

However, there is little chance of the review petition being taken up at least for the next 12 days as the Supreme Court is closed for the winter break and will open after January 1.

The Centre’s review petition, drafted by Devadatt Kamat and Anoopam N Prasad, was candid in admitting that successive governments and legislatures had lived with the archaic law now being viewed as draconian. They pointed to fundamental changes in societal dynamics that has forced majority of countries to decriminalize gay sex between consenting adults.

“Section 377, insofar as it criminalizes consensual sexual acts in private, falls foul of the principles of equality and liberty enshrined in our Constitution. Section 377, which criminalizes intercourse ‘against the order of nature’ is a reflection of outdated sodomy laws of the United Kingdom which were transplanted into India in 1860. They do not have any legal sanctity and, in any case, are unlawful in view of the constitutional mandate of Articles 14 (equality), 15 (non-discrimination) and 21 (right to life) of the Constitution,” it said.

It also was critical of the apex court’s view that Parliament, despite recommendations from the Law Commission, had not acted to either delete or limit the operation of Section 377 and also that courts were not empowered to strike down a law merely because society’s perception had changed.

The Centre said, “Law does not operate in a vacuum but in a social context. There has been a sea change, not just in India, but all over the world, with respect to the law on homosexuality. It is submitted that a majority of the countries across the world have legalized homosexuality.”

“Even in India, Section 377 was introduced not as a reflection of existing Indian values, but rather, it was imposed upon Indian society due to the moral values of the colonizers. Indian society prior to enactment of IPC had much greater tolerance towards homosexuality,” it said.

It faulted the “miniscule minority” tag attached to the LGBT community by the SC while ruling that there was no clear data available to infer that they were prosecuted or persecuted. The Centre said, “The number of people affected is irrelevant when it comes to deciding an issue of constitutionality. The present review petition is being filed to avoid grave miscarriage of justice to thousands of LGBT persons who have been aggrieved by the judgment of the Supreme Court and have been put to risk of prosecution and harassment, upon re-criminalization of their sexual identities.”

The Centre also wanted clarity given the apprehension expressed by the SC “whether consensual sexual acts between adults” would be viewed the way courts have historically taken note of non-consensual and coercive sexual acts against order of nature. “That was the precise issue before the court – whether consensual sexual acts should be criminalized,” the Centre said.

Times View

This paper is glad that the government has shown a sense of urgency in appealing for a review of the SC’s judgment criminalizing homosexuality. It may not have occurred to many people, including those who believe homosexuality to be “unnatural”, that all forms of sex between even a man and a woman — except penile-vaginal — are deemed as criminal under Section 377. That includes oral sex. A strict application of the law may therefore render even some of our lawmakers criminal. The oft-repeated argument that “the law isn’t enforced for such things” makes no sense. If it’s not meant to be applied, then why is it in the statute books? Besides, what’s the guarantee that some policeman somewhere won’t use it to harass and blackmail? The only litmus test for criminality that needs to be applied here is: is it consensual or not? If it’s consensual, then the State needs to get out of the way.

What happens when a big UMNO production house stops some  MCA’clowns’ from making a spoof  stops some ‘ MCA clowns’ from making a spoof on them? That becomes a spoof by itself. one of MCA’s most popular stand-up comedy groups, contacted nAJIBto seek permission to make a parody of Rosmah 3′s trailer. Despite “multiple requests to Najib , as well as offers to modify existing jokes, the group’s response was: “never bring it up again” and “drop the idea completely.” Just the right fodder for another parody that has everyone ROL Fing.

“We need political Viagra. Low in spirit, MCA has members at the grass roots level but they have no fire. Later, we will ask the  MIC Health Minister to do this,”

Outgoing MCA president Chua Soi Lek today told Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak that the New Economic Policy (NEP) has failed and urged the government to formulate a need based affirmative policy instead.

In his speech at the 60th MCA annual general assembly today, Chua said the current race-based affirmative action policy also helps rich bumiputras, instead of focusing on the poor alone.

“There should be a review of the policy on its pros and cons, as well as on why it has failed to uplift the economic status of the bumiputras after 40 years.

“MCA believes that the continued handouts system will not solve the problem.

“There is also a need to recognise that we should not treat bumiputras as a homogenous ethnic group because of the glaring disparity among the rich and poor bumiputras, including the bumiputras in Sabah and Sarawak.

“All right thinking Malaysians will not criticise the government for helping the socially and economically disadvantaged group, but strong resentment will be there if handouts are given to the rich,” said Chua.

He said that when the need-based affirmative action policy is put in place, bumiputras who form nearly 67.9% of the population will definitely benefit more than the non-bumiputras.

“Therefore, the new measures by you Sir, to strengthen the economic position of bumiputras, as well as financial and commercial sectors should be target-oriented,” he said.

Clamp down on extremists

Chua added that the well to do Chinese should also assist bumiputras working in the private sector.

On the rising racial and religious tension, the former health minister urged the authorities not to practise the “tidak apa” (nevermind) attitude and take action against the irresponsible quarters.

“The government must be firm on the extremists. Keeping quiet will not inspire confidence among the rakyat.

“No race should blame the other for their shortcomings and no race should be jealous of the success of another,” said Chua.

The government took swift action to charge sex bloggers Alvin Tan and Vivian Lee, after they posted a picture having a pork dish in July for Ramadan.

But many poured scorn on the authorities for failing to take action against Perkasa president Ibrahim Ali and vice president Zulkifli Nordin who disparaged non-Muslims in the past.

On MCA affairs, Chua hoped that the new party leadership, due to be elected today, would accommodate the different factions and voices in the party.

“We do not want a situation where winner takes all and the losers, loses all after the party election,” he said.

Chua has brokered a peace deal with his rival, deputy president Liow Tiong Lai for both their followers to contest half of the senior party posts, but the deal was not followed through.

Liow is contesting against Gan Ping Sieu and Ong Tee Keat in a three-cornered fight for the party presidency.

MCA has everything in place to make it the party of choice of the Chinese community in the country, but was sorely lacking in the will to re-establish itself as a force to be reckoned with.You have the men, you have the army, but the will is not there. As the saying goes, the flesh is strong but the spirit is weak,” he said when launching MCA’s general assembly here. but noViagra, is a drug used to treat erectile dysfunctionMay be Najib need more Viagra to drive Rosmah  first lady to crack Najib more than Viagra to crack this old nut Needs to be more prudent, said MCA, in light of heightened criticisms over its spending, and when Malaysians were forced to be frugal due to subsidy cuts and impending hikes.

The Home Ministry says the suspension of The Heat weekly has nothing to do with this report on Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak and wife Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor. – The Malaysian Insider pic, December 21, 2013.,The Home Ministry has denied that the suspension of The Heat is linked to the weekly’s recent report on hefty spending on travel and consultants by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak and the use of a government jet by his wife Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor.

“This decision was not linked to The Heat’s recent report regarding the prime minister, and any accusations to the contrary are without merit,” a ministry spokesperson was quoted as saying by The Wall Street Journal.

The spokesperson said the suspension resulted from the publishing company violating provisions mandated under its printing permit, the Journal reported.

Ministry sources said the permit given to the publisher was for the publication of a magazine and not for newspaper printing.

The sources also said that the show-cause letter had told the publisher to stop printing the weekly pending further instructions from the ministry but it was ignored.

“Because of that, the ministry had to issue another letter telling them to stop the publication until further notice,” added the source.

Deputy Home Minister Datuk Dr Wan Junaidi Tuanku Jaafar, meanwhile, said the suspension was a normal procedure while waiting for an explanation from the publisher and deciding on the next course of action by the ministry.

“The publisher has until December 24 to answer to the show-cause letter issued to them,” he told The Malaysian Insider.

In February last year, English daily The Star was issued a show-cause letter over the publication of a picture showing American singer Erykah Badu sporting tattoos deemed insensitive to the Muslim community. However, the newspaper was not suspended over it.

Opposition politicians, journalists and human rights groups have criticised Putrajaya over the suspension of The Heat, saying its action contradicted the meaning of democracy.

National Union of Journalists president Chin Sung Chew said Malaysia as a democratic country should uphold media freedom.

“The media is the Fourth Estate and we have a responsibility to inform the public, especially if there is any abuse or wrongdoing by the government,” he said.

Lawyers for Liberty co-founder and adviser Eric Paulsen, meanwhile, labelled Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak a “false democrat” following the suspension of The Heat.

He said the reforms which Najib had promised to implement on the eve of Merdeka Day in 2011 had come to nothing.

“Najib had promised that Putrajaya would support press freedom by amending the Printing Presses and Publications Act 1984,” Paulsen said.

“But the Home Ministry is still maintaining its authoritarian grip over the press, especially the print publications,”

There should not be an ostentatious display of the government splurging as if there were unlimited funds,” outgoing MCA president Datuk Seri Dr Chua Soi Lek said in his speech ahead of MCA’s elections today.

Dr Chua said that the increased rate in expenditure unfortunately exceeded revenue increase, and this was not sustainable as it would eat into the development expenditure.

The government led by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak had recently come under fire over its excessive spending:

It was reported that the prime minister’s official residence, Seri Perdana Complex, chalked up RM2.2 million in electricity bills and RM311,174.25 for water last year.

Taxpayers forked out nearly RM20 million for the maintenance and modification of its VVIP jet, while another RM44.02 million was for Najib’s overseas trips since 2008.

The government also spent more than RM 7.2 billion on private consulting firms from 2009 to 2013. This amounted to an average of RM4 million daily or RM125 million monthly.

The Home Ministry’s suspension of newsweekly The Heat two days ago was believed to be over an article that focused on Najib’s “spendthrift ways”.

The spending had not gone down well with the public who faced a series of hikes since the 13th general election.

These include reduced fuel subsidies in September, the removal of sugar subsidy under Budget 2014, and the recently announced electricity tariff hike which will take effect next month.

The new year will also see an increase in toll rates for highways in the Klang Valley, public transport fares and property assessment rates in Kuala Lumpur.

However, Putrajaya has defended its tough, if not unpopular, decision to cut subsidies and hike rates, saying it was trying to protect the economy and keep investors’ confidence

The government led by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak had recently come under fire over its excessive spending:

It was reported that the prime minister’s official residence, Seri Perdana Complex, chalked up RM2.2 million in electricity bills and RM311,174.25 for water last year.

Taxpayers forked out nearly RM20 million for the maintenance and modification of its VVIP jet, while another RM44.02 million was for Najib’s overseas trips since 2008.

The government also spent more than RM 7.2 billion on private consulting firms from 2009 to 2013. This amounted to an average of RM4 million daily or RM125 million monthly.

The Home Ministry’s suspension of newsweekly The Heat two days ago was believed to be over an article that focused on Najib’s “spendthrift ways”.

The spending had not gone down well with the public who faced a series of hikes since the 13th general election.

These include reduced fuel subsidies in September, the removal of sugar subsidy under Budget 2014, and the recently announced electricity tariff hike which will take effect next month.

The new year will also see an increase in toll rates for highways in the Klang Valley, public transport fares and property assessment rates in Kuala Lumpur.

However, Putrajaya has defended its tough, if not unpopular, decision to cut subsidies and hike rates, saying it was trying to protect the economy and keep investors’ confidence

It looks like MCA has stirred up another of cauldron of fire and hypocrisy that critics say can only burn up the last shreds of whatever credibility the party has left  Umno secretary-general told reporters after attending the MCA Annual General Assembly in Kuala Lumpur today.  warned the MCA today that it would tell the Malays not to vote for MCA candidates in the next general election if they fail to stand up for the Malays and Islam .Disgraced former-MCA president Datuk Seri Dr Chua Soi Lek for blaming the loss of Chinese support on UMNO  the Malay daily, saying that the party’s “immoral leaders” were the cause instead.He was referring to the sex video that surfaced at the end of 2007 which led to Dr Chua resigning as health minister and MCA vice-president.Although Tengku Adnan  again criticised Dr Chua for using UMNO  as a “punching bag” today, he supported the announcement that the MCA wantt   government posts Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor warned  not come at the expense of Umno, MCA cannot perform in the next general election.

If our flamboyant Federal Territories Minister Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor  has  said what he is accused of, his crime would list in the last and most despicable category. But my intent here is not to tar him. There are enough people around to do it. My concern is Tengku Adnan, who is  UMNO and Barisan Nasional (BN) secretary-genera will loose the woman votes , half of UMNO members are women. I am  NOT BOTHERED ABOUT MCA votes but if I had hurt  the  feelings of wanita UMNBO,  I apologise as I had no intention of hurting them, .Currently we are putting the cart before the horse. While the truth may look obvious, facts have a curious habit of flipping themselves. So till the case of truth  dispensed with, it may be a good idea to stop paying for cosmetic chinese womanan.

There’s no real difference between the guy who sneaks flunitrazepam into his date’s Bloody Mary when she goes for a quick loo break and the one who clumsily gropes an unwilling woman in an empty lift in the hope it may lead to something more exciting. It rarely does. A grope remains a grope. A groper, just a groper. He never quite graduates beyond that. But the most tragic figure of all is the pigtailed Romeo in the corner office flaunting his authority all day long and then, when the sun drops, tries to lunge at his juniors. That’s not seduction. It’s crass power play.

The tosh men speak when accused of sexual misconduct always makes for funny reading. The reason is simple: Most men think it’s their birthright to sexually prey on women. They are brought up to believe that’s what all men, if they are real men, do. It has been said in a million ways, in books, songs, popular movies and yes, repeatedly in advertising, the most persuasive foreplay of our times, that when a woman says No, what she actually means is Yes.

Not only men say this. Women do too. That there’s no woman ever unwilling for sex; all they need is a little persuasion. Perhaps Soi Lel just being his usual witty self. But men, I suspect, have largely taken the advice to heart. Different men ofcourse look at persuasion differently. So while someone may clobber a woman on the head with a baseball bat and drag her to his bedroom, another will drop a 4 carat solitaire in a champagne flute. It’s just a difference of technique, not intent.Federal Territories Minister Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor  has  not apologised to women who felt offended by his recent statement which compared the gender to property.

Federal Territories Minister Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor said MCA Youth’s demands for the Chinese community should not come at the expense of Umno,in support of  Perlis Umno Youth chief Syed Atif Syed Abu Bakar yesterda

MCA Youth’s demands for the Chinese community should not come at the expense of Umno, said Perlis Umno Youth chief Syed Atif Syed Abu Bakar yesterday.

In a statement, Syed Atif said as a member of BN, MCA too needed to understand the grassroots sentiments of the respective race-based parties.

“Telling the government what MCA Youth and the Chinese community want and need as a whole does not mean that he should ask the government to neglect Umno demands.

“Nor should he stop Umno from voicing issues concerning the Malay and bumiputera,” he said.

Syed Atif was responding to outgoing MCA Youth chief Wee Ka Siong (above) who during the party’s meet this week warned Umno to tread carefully with extreme statements as it has driven Chinese voters away.

He said Umno Youth has been very conscientious in avoiding negative remarks against BN component parties and Wee’s statement came as a “shock and disappointment”.

He added that MCA Youth should not rock the boat by “crafting a wreckage” and instead embrace the present interparty formula.

“For Umno Youth, we definitely have a lot to say about MCA should we follow his step in the ‘bashing business’ for personal popularity ,” he said.

For example in Perlis, Syed Atif said MCA lost BN’s traditional state seat of Indera Kayangan despite being given the privilege of millions in funds to pour into the constituency in the last general election.

“Umno does not even have the luxury to make such request (for funds),” he said.

Syed Atif said he hoped Wee’s statement was merely populist in his bid for the MCA deputy presidency.

However, he congratulated the newly elected MCA Youth chief Chong Sin Woon, describing him as a “humble leader”.

Fed on romantic literature, girls fall easy prey to male predators watching them from the fringes of society. Here’s how to save yourself from sure heartbreak

That is the fallout of an overprotective upbringing, I guess. As little girls, and especially those educated in convent schools, we are all warned to be wary of anything in pants. As a result, you kind of grow up a doubting Jane and learn to be super careful.

Watching a couple in their mid-30s with two young children talk intimately and smile at each other in the Shatabdi train, brought a smile to my face. It is heartening to see a married couple of some years with eyes only for each other. God knows there are so few around.

Interestingly, I had seen another on my way to the station in Chandigarh; a Sikh couple, well past middle-age eating chaat at a roadside vendor’s and talking animatedly with each other. “It’s praying and eating together at the gurdwara that keeps them so close to each other,” explained my mother, as she saw me admiring them.

However, truthfully, the only cases where we can say one is stuck with a wrong spouse are those of domestic abuse, unhealthy practices such as substance abuse or chronic infidelity. The rest, I believe, can all be overcome.Maudlin self-pity, the resort of the weak and cowardly, keeps us from taking a hard look at ourselves and examining if we really made the effort to do better in life and marriage, or were just content with our lot? Did we even make an effort to make the marriage work, rather than take refuge in declaring we got married to the wrong person? Do we even know who is, or was, the right person to marry? The truth is that there is no such one right person to marry. It is all very romantic to believe in soulmates and the one person God made for you, but the practical truth is that the success of a marriage lies not so much as in marrying the right person, as in adopting the right attitude towards your marriage and partner.

What then is the right attitude that ensures your marriage isn’t wrong? The most important is the sincere intention to make your marriage work. Mutual respect comes a close second, followed by patience and the ability to strike an emotional interdependence and so, form an enduring attachment. It is important to surmount your ego and never stop making efforts to keep up a channel of constant interaction and some shared interest. The important thing to remember is it is never too late, if you make the right effort. You would be surprised; scratch the surface and you may find your partner just as eager to meet you half-way.

It is easy to figure out the health status of a marriage by just watching a couple when they are together or out amongst other people. Indeed, my respect for a man goes up several notches after studying the body language of his wife. Is she confident and fearless as she talks? Does she have an opinion to share? If yes, then she has surely been given due regard and space in her marital home. And if a man is well-groomed and steady, surely he is well-looked after and respected at home.

So either all of us are married ‘wrong’ or all of us are married ‘right’. I tend to believe the latter.

I am generally pretty optimistic, focussing on the sunnier side of things. A typical Sagittarian, I would ideally try to shoot an arrow over the rainbow, so I can see both, sunshine and a rainbow together. So fascinated I am by the silver edges that I often fail to notice dark clouds. Heck, I even prefer my eggs sunny side up, never turned over easy.

And yet, when it comes to trusting men, there is an innate wariness in me that borders on cynicism. A man has to work twice as hard as a woman to prove himself to me. I am aware of the unfairness of that statement, but that’s how it is. Of course once the trust is earned, it is steady.

If you were to listen to Najib  election rhetoric, that’s the honest takeaway. There’s so much chest thumping about how  prime minister displayed his penchant for sexual innuendo – which might be fine in his party but is unbecoming of top office.The last time was early this month when he praised his wife at the close of the Umno general assembly, saying “Mungkin malam ini akan dapat bayaran (maybe tonight, I will be rewarded)” to laughter from the audience.

Ironically, Malaysians can be prudish when it comes to sex but the politicians seem inured and enjoy such banter without thinking that it reflects a crude or even uncouth behaviour.

The rise of polygamy in MCA

Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak mentioned “political viagra” today to stimulate MCA to greater heights.

In our affluent age, exotic indulgences, such as maintaining a concubine, are on the increase

At the root of the Deepak Bhardwaj murder controversy, as with many other violent crimes, is an extramarital affair with a much younger woman. As is the practice with philandering men of means, the BSP leader and business tycoon had set up his 28-year-old mistress in an apartment and even shared the profits of his business with her. Bhardwaj got killed, and so the beans were spilled. But many more Bhardwajs carry on nonchalantly with younger women who pander to their vanity and ego, tucked away in apartments. It’s a dangerous game involving the explosive cocktail of passion and money!

For it is the rich who can afford such exotic indulgences. Take the case of China, where concubines have re-emerged as a trend. According to Chinese media reports, young women are increasingly interested in taking on married men as lovers in exchange for a car or an apartment. For the men, it is a status symbol to acquire a concubine, who is as much a commodity as a luxury car or mansion — it is a mark of having acquired high status. Shenzhen near Hong Kong, the world’s largest manufacturing centre and China’s richest economic zone, has acquired the dubious reputation of a “paradise of girls” that attracts Hong Kong men with its “street angels” or prostitutes, and the tempting possibility of easy-to-support mistresses or concubines.

Women from poor villages across China come here not so much to look for a job as to land a rich man who will maintain them as concubines. The practice is so widespread that there are “concubine villages” in Shenzhen that have hundreds of women living in spacious apartments funded by wealthy lovers. These are as near the border as possible, so that rich Chinese men can leave work early, enjoy a rendezvous with their mistress and still get home to their family in time for dinner! It is not uncommon for a man to have two to three such mistresses in separate apartments!

Humans, we are told, are by nature polygamous, and men more so. Experts explain that each human being has three centres of love and emotions — passion, attachment and romance. All three need not be satisfied by the same person at all times, and humans are attracted to new partners in an attempt to fulfill these basic needs. You may enjoy romance with one person, mutual confidences with another, and sex with yet another.

Historically, the world has frowned upon polyandry (one woman with two or more men), while tolerating, if not outright encouraging by legalising, polygyny (one man with multiple sexual partners). In this one aspect, nothing seems to have changed. Even today, a woman entertaining more than one lover at a time will find much less empathy than a man doing the same.

Polygyny is legally permissible in some cultures, while polyandry has never found support. Even in the rarest of rare cases of a woman with more than one man, the husbands have almost always been from the same family, as was the case with Draupadi married to the five Pandavas. This is so because wealth is controlled mostly by men, making it easier for them to run a harem of women rather than the other way round. Also, consider biological factors; men have more to gain with multiple partners than women. Evolutionary biologists say polygamy is good for men, but not so for women. If a woman gets pregnant, a polygamous man can still have sex/children with his other partners, whereas after pregnancy a polyandrous woman cannot satisfy any of her men for quite some time. The practice of polygyny was rampant in the hunter-gatherer and tribal societies from which we evolved. Then, as well as now, it has remained the preserve of the rich and well-established. Monogamy came to be socially imposed in ancient Greece and Rome, and was later actively encouraged by Christianity. Though today Western society frowns upon polygamy, it is still legal in many non-western societies, particularly Islamic and some African countries that allow a man to have multiple partners.

Interestingly, Michael Price from the Psychology Department of Brunel University West London, equates serial monogamists such as Donald Trump and Larry King, who divorce older wives and marry younger women, as polygamists too, since they also monopolise the reproductive years of a number of women. In that sense, all celebrities, stars, prominent sportsmen and business tycoons with a series of women, can be termed polygamists as well!

“We need political Viagra. Low in spirit, MCA has members at the grassroots level but they have no fire.

“Later, we will ask the Health Minister to do this,” the Barisan Nasional (BN) chairman said when opening the party’s annual general meeting in Kuala Lumpur.

Ironically, Malaysians can be prudish when it comes to sex but the politicians seem inured and enjoy such banter without thinking that it reflects a crude or even uncouth behaviour.

More so for those who occupy high office in the country, especially the political aristocracy.

Malaysians have been told countless times to respect the office of those in high government posts, even if they have no respect for the officer bearer.

But it is time that those who hold such post also show some respect – for the other gender, if not just for the office

We all know that some men are forever on the prowl. The men who are misfits in society, the mysterious loners who hold an allure for unsuspecting girls. Lesson to learn? Be suspicious. Mothers warn their daughters against exactly these men while, ironically, literature has romanticised the same breed of men – the strong and silent type. Remember Mr Rochester in Jane Eyre? Mr Darcy in Pride and Prejudice? Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights?Even Howard Roark in The Fountainhead? Or a Mills & Boon hero? The more brooding and difficult they are, the greater their appeal. Each one of them is a perfect example of a sociopath who amazingly changes colour once he meets ‘the right girl’.

Goodness, are we on our way to becoming cynical with regard to matrimonial bliss minus special divine blessing? I hope not. But the number of unhappy, disgruntled couples one comes across does make one wonder. A few years into matrimony, once the initial charm wears off, most start believing they have married the wrong partner. As the march of years weighs one down and the panic of approaching mortality strikes, it is common to list marriage to the ‘wrong’ person as one of life’s biggest regrets. This is the easiest way of externalising all blame for what one perceives as failures of life. It is easy to imagine that you could have achieved more and been a happier person, had you married someone else.

This regret is not unlike the hypothetical thought — “Had I been born richer, wealthier, better looking, I would have done far better in life!” The only difference is that you cannot hold yourself responsible for the facts of your birth, but you have only yourself to congratulate orblame for your choice of a partner.The more choice one has, thegreater the stress and scope for regret and what-ifs. You do not blameparents, siblings or children as being ‘wrong’ for you; since you never got to choose them, you just accept and work around them. But that doesn’t hold true of your spouse. You choose him or her out of many, and so keep wondering all through life, if you did actually end up with the ‘right’ one. And the fact that you wonder, is what causes the problem.

Also, romantic literature and art have infused unhappiness in love with a certain romanticism that seems attractive. So, it is not uncommon to see lovers of literature indulging their romanticism by imagining themselves trapped in marriage with the wrong partner. One such ‘sufferer’ dramatically told me in a conversation, “I am leading a suffocating life, with no ventilator for self-expression.”

And herein begins the problem that plagues our fair sex. All girls fed on a diet of impossible romance start dreaming of a sociopath they can help change and claim as their very own Darcy. That makes it easier for the predators lounging silently on the fringes of society. They recognise this and understand a woman’s emotions and responses much better than she does herself. They know exactly which string to pull to manipulate her.

These men play upon a woman’s irrepressible romantic instinct and her compulsion to love and mould another human being. So anyone off the beaten track interests and excites women. If he has an artistic streak, all the better, because it suggests greater sensitivity harboured within, awaiting her love to wash him in a new light. He knows this and plays the game well, fascinating her with his dark moods and sudden spurts of heart-melting romance. And so, all bad boys find well-meaning little women, eager to please and hoping to change them.

But goodness, is she in for a huge heartbreak?! Yes, because the sociopath is incapable of loving anyone but himself. He will romance her wildly, get her hooked and then move on to the next victim. The poor girls forget that most of the romantic novels end at the point where the hero unites with the heroine, without talking of the undoubtedly awful marriage the two will have. For, how can a man full of himself, focussed on his own needs and incapable of loving another, be good husband material?

For all those girls out there fed on romantic literature, here are a few tips on how to recognise the predator who feeds on nice girls. You may still get swept off your feet, but at least you’ll have been warned:

• Anyone who is unbelievably good has to be unreal. This may sound cynical, but when have you ever seen a perfect hero walk out of a book or movie and enter your life? The good guys are the real guys, the ones with all their foibles and follies, the ones who forget to wish you on your special day, but are always there to pick up the broken pieces when you most need them.
• Watch out for flowery compliments that ring untrue. While some concession can be made for a heart touched by romance, an overflow of compliments that are unbelievable even to your own ears should be taken with fistfuls of salt.

• He is charming, but just when you are most bemused and starry-eyed, just when you are slipping under the spell, step back and take another hard look at him beyond his hypnotic eyes. Is the charm superficial or genuine?

• Most rakes are pathological liars. If you happen to catch his lie, do not take it lightly. Be alert and watch out for further untruths.
• Most sociopaths have a grandiose sense of themselves. They will exaggerate and try to portray themselves as highly important. This may or may not be to impress you; it is just the way they are.

• Their emotions are pretty shallow and sociopaths rarely have friends.You will be able to figure this out by checking on his relations with relatives and friends.

• They have poor control over their emotions and find it difficult to control their anger or irritation. They also do not respond with emotion to good or bad news.

• A sociopath will not find it easy to apologise. In fact, he will almost never accept his fault, preferring to blame others.Recognise anyone close to you? If you do, put a hand over your heart and run miles away if you wish to avoid a major heartbreak…

By putting an end to race-based policies” Joke of the year so what is  MCA

Wee Ka Siong  brushing aside Prime Minister  suggestion, we have  our  former  President  Chua  Soi Lek  as our sex guru  so we need no  ” UMNO political Viagra” to revive  our flagging spirit, said deputy president Datuk Seri Wee Ka Siong , as the party works to woo back supporters under the new leadership with a dose sexism MCA style .

Lord Almighty! This ‘ China Doll thing’ with the lovely lady from China right? Sorry about that, but lovely ladies from that part of the world tend to… ummmm… look alike  . Yeah… where was I? Got it — does this sex business have to be resolved right now? What about the prostution business ? Couldn’t we have waited a bit to longer to go after this case?Wee said what the Chinese party needed to do was to find ways to regain the Chinese support it lost in the 13th general election Wee. said”I don’t believe in Viagra is a drug used to treat erectile dysfunction  , we don’t need it. We need Soi Lek sex drive  and not Viagra to recharge our spirit and energy,” he told reporters after the party’s annual general assembly today.Angry voters had abandoned MCA in the May 5 general election for its inability to check Umno. MCA suffered its worst showing in the polls, ending up with only seven parliamentary and 11 state seats. has urged Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak to be “the next Mandela” by putting an end to race-based policies in UMNO.In his address at the party’s annual general assembly yesterday, Najib said MCA still had plenty of grassroots members but their spirit was weak.”We need UMNO political Viagra. Low in spirit, MCA has members at the grassroots level but they have no fire,” Lousy timing, folks. And all because these UMNO people here refuse to behave like Malaysians… even when they are in Malaysia! Yeah. That’s the bottom line. We have our laws out here. We follow ’em .it’s like serious  slavery abolished in 1865. But we in MCa understand it is still practiced in Malaysia. And you    Malays want us to apologize for  treating us like slaves  has urged Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak to be “the next Mandela” by putting an end to race-based policies. Malays  are hyper sensitive and touchy. They crib all the time. And yet they can’t stay away from bashing UMNO. Their government chaps are constantly raising questions about we Chinese  treat visitors from China . The way you  “harass” our sex movie stars,. Now they are talking revenge! Go ahead, you guys. You can harass our stars…Robert de Niro won’t be back for a while, in any case. You can refuse the Barisan Nasional chairman added

Wee stressed that the party needed to fight for its survival and members should understand that the war is outside, which is to boost Chinese support from the current 15% to 30% in time for the 14th general election.

“If we don’t prepare well from now, we won’t get through the next general election,” he warned.It looks like MCA has stirred up another of cauldron of fire and hypocrisy that critics say can only burn up the last shreds of whatever credibility the party has left  Umno secretary-general told reporters after attending the MCA Annual General Assembly in Kuala Lumpur today.  warned the MCA today that it would tell the Malays not … Read more

 SoLet’s dance the Soi Lek  foxtrot

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This bastard MCA vice-president Chua Tee Yong   has sparked outrage after he reportedly sent a racist tweet about UMNO so is he still  in control of MCA?

 Chua Tee Yong  tweet read like this, Najib  who said  about applying the viagra injection., could have done so out of sheer absent-mindedness. He could be under stress that pleasantries ought to be performed in a jiffy. Maybe five similar social events were lined up for the evening.

the new phenomenon appreciated by the common man, is surely hitting the top of the billboards. This is likely to force the conservative ways of seeking political support by big parties (backwardness by race, community clubs, religious divides, the ‘quota’ potion) either into childish disbelief, or quietly into an exercise to rewrite their approach to the common man.  Najib for  having sent in the right message so far. We need to see him around for quite some time, to continue to have this impact. His presence in some political form or the other is required.  Indeed that mindset of  Chua Tee Yong asking for accountability from a government needs to take root.There will be always doubts about his delayed methods, round-about parleys of clearance from colleagues, his supporters, and finally support from his prime identified adversary whose seats he has exclusively bagged. It is a bit unusual also that the voters is giving him enough time to put his act together. Possibly democracy needs to be given a chance, and re-election be prevented in the wake of a larger poll contest a few4years away. MCA has the widest network and experience in national as well in regional alliances. Somehow, as reports say, it is losing favour of Chinese voters. It can’t boast of any major institution or project, including the much touted “ Chinese racialist card”. It has to revive its contact with the Chinese, It showed little influence over its allies when it came to national programmes. MCA  can understand graft, but it happened in too many crucial sectors, and too often. Worst,  MCA is not  in obsession with bringing everyone to the book

What was Tun Ling, Chua Soi Lek and the MCA was doing at the cabninet meeting. Presume, you were calculating your share of profits. Stop the accusation and let us listen to your proactive actions to stop toll increase. Everybody knows that the all decisions are agreed to by the cabinet with the PM throwing down his decisive vote. So the main question to be asked is who was the PM then? And mind you, even when Anwar has left the cabinet, new highway contracts continue to be signed and given out. So what do you have to say to this? Can’t all MCA members by now understand in their thick head their party is irrelevant to the Chinese anymore..  meet any MCA members claiming they still have hope in MCA.Dr M is our saviour, Anwar would be in jail now for “cheating” Dr M. Yet, not a whimper from the grand old man accusing Anwar of betraying his trust and committing serious fraud against the entire cabinet CTY pointing an accusing finger at the old man himself? Might as well come out and say it out loud in the open instead of pussy footing around Anwar. At that time you were sucking milk. That’s why we say MCA need UMNO Viagra. Highway concessions were dealt by EPU under PM MahATHIRi. This was confirmed in parliament and major papers so many times. This kind of stuff piss off the Chinese because MCA makes noise for publicity only.The Chua family probably be the curse of MCA, first the senior Chua porn acts haunt MCA for years until he become the first president who dare not stand in a GE, and consequently handed a results of seven eleven in the GE, less than 10% of Chinese voted for them,now lets see how this new VP junior Chua stupidity go on to hammer the last nail onto the MCA coffin,this will complete the curse of CHUA on MCA.will see to it that in GE14 MCA is considered history in Malaysia. Look at this young lap puppy of MCA yapping at the wrong tree! The one sided contracts for the highway toll collection and IPP were all awarded by MahathirAND all his cronies and anyone who disagree with him will be removed (ask Tan Sri Arope). This son of a porn star has shit on his head to understand.A new guard seems to be filling some slots. A young Chua Tee Yong    is now calling the shots. Little time is left. Can he stem the tide and bring about a turnaround? He has no experience of studying the privileges and perils of power than anyone of his age,

Ask yourselves why you’ve been left behind in wealth race, Ku Li tells Malays  a tremendous phenomenon of the times is the realization that each one of us has the power to bring about change just by knowing what we want and acting on it!

We live in an age which excels in broadcasting slogans and catchy phrases. Often we, the hearers, unconsciously “choose” the meaning. A good example is “People first”. What does it mean? Who are “the people”?

We most easily think of “the people” as ourselves, our “class” of people. We forget that “the people” includes politicians, civil servants, police, soldiers, bankers, businessmen, garbage collectors, drivers, investors, farmers, etc., all with their dreams and goals.

Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah advised Perkasa to take a good look at itself and ask why it is mocked. – The Malaysian Insider pic by Nazir Sufari, December 22, 2013.Instead of wailing, lamenting and demanding more Bumiputera participation in the economy, Malays should take a good look at themselves and ask why they have been left behind, said veteran politician Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah.

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Lim Guan Eng ask how MCA can  fight UMNO to defend Malaysian rights?

Does Malays have no future? If you were to listen to Lim Guan Eng  election rhetoric, that’s not honest takeaway. There’s so much chest thumping about how DAP, how we had the most amazing leaders, the finest  Chinese culture, the best  Chinese schools of learning, the most exciting Chinese politics. It’s all about  Destroying of  Malay rights?

If MCA dare not object when they are humiliated in their own building and openly in front of their member. Lim Guan Eng ask how MCA can  fight UMNO to defend Malaysian rights? No wonder, in such a complex world, where your friend could well be owned by your enemy, young Chinese want a leader who can take Malays  They think DAP is that party. they have a track record of inspiring change. Unlike MCA which has always enshrined the status quo. And young  Chinese believe, it’s the status quo that hurts Chinese most.Come elections and  DAP’s existential dilemma gets more pronounced. The party, founded on t the mind of the One a element’ Chinese chauvinist  ideology, has failed to come to terms with the changing political narrative in recent years. Even veteran leaders like   Karpal Singh were not spared when they tried to do what was seen as … Read more

MCA suffered the ultimate political humiliation, not from the general election losses and rejection by the rakyat, but from their long time friend in UMNO when Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak told the MCA General Assembly yesterday,”You have the members, you have the people, but it’s like the flesh is there but the spirit is weak. We need some political Viagra… We ask the MIC Health minister to provide the Viagra medication”But does it? Just shift focus a bit from economics to politics; you will be surprised. There’s no way Chinese politics could have ever thrown up the kind of results No, our economy’s not growing at 10%. Yes, we have much too much corruption everywhere. But Malaysia has no political system that allows us to correct our own mistakes. Isn’t that amazing?s voting power to chuck out those who fail us and find the change that can redefine our public life, renew our hope in  Malaysia? It will make up for all the lost years.  There is a sense of horror that pervades the news in recent months.  It seems as is a basic form of humanity has been lost as one horrific instance of barbarism follows another.  It is as if routine exploitation and violence is no longer enough; we are seeing a new brutalities of a kind … Read more

And the rakyat are seeking answers on how to be set free from the prison of poverty, corruption and debt as result of the mismanagement of BN.We are not talking about the mountain of debt of 55% Federal government debt to GDP amounting to RM541 billion but the 83% of GDP of personal household debt of Malaysians.

Even though absolute poverty has been reduced, relative poverty has worsened with the price hikes in sugar, petrol, electricity and highway toll charges.What are the solutions offered when the answer from BN given so far gives no comfort to ordinary Malaysians? On toll hikes, a BN Minister asks the rakyat to avoid them by using alternative roads, even though there are none for some routes. On sugar price hikes, Malaysians are told to eat less sugar to look after their health even though the price of sugar in Malaysia is now higher than the international market price.On corruption, BN just makes an outright denial that the illicit outflow of funds amounting to RM1.2 trillion over 10 years that made Malaysia the world champion of corruption, is a serious problem.

Can political Viagra solve these daily livelihood problems faced by the rakyat? Or will be fall back on UMNO’s divide and rule policy of playing the fires of racial hatred and religious extremism by pitting Malays against non-Malays, Muslims against non-Muslims and even Muslims against Muslims? asked  Lim Guan Eng to each one of  the Chinese the most heartening things that has happened in recent times is the awakening of the Chinese. No longer do you see apathetic, deadened eyes that couldn’t care less what happens to another. People today care and they do not let go an opportunity to show that they do so. Not just that, they are more than willing to lend a helping hand, to make a difference.The MCA general assembly today rejected a motion that several delegates wanted to table on the party’s resolution not to accept positions in the government.Sins call for atonement, crimes must be punished. And what better, if such redemption can be detached from those really culpable and outsourced to some dumb creature that cannot complain? This was the idea behind the Biblical practice of casting a goat into the wilderness after ascribing all manner of ills and improvidence to it. … Read more

The chairman of the assembly, Datuk Yik Phooi Hong, said the motion did not meet a requirement of the party constitution.

Article 37.3 of the party constitution pertaining to meetings states that a resolution adopted by an extraordinary general meeting requires the attendance of 100 per cent or all the 2,385 delegates at an assembly.

He rejected the motion brought by, among others, delegate Tan Sri Lee Kim Yew of Parit Sulong.

Believing in themselves and their power, and that gives them immense confidence. With a cellphone in hand connecting you to rest of the world, you are in a position to voice opinions that matter, take photos which make a difference and record conversations and incidents that could create a national stir. You feel powerful and effective indeed when you break news through twitter or facebook and add your voice to that of millions.

Newly-elected MCA president Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai today pledged to bring about inclusive and collective change and renewal to the party.

Liow, who was elected party leader on Saturday, called on the senior party leadership, delegates and members to return to the fold as one strong team to make a success of its transformation programme.

“We have to prove that MCA remains relevant and has the capability to bring about a major change in the lives of the Chinese and other communities,” he said during his winding up address at the 60th MCA annual general meeting (AGM) today.

“We don’t want anyone to mention that there is a ‘Liow-camp’ or ‘Chua (former president Datuk Seri Dr Chua Soi Lek) camp’ any more. From now on, we are a non-faction party. We are a new MCA!” he declared.

“Jealousy, envy and resentment must be eradicated. Let us all come together in the spirit of unity to reform and to safeguard the party.”

Liow said with unity, the party can regain its pride and honour as one of the country’s founding political parties and also regain public confidence, especially the Chinese community.

He echoed Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak’s statment that this is the last call for MCA to prove its relevance among the Chinese community and the public at large.

“This is not a wakeup call, this is our last call; the last chance for us to rise,” Liow said.

At the party elections on Saturday, Liow garnered 1,186 votes to beat former vice-president Gan Ping Sieu (1,000 votes) and former president Datuk Seri Ong Tee Keat (160 votes) in a three-cornered contest for the top post.

Soi Lek did not defend the post of president.

Liow said a committee would be established to draw up and initiate a development agenda as pledged in his election manifesto.

He also said that the first meeting of the party’s new Central Committee would be held as soon as possible to discuss matters arising.

Meanwhile, newly elected deputy president Datuk Dr Wee Ka Siong also urged factional-influenced central delegates to ceasefire in order to work together efficiently.

“Let us not waste any more of our energy fighting each other, but focus it on our enemies outside the party,” Wee said.

Wee said even though Liow only garnered 51% of votes from delegates and that there was a significant portion of delegates who did not support him, everyone should now unite under Liow’s leadership and cooperate for the good of the party.

He also paid tribute to late former South African president Nelson Mandela, saying the party should emulate his example to call for unity among all races in the country.

Echoing Wee’s sentiment, newly elected youth chief Chong Sin Woon said MCA would need to adapt to the modern political landscape, where championing a single race is no longer an effective strategy.

“Politics have changed, and the younger generation does not look at ‘race’ as an issue any more. Chinese youths are no longer bothered with Chinese issues,” Chong said.

“We need to pay attention to all races, and naturally the needs of the Chinese community would be included,” he added.

He said the MCA used to be a more inclusive party while the DAP used to champion Chinese-specific issues, but along the way, the MCA changed tunes to compete with the opposition party.

Chong said now that the DAP is a part of several state governments, it has adopted a more inclusive approach leaving the MCA to be the more extreme party between the two.

the New  Media red beans of DAP is the greatest abettor and agent of change, encouraging and goading people along into discovering themselves, understanding issues and taking a stand. And so you never feel alone so long as your cause is just and clear — there are thousands waiting to hear, understand and support you! Those who earlier may have heard you out with sympathy, tut-tutted and moved on, are today willing to step out and support DAP.MCA were ashamed to see their own faces in the mirror every morning. They realized if something has to change, it has to change within them. You cannot keep sitting on the fence; at some point you have to jump in there. As parents, as teachers, as workers, we all have to start feeling responsible for the nation and to realize that nothing gets done on its own; one will have to get one’s hands dirty and do the work ourselves.” MCA may feel lost when it comes to guiding the youth today, but there is a guiding spirit in the air, so to speak, and the youth are far more confident than they were a generation ago; they can easily engage with like-minded people and understand their own minds.

“Nature has a way of bringing about balance. It does not allow too much extreme. So when people became too uncaring and insensitive, Nature balances it by bringing about this change; today it’s in the air, you can feel it!”

However in order for change to be effective and make a difference there has to be a method to it, a logic that needs to be followed. In order to participate in national discourses and public discussions people need to be aware of what’s happening in the country and to introspect what they themselves feel about it. They need to hone their emotional maturity and intelligence. And most importantly, there has to be a clear intention to bring about a positive change.

The big differentiator today is that people know what to do and where to reach out with the various available communication channels. With a million helplines out there catering to every possibility, you just need the right intention and you are not just connected, but on your way to making a difference!All Malays  have one simple question today of their leaders: How are you going to set the future right? No one wants to answer that. ExceptThis bastard MCA vice-president Chua Tee Yong   has sparked outrage after he reportedly sent a racist tweet about UMNO so is he still  in control of MCA?  Chua Tee Yong  tweet read like this, Najib  who said  about applying the viagra injection., could have done so out of sheer absent-mindedness. He could be under stress that pleasantries ought … Read more

On the face of it, it’s difficult to figure why Anwar is treated as a heinous offender by the  Malaysian criminal justice system because, according to his prosecutors But , Muhammad Shafee celebrity federal prosecutor currently pursuing Anwar with great ferocity, is hardly going after friends of Mahathir and Najib  of a large number on this score from leading the Attorney General’s Chambers’ appeal against Anwar Ibrahim’s acquittal for sodomy. Shafee’s appointment as Deputy Public Prosecutor smacks of desperation and sets another bad precedent, sending the wrong message that the authorities will go to extraordinary lengths to secure the conviction of UMNO’s political adversaries.Shafee is a well known UMNO lawyer and has appeared in court and advised in several matters that concern UMNO’s interests and has admitted so in his CV. He has acted and advised former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad and Prime Minister Najib Razak and his wife Rosmah Mansor, all known and bitter political adversaries of Anwar Ibrahim. Shafee is also presently defending a few high profile defamation cased filed by Anwar Ibrahim appeal case that went awry? .The most important issue is is the power struggle between Mahathir and Najib , why did then Shafee give up his cover and focus attention on Anwar? Shafee is key fixer in Baginda non appeal freedom while Ghani is chief  architect of sodomy1 and 2 with appeal . There are no easy answers but it is conceivable that Shafee realized that he was being watched and put pressure by Rosmah pointing out that Ghani was vulnerable If this is the case, then kudos to Ghani smart enough to realize that he was being targeted. As pressure mounted on Najib to remove Ghani first Mahathir and then Rosmah put counterpressure on Shafee. Ghani by filing a case agaist Mat Zain possibly got some help  from a US CIA agents working at Attorney Generaloffice of Malaysia.

At the heart of the matter lies the decision to criminalise behaviour that asked to be understood with some sensitivity. The face-off is the result of a mismatch between two different contexts, both in terms economic and cultural. It is possible to dismiss these and argue in an absolute sense that a clear violation of  Malaysian law took place, and the law of the land acted without making any exceptions.
Najib  rhetoric to insinuate  nominee  Shafee  reported to harbour political ambitions. If he goes up for high political office, acquiring  Anwar’s scalps on the way and thereby exorcising his origins would be useful. And what better Anwar’s scalp, in the current political climate,— thereby assuaging what he takes to be a prime anxiety among Malaysians? In spite of Shafee’s obvious conflict of interest and unsuitability, and the AG’s Chambers’ wealth of resources and hundreds of well qualified Deputy Public Prosecutors available, he has now been appointed to lead the appeal against Anwar Ibrahim. Shafee’s appointment further tarnishes the already battered reputation of the AG’s Chambers and reinforces public perception that the AG’s Chambers is not independent and acts at the behest of UMNO to prosecute the opposition on trumped up charges or for political offences.

Like Caesar’s wife, Shafee acting as a prosecutor must be above any trace of suspicion. One certainly cannot believe without flight of fancy that Shafee will afford Anwar Ibrahim a fair trial and treat him equally and without discrimination as he is entitled to under the Constitution.

In light of all the controversies, we call upon the Attorney General to withdraw Shafee’s appointment as DPP and to work towards restoring public confidence of the rightful role of the Public Prosecutor, one that is dignified, just and free from political interference.

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Shafee’s penis  aroma seduced my nostrils. And as I prepared to enjoy it , he popped a question that left a queer taste in my mouth for his penis What is your opinion about gay marriage? Dato’ Seri Shafee Abdullah  framed  that.. Anwar Ibrahim’s sodomy trial the defence raised discrepancies over the charges framed and accuser …in sodomy 1 ? And what do you … Read more

Tan Sri Muhammad Shafee Abdullah have you a hole in your soul?Realisation of what ails you is half the battle won; the rest is all about maintaining a firm control on life and balance within Sometimes you do not realise you are in the midst of a vast silence till it is pierced through with sound. … Read more

Seventy-five years to the day, the Nazi regime bared its anti-Semitic fangs with a ferocity that appalled and outraged even those who took a benign view of Adolf Hitler and believed that they could do business with him. They had paid scant attention to his rants against liberals, Leftists, moderate Christians, homosexuals and especially Jews …Read more

Shafee’s affidavit a load of rubbish says ex-cop Mat Zain is still fighting for it in his own way, Mat Zain came out and took the political course to change the system. This change is not about changing the government alone but realizing true democracy by ensuring public participation in the decision making process. Mat ZAIN  has embraced … Read more

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Abdul Gani Patail guilty of dishonest practices, as bribery; lacking integrity; crooked :debased in character; depraved; perverted; wicked; evil:The biggest irony of our times is that people perceive all politicians as ‘thieves’ but at the same time they are also forced to elect them to Parliament again and again to rule the country.  And, these … Read more

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Why are the bloody MPs are in silent mode. This treason of the highest order an unforgiveable betrayal of trust voters reposed in themThis has been morally degrading and has turned politics predatory. But things still remained functional. Till prosperity threw up a body of people whose progress in life has little to do with state patronage and who …Read more

Court amends charges to include Dr Mahathir in NFCorp cheating case A severe, trite, authentic case made by a journalist not just from your fraternity but from your office, the office that for over 12 years has been emblematic of unflinching, investigative journalism is mulled over at a pace that defies your very etymological origin …Read more

Defeat is the distance between a bedtime story and a wake-up call. The former starts with ‘Once upon a time…’ and lulls the voter to sleep. The second is an energiser that addresses a fresh dawn. PAKATAN has become victims of their own success: their narrative has run its course, and they have not been … Read more

This is the first PM of Malaysia ever to use sexual intonations in many of his important speeches. It is not what you eat that reflects the spirituality of man but what foul comes out of the mouth.The newly elected top leaders have too much baggage to fight without fear or favour within BN. Najib is totally right that to say that MCA is only ‘flesh’ but ‘soulless’In the eyes of the Chinese, MCA is strategically stupid in only knowing how to attack opposition, in particular DAP whenever the later raised matters that are of concern to the race.Frankly MCA rejuvenation does not depend on Viagra but a heavy dosage of righteousness in the interest of not only the Chinese but also all Malaysians. Without this, more Viagra will make the flesh even more ‘soulless’. MCA must eradicate its ‘running dog’ tag to be of any use to the Chinese..

MCA anti-corruption intent as a mere ploy. Referring to outgoing disgressed-president’s speech ”The speech of a        MCA leader   befuddled. He belongs to a party which is neck-deep in corruption. But he spoke with such an innocent demeanour that it appeared he belonged to a different party. It was an unparalleled example of audacity. Look at the paradox He was speaking of corruption just after the  B.N  government had tried to bury the   scam.” His focus on PKFZ scam was a clear indication that the Congress’s attempt to help its leaders who have been accused of complicity in the After Dr Ling’s acquittal, poser over RM720 million interest in PKFZ .scam may exact a political cost by undercutting, MCA ‘s effort to buffer the party from the charges of corruption. Saying that MCA was not serious about fighting corruption,  http://suarakeadilanmalaysia.wordpress.com/ challenged the  MCA  to sponsor a legislation aimed at bringing back within three years the black money that MCA leaders have illegally stashed abroad in foreign banks. “MCA will never take the initiative because they know it is going to hurt them the most,”

It is really unbelievable Soi Lek said that  Umno should not do things that will hurt the Chinese when he himself, some Umno leaders at all levels including some Malay NGOs are the culprits. It is really the blind leading the blind. The ‘raison d’etre’ of MCA, MIC and to a certain extend Umno, MCA has evaporated due to the changing demand of the respective communities These political entities fail to live up to the new political realities, and no matter how much coaxing the ‘big brother’s Viagra injection’ is going to do, the end result will be almost the same.Chinese are abandoning MCA in droves because the hegemony of master-slave is still deep-rooted and is not going away. The new key words are corruption, no transparent and fair for all elitist Chinese.Corruption was just one of the whole array of issues the MCA leader chose to attack UMNO on as he exhorted his audience to get rid of UMNO rule. He said UMNO was mired in divisive politics, and would create and stoke divisions in order to stay in power. “They practise the politics of divide-and-rule that they learnt from the British,” Soled  Lek said as he attacked the grand old party for jeopardizing the future of  Malai-sia leh. Soiled Lek, who seemed pleased with the standing ovation, came up with the attractive catch line: ‘Vote for MCA’. “We have so far voted for one party or another. The time has come to vote for MCA to free the country of corruption, nepotism, communal strife, price rise, vote-bank politics and bad governance,”  Soiled outgoing  MCA President said 

These good for nothing sex crazed Umno leaders cannot help themselves with giving statements without any sexual connotations.No matter how much Viagra MCA consumes, it is of no use to them because MCA has already been castrated by Umno for many long years. This how serious our politicians look at problems and challenges confronting this country – grandmother, grandfather, women are like property, make-up, have three more vacancies and now need Viagra to make it works. MCA, cannot be honest enough to tell Umno thatMCA are losing ground because of MCA’s racist stance, pure and simple.Is ‘political viagra’ a cure-all medicine? What is the real cause-effect of MCA’s downfall? Opposite to Najib’s prescription that a sick MCA can be resuscitated by ‘political viagra’, the real panacea points to the “evil doctor” himself.From history, one learns (Faaland et al, 1990; Snodgrass, 1980) that culturally the Chinese are different from the Malays. Mahathir once argued that the Chinese have the advantage of 5,000 years of civilisation while the Malays have only 400 years. By right a progressive nation-state can be forged ahead if only the economically dominant- majority (the Chinese), and the politically dominant-majority (the Malays) cooperate with one another The real culprit lies in the regime is not MCA, and certainly not such a vague term ‘political viagra

After the misogynistic statement from a minister a couple of days back, does Najib really have to evoke sex (viagra) to make a point?

What a poor choice of metaphor for someone who tries so desperately to appear statesman-like, especially when overseas. Najib gives out the vibes of someone not at ease with himself.

As for the MCA, whatever advice given will be akin to flogging a dead horse. The party is history – anyone with an ounce of political nous knows that.It looks like MCA has stirred up another of cauldron of fire and hypocrisy that critics say can only burn up the last shreds of whatever credibility the party has left  Umno secretary-general told reporters after attending the MCA Annual General Assembly in Kuala Lumpur today.  warned the MCA today that it would tell the Malays not … Read more

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Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng ” I always thought of Jahara as a typical grandmother but now she has become an unreasonable and racist grandmother,”

Penang opposition leader Datuk Jahara Hamid has given Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng one week to tender his resignation letter, over his “racist grandmother” remark which he had made earlier this month.I will make sure his  racialist DAP  will  Collapse However, DAP can will continue to find justifications on why Lim Guan Eng  accused Datuk Jahara Hamid of much worse, The only cavity we really need examined is the collective space between our ears.The five-term Teluk Air Tawar assemblyman from Barisan Nasional said Lim was not sincere when making his “partial” apology a day after calling her a “racist grandmother” on December 9.

DAP democracy is vibrant enough to withstand both coercion and bribery the prospects for the DAP in the coming encounter therefore may not be very different. Till before next Assembly elections,

“I am not a racist. For five terms I have served the rakyat regardless of race. I want him to apologise for all he had accused me of,” she told a news conference at Menara Umno in Penang today.Mis-governance in Penanga which has for decades now mis-treated the Malays from a free Penang appears to be in a state of shock on the Datuk Jahara Hamid  episode  Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng   appear to be scurrying around seeking public support by drumming up

to caution UMNO  how, in a vibrant democracy popular fury can become the most effective instrument for ushering into the political system the much needed attribute of accountability DAP not invincible opposition leader demanded seemed invincible.resignation. Racialist the issue of national Interest and/or Pride, restraining  the Malay by DAP is not to be tolerated, which is on one Ubah plane withDAP flag and Nation.within us this episode appears to be keeping in line with the vast amount of entitlements those who mis-govern us have built up for themselves over the decades, and we are supposed to fall in line to blindly support these entitlments and their continuedproliferation. There is a mismatch here.Over the last few days I have had occasion to experience first-hand many of these entitlements which in any other democracy would have been of larger national importance than what appears to be an issue which does not really impact the larger state of affairs in Malaysia. At the same time, they are all in some way or the other related to how diplomacy is one more arm of mis-governance in Penang  which permits an explosion of these Chinese entitlements.

Lim had earlier apologised for calling Jahara a “grandmother” but had refused to back down from calling her a “racist” after she had questioned the DAP-led administration in the state legislative assembly about the local authorities’ enforcement against an illegal seafood restaurant in Pantai Bersih, Butterworth.

Jahara had pointed out that the Pantai Bersih outlet was Chinese-owned and was not torn down while Malay stalls on Persiaran Gurney were demolished, prompting Lim to tell a press conference outside the state assembly that Jahara had taken a racist line and tried to “twist the issue” when she could have just questioned the non-action of the local councils against illegal hawkers.

“It is alright to criticise us for not taking action but why be racist and continue their racist propaganda?” Lim said

Jahara said she is deeply offended by the remark.

Lim had also slammed Jahara for alleging that his administration had approved the changing of Pulau Jerejak’s name to Mazhu Island. Mazhu is the name of a Chinese deity.

Jahara said Lim had accused her of being unprofessional but it was he who had behaved unprofessionally in this case.

She slammed the DAP secretary-general for twisting her statements to confuse the people about the real issue.

“He accused me of being a racist, that I wanted to create hatred among the people, that I was 1,000 times evil and called me a lying grandmother.

“He had no respect for the august house where elected reps have the right and freedom to speak. He was not sincere in his apology and lowered his own dignity as the chief minister,” he said.

Jahara said Lim should instead analyse the facts carefully, rationally and positively.

“As a government leader, he should listen and help resolve people’s problems and not censure anyone, namely elected reps, who voice up issues,” she added.

Meanwhile, state Umno Wanita chief Senator Norliza Abdul Rahim urged the DAP disciplinary committee to take disciplinary action against Lim for his remark that was both sexist and racist.

She said as chief minister, he should be more careful with his words and be more gender-sensitive.

“He should not put labels on others. How will he feel if he is called ‘Apek Rasis’ (racist uncle)?” she said.

Norliza also told the state government not to carry out selective enforcement, as it is against its own CAT (competency, accountability, transparency) principles.

Marks & Spencer appeared to backtrack on Sunday night by issuing an apology after a Muslim member of staff refused to serve a customer trying to buy champagne.

Previously the supermarket said Muslim staff can refuse to serve customers who are trying to buy pork or alcohol.

But a spokesperson for M&S last night said: “Where we have an employee whose religious beliefs restrict food or drink they can handle, we work closely with our member of staff to place them in suitable role, such as in our clothing department or bakery in foods.

“As a secular business we have an inclusive policy that welcomes all religious beliefs, whether across our customer or employee base … We apologize that this policy was not followed in the case reported.”

The issue arose after an unnamed customer told the Telegraph they were “taken aback” when “I had one bottle of champagne, and the lady, who was wearing a headscarf, was very apologetic but said she could not serve me”.

It has highlighted a split amongst the major supermarkets, between those who will and those who will not excuse staff from certain tasks for religious reasons.

Morrisons said it had a great deal of experience dealing with the issue because it is based in Bradford, where there is a large Muslim community.

It said it would “respect and work around anyone’s wishes not to handle specific products for religious or cultural reasons”.

Sainsbury’s, meanwhile, has issued its official policy on the matter in the form of a pamphlet called “The Little Book of Faith”. It said it had come up with the guidance following research conducted with religious groups, and had concluded that just because a person was not able to eat pork or drink alcohol didn’t mean they should be allowed to avoid handling them altogether.

Asda and Tesco both said they were unlikely to employ a person on the tills who could not handle some goods – though the latter said they dealt with the issue on a case-by-case basis.

An M&S spokesperson had told the Telegraph: “We recognize that some of our employees practice religions that restrict the food or drink they can handle, or that mean they cannot work at certain times.

“M&S promotes an environment free from discrimination and so, where specific requests are made, we will always make reasonable adjustments to accommodate them, whilst ensuring high levels of customer service.”

The policy appeared to anger the biologist and author of The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins, however. He wrote on Twitter: “So, can followers of the Flying Spaghetti Monster refuse to sell pasta? Could I refuse to sell baseball caps?

“These Marks & Spencer tweets may seem frivolous. But they are serious examples of the kind of RIDICULE religious discrimination deserves.”

The outspoken former Apprentice candidate Katie Hopkins tweeted on the subject: “It is not a myth. M&S hoping to attract Saudi investment I wonder?”

Yet others supported the retailer, with Channel 4 journalist Fatima Manji writing: “Note how it says they accommodate all religious belief on case by case basis, but people fixated by the Muslim bit.”

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Expectedly. How could the Big Brown Saviour be seen selling ‘upright Malay values’ down the river? Besides, conservative middle Malays is a far bigger vote bank than a bunch of queers, and their pseudo-western supporters, no? In the furnace of electoral politics, there’s no room for political correctness. Faggots are a piece of wood, aren’t they? Burn them to fuel our sanctimonious prudery.or 3½ years since Mohd Saiful Bukhairy Azlan’s story emerged, the government has insulted the intelligence of Malaysians by declaring that Anwar’s prosecution was not influenced by politics. On the contrary, the case is all about politics, and nothing but politics.

If Anwar is not an electoral threat to Umno, he would not have been prosecuted. It is as simple, plain and obvious as that. If there are any who still doubt this critical statement of fact, take note that between 1998 and 2008 the media did not report any prosecution of consenting adults engaged in same sex activities. Does it mean that in that period no homosexual or lesbian activities took place in the country?

So why has there been so much governmental hostility against Anwar? Because he has been perceived by Umno as their greatest political adversary, and the only person who could be a potential prime minister. It ought to be recalled when Anwar was a popular deputy prime minister and minister of finance in the mid-1990’s, he generated the politics of envy in Umno. By 1997-8, then-prime minister, Dr Mahathir, was convinced that Anwar was a threat to his Presidency of Umno (and thereby the Prime Ministership).

The September 1998 sacking of Anwar as deputy prime minister, expulsion from Umno, brief detention under the ISA and prosecution for sodomy were actions taken by Dr Mahathir to eliminate a very serious contender to his office.

A decade later, Anwar’s singular contributions in leading Pakatan Rakyat to the best performance by an opposition party since Merdeka in the March 2008 general election raised Umno’s fears again. It was compounded by Anwar’s imprudent announcement in April 2008 that he would lead a Pakatan Government by September 16, 2008 (the 45th anniversary of the formation of Malaysia).

I suggest the decision to destroy Anwar politically a second time and to subject him to a second humiliating sodomy prosecution was taken by the powers that be in the wake of the March 2008 elections results.

The plot was hatched, and the agencies of the government went into action. In any modern society when the police and the prosecution authority conspire to destroy an individual, the whole force of the state is marshalled against the hapless victim. Unless there are strong countervailing independent organisations in that society, the individual is doomed.

Along with many others, I wrote in July 2008 that Anwar should not be prosecuted (see my article entitled “A second prosecution of Anwar Ibrahim — is it in the national interest?”) Such pleas fell on deaf ears. The prosecution, initiated in August 2008 during Abdullah Badawi’s administration, continued with great vigour under Prime Minister Najib Razak. The government controlled television, radio, and newspapers sensationalised coverage of the trial: intimate details of Anwar and Saiful were revealed, offending public decency and taste. Concerned parents had to shield their children from crude and graphic description of sexual activities.

Politics in Malaysia seldom concern idealogy or principles. Since Merdeka, the focus has been on personalities, invariably Umno Presidents and other senior leaders. Indeed, Anwar benefitted from the public image crafted by a pliant media during his 15 years climb up the Umno ladder.

In Sodomy 2, the politics of sleaze against Anwar reached a nadir, giving gutter politics a new meaning. On a comparative basis, few political leaders across the globe had been the victim of dirty state politics like Anwar.

With the slow rehabilitation of Aung San Suu Kyi and the opposition joining a coalition with Robert Mugabe, even Burma and Zimbabwe may have greater tolerance and respect for their opposition politicians. But in Malaysia, the Umno controlled forces worked on the principle that in order to destroy Anwar politically, they had to first humiliate him.

Politics of the Acquittal

The burning question is who was responsible for the decision to acquit Anwar on January 9: the Court or the politicians. Did the trial judge actually make the decision himself or was it in reality a political decision.

The fact that this is the principal aftermath of the acquittal itself is a commentary on the perception by Malaysians (including its lawyers) that in “political” cases the Courts are not independent of the executive.

In the four senior Commonwealth countries whose common law system Malaysia adopts, viz, England, India, Australia and Canada, no right thinking person (and certainly no lawyer) would question a judge’s independence if a similar acquittal had taken place in like circumstances. But not in Malaysia!

The judge

The only sure way for any lawyer to predict an outcome in a lengthy trial like Anwar’s is to review the trial judge’s overall conduct of that trial and then make a projection. In every criminal prosecution in Malaysia, elementary principles established over centuries forming the bedrock of our criminal jurisprudence have to be applied by every judge (juries having been abolished).

In the course of a trial a judge would have to make numerous rulings on procedural and evidential matters that would have a great bearing on his final decision. He also has to make a fundamental decision when the prosecution closes its case, viz, whether the defence has a case to meet. Only if he is satisfied that these elements have been proven by the prosecution on whom the burden solely rests, and which never shifts to the accused, should the judge call the defence.

Accordingly, applying the only rational basis available to those legally trained, the conduct of the judge during Anwar’s trial was consistently in one direction: totally in support of the prosecution’s case, and wholly unsympathetic to the accused. Hence, a conviction was inevitable.

In consequence, the judge’s acquittal was a U-turn of massive proportions. Lawyers who appear in court, that is, barristers, advocates or counsel, quickly develop a skill in “reading” judges. This is the human element in the judicial process.

No two judges in any country are alike. Each judge has his or her own temperament, personality, likes, dislikes and other idiosyncrasies. Having spoken to experienced lawyers who attended Anwar’s trial for substantial periods and whose antennae on “judge-reading” I respect, the judge’s behaviour on January 9 was in stark contrast with his general demeanour on the bench throughout the trial.

Lawyers who were in court on January 9 inform me that the judge was very edgy in his brief appearance (less than two minutes), merely announcing his decision in a couple of sentences and disappearing thereafter. Having reserved his decision for some months, he ought to have had his written reasons (grounds of judgment) ready for release that day. They have yet to be distributed. Most importantly, he was aware that the acquittal contradicted all his prior rulings against Anwar during the trial.

In the days following Anwar’s acquittal, apologists for the system have been heralding the dawn of a new era in judicial independence. Let me douse such naïve enthusiasm. Cases deemed “politically sensitive” by the judges are so predictable: the Executive always succeeds. Cases triggered by the Perak crisis of 2009 and those filed on behalf of the opposition states of Selangor, Kedah, Kelantan and Penang are recent examples.

An extreme illustration is provided by Kelantan’s oil royalty civil suit against Petronas (I disclose my involvement as Counsel for Kelantan). Bizarre and unprecedented rulings have been given by all the three levels of the highest Courts resulting in a transfer of a commercial dispute to the Civil Division, the intervention by the Federal Government as additional defendant when no claim is sought against it and the denial of discovery of documents by Petronas which is automatic in a writ action.

Accordingly, the Anwar acquittal will not be the harbinger of better things to come from the judiciary. One swallow does not make a summer!

Najib

If it is not the judge’s decision to acquit Anwar, it must follow that it was a political decision. Certainly two decisions indicate prior knowledge of government of the acquittal. First, it overturned its decision to prohibit the assembly of Anwar supporters in Kuala Lumpur, and agreed to allow them to congregate outside the court — even the police agree that there would be no risk when the crowd receives good news! Secondly, the government issued a press announcement within an hour of the court’s decision, welcoming the acquittal. Our bureaucracy never works at that speed.

It is ironic that from its first public announcement, the government has been claiming credit for the acquittal because it apparently demonstrates judicial independence. This is entirely misplaced. In a system of true separation of powers where the judiciary stands proudly and bravely independent of the executive, the executive can never be praised when judges make independent decisions.

That is how the system actually works. In Malaysia the system has been skewered from Merdeka and the executive can only be criticized for causing it. The executive can never receive praise if the system works as it is supposed to (which is not even the position in Malaysia).

What these announcements demonstrate is a “Freudian slip” on the part of the executive. It confirms that past judicial decisions were contrived at its behest. Because perception shades into reality, it would be difficult to convince the typical Malaysian who has become so cynical of the politically motivated prosecution and trial of Anwar, that his ultimate verdict was not similarly politically motivated. Thus, the fruit of a politically motivated trial is a politically motivated verdict.

Because it was a politically motivated trial, the ultimate acquittal decision was grounded in politics. It is an accepted premise among those campaigning for the hearts and minds of the Malaysian electorate, particularly in the Peninsula, that the real contest at the next election is for the Malay vote.

The Chinese apparently have given up on MCA and Gerakan, while the Indians are either too few or ambivalent about who to support. It should be kept in mind that in the last elections, Pakatan secured 51.3 per cent of the popular vote and 80 seats in West Malaysia.

Barisan Nasional secured 48.7 per cent of the popular vote and 85 seats. The opposition formed governments in 5 of the 11 States, and won 10 out of 11 Parliamentary seats in Kuala Lumpur. Thus a 3 per cent to 4 per cent swing of the popular vote would cause serious damage to Umno’s chances in Malaya.

In such a scenario, Sabah and Sarawak cannot be considered as safe deposits for Umno: political parties in East Malaysia have a habit of wanting to join the winning side so that they can be part of the Federal Government. Ideology and principle are also completely absent amongst the politicians on that side of the South China Sea.

It is against a background of a very close general election that Putrajaya made a political calculation: an acquitted Anwar would cause less electoral damage to Umno that a convicted Anwar. The martyr status must be denied to Anwar.

Beneficiaries of the Acquittal

The first beneficiary is Malaysia and its people. If the first sodomy trial in 1998-9 deeply divided and polarized Malaysia, the second trial was received much more cynically, with the vast majority of Malaysians not choosing to believe the version put forward by Saiful.

When the video scandal orchestrated by that paragon of virtue, Rahim Thamby Chik became known, most Malaysians preferred to accept Anwar’s version. The dirty tricks department of Umno lacks imagination and creativity, and their credibility has been shattered. Hopefully, they will leave Anwar alone. Hence, the acquittal was welcomed by probably the entire Malaysian population, apart from his old nemesis, Dr Mahathir who neither forgets nor forgives, and his small band of supporters.

Secondly, Anwar and his family, at a personal level. Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail has always behaved with remarkable poise and calm when her husband has faced the almighty wrath of the State. So have the children. To watch one’s spouse or father being humiliated on the public stage for years must be nerve-wrecking. They have conducted themselves with admirable dignity in terribly adverse conditions.

Politically, Anwar is also a great beneficiary of the verdict. His innocence, expressed from the very first moment in 2008, has been vindicated by a judge who had not shown him any sympathy and who had ruled against him in nearly every prior ruling throughout the trial. He is now a free man who spoke the truth (a rare commodity in Malaysian public life).

The greatest beneficiary is Pakatan Rakyat. Its three constituent parties must be congratulated for never wavering in their public position that their only candidate for the office of prime ministership is Anwar (even if he is in prison).

He is now free to become the nation’s 7th prime minister after the forthcoming general election. It is very much up to Pakatan to make that happen. They should focus on issues: the first that comes to mind is the economy. Bread and butter issues like the galloping cost of basic necessities caused by rampant inflation, the increasing disparity between the rich and the poor, and cheap wages paid to our workers because of the presence of some 3 to 4 million immigrants (legal or others) should be highlighted.

In the wake of the Great Depression in United States and Europe since the 2008 financial crisis caused primarily by grand scale borrowing and massive debt, it is grossly negligent for the Najib administration to spend lavishly by borrowing to stay in power.

Putrajaya’s debt to Gross Domestic Product (“GDP”) has increased in the 2 years of Najib’s leadership from 53.1 per cent to 54.8 per cent. In absolute terms, federal government debt jumped by 71 per cent in four years from RM266 billion in 2007 to RM456 billion in 2011.

In a recent statement, the Malaysian Institute of Economic Research (MIER) warned that at this rate of excessive spending, Malaysia’s national debt would equal its GDP by 2019: a truly frightening prospect. Have they heard of Greece or Ireland? Pakatan should highlight these facts. Lim Guan Eng’s prudent financial management of Penang, on the other hand, will erase its debt in four years, a remarkable achievement.

Anwar is the glue who cements PAS, DAP and Keadilan. He is their undisputed leader and unifying force. He should reduce his foreign travelling in the next 12 months, and concentrate on domestic politics. The nation has to be reminded of his leadership and administrative qualities: former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher in a visit to Malaysia in the early 1990’s publicly stated that she would “trade” him to become her minister of finance.

The politics of envy that characterized Anwar’s rise in Umno continued to bedevil him after his fall from grace in 1998. In the subsequent 13 years, numerous “famous” personalities joined his party or supported him, only to fall out dramatically. Each of them predicted the end of Anwar. Instead, where are Chandra Muzaffar, Zainur Zakaria, Ezam Nor, Zaid Ibrahim and Raja Petra Kamarudin?

If Umno perceives that it too can benefit from his acquittal, it is clearly wrong. The average voter will not easily forget that he was charged and tried by an Umno government. A mere acquittal will not erase the Umno stain in the way the State has persecuted Anwar for years. There would be electoral punishment.

The way ahead

Closure requires the government not to appeal the acquittal. The Attorney-General, as the chief legal adviser to the government, and the man whom Umno states took the decision to prosecute Anwar in 2008 should be accountable for his poor judgment. The buck stops at his office.

Both coalitions must discuss and debate weighty national issues, like the economy, education, health, public services or the over-development which is scarring our cities and creating a property bubble.

The electorate must be given a clear choice as to which coalition should be given the privilege of governing Malaysia for the next fiveears. A true two-party system must occur this time.

Fifty-four continuous years of one-party rule after independence is a sufficient learning curve, even for our cautious electorate! Is the next general election the time for change?

* Tommy Thomas is a lawyer who occasionally comments on politics and economics.

The GLBTs have been caned back into the closet. But, you know what? There are so many that the doors are bound to burst open. They aren’t, as the two-judge bench loftily concluded, only a ‘minuscule’ minority. If they aren’t to be seen it’s only because our patented hypocrisy has rendered it invisible.

The ‘perversion’ is more pervasive than we dare to admit, as I can professionally vouch for. In the early 1990s, I discovered this while writing on HIV, even if here it wasn’t the predominantly ‘Gay disease’. The dangers of ‘ostrichism’ – and the extent of same-sex orientation – were doubly driven home by the overwhelming number of questions related to homosexuality that surfaced from the audience at every AIDS seminar. The ignorance and sexual ambiguity were mind-boggling, even in elite, presumably ‘aware’ colleges.

Last week, liberal opinion that enjoys a virtual monopoly of the airwaves pilloried the Supreme Court for what some feel was its most disgraceful judgment since the infamous Habeas Corpus case of 1976. The decision to overturn the Delhi High Court judgment taking consensual same-sex relationships outside the purview of criminal laws has been viewed as an unacceptable assault on individual freedom and minority rights and even an expression of bigotry. Overcoming fears of a virulent conservative backlash, mainstream politicians have expressed their disappointment at the judgment and happily begun using hitherto unfamiliar shorthand terms such as LGBT.

Indeed, the most striking feature of the furore over the apex court judgment has been the relatively small number of voices denouncing homosexuality as ‘unnatural’ and deviant. This conservative passivity may even have conveyed an impression that India is changing socially and politically at a pace that wasn’t anticipated. Certainly, the generous overuse of ‘alternative’ to describe political euphoria and cultural impatience may even suggest that tradition has given way to post-modernity.

Yet, before urban India is equated with the bohemian quarters of New York and San Francisco, some judgmental restraint may be in order. The righteous indignation against conservative upholders of family values are not as clear cut as may seem from media reports. There are awkward questions that have been glossed over and many loose ends that have been left dangling.

A year ago, a fierce revulsion against the rape and murder of a young woman in Delhi led to Parliament amending the Penal Code and enacting a set of laws that extended the definition of rape and made punishment extremely stringent. It was the force of organized public opinion that drove the changes. Curiously, despite the Supreme Court judgment stating quite categorically that it was the responsibility of Parliament to modify section 377, there seems to be a general aversion to pressuring the law-makers to do their job and bring the criminal law system into the 21st century. Is it because India is bigoted or is there a belief that there are some issues that are best glossed over in silence?

This dichotomy of approach needs to be addressed. Conventionally, it is the job of the legislatures to write laws and for the judiciary to assess their accordance with the Constitution and to interpret them. In recent years, the judiciary has been rightly criticised for over-stepping its mark and encroaching into the domain of both the executive and the legislatures. Yet, we are in the strange situation today of the government seeking to put the onus of legitimising homosexuality on the judges.

Maybe there are larger questions involved. The battle over 377 was not between a brute majoritarianism and a minority demanding inclusion. The list of those who appealed against the Delhi High Court verdict indicates it was a contest between two minorities: religious minorities versus lifestyle minorities. Formidable organizations such as the All India Muslim Personal Law Board and some church bodies based their opposition to gay rights on theology. Liberal promoters of sexual choice on the other hand based the claim of decriminalised citizenship on modernity and scientific evidence. In short, there was a fundamental conflict between the constitutionally-protected rights of minority communities to adhere to faiths that abhor same-sex relationships and the right of gays to live by their own morals. Yet, if absolute libertarianism was to prevail, can the khap panchayats be denied their perverse moral codes?

The answer is yes but only if it is backed by majority will, expressed through Parliament. Harsh as it may sound, it is the moral majority that determines the social consensus.

There is a curious paradox here. On the question of gay rights, liberal India prefers a cosmopolitanism drawn from the contemporary West. At the same time, its endorsement of laws that are nondenominational and non-theological does not extend to support for a common civil code. Despite the Constitution’s Directive Principles, the right of every citizen to be equal before the law is deemed to be majoritarian and therefore unacceptable by the very people who stood up for inclusiveness last week.

For everything that is true of India, the opposite is turning out to be equally true.

I won’t mince my words.

Bigotry is an Indian essence. One doesn’t need historian Herbert George Wells to divulge the details. A cursory glance in the past will highlight the present.

The country has the longest list of goddesses and yet not very many days back had thrown fresh widows to the fire. This is a country where wine and warmth walk hand in hand with thirst and cold. This is the birth place of ambiguity where veiled idealism and virulent prejudice are one and the same expression.

The recent verdict by the Indian Supreme Court will shock the world but not the avid lover of Indian History. This inherent cyclical, repetitive quality will frustrate the modern society but not the architects of modern India. Such is the intolerable tolerance of Indians.

It is acceptable to draw revenue from international tourism thronging the holy walls of Khajuraho temples replete with lesbianism but to think of a female kissing another female in real life is sacrilegious. It needed a million rapes to stir the Indian Court hardened in insensitivity. Rape from opposite sex thrives in the same land where same sex love gets criminalized.
If the verdict disturbs me as a human, it horrifies me as a physician.

Coming at a time when UNAIDS lauds India’s impressive performance in curbing down incidences of AIDS, this verdict is a walk straight back to the mud. Let us remind ourselves how good Indian health system has performed in its control of AIDS.
According to a new UN report which praised India’s contribution to AIDS response through manufacture of generic antiretroviral drugs, new HIV cases among adults have declined by half in India since 2000. UNADIS further reports, that India already provides substantial support to neighboring countries and other Asian countries – in 2011, it allocated 430 million dollars to 68 projects in Bhutan and across key socio-economic sectors, including health, education and capacity-building.

And this is exactly here where the court verdict comes out as primitive and pathetic.

In matchless insipidity, the Indian Court fails to fathom the Indian connection with HIV. Literature clearly points out that in India; men having sex with men (MSM) for obvious stigmatized reasons do not come out as homosexuals and actually harbor female partners. The consequences are easy to fathom and fatal. As serodiscordant couples (infected males in the company of uninfected females), the risk of transmission is unlimited.

The more we criminalize personal choices, the more we cloud the society. A meaningless darkness that can only harbor hunger behind closed doors. Good luck to the tireless social worker trying to spread the good words of safe sex and proper education.

Which homosexual will come out and seek education on HIV if we have thrown the entire palette of criminal colors on his or her face? What mawkish moral justice is demonstrated when one completely shuts off visibility?
Who exactly are these men and women stalking the corridors of Indian Supreme Court?

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Can we kill cancer before it kills us? 

According to literature, the first documented cases of cancer came from the Egyptian civilization. Egyptians are also credited for capturing time in their clepsydra, the hourglass predecessor. But like time that floated timeless before water clocks, so did cancer…firm in their presence way before the first human inhaled the first breath.

It’s almost like darkness without which light cannot exist. Same with our human body. Or so it seems. Normal and abnormal, physiology and pathology, sequence and mutation…they all walk hand in hand, one outsmarting the other. Cancer thus, as a subsequence of genetic or epigenetic alterations was always waiting to happen from the very moment a gene was created.

Thus to call cancer a disease is under-respecting the beast that hides beneath the veneer.  This is not diabetes that can be blood tested. This is not high blood pressure that can be numbered. We are dealing with a happening that is at once subtle and coarse. We are dealing with the stealthiest of the snakes that does not give a hint to the air before the final fatal flaunt.

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A vibrant Parliament is considered the hallmark of a democracy. Its rebuke then certainly provides some food for thought, especially when it comes from someone closely associated with the working of the government Malaysian Parliamentarians “very lazy” and advocated that they be made more “transparent, accountable and hard working”

There is a lack of intellectual discussion among , one other word that rightly describes rowdy and rude MPs  conduct in Parliament, apart from obstructionism, is “rudeness”. Whether it is senior leaders of the party or ordinary spokespeople, the common trait that all of them possess is uncouth aggression, calling others names, disallowing them from speaking, disrupting proceedings, booing ministers….The only thing left now for the party to descend to the bottommost pits is getting physical. may want to keep two consequences of this style in mind. First, and most important  would imagine, it does not win them additional voters. All that it does is make those already supporting it swing further in support. voters – most of whom are not as aggressive – watch with disgust and anger it is worth examining the performance of Parliament itself. Unlike most paid working groups, there are no clearly spelt out for members of parliament, but data put together from a few sources shows that our Parliamentarians have quite a checkered performance if you analyse parameters such as attendance, legislation or adherence to poll promises.

Let’s take attendance at the workplace, to begin with. Both houses of the parliament haven’t functioned for 100 % of their scheduled hours in any session If anything, Parliamentarians may do good to restore people’s faith by injecting a dose of accountability. How exactly can this be done remains a complex question.

Annual audits of MPs performance and the right to recall elected representatives (withdraw their representation if they fail to perform). The  Malaysian Voter campaign urges citizens to look at MPs To-do list, pick up the phone and demand accountability from them on their promises. There would be many more such suggestions out there.

do spare a thought for them. In this country, the common man should be the real VIP, and if such a privilege is indeed to be provided, can there be anyone better than those who have been elected by the common man himself? If sundry  Rosmah and others who are installed at various posts can enjoy this privilege, why shouldn’t those who represent us in Parliament? Sound logic!

Till some mechanism is evolved, we’ll simply have to wait for elections to give our score-points.In this country, the common man should be the real VIP, and if such a privilege is indeed to be provided, can there be anyone better than those who have been elected by the common man himself? If sundry babus and others who are installed at various posts can enjoy this privilege, why shouldn’t those who represent us in Parliament? Sound logic! have no idea where this fetish for VIP status began with Najib’s beloved2 class first lady Rosmah , but it seems to afflict almost everyone. Those who have made it in life, those who want to make it in life and those who want to bask in borrowed/reflected glory, the desire to be a VIP is all-pervasive. If you have to stand in a queue to get your work done, then you are not important enough. You must be someone, or know someone who can help you jump the queue. Even better, if you can do things conspicuously, that is, the rest of the poor souls who are miserable in the queue should know that you are important enough and have been made to jump the queue. To blame it on the mindset of the wannabe VIPs alone would be wrong, for the common man too suffers from the same, medieval mindset, where the only way you think that a person is important is if he can bend rules and still go scot-free, and perhaps thumb his nose at the law as well.

The fact is that whether we like it or not, the general mindset is that of a ruler and his subjects. We elect our MPs and MLAs to rule, never to govern. We elect them to put them on a pedestal that is out of reach of the common people. We want them to be rulers like the kings and the queens, or at least as important courtiers, who are lesser evils, but VIPs nevertheless.

It is our mindset that equates power with importance and with respect. If you are unable to flout rules, if you are questioned by the ‘long arm of law’, you are a nobody, not even a wannabe. To blame the poor members of Parliament for asking for a red light on their cars is just rewards for our mindset.

Having said that, however, we can see a slow but certain change in the mindset creeping in. Some VIPs are getting the wind (like Khanduri), but the MPs, it seems, are yet to get the wind. Hope they realise it soon. I’d be happier if they learn it the hard way.

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Here is a copy of the speech delivered  by  the new Federal Territories Minister Datuk Seri Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor. as originally planned, but changed at the last minute, for reasons of  Kuala Lumpur City Hall will have deficit of RM292.7 million next year despite a 28% increase in revenue from higher assessment rates, said its mayor while unveiling the local authority’s budget today.  had come down and people could cry. is very expensive now, please use Scam fatigue. Simple truth. We are tired. In statistics, this is like many dependences coming together to form correlations, regardless of the variables thrown. Take any activity inKuala Lumpur City Hall , and there will be a scam in them somewhere, and nabbing those scamsters has now become a reason for media noise. It all comes together, eventually, with no action against the really guilty and some fall guys going to jail for a while. Or having suicide committed on them.In some circles in corruption , especially a game played more by fixing to let some people win by people with big balls smashing smaller dimpled balls whilst shouting “par”, this is being called “convergence”. In as,Kuala Lumpur City Hall is now converging back to an era where there were them who would suffer extortion, and there are us who will go around shouting “corruption corruption corruption ” when people resist extortion Issues of traffic congestion, flash floods and housing for civil servants are the main focus of the new Federal Territories Minister Datuk Seri Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor.

Clocking in at the ministry for the first time Friday, Tengku Adnan said apart from going to the ground, he would also convene a series of discussions with Kuala Lumpur Mayor Datuk Seri Ahmad Phesal Talibto get a better my foot understanding and find solutions to these issues. We have been told that convergence is coming to Kuala Lumpur City Hall , on the back of ring tripping through new Federal Territories Minister Datuk Seri Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor  mostly, and it will solve all the problems that we are facing. Including rising cost of not considered to be helping in stemming the cost of living for Malaysians, while the oil, sugar, and electricity price increases are currently the major concerns as well as cost more allocations were made for road infrastructure projects and the city expects its total expenditure to be at RM2.79 billion, an increase of 20% from this year. , which we are told, is to assist in fixing things like gardens, toilets, roads and those sentry boxes which keep coming up all over the city.

In fact, fixing has become a bad word, just like fags is no longer polite either. “Pass me a fag” can get you into a lot of trouble now, and I don’t mean of the cancer ward sort only, but also under this Act and that Section you can be thrown into jail. As a result, nothing is fixed anymore, it is simply brushed away under the carpet. All the people whose job it is to fix things appear to now have thrown in the towel.It is no longer only the fags and faggers who are getting fixed.So, for example, near where I live, the roads have not been fixed in years.

The Kuala Lumpur City Hall will have deficit of RM292.7 million next year despite a 28% increase in revenue from higher assessment rates, said its mayor while unveiling the local authority’s budget today.

Datuk Ahmad Phesal Talib (pic) had said that more allocations were made for road infrastructure projects and the city expects its total expenditure to be at RM2.79 billion, an increase of 20% from this year.

City Hall had expected to see a 36% increase or RM1.2 billion in revenue from the assessment rate hike brought about by the new property valuation done by its officers.

‘What about about about your conspiracy, money power ,media power to force  Najib to step down the 59-year-old Najib would be the latest casualtyIt looks like Malaysia will be getting a new prime minister even before the G14 general election,

case that has led to outrage  and evoked an sympathetic reaction in UMNO is a classic case of where most people can’t see the wood for the trees. A large section of the Mahathir control Media has described the  fury in racist Mahathir AND HIS PEOPLE, sanctimonious and orientalist terms and many commentators in UMNO have resorted to defensive logical fallacies such Mahathir, Daim and Sanusi have said much or more directly to the Prime Minister than we dare say in this blog,”.Kadir also said those who are alleging Mahathir, Daim and Sanusi’s involvement in the conspiracy  the PM and the governmen thttp://suarakeadilanmalaysia.wordpress.com energy to respond to former Premier bigger blog blog in defence of the PM and the government.

It was that mistake that promoted and propelled the success of the otherwise little known medium. Ministers called bloggers goblok (Javanese for a stupid person) and penembak curi (sniper) while Khairy Jamaluddin, then an Abdullah (Ahmad Badawi) aide, called them monkeys.

“Their attacks against bloggers were widely reported by the mainstream media. This had resulted in making the public curious about blogs and they soon started to surf the internet to find what the commotion was all about.Many went on to become ardent followers of blogs,” he added. Kadir also revealed that even he was advised to tone down with regard to his attacks on Najib and to “lay off” Rosmah Mansor.

“I told them that since we are the rakyat then there must be a government. The rakyat elected the government and pay the taxes. So it is our right and privilege to let the government know what we feel. In any case, it was the PM who once said that the era of the government knowing all was over,” he said

Kadir A Jasin drove Berita Publishing, which he acquired from Nst for RM 1, into the ground. Now that he’s in trouble, he’s hitting out at Najib in a panic. He hopes Najib will throw him at least some crumbs to buy his “silence”. In that sense, he’s following in the footsteps of Rocky the Blogger who has been laughing all the way to the bank.

Veteran newsman Kadir A Jasin has been turning up the heat on Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak.But more interestingly, Kadir also mentions the speculation of certain ancient and powerful forces working with him to undermine the Prime Minister.Senior UMNO politicians like Dr Mahathir Mohamad, Daim Zainuddin and Sanusi Junid

Instead of pointing fingers at past leaders, these people should take on   head on. Kalau anak jantan apa nak takut? (If you are a man, why fear?),” said.The former New Straits Times Group Editor-in-Chief also questioned the need for Mahathir to use his blog when the former Premier has an even bigger blog to his name.”And Daim? Why should he want to get his hand dirty here when he is known to have written nasty letters directly to past and present prime ministers? Those accusing this blog of being the mouthpiece of Daim should ask the Prime Minister how many letters of advice he has received from Daim.

Kadir A Jasin drove Berita Publishing, which he acquired from Nst for RM 1, into the ground. Now that he’s in trouble, he’s hKadir A Jasin drove Berita Publishing, which he acquired from Nst for RM 1, into the ground. Now that he’s in trouble, he’s hitting out at Najib in a panic. He hopes Najib will throw him at least some crumbs to buy his “silence”. In that sense, he’s following in the footsteps of Rocky the Blogger who has been laughing all the way to the bank.Hitting out at Najib in a panic. He hopes Najib will throw him at least some crumbs to buy his “silence”. In that sense, he’s following in the footsteps of Rocky the Blogger who has been laughing all the way to the bank.The task is to decipher the moral basis of the Malay political community into actionable language . People in the end obey the law because they think it is fair and just, that it applies equally to all, and because they get morally habituated to it. It thus becomes a form of self-restraint . Hence, equally disturbing, is Muhammad Shafee celebrity federal prosecutor role in this entire episode. The legal circles in UMNO are abuzz with rumours of Shafee’s unbridled political ambitions.readmore Mahathir’s productions with AR Rahman music a comedy piece JUBOQ SAIFOOL A NATIONAL SECURITY ISSUE SHAFEETO APPEAL SODOMApparently, he seeks a larger leadership role for himself post his stint as  Malaysia Attorney GeneralAG. Ghani  may well have been the ideal sacrificial lamb for him to assuage any doubts about his loyalty to Mahathir. His hypocrisy in dealing with cases, hardly going after friends of Mahathir  becomes evident when contrasted with the treatment currently pursuing Anwar with great ferocity.readmore Shafee vs Shafee don’t laugh at Malaysian law and Judiciary

Those who recall the entertainment the ‘Khairy Chronicles’ provided COVER BOOK_NAJIBInternet followers in the middle years of the last decade when the blogosphere began to draw Malaysians to it as an alternate source of news and comment will have sat up the past week to take notice that a reprise may be at hand.

The ‘Khairy Chronicles’ was a titillating amalgam of half-truths, gossip, rumour and conjecture that Raja Petra Kamarudin deployed in his blog Malaysia Today as soon as the new-broom sheen the Abdullah Ahmad Badawi administration sported on being installed in late 2003 began to pall by 2006.

Malaysians with access to foreign-owned regional periodicals have long suspected that the facts behind the published news on national politics are more riveting than the disinfected version the newspapers, all owned by the ruling class or affiliates, decided to print.

In the years before the inception of web news portals, readers eagerly waited for the periodicals to tell them what the mainstream newspapers found too risqué to disclose.

Thus when the blogosphere saw the emergence in the middle years of the last decade of a tattler like Raja Petra , he quickly gained a following for his irreverent musings, with followers of his stuff no longer reliant – for an inkling of what’s happening – on those foreign-owned periodicals which in any case were fast becoming defunct.

RPKAs quickly as he emerged, Raja Petra faded in 2011 as supplier of title tattle that kept droves on edge with his revelations. The reasons for his retreat were as mysterious as the sources that fed him grist for his mill when he hit out at targets which in his prime were the Abdullah family and, latter, the then Deputy Prime Minister Najib Razak and his dear wife, Rosmah Mansor.

Since the time of Raja Petra’s evanescence as prime purveyor of editorial contraband in 2011, the void he left was somewhat filled by Rafizi Ramli, the strategic director of PKR, from under whose bonnet there steadily emerged news of shenanigans in high places.

The most sensational in this genre was the RM250 million national cattle breeding scandal in which the family of Wanita UMNO leader Shahrizat Abdul Jalil was embroiled. Juicy revelations were trotted out in the alternate media and remained as scuttlebutt for punch lines on opposition campaign circuits in the lead-up to the general election last May.

The source-field for that kind of stuff of which Rafizi became the go-to conduit appears to have been turned off, presumably by the recent passing of laws that impose deterrent fines and jail terms on those guilty of leaking any information that the authorities consider secret.

Shifting gears

With that cut-off, a void has developed into which has seemingly stepped a former top editor whose blog, when it was launched several years ago, was not known for more than its commentaries on public affairs. In the past week or so, the blogger has ventured on to turf once treaded by Raja Petra.

A Kadir Jasin, the NST group’s former editorial No 1, has shifted gears in his widelyA Kadir Jasin followed blog, perhaps opting to fill the vacuum left by Raja Petra. A staunch UMNO supporter, Kadir’s long smoldering distaste for PM Najib ratcheted up in intensity after the UMNO elections in October and broke out into the open at the conclusion of the party’s annual general assembly last week.

What appears to have got Kadir’s goat was Najib’s defence of wife Rosmah at the party meeting where the PM disclosed that Malaysian students stranded in Egypt during the Arab Spring were rescued from danger through Rosmah’s intercessory efforts with higher-ups she was acquainted with in the Arab world.

Dripping sarcasm, Kadir suggested in his blog The Scribe by Kadir Jasin that Rosmah ought to be made a minister because her talents have rendered redundant present holders of the portfolios of education, international trade and foreign affairs. He said there would be no problem about her lack of a seat in Parliament because there was the Senate to which she could be appointed, in readiness perhaps for her to contest for a seat in the lower house at the 14th general election.

Kadir’s sarcasm was too succulent for the other blogs and websites to ignore so thatrosmah-najib when one that had posted a piece had to take it down, reportedly on orders from the PM’s Department, the scribe’s gills overflowed, the sarcasm this time tinged with vitriol.

Kadir’s venomous squirts were reserved for Najib, but Shahrizat was also sprayed, his scorn for her description of Najib as the “grandmaster” of political moves – “chest master” Kadir punned – a term certain to acquire cocktail-party immortality.readmoreDatuk A. Kadir Jasin want Najib to be replaced by Rosmah

That’s was not all. Kadir said he would soon have details of what the fawningSHAHRIZAT JALIL Shahrizat actually thinks about Najib, something if indeed Kadir follows through with will surely turn a cockpit into a cauldron.

Najib may have won the general election last May and was triumphant at the UMNO internal polls in October, but he cannot be certain of turning the double win into a sweep of all he surveys in the party.Filth and Evil never ever changes – it can hide, camouflage itself, but will never deliver benefits. filth and evil, you deserve to get screwed (likely from the back after witnessing the penchant for posterior talents)  Mahathir’s self-fulfilling prophecy on  Najib The situation is serious, certainly.

Obviously the irony of his statement was lost. Therefore, it is evident that proportionality of response is clearly not this Najib government’s.forte.The sad truth is that Malaysia is now viewed  as a third-rate , with a hyper-corrupt and dysfunctional government. We received startling corroboration of this unfortunate fact when  Najib’s cabinet ministers went ballistic in the news press; a lot of hot air was pumped out for public consumption to preemptively dispel any talk of Najib’s weakened status abroad. Instead of speaking in one firm voice, Najib delivered a belated and confused response to the Rosmah crisis. It was comical to hear one senior cabinet minister Zaid Hameedi exhort to the press,“Like it or not, Mohd Najib and his staff that run the ‘Bilik Perang’ (War Room) BN should sincerely, openly and transparently admit that their boasts had memakan diri (failed) and they lost to Abdullah and his Fourth Floor Boys.”http://suarakeadilanmalaysia.wordpress.com/2013/05/31/umno2013-najib-vs-muhyiddinnajib-a-metaphor-for-family-run-politics-muhyiddin-yassin-is-not/

Obviously the irony of  statement was lost on the minister. Therefore, it is evident that proportionality of response is clearly not this government’s forte.We received startling corroboration of this unfortunate fact when  cabinet ministers went ballistic in the news press; a lot of hot air was pumped out for public consumption to preemptively dispel any talk of  Najib’s weakened status . Instead of speaking in one firm voice,  followed by the mindless act  that Putrajaya funded some of its programmes is proof that taxpayers’ funds are being used the   cabinet ministers  delivered a belated and confused response to the crisis. It was comical to hear one senior cabinet minister exhort to the press, “We are not a banana republic!” and equally disturbing, is the Minister’s role in this entire episode. The legal circles in  PutraJaya are abuzz with rumours Ministers ’s unbridled political ambitions. Apparently, he seeks a larger leadership role for himself may well have been the ideal sacrificial lamb for him to assuage any doubts about his loyalty to Najib. the unholy spat between  UMNO and PKR’s N Surendran  over  helping the right wing pressure group Perkasa humiliation have put some uncomfortable realities about  PKR’s N Surendran Racialist His hypocrisy in  demands that we take a hard look at these developments.Padang Serai MP N. Surendran should go after the brutal might of the criminal justice system like a commoner,  In the eyes of  the Malaysian Constitution  ,  Najib is not an ordinary citizen of New York, as opposed to what.Padang Serai MP N. Surendran   has been screaming to the press. On the contrary she is an island of Malaysian  law unto himself, bound by the laws and dictates of the Malaysian Constitution – and certainly answerable for any misdemeanors, but only within the confines of Malaysian’s jurisdiction. Padang Serai MP N. Surendran his personal indiscretions are Malaysian’s problem and our legal system is capable of dealing with those allegations. This ‘protectionto to Perkasa  ’ or ‘ immunity’ is a privilege granted to all Malays.  PKR’s N Surendran  shall be committed to prison, or be liable to any form of restriction on their personal freedom, save in execution of a judicial decision of final effect.for saying making  press statements against Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak.It does not take a legal scholar to understand the intent and effect of these making  press statements against Prime Minister. What is bewildering, however, is why.Padang Serai MP N. Surendran   chose to act like a vigilante cowboy instead of deferring to the better sense of his colleagues in the US State Department. Why can’t Indians — or at least rich, or middle-class Indians — live without  being  Slaves?  Slaves to Pakatan thundering press statements against Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak   If it hadn’t been for this seeming compulsion for Indians to have bigotry feeling, helping in right wing pressure group Perkasa.  whether PKR’s N Surendran  was casting too much judgment on Prime Minister who stood accused of corruption, but had not been convicted.N Surendran says the people have a right to know the amount of their money that has been spent on the ‘extremist group’.PKR has urged Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak to declare the full extent of public funds that have been spent to support the right wing pressure group Perkasa.Padang Serai MP N. Surendran asked why public funds and resources were being used to assist and promote a notorious organisation like Perkasa. SyedHassan yesterday, dismissed the aid given to Perkasa as insignificant, saying it was “not more than what was given to other NGOs, including Chinese and Indian NGOs”.Surendran said that government funds and resources should not be used to support Umno’s narrow and racial political objectives.”That sounds like the theme from Mighty Mouse,” Syed Hassan  said, according to a Law360 report on the October  event, hosted by the Practising Law Institute. “This seems to be designed for tabloid consumption… there should be a question asked that is that appropriate at the pre-conviction stage.” The criticism, the report said, was seen to be particularly damning, coming as it did from  a lawyer who is believed to be equally merciless towards corrupt politicians and people in high places. ”Laypeople can’t read a complaint.” Perkasa’s admission that is proof that taxpayers’ funds are being used to promote the Government’s “divide and rule” policy. Selangor state deputy speaker Nik Nazmi Nik Ahmad (pic) said this showed Umno-Barisan Nasional’s “true colours”. “We (Pakatan Rakyat) have always stressed that Perkasa was Umno-BN’s ‘tool’ to ignite racial issues. “Perkasa’s disclosure confirms our allegations. Taxpayers’ funds have been used to subsidise a racist organisation,” he said in a statement today. He also targeted BTN, saying that in funding Perkasa, it helped spread racist propaganda. “The 1Malaysia slogan and messages of transformation espoused by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak are meaningless if Purtajaya is funding Perkasa.”This is the first PM of Malaysia ever to use sexual intonations in many of his important speeches. It is not what you eat that reflects the spirituality of man but what foul comes out of the mouth.The newly elected top leaders have too much baggage to fight without fear or favour within BN. Najib … Read more by Paul Krugman@http://www.nytimes.com This is a tale of three money pits. It’s also a tale of monetary regress — of the strange determination of many people to turn the clock back on centuries of progress.

UMNO THE OTHER STORY ONE MALAYSIA STORY FOR EVERY MALAY, A DOZEN SEEDS ARE BEING FERTILIZED

Note that this is not meant to be a calumny or attempt at defamation. It is an attempt to find the truth. The questions I posed are based on widely available public sources. I am willing to amend this post if evidence is presented to me contrary to any of the points raised. May the truth prevail. Joshua Benjamin Jeyaretnam, a lawyer, was the first opposition party candidate to be elected a member of parliament in Singapore, 16 years after the country gained independence. But he was brought down by a series of allegedly politically-motivated charges and fines that saw him disbarred, bankrupted, and prevented from taking part in future elections.

“He used to engage in heated debates in the house. Perhaps it was because he and the PAP never saw eye to eye on any major political issue and he sought by all means to demolish the PAP and our system of government,” Lee had written in his 2008 letter. “Unfortunately, this helped neither to build up a constructive opposition nor our parliamentary tradition.”

Former Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yewthe longest serving prime minister in the world, having served in that capacity for 30 years . During his political life spanning a period of 50 years, he became one of the longest serving ministers in world history. He served for a total of half a century.Lee’s brother studied law at the University of Cambridge. After university they set up a law firm called Lee & Lee. This is the firm that Lee left to join politics later on. Lee had another brother called Freddy who became a stockbroker while another brother studied medicine at the University of Cambridge. The doctor later on opened a successful practice.There are many other members of Lee’s family who hold great positions in Singapore. Lee has a daughter, Lee Wei Ling, who presides over the National Neuroscience Institute in Singapore.

Between 1963 and 1965, there was a merger between Singapore and Malaysia.
The merger was proposed by the Malayan Prime Minister. They wanted to form a political federation consisting of Singapore, Sarawak, Malaya and Sabah. This was in 1961. The aim of the merger was to end the British colonial rule in Singapore. As a result they carried out a referendum where 70 % of the citizens were in support for the merger. There was a short-term union of Singapore and Malaysia. There were were more challenges than advantages in the merger. By 1965 Singapore was a state that lacked natural resources. Singapore depended solely on Malaysia for its water supply and there was limited defense capability. There were great challenges that faced Lee at the time when the nation of Singapore was created in 1965.

PM 1965 – 1990 Lee started out by seeking the recognition of Singapore from a refugee state as  independent country. The first step in that direction involved the joining of the United Nations on September, 1965.whether to challenge authoritarian practices in Southeast Asia were more of a professional and principled decision. So you fight on principle,“Now, it’s more of a business decision. They ask themselves, ‘Does it make economic sense?’

Why is there no demand for any investigation? or even an explanation? Why are no questions asked? Why are the allegations dismissed with a practiced air of nonchalance?What explains the thundering silence? And what is the price for this silence?

There is no bigger taboo in Singapore’s free press than asking hard and pointed questions of the Lee Kuan Yew Racialist family.  Few  journalists have ventured into this territory. Fewer still have asked the really uncomfortable questions. Questions that demand answers but have been conveniently ignored, dismissed and even forgotten.Questions for example  why Malays are drafted in the armed forces in Singapore apparently held under .suspicion……..This was done with the help of Israeli military advisers, who were closely … Malays were virtually excluded from conscription from the beginning of the draft in 1967

At the recent general assembly of UMNO, the anchor party of the multi-racial BN coalition, 1Malaysia was hardly mentioned in Najib’s keynote speech. Yet when resolutions were debated, one delegate sought to kill the whole idea, calling for 1Malaysia to be replaced by “1Melayu” – or 1Malay, referring to the majority community that UMNO represents.

Najib did not respond in defence of 1Malaysia. Instead his entire rhetoric during the assembly was primarily about advancing the Malay and Muslim agenda – signifying a major refocusing on this core constituency as UMNO gears up early for the 14th GE.

Unchallenged as president in party elections prior to the assembly, Najib has one eye on his own political survival. The still influential former Prime Mnister Mahathir Mohamad has been uneasy about the BN’s worst showing at the May 5 polls and may want to ease Najib out, just as he did to Najib’s predecessor Abdullah Badawi. As his popularity dips due to some economic belt-tightening policies expected in the new year, Najib’s swing to appease the UMNO conservatives is not surprising.

Party hardliners are convinced that the multi-ethnic BN’s political survival rests increasingly with UMNO, whose survival in turn rests on the Malay constituency, which is synonymously Muslim. While 1Malaysia was designed to embrace all the races, its failure to attract the non-Malays, especially the ethnic Chinese, at the last

Particularly ominous is the thundering silence around disturbing questions to do  Lee Kuan Yew’s daughter-in-law Ho Ching as executive director of state-owned investment company Temasek Holdings, Inc. , arguably the most powerful  family in Singapore today family’s interests above those of the country in Ho’s appointment, and that her husband Lee Hsien Loong and father-in-law were guilty of nepotism. The apology added that the writer could have implied that Ho’s appointment was made not on merit, “but in order to indulge the interests of the Lee family or for some other corrupt motive.”.  Why has there been no discussion on these numerous transgressions and apparent violations? None of these questions have been publicly answered (to the best of my knowledge). None of the allegations have been openly challenged or followed up – neither by journalists, nor investigative reporters nor the opposition.With the Lee family having won several defamation cases against opposition politicians and media organizations, involving large monetary compensation .

Leading Singapore media freedom advocate Professor Cherian George says Singapore’s courts tend to disregard the standard defense against defamation that it is justified in the public interest. Based on previous judgments, he says, the courts in Singapore tend to side with the public official’s right to protect his or her reputation rather than the need for open and vigorous public debate. “It’s very hard to find an argument to defend your client. In Singapore, the public interest argument has not been taken seriously by the courts,” he says.

In most cases, lawyers simply advise defendants to apologize and reach an out-of-court settlement. Nowadays, foreign publications find it makes economic sense to apologize and pay damages rather than contest the charges in court, says Prof. George. A prolonged legal battle, which they know they will almost certainly lose, will be far more expensive.In a September 2002 report in The Australian, Sydney lawyer and journalist Stuart Littlemore, who has studied several defamation cases in Singapore, said that no foreign publisher has successfully defended a libel action against a Singapore politician, and that when these leaders win their case, the average monetary compensation awarded is usually S$450,000, which is 12 times the compensation when the defendant is a Singapore citizen

Once you’ve read Yang Razali Kassim article you wouldn’t need to read the rest  in his mind “Don’t let the grass grow under your feet.”

As the new year begins, the big signal from Najib is that “1Malaysia” will probably have to be set aside as an electoral strategy. This is significant as it could mean that his vision of a unified, cohesive and inclusive plural society that was much touted in the 2013 GE – is as good as cast to the backburner.

“It’s a divide between the successful and the less successful which happens in every society. The successful have forgotten that without the peace and stability that made their education, their job or their business opportunities possible, they would never have made it. But having made it, they think they made it on their own. Some students from the top schools like Raffles Institution or Hwa Chong, they go abroad and they think that they had done it on their own. They don’t owe the government or society anything. They are bright chaps, but how did they make it? Because we kept a balance in society. With peace, stability, we built up our education system and enabled the brightest to rise to the top.”

“Will we alwas be able to get the most dedicated and the most capable, with integrity to devote their lives t this? I hope so, but forever, I dont know.

I can see the change in values and attitudes of a different generation who feels that, you know, I’m not going to spend my life in public service like my father or my uncle. I see no reason for that. The place is running, let somebody else do it. Who is that somebody else? Have we got such a plethora of talent, capable, honest, dedicated? We haven’t.”

UMNO’s three-pronged strategy towards GE14

This conservative logic formed the bedrock of the “back to basics” strategy that was spelt out by Najib, whose speech was themed “Fortifying the Future”. Going forward, UMNO will pursue three strategic thrusts – or what Najib called the “three messages from the assembly”: The first is a turn towards Islamic Shariah; the second is a stronger Malay and bumiputra agenda, for which, he said, UMNO need not be apologetic; and the third a “transformed UMNO” as a “party of the 21st century”. It is significant that UMNO as the “party of the future” will become not just more Malay, but Islamist at the same time.

Becoming more Islamist for a Malay-nationalist party like UMNO is an equally significant shift. Ideologically-driven Islamist parties actually find ethno-nationalism objectionable. UMNO clearly is positioning itself as the primary political vehicle for the Malay and Muslim constituency, thus raising the prospects of an all-out contest for power with the opposition Islamist PAS, even as UMNO – paradoxically – woos PAS for unity talks.

UMNO’s drift towards a more Islamist identity was marked by a highly controversial drive to pitch itself as the defender of Sunni Islam in the face of what it paints as the growing threat of Shiism in the country. The federal constitution would be reworded to define the official religion as “Islam Sunnah Wal Jamaah” or Sunni Islam, not simply Islam. That this move is partly politically-motivated is seen in the immediate targeting of the PAS deputy leader as a closet Shia and therefore a threat.

The second thrust of a greater push for the Malay and bumiputra agenda is clearly aimed at solidifying the Peninsular-East Malaysia axis around the Malay core. Najib conceded the crucial role of the “fixed deposit” states of Sabah and Sarawak in BN’s ultimate win in the last GE. As many see it, if not for these two states, there would have been a change of government in Malaysia. With Najib’s renewed emphasis on the Malay and bumiputra agenda, the New Economic Policy that officially ended in 1990 but was unofficially continued, has finally been resurrected in all but name. CEOs of all government-linked companies have been given KPIs to realise this goal on pain of seeing their contracts not renewed.

To complete the three-pronged strategy, UMNO will go all out to win the young voters. In the next GE, some six million new voters will be casting for the first time. The majority are likely to be anti-establishment and anti-UMNO. They could make a difference whether there will finally be a change of government or not in GE14. No wonder Najib made it clear: UMNO must win over the young voters and master the social media with which the young are savvy.

Implications

Most of Malaysia’s mainstream newspapers appear to have taken a hit since the May 5 general election for perceived biased reporting, Singapore’s the Straits Times (ST) said today. media in Singpore loves to play god. To be the moral compass of the nation. If we find Lee Kuan Yew moral policing in Malaysia  to be unacceptable (public display of affection in with Rosmah and Najib,  we should find media’s moral politicing unacceptable too. Besides, its not just moral policing. Media also abuses its powers in other ways – by character assassination of whoever it wants to. It uses this power routinely with politicians when TV anchors become judges and pass verdicts. And now media has started using its power against private institutions as well.But we either believe in democracy or we don’t. If we do, then, we must say categorically, without qualification, that no restraint from the any democratic processes, other than by the ordinary law of the land, should be allowed… If you believe in democracy, you must believe in it unconditionally. If you believe that men should be free, then, they should have the right of free association, of free speech, of free publication. Then, no law should permit those democratic processes to be set at nought, and no excuse, whether of security, should allow a government to be deterred from doing what it knows to be right, and what it must know to be right..

• • But we either believe in democracy or we don’t. If we do, then, we must say categorically, without qualification, that no restraint from the any democratic processes, other than by the ordinary law of the land, should be allowed… If you believe in democracy, you must believe in it unconditionally. If you believe that men should be free, then, they should have the right of free association, of free speech, of free publication. Then, no law should permit those democratic processes to be set at nought, and no excuse, whether of security, should allow a government to be deterred from doing what it knows to be right, and what it must know to be right…Lee Kuan Yew, Legislative Assembly Debates, April 27, 1955

• If it is not totalitarian to arrest a man and detain him, when you cannot charge him with any offence against any written law – if that is not what we have always cried out against in Fascist states – then what is it?… If we are to survive as a free democracy, then we must be prepared, in principle, to concede to our enemies – even those who do not subscribe to our views – as much constitutional rights as you concede yourself.
  • Opposition leader Lee Kuan Yew, Legislative Assembly Debates, Sept 21, 1955

• Repression, Sir is a habit that grows. I am told it is like making love-it is always easier the second time! The first time there may be pangs of conscience, a sense of guilt. But once embarked on this course with constant repetition you get more and more brazen in the attack. All you have to do is to dissolve organizations and societies and banish and detain the key political workers in these societies. Then miraculously everything is tranquil on the surface. Then an intimidated press and the government-controlled radio together can regularly sing your praises, and slowly and steadily the people are made to forget the evil things that have already been done, or if these things are referred to again they’re conveniently distorted and distorted with impunity, because there will be no opposition to contradict.
  • Lee Kuan Yew as an opposition PAP member speaking to David Marshall, Singapore Legislative Assembly, Debates, 4 October, 1956

• If we say that we believe in democracy, if we say that the fabric of a democratic society is one which allows for the free play of idea…then, in the name of all the gods, give that free play a chance to work within the constitutional framework.
  • Opposition leader Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore Legislative Assembly, Oct 4, 1956

• Repression can only go up to a point. When it becomes too acute, the instruments of repression, namely the army and the police, have been proved time and time again in history to have turned their guns on their masters.
  • Opposition leader Lee Kuan Yew, Straits Times, May 5, 1959

The Star is the largest English-language daily in Malaysia, averaging audited sales of 290,000 copies daily between January and June last year.

Umno’s network of media outlets is wide, according to the Kuala Lumpur-based Centre for Independent Journalism.

Via proxies, Umno controls Media Prima, which publishes the New Straits Times, Berita Harian and Harian Metro. It also owns the Utusan Group, which publishes Utusan Malaysia and Kosmo!

The ST said Utusan Malaysia has been accused of biased reporting for years, and its circulation has fallen from 213,000 in 2006 to between 170,000 and 180,000 last year.

It has been overtaken by Harian Metro, now the largest Malay daily — its circulation rose from 210,000 in 2006 to 394,000 last year. Analysts told the ST that younger readers are drawn to its culture and lifestyle-based content.

Once the No. 1 English-language paper, the New Straits Times saw its circulation decline sharply from 1999 to the early 2000s, going from 180,000 to as low as 80,000.

The ST said readers shunned the paper for what was perceived as lopsided reporting on Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim’s sacking as deputy prime minister in 1998 and his subsequent corruption and sodomy trial.

“In the rural areas, the Malays hate slander. My research showed that only 18 per cent of readers will believe what was written on Anwar,” said Shaharuddin.

The ST said newspaper readership in Malaysia is also facing challenges as younger people increasingly get their news online.

Internet users among Malaysia’s 29 million population grew from 3.7 million in 2000 to 17.7 million in June last year, a 61 per cent penetration rate. Nearly two-thirds of Internet users are aged 21 to 40.

There were 13.6 million Facebook users in Malaysia as of December.

The top news website in Malaysia over the past month was the independent malaysiakini.com, according to alexa.com, a site that tracks Web traffic, said the ST.

“Urban readers are more connected and compare content with the alternative media. They see that the same event is given a different slant in the mainstream so people question this,” said Hah Foong Lian, a new media analyst with Monash University Malaysia and former reporter at The Star.

Three days after the general election, electoral watchdog Bersih and the opposition parties called on Malaysians to boycott the New Straits Times, The Star, Berita Harian and Utusan Malaysia for perceived unbalanced reporting.

Analysts said that although such a boycott would have little real effect in numbers, the mainstream media should be wary of Malaysia’s strong civil society eroding their credibility, the ST added.

“All mainstream papers reported in favour of their owners but after the election, The Star is the only newspaper that has become more balanced,” Kiranjit Kaur, a media researcher at Universiti Teknologi Mara, told the ST.

“It was very biased (during the campaign) but since the new Cabinet was formed without MCA, it may not feel it has to toe the party line too much these days.”

The dark night between the sunset of a government and the dawn of a new election is a good time for rumination. Ms Aruna Roy, confidant of Mrs Sonia Gandhi and leading light of the most powerful NGO in India, the National Advisory Council, was struck so hard by the thunderbolt of revelation that she resigned. She now knows who sabotaged Mrs Gandhi’s schemes to win an endearing place in the hearts of the poor: Dr Manmohan Singh.

More remarkably, Sharad Pawar’s NCP has suddenly discovered that finance minister P Chidambaram has been “squeezing the poor” and that “elements supporting laissez faire theory” have forgotten that 94% of India lives outside the formal economy, according to a resolution passed by its youth wing. [The elderly wing of NCP was busy with cricket.] At least two elders have spent the last five years in the Singh Cabinet, nodding their heads dutifully at every decision. Maybe their juniors were reading Karl Marx at the same time. You never know. They should have been reading recent history instead.

Congress policy has been obvious; pale capitalism in office, and thick socialism on election-eve. There is electoral mathematics in this: mobilise minorities on the basis of identity, and split the majority as far as you can on privilege-poverty lines. This is not an original concept, but when you do not have a new idea an old one is far better than nothing. It has worked before. However, will it work again?

An old doctrine about communication strategy suggests that it is easier to persuade those who know that they are being persuaded. This certainly works in romance. Wooing is wasted on those who are oblivious to its possibilities. But neither individual nor collective assurances of true love work without credibility. Voters will demand to know what you did with the last five years before they give you another five. Since the obvious answer, according to Aruna Roy and the NCP, is nothing much, the minimum necessity for any forward movement is the slow sacrifice of a scapegoat. Step forward, Dr Manmohan Singh. You have received more than you ever expected from the Congress. All Mrs Sonia Gandhi wants in return is the death of your reputation. It’s a fair swap, surely?

This also explains the slow ascent of A K Antony in Congress hierarchy. He can be sold as a 1970s khadi-socialist, because he has a properly humble demeanour, and makes vague noises against America if needed. He does not actually do much, which also fits the mould of Congress leftism.

There is no confusion in Congress about who is Number 2; that belongs to Rahul Gandhi as long as his mother is party president. But an epic power struggle continues for rung number 3. Chidambaram did all he could to ease into this slot; he even stood beside Rahul, Gandhi cap on head, to salute the national flag at AICC headquarters on independence day, an excellent photo opportunity that must have caused much heartburn among compatriots. But since it is impossible to sell Chidambaram as any kind of leftist, the chair beside Dr Singh now belongs to Antony. This is not shadow boxing; it is a battle for the real thing. Senior Congressmen are convinced that Rahul Gandhi is not ready to become prime minister in the immediate future, and wants his own version of Manmohan Singh. He would prefer power without the responsibility of office in order to do precisely what is happening now: take credit for what goes right, and shift the blame for that which goes wrong.

We are, therefore, expected to believe that Mrs Sonia Gandhi truly wanted to serve the poor but was powerless before an obstinate prime minister. On the other hand, we are also told that when Dr Singh, displaying a hint of muscle, seeks to retain two Cabinet ministers accused of finagling and corruption, Mrs Gandhi gets them sacked by raising an indignant eyebrow. This convenient image repositioning is nothing but a public-relations caricature of government. For nearly a decade Dr Singh and Mrs Gandhi have taken important decisions together, in consultation, for better or worse. Bouquet and blame must be shared equally.

The voter’s take-away from this controversy is uncomplicated. It adds the weight of an insider’s frustration to a growing conviction that this government has failed those who gave it a second term. Instead of food security, Indians got corruption and excuses. The government could have passed whatever legislation it wanted in its first year; why did it wait till its last year? It was ready to risk its survival for FDI, not for social welfare.

Mrs Gandhi is trying to save what she can of the Congress from the debris of disappointment, but turning Dr Singh into the sole villain of the next script is not going to help. A dark night is a long night. There is plenty of time for some more thought.

UMNO’s eagerness to recover its eroded political ground has seen it responding in unexpected ways, with implications yet to be fully fathomed. Its readiness to march to its own drumbeat is a warning to friend and foe alike that the rules of the game will be set by UMNO alone.

To its ethnic-based political allies in BN, which are facing their own internal crises, the message is that the BN power-sharing system will be on UMNO’s terms. To the opposition, the message is clear: whoever controls the Malay and Muslim ground will control power – and it is not going to be the opposition, which is not homogenous ethnically and ideologically.

UMNO is desperate to win. Going forward, all communities will be forced to ponder what this means for them and the country.READMORE http://suarakeadilanmalaysia.wordpress.com/2013/11/28/singapore-owned-straits-times-misadventure-stings-itself-go-on-a-witchhunt/

Yang Razali Kassim is a Senior Fellow at S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University

Silent Night
Sigh-lent bright star Anointed Joe

Oh Titiwangsa,a poll’s had won.
you has Waken from slum-ber dee-eep,
End your con-fu-sion deep.

Sigh-lent UMNO !Deep’ning night!
PAS quaking at the sight.
Alarm bells scream from near and afar.
The allies don’t sing Alleluia.
Joe the Saviour’bo-orn

Joe the meek peoleleader
Had a very shiny pose,
And if you ever saw it,
You would even say he so humble.

All the other parties
Used to scoff and call him names.
They never let poor Joe
Join in any voting games.

Then one foggy polling day G13
Titiwangsa came to say,
Joe. with your promise bright,
Won’t you guide our Titiwangsa tonight?’

Then how the red-faced praised him
As they cried with nervous glee,
Joe, the brave one
You’ll go down in his-to-ry.’

Oh Come All Ye Faithful
Oh come all ye rallyists,
Roaring and triumphant.
Oh come ye, oh come ye
To save as from PAS

Come and behold him,
Must-be SERVANT of Titiwangsa
Oh come let us adore him.
you saved us from Pas by grace

Sing sing sing Titiwangsa,
Sing sulking PAS ,
Sing all ye cadres of DAP.
Glory to UMNO,
UMNO is the highest.
O come let us adore him,
Oh come let us vote for him,
Oh come let we enslave him,

A tremendous phenomenon of the times is the realization that each one of us has the power to bring about change just by knowing what we want and acting on it!

One of the most heartening things that has happened in recent times is the awakening of people in Titiwangsa. No longer do you see apathetic, deadened eyes that couldn’t care less what happens to another. People today care and they do not let go an opportunity to show that they do so. Not just that, they are more than willing to lend a helping hand, to make a difference.

This is an era when people have started believing in themselves and their power, and that gives them immense confidence. With a cellphone in hand connecting you to rest of the world, you are in a position to voice opinions that matter, take photos which make a difference and record conversations and incidents that could create a national stir. You feel powerful and effective indeed when you break news through twitter or facebook and add your voice to that of millions.

New Media is the greatest abettor and agent of change, encouraging and goading people along into discovering themselves, understanding issues and taking a stand. And so you never feel alone so long as your cause is just and clear — there are thousands waiting to hear, understand and support you! Those who earlier may have heard you out with sympathy, tut-tutted and moved on, are today willing to step out and support you.

Joke spoke of the rising of the conscience of the youth.  Modestly downplaying the role of   candlelight protest marches in  that inspired a generation, \ said, “A lot of it has to do with connectivity and social media. People, ideas and consciousness all get connected very easily. And the youth do not think through and weigh the pros and cons of a situation; they just act out what they believe in, unlike most of us, as we grow older.  Joe was at best a catalyst; things were waiting to happen, and so they did.”

“People were ashamed to see their own faces in the mirror every morning. They realized if something has to change, it has to change within them. You cannot keep sitting on the fence; at some point you have to jump in there. As parents, as teachers, as workers, we all have to start feeling responsible for the nation and to realize that nothing gets done on its own; one will have to get one’s hands dirty and do the work ourselves.”