Federal Territories Minister Tengku Adnan, who is also the Umno secretary-general, and mother of all snake But admit it: whatever the strategic thinking for Tengku Adnan. Tengku Adnan has the future mapped out. Operating procedure for Big Boss: sound resigned if you have to, but don’t resign. Deflect and wait. Do a costume change, don’t alter the script.all to make sure that the real “villain”, UMNO president Najib, will be forced to loose his president post.
Both City Hall and the police have given the green light for the rally, it is only the venue which we disagree with.Federal Territories Minister Tengku Adnan demand us to consider a closed venue, such as Stadium Titiwangsa but the dark night between the sunset of a government and the dawn of a UMNO election is a good time for rumination
The entire manner in which the KL mayor and the Najib administration conducted themselves over the usage of Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) today rejected application to hold a gathering at Padang Merbok this June 22, delicited enormous negative publicity and backlash for the Najib administration throughout the countryPolice their hands must have been tied by Tengku Adnan .
In the recently-concluded and controversial May 5 general election, Najib had declared a victory of 133 seats in the federal Parliament versus the Pakatan’s 89. Such an outcome was ”This rejection is totally without basis and clearly politically motivated. It shows Najib is afraid of its own shadow. On our part, we have done all we can to accommodate the police and the authorities but it looks like they have clear intention to block us anyhow.”Prime Minister Najib Razak who had mooted the controversial PAA in 2012. One of the most criticized clauses in the PAA is the requirement of giving a minimum 10-days notice to the police before organizers can proceed to hold their event.
Have you noticed this other thing that has been happening in our media space recently? That whoever takes media’s side is painted in virtuosity, and against, in dark colors of immorality. I suspect media does this with an agenda. To pull in more support for its point of view. And people oblige. After all, who doesn’t want a lustrous self-image, a chance to cleanse all the misdeeds of the past….and in fact, create a world of new opportunities? Media has today become the arbiter of probity and righteousness.”It doesn’t make sense and I don’t blame the Mayor because he has to toe the line set by Tengku Adnan. Tengku Adnan has already said Putrajaya will not allow the rally. I am not sure if Tengku Adnan realizes it but he making a fool of his boss’s Peaceful Assembly Act. Every Malaysian has the right to assemble, what is the point of a Peaceful Assembly Act when the citizens are denied this right. What is this law for, what is the PAA supposed to regulate if in the first place, the people are barred from assembling, ”This rejection is totally without basis and clearly politically motivated. It shows Umno is afraid of its own shadow. On our part, we have done all we can to accommodate the police and the authorities but it looks like they have clear intention to block us anyhow.”
Datuk Seri Najib Razak needs to prove himself a strong leader and show the kind of decisiveness that Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad had, former Umno minister Datuk Zaid Ibrahim said today, noting that the country’s stability was contingent on this.
Zaid , once a supreme council member in the ruling Umno, said the prime minister must end racial polarisation here by making a clear stand on the matter, stop newspapers like Utusan Malaysia from further provoking the Chinese community and show a stern hand in efforts to end power abuses and corruption in his government.
Najib, he added, must become a leader whom the Malays can implicitly trust as one who would not let them down, despite his show of inclusivenes and fairness to other ethnic groups.
“Umno cannot function when its leader is weak, and neither can the country. The many years of indoctrination, including the inculcation of fear of threats from other ethnic communities, require that Umno have a strong leader.
“This leader is someone who doesn’t fear his own family or the Umno warlords, and who can employ the strength of his convictions and intellect to push his economic and social agenda successfully,” Zaid said, according to a copy of his speech text that was presented to members of the Rotary Club of Pudu at Shangri-La Hotel here today.
The former Umno-turned-PKR member cited Dr Mahathir as an example of a strong leader, saying that although the former prime minister had committed some errors during his tenure, he had always had the trust of the Umno Malays.
Zaid recalled that during his stint, Dr Mahathir had never been as harsh on the Chinese community as he has been today, noting that he always had the community’s backing.
“He was a strong Malay leader who was acceptable to most non-Malays,” he said.
Ticking off examples, Zaid reminded that Dr Mahathir had even been strong enough to dismantle the New Economic Policy (NEP) to replace it with the National Development Policy (NDP) and had fathered Vision 2020, which articulated a future for a multiracial nation.
Dr Mahathir had also made school children to learn Mathematics and Science in English, he pointed out.
“There was no Utusan to mock or attack him and his policies, and there was no backlash from Umno businessmen because he had the foresight to distribute the country’s largesse fairly,” Zaid said.
“That’s what a strong Umno leader is capable of,” he added.
But today, Najib, who was just recently sworn in for his second term as prime minister after a divisive general election, does not fit the frame of such a strong leader, Zaid said.
He said the son of former prime minister Tun Abdul Razak Hussein was born with a silver spoon in his mouth and today lives the life of the rich and famous.
“He (Najib) is not perturbed by his family’s spending sprees, even though many Malaysians are still languishing in the low-income bracket.
“He has never been a natural leader known for his beliefs and convictions. That’s why his so-called reforms and transformation plans seem so dangerous to Umno Malays.
“He has no history of doing enough for them and so they are worried his transformation plans would be to their detriment,” Zaid said.
The key challenge for Najib today, he added, lies in the Umno president’s ability to prove his mettle and convince the country’s largest ethnic group and his own party that his transformation plans would not see their interests ditched.
Any form of transformation, if carried out haphazardly by a weak leader, would be seen as “selling out” and will eventually fail, Zaid said.
Noting that Umno’s internal polls are looming, the former minister said that Najib needs to tackle current problems with determination to cement his position without displaying extremism that might frighten off his support from the non-Malays.
“What will all of this mean for the country? A strong leader is what the country needs from whichever side he comes from.
“He will be able to better control the excesses in the country’s politics (including his own party), which means incidents of harassing the other side – be it the Opposition or Government– will be reduced,” Zaid said.
“For now, I believe a strong leader in Umno will go a long way towards bringing stability to the country.”
Najib led Barisan Nasional (BN) to victory in the just-concluded 13th general election but the ruling pact took a severe beating from the opposition, losing an additional seven federal seats to Pakatan Rakyat (PR).
The prime minister has since had to deal with a wounded nation as Malaysia, post-polls, saw racial polarisation worsen and a wider rural-urban rift.
In the bleakness surrounding a pale victory, Najib described the results of Election 2013 as a “Chinese tsunami”, earning widespread criticism for allegedly characterising the polls as a Chinese versus Malay contest.
The Umno-owned daily Utusan Malaysia fanned the fires further when it front-paged the incendiary headline titled “Apa lagi yang Cina mahu?” (What more do the Chinese want?).
Senator Datuk Paul Low clarified today that he had not likened the Enforcement Agency Integrity Commission (EAIC) in its current set-up to the proposed Independent Police Complaints and Misconduct Commission (IPCMC) as alluded to by DAP MP Tony Pua
Instead, the minister for integrity and corruption said he had pointed to the weaknesses in the EAIC and said the Cabinet had agreed it needed an extensive revamp and a broadening of its powers by possibly adopting some recommendations from the 2005 IPCMC proposal.
His comparison between the names EAIC and IPCMC, Low said, was merely to point out that the name of the authority was immaterial but its effectiveness must be of utmost importance.
“I would like to express my grave disappointment at how my words have been blatantly misrepresented for reasons best known only to Mr Tony Pua himself,” Low said in a statement here.
Earlier today The Malaysian Insider reported a statement from Pua in which the Petaling Jaya Utara MP criticised remarks made by Low yesterday over the IPCMC debacle.
Low said that the Cabinet, following its meeting last week, had “more or less” concluded and it was better to overhaul the EAIC and widen its jurisdiction instead of setting up a new IPCMC from scratch.
In his statement, Low had said that getting a new commission up and running would involve too much time.
“…IPCMC and EAIC are only names, and what really matters is that we arrive at an independent agency that has the resources, clout and scope of influence to do the job effectively, now that the weaknesses of the existing EAIC had been more or less identified,” the minister had said.
Responding, Pua said Low was “sorely mistaken” in saying the difference between the two was merely in their names, insisting the EAIC was only set up in 2011 to placate widespread demands for the IPCMC.
“This was not my meaning at all!” Low replied this evening.
“Clearly, even a teenager would be able to conclude that my intention was never to equate the EAIC in its current form to that of the IPCMC proposed by the RCI in 2005,” he added.
The IPCMC was mooted by the 2005 royal commission of inquiry (RCI) chaired by former Chief Justice Tun Mohamed Dzaiddin Abdullah but was later shot down by the police.
Low told Pua to reread his statement carefully, pointing out that he said he would even consider inviting other parties like the Bar Council and foreign professionals to contribute to the government’s effort to check its enforcement agencies.
“In fact, the PM and members of his Cabinet are fully aware of the weaknesses with the EAIC in its current state, and are all behind me to conduct a thorough study and consultation with concerned parties to put together a detailed proposal to beef up the EAIC, even by possibly readopting some of the RCI’s earlier proposals,” he said.
The end purpose, Low added, was to ensure the commission is effective and independent, with the right people, tools and scope of influence to regulate not only the police but other enforcement agencies where abuse cases may arise.
“I fail to see how much clearer I can make it understood that my team and I are doing our level best to come up with a long-term solution that will meet this pressing and very real need, which the rakyat are also crying out for,” he said.
“In fact, we are pushing for one that will not only be effective, but also empowered to investigate other enforcement agencies as well ― where the needs are also real and pressing.
“Whether the name remains ‘EAIC’ at the end of the day… ‘EAICC’, ‘PEAIC’, etc… does it really matter?” he asked.
The former Transparency International Malaysia (TI-M) president later repeated his invitation to all parties to aid him and his team in working out the best solution to the ongoing debacle over police abuses and other matters concerning integrity in the government.
“… if you could lend me and my team a helping hand, or even… just more constructive, well thought out suggestions… it would make the job we are trying to do for you a lot easier,” he said.
The recent spate of custodial deaths — nine over the past five months so far — revived calls for the establishment of the IPCMC and in response, Low raised the proposal to Cabinet during its meeting last Wednesday.
The Malaysian Bar, civil society groups and several politicians from both sides of the divide have been calling for the IPCMC’s implementation since 2006 but to no avail.
In the latest tragedy behind bars, Nobuhiro Matsushita, 33, was found dead at 4am on Saturday in his cell at the USJ8 police station lock-up in Subang Jaya.
Police said the Japanese man, who was arrested for whipping out a knife at an auxiliary policeman after trespassing into a university on June 2, was found hanged in his cell, presumably at his own hands.
In another recent controversial case, a government hospital autopsy report revealed that 32-year-old detainee N. Dharmendran had died as a result of multiple beatings while in police custody.
On Wednesday, three of the four police officers who allegedly caused Dhamendran’s death were charged with murder under section 302 of the Penal Code. A fourth accused is still at large.
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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.
The burden of independence OF Justice
The unfortunate truth is that there is reason for this cynicism. A lot of the opinions that abound in media, both mainstream and social, are rooted in pre-fabricated positions that fly under the flag of one label or another. In addition, over the last few years it has become clear that very few of our certitudes about the independence ofjustice the allegedly independent institutions stand up to scrutiny.
A nation that cannot uphold its law cannot preserve its order.
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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.
A nation that cannot uphold its law cannot preserve its order. When Instuation smuggled The Predators to safety, the authority of state abandoned the responsibility of state. Excuses, evasions and lies have shifted over 26 years; this central truth has not.
Promoting equality of unequally?
legal system,local or in international sphere the subjects of law are the persons, nationals and judicial, upon whom the law confers rights and impose duties .In international law these persons are normally states, but they are not so exclusively. States have been described by Weber as the human community that claim itself the monopoly of the legitimate use of physical violence within the territory with determined boundaries .However, the advisory opinion in the case concerning Reparation for the injuries suffered of the united nation ,the international court of justice rejected the view that the only states can be subjects of international law and affirmed that ―throughout its history ,the development of international law has been influenced by the requirements of international life and the progressive increase in the collective activities of states has already given a rise to instances of actions upon the international plane by certain entities which are not states.
