FULL REPORT KUALA LUMPUR: On his first day back in Parliament, independent Pasir Mas MP Ibrahim Ali told Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim not to cry conspiracy over WikiLeaks.
"I don't know if it is a trap or not... for me, what's important is that when we do something wrong, and when people take the opportunity to trap us, we cannot accuse others of conspiracy," the Perkasa president told reporters.
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According to Internet whistleblower WikiLeaks, a US department cable issued in November 2009 showed that Singapore officials believed that Anwar was guilty of his sodomy charge.
The revelation, which was contained in a message between the Singaporean intelligence and an Australian agency, said that Anwar "did indeed commit the acts for which he is currently indicted".
Reacting to the message, Anwar had accused the Malaysian police and their Special Branch division of contributing to the leak.
However, Ibrahim, who spent the last two months recovering from a heart bypass surgery, said that he was not surprised with Anwar's reaction.
He also advised the opposition leader to take action against WikiLeaks.
"I am not surprised at all (with Anwar). We have talked about him for many years, even during (former prime minister) Mahathir Mohamad's time, to the time where he was sacked as deputy prime minister," Ibrahim said.
"The best thing for him to do is to sue (WikiLeaks). I don't know (how to do so) from what point of the law, but that is the best way for him."
The firebrand MP also criticised the government for not taking action against controversial rapper Wee Meng Chee, or better known as Namewee.
'BN may lose some votes'
Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Nazri Abdul Aziz previously defended Wee and absolved him of accusations made against the rapper.
“If the government feels that by not taking action against Namewee it can bring more votes to BN, then by all means (go ahead). I am only afraid that this may lose some votes (for BN),” he said in a thinly veiled threat to the Najib administration.
In August, Kulai headmistress Siti Insyah Mansor allegedly told the non-Malay students in her school to go back to China and India. She was also said to have uttered: “If I were to helm the government, I will allocate 70% of the wealth to Bumiputera and only 30% to non-Bumiputera.”
In response to Siti Insyah's remarks, Wee composed a three-minute rap title called “Nah!!” on YouTube, heavily condemning the headmistress.
However, the Perkasa boss questioned if Siti Insyah actually made those remarks.
“Did the headmistress actually say such things? I went to see her, met a few other teachers and students, and asked them what had happened,” he said, adding that Siti Insyah's outburst was no more than “angry words”.
“(They were) nothing more than angry words used against students, like parents to their children...,” he said.
Ibrahim also said that the issue was blown into a racist matter merely because Siti Insyah was a Malay, and that action had been taken against her even before she had been taken to court.
Turning his guns on Wee, he asked the government to get rid of the Sedition and Internal Security Acts if it was not going to use them.
“(The ISA is) still relevant. But if they don't want to use it, just get rid of it...,” the Perkasa boss said, and asked the government to make the right decisions in enforcing national security.
“You cannot satisfy everybody, but our past leaders made many major decisions for national security. At the end of the day, the majority of the people supported the government's decision,” he said, citing the 1987's Ops Lalang that was “at last, appreciated by the people”.
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