One year of freedom from ISA

One year has gone by since my release from the Kamunting Detention Camp, so quickly, just like the 514 days went by, in detention. It just confirms my commitment that if we want to do something in our lives, we just have to do it, as time in its normal haste does not wait for any one.
In the last 365 days the achievements since the release have been significant. The Grand Hindraf Rally of November 2007, a totally unexpected eruption put me on a trajectory in my life that I vaguely expected and whose fine curves I could not know and of which I continue to learn daily now.
The Grand Hindraf Rally was a significant expression of the frustrations of the Indian community, against the root cause, the UMNO Malay Muslim supremacy agenda.. Then UMNO in further act of aggravation, decided to incarcerate me along with my colleagues, to teach us a lesson for championing the Indian cause and put us away under the ISA indefinitely.
What they did not know was that that act of imprisonment only had the effect of institutionalizing the Hindraf Rally phenomenon into a historical process. The 514 days of imprisonment really helped me to refine my understanding of the true nature of the Indian problem in the country and to develop a compelling picture of what was needed to be done to institutionally correct the problem.
On the outside waiting for me on my release 365 days ago was a Hindraf that had already gone through its early mutations. The opportunists in the group were leaving, had left. The sincere elements who were willing to sacrifice and were willing to continue to risk it descended around me and I began anew with them that day the 9^th of May 2009..
A completely new phase in the struggle had begun. I came out on that day with a firm conviction that the Indian minority in the country had to find effective representation if its long term interests were to be safeguarded. There was just no other way. Whatever said and done this country is  ethnocentric. And it is my opinion that it will be so for the foreseeable future. I wanted the Human Rights party to be formed with the sole objective of promoting the Indian Rights and Interests and bringing Indians into the mainstream of National development.
The Human Rights party was created as a political wing of Hindraf in these last 365 days. We have started a whole range of activities through this political wing of Hindraf in institutionalizing the search of the Indians for a truly better future in Malaysia.
We have established as a medium term objective the 15/38 project – to capture 15 parliament seats and 38 state seats in the halls of power.
We have started to create the capacity building effort for in the absence of the necessary capacities to secure the objectives,our strategy will be no better than a slogan, a dream or a delusion.
We have created a national organization structure for the Human Rights party .
We have started work of developing young intellectual Indians to become the political leaders of the future.
We have started developing the infrastructure throughout the country to educate the Indian poor to the ideas of empowerment and the strategies of empowerment.
We have created a vibrant website –www.humanrightspartymalaysia.com which effectively has become the party organ. We recognize this does not reach a majority of the Indians and we are addressing that with creating a paper based Tamil equivalent and with increasing face to face contacts.
We have created a focus in our activities and have begun to take positions coherent with our basic understanding of Political Empowerment of Indians in the country.
We have continued with our International lobby – we have raised the huge Human Rights violation against the Indians and other marginalized groups in the country, throughout the world and have sought and continue to seek intervention for the poor and weak Indians in the country . We have had several notable events in the last 365 days in International halls of power.
We continue to meet the people throughout the country. Every week there is some event occurring in the country.
We continue to champion Human Rights issues in the country of the Indians and in doing so we continue to show up the inherent racist nature of the system we live in. This racist tendency of “ it is alright if it happens to those rowdy Indians who anyway only hang on at the periphery and cause nothing but trouble” has soaked in so deep that most in the system do not even want to hear , let alone recognize that it is not in the natural order of things that all of this should be so.
We have become a process in the last 365 days .
And as I always quote the famous Chineses proverb – A journey of a thousand miles starts but with a single step. Well, we have taken a few steps already, but it is still a thousand mile journey and I do not know how many 365 days it is going to take us all to get there – but get there we must.
We continue with our struggle – no breaks, no intermsissions, no let ups.
Uthayakumar

P.Uthayakumar’s freedom from ISA, 1st Year Remembrance 9/5/10

Some 20 key HRP&HINDRAF members from Selangor were present at the HRP HQ to mark this occasion. The Tholvi Nelaiyana Ninaithal was sung and a cake marking this freedom from the clutches of ISA was cut after one candle was blown by P.Uthayakumar.
Earlier a teleconference was done with P.Waytha Moorthy from London.
S.JAYATHAS

10/5, Court of Appeal, Putrajaya, HINDRAF Chairman P.Waythamoorthy & P.Uthayakumar Sedition Case

10/5/2010, 9.00pagi, Mahkamah Rayuan Putrajaya,
Kes hasutan terhadap Pengerusi HINDRAF P.Waythamoorthy
& P.Uthayakumar. Datang dan sebarkan.
S.JAYATHAS
Information Chief

UMNO: Indian poor in distress, empty promises by UMNO, PKR, DAP and PAS

A picture speaks a thousand words. This is the state of the poor Indians in Malaysia even after 53 years of Independence.
These Indians are being denied even the very basic upward mobility opportunities by UMNO. They literally end up living in slightly better conditions than animals. Far far away from having any semblance of quality of life.
All this not because they are not prepared to work hard but because they have been denied a place under the Malaysian sun.
P.Uthayakumar

UMNO: 32 Indians in N.Sembilan denied even tap water for more than 30 years.

This is yet again the tip of the iceberg of the pain and suffering of the ethnic minority Indians in Malaysia despite the RM 191.5 billion allocation in the 2010 National budget.
Out of this RM 530 million was allocated to provide water supply to 16,000 houses, our nine page letter to Prime Minister Najib Razak refers. But somehow this allocation does not reach the poor, underprivileged immeducated and soft target Indians.
After 53 years of independence the N.Sembilan Menteri Besar now tells these Indians that “piped water on the way”. Another 53 years for piped water to actually reach the door steps of these Indians?
P. Uthayakumar

Was Zaid Ibrahim un-Islamic in challenging the ruler?

The critics of Zaid question his Islamic credentials just because he is perceived to have challenged the actions of a ruler. If these people only knew that good Muslims are those who dare question their rulers at the risk of death.

NO HOLDS BARRED

Raja Petra Kamarudin

Royals must display exemplary manners for the public

Royal families should display an exemplary image to prevent the people from being disappointed by the royal institution, said Information Communication and Culture Minister Datuk Seri Dr Rais Yatim.

“If the institution is in a mess, the people will lose faith,” he said when commenting on the current dispute in Kelantan royal house.

Commenting on certain quarters becoming more daring to question the instruction of the Sultan and the Ruler, as well as the conflict of the monarchy, Rais said authorities should take action against them.

“They should take immediate action against those who try to violate and degrade the monarchy,” he said after presenting certificates of appreciation to contributors for the Coffin Exhibition at the National Museum yesterday.

“What is important is how we can guarantee Article 181, 153 and 152 of the Federal Constitution relating to the power of the monarch, and Article 38 and 43 concerning the role of the Yang di-Pertuan Agong is the supreme monarch in the country.

“There should be a law that will enable immediate action to be taken if the institution were to be degraded,” he said. -- The Star

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Imam Ghazali, Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ghazālī (1058–1111), is regarded as the greatest Muslim after Prophet Muhammad. If not for the fact that Muslims believe that Prophet Muhammad was God’s last prophet, Imam Ghazali would probably also be regarded as a prophet.

I am not going to talk too much about Imam Ghazali, but for those who want to know more about one of Islam’s greatest men, please go here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Ghazali

The other great imams of Islam are Shafi’i (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imam_Shafi’i), Malik (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imam_Malik), Abu Hanifa (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imam_Abu_Hanifa) and Hanbal (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imam_Hanbal). Basically, these are the great imams who founded the four main ‘schools’ of Islam -- Shafi’i (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shafi’i), Maliki (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maliki), Hanafi (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanafi) and Hanbali (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanbali).

South East Asian Muslims, Malays included, are Sunni Muslims from the Shafi’i school of Islam.

Okay, today is not a story about the history or life of the great imams of Islam. In fact, there are more than just these five but I mentioned these particular imams because the four main schools of Islam (plus Sufism, etc.) can be attributed to these people. Today, I want to talk about what these imams had in common and their stand on the monarchy and the rulers.

Many of these imams, not just the five above, dared criticise or oppose the rulers of their day. And some were put to death because of it. So, these imams have taught us that criticising or opposing the rulers do not mean we are un-Islamic.

One of Imam Ghazali’s greatest works was titled ‘at-Tibr al-Masbuk fi Nasihat al-Muluk’ or ‘Ingots of Gold for the Advice of Kings’. (The word nasihat is also used in Bahasa Malaysia to mean advice). The Nasihat, or Advice, is part of a larger genre of political writings by Imam Ghazali, which dealt with issues of political authority at the time. The Nasihat was addressed to the Seljuq government and its administration. Imam Ghazali dealt with a variety of subjects in the Nasihat, such as the qualities required in kings, the character of ministers and deputies, and intelligence.

Imam Ghazali places the burden of establishing the right model of conduct squarely on the shoulders of the king. In other words, management’s example will either create an exceptional organisation or a corrupt one. In the Nasihat, he tells us, “If a king is upright… his officials will be upright, but if he is dishonest, negligent, and comfort-seeking…officers implementing his policies will soon become slothful and corrupt.”

And as for Imam Ghazali’s stand on the monarchs, you can read what I previously said about the matter in my article called Let the Imam do the talking (read here: http://mt.m2day.org/2008/content/view/27925/84/). And remember, this was what the great Imam Ghazali told us, a man who many consider second to Prophet Muhammad.

Imam Abu Hanifa was offered the post of Chief Kadi (judge) but he refused the position because he wanted to remain independent. The ruler was so angered with the reason given for not accepting the position that he jailed Imam Abu Hanifa. Imam Abu Hanifa was tortured and died in prison and is considered one of the great imams of Islam, the founder of the Hanafi school of Islam.

Imam Malik was another imam who opposed the ruler and attracted controversy when he refused to issue religious verdicts and was very outspoken against the rulers.

Imam Malik issued various fatwa (decrees) that forbid Muslims from pledging allegiance to the Caliph Al-Mansur -- and for that the ruler had him flogged. Caliph Al-Mansur later apologised to Imam Malik and offered him money and a home in Baghdad. Imam Malik, however, declined the offer.

The famous Abbasid Caliph, Harun-ar-Rashid (remember The Arabian Nights or 1001 Nights?), asked Imam Malik to visit him while he was performing his hajj in Mekah. Imam Malik refused to pay homage to the caliph and instead invited the new caliph to come to his religious class.

I am talking about the great imams of Islam. And we must analyse how they conducted themselves when faced with the powerful rulers of their time who had power of life and death over their subjects. But these imams chose jail, torture, and even death, rather than kowtow to their rulers.

This was what the great imams taught Muslims in how to live their lives.

Imams Malik and Abu Hanifa were not the only ones who did not kowtow to their ruler. Imam Hanbal, when called before the Inquisition of the Abassid Caliph, al-Ma'mun, refused to back down on the issue of whether the Quran was created rather than uncreated. In short, he opposed the ruler at the risk of death and would not budge on his principles.

And so the list goes on, the stories about how the famous imams of Islam opposed their rulers and sometimes paid for this defiance with their lives. They were offered money and important positions and they turned them all down even if that offended the rulers.

Umno wants Zaid Ibrahim banished or exiled from Selangor for his alleged act of treason against the Sultan. Bigger men than Zaid, the great imams of Islam, have suffered a worse fate than that. Umno says that Zaid is a traitor not only to the Sultan but also to his race as well as to Islam. Were the great imams of Islam also traitors to Islam because they too opposed their rulers? If so, then why are they today considered the great imams of Islam? They should instead be shunned as traitors to Islam?

In a way, Rais Yatim, in his statement above, has admitted that the Royalty families have not been behaving the way they should, although he was more diplomatic and less abrasive in his choice of words. Nevertheless, Rais Yatim did say: ‘Royal families should display an exemplary image to prevent the people from being disappointed by the royal institution… if the institution is in a mess, the people will lose faith’. This is another way of saying: behave yourself or else the people will get fed up of you.

Maybe Rais Yatim did not ‘whack’ the Rulers, the way I would normally do. But he did caution the Rulers to start behaving properly lest the people ‘lose faith’ in them. Telling the rulers where they are wrong whenever they happen to be wrong is not an un-Islamic thing to do. On the contrary, it is what Islam asks us to do. And it is what the great imams of Islam also did.

When Umar was about to be made the new Caliph, he was asked what guarantees do the people have that he would be a just and fair ruler? What if he deviates from the trust the people put in him? Umar replied by taking out his sword and placing it on the floor and said that if he violates the trust the people put in him then take his sword and remove his head from his shoulders.

Yes, Umar, the great Caliph whom the Penang Chief Minister, Lim Guan Eng, spoke about volunteered to have his head lobbed off, with his own sword on top of that. Are the Malaysian monarchs greater than Umar that we can’t utter even a few words when they err?

The critics of Zaid question his Islamic credentials just because he is perceived to have challenged the actions of a ruler. If these people only knew that good Muslims are those who dare question their rulers at the risk of death. But then many Muslims do not bother to study the history of Islam, in particular the history of the great imams of Islam. If they did then they would know that one of our obligations, mandatory as a Muslim, is to keep our rulers and leaders in check.

And this was exactly what Zaid did.

Rasis: Umno cuba rosakkan perpaduan kaum

(Harakahdaily) - Ahli Jawatankuasa PAS Pusat, Datuk Seri Mohammad Nizar Jamaluddin berkata, perpaduan kaum yang wujud selama ini cuba dirosakkan oleh fahaman rasis Umno terutama setelah mereka kehilangan sokongan daripada masyarakat Cina dan India selepas pilihanraya umum yang lalu.
Justeru, katanya Pakatan Rakyat (PR) tidak akan membenarkan mana-mana pihak yang memainkan sentimen perkauman yang boleh memecahkan perpaduan kaum yang terdapat  di negara ini.
“Pakatan Rakyat tidak akan benarkan mana-mana orang yang mengapi-apikan isu perkauman yang boleh merosakkan perpaduan kaum di negara ini. Apa yang merosakkan perpaduan rakyat berbilang kaum di negara ini antara antara orang Melayu dan Cina, Melayu dan India adalah Umno.
“Mereka mengamalkan fahaman rasis yang merosakkan usaha menyatu padukan rakyat,” katanya ketika berucap pada Majlis Makan Malam anjuran Pakatan Rakyat Jerantut, di sebuah hotel di sini malam tadi.
Menurut Nizar, isu perkauman yang dimainkan oleh Umno kerana mereka berada dalam keadaan yang amat tersepit apabila kehilangan sokongan masyarakat bukan Melayu terutama masyarakat Cina yang begitu konsisten kepada Pakatan Rakyat  sebagaimana yang ditunjukkan dalam pilihan raya kecil Parlimen Hulu Selangor, baru-baru ini.
”Umno sekarang ini berada dalam keadaan yang amat tersepit akibat kehilangan sokongan masyarakat bukan Melayu terutama dari masyarakat Cina di Hulu Selangor. Kita dapati sokongan orang bukan Melayu kepada Pakatan Rakyat begitu konsisten. Oleh sebab itu mereka mainkan isu perkauman,” katanya.
Mengenai masa depan untuk menguasai politik negara, Nizar berkata Pakatan Rakyat begitu berkeyakinan pada pilihan raya umum akan datang rakyat akan memberikan sokongan sehingga membolehkan berlakunya perubahan politik besar-besaran.
”Kalau kita tengok keadaan semasa dan kalau kita boleh urus sokongan rakyat yang ada kita amat berkeyakinan masa depan Umno BN akan berkubur selepas pilihan raya umum ke 13 akan datang,” katanya.
Pada majlis tersebut, seramai 500 tetamu kebanyakannya masyarakat Cina dan India memenuhi dewan dan memberikan tepukan gemuruh setiap kali Nizar menyatakan PR akan menang pilihan raya umum akan datang.
Turut berucap ialah Pengerusi PKR Pahang, Datuk Fauzi Abdul Rahman, Pengerusi Dewan Himpunan Penyokong PAS Pahang, Balasubramaniam, Pengerusi DAP Johor, Dr Boo Cheng Hau, Yang Dipertua PAS Jerantut, Dr Hamzah Jaafar serta pimpinan setempat.

Malaysia On Trial, Anwar Says as Sex Trial Resumes

From AFP
By M. Jegathesan

Opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim, who returns to court Monday to face sodomy charges, said Malaysia’s reputation is on trial in a case aimed at destroying his political career.

Anwar, a former deputy premier who was sacked and jailed on separate sex and corruption counts a decade ago, said Malaysian justice had deteriorated under Prime Minister Najib Razak, who came to power a year ago.

“It is not Anwar’s case. It is the institution of governance — the police, the judiciary and certain media — which have all got worse under Prime Minister Najib Razak. They are the real ones on trial,” Anwar told AFP.

Anwar said he would not be cowed by the fact he could again end up behind bars if convicted of the charges that carry a penalty of 20 years imprisonment.

“I am committed to political and economic reforms. There is no turning back,” he said.

“Of course I am a political threat. They have been trying for 12 years to kill my political career. I leave it to my supporters and Allah to believe in me.”

Anwar, a 62-year-old father of six, is accused of having illicit sexual relations with a young man who worked in his office. Sodomy remains a crime in Malaysia, a conservative Muslim-majority nation.

The trial opened briefly in February with explicit evidence from his accuser, 24-year-old Mohamad Saiful Bukhari Azlan, but has been suspended since then as the defence pursued a number of unsuccessful legal manoeuvres.

They were knocked back in attempts to have the presiding judge disqualified, complaining he had refused to rein in biased media coverage, and also failed to win access to key prosecution evidence such as video footage and medical tests.

Anwar last week lost his final bid to strike out the sodomy charges, as the Federal Court rejected an appeal and paved the way for his trial to resume at the High Court on Monday.

His counsel Sankara Nair said the prosecution’s refusal to release information such as its witness list and key documents on forensic and DNA evidence was problematic.

“Anwar is put in a very severely disadvantaged position. The defence faces an uphill task as vital documents in relation to Anwar’s defence have not been given to us by the prosecution,” he said.

Human Rights Watch has urged Malaysia to drop the charges against Anwar, condemning the case as a “charade of justice” and saying his lawyers had been blocked from preparing a thorough defence.

Sankara said the defence team would cross-examine Mohamad Saiful when the hearing opens Monday.

“We intend to grill this witness,” Nair said. “The court has set four days for this hearing.” Hearing dates have been set until August but Sankara said he did not know when the trial would end.

Anwar’s earlier sexual misconduct conviction was quashed in 2004 and he was released from jail. After a period of recuperation he reinvented himself as the leader of an opposition alliance.

Against all expectations, it made huge strides in 2008 elections, depriving the ruling coalition of its crucial two-thirds majority and redrawing Malaysia’s political landscape.

After suffering its worst polls results in half a century, the shell-shocked Barisan Nasional coalition ousted the serving prime minister and drafted in Najib, who has unveiled reforms aimed at winning back support.

Hishammuddin should apologise for his insult to Malaysian women on Mother’s Day blaming women’s “chattering” for exaggerating the crime problem and demonizing the police

By Lim Kit Siang,

What a shame! After the farce of the Selangor Chief Police Officer’s stolen official car, which was returned by the thief in panic after two days with an apology note for stealing the wrong car, a Deputy Minister has lost his car.

Will the Deputy Minister get his car back like the Selangor CPO with an “apology note” too left on the dashboard of the car abandoned on the roadside?

Most unlikely. I understand the Deputy Minister concerned is Senator A. Kohilan Pillai. He is unlikely to be as lucky as the Selangor CPO for the simple reason that he cannot strike fear among the thieves and handlers of stolen goods of “hell to pay” that the Selangor CPO could!

The twin episodes of the different fates of the two stolen cars of the two VIPs would make excellent butt of jokes and would definitely be good for laughs if not for the serious security crisis in the country which they highlighted.

If it is so easy for the official cars of the Selangor CPO (though “returned” with apology note in two days) and the Deputy Foreign Minister to be stolen, what is safe in the country?

When did Malaysia become so unsafe – not only to property but also to life and limb, that Malaysia’s endemic crime is regarded as an unfavourable factor causing decline of Malaysia’s international competitiveness and driving away foreign investments to Malaysia?

This is why I am utterly shocked by the speech of the Home Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein in London last night urging Malaysians “to defend and not to demonise the police force”.

Hishammuddin, as reported by Malaysian Insider, said that instead of constantly attacking the police, the public must support the force as it was one of the institutional pillars that formed the spine of the country.

Speaking to some 100 students at the Malaysian Students’ Department in London, Hishammuddin said:

“I want to assure everybody, that the morale of the police also has to be safeguarded and balanced. Clear demonisation does not help anybody.

“Malaysia is in transition. In times of change, there is always a tendency to demonise these institutions without basis, without study, discussion and understanding” referring to institutions such as law enforcement and the judiciary.

This is a completion distortion of the truth as there is no demonization of the police by any quarter.

For instance, my political record of 44 years in Parliament and outside can stand any public scrutiny that I have fully supported the police as an important and indispensable institution of any civilized nation as all Malaysians have the right to demand that any government must deliver on its most fundamental duties – a competent and efficient police force to keep the citizenry, both life, limb and property, safe from harm.

I have always supported and even advocated increase of wages and improvement of working conditions for the country’s policemen, but I will not tolerate any “black sheep” in the police, for they are the ones who are responsible for bringing the whole police institution into disrepute and the cause of the police crisis of confidence today.

Hishammuddin is also very sparing with the truth in trying to create the impression that Malaysia is in a transition and more time is needed for the people to see results.

The campaign for police reform did not start when Hishammuddin became Home Minister a year ago.

It went much further back. At the end of 2003, the then new Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi formed a Police Royal Commission to reform the police because it was already suffering from a crisis of confidence.

The Police Royal Commission came out with 125 reform recommendations to create an efficient, incorruptible, professional world-class police service focussed on three core functions – to keep crime low, to eradicate corruption and to uphold human rights.

However, the Barisan Nasional government refused to adopt the most important of these recommendations for police reform, i.e. the establishment of an Independent Police Complaints and Misconduct Commission (IPCMC).

If an IPCMC had been established as recommended by the Police Royal Commission, 14-year-old Form III student from Shah Alam, Aminulrasyid Amzah would still be alive today and not fall victim to trigger-happy police shooting and killing some 100 metres from his Shah Alam house on April 26 at 2 am, whose only crime was underaged and unlicensed driving of his sister’s car to watch live football at the Shah Alam neighbourhood mamak stall with his friends.

I am also flabbergasted and outraged that Hishammuddin could be so irresponsible as to blame Malaysian women on Mother’s Day for the exaggeration of the endemic crime situation in the country.

Hishammuddin said in London that the level of street crimes in Malaysia was exaggerated by the “continuous chattering” that made it seem worse.

He said: “Most victims are women. What do women do? They go to the hairdressers… they chit-chat and suddenly it is everywhere and cause people to fear”.

Hishammuddin should apologise for his insult to Malayhsian women on Mother’s Day blaming women’s “chattering” for exaggerating the crime problem and demonizing the police.

In any event, what is Hishammuddin doing to London, when he should have cancelled his London trip to address the security crisis arising from the heinous police killing of Aminulrasyid?

Crime Wave – Hishamuddin blames it on “chattering women”

Hishammuddin rails against police-bashing
By Shannon Teoh | The Malaysian Insider May 09, 2010

LONDON, May 9 — Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein last night urged Malaysians to defend and not demonise the police force, now under increasing public pressure to reform after the two recent shootings of teenagers.

The Home Minister also said that instead of constantly attacking the police, the public must support the force as it was one of the institutional pillars that formed the spine of the country.

“I want to assure everybody, that the morale of the police also has to be safeguarded and balanced. Clear demonisation does not help anybody,” Hishammuddin told some 100 students at the Malaysian Students Department here.

“Malaysia is in transition. In times of change, there is always a tendency to demonise these institutions without basis, without study, discussion and understanding,” he said of institutions such as law enforcement and the judiciary.

The recent death of 14-year-old Aminulrasyid Amzah and yesterday’s shooting of 17-year-old Mohd Azizi Aziz at the hands of the police has led to public anger with the police who are already having to deal with negative perception over crime levels, custodial deaths and corruption.

“It was a tragic shooting incident,” Hishammuddin said of Aminulrasyid’s death and insisted that there would be no cover-up and that the panel established to investigate is credible.

He pointed out that policemen who have been shot did not get public sympathy.

“At the same time, the aide-de-camp of the Tengku Mahkota of Kelantan was shot in cold blood in the middle of the road. But he does not get the same treatment from the public who only want to know if it is linked to the current controversy in the Kelantan royal family,” he said, referring to Kelantan palace guard Ramli Mohamad who was shot recently.

“Just because he is a policeman does this mean he does not deserve sympathy? So let’s not get emotional,” said Hishammuddin, who was made home minister in the Najib administration.

Admitting that “the system needs to be sorted out” and that he did not “condone something that works above the law” especially by law enforcers themselves, the minister said that institutions needed to be built and there were no immediate solutions.

“We need people who are given trust to be responsible for it but not be dictated by the politics of the day or the flavour of the month. These institutions are going to be here longer than the politicians,” said Hishammuddin, whose father Tun Hussein Onn was the country’s third prime minister.

He also declared that the police had performed a perfect 10 in areas that “you will never see, you will never hear, you will never know” such as counter-terrorism.

But the Umno vice-president admitted that with regards to street crime, he would only give the police a six.

However, he said that the level of street crimes was exaggerated by the continuous chattering that made it seem worse.

“Most victims are women. What do women do? They go to the hairdressers… they chit-chat and suddenly it is everywhere and cause people to fear,” he joked.

He added that the Attorney-General and Chief Justice would also have to do their part in ensuring that crimes were prosecuted and that court dates were fixed and backlogs cleared.

He told the crowd of mainly students that the Home Ministry had targeted a reduction of street crime by 20 per cent by the end of the year and crime in general by five per cent for the next three consecutive years.

Hishammuddin asked for patience as the last time the police had a full intake was during the time of the May 13, 1969 race riots.

He explained that due to the stability of the country after that, funds were diverted into development and education instead of reinforcing the police which would have led to criticism of creating a police state in times of relative safety.

Therefore, time is needed to create the necessary police presence to address crime levels.

“I tell the police not to get demoralised as the more people attack them, the more allocation we get,” he added.

Hishammuddin also announced that officers working at desk jobs in the headquarters in Bukit Aman would be substituted by civil servants, resulting in 7,000 personnel redeployed on the streets.

Malaysia to raise "billons" of dollars from bonds

Some little-publicised news locally: Malaysia may sell bonds soon in its first major foreign debt offering in eight years.
These could be 10-year dollar-denominated bonds.
The offering will be in the region of “billions” of dollars, Bloomberg reported a government official as saying.
Check out the trend of Malaysia’s external debt stock here.
Malaysia’s international reserves stood at RM314 billion at the end of April 2010. Gross external debt was RM265 billion at the end of 2009.

Aminulrasyid's investigation papers resent to AG office

Investigation papers on Aminulrasyid Amzah,15, who was shot dead by police on April 26, have been resent to the Attorney-General's Chambers.

Selangor police chief Khalid Abu Bakar said the investigation papers were resent after Attorney-General Abdul Gani Patail asked police to further investigate the case.

The investigation papers were first sent to the Attorney-General's Chambers on April 30.

"We resent the investigation papers on Friday and are waiting for instructions from the Attorney-General's Chambers," he told reporters in Shah Alam today.

Aminulrasyid was hit by police fire after a high-speed car chase which eneded in Jalan 11/2G, about 100 metres from his house in Scntion 11, Shah Alam.

His friend who managed to escape is the key witness in the much publicised incident.

Meanwhile, Khalid said an investigation would be carried out on the disappearance of his official car although it had since been recovered.

"An investigation will be conducted to trace those responsible for stealing the car despite the apology note," he added.

The Proton Perdana V6 with plate WSY 6751 reported missing in Section 9 on Thursday was found in Prima Damansara, Petaling Jaya yesterday.

- Bernama

K'tan: Sultan's sisters say consort a 'control queen' - Malaysiakini

Two of the Kelantan Sultan's sisters came out today accusing the ruler's consort, Tengku Anis Tengku Abdul Hamid, of having kept the sultan under lock-and-key.

"(It is) the consort (who) is controlling who visits the sultan, and police, doctors and hospital staff have been harassed by her aides,” Tengku Salwani Yahya Petra told reporters at Rumah Kelantan in Kuala Lumpur.


"I understand that one of the hospital staff has filed a police report on this matter," added Tengku Salwani (right in photo), who is the Sultan's elder sister.

Kelantan Sultan Tuanku Ismail Petra is currently warded at Hospital Universiti Sains Malaysia (HUSM) in Kota Bharu, Kelantan.

He was admitted there on Tuesday, May 4, after a dramatic police operation involving members of the Special Operations Unit (UTK) that saw the third son of the Sultan, Tengku Muhd Fakhry, and several of his bodyguards detained soon after their convoy left the royal palace in Kota Bharu en route to the airport.

In what is believed to be a tussle for the throne between Tengku Fakhry and his eldest brother, the regent and acting ruler Tengku Muhd Faris Petra, the Sultan's consort claimed to have been treated less than royally by the police.

Tengku Anis (right) also alleged that she had not been allowed to be with her husband the Sultan despite pleas that she feared for his safety.

According to Tengku Rozan, however, it was not long ago that the consort herslef allegedly barred them from visiting their own brother the Sultan when he was previously being treated in Singapore.

Until March this year, Tuanku Ismail had for nine months been in the Mount Elizabeth Hospital in Singapore for heart treatment.

"We were barred for the whole nine months that we were there (Singapore). Other visitors, including medical specialists and religious experts from Malaysia, were also barred," said Tengku Rozan (left).

The claim, aired previously, has been denied by those claiming to be close to Tengku Anis.

Tengku Rozan, however, went further by claiming that of those visitors allowed in by the consort, some were adding to the stress suffered by the sultan by "trying to convince him" to think badly of the regent, Tengku Faris.

There is even reason to believe that the consort had resorted to the services of bomohs (witchdoctors) to 'treat' the Sultan, said Tengku Rozan, citing the discovery of amulets and other "questionable items" near the Sultan during his treatment in Singapore.

Both sisters urged all members of the royal family to give their support to the regent, whom they said has been very level-headed in trying to solve the family debacle without airing their dirty laundry in public.

The regent has thus far kept a low profile on the issue.

Tengku Rozan added that contrary to reports, Tengku Abdul Aziz Hamzah, who recently claimed he was barred by police from visiting the sultan, is not their uncle but that of Tengku Anis.

In what appeared to be a message to the consort, Tengku Salwani said: "Let's return to the true path which would be pleasing to Allah. We are over 60 years of age and God-willing, we too will (soon) return to Him. He knows what we do and the rakyat will judge our doings."

Tengku Rozan added: "We all belong to God and are under His powers, so we cannot always live in fantasy and always want to be praised."

Meanwhile the comptroller of the Kelantanese royal household, Abdul Halim Hamad, said that the Ministry of Health has appointed an 11-member panel of specialists to examine the sultan and advise on the treatment required.

He could not, however, say when the panel will produce their report.

Defence's focus on medical reports, Saiful's credibility

By S Rutra - Free Malaysia Today

KUALA LUMPUR: Mohd Saiful Bukhari Azlan's credibility will come under scrutiny when Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim's sodomy trial resumes tomorrow.
Among others, counsel Karpal Singh told FMT that Mohd Saiful must explain his allegation of not defecating for two days after being allegedly sodomised by Anwar.

"He really needs to answer his allegation that he did not pass motion for two days,” he said.

Karpal said Mohd Saiful will also be grilled on who were the people he came into contact with before lodging his police report.

Apart from this, the former aide to Anwar will also be questioned on the three medical reports, from Tawakal, Pusrawi and Hospital Kuala Lumpur.

"There will be no further delay in this trial, since everyone is eager to hear more from him (Mohd Saiful) who has made all kind allegations against Anwar," Karpal said, adding that the focus will be on the witness' credibility.

Karpal said the defence team might use the entire five-day trial period to zero in on Mohd Saiful because there are many issues to be covered.

Medical experts

On the three experts hired by the defence team, Karpal said they will be present in court when the prosecution calls their expert witness on the DNA issue.

The three are DNA expert Dr Brian Leslie McDonald from Sydney, Australia, and two forensic experts Prof Dr C Damodaran from Chennai, India and Assoc Prof David Lawrence Noel Wells from Melbourne, Australia.

Anwar, 63, is charged with sodomising his former aide Mohd Saiful, 25, at Unit 11-5-1 Desa Damansara Condominium, Jalan Setiakasih, Bukit Damansara, between 3.01pm and 4.30pm on June 26, 2008.

He is charged under Section 377B of the Penal Code and faces up to 20 years' in jail and whipping upon conviction.

In his opening statement, Solicitor-General II Mohd Yusof Zainal Abidin, who is heading the prosecution team, had told the court that the prosecution would adduce evidence to show that the semen specimen taken from Mohd Saiful's anus was confirmed by the Chemistry Department to be Anwar's.

Anwar is represented by Karpal, Param Cumaraswamy, CV Prabakharan, Ram Karpal Singh Deo, SN Nair, Mohd Radzlan Jalaludin and Marisa Regina Fernando.

Meanwhile, Mohd Yusof is assisted by seven deputy public prosecutors, Nordin Hassan, Mohamad Hanafiah Zakaria, Wong Chiang Kiat, Noorin Badaruddin, Farah Azlina Latiff, Mira Mirna Musa and Naidatul Athirah Azmad.
Anwar, who was jailed for a similar offence in 1999, has claimed, like before, that the current charge against him is part of a political conspiracy.

Umno will never fight for Indians, says DCM Rama

File pix from the 2007 Hindraf rally

By Athi Shankar - Free Malaysia Today

GEORGE TOWN: Rights, interests and benefits of the minority Indian community in this country can only be safeguarded if there is a political change in the country, said Penang Deputy Chief Minister P Ramasamy today.
Ramasamy, a senior DAP leader, suggested that until a change was made to remove the Barisan Nasional government at Putrajaya, the Indians here will continue to face hardships in protecting their religious and cultural identity and lifestyle.

“The Indians here cannot expect protection under the current Umno rule. They must go for a political change to safeguard their rights, interests and benefits in the country,” he told some 100 Malaysia Hindu Sangam (MHS) members who attended their Penang council’s 30th annual general meeting here today.

Batu Kawan parliamentarian Ramasamy pointed out that forced and unwitting religious conversions and parental custody fight over children due to conversion by a spouse were among the main predicaments faced by the community today in the country.

Other pressing issues, he said, were frequent temple demolitions in BN-controlled states and piecemeal federal allocations for Tamil schools

He blamed the racist policies of the Umno-dominated federal government over the years as the main cause for the community's quandary in the country.

He said without the desired political change, the Indian community would not succeed in their quest to attain equal religious rights “no matter how hard they tried”.

Ramasamy said in a real democracy, the majority would always protect the rights and interests of minorities.

“However, in Malaysia, the Umno’s governance is to the contrary,” he said.

Temples' duty for the community

Earlier, MHS national president Mohan Shanmugam called on Hindu temples to double up their functions as public service centres by conducting religious, meditation, yoga, cultural dance and art classes for Hindus in their respective areas.

“Instead of spending thousands to re-develop and decorate temples frequently, the managements should spend money on these activities,” he said.

He also warned that MHS state and local councils to buck up in their activities or face the wrath of the national leadership.

He said the national leadership would intervene and initiate changes in state and local councils if they were caught “sleeping on their job.”
He said state and local councils shall constantly carry out programmes throughout a year to stimulate growth of Hindu religion and Tamil language across the country.

“Those who cannot deliver should step down and let more capable people to take over. Otherwise the national leadership will interfere, if needed, to invoke the changes,” warned Mohan.

Drop Mukhriz, bring in KJ says Umno blogger

COMMENT Break with the tainted Mahathirian past and form your own team, a prominent Umno blogger has urged prime minister Najib Tun Razak. Bring in Khairy Jamaluddin to the Cabinet, together with other second-generation leaders, he said in a set of controversial recommendations made on his blog.
Putting the case for Khairy, blogger Sakmongkol AK47 pointed to Khairy's intellect and charismatic leadership qualities in galvanising the young, and said an appointment to the Cabinet would end the anomaly of KJ (as he is known) being the only Umno Youth leader not to hold government office.

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I think there is a place for both Mukhriz and KJ in PM Najib's team. KJ can collect water, Mukhriz can go find firewood. You need all kinds.

Anyway, Umno people salivate at the idea that after this, another son of a former PM takes over and after that, another takes over. That's Umno for you.

Sakmongkol AK47
in a later posting

Sakmongkol tartly described Mukhriz Mahathir, son of the former prime minister and KJ's deputy in Umno Youth, as having the personality of a wooden lamp post, and said Mukhriz and four others should be dropped.
These four, Hishammuddin Tun Hussein, Anifah Aman, Ahmad Maslan and Puad Zakarshi, were ineffective, he said. A new set of second-generation leaders should be brought in, able to provide new thinking to lead Malaysia in tackling entrenched problems.
In another recommendation bound to raise hackles, he also said Najib should offer only one deputy ministership for the MIC, pointing to the fact that the opposition party PKR had more Indians as MPs than all the other component Barisan Nasional parties.
Sakmongkol is the pen-name of Datuk Mohd Ariff Sabri Abdul Aziz, a former state assemblyman of Pahang.
He wrote that Najib had proven he could be his own man, and urged him to cut the links to the past represented by Mahathir.
Mahathir has had a resurgence of political activity recently, prominently aligning himself with Malay rights activists in the Perkasa movement, in contrast and apparent opposition to Najib's inclusive political philosophy under the slogan of 1Malaysia.
Sakmongkol also advised the prime minister to keep his distance from former PKR Youth chief Ezam Mohd Nor, who was made a senator last week, and raised questions about the quality of Ezam's character in defecting to Umno after years of being a staunch loyalist of opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim.
Here are edited extracts from Sakmongkol's recent postings:
Najib should break with Mahathir
What did the [BN by-election] victory in Hulu Selangor [last month] show? It showed that the coup de grace for that victory was the personal appearance of the PM. It shows that the PM is sufficiently strong to be unassailable. He is no Pak Lah. He can stand on his own and by extension can make independent decisions. It's time for this PM to sever the umbilical cord to Dr Mahathir. PM Najib has no reason to be all things to all people.

PM Najib needs a new team. He is now the undisputed number one. It is not about kicking out or bringing in new faces. It's also about placing the right people at the right places. Loyalty shouldn't be the topmost criteria. What is needed is leadership capabilities, skills dedication and smarts to do a job. More importantly, people who can operate on their own with the shared vision and ideals of the PM. Not necessarily always agreeable but loyal to a cause.
Deadwood ministers and deputy ministers must be encouraged to go. Ask them to join Perkas.
Second-generation leadership
What are we? We are second generation voters and leaders. The issues confronting us are different: poverty, urban now more pronounced; corruption, a scourge; inefficient and ineffective government and administration, aggravates the cost of running the country; ignorance and intolerance, ineptitude — these are the second generation issues.
How do you tackle them? By placing second generation thinking leaders in responsible positions. Hence the future of this country depends on the quality of people Najib selects to be on his team.
He needs to create an environment and a system in which succeeding generations can build and improve upon what we already have. Install a strong leadership, with a shared vision, drive and commitment.
Each generation gets rid of the past and together with that past, people who ruled and ordered our society.

The character of leaders
Two things make up leadership: mental capabilities and this thing called character.
Recently the PM appointed some new senators. One of them used to be a very intimate aide to Anwar Ibrahim. That would make anyone think that he knows many secrets about Anwar, just as Anwar does about him too. You can't claim that only you know the other's secrets — the other guy also knows you inside out. In the end, you end up throwing your dirty laundry in the streets. I think Umno should cease to be a political Alam Flora.
After going through some difficult times defending Anwar and standing by that leader, he finally quit the party and abandoned the struggles of the political party or movements whose ideals he once swore upon. What kind of character does he have? To me he has a fluid and ephemeral character, taken as a whole, which should be a cause of concern for the prime minister.
If he can do that to a longtime comrade, what's stopping him from doing the same next time around? A compromisable character is a political liability.
(Ezam Mohd Nor former head of PKR Youth, is a senator and founding chairman of Gerak, or Gerakan Rakyat Anti Korupsi Msia.)
Khairy Jamaluddin for Cabinet
KJ won his post as Ketua Pemuda (Umno Youth leader) one year ago. He won it fair and square. Fair and square in Umno terms that is. Since then we have had 10 by-elections. At every one of these the Ketua Pemuda has played a very prominent role galvanising the votes of the younger generation.
In all the recent by-elections, Pemuda Umno has been in the forefront. Its Pentas Pemuda has become a permanent feature and a decisive opinion shaper too. Its members work the ground, house to house, making strenuous efforts to win voters. The person responsible for energising the Pemuda election machinery and eliciting renewed acceptance of Pemuda Umno is [the] Ketua Pemuda, Khairy Jamaluddin.
He has the smarts and personality to draw the younger generation. The Umno president must be mindful of the fact that the deciding elements in future elections are the younger voters. He might as well leverage on an asset that can galvanise and win them over.He has two choices: to elevate and honour the position of Ketua Pemuda or place other bland characters as the voice of the young.
No one wants to listen to Ahmad Maslan, for example, who likes to regale audience about the circumstances in which the PM identified him and developed him into what he is today. (Ahmad Maslan is MP for Pontian and a deputy minister in the PM's Department.)
Let's face it, KJ has a charismatic personality, articulate and is very smart vs the other fellow — yes the fellow who lost but was made a deputy minister [and] who has a personality matching that of a wooden lamp-post.
It's a great anomaly to see the Ketua Pemuda of Umno outside the cabinet or without any government appointment. The head of Puteri Umno has a post, the ketua wanita MCA, the ketua pemuda MCA have positions. All previous KP of Umno were given positions.
Like Dato Zahid Hamidi, I urged the PM to induct the Umno ketua Pemuda into his cabinet. Think of the future.
(Khairy Jamaluddin, leader of Umno Youth, is MP for Rembau.)
Who Najib should drop
• Hishammuddin Hussein, his cousin, has not performed well [as] home minister. He appears to be impotent and couldn't rein in the IGP. In any other country, no chief constable of the country has assumed an overt political stance, always the province of the minister in charge.
Hishammuddin hasn't been up to the mark. He is no King Ghaz (the late Ghazali Shafie) when the latter was Home Minister to Tun Razak. He should be reassigned to another post. One that doesn't require the projection of a toughie.
(Hishammuddin Tun Hussein, son of a former prime minister, is MP for Sembrong and minister of home affairs.)
• Our invisible foreign minister. For the first time in history, Malaysia has an exceedingly shy foreign minister. Hobnobbing and rubbing shoulders with other foreign ministers and diplomats at cocktail parties should have been a cinch for a person like Anifah Aman, no stranger to handling himself at glorified watering holes.
Since becoming the Foreign Minister, we hardly hear of him. Perhaps he is not up to the job. I hear that one of the reasons he doesn't want to be Foreign Minister is his extreme frustration in being asked questions regarding the Altantuya [Shaariibuu] murder each and every time he meets the foreign press. He can't handle the pressure.
So it's time for PM Najib to let him go. Put someone else with the silver tongue and hide thick enough. Rais Yatim will be a good candidate, provided he is in the right mode, always.
• Puad Zarkashi, who seems to share a close affinity with the ideals of Perkasa, should be let off. Maybe he can be Umno's fifth columnist inside Perkasa. (Puad Zarkashi is MP for Batu Pahat. He is a deputy minister of education.)
• Mukhriz Mahathir who seems not to serve any useful purpose other than as a shield against the tirades of the old man, should also be put to pasture. (Mukhriz Mahathir, deputy leader of Umno Youth, is MP for Jerlun and deputy minister of international trade and industry.)
• The MIC with only three members of Parliament should be adequately represented by just one member in the Cabinet — and that, too, at deputy level.
• The PPP which offers nothing to BN, shouldn't be tolerated in any way at all.
Heck, PKR has more Indian MPs than PPP and MIC put together.

Sabah DAP wants full details on govt expenditure

By Queville To - Free Malaysia Today

KOTA KINABALU: The Sabah state government has been asked to provide a comprehensive report of the projects that have been completed in the state. The state DAP, in making the request, said the current summary report provided by the government was insufficient.
Its vice-chairman Edward Mujie said a detailed breakdown of project costs was necessary in order to ascertain if all the government projects had actually been implemented.

Mujie, who is also DAP’s local government and housing bureau chief, was commenting on the state government’s summary report of money spent on the various infrastructure projects in Sabah. The report was presented during the state legislative assembly sitting last month.

At the sitting Deputy Chief Minister cum Minister of Infrastructure Development Joseph Pairin Kitingan's disclosed that as at the end of last year, Sabah had spent RM1.05 billion of allocation under the 9th Malaysia Plan.

Pairin said that some RM4.3 billion of the approved 9MP allocation had been spent on infrastructure projects and those under the Sabah Development Corridor Economic Package as well as the RM1 billion special allocation for 521 projects worth a total of RM1.68 billion.

Sabah, he said, also received RM1.99 billion for 186 road projects and RM2 billion for water supply projects under the National Key Result Areas (NKRAs) programme which must be implemented from 2010 to 2012.

Mujie said that merely disclosing the amount spent and the number of projects was too vague to ascertain if projects had actually been completed and at what cost.

He urged the state government to furnish the full details of all the projects and its respective the costs.

For example, he said, road projects should be identified as either a main road or a feeder road, the location, the actual cost, and whether it has been completed or still under construction.

He also asked what types of projects were involved in the 251 projects that were worth a total of RM1.68 billion under the Sabah Development Corridor.

The same details he said was also needed for all the 186 road projects with a total worth of RM1.99 billion and the 513 water supply projects worth RM2 billion under the NKRAs.

No wonder Malaysia is still in a State of Emergency...

Dear Malaysians. Despite laborious efforts by UMNO to pretend to “protect the honor of the Sultans”, they themselves are now using strong-arm tactics, and turning their guns on the very same Royalty, which they pretend to protect !!! Not only is this bad news for the Royalty, this is even worse news for the general population !! No wonder the 400,000 have fled the country just last year alone.
Written by John Doe

As Jibby announced today. “...The Federal Government will NOT intervene in the Kelantan palace crisis because it is strictly a state and family matter...” Let us take a slightly closer look at what he considers a “Private Matter”, and this will clearly show all Malaysians, and the world, what a country Malaysia really is.

The Case:
The Royal Palace Guard, Ramli Mohamed, 50, was shot by an unknown man at Kampung Sungai Nyior, Tumpat, early last Saturday. He is now being treated at the intensive care unit of the Hospital Raja Perempuan Zainab II here. This is an attempted-murder. Is this the “Private Matter” which Jibby is discussing? So, in the eyes of the Law, when are attempted murders anytime a private matter? Could it be that the case of the 14 year old will also be classified as a “Private Matter”, therefore “NFA” as well?

On the other hand, in stark contrast, Suhaizan Kayat, 37, was arrested for name-calling, just last Friday. I believe he only used the words, “barua Umno”, which translates into “Umno henchmen”. Based on what we see, this is now arrestable?

In the Article carried by the The Star:
It details how the Police, “...upon checking, they found a chrome Smith and Wesson pistol, five 5mm bullets and four 9mm bullets in a plastic bag hidden under the driver’s seat...” For anyone who knows how to use a gun, will immediately know that bullets of 2 sizes will never fit into the same  gun, nor will it fire properly. Furthermore, a Smith & Wesson is standard Police issue. Not my favourite gun at all. I much prefer the Glocks. Far sturdier, and reliable. Drop it in a river, and it still shoots. Also to note, that the 5mm is useful for extremely close-range firing only. If memory serves me right, it is useful only less than 20feet. But my bigger issue here, is not the choice of weapons or armoury. The real question here is, how did these guns get into the country? Wasn't there grenades blowing up in Johor only sometime last month? Sure, are we all to believe that such weapons are available from 7-Eleven? And that Altantuya was C4'd with Playdoh bought from Toys-R-uS?

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The same Article also proudly boasted,”...that the Police arrested nine female Chinese nationals, aged between 20 and 30, believed to be guest relations officers...” Sure, and so, is Sex a “Private Matter” or not? If it is, then you should let these girls go. If it's not, then one might want to consider arresting the Porn-Star President of MCA. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

On a more pressing note, imbeciles from Perkosa, have been gallantly championing the Sultans. As if the Sultans are incapable of taking care of themselves. Oh, my goodness, I spoke too soon !!
Royal Car Ambushed by Malaysian Police Special Action Force

Armed Malaysian forces force Royal Car from bringing the Sultan to a First World Country Hospital for urgent medical treatment.

In his version of the events that unfolded just as the Sultan was to leave on a commercial flight for Singapore for follow-up treatment, he said the car was stopped some 30m outside of the palace by vehicles carrying armed policemen from the Special Action Force.

“Some 30 to 40 Policemen in balaclavas, most of whom were armed with semi-automatic guns, then charged towards His Royal Highness’ car,” he said, adding that after the driver was forced out, the royal couple was then driven by one of the armed men to the hospital in Kubang Kerian.

And what of Articles titled this way?
Kelantan Sultan's Wife hiding from Police? Do Royalty now fear the machine guns of the Malaysian Police now? Those guns are meant to protect them, not antagonize them.

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Remember that at the beginning of this piece, Jibby announced that this is a “private matter”. Well, am I have to assume that he refers to the Malaysian Police as his “Personal Family” then? Was Altanutya's death also a “Personal Matter”, or a “Personal Preference”? I did distinctly remember words like “Dia suka main belakang” as well, which translates to “Altantuya is alright with Anal Sex...”.

Well, if Effigies of Zaid were “justifiably” burnt just a couple of days ago, then, perhaps YoRais should have his cremated by Perkosa as well. He just insulted all the Sultans at the same time by issuing a “decree” that all the Royal Household should learn to behave themselves in public
See here. YoRais is strongly suggesting that the Royalty are in fact, misbehaving themselves. Is he "Derhaka-ing" now as well?

Was he refering to the late Sultan of Johor who clubbed a Caddy to death simply for laughing at him? Or was it in reference to the point-blank execution on the North-South Highway, of a Civilian who nonchalantly overtook his unmarked Harley Davidson (with no motorcade) sometime in the 80's? YoRais, watch it.... You are bordering the wrath of Perkosa. So you'd better quickly change your mode again.

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YoRais then babbles on about protecting Articles 181, 153 and 152 of the Federal Constitution, completely forgetting that it was really Mahathir who openly de-clawed the Royal Line, with this sentence and this sentence alone. “If the Agong does not sign this in 24hours, then it is assumed that he has given consent..” Why not charge the Mamak for “Derhaka”? Maybe the Agong did not sign it because he did not agree with it? Anyone in UMNO ever considered that? This “New” Amendment in effect completely bypassed the powers of the Agong. Perkosa badly needs to go back to school. Or are they propagating that intellect, (just like the like the internet) is an evil-creation of the West?

Next, a potential entry for the Guiness Book of Records, “World's First Habeas Corpus to free a Sultan”. This should make Malaysia proud !! At least we have ONE listing which I'm sure no one else would want to contest. But this is surely strange. The Sultans are whom Perkosa is screaming “Yang Maha Mulia” (The Most Noble) is being held Hostage by the Malaysian Government Armed Troops. The very same people who are supposed to be His Protectors? Ironic isn't it? How different is this from the journalist and Politicians who were arrested for “their own safety” under the ISA? But it took 30-40 semi-automatic weapons to convince the Sultan not to go to a First World for Medical Treatment, where he had already been for the past 9 months, is surely a concern for even the most feeble minded.

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Yesterday, members of the Royal Family have accused the Malaysian Police of Violent Acts against them. The Police of course, deny it, as seen here in today's Star.

OK. Now, we should fully expect Perkosa, and his henchmen to march up and down the country torching pictures of Police Stations, and/ or the IGP for such blatant acts of “Derhaka”. 
After all, one only has to read the Affidavit from the Royal House by Tengku Temenggong Tengku Muhammad Fakhry Petra which plainly states that, “.. the driver was forcibly dragged out of the vehicle by Malaysian Policemen, who were in balaclavas and armed with semi-automatic weapons...” He said in the affidavit filed in support of the Habeas Corpus application that "...weapons were pointed at Raja Perempuan Tengku Anis Tengku Hamid and passengers in other cars in the entourage leaving for the airport..." at about 7.20pm on Tuesday. “Others” in the car, meant that the Sultan was stopped at gun-point. Or maybe Perkosa does not know how to read English?

Dear Malaysians. Despite laborious efforts by UMNO to pretend to “protect the honor of the Sultans”, they themselves are now using strong-arm tactics, and turning their guns on the very same Royalty, which they pretend to protect !!! Not only is this bad news for the Royalty, this is even worse news for the general population !! No wonder the 400,000 have fled the country just last year alone.

Let me sum all of what I have written in previous Articles, in just ONE paragraph.
Migrants from Indonesia, Thailand, and Vietnam came to Malaya. They decided to use the identity of a local tribe called “malay”. With that new "Identity", they ostracize the original inhabitants of the Land, and called it their own. More migrants arrived, and were warmly welcomed. In 1957, the British got rid of another one of their Colonies, and a "new" country was formed. Over the years, many Politicians became greedy, as they literally "struck oil". They kept 95% of this money, and left the original inhabitants to fend for themselves. To ensure their uninterrupted wealth, they have bastardized everyone else's basic human rights, and pretended to be Holy people. And now, anything, and anyone, which/who  stands in their way, they will remove, at gunpoint, if necessary; even if it's the Sultan. Today, it's Kelantan. Which Sultan is next? And if they can do this to Royalty, then surely ordinary Malaysian Citizens can easily be dispensed-off like pesky rodents, and useless cockroaches.


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How many Billions of YOUR Tax Dollars is the Malaysian Government spending to buy Weapons and Armoury? Is there a War going on? Who is the Agressor? Did I not warn you about Malaysia turning into New Burma? Burma has 400,000 troops. Largest in Asia after China. They are only fighting their own people. Malaysia does joint-Military training with Burma. UMNO learns from Burma. Petronas feeds the Burmese Junta. Hence, they have become ideology-buddies.

You want your country back? Fight UMNO. It is UMNO who are the ungrateful ones. Stop thinking short-term. How much peace of mind can you possibly have in a backwater Third World Country which is still under Emergency? Your passivity will be your own undoing. And praying “till their stomachs burst” has not worked at all.

Royal affairs have impact on the public too

In what has become known as the Kelantan palace crisis, more questions than answers emerge by the day. What is actually happening? If indeed the Sultan is not under house arrest as some say, he must also be seen to be not under house arrest.

The Star

THERE is no escaping the import of the news: the Sultan of Kelantan being kept at a hospital’s Royal Ward, neither returning to his palace nor leaving for treatment elsewhere as planned.

Add to this some other unprecedented incidents: allegedly rough treatment of a member of the royal family by the police, with friends, relatives and even the lawyer representing the Sultan being denied any contact with him.

Next, the lawyer appointed by the Sultan files a writ of habeas corpus to free him.

In what has become known as the Kelantan palace crisis, more questions than answers emerge by the day. What is actually happening?

There is no denying that the Sultan is not in the best of health. However, that is not in itself reason for the extraordinary intrigue.

There are certain basic principles that apply here.

First, the growing mystery is fomenting rumour and speculation that range from the crude to the scandalous.

This is not helping any party, but is instead potentially injurious to all.

Second, the Sultan is a public personage of considerable standing, therefore such matters relating to him are of legitimate public interest.

Thus they deserve to be reported fully, fairly and accurately, since evasion and diversion only frustrate and undermine the welfare of the Sultan and the public.

Third, a sultan and members of his family possess a status that commands due respect from others.

Any breach of established protocol need to be explained and rectified, and shown to be done.

And fourth, precisely because the sultan in question needs medical attention, and had planned to obtain it abroad, what can be the purpose of diverting his trip?

Evidently, his intended medical treatment is not what he is receiving in Kubang Kerian.

The condition of his health must be of sufficient urgency to not delay such treatment, without over-interpreting his infirmity to suggest any incapacity.

If indeed the Sultan is not under house arrest as some say, he must also be seen to be not under house arrest.

The sooner this matter is cleared up satisfactorily, the better. Prolonged intrigue will impact negatively not only on Kelantan, but on the country as a whole.

Hishammuddin rails against police-bashing

(TMI) LONDON, May 9 — Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein last night urged Malaysians to defend and not demonise the police force, now under increasing public pressure to reform after the two recent shootings of teenagers.

The Home Minister also said that instead of constantly attacking the police, the public must support the force as it was one of the institutional pillars that formed the spine of the country.

“I want to assure everybody, that the morale of the police also has to be safeguarded and balanced. Clear demonisation does not help anybody,” Hishammuddin told some 100 students at the Malaysian Students Department here.

“Malaysia is in transition. In times of change, there is always a tendency to demonise these institutions without basis, without study, discussion and understanding,” he said of institutions such as law enforcement and the judiciary.

The recent death of 14-year-old Aminulrasyid Amzah and yesterday’s shooting of 17-year-old Mohd Azizi Aziz at the hands of the police has led to public anger with the police who are already having to deal with negative perception over crime levels, custodial deaths and corruption.

“It was a tragic shooting incident,” Hishammuddin said of Aminulrasyid’s death and insisted that there would be no cover-up and that the panel established to investigate is credible.

He pointed out that policemen who have been shot did not get public sympathy.

“At the same time, the aide-de-camp of the Tengku Mahkota of Kelantan was shot in cold blood in the middle of the road. But he does not get the same treatment from the public who only want to know if it is linked to the current controversy in the Kelantan royal family,” he said, referring to Kelantan palace guard Ramli Mohamad who was shot recently.

“Just because he is a policeman does this mean he does not deserve sympathy? So let’s not get emotional,” said Hishammuddin, who was made home minister in the Najib administration.

Admitting that “the system needs to be sorted out” and that he did not “condone something that works above the law” especially by law enforcers themselves, the minister said that institutions needed to be built and there were no immediate solutions.

“We need people who are given trust to be responsible for it but not be dictated by the politics of the day or the flavour of the month. These institutions are going to be here longer than the politicians,” said Hishammuddin, whose father Tun Hussein Onn was the country’s third prime minister.

He also declared that the police had performed a perfect 10 in areas that “you will never see, you will never hear, you will never know” such as counter-terrorism.

Read more at: http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/malaysia/article/hishammuddin-rails-against-police-bashing/

Ikhlas Menuruti Kedaulatan Undang-Undang

Seorang lagi remaja telah ditembak polis. Mangsa dilaporkan cedera di bahagian perut. Namun kita bersyukur kerana Sdr Mohd Azizi tidak mengalami nasib yang sama seperti allahyarham Aminulrasyid. Mangsa kini mendapat rawatan di Hospital Tuanku Jaafar, Seremban. Saya dan Azizah serta seluruh pendokong Pakatan Rakyat berdoa moga Sdr Azizi segera sembuh dan diberi kekuatan untuk melupakan episod hitam ini. Pakatan Rakyat juga menggesa agar siasatan dijalankan dengan telus dan bebas. Keadilan buat semua hanya dapat dicapai sekiranya siasatan ini tidak menurut telunjuk sesetengah pihak yang semakin cemas dengan perkembangan ini.

Sementara itu polis berpangkat konstabel yang didakwa menembak Sdr Mohd Azizi dilaporkan telah digantung serta merta. Kita juga menyambut baik kenyataan tegas Ketua Polis Negeri Sembilan yang tidak mahu berkompromi dengan aksi penyalahgunaan kuasa oleh anggotanya. Ini pasti berbeza sekali dengan reaksi Ketua Polis Negara yang terburu-buru mengugut untuk tidak membenarkan anggota polis dari melaksanakan tugasnya menjaga keamanan serta keselamatan.

Pakatan Rakyat senantiasa menghargai sumbangan pihak keselamatan termasuklah PDRM. Kita sedar ramai anggota keselamatan yang tidak lalai dari menunaikan tanggungjawab mereka dengan ikhlas dan menuruti semangat kedaulatan undang-undang. Walaubagaimanapun wujudnya segelintir mereka yang korup menyebabkan keyakinan rakyat semakin terhakis. Ibarat bidalan Melayu, “rosak susu sebelanga kerana nila setitik.

ANWAR IBRAHIM

1 Malaysia: Another morning glory?

By Tunku Abdul Aziz

An old English friend of mine, the late Humphrey Ball, the Malacca lawyer, once described Malaysia, his adopted country, as a morning glory — a reference to “a climbing plant with flowers shaped like trumpets that open in the morning and close in late afternoon.”

Having lived among us for so long, he was used to putting up with our little foibles, and if he was irritated by them, he kept his feelings very much to himself. Humphrey was the quintessential English gentleman.

We were having breakfast and it was a lovely morning and the city looked splendid. In between another cup of tea and a round of toast and marmalade, he surveyed the Kuala Lumpur skyline from the veranda of the Selangor Club and declared that from his experience, many of the state of the art concrete and stainless steel structures that were jostling for breathing space in the ever expanding concrete jungle of Malaysian towns and cities would go the way of all the other buildings he had seen in this country — in wreck and ruin within a few years.

“You know, Tunku, Malaysia is not unlike the morning glory,” he intoned.

Humphrey was, of course, right. We are good at building with the help of legions of exploited foreign labour. Maintenance is not part of the equation and we see this not only in the state of our buildings but also our suburban roads.

We neglect to repair a small hole as soon as it appears in the road until it becomes big enough to maim or kill a motorcyclist or damage a car. The Government, both Federal and State, is lucky that suing the authorities for negligence has not become a common feature of Malaysian life.

This is because the overwhelming majority of our people are ignorant of their rights. The time is not too far away when, as in the US and other developed countries, the authorities will be held legally accountable for their actions — in this instance, their lack of action.

Humphrey’s morning glory best describes our general attitude and approach to civic or public duty and responsibility. We undertake a government construction project with a lot of trumpeting and enthusiasm, but we seldom ever complete it successfully.

We see hundreds of such monuments to crony capitalism and entrenched, systemic corruption in every state of the nation. This is what happens when governance is driven by political rather than rational considerations. When meritocracy is on the backburner instead of in the driver’s seat, this is to be expected.

Datuk Seri Najib Razak may mean well in what he says about policy reforms, but will he be allowed the freedom to act effectively? Present indications are that he will be allowed to talk about his vision of a united and prosperous Malaysia ad infinitum.

His rival and other powerful political minders know that there is not much harm done to existing policies that benefit the party as long as they control and curtail his actions. He may not know it, but he has already caught the morning glory disease of beginning with a bang and ending with a deafening whimper.

Najib must wish he had not spent so much public money that is needed more urgently elsewhere to launch his 1 Malaysia, which looks destined for an early demise, like the morning glory of Humphrey’s evocative analogy. 1 Malaysia will forever remain a puerile offering of a confused mind that is best forgotten before the nation is subjected to further ridicule.

Please do not get me wrong. I have, all my life, promoted racial unity and integration, the acceptance instead of tolerance of cultural diversity, long before Najib even thought about these unifying elements.

But my version of 1 Malaysia is one that provides equal opportunity for all, based on the principles of justice and fair play.

My 1 Malaysia is a Malaysian Malaysia where all citizens are treated equally and discrimination in any shape or form is outlawed.

My 1 Malaysia is Middle Malaysia where extremism in economic, social, and political terms is totally expunged, and where the notion of racial supremacy is killed as soon as it rears its ugly head.

My 1 Malaysia will be free of the contradictions such as we see in our existing policies that favour a particular section of the Malaysian community to the detriment of sustainable overall development.

For the life of me I cannot see Najib delivering on my order. Can you, my fellow Malaysians?