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Khir Toyo charge predicated on a ‘lie’, says defence

noreply@blogger.com (KUTU KURAP) — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 13:44:00 +0000

Defence lawyers in Dr Mohd Khir Toyo’s trial today argued that there was no proof the former mentri besar had used his influence to buy a luxury home and land at a discounted price, saying that he was innocent of the charge against him.

Dr Khir’s lawyers spent most of the defence’s closing submissions attacking the credibility of the prosecution’s main witness, Datuk Shamsuddin Hayroni.

The former MB is alleged to have obtained for himself and his wife two lots of land and a house at No. 8 and 10, Jalan Suasa 7/1L here from Ditamas Sdn Bhd through its director Shamsuddin.

The property was purchased at RM3.5 million although Ditamas had bought it for RM6.5 million on December 23, 2004.

The transaction was alleged to have been made when Dr Khir (picture) knew that Shamsuddin had ties with his official duty as the Selangor mentri besar then.

“The entire case is predicated on a lie,” defence counsel Kamarul Hisham Kamarudin told the High Court.

Kamarul charged that the prosecution’s charge against Dr Khir hinged on Shamsuddin’s testimony, saying that the latter had failed to show proof that he had been ordered by the Umno leader to buy the house and two plots of land in 2004.

Shamsuddin had been accused of abetting Dr Khir in the allegedly fraudulent deal involving the latter’s Balinese-style mansion.

“There must be clear coercion... is there a jot of evidence to even suggest the accused said anything untoward? There is nothing in the past, present or future.

“The (claim) that SP2 (Shamsuddin) was fearful (of Dr Khir) was a complete perception on his part,” said Kamarul.

The lawyer pointed out that Shamsuddin was charged with Dr Khir at the beginning of the trial, and that he had “inconsistently” changed his police statements.

“He is a fellow accused who has had his charge withdrawn. One has to view his testimony with suspicion.”

Kamarul charged that it was Shamsuddin who was involved in the development of the building and land, and not Dr Khir.

“If the accused is the ultimate buyer, why would he not then take part in the development of the building?

“Where is (proof) of contact between SP2 and the accused?” asked the lawyer.

He also said that there had been no reason to challenge the valuation report of the land which was put at RM3.5 million.

Choy Yue Kwong, a valuer from Rahim & Co, had testified that RM5.5 million was too high a value to put on the mansion, pointing out the unfinished building construction.

He was commissioned by HSBC to value the palatial home.

Dr Khir, the state assemblyman for Sungai Panjang, is alleged to have committed the offence at the official residence of the Selangor mentri besar at Jalan Permata 7/1, Section 7 here on May 29, 2007.

If found guilty, he faces two years’ jail, a fine, or both under section 165 of the Penal Code.

The trial continues this afternoon with further submissions by the defence.

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Being chairman of PKNS, it was a practice in the agency under his verbal directive that all construction projects ,both infrastructure and building, undertaken by the agency vetted and named by him the contractors for negotiation. Large sums of money has to be paid for commission! Typically RM 800,000.00 for a RM 28 million contract
The Malay , being the majority of the property buyers from PKNS, pay a much higher price collectively, for this CROOK!

The question in the first place is how can he afford to buy the bungalow with his government salary? Doesn't it sound fishy? He is plainly guilty as charged.

Cattle scandal may cost BN Malay votes

noreply@blogger.com (KUTU KURAP) — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 13:34:00 +0000

Malay voters in Penang are angry with Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s refusal to act on the RM250 million cattle scandal linked to a minister’s family, Lim Guan Eng said today.

“From the response of the public, more than 85 per cent of Malays see anger at corruption in [Barisan Nasional], especially Najib’s persistent and continued defence of his government’s refusal to act on the cows-and-condos scandal.

“I think this is concrete evidence of unhappiness amongst all Malaysians including the voters of Tasek Gelugor and Penang,” the Penang chief minister said, responding to Najib’s claim that Pakatan Rakyat (PR) was in a “fragile” state.

Lim, who is DAP secretary-general, observed the head of the ruling BN government appeared to have bigger issues on his plate than worrying about the state of affairs among his three political foes in the PR pact.

He pointed to the large turnout at a PR-organised event in Teluk Air Tawar, Butterworth last night that featured a strong line-up of speakers from all three opposition political parties.

Among those who spoke were PKR adviser Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim and PKR deputy president Azmin Ali; PAS’s No.2, Mohammad Sabu; and Lim’s father and veteran DAP man, Kit Siang.

The National Feedlot Centre (NFC) scandal linked to Datuk Seri Shahrizat Abdul Jalil’s family broke two months ago, after the release of the Auditor-General’s Report for 2010.

Several Umno politicians, including former PM Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad, have urged the women, family and community affairs minister to voluntarily step down from all her government posts after the scandal spread from the farmed lands in Negri Sembilan to the backwaters in Teluk Air Tawar, Butterworth last night.

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I believe there are others involved in the NFC scandal apart from the cow minister. That's why she refused to take the rap alone and therefore refuse to step down. That's also why the PM refuse to take action because too many parties implicated.
Even if the cow minister step down will not placate the voters, they want our money back and heads to roll.

so malaysia Most Corrupt Country in the WORLD!!! RM1,000,000,000,000 has flowed out illegally in the last 10 years. Woohoo!!! Every week a brand-new billion-RM scandal!!! I wonder how many more have gone undetected? Submarines that can't sub, cows that live in condos, You Help Me I Help You!!!

PAS prepares for life after Hasan, Nasharudin

noreply@blogger.com (KUTU KURAP) — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 15:59:00 +0000

traitor of islam and PR

PAS has begun explaining its stand to members over top leaders Nasharudin Mat Isa and Datuk Hasan Ali’s move to get closer to Umno, believing the duo could defect to the ruling Malay party before the next general election.

The party’s information unit is preparing a 30-minute video clip of secretary-general Datuk Mustafa Ali explaining the background and circumstances that have led to both Nasharudin and Hasan expressing support for unity talks with Umno. PAS has flatly refused for such a union since Election 2008.

The Malaysian Insider understands that Nasharudin, who lost his deputy presidency in party polls this year, has not attended any central committee meetings despite being appointed as head of the international affairs sub-committee. The sub-committee is now led by its deputy chairman Datuk Kamaruddin Jaafar.

“PAS is already explaining to its members the issues as it expects the two leaders to move to Umno. If we can save them, we will but they have to make their stand clear,” a PAS source told The Malaysian Insider.

“But they could go and there is a feeling it will happen soon,” he added.

Hasan says he will work with any party that pushes the Malay-Muslim agenda.
Another source said the party will distribute the video clip featuring Mustafa’s explanation to all members soon.

Harakah TV has already put up a 5-minute clip of an interview with Mustafa discussing Nasharudin and Hasan’s support for unity talks with Umno in their statements to Umno-linked Utusan Malaysia and Berita Harian, saying both leaders were being used to undermine the Islamist party.

“Whether they realise it or not, they are being trapped in the agenda of PAS’s political enemy,” Mustafa told Harakahdaily during the interview aired two days ago.

He said there would be “minimal effects” from Umno’s advances to the duo, adding their statements were not in the interest of PAS.

“In the past, we had experienced the loss of our president, but it was not followed by exodus of members, because they subscribed to principles, not to individuals,” said the secretary-general, who once served as a deputy minister during PAS’s brief alliance with Barisan Nasional in 1977.

It is understood that he was referring to the late Datuk Mohd Asri Muda, who resigned as PAS president in 1983 to form a splinter party, before joining Umno in 1988.

There has been speculation that Hasan would be dropped as a candidate after he failed to get enough nominations from PAS members to defend his Gombak Setia state seat.

Umno newspapers have been giving wide coverage to Hasan, who is a Selangor state executive councillor, and quoted him as saying that he was prepared to take up an offer from Umno president Datuk Seri Najib Razak to mediate efforts to bring the country’s two largest political entities together.

dog's father...the traitor of islamic and the people

Hasan, who was previously Selangor PAS commissioner, had also denied that he would leave PAS, saying he would be loyal as long as Islamic principles and the Malay rulers were upheld.

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Pakatan is getting stronger than in 2008. The states governments under Pakatan are doing very well socially and economically. New ideas and ways of doing things are introduced and well received by the people. Despite the constant suppression by the federal government many of the promises in the election manifestos are being implemented with success. We can see how BN is now trying their level best to outdo the Pakatan's programmes and projects. May be as Pakatan politicians there are not many avenues to enrich the politicians and cronies. If these two seasoned politicians decide to leave Pakatan now their gain is just short because the people generally are ready to hand over Putrajaya to Pakatan.

Defend Islam and Royalty from what? It is all make up stories to champion himself. If you understand the constitution and the majority of the population are malays, what is there to defend? The only thing that Islam needs to be defended are those who call themselves muslims and are downright corrupted and liars and some of them are the politicians in umno.

If Hasan Ali wants to support UMNO's deviationist teaching in which corruption, fraud, slander and racism are somehow allowed, let him. Supporters of this deviant "Islam" do not belong in PAS.

PAS must expel them from the party.. They are really trouble makers for PAS to get closer to DAP. They do not live to the spirit of Pakatan.

this two are only of value to UMNO if they remain in PAS....try sacking them from PAS and they will straight away become from hero to zero within seconds....AGAIN no one is indispensable but the party will forever remain.....PAS you have nothing to lose..

Court rules to reinstate Balkis

noreply@blogger.com (KUTU KURAP) — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 15:41:00 +0000

The High Court ruled today to reinstate the Wives of Selangor Elected Representatives Association (Balkis), removing a hurdle for the mentri besar’s wife to recover RM9.9 million that had been moved out of its coffers three years ago.

Puan Sri Salbiah Tunut, wife to Selangor MB Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim, won today her challenge against the Registrar of Societies (RoS) which had deregistered Balkis last year, enabling her to now assume her rightful position as the association’s president.

“With Balkis reinstated with effect from February 11 last year, Puan Sri Salbiah (picture), being president of the body, can now take action and write in to Bakti to get the money back for Balkis,” her lawyer S. Selvarajah told.

Balkis hit headlines after Khalid claimed its funds were misappropriated under the watch of its previous president, Datin Seri Zahrah Kechik, wife to his predecessor Datuk Seri Dr Mohamad Khir Toyo.

The association was reported to have transferred RM9.9 million from its bank account into the Association of Wives of Ministers and Deputy Ministers (Bakti) after calling an emergency general meeting (EGM) three days after the landmark Election 2008, on March 11.

Selvarajah said High Court judge Datuk Rohana Yusuf also ruled the EGM was invalid and cancelled the RoS’ deregistration of Balkis.

“RoS had acted wrongfully based on defective documents. The deregistration was not done according to [Balkis’] constitution and the Registrar of Societies Act. It failed to verify the attendance and agenda [of Balkis’ EGM],” the lawyer said.

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Why on earth everything wrong and eveil are associated with UMNO? What is wrong with this party? High time we sweep this party into history.

The learned judge for sure will not get any promotion from BN govt.

Justice is still far from served, people.

Wait till the $$$$ are recovered, and those responsible for the missing fund are brought to justice.

we all agree with LGE to sue NST, calls daily ‘evil’ over state secret claims

noreply@blogger.com (KUTU KURAP) — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 15:32:00 +0000

Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng said today he is planning to sue the New Straits Times (NST) over claims that he had leaked national secrets after the newspaper omitted him from an apology to two other personalities over an article it admitted was without any foundation or basis.

The NST, Berita Minggu and Mingguan Malaysia apologised to Datuk Seri Kalimullah Hassan on October 23 for alleging that he had leaked state secrets at a dinner with leaders of Singapore’s ruling PAP party.

The Penang CM today said the English daily’s failure to apologise demonstrated that it harboured “ill intentions” against him. — file pic
All three acknowledged that the claim, made by Perkasa information chief Ruslan Kassim, was without any foundation or basis.

The weekend papers also promised not to publish further allegations of this nature involving the ECM Libra Financial Group Bhd chairman without prior verification.

On October 2, the NST, Berita Minggu and Mingguan Malaysia, quoting Ruslan, alleged that Kalimullah had leaked national secrets during the dinner in Singapore.

The next day Lim publicly demanded an apology from the NST and Mingguan Malaysia for also alleging that he had leaked national secrets at the same dinner.

The English daily reported that Perkasa had claimed that there was a dinner arranged for three Malaysian personalities, including the Penang chief minister, and top Singapore politicians in August.

Ruslan had questioned the motive behind the dinner that was allegedly attended by Malaysia Airlines board member Datuk Mohamad Azman Yahya, businessman Kalimullah and Lim with PAP leaders.

“The weird thing is that the paper apologised to Datuk Seri Kalimullah and Datuk Azman over this false report, but it didn’t want to apologise to me. This shows how NST has ill intentions and I will ask my lawyer to take legal action,” Lim told reporters at the Penang Skills Development Centre today.

Lim had denied the report was true and had demanded that the NST fully retract its claims, apologise and pay damages, threatening a lawsuit if the paper failed to do so.

“They are evil and have ill intentions to ruin my reputation for political reasons, because it is controlled by Umno,” Lim said today.

The NST published a story a week after the initial report on October 9, saying that Ruslan had apologised to Mohamad Azman over a statement he had made about the dinner.

The apology was issued in the form of a statement on October 6 and published by Utusan Malaysia.

Following that came the apology to Kalimullah by the NST, Berita Minggu and Mingguan Malaysia on October 23.

Lim’s decision to sue comes on the heels of the Penang High Court’s ruling on Wednesday, which found Utusan Malaysia guilty of making “malicious”, defamatory and untruthful statements against him. The widely read Malay daily was ordered to pay RM200,00 in damages and RM25,000 in costs.

The Bagan MP and Air Putih assemblyman had filed a suit against Utusan for publishing allegedly defamatory words in an article titled “Kebiadapan Guan Eng”.

In his statement of claim, the Penang chief minister said the words used, among others, were meant to portray him as a racist who objected to anything related to Malays.

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The crazy ones are from BN who only know how to spin, flip-flop and deny. For goodness sake, if one is being unfairly accused, he has the every right to seek legal redress to clear his name don't you think so? There's nothing to do with power crazy.

When negative but false allegations are made against a state leader, he should sue otherwise the public will think that the allegations are true. LGE is unlike Dr. Mahathir, who is unot willing to sue the author of a book not too long ago full of very negative allegations against Dr. M. Well done, LGE.

these paper should go into history, at least that will save some trees, stop polluting the air and intoxicating the minds of some ignorant rakyat

IGP UMNO ass the bigot of the year...Police continuing with witnesses,says Deputy IGP on NFC scandal

noreply@blogger.com (KUTU KURAP) — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 13:57:00 +0000

A number of individuals have been questioned over the controversial National Feedlot Centre (NFC) police confirmed today with a guarantee many more will be called in.

Deputy Inspector-General of Police Datuk Seri Khalid Abu Bakar in his announcement to Bernama Online refused to name the total number summoned so far in connection to a possible breach of trust of a government loan to agro-project.

He was speaking after the police awards presentation ceremony at the Wangsa Maju police station in the capital.

Khalid (picture) has disclosed before 74 persons have been interviewed.

The project to supplement the country’s beef supply was summed up as “in a mess” in the Auditor-General's 2010 Report.

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u have not finished your investigation, why u made a statement last month (during UMNO AGM) to say that no CBT in this case?

So clear that this bigot is covering for Mr & Mrs COW of the year !!!!!!!!

We will make sure that you are sacked after GE13. That should keep your mind preoccupied.

Jakim used to create false fear over non-Muslim threat

noreply@blogger.com (KUTU KURAP) — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 13:43:00 +0000

JAKIM so queer with this bitch female

Former senior police officer Datuk Mat Zain Ibrahim today berated Datuk Seri Najib Razak for allegedly “misusing” the country’s religious authorities to create false fear over threats by non-Muslims against Islam and the Malay rulers.

He told the prime minister in an email released to the media that such threats only come from the Malays and Muslims themselves, adding that he has “never experienced or known of” situations where the non-Malays came together to conspire against anyone.

“The ones who dare to be rude and rebel in such a manner against him (Ruler) come from among the Malays themselves,” he wrote.

The outspoken ex-KL CID chief even singled out Umno politicians as those who often squabble among themselves “not due to differences in opinion or to protect the fates and futures of the Malays or uphold Islamic teachings but to fight over millions and billions of the people’s money”.

“Do not, YAB Datuk Seri (Najib) create issues that could create havoc among us as Malays, just to divert attention away from your personal problems and those who surround you.

“The people know that YAB (Najib) is currently going through a period of instability and uncertainty, confusion and worry. But this does not mean YAB and your personal advisers are fit to misuse a certain government institution to present a Friday sermon like the one recited last week,” he said.

The sermon, delivered at all mosques last Friday and prepared by the Department of Islamic Development Malaysia (Jakim), suggested that the position of Islam and the royal institution was being questioned because Muslims were selling out the religion to “certain quarters” which it did not name.

It appeared to note that Muslims who associate with non-Muslims or stand up for non-Muslim causes were betraying their faith, and echoed some of the racially divisive views espoused at the recent Umno general assembly.

A copy of the sermon — sighted by The Malaysian Insider — also seemed to hit out at Muslims who “conspire with certain groups in questioning Islam as the official religion in this country on the excuse of defending the fundamental rights of others” for personal gain.

It described those Muslims as “deviating from the teachings” of Prophet Muhammad, as well as “committing a big sin, oppressing Muslims and threatening national harmony” in the sermon that was to mark the end of Tuanku Mizan Zainal Abidin’s five year reign as Yang Di-Pertuan Agong.

“Remember, if Muslims lose their integrity, their pride and are manipulated by others, in the end, Islam in this country will suffer the same fate that has befallen other nations where their people were insulted and driven from the country of their birth,” it said.

The sermon did not directly refer to any one person in particular but appeared to echo the political rhetoric heard at the Umno general assembly last week.

Slamming the sermon, Mat Zain told Najib that its words could cause chaos among the country’s religious communities and among the Muslims.

“We are not worried about fights between the Malays and non-Malays or between Muslims and Christians or those of other fates. This is unlikely to happen in this country is the Muslims do not start it.

“What we should fear is a clash between the Malays and the Muslims... the Felda Lubuk Merbau and Memali incidents (in 1985), if they are repeated, would injure the Malays and Muslims multiple times more,” he said.

Utusan verdict proof Pakatan not anti-Malay

noreply@blogger.com (KUTU KURAP) — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 13:31:00 +0000

The DAP-led Penang government said today the court’s decision to award Lim Guan Eng RM200,000 after being defamed by Umno’s Utusan Malaysia proves Pakatan Rakyat (PR) is not anti-Malay or anti-Islam.

High Court judge G.V Varughes ruled yesterday that an article titled “Kebiadapan Guan Eng” was “outright malicious and intentionally made to malign (Penang chief minister Lim) without cause and unfairly.”

The executive council said in a joint statement today that the judgment “conclusively demonstrates that neither the chief minister, DAP nor the PR state government are anti-Malay or anti-Islam, as was falsely and maliciously claimed by Utusan Malaysia.”

It said the ruling vindicated the administration’s policies which “since 2008 have been directed at serving all the people of Penang to the best of our abilities, without regard to race or religion.”

“We deplore the current state of the mainstream media in Malaysia, which is controlled by Barisan Nasional component parties and regularly used to stir up racial and religious disharmony amongst the people of Malaysia,” the executive councillors added.

Varughes had awarded DAP secretary general Lim (picture) a further RM25,000 in costs for the suit in which the Bagan MP claimed the Malay daily portrayed him as a racist who objected to anything related to the Malays.

The judge said the article was written in bad faith and the publication was motivated by spite and malice to subject Lim to contempt and scorn to the public at large.

Umno has repeatedly accused PR, especially DAP, of being anti-Malay, most recently at its general assembly where several delegates and leaders including deputy president Tan Sri Muhyiddin said the opposition was against Malays, anti-Islam, agents of Christianisation and disrespectful to Malay rulers.

Utusan Malaysia has also echoed these claims including an allegation that DAP had conspired with the Church to turn Malaysia into a Christian state.

PR has seen its support among Malays slide since Election 2008 with a study in October indicating DAP’s Penang Malays support slipping to a third from a high 50 per cent when Lim assumed office.

Lim has said he will donate the RM200,000 in damages to charity.

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LGE and Penang government and Pakatan led governments must stop appearing in media pictures alone, that is not good for the multi party approach of pakatan and will feed the racists taunts of BN....DAP leaders must ensure they are vphotographed with PAS, Pakatan Malay Indians ...pictures speak a thousaand words

This is what happens when judges decide based on their conscience and the facts of the case. Judges like Varguhese are now very rare with the judiciary completely losing their integrity and professionalism under the control of the executive. They may be compared to oases in the desert. Utusan has now been exposed as a malicious and mischievous liar and if the PM has any integrity (HE HASN'T ANYWAY), he will charge the editor of Utusan with sedition instead of directing him to appeal against the decision.

Anti-Umno group targets Malay heartland

noreply@blogger.com (KUTU KURAP) — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 13:19:00 +0000

Frustrated by rural Malays’ poor access to alternative sources of news, an anti-Umno coalition has launched an online video it hopes will break Barisan Nasional’s (BN) media monopoly in key heartland areas.

Jumping between archive photos and documentary footage, the 104-minute “DN Tumbangkan BN” video by Asalkan Bukan Umno (ABU) hopes to undercut Umno’s claim that it has always fought for Malaysians and the good of the country.

ABU comprises the Socialist Party of Malaysia (PSM), Parti Rakyat Malaysia (PRM), Solidariti Anak Muda Malaysia (SAMM) and the Malaysian Civil Liberties Movement (MCLM), among others.

The central theme of the video is former prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s alleged abuse of the New Economic Policy (NEP) to enrich cronies, which ABU claims not only resulted in persistent poverty but also worsening race relations.

The NEP was introduced in 1971 following the bloody May 13, 1969 race riots to foster national unity by reducing the wealth gap between the races.

“Had the aspirations of the New Economic Policy been carried out, Tunku Abdul Rahman’s hope that Malaysia remain a democratic, independent nation based on freedom and justice... would have been realised long ago,” said the video’s narrator.

“Unfortunately, the Umno-BN government, beginning with the leadership of Dr Mahathir Mohamad from 1981 until now, has abandoned the principles of the Rukunegara and played up racial and religious sentiment to ensure the people are not united so they can remain in power.”

It also slammed Dr Mahathir – “the world’s biggest liar” – for allegedly undermining key national institutions to stay in power, presenting as proof the chain of events which began with the deregistration of Umno in 1988 following fractious party polls.

But the video also struck a more positive note amid the Umno-bashing, highlighting the alternative vision for Malaysia held by leftist political parties which fought for Malaysia’s independence from Britain in the 1940s and 1950s.

It noted that such groups, including the Malay Nationalist Party (PKMM) and Malayan Democratic Union (MDU), had worked together politically for a race-blind Malaysia even before BN’s predecessor, the Alliance, was formed.

“The unity we talked about never mentioned race, as is emphasised nowadays. All we wanted was that all the trade unions, all the workers, all the women, all the organisations should join in a broad front to oppose the return of the (British) Governor to rule the country,” MDU founding member Lim Kean Chye said.

Special attention was paid to the All-Malaya Hartal of 1948, which MCLM president Haris Ibrahim described as “the most graphic evidence” that Malaysians of different races have always been able to cooperate.

“It’s amazing that they managed, even then without internet, to pull off something on that scale. We’ve never had a race relations problem in this country. It’s just Umno and its sidekicks,” he told The Malaysian Insider.

ABU will kick off its campaign to disseminate the video among rural Malay voters at Kolej Universiti Islam Zulkifli Muhammad (KUIZM) in Gombak tonight.

According to Haris’s website, the group has already distributed some 200,000 hard copies of the video in villages in the past month alone.

Jakim still ‘studying’ Lee Kuan Yew book

noreply@blogger.com (KUTU KURAP) — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 03:09:00 +0000

The government has said that a book on Singapore’s founding father Lee Kuan Yew is “still being studied” despite federal Islamic authorities earlier confirming that it has been placed on a list of haram books.

Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Datuk Seri Jamil Khir Baharom said the book — “Lee Kuan Yew: Hard Truths To Keep Singapore Going” — was being “examined”.

“It is under the Home Ministry... it is not haram,” he told The Malaysian Insider.

When told that the book was one of 15 listed by the Department of Islamic Development Malaysia (Jakim) as haram, the senator replied that “this just means it is being examined by the censorship committee.”

Jakim director-general Datuk Othman Mustapha also responded to a query on why the book was declared haram by saying it had breached guidelines set by his department.

“The book is still in the process of being studied by Jakim. A study is done on a book by the censorship committee chaired by Perak Mufti Tan Sri Harussani Zakaria if it breaches guidelines set by Jakim,” he said in a text message sent to The Malaysian Insider.

Jakim’s planning and research division confirmed earlier the decision to list “Hard Truths” as haram was made when its committee on the censorship of publications with Islamic elements met in October — nine months after the book hit the shelves in Malaysia.

Since the report was published by The Malaysian Insider yesterday afternoon, Jakim has come under fire from Internet users for being restrictive and extreme.

According to procedure, the list of books declared haram is sent to the Home Ministry for further action but it is unclear if the ministry has followed suit and banned the books.

Othman’s predecessor Datuk Wan Mohamad Sheikh Abdul Aziz had said in February that Lee was unsuccessful in developing the mindset of the Singapore public because he was “still influenced by the landscape of the 1960s which were full of prejudice and presumptions against Muslims.”

Lee, who served in Singapore’s Cabinet as PM, senior minister and minister mentor for 52 years before retiring in May, said in the book that Muslims in Singapore were socially “distinct and separate” and should “be less strict on Islamic observances” to aid integration and the city-state’s nation-building process.

It led to an uproar from Malay and Muslims groups on both sides of the Causeway with his old rival and former Malaysian PM Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad accusing Lee of having no respect for religion.

Lee later retracted his statement in March ahead of a general election in the island which has a 15 per cent Malay-Muslim population.

His son Lee Hsien Loong led the ruling People’s Action Party to its worst-ever performance in this year’s general election, gaining just 60 per cent of popular support.

Other books in the haram list include “Sebongkah Batu Di Kuala Berang” by Faisal Tehrani, “Mengenal Diri: Ilmu Peninggalan Tok Kenali” by Mohd Yusof Che Wook and “The Teachings of the Quran” by H.U. Weitbrecht Stanton.

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You already says 'Haram' already, why still need to study it?

Jakim should study and examine the corruption in malaysia's Government instead of banning Singaporeans books...... Waste of time....

Flip-flopping once again! Jakim, the self-appointed Thought Control Police and the Home Ministry are so small minded that they spend valuable time and money on so trivial an issue! Malaysians are not fools nor their faith so faint that it can be shaken by a silly statment by LKY!

PM pledges ‘best tools’ for military....best tools or best fools ??...best fools to C4 money from the people ...!!!

noreply@blogger.com (KUTU KURAP) — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 08:52:00 +0000

best fools in making.....

Datuk Seri Najib Razak underlined today his administration’s commitment to defence expenditure, pointing out it was the government’s duty to ensure the military had the best tools for the job.

The prime minister said at the opening this morning of the Langkawi International Maritime and Aerospace Exhibition 2011 (LIMA ‘11) that defence and security was important in protecting the country’s sovereignty and national strategic interests.

“There can be no doubting the bravery and heroism of our men and women in uniform, and before they risk their lives to protect us, it’s our duty to ensure they have the best tools for the job.

“That means giving them the latest, safest, most cutting-edge equipment capable of meeting the challenges of modern warfare,” he was quoted by national news agency Bernama as saying.

He said that aerospace and maritime spending was surging as Asia enjoyed “the fastest-growing economy in the world” with defence expenditure no exception to the case.

Najib (picture) said technology-intensive sectors such as shipbuilding and ship repair and aerospace maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) continued to be significant contributors to Malaysia’s economy.

Shipbuilding and ship repair generated more than RM7.2 billion while MRO and aerospace manufacturing contributed about RM5.5 billion to the economy.

“Taken together, these sectors provide jobs for more than 44,000 people, many of them in highly-skilled professional roles,” Najib said.

Najib’s remarks today come despite Defence Minister Datuk Seri Zahid Hamidi saying in October the government was not proceeding with plans to jointly develop navy ships with UK-based BAE Systems due to financial constraints.

Defence Ministry expenditure has drawn intense interest from opposition lawmakers who have continuously sought explanations for the multi-billion ringgit defence deals involving the country.

The latest was a query as to why the ministry paid RM7.6 billion for armoured personnel carriers (APC) procured by DRB-Hicom Bhd for only US$559 million (RM1.7 billion).

A RM6 billion contract for six offshore patrol vessels (OPVs) drew similar attention at the start of the year.

An embarrassing failure by one of the country’s billion-ringgit Scorpene submarines to submerge last year attracted further reservations over the prudence of the country’s defence spending.

Over 400 companies from 35 countries including half of the world’s top 100 maritime and aerospace suppliers are present for LIMA ‘11.

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What the UMNO controlled govt means is that they will continue to use weapon purchases as their blank cheques or cash cow in whatever they want to do. Looking at the way things are purchased at higher then the market prices they have been abusing their positions and for some, to get rich.

The security situation of the country is such that there is no need for some weapons like submarines which costs the country a bomb. The money spent on submarines can be put to better use instead of cutting at subsidies that affects peoples' lives.
It is like killing a hen with a parang when a simple knife will suffice. The govt should learn to control its spending especially when the economy is not doing so well.
It should show the rakyat how to be prudent in spending and teach the saving habit by being a good example.

we are not a high income country with cash to spare, how can you justify spending so much on military expenditure? Just because other countries are spending more on defence doesn't mean Malaysia should follow suit.
And why do we need equipment with cutting edge technology (like Scorpene)? To fight cows?

najib fraudsters try fool malay........... Malay future at risk under Pakatan

noreply@blogger.com (KUTU KURAP) — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 03:15:00 +0000

Datuk Seri Najib Razak warned today the future of Malays would be in doubt if his ruling Barisan Nasional (BN) does not remain in power after a general election expected soon.

After presiding over an Umno general assembly last weekend that saw delegates and leaders accusing Pakatan Rakyat (PR) of being anti-Malay and Islam, the prime minister today told a Malay NGO that claims a membership of over two million that their “responsibility is to defend the current government.”

“The alternative choice, are they better than what is already in place? Can they guarantee our power is not dissolved or our position eroded? What about the dignity of Islam and Malays?

“We will not allow our people to be insulted. We will not back down by even an inch. We are warriors,” he said to cheers at Pertubuhan Kebajikan dan Dakwah Islamiah Malaysia’s (Pekida) gathering here before leading cries of “Hidup Melayu (long live the Malays)!”

Umno had sounded the alarm last weekend, warning that only BN will ensure that Islam remains an important aspect within the government administration.

Party delegates had cited events such as claimed proselytisation of Muslims since Election 2008, when PR took power in five states, as proof that the faith among Malays would be in jeopardy.

Najib said today if the Umno-led BN lost power, “all our ambitions will be buried and our future will be full of darkness.”

“What will happen to Muslims if the government changes? What will happen to Islam if we lose our strength?

“What will happen to the Malay rulers if we are no longer there to honour them? What will happen to our descendants if we cannot fight for policies that protect them?” he said.

He accused PR of trying to “demolish what we have built.”

“Without having power, they have defiled the Malay rulers. Without power, they have questioned policies to help Malays and Bumiputeras, which are always questioned by them.

“Without power, they can say they want to halve the civil service. Who will be affected? If hundreds of thousands of civil servants are sacked, who will be the victims?” he said, referring to recent suggestions by DAP to trim the majority-Malay civil service.

Najib also cited DAP assemblyman M. Manoharan’s call for the Malaysian flag to be redesigned as another example of PR questioning “things that should not be discussed or renegotiated.

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I am a MALAY and only see a desperate and corrupt institution struggling for survival..

You have gone all out to play racial issues in our country. YOU are the source of RACIAL INSTABILITY.

I hope that all malays can see through this. I already see that most of the educated,informed,internet savvy and urban populace OF ALL RACES already support the opposition.

Political parties come and go. I vote for whats best for Malaysia, not for whats best for BN or UMNO

Come to think of it, where the heck is MIC and MCA and BN? they seem to have just given up and gone all out with UMNO power mongering..pathetic.

The future of UMNO is at risk, just like Golkar in Indonesia, such close resemblance, but, the Indonesians had worked earlier and Golkar today is political history whereas UMNO is still breathing its final breaths.

Najib. you are not fit to be the PM of Malaysia. Where is your 1Malaysia stand? Everyday you are only talking the future of Malay. You have not even mentioned the future of all Malaysian. You are trying to mislead the Malays in this country just to protect your cronies and the UMNOputras. This shows that you are only the PM of UMNOputras. Then PR will be the better alternative to BN. I am calling all Malaysians who care for the future of Malaysia, change this government before there will be no cure. So Malaysian vote wisely in the coming GE.

Alstom bribery will bring an snowball effect to the rest of companies that they have dealt with. Tenaga, Menteri-menteri see this coming soon. How many millions again we, the rakyat have to pay for these morons politicians.

BN will not act on it now afraid of worsening what is already worse. Pakatan should bring this up again and again to remind rakyat this is the Gov we have entrusted with. We should not entrust further. High time to change them.

Believe it or not, BN will never look into Alstom bribery until we force them to do so.

how many of those in UMNO leadership, past and present are 100% clean?....Umno leader linked to Alstom bribery scandal

noreply@blogger.com (KUTU KURAP) — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 03:05:00 +0000

Already on the backfoot over a national cattle farming scandal, Umno is now rocked by allegations that a former leader took kickbacks from French engineering giant Alstom for a power plant project in Perlis.

Singapore’s Straits Times (ST) reported today that Malaysia’s Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) officials raided last week the offices of Teknologi Tenaga Perlis Consortium (TTPC), which is partly controlled by former Dewan Negara president and ex-Perlis Mentri Besar Tan Sri Abdul Hamid Pawanteh (picture).

The newspaper said the Umno veteran was directly implicated in Alstom’s indictment for bribery in securing foreign contracts.

Abdul Hamid is said to have been paid 7.5 million Swiss francs (RM25.5 million) to help Alstom secure a contract to build a power plant in Perlis in the late 1990s. He was the state’s mentri besar from 1986 to 1995.

The Singapore daily said both Abdul Hamid and his former business partner, Ti Chee Liang, were singled out in the criminal summons against Alstom.

According to ST, Alstom was fined €31 million (RM130 million) by the Swiss Attorney-General two weeks ago for failing to implement proper controls to prevent bribery by company executives in Malaysia, Latvia and Tunisia, an offence under Swiss law.

Alstom is a major player in Malaysia in the power business, and is credited with supplying key equipment for nearly 7.5 gigawatts of the country’s installed power generation capacity, the paper added.

Citing government sources familiar with the investigations, ST reported that the MACC will be questioning local Alstom executives in the days ahead.

Last month, Alstom’s Malaysian office denied it was aware of local investigation regarding the RM133 million fine by Swiss authorities involving contracts awarded to the company here.

“There is no probe ongoing in Malaysia that we are aware of and Alstom have co-operated fully in Switzerland. The fine is for corporate negligence in the past and not for bribery,” Alstom Malaysia president, Saji Raghavan, said in a statement.

“In fact, investigation confirms there is no systematic bribery and sufficient controls are in place,” he pointed out.

The company had described itself as a “subcontractor of a consortium” and a “victim of the actions of some of its employees, who would have benefited from kickbacks”, according to a previous Reuters report.

Alstom is the second French company in as many years to be fined for bribing government officials in Malaysia, after telecommunications firm Alcatel-Lucent paid RM435 million to resolve US criminal and civil probes in December 2010.

The four-year probe centred on payments made by Alstom Network Schweiz AG to middlemen — termed “commercial agents” by the company — in return for securing government contracts to build power stations in 15 countries since the 1990s.

Alstom was awarded a RM2.8 billion contract by Tenaga Nasional earlier this year to provide key power generation equipment to Southeast Asia’s first 1,000-megawatt (MW) supercritical coal-fired power plant Manjung, Malaysia.

It also won turnkey contracts in 1994 and 2000 to build four power plants including the 1,300MW Lumut and the 670MW Kuala Langat plants and deals in 2003 and 2004 to install environmental control systems for the Tanjung Bin and Jimah coal-fired power plants.

Alstom was also appointed by Tenaga to supply two 125MW hydro power turbines, a generator and ancillaries for the 250MW Hulu Terengganu hydro power plant in 2010.

Alstom says it is “the largest original equipment manufacturer in Malaysia” having supplied key equipment for nearly 7.5 gigawatt (GW) of the country’s installed power generation capacity.

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Why is it that corruptions especially the big ones always involved Malaysians politicians and always from UMNO? Surprising and sad as UMNO is the self proclaim champion of Malays and Islam and what a big letdown to Malays and to Islam they had been!

Just how can we give our votes to UMNO when their leaders are all so corrupt? Huge huge scandals and corruptions allegedly reported. It is as though they know they are going to lose in PRU 13 and the just concluded Assembly of clowns, where they talked amongst themselves and fought an imaginary opponent in the DAP

How come the news comes from our neighbor? What is happening to our own news portals that such news has to be carried by our neighbors. Shame on UMNO.

We are certain that most bn or umno linked individuals are involved in rampant corruption practice for years. It's just that the authorities that are supposed to be trusted to investigate and prosecute these criminals have been working in together to cheat the Country and the Rakyat. It's shameful that we need other countries to help us to expose this corrupted practice

In Singapore the case will be investigated without prejudice. In Malaysia the UMNO leaders are above the law because the PDRM with UMNO, MACC works along with UMNO and the judiciary works hand in hand with UMNO. Finally the PM will say, he knows how to handle and there is case so no case.

First thing to do when PR wins the GE13, Seal all the airport and revoke all UMNO leaders passport, cause all of them will be fleeing............

nothing will happen after 6 months of investigation. Nazri will say case still on investigation after 1 year and everyone in UMNO will live happily ever after just like in fairytale.

Anyone wanna dispute my findings ? its always the same patten from day one till now.

This idiot is so sickening. ....Hudud bad for business, says Soi Lek

noreply@blogger.com (KUTU KURAP) — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 18:02:00 +0000

Investors will flee Malaysia if hudud is made federal law, MCA president Datuk Seri Dr Chua Soi Lek said today.

He said this was because hudud was not fair to all, in particular women, and also prescribed cruel punishments for crimes, contrary to international convention.

“When our record on human rights is not good and the punishment is perceived to be cruel, Malaysia’s international standing will drop.

“Then we will have difficulty in attracting investment and even existing investors may pull out,” he told reporters after opening a forum on hudud at Wisma MCA here.

Dr Chua (picture) also said the stock market will likely fall 10 to 20 per cent once the Islamic law was enacted and would hit the pockets of local investors as well.

“When all sectors of the economy are affected, all Malaysians regardless of religion... will be affected,” he pointed out.

Dr Chua added that while the Barisan Nasional (BN) administration was “not perfect”, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak at least had a clear vision of how to improve the country.

This was in contrast to the opposition’s uncompromising hudud agenda, which would lead Malaysia down the path to “self-destruction”, he said.

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Why need for us to fear hudud that's not guaranteed to be implemented as compared to corruption, coercion & unconstitutional practices bordering on treason that we are looking at every day? Whatever it is, vote PR to power first to let the country to have survival chance

Chua Soi Lek is an adulterer. His has no morality. And he shouldn't be talking about Islamic hudud law. He is a shame and disgrace to all Malaysians. This idiot is so sickening.

this fellow is the Chinese mascot of the BN coalition. Nothing but a clown in a suit.

You want to talk about Hudud being championed by PR? Ok...who is championing Hudud in PR? PAS. Everyone knows that. And everyone also knows UMNO is OPENLY courting PAS to join the fold, thereby implying acceptance of PAS' hudud stance (coupled with UMNO's claims that it is also a champion of Islam). What say you on this? Has MCA reprimanded UMNO on this matter? Even if you have (which I doubt - whimpering on your knees do not count), it doesn't seem like UMNO has listened. So, settle UMNO first and where THEY stand on ths matter, before talking about others...

Dr Chua, Hudud is not bad for business. Hudu is bad for corrupt politicians and that is why you and your entire MCA team are so worry. Same goes to UMNO and MIC.

Why don't you use your time and this free publicity and talk about how your party can improve the life of ordinary people in Malaysia. Jobs creation, more free Uni placing for the under priviliage.

What is the point of having a go at PR or DAP if you have nothing new to offer. Ask yourself this question. Why should I vote for you or your party at the next election? Just give me ONE good reason!

how about corruption praticed under Umno-BN is the way to run the country? solve the corruption issue first before you try to solve the hypnotism issues. You should stand out tell the rakyat what should MCA do to curb the corruptions? If MCA fails to solve corruptions issue before next election, you should bring your entire party out of corrupted Umno-BN? Not to stick to it and expect people to support you. Or you and your currupted partners drawn together. Malaysia Boleh....

Hello, PERKASA and Pemuda UMNO, where are you to defend Islam, this MCA president is insulting and attacking Islam indirectly by accusing HUDUD which is an Islamic law would be bad for the country!

Guan Eng questions Umno’s logic behind dominant DAP claim

noreply@blogger.com (KUTU KURAP) — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 17:27:00 +0000

Lim Guan Eng challenged today Umno’s charge against the DAP by portraying it as the dominant party in the Pakatan Rakyat (PR) pact.

Lim, who is DAP secretary-general, pointed out that his party had the least number of contests compared to its two allies in PR, PKR and PAS, which stood 97 candidates and 66 candidates respectively in the 2008 general elections.

“How can a party contesting in just 47 seats lead PR? This is clearly a dangerous racial game to incite hatred and fear against the DAP and the non-Malays,” he said while opening the Penang state DAP Wanita congress in George Town today.

A copy of his speech was emailed to The Malaysian Insider.

“To cover up their weaknesses in financial irregularities in BN, Umno had used its last weapon which is to play up racial and religious issues against the DAP, Christians, the Chinese community, and DAP voters,” he (picture) added, referring to Umno’s general assembly that ended yesterday.

During the five-day-long Umno assembly, the ruling Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition’s Malay party had concentrated its attacks on the DAP and warned that should PR come to power in the next polls coming soon, the next prime minister will be a leader from the Chinese-majority opposition party.

“Today, our country and state are in a state of change. At the federal level, we are facing a moral crisis which does not only involve widespread corruption, but is also tainted by the supremacy agenda and racial rhetoric.

“Today, the country is at its critical point because of the Umno-Barisan Nasional administration which is not transparent. The weak leadership by Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak had caused the transformation agenda to fail," Lim said.

The Penang chief minister pointed to the Auditor-General in his 2010 report criticising the federal government for overspending RM3.7 billion.

He also highlighted the RM250 million “cow and condo” scandal linked to Women, Family and Community Affairs Minister, Datuk Seri Shahrizat Abdul Jalil.

“Even Umno MP (Datuk) Bung Mokhtar (Radin) who is known to insult women who can’t drive and would say things that are inappropriate, can be seen as a hero for asking the women’s minister to resign,” Lim said.

The Bagan MP said his party and the PR pact had proven themselves capable of taking on the BN to govern the country, and pointed to Penang’s administrative successes as an example.

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The UMNO Assy was nothing more than opposition bashing. From the PM down to the delegates they talked nonsense, just wild attack against PR without an iota of substance.

These are symptoms of a crumpling institution. Lets give them the final death blow come GE 13.

With the kind of racist talk during the UMNO Assembly, the chinese will turn away from BN in disgust. How can MCA tolerate such talk and remain quiet? MCA has no gut at all. No wonder the chinese community viewed them as coward. UMNO by their fear mongering has alienated the non-malay voters. The malays will always be divided. Even if there are no chinese in Malaysia, you will still have opposition parties. This is fact in any country in the world. And there are malays who will vote for PR no matter what. But by playing the race card, I believe they will lose more states.

UMNO had spent millions of ringgit for a convention that lasts a few DAYS!! And what did they talk about? Nothing much but hitting the opposition left, right, centre and everywhere else that hurts. As usual it's always the RACE game and blame. The reason: They're highly fearful of losing grip of power.

The fact is Malays would be always politically dominant in Malaysia. If Malays gradually become more educated and become more-knowing about the actual 'defects & dirties' in the present politic, UMNO would be 'gone' , if not in GE13, then GE14 is the one...

An undercurrent in Umno grows against Shahrizat over cattle scandal

noreply@blogger.com (KUTU KURAP) — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 03:27:00 +0000

When Datuk Seri Shahrizat Abdul Jalil closed the Wanita Umno general assembly on Wednesday, it appeared as if she had successfully deflected blame from herself over the National Feedlot Centre (NFC) controversy.

But it is believed that the cheers from the standing ovation that greeted her were mixed with silent jeers of disgust from the senior minister’s detractors, many of whom are rallying for her resignation.

Several senior Wanita leaders said Shahrizat (picture) had become a “liability” to Umno and should exit the limelight before the NFC scandal “destroys us all”.

But they said most delegates were “too afraid” to speak against their chief for fear of losing their posts in the party.

“She (Shahrizat) is using Wanita Umno to protect her but the issue (NFC) is not a Wanita (Umno) issue but a personal one involving her and her family.

“As a Wanita Umno member, I am very disappointed. A lot of us are disappointed... why drag Umno into this issue?” said one Wanita Umno delegate from Perak.

She added that she had remained seated when the sea of red-clad delegates rose to applaud Shahrizat during her winding-up speech.

She said Shahrizat should have explained the issue to delegates instead of fishing for support by claiming the scandal was merely a ploy by the opposition to weaken Wanita Umno.

“Do not forget, the first person to expose the issue about NFC’s weaknesses was the Auditor-General, not the opposition. So why attack the opposition to hide your own weakness?” she pointed out.

Shahrizat has been making headlines in recent weeks over the NFC controversy after its operations, run by a company owned by her husband, were described in the Auditor-General’s Report for 2010 as being “in a mess”.

But instead of explaining the issue, the minister chose instead to deflect blame from her by saying it had nothing to do with her. She also countered the opposition’s calls for her resignation by calling on PKR president Datuk Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail to quit.

Shahrizat reportedly earned wild support from members during her speech, with one Kelantan Umno leader even calling the opposition “cattle” for raising the NFC scandal.

“But a lot of Wanita Umno members do not know the issue of the NFC... that is why they rose to support her. They do not know the issue.

“Wanita Umno, they are all like that,” the Perak delegate said with a sigh.

A senior Wanita Umno leader even advised The Malaysian Insider to “speak in private” to party delegates, many of whom she said would agree that Shahrizat should face the music for her alleged involvement in the NFC.

“Come on, they understand. It is your husband, so what do you mean it has nothing to do with you? If you were not a minister do you think your husband would have gotten the project?

“Who knows him from Adam?” she said.

Asked if Shahrizat was now viewed as a “liability” to Umno, both leaders agreed.

“Of course she is. Some are saying to PM — please do not have the election after the Chinese New Year because this NFC issue will not die… it will not be forgotten within this one or two months.

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Shahrizat have not answered or tackle the issue. She don't know what to say. It was not the opposition who brought up this issue , it was the AG . However she must explain. How come she is saying , I have nothing to do with case. Don't tell me she does't know a soft loan was given to her family. Is she staying some way else or with her family? The wanita ummo delegates are giving a big plause for her speech not knowing what she is talking. Hand up for the perak delegate who brought this issue. You must be brave women. You must be in opposition camp for the rights of malaysia. Vote shahrizat out.

No one in the leadership including the component spineless parties have the guts or moral fibre to actively support calls for the pirate's resignation and take criminal proceedings against her. Why? Is there not a danger that she would then turn the tables against them for their own wrongdoings? Even the self proclaimed holiest of them will have to account for the C4 unleashed upon a pregnant woman. Welcome to the land ruled by pirates, thiefs and murderers and their families. They will win again for sure through any despicable means including use of force and deciet only to rape the nation over and over until the nation is dead. The criminals will never be brought to justice.

cows sitting in the condo...NFC case still open ...said the liar minister squid

noreply@blogger.com (KUTU KURAP) — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 03:15:00 +0000

Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein said today that Putrajaya has not closed the cattle scandal case linked to Cabinet minister Datuk Seri Shahrizat Abdul Jalil’s family although police investigations have not yet revealed any element of criminal breach of trust (CBT).

“Yes, just because the CBT element is not there doesn’t mean the case is over,” he told reporters when asked to comment on the National Feedlot Centre (NFC) controversy.

The home minister declined to comment further on the case but confirmed that investigations are still ongoing.

Deputy Inspector-General of Police Datuk Seri Khalid Abu Bakar said yesterday that police had interviewed over 74 people in connection with the probe, including family members of the women, family and community development minister, but had discovered no element of CBT in the case.

“However, we are still continuing our investigations into the issue and will call the minister to record her statement if the need arises,” he had said.

PKR has repeatedly attacked the project with various allegations including the “loans” of over RM84 million given by the NFC to companies owned by Shahrizat’s family and the purchase of two luxury condominiums in Bangsar for RM13.8 million.

Shahrizat has since deflected blame from herself several times, telling delegates during the ongoing assembly that the scandal has nothing to do with her.

The senior minister also reportedly received wild support from delegates when she countered the opposition’s calls for her resignation by urging PKR president Datin Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail to do the same over her husband, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim’s criminal charges.

But some delegates are uncomfortable that the women’s wing leader had chosen to use the allegations to attack the opposition instead of explaining herself.

When asked today if Shahrizat was now considered a “liability” to Umno because of the scandal, Hishammuddin deflected the question, saying the public would decide the minister’s fate.

“I think at the end of the day the public is going to decide the fate of Umno, not the people who talk … whether (she is) a liability or not, we will know in the next GE (general election,” he said.

The NFC has been dogged by allegations of corruption and fund misappropriation after the company made it onto the pages of the Auditor-General’s Report for 2010, which described the project “as a mess”.

Among others, PKR has alleged that NFC funds were used for Shahrizat’s personal expenses and that of her family, as well as to buy multimillion ringgit condominium units at the luxurious One Menerung in Bangsar, Kuala Lumpur.

Shahrizat’s husband and NFC boss Datuk Seri Mohamad Salleh Ismail has defended the purchase of the condo as well as denied the alleged failure of the project.

PKR scoffed at Mohamad Salleh’s remarks, saying he had failed to deny a single allegation and had merely offered explanations for the many discrepancies involving the NFC

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I wonder if she still sleep with her accomplice and what foreplay and cheat chat they have prior to orgasm. U don gimme cow, I don't give you orgasm.

There is no CBT between her and hubby but there's definitely CBT between her and the rakyat

NFC = NFA
as usual done by this corrupted government and cronies..

With that kind of money, soon the family will be going to Oxford to do a PhD permanently. Wait, didn't someone else do the same after some very serious allegations?

They drily dally concluding with the case, hoping that Malaysians suffer from senile disease cause if they convict Lingam or MAS, many unseen hands would be implicated in the process.. Looking at PKFZ and NFC, these cases would also follow the same trend. Only way to bring those involved is to give the Opposition your undivided support.

This Cowgate case is really the joker of the year.

The cops must be extremely blind or uneducated to says that there is no CBT.

The term CBT can only applied to anyone except the corrupt UMNO!

What a joke? No wonder our neighbor countries are have a good laugh at us! They must be thinking that we are the Zimbabwe

Shahrizat is ‘cow minister of the year’

noreply@blogger.com (KUTU KURAP) — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 12:14:00 +0000

Wanita PKR said today it was shameful for Datuk Seri Shahrizat Abdul Jalil to equate Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim’s sodomy trial with allegations of the abuse of over RM250 million in public funds in the National Feedlot Centre (NFC) scandal.

Shahrizat had said this morning that PKR president Datuk Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail should also resign after the opposition party had called for the Wanita Umno chief to quit politics as the national cattle farming project was awarded to her husband.

Shahrizat has been under pressure from both opposition and BN MPs to quit the Cabinet in recent weeks. — file pic
“It is shameful and reflects the typical Wanita Umno mentality. This is the wrong analogy — sodomy and the abuse of public funds.

“She really deserves the title of cow minister of the year,” women’s wing chief Zuraida Kamaruddin told a press conference today.

The Ampang MP has repeatedly called for women, family and community development minister Shahrizat to resign as the NFC is being investigated for cheating and criminal breach of trust over its purchase of two luxury condominium units here with government funds.

NFC executive chairman Datuk Seri Dr Mohamad Salleh Ismail is Shahrizat’s husband.

But Shahrizat said today, “I have nothing to do with it (the fiasco), why ask me to resign?”

“Today, I challenge all (PKR Wanita members) to call for Wan Azizah’s resignation because of her husband (PKR de facto leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim), who has been punished and charged for offences that cannot even leave my lips,” she said.

The Cabinet minister has been under pressure from both opposition and Barisan Nasional (BN) MPs to quit the Cabinet after a host of allegations emerged in recent weeks about improprieties involving the NFC, a national cattle project managed by her family.

Among the issues that have been raised by PKR are the use of public funds to acquire luxury condominiums worth RM13.8 million and the possible use of company money as personal expenditure by the minister’s family.

Zuraida also added today that although Wanita Umno delegates had defended their leader, “the real judge is the public who will vote soon.”

“Now they will judge not just the Wanita Umno chief but all parties in Barisan Nasional,” she said.

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It is hoped that the Cow Minister is not sacked by UMNO and use her as an election candidate. So that the Rakyat will have a chance to sack her and at the same time sack those who have blindly supported her.Please , please , please , keep her there and other brainless supporters for the RAYKAT to sack them. Let the RAYKAT deliver the KOs right into their face.

it's the rakyat's money, so you have to be responsible. Don't compare with Kak Azizah, she didn't cheat the rakyat's money and whatever Anwar did(if it is true, which I doubt), he is ultimately answerable to Azizah. Anyways, we want to see you in jail but we do not wish to be in hell to meet you. Cheers!

Do you think all wanita UMNO members think that you are innocent?? MY FOOT!! I am sure many are talking behind your back and please, leave Kak Wan alone. Be a woman and RESIGN!! Shameless Shahrizat @#%&

What is your response to all the BN MP's,Bung Mokhtar &Co who also wanted you to resign immediately .I want your response.Show us you are a real woman leader you claim to be or else just shut up.

That is the reason why after more than 30 years, NEP which is suppose to help poor bumiputra and malay still can not be achieved.

There are 2 different things between Sharizat and Wan Azizzah.No. 1 Sharizat does not practise the true teaching in Islam. She did a wrong and she claim it is right. 2. Her hair can be seen like Rosmah where the Quran instruct Muslims women to cover their aurat like Zuraida and Azizah.
Whilst Azizah stand by her man is because it took UMNO 13 years to bring anwar down by framing him in sodomy 1 and 2 and video sex. Azizah is a true muslim and abide by quran and the islamic teaching. She fight because she knew something is wrong with UMNO.

Muhyiddin uses race card, urges Malays to reject Pakatan

noreply@blogger.com (KUTU KURAP) — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 15:11:00 +0000

Umno deputy president Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin exploited the race card tonight when he urged Umno to defend the Malay race, culture and institutions from the opposition Pakatan Rakyat (PR).

Hitting out at the DAP in particular, he accused the PR party of being an anti-Islam and anti-Malay force.

Muhyiddin (picture) also dismissed PKR as a spent force interested only in championing the cause of one man, and PAS as a party that had shed its Islamic ideology to please the DAP.

“(The DAP) do not respect royal institutions, insult government officers who are mostly Malay, slander our armed forces with insults, dispute our enforcement institutes, dismiss the credibility of our justice system and make a fool out of the Malays to gain power for themselves,” he said when opening Umno’s Wanita, Youth and Puteri wings’ annual general assemblies here.

“DAP’s agenda to form a republic by dismissing values, history and identity of Malaysia as a nation based on sovereignty and Islam as the official religion is evident,” he added.

“If not, do they dare suggest the prime minister’s position be selected based solely on elections and without being chosen by the Yang di-Pertuan Agong? What is the meaning of this?”

Speaking to about 4,000 delegates from the Wanita, Youth and Puteri wings, Muhyiddin called PKR an ultraliberal party lacking moral values for electing a leader with a credibility crisis to head the party.

“They preach values that are against our culture in the name of freedom,” he said.

“Although one facet in PKR preaches religion and another preaches ultraliberalism, they have only one goal — to defend their leader.”

He pointed out that PAS has lost its way by placing both PKR and the DAP’s agendas before its own.

“It is clear the political tsunami during the last general election has drowned out the Islamic state ideology from PAS’s political lexicon,” he said, prompting laughter.

Assuring the crowd that Umno has risen from the political tsunami of 2008, Muhyiddin urged delegates to unite and strive to defend religion, race and country.

“Umno has shown its commitment by uniting people of all races... We shall not stir hatred with other races. We shall not insult other races. We shall not be prejudiced towards other cultures. We are not racist like DAP’,” he said.

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Here he goes again! Championing race and religion.....undoing all the damage control undertaken by Najib. After being warned by the PM several times, not to use the race and religious card!!! Watch out Najib, I see a new UMNO President and a new PM in the making

Its confirmed that umno is a racist party and plague with disease and distinct to die. Why should we the malay not vote for pkr and pas?

you can see where Najib stands in UMNO now! It only confirms our suspicions that UMNO is so divided to the core! So rotten to the core! UMNO is just a party of racists! Just like MCA, which UMNO is allegedly subservient too.

This ungrateful DPM is conspiring with Ahmad Mazlan to unseat Najib. He know BN is not going to hv a 2/3 majority. SO to ensure the results status quo, he is taking away the Chinese votes from MCA last strong hold in Johor to under mind a 2/3 BN victory. Smart move. Najib will be force to play into his race card during his Presidential speech....

Pakatan sees rural vote gain from NFC cattle scandal

noreply@blogger.com (KUTU KURAP) — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 08:38:00 +0000

Faced with Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s moves to woo the urban vote by restoring civil liberties, Pakatan Rakyat (PR) lawmakers believe the National Feedlot Centre (NFC) cattle scandal comes at an “opportune time” for them to win over Barisan Nasional’s (BN) traditional vote bank of farmers and rural folk.

The issue has cast a spotlight on the cavalier spending of public funds by minister Datuk Seri Shahrizat Abdul Jalil’s family who runs the RM250 million project, at a time when Malaysians are forced to tighten their belts in a souring economy.

File photo of cows grazing in the National Feedlot Centre in Gemas. Pakatan MPs believe the NFC scandal, which is about cows, resonates heavily with kampung folk.
Among others, the scandal involves allegations that millions of ringgit meant to help Malaysia meet her demand for beef have gone to purchase luxurious condominium units, fund umrah trips to Mecca and set up Shahrizat’s family’s Singapore-based companies.

Since the scandal broke, the senior Cabinet minister appears to have shied away from the public eye, skipping two Cabinet meetings and a host of events.

“The NFC could not have come at a more opportune time when the economy is clearly slowing, commodity prices are falling and the prices of basic goods and services are rising,” the DAP’s Tony Pua told The Malaysian Insider.

PAS’s Dr Dzulkefly Ahmad, noting that economic issues still remain a key factor in the tussle for votes, described the scandal as “a real gift” to PR.

He said such issues, if packaged well, would touch Malaysians of all socio-economic backgrounds, rural and urban alike.

“Corruption in government procurement, how much these wastages have hurt our pockets, made our lives more miserable... the kampung folk can relate to this,” the Kuala Selangor MP said.

He said that “middle Malaysia issues”, such as the push for greater democracy, individual freedom and electoral reforms, while important, largely impact the urbanites and middle- to upper-income groups, many of whom are already opposition sympathisers.

As such, he stressed that PR could not bank its hopes entirely on championing these issues if it wants to wrest the rural vote from BN.

PKR vice-president Nurul Izzah Anwar agreed that “middle Malaysia issues” are PR’s “forte” and said that “if done right”, Najib’s latest round of reforms could spell a five to 10 per cent vote shift for BN.

But, she said, the “quarter-baked BN-approved Bills”, like the Peaceful Assembly Bill tabled in Parliament on Tuesday, had lost Najib any votes gained earlier in his favour.

“This hurts him tremendously as the original intent from his Malaysia Day pledges was to win over middle Malaysia,” she told ..

Najib appeared to enter damage control mode after his administration suffered international condemnation over its handling of the Bersih 2.0 July 9 rally and embarked on a campaign aimed at shining his reformist image.

After forming the parliamentary select committee for electoral reforms, the prime minister raised eyebrows during his Malaysia Day message on September 15 when he promised to repeal the Internal Security Act (ISA) and amend security and press laws to allow greater civil liberties.

He then moved on Tuesday to table the Peaceful Assembly Bill and two days later, promised to lift the ban on student politics, a move the opposition claims was designed to woo young voters.

But PR believes the prime minister’s silence since the NFC scandal hit the headlines would still ring louder than his promises for reform.

“The scandal isn’t just your routine financial scandal that tends to have little traction among the rural community.

“It is a scandal about cows which resonates heavily with the kampung folk who are more familiar with the bovine industry,” said Pua.

“The association of a top Umno leader and family to the project will also cause Umno to lose further trust from their core supporters, he added.

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Why put so much faith on govt. scandal after scandal never ending story self serving corrupted minister are the main cause of misery to the people.

Sharizat is always there to see Najib & Rosmah off on overseas trips, and to welcome them back.

Like Rosmah, she also makes it a point to have her pictures frequently in the papers ...pretending to kiss and hug less privileged children.

Now she has disappeared from view. Is she holed up in a luxury apartment in London, New York or Paris, bought with public money?

Yes, highlight the NFC issue. The rakyat is suffering and these cronies are enjoying our money like no tomorrow ... what the hell is this ??? This family and all related parties should be investigated and jailed !!

‘political reality’ to have Malay PM...but may be one day the day will come when the PM of Malaysia is a "true" Mongolian...ha ha ha...!!!

noreply@blogger.com (KUTU KURAP) — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 08:26:00 +0000

Lim Guan Eng rubbished talk today of amending the Constitution to guarantee a Malay prime minister, claiming Malaysians have accepted the “political reality” that the post “must” be given to the country’s largest ethnic community.

He said suggesting such amendments was “racist and superfluous” as it treated non-Malays as if they were second-class citizens.

“No non-Malay political leader has even talked about wanting to be prime minister because Malaysians accept the political reality that the prime minister of Malaysia must come from the Malay community,” he said in a statement here.

On Friday, PKR Youth challenged Umno to amend the Constitution to guarantee a Malay prime minister but Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim later clarified that this was neither his party’s stand nor that of Pakatan Rakyat (PR).

Lim (picture) pointed out that the highest political posts now available to non-Malays were ministers and the Penang chief minister’s position, which he now holds.

But the DAP secretary-general said that although the Malays dominated top leadership posts, including positions in the civil service, police and army, his party and the Penang government had never threatened to usurp power from the community.

“DAP has never carried out such a campaign because DAP considers all Malays as Malaysians who have an equal right as any other Malaysian to be in these sectors,” he said.

“This is evident in the open tender system where 70 per cent of Penang government contracts are won by Malays, proving the Malay contractors are competitive; only Umno crony contractors are useless,” he said.

Lim also recalled Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin’s controversial “Malay first and Malaysian second” declaration last year, saying it showed that “1 Malaysia” was an empty slogan designed to win votes.

Lim claimed the slogan would be rapidly discarded after the next general elections.

“What is surprising is that Muhyiddin does not consider illogical or inconsistent with pursuing a strictly racial Malay agenda with the agenda of other non-Malay Malaysians,” Lim said, adding that the deputy prime minister “even pursues DAP leaders are Chinese chauvinists even though DAP has fought for all Malaysians”.

“DAP is no threat to Malays. Only Umno is a threat to Malays and Malaysians with its open acceptance and defence of repressive violation of basic human rights, corruption and abuse of power.”

Lim accused Umno of using such threats to justify and cover up its numerous financial and corruption scandals.

He cited the latest exposes of excessive expenditure of RM3.7 billion by government departments in the 2010 Auditor-General’s report and the National Feedlot Centre scandal, where a company related to a minister was accused of misusing public funds to buy luxury condominiums.

“Umno has consistently undertaken a remorseless campaign of lies and fear against the DAP to scare the Malays that their rights and interests are being threatened,” Lim said, adding Malaysians did not “need a corrupt and racialist party like Umno to protect them”.

Umno has repeatedly accused PR of selling out the Malays to Chinese and foreign interests, insisting that the Malays can only be protected if Barisan Nasional (BN) remains in power.

Since the landmark Election 2008 where PR denied BN its customary two-thirds majority in parliament and five state governments, the Malays have swung back towards the ruling coalition even as Chinese support for the federal opposition has increased.

Racial tension has also heightened over the past few years especially with repeated allegations that Muslims are being proselytised.

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Yes, the day will come when the PM of Malaysia is a Mongolian, let alone a Chinese or Indian. If we keep on strengthening our racial and religious stance , we would never go far but remain a second rated nation on this small earth. How long are we going to be before we matured and live as one family ? Or should we refuse to grow but remain children?

We should be prepared by now to accept a central government for the whole earth. Is not the United Nations mean to govern the earth? But remain a small player till today. Be prepared . For the day is coming when a king will rule the earth.

PKR will ‘break prison walls’ to make Anwar PM

noreply@blogger.com (KUTU KURAP) — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 16:43:00 +0000

PKR deputy president Azmin Ali pledged today the party will free de facto leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim from prison to lead a Pakatan Rakyat (PR) government.

The Gombak MP said when opening PKR’s Youth and women’s wing national congress that the opposition coalition has reached a consensus that Anwar, who is facing a second sodomy charge, will be “Malaysia’s seventh prime minister.”

“Whatever conspiracy to jail Anwar Ibrahim, we the Youth and women pledge to rise up and break the cruel prison walls to free him,” Azmin (picture) said to thunderous applause from the 1,600 delegates here.

PKR de facto leader Anwar completed his defence case in the sodomy trial last month against what he has called an Umno ploy to end his political career.

The Kuala Lumpur High Court will hear closing submissions on December 8 before deciding on a verdict ahead of a general election expected to be held early next year.

The opposition leader’s hopes of becoming prime minister will likely be quashed if found guilty of the offence which carries a maximum jail term of 20 years.

Anwar was first sentenced to nine years’ jail in 2000 but the Federal Court overturned the sodomy conviction in 2004, allowing him to campaign ahead of Election 2008.

The landmark elections saw an opposition electoral pact deny Barisan Nasional its customary two-thirds majority of Parliament and five state governments.

Anwar was again accused of sodomy when former aide Mohd Saiful Bukhari Azlan filed a police report in June 2008.

DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng had said early this month that Anwar will be prime minister if PR forms government even if he is jailed.

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All those umno supporters who make a comment on this article please ask your boss who ordered the Commandos to C4 altantuya before you make any further comment. If you dare to face the truth, ask this question from your MPs!

Those wrirting badly about Anwar cannot even stand 1 day against BN UMNO. These people are sissies hiding behind the tress and throwing stones. This man can make a change for a better Malaysia but unwinding 50 years of misrule and racism imbued Malaysia will take time unless the world gets involved like in Timor. But to let off Malaysia to be swindled by BN UMNO is a great tragedy which the world cannot afford to ignore.

With Sodomy II, Najib has trapped himself in a Maxican stand-off with Anwar. And between the two of them, Anwar is the faster draw. Najib is now in a "do he dies and don't he also die" situation. Jailing Anwar is what Pakatan is silently hoping for because it would bring massive support to Pakatan and Anwar himself. At the expanse of the BN of course. Interesting time ahead for sure.

Street protests if polls are unfair

noreply@blogger.com (KUTU KURAP) — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 16:35:00 +0000

PKR Youth warned Barisan Nasional (BN) that it will take to the streets and force the ruling coalition out of Putrajaya if the next general election is unfairly run.

Youth chief Shamsul Iskandar Amin told delegates today that any move to restrict Pakatan Rakyat (PR) will be met with street demonstrations despite such gatherings set to be outlawed by a Peaceful Assembly Bill that was tabled in Parliament this week.

“They know Bersih 3.0 will happen, that is why they want to have this law,” he said, referring to the marches for free and fair election that drew tens of thousands to the streets of Kuala Lumpur in 2007 and July 9 this year.

“If they restrict us, if there is even one instance of cheating, we will use the streets. Lupakan pilihanraya, kita guna jalanraya (forget elections, we use the streets),” he said to unanimous cheers.

Shamsul (picture) also warned that “if they jail Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim before Bersih 3.0, we will gather and topple them,” he said when winding up debates in today’s PKR Youth national congress.

PKR deputy president Azmin Ali had also pledged earlier that “whatever conspiracy to jail Anwar Ibrahim, we the Youth and women pledge to rise up and break the cruel prison walls to free him.”

Both Azmin and Shamsul had today cited the Arab Spring in their speeches, referring to the series of street protests in the Middle East earlier this year that toppled governments in Egypt, Tunisia and Libya.

The party’s de facto leader Anwar completed his defence case in the sodomy trial last month against what he has called an Umno ploy to end his political career.

The Kuala Lumpur High Court will hear closing submissions on December 8 before deciding on a verdict ahead of a general election expected to be held early next year.

The opposition leader’s hopes of becoming prime minister will likely be quashed if found guilty of the offence which carries a maximum jail term of 20 years.

Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak proposed earlier this week a Peaceful Assembly Bill which Opposition Leader Anwar said will prevent his coalition from conducting ceramahs and gatherings.

While the Bill removes the need for a police permit and jail sentences, it also bars street protests and public gatherings from various public areas including petrol stations, hospitals, fire stations, airports, railways, places of worship and schools.

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If you don't want another Egypt, then don't act like dictators or tyrants. Simple.

The problem is UMNO doesn't have a clue; especially the dinosaur heading the home ministry.

If UMNO has not done anything wrong, the people will not demonstrate. Why want to impose Peaceful Assembly? Because they want to cover up and save themselves from the angry citizens who are fed up of their wrong doings!

It is high time that this evil corrupt UMNO/BN is wiped out from the face of the earth. Along with it will go Perkosa and all other racist organisations. Time is ripe and the end is imminient.

pilgrims back...but najib still to be liar....Najib says will lift student politics ban

noreply@blogger.com (KUTU KURAP) — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 15:08:00 +0000

Datuk Seri Najib Razak said today the government plans to lift the ban on student participation in politics, as part of his administration’s political reforms.
The prime minister told Parliament today amendments would be tabled to amend the controversial section 15 of the Universities and University Colleges Act (UUCA), to allow students above 21 to be active members of political parties.

“The government believes in the maturity and intelligence of our university students.
“With that, to respect the constitutional rights of our students who have reached the age of maturity as stipulated by law, the government will amend section 15 of the UUCA to allow them to be members of political parties,” he said when tabling a motion to lift three Emergency declarations.

The surprising announcement earned Najib a round of loud cheers from the House and lawmakers banged on their tables to show support.
Najib however stressed that under the law, politics would still be banned from university campuses.

“This decision is a result of the government’s concern and understanding of the people’s aspirations, and how we have listened to their wishes.
“This is not merely cheap rhetoric or tales from merchants of dreams... This is the result of political will and moral bravery,” he told the House.
Najib, however, admitted that despite plans to amend the UUCA, the government would still proceed with its appeal of a recent court ruling that section 15 of the law is in breach of the Federal Constitution.
“This is because the court decision has implications on the country’s legal system,” he explained.
In a majority 2-1 judgment, a three-man panel of judges ruled earlier this month that Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) had breached Article 10 of the country’s highest law when it disciplined four students involved in a political campaign last year under section 15(5)(a) of the UUCA.

Section 15(5)(a) of the UUCA states: “No student of the University and no organisation, body or group of students of the University which is established by, under or in accordance with the Constitution, shall express or do anything which may reasonably be construed as expressing support for or sympathy with or opposition to any political party, whether in or outside Malaysia.”
The four students — Muhammad Hilman Idham, Woon King Chai, Muhammad Ismail Aminuddin and Azlin Shafina Mohamad Adza — were found campaigning for a political party during the Hulu Selangor parliamentary by-election in April 2010.
Political parties from both sides of the divide had welcomed the court decision, stating that student politics must be allowed in a healthy democracy.

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Come on, who would ever believe in Najib anymore. Look at what he said about freedom of assembly and the Orwellian Peaceful Assembly Law that he is putting before the Parliament - which is far more draconian and restrictive than what we have now. Listen to what he said about the Internal Security Acts and what he proposes to replace them with - also far worse in terms of granting the government power. Going by Najib's reputation, his proposed amendments to the UUCA would be more restrictive than liberalizing. He is everything George Orwell wrote about in his 2 books, Animal Farm and 1984!

Assembly law allows persecution of Pakatan MPs

noreply@blogger.com (KUTU KURAP) — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 14:55:00 +0000

The Peaceful Assembly Bill legitimises persecution of Pakatan Rakyat lawmakers and prevents them from conducting ceramahs and gatherings, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim has charged.

The PR de facto leader told Parliament today the new law regulating public assembly made it more difficult for the federal opposition to hold ceramahs and dialogue sessions.

Citing the 30 days’ advance notice provision within the new law, Anwar (picture) said the procedures would be a problem for PR.

“The Peaceful Assembly Bill prohibits, prevents Pakatan Rakyat from explaining to the rakyat about current issues on abuse of power, corruption, discrepancies by the ruling government,” he said.

The Permatang Pauh MP alleged Section 21 (3) of the new law, which allows protesters arrested by police to be fined up to RM20,000 would be used against opposition lawmakers.

“The stipulation which sets a fine up to RM20,000 if found guilty allows the government to drag Pakatan Rakyat MPs to court if they conduct ceramahs, explanations and gatherings which is one of our ways to explain daily issues to the rakyat,” he said.

The government had earlier this week tabled the Peaceful Assembly Bill, two months after Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak first pledged reforms to laws on security and public assembly.

Shortly after it was unveiled, Pakatan Rakyat leaders said the new bill was “worse” than previous laws on public assembly, and that it simply meant “people could not gather anywhere in Malaysia.”

PR described the Peaceful Assembly Bill as repressive and restrictive of civil freedom, claiming it accords the police even more power to arrest individuals.

Najib today declared it a “revolutionary” law and a “giant leap” towards improving individual freedom.

The prime minister pointed out to opposition lawmakers in Parliament that, under the new legislation, the powers of the police would be capped and punitive action against protestors reduced to only fines instead of jail sentences.

Section 27 of the bill states that public gatherings cannot be held in the following areas: petrol stations, hospitals, fire stations, airports, railways, land public transport terminals, ports, canals, docks, bridges, places of worship, kindergartens and schools as well as dams and reservoirs.

It states that no street protests are allowed, and bars any assembly in or within a 50 metre buffer zone around the listed prohibited areas.

Section 9 (5) of the bill allows the police to fine organisers up to RM10,000 if no advance notice of a planned assembly is given to the authorities.

Section 20 (1) (c) allows for police to arrest anyone who brings or recruits children in an assembly.

The new law says that there also must be 30 days’ advance notice for assemblies except for designated areas defined by the home minister. The assemblies can then proceed unless there is objection by the police.

Simultaneous assemblies may be held, but this is subject to the discretion of the police. If a “counter assembly” should cause potential conflict with another assembly nearby, police have the right to name an alternative location and time for the counter assembly to be held.

Individuals under 21 years of age not allowed to organise assemblies and children under 15 are not allowed to participate in assemblies except for cultural and religious ones like funeral corteges or events approved by the home minister.

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.Its so simple and how can the police be given that power...an to the Police...Go can catch us some thieves for goodness sakes! You have no business in politics or harming the rakyat. We pay your salary , remember.

No need for new bill. It's a waste of tax payers money and time. We have freedom of peaceful assembly under the Constitution. If the law is broken during an assembly then the relevant laws apply. The police should not take the law into their own hand and make selective prosecution.

NOW we know why Najib has delayed calling for elections ... this Anti Assembly Bill was holding it up