BN Kecut Perut Melihat Kehadiran Puluhan Ribu Penyokong Pakatan Rakyat

Tuesday, 6th November 2012
Kuantan, Pahang

Najib Wajar Menjadi Kecut Melihat Kerjasama Pemimpin-Pemimpin PR

Puluhan ribu hadiri Himpunan Kebangkitan Rakyat walaupun hujan di Negeri Sembilan Pada Malam 3 November 2012

 Walaupun hujan lebat bermula jam 2 petang dan padang becak, ia tidak menghalang kira-kira 30,000 orang hadir dalam Himpunan Kebangkitan Rakyat di padang Taman Seremban Jaya, Negeri Sembilan malam 3 November 2012 yang lepas. Padang yang digenangi air dan berlumpur, tidak mematahkan semangat mereka berpayung dan berbaju hujan serta berdiri di tengah padang sewaktu hujan renyai bagi mendengar penjelasan isu-isu semasa daripada pemimpin Pakatan Rakyat.

Hujan Renyai Tidak Mematahkan Semangat Penyokong-Penyokong PR

Himpunan anjuran gabungan tiga parti dalam Pakatan Rakyat itu sebagai permulaan sebelum diteruskan di beberapa buah negeri bagi menyokong tuntutan mengadakan pilihan raya bersih dan adil. 

  "Kenapa kita memilih Negeri Sembilan, kerana ia negeri paling awal kita akan berkuasa dalam pilihan raya umum akan datang. Bila tiba mengundi, jam 7 malam (keputusan diumumkan), Wisma Negeri kita telah tawan,"

 kata Timbalan Presiden PAS, Mohamad Sabu. 

 Wisma Negeri merupakan pusat pentadbiran kerajaan negeri itu yang dipimpin oleh Datuk Seri Mohamad Hassan Kata-kata pemimpin PAS yang mesra dipanggil 'Abang Mat' itu - juga merupakan pengarah program - diiringi tepukan dan sorakan hadirin yang hadir. 'Ayam sabung' PAS itu juga berkata perhimpunan seumpama itu, bakal diteruskan di Stadium Muhammad ke-IV di Kelantan pada 16 November ini sebelum diikuti di beberapa negeri mengikut zon - Pahang, Kedah, Johor dan Perak. 

Tanda-Tanda Bahawa BN Bakal Kehilangan Kuasa

 Perhimpunan itu juga kemudiannya, akan diteruskan oleh kepimpinan Pakatan di peringkat negeri yang melibatkan antaranya Melaka, Pulau Pinang dan Perlis, tambahnya. Mohamad Sabu berkata acara kemuncak perhimpunan tersebut akan diadakan di Stadium Bukit Jalil pada 12 Januari tahun depan dengan sasaran sebanyak sejuta rakyat akan berhimpun di situ.

 "Perhimpunan seluruh rakyat di Kuala Lumpur di antaranya menyokong tuntutan BERSIH, (dan) tuntutan rakyat (yang akan disertai) tidak kira (penyokong) Hijau (Lynas), Merah (royalti), Oren (Felda), Kuning (BERSIH) atau apa-apa warna sekalipun,"

 katanya. 

PR Bakal Berarak Ke Putrajaya

 Sebelum itu, ketua pimpinan Pakatan Rakyat Negeri Sembilan menyampaikan ucapan yang pada umumnya menyatakan kehadiran puluhan ribuan di situ sebagai indikasi bahawa Pakatan Rakyat mampu menguasai Wisma Negeri pada pilihan raya umum akan datang. Mereka adalah Pesuruhjaya PAS Mohd Taufek Abdul Ghani, Anthony Loke (Ketua DAP Negeri Sembilan) dan Datuk Kamarul Baharin Abbas (ketua pimpinan PKR negeri).

Sementara itu, dalam ucapannya, Anthony menegaskan DAP berjanji akan bertungkus-lumus untuk mengalah MCA, Gerakan dan MIC di kerusi yang ditandingi mereka pada pilihan raya umum akan datang.

 "Saya juga mahu tuan-tuan berjanji di mana kerusi PAS atau PKR bertemu Umno, adalah menjadi kewajipan kita untuk habiskan (kalahkan) Umno dan BN. Marilah sama-sama kita jatuhkan BN," 

katanya yang diirngi tepukan dan sorakan gemuruh hadirin. Beliau sekali lagi menempelak Presiden MCA Datuk Seri Chua Soi Lek yang didakwanya "biadap" dengan menghina Mursyidul Am PAS Datuk Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat dan mengulangi janjinya untuk membelanya.

"Jika agama Buddha dihina (sekalipun), saya yakin pemimpin PAS juga akan mempertahankannya. Kalau agama Hindu dan Kristian dihina, saya yakin PKR akan mempertahankan. Kalau agama Islam dihina, DAP akan mempertahankannya katanya yang juga ADUN Lobak dan ahli Parlimen Rasah. 

Lambang Kerjasama Yang Utuh

 Ketiga-tiga mereka kemudiannya memeterai dengan membaca satu persefahaman untuk mendokong dan menjunjung Undang-undang Tubuh negeri serta Tonggak Nan9 iaitu janji untuk membela rakyat termasuk Orang Asal jika diberi kepercayaan mentadbir negeri itu. Selepas itu, Sasterawan Negara dan Pengerusi bersama BERSIH Datuk A Samad Said kemudiannya, mendeklamasikan puisi bertajuk 'Pelamin Kuasa' yang mendapat tepukan gemuruh para hadirin.

Nampak gayanya Najib serta konco-konconya makin hilang keyakinan untuk memenangi pilihanraya yang akan datang. Sekiranya BN kalah pada pilihanan Raya Umum ke-13, Najib bakal menempa sejarah sebagai PM Malaysia yang pertama digulingkan sari tampok pemerintahan oleh kuasa rakyat...Bukittunggal.Com

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Kerajaan BN Gunakan Wang Rakyat Untuk Kempen Burukkan Pembangkang

Saturday, 13th October 2012 
Kuantan, Pahang

 Kalaulah MACC diletakkan di bawah sebuah jawatankuasa bebas serta tidak di bawah telunjuk PM, Sudah Lama Najib serta Menteri Kabinetnya Masuk Penjara. Yang terbaru adalah pendedahan yang dibuat oleh Malaysiakini di mana kerajaan Najib telah menubuhkan sebuah Jabatan iaitu Jabatan Hal Ehwal Khas di bawah Kementerian Rais Yatim yang bertujuan untuk melaksanakan Perang Saraf terhadap PR. Tapi yang peliknya kenapa MACC masih tak bertindak? Buta?

Projek memburuk-burukkan pembangkang dengan jutawan George Soros -- seperti yang dilaporkan meluas oleh media sekarang -- telah dirancang oleh sebuah jabatan khas Kementerian Penerangan, Komunikasi dan Kebudayaan sejak pertengahan tahun ini.

Melalui sebuah buku tebal Panduan Penjelasan Isu Semasa terbitan Jabatan Hal Ehwal Khas (JASA), Ketua Umum PKR Awar Ibrahim didakwa mendapat dana spekulator mata wang dunia itu bagi menghadapi pilihan raya umum.

Dengan menonjolkan beliau sebagai ejen Yahudi Zionis, Soros melalui Institut Masyarakat Terbuka (OSI) didakwa mendanai Kumpulan Krisis Antarabangsa (ICG) yang disertai Anwar.

"... Anwar merupakan antara ahli majlis eksekutif ICG ... sebahagian besar (pemimpin) dalam ICG adalah berbangsa Yahudi," buku setebal 322 halaman itu dipetik.

"Soros mengkritik tindakan kerajaan Malaysia dan membela Anwar semasa beliau didakwa atas (tuduhan) salah guna kuasa."

Hubungan Soros-Anwar ini dimuatkan dalam bab "Kumpulan Krisis Antarabangsa (ICG) dan hubungan Zionis", satu daripada 22 bab yang disusun bagi menjawab isu dan program yang dibangkitkan oleh Pakatan Rakyat sehingga Jun lalu.

Bagi menggambarkan perhimpunan "BERSIH 3.0 itu kotor" pula, Anwar didakwa memulakan huru-hara pada 28 April lalu dan beliau sendiri disokong oleh ahli parlimen Australia yang pro-hubungan seks sejenis.

Isu-isu lain yang dimuatkan di bahagian ini termasuklah kontroversi Pusat Fidlot Nasional, himpunan BERSIH 3.0, pemerolehan Scorpene, loji pemprosesan nadir bumi Lynas, program Buku Jingga, kematian Teoh Beng Hock, durian runtuh Felda dan penyenaraian Felda Global Venture Holdings (FGV), tuntutan pelobi pendidikan Cina Dong Zong dan kritikan terhadap Suruhanjaya Pilihan Raya (SPR).

Buku yang ditulis dalam bentuk soal jawab ringkas ini turut memberikan perhatian khusus kepada Kelantan dan Sabah.

Sumpah PM tentang Altantuya

Isu-isu utama berkaitan negeri pimpinan PAS itu dimuatkan dalam tiga bab khas: tuntutan royalti petroleum, pencemaran air paip dan projek ladang rakyat.

Tiga bab lagi ditujukan bagi menjawab isu di Sabah: kebanjiran pendatang asing, tanah adat dan kempen "Sabah for Sabahans".

Bagaimanapun bab terakhir "tuduhan pembunuhan Altantuya (Shaariibuu)" tidak memakai format soal jawab atau penjelasan lengkap seperti bab-bab lain.

Ia hanya memuatkan sepenuhnya sumpah Perdana Menteri Najib Abdul Razak sewaktu menafikan pembabitannya dengan wanita Mongolia itu bersempena kempen pilihan raya kecil Permatang Pauh pada 2008.

Sementara 22 bab lagi disusun bagi menjelaskan dasar-dasar kerajaan dan senarai program yang dimajukannya.

Dibahagikan kepada tiga, bahagian pertama 'dasar-dasar negara' dimulakan dengan bab-bab berikut: Wawasan 2020, gagasan 1Malaysia, Rancangan Malaysia ke-10 dan program transformasi kerajaan (GTP).

Ia juga menjelaskan tentang Bajet 2012, skim Bantuan Rakyat 1Malaysia (BR1M), kempen kerajaan mengurangkan rasuah dan kadar jenayah serta langkah mengawal kenaikan harga dan program meningkatkan taraf hidup rakyat berpendapatan rendah.

Satu halaman diperuntukkan untuk menyenaraikan 20 tokoh paling kaya di Malaysia dengan kesimpulan: " ... orang Melayu hanya tiga orang (15 peratus) manakala Cina 16 orang (80 peratus) dan India seorang (5 peratus)."

Ia juga memuatkan statistik-statistik lain yang menunjukkan kemunduran Melayu dalam bidang ikhtisas (profesional), pemilikan ekuiti dan premis perniagaan.

Bab-bab ini diikuti dengan program memajukan bumiputera seperti Teraju sebelum melakarkan "kejayaan negara" di mata dunia.

50,000 naskhah dicetak

Malaysia digambarkan aman makmur walaupun penduduknya berbilang-bilang kaum dan agama; tidak seperti hura-hara yang dialami dalam krisis Asia Barat beberapa bulan kebelakangan.

Buku panduan berbahasa Melayu ini disediakan sebagai rujukan pegawai kempen JASA -- satu daripada beberapa badan utama gerak saraf kerajaan -- dan ia dibuka dengan petikan kata-kata Najib.

"Kebebasan bersuara yang dijamin dalam Perlembagaan Persekutuan tidak sesekali bermaksud sebagai kewenangan hak kepada mana-mana pihak untuk membuat fitnah dan menghasut api kebencian."

Dalam kata pengantarnya, ketua pengarah JASA, yang juga pemimpin lama Umno, Fuad Hassan berkata buku ini disediakan bagi menjawab sebaran maklumat pantas melalui media Internet.

Pada Mac lalu, menteri penerangan, komunikasi dan kebudayaan Rais Yatim dilaporkan berkata sebanyak 50,000 naskhah akan dicetak, termasuk untuk rujukan orang awam di luar bandar.

Selain JASA, menurut beliau lagi, agensi-agensi yang merujuk buku panduan itu termasuklah Jabatan Penerangan, agensi berita rasmi Bernama dan Radio Televisyen Malaysia (RTM).

Satu salinan buku ini diperolehi oleh Malaysiakini bulan lalu sewaktu menghadiri siri penjelasan JASA di Kuala Lumpur berhubung bantahan pindaan Seksyen 114A Akta Keterangan.

Edisi digital buku ini boleh juga diperolehi di laman web rasmi Jasa.

Walaupun bahan-bahan ini disediakan di antara selepas perhimpunan BERSIH pada hujung April lalu dan menjelang penyenaraian FGV akhir Jun, tidak dapat dipastikan bila ia mula dicetak dan diedarkan.




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Why Malaysian Should Vote For PAS (PR) and Not UMNO (BN)

Kuching
Wednesday, 28th July 2010

For Malaysian Who have never set foot on Kelantan state whic is dubbed  as the Serambi Mekah of Malaysia or the Mecca of Malaysia especially the Sarawakian rural might be carried away by Jemut Masing propaganda that Malaysia based political parties (excluded BN's component parties such as "I aM NO" (UMNO), MCA, MIC and Gerakan of course) are bad and have no knowledge on local custom or adat, might be thinking that the state of Kelantan only in favour the Muslims compare to non-Muslims.

Today I am going to write about two good things (out of few)  that I managed to gather  as a comparison between  PAS and UMNO. Hopefully with this revelations, the rural people of Sarawak will accept PAS so as that party will not be the stumble block for Pakatan Rakyat coalition (PR) to kick Barisan Nasional (BN) from new DUN building in the coming state election. PAS in the past had been dubbed by BN Sarawak as the racict and extremist muslim party by BN. On top of it, PAS had a very bad reputation in Sarawak particularly to the non-muslims. The grave mistake that PAS had committed was when it first time set its foot on Sarawak, they had refused to shake hands with the non-muslim supporters because they did not want to dirty their hands with the pork eaten hands belong to the non-muslim.

First comparison that I want to make today  is about PAS standpoint on the use of word  "Allah" by the catholic's newsletter Herald Malaysia. PAS Supreme Council on 5th  January 2010 had unanimously backed the use of the word Allah by Catholics, saying that it was consistent with the federal Constitution and Islamic principles. But what did the UMNO and bad mouth Iban politicians like Jabu and Jemut Masing had done? Yes they neither opposed or support the High Court decision.PAS has better racial and religious telorance compared to UMNO and BN.

Second Point is a Moderate way of living as advocates by PAS leader. Have anyone ever seen the official resident of  the Kelantan's  Chief Minister Datuk Nik Aziz?  For those who have not seen his house please see it below.

Will you think that our Pehin or any UMNO/BN Leaders eating in a place alike  where Nik Aziz having his breakfast?

On top of about the humble house where Nik Aziz lives, I want to share the experience that this visitor and his family members  from Seremban who were on family tour to Kota Bharu Kelantan, encountered with Datuk Nik Aziz who were having breakfast at the ordinary foodstall "warung" by the road side. To keep it originality, please read the article by one of its family member in Bahasa Malaysia :-
Sewaktu kami sekeluarga berkunjung ke Kota Bharu Kelantan pada cuti sekolah bulan lepas, kami sekeluarga sarapan pagi di gerai berhampiran hotel penginapan.. Kami sekeluarga terkejut dan rasa terharu bila kami dapati MB Kelantan tengah sarapan pagi di gerai tersebut berseorangan tanpa pengawal peribadi dan pegawai kerajaan Kelantan..

Malah beliau terlebih dahulu menegur dan menberi salam kepada kami sekeluarga serta mengajak kami sekeluarga makan bersama-sama dimeja beliau sambil berborak menayakan dari mana, bagaimana perasaan kami bila berada di Kelantan dan banyak lagi.. Ketika berborak, beliau tiada sedikit pun menyentuh soal politik atau cerita perkembangan terkini di Negeri kami (Negeri 9).. Malah beliau berterima kasih kepada kami kerana sudi datang dan lihat sendiri keadaan di Kelantan daripada membaca di akhbar atau melihat di TV.. Malah kami sekeluarga rasa lebih terharu bila beliau bayar kami sekeluarga makan pada pagi itu..

* MB Negeri saya sendiri pun susah nak jumpa..... kecuali ada majlis rasmi yang ada publisiti sahaja.........

The above two good examples about PAS above is not exhaustive. I hope the message above will reach the majority of the voters in rural Sarawak especially the Iban, so that it will change their perceptions about PAS, therefore PR's aim to wrest Sarawak from corrupted BN in the coming state election will be achieved.

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Malaysia's Najib and the Crony Culture

Kuching
Thursday, 8th July 2010

The government backs down on a tycoon's sports betting plan

The Malaysian government has portrayed its recent decision not to legalize sports gambling as the action of a responsible administration responding to public opinion and keeping its promise to be more open and accountable.

In fact, the episode is a sharp reminder of how deeply entrenched the crony culture is in the country and how little has changed under the leadership of Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak.

While Najib has pleased many Malaysians by refusing to allow businessman Vincent Tan to expand his gambling empire, the prime minister's image has suffered because of his secretive attempt to revive sports betting.

In the public outcry over the proposal, Najib was also outmaneuvered by the political opposition through its control of key states in peninsular Malaysia. By reversing course, he underlined his growing reputation to backtrack on policy in the face of protest, as he has done over his ambition to dismantle certain parts of the New Economic Policy, the affirmative action plan that has benefited ethnic Malays for four decades.

Malaysians were kept in the dark this year as Vincent Tan, invoking an unpublicized agreement negotiated with the government decades ago, geared up to begin accepting bets on the World Cup in South Africa. With little warning, his company, Ascot Sports Sdn Bhd, announced that it had obtained exclusive rights to a business that could top RM20 billion annually – without competitive bidding or public discussion.

Dramatic as the news was, it wasn't the first time that Tan had been on the brink of starting Malaysia's first legal sports betting operation.

In 2004, months after becoming prime minister, Abdullah Ahmad Badawi discovered that a license had been issued to Tan in 2003 by Premier Mahathir Mohamad in his capacity as finance minister.

Abdullah's aides said Mahathir had awarded the license not long before retiring, but the former premier denied being "personally responsible" for it.

Worried that his administration would be open to criticism by conservative Muslims, especially the opposition Parti Islam Se-Malaysia, which had long campaigned to close existing gaming outlets, Abdullah vetoed the gambling concession.

Tan's revived plans burst into the open in early May in a filing with the stock exchange. Tan's publicly listed Berjaya Corporation Bhd. said it was buying his 70 percent stake in dormant Ascot Sports for RM525 million. (His son holds the remaining 30 percent.)

Berjaya said, "The Ministry of Finance has given its approval for the re-issuance of the license…upon certain terms and conditions." Berjaya subsequently made it known that the "re-issuance" took the form of a "letter of approval" it had received from the finance ministry in January. Najib acts as finance minister as well as premier.

In the uproar that followed, some of the mysterious history of the sports betting proposal emerged.

It transpires that Dr. Mahathir's government first issued a license to Tan in 1987, without informing the public. After suffering losses, Tan surrendered the license in 1990, but apparently negotiated for Ascot Sports to be given the right of first refusal if a new license was issued.

At first, the Najib government did not dispute Berjaya's claim to have obtained the license. But as opposition mounted to more legalized gambling – betting is permitted by non-Muslims on horse racing and lotteries and in a casino -- Najib, wearing his finance minister's hat, stunned the country by declaring that the license had not yet been issued after all.

In a written reply to members of Parliament, he said the government was "still getting feedback from various quarters" and had not finalized the terms and conditions. Najib's hesitation in following through on the letter of approval his ministry sent to Berjaya four months earlier reflected his political dilemma.

A strong element in the backlash was the memory of the Mahathir era, when well-connected businessmen, widely termed cronies, were given privatization and other government contracts without any tendering process. Vincent Tan was the chief non-Malay crony.

Moreover, Tan made his initial fortune when granted the privatized lottery Sports Toto, until then controlled by the Ministry of Finance, in 1985. The deal was kept secret initially, erupting into what became the "Sports Toto Scandal" when word of it eventually leaked.

By seeming to allow the license to go to Ascot Sports in a non-transparent fashion, Najib drew attention to what looked like his broken promises to be more open. He also appeared to be condoning gambling, which is forbidden in Islam and opposed by many Malays.

The government attempted to frame the widening debate as an effort to curb underground sports betting, which is known to be rampant in Malaysia.

But in reality Najib needed increased gambling tax to help reduce Malaysia's officially projected budget deficit from 7 percent to 3 percent of gross domestic product by 2015. One industry group estimated illegal sports betting turnover at RM20 billion to RM30 billion, and calculated potential government revenue at RM1 billion to RM3 billion.

Najib was also outflanked by the opposition. The Penang state government, led by the Democratic Action Party, declared a ban on sports betting, followed by Kedah and Selangor. Kelantan, controlled by Parti Islam and the only other state in opposition hands, forbids all forms of gambling.

Narrowing Najib's options further, sections of his United Malays National Organization, including UMNO Youth, opposed the move. Terengganu state, in UMNO hands, also said it would not allow sports gambling, according to local press reports.

After a meeting of UMNO's Supreme Council, Najib capitulated, saying the decision was taken "after much deliberation on the impact it will have from the perspective of religion and politics." Left unsaid was why Najib felt bound by a tainted agreement entered by a past administration, and whether more such deals might surface.

Barry Wain, writer-in-residence at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, is author of Malaysian Maverick: Mahathir Mohamad in Turbulent Times. The original article was published in the  Asia Sentinel on 7th July 2010

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Raja Petra To Najib : Then Who Do We Trust?

Kuching
Monday, 5th July 2010

RPK said...News Strait Times belonged to UMNO and the Star owned by MCA, then we should not trust those two newspaper right ? RPK

Fugitive blogger Raja Petra Kamaruddin has scoffed at Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s accusation that he is funded by Pakatan Rakyat (PR) and therefore untrustworthy.

Referring to other media outlets in Malaysia which are either owned or controlled by the Barisan Nasional (BN) government, the controversial Malaysia Today writer rubbished the prime minister’s suggestion that political backing equated to a lack of credibility.
“Well, isn’t New Straits Times backed by Umno? The Star, by MCA?” he said here yesterday.

Najib had said the people should not believe the claims made by the blogger, who has fled to London, and challenged the Malaysian government to bring charges of sedition, criminal defamation and an appeal against his release from the Internal Security Act to the United Kingdom’s courts.

“If Raja Petra is funded by the opposition, it means that his statements are politically-motivated. We should weigh them carefully and not merely [accept] them,” Najib told reporters after opening a Pekan Umno meeting yesterday.

Speaking to The Malaysian Insider here, Raja Petra said that all media outlets were backed by investors with some kind of agenda, regardless of whether they affected the editorial direction.

“So is he saying that we shouldn’t trust any media?” he retorted.

The member of the Selangor royal household has been a thorn in Najib’s side even before he stepped up to the premiership, with the most prominent allegation being over the latter’s involvement in the murder of Mongolian translator Altantuya Shariibuu.

When quizzed on whether he was receiving any money from the federal opposition, Raja Petra replied that “I am trying to raise money for Pakatan, not take it from them.”

He said that his reason for doing so was his desire to see a two-party system established in Malaysia, instead what was described as BN hegemony.

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