Zero Confidence in Malaysian Government

More than crystal clear that the whole thing was staged.

Politically motivated? Of course, what else.

Conscientious people would know with just half of their brains.

Was there any public confidence in the federal government left?

What do you think?

Following is an excerpt taken from razaleigh.com.

"Certain features of the trial of Dato’ Sri Anwar Ibrahim pose a serious challenge to public confidence in the government. Public confidence is essential to the basic functioning of government."

Read the entire article here at Public confidence and the trial of Anwar Ibrahim

Shameful Government Fighting for Survival

This Chinese chap (Wong Chin Huat) made good sense in his analysis. He was the person initiated the 1BlackMalaysia campaign with his gang right after the government announced failed 1Malaysia campaign to court the middle ground Malay voters and non-Malay voters.

We should welcome and support his effort, regardless of his ethnicity, in fighting corruption and fair treatment to all Malaysians.

One thing clear is that the incumbent government, in fighting for its survival, would not hesitate to go all out to bring down its challengers.

Look at the advanced countries like UK, US, and France, their governments changed hands over to different political parties from democratic election to democratic election and achieved better transparency in their administration.

Malaysia, has been governed by UMNO and its corrupt allies for more than 50 years. And after more than half a century, we remain unsure of how all races should live together in harmony, has a flip-flopping educational system, a Nazi-styled Home ministry and enforcement agencies, government controlled media mouth pieces, black-box operation on all government linked tenders, etc.

Following excerpt of commentary article taken from TheNutGraph.

"And Najib was trapped by the BN's past successes in toppling state governments, from Sarawak (1966), to Kelantan (1977), and Sabah (1994). He did not expect that citizens would not take a federal coup lying down. Instead, they tore his "1Malaysia" public relations campaign to pieces in a show of civil disobedience."

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Wong Chin Huat is a political scientist by training and a journalism lecturer by trade. He strongly believes that Parliament and legislatures should be confined to homo sapiens and no amphibian should be allowed entry.

Read the full article here Game over for Pakatan Rakyat?

Malaysia - on trial

Malaysia is putting itself to shame, internationally.

Every human being with a working brain knows that this is a plot.

"...everyone in Malaysia, and everyone in the international legal community, knows that Anwar is innocent of these charges. This week the Wall Street Journal published a first-hand account of how the Malaysian Special Branch police fabricated the charges that led to Anwar’s first trial in 1998."

Once again, UMNO is proven to the world how corrupt it is.

Following article is taken from MalaysiaToday in its entirety.

And in reference, you may read this The Price I Paid for Malaysian

'Justice' from MUNAWAR A. ANEES referred by Michael Danby in this article.

Speech by Michael Danby, Federal Member for Melbourne Ports and Chair of the Australian Parliamentary sub-committee on Foreign Affairs

This trial, like the first trial of Anwar Ibrahim, is a disgrace to Malaysia a country that aspires to democratic norms, where parties change power peacefully and political opponents are not persecuted by organs of the state. Perverting the legal system for political ends by charging Anwar with sexual offences is an affront to human rights.

Michael Danby

Tonight, I want to speak out on behalf of fellow democrats around Asia, who are flabbergasted at events unfolding in Kuala Lumpur. I refer to the trial which began today of the Malaysian Opposition Leader, Dato Seri Anwar Ibrahim. For the second time, the Malaysian leader of the Opposition, Anwar Ibrahim is on trial for what they call in ancient grating English, ‘Sodomy’. For the second time, the Malaysian legal system is being manipulated by supporters of the incumbent government to drive Malaysia’s best known leader Anwar Ibrahim out of national politics. For the second time, documents are being forged, witnesses are being coerced, evidence is being fabricated.

This trial, like the first trial of Anwar Ibrahim, is a disgrace to Malaysia a country that aspires to democratic norms, where parties change power peacefully and political opponents are not persecuted by organs of the state. Perverting the legal system for political ends by charging Anwar with sexual offences is an affront to human rights. In the first place, the offences with which Anwar has been charged that should not be on the statute book. Australia abolished its laws punishing consenting adult homosexual acts decades ago, as did most advanced countries. It’s long past time that Malaysia also repealed these laws, which it inherited from British colonial times. If these laws did not exist, they could not be used for political purposes as we are currently seeing.

In the second place, everyone in Malaysia, and everyone in the international legal community, knows that Anwar is innocent of these charges. This week the Wall Street Journal published a first-hand account of how the Malaysian Special Branch police fabricated the charges that led to Anwar’s first trial in 1998. Munawar Anees recalled how he had been starved and beaten into signing a false confession which implicated Anwar. Now it’s happening again. These are the lengths to which the corrupt elements within the Malaysian ruling party are willing to go to frame Anwar and remove his threat to their power.

Malaysia is a long-time friend and ally of Australia. Over the past 40 years Malaysia has become an increasingly prosperous and successful multi-cultural society. We continue our friendly and mutually beneficial relationship with Malaysia, which is a deep economic, strategic and cultural relationship.

But Malaysia is also a country of 28 million people who have lived ever since independence more than 50 years ago under the rule of the same party, the United Malay National Organisation or UMNO. UMNO has stayed in power by playing on the Malay fears of the Chinese and Indian minorities. So long as Malaysian politics were polarised even subtlety along racial lines, so long as the Malays voted loyally for UMNO, then the self-perpetuating UMNO oligarchy, who have grown rich through long years of power and through their cozy links to business, would be safe.

That’s why Anwar Ibrahim is such a threat. For the first time Malaysia has a charismatic Malay opposition politician able to appeal to Malay voters and pose a real threat to UMNO’s hold on power. At the 2008 elections Anwar’s People’s Justice Party and its allies won 60 seats away from UMNO and its allies, creating a viable two-party system for the first time. As a result, Abdullah Badawi was deposed as Prime Minister and replaced by Najib Razak, but the threat from Anwar’s coalition continues to grow. So even though the first attempt to frame Anwar on these spurious charged had failed, the corrupt forces within UMNO have decided to try again.

I recently had the privilege of meeting Anwar Ibrahim when he was in Melbourne for the Parliament of the World’s Religions in December. He is an intelligent and articulate and passionate democrat. He is committed to a thorough reform of Malaysian government, to rid it of the cronyism, corruption and authoritarian tendencies that have gained ground since Mahathir Mohammed became Prime Minister in 1981. He is a great, although not uncritical, friend and admirer of Australia. If he were to become Malaysia’s Prime Minister our relationship with Malaysia would become even stronger.

I am pleased that in the last few hours the judge has suspended the case against Anwar for a day. I hope Prime Minister Najib and his ministers are not involved. The best way for them to prove that they are not is to intervene and have these charges withdrawn, and those responsible for fabricating them punished. Malaysia is a great country, and an emerging power in our region. It can do without the embarrassment that these disgraceful proceedings are undermining its newly won democratic credibility.

One Malaysia...for dummies

Failed! Failed! Failed! ... miserably!

It's destined for failure even before the campaign was released nationwide.

What a joke. If the idea cannot stick within the ministry (of PM some more), how could it be proliferated and practiced by all the government agency.

Clearly, that is how they talked among themselves and there is no concrete intention to treat all Malaysians equal. It's a political ploy!

Malaysian Indians and Chinese are "pendatang" for sure, so are the Malays. Check the history.

Get real, racists are always racists. They would not change their minds.

Solution? Change the regime.

Following excerpt taken from TheMalaysianInsider news article PM’s aide to quit over ‘racist’ remarks

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 2 — Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s aide Datuk Nasir Safar will tender his resignation after allegedly saying “Indians came to Malaysia as beggars and Chinese especially the women came to sell their bodies” at a 1 Malaysia seminar in Malacca, comments that undermined the Prime Minister's recent charm offensive.

Read more here at PM’s aide to quit over ‘racist’ remarks

Malaysian Economy Heading South

While we keep reading how rosie is the economy and its recovery progress on mainstream media, men with brains and intelligence understand the concerted effort of government to paint the picture to salvage public's confidence. Accuracy on much of the data published is not guaranteed from touch-up and massaging.

Without a doubt, we witnessed significant amount of foreign investments been withdrew starting year 2008. Sadly, the same is happening to Malaysians (including those from business and political arena) where many have been liquidating and moving the cash flow overseas. Many of the tycoons investing overseas in the name of diversifying and expansion, but the real plan is just that.

Malaysian economy is not recovering any sooner. Information and data presented in media showed "improvement" but no concrete evidence of hard cash flowing into the market.

Worst of all, recent events clearly demonstrate how incompetent the government in handling the cases revolving the peasants' daily lives.

Following excerpt taken from news article What’s at stake in trial of Malaysia’s Anwar?

Scared by the global financial crisis and uncertain politics after the 2008 election, foreign investors withdrew US$35 billion (RM119 billon) between Q2 2008 and Q2 2009.

Foreign ownership of Malaysia’s stock market stood at 20.8 per cent at the end of 2009, according to data from Bursa Malaysia, less than the 21 per cent in March before Najib took over the failing leadership of the National Front coalition.

Read more here What’s at stake in trial of Malaysia’s Anwar?

Matha - Cause of Democrat Loss in MA Senate Race

Oh! Poor Matha Coakley!

Are you surprised of the behavior of you comrades? You should have known the consequences when accepting the nomination to run in the Massachusetts Senate Race. Or may be were thinking that this must be a "sure win" since you could easily inherit the legacy and popularity from the former senator Ted Kennedy?

Don't you know many of the politicians (be they Democrats or Republicans) behave this way when situation not going according to plan?

When the environment is sweet and victorious, there will be teamwork and everyone would like to claim credits. And you have many friends.

If end result is a defeat, no one would like to "take responsibilities" and would blame it on others. And many will try distance themselves from you... Now you know who are your friends.

Human nature ...?!

Following excerpt taken from news article in CNN.

Boston, Massachusetts (CNN) -- Even before the polls closed on Tuesday night, Democrats were distancing themselves from their candidate, Martha Coakley, and blaming her stunning loss in the U.S. Senate race in Massachusetts on what they described as a lackluster campaign.

Read more of the article directly from Democrats point fingers after stunning loss

GOP wins MA Senate Seat

In the U.S., voters successfully "thrown out" the long-time Democratic camper on the seat and opt for Republican this round.

It just may not be that the Democrat did anything unpleasant during Kennedy's nearly 50-year term, but a change would certainly bring fresh air to the legislature climate and prevent the chance for corruption to breed when one single party hogs the government for a long time.

Wise choice! The voters had exercised their constitutional rights well.

Congratulations to the Massachusetts residents!

Here's an excerpt taken from the news article from CNN:

Boston, Massachusetts (CNN) -- Republican Scott Brown won a major upset victory in Tuesday's special election for the U.S. Senate seat formerly held by liberal Democrat Ted Kennedy.

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Until recently, Brown was underfunded and unknown statewide. In addition, no Republican has won a U.S. Senate race in Massachusetts since 1972, and Democrats control the governorship, both houses of the state legislature, and the state's entire congressional delegation.

Read more from the direct source:

Republican claims victory in race for Kennedy's seat