Di kala waktu ini memang sedang sibuk. Banyak perkara yang haruskan difikirkan. Arah tuju kehidupan ini dan juga tekanan kewangan yang amat memilukan.
Kekadang ingin saja putus asa tetapi seolah-olah ada kuasa yang tidak mengizinkan..
Monday, February 1, 2010
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Soseh-Soseh
8 July
1.Isu Kampung Buah Pala
KUALA LUMPUR 6 Julai – Kerajaan negeri Pulau Pinang perlu menyelesaikan sendiri masalah pengambilalihan tanah di Kampung Buah Pala tanpa perlu campur tangan orang lain.
Perdana Menteri, Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak berkata, hal ehwal tanah tertakluk di bawah bidang kuasa kerajaan negeri dan Kerajaan Pusat tidak boleh mencampuri urusan itu.
“Mereka perlu menyelesaikan masalah itu sendiri tanpa campur tangan orang lain dan sekarang isu tersebut dilihat sukar untuk diselesaikan,” katanya.
Satu tindakan yang bijaksana dari Perdana Menteri. Ini adalah masalah kerajaan negeri yang ketika ini dipimpin oleh Pakatan Rakyat. Jika Kerajaan pusat dikehendaki menyelesaikan kesemua isu berkait dengan masalah kerajaan negeri, ini akan membebankan dan memakan kos yang tinggi buat kerajaan pusat.
Satu lagi, nampak gayanya kerajaan negeri pimpinan Pakatan Rakyat dilihat tidak berkemampuan untuk menyelesaikan kemelut ini. Mereka hanya tahu 'bercakap' dan hanya 'bercakap' sahaja.
2.Gaji Minimum 4 Sektor Ditetapkan
BANGI 6 Julai – Kerajaan telah membuat ketetapan mengenai gaji minimum bagi mereka yang berkhidmat dalam sektor hospitaliti, tekstil, elektronik dan keselamatan yang akan diumumkan tidak lama lagi, kata Menteri Sumber Manusia, Datuk Dr. S. Subramaniam hari ini.
Sempena pelaksanaan pelarasan gaji sembilan peratus sebelum ini, kira-kira 30,000 penoreh getah, pekerja ladang dan pekerja am di seluruh negara dilaporkan telah menikmati gaji minimum antara RM500 dengan RM600 sebulan berbanding RM450 sebelumnya.
Satu langkah yang bijak dari kerajaan pusat. Nasib pekerja kian terbela. Lebih-lebih lagi pekerja rakyat tempatan. Gaji yang diberikan oleh majikan kepada pekerja-pekerja rakyat tempatan tidak memadai. Dengan langkah terbaru oleh kerajaan pusat ini, nasib pekerja tempatan kian terbela. Tetapi perlu dilaksanakan dengan teliti supaya pekerja asing tidak mengambil kesempatan atas dasar baru kerajaan ini.
3. Kerajaan perpaduan telah 'berkubur' - Nik Aziz
KUALA KRAI 6 Julai - Pas tidak akan menyebut lagi mengenai cadangan kerajaan perpaduan kerana ia disifatkan Mursyidul Amnya, Datuk Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat sebagai telah berkubur.
Beliau berkata, ruang untuk Pas dan UMNO berbincang mengenai isu tersebut sudah tertutup kerana Pas telah mencapai perpaduan melalui pakatan pembangkang.
"Isu (kerajaan) perpaduan kami dah tanam, dah berkubur. Pakatan adalah lebih melambangkan perpaduan, lebih daripada maksud perpaduan iaitu ia terdiri daripada berbilang kaum.
"Melayu buat apa? Tak usahlah timbul isu perpaduan itu lagi kerana kami dah baca talkin, jadi apa masalahnya,'' katanya.
Bak kata mantan perdana meteri Malaysia, Tun Dr. Mahathir, MELAYU MUDAH LUPA!
Baca Talkin? Astagfirullahalhazim.....
1.Isu Kampung Buah Pala
KUALA LUMPUR 6 Julai – Kerajaan negeri Pulau Pinang perlu menyelesaikan sendiri masalah pengambilalihan tanah di Kampung Buah Pala tanpa perlu campur tangan orang lain.
Perdana Menteri, Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak berkata, hal ehwal tanah tertakluk di bawah bidang kuasa kerajaan negeri dan Kerajaan Pusat tidak boleh mencampuri urusan itu.
“Mereka perlu menyelesaikan masalah itu sendiri tanpa campur tangan orang lain dan sekarang isu tersebut dilihat sukar untuk diselesaikan,” katanya.
Satu tindakan yang bijaksana dari Perdana Menteri. Ini adalah masalah kerajaan negeri yang ketika ini dipimpin oleh Pakatan Rakyat. Jika Kerajaan pusat dikehendaki menyelesaikan kesemua isu berkait dengan masalah kerajaan negeri, ini akan membebankan dan memakan kos yang tinggi buat kerajaan pusat.
Satu lagi, nampak gayanya kerajaan negeri pimpinan Pakatan Rakyat dilihat tidak berkemampuan untuk menyelesaikan kemelut ini. Mereka hanya tahu 'bercakap' dan hanya 'bercakap' sahaja.
2.Gaji Minimum 4 Sektor Ditetapkan
BANGI 6 Julai – Kerajaan telah membuat ketetapan mengenai gaji minimum bagi mereka yang berkhidmat dalam sektor hospitaliti, tekstil, elektronik dan keselamatan yang akan diumumkan tidak lama lagi, kata Menteri Sumber Manusia, Datuk Dr. S. Subramaniam hari ini.
Sempena pelaksanaan pelarasan gaji sembilan peratus sebelum ini, kira-kira 30,000 penoreh getah, pekerja ladang dan pekerja am di seluruh negara dilaporkan telah menikmati gaji minimum antara RM500 dengan RM600 sebulan berbanding RM450 sebelumnya.
Satu langkah yang bijak dari kerajaan pusat. Nasib pekerja kian terbela. Lebih-lebih lagi pekerja rakyat tempatan. Gaji yang diberikan oleh majikan kepada pekerja-pekerja rakyat tempatan tidak memadai. Dengan langkah terbaru oleh kerajaan pusat ini, nasib pekerja tempatan kian terbela. Tetapi perlu dilaksanakan dengan teliti supaya pekerja asing tidak mengambil kesempatan atas dasar baru kerajaan ini.
3. Kerajaan perpaduan telah 'berkubur' - Nik Aziz
KUALA KRAI 6 Julai - Pas tidak akan menyebut lagi mengenai cadangan kerajaan perpaduan kerana ia disifatkan Mursyidul Amnya, Datuk Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat sebagai telah berkubur.
Beliau berkata, ruang untuk Pas dan UMNO berbincang mengenai isu tersebut sudah tertutup kerana Pas telah mencapai perpaduan melalui pakatan pembangkang.
"Isu (kerajaan) perpaduan kami dah tanam, dah berkubur. Pakatan adalah lebih melambangkan perpaduan, lebih daripada maksud perpaduan iaitu ia terdiri daripada berbilang kaum.
"Melayu buat apa? Tak usahlah timbul isu perpaduan itu lagi kerana kami dah baca talkin, jadi apa masalahnya,'' katanya.
Bak kata mantan perdana meteri Malaysia, Tun Dr. Mahathir, MELAYU MUDAH LUPA!
Baca Talkin? Astagfirullahalhazim.....
The 30% Bumiputera Equity Participation Policy
The policy instruments that are available to the Prime Minister who is also our Finance Minister are limited because of the nature of the problem that we have to confront.
When the government announced recently that the Foreign Investment Committee would be abolished, as its principal role of ensuring the 30% equity ownership by Bumiputeras of the Malaysian corporate cake has failed, it brought cheers from some quarters and deep anxiety and worries from bumiputeras and other stakeholders who were the primary beneficiaries of the “discarded” policy. But the first tier bumiputera elites have no complaints. Why is that?
I appreciate that there is a desire to effect change and a serious attempt has been made towards that end, but the bullet fired has been wasted, because I take the view that the so-called policy change has not resulted in any fundamental shift in addressing the underlying social and economic issues.
Common sense tells us that this instrument of the NEP is an inaccurate measure of the share of the national corporate wealth and has in fact caused unnecessary friction and misunderstanding between the bumiputera and non-bumiputera communities in Malaysia. It is one of the root causes of the continuing racial tensions between the various communities in Malaysia.The policy sounds good, looks good but its effects were far from being good for Malaysia, specifically the bumiputera community.
A new and more comprehensive policy should be formulated. The new policy should address the growing disparities and distrust between the two communities in Malaysia (Bumiputeras and non-bumiputeras) without sidelining the Bumiputeras rights to a bigger pie of the economic cake. It is a formidable challange.
When the government announced recently that the Foreign Investment Committee would be abolished, as its principal role of ensuring the 30% equity ownership by Bumiputeras of the Malaysian corporate cake has failed, it brought cheers from some quarters and deep anxiety and worries from bumiputeras and other stakeholders who were the primary beneficiaries of the “discarded” policy. But the first tier bumiputera elites have no complaints. Why is that?
I appreciate that there is a desire to effect change and a serious attempt has been made towards that end, but the bullet fired has been wasted, because I take the view that the so-called policy change has not resulted in any fundamental shift in addressing the underlying social and economic issues.
Common sense tells us that this instrument of the NEP is an inaccurate measure of the share of the national corporate wealth and has in fact caused unnecessary friction and misunderstanding between the bumiputera and non-bumiputera communities in Malaysia. It is one of the root causes of the continuing racial tensions between the various communities in Malaysia.The policy sounds good, looks good but its effects were far from being good for Malaysia, specifically the bumiputera community.
A new and more comprehensive policy should be formulated. The new policy should address the growing disparities and distrust between the two communities in Malaysia (Bumiputeras and non-bumiputeras) without sidelining the Bumiputeras rights to a bigger pie of the economic cake. It is a formidable challange.
The White Racist Israeli Genocide Against the Palestinians
The White Racist Israeli Genocide Against the Palestinians - By Prof. Francis Boyle
In direct reaction to Israel provoking the Al Aqsa Intifada, on October 19, 2000, the then United Nations Human Rights Commission (now Council) condemned Israel for inflicting "war crimes" and "crimes against humanity" upon the Palestinian people, some of whom are Christians, but most of whom are Muslims.16 This Special Session of the U.N. Commission on Human Rights adopted the Resolution set forth in U.N. Document E/CN.4/S-5/L.2/Rev. 1, "Condemning the provocative visit to Al-Haram Al-Shariff on 28 September 2000 by Ariel Sharon, the Likud party leader, which triggered the tragic events that followed in occupied East Jerusalem and the other occupied Palestinian territories, resulting in a high number of deaths and injuries among Palestinian civilians." The U.N. Human Rights Commission said it was "gravely concerned" about several different types of atrocities inflicted by Israel upon the Palestinian people, which it denominated "war crimes, flagrant violations of international humanitarian law and crimes against humanity."
In operative paragraph 1 of its 19 October 2000 Resolution, the U.N. Human Rights Commission then: "Strongly condemns the disproportionate and indiscriminate use of force in violation of international humanitarian law by the Israeli occupying Power against innocent and unarmed Palestinian civilians…including many children, in the occupied territories, which constitutes a war crime and a crime against humanity;…" And in paragraph 5 of its 19 October 2000 Resolution, the U.N. Human Rights Commission: "Also affirms that the deliberate and systematic killing of civilians and children by the Israeli occupying authorities constitutes a flagrant and grave violation of the right to life and also constitutes a crime against humanity;…" Article 68 of the United Nations Charter had expressly required the U.N.’s Economic and Social Council to "set up" this U.N. Commission (now Council) "for the promotion of human rights." This is its U.N.-Charter-mandated job.
The reader has a general idea of what a war crime is, so I am not going to elaborate upon that term here. But there are different degrees of heinousness for war crimes. The more serious war crimes are denominated "grave breaches" of the Fourth Geneva Convention. Since the outbreak of the first Intifada in 1987, the world has seen those heinous war crimes routinely inflicted by Israel against the Palestinian people living in occupied Palestine: e.g., willful killing of Palestinian civilians by the Israeli army and by Israel’s illegal paramilitary settlers. These Israeli "grave breaches" of the Fourth Geneva Convention mandate universal prosecution for the perpetrators and their commanders, whether military or civilian, including and especially Israel’s political leaders.
Let us address Israel’s "crimes against humanity" against the Palestinian people—as determined by the U.N. Human Rights Commission itself, set up pursuant to the requirements of the United Nations Charter. What are "crimes against humanity"? This concept goes all the way back to the Nuremberg Charter of 1945 for the trial of the major Nazi war criminals in Europe. In the Nuremberg Charter of 1945, drafted by the United States Government, there was created and inserted a new type of international crime specifically intended to deal with the Nazi persecution of the Jewish people:
Crimes against humanity: namely, murder, extermination, enslavement, deportation, and other inhumane acts committed against any civilian population, before or during the war, or persecutions on political, racial or religious grounds in execution of or in connection with any crime within the jurisdiction of the Tribunal, whether or not in violation of the domestic law of the country where perpetrated.
The paradigmatic example of "crimes against humanity" is what Hitler and the Nazis did to the Jewish people. This is where the concept of "crimes against humanity" originally came from. And this is what the U.N. Human Rights Commission determined that Israel is currently doing to the Palestinian people: crimes against humanity. Expressed in legal terms, this is just like what Hitler and the Nazis did to the Jews. That is the significance of the formal determination by the U.N. Human Rights Commission that Israel has inflicted "crimes against humanity" upon the Palestinian people. The Commission chose this well-known and long-standing legal term of art quite carefully and deliberately based upon the evidence it had compiled.
Furthermore, the Nuremberg "crimes against humanity" are the historical and legal precursor to the international crime of genocide as defined by the 1948 Genocide Convention. The theory here was that what Hitler and the Nazis did to the Jewish people was so horrific that it required a special international treaty that would codify and universalize the Nuremberg concept of "crimes against humanity." And that treaty ultimately became the 1948 Genocide Convention.
Article II of the Genocide Convention defines the international crime of genocide in relevant part as follows:
In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group as such:
(a) Killing members of the group;
(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
As documented by Israeli historian Ilan Pappe in his seminal book The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (2006), Israel’s genocidal policy against the Palestinians has been unremitting, extending from before the very foundation of the State of Israel in 1948, and is ongoing and even intensifying against the 1.5 million Palestinians living in Gaza as this book goes to press. As Pappe’s analysis established, Zionism’s "final solution" to Israel’s much touted "demographic threat" allegedly posed by the very existence of the Palestinians has always been genocide, whether slow-motion or in blood-thirsty spurts of violence. Indeed, the very essence of Zionism requires ethnic cleansing and acts of genocide against the Palestinians.17 In regard to the latest 2008-2009 Israeli slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza, U.N. General Assembly President Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann, the former Foreign Minister of Nicaragua during the Reagan administration’s criminal aggression against that country, condemned it as "genocide."
Certainly, Israel and its predecessors-in-law—the Zionist agencies, forces, and terrorist gangs—have committed genocide against the Palestinian people that actually started on or about 1948 and has continued apace until today in violation of Genocide Convention Articles II(a), (b), and (c). For at least the past six decades, the Israeli government and its predecessors-in-law—the Zionist agencies, forces, and terrorist gangs—have ruthlessly implemented a systematic and comprehensive military, political, and economic campaign with the intent to destroy in substantial part the national, ethnical, racial, and different religious (Jews versus Muslims and Christians) group constituting the Palestinian people. This Zionist/Israeli campaign has consisted of killing members of the Palestinian people in violation of Genocide Convention Article II(a). This Zionist/Israeli campaign has also caused serious bodily and mental harm to the Palestinian people in violation of Genocide Convention Article II(b). This Zionist/Israeli campaign has also deliberately inflicted on the Palestinian people conditions of life calculated to bring about their physical destruction in substantial part in violation of Article II(c) of the Genocide Convention.
Article I of the Genocide Convention requires all contracting parties such as the United States "to prevent and to punish" genocide. Yet to the contrary, historically the "Jewish" state’s criminal conduct against the Palestinians has been financed, armed, equipped, supplied and politically supported by the "Christian" United States. Although the United States is a founding sponsor of, and a contracting party to, both the Nuremberg Charter and the Genocide Convention, as well as the United Nations Charter, these legal facts have never made any difference to the United States when it comes to its blank-check support for Israel and their joint and severable criminal mistreatment of the Palestinians—truly the wretched of the earth!
The world has not yet heard even one word uttered by the United States and its NATO allies in favor of "humanitarian intervention" against Israel in order to protect the Palestinian people, let alone a "responsibility to protect" the Palestinians from Zionist/Israeli genocide. The United States, its NATO allies, and the Great Powers on the U.N. Security Council would not even dispatch a U.N. Charter Chapter 6 monitoring force to help protect the Palestinians, let alone even contemplate any type of U.N. Charter Chapter 7 enforcement actions against Israel— which are actually valid international legal options for humanitarian intervention! The doctrine of "humanitarian intervention" and its current "responsibility to protect" transmogrification so readily espoused elsewhere when U.S. foreign policy goals are allegedly at stake has been clearly proved to be a joke and a fraud when it comes to stopping the ongoing and accelerating Israeli campaign of genocide against the Palestinian people.
Rather than rein in the Israelis—which would be possible just by turning off the funding and weapons pipeline—the United States government, the U.S. Congress, and U.S. taxpayers instead support the "Jewish" state to the tune of about 4 billion dollars per year, without whose munificence this instance of genocide—and indeed conceivably the State of Israel itself—would not be possible. Without the United States, Israel is nothing more than a "failed state." In today’s world genocide is permissible so long as it is done at the behest of the United States and/or its de jure or de facto allies such as Israel. I anticipate no fundamental change in America’s support for the Israeli ongoing campaign of genocide against the Palestinians during the tenure of the Obama/Clinton administration.
In direct reaction to Israel provoking the Al Aqsa Intifada, on October 19, 2000, the then United Nations Human Rights Commission (now Council) condemned Israel for inflicting "war crimes" and "crimes against humanity" upon the Palestinian people, some of whom are Christians, but most of whom are Muslims.16 This Special Session of the U.N. Commission on Human Rights adopted the Resolution set forth in U.N. Document E/CN.4/S-5/L.2/Rev. 1, "Condemning the provocative visit to Al-Haram Al-Shariff on 28 September 2000 by Ariel Sharon, the Likud party leader, which triggered the tragic events that followed in occupied East Jerusalem and the other occupied Palestinian territories, resulting in a high number of deaths and injuries among Palestinian civilians." The U.N. Human Rights Commission said it was "gravely concerned" about several different types of atrocities inflicted by Israel upon the Palestinian people, which it denominated "war crimes, flagrant violations of international humanitarian law and crimes against humanity."
In operative paragraph 1 of its 19 October 2000 Resolution, the U.N. Human Rights Commission then: "Strongly condemns the disproportionate and indiscriminate use of force in violation of international humanitarian law by the Israeli occupying Power against innocent and unarmed Palestinian civilians…including many children, in the occupied territories, which constitutes a war crime and a crime against humanity;…" And in paragraph 5 of its 19 October 2000 Resolution, the U.N. Human Rights Commission: "Also affirms that the deliberate and systematic killing of civilians and children by the Israeli occupying authorities constitutes a flagrant and grave violation of the right to life and also constitutes a crime against humanity;…" Article 68 of the United Nations Charter had expressly required the U.N.’s Economic and Social Council to "set up" this U.N. Commission (now Council) "for the promotion of human rights." This is its U.N.-Charter-mandated job.
The reader has a general idea of what a war crime is, so I am not going to elaborate upon that term here. But there are different degrees of heinousness for war crimes. The more serious war crimes are denominated "grave breaches" of the Fourth Geneva Convention. Since the outbreak of the first Intifada in 1987, the world has seen those heinous war crimes routinely inflicted by Israel against the Palestinian people living in occupied Palestine: e.g., willful killing of Palestinian civilians by the Israeli army and by Israel’s illegal paramilitary settlers. These Israeli "grave breaches" of the Fourth Geneva Convention mandate universal prosecution for the perpetrators and their commanders, whether military or civilian, including and especially Israel’s political leaders.
Let us address Israel’s "crimes against humanity" against the Palestinian people—as determined by the U.N. Human Rights Commission itself, set up pursuant to the requirements of the United Nations Charter. What are "crimes against humanity"? This concept goes all the way back to the Nuremberg Charter of 1945 for the trial of the major Nazi war criminals in Europe. In the Nuremberg Charter of 1945, drafted by the United States Government, there was created and inserted a new type of international crime specifically intended to deal with the Nazi persecution of the Jewish people:
Crimes against humanity: namely, murder, extermination, enslavement, deportation, and other inhumane acts committed against any civilian population, before or during the war, or persecutions on political, racial or religious grounds in execution of or in connection with any crime within the jurisdiction of the Tribunal, whether or not in violation of the domestic law of the country where perpetrated.
The paradigmatic example of "crimes against humanity" is what Hitler and the Nazis did to the Jewish people. This is where the concept of "crimes against humanity" originally came from. And this is what the U.N. Human Rights Commission determined that Israel is currently doing to the Palestinian people: crimes against humanity. Expressed in legal terms, this is just like what Hitler and the Nazis did to the Jews. That is the significance of the formal determination by the U.N. Human Rights Commission that Israel has inflicted "crimes against humanity" upon the Palestinian people. The Commission chose this well-known and long-standing legal term of art quite carefully and deliberately based upon the evidence it had compiled.
Furthermore, the Nuremberg "crimes against humanity" are the historical and legal precursor to the international crime of genocide as defined by the 1948 Genocide Convention. The theory here was that what Hitler and the Nazis did to the Jewish people was so horrific that it required a special international treaty that would codify and universalize the Nuremberg concept of "crimes against humanity." And that treaty ultimately became the 1948 Genocide Convention.
Article II of the Genocide Convention defines the international crime of genocide in relevant part as follows:
In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group as such:
(a) Killing members of the group;
(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
As documented by Israeli historian Ilan Pappe in his seminal book The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (2006), Israel’s genocidal policy against the Palestinians has been unremitting, extending from before the very foundation of the State of Israel in 1948, and is ongoing and even intensifying against the 1.5 million Palestinians living in Gaza as this book goes to press. As Pappe’s analysis established, Zionism’s "final solution" to Israel’s much touted "demographic threat" allegedly posed by the very existence of the Palestinians has always been genocide, whether slow-motion or in blood-thirsty spurts of violence. Indeed, the very essence of Zionism requires ethnic cleansing and acts of genocide against the Palestinians.17 In regard to the latest 2008-2009 Israeli slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza, U.N. General Assembly President Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann, the former Foreign Minister of Nicaragua during the Reagan administration’s criminal aggression against that country, condemned it as "genocide."
Certainly, Israel and its predecessors-in-law—the Zionist agencies, forces, and terrorist gangs—have committed genocide against the Palestinian people that actually started on or about 1948 and has continued apace until today in violation of Genocide Convention Articles II(a), (b), and (c). For at least the past six decades, the Israeli government and its predecessors-in-law—the Zionist agencies, forces, and terrorist gangs—have ruthlessly implemented a systematic and comprehensive military, political, and economic campaign with the intent to destroy in substantial part the national, ethnical, racial, and different religious (Jews versus Muslims and Christians) group constituting the Palestinian people. This Zionist/Israeli campaign has consisted of killing members of the Palestinian people in violation of Genocide Convention Article II(a). This Zionist/Israeli campaign has also caused serious bodily and mental harm to the Palestinian people in violation of Genocide Convention Article II(b). This Zionist/Israeli campaign has also deliberately inflicted on the Palestinian people conditions of life calculated to bring about their physical destruction in substantial part in violation of Article II(c) of the Genocide Convention.
Article I of the Genocide Convention requires all contracting parties such as the United States "to prevent and to punish" genocide. Yet to the contrary, historically the "Jewish" state’s criminal conduct against the Palestinians has been financed, armed, equipped, supplied and politically supported by the "Christian" United States. Although the United States is a founding sponsor of, and a contracting party to, both the Nuremberg Charter and the Genocide Convention, as well as the United Nations Charter, these legal facts have never made any difference to the United States when it comes to its blank-check support for Israel and their joint and severable criminal mistreatment of the Palestinians—truly the wretched of the earth!
The world has not yet heard even one word uttered by the United States and its NATO allies in favor of "humanitarian intervention" against Israel in order to protect the Palestinian people, let alone a "responsibility to protect" the Palestinians from Zionist/Israeli genocide. The United States, its NATO allies, and the Great Powers on the U.N. Security Council would not even dispatch a U.N. Charter Chapter 6 monitoring force to help protect the Palestinians, let alone even contemplate any type of U.N. Charter Chapter 7 enforcement actions against Israel— which are actually valid international legal options for humanitarian intervention! The doctrine of "humanitarian intervention" and its current "responsibility to protect" transmogrification so readily espoused elsewhere when U.S. foreign policy goals are allegedly at stake has been clearly proved to be a joke and a fraud when it comes to stopping the ongoing and accelerating Israeli campaign of genocide against the Palestinian people.
Rather than rein in the Israelis—which would be possible just by turning off the funding and weapons pipeline—the United States government, the U.S. Congress, and U.S. taxpayers instead support the "Jewish" state to the tune of about 4 billion dollars per year, without whose munificence this instance of genocide—and indeed conceivably the State of Israel itself—would not be possible. Without the United States, Israel is nothing more than a "failed state." In today’s world genocide is permissible so long as it is done at the behest of the United States and/or its de jure or de facto allies such as Israel. I anticipate no fundamental change in America’s support for the Israeli ongoing campaign of genocide against the Palestinians during the tenure of the Obama/Clinton administration.
Sunday, April 12, 2009
Politik Semasa
Setelah selesai perhimpunan agung UMNO baru-baru ini, kita menyaksikan Y.B Khairy melalui politik wang telah menang jawatan Ketua Pemuda UMNO mengalahkan Dato' Mukriz dan Dato' Seri Khir. Umum tahu bahawa kemenangan beliau adalah melalui rasuah wang dan proses intimidasi. Ura-ura mengatakan bahawa pada hari pengiraan undi, setelah selesai pengiraan, para wartawan yang hadir telah berbisik-bisik bahawa Dato' Mukriz telah menang. Ini menyebabkan Khairy meminta pengiraan semula dan untuk kedua kalinya Dato' Mukriz menang lagi. Sesuatu telah berlaku selepai itu dimana sekali lagi pengiraan dilakukan dan Khairy pula diistihar menang.
Ramai yang tidak berpuas hati. Pabila keputusan diumumkan, bukan sahaja jeritan 'KJ' dilaungkan oleh kuncu-kuncunya malah di 'BOO' dan di susuli dengan 'PERASUAH' oleh ahli-ahli yang lain. Ini boleh dilihat sekali lagi di masa hari penutupan apabila presiden UMNO yang baru Dato' Seri Najib menyebut nama Khairy, sekali lagi di 'BOO' berkali-kali. Kemenangan Khairy telah mencemarkan lagi imej UMNO yang sedang mencuba untuk memulihkan keyakinan rakyat.
Tetapi ramai yang bernafas lega pabila Perdana Menteri kita yang baru, Dato' Seri Najib Tun Razak mengumumkan barisan kabinetnya dimana nama Khairy tidak tersenarai. Khairy adalah umpama sisa toksik yang mengugat.
Saya sebenarnya gembira dimana Barisan Nasional telah kalah di pilihanraya Bukit Gantang dan Bukit Selambau. Ini adalah kerana jika BN menang, mungkin perangai lama akan menyusul dimana BN akan berada di takuk lama dan tidak ada perubahan terutama UMNO. Dengan kekalahan BN, pemimpin-pemimpin BN akan bangkit dan melakukan perubahan drastik dan menghapuskan amalan-amalan lama.
Dibawah Dato' Seri Abdullah, BN telah rosak teruk terutama UMNO. Sekarang ini, UMNO di bawah Dato' Seri Najib harus menghapuskan pengaruh 'TRINITY OF POWER' iaitu PakLah, anaknya dan KJ. Mereka ini telah menjahanamkan negara demi kemaruk kuasa dan harta. Moga Dato' Seri Najib berjaya meyakinkan kembali keyakinan rakyat pada UMNO dan BN.
Langkah pertama sudah bermula dan ia cukup menyakinkan.
Ramai yang tidak berpuas hati. Pabila keputusan diumumkan, bukan sahaja jeritan 'KJ' dilaungkan oleh kuncu-kuncunya malah di 'BOO' dan di susuli dengan 'PERASUAH' oleh ahli-ahli yang lain. Ini boleh dilihat sekali lagi di masa hari penutupan apabila presiden UMNO yang baru Dato' Seri Najib menyebut nama Khairy, sekali lagi di 'BOO' berkali-kali. Kemenangan Khairy telah mencemarkan lagi imej UMNO yang sedang mencuba untuk memulihkan keyakinan rakyat.
Tetapi ramai yang bernafas lega pabila Perdana Menteri kita yang baru, Dato' Seri Najib Tun Razak mengumumkan barisan kabinetnya dimana nama Khairy tidak tersenarai. Khairy adalah umpama sisa toksik yang mengugat.
Saya sebenarnya gembira dimana Barisan Nasional telah kalah di pilihanraya Bukit Gantang dan Bukit Selambau. Ini adalah kerana jika BN menang, mungkin perangai lama akan menyusul dimana BN akan berada di takuk lama dan tidak ada perubahan terutama UMNO. Dengan kekalahan BN, pemimpin-pemimpin BN akan bangkit dan melakukan perubahan drastik dan menghapuskan amalan-amalan lama.
Dibawah Dato' Seri Abdullah, BN telah rosak teruk terutama UMNO. Sekarang ini, UMNO di bawah Dato' Seri Najib harus menghapuskan pengaruh 'TRINITY OF POWER' iaitu PakLah, anaknya dan KJ. Mereka ini telah menjahanamkan negara demi kemaruk kuasa dan harta. Moga Dato' Seri Najib berjaya meyakinkan kembali keyakinan rakyat pada UMNO dan BN.
Langkah pertama sudah bermula dan ia cukup menyakinkan.
Assalamualaikum...
Sudah lama rasanya saya tidak menulis. Bukannya saya ditimpa kemalangan tetapi masalah peribadi yang melanda memerlukan saya memberi sepenuh perhatian untuk menyelesaikannya.
Kini hampir separuh telah selesai dan sudah ada kelapangan. Alhamdulillah..
Kini hampir separuh telah selesai dan sudah ada kelapangan. Alhamdulillah..
Thursday, September 18, 2008
Kata 'TIDAK' pada pencalonan Khairy Jamaludin!
Khairy Jamaludin telah memohon ahli-ahli Pemuda UMNO mencalonkan beliau bertanding jawatan Ketua Pergerakan Pemuda UMNO dalam pemilihan parti itu Disember ini. Khairy berkata, beliau sudah bersedia menerima pencalonan dengan agenda untuk memperkukuhkan Pemuda UMNO serta semangat setiakawan dengan Pemuda Barisan Nasional (BN).
Pada semua ketua-ketua cawangan dan bahagian, jangan mencalonkan Khairy sebagai Ketua Pemuda UMNO. Beliau adalah diantara sebab Barisan Nasional kelah teruk di pilihan raya yang lalu. Beliau juga telah menghancurkan banyak perkara dalam urusan negara.
Semua orang sedia maklum beliau adalah ketua budak 'tingkat empat'. Sikap rakus dan juga gila kuasa beliau menyamai sikap Dato' Seri Anwar!
Katakan tidak pada pencalonan beliau!
Pada semua ketua-ketua cawangan dan bahagian, jangan mencalonkan Khairy sebagai Ketua Pemuda UMNO. Beliau adalah diantara sebab Barisan Nasional kelah teruk di pilihan raya yang lalu. Beliau juga telah menghancurkan banyak perkara dalam urusan negara.
Semua orang sedia maklum beliau adalah ketua budak 'tingkat empat'. Sikap rakus dan juga gila kuasa beliau menyamai sikap Dato' Seri Anwar!
Katakan tidak pada pencalonan beliau!
Anwar Ibrahim: Gila Kuasa. 16 September: Bahan Lawak!
Dato' Seri Anwar Ibrahim sanggup menggunakan apa sahaja cara termasuk menghancurkan politik negara bagi memastikan kemaruk kuasanya untuk menjadi Perdana Menteri Malaysia menjadi kenyataan. Beliau boleh disifatkan sebagai ‘gila politik’ kerana mencadangkan perubahan kerajaan baru yang telah pun gagal pada 16 September.
Usaha membentuk kerajaan baru yang cuba dilakukan oleh Dato' Seri Anwar dengan cara lompat parti hanya menggugat kestabilan negara dan membawa kesusahan kepada rakyat. Soal pembentukan kerajaan telah pun selesai diputuskan melalui pilihan raya umum 8 Mac lalu.
Sikap Dato' Seri Anwar selepas rancangan 16 September gagal menjadi kenyataan telah membuatkan isu pembentukan kerajaan pakatan pembangkang menjadi bahan ketawa.
Daripada berterusan melaung-laungkan pembentukan kerajaan baru, lebih baik Dato' Seri Anwar selaku ketua pembangkang membuktikan keberkesanan pakatan pembangkang yang dipimpinnya di parlimen.
Hanya orang bodoh akan melayan kerenah kegilaan politik dan kerakusan kuasa pemimpin seperti Dato' Seri Anwar.
Usaha membentuk kerajaan baru yang cuba dilakukan oleh Dato' Seri Anwar dengan cara lompat parti hanya menggugat kestabilan negara dan membawa kesusahan kepada rakyat. Soal pembentukan kerajaan telah pun selesai diputuskan melalui pilihan raya umum 8 Mac lalu.
Sikap Dato' Seri Anwar selepas rancangan 16 September gagal menjadi kenyataan telah membuatkan isu pembentukan kerajaan pakatan pembangkang menjadi bahan ketawa.
Daripada berterusan melaung-laungkan pembentukan kerajaan baru, lebih baik Dato' Seri Anwar selaku ketua pembangkang membuktikan keberkesanan pakatan pembangkang yang dipimpinnya di parlimen.
Hanya orang bodoh akan melayan kerenah kegilaan politik dan kerakusan kuasa pemimpin seperti Dato' Seri Anwar.
Sunday, September 14, 2008
Pencalonan Ketua Pemuda UMNO
Selepas keputusan pilihan raya umum lalu, Pemuda UMNO yang sebelum ini diterajui oleh Hishammuddin selama 10 tahun, telah menunjukkan ia harus diberi nafas baru. Rentetan sejarah perjuangan Pemuda telah diwarnai dengan pelbagai peristiwa malah suatu ketika dulu suara Pemuda amat digeruni dan dihormati oleh kawan dan lawan.
Dalam kedudukan UMNO kini berikutan apa yang berlaku dalam pilihan raya umum lalu, pemilihan ketua Pemuda kali ini amat penting. Pemuda tidak memerlukan pemimpin yang hanya bijak bercakap atau dilihat berani memberi pandangan semata-mata. Sebaliknya Pemuda memerlukan ketua yang mampu memimpin, merancang dan bertindak bagi memastikan UMNO kembali mendapat tempat di hati rakyat terutamanya generasi muda yang bakal menjadi pengundi penentu dalam pilihan raya umum akan datang.
Dato' Mukhriz Mahathir telah mengumumkan secara rasmi bertanding jawatan Ketua Pemuda UMNO yang dikosongkan oleh Dato' Seri Hishammuddin Tun Hussein. Bekas Menteri Besar Selangor, Dato' Seri Dr. Mohamad Khir Toyo juga telah menyatakan hasrat untuk bertanding. Manakala Naib Ketua Pemuda, Khairy Jamaludin yang dijangka mengumumkan pendiriannya dalam tempoh dua tiga hari lagi.
Bakal ketua Pemuda UMNO nanti mestilah memiliki karisma yang mampu menarik generasi muda memberi sokongan kepada parti tersebut dan membuang imej parti itu yang dilihat milik golongan elit. Dalam soal ini, seseorang calon yang mempunyai sifat rendah diri, memiliki moral yang tinggi dan berwibawa.
Dato' Mukhriz Mahathir adalah calon paling layak untuk menerajui Pemuda UMNO. Berani bersuara menentang apa yang tidak benar. Seorang ahli perniagaan yang berjaya dan merupakan antara peneraju MERCY Malaysia. Dato' Seri Khir Toyo juga berkelayakan. Khairy Jamaludin adalah tidak layak sama sekali untuk menerajui Pemuda UMNO. Beliau masih mentah dan merupakan antara faktor utama mengapa Barisan Nasional kalah teruk dalam pilihanraya umum yang lalu.
Senario politik negara tidak memerlukan lagi pemimpin yang hanya pandai bercakap kerana rakyat sekarang sudah terlalu bijak dalam soal membuat penilaian mengenai politik. Sokong Dato' Mukhriz Mahathir sebagai Ketua Pemuda dan Dato' Khir Toyo sebagai Naib Ketua. TOLAK KHAIRY JAMALUDIN si PENGKHIANAT dan PEMBINASA!
Dalam kedudukan UMNO kini berikutan apa yang berlaku dalam pilihan raya umum lalu, pemilihan ketua Pemuda kali ini amat penting. Pemuda tidak memerlukan pemimpin yang hanya bijak bercakap atau dilihat berani memberi pandangan semata-mata. Sebaliknya Pemuda memerlukan ketua yang mampu memimpin, merancang dan bertindak bagi memastikan UMNO kembali mendapat tempat di hati rakyat terutamanya generasi muda yang bakal menjadi pengundi penentu dalam pilihan raya umum akan datang.
Dato' Mukhriz Mahathir telah mengumumkan secara rasmi bertanding jawatan Ketua Pemuda UMNO yang dikosongkan oleh Dato' Seri Hishammuddin Tun Hussein. Bekas Menteri Besar Selangor, Dato' Seri Dr. Mohamad Khir Toyo juga telah menyatakan hasrat untuk bertanding. Manakala Naib Ketua Pemuda, Khairy Jamaludin yang dijangka mengumumkan pendiriannya dalam tempoh dua tiga hari lagi.
Bakal ketua Pemuda UMNO nanti mestilah memiliki karisma yang mampu menarik generasi muda memberi sokongan kepada parti tersebut dan membuang imej parti itu yang dilihat milik golongan elit. Dalam soal ini, seseorang calon yang mempunyai sifat rendah diri, memiliki moral yang tinggi dan berwibawa.
Dato' Mukhriz Mahathir adalah calon paling layak untuk menerajui Pemuda UMNO. Berani bersuara menentang apa yang tidak benar. Seorang ahli perniagaan yang berjaya dan merupakan antara peneraju MERCY Malaysia. Dato' Seri Khir Toyo juga berkelayakan. Khairy Jamaludin adalah tidak layak sama sekali untuk menerajui Pemuda UMNO. Beliau masih mentah dan merupakan antara faktor utama mengapa Barisan Nasional kalah teruk dalam pilihanraya umum yang lalu.
Senario politik negara tidak memerlukan lagi pemimpin yang hanya pandai bercakap kerana rakyat sekarang sudah terlalu bijak dalam soal membuat penilaian mengenai politik. Sokong Dato' Mukhriz Mahathir sebagai Ketua Pemuda dan Dato' Khir Toyo sebagai Naib Ketua. TOLAK KHAIRY JAMALUDIN si PENGKHIANAT dan PEMBINASA!
Saturday, September 13, 2008
Dato' Zahid Ibrahim. The 'Attack Dog'.
Senator Dato' Zahid Ibrahim, Menteri di dalam Jabatan Perdana Menteri atau de facto Menteri Perundangan, menyelar Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yasin kerana mempersoalkan jangka masa peralihan kuasa diantara Dato' Seri Abdullah dan Dato' Seri Najib.
Beliau berkata bahawa Menteri Perdagangan Antarabangsa dan Industri, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin wajar meletakkan jawatan sebagai Menteri Kabinet jika beliau tidak berpuas hati dengan kepimpinan Perdana Menteri, Dato' Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi.
Tindakan Zahid Ibrahim tidak ubah seperti cara barat berpolitik iaitu beliau adalah hanya seperti jolokkan nama 'attack dog' untuk Perdana Menteri. Hampir setiap kali jika kepimpinan Dato' Seri Abdullah dipersoalkan, beliau adalah antara yang pertama menjadi 'hero' untuk mempertahankan Dato' Seri Abdullah.
Seperti apa yang berlaku pada bulan-bulan yang lepas, apabila bekas Perdana Menteri Tun Dr. Mahathir mengkritik kepimpinan Dato' Seri Abdullah, beliau dilihat sebagai seorang yang cuba untuk menjatuhkan malah cuba untuk memperkenakan Tun Dr. Mahathir. Beliau adalah dalang sebenar dibelakang penubuhan suruhanjaya diraja untuk kononnya menyiasat salah guna kuasa pada sistem perundangan yang dilakukan oleh kerajaan pimpinan Dr. Mahathir.
Tindakkan beliau ialah untuk mencari helah dan bukti yang kononnya Tun Dr. Mahathir telah menyalahguna kuasa didalam kes-kes berprofil tinggi. Beliau juga adalah dalang dalam kes pembayaran ex gratia kepada bekas hakim negara Tun Salleh Abbas. Malah beliau sendiri yang telah menyampaikan cek pembayaran kepada Tun Salleh dimana hingga kini, jumlah pembayaran tidak diketahui. Dilaporkan bahawa kemungkinan jumlahnya bernilai jutaan ringgit. Semua ini dilakukan supaya menekan Tun Dr. Mahathir untuk berhenti mengkritik Dato' Sri Abdullah.
Siapa Dato' Zahid Ibrahim? Beliau bukannya seorang Ahli Parlimen. Beliau dilantik sebagai Senator dan diberikan jawatan sebagai Menteri di jabatan Perdana Menteri. Adakah perlantikan beliau semata-mata sebagai 'attack dog' kepada Perdana Menteri? Semua fakta-fakta terkini dan tidakkan beliau mengatakan demikian.
Walaupun beliau mencuba untuk mengenakan Tun Dr. Mahathir, beliau tidak berjaya malah telah kelihatan tersangatlah bodoh apabila rancangannya terkena batang hidungnya sendiri. Pelbagai cara beliau telah mencuba malah bersekongkol bersama Majils Peguam untuk menjatuhkan Tun Dr. Mahathir.
Sekarang ini, dilihat Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin pula menjadi sasarannya. Beliau berkata, jika Muhyiddin enggan meletak jawatan, Dato' Seri Abdullah pula mempunyai kuasa untuk memecat beliau. 'Perkara ini cukup mudah, jika Muhyiddin tak puas hati dan tidak yakin dengan Abdullah, beliau harus meletakkan jawatan sebagai menteri,' katanya. Beliau juga menegaskan bahawa Dato' Seri Abdullah tidak wajar memiliki menteri seperti Muhyiddin yang cuba mempertikaikan kepimpinannya.
Ada lagi seorang 'Attack Dog' Dato' Seri Abdullah yang belum dilihat bersuara. Dia ialah Dato' Nazri Aziz.
Beliau berkata bahawa Menteri Perdagangan Antarabangsa dan Industri, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin wajar meletakkan jawatan sebagai Menteri Kabinet jika beliau tidak berpuas hati dengan kepimpinan Perdana Menteri, Dato' Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi.
Tindakan Zahid Ibrahim tidak ubah seperti cara barat berpolitik iaitu beliau adalah hanya seperti jolokkan nama 'attack dog' untuk Perdana Menteri. Hampir setiap kali jika kepimpinan Dato' Seri Abdullah dipersoalkan, beliau adalah antara yang pertama menjadi 'hero' untuk mempertahankan Dato' Seri Abdullah.
Seperti apa yang berlaku pada bulan-bulan yang lepas, apabila bekas Perdana Menteri Tun Dr. Mahathir mengkritik kepimpinan Dato' Seri Abdullah, beliau dilihat sebagai seorang yang cuba untuk menjatuhkan malah cuba untuk memperkenakan Tun Dr. Mahathir. Beliau adalah dalang sebenar dibelakang penubuhan suruhanjaya diraja untuk kononnya menyiasat salah guna kuasa pada sistem perundangan yang dilakukan oleh kerajaan pimpinan Dr. Mahathir.
Tindakkan beliau ialah untuk mencari helah dan bukti yang kononnya Tun Dr. Mahathir telah menyalahguna kuasa didalam kes-kes berprofil tinggi. Beliau juga adalah dalang dalam kes pembayaran ex gratia kepada bekas hakim negara Tun Salleh Abbas. Malah beliau sendiri yang telah menyampaikan cek pembayaran kepada Tun Salleh dimana hingga kini, jumlah pembayaran tidak diketahui. Dilaporkan bahawa kemungkinan jumlahnya bernilai jutaan ringgit. Semua ini dilakukan supaya menekan Tun Dr. Mahathir untuk berhenti mengkritik Dato' Sri Abdullah.
Siapa Dato' Zahid Ibrahim? Beliau bukannya seorang Ahli Parlimen. Beliau dilantik sebagai Senator dan diberikan jawatan sebagai Menteri di jabatan Perdana Menteri. Adakah perlantikan beliau semata-mata sebagai 'attack dog' kepada Perdana Menteri? Semua fakta-fakta terkini dan tidakkan beliau mengatakan demikian.
Walaupun beliau mencuba untuk mengenakan Tun Dr. Mahathir, beliau tidak berjaya malah telah kelihatan tersangatlah bodoh apabila rancangannya terkena batang hidungnya sendiri. Pelbagai cara beliau telah mencuba malah bersekongkol bersama Majils Peguam untuk menjatuhkan Tun Dr. Mahathir.
Sekarang ini, dilihat Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin pula menjadi sasarannya. Beliau berkata, jika Muhyiddin enggan meletak jawatan, Dato' Seri Abdullah pula mempunyai kuasa untuk memecat beliau. 'Perkara ini cukup mudah, jika Muhyiddin tak puas hati dan tidak yakin dengan Abdullah, beliau harus meletakkan jawatan sebagai menteri,' katanya. Beliau juga menegaskan bahawa Dato' Seri Abdullah tidak wajar memiliki menteri seperti Muhyiddin yang cuba mempertikaikan kepimpinannya.
Ada lagi seorang 'Attack Dog' Dato' Seri Abdullah yang belum dilihat bersuara. Dia ialah Dato' Nazri Aziz.
Ditahan bawah Akta Keselamatan Dalam Negeri (ISA)
Tiga orang ditahan di bawah Akta Keselamatan Dalam Negeri (ISA) dalam satu operasi polis ke atas beberapa individu yang terbabit mencetuskan isu perkauman dan persengketaan agama.
Mereka ditahan mengikut Seksyen 73 (1) akta berkenaan. Mengikut peruntukan itu, mereka boleh ditahan sehingga 60 hari tanpa perbicaraan sebelum Menteri Dalam Negeri membuat keputusan sama ada penahanan itu perlu dilanjutkan.
Mereka yang ditahan ialah;
Ahli Exco Kerajaan Negeri Selangor, Teresa Kok ditahan oleh kerana mengeluarkan arahan melarang azan dilaungkan menggunakan pembesar suara di masjid-masjid dan surau. Beliau juga didakwa turut cuba menghapuskan penggunaan tulisan jawi pada papan tanda nama jalan di ibu negara dan mencadangkannya digantikan dengan tulisan Cina serta Tamil.
Pengendali laman web Malaysia Today, Raja Petra Kamarudin pula ditahan kerana menghasut dan memfitnah. Raja Petra ditahan di bawah ISA selepas polis berpuas hati bahawa beliau menghina Islam dan Nabi Muhammad melalui laman web Malaysia Today.
Wartawan wanita Sin Chew Daily, Tan Hoon Cheng, ditahan kerana dipercayai ada kaitan dengan laporan wartawan itu dalam akhbar Sin Chew Daily yang memetik kenyataan kontroversi Ketua UMNO Bahagian Bukit Bendera, Datuk Ahmad Ismail baru-baru ini yang mendakwa orang Cina Malaysia adalah pendatang di negara ini. Laporan beliau itu menimbulkan kontroversi di seluruh negara yang akhirnya menyebabkan Ahmad digantung keahlian UMNO selama tiga tahun.
Penahanan di bawah ISA ini dibuat untuk membolehkan pihak polis menjalankan siasatan lanjut dan bagi membendung sebarang tindakan yang boleh memecahbelahkan perpaduan kaum dan persengketaan agama. Difahamkan, beberapa orang lagi akan ditahan di bawah akta yang sama dalam masa terdekat.
Akhirnya, kerajaan telah bertindak. Sepatutnya tindakkan ini sudah lama patut diambil. Cuma saya kurang bersetuju dengan penahanan wartawan Sin Chew Daily. Jika hendak menahan beliau kerana melaporkan didalam akhbarnya, Dato Ahmad Ismail juga patut ditahan bawah ISA. Tindakkan ini dilihat sebagai dasar berat sebelah dan tidak adil.
Mereka ditahan mengikut Seksyen 73 (1) akta berkenaan. Mengikut peruntukan itu, mereka boleh ditahan sehingga 60 hari tanpa perbicaraan sebelum Menteri Dalam Negeri membuat keputusan sama ada penahanan itu perlu dilanjutkan.
Mereka yang ditahan ialah;
Ahli Exco Kerajaan Negeri Selangor, Teresa Kok ditahan oleh kerana mengeluarkan arahan melarang azan dilaungkan menggunakan pembesar suara di masjid-masjid dan surau. Beliau juga didakwa turut cuba menghapuskan penggunaan tulisan jawi pada papan tanda nama jalan di ibu negara dan mencadangkannya digantikan dengan tulisan Cina serta Tamil.
Pengendali laman web Malaysia Today, Raja Petra Kamarudin pula ditahan kerana menghasut dan memfitnah. Raja Petra ditahan di bawah ISA selepas polis berpuas hati bahawa beliau menghina Islam dan Nabi Muhammad melalui laman web Malaysia Today.
Wartawan wanita Sin Chew Daily, Tan Hoon Cheng, ditahan kerana dipercayai ada kaitan dengan laporan wartawan itu dalam akhbar Sin Chew Daily yang memetik kenyataan kontroversi Ketua UMNO Bahagian Bukit Bendera, Datuk Ahmad Ismail baru-baru ini yang mendakwa orang Cina Malaysia adalah pendatang di negara ini. Laporan beliau itu menimbulkan kontroversi di seluruh negara yang akhirnya menyebabkan Ahmad digantung keahlian UMNO selama tiga tahun.
Penahanan di bawah ISA ini dibuat untuk membolehkan pihak polis menjalankan siasatan lanjut dan bagi membendung sebarang tindakan yang boleh memecahbelahkan perpaduan kaum dan persengketaan agama. Difahamkan, beberapa orang lagi akan ditahan di bawah akta yang sama dalam masa terdekat.
Akhirnya, kerajaan telah bertindak. Sepatutnya tindakkan ini sudah lama patut diambil. Cuma saya kurang bersetuju dengan penahanan wartawan Sin Chew Daily. Jika hendak menahan beliau kerana melaporkan didalam akhbarnya, Dato Ahmad Ismail juga patut ditahan bawah ISA. Tindakkan ini dilihat sebagai dasar berat sebelah dan tidak adil.
Israelis wanted 'Bunker-buster' bombs to attack Iran. U.S denied them.
About a month ago, it is reported that the U.S administration had turned down an Israeli request for certain security items that could upgrade Israel's capability to attack Iran. The U.S denied the Israelis request for additional security aid.
The security aid package which the U.S had refused to give Israel for the past few months out of concern that Israel would use it to attack nuclear facilities in Iran included a large number of 'bunker-buster' bombs, permission to use an air corridor to Iran, an advanced technological system and refueling planes.
Bunker-buster GBU-28 bombs, which weigh 2.2 tons each, can penetrate six meters of reinforced concrete, was the core of the Israelis request. In 2005, the U.S said it was supplying these bombs to Israel. In August 2006, it is reported that the U.S had expedited the dispatch of additional bombs at the height of the Second Lebanon War. Israel appears to have asked for a relatively large number of additional bunker-busters, obviously to attack Iran and was turned down.
Air-space authorization, refueling planes, advanced technological systems, all was denied by the U.S. The U.S appears to be trying to stop Israel from attacking Iran. A Iranian war will further damage the U.S credibility and will bring the entire middle-east into armed conflict. All U.S efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan will be destroyed.
The security aid package which the U.S had refused to give Israel for the past few months out of concern that Israel would use it to attack nuclear facilities in Iran included a large number of 'bunker-buster' bombs, permission to use an air corridor to Iran, an advanced technological system and refueling planes.
Bunker-buster GBU-28 bombs, which weigh 2.2 tons each, can penetrate six meters of reinforced concrete, was the core of the Israelis request. In 2005, the U.S said it was supplying these bombs to Israel. In August 2006, it is reported that the U.S had expedited the dispatch of additional bombs at the height of the Second Lebanon War. Israel appears to have asked for a relatively large number of additional bunker-busters, obviously to attack Iran and was turned down.
Air-space authorization, refueling planes, advanced technological systems, all was denied by the U.S. The U.S appears to be trying to stop Israel from attacking Iran. A Iranian war will further damage the U.S credibility and will bring the entire middle-east into armed conflict. All U.S efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan will be destroyed.
War Will Never End in Victory - U.S Military Commanders
With the war in Afghanistan increasingly retaking its role as the emphasis of America’s ongoing foreign policy struggles, The war againts terror and the hunt for Osama bin Laden, Admiral Mullen, head of U.S CENTCOM, reported to the U.S House Armed Services Committee that he does not believe the United States is winning that war.
With the war in Afghanistan spilling into Pakistan, the struggle is getting uglier. The war in Afghanistan will morph into a regional conflict with no end with more death and destruction. The U.S desperate for a victory on the war on terror, is launching unilateral attacks on Pakistani soil which could destabalized the nation.
Where else in Iraq, exactly one year after General David Petraeus proclaimed the military goals of the so called 'surge' are met, now he paints a far gloomier picture of the transient nature of the war’s much ballyhooed 'progress'. In fact, in the general’s opinion, the United States still faces a 'long struggle' in Iraq and he doesn’t expect that he’ll ever be able to use the word victory to describe what happens there.
Victory in Iraq for the U.S is no where in sight. Iraq is plaque with killings, murders, political wrangling and other problems. The American 'colony' is in total chaos. Looks like the Americans are preparing to cut and run under the pretext of fighting the war in Afghanistan. And now we can see Afghanistan turning into a horrific second Iraq.
With the war in Afghanistan spilling into Pakistan, the struggle is getting uglier. The war in Afghanistan will morph into a regional conflict with no end with more death and destruction. The U.S desperate for a victory on the war on terror, is launching unilateral attacks on Pakistani soil which could destabalized the nation.
Where else in Iraq, exactly one year after General David Petraeus proclaimed the military goals of the so called 'surge' are met, now he paints a far gloomier picture of the transient nature of the war’s much ballyhooed 'progress'. In fact, in the general’s opinion, the United States still faces a 'long struggle' in Iraq and he doesn’t expect that he’ll ever be able to use the word victory to describe what happens there.
Victory in Iraq for the U.S is no where in sight. Iraq is plaque with killings, murders, political wrangling and other problems. The American 'colony' is in total chaos. Looks like the Americans are preparing to cut and run under the pretext of fighting the war in Afghanistan. And now we can see Afghanistan turning into a horrific second Iraq.
Thursday, September 11, 2008
Tindakan Anwar yang Terdesak
Pada Isnin lalu, seramai 49 Ahli Parlimen BN berlepas ke Taiwan bagi melakukan lawatan sambil belajar mengenai teknologi pertanian yang diamalkan di negara itu. Ia disertai Pengerusi Kelab Penyokong-Penyokong Kerajaan Barisan Nasional (BNBBC), Datuk Seri Tiong King Sing, timbalannya, Datuk Bung Mokhtar Radin, dan 10 anggota Parlimen Sabah, 12 anggota Parlimen Sarawak dan selebihnya dari Semenanjung.
Demi merealisasikan impian membentuk kerajaan baru dan menjadi Perdana Menteri pada 16 September ini, Dato' Seri Anwar Ibrahim bersedia untuk ke Taiwan untuk menemui mereka jika mereka mahu berbincang dengan beliau.
Kalau keadaan mendesak, saya akan terbang ke Taipei saya akan berhubung petang ini, kalau mereka mahu jumpa, saya akan menemui mereka dalam kadar yang segera kerana pasport masih di tangan saya, kata Dato' Seri Anwar.
Tindakan Dato' Seri Anwar ini seperti sudah terdesak. Mungkinkah apa yang diimpikan oleh beliau sekarang ini sudah tidak kesampaian? Adakah Dato' Seri Anwar akan gagal merealisasikan impiannya untuk menduduki Putrajaya?
Menurut Anwar, isu 16 September telah dibincangkan oleh pemimpin-pemimpin dari Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR), Pas dan DAP dalam beberapa siri pertemuan termasuk perjumpaan dua hari lalu yang memutuskan keperluan untuk berlepas ke Taiwan.
Beliau mengaku bahawa pakatan pembangkang menghadapi masalah teknikal untuk menubuhkan kerajaan pada 16 September ini berikutan Ahli-Ahli Parlimen yang didakwa akan melompat parti telah dihantar ke Taiwan.
Dengan ini, boleh disimpulkan bahawa ahli-ahli parlimen yang dikatakan akan melompat parti adalah dikalangan 49 orang yang berada di Taiwan.
Demi merealisasikan impian membentuk kerajaan baru dan menjadi Perdana Menteri pada 16 September ini, Dato' Seri Anwar Ibrahim bersedia untuk ke Taiwan untuk menemui mereka jika mereka mahu berbincang dengan beliau.
Kalau keadaan mendesak, saya akan terbang ke Taipei saya akan berhubung petang ini, kalau mereka mahu jumpa, saya akan menemui mereka dalam kadar yang segera kerana pasport masih di tangan saya, kata Dato' Seri Anwar.
Tindakan Dato' Seri Anwar ini seperti sudah terdesak. Mungkinkah apa yang diimpikan oleh beliau sekarang ini sudah tidak kesampaian? Adakah Dato' Seri Anwar akan gagal merealisasikan impiannya untuk menduduki Putrajaya?
Menurut Anwar, isu 16 September telah dibincangkan oleh pemimpin-pemimpin dari Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR), Pas dan DAP dalam beberapa siri pertemuan termasuk perjumpaan dua hari lalu yang memutuskan keperluan untuk berlepas ke Taiwan.
Beliau mengaku bahawa pakatan pembangkang menghadapi masalah teknikal untuk menubuhkan kerajaan pada 16 September ini berikutan Ahli-Ahli Parlimen yang didakwa akan melompat parti telah dihantar ke Taiwan.
Dengan ini, boleh disimpulkan bahawa ahli-ahli parlimen yang dikatakan akan melompat parti adalah dikalangan 49 orang yang berada di Taiwan.
Dato' Ahmad Ismail digantung keahlian UMNO
Ketua UMNO Bahagian Bukit Bendera, Dato' Ahmad Ismail yang mencetuskan kontroversi berhubung kenyataannya yang menyentuh sensitiviti kaum, digantung haknya sebagai ahli UMNO selama tiga tahun berkuat-kuasa serta-merta.
Dengan pergantungan tersebut, segala jawatan yang dipegangnya di dalam UMNO gugur selain hilang kelayakan bertanding dalam apa-apa jawatan parti. Perkara ini telah diumumkan oleh Presiden UMNO Dato' Seri Abdullah.
Walaupun digantung keahlian, Dato' Ahmad tetap dengan pendiriannya enggan memohon maaf atas apa yang dikatanya. Apa yang beliau kata adalah fakta dan demi mempertahankan hak-hak melayu yang kini kian dicabar.
Setiap kali sesiapa di kalangan ahli politik Melayu berkata tentang hak-hak melayu dan cuba mempertahankannya, mereka digelar dan dilabel sebagai rasis dan mengamalkan rasisme.
Mungkin cara Dato' Ahmad Ismail agak ektrem tetapi tidakkah sesiapa bertanyakan, kenapa beliau berkata begitu?
Dengan pergantungan tersebut, segala jawatan yang dipegangnya di dalam UMNO gugur selain hilang kelayakan bertanding dalam apa-apa jawatan parti. Perkara ini telah diumumkan oleh Presiden UMNO Dato' Seri Abdullah.
Walaupun digantung keahlian, Dato' Ahmad tetap dengan pendiriannya enggan memohon maaf atas apa yang dikatanya. Apa yang beliau kata adalah fakta dan demi mempertahankan hak-hak melayu yang kini kian dicabar.
Setiap kali sesiapa di kalangan ahli politik Melayu berkata tentang hak-hak melayu dan cuba mempertahankannya, mereka digelar dan dilabel sebagai rasis dan mengamalkan rasisme.
Mungkin cara Dato' Ahmad Ismail agak ektrem tetapi tidakkah sesiapa bertanyakan, kenapa beliau berkata begitu?
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Report: 2025, Declining U.S Dominance and World Upheaval
An intelligence forecast being prepared for the next incoming U.S president on future global risks envisions a steady decline in U.S. dominance in the coming decades, as the world is reshaped by globalization, battered by climate change, and destabilized by regional upheavals over shortages of food, water and energy.
The report, also concludes that the one key area of continued U.S. superiority, military power, will 'be the least significant' asset in the increasingly competitive world of the future, because 'nobody is going to attack the U.S with massive conventional force.'
The U.S. will remain the preeminent power, but that American dominance will be much diminished said the report. It is reported that the U.S leadership is eroding at an accelerating pace in political, economic and arguably, cultural arenas.
The 2025 report will lay out what is called the 'dynamics, the dimensions, the drivers' that will shape the world for the next U.S administration and beyond. The predicted shift toward a less U.S centric world will come at a time when the planet is facing a growing environmental crisis, caused largely by climate change.
The report also forecasted that by 2025, droughts, food shortages and scarcity of fresh water will plague large swaths of the globe, from northern China to the Horn of Africa. Floods and droughts will trigger mass migrations and political upheaval in many parts of the developing world. But among industrialized states, declining birthrates will create new economic stresses as populations become grayer. In China, Japan and Europe, the ratio of working adults to seniors begins to approach one to three.
The report also predicts plummeting influence for the United Nations, the World Bank and a host of other international organizations that have helped maintain political and economic stability since World War II. It is unclear what new institutions can fill the void the report concluded.
The report was prepared by Thomas Fingar, the U.S. intelligence community's top analyst.
The report, also concludes that the one key area of continued U.S. superiority, military power, will 'be the least significant' asset in the increasingly competitive world of the future, because 'nobody is going to attack the U.S with massive conventional force.'
The U.S. will remain the preeminent power, but that American dominance will be much diminished said the report. It is reported that the U.S leadership is eroding at an accelerating pace in political, economic and arguably, cultural arenas.
The 2025 report will lay out what is called the 'dynamics, the dimensions, the drivers' that will shape the world for the next U.S administration and beyond. The predicted shift toward a less U.S centric world will come at a time when the planet is facing a growing environmental crisis, caused largely by climate change.
The report also forecasted that by 2025, droughts, food shortages and scarcity of fresh water will plague large swaths of the globe, from northern China to the Horn of Africa. Floods and droughts will trigger mass migrations and political upheaval in many parts of the developing world. But among industrialized states, declining birthrates will create new economic stresses as populations become grayer. In China, Japan and Europe, the ratio of working adults to seniors begins to approach one to three.
The report also predicts plummeting influence for the United Nations, the World Bank and a host of other international organizations that have helped maintain political and economic stability since World War II. It is unclear what new institutions can fill the void the report concluded.
The report was prepared by Thomas Fingar, the U.S. intelligence community's top analyst.
Understanding Men
This is for a friend of mine that I personally think has issues when comes to men. Maybe after reading this, it will help shed some light in her love life and find what she's looking for. Atleast, to provide clues and how to take affirmative action. I hope so.
Signs of A Commitment Ready Guy
His friends are married.
If you are interested in a guy, check out his friends. If his friends are already married, he's more likely to get married. If all of his friends are still single and in the 'party with the boys' phase, that's a bad sign.
He's financially secure
Men who own a home and has his owns wheels are more marriage ready. A man who is generally financially stable, feels marriage is a practical next step for him.
He pursues you
The guy who is commitment ready is going to initiate doing things with you. He acts fast and seldom hesitate. If you're emailing him and he takes days to email you back, if you have to text him to find out where he is, if you are always calling him, you're chasing a man who's probably not marriage material. In other words, he is just fooling around and looking for ways to get under your skirts.
When you're sick, He is there with you
Taking care of you when you're sick shows that this guy isn't just in it for the fun and sex. If he wants to be with you in bad times, it's a sign he's in it for the long haul.
He gets to know your friends and family
A guy who is thinking long-term wants to truly get to know you. Seeing you interact with your family and friends helps him learn where you come from and more about who you are. The flip side of it is that he will also want you to get to know him! He'll want to see if you fit in with his family and friends. A guy who keeps you separate from the important people in his life is just playing around.
He says, "we" instead of "me"
When he switches from "me" to "we", that's a sign he's committing to you at a deeper level. If your guy is all, "I", "me", and "my" instead of "we" and "us" in conversations after you've been dating a while, his mindset is still in single guy mode. Relationship is about togetherness. If this does not meterialize than you may have to think twice and reevaluate your relationship.
He's not afraid of compromise
A commitment ready guy is going to ask your opinion, consult you about decisions he needs to make, and has the ability to meet you half-way. A bull-headed guy who needs everything his way or it's the highway, isn't ready for compromise and for sure isn't ready for marriage.
He doesn't need excuses
Commitment phobic guys always have an excuse about why they can't be with you on Saturday night, why they didn't call, and why they aren't ready for a relationship right now. A commitment-ready guy doesn't need excuses, he just needs you.
He likes being in a long-term relationship
Some men like being in a monogamous relationship and some don't. The sooner you realize and accept this the better. If he complains all the time about needing space, treats you like a giant burden instead of a gift, and keeps talking about taking things slow, he's telling you he's not ready for a commitment. On the other hand, if he's done with the party scene, enjoys your 'couple time' together, and has a strong sense of family, you've found a commitment ready guy.
Above are some clues that can help her evaluate the 'Man' that she is or going to date. It's simple and as a man, i have to admit that above said is true. If you want to settle down and raise a family, find a man with above qualities and soon before you know it, you're hitch!
Signs of A Commitment Ready Guy
His friends are married.
If you are interested in a guy, check out his friends. If his friends are already married, he's more likely to get married. If all of his friends are still single and in the 'party with the boys' phase, that's a bad sign.
He's financially secure
Men who own a home and has his owns wheels are more marriage ready. A man who is generally financially stable, feels marriage is a practical next step for him.
He pursues you
The guy who is commitment ready is going to initiate doing things with you. He acts fast and seldom hesitate. If you're emailing him and he takes days to email you back, if you have to text him to find out where he is, if you are always calling him, you're chasing a man who's probably not marriage material. In other words, he is just fooling around and looking for ways to get under your skirts.
When you're sick, He is there with you
Taking care of you when you're sick shows that this guy isn't just in it for the fun and sex. If he wants to be with you in bad times, it's a sign he's in it for the long haul.
He gets to know your friends and family
A guy who is thinking long-term wants to truly get to know you. Seeing you interact with your family and friends helps him learn where you come from and more about who you are. The flip side of it is that he will also want you to get to know him! He'll want to see if you fit in with his family and friends. A guy who keeps you separate from the important people in his life is just playing around.
He says, "we" instead of "me"
When he switches from "me" to "we", that's a sign he's committing to you at a deeper level. If your guy is all, "I", "me", and "my" instead of "we" and "us" in conversations after you've been dating a while, his mindset is still in single guy mode. Relationship is about togetherness. If this does not meterialize than you may have to think twice and reevaluate your relationship.
He's not afraid of compromise
A commitment ready guy is going to ask your opinion, consult you about decisions he needs to make, and has the ability to meet you half-way. A bull-headed guy who needs everything his way or it's the highway, isn't ready for compromise and for sure isn't ready for marriage.
He doesn't need excuses
Commitment phobic guys always have an excuse about why they can't be with you on Saturday night, why they didn't call, and why they aren't ready for a relationship right now. A commitment-ready guy doesn't need excuses, he just needs you.
He likes being in a long-term relationship
Some men like being in a monogamous relationship and some don't. The sooner you realize and accept this the better. If he complains all the time about needing space, treats you like a giant burden instead of a gift, and keeps talking about taking things slow, he's telling you he's not ready for a commitment. On the other hand, if he's done with the party scene, enjoys your 'couple time' together, and has a strong sense of family, you've found a commitment ready guy.
Above are some clues that can help her evaluate the 'Man' that she is or going to date. It's simple and as a man, i have to admit that above said is true. If you want to settle down and raise a family, find a man with above qualities and soon before you know it, you're hitch!
Kontrak Sosial - Pengorbanan Orang Melayu/Bumiputra
Kontrak sosial yang telah berevolusi selama 50 tahun di negara ini walaupun belum berupaya membina satu bangsa Malaysia tetapi ia telah terbukti berjaya mempertahankan keharmonian dan kesejahteraan etnik.
Kontrak Sosial ini sudah jelas maksudnya tidak pernah menghasilkan etnik yang tertindas. Misalnya, walaupun orang Melayu adalah majoriti dari segi bilangannya tetapi tidak langsung memberikan isyarat untuk memonopoli ekonomi negara.
Orang Melayu dan bumiputera merupakan 62 peratus penduduk negara ini. Walaupun begitu, lebih ramai orang Melayu yang berada di dalam kumpulan status sosial ekonomi bawahan berbanding orang Cina dan India. Malah bilangan profesional dan peniaga di kalangan etnik Cina dan India lebih ramai berbanding orang Melayu.
Secara politik, perwakilan di DUN dan Parlimen menunjukkan agihan kerusi pilihan raya tidak pernah menguntungkan orang Melayu. Malah ahli Yang Berhormat yang terpilih untuk berbincang dan meluluskan keputusan dan dasar negara bukanlah diasaskan kepada perwakilan kaum tetapi atas dasar kebersamaan di kalangan parti komponen. Secara nisbah orang Cina dan India mempunyai perwakilan yang lebih daripada orang Melayu untuk mewakili etnik masing-masing.
Inilah kontrak sosial yang telah dipersetujui oleh pemimpin-pemimpin sejak hari merdeka dan telah diselaraskan oleh kerajaan yang diterajui oleh Barisan Nasional. Tidak pernah ada kaum minoriti yang tertinggal dan tertindas malah banyak perkara mereka diberi keutamaan. Sebagai ganjaran pengorbanan orang Melayu, hak keistimewaan melayu dan raja-raja melayu telah termakbul di dalam Perlembagaan Negara.
Kalau kita mengkaji balik sejarah, orang Melayu memang telah banyak berkorban dan menyumbang kepada pembangunan negara ini. Kaum Cina dan India juga tidak kurang pentingnya, mereka turut memberikan sumbangan yang besar. Tetapi pengorbanan orang Melayu lebih besar kerana telah memberikan 'kaum pendatang' kerakyatan serta hak-hak dimana di negara lain adalah mustahil.
Jadi menuduh orang Melayu sebagai rasis, penindas dan lebih menyedihkan dituduh melakukan penghapusan etnik adalah tidak berasas malah menunjukkan si penuduh buta sejarah dan tidak berakal. 'Keturunan Pendatang' sekarang sudah bersikap biadab dan mula mencabar kontrak sosial ini.
Kontrak Sosial ini sudah jelas maksudnya tidak pernah menghasilkan etnik yang tertindas. Misalnya, walaupun orang Melayu adalah majoriti dari segi bilangannya tetapi tidak langsung memberikan isyarat untuk memonopoli ekonomi negara.
Orang Melayu dan bumiputera merupakan 62 peratus penduduk negara ini. Walaupun begitu, lebih ramai orang Melayu yang berada di dalam kumpulan status sosial ekonomi bawahan berbanding orang Cina dan India. Malah bilangan profesional dan peniaga di kalangan etnik Cina dan India lebih ramai berbanding orang Melayu.
Secara politik, perwakilan di DUN dan Parlimen menunjukkan agihan kerusi pilihan raya tidak pernah menguntungkan orang Melayu. Malah ahli Yang Berhormat yang terpilih untuk berbincang dan meluluskan keputusan dan dasar negara bukanlah diasaskan kepada perwakilan kaum tetapi atas dasar kebersamaan di kalangan parti komponen. Secara nisbah orang Cina dan India mempunyai perwakilan yang lebih daripada orang Melayu untuk mewakili etnik masing-masing.
Inilah kontrak sosial yang telah dipersetujui oleh pemimpin-pemimpin sejak hari merdeka dan telah diselaraskan oleh kerajaan yang diterajui oleh Barisan Nasional. Tidak pernah ada kaum minoriti yang tertinggal dan tertindas malah banyak perkara mereka diberi keutamaan. Sebagai ganjaran pengorbanan orang Melayu, hak keistimewaan melayu dan raja-raja melayu telah termakbul di dalam Perlembagaan Negara.
Kalau kita mengkaji balik sejarah, orang Melayu memang telah banyak berkorban dan menyumbang kepada pembangunan negara ini. Kaum Cina dan India juga tidak kurang pentingnya, mereka turut memberikan sumbangan yang besar. Tetapi pengorbanan orang Melayu lebih besar kerana telah memberikan 'kaum pendatang' kerakyatan serta hak-hak dimana di negara lain adalah mustahil.
Jadi menuduh orang Melayu sebagai rasis, penindas dan lebih menyedihkan dituduh melakukan penghapusan etnik adalah tidak berasas malah menunjukkan si penuduh buta sejarah dan tidak berakal. 'Keturunan Pendatang' sekarang sudah bersikap biadab dan mula mencabar kontrak sosial ini.
Perpaduan Negara Tergugat
Pergolakan hubungan etnik bermula selepas berakhirnya pilihanraya umum ke-12 pada bulan March awal tahun ini yang melihat parti perikatan pemerintah Barisan Nasional kehilangan banyak kerusi di parlimen di samping kehilangan 5 negeri.
Sememangnya bahang panasnya telah mula dirasai sekarang apabila timbulnya pelbagai tuntutan di kalangan masyarakat bukan Melayu kepada pihak kerajaan pusat pimpinan Barisan Nasional. Persoalan keistimewaan orang Melayu, hal ehwal Islam dan kuasa raja-raja Melayu mula dipertikaikan.
Tuntutan yang menjejaskan hubungan etnik ini dikaitkan dengan kelemahan sokongan yang diperolehi parti pemerintah dalam pilihanraya umum yang lalu sekali gus menyebabkan kepincangan pada kerajaan pemerintah. Kepincangan hubungan etnik ini timbul berasaskan kepada beberapa faktor utama.
Pertama, kehilangan sokongan di pihak parti pemerintah dibawah pimpinan UMNO yang berasaskan perkauman dan bertambah sokongan kepada parti pembangkang yang multietnik. Tarikan pada parti jenis multietnik ini sebenarnya tidaklah sebesar dan sehebat seperti yang diperkatakan. Hakikatnya, kumpulan penyokong multietnik ini sebenarnya hanya minoriti.
Kedua, pergolakan di dalam UMNO. Amalan politik wang dan salah guna kuasa. Keengganan pemimpin tertinggi UMNO memikul tanggungjawab sepenuhnya atas kegagalan Barisan Nasional dengan meletak jawatan secara terhormat. UMNO dipimpin oleh barisan pemimpin yang sudah jelek di mata rakyat.
Ketiga, persaingan menyediakan ganjaran dan memenuhi tuntutan kumpulan minoriti oleh parti Melayu untuk meraih sokongan di kalangan bukan Melayu. Disini parti perikatan Pakatan Rakyat dilihat sebagai juara. Parti PAS (100% Melayu Islam) yang juga merupakan parti komponen Pakatan Rakyat telah sanggup memenuhi tuntutan kumpulan minoriti dengan menggadaikan hak-hak Melayu. Contohnya, anugerah tanah yang amat banyak untuk sekolah persendirian Cina di Perak dan juga tanah tol kepada bukan melayu untuk 999 tahun.
Keempat, didorong oleh sikap keterbukaan sebahagian orang Melayu yang terpelajar khususnya di bandar telah menolak parti berasaskan kaum dan tidak lagi kisah dengan usaha mempertahankan keistimewaan dan ketuanan Melayu.
Gabungan faktor ini telah mewujudkan kelemahan yang kumulatif kepada kepimpinan Barisan Nasional yang dipimpin oleh UMNO. Disebabkan oleh kelemahan ini, kumpulan minoriti bukan melayu telah mengambil kesempatan untuk menuntut hak yang sememangnya bukan hak mereka dan mempertikaikan hak-hak melayu yang telah termakbul di dalam Perlembagaan Negara dan Kontrak Sosial yang telah dipersetujui diantara etnik. Ini menimbulkan perasaan tidak puas hati orang-orang Melayu dan Bumiputra.
Oleh itu, pihak kerajaan perlu segera memperbaiki hubungan etnik ini secara serius. Kerajaan Barisan Nasional jika mahu terus relevan harus mengambil langkah drastik bagi menangani isu-isu ini. Berpeluk tubuh demi kebebasan bersuara dan mengekpresikan diri dan mengamalkan sikap terlampau terbuka hanya memudaratkan perpaduan di kalangan rakyat.
Sememangnya bahang panasnya telah mula dirasai sekarang apabila timbulnya pelbagai tuntutan di kalangan masyarakat bukan Melayu kepada pihak kerajaan pusat pimpinan Barisan Nasional. Persoalan keistimewaan orang Melayu, hal ehwal Islam dan kuasa raja-raja Melayu mula dipertikaikan.
Tuntutan yang menjejaskan hubungan etnik ini dikaitkan dengan kelemahan sokongan yang diperolehi parti pemerintah dalam pilihanraya umum yang lalu sekali gus menyebabkan kepincangan pada kerajaan pemerintah. Kepincangan hubungan etnik ini timbul berasaskan kepada beberapa faktor utama.
Pertama, kehilangan sokongan di pihak parti pemerintah dibawah pimpinan UMNO yang berasaskan perkauman dan bertambah sokongan kepada parti pembangkang yang multietnik. Tarikan pada parti jenis multietnik ini sebenarnya tidaklah sebesar dan sehebat seperti yang diperkatakan. Hakikatnya, kumpulan penyokong multietnik ini sebenarnya hanya minoriti.
Kedua, pergolakan di dalam UMNO. Amalan politik wang dan salah guna kuasa. Keengganan pemimpin tertinggi UMNO memikul tanggungjawab sepenuhnya atas kegagalan Barisan Nasional dengan meletak jawatan secara terhormat. UMNO dipimpin oleh barisan pemimpin yang sudah jelek di mata rakyat.
Ketiga, persaingan menyediakan ganjaran dan memenuhi tuntutan kumpulan minoriti oleh parti Melayu untuk meraih sokongan di kalangan bukan Melayu. Disini parti perikatan Pakatan Rakyat dilihat sebagai juara. Parti PAS (100% Melayu Islam) yang juga merupakan parti komponen Pakatan Rakyat telah sanggup memenuhi tuntutan kumpulan minoriti dengan menggadaikan hak-hak Melayu. Contohnya, anugerah tanah yang amat banyak untuk sekolah persendirian Cina di Perak dan juga tanah tol kepada bukan melayu untuk 999 tahun.
Keempat, didorong oleh sikap keterbukaan sebahagian orang Melayu yang terpelajar khususnya di bandar telah menolak parti berasaskan kaum dan tidak lagi kisah dengan usaha mempertahankan keistimewaan dan ketuanan Melayu.
Gabungan faktor ini telah mewujudkan kelemahan yang kumulatif kepada kepimpinan Barisan Nasional yang dipimpin oleh UMNO. Disebabkan oleh kelemahan ini, kumpulan minoriti bukan melayu telah mengambil kesempatan untuk menuntut hak yang sememangnya bukan hak mereka dan mempertikaikan hak-hak melayu yang telah termakbul di dalam Perlembagaan Negara dan Kontrak Sosial yang telah dipersetujui diantara etnik. Ini menimbulkan perasaan tidak puas hati orang-orang Melayu dan Bumiputra.
Oleh itu, pihak kerajaan perlu segera memperbaiki hubungan etnik ini secara serius. Kerajaan Barisan Nasional jika mahu terus relevan harus mengambil langkah drastik bagi menangani isu-isu ini. Berpeluk tubuh demi kebebasan bersuara dan mengekpresikan diri dan mengamalkan sikap terlampau terbuka hanya memudaratkan perpaduan di kalangan rakyat.
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Malay Leaders standing up?
Ahmad Ismail, an UMNO leader in Penang, sparked tensions by describing ethnic Chinese as 'lodgers', and escalated the situation with an outburst in which he warned the community not to seek political power.
He said further, 'The patience of the Malays and Muslims has a limit. Do not push us to the wall, as when we turn back we will be forced to push the Chinese in the interests of our own survival'.
'The Chinese should not try to be like the Jews in America -- it is not enough they control the economy, now they want political control,' he said.
Ahmad was defiant as he left a meeting with Dato' Seri Abdullah, saying Malays were 'frustrated' and that Malay 'dignity' was at stake. 'Half the Chinese say I'm a racist but most Malays say I'm a nationalist defending my race,' he said.
What he said is true. Chinese are from foreign lands. Chinese does control the economy. What the Chinese are doing now is equivalent to what the Jews are doing in America. This are actual and historical facts!
We, the Malays in general are fighting for our rights as the original inhabitants of the land. Same as our brother and sisters in Sabah and Sarawak. The constitution of Malaysia guarantees that. The extremist chinese and their cohords are provoking the masses. This is whats going on.
At last! Malay political leaders are standing up! What I see now is a rise of the Malay people, and I feel we should capitalise on the strength, the support we get from the Malay people. This is our lands. Our ancestral rights.
Note: Pak Lah is an apologist and nothing more than a populist which practises apeasement!
He said further, 'The patience of the Malays and Muslims has a limit. Do not push us to the wall, as when we turn back we will be forced to push the Chinese in the interests of our own survival'.
'The Chinese should not try to be like the Jews in America -- it is not enough they control the economy, now they want political control,' he said.
Ahmad was defiant as he left a meeting with Dato' Seri Abdullah, saying Malays were 'frustrated' and that Malay 'dignity' was at stake. 'Half the Chinese say I'm a racist but most Malays say I'm a nationalist defending my race,' he said.
What he said is true. Chinese are from foreign lands. Chinese does control the economy. What the Chinese are doing now is equivalent to what the Jews are doing in America. This are actual and historical facts!
We, the Malays in general are fighting for our rights as the original inhabitants of the land. Same as our brother and sisters in Sabah and Sarawak. The constitution of Malaysia guarantees that. The extremist chinese and their cohords are provoking the masses. This is whats going on.
At last! Malay political leaders are standing up! What I see now is a rise of the Malay people, and I feel we should capitalise on the strength, the support we get from the Malay people. This is our lands. Our ancestral rights.
Note: Pak Lah is an apologist and nothing more than a populist which practises apeasement!
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