ABOLISHING ISA IS AN ACT OF BRAVERY
SALUTE to Najib for being brave and bold to abolish ISA in his Merdeka Speech, 15th September 2011. Undoubtedly, Opposition Parties had never expected Najib to have the political will to abolish ISA . ISA was seen as an instrument to curb popular movements that can create chaos and bring down the BN government.
Look at the lists of ISA Alumni - Kit Siang, Ibrahim Ali, Mat Sabu, Anwar Ibrahim, etc. They were all personalities who are unstoppable in their quest to bring down BN government. They were personalities who have the abilities to enggineer mass uprising, can create revolution , create chaos and havoc. Thus for BN to do away with ISA would mean doing something that even the Singapore government dared not do until today.It was unthinkable and it is an act of bravery by Najib who was branded by the opposition parties as a "play safe leader "
Pakatan, as expected, claimed credit for Najib's decision. Anwar is cautious of alternative new law that would be enacted. Hisham said, he will look at USA and UK anti terrorism law deemed to be alternative to ISA, a useful tool against terrorism and Art Harun declares that now he is a rebel without a cause.
Najib may choose to hurry up to repeal ISA. If need be , Najib could call for a special parliament seating to enact an act of parliament to repeal ISA and to abolish annual renewal requirement for publishing permits.
However, Najib need not rush to enact new laws to replace ISA.
Laws are introduced because of trigger of events. British introduced ISA to combat communists terrorists. USA introduced ISA-like law after 911. Singapore choose to keep their ISA for reasons they know best.
Najib has no reason to enact alternative new law to replace ISA. Not for now.
Malaysia dont have bloody revolutions experienced by Tunisia, Egypt and Libya . Not yet. So, any attempt to introduce new law to replace ISA will make Najib unpopular. Opposition parties will be able to seize the moment by organising road shows and demonstrations against the new law. Art Harun " a rebel without a cause" will then have a new cause to champion.
Lets wait and see. Let us trust the wisdom of the rakyat. Not everyone would welcome acts of terrorism and extremism.
Najib should only act to introduce alternative law to replace ISA after unlikely events take place where properties are burned, people got killed, riots went uncontrolled and all businessmen cry foul and ask the government to intervene.
Until then, Najib have no reason to discuss or enact new alternative law to replace ISA or else Najib would risk loosing supports from those who admired him for abolishing ISA
Thursday 15 September 2011
Friday 9 September 2011
BERTINDAKLAH NAJIB
Datuk Seri Najib sebok dengan usaha memajukan ekonomi. Namun kejayaan ekonomi semata mata tidak akan menjamin kemenangan pilihanraya.
Lihat sahaja rekod politik John Major. Rekodnya bagus tapi dia kalah pilihanraya.
It was during Major's premiership that the British economy recovered from the recession of 1990–1992. John Major wrote in his auto-biography that, "During my premiership interest rates fell from 14% to 6%; unemployment was at 1.75 million when I took office, and at 1.6 million and falling upon my departure; and the government's annual borrowing rose from £0.5 billion to nearly £46 billion at its peak before falling to £1 billion".[
Namun , John Major tewas apabila gagal menangani "sleaze political acts " dalam Kerajaan dan Parti beliau.
" At the 1993 Conservative Party Conference, Major began the "Back to Basics" campaign, which he intended to be about the economy, education, policing, and other such issues, but it was interpreted by many (including Conservative cabinet ministers) as an attempt to revert to the moral and family values that the Conservative Party were often associated with. "Back to Basics", however, became synonymous with scandal, often exposed in lurid and embarrassing detail by tabloid newspapers such as The Sun. In 1992 David Mellor, a cabinet minister, had been exposed as having an extramarital affair, and for accepting hospitality from the daughter of a leading member of the PLO. The wife of the Earl of Caithness committed suicide amongst rumours of the Earl committing adultery. Stephen Milligan was found dead having apparently auto-asphyxiated whilst performing a solitary sex act (his Eastleigh seat was lost in what was to be an ongoing stream of hefty by-election defeats). David Ashby was 'outed' by his wife after sleeping with men. A string of other Conservative MPs, including Alan Amos, Tim Yeo and Michael Brown, were involved in sexual scandals. Other debilitating scandals included "Arms to Iraq" – the ongoing inquiry into how government ministers including Alan Clark (also involved in a unrelated scandal involving the revelation of his affair with the wife and both daughters of a South African judge) had encouraged businesses to supply arms to Iraq during the Iran-Iraq War of the 1980s, in breach of the official arms embargo, and how senior ministers had, on legal advice, attempted to withhold evidence of this official connivance when directors of Matrix Churchill were put trial for breaking the embargo.
Another scandal was "Cash for Questions", in which first Graham Riddick, and David Tredinnick accepted money to ask questions in the House of Commons in a newspaper "sting", and later Tim Smith and Neil Hamilton were found to have received money from Mohamed Al Fayed, also to ask questions in the House. Later, David Willetts resigned as Paymaster General after he was accused of rigging evidence to do with Cash for Questions.
Defence Minister Jonathan Aitken was accused by the ITV investigative journalism series World In Action and The Guardian newspaper of secretly doing deals with leading Saudi princes. He denied all accusations and promised to wield the "sword of truth" in libel proceedings which he brought against The Guardian and the producers of World In Action Granada Television. At an early stage in the trial however, it became apparent that he had lied under oath, and he was subsequently (after the Major government had fallen from power) convicted of perjury and sentenced to a term of imprisonment.
Major attempted to draw some of the sting from the financial scandals by setting up public inquiries – the Nolan Report into standards expected in public life, and the Scott Report into the Arms to Iraq Scandal.
Although Tim Smith stepped down from the House of Commons at the 1997 General Election, both Neil Hamilton and Jonathan Aitken sought re-election for their seats, and were both defeated, in Hamilton's case by the former BBC Reporter Martin Bell, who stood as an anti-sleaze candidate, both the Labour and LibDem candidates withdrawing in his favour, amidst further publicity unfavourable to the Conservatives.
Sleaze bermaksud "immoral, sordid and corrupt behaviours". Gerakan "anti sleaze" sedang berlaku di Malaysia. Di UK , gerakan ini telah tewaskan John Major walaupun beliau cemerlang memacu ekonomi Britain.
Mungkinkah ini nasib Najib kelak? Kalah pilihanraya sebab tak ambik tindakan terhadap "sleazy politics"
Harap-harap tidak. Saya mahu Najib menang pilihanraya dan diberi peluang dan masa untuk "reform" dan "transform" Malaysia.
Untuk itu eloklah Najib bertindak segera umpamanya :-
* Pinta Pengerusi SC letak jawatan serta merta kerana skandal corporate governance melibatkan suaminya dan tindakan mahkamah di ambil ke atas suaminya
* Pinta Nor Mohd Yakcop lepaskan jawatan untuk ambil tanggungjawab moral terhadap kes rasuah Setiausaha Politiknya
* Dakwa pegawai SPRM yang disabitkan dalam lapuran Suruhanjaya DiRaja. Mereka mungkin tidak bersalah atau mungkin bersalah. Namun biarlah Mahkamah menentukannya.
* Rosmah memang ada peranan yang boleh dilaksanakan untuk faedah Negara, namun kerana banyak komen negatif dalam blog, eloklah legalisekan peranan ini dengan membawa ke Parlimen Akta Tugas-Tugas Rasmi Isteri Perdana Menteri
* Hasutan oleh Mat Sabu dan penipuan tuntutan bil perubatan. Tunggu apa lagi, tindakan undang-undang perlu diambil. Tindakan "anti sleazy politics" tak semestinya diambil terhadap Kerajaan. Tindakan anti sleaze juga patut diambil terhadap Pembangkang khasnya yang ada jawatan dalam Parlimen atau Dewan Undangan Negeri
* Dan banyak lagi yang saya tidak senaraikan tetapi diketahui oleh ramai blogger pro-kerajaan dan blogger anti-kerajaan.
Maka itu, eloklah Najib minta semua blogger pro-kerajaan dan pro-pembangkang isytihar "Anti-Sleaze Day" bertujuan mendapatkan feedback dari rakyat berkaitan langkah-langkah pembersihan yang Najib perlu laksanakan.
Saya percaya, Najib akan menang pilihanraya dan akan jadi kesayangan rakyat apabila perkara ini dilaksanakan.
Lihat sahaja rekod politik John Major. Rekodnya bagus tapi dia kalah pilihanraya.
It was during Major's premiership that the British economy recovered from the recession of 1990–1992. John Major wrote in his auto-biography that, "During my premiership interest rates fell from 14% to 6%; unemployment was at 1.75 million when I took office, and at 1.6 million and falling upon my departure; and the government's annual borrowing rose from £0.5 billion to nearly £46 billion at its peak before falling to £1 billion".[
Namun , John Major tewas apabila gagal menangani "sleaze political acts " dalam Kerajaan dan Parti beliau.
" At the 1993 Conservative Party Conference, Major began the "Back to Basics" campaign, which he intended to be about the economy, education, policing, and other such issues, but it was interpreted by many (including Conservative cabinet ministers) as an attempt to revert to the moral and family values that the Conservative Party were often associated with. "Back to Basics", however, became synonymous with scandal, often exposed in lurid and embarrassing detail by tabloid newspapers such as The Sun. In 1992 David Mellor, a cabinet minister, had been exposed as having an extramarital affair, and for accepting hospitality from the daughter of a leading member of the PLO. The wife of the Earl of Caithness committed suicide amongst rumours of the Earl committing adultery. Stephen Milligan was found dead having apparently auto-asphyxiated whilst performing a solitary sex act (his Eastleigh seat was lost in what was to be an ongoing stream of hefty by-election defeats). David Ashby was 'outed' by his wife after sleeping with men. A string of other Conservative MPs, including Alan Amos, Tim Yeo and Michael Brown, were involved in sexual scandals. Other debilitating scandals included "Arms to Iraq" – the ongoing inquiry into how government ministers including Alan Clark (also involved in a unrelated scandal involving the revelation of his affair with the wife and both daughters of a South African judge) had encouraged businesses to supply arms to Iraq during the Iran-Iraq War of the 1980s, in breach of the official arms embargo, and how senior ministers had, on legal advice, attempted to withhold evidence of this official connivance when directors of Matrix Churchill were put trial for breaking the embargo.
Another scandal was "Cash for Questions", in which first Graham Riddick, and David Tredinnick accepted money to ask questions in the House of Commons in a newspaper "sting", and later Tim Smith and Neil Hamilton were found to have received money from Mohamed Al Fayed, also to ask questions in the House. Later, David Willetts resigned as Paymaster General after he was accused of rigging evidence to do with Cash for Questions.
Defence Minister Jonathan Aitken was accused by the ITV investigative journalism series World In Action and The Guardian newspaper of secretly doing deals with leading Saudi princes. He denied all accusations and promised to wield the "sword of truth" in libel proceedings which he brought against The Guardian and the producers of World In Action Granada Television. At an early stage in the trial however, it became apparent that he had lied under oath, and he was subsequently (after the Major government had fallen from power) convicted of perjury and sentenced to a term of imprisonment.
Major attempted to draw some of the sting from the financial scandals by setting up public inquiries – the Nolan Report into standards expected in public life, and the Scott Report into the Arms to Iraq Scandal.
Although Tim Smith stepped down from the House of Commons at the 1997 General Election, both Neil Hamilton and Jonathan Aitken sought re-election for their seats, and were both defeated, in Hamilton's case by the former BBC Reporter Martin Bell, who stood as an anti-sleaze candidate, both the Labour and LibDem candidates withdrawing in his favour, amidst further publicity unfavourable to the Conservatives.
Sleaze bermaksud "immoral, sordid and corrupt behaviours". Gerakan "anti sleaze" sedang berlaku di Malaysia. Di UK , gerakan ini telah tewaskan John Major walaupun beliau cemerlang memacu ekonomi Britain.
Mungkinkah ini nasib Najib kelak? Kalah pilihanraya sebab tak ambik tindakan terhadap "sleazy politics"
Harap-harap tidak. Saya mahu Najib menang pilihanraya dan diberi peluang dan masa untuk "reform" dan "transform" Malaysia.
Untuk itu eloklah Najib bertindak segera umpamanya :-
* Pinta Pengerusi SC letak jawatan serta merta kerana skandal corporate governance melibatkan suaminya dan tindakan mahkamah di ambil ke atas suaminya
* Pinta Nor Mohd Yakcop lepaskan jawatan untuk ambil tanggungjawab moral terhadap kes rasuah Setiausaha Politiknya
* Dakwa pegawai SPRM yang disabitkan dalam lapuran Suruhanjaya DiRaja. Mereka mungkin tidak bersalah atau mungkin bersalah. Namun biarlah Mahkamah menentukannya.
* Rosmah memang ada peranan yang boleh dilaksanakan untuk faedah Negara, namun kerana banyak komen negatif dalam blog, eloklah legalisekan peranan ini dengan membawa ke Parlimen Akta Tugas-Tugas Rasmi Isteri Perdana Menteri
* Hasutan oleh Mat Sabu dan penipuan tuntutan bil perubatan. Tunggu apa lagi, tindakan undang-undang perlu diambil. Tindakan "anti sleazy politics" tak semestinya diambil terhadap Kerajaan. Tindakan anti sleaze juga patut diambil terhadap Pembangkang khasnya yang ada jawatan dalam Parlimen atau Dewan Undangan Negeri
* Dan banyak lagi yang saya tidak senaraikan tetapi diketahui oleh ramai blogger pro-kerajaan dan blogger anti-kerajaan.
Maka itu, eloklah Najib minta semua blogger pro-kerajaan dan pro-pembangkang isytihar "Anti-Sleaze Day" bertujuan mendapatkan feedback dari rakyat berkaitan langkah-langkah pembersihan yang Najib perlu laksanakan.
Saya percaya, Najib akan menang pilihanraya dan akan jadi kesayangan rakyat apabila perkara ini dilaksanakan.
Thursday 1 September 2011
REFLECTION: WHAT MANDELA SAID OF NATIONAL RECONCILIATION PLAN
We, the people of South Africa, have made a decisive and irreversible break with the past. We have, in real life, declared our shared allegiance to justice, non-racialism and democracy; our yearning for a peaceful and harmonious nation of equals.
The rainbow has come to be the symbol of our nation. We are turning the variety of our languages and cultures, once used to divide us, into a source of strength and richness.
But we do know that healing the wounds of the past and freeing ourselves of its burden will be a long and demanding task. This Day of Reconciliation celebrates the progress we have made; it reaffirms our commitment; and it measures the challenges.
The Government of National Unity chose this day precisely because the past had made December 16 a living symbol of bitter division. Valour was measured by the number of enemies killed and the quantity of blood that swelled the rivers and flowed in the streets.
Today we no longer vow our mutual destruction but solemnly acknowledge our inter-dependence as free and equal citizens of our common Motherland. Today we re-affirm our solemn constitutional compact to live together on the basis of equality and mutual respect.
Reconciliation however, does not mean forgetting or trying to bury the pain of conflict.
Two terrible defects weakened the foundations of the modern South African state that were laid in the great upheaval at the beginning of the Century. Firstly, it rested on the treacherous swamps of racism and inequality. The second defect was the suppression of truth.
Now, at the end of the Century, South Africans have the real chance to strike out along a glorious path. The democratic foundations of our society have been laid. We must use our collective strengths to carry on building the nation and improving its quality of life.
The Truth and National Reconciliation Commission which will soon begin its work, is one important institution created by our democratic Constitution and Parliament in order to help us manage the more difficult aspects of healing the nation's wounds. Thus we shall free ourselves from the burden of yester-year; not to return there; but to move forward with the confidence of free men and women, committed to attain the best for ourselves and future generations.
Reconciliation means working together to correct the legacy of past injustice. It means making a success of our plans for reconstruction and development.
Therefore, on this December 16, National Day of Reconciliation, my appeal to you, fellow citizens, is: Let us join hands and build a truly South African nation.
ISSUED BY: THE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT
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