AN IMMORAL ROAD WELL TRODDEN (UPDATE)

Update : What Sivasubramaniam says about his resignation - "My mother made me do it". The Warong kopi wonders if he has sought the permission of his mother to retract his resignation. Ah Neh, in your impatience to make your self more respectable you have not only damage and demean yourself but also that of the DAP-PKR-PAS alliance. Redemption is indeed a long word and a long journey.

1st Post :
The Warong kopi does not want to dwell too much on what Sivasubramaniam said when he quitted the DAP. Although he has a legal right to do what he did, he has chosen an immoral road to express what he so very much desires, an executive council seat in the Perak government.
Perhaps Sivasubramaniam was egged on by “the greatest person ever born” when the latter opined that “the appointment of a single Indian executive council member in Perak is insufficient to cater to the needs of the community”. Perhaps the Buntong assemblyman took the opportunity to ride on the statement and (if there was ever one) offered himself to the highest bidder.
We may never know what lies in the dark recess of the heart of man.
However, we know that it would be for the greater good of the rakyat and the nation if he does not squander this new hope that was born in all of us on 80308. But then again, can the rakyat ever trust a man who shuts down his conscience when he hears the sirens of opportunity calling him?

Buntong assemblyman A. Sivasubramaniam has quit DAP, leaving the DAP-PKR-PAS coalition government in Perak teetering on the brink of collapse. In a letter to DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng dated March 31, Sivasubramaniam said he had had lost confidence in the Perak DAP as it failed to fulfill its promise to appoint two Indian state executive council members.
He added the decision was a "big slap" in the face of Perak Indians and tantamount to deceiving the community.
He also questioned why DAP central executive committee member A. Sivanesan, who is from Selangor, was chosen as an exco over other Perak DAP leaders.
Sivasubramaniam claimed that he and state party committee member and Tronoh assemblyman V. Sivakumar were supposed to get the exco posts as they had worked hard and sacrificed a lot for the party.
He added that even if an Indian Perak DAP member were to get an assembly Speaker or Deputy Speaker post, it could not “do much for the Indian community.”

WHEN VINDICTIVENESS AND FLAMING AMBITIONS RULE THE NATION.

Despite suffering a stinging defeat on the political front, top cadres from the BN remain arrogant. They victimize and hold contempt for the rakyat of the 5 "opposition" states when they barred schools from inviting state elected officials to their functions .......

Schools in the five states controlled by the opposition coalition have been verbally adviced to take a "neutral" stance in inviting executive councillors or state assemblyman for official functions.
And this is being interpreted to mean that the schools should refrain from inviting executive councillors or assemblymen from opposition parties, at least until further notice.
Acting state education director Ibrahim Mohamad said schools have been verbally told to take a neutral stand for the time being.
He said the directive was issued by the department after being advised by the Education Ministry to take a neutral stand.
Ibrahim said he understood that the same directive was issued to education departments in all five states governed by the opposition.

..... and imposed summary punishment on petty traders and hawkers for minor offenses in the FT because they gave overwhelming support to the "opposition" during the May 8th general election.
These arrogant lap-dogs have chosen to ignore their social responsibilities to the community and have instead consciously put their partisan political beliefs above all else ..... or perhaps they are expendable pawns used by both the young and the ambitious to subvert AAB from working with the 5 "opposition" state governments.
Regardless of the reasons, the people should not be make to suffer even when vindictiveness and flaming ambitions rule the nation.

Ten of the 11 MPs in the Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur today slammed Kuala Lumpur City Hall for "involving itself in politics" and being pro-Barisan Nasional (BN).
The MPs from the DAP, PAS and PKR alleged that this was apparent from heightened enforcement against hawkers, petty traders and City Hall tenants following the March 8 general election, ostensibly to punish them for the overwhelming support for the Opposition, leading to BN's loss and rejection in the FT. City Hall director-general Datuk Salleh Yusup refuted the allegations, claiming the crackdown is part and parcel of City Hall enforcement.

The Warong kopi says “Hats off to the Minister in the PM department if he is able to rein in those rouges from the Islamic agencies”. All too often these zombied-minded rouges were let off with merely a slap tap on the wrist. Malaysians are tired of their "holier than thou attitude" and demand to see concrete action being taken against these immoral "moral police" of JAIS and their puppet masters.

Officers working with Islamic agencies must support government policies or quit their jobs.
“The impression the public has of religious officers or those schooled in Islamic affairs is that they have a closed mind and are slow in implementing our policies,” said Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Datuk Ahmad Zahid Hamidi.
“I want to do away with this negative perception,” he said.
“This is a reminder to them for the sake of our ummah (citizens). If they choose to remain here, they will have to pay a high price,” he told reporters after receiving his duties from former minister Datuk Dr Abdullah Md Zin at his office here yesterday.

Only one and a half day to discuss the 12th general elections results AND to brainstorm MCA future plans and strategies? It is no brainer that the future of the "Ong Brothers Chinese Association" is going "no where" or - conceivably the association future is "now here" - in a perpetual limbo of post March the 8th.

The MCA will make adjustments to its approaches and say what needs to be said, party president Datuk Seri Ong Ka Ting declared. He said the one-and-a-half-day brainstorming session, which discussed the 12th general election results and the party's future plans and strategies, was very fruitful, and action plans to rebuild the party had been formulated.“We have discussed both internal and external factors behind the party's losses in the
elections,” he said.

A PRIME MINISTER FOR ALL?

The CM of all Penangites has started on a long journey of fostering changes – one of which is to stem the tide of regressive religious tolerance.
His attendance at the state level Mualidur Rasul celebration carries great political and religious significance.
The years of divisive rule under the BN government has taken a huge moral and spiritual toll on the psyche of Malaysia. This was made all too clear when the component parties from BN twiddled their fingers and looked away when the rights of the religious minority were methodically challenged by religious extremist.
Last week, AAB once again declared himself to be the Prime Minister for all.
But will "the Prime Minister for all" walk that same road that the CM of Penang walk? Will he continue to turn aside when religious extremists from within the BN government chip away the fundamental right for all Malaysians to profess and practice their own religion?

Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng and two DAP exco members attended the state-level Maulidur Rasul celebrations at the Seberang Jaya expo site here yesterday. He said he was glad he was able to attend the function,which was attended by about 3,000 Muslims. “I understand this is the first time a Penang Chief Minister is attending this celebration,” he told reporters covering the event.
Lim said he had sought advice from Deputy Chief Minister I Mohammad Fairus Khairuddin, state Mufti Datuk Hassan Ahmad, PAS and PKR leaders on his attendance and was told he could do. He said he was willing to attend other religious festivals if invited, noting that the state government respected all religions.
Besides Lim and Mohammad Fairus, the exco members were Lim Hock Seng and Phee Boon Poh.

To put it in politic-speak “The federal opposition parties have no experience in luring power seeking opportunist” The experience belongs to the BN and in Sabah, the PBS.

No Parti Bersatu Sabah (PBS) MPs have been approached by PKR leaders to cross over to the Opposition, said its deputy president Datuk Dr Maximus
Ongkili. “The Opposition would not dare. We’re a team of principled leaders. Why should PKR and the Opposition engage in this disrespectful act of ‘buying’ elected representatives?
“We have had enough of frog politics in the past ….. Stressing that such acts must be condemned, he said politicians who leapfrog must be removed.
“Those who promote this sort of dirty and undignified politics should be condemned by the people. It’s a corrupt practice,” said Dr Maximus.

If only the PM hears and respects the religious right of the minority just as well as Sime Darby "sees" it.

Sime Darby Berhad has fulfilled its promise to rebuild two Hindu temples demolished in an estate belonging to the company in Rantau Negeri Sembilan.
The temples were demolished in the midst of the recently-concluded general election.
The company’s executive vice-president (plantation and agri-business division) Datuk Azhar Abdul Hamid said the temples were rebuilt with stronger foundation and designed according to specification of the estate’s temple committee."The temple committee will now pick up an auspicious day to perform the necessary religious rites before the workers can worship there.

PERHAPS POLITICAL GENIUSES ARE GIVEN THIS EXEMPTION.

The warong kopi is taken aback by the uncalled statements hurled by bloggers at LKS when he announced that the DAP CEC did not mandate a PAS MB in Perak.
It seems to me that many bloggers are now all too quick and eager to display their newly found political correctness and probably some are under the delusion that they are the mighty movers and shakers of our changed political map. Perhaps even a few would have felt and equated themselves to be political geniuses.
To these bloggers I say, wake up from your supper ego delusion.
What the “opposition” is today is a cumulation of blood, sweat and tears of the last 30 years. Many bloggers were not even born when LKS was first detained under ISA 39 years ago. If it had not been for this “typical sore senile old man” who stayed the course and fought for all, Malaysian today would most probably be googling "freedom of speech" and not enjoying the speech of freedom in this country of ours.
For all that is worth, LKS eventually did retract his statement and did apologize to the Sultan and the Regent of Perak.
Some bloggers have backtracked from their initial scathing condemnation.
Some have not.
Perhaps political geniuses are given this exemption.

The crisis which developed yesterday over the appointment of a PAS menteri besar in a DAP-led Perak state assembly seemed to have been resolved today.
DAP stalwart Lim Kit Siang who rejected the appointment of a PAS candidate today apologised for any offence caused to the Perak royalty over his statement.
“My three-paragraph statement at 7pm last night that the DAP central executive committee emergency meeting on March 9 had not given approval for a PAS mentri besar to head a Perak coalition state government was not made out of disrespect to the Perak sultan and regent, both whom I have always held in the highest regard and I apologise for any offence caused," he said.

The MCA state chief without a state sows disunity amongst the rakyat and insults the royal house of Perak.
If a man of LKS stature can apologize to the Sultan and the Regent of Perak, what more this mouse of a man who hides behind the shadow of his younger brother?

DAP has cheated its voters as a PAS state assemblyman will be sworn in as the Perak mentri besar today, Perak MCA chief Datuk Ong Ka Chuan said.

Ong, who is also the MCA secretary-general, said DAP should apologise to its voters, saying it was sad to hear that Perak PAS secretary Mohammad Nizar Jamaluddin will be the mentri besar.

He said Mohammad's appointment went against the wishes of voters, especially non-Muslims.

“Having a mentri besar from PAS creates fear among non-Muslims. This also creates political instability.”

It is indeed not only a new dawn for Malaysia and Perak.

It is also a new dawn for the royal household of Perak.

Long live the Sultan, the regent, their family and his new born son.

The Regent of Perak Raja Dr Nazrin Shah and wife Raja Puan Besar Tuanku Zara Salim were blessed with a prince on Friday.

The royal baby was delivered at around 10am at the Damansara Specialist Hospital near here.

It is learnt that both mother and son are well and healthy.

Sultan Azlan Shah and Tuanku Bainun who were also present arrived at the hospital at about 1.25pm and left after spending approximately an hour there.

Raja Dr Nazrin Shah, 52, the eldest child of Sultan Azlan Shah and Tuanku Bainun, married 35-year-old Tuanku Zara Salim at Istana Iskandariah in Kuala Kangsar on May 17 last year.

Zara is the grandniece of first Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman.

STOKING THE FIRE OF TRUTH

It only takes a spark from the rakyat on the 8th of March to set this passionate fire of change aflame.
And even as this fire remains burning let us as a nation pursue equality and fair play for all regardless of race, creed or color.
Let us then reaffirm the social contract of the 1957 constitution of Malaysia.
Let each true patriot of Malaysia continue to stoke the fire of truth even more.
That real justice in this day will be found in the real courts of law and not in the corridors of power.
Let us then not lose this opportunity of change - forging on and no turning back from a new dawn for Malaysia.

Another e mail I received yesterday from this dear friend of mine.

"For many of us, today March 9, 2008 is a celebration of victory. It is almost like Merdeka, 31 August 1957 all over again. The people’s cries for justice and freedom have been answered. Let us pray and hope that the winds of change will sweep over the nation and bring about a better Malaysia for Malaysians.

Even as the euphoria starts to ebb, let us not forget that there is much work to be done and also a lot to be undone… injustice and wrongs to set right. And what I wrote in my earlier e mail ‘Great Power equals Great Responsibility’ still stands as a reminder to the current new leaders that they are merely stewards not God…. less their newly given mandate of power goes to their heads and they end up arrogant like their predecessors. May they remain true to their calling to serve the people and the country.
Let us continue to pray for our new leaders and our nation… that we truly will be able to enjoy justice, impartiality and freedom in our land."
God bless Malaysia!

irene - 9th March

And the nation greatest Comedy courtiers present a farewell song to the greatest man ever born.

BN'S ONLY ONE CHOICE MAKES YOU .........

JUST CHANGE IT -- A NEW DAWN FOR MALAYSIA

Look, who is warning Malaysians of Chinese and Indian origin they will be sorry, should ---- "people vote out the Malaysian Chinese Association (MCA) and Malaysian Indian Congress (MIC) tomorrow, then their communities will no longer have a voice or representation in government.

The Chinese and Indian voters have to decide whether they want a louder voice in parliament, by voting in the DAP, or a bigger role in government by voting in the MCA and MIC, It is your choice, but I hope the people think carefully".

To that we say "Puthuiiii"
We would rather be masters of our own destiny then to have spineless eunuchs walking around in UMNO's palace of plenty.

BN'S only one choice makes you a participant of a police state

BN'S only one choice makes you a accomplice in the rape of justice

BN'S only one choice makes you a collaborator to their dark deeds of corruption

BN'S only one choice makes you a partner in the oppression of the poor

BN'S only one choice makes you a abettor in the suppression of free speech

....... SUPER VILLAINS TOO POSSESS THIS POWER.

A NEW DAWN FOR MALAYSIA.

I received this email from a dear friend of mine who has for years stayed apolitical.
This is what she wrote and I quote -

** With Malaysia’s general election just round the corner, I thought it prudent to share these thoughts.
Let's pray for our nation and our leaders.

Great Power = Great Responsibility

Many of us read comics when we were growing up. Comic diehards will remember super-hero Spiderman’s Uncle Ben’s famous tagline: With great power comes great responsibility.
I’m also reminded of a line from Shakespeare’s ‘Twelfth Night’: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them.

It doesn’t really matter whether one is born great or has greatness thrust upon him, it is only important that as a leader, he must first acknowledge that this power is a gift and stewardship from God and the people who have voted him into this position of power. Leaders must realize that they are merely stewards, NOT God and that they are accountable for their actions and all that which have been entrusted to them. They possess this power not for their own personal gain but that they may be a channel of blessing to others.

It is also interesting to note that super-heroes are not the only ones with power, super-villains too possess this power. The difference is how they use their power. The former use power for the good of others, the latter use it for their own ends. The saying, ‘Absolute power corrupts absolutely’ is absolutely true. Leaders must constantly be on guard against the temptation to abuse power for their personal agenda. They must also never use it to destroy the integrity of others to safeguard their own position of power.

With great power comes great responsibility and with great responsibility comes the need for faithfulness, integrity, transparency, humility, willingness and commitment to serve others above self. For these traits constitute the hallmark of a truly great leader.

At the end of the day, it’s not how much power you have but how you wield that power that counts.

“Every one to whom much has been given, much will be required; and from one to whom much has been entrusted, even more will be demanded” - Luke 12:48(b)

irene - 3rd March.