WE DESERVE to loose Pulau Batu Putih

We deserve to loose the forsaken granite island to Singapore.
I am not sure of the entire team, but 2 things jumped out at me

Consider this.

The following person was listed as counsel and advocates in the ICJ judgement.

Mr. Faezul Adzra Tan Sri Gani Patail, Federal Counsel, International Affairs Division, Chambers of the Attorney-General of Malaysia.

He is the son of incumbent AG, Tan Sri Gani Patail.
Graduated from UiTM only in 2005. (see post by 7 Rangers)

Unless this person is a genius, but can you imagine - a fresh graduate representing Malaysia at the ICJ. Don't we have other Federal Counsel or any other Magistrate court Judge for that matter !?
That's the problem with this damn country and the New Economic Policy-Cronyism-Nepotism-substandard-individuals-pushed-to-the-forefront

And look at the crucial 1953 letter.



I am definitely no freaking UiTM-graduated Federal Counsel or Cambridge University material, but this is hardly a letter from a sovereign state to another.
The letter was signed "I have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient servant"

This letter hardly reflects the notion of the Sovereign State of Johore relinquishing the Island to the Colonial Secretary in Singapore. Furthermore, it does not carry the seal of the Sultan, but an administrative letter written within the same British administrative umbrella. Has anyone ever seen a diplomatic note between States signed as such ? Within the context of the time, this is nothing mere than one civil servant writing to his master.

In addition, there is another missing letter

Of course, this happens only in Bolehland, where the one who wallow in malaise will continue to run the country down the dumps

Whatever it is, I am glad Singapore won, it will be good for the region. Just like how it's good that your mother gave you a tight slap, just because she's your mother, she's smarter, she's stronger, she feeds you water and cleans your shit. Singapore would now continue to maintain safe passage for ships over the Singapore Straits and Malacca Straits and ensure free movement of trade services. If Malaysia had won, I will guarantee it will be pandemonium as half-baked UiTM graduates plot maritime routes and wrangle with their kamus dwi-bahasa while waiting for their fathers to land an UMNO contract building computer labs somewhere in Perlis.

Majulah Singapura.

Superb speech.

Gobind Singh Deo, DAP, MP for Puchong



Listen to the last 30 seconds. Malaysian government has full knowledge of the murderers of Dr. Joe Fernandez, but refused to make a charge, because murderers were Muslims.

Unfortunately, speech is not in English.

Listen and see how Gobind totally exposed the thug that is the Deputy Minister for Housing and Local Government from Barisan Nasional.
This is the Barisan Nasional that we've voted for the past 50 years. Time we kick them out of the House for good.

TRI-OXY MORONS ?

You may have known that the US-MALAYSIA FTA talks have stalled since 2006.
Trade delegations have met in KL, San Francisco and I have lost count how many times they have met.

Malaysia, the Cabinet minister himself, the national/UMNO mentality of preferential treatment; all of them have real and fundamental issues.
From Malaysiakini.

Malaysia's list of no-go areas - including environmental protection and the practice of giving Malay companies a leg-up in lucrative government contracts - have bogged down the protracted talks.

The negotiations, which began in March 2006, hit a deadlock during the seventh round held in Kuala Lumpur in January, after a year-long pause.

The United States, which is Malaysia's biggest trading partner, hopes a deal could be struck before President George W Bush leaves office this year, but Muhyiddin declined to say if a pact can be reached by then.

"The stand is very clear. While we want to see things move forward, there are issues which need to be addressed ... with regards to sovereignty, national interest, which we believe we cannot compromise," he said.

US assistant trade representative Barbara Weisel has warned that the FTA could be shelved if an agreement is not reached before the end of Bush's term in January 2009.

1. USA is Malaysia's largest trading partner
2. Increasingly competitive trade environment with the emergence of regional low cost centers China, Vietnam, India and Latin America
3. Continue to dish out lucrative affirmative action contract to majority Malays

What gives ? Are the morons blind or plain stupid

Mahathir

For 22 years he was the head honcho of Malaysia's political landscape, Malaysia's roving ambassador to the world. Malaysia's boon for 2 decades was Mahathir and Malaysia's impending downfall and bane will once again be due to Mahathir.

This man took the floor and ended his speech to a quick and thunderous standing ovation at Stanford University.

This same man, also engineered the biggest financial coup in our nation's history as assets from our largest and best government machinery in the form of Lembaga Letrik Negara (LLN), Jabatan Telekom was quickly bundled and transfered into private holdings to finance his fledgling UMNO BARU in the early 90s

Malaysia's meteoric and economic miracle is due to this one brilliant man. HE held the country and ran it like with iron fist. He silenced any individual critics and dismantling pillars of democracy or any mechanism of check and balances as he lassoed the entire nation together and dragged her kicking, screaming and ultimately totally broken to where he wants the nation to be.

HE is a dictator to one and a statesman to another. Like all dictators and statesman he left a vacuum. A vacuum so large, it's void spanned, engulf and consumed the entire nation's political, social, economic fabric.

From the grandiose Putrajaya and the conceptually brilliant MSC to the Singapore Scenic Bridge and his push for industrialization in the form of the Bakun Dam and Perwaja. These will remain legacies of a man who almost thinks he is too good for an idyllic Malaysia. In his mind, Malaysia needed symbols of success and it was his duty to put these symbols in place. Democracy and check and balances were mere obstacles to his version of progress.

Like all dictators and emperors and the most beautiful of flowers, there will be bees, and they came from far and wide, placating this old man with gold, honey and promises. Thus the Malaysia Inc. was born, tacked as another one of Mahathir's braichild, albeit it was his cronies who benefitted. The entire policy was nothing more than a label for cronism and favoritism as the Government machinery takes an active hand in business and industry. Civil servants and political parties curry for favours under this system of political patronage. Questionable, corrupt, illegal and downright dirty practices were further shrouded under the implementation of the NEP. Questions and critics are merely defended by the paper-thin and undefendable NEP coupled with zealous rhethorics on religion and race. Intellectual discourse and openes was never the way the Mahathir administration operates. It was never about the rakyat, but about his cronies extending their reach and control over you, over the old man and most important of all, the feeding on the fear and insecurities of the rakyat

Empires, regimes and dynasties do not last forever simply because Emperors and Maharajahs are mortals and soon enough incompetence and greed will quickly fill, consume and further expand any void of an altruistic leader (even if there is such a thing).

This is post-Mahathir Malaysia. Our social, political and economic fabric are tearing at the seams as we grapple with our existence trying to hold on to the sarong of the man who have sheltered us from the storm. We need the check and balances of a real democratic nation, we need the mechanism of a democracy to be reinstalled and most of all we need to step out of the shadows of the old man and begin to chart our own destiny.

The old man is no more and the quicker he is out of our memories the better it will be for all of us, as we must quickly pick up the pieces, mend our fort and move on concerted and cohesive, fully accountable to one another that we are a nation of people and not a nation of rent seekers and economic parasites.

The old man must go and he must be forgotten.

A RECAP OF THE BIGGEST BULLSHIT in Malaysia

This is what the bullshitter mentioned at a press conference, announcing the cancellation of the use of indelible ink on March 3 2008, 5 days before the General Election.

http://malaysiakini.com/news/79147

Abdul Rashid said the use of indelible ink would not be effective as the country's constitution allows those who refuse to have their fingernail marked with the ink to still be issued with a ballot.

He added that the use of the indelible ink could infringe the constitutional right of a voter to cast his vote, especially if the commission tries to bar someone from voting for having an ink marked in his finger.

"From a practical point of view, the issuance of a ballot paper to such a voter would render the EC's proposal meaningless and will not bring about a positive result, whilst having the potential to create misunderstanding as well as altercations and arguments at polling stations," he said.

He added that the Federal Constitution gives Malaysians the right to vote and a black mark on the fingernail should not bar people from exercising this right, he said.
Abdul Rashid said the use of indelible ink would not be effective as the country's constitution allows those who refuse to have their fingernail marked with the ink to still be issued with a ballot.

He added that the use of the indelible ink could infringe the constitutional right of a voter to cast his vote, especially if the commission tries to bar someone from voting for having an ink marked in his finger.

"From a practical point of view, the issuance of a ballot paper to such a voter would render the EC's proposal meaningless and will not bring about a positive result, whilst having the potential to create misunderstanding as well as altercations and arguments at polling stations," he said.

He added that the Federal Constitution gives Malaysians the right to vote and a black mark on the fingernail should not bar people from exercising this right, he said.

WTF ? ARE WE ALL STUPID ? OR DO YOU THINK WE'RE ASSHOLES - BENT OVER READY FOR YOU TO SCREW OVER and OVER AGAIN

It seems he has now brushed aside his entire academic reasoning of 'constitutional right of a voter' with just one freaking sentence "cabinet did not approve the use of indelible ink during the March 8 general election"
http://malaysiakini.com/news/83026

The BIGGEST LIAR in Malaysia

Rashid Abdul Rahman, chairman of the Election Commision of Malaysia is the biggest liar

Not only did he not fulfill his constitutionally enshrined duties to ensure a free and fair elections. In a Malaysiakini exclusive today, he admitted that it was after all the incumbent government decision to cancel the use of indellible ink and not only did he went along with it, he agreed to be the fall guy.

Of course the rest is history and the Opposition (Pakatan Rakyat/People's Alliance) totally rousted Barisan Nasional's 50-year old grip in Malaysian politics.

Of course his pants is on fire now.

“I was told that I was to take the responsibility for agreeing to it. It's not easy being EC chairperson. I took the whole rap over the year,” Rashid told reporters after a function today.

http://malaysiakini.com/news/83026

Of course he can't take the close scrutiny and of course I don't doubt a person of his weak and manipulable stature can ever will.
As far as I am concerned, he's nothing but UMNO's lackey.

His life would have been a bed of roses if BN would have retained the 2/3 majority.
He would retire this year (after the freaking amendment to the constitution to allow this one man to serve an extra year, he was scheduled to retire this year, 2008), maybe pocketed some millions, set up a small business enterprise and continue reaping a few millions a year with tiny scrappy contracts to supply cakes, chairs and tables to UMNO's tea parties.

It is too bad that it was not meant to be, and he has now come crying out in the open that he was not the bad guy after all.

Well guess what, you had a public office and you were to serve the public.
Shame on you for serving the political masters and for that you have neglected and failed in the most important part of your job.

If you want Sedition, you should be charged with Sedition.

c) to bring into hatred or contempt or to excite disaffection against the administration of justice in Malaysia or in any State;

(d) to raise discontent or disaffection amongst the subjects of the Yang di-Pertuan Agong or of the Ruler of any State or amongst the inhabitants of Malaysia or of any State;

Free Raja Petra now !

Image from http://Rockybru.blogspot.com

In Malaysia, it is now a a crime to write investigative reports.
Raja Petra Kamaruddin has been put into jail for an article he wrote "Let’s send the Altantuya murderers to hell"

What now ?
Do you think we are all stupid ?
Even my pet pig, as stupid and lazy as he is lazing in the mud can ask the same questions.

UMNO and their cohorts have no balls, neither have there any answer to tough questions. Like I wrote and like everything that is with UMNO's MALAYSIA - it cannot see the light of day. UMNO's only answer is to shut those who question them, in whatever means they see fit.

It is indeed a sad day in Malaysia, these injustices have gone long enough in Malaysia.
Read the poem, First they Came

When the Nazis came for the communists,
I remained silent;
I was not a communist.

When they locked up the social democrats,
I remained silent;
I was not a social democrat

When they came for the trade unionists,
I did not speak out;
I was not a trade unionist.

When they came for the Jews,
I remained silent;
I wasn't a Jew.

When they came for me,
there was no one left to speak out.

To those in Malaysia, donate and contribute for justice.
http://www.malaysia-today.net/2008/content/view/7080/84