Why Home Minister Datuk Seri Syed Hamid should be sacked!

by Independent Daily

The recent furor due the arrest of the Raja Petra Kamaruddin (author of Malaysia-Today), Teresa Kok (Seputeh MP) and Tan Hoon Cheng (Reporter for Sin Jew Daily) made a mockery out of the word Democracy.

Home Minister Datuk Seri Syed Hamid said that the order for arrest did not come from him but at the same time he also explained why these arrest were made. He said “I am a minister. I am a politician. If I start to interfere (with enforcement), then people will say I have a political motive. It will send the wrong signals. I cannot interfere. This has to be done in accordance with the police exercise of their powers”. However, if these arrests were not ordered by him and that he cannot and will not interfere, why is he explaining on behalf of the police?

Later, he also said that there will be no more arrest under Internal Security Act, depending on the situation of the public order.

For those who don’t already know, the Internal Security Act under Article 149 of the Malaysian Constitution comes directly under the discretion of the Home Minister.

4 reasons why Home Minister Datuk Seri Syed Hamid should be sacked:

1. He does not understand his appointed role.

Section 8
(I) ISA says: “If the Home Minister is satisfied that the detention of any person is necessary with a view to preventing him from acting in any manner prejudicial to the security of Malaysia or any part thereof or to the maintenance of essential services therein or the economic life thereof, he may make an order (hereinafter referred to as a detention order) directing that that person be detained for any period not exceeding two years”.

The Home Minister has the right to order for an arrest of someone if he/she deem that the detention is necessary and if it isn't then naturally he should have the rights to stop the order.

His irresponsible statement that he is just a ‘politician’ and he cannot interfere shows that he does not understand his appointed role as the Home Minister.

2. He has not performed to his appointed role.

The Home Minister said that the arrest of Tan Hoon Cheng was under Section 73(I) that says “Any police officer may without warrant arrest and detain pending enquiries any person in respect of whom he has reason to believe that there are grounds which would justify his detention under section 8; and that he has acted or is about to act or is likely to act in any manner prejudicial to the security of Malaysia or any part thereof or to maintenance of essential services therein or to the economic life thereof”.

However, Datuk Seri Syed Hamid said that the reporter was detained to ‘ensure her safety’ which has absolutely no relations at all to Section 73(I) of ISA. This indicates that he hasn’t taken the time to read and understand the laws he is executing and wrongfully detaining innocent civilians clearly shows that he is not it for his said role.

3. Disrespect to the Parliament and the Laws and Constitutions
of Malaysia

Teresa Kok, a member of parliament elected by the people of Malaysia is now being detained under the same section as Tan Hoon Cheng for something she did not do. Datuk Seri Dr. Mohd. Khir Toyo was quoted in PembelaMelayu.com, which has since been down at the point of writing this article, that Teresa Kok supported a petition against the use of loud speaker for its Azan (morning call to prayer) in the Kinrara area. This was also published by Utusan and various other blog under the title: Azan, jawi, JAIS, UiTM dan ba-alif-ba-ya.

Teresa Kok has since denied being part of the said petition and has even denied receiving any complaints from residents about the prayers calls. Her lawyers have since requested that the said article be retracted. This matter is still under police investigation and while no conclusion have been made yet, she is now being detained under the unlawful law of ISA.

The arrest of a Member of Parliament caused by a ‘rumour’ is ridiculous to say the least and is akin to disrespecting the Parliament and the Laws and Constitution of the country.

4. Public display of Racisms.

When Ahmad Ismail said that the Malaysians of Chinese Ethnic are ’immigrant’ and ‘does not deserve equal right’ and likened them to Jews, he was strip of his UMNO membership and even that, it is only for 3 years after which he will return to this true form after. In the case of Ahmad Ismail, he was found guilty, if not by the police, which have gone completely off radar, at least by UMNO.

In the case of Theresa Kok, where police investigation have not even been concluded, where she is accused if ‘pressuring the authorities to tone down the call to prayer’ is now arrested without trial and could possibly be detained for unlimited number of years at the discretion of the Home Minister.

As a Home Minister to a multi racial country, you should be the exemplary in anti-racisms. However, the detention of Teresa Kok while letter Datuk Ahmad Ismail completely off the hook, has shown that you, the Home Minister, are indeed a racist.

As if the country is not in a state of despair already, comes a funny little guy who thinks he can rule with an iron fist. The arrest of these 3 people is indeed turning Malaysia into a laughing stock. To me, the message is clear; Oppose us and face the consequences and also certainly not less than a desperate attempt to salvage what is left before September 16th. I hope and I pray that when the day arrives when you son of b****es no longer rule, you will be punish by the same law you punishing us with. Allah Hu Akbar!

Welcome home Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim!

by Independant Daily

I would like to take a moment off my schedule to congratulate Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim on his resounding win in the Permatang Pauh by-election. I trust that the Penangites have made a good judgment on their selection.

However, I do have my reservations because like those who did not vote for DSAI, it’s most likely not because he is not capable but it is because we are not sure if it’ll make any difference at all.

There are a certain percentage of people in the country that still thinks that the Pakatan Rakyat coalition does not have the experience to run the country which, I agree. I also agree to a statement by YB Tony Pua that, this also means that they do not have the experience to embezzle billions of ringgit into their own pockets like the existing government does.

I feel that the Pakatan Rakyat coalition have not done enough since the March 08 election to convince the people that they are moving towards a transparent and corruption free country. Only Penang have mentioned about a transparent tendering process for government projects but how about Perak, Kedah and Selangor?

Being an IT person myself and having been working in Singapore, particularly close to the Singapore Government, I feel that the ‘new’ Malaysian government have lots to learn from its tiny but efficient neighbour. From the top of my head, I can already think of at least 2 e-government effort that Malaysia government can implement to reduce occurrence of inflated project cost, corrupted practices and bureaucracy in obtaining government projects; 1) Centralised E-Tendering System 2) Online Company Registration / Checking System, which both will be linked and cross checked against its financial health and portfolio.

However, this will not be enough.

Like what the current government is doing wrong, each ministry has their rights to appoint a software developer of their choice to implement some form of a system of their choice. Thus, causing many projects to be completed halfway or ran out of budget during the course of development or most likely the person in charge from the ministry had never heard of the term ‘maintenance’ and thus, leaving the system to outdate itself and die a natural cause.

In Singapore, there is a semi-government department known as Infocomm Development Authority (IDA) that manages all e-government initiative. They have teams of experts in many different areas that works with the different ministry on what should be done and what should not be done.

The new Malaysia should begin thinking about implementing a similar structure and in fact, improve on it and ensure that this new semi-government entity compromise a process where it has a singular objective and platform that integrate all e-government initiative/systems allowing them to cross reference with each other making it THE single most informative portal for every class of citizen there is in the country.

This will allow us to see every thing that the government does, it’s done for a reason, done in a systematically way and most importantly, the correct way.

Winning the election and becoming the ‘powers to be’ is no longer the formula to ensure longevity to rule. Technology has reached into the minds of the people and only results keep you running. The days where KeTuanan Melayu or Chinese Culture are gone. Welcome the days of Success and Accomplishment.

The win in Permatang Pauh is not the first step. It’s merely the movement a toe…

Oops, I’ve done it again…

by Independant Daily

Once again they are back. Bigger, better and it's probably not even the best yet…

This is probably the most old school strategy ever. If you are in a legal suite, you will know that if the witness testimony is gravely against your client, you will need to destroy the credibility of the witness. Doesn’t matter what the truth is. Forget about justice. It’s all about the money and power.

Yet again, our dim-witted Government strikes its last stance in a bid to retain its pot of gold, destroy the credibility of the person that stands in their way to richness and indefinite power.

Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi and his henchmen says that they have absolutely nothing to do with this. Despite his addiction to lies and deceit, I think he truly expects the people to believe him. Yes, he expects us to believe that the ‘election is not tomorrow’ and the ‘petrol prices won’t increase just yet’ only for him to contradict his statements no more than 24 hours later.

This is our Prime Minister. The Chief Executive of the country. The biggest liar in the country and yet, he expects the people to believe that his party have played no part in the return of ‘the scandal’. A scandal that rocked the nation once and boy did it rock that time. So, if it worked the first time, it must work the second time. The difference this time are the pawns at play.

Back then, a dictator dictated what needs to happen. Everything was plotted to perfection – almost. The dictator knew that the sodomisation charges won’t last and when the victim is at its weakest, he strikes his last stance – corruption. Handicapped him for 10 years.

This time, the players are different. The dictator is weak. In fact, some say, the dictator is being dictated to dictate what someone else wants dictated. Ahhh… is the dictator not who he appears to be in all mainstream newspaper? Honestly, its not that I don’t believe he can’t do it. I just believe he isn’t smart enough to dictate the whole show. Perhaps an Oxford graduate is most capable of dictating the dictator who thinks he is dictating but he is actually being dictated.

If the news have been twisted to this:

“A young 20-something man lodge a police report recently claiming that a 60 year old male politician over powered him and forced him into ‘extraordinary’ sexual intercourse against his religious faith. This 20-something year old man is believed be the special assistant to the politician and is in contention to be a pilot, something he had always wanted to be.

The young 20-something man claims that he was sodomised by Anwar on the 26th June in a condominium somewhere in KL. Police investigations are currently underway and they have even collected evidence from the purported crime scene” (Forgive the non-journalistic language)

What do you make of this? Possible? A 60-year old man stick his penis up some guys butt-hole while using force to immobilize the victim? 60 years old? Just because he is the ex-deputy prime minister or the prime minister to be, does is it give him some super human strength or super penis strength!

The 20-something year old man is a candidate for being a pilot which requires him to be in a certain physical fitness. You mean he can’t over power a 60-year old man or he can’t over power a 60-year old Anwar Ibrahim?

If this is not fishy, I don’t know what is. This epic has taught a really important lesson.

Our current government is totally stupid…

Abolish entertainment allowances!

by Independant New

As the government increased the petrol prices causing grievance to many people in the country, Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi decided that all ministers should have their ‘entertainment allowances’ cut by 10%. The Prime Minister himself currently enjoys RM18,865 of entertainment allowances monthly while full ministers gets RM12,320 and their deputies half of that. The 10% will still provide the PM a monthly entertainment allowance of RM16,978.50 which is approximately 4 times more than our GDP per Capita as reported by CIA (https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/my.html).

According to him, these cost saving steps will save the government an annual RM2 billion in total. I do not know how these figures add up to but this amount will be channeled back to low-income earners to help them in these ‘difficult times’.

I wonder how a person who takes RM16,978.50 from us (the tax payers) for entertainment purposes know exactly the meaning of 'difficult times'. As a normal civilian of any country, the first thing that comes to my mind is why they need entertainment allowance? Who are they entertaining? Themselves? Their family? Are these figures being reported publicly? Who and how much are they utilizing from these monthly allocation and are these entertainment allowances justified?

I am asking from a business perspective and as any normal employee of any organization, when it comes to entertainment allowances, how are these monies being spent and what do they bring in return to the company? If a salesman for Proton spends RM10,000 on entertaining their clients but sells 3 Proton cars a month, is his entertainment fees justified? No.

If the Minister of Tourism spends RM10,000 on entertainment fees how is it being justified? Did she bring in more visitors? Did she brought in more corporate sponsors? Where and how are these tax payers blood, tears and sweat being spent?

If you work in Malaysia, you know damn right that you would have to entertain these ministers or in fact anyone from the government sector instead of them entertaining you.

Lim Kit Siang said the government should slash at least 50% and various NGO’s says 10% is not enough. I say abolish entertainment allowances altogether! As a government officer, you can organize whatever meetings through the ministry and an annual budget be allocated from the ministry to cater to these ‘entertainment’. If the minister wants to pay for Lee Kuan Yew’s hotel stay at Shangri-la, get the ministry to pay. If the minister wants to buy David Beckham dinner, get the ministry to organize it. The minister have no business paying anything he or she wants on behalf of the government without going through the ministry. Abolish the entertainment allowance for it is an absolute waste of government funds!

Use the money for better causes. The Prime Minister have no rights to use the term ‘difficult times’ because he doesn’t even understand the meaning of the word.

The Malaysian Prime Minister Poster

by Independant Daily

AY! CUT THE CRAP!

by Independant Daily

This is possibly the hottest discussed topic since the election and one that have caused much grievance to the people of the country.

I agree that the government cannot continue subsidizing fuel prices forever. I have no doubt that it has to increase in tandem with the global oil prices. It is not something that the government planned; it’s purely economics - supply and demand.

But the stance that the government had employed is nonetheless, idiotic. One of the reason why Malaysia remain in such pathetic state is purely because the current government, the one that had been governing for the past 50 years failed to understand a simple term known as ‘cause and effect’.

The effect of increasing the petrol prices by a whopping 37.7% overnight will be devastating. The government could have at least warned that the increase will be of such magnitude. The government should have prepare for the effect of this and provide assistance to those who planned to change their lifestyle to accommodate to this massive change. I truly believe the government should have:

1. Significantly improve the public transport so the people can prepare to switch to public transportation with immediate effect.

2. Held talks and negotiations with Tenaga and other Government link organizations to ensure that other commodities will not be affected by the increase.

3. Look into the reduction of other costs to the rakyat like income tax, automobile import duty, toll rates and others to cushion the impact of the increase.

Why the government is a failure and idiotic is they look into these things after the increase and causing everyone in the country to panic. Hawkers, transportation companies, sundry prices will all follow by at least 10-20% increase in tandem.

With all sorts of people throwing a piece of their mind into this hot discussion what has our Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi said so far? Nothing. Absolutely nothing.

Change is what we wanted and hope is what we got...

by Indepedant Daily

I have spoken to many people these few days and many have asked me what is my view of the new political situation. I have said the same thing to many people: Bad for the next 12 months and brilliant for the future!

Indicatively, just indicatively, the KLSI fell 130 points today. By mid-day, it had already breach the 100 points limit. Yes, its quite bad indeed. The faint-hearted ones are already, saying, "shit! should have voted the BN instead. Now i am losing money!" This is called the Malaysian way la. Not long sighted enough...

Like i always, whatever bad things that happens, there are always some positive that you can pick out of it. In this case, try looking it at a different perspective where the nosedive in sharemarket prices is a just an appetizer to what a huge feast that may come after.

The basic rule of business is, buy low, sell high. In the next couple of months, it could reach the lowest in many years. But is it going to go high? I have no doubt.

If BN can maintain our country's economy with a part-time Finance Minister that has a Islamic Studies Degree, these new state governments with candidate that has degree in Economics, Politics and Philosophy, Law, Medicine and/or Political Science can certainly do more. I am not saying Abdullah Badawi has done a bad job as a Finance Minister, I am saying he has NEVER been a Finance Minister albeit carrying the title.

BN have run the country for 50 years with Petronas making tens of billions annually. By 2012, when we run out of oil, we will certainly need to worry. If we cannot compete with neighbouring countries that does not produce oil, we certainly won't be able to compete with them when we are out of it.

The BN coalition has lost more than 30% of votes compare to the last election this term. I sincerely hope that these new breed of technology savvy, young, hungry, aggressive politicians can do what they promised, achieve what they intended and escalate the country to greater heights, well at least they have 5 states to start off with. If they can achieve this in the next 5 years running their states, i'll be more than happy to hand them the country 5 years from now.

Barisan Rakyat, the people have given you an opportunity handed to you on a silver platter. Take it and cherish this moment for this could be the only chance that could happen in another 50 years if you fail to deliver what you promised. I have hope that one day, I will be able to walk the streets of Malaysia without worrying about my handbag, let my children play without worrying about seeing them next dead in a sports bag and seeing my deputy prime minister's mistress blown up in pieces. hehe.. just joking la....

We certainly did what we intended and what we got is something called Hope....

BN will collapse without 2/3 majority - Najib

Source: Lim Kit Siang

Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak said yesterday that it was crucial for the Barisan Nasional to retain its two-thirds majority in Parliament as a prerequisite of strong government.
He said: “In this era of globalization, they would only invest in our capital market if they had confidence.

“If we have a weak government which can collapse at any time, they would just go and invest in other countries which have a stronger and more stable government.”

This is the political myth which had led Malaysia up the “garden path” for half a century and why Malaysia had failed to fulfill the potential to be a great competitive global nation, contributing our assets and resources to make other nations like Singapore more successful and pulling ahead us while we continue to fall behind one nation after another.

Is Najib seriously suggesting that if Barisan Nasional (BN) loses two-thirds parliamentary majority in the 8th March polls, the Barisan Nasional cannot govern and there will be anarchy and chaos in Malaysia?

Clearly Najib is not very good in maths. If BN is to lose its two-thirds parliamentary majority, it must lose at least 75 out of a total of 222 parliamentary seats, i.e. leaving the BN still with a solid phalanx of 147 MPs. This will give the BN a huge majority of 72 seats which will be the envy of all governments in first-world developed nations.

I challenge Najib to state and justify why the BN with a 72-seat parliamentary majority cannot govern effectively and will be a “weak government which can collapse any time”?
Is the Barisan Nasional coalition government so fragile and unstable that even with a 72-seat majority in Parliament, it could collapse any time?

Do we now have a new meaning of “Malaysia Boleh”, which was invented by the previous Prime Minister Tun Mahathir , under the Abdullah premiership?

Is Najib serious when he said that if Barisan Nasional loses its parliamentary two-thirds majority, Malaysia will lose out in the era of globalization as investors will shy away from Malaysia and will not invest in Malaysia?

Leaving aside Asia, I challenge Najib to name the first-world developed nations in the West whose ranks Malaysia hopes to join under Vision 2020 which are uncompetitive and unable to attract foreign investors because they do not have two-third parliamentary majorities for the ruling government or coalition.I would like to know which fully-developed nation in the First World has a two-third parliamentary majority for the ruling government or coalition!
Najib is indulging in the irresponsible politics of fear and scare in the 12th general election campaign.

In fact, it is the removal of the BN two-thirds parliamentary majority and end of Umno political hegemony which are the prerequisites for Malaysia to achieve BN 2004 manifesto of “excellence, glory and distinction” and Vision 2020 objective of an united, dynamic, progressive fully developed nation.

If Malaysia is to become truly competitive and to become a first-world developed nation by 2020, we must now develop the mindset, mentality and culture of a first-world developed nation and not wait until 2020 to remove the two-third parliamentary majority – for then we will have to wait for another 30 years until 2050!