Perkasa is morphing into 'Ku Klux Klan': Watch out non-Malays, non-Bumis!

Perkasa to go ahead with ‘1Bumiputera’ movement

The most undemocratic and unsound 'principle' that Perkasa upholds:

“If we are talking about equality based on the race ratio we can accept, because that means 67 per cent of the country’s population are Bumis and therefore we need to control 67 per cent of the country’s economy...”

- Perkasa secretary-general Syed Hassan Syed Ali

One day,

if the population of Malaysia is 100% Malays/Bumis,

after all the non-Malays/Bumis are annihilated,

then there will be true equality!

Bye-bye Malay-saja!

B-G Ravinder Singh is new chief for Singapore Army. Majulah Singapura! ;)

1 Melayu, 1 Bumi, 1 Majority, 1 Minority: PERFECT RECIPE FOR UNITY! ;-)

Dr M says ‘1Melayu, 1Bumi’ movement disastrous

UPDATED @ 12:31:33 PM 22-04-2011

By Shazwan Mustafa Kamal

April 22, 2011

KUALA LUMPUR, April 22 — In a surprising move today, Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad spoke out against Utusan Malaysia’s idea of a “1Melayu, 1Bumi” movement, calling it disastrous.
This is despite Malay rights group Perkasa announcing yesterday that it would spearhead the movement, warning that the Chinese were seeking ultimate power.
“I hope it doesn’t happen. It would be very bad... people should think about this, we are going into disaster if this happens,” Dr Mahathir (picture) told reporters today.
Utusan Malaysia has called on its owners Umno to spearhead a 1 Melayu, 1 Bumi movement involving all Malay parties, claiming that the DAP was intent on toppling the country’s Malay leadership.
In backing Utusan Malaysia’s call for a movement to “unite” all Malay parties, Perkasa secretary-general Syed Hassan Syed Ali said that the Malay rights group did not have the “luxury of time” to wait for Malay political parties to initiate action.
“Perkasa will take on the responsibility of spearheading the ‘1Melayu, 1Bumi’ movement, where it is obvious the Chinese, through the DAP, are trying to take over the political power of the Malays,” said the Perkasa man yesterday.
In response, Dr Mahathir said today that such a movement would eventually result in a two-party system where each side would be dominated by one race.
“If we go ahead with this, there will be a two-party system... if one side is Malay-dominated and one side Chinese dominated, this would be bad,” the former prime minister said.
This is the first time Dr Mahathir, a strong Malay rights proponent and Perkasa patron, has disagreed with Perkasa and Utusan’s ideas.
Perkasa yesterday announced that the “1Melayu,1Bumi” movement will be a part of the group’s 3rd “Perhimpunan Melayu” on April 30 at the Sultan Abdul Halim Stadium in Alor Star.
Utusan, along with other Umno-owned dailies like Berita Harian, has consistently accused the Chinese community of voting Pakatan Rakyat (PR), specifically the DAP, to gain political power, in reference to the recent Sarawak state election.
Today, Berita Harian, in an editorial, attacked the Chinese for voting for the DAP to gain economic and political power.
Although Barisan Nasional (BN) won 55 out of the 71 seats in the recent Sarawak state election, PR won 15 seats, 12 of which were urban-majority seats consisting of mainly Chinese voters.

Joy to the Egyptians! Egypt orders ‘pharaoh’ Mubarak’s name struck off! ;-)

Egypt orders ‘pharaoh’ Mubarak’s name struck off

April 22, 2011

Mubarak (left) had been ousted as Egypt’s president in February. — Reuters pic

CAIRO, April 22 — Egypt yesterday took another step towards erasing the legacy of deposed president Hosni Mubarak by ordering his name, and that of his family, removed from public institutions across the nation.

Sycophantic officials seeking to curry Mubarak’s favour had resorted to naming everything from streets to schools to military installations and remote, rural clinics after the authoritarian leader many Egyptians call a modern pharaoh.

Mass protests ended Mubarak’s 30-year-rule in February, and a court yesterday ruled it was no longer acceptable for his name, and that of his wife and sons, to be so widely used.

“Officials in the previous administration had named a range of public institutions after Mubarak and his wife with the aim of pleasing him, and for a range of other embarrassing reasons,” the court said in a statement after the ruling.

Outside the courtroom, pro-democracy activists celebrated the verdict with ululations and whoops of joy, as Mubarak supporters tried to drown them out with chants of: “Unlawful! Unlawful!”

The case had been brought to court by Samir Sabry, a celebrity lawyer who told Reuters after the verdict it was high time Egyptians stopped living under Mubarak’s shadow.

Lawyers for Mubarak had said it was unacceptable to alter Egypt’s history like this.

“For 30 years, we’ve been suffering from a ruling family that has now been accused of several crimes, including abuse of power and murder,” Sabry said. “We need to move on.”

Nobody knows exactly how many public institutions and awards bear the names of the Mubarak family, but the number is likely to be in the hundreds of thousands. At least one Cairo metro station is named after him, and not the Pharaoh Ramses whose statue is only a few metres away.

The cabinet recently replaced the “Mubarak” in the name of a cultural award with “Nile,” and the American University in Cairo also removed the name of Suzanne Mubarak, an alumnus, from one of its lecture halls.

The Egyptian practice of naming places after those in power harks back to ancient times, when pharaohs etched their names on public monuments, often on top of those of their predecessors.

It became even more rife during Mubarak’s era when graft and nepotism riddled the administration. Investigations by the state prosecutor into the conduct of government officials has so far revealed gross abuses of power.

Once-ubiquitous portraits of the ex-president and his family have also been removed since the protests erupted on January 25, replaced by revolutionary graffiti and posters urging the people to cooperate with the military generals who now rule Egypt.

The former head of the Armed Forces, Mubarak’s name had been etched in marble plaques that decorate military buildings.

Both the military council and the interim government have been keen to prove to Egyptians they are serious about cracking down on graft and taking the former administration to task.

This month, the prosecutor ordered Mubarak, 82, detained for questioning into allegations that include corruption and murder.

His sons, Alaa and Gamal, and many other senior officials are being interrogated behind prison bars and a special panel formed to uncover ill-gotten gains will question Mubarak’s daughters-in-law next week, the state news agency said.

Yesterday, Egypt’s public prosecutor ordered the authorities to inspect the medical facility in Cairo’s Torah prison to determine whether it was equipped to receive Mubarak who remains in a hospital in Sharm el-Sheikh. — Reuters

Fact: Of 12 seats won by DAP, four had 50 percent or fewer Chinese voters!

Going against popular belief, Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng is confident that snap elections may not be called in the near future.

Although Chinese voters had backed the opposition, Lim stressed that DAP would not have won 12 seats without substantial support from non-Chinese voters and said that in the 12 seats contested and won by the party, four had 50 percent or fewer Chinese voters.

Lim explained, "In some seats, we would not have been able to win with a comfortable majority without the support of Iban voters - for example, in Kota Sentosa , we won by about 5,000 votes where we had only won by 500 votes in the last round, an increase of a ten-fold majority with Iban voters that made up nearly 50 percent of the voters. In some areas with Iban-majority seats, our candidate won by nearly 7,000 votes..."

So, DAP stoked racial sentiment in Sarawak win, says MCA?

Obviously, MCA has failed where DAP has succeeded - that is, to fight for the rights of all races - Chinese and non-Chinese.

1Malysia email: Free 'secure' email acct but possible 'incidental charges'?

While much has been said about how the heavily criticised 1Malaysia Email project will be of no cost to users and is free from public sector funding, a statement from the project's main proponent, Tricubes Bhd, hints at the possible imposition of 'incidental charges'.

After being bombarded with media inquiries and public questions as to its funding, project details and the firm's ability to implement the RM50 million project, the IT firm admitted that these charges would be for "data encryption" and "value-added services". 

In an e-mail reply to a list of questions from Malaysiakini, Tricubes' CEO Khairun Zainal Mokhtar affirmed that its “base service” of providing 1Malaysia emails would be “at no cost to users” and users will initially be able to use their email accounts to receive government notices such as income tax assessment, driving license renewals and quit rent reminders as well as Employee Provident Fund (EPF) statements and notices of summons.

However, while the email services would be provided free of charge, the receipt of the bills and other notices would incur some costs, said Khairun but it remains unclear as to who will be paying for such costs - the end users or the government agencies in question nor did he state whether government agencies, once MyEmail is fully online, will accept only transactions from the official 'secure' email account.

Of 20 reports lodged against Selangor MACC, 13 were directed at Ashraf

Cop: MACC refused cooperation until Teoh died

S Pathmawathy
Apr 20, 11
3:45pm

 

A senior police officer testified today that only after the death of Teoh Beng Hock did the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) cooperate in police investigations.

DSP Kamaruddin Ismail of the Shah Alam police Criminal Investigation Department told the royal commission of inquiry into the DAP political aide's death that 20 investigation papers were opened from March 2005 to July 2009 on complaints of abuse and torture against MACC officers.

However, it took two to four years after the complaints were lodged for identification parades to be arranged for complainants to point out their assailants because of the "lack of cooperation from the MACC", Kamaruddin said.

"Immediately after Teoh's death, the MACC was more cooperative," he said, drawing laughter from those present.

Bar Council lawyer Cheow Wee asked Kamaruddin if he had quizzed the MACC about its sudden willingness to cooperate, but commission chairperson Justice James Foong interjected, asking, "Isn't it obvious?"

Foong asked: "Can you point out the cases where you had a hard time getting cooperation from the MACC?"

The reply from Kamaruddin: "I can't tell for sure... but from my monitoring, I find that the MACC investigators have a problem in working with the police.

"When they are called to the police station (for their statements to be recorded) they don't show up and the police have to go to their office to get the statements."

Commissioner T Selventhiranathan then asked the police officer if it was "extraordinary" for the anti-corruption body not to show up despite police orders, to which Kamaruddin said: "Yes, they have to come, but they don't...

"And, because they are government servants, we are more diplomatic and we go to their place to get their statements."

'Wrote in to the MACC'

Over a period of four years from 2008, Kamaruddin said, police arranged 31 identification parades for leads into their investigations into complaints against the MACC.

Of the 20 reports lodged against Selangor MACC, he added, 13 were directed at MACC assistant enforcement officer Mohd Ashraf Mohd Yunus (right) for causing hurt to the complainants.

Ashraf was one of several Selangor MACC officers who had questioned Teoh over alleged irregularities in the disbursement of funds by his employer, Seri Kembangan assemblyperson Ean Yong Hian Wah.

Teoh, who was Ean Yong's political secretary, was taken as a witness to the Selangor MACC headquarters on the 14th floor of Plaza Masalam in Shah Alam for questioning on July 15, 2009.

He was found dead on the landing of the fifth floor of the building on the afternoon of the next day.

Kamuruddin also told the panel that 20 investigation papers were forwarded to the public prosecutor for further action, while 13 investigation files were yet to be completed and seven marked as 'NFA' or no further action.

Asked why these cases were rendered 'NFA', Kamaruddin said there were several reasons, among them the lack of cooperation from the MACC and the retraction of police reports made by some of the complainants.

“Was the a reason there was no decision? Was it because there were no documents?” asked Foong.

Kamaruddin: Yes, there are situations when they say the documents are lost, investigation diaries missing, security guard's log books go missing.

Foong: But did you write personally to them requesting for it?

Kamaruddin: Yes, but no reply yet.

The police officer said that he had written to the then-Selangor Anti-Corruption Agency (ACA) on May 27, 2008.

Foong: What was the reply?

Kamaruddin: I wrote in and asked some officers to attend an identification parade and I received a reply from the ACA the next day, signed by deputy director Hishamuddin Hashim, saying the officer is involved in an operation.

In the second paragraph of the letter he (Hishamuddin) said that he needs to get the opinion from the senior federal counsel in charge of the agency' prosecution department whether to attend the parade.

Selventhiranathan: Say Hishamuddin comes here and tells us (the inquiry) that he doesn't know at all about this investigation, he is lying?

Kamaruddin: Yes, I believe so... because he signed the letter written on May 28, 2008.

Foong: Did you take follow-up measures? Did you seek instrcutions from the IGP (inspector-general of police) or AG (attorney-general)?

Kamaruddin: We waited for his answer, after May 28, 2008, because he said he will let us know.

“Three years down the road, and you are still waiting?” mocked Selventhiranathan, to which Kamaruddin nodded.

Police waited for orders from prosecution

Although Kamaruddin did not discount the inefficiencies of police investigator in following up with the MACC on the complaints, he blamed most of the dilly-dally and weaknesses on the anti-graft agency.

In the 20 reports lodged, 15 had certified medical examination reports that the complainants were physically harmed and assaulted.

Some of the common accusations were that they were blindfolded, beaten on the palms of their feet using electrical cables and kicked on the thighs, as well as stripped of their clothes and hit on the genitals.

“Since the complaints were made on physical abuse, don't the police have the powers to arrest... since there are elements of a crime committed?” asked Cheow.

“Because it wasn't severe injuries, we categorised it under Section 323 (of the Penal Code),” Kamaruddin said, and added that the police waited for an order to investigate from the public prosecutor as it was a compoundable offence.

Kamaruddin added that he was asked by his superiors on the progress of investigations into the abuse complaints and he had forwarded the letter he received from Hishamuddin.

According to him, his commanding officers had discussed the matter with the MACC chief and then instructed that all graft-busters involved to attend an identification parade on Sept 14, 2009.

Nevertheless, despite the fact that some positive identifications were made, no charges have been pressed.

To this, Kamaruddin said that whenever the police send in investigation papers, they are forwarded back with further instructions.

“The DPP (deputy public prosecutor) sometimes needs more supporting documents or they need to ask specific question to the complainant and record the statement again,” he explained.

Cheow also asked on the retraction of report lodged by the complainants. “If it is retracted won't be that they had lied when lodging the allegation?”

“We consult the DPP and they direct us to record another statement from the complainants to state the reasons the report was withdrawn,” replied Kamaruddin.

He added that it was normally done by complainants who did not face charges by the anti-corruption body and therefore, they did not want to prolong the matter.

MACC lawyer Muhammad Shafee Abdullah, who cross-examined Kamaruddin after Cheow, tried to establish that similar complaints of abuse were sometimes made against the police.

“Before Teoh's case, all complaints lodged were by suspects right, not witnesses? Allegations of these kind are not only levelled against the MACC officers, it also happens to the police?” asked Shafee, to which Kamaruddin agreed.

The senior police officer affirmed that in his experience there have been instances where suspects make claims of abuse to obstruct investigation into their alleged crimes.

After Kamaruddin gave his testimony, MACC assistant enforcement officer Bulkini Paharuddin took the stand.

The inquiry resumes tomorrow.