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The BN government should not have arrested and charged PAS deputy president Mohamad Sabu because he has in fact done them a favour.

People comments:
Disbeliever Quote: Tun Mahathir said “He would even go as far as paying PAS members to act like Mohamad by going around and “talking nonsense”. Doesn’t this prove that like many in UMNO, he is also corrupted?

Anonymous Najib, this guy is blaming you should UMNO is less popular because of the arrest of Mat Sabu. He implied that you and your cronies are the ones orchestrating it. Whack him nice and nice before he draws the first blood on you.

Compass Dr M is right but for the wrong reasons. The BN government is bankrupt of ideas to compete with Pakatan and is seizing on any fault that it can find with Pakatan. History is not a science let alone an exact science. In fact, our government has itself even rewritten history as taught in the schools. What is so illegal about having a contrary view on history. How can I be charge for criminal defamation if I suggest that Dr Mahathir is Malaysia’s Father of Development and not Tun Razak ?

Keturunan Malaysia Haha Dr.M, you said, “Gov’t should let Mat Sabu run his mouth off”. That is EXACTLY what we did to you to secure the damages you inflicted on your ownself that we seek. As for allowing Mat Sabu to do same, that can be pretty damaging too… but alas, not to Mat Sabu but to UMNO/BN. Saying what you said now is like you are stressing that Najib is a LIABILITY twice over right? You got a hidden card up your sleeve eh?

Ramachandran Muniandy Mat Sabu should call Tun Mahathir as his defence witness. Tun Mahathir hated the British from his school days time. He infact felt that the Japanese occupation was an’eye opener’ for independence fight against the British! After May 13th i1969, at one time the Special Branch was waiting for him in KL railway station to arrest him under ISA. His friend Tengku Abdullah from the Negeri Royalty, took him to Rawang and send him off to Alor Star. He has some loyalty toward PAS as at one he stood under PAS ticket for parliament, but he lost! Again when Mat Sabu was supporting the ‘real freedom fighters’, not the British policemen of Bukit Kepong, Tun Mahathir was infect calling to review Malaysian History.

wira This guy has no dignity or shame. He is not talking about doing the correct thing according to the spirit of the law but doing the right thing that benefits UMNO. It’s no wonder he thoroughly sodomised the judiciary during his 22 years as PM.

Clean&Clear TDM , i was once a voter who fear PAS as fanatic Islamic Party. But now my eyes opened wide by PAS in making my country true history. All the way long i was duped , conned and propagate with false and malicious information from my father down to my children. I wish PR took over the government and punish you while you live. You and the whole bunch of your cohort cannot con my fellow citizen anymore … the world in our fingertip, remember that.

Anonymous Whoever wins in the law court should be of no significance to the rakyat. What the AG has done, should have been done so by the institutions of learning. Let the case be a study of history lessons in the court. The lawyers will be the lecturers. It will certainly make the studying of history more interesting. After the case, students can write their thesis for their doctorate. How about I?

Selangor Pakatan Rakyat component parties have finalised the negotiations over seat allocations for the upcoming general election, with all three parties agreeing to maintain the status quo in terms of state assembly constituencies.

People comments:
Ferdtan Boo Cheng Hau and Chua Ji Meng, see how matured the Selangor Pakatan members? They can settled the seat allocation for GE 13 without any open conflicts. The task should be more difficult in Pakatan-led Selangor – as most of the seats are winnable: thus the expected scramble for more seats.It cannot be said for Johore. It is far from certain that even if the seats were allocated to you – can you win? If both of these two state chiefs of DAP and PKR cannot come to a compromise, either remove both of them from the negotiation team, or let the head office to decide on the disputed seats.

Sabah PAS Youth today slammed the state government for standing by idly while three islands off the state’s coastline have been put up for sale on the international market.

People Comments:
Disgusted First they(UMNO) sell citizenship(with voting rights) to foreigners and now they are selling the land(island) to foreigners as well. Very soon the whole of Malaysia will be pawned to Foreigners. Sabahans themselves have to be blamed for their predicament. They have been fooled by BN using Pairin, Bernard Dompok, etc to con the natives to selling their votes which led to selling their rights in their land as well as their livelihood, future and land to UMNO. Syabas Sabahans Fixed Deposit of UMNO/BN.

Anonymous_40f4 Dont worry for the sabahans.They have been fooled by UMNO for 3 decades.Now sabah is being controlled by filipinos .No one to be blamed except sabahans.Sabah is the poorest state in Malaysia.

Irkedbylies Wonder why the silence from Sabah State Government. Can they publish the names of the owners of these three islands – then Malaysians and in particular, Sabahans, would know who is at fault here. The State could have sold the islands off to these individuals on a private basis … Which just shout louder that Malaysia has to get BN and its components OUT by GE13. Do not be taken in by the under hand campaign that the government is already carrying out before announcing date of GE13. Be alert and spread the news to every one in your kampong, town and circle of contacts. Malaysians – we all have to defend our country from further attack by birds of prey!

A compilation of the Bersih 2.0 rally’s eyewitness accounts was launched today, in commemoration of the rally that took place on July 9, and to counter the negative news about the event played up by the BN controlled mainstream media at the time.What people says?

David Dass It is sadly ironic to listen to people speak of their joy at discovering the spirit of being Malaysians and of being free when confronting the police with their tear gas and water cannons. There is something wrong with the image. Let there be no doubt in the minds of our leaders. The majority of Malaysians support Berseh and their demands for fair and free elections. The fact that people took to the streets speaks volumes for the importance and urgency of the demands of Berseh. The Government has been caught on the wrong foot. It does not want to be seen to be responding to pressure. especially when that pressure also comes from opposition political parties. But the Government should not refrain from doing the right thing because opposition parties will take credit for such ‘victory’. The victory will be that of ‘right’ over ‘wrong’ and not of one party over another.The decision to repeal the ISA is a right move. The removal of the need to renew a newspaper licence annually is another.

If the government is serious in pursuing a more democratic and open Malaysia, then the Universities and University Colleges Act (UUCA) and the Official Secrets Act (OSA) should be abolished too.What people says?

Tan Kim Keong He’s right on the OSA. However his intention regarding strengthening preventive elements with regards to the new law is only from one perspective i.e. not to question anything to do with Ketuanan Melayu or institutionalised racial discrimination. He sees standing up for one’s equal right under the Malaysian sun as a threat or encroachment to him, his race and his kind. Racism is written all over in his intention.

Malaysian Born Nothing of the kind, this sly bufoon is indirectly wanting the new laws to be used to stifle the opposition, For the record the ISA was for dealing with the security of the country against the communist and terrorist threat, nothing more. It is not meant to cover islam and bumiputra rights. If anyone does anything against a specific law then that law should be used to prosecute them. He is trying to say preventive laws are needed, in other words any excuse to lock your opponents up without trial. The last people I want to ask for advice where it comes to this is the police, it is there job to prove the case, not use preventive measures without trial. Really why is this muff being given face and time. Give him his tokens and chair outside the toilet and be done with him.

David Dass Ibrahim Ali ! Inconsistency is thy name. Yesterday he opposed liberalization. Today he supports it. He wants the Official Secrets Act and the University and Colleges Acts repealed. Critics of the OSA have always said that the OSA must not provide cover for questionable governmental activity. The Rakyat have called for more open and transparent government. We now have a Freedom of Information Act in Selangor. As for the University and Colleges Act there have been many calls for its repeal or at least for its more offensive provisions to be amended. University autonomy is universally regarded as an essential attribute for a center of higher learning. Lecturers and students have to experience their own empowerment to unleash their intelligence and creativity. No such noble purpose for Ibrahim Ali. There are close to a million undergraduates. He remembers his student days. And thinks that he can rabble rouse these undergraduates. Good luck to him. Students are smarter and more aware today.

JusticeKini YES- for the first time I can agree with Ibrahim Ali but with a caveat- Ibrahim Ali MUST GO TOO. His warped thinking that the two new acts must include protection of Islam and special rights which are all in the constitution. Does Allah needs a nincompoop like Ali to protect Islam? Are all Malays so insecure and greedy like him to have “protection” for their rights. The all powerful Ghadafi of Libya and Mubarak of Egypt are all now a footnote in history. Ibrahim Ali must learn that the concepts of race n religion supremacy does not jell in a modern cosmopolitan world. Liberty, equality, fraternity! are the cries during the French Revoultion and they are still relevent in today’s world as evident in Libya, Egypt, Syria etc. The people are rising against the UMNOputras not becos of race n religion but becos of corruption nepotism n elitism.

Singapore is coming under mounting pressure to ease political restrictions after neighbouring Malaysia unveiled steps to abolish tough security laws and ease media and protest regulations. What people says about this:

David Dass Singapore would do well to learn from its politically more robust neighbor. Just as Malaysia could learn some things from Singapore. Singapore’s success comes from just 3 things. A zero tolerance for corruption, high standards of education and the recruitment of talent from all over the world – most of all from Malaysia. High standards of education was in no small part achieved by retaining English as the medium of instruction and the language of administration. Politically repressive laws were unnecessary tools for the creation of an advanced economy. Harsh and repressive laws cowed a population for a time – fear diminished them for a while. But now a new generation have said – ‘enough is enough’. We do not need such repressive laws. We need to be free of fear. We are confident of our ability to find honest intelligent leaders who do not need to use terror to govern Singapore. Look at Libya, And Egypt and Syria. And look at Malaysia.

Swen Singapore was not ejected from Malaysia. Singapore chose to breakaway and everyone can see this small nation is more wellknown than many of her neighbouring countries. Singapore’s wealth and economy is an envy to us. The currency strenght at 2.47x over the RM speaks loud and clear on their way governance, believable clean and clear world preception index on corruptions.

Anonymously If the PAP government of Singapore does not learn from Malaysia and cling on to the obselete ISA, their days are numbered. ISA is not compatible with an educated, well-informed and increadingly out-spoken populace like their.

Black Mamba Let’s face it, ISA will never be abolished in Singapore as long as the Lee Dynasty is still around. It has help them built up the nation as they deem fit as the same in Malaysia where it serves Dr. M’s rule as he too deem fit to cripple and breakdown his strongest opponents.

What people says about this?

AnesthMO It seems that the issue of public disclosure of IPP agreements has died down. Since the CEO brought up the issue of cost, let me bring up again that the IPP agreements should be made public so that the rakyat can see how and where taxpayers’ money is spent. Only then we can discuss the tariff issue.

Kgen The greatest distortion is TNB’s committed payments to IPPs who must be paid whether they produce electricity or not. Take care of this first before you talk about cutting subsidies to the rakyat. Or are TNB and the IPPs sitting on the same side of the table?

md. imraz bin muhammed ikhbal .1.Malaysia: Just how is it that TNB is unable to manage its finances effectively if you can clarify pls? Do you not know that because of the gross shortage of gas, Petronas is not supplying enough of gas to TNB & as a result TNB is forced to burn distillate diesel as substitute which cost more than 10 times than gas just to generate enough energy to support the nation’s demand? Now if your unavoidable cost of generating power far exceeds your regulated price of electricity, does it take an Einstein to figure our why TNB is losing the more it sells electricity? The tariff is set by the govt & so is the buffer percentage of TNB power reserve. So how is that the fault is of TNB’s is mismanaging its finances? Care to enlighten all us?

Lets be fair If there are many liabilities with the government, done push it on to the public. Where have the billions gone from Petronas. Take care of the rakyats……pls don’t burden them anymore. Charity starts at home……the billions from Petronas will be best spent for the rakyats here and now……not supposedly for elite cronies.

CyberSecurity Malaysia, the government’s online watchdog, has launched new guidelines called ‘Best Practice on Social Networking Sites’ (SNS), reports Bernama. CyberSecurity Malaysia chief executive officer Datuk Husin Jazri said the purpose of establishing the guidelines is to assist SNS users, either organisations or individuals, to understand the ‘dark side’ of SNS. The guidelines suggest acceptable practices that support usage of the SNS while protecting the security of users and privacy needs.

Malaysiakini reported: A PKR-linked NGO has lodged police reports in a number of states over the Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak’s apparent use of a government aircraft for purposes of a recent holiday to Australia?? What people says about this?

Pure Malaysian Let’s be fair here. I believe if our country is rich and economically stable right now, no one would even get boiled over Najib traveling in the 1M aircraft for holidays. But having the rakyat suffering all the time (uprising cost but stagnant salary), while all the cronies and politicians raking in millions and billions at the expense of the rakyat, definitely makes every sane rakyat reaching the boiling point faster. Executive privilege or not, I don’t know. But as a premier, I hope Najib and his team, can be more considerate and channel more money back to the rakyat. Also please iron out all the unfair judiciary, corruption, nepotism and electoral fraud. And stop all those double standards, and let the rakyat elect fairly in the upcoming GE.

righteous Enough of the name calling, lets call a spade a spade instead. “executive privilege” does not give anyone the right to misuse a public asset especially a RM250M government jet that has the call sign NR1 got a big ego much? Misuse like this is happening throughout the government because so many believe they have this so called “executive privilege”. Simply put they don’t, they are employees of the government, they don’t own the assets, the assets that they are allowed to use are tools put in place so that they can better serve the rakyat, not so they can just decide to use a private jet because they couldn’t be bothered chartering one on with the money they have in their fat bank accounts.

cookie monster .. i think the air needs to be cleared, as the PM naturally Najib is not expected to book his own ticket and fly commercial, should he? I think as the PM, he does have somne privilages… and yes, it would be extended to his family… so lets be objective here. The government has done lots of wrong… but lets harp on thing sthat matter, than those… that are grey.. just my opinion

Hope The President Of the US of A travels in Air force one and also his chopper or both one after the other no matter where he travels and for whatever reason . He travels frequently to his holiday retreat of Martha’s Vineyard at least 3 times a year. Imagine any President or even Premier of any country traveling for his holidays via MAS, connecting via Qantas then back by British Airways. What a bunch of vicious dopes , making a police report like it mattered. Don’t call anyone bodoh, when you are one. Assess the situation and the issue and then decide your intelligence. By the way just so you know, to prepare and carry out the President of the USA’s trip even 400KM away , costs Millions of $ and hundreds of people. Now is that transparent enough. Third rate party trying to behave like they are a first rate one, vicious and jealous.

PM Najib: Prepaid tax not gov’t decision, wants review? What people says about this??

Mr KJ John How can Civil Society “deploy accounting firms” to review the Annual Reports of these public listed firms to ascertain if this kind of “stealing in broad daylight is not the same as “looting in London?” How much profits are enough? “Small is Beautiful” says FF Schumacher! As Civil Society, we say enuf is enuf!

skong Astro & Maxis are already charging 6% months ago. Do they have the right?

Onyourtoes Kuduka, I do not work for a telco. I am just looking at tax equity and efficiency. Has it ever occurred to you that managing all the prepaid customers probably required higher operating and incidental costs than managing post paid customers and therefore requiring other compensating revenue to keep the business viable? In any case, we are barking at the wrong tree. There are many things more urgent and important for us to look at than prepaid service tax. It is a red herring; the government just wants to show that it is sensitive to the lower income groups, more so the financial burden is not on the government. By the way, if you are a service provider, is it fair to you if the government has asked you to pay the service tax on behalf of your customers when it is the government who is pocketing the tax?

If the government can routinely ask the telcos to do it, can it not ask you too because your customers can also be complaining that the cost of living in the country is raising and they can’t make both ends meet. Cost of living issues are very complex probably requiring much more comprehensive solutions. It also requires how individuals, particularly those earning less, to learn how to manage their money better. It is my humble observation that many lower income earners spend too lavishly and unnecessarily. I have a better idea on how we could help the lower income groups to spend less and save more and hurt the telcos – just ask them to talk less over the phones; in most cases it is sheer waste of time and unproductive anyway.