P36: Majoriti yang akan tentukan

Sepertimana yang disuarakan oleh A Kadir Jasin di dalam nukilan terkininya, saya mengulangi sentimen yang sama berkenaan Pilihanraya Kecil K.T P36 kelak. Usah dirisau sangat dengan undi minoriti, yang tetap utama adalah pengundi majoriti yang terdiri dari orang Melayu di P36 sendiri.

Sebaik sahaja digembar-gemburkan oleh bakal calon BN bagi PRK tersebut bahawa pengundi minoriti akan tentukan siapa yang bakal menang nanti, terus sahaja terserlah tahap keyakinan diri beliau dan parti beliau di dalam menangani usaha mengekalkan kerusi parlimen yang dimiliki mereka sebelum ini. PAS dan Pakatan Rakyat yang di dalam keadaan kelam-kabut akibat masalah dalaman yang kian meruncing antara mereka pun pasti tersenyum riang kerana kenyataan tersebut.

Saya berkesempatan berada di kesemua kawasan Parlimen di negeri Terengganu, termasuk P36 sendiri, semasa PRU 12 yang lalu, semasa 10 hari terakhir kempen dan hari pengundian itu sendiri. Yang pastinya Terengganu yang seingat saya masih lagi merupakan "Malay heartland", adalah tetap berkenaan sentimen pihak majoriti berkenaan dan bukan sebaliknya. Siapa yang lebih meyakinkan golongan pengundi majoriti, pihak itulah yang akan menjadi wakil parlimen bagi P36 kelak. Kata mat saleh, "It's that simple".

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Selamat menyambut Maal Hijrah 1430H kepada semua pengunjung blog ini. Semoga kita semua kelak akan menjadi insan yang lebih baik dari tahun-tahun yang sebelumnya dan akan sentiasa diberkati Allah senantiasa.

Hendak seribu daya...

...tak hendak seribu dalih.

Kepada pengamal-pengamal undang-undang yang berada di dalam Jawatankuasa disiplin UMNO, saya menyeru kepada mereka untuk membaca penulisan DSN di dalam postingnya yang terkini, Conduct Unbecoming of a Member, berkenaan dengan kononnya wujud permasalahan perundangan yang dihadapi oleh Jawatankuasa Disiplin UMNO di dalam menangani isu politik wang dan prosedur yang berkaitan di dalam menghukum mereka yang terlibat. Saya juga ada menulis mengenainya di sini.

Jangan kelihatan seolah-olah hendak melepas tangan begitu sahaja dan menyalahkan kekurangan di dalam peraturan dan kod etika demi mengelakkan dipersalahkan akibat kedaifan penguatkuasaan dan hukuman ke atas mereka yang bersalah.

Di dalam menjalankan dan menguatkuasakan undang-undang buatan manusia ini, loopholes perundangan boleh dicari, dan loopholes perundangan juga boleh dikambus. Apa yang perlu adalah keinginan dan azam dan sedikit 'ingenuity'.

Dengan menguar-uarkan kekurangan di dalam kod etika UMNO itu sendiri telah memberikan persepsi yang amat buruk sekali kepada usaha 'reform' yang kononnya sedang dijalankan. Apa taknya, dengan mengeluarkan kenyataan sedemikian seolah-olah satu carte blanche diberikan kepada mereka yang mengamalkan amalan sogok-menyogok untuk meneruskannya sehinggalah satu pindaan dilakukan ke atas kod etika berkenaan.

Ingatlah kod etika hanyalah satu guideline berkaitan etika di dalam urusan sesuatu pertubuhan. Tidak lebih dari itu.

P/S

Takziah saya ucapkan kepada kerabat DiRaja Negeri Sembilan dan seluruh rakyat negeri berkenaan di atas kemangkatan Yang Di-Pertuan Besar Negeri Sembilan, Tuanku Ja’afar Ibni Almarhum Tuanku Abdul Rahman.

Al-Fatihah

2 sets of laws for corruption?

Apparently, there are two sets of laws in this country for corruption and bribery. There is the law of the land and there is the law of the UMNO land.

One law, which is accidentally the law of the land, the Anti-Corruption law is not applicable in UMNO land due to 'ambiguous wordings' in their Code of Ethics. That's what they said lah. My God! Who taught those lawyers who sat in UMNO Disciplinary Committee their laws? Don't tell me Part III of the Anti-Corruption Act 1997 has its limitation and therefore not applicable in UMNO land.

Read There is flaw in Umno ethics code, says Rithauddeen

Ini macam pun ada ka?

UMNO, macam-macam ada!

P/s: if any of the distinguished members who sat in the committee needs a refresher course in Societies & Association Laws & (how to read it with) the Penal Laws, please do contact me. Lawyer Kampung will conduct it for free...hahaha

Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays!

To all of my Christian friends, I wish you all a Merry Christmas & to the others, Happy Holidays!

IJN: Misi Tambahan untuk Paklah

Khabar angin semata-mata kata paklah berkaitan dengan desas-desus bahawa dia hendak teruskan menjadi Perdana Menteri selepas Mac 2009. Saya rasa dia lebih kurang orang puteh cakap, dah tak mau "overstay his welcome". Baguslah kalau macam tu...

Baca Pak Lah will not stay on as PM

Sebenarnya ramai yang akan setuju bahawa lesen untuk terus bertakhta bagi paklah dah expired malam 8hb Mac 2008 lagi. Tapi nak buat macam mana dia banyak lagi "perjuangan yang belum selesai". Kenalah extend sikit lagi. Kalau tidak siapa lagi yang boleh menghalang perkara-perkara macam niat terkini Sime Darby mahu ambil alih IJN dari MOF, bukan? Paklah lah saja harapan kita.... ...hmmmm.....

PM: Take over of IJN only allowed if poor taken care

Sikit punya garang, sampai IJN pun keluarkan statement berikut;

KUALA LUMPUR: Sime Darby Bhd has assured that the fee structure and services provided by the National Heart Institute (IJN) will remain the same for poor and middle-class patients as well as civil servants if it succeeded in taking over the facility.

Baca lagi Sime Darby: IJN's fee structure will remain

Betul ke? Jangan pula esok-esok nanti bila dah tukar board of directors, tukar management, tukar misi & visi, tukar cerita lain pula ye!

Tapi saya rasa lagi garang, lagi afdal kalau paklah boleh kata "jangan" sebagai kata muktamad dan arahkan Sime Darby untuk buka hospital sendiri sajalah. Takkan kerajaan kita yang cekap dan hebat ini tidak mampu untuk tadbirkan IJN untuk terus berdaya saing dan tetap unggul di persada perubatan kardio-vaskular di rantau ini tanpa perlu di "over-privatised" kan pula oleh Sime Darby, bukan?

Paklah, alang-alang dah extend lesen untuk bertakhta dari 8 Mac 2008 hingga Mac 2009 dan alang-alang semangat berkobar-kobar untuk bekerja di saat-saat akhir ini, apa kata kalau paklah tambahkan satu lagi misi, pastikan IJN tetap milik kerajaan, milik rakyat....

Pembangkang tidak setuju pembelian Camry di Perak

Ahli Dewan Undangan Negeri (ADUN) Kawasan Manong, Datuk Ramly Zahari berkata, walaupun kos membaiki serta menyelenggara Proton Perdana tinggi, pembelian kereta tersebut menyebabkan mata wang negara mengalir dalam negeri.

"Saya anggap tindakan kerajaan negeri ini sebagai tidak patriotik dan melanggar arahan Kerajaan Pusat sebelum ini," katanya.

Baca lagi Camry: Kerajaan Perak tidak patriotik

Seronok jadi pembangkang ni, bukan susah kerjanya. Bangkang dan terus bangkang! Bagaimana pula dengan rakan-rakan pembangkang yang menjadi kerajaan negeri di Terengganu? Yang lagi hebat dengan pembelian kereta-kereta jerman mereka? Patriotik dan ikut arahan kerajaan pusat ke?

Kemaskini 4.48pm

Kerajaan negeri Perak pertahankan keputusan mereka, baca Perak defends its Camry decision

Apa-apa pun, isu yang sebenar adalah terhadap pihak Proton sendiri. Perlulah lakukan sesuatu untuk elakkan alasan-alasan standard yang sering diberikan apabila keputusan dibuat menolak penggunaan kereta buatannya terutamanya Perdana. Mungkin model serba baru bagi kelas 2000cc ke atas adalah jawapannya.

Play nice!

The PM is asking his BN counterparts to play nice.

”Consensus is the best approach in solving problems,” he said, adding that the coalition’s strength lay in the consensus of its members.

He also said Barisan practised democracy, power sharing and tolerance, emphasised what was common among all its members and avoided differences which could cause problems.

”This has been our choice before and this must continue to be our choice today,” he added.

Read PM: BN parties must be careful about how they raise sensitive issues

Will they listen to him now? For a leader who is deeply in love with the word "reform", he sure has been quite distrait about the dire need to reform within the coalition that he himself is leading currently. He has been preoccupied lately with reforming other branch of government that he forgotten to reform the very body that he is leading. The coalition where its members also make up the executive branch of the government. The way things are currently, the executive should be the one reforming, from top to bottom, left to right!

Where has the mantra "consultation, consensus & compromise" gone to, eh? BN, lead by example-lah! Show some maturity. Stop making fuss internally over matters that have been codified and provided for under the law.

Show the people that there are still some level of compromise, consensus & consultation within the coalition. Unless of course, you guys are no more interested in leading the nation come PRU-13, by all means, do proceed with all that public squabbles.

BN, you people still remember how is it to play nice among yourself, don't you?

Do you really want this as your legacy, paklah?

In rushing to stamp his mark, paklah has yet again managed to shoot himself in the foot. Many have questioned about the unnecessary haste in tabling the Judicial Appointment Commission (JAC) bill just for the sake of accommodating the outgoing Prime Minister's desperate attempt to make good his name in the history books. Now the former CJ, Tun Abdul Hamid has made quite a strong argument why the JAC will never meet its raison d'etre in the first place.

How could the Judiciary where the appointment of its highest ranking members will still be under the control of the Executive be seen in future as a reformed judiciary?

"It also means when it comes to appointing the CJ, the meeting will only be attended by a federal court judge and four nonjudges who are appointed by the Prime Minister.

"Is this the real purpose of the Bill? I am just bringing it up so that the MPs can ponder about it," he stressed.

Read more Judicial Appointments Commission can lead to problems: ex CJ

Are we on the right path of judicial reform, paklah? Are you really sure you want this to be your "legacy"?

Is the JAC bill, in all its current "splendour", the right path towards the "salvation of our judiciary", the righteous path towards judicial independence? You tell me.

Updated 8.38pm

Paklah denies that he is having any kind of an ego trip to stamp his mark in history, by rushing the tabling of "his" reform bills and merely "acting collectively" with his fellow pembesar(s) as the government of the day by providing for what the rakyat demand. He has this to say;

Abdullah denied a suggestion that he wanted to create a lasting legacy to the country’s judiciary and legal systems.

“I have never associated myself with the creation of a legacy. You’ve heard what the people had said, so we decided to do something about it,” he added. Read more here.

Permit me to say this Mr. Prime Minister, whatever mess you and your administration left behind during your tenure in office IS your legacy to us. Thank you for all that sir!

Read also SatD's The Idiot Logic Test on Malaysian Judicial Appointment Commission Bill

Ahmad Said & 'Monsoon Cup'nya!

Dahulu cakap lain, sekarang sudah lain pula nadanya!

Ahmad said Terengganu would continue to host the Monsoon Cup as it had boosted the locals' livelihood.

"We expect the event to draw more spectators to this beautiful state."

Baca lagi Monsoon Cup success earns PM's praise

Nampak gayanya tak sia-sialah Monsoon Cup di Terengganu selama ini...

Salam Eidul Adha

Selamat Hari Raya Aidil Adha dan selamat menjalankan ibadah korban kepada semua pengunjung blog ini yang beragama islam dan selamat bercuti kepada yang lain.

Landslide in Bukit Antarabangsa

Here we go again! Another landslide near the Highland Towers tragedy. Make doa & prayers to those still missing. Live blog reporting from Dunia Tiger's TANAH RUNTUH DI BKT ANTARABANGSA

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Massive landslide at Bukit Antarabangsa,

14 banglo tertimbus tanah runtuh di Bukit Antarabangsa

Three dead in Bukit Antarabangsa landslide

KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 6 — Three people, including a mother and her two-month-old baby, have been confirmed dead in a massive landslide in Bukit Antarabangsa early today.

Police also said eight others are missing and 15 injured in the 4am landslide that swept and buried 14 houses in Jalan Bukit Mewah and Jalan Mewah Utama.

Rescue officials said 92 residents have been saved from the tonnes of earth and mud in the landslide believed to be triggered by heavy rains in the Klang Valley in the past few weeks.

The injured and the remains of the dead have been rushed to the Kuala Lumpur Hospital.

Some 160 personnel from the police, army, Ampang Jaya Municipal Council and medical personnel are involved in the ongoing search and rescue operation.

The landslide happened near the Highland Towers tragedy just five days shy of 15 years ago that killed 48 people when Tower One collapsed.

Extract from The Malaysian Insider

The PM reacted "This would incur the wrath of developers and individual land owners but enough is enough,” he told reporters after visiting the landslide-hit areas on Saturday afternoon.

Read PM: 'Enough is enough, stop the hillside projects'

View Pics of the incident at Paneh Miang's blog here


Updated 8.42 pm

By the way according to the Federal Court rulings in the Highland Towers case, municipal councils shall not be liable for the losses incurred to anyone should a building collapse. The court ruled that they have blanket immunity under Section 95 (2) of the Street, Drainage & Building Act 1974 (Act 133) from claims and liabilities whether from the pre-collapse or post-collapse period. One of the reasoning given was that if the local councils were made liable, it would open the floodgates to further claims for economic loss, and this would deplete the council’s resources meant for the provision of basic services and infrastructure. The usual public versus private interests issue.

Now, what if there is negligence on the part of any municipal councils? Should they be allowed to hide behind section 95 (2)?

Section 95 (2) of the Street, Drainage & Building Act 1974 reads;

"The State Authority, local authority and any public officer or officer or employee of the local authority shall not be subject to any action, claim, liabilities or demand whatsoever arising out of any building or other works carried out in accordance with the provision of this Act and any by-laws made thereunder or by reason of the fact that such building works or plans thereof are subject to inspection and approval by the State Authority, local authority, or such public officer or officer or employee of the State Authority or the local authority and nothing in this Act or any by-laws made thereunder shall make it obligatory for the State Authority of the local authority to inspect any building, building works or materials or the site of any proposed building to ascertain that that the provisions of this Act or any by-laws made thereunder are complied with of that plans ,certificates and notices submitted to him are accurate."

A time has come for the authorities concerned to review the law perhaps?

Read also RantingsbyMM's How's This for Sensitivity?

Mengata Dulang, Paku Serpih!

Oh now you want to make good of the Sedition Act, do you? You went on to say that if Mukhriz wants to publicly pursue his idea of a single school system he must get the constitution repealed prior doing so. If not he is in contempt of the laws of the land, namely the constitution & the sedition act.

My, my, my! Who was it that has been saying the sedition law is archaic? And that the same should have been repealed long time ago. Please take a good look in the mirror & pray tell, all the while who is the one being very vocal in criticizing particular portion of the Federal Constitution namely Article 153? Who was that? Did your goodself & the gang got the constitution repealed before going on a shooting spree these couple of months attacking the above provision of the constitution?

Unker Kit went on further in his blog, and said that he did not want to deal with the merit & demerit of the idea. Obviously he is more interested in lambasting the messenger. Hey, what do you expect, huh? Once an opposition always an opposition. You just can't change that mentality.

What is so seditious about calling for greater unity? What is so seditious about having Bahasa Malaysia as the only medium for schools? Go & have a good read of Article 152 of the Federal Constitution.

Article 152(1)(a) and (b) reads;

“The national language shall be the Malay language and shall be in such script as Parliament may by law provide:

Provided that *(the proviso)

(a) no person shall be prohibited or prevented from using (otherwise than for official purposes), or from teaching or learning, any other language; and

(b) nothing in this Clause shall prejudice the right of the Federal Government or of any State Government to preserve and sustain the use and study of the language of any other community in the Federation.”

*emphasis is mine

The following is what was further suggested by Mukhriz:

“We can make it compulsory that the Chinese and Indians study their own language in their mother tongue while these two languages can be optional for Malay students to learn or we can make it compulsory for students to learn at least three languages.”

Isn't that in accordance with the proviso of Article 152? What is so seditious about an idea that is accordance with the supreme law of the nation? Where's the wrong in that? Any rights being deprived by that suggestion? By the way Unker Kit, you have made MCA, MIC & UMNO & the idea of BN to be relevant again with your recycle rhetoric. One additional ammo for the coming by-election in KT for them. I'm sorry to say, you have been falling for the same trap over & over again!

Would Kit Siang be attending UMNO General Assembly next March?

I for one would love to see Kit Siang attending the next UMNO General Assembly. Would there be an invitation for the senior opposition politician & if there is one would he be attending the same?

KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 1 - DAP parliamentary leader Lim Kit Siang has shot back at Umno vice president Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin for asking Datuk Zaid Ibrahim to explain his presence at the PKR congress.

"The favourite in the contest for Umno Deputy President and therefore Deputy Prime Minister-designate next March should be an example of inclusive thinking, greater openness and tolerance," Lim said. Read more Kit Siang slams Muhyiddin for not being inclusive.

Read also from Kit Siang's blog Muhyiddin’s ultimatum to Zaid - rise of exclusive, intolerant and petty-mindedness in Umno leadership

And in order to set an example of "inclusive thinking, greater openness and tolerance" (as per his own words), he could start with openly supporting the call by Mukhriz for a single stream Malaysian school system at the Dewan Rakyat today, read Mukhriz says vernacular schools should be abolished

What say you Unker Kit?