Do they know what we want?

We know Barisan Nasional and Pakatan Rakyat better than they know themselves.

BN ridicules the impossibility of Pakatan coalition partners working with each other within the confines of their own political ideologies. Three diametrically opposing political entities that BN hopes will be torn asunder by hudud and the realities of power sharing where race and religion, not needs, will decide who will be in government.

Pakatan is spoilt for choice. They are tripping over themselves as to what they should do next to expose the abuses and mismanagement in government by BN.

Does Pakatan start with exposing the need for greed amongst BN politicians and the corruption that goes with it or will Pakatan ‘educate’ the public on the massive abuse and misuse by BN of their political power to achieve their political agenda – that of remaining in government at all costs?

I have news for BN and Pakatan – We already know all this and more!

We know our politicians from both sides of the divide are so enamored with their own political agenda that they cannot see the forest for the trees!

Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak comes up with scores of transformation initiatives that he said would make our country, our people and our economy better. Not to be outdone, Pakatan too have their proposals that they say would take away much of the economic burden of the people.

BN and Pakatan say that the time for change is nigh – just as long as the change is for their own good – not ours!

BN and Pakatan are so desperately focused on trying to win government that they fail to understand what we want.

We want honest, decent and responsible politicians in government.

We do not want politicians who lie to us, politicians who abuse the trust we place in them, politicians who takes money that does not belong to them, politicians who are arrogant, politicians who do not understand the meaning of the phrase “servants of the people” and politicians who talk of family values, devotion to religion and god even as they fornicate outside their matrimonial bonds and deliberate on how they could use god to boost their political credentials.

We know all this and we also know the reality too.

We know that when all is said and done, it is BN and Pakatan that will decide our fate and the sorry future of our nation.

Our history has always shown this to be true, whether at state or federal level. Those who have political power do as they please because they can.

So how is it that our people are able to put history aside and work towards trying to bring about change?

Why do so many of us still participate in elections that we know are flawed? Why do we tolerate the Election Commission (EC) that openly favours the incumbent BN?

How have our people been able to engage themselves in the election process with such exuberance, enthusiastically embracing their political inclinations despite knowing that in the end it is really race, religion and money that will decide the outcome of this 13th general election? Certainly money!

We do all this because we passionately believe that all that is necessary for bad government to triumph is for us to do nothing….so we must still try.

After all there are still men of principle in politics…are there not?

Why are non-Malays enemies of BN?

Oct 23, 2012

Tan Sri Sanusi Junid’s revelation today about Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s economic policy is shocking. How can any Malaysian government base its policy on Hitlerian Germany’s anti-Jew measures? How can it equate non-Malays to Jews, to be sidelined economically in the pursuit of a richer Malay community?

And why have non-Malays, no less citizens of Malaysia, become enemies of the Barisan Nasional (BN) under Dr Mahathir? Is the current government also following Dr Mahathir’s line and think the non-Malays should be ostracised?

Come, sirs in Putrajaya, pray tell? Are we really a country that uses race like Hitler when conducting business? That anyone who isn’t Malay shouldn’t be allowed to compete or must be handicapped to ensure the Malays progress further?

Sir, what does that make the Malays? We are a race that have competed and can compete with the world but you, yes you in BN, sir, make us look so unworthy that we need policies to make sure we can do well.

Of course, Dr Mahathir can believe that the Jews are responsible for everything, like he said today, “The problem is that they (Jews) were the ones who created problems for us and the world because they disobeyed international law and got away with it.”

But do his policies mean the non-Malays are also like Jews? That they should be treated as enemies?

Will anyone in BN repudiate this grossly racist and unfair idea of Dr Mahathir and his cohorts?

We are Malaysians but your policies are meant to divide us, which is what the British were blamed for. It seems, however, that Dr Mahathir borrowed a leaf from our colonial master’s playbook.

No, sir, no Malaysian should be an enemy of the government of the day. No Malaysian should be denied his right to do anything on the basis of race. That is evil and diabolical.

If anyone persists along such lines, sir, then BN will lose the next general election. And deservedly so.

Malaysia a secular state contrary to Nazri’s remarks, say law experts

, Oct 23 — Malaysia is and has always been a secular state even though not expressly stated in the Federal Constitution because the country’s supreme law and founding document is secular, several law experts say as debate continues to storm over the mainly Muslim nation’s status.

The legal pundits refuted minister Datuk Seri Nazri Aziz’s remarks in Parliament yesterday that Malaysia is not a secular state because it had never been declared or endorsed as such and is wholly absent in the Constitution though he stopped short of labelling the country an Islamic state.

“It’s absolutely untrue,” said Tommy Thomas, regarded as one of the country’s foremost authorities on constitutional law.“To me, to say that Malaysia is not a secular state because the Federal Constitution does not say so is a real, oversimplistic argument. Just like the Federal Constitution does not say Malaysia is an Islamic state,” he toldThe Malaysian Insiderlast night. 

The veteran lawyer, who had studied the subject and presented an essay debunking Malaysia as an Islamic state at the Malaysian Law Conference seven years ago, said his research had shown that the country’s forefathers and the legal experts who helped draft the Constitution had intended the country remain secular even as it acknowledged the individual Malay state Rulers’ rights and power over religious matters which, he pointed out, was for the most part ceremonial.

Thomas pointed to a Pakistani Federal Court judge, Abdul Hamid, who was part of the five-man Reid Commission formed in 1956 to help draw up Malaysia’s Constitution and held the minority dissent on religion, did not go so far as to say Malaysia must have an Islamic state in its Constitution. 

He said Abdul Hamid’s remarks from then was the clearest indicator that the country should remain secular.

Abdul Hamid was the main proponent for including a provision that read: “Islam shall be the religion of the State of Malaya, but nothing in this Article shall prevent any citizen professing any religion other than Islam to profess, practice and propagate that religion, nor shall any citizen be under any disability by reason of his being not a Muslim.”

Thomas said Abdul Hamid, who was from Pakistan, which had gained its independence from Britain in 1947 — a good 10 years before Malaya — and had an Islamic Constitution that put it squarely as an Islamic state, had noted that such a proviso was “innocuous” and would not cause any “hardship” to anyone, but that the judge’s suggestion was rejected by the Conference of Rulers which was against the idea.

The lawyer of more than 30 years’ experience told The Malaysian Insider he still stands by his 2005 essay titled “Is Malaysia an Islamic State?” which concluded that the country was and remains secular, and that no one has disputed his argument to date.

“No one has ever written in to say it’s nonsense,” Thomas said, who blamed Malaysia’s fourth and longest-serving prime minister, Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad, for sparking the present confusion over Malaysia’s Islamic or secular state status.

The former Bar Council secretary-general noted in his 2005 essay that it was Dr Mahathir who unilaterally declared Malaysia to be an Islamic country in a political speech at the Gerakan party’s national delegates conference on September 29, 2001.

Dr Mahathir had single-handedly negated the secular pronouncements made by his predecessors including first prime minister and the country’s founding father Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra Al-Haj and third PM, Tun Hussein Onn, by saying: “Umno wishes to state loudly that Malaysia is an Islamic country. This is based on the opinion of ulamaks who had clarified what constituted as Islamic country. If Malaysia is not an Islamic country because it does not implement the hudud, then there are no Islamic countries in the world.”

Thomas’ views on Malaysia’s secularism found strong support with three other legal experts.

Former de facto law minister Datuk Zaid Ibrahim, who is among the most vocal opponents to the introduction of hudud law, the strict Islamic penal code, took to Twitter yesterday in an immediate response to Nazri’s remark.

“Constitution don’t define lots of things. It doesn’t define democracy, so does it mean we are not democratic?” the former lawyer who started Malaysia’s biggest private practice posed on his microblogging account @zaidibrahim.

“If Malaysia is neither secular or theocratic, then its whatever BN says it is,” said Zaid, referring to the ruling Barisan Nasional coalition.

Civil liberties lawyer Syahredzan Johan echoed the two law veterans.

“Just because the Federal Constitution does not have the word ‘secular’ does not mean that Malaysia is not a secular state. 

“Just like how the word ‘democracy’ does not appear in our Constitution, yet we are a country that practises parliamentary democracy,” he said in weighing in on the debate that raged in Parliament yesterday following Nazri’s remark.

Syahredzan stressed that Malaysia is secular because the Constitution is secular.

“An Islamic state would place the Quran as the highest authority, but our Constitution provides in Article 4 that the Constitution is the highest law of the land. 

“The validity of laws therefore must be measure upon the yardstick of the Constitution, and not Islamic principles, thus making the Constitution a secular one,” he said in an emailed response to The Malaysian Insider.

He pointed out that the Supreme Court had set a precedent in 1988 when it rejected an argument in the landmark case of Che Omar Che Soh, a Muslim drug trafficker facing the mandatory death sentence, that because Islam is the religion of the Federation, laws passed by Parliament must be imbued with Islamic principles and that the death penalty was void because it was not according to hudud, or Islamic law.

Tun Salleh Abas, who was then Lord President and head of the judiciary, had said in the landmark ruling that “however, we have to set aside our personal feelings because the law in this country is still what it is today, secular law, where morality not accepted by the law is not enjoying the status of the law.”

Just because the Federal Constitution does not have the word ‘secular’ does not mean that Malaysia is not a secular state. — Civil liberties lawyer Syahredzan Johan

Universiti Malaya law lecturer Azmi Sharom also agreed with Syahredzan’s view and went a step further to explain the confusing dual-track judicial system that allows for an Islamic or syariah court to be practised alongside the civil courts.

“Malaysia is a secular state in my point of view because ALL laws must be in line with the constitution and the Constitution is a secular document.

“We have a syariah system because a secular constitution allows it. We have Islamic government agencies but their behaviour is governed by the principles of a secular constitution,” he told The Malaysian Insider.

Azmi seemed confident that Malaysia’s secular status will remain unchallenged despite Nazri’s remark yesterday and Dr Mahathir’s 2001 declaration.

“The only way that Malaysia can lose its secular status is through a serious amendment of the Constitution and that will require two-thirds majority agreement in both Houses of Parliament and the agreement of the Conference of Rulers and the states of Sabah and Sarawak,” he said, and added: “Unlikely.”

But Syahrezan was less sure, noting that while legal eagles were splitting hairs over Malaysia’s Islamic versus secular state, a more worrisome trend had emerged in the courts whereby the civil courts appeared to be ceding their authority to the Islamic courts in disputes involving Muslims.

“We are seeing a trend lately to place what the authorities deem as ‘Islam’ on a higher pedestal, even higher than the Constitution itself.

“If the nation is as how the minister described it, ‘founded on the basis of an Islamic government’, then it makes it easier to justify unconstitutional laws and acts because they are ‘Islamic’,” he told The Malaysian Insider.

The up-and-coming lawyer said that the whole debate over the country’s secular or non-secular status was linked to hudud, which is being hotly debated in public in the run-up to the 13th general election that must be called by next April.

“Unfortunately, we seem to be dancing to the tune of those with political motives, who for whatever reasons want Malaysia to be transformed into a theocratic state, or at the very least be seen to champion such a cause.

“The fear is that these will be justified by ascribing extra-constitutional meanings to the words in Article 3, ‘religion of the Federation’, so much so that laws and acts that are unconstitutional would become permissible merely by attaching an Islamic label on them. 

“We may see more and more encroachments into the realm of fundamental liberties, and actions taken by authorities inconsistent with the Constitution or ultra vires their powers all in the name of religion,” said Syahredzan.

Islam’s special position

By Ding Jo-Ann  1 Feb 2010)

THE Home Ministry’s ban on the use of “Allah” by the Catholic Herald publication has once again raised the issue of Islam’s position in Malaysia.

Really?

“The special position of Islam is enshrined and protected under the constitution,” said senior federal counsel Mahamad Naser Disa during arguments in Herald’s suit against the Home Ministry in the High Court. “Allah is the holy name and a special verse in Islam. Any deviation to the holy verse of Allah is an insult to the religion of the country and the Federal Constitution,” he argued.

But does the constitution really place Islam in a “special position”? Was that the understanding of our nation’s founding leaders? And if not, how are these conclusions being justified?

Special position?

Some of the Herald‘s critics have been lambasting the Catholic Church for suing the government over the use of “Allah”. As Mahamad Naser argued, they say the Herald’sinsistence on the use of “Allah” diminishes Islam’s “special position” as enshrined in the constitution.

Muslim Lawyers Association president Zainul Rijal Abu Bakar cites his reasons for affirming Islam’s special position in the constitution:

1. Article 3(1) says Islam is the religion of the federation.

2. Islam is specifically mentioned in other parts of the constitution such as:

a) Article 11(4) relating to the control or restriction of the propagation of other religions among Muslims; and
b) Article 12(2) which allows the federal government to assist Islamic institutions.

3. No other religion has been specifically mentioned in the constitution except Islam.

4. The majority in Malaysia are Muslims.

But does the constitution actually state that Islam has a “special position”?

Zainul concludes that although Article 3(1) says other religions may practise their religions in peace and harmony, due to Islam’s special position, they can only do so without interfering with the peace and harmony of the practice of Islam.

The constitution

But where does it say in the constitution that Islam has a “special position”?

The correct answer is actually, nowhere.

This is unlike the “special position” of the Malays and natives of Sabah and Sarawak which is explicitly spelt out in Article 153 of the constitution.

By that measure, Christianity and Islam would both have special positions in Malaysia

It cannot be said that as Islam is the religion of Malay Malaysians and since the Malay Malaysians have a “special position”, therefore Islam also has a special position. By that measure, the religion of native Sabahans and Sarawakians, many of whom are Christians, would also have a special position.

In any case, if the constitution’s architects meant Islam to have a special position beyond what was stated in Article 3(1), wouldn’t they have made sure that the constitution said so?

The constitution in fact, suggests otherwise. Article 3(4) states that “nothing in [Article 3] derogates from any other provision of this constitution.” This means that Islam as the religion of the federation does not diminish any other part of the constitution, including the fundamental liberties enshrined in Part II, in any way.

Historical documents

Contemporaneous documents during the drafting of the constitution also demonstrate that Islam was never meant to have a “special position” as claimed. There were in fact clear assurances that other faith communities would not be hampered in the practice of their religions.

“There was universal agreement that if any such provision [on Islam being the religion of the federation] were inserted it must be made clear that it would not in any way affect the civil rights of the non-Muslims,” said a report by the Reid Commission, the drafters of the Malaysian constitution. (Corrected) The Reid Commission held extensive consultations with various interested parties, including the Alliance which preceeded the Barisan Nasional, and the Malay rulers.

Indeed, Universiti Malaya historian Joseph M Fernando cites written evidence that Umno representatives specifically assured their non-Muslim counterparts that Article 3(1) would have “symbolic” significance rather than practical effect.

Fernando quotes the remarks of former MCA president Tun Tan Siew Sin in Parliament: “[Islam as the religion of the federation] does not in any way derogate from the principle, which has always been accepted, that Malaya will be a secular state and that there will be complete freedom to practise any other religion.”

Court judgment

A 1988 Supreme Court decision by former Lord President Tun Salleh Abas also clarified what “Islam as the religion of the federation” means.

After an examination of the historical facts and documents relating to the constitution, his judgment stated: “…we have to set aside our personal feelings because the law in this country is still what it is today, secular law, where morality not accepted by the law [does not enjoy] the status of law.”

Honestly speaking…

So why is the senior federal counsel from the government taking a position contrary to the constitution, historical documents and a Supreme Court judgment? How could he argue against the historical documents that say that Article 3(1) was not meant to give Islam a “special position” in Malaysia and that non-Muslims are guaranteed freedom to practise their own religions?

Do we become an Islamic state everytime a prime minister
says so? (Tunku Abdul Rahman pic source: public domain | Wiki Commons)

To be fair, Mahamad Naser may only be supporting the position of his superiors. After all, Datuk Seri Najib Razak, Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi and Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamadhave all stated that Malaysia is an Islamic state. This is in direct contrast to Tunku Abdul Rahman, our first prime minister, and Tun Hussein Onn, our third, who expressly said that Malaysia is not an Islamic state.

Can the constitution’s meaning be changed by prime ministerial decree or popular opinion? If the government says it long enough and loud enough, does that mean we eventually have to accept that Islam being the religion of the federation means it has a special position? And therefore the “peace and harmony” of Islam must be considered first, before the peaceful practice of other religions?

Instead of trying to read meanings into the constitution which were never there, the government should openly and honestly state its intentions. If its position is that Islamshould have a special position in the constitution, it should propose constitutional amendments which can then be debated in Parliament. At least Malaysians would then be clear about the government’s stand.

If the government is unwilling to attempt to amend the constitution to correctly reflect their position, it should stop manipulating the electorate to accept as fact a constitutional myth unsupported by historical evidence. 

Plotting its own downfall

The government is going to great lengths to tar its 'enemies' but the roof may fall on its own head.

The government is trying very hard to sell the implausible story that there is a dastardly plot brewing to stir up trouble in the country. In a report to the people, it named all the culprits which had received foreign funds to finance their schemes to ostensibly topple the prime minister and the government he leads. As usual, the ubiquitous foreign devils are all mixed up in our affair.

Did the government build up a convincing case? Hardly. The tale spun in its official mouthpiece inevitably invites sneering comment and dowright derision. It is unlikely that readers all over the country broke out in cold sweat when they saw the screaming headline. The hullabaloo is yet another feeble, futile attempt to throw mud at any organisation that dares criticise the establishment.

But the case against the so-called enemies of the state is weak. All those who spoke up and stood up are not selling the country to foreign parties. They are fighting for just causes that the government has repeatedly attempted to ignore or bury. Thousands of Malaysians took to the streets to press for clean and fair elections without the prompting of foreign powers. Many news reports critical of the government were published without being influenced by hidden hands. The momentous happenings are all local productions.

The fear that there is a plot to create chaos in the country is a tacit admission that all the unsavoury news about the conduct of public affairs is having an effect on the governing powers. The shocking revelations in the alternative media are just too much for the ruling party to handle. Someone must be fingered and what better way to do it than to cook up a “foreign plot” behind all these developments.

The political helmsmen are skating on thin ice with their crackdown on civil societies and the online media. By pursuing a campaign of mindless intimidation and blind persecution, they are only adding more fuel to fire: seekers after truth are more determined than ever to uncover more muck. The common citizens are more than willing to hit the streets again to highlight injustices and wrongdoings. No bad government can survive a citizens’ wrath.

A cornered animal

The general election will soon arrive and this is one crucial battle that will determine the fate of the ruling class. The incumbent lords must surely be aware that the wind is not blowing in their direction or the tide flowing their way and that the day of reckoning is at hand. It is this frightening prospect that is making them extremely edgy. Like a cornered animal, they have become dangerous. The “foreign plot” tale is one such rabid measure to ensure political survival at any cost.

In the run-up to the biggest electoral clash, it is very likely that the people will be bombarded with many more murky stories of American or Jewish-inspired conspiracies, communist creeps, planted spies, puppet masters. All those civil society groups will come under more intense attacks to “disarm” them and render them useless. The state-controlled media will be used to the hilt to villify and demonise the intended targets. All truth will disappear from the pages of the newspapers. Some prominent figures will probably stand in the dock – for the crime of questioning authority.

But when a government has fallen from grace, no amount of propaganda will save it from electoral retribution. Anything that issues from its mouth will be treated with amusement, at best, and scorn, at worst. The latest government plot to plot the downfall of its “enemies” simply does not carry any weight. It rings hollow. It will backfire. It will only reinforce public distrust of all official versions and accounts. People have been reading the truth elsewhere long ago.

NGOs and online news portals have become the main sources of information on anything to do with abuse of power, corruption, illegal amassing of wealth, shady deals, misuse of taxpayers’ money, police misconduct. More and more people are turning to them because they put little or no faith in the official organs of public opinion. They are in the vanguard of the movement for truth and that is what makes the government quakes. The government is merely fighting a rearguard action.

The corruption of Mahathir:

A few years ago Bangkok Post had published an article with the title as “The corruption of Mahathir by George Soros “ and its good to circulate this once in a while to remind people how the country has been damaged by Dr M, UMNO and his cronies.

George Soros is not only one of the best investors in the world but very well informed too. He has spelt clearly what Malaysians have known all the while. 

Malaysia with all the riches in raw materials should have a stronger currency but what started one for one equivalent with S'pore 30 yrs ago now has lost out to S'pore currency by 2.3 times.

Now Malaysians know why........Soros has explained in very great detail..... Of course one cannot get to read this in the main media in Malaysia .

Taxpayers and voters were made to pay for his visionionary expenses enriching selected vendors along the way all paid by taxpayer or rakyat's money. 


The corruption of Mahathir: 

SOROS' REPLY TO MAHATHIR 

Adapted from Bangkok Post (Not published locally)

I have always said Dr Mahathir is a menace to his own people. Now only you can see the effects of his foolishness when the ringgit has halved its value overnight and your economy goes kaput. Single handedly you have caused hardship to millions of your own people. You have built useless mega projects at tremendous cost to the country.

The telecoms tower in Kuala Lumpur and the highest building in the world show how stupid you are. Not only does it cause massive traffic jam, it has totally no purpose.If you need high ground for telecoms antennae a nearby mountain is there for free.

This tower has no purpose from the ground up to 300 metres. The satelites make this totally unneccesary. A fool and his money are soon parted. The only thing is you are the fool and the money belongs to Malaysians. You make 20% in every project, you have real estate in Japan and billions of shares corruptly acquired.

Your 3 sons are worth 8 billion US$. Where do they get this money? Of course, corruption.

You are known as the Marcos of Malaysia, having enriched yourself to the tune of billions.

You dare to shed crocodile tears during UMNO delegates meeting about the ills of corruption.

Yet you are the most corrupt of all the prime ministers before you. A thief is crying thief and hopes people look the other way. Who dares to say anything when the chief is caught with his hands in the candy jar?

You said wisdom is not the monopoly of the West. So is foolishness. You have more foolishness than most people would believe. Billions are used to build two high rise Petronas buildings that benefit nobody. They now stand tall, a symbol of stupidity and irresponsibility. Instead they just add on to traffic jams. What is this reclamation of 10 islands off Kedah? Totally absurd and stupid. Of course your benefit is 20%. And the bridge across from Malacca to Sumatra across international waters?

Why not build a bridge to the moon? I am sure you still can get your 20%. You called me a Moron. How can a Moron make so much money. By allowing short selling and borrowing millions of shares from your banks we fund managers made millions out of your inexperience and poor regulations.

You lose all Malaysians' money, therefore you are the Moron. Now you know too late and start crying over spilt milk.

In Australia you are known as the recalcitrant ego maniac; in UKthe corrupt bastard because of your stupid purchase of our movie studio and the 290 million ringgit Lotus racing car plant and the shady Pergau dam loans from the UK. They are useless to us and you still want to buy them.

What about buying British reject submarines through your agent, of course. The agent/ broker is designed to make millions out of the Malaysian government..
Your purchase of our battleships is at least 50% more than others are paying. Your purchase of 9 hospitals from UK lock, stock and barrel does not support your local architects or your industry and the British send you obsolete medical equipment. The design is atrocious, one end to the other is half a kilometer and there is no CT-scan, an absolute necessity.

In the UK your face appears in no less than 17 newspapers as a corrupt dictator. In Malaysia you are known as the (IBM) International Big Mouth. In Japan they call you the 'smallest one' (brain size). In Pacific islands, the Santa Claus (giving advice left and right). In south America they call you the parrot (he talks a lot but does not know what it is about). In Manila the living Marcos.

In Malaysia they are spending millions to lure tourists and you talk rubbish scaring every foreigner away. When he is dumb he is doubted a fool, when he opens his mouth it removes all doubt."

While I agree the West does not have the monopoly to wisdom, your actions are not the wisest either. Your EAEC has totally no support even in Asean. Your South-South dialogue meets with the same fate and what is this I hear of the Bridge from Peninsula Malaysia to Sumatra covering 20 miles across International shipping lane?
How crazy can one get? Even the Japanese don't have the money. This world's stupidity seems to be concentrated in one man's mind - yours.

The multimedia super corridor - MSC -. Well in USA its Most Stupid Concept because we Americans, would have thought of it light years before. Even if it makes money, we can copy this concept can't we?

Why do you want to spend your hard-earned money doing questionable projects? It will be like the Bakun project. Abandoned fund wasted and another white elephant. I always say politicians should not be involved in business. Your ministers are also businessmen and almost every official is enriching himself. Look at Rafidah Aziz, selling thousands of Approved Permits (APs) for cars each worth 20-30 thousand Malaysian dollars. Why not your government sell them and make the money? She has acquired millions of shares meant for bumis for free before she agrees to list them.

Look at your Selangor Chief Minister collecting millions for approving high rise buildings from businessman. He is worth a few billions. Unfortunately he was caught with a few million pocket money in Australia. Every Chief minister is awarding useless projects to his cronies then collecting secret pay offs on the side.

The Land Development Boards and the Economic Development Boards are used to bail out any loses suffered by politicians. The profits they keep, the loses they force the Government bodies to absorb. How can your poor ever close the gap when every good deal is snatched by your politicians? How can your country get out of poverty if all the billions of corruption money is taken out of the country?

Look at the Sarawak Chief Minister selling billions worth of timber concessions under the table; selling every piece of state land to businessmen without tender; using his own companies to obtain lucrative government contracts; selling approval signatures for a fee 'you pay I approve'. He has 8 billion US stashed overseas. Thousands of acres of land are given to one or two companies while thousands of poor people still live in cardboard makeshift homes; have no water and shit into the river..

Thousands of acres of land are sold to companies for plantations while the natives do not have even one acre to their name. He is selling sand near the beaches to one company for earth filling and then ask the government to spend millions to protect the coastline when erosion occurs.

He lost 300 million of the Sarawak government money trying to make computer chips. He has built a port in Northern Sarawak town in water so shallow it needs dredging every year. The Prime Minister built highways without tender, your cronies get the deal and the price double. Your Langkawi airport runway was built double the cost by your own company, Ekran.

The Malaysian nation has lost at least 30 billions during your last 10 years of corrupt rule.

One billion lost from the purchase of phantom Skyhawk war planes nobody has ever seen (are they still in the Nevada desert, USA?). 

3 billion lost from the London tin scandal (you thought you could corner the London tin market without knowing the Americans have a stockpile! Stupidity at its best. 

6 billion Perwaja steel mill where nobody even knows where the money goes,

3 billion bank Bumiputra scandal when George Tan bribed all the bank officials to lend him the money.. 

6 billion forex lost by Bank Negara (the fool and his money are soon parted) and 6 billion to build three of the world's tallest buildings (built by Japanese and Koreans and furniture imported from France - not Malaysia) 

and 1 billion lost from purchase of British warships including fees paid to the broker and under the table.. 

Add the 10 billion you stole and 5 billion taken by Ministers.

In the 1997 the World Journalists meeting voted Dr Mahathir the Prime Minister of the Decade. It sounded strange to everybody until it was revealed those who voted against are threatened by IRD officers and with losing their jobs. In New York the United Nations 1997 meeting, the most corrupt Prime Minister of the decade is President Suharto and second Dr Mahathir (Actually Dr Mahathir should take first place but bribed the Indonesians to take honour of Number One.

There are Fifty thousand of your university students not given places in Malaysia but are good enough for places overseas resulting in billions of dollars lost. The British and the Australians are thinking how stupid. Your best students are sent overseas raising their standards while as in most countries the best are kept in local universities and the rejects sent overseas..

A university student in Hong Kong is much more prestigeous than any Australian counterpart. You have been colonised by the British so long you cannot even educate your own people. Look at Hong Kong or Singapore, less than 5% study overseas. All the money saved. Your country could save billions if every student overseas is recalled to a local university, and at the same time raising your own standards.

Your people are still without shoes, without land to farm, without homes, bathing in rivers shitting in holes in the ground, without water and electricity. Your cities are concrete jungles without greenery and open spaces. Your KL is jammed with traffic. Yet you still keep on building high rises. You should come down from the clouds and stop daydreaming and firmly plant your feet in the ground. Your schools are cramped 500 students to an acre and thousands of acres are given free to some politicians who leave them idle. Your parks are being taken by politicians to build shophouses and every cabinet minister is a land-grabbing businessman who builds roads only to their cronies' land.

The Malaysians' Prayer, "Ya Allah, we thank you for your gifts of timber, oil and grain. But then the devil sent us corrupt Mahathir without a Brain and look we are back to square one again. So just take Dr Mahathir back to Hell And we will be alive and well."

In China people have been shot for embezzling one thousand dollars.With 8 billion you have stolen, therefore you would be shot 80 thousand times. Now you are leading an anti-corruption campaign. We all know what you should do. Look yourself in the mirror. You see the crooked you. Then use your left hand and handcuff your right hand. You have put the opposition leader and his son in jail when they said in parliament you are the richest PM in the world. And his colleague Mr Karpal Singh too for 2 years.

So I get a reward or bribe if I now say you are the poorest PM in this world? Your 3 sons are sitting on the board of directors of more than 200 companies. They must have been educated in Harvard school of business and obtained distintions? Or is it "you don't know me, you don't do business in Malaysia" law that applies. Billions of ringgit of Employee's Provident Fund and public Petronas funds are used to bail out your sons who make losses investing in every venture you thought you could make money. 

How unethical and corrupt. Every one of your politicians is sitting on the board of tens of companies making thousands without any effort, lending their VIP names to borrow millions from local banks without collateral.. Now these have become non- performing loans. Now you want more then 20 million Malaysians to sacrifice for the folly of ONE man? Why not the fool resign and admit he wasted and took most of the money. I could teach you how to put your economy on track but first you must apologize to the Malaysian people.

Govt paid half-a-million ringgit more for RIVs?

Sept 11,2012: The Sultan of Johor’s claim that he had bought a Rapid Intervention Vehicles (RIV) some half-a-million ringgit cheaper than the price paid by the Defence ministry has brought back concerns over lack of transparency in military spending.

However, Defense minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi was far from denying the claim when he said the Sultan’s criticism was being taken positively.

Last Saturday, Sultan Ibrahim Ismail who awarded the RIV to the Special Forces Regiment of which he is its Colonel Commandant expressed his disappointment that military equipment was lacking in quality yet purchased at exorbitant prices.

“Do not supply low quality equipment which are priced multiple times higher,” the ruler reportedly said.

Zahid said his ministry would probe into the difference in prices of the RIV bought by the Sultan at RM150,000 and the one sold by the supplier at RM690,000.

“I will scrutinise to see if there are differences in specifications,” he added.

Unusually high prices paid for military equipment had led Pakatan Rakyat to call for the setting up of a Parliament Oversight Committee to review and monitor defence expenditure.

Last year, PR questioned the purchase of six littoral combatant ships (LCS) after the cost ballooned from by 50 percent from RM6 billion to RM9 billion. The Defence ministry was also told to explain the acquisition of 257 armoured personnel vehicles (APVs) costing RM7.55 billion last year.