From New York Times

The Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim and another leader of his party were expected to be charged Tuesday in relation to a protest last month in which the police fired tear gas and water cannons to disperse thousands of demonstrators calling for free and fair elections.

Mr. Anwar and Azmin Ali, deputy president of the People’s Justice Party, received a summons on Monday informing them that they would be charged in court Tuesday morning, said Ibrahim Yaacob, Mr. Anwar’s chief of staff.

Mr. Ibrahim said the summons stated that Mr. Anwar and Mr. Azmin would be charged with participating in a street protest, which is illegal under the peaceful assembly act, and for breaching a court order by inciting protesters to break through barriers.

The street protest, one of the largest in Malaysia in recent years, turned violent after demonstrators broke through barriers around Independence Square in Kuala Lumpur on April 28.

More than 500 people were arrested, and some demonstrators have complained that they were beaten by the police during the rally, which was organized by the Coalition for Clean and Fair Elections, a group of 84 organizations calling for major reforms to the country’s election system.

The government has pledged to introduce reforms to the election system, but the group, known as Bersih – “clean” in Malay – argues that those measures will not be enough to ensure that the next elections, which are expected to be called within months, are conducted fairly.

Bersih organizers estimated that 250,000 people attended the protest, but the police put the figure around 50,000.

Before the protest, the police had obtained a court order banning anyone from entering Independence Square.

Participating in a street protest is punishable by a fine of 10,000 ringgit, or $3,200. It was unclear whether the opposition leaders could also face prison terms. Andrew Khoo, a lawyer and a member of the Bersih steering committee, said that anyone found to have defied the court order could face a fine of 2,000 ringgit, six months in prison, or both. However, Sankara Nair, a lawyer for Mr. Anwar, told Reuters that Mr. Anwar could not be imprisoned for the latest charge.

Mr. Ibrahim said Mr. Anwar and Mr. Azmin would appear in court Tuesday and would fight the charges. They have denied claims that they encouraged protesters to break through the barriers.

In January, Mr. Anwar, a former deputy prime minister, was acquitted of sodomy, a charge his supporters had condemned as politically motivated. Mr. Anwar previously served six years in prison on charges of sodomy and abuse of power, before he was freed in 2004 after the sodomy conviction was overturned.

He now leads the opposition coalition, which made historic gains in the 2008 election when the governing coalition, which has dominated Malaysia since independence from Britain in 1957, lost its two-thirds parliamentary majority for the first time.

Mr. Ibrahim said he believed that the charges were “definitely” related to the next election. “Of course we know that’s what they’re aiming at,” he said.

A Malaysian government spokesman said in a statement that the public prosecutor had made it clear that charges would be pursued against anyone involved in inciting or committing acts of violence during the protest.

“To date, charges have been brought against various individuals, including two policemen, for events that took place during the protest,” the statement read. “Charges are decided on by the public prosecutor following receipt of police investigation papers.”

The Malaysian Insider

KUALA LUMPUR, May 22 — Opposition Leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim claimed a symbolic victory today in having the man who unsuccessfully prosecuted him for sodomy join his legal team to defend an illegal assembly charge, pointing out that someone who was in government did not want to be a part of what he called the “dirtiness”.

Anwar has repeated his charge that the latest charge against him is politically-motivated, and said that former Solicior-General II Datuk Yusof Zainal Abiden’s entry into his legal team was “meaningful” to him and a “positive development”.

“I received information that he was willing to join my legal defence team, so I as the accused contacted him for help,” Anwar (picture) told reporters.

“This is a positive development… I think more lawyers are biding their time to join me as well,” he said.

“Yusof’s presence is very meaningful to me. It shows that someone inside the government is aware of the ‘dirtiness’ and does not want to be a part of it,” he added.

Anwar pointed out that if Yusof truly thought he was guilty, then the former solicitor-general would not have agreed to join his legal team.

“Yusof came here with full commitment and his performance today is proof that he only wants justice to be served,” he said.

Yusof joined Anwar’s legal team as the opposition leader was today charged with taking part in an illegal street demonstration on April 28.

It was a startling turn of events as Yusof had led the Sodomy II prosecution against Anwar, which saw the latter being acquitted earlier this year.

He has since retired from the Attorney-General’s Chambers.

“Anwar called me last night and I had no hesitation,” Yusof told The Malaysian Insider when approached.

The Malaysian Insider understands that Yusof’s ties with Attorney-General Tan Sri Abdul Ghani Patail have been cool for some time and he had disagreed with the way some high-profile cases had been handled.

Yusof was earlier spotted mingling with Anwar’s other defence lawyers.

PKR leader and lawyer Sivarasa Rasiah had earlier confirmed with The Malaysian Insider in a text message when asked if the former government lawyer was on the PKR de facto head’s legal team.

Sivarasa said Yusof was assisting Anwar’s lead counsel Karpal Singh. The other lawyers on Team Anwar are Karpal’s son Ram Karpal Singh Deo and Sankara Nair.

Anwar, PKR deputy president Azmin Ali and Rembau PKR chief Badrul Hisham Shaharin were today charged with taking part in the April 28 Bersih 3.0 rally under section 4(2)(c) of the Peaceful Assembly Act, less than a month after the new law aimed at allowing public gatherings “in accordance with international norms” was enforced.The offence under the Peaceful Assembly Act carries a maximum fine of RM10,000.

All three claimed trial.

Sessions Court judge Mahmud Abdullah set July 2 as the next mention date for the trial.

Malaysiakini

Ketua pembangkang Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim mendakwa Perdana Menteri Datuk Seri Najib Razak menggunakan proses mahkamah untuk membendung kemaraan beliau ketika pilihan raya kini semakin hampir.

Beliau juga mendakwa, tuduhan ke atasnya hari ini berhubung perhimpunan BERSIH 3.0 juga satu tindakan politik yang dirancang dan juga untuk mengelak isu pilihan raya yang dibawa dalam perhimpunan 28 April itu.

“Najib perlu menghadapi saya dalam pilihan raya dan dia mahu gunakan mahkamah untuk bantu dia. Saya hendak beritahu Najib, pilihan raya itu diputuskan rakyat,” katanya.

Tambahnya, Najib juga tidak boleh menggunakan undang-undang Akta Perhimpunan Aman yang diluluskan dengan bantahan keras pembangkang “untuk menakut-nakutkan dan menghalang seteru politik” sepertinya.

“(Perdana Menteri) Datuk (Seri) Najib (Razak) tak boleh dakwa kami kerana yang terlibat itu ratusan ribu (orang).

“Yang dielak beliau adalah isu pokok iaitu isu pilihan raya. Ini tanda dendam kesumat beliau guna apparat pemerintah untuk tekan kami,” katanya lagi selepas dihadapkan ke Mahkamah Sesyen Kuala Lumpur hari ini.

Beliau serta dua lagi pemimpin PKR – timbalan presiden Azmin Ali dan bekas ahli majlis pimpinan pusat, Badrul Hisham Shaharin – didakwa mengikut Seksyen 4(2) (c) Akta Perhimpunan Aman kerana didakwa mengambil bahagian dalam yang perhimpunan BERSIH 3.0.

Tuduhan itu juga atas dakwaan melanggar perintah Majistret Zaki Asyraf Zubir, bertarikh 26 April yang melarang perhimpunan di Dataran Merdeka dan kawasan yang bersempadan dengan Jalan Sultan Hishamuddin, Jalan Raja dan Jalan Kelab.

Mereka didakwa melakukan kesalahan itu antara jam 2.30 petang dan 3 petang pada 28 April.

Mereka juga menghadapi satu lagi tuduhan di bawah Kanun Keseksaan, iaitu bersama penyokong BERSIH 3.0 yang melebihi lima orang yang masih bebas, dalam mencapai niat bersama, telah bersubahat dengan Tangam a/l Raju, Rajesh Kumar a/l Gejinder dan Farhan bin Ibrahim @ Alias, telah mengingkari perintah yang dikeluarkan oleh Majistret Zaki Asyraf Zubir pada 26 April.

The Attorney-General acting on the behest of Barisan Nasional is at it again. Having failed to stop Anwar Ibrahim with trumped-up sodomy charges, they are now trying again.

This afternoon, Anwar Ibrahim ( the Leader of the Opposition) , Azmin Ali and Badrul Hisham received summonses to appear in the Jalan Duta Court tomorrow morning to be charged in relation to purported offences connected with the Bersih 3.0 rally on 28th April 2012.

One charge alleges a breach of the Court order dated 26.4.2012 issued by Magistrate Zaki Ashraf.  The charge Anwar and the other will face is allegedly causing a breach of the barricades to take place.  Parti Keadilan Rakyat views this charge as ludicrous and frivolous bearing in mind that the ample video evidence that he had directed the crowd to go down Jalan Tengku Abdul Rahman.  Furthermore, the legal validity of the Court order is itself suspect for non-compliance with the Peaceful Assembly Act itself.  It is also now clear that the police barricades themselves were not in compliance with the order.

The second charge is that of being present in a street protest contrary to the Peaceful Assembly Act 2012. This prosecution of Anwar and the others under this Act shows up the complete hypocrisy in Prime Minister Najib’s so-called “political transformation” or “liberalisation” programme.  Pakatan’s portentious warnings in Parliament in December 2011 that this Act was regressive compared to the older section 27 of the Police Act and would be abused are now vindicated.

It is ironic that the first prosecution of the Peaceful Assembly Act is directed against Anwar Ibrahim, the Leader of the Opposition.  The political motivation of this new charge is clear. Having failed to stop Anwar with the trumped up sodomy charge, the Attorney General Gani Patail, at the behest of his political masters, is now trying again in desperation to stop Anwar’s unrelenting march to Putrajaya.

PKR warns Prime Minister Najib that this prosecution makes again a mockery of his claim to making Malaysia the “best democracy in the world”.  We will rally the people of Malaysia to oppose yet another blatant misuse and manipulation of our institutions.  

Sivarasa Rasiah
Majis Pimpinan Pusat Parti Keadilan Rakyat,
Ahli Parlimen Subang

Dari Tukang Lawan

Ibu Pejabat Keadilan di Petaling jaya siang tadi digemparkan dengan kedatangan lebih kurang 6 buah kereta polis yang sarat dengan anggota, mengiringi pegawai tinggi dari Ibu Pejabat polis Dang wangi semata-mata mahu menyerahkan 2 writ saman terhadap Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim dan Timbalan presiden Keadilan Azmin Ali. ( baca disini ) ,(sini) dan (sini)

Baiklah, mengapa tindakan tergesa-gesa ini dilakukan, apakah rumput dipadang dataran merdeka itu lebih suci dari 8 tuntutan rakyat pada himpunan BERSIH 28 April lalu?, itu soalan pertama yang harus kita semua jawab.

Jika kita setuju bahawa rumput dipadang itu lebih suci dan penting berbanding 8 tuntutan rakyat terhadap sistem pilihanraya negara yang tercemar dan sangat meragukan itu, sama la seperti kita merelakan dan menghalalkan penyelewengan wang dana NFC yang sepatutnya digunakan untuk menternak lembu bagi meningkatkan pasaran tempatan.

Apakah kita tidak rasa bersalah bila membiarkan saja wang NFC disalahguna untuk membeli kondo mewah dan melancong ke luar negara sehingga dana yang dikeluarkan itu tidak mencapai sasaran utamanya.

Apakah kita juga tidak rasa bersalah bila membiarkan sahaja sistem pilihanraya dikotori dan diaturkan supaya rejim pemerintah kekal berkuasa padahal itulah hak anda yang cukup besar.

Persoalannya masih sama, apakah rumput di dataran merdeka lebih suci berbanding tuntutan bagi satu sistem pilihanraya yang adil dan bersih ?.

Itu soalan yang anda sendiri tahu jawapannya. sudah tentu rumput tidak lebih penting berbanding tuntutan satu sistem pemerintahan negara yang adil dan lebih bagus bagi rakyat malaysia, lain la jika rumput itu khas mahu beri lembu NFC makan, memang harus sangat rumput itu dibelai dan disiram hari-hari .

Keduanya, apakah ini sebenarnya satu usaha memperlahankan momentum pakatan rakyat yang kini semakin mendapat sokongan dari rakyat, dengan kredibiliti najib yang semakin teruk, usaha-usaha umno melalui media massa untuk memburukkan pemimpin pakatan seolah tidak berjaya, mereka sedar momentum pakatan perlu diperlahankan, supaya umno boleh berehat dan bernafas sebentar.

Usaha untuk mengusung pemimpin pakatan ke mahkamah kerana kesalahan menggalakkan rakyat sedar akan hak mereka, akan membuatkan pemimpin pakatan rakyat sibuk turun naik mahkamah, dan ini akan membataskan pergerakkan mereka, itu sangat perlu kerana pilihanraya semakin hampir, saat ini terlalu runcing buat umno, kemaraan pakatan rakyat membuatkan umno semakin sampai ke penghujungnya.

Najib pula yang sedang dihantui kes kapal selam yang sudah mula timbul ke permukaan, ini membuatkan najib gelabah dan sangat tertekan.

Apa lagi yang mampu najib lakukan, dalam keadaan pemimpin nombor wahid umno itu perlukan talian hayat, isu kapal selam yang turut terpalit kisah pembunuhan model dari Mongolia perlu dialihkan supaya isu yang sedang dibicarkan di mahkamah perancis itu tidak didengar oleh rakyat.

Mereka terdesak, umno sedang terdesak, kuasa yang ada diperguna semaksima mungkin dan sekali lagi pemimpin pakatan mahu dijadikan mangsa keadaan, supaya najib terus dilihat sebagai seorang pemimpin bibir merah yang kononnya suci.

Malaysiakini

Ketua Umum PKR, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim dan Timbalan Presiden PKR, Azmin Ali akan didakwa esok berhubung perhimpunan BERSIH 3.0.

Satu kenyataan pejabat Azmin menyebut beliau menerima writ saman untuk hadir ke Mahkamah Majistret Jalan Duta, Kuala Lumpur atas dua pertuduhan di bawah Akta Perhimpunan Aman 2012 dan Kanun Keseksaan.

Beliau diminta hadir ke Mahkamah pada jam 9 pagi esok.

Writ saman tersebut diterima oleh Hilman Idman yang merupakan pegawai Khas Azmin di Tingkat 1, Ibu Pejabat PKR Damansara.

Menurut writ saman tersebut, Azmin dituduh melanggar Seksyen 188 Kanun Keseksaan yang dibaca bersama dengan Seksyen 109 dan Seksyen 34 kanun yang sama.

Dia dituduh bersama penyokong BERSIH 3.0 yang melebihi lima orang yang masih bebas, dalam mencapai niat bersama, telah bersubahat dengan Tangam a/l Raju, Rajesh Kumar a/l Gejinder dan Farhan bin Ibrahim @ Alias, telah mengingkari perintah yang dikeluarkan oleh Majistret Zaki Asyraf Zubir pada 26 April.

Azmin dituduh bersubahat dan menghasut Tangam, Rajesh dan Farhan membuka sekatan besi halangan di Dataran Merdeka.

Notis itu juga menyatakan keengkaran mereka dan penyokong BERSIH 3.0 yang lain mungkin menyebabkan rusuhan atau gaduh-gempur di kawasan tersebut.

Oleh itu, beliau dituduh melakukan kesalahan yang boleh dihukum di bawah Seksyen 188 dibaca bersama Seksyen 109 dan Seksyen 34 Kanun Keseksaan (Akta 574).

Dalam notis yang berasingan, Azmin dituduh menyertai protes jalanan bagi maksud membantah perintah Mahkamah Majistret di bawah Seksyen 98 Kanun Tatacara Jenayah yang telah dibuat pada 26 April 2912.

Dengan itu, Azmin dituduh melakukan kesalahan di bawah Seksyen 4(2)(c) Akta Perhimpunan Aman 2012 (Akta 736) dan boleh dihukum di bawah Seksyen 4(3) Akta yang sama.

Difahamkan Anwar juga menghadapi tuduhan yang sama. Ini menjadi mereka orang pertama yang akan didakwa di bawah Perhimpunan Aman 2012 yang luluskan baru-baru in.

Sementara itu, ketua kakitangan di pejabat Anwar – Ibrahim Yaacob – mengesahkan ketua umum PKR itu telah menerima notis tersebut pada jam 2.40 petang.

“Datuk Seri di ibupejabat parti di Merchant Square pada masa polis disampaikan notis itu pada jam 2.40 petang. Beliau (Anwar) berada di dalam mesyuarat dan notis telah diterima oleh saya,” katanya dalam jawapan SMS kepada Malaysiakini.

Menurutnya, terdapat dua pertuduhan berasingan – (1) Kanun Keseksaan (Akta 574) seksyen 188 dibaca bersama dengan seksyen 109 dan 34 dan (2) Akta Perhimpunan Aman 2012 (Akta 736) Seksyen 4(2) (c) dan Seksyen 4(3).

“Kita akan jumpa mereka di mahkamah…,” tegas Ibrahim

Seorang lagi yang telah menerima notis yang sama ialah aktivis PKR Negeri Sembilan, Badrul Hisham Shaharin atau lebih dikenali sebagai CheguBard. Ketika berita ini ditulis, kandungan notis tersebut masih belum dapat disahkan.

Sementara itu, menjawab soalan Malaysiakini melalui SMS, Ketua Bahagian Pendakwaan Pejabat Peguam Negara, Datuk Tun Abdul Majid Tun Hamzah mengesahkan bahawa Anwar, Azmin dan Chegubard akan didakwa esok.

Dato Seri Anwar Ibrahim telah diperintahkan hadir ke Mahkamah Jalan Duta esok Selasa,22 Mei 2012, Jam 9.00 pagi. Beliau akan didakwa dibawah Seksyen 4(2)(c) Akta Perhimpunan Aman 2012 (Akta 736) dan boleh dihukum dibawah Seksyen 4(3)Akta yang sama kerana menyertai perhimpunan BERSIH 3.0.Perintah tersebut dimohon oleh Ketua Polis Daerah Dang Wangi.

Malaysiakini

If the elections are called immediately, Pakatan Rakyat would win at least 105 parliamentary seats said PKR’s strategy director Rafizi Ramli.

“We have improved! Five or six months ago, BN thought we might win 92 seats, and even then, they were worried.

“Months later when they studied this again, Umno itself knows that if it calls for an election now, they would face an opposition that has 105 seats from the start,” he said at the launch of the party’s Selangor election campaign machinery today.

Rafizi (right) urged party workers to push for 10 more seats to secure a simple majority for Pakatan.

“We are confident of winning because we have witnessed the mood and the rise of the people outside (the party). It is not us, but the people are ready to win,” he said.

The 105 seats tally is seven short of an outright parliamentary majority to claim power.

Nevertheless, such a close result should destabilise BN enough to either create a possible round of defections as well as a change of leadership in the ruling coalition.

‘Go ahead, call GE now’

Meanwhile in his speech officiating the event at the Petaling Jaya Civic Hall, party deputy president Azmin Ali challenged Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak to call for immediate elections.

“If Umno is strong as seen on television and newspapers (reporting) in (its 66th anniversary celebration) in Bukit Jalil, I challenge the prime minister to dissolve the Parliament tomorrow and call for fresh elections,” he said, to the applause of the 700 who gathered there.

However, he sarcastically cautioned his colleagues that Umno has a new wing – the Election Commission (EC).

He pointed out that between the last election and the latest electoral roll, the number of voters in Selangor has increased from 1,565,493 to 1,906,008, a jump of 340,515 new voters – the largest increment among the states.

Azmin (left), who is also the PKR elections director, urged the campaign workers especially the Youth wing to go to the ground to verify if these are genuine voters, because a large portion of the voters are young voters.

To aid their mission, he demonstrated the capabilities of the software Sistem Menang Pilihanraya (Sismep) 3.0 launched on May 11, which among other features, can highlight movements of voters between constituencies, voters above a specified age, and even point out their latest addresses on a map.

“Sismep is only effective if we make good use of it at the grassroots level,” he said.

Leaflet warfare

The government has until April next year to dissolve the 222-seat Parliament. However, many including Azmin, anticipate that it will be held as early as this June.

At today’s launch, thick volumes containing lists of voters who had been added, moved or removed in the electoral roll were given to division and branch election chiefs in seats where PKR plans to contest.

The launch is part of a series that has already covered Perak, Penang, Malacca and Negri Sembilan, with Kedah, Sabah and Sarawak scheduled for the coming week.

Other items distributed at the event were party paraphernalia such as caps and T-shirts, and a password-protected thumbdrive containing the Sismep 3.0 software, the 2011 fourth quarter electoral roll (the latest to be gazetted), a video from the Bersih 3.0 rally and soft copies of Pakatan Rakyat’s ‘Buku Jingga’ policy framework, photos of PKR senior leaders, and 13 sets of leaflets.

Rafizi said the leaflets are part of PKR’s strategy to keep BN on the defensive.

“If Pakatan Rakyat attacks BN from Day One of the election campaign period, and BN has to fend them off each day of campaigning, then God willing we will win,” he said.

If well-played, he said this would allow the people to focus on Pakatan Rakyat’s message while forcing BN to respond to it rather than the other way around, despite the ruling party’s control over the mainstream media.

A million of each of the 13 two-page leaflets will be printed by PKR’s central leadership, whilst the branch and division offices will print the rest as needed.

The leaflets highlight a range of issues. Some contain the coalition’s promises such as to lower fuel prices or to abolish the National Higher Education Fund (PTPTN).

Others are responses to Umno’s attacks such as allegations that PKR de facto leader Anwar Ibrahim (right) is an Israeli agent. The rest attack BN on issues such as the National Feedlot Corporation scandal and the Scorpene submarines scandal.

Rafizi urged campaign managers to remind speakers to frequently make references to the leaflets in hopes that listeners would at least read it, lest the funds spent printing it go to waste.

He added that the party’s central leadership would be monitoring the campaign effort at every branch on a weekly basis, armed with a score-sheet.

Candidates still under wraps

At a press conference later, Azmin kept the party’s election candidates list under wraps.

“Our political culture is very dirty and disgusting, where they could threaten and intimidate our candidates with all sorts of tricks and enticements.

“We will discuss and decide a suitable date to announce our candidates to avoid Umno and BN trickery,” he said.

Nonetheless, Azmin said a majority of the candidates will be fresh faces, and in his speech earlier pledged that the candidates would be vetted more carefully to avoid a repeat of the turncoats disaster that plagued the party shortly after the 2008 general election.

When asked about seat allocations, he said a decision is expected in the first week of June, with agreement on all but the last seat in most states presently to be resolved.

He added that Selangor is the first state where Pakatan Rakyat’s seat allocation has been finalised.

Gambar Ihsan Media Rakyat

Tiba Di Lapangan Terbang Bintulu

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Menuju Rumah Panjang Ungey Sangan

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Dari Tranungkite
Oleh Aspan Alias

Slogan-slogan politik bercambah-cambah dan slogan-slogan itu bertukar apabila bertukar kepimpinan sehinggakan kita sudah kenyang dengan slogan-slogan itu. Slogan selalunya diperkenalkan oleh seseorang pemimpin itu untuk membezakan ‘brand’ kepimpinan masing-masing. Selalunya ia akan diwar-warkan yang dibawah pimpinannya keadaan itu berbeza dari keadaan yang lazim dialami rakyat dizaman kepimpinan sebelumnya.

Berslogan mula bercambah sejak kepimpinan Mahathir sahaja. Apabila Mahathir mengambil alih, rakyat telah cuba di dakyahkan sebagai zaman yang amat berbeza dengan pimpinan sebelum beliau. Gandingan beliau dengan Musa Hitam digambarkan sebagai pimpinan yang sangat berbeza dengan kepimpinan sebelumnya kerana bermula dari beliau zaman itu bermulalah zaman kepimpinan negara diterajui oleh orang biasa. Maka pimpinan itu telah dipanggil sebagai kepimpinan 2M (Mahathir Musa)

Pimpinan 2M terbengkalai dengan perletakkan jawatan Musa sebagai Timbalan Perdana Menteri pada Februari 1986. Perletakkan jawatan Musa telah akhirnya membawa kepada pertandingan besar dalam UMNO pada tahun berikutnya 1987 diantara TR/Musa dan Mahathir /Ghaffar.

Apabila Mahathir mula-mula mengambil alih, maka terciptalah slogan ‘Bersih, cekap dan amanah’. Tetapi slogan ini hanya tinggal slogan kerana semasa itu tidak ada yang bersihnya, tidak ada kecekapan dan jauh sekali untuk melihat amanahnya. Zaman ini lah bermulanya rasuah yang begitu hebat dan budaya itu terus  diwarisi oleh kepimpinan Pak Lah dan pimpinan DS Najib sekarang ini.

Dalam masa yang sama tercipta juga slogan  ‘kepimpinan melalui tauladan’ dan inilah satu-satunya slogan yang amat berjaya yang dicipta Dr Mahathir Mohamad. Ini adalah kerana segala budaya rasuah itu telah diteladani oleh semua pemimpin setiap peringkat dalam kerajaan dan parti serta pimpinan-pimpinan yang mewarisi kepimpinan Mahathir sehingga  zaman sekarang ini.

Semua pimpinan UMNO dan BN benar-benar berjaya melaksanakan slogan ini sehinggakan susah untuk mendapatkan kepimpinan yang tidak rasuah. Semuanya ini adalah hasil dari kempen ‘kepimpinan melalui tauladan’ anjuran Mahathir itu. Di adakan pula slogan ‘penerapan nilai-nilai Islam’ dalam pentadbiran dalam masa yang sama tetapi tidak ada addin keislaman di dalamnya kerana kejayaan slogan kepimpinan melalui tauladan tadi.

Kita terus pula kepada slogan dalam pentadbiran Najib iaitu ‘1Malaysia’ yang masih belum difahami oleh rakyat satu Malaysia ini. Yang kita lihat hanyalah pin-pin 1Malaysia yang terlekat di dada dan kolor baju-baju pemimpin-pemimpin dan pegawai-pegawai kerajaan sahaja. Yang sedapnya Mahathir sendiri mengaku yang beliau tidak faham tentang slogan ini.

Bagaimana slogan 1Malaysia hendak berjaya sedangkan kepimpinan termasuk Najib yang mencipta slogan itu sendiri bercakap isu rasis apabila bertemu dengan ahli-ahli UMNO. Muhyiddin Yassin pula tidak menyokong slogan ini kerana beliau secara terbuka telah mengakui yang beliau mengambil sikap Melayu dahulu barulah rakyat yang lain.

Walau bagaimana pun rakyat tidak perlu gusar tentang slogan yang tidak terlaksana oleh penciptanya sendiri. Ada pihak lain yang mampu melaksanakan slogan ciptaan pemimpin-pemimpin UMNO itu. Kita tidak payah pergi jauh. Kita tinjau sahaja apa yang dilakukan oleh negeri-negeri yang ditadbir oleh Pakatan Rakyat.

Selangor telah berjaya mempunyai bajet yang seimbang dengan ‘reserve’ hampir RM2 billion. Pulau Pinang telah berjaya untuk menghilangkan budaya rasuah dan telah menunjukkan nilai kesamarataan. Peruntukkan Hal Agama Islam sekarang telah meningkat sehingga RM63 juta sedangkan semasa BN memerintah negeri itu peruntukkan untuk hal ehwal Islam hanyalah RM12 juta sahaja.

Tidak ada kedengaran skandal kewangan sehingga RM12 billion seperti isu PKFZ di Selangor sekarang ini ataupun kedapatan pemimpin negeri itu yang telah membina rumah peribadi sehingga RM20 juta di Shah Alam. Tidak ada lagi kedengaran skandal kehilangan RM500 juta wang Yayasan Selangor.

Kedah dan Kelantan juga mempunyai rekod baik dan tidak kedengaran rasuah yang berbillion ringgit berlaku di negeri-negeri tersebut. Kedah merupakan salah satu negeri yang mendapat kemasukan pelaburan dalam bidang pembuatan yang besar dan negeri itu adalah salah sebuah dari lima negeri teratas berbanding dengan negeri-negeri tadbiran BN.

Pulai Pinang merupakan negeri yang berkedudukan nombor satu dan diikuti oleh Selangor. Sarawak menduduki tempat ketiga dan yang keempat Johor, satu-satunya negeri yang ditadbir BN yang masuk ke dalam kategori lima teratas itu.

Dalam kata-kata lain secara ringkasnya jika slogan ‘Bersih, cekap dan amanah’ adalah laungan BN semasa Dr Mahathir menjadi PM dalam senyap-senyap negeri-negeri tadbiran Pakatan Rakyatlah yang menjayakan slogan itu. Begitu juga slogan ‘1Malaysia’ ciptaan Najib, BN tidak mampu melaksanakannya tetapi yang berjaya melaksanakan konsep 1Malaysia ialah parti-parti dalam PR kerana setiap bangsa bersatu dan tidak ada parti untuk satu-satu kaum sahaja.

Oleh itu kita nampak dengan jelas yang BN hanya pandai berslogan tetapi  PR lah yang mampu melaksanakannya. Kita akui slogan-slogan ciptaan BN itu adalah baik kesemuanya. Hanya mereka tidak mampu melaksanakannya dan ia hanya tinggal retorik kosong BN sahaja.

Maka kita simpulkan sahaja isu ini: BN berslogan PR melaksanakannya. Maka tidak ada lagi masalah perlaksanaan slogan-slogan tersebut apabila Pakatan Rakyat diberi mandat oleh rakyat semasa pilihanraya yang akan datang ini.

UMNO dan BN boleh membantu mewujudkan slogan-slogan yang baik semasa jadi pembangkang nanti dan berikan tugas kepada Pakatan Rakyat untuk melaksanakannya dengan baik sebagai kerajaan baru yang begitu lama ternanti-nanti saat untuk membetulkan kebobrokan yang dilakukan oleh bekas parti pemerintah, iaitu Barisan Nasional (BN) yang semasa itu sudah duduk dikerusi pembangkang di semua Dewan-Dewan Lagislatif di negara ini.

Apabila perubahan berlaku maka bermula jugalah sistem 2 parti yang sangat penting untuk mendapatkan pimpinan yang mengakui yang kuasa dalam negara demokrasi ini terletak di tangan rakyat. Rakyat tidak payah lagi bersusah payah kerana jika Pakatan Rakyat  tidak melaksanakan tugas seperti yang dijanjikan maka rakya boleh memberikan kembali mandat itu kembali kepada BN.

Tetapi yang penting sekali kita mesti bermula untuk menunjukkan kepada kepimpinan yang bongkak dengan kuasa itu bahawa rakyat, jika diizin Tuhan, merupakan penentu kepada nasib mereka yang berkuasa. Rakyat boleh menggali dan menganjak kepimpinan negara, kerana negara ini sebenarnya adalah kepunyaan rakyat.

Hanya sebelum ini rakyat belum lagi sedar yang kuasa itu adalah kuasa mereka. Baru sekarang mereka (rakyat) sedar yang mereka lah yang mesti bertindak untuk melakukan usaha memperbetulkan keadaan negara kita ini.

Lagi pun BN sudah terlalu lama memerintah, iaitu selama 55 tahun. Kita mesti ingat jika pokok kelapa itu sudah berumur 55 tahun ia terlalu tinggi dan beruk pun takut untuk memanjatnya. Jika ditebang pokok kelapa yang berumur 55 tahun, umbutnya pun sudah keras dan tidak sedap lagi untuk digulai.

From Vancouver Sun

A Paris court of inquiry has started an investigation which may finally link the dots between Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak, his country’s purchase of two French submarines, bribes worth nearly $200 million and the murder of a Mongolian model by his bodyguards.

The in camera inquiry by judges Roger Le Loire and Serge Tournaire, who are highly experienced investigators in corruption and human rights cases, will try to discover if the French defence company DCNS and its project partner Thales International paid the bribes to secure the 2002 contract to supply two Scorpene submarines to the Malaysian navy.

Their inquiry will build on two years of investigation and evidence-gathering by French police.

The deal was done while Najib was defence minister and attention is focused on the role played by Najib’s close friend and policy adviser, Abdul Razak Baginda.

French officials have let it be known they are especially interested in two payments by the French arms dealers.

One was for 114 million euros ($148 million) and went to a Malaysian company called Perimekar for “logistical support.”

Perimekar was at the time wholly owned by a company which was controlled by Razak Baginda and his wife, Mazalinda.

The examining magistrates also want to hunt down the story behind payments worth $46 million to a company called Terasasi, which was originally incorporated in Malaysia, but then registered itself in Hong Kong where, according to the online magazine Asia Sentinel, it is listed among 142 companies at a convenience address in the Wan Chai district.

The registered directors of Terasasi are Razak Baginda and his father Abdul Malim Baginda.

Questions about the submarine deal became more intense and sharp in October 2006 after the body of Mongolian model and translator Altantuya Shaariibuu was discovered in the jungle outside Kuala Lumpur.

She had been shot in the head and an attempt then made to destroy her body with military C4 explosive.

Altantuya was the jilted lower of Razal Baginda and she had last been seen causing a scene outside his house.

A few years before she had been a model in France and in 2004 she accompanied Razal Baginda to act as translator when he was negotiating the Scorpene deal.

In a handwritten letter found after her death she said she intended to confront Razak Baginda and demand $500,000 as the price of her silence on the details of the Scorpene agreement.

Even the politically attuned Malaysian courts could not avoid this case.

But although Razak Baginda and two of then-defence minister Najib’s bodyguards, Azilah Hadri and Sirul Azhar Umar, were charged with murder the outcome was deftly finessed.

In an astonishing piece of courtroom stage management, Razak Baginda, was not required to answer to the charges of abetting Altantuya’s murder, was released and now lives in exile in Britain.

The bodyguards took the fall and have been sentenced to death. They are appealing the verdict, but that hearing has been delayed.

It is widely predicted that appeal will not be heard until after the next elections, expected in June, when, if Najib and his governing coalition are returned to power, a way may be found to acknowledge the bodyguards’ loyalty.

After failing to get a full investigation of the Scorpene affair in Malaysia, many Malaysian human rights advocates and Altantuya’s family put a lot of faith in the French investigation.

However, there was initial disappointment when it appeared that judges Le Loire and Tournaire would investigate only the bribery allegations and not look at the murder of Altantuya.

But 10 days ago the Malaysian human rights group Suaram was allowed to give the judges a private briefing. Spokesmen for the group said afterward they described the political context of the affair from the Malaysian point of view and gave the judges a list of potential witnesses.

Among them is Razak Baginda, and there are reports the judges may attempt to subpoena him from Britain.

Others on the list, such as Prime Minister Najib, are unlikely to take any notice.

But Altantuya’s father, Setev Shaariibuu, says he intends to go to Paris from Mongolia and that from his last conversation with his daughter he can “connect the dots” for the judges.

Merdeka Rakyat – Pasca Bersih 3.0

19 & 20 Mei 2012 (Sabtu & Ahad)

19 Mei 2012 (Sabtu)

1)    3.00 ptg – Ceramah Perdana – 1

       Lokasi: RH Ungey, Sangan, Anap-Tatau, Bintulu

2)    6.00 ptg – Ceramah Perdana – 2

       Lokasi : Pekan Tatau

3)    7.00 – 12.00 mlm  – PKR Gawai Dinner 1 – 2012

       Lokasi : Mandarin Restaurant , Bintulu

4)    Penceramah:

i.                    YB Dato’ Seri Anwar Ibrahim

ii.                  YB Baru Bian

iii.                YB Ali Biju

iv.               YB Tian Chua

v.                 YB Elizabeth Wong

vi.               YB Manikavasagam

20 Mei 2012 (Ahad)

1)    11.30 pagi – Ceramah Perdana – 3

        Lokasi: RH Uching, Ng.  Bawan, Jln Dada, Ngemah,

2)    1.30 ptg – Ceramah Perdana  - 4

        Lokasi : RH Jugah,  Sg Maong, Jln Durin Kanowit, Machan

3)    6.00 ptg – Ceramah Perdana – 5

        Lokasi : Kampong Stenggang, Opar,

4)    7.30 ptg – PKR Gawai Dinner 2 – 2012

       Lokasi : Singai Sport & Recreation Club, Kg Sudoh, Singai

5)    8.00 – 11.00 mlm – Ceramah Perdana – 6

       Lokasi:  Sungai Maong Bazaar, Batu 3 Jalan Rock, Kucing

6)    Penceramah:                    .

i.                    YB Dato’ Seri Anwar Ibrahim

ii.                  YB Dato’ Mahfuz Omar

iii.                YB Wong Ho Leng

iv.               YB Baru Bian

v.                 YB See Chee How

vi.               YB Ali Biju

vii.             YB Chong Jien Lieng

viii.           YBhg Haji Adam Ahed