In a democracy should the bureaucracy sit in judgment of the recommendations of the Parliamentary Committees’ reports and court judgments? We in malaysia and especially the media keep harping on the virtues of malaysian democracy and the power of the voter. Where is the voter now? What power does he have? their representatives, the MPs now have to await orders from who . If they say no, then the reports and the court judgments are doomed. In our system, the voter vanishes the moment he casts his vote. That is the reality. This is democracy in Malaysia.Going by what is happening in the country; can someone tell me how can we say that the Indian democracy is a rule of the people, by the people and for the people? It is, to my mind rule of the the bureaucracy ,by the bureaucracy and for bureaucracy . Does anyone think otherwise?
Could it possibly be true? Has Najib to believe what some admirers have started to suggest with incremental passion, that he is Malaysia's best-ever Prime Minister? The answer must be no. He is clearly not self-delusional.Why then did he suggest that his Cabinet was more coherent than that of Mahathirs' Najib’s headache over Umno candidates The subconscious is the voice of the silent man.umno divion leaders is a silent. Ideas, issues, the temptations of pride and pitfalls of vanity, nestle in that nether region of the mind because better sense suggests that it would be inflammatory and self-defeating to let them rise to the surface. Some thoughts are incompatible with open air. But they tend to curl insidiously through the backdoor of a casual remark, or side-alley of a comparison. The less-than-laudatory reference to Mahathir, Abdullah and Tun Hussien On was a revealing moment. No prime minister has, even through the slippery sinews of a breakfast conversation, placed his Cabinet above . There is neither irony nor consequence in the aftermath, since UMNO has long shifted out of its mildewed, timber-laden socialist mansion into a new, gleaming prefab condominium.
Maybe Najib knows his party better than the party knows him.
Umno and Barisan Nasional are so desperate to win the coming general election that they are resorting to sex, religion and the media, claims PKR de facto leader Anwar Ibrahim.“How can they talk about Islam, the high objectives of syariah, when corruption is endemic, when discrimination is rife, when religion is abuse, and when sex is abused as major campaign issues?“How do you talk about 1Malaysia when the minorities are abused and insulted?” he asked, pointing out that the Indians and Hindus may be in the minority, but they should not be insulted and humiliated.He also questioned Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak’s 1Malaysia campaign strategy which he alleged marginalised Sarawak’s Iban and Orang Ulu communities.“How you allow the people of Sarawak – the Ibans and the Orang Ulu – being marginalised?“Can you convince the large majority of Chinese in this country that they don’t feel discriminated against?“Even as Malays, the large majority of them remain poor and marginalised.“Only the few leaders are amassing wealth.“These (abuses and insults) are being done, tolerated and condoned by (Prime Minister) Najib, despite talking about 1Malaysia,” Anwar told reporters during his one-day visit to Kuching yesterday.
Umno president Najib Tun Razak is at sixes and sevens over the sudden surge of new voters in his Pekan constituency.I have been informed there are 23,000 new voters in Pekan. That’s 5,000 more than the 18,000 wrote about in an earlier article.What’s worrying Najib is that he doesn’t know the preference of these 23,000 voters.If they are young voters, they will likely reject Najib.If most of them are aliens, then they have already caused great resentment among the locals because Najib has given them many benefits including land.
Each acre of land given to an alien means an acre less for local born.
That’s why I said Najib is at sixes and seven.
The situation must be very bad because he’s now seeking to atone his past mistakes by calling on a selected group of ex-legislators.
In the last elections, Najib dropped 17 medical doctors from the candidate list and an even bigger number of Islamic graduates, who went on to become revolutionary time bombs.
Umno retained the riff-raffs and other unmentionables to stand as candidates.
From this rogue’s gallery, Najib selected the men and women who would scale to new dizzying heights via his acronym-filled ‘transformation’ agenda.
At the meeting with ex-assemblymen and ex-MPs, Najib admitted that some of the previously dropped legislators may have been victims of Umno’s internal politics.He claimed he understood their hurt and agony.
Najib allowed ‘scums’ to rise
But coming from Najib, I can say it’s an overstatement. The man has little capacity to understand others. People are of value as long as they serve his interests!
Everyone who came for the meeting with Najib considered themselves winnable candidates.
But how many can Najib accommodate without upsetting the present set up?
It’s going to be war again.
The present semblance of a united front will disintegrate as soon as he comes out with the candidate list.
Umno today is a huge house filled with palace intrigues. Each player is interested to secure the most benefits in the shortest of time.
There’s no such thing as long term thinking or a blueprint for the future. Those exotic things are for the top leadership to think of.
To say there is a huge disconnect between the leaders and the followers is an understatement.
But then, that is the price you pay for allowing the scums to rise to the top and dominate the party divisions.
‘Disconnected policies’
Citing the many BN billboards with words “Janji Ditepati’, he said these were were just a “desperate measure to portray Umno-BN as a party that honours, implement and deliver the correct policy.”
The billboards have mushroomed in strategic points all over the state to welcome Merdeka Day and Malaysia Day.(Merdeka Day is celebrated on Aug 31, while Malaysia Day is on Sept 16).
First came the banning of a gay arts festival and the book "Islamic Sex." Then the cancellation of U.S. singer Erykah Badu's concert after a publicity photo showed her with an "Allah" tattoo.
Next on the banned list was British author Peter Mayle's sex-education book "Where Did I Come From?" and, in May, "Allah, Liberty & Love" by liberal Muslim activist Irshad Manji, which calls for reform and greater tolerance within Islam.Although state religious officials in Malaysia say preventing citizens' exposure to "un-Islamic" books, authors and entertainers is a moral necessity, opposition leaders offer a different view: It's largely about political power.With polls suggesting a recent erosion in support for Prime Minister Najib Razak and the ruling party, particularly among younger, tech-savvy voters, the government has been working overtime to solidify its support among the country's Muslim Malay majority. And one way it has done that, analysts said, is by fanning fear of secularism and the spread of religions other than Islam."That is why you see a concentrated attempt to win them over by being ultra-religious," said Ahmad Farouk, chairman and director of the Islamic Renaissance Front think tank, who believes Malaysia's differences should be celebrated, not condemned. "We can't behave or think like a 7th century Muslim. We are already in the 21st century."
Critics charge that stepped-up appeals to "Islamic values" by the ruling United Malays National Organization party may exact a larger cost, dividing society, eroding Malaysia's significant accomplishments and undercutting the confidence it enjoys among foreign investors."Malaysia's reputation has been dented for many years by these shortsighted attempts to win local votes," said Ooi Kee Beng, deputy director of the Singaporean-based Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. "It's never what's good for society, rather what's good for the party."Those close to the ruling party, including former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, counter that lax morality and a weak hand at the wheel could spark ethnic violence and social disorder.
"When you open up things, you become liberal," Mahathir told the Agence France-Presse news service in a June interview. "We need a government that is firm."In late April, nearly 250,000 people marched through Kuala Lumpur, the capital, calling for free and fair elections, rattling the ruling party.
State religious scholars condemned the demonstrations and issued an edict, or fatwa, against Muslims participating in street protests.Muslims make up 60% of Malaysia's 28 million people, while Christians account for about 9%. Several churches were firebombed in January 2010 after the country's high court allowed the Catholic Church to use the term "Allah" in Malay translations of the Bible.
The country also has sizable ethnic Chinese and ethnic Indian communities that chafe under rules guaranteeing Muslim Malays preferences in politics, business and education.
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