Malaysia’s Outdated Laws Aplenty

The Homes Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin acknowledges that his ministry oversees more than 33 Acts and regulations and that most of the Acts are outdated.

“But it doesn’t mean that the laws will simply be repealed because laws like the ISA (Internal Security Act) are needed to tackle current security threats, such as terrorism.”

“The national interest, safety and security of the Malaysian people must not be compromised,” he added.

(Yah, Yah, Malaysia is a major terrorism target and are constantly under threat and attack. The Safety and security of the people have long been compromised and we are constantly under attack by snatch thieves and robberies and worst of all thieving politicians who steal billions. The ISA is needed to protect umno and their barisan so that they can throw their opposition and their critics in to jail when they get too popular or too annoying and act as a tool of fear so that people just keep quiet and hide when they see daylight robbery in progress where they steal billions of the rakyat’s ringgit and the BN government still act ignorant and arrogant and pretend as if nothing has happen.).

Hishammuddin also said “In the past, it was used against the Communist threat. Now we are faced with terrorism and extremist movements and their networks. People are saying that the Act is still relevant to the current situation,”

(What he meant was that in the past the ISA was used against communist and today we have the Pakatan Rakyat threat against Barisan National. And who are the people that are saying we need the ISA? I have not heard of it, have you? Ahh.. Here you see these BN fellows when they say “people” they meant the umno and the BN people the rest of us are not their people).

What about the most famous of the outdated Act, the act that made a joke of our good country and made us famous the world over. The stupid sodomee act is the most stupid of the stupidest of all the laws and as a traveler I hear about it all over the world everytime you introduce yourself as a Malaysian sooner or later you will hear about all the sodomee jokes of Malaysia. And there was once an Iranian executive who enquired whether our government or our police has got a special department or agency that goes around arresting and investigating people for sodomee.

And what about the Sedition Act and the Printing and Publication Act and the Illegal Assembly Act and god know what else they have got in their armory of outdated laws which they will use on the good people of this country whilst the crooks and thieves who steal and plunder anything from 10 ringgit to billions of ringgit walk safely and happily in our streets.

STOP ALL LAWS OF OPPRESSION!

THE RAKYAT IS NO LONGER AFRAID OF YOU!

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Malaysian Voters Worth 5 cent

Malaysian Voters Worth 5 cent

On the June 13 2009 PKR (Parti Keadilan Rakyat) held its Extraordinary National Congress where its members voted for radical change with the aim of enhancing democracy to the party, one of the major changes adopted is the direct election by every members of the party and the tenure of the party president to a maximum of three term or nine years with party election every term of three years.

PKR was established after the umno model of representation system consisting of delegates only given the authority to vote as with all the Barisan National component parties which is susceptible to manipulation, bribery and corruption. As in umno where only some 2000 delegates elect the president which evidently goes on to be appointed the Prime Minister of the country. This system is outdated and has been proven that it is not the best of process or system to get the best able leader to lead their party and country. And this process are easily manipulated as like the BN component parties which on many occasion has even voted (by the small number of delegates) to have party elections being postponed and put off or the delegates voting for a no contest to the incumbent leaders.

Congratulations to PKR for this milestone as a step towards true democracy for Malaysia. The process of direct election is the fundamental structure and the basis of the philosophy of democracy where the right to lead lies with the people. It is in recognition of the most sacred rights of a one man one vote principle of an election in a democracy and to maintain that every individual vote is of fair and equal count or value. And once this principle is breach it is usually where and when the process of democracy has been compromised and the objective of democracy which is to uphold the universally accepted human rights to basic freedom and liberties will be derogated and only to further degenerate as once your vote losses its fair value that is when you know you have been cheated of the most basic right of the sacred of being a citizen.

Malaysia has much to do to reinstate this sacred right to its people as over the years under the Barisan rule there has been much degeneration of this fundamental basis of preserving the value of vote in an election. The parliamentary seats are not fairly allotted and has outrageous discrepancies, just look at the seats in the last general election of 2008 where the Parliamentary seat of Kapar in Selangor has more than 118,000 voters and the seat of Putrajaya only has 7000 voters or PJ Utara in Selangor with 76,000 voters and Kota Samarahan in Sarawak with 28,000 voters. And look at the disparity in the number of parliamentary seats between Selangor with a population of about 5 million people is allotted 22 parliamentary seats and Sarawak with a population of about 2.5 million people and is allotted 31 parliamentary seats.

So if the fair value of vote is 1 ringgit, the people of Selangor is only worth 30 sens as compared to the people of Sarawak or the voters in Kapar, Selangor are only worth maybe 5 sens as compared to the voters of Putrajaya.

(do your own maths there is a calculator on the side bar)

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No To Third Bridge

Najib's idea of a third bridge to Singapore is inappropriate says Datuk Sharir Abdul Samad who is the Member of Parliament for Johor Bahru.

"My view is that construction of the bridge is not necessary. Instead, the government should improve efficiency of the ferry service or encourage the use of ship and boats as a mode of transport between the two countries.

"The government should make it a priority to build a new bridge to overcome congestion at the Johor causeway," he told reporters at a function here.

He said this in response to a statement by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak, who met Singapore Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew in Putrajaya several days ago, that Singapore was keen on the construction of a third bridge linking the republic to Malaysia.

"The concept of the third bridge on the eastern side of Johor is something which we will pursue, and Singapore is quite keen on having the third bridge.

"When we have a third bridge, we can develop the whole of the eastern side (of Johor) up to Mersing and onwards to Desaru".

"Singapore did say that it (the area) has the potential to be another Nusa Jaya like in Bali (Indonesia)," Najib said in his opening address at the 2010 Budget consultation meeting at the Finance Ministry.

Looks like the making of another mega multi billion ringgit project! Has Najib strike a deal with Singapore and can we afford it as there is already a big strain on our national deficit. But what the heck we have already thrown away 12 billion or more into the sea of Port Klang and throwing more billions to the straits of Johor might just balance things up.

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Read Sharir HERE

Another Rating Downgrade

FITCH Ratings has cut Malaysia's long-term currency rating from "A+" to "A" due to concern over the country's growing budget deficit.

It also revised its outlook from negative to stable and maintained Malaysia's long-term foreign currency rating at "A-minus" with a stable outlook.

Fitch, in a statement yesterday, said that it expected Malaysia's budget deficit to increase to 7.7 per cent of gross domestic product (GDP) this year.

Last year, the budget deficit peaked when a RM67 billion stimulus package was announced to counter the effects of a global economic slowdown.

Fitch said that by next year, Malaysia's general government primary deficit of -6.4 per cent of GDP would be among the worst of all Fitch-rated sovereigns, after only Latvia, Bahrain, Ireland and Vietnam.

It noted that the ratio of Malaysia's revenues as a proportion of GDP was just 21.6 per cent, and that the ratio could worsen to 19 per cent by next year.

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Indonesia - The Rising Star of Asean

Indonesia ~ The Rising Star of Asean

Gross domestic product in Southeast Asia’s largest economy expanded 4.4 percent in the first quarter from a year earlier, compared with 0.4 percent in the Philippines and contractions of more than 6 percent in Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand.

Foreigners are plowing money into the nation’s stocks and bonds as the economy outperforms its regional peers on optimism President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono will win re-election in July. The central bank cut borrowing costs on June 3 for a seventh straight month and Deputy Governor Hartadi Sarwono signaled room to reduce them again as inflation slowed to the least in 23 months. The rupiah is “still undervalued,” he said.

“The rupiah is still one of our picks because the Indonesian economy is fairly robust,” said Emmanuel Ng, an economist at Oversea-Chinese Banking Corp. in Singapore. “The way the political climate is evolving is positive from an offshore perspective. Inflation continues to come off and Bank Indonesia continues to keep the door open for rate cuts.”

Indonesia’s budget deficit may narrow to 1.3 percent of gross domestic product next year, Sri Mulyani said June 3. This year’s shortfall is estimated at 2.5 percent of GDP, the government has said. (Malaysia’s shortfall is at 8.5% of GDP).

How did Indonesia do it?

Indonesia has gone through radical political reform and is now the most democratic country in Asia. They have completely revamped the executive, judicial and legislative branches and are independent of each other. The Anti Corruption Agency is establish through an act of parliament and is made totally independent. They now even have direct Presidential appointment unlike in Malaysia where its still being handed down by umno or through appointment from one Prime Minister to another.

Unlike Malaysia, Indonesia has rectified all international treaty in respect of Human Rights and they have enacted basic laws to protect the rights of its people as seen through the enactment of Freedom of Information Act and the Freedom of Expression Act. Indonesia is today a nation of international standing and repute. (Sigh.. when can we see the day when we can say the same for our beloved country now being labeled a pariah).

Malaysia does not have the political infrastructure which is the structure of good laws, clear separation of powers of government and the respect of basic human rights instead we have bad and outdated laws that oppresses the people, dictatorial control and influence over all the branches of government.

Indonesia today does not have any sedition act, sodomy act, does not criminalize the printing and publication act, illegal assembly or gathering, detention without trial (isa) in short the government does not bully or oppress its own people and in fact have all the necessary laws to protect its people… Freedom of information!…Freedom of expression!

“Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death” -Patrick Henry (1775)

Read Earlier Post on Indonesia HERE

Stories From Bolehland

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How To Succeed In Business

In Bolehland, this is how you start a business. Take a bank loan for $4 billion. Pay above market price for the land and everything else. Build the buildings regardless of the demand. Rent out 20% of the completed buildings. Make sure the other 80% empty buildings are painted white to make it “look nice from afar”.

When people ask “how come so many empty building?” you tell them “this is just phase one – the empty buildings are phase 2 and 3”.

When the banks start asking for money, take out another $4 billion in new loans – except this time, the Bolehland government will act as guarantor. No wonder people say Bolehland government is business-friendly.

When you have spent the money, hire a forensic accountant and issue a 1000-page report. Blame it on the previous management. Hold a press conference and tell Boleahlanders that you are going for transparency and accountability. Wait for six months. Bolehlanders “muda lupa”.

One year later, start a new project. This time, apply for bank loan of $8 billion.

Must read stories from bolehland by James Chin. For Full Story Go HERE (make sure you read all 3 parts)

PAS and UMNO Unity

PAS and UMNO Unity

Go ahead PAS, make my day, go unite with umno and than you can both start banning everything you don’t like in this country. Go ahead! Shoo Shoo get out of Pakatan Rakyat. Stop talking until the cow come home as you are becoming like umno talk, talk talk and talk and ban, ban, ban, ban this ban that ban every damn thing.

And it will be fun to watch as you start to collapse with umno, don’t you see the signs? Collapse stadium, collapse buildings, collapse highway, collapse bridges, and very soon you can unite and collapse with them.

There are just some people that just can’t take a little bit of success, win a few seats here and there and you start behaving arrogantly, you are now behaving like umno, a lot of arrogant talk from your own leaders just to win popularity. Let me remind you that you can’t even win back Trengganu the last time.

We don’t need any more arrogance, we had umno for the last 50 years and so if you need to join them in unity, please go and thank you very much for not wasting our time further.

We don’t need any more leaders that talk with false tongue; we need leaders of virtues that are leaders that speak the truth, of integrity of righteousness, of purest sincerity and most of all of humility and respect for the basic rights of all its people. We don’t want any more bullies as we had for the past 50 years, we have had enough!

And one more thing please stop emulating umno, the position of Prime Minister Ship is not to be demanded or to be given like in umno and their barisan. We the people would like to see their own Prime Minister being elected or endorsed by the people. It is not yours to be taken or demanded like it is your birth right, the PM belongs to the people and must respect and serve the people and the nation with the utmost sincerity.

If you like talking so much why not talk to the people instead as you might learn so much more and will not be in danger of some of your leaders and members being enticed and entranced by the absolute power of the wicked and the cunning.

PAS call to ban Sister In Islam Read HERE

PAS unity talk Read HERE

PAS needs to explain to Pakatan Read HERE