Technically wrong but justifiable

When I hit 50, I worked for 3 years with a statutory body of the state government. The CEO there used his official car for personal use such as taking his kids to school and other chores. His driver told me this because his kids too went to school together with the boss's kids. No body complained then. Today however there is a lot of complaint about a certain menteri besar who used his personal car as an official car and gets the government to pay for its maintenance. Its technically wrong but nevertheless justifiable. The amount is relatively small compared to what Terengganu used to pay for maintenance of its Perdana fleet.

As for the purchase of cattle for "Korban" its perfectly alright to pay from public fund. The cattle was meant for public consumption and it does not really matter where they were consumed.

I am no fan of PKR but I resent calls for menteri besar's resignation the same way I object for calls for Liz Wong to step down

Know the Law First

I don't know anything about the Perak State Constitution. But common sense tells me, it does not give the speaker of the state legislative assemby the power to suspend an assembly man for the duration of between 12 - 18 months.

The speaker should know the 7 assembly men he suspended are representatives of thousands of the constituents all over the state of Perak. Suspension amounts to depriving the constituents their representation in the state legislative assembly.

The speaker now finds himself in a maze of legal technicalities and its difficult for him or for anybody else for that matter, to undo what had happened. There is no precedence to fall back upon. I think the speaker, a novice who has been at the job less than a year, was not aware the implication of his action. He was probably just taking orders from his supreme commander and adviser, Anuar Ibrahim.

Prof.Khoo is right when he says politicians should first know the law before holding public office. I hope we will soon get out of this gutter politic and pay more attention to solving the economic woes

Gutter Poltics in Malaysia

Malaysian politics today stinks. Dr.Mahathir describes it as "Gutter Politics". Politics in Malaysia has never been this bad before.

Politicians of today, with some exception, are of the new breed who entered the profession after the demise of Tun Razak - the last of the old breed. Is it a coincidence that things started to go bad after Anuar Ibrahim, a new breed, staged a come-back?. He was the one who started all those talks about forming a new federal government by engineering massive cross over. He failed but BN borrowed his idea and succeeded in Perak. This is the most stinking part of the whole thing in which both Anuar and BN are guilty of. The only difference is Anuar bragged about it and BN didn't. What follows next is sickening- police reports made by the hundred and some matters taken to court. Here we have adults who fail to resolve their differences without going at each other's throats. We voted for these idiots into office so that they would work for the betterment of the country. Instead they are working for the glory of self aspiring to become prime minister and menteri besar

Old Breed, New Breed

In the teaching profession, I belong to the old breed of teachers, who was busy with the students and never had time to think how to become rich. When I finally retired, I found myself living in a three bedroom house and driving a twenty eight year old car.

In politics I think the late Tun Razak was a politician of the old breed. He was busy with rakyat and never had time to think how to get rich. Once I happened to pass by his house at Peramu Pekan and it was a modest dwelling so unbecoming of a prime minister's residence.

Many of my former students today are much better off than me and I guess that goes for the rakyat too who started life under Tun Razak. I like to say a few words about some of my former students who become teachers themselves in Kuala Terennganu. One of them is a part time housing developer and the other one is running a tuition centre as big as the school where he teachers. All are earning good money may be as much as the prime minister himself. These are examples of the new breed of teachers. As for politicians of the new breed you can see them in power fights in Perak and Selangor at the moment.

Elizabeth Wong

Leave her alone! She might have illicit sex with a man. So what? That is expected of a 37 year old female single! She is not a Muslim and we cannot apply Muslim laws on her! Look at Condi Rice. She is single too. I bet she is not a virgin. This goes to show that private matter and professional matter do not mix

She is a good M.P. Her constituents do not seem to mind what she did in private. They urge her to stay on as an asembly woman. It is UMNO, as voiced out by Khir Toyo, that wants her to give up her seat For what reason? To discredit the opposition? Or to wrest the seat from DAP in the ensuing by-election? UMNO or BN is not likely to win. There is going to be sympathy votes for DAP.

UMNO is not free of sex scandal either. I know of someone of ministerial rank who womanizes . Why is the media keeping quite? The media likes to sensationalize things. Don't they have better things to do?

USA and Hamas

Both USA and Hamas are victims of the Jews

Proof of Jewish repression of USA
1. The Jews have ruined the American Banking System. They were the ones who run the system for decade. If the system goes wrong, it must be their fault. Obama said the same thing and I quote "Our economy is badly weakened, a consequence of greed and irresponsibility on the part of SOME . Who is SOME if not the Jews. And American tax payers are made to pay for the mismanagement of the Jews!
2. Israel is siphoning huge amount of money from USA every year for the so called economic and military aids
3. Israel dictates American foreign policy that makes USA the most despised country on earth

Proof of Jewish repression of Hamas.
The recent attack on Gaza was ethnic cleansing to clear up the land to make way for more Israeli illegal settlements.

Fighting Back

The Americans do not have the courage to confront the Jews. But the people of Gaza are among the most courageous people on Earth. They fight back with human bombs and stones. I have a lot of respect for the Gazans but none for the Americans

UMNO Must Change!

I signed up for UMNO membership during the time of Tun Razak. That puts me in the veteran category now. Over the years, I observed changes among the polticians. In the begining they were nationalistic committed towards the welfare of the rakyat. Tun Razak was one such person.But today's politicians are not so. They are opportunists committed towards the aqusition of money and power. Related problems crop up. One of them is money politic and the other one is jump ship like people in the private sector who "Jump Companies". One moment they are with Esso and the next moment they look for openings in Petronas. They don't care for Esso or Petronas. What they care is the money they can make. Some politicians are like that

UMNO politicians generally love the good thing of life such as branded cars, palatial homes and in some cases, new wives. Ahmad Said is one such person. I don't understand why they need a RM200,000.00 car to go around or a RM2,000.000.00 house to sleep in and a new wife to sleep with

UMNO politicians are treated almost like royalty. Once I attended a get-together at a kampung in Terengganu where politicians were guests of honour. They arrived in a convoy of branded cars and welcomed by bearers of bunga mangar, kompang, bersilat and even a red carpet. They were over doing it. High living, display of wealth and VIP treatments fail to bring about endearment of the people. The 'Us" and the 'Them" mentality develop. No amount of talk on national development can erase that mentality. It is this endearment that wins elections. BN fared badly in the last election because of the lack of this endearment. The outcome of the recent KT by election was also bad and it was due to the same reason. So Najib please take note

A Castrated Government

I like to follow TV discussions on the on-going events in Gaza. They often discuss on how the conflict there could be ended. Dr.Chandra Muzzafar said it only could be ended if Obama could persuade Israel to stop attacking the Palestinians, allow the refugees to return etc.etc. I wonder why he did not mention that Obama was not in a position to dissuade Israel from carrying out what it has planned. Obama, for that matter, most of the law-makers too have all been castrated by the Jewish Lobby and as a result they have to submit to the Lobby's wishes. I think if we want to help the Palestinians, first we must help the Americans to free themselves from Jewish control. This is one thing Americans and Palestinians share in common. Americans must know it by now that Israel is a liabilty not an asset. The Jews are like a parasite plant that is alowly killing the host tree.