根据情报，民联可赢145国席

呼吁选举委员会召开跨党派圆桌会议，使所有政党在第13届全国大选摒弃恐惧与威迫政治，并接受任何和平与民主的政权更迭

我呼吁选举委员会召开跨党派圆桌会议，使所有政党在第13届全国大选摒弃恐惧与威迫政治，并接受任何和平与民主的政权更迭，不论是在联邦或州级，倘若这是选票箱显示的最终结果。

这是最为紧迫且是必要的，因为原因有二：第一，充斥恐惧、威迫、流氓与暴力的骯脏政治在第13届全国大选迫在眉睫之际，有日益增加的趋势；第二，第13届全国大选极有可能是国家独立56年以来首次通过民主程序实现政党轮替，国阵联邦政府将会下台，并由民联取代在布城成立新联邦政府。

我获得讯息显示武吉阿曼和国防部情报单位不排除国阵将会在第13届全国大选中落马。根据一项来自武吉阿曼情报单位的推测，尽管我无法证实有关资讯是否真正出自警方，显示第13届全国大选的最后国会议席成绩极有可能如下：

州属	民联	国阵
玻璃市	1	2
吉打	13	2
吉兰丹	13	1
登嘉楼	4	4
槟城	12	1
霹雳	18	6
彭亨	5	9
雪兰莪	20	2
吉隆坡	10	1
布城	0	1
森美兰	6	2
马六甲	2	4
柔佛	12	14
纳闽	1	0
沙巴	12	13
砂拉越	16	15
总数	145	77

根据上述预测，民联将会赢得145个国会议席，而国阵则会赢得77个国会议席，多数议席为68席。

这项成绩也超越我之前希望民联能在第13届全国大选取得的“梦幻”成绩 —— 即赢得125个国会议席或28个多数议席，分别是人民公正党夺下45席，而民主行动党和伊斯兰党则个别斩获40席。

随着马来西亚在独立半世纪之后极有可能在历史上首次实现民主政权轮替，选举委员会和警察必须肩负重任，确保有关民主政权移交仪式是在和平及有秩序的方式之下进行。

我对前总警长丹斯里慕沙哈山敦促政治人物应该停止“向人民散播恐惧”、停止发表足以导致种族关系紧张或暴动的言论表示欢迎，尤其是来届全国大选极有可能发生政权轮替。

慕沙是在吉隆坡一场关于顺利与和平移交政权的论坛上引述巫统妇女组主席莎莉扎和前首相马哈迪在最近发表的言论例子提出警示。

莎莉扎是於去年11月在巫统全国代表大会发表政策演词时警告1969年513暴动事件可能重演，而马哈迪则於最近在他的部落格上污蔑我到振林山参选是要离间华人和马来人。

“身为领袖，他们应当劝诫人民在选择属意的政府时保持冷静”，退休后频频对外发言的慕沙如此说道。

慕沙补充：“对我而言，这些言论很大程度上已经构成煽动罪。”

一名前总警长认为一名前首相已经构成煽动罪名，这是一个奇妙个案。但总检察长丹斯里阿都干尼会否秉持独立和专业操守，拘捕并提控已经触犯煽动罪行的前首相敦马哈迪，因为他试图在种族间制造矛盾并恐吓选民，以至他们无法自由行使宪法赋予投票的权利。

慕沙批评警方在对付巫统与国阵的肇事者时无法表现独立与专业，我对此表示全面认同。

慕沙也认为，倘若5月5日果真实现政权轮替，执法单位急需获得全面性的改革。

民联承诺将会全面改革警队，使大众恢复对警方办事效率、专业与独立的信心，籍以减低犯罪，为所有公民、投资者和游客重新带来一个安全的国家与公共环境。此外，民联也将成立独立警方投诉及违例委员会（IPCMC），着手处理公众对警察滥用权力和贪污的投诉。

这两项议程将会是民联在第13届全国大选之后成立新联邦政府所要落实的首要议程。

来源：http://cblog.limkitsiang.com/?p=3722#more-3722

Pakatan Rakyat will win 145 Parliament Seats

Call on Election Commission to convene an all-party roundtable conference for all political parties to forswear the politics of fear and blackmail in 13GE and to accept any peaceful and democratic change of government

I call the Election Commission to convene an all-party roundtable conference for all political parties to forswear the politics of fear and blackmail in the 13th General Elections and to accept any peaceful and democratic change of government, whether at the Federal or state level, if this is the verdict of the electorate.

This is most urgent and imperative for two reasons: firstly, the increasing incidents of the politics of fear, blackmail, gangsterism and violence in the run-up to the 13GE; secondly, the possibility that the 13GE will herald the first change of federal government in 56 years through the ballot box, namely the formation of a Pakatan Rakyat Federal Government in Putrajaya following the ousting of the Barisan Nasional Federal Government through the democratic process.

I have received information that the Bukit Aman and Defence Ministry intelligence do not rule out the defeat of Barisan Nasional in the 13GE. According to one Bukit Aman intelligence estimate, which I cannot verify whether it is from the police or not, the possible outcome of the 13GE for parliamentary elections is as follows:

State	PR	BN
Perlis	1	2
Kedah	13	2
Kelantan	13	1
Terengganu	4	4
Penang	12	1
Perak	18	6
Pahang	5	9
Selangor	20	2
Wilayah Per.	10	1
Putrajaya	0	1
Negri Sembilan	6	2
Melaka	2	4
Johor	12	14
Labuan	1	0
Sabah	12	13
Sarawak	16	15
Total	145	77

According to this estimate, PR will win 145 parliamentary seats compared to 77 for Barisan Nasional – or a majority of 68 seats.

This is well beyond my “dream” results for the Pakatan Rakyat in the 13GE – which is PR winning 125 parliamentary seats or a majority of 28, distributed evenly among PKR with 45 seats and DAP and PAS each winning 40 seats.

With the possibility for the first time in more than five decades of Malaysian history of a democratic transition of power through the ballot box, the onus is both on the Election Commission and the police to ensure that a democratic transition of power will be a peaceful and orderly one.

I welcome the reminder by the former Inspector-General of Police, Tan Sri Musa Hassan urging politicians to stop “putting fear in people” by making statements about possible racial tension or riots should there be a change in government in the general election.

Musa took issue at a forum on smooth and peaceful transition of power in Kuala Lumpur with recent statements by both Umno Wanita chief Shahrizat Jalil and former prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad.

Shahrizat had warned of a repeat of the May 13, 1969 racial riots during her policy speech at the Umno general assembly November last year, while Mahathir recentlywrote on his blog that I would attempt to drive a wedge between the Chinese and the Malays in my campaign for Gelang Patah.

“As leaders, they should advise the people to be calm in selecting a government of their choice,” said Musa, who has been vocal in his opinions since his retirement.

Musa said: “For me, (the statements) are almost like sedition (menghasut).”

Here is a case where a former Inspector-General of Police is of the view that a former Prime Minister had been guilty of sedition. But would the Attorney-General Tan Sri Gani Patail act independently and professionally to arrest and charge the former Prime Minister, Tun Mahathir, for the offence of sedition in raising the spectre of racial conflict to scare the voters from freely exercising their constitutional right to vote.

I fully endorse Musa’s criticism of the police authorities for failing to act independently and professionally where the culprits come from UMNO and Barisan Nasional.

Musa argued that the enforcement system would need an overhaul should there be a change of government in the May 5 election.

The Pakatan Rakyat is fully committed to bring about such an enforcement of the police force, to ensure that the police could restore public confidence in their efficiency, professionalism and independence so that they could reduce crime and make the country and public places safe again for citizens, investors and tourists as well as establish an Independent Police Complaints and Misconduct Commssion (IPCMC) to deal with public complaints of abuses of power and corruption against the police.

These two items will be among the top agendas of a new PR Federal Government after the 13GE.

Source: http://blog.limkitsiang.com/2013/04/17/call-on-election-commission-to-convene-an-all-party-roundtable-conference-for-all-political-parties-to-forswear-the-politics-of-fear-and-blackmail-in-13ge-and-to-accept-any-peaceful-and-democratic-cha/

Police ticked off for poor handling of Bersih 3.0 rally

Ram Anand 5:25PM Apr 17, 2013

The police force had acted in "bad faith" in its handling of the Bersih 3.0 rally on April 28 and this violated the spirit of the Peaceful Assembly Act (PAA) 2012, the Human Rights Commission (Suhakam) said at the conclusion of its inquiry into the rally.

Suhakam, in releasing the inquiry report today on alleged human rights violations during the rally, also said that the police had taken “unreasonable measures” that were not justified in trying to control the crowd during the rally, which included preventing media personnel from carrying out its duties.

It said the ‘3R 1C 1E’ (Restraint, Restraint, Restraint, Caution and Enforce) approach of the police was not reflective of the PAA legislation which had come into force just five days before the rally.

“The exercise of restraint is not quite the same as facilitation, which connotes a more active and participatory role,” the commission said after the six-month inquiry that began last July.

It said that the police had not assisted or facilitated in the dispersal of participants during the assembly, which had turned ugly after a police barricade was breached at Dataran Merdeka in Kuala Lumpur.

“The participants were not given sufficient and reasonable time to disperse in an orderly and safe manner,” the three-member panel concluded in its 80-page report, which also included 25 recommendations.

The commission said that the police should have immediately arrested the individuals who were responsible in breaking the barricade, especially because the incident took place within a visible distance for some officers.

“Instead, for reasons only best known to them, the police made the decision to disperse the crowd using water cannons and tear gas without conducting early arrests,” the report said.

“The police had also acted in bad faith, in fact their actions show that there were deliberate efforts to stop media personnel from doing their jobs,” it further added, referring to the violence against media personnel during the rally.

The report notes that despite a host of police reports lodged against police personnel regarding their conduct during the assembly, the police had not completed investigation nor taken action into any one of these reports after almost a year.

‘Lack of cooperation by police’

Suhakam also took issue with a lack of cooperation by the police during the inquiry, as they had failed to send a full list of officers on duty that day and did not send any officer who was able to respond to allegations of police brutality during the rally.

The inquiry panel’s chair Khaw Lake Tee said that as a result, the commission were left to draw their own inferences based on the 49 witnesses who had come forward to testify.

“Our own conclusions, as a result, may not necessarily be favourable to the police,” Khaw said after reading out the report.

She also noted that this is not the first time the commission has made recommendations to the police regarding its conduct in handling public assemblies, with many of the recommendations not being implemented by the force.

“We can’t say they have not implemented at all. There are a few that have been taken it, but largely, we need to meet them again and try take this a step further,” she said.

Khaw said that the commission will need to meet the police and will keep reminding the force of the recommendations until the latter adopts them.

“But our (commissioners) term expires next week. So we need to inform the new batch of commissioners and remind them to keep following on this issue,” she said, while seeming to be cautiously optimistic that the police would eventually adopt the recommendations.

Among the key recommendations in the report were:

• That police make public all of its Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) in handling such assemblies so that the public can be informed.

• That police review and amend its SOP and standing orders accordingly to better handle public assemblies.

• That police make a clear distinction between a riot and a peaceful rally.

• That police allocate a reasonable amount of time in allowing rally participants to disperse in an orderly fashion.

• That police personnel at all times wear permanent name tags or identification body numbers.

• Officers wearing plainclothes should not be involved in dispersal or arresting processes.

• That police and media have a briefing between each other before such assemblies.

• The need for the police to complete its investigations on the police reports lodged by the public in relation to acts committed by police personnel.

Source: http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/227111

Election 2013 will be won in Sabah and Sarawak, says Anwar

February 21, 2013

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 21 — Rural Sabah and Sarawak will play a vital role in determining the victor of Election 2013, Opposition Leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim said in a Bloomberg report today.

Anwar told the news agency he was confident of Pakatan Rakyat’s (PR) success despite the alliance’s differences in ideologies, although current seat tussles between PR and component parties in both east Malaysian states indicate otherwise.

“In Sabah and Sarawak, we’ve never seen that level of support among indigenous tribes,” Anwar (picture) told Bloomberg here.

“People do concede that there’s going to be a substantial change in Sabah and Sarawak, enough to alter the shift in balance of power nationwide.”

Sabah and Sarawak are traditionally viewed as a safe vote bank for Barisan Nasional (BN), with the coalition winning 55 out of 71 seats when Sarawak held its state election in April 2011.

The de facto leader of PKR also predicted a smooth transition of power should PR win Putrajaya, thanks to the changing attitude of the police force in handling political events.

“The police have changed in the last few months,” he said. 

“There’s hardly been any harassment from the police in all our programmes. It’s a pure change.”

He pointed out that the police did not obstruct the latest opposition rally, the People’s Uprising Rally in January, but instead helped to “facilitate” it.

In the aftermath of the rally, dubbed “KL112”, it was the Royal Malaysian Police (PDRM) that has come under the spotlight, earning praise from the public and key leaders from both the opposition and BN for exercising restraint during the event. 

The police force, especially the Dang Wangi police station, had implemented a number of initiatives for the first time during the rally, in order to assist the participants and the media covering the event. 

Previous gatherings organised by polls watchdog group Bersih 2.0 had resulted in pitch battles on the streets between the police and protesters.

Parliament will automatically dissolve on April 28 and elections must be held 60 days from then.

Source: http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/malaysia/article/election-2013-will-be-won-in-sabah-and-sarawak-says-anwar/

112集會：大集會平和熱烈

2013-01-12 16:48

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  近10萬名身穿不同主題顏色――黃、綠、紅、橙、黑、紫衣服的集會群眾猶如小支流，從吉隆坡8個集合地點流向默迪卡體育場，匯集在“112人民崛起大集會＂，向政府發出響徹雲霄的訴求。（圖：星洲日報）
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  逾4萬人擠在只能容納3萬人的默迪卡體育場，只能用“熱到爆＂形容。（圖：星洲日報）
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  趙明福的家人，包括父母與妹妹趙麗蘭也參與集會，提醒人民明福沉冤待雪，也促請政府盡快還明福一個公道。（圖：星洲日報）
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  在不同地點集合的人群“兵分幾路＂，井然有序的步行到默迪卡體育場。（圖：星洲日報）
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  身穿紅色與黃色T-恤的吉蘭丹追討石油稅聯盟與淨選盟的支持者“佔領＂了吉隆坡市區，把吉隆坡的街道擠得水泄不通。（圖：星洲日報）
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  支持丹州政府追討石油稅組織（Royalti）成員在現場見到BERSIH紅人安妮婆婆時，興奮地與其合照。（圖：星洲日報）

（吉隆坡12日訊）“112人民崛起大集會＂順利舉行；默迪卡體育場裡里外外有近10萬名集會者，其中逾4萬人“擠爆＂默迪卡體育場，表達人民訴求的口號響徹雲宵！

112大集會是史無前例的，除了民聯3黨支持者外，它也是匯集了最多的非政府組織、表達多達8項訴求，以及最多的“主題顏色＂的大型集會。

由於人數太大，默場爆滿，場外也沒地方站，遲到的集會者只好退到茨廠街和蘇丹街。

警方指默場內外有4至4萬5千名集會者；但民聯支持者則估計這場大集會有多達10萬人參加。

身穿不同主題顏色――黃、綠、紅、橙、黑、紫色衣服的集會群眾，都在領導人帶領下，從今早開始陸續到8個集合點集合。

雖然集會是在下午2時開始進行，但當局提早在11時30分就開放默場，讓預早抵達的集會者魚貫進入默場。

雖然在中午約12時30分，首都下起陣雨，但雨勢澆不熄集會群眾的熱情，集會者依然向默場挺進。

【《112大集會》 人民崛起的一天】

默場內外五彩斑斕

這股多彩的人民力量，形成黃、綠、紅、橙、黑、紫等集會人潮“細流＂，在默場內外匯集成一片五彩斑斕的“彩虹人海＂；口號、海報、旗幟宛若一場“百家爭鳴＂的“民主嘉年華＂，氣氛和平但熱烈，集會者精神充沛但次序井然。

有別與之前的大部份集會，大集會進行順利，沒有騷亂與衝突，警方也遵守承諾，沒有派出鎮暴隊到場駐守，只有普通警員在每個集合點與主要輕快鐵站駐守，維持秩序。

回教黨、公正黨和行動黨的巨頭在下午2時許陸續進入默場，較後，非政府組織代表在2時後輪流致詞；過後才輪到民聯3黨領袖致詞。

玩起“人海波浪＂
集會者高呼“默迪卡＂

場內集會者在主辦方的帶領下，高呼“默迪卡＂。場內爆滿，幾乎插針都不入。

那些沒有坐位的集會者，不畏炎陽就地坐在默場內的草地上，耐心等候聆聽領袖的演講。

在等待的當兒，場內集會者也玩起“人海波浪＂，連貴賓席的領袖們也參與一份，場面熱鬧開心。

民聯巨頭輪流演說
集會者艷陽下撐傘聆聽

伊斯蘭黨、公正黨和行動黨的巨頭在下午2時許陸續進入默場，主辦方先安排至少20位非政府組織代表包括淨選盟2.0主席拿督安美嘉、聯合主席兼國家文學獎得主拿督沙末賽益、綠色盛會委員會主席黃德等發表簡短談話。

由於雨後天氣變得非常炎熱，小部份在默場內的集會者難忍酷熱，離開默場往場外避暑，但大部份集會者依然堅持留在默場內，在艷陽下撐傘聆聽主講者發言。

高喊3聲“烈火莫熄＂

稍後籌委會主席兼伊斯蘭黨署理主席莫哈末沙布、行動黨秘書長林冠英、伊斯蘭黨主席拿督斯里哈迪阿旺、公正黨顧問拿督斯里安華輪流向集會群眾發表演說。

集會者最後在公正黨總秘書賽夫丁帶領下，齊聲宣讀大集會10點宣言，隨之伊斯蘭黨長老協商理事會主席拿督聶阿茲帶領集會群眾一起祈禱、唱國歌後，在主辦方帶領高喊3聲“烈火莫熄＂，集會於下午4時45分宣佈集會結束，集會者和平離開。

大集會的秘書處人員賽奧馬在受本報詢及時認為今天的集會人數已達到50萬。

来源：http://news.sinchew.com.my/topic/node/353907

Special tags do not guarantee safety of journalists

January 9, 2013

FMT LETTER: From Nalini Elumalai, via e-mail

Suaram refers to the Malaysiakini report, ‘Cops to issue special tags for Saturday rally’ and views the unprecedented move by the police issuing special tag to the journalist as unprofessional and suspicious.

The reason given by the ACP Ramli Mohammed Yoosuf is that the tags were to ensure the safety of journalist and to avoid untoward incidents like Bersih 3.0 rally where journalists were brutally assaulted by the police.

Suaram had in the past demanded that journalists on duty at rallies be protected. However the move to issue special tags to journalists alone does not guarantee their safety and casts doubts on police’s duty to ensure peace and order since participants will be easily identified.

We question the necessity to issue special tags to the press when the  press has already been issued authorised tags by the information ministry. Each media organisation now has their own media tags.

What the police should be concerned of is not how to tag the media but rather to initiate a Standard Operational Procedure (SOP) to deal with members of the media and to allow and protect them in their duty to cover and disseminate the information to the public without any interference and aggression from the police.

Suaram is of the view that instead, a clear separation is needed between the police (uniformed or not) and the protesters and that it is extremely important for the police to wear their identification badges bearing their names and identification numbers.

Police identification was the major issue in so far as Bersih 3.0 rally was concerned whereby victims of police violence had failed to identify the aggressors who were on duty without their identifications. Many young police officers were not apprehended due to this factor alone.

Suaram notes the responsibility of the force to ensure the safety of journalists but is equally concerned about the safety of participants. Suaram states that the police shall proactively ensure all rallies, including the one scheduled for this Saturday (Jan 12) to be in order and safe for both the journalists and the participants.

The fundamental right to assemble peacefully is the people’s right, as enshrined in the Federal Constitution of Malaysia and Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR).

The writer is the new Executive Director of Suaram

Source: http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/opinion/2013/01/09/special-tags-do-not-guarantee-safety-of-journalists/

Should betrayal of public trust be forgiven?

Steve Oh 11:59AM Dec 13, 2012

Corruption is at the heart of what's ailing Malaysia and much citizen discontent but the biggest issue is one of public trust.

The Americans loathed the charismatic and capable Clinton not because he had a sexual tryst with an intern but that he lied to those who trusted and defended him.

The public has certain high expectations of those in high office and in public service that they may not expect of private individuals. It is the proper way to safeguard the integrity of any high office.

Former US president Bill Clinton had big dreams of reform to make his mark in his last term in office but now he will be remembered for the lost opportunities, and his betrayal of the public trust of the American people.

What of the betrayals in Malaysia and will Malaysians be as forgiving of their leaders?

What is happening in the country seems to parallel what is happening to the government. The government suffers from a credibility crisis as it fails to explain what is happening to it, the corruption scandals and all.

There is a loathing uncertainty and sense of despair and many feel change is the panacea to the country's troubled and troublesome government they blame for many of their own troubles - rising crimes and costs of living.

Thus more and more Malaysians are openly asking and working for change and even the incumbent government promises change but has little to show of substance.

It does not look good when someone unelected and not in government speaks for the government and asks in a supercilious manner, "What more do you want?" and then boasts about his ability to get the government to put it into effect ‘immediately' when the government itself drags its feet.

People will be wondering who is really in charge of the government and if they have misplaced their trust in the last elections. They thought they voted for someone else to lead the country.

"If it ain't broke why fix it?" is half the story because Bert Lance, Jimmy Carter's budget administrator who said it in 1977 while trying to save Uncle Sam billions, explained, "That's the trouble with government, fixing things that aren't broken and not fixing things that are broken."

It makes people feel that a change of government is the panacea by getting rid of the whole lot and starting anew with a fresh government. It is the only way to clean out all the skeletons in the over-crowded closet.

Citizens should feel betrayed and humiliated when they have to beg for something that they expect any good government to do for them on its own initiative.

Sooner or later corrupt politicians fall on their own swords or at the hands of a Brutus who murdered Julius Caesar.

Opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim vows to slay the corruption dragon and it can be done if there is the political will and political clout to do it. Every single BN leader who has said they would tackle corruption has failed for obvious reasons.

Every single one of them has been ‘tainted' and time will tell if they are guilty or unfairly pilloried.

A new government after GE13 whether formed out of the ashes of the old one or a different one drawn from the fresh faces of the Pakatan Rakyat coalition - who can predict the outcome of GE13 and what happens after? - cannot continue to betray the people and allow corruption and the abuse of power to continue.

What people want is a good government that functions as a good government should without all they see today of the corruption scandals, accusations and counter-accusations and the inability of those in power to clear their names or for the government to take decent action.

We may not care about sick politicians but we should care that the government as a public institution serves the people and not the politicians and is in good health.

It cannot be corruption as usual by any government not only because it is wrong but there will be nothing left to steal or for the people when a country is broke. Reading about the wealth of the politicians while the citizens eke out an austere living does make one feel sick.

And the people most likely to suffer are those in the low-income group and with little savings, mostly the Malays.

An extract from an article by Ahmad Fuad Rahmat in Centre for Policy Initiatives is revealing: "We are often told of how the bottoms 40% of Malaysian households earn RM 1500 or less on average. But we don't hear as much about the fact that this is equivalent to 2.6 million households, or to be more exact, 12.4 million Malaysians. We even hear less of how 56% of that total, nearly 1.3 million households, are Malay households.

A recent study conducted at the Malaysian National University's (UKM) Institute for Malaysian and International Studies (IKMAS) reveals more: an average bumiputera can only rely on one month of financial reserves in the sudden event of unemployment. 50.8% of overall bumiputera wealth is concentrated in the top 20% of bumiputera earners, while the bottom 40% can only claim a cumulative share of 7.6%. It is not surprising then that 66% of Bumiputera households have no financial assets."

Another report placing Malaysia at the top in "a Transparency International survey of 30 countries where companies felt they had lost deals because they did not pay bribes," reflects what Malaysians already know.

Malaysians are not Americans and they do not like to impeach their leaders.

The political ‘birds of the same feather' do not expose one another's ‘sins' either because they won't know who has the thicker file on them. It is safer to keep a poker face while plotting someone's downfall and relying on a Brutus.

Still the country risks being labeled the ‘Sick man of Asia.'

Many Malaysians feel betrayed and that justice has not been done as in the court's overturning of the guilty verdict and exonerating the killer of an innocent Malay boy Aminrulrasyid Amzah, shot dead so mercilessly by excessive and brutal police force.

Like Clinton who initially saw his expose as a political plot and not his personal moral failing, there are politicians who cannot accept their faults and blame others for their problems.

How do you expect change when someone points the finger at others and says it is the fault of the ‘ungrateful Malays' or the ‘greedy Chinese' or ‘George Soros' or ‘Anwar Ibrahim' or the ‘PAS extremists' or the ‘chauvinist DAP" but never his fault behind Malaysia's economic, social and political woes.

Even a tennis champion serves double faults and has many unforced errors and the Pope no longer claims to be infallible but someone who never admits his mistakes because he believes he has made none must be out of this world or his mind.

Malaysians want a future without sick politicians in power.

They do not enjoy picking on the government, any government. If a government performs it can't boast about it because it is merely doing its job and the people know that.

But if a government hears of wrong, sees wrongs done, and even does wrong itself, then if it has any self-respect it should do the right thing and not continue to stymie those who are merely doing what any concerned citizen would do and helping it.

Many of us serial letter writers merely state the facts, as the late Tunku Abdul Rahman would say,"As I see it."

And he was among the first to cry ‘betrayal' when he saw his country fall into a state of repressiveness, as Operation Lalang 1987 happened and the police state came into prominence, so Pak Lah can't be credited for creating the ‘police state'.

Betrayal is when a political party fails to govern properly and abuses its government powers to commit wrongs and punishes anyone who dares bring it to account.

The persecution of Suaram illustrates the point.

It is a betrayal of the voters' trust and the nation's Constitution and oaths of public office. Politicians may politick but governments are supposed to govern.

It is a betrayal and abuse of power for a political party to use the powers of government to persecute some other political party, NGO or even an individual.

It is a double betrayal when this is done in the pretext of upholding some law. That is why a change of laws is deceitful when the old habit of applying the law unfairly and for political purposes is still there.

In short, betrayal is a corrupt political party in government, wittingly or unwittingly, making itself the people's enemy by its unjust acts.

Such betrayal then sees the degeneration of a country's moral values into a society where people take the law and matters into their hands to commit ridiculous and criminal acts that outrage its citizens.

If the government is sincere in its confession for past mistakes it should grant the stateless Indians their rightful citizenship. It should not continue to direct the police to harass democratic activities.

Politicians do not need a lesson on graft avoidance but a reminder that "You shall not steal, or deal falsely or lie to one another" if they honestly believe there is God, then start living as if they have to give him an accounting besides the voters.

Not every member of parliament is corrupt, and not all politicians can be tarred with the same feather or needs a lesson in Morality 101 and it is an insult for the honest to be lumped in the same bandwagon as those who are brazenly dishonest.

You treat the sick not the healthy.

As GE13 looms the question then is will Malaysians vote for those who have betrayed their trust?

Source: http://www.malaysiakini.com/letters/216549

Solving dispute on ratio of police to population

Lam Choong Wah 5:03PM Dec 6, 2012

Often times, when we do nothing and keep silent on blatant lying, it will only perpetuate the lies. This is the reason why I write this comment.

First off, I must praise MP for Lembah Pantai Nurul Izzah Anwar for her suggestion to redeploy the police force to focus more on frontline enforcement instead of recruiting more police personnel, even though this suggestion may invite more political attacks from BN.

According to Nurul, the current police to population ratio has reached 1:270 (1 personnel to 270 people) which is very near to 1:250 benchmark set by the Interpol.
Therefore her idea was simply for the police to reprioritise its tasks, which should be to fight crimes instead of focusing on increasing the Federal Reserve Unit's manpower count.

In addition, she cited a parliamentary answer made on Nov 1 to back her argument, in which the home affairs minister told Parliament that the current ratio of police personnel to population was 1:270.

However, the Director of Bukit Aman Management Department, Mortadza Nazarene, rebutted Nurul's statement on Dec 3 that the actual ratio was 1:500.

By using Mortadza's rebuttal, BN-linked media have launched attacks on Nurul. As usual, they cited the ratio favouring the government while ignoring the true figures given by their beloved Umno minister.

Which ratio is correct? 1:270 or 1:500? I don't expect that the home affairs minister or senior police officers to give us further explanations anytime soon.
So I did my own research for the answer.

I found out that Malaysia's population in 2010 was 28.3341 million. 
Meanwhile the number of uniformed police personnel (excluding civilian staff) in the same year was 106,079.
The latest figures on population and police personnel are not available yet.

We divide 28.3341 million with 106,079 which equals 267. After rounding up we get 270. So, the police to population ratio is 1:270.

That is the 2010 figure. But has it changed that much from 1:270 to 1:500 in the time of just one year and eleven months' time? You tell me.

I agree with Defence Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi's recent remarks that the people need to check their facts before issuing a statement on national security and defence matters.
It is "to prevent them from making a blunder and becoming a laughing stock."

In this matter, I think I don't need to tell you who is a laughing stock now. And I believe that even a primary school student can solve this simple math problem.
For further reading, you may download the author's paper on Staffing the Police - More active policemen please, not more policemen.
This paper has become one of the supporting documents backing up Pakatan Rakyat's 2013 budgetary plan to redeploy the police force.

Source: http://www.malaysiakini.com/letters/216065

Police were punishing Bersih crowd, says Ambiga

By Zurairi AR

December 06, 2012

KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 6 — Datuk Ambiga Sreenevasan suggested today that the police had failed to give the April 28 electoral reform demonstrators in the city sufficient time to disperse and punished them by using disproportionate force instead.

“The police personnel were trapping the people. It is as if your intention was not to disperse, but to punish instead,” the co-chairman of electoral reform group Bersih 2.0 told the Human Rights Commission of Malaysia (Suhakam) panel looking into the large-scale violence that erupted in the national capital nearly eight months ago.

“They should’ve used Shelltox instead of nuclear bomb,” Ambiga (picture)quipped, referring to a popular brand of mosquito repellent.

She was responding to a panel member who used an allegory, that one should not burn down the net just because one is mad with mosquitoes, to describe the chaotic situation in the city that day.

Ambiga had pointed to a previous statement by Home Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein in Parliament where he said 909 tear gas canisters and 58 tear gas grenades were used on April 28.

“I was shocked to see the numbers. Nothing justifies using nearly 1,000 canisters into a crowd that is leaving,” she said.

According to Ambiga, the authorities also failed to help disperse the crowd by keeping road blocks in place and by closing the light rail transit (LRT) stations.

The lawyer had compared Bersih 3.0 to the recent Himpunan Hijau rally, and alleged that the latter went peacefully since there was no agent provocateurs embedded in the crowd.

“You don’t know who’s planted to cause trouble .. we’ve seen agent provocateurs in both times,” she said, referring to the two Bersih rallies that she had been involved with.

Ambiga explained that it would’ve taken at least one hour for the crowd to fully disperse, after the rally was cut short to end at around 2.30 pm.

She said that the original plan was for PAS’ Unit Amal to help direct the dispersing crowd and spread the dispersal instruction by word of mouth, since her loud hailer couldn’t be heard over the crowd noise.

Suhakam panel chief Prof Datuk Khaw Lake Tee had also questioned an instruction given to Bersih participants, telling them to only listen to Unit Amal field commanders and nobody else.

“If the police gave out orders, should they disregard the orders?” Khaw asked.

“I have to be frank, it wasn’t very well-drafted,” Ambiga replied, explaining that it only meant that participants shouldn’t listen to rumours as it would create confusion among the crowd.

In his cross-examination, ACP Jamaluddin Abdul Rahman suggested that the police had exercised restraint in firing only 976 shots of tear gas.

“A total of 18 shells of tear gas would’ve been fired once every minute ... if we had continuously shot for four hours when Bersih was happening, we would’ve used 4,030.

“(Don’t you agree that) the police only shot when it was necessary?” Jamaluddin asked, to which Ambiga disagreed,

In September, Khaw had said that “there was not much room to run” for protesters during the Bersih rally on April 28, disputing earlier police testimony of having enough roads open for participants to disperse.

She had told reporters after the panel made an on-site visit that the exits assigned by the police to allow people to disperse were further away, leaving only two narrow lanes nearby.

The inquiry will continue for one more day at a later date.

Source: http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/malaysia/article/police-were-punishing-bersih-crowd-says-ambiga/

国家动物园 II -- 携毒要判死刑！

国家动物园 II (52)
《星洲日报》活力副刊
2012年12月1日
曾毓林

小黄狗问警犬：“国家动物园的法令不是说明：携带毒品是犯法的吗？”

警犬回答：“当然犯法，而且超过15克就要判死刑。”

小黄狗：“很奇怪啊！港口有禽兽运了很多箱毒品进来动物园，不单只是10克 -- 几万公斤都有。为什么警犬没有逮捕它们，还半夜替它们开路呢？”

警犬一时语塞，骂道：“这是国家机密，泄漏国家机密也是要判死刑的，你再追问，当心我马上处决你！”

百里苦行反公害，黄德：勿推翻围篱，大批警力驻守独立广场

 2012-11-25 15:14

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  在参与绿色苦行的民眾抵达前，吉隆坡市政局执法人员已在独立广场前严阵以待。（图：星洲日报）

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黄德：独立广场被封锁‧苦行队路障外过夜

（吉隆坡25日讯）由於独立广场已被封锁，以黄德为首的“百里苦行反公害＂队伍今晚將在路障外，即拉惹路一带逗留与过夜。

黄德於傍晚5时20分在人墙的维护下抵达独立广场，然后登上一辆黑色起亚Spectra向民眾发言。

他宣佈苦行队伍將一直在独立广场附近逗留至明早9时，欢迎支持者前来声援，並且希望能有国会议员明早到来跟他们见面。

黄德吁勿推倒围篱

在“百里苦行反公害＂队伍抵达前，独立广场周围已被铁架及塑料障碍物重重包围，形成三重路障；警方可说已严阵以待，派出大批警力驻守现场。

黄德较早呼吁参与苦行集会者保持克制，抵达独立广场后不要推倒执法当局的围篱。

经过长达13天长途跋涉，“百里苦行反公害＂大队正式进入吉隆坡范围，队员们身穿绿衣，戴笠帽，高喊反莱纳斯口號，浩浩荡荡移往独立广场，许多支持者也从四面八方涌出加入爭取更好的明天。

黄德在鹅嘜伊斯兰党旧总部出发前匯报说：“是否允许我们进入（独立广场），是他们（执法当局）的选择。到达独立广场並非我们的终点，到那儿只是给我们力量继续前进。

“请展示我们的责任感，绿色分子一直都是秉持和平。＂他提醒参与者不要推翻围篱，全世界將会观察是非对错。

他重申，绿色苦行是为了下一代的精神斗爭，喊破喉咙的事情之前已经做过了，今日无需再度喊破喉咙。

300警员及市局官员驻守
三重路障禁入广场

记者於今午2时抵达独立广场，现场已有约300名警员及吉隆坡市政局官员驻守在独立广场外；此外，记者也发现有近50名警员在独立广场停车场內守候。

据观察，执法单位在独立广场前的拉惹路（Jalan Raja）及敦霹雳路（Jalan Tun Perak）衔接处以铁架设下了第一层路障，而在其后的300米处则再以红白塑胶障碍物设下另两层路障，形成禁区。

执法单位也在其他路口设下路障，包括京那巴鲁路路口及巴剎博沙巷（Lebuh Pasar Besar）路口。

吉隆坡市政厅也在独立广场外设下告示牌，禁止民眾在独立广场范围內进行任何活动。

警方：没知会违例
“黄德队伍可被对付＂

金马区警区主任再努丁助理总监说，以黄德为首的队伍已违反2012年和平集会法令，因为任何集会者都有责任根据和平法令9（1）条文知会警方，可是对方没有遵守这项条例。

他说，黄德眾人已经违反和平集会法令9（3）条文，並可在条文下被对付。警方也可以援引法令9（5）条文调查他们。

官员：市局有权拒广场集会

另一方面，吉隆坡市政局执法官员纳沙鲁丁表示，独立广场是属吉隆坡市政局管辖范围內，而且正在进行维修中，任何人都要遵守独立广场条例；因此，吉隆坡市政局有权拒绝民眾在该处集会，並且对违例者採取行动。

来源：http://www.sinchew.com.my/node/269466?tid=1