WITHDRAWING CHARGES

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1. The defence often claim that the charges brought against their client is politically motivated. If there is evidence that the charges are politically motivated, does that mean that the charges should be dropped.

2. What we are seeing today are charges directed at opposition personnel almost exclusively. But charges are withdrawn when the person involved is from the Government or in the Government.

3. As far as we can make out the people being questioned by the police are all from the opposition parties. Those from Government supporters breaking the rule against talking of the prohibited 3R seem to be free from police interrogation.

4. For example, talking about the problems of Malays invites police interrogation. But talking about the demands for the three races to be designated as the indigenous people of Malaysia do not attract police interrogation. Talking about multiracialism is as racial as talking about one race.

5. There is obvious discrimination here. And there are many other examples. While religion may not be talked about but the Government itself is introducing the study of 40 hadiths to the school. That is about religion.

6. A crime is a crime. It is for the judge to determine whether the accused is guilty or innocent based on the evidence presented.

7. But unfortunately judges are appointed by the Government. They may want to be free. But the public worries about the freedom of the judges.

8. But it is not just the judge. In Malaysia the AGC exercise a lot of power. It has the authority to send the case to the courts or it may decide not to. Effectively the AG can make a judgement on the case. The judge will not hear the case.

9. In a recent case the AG decided not only not to send the case to the court but he actually proved that there is prima facie evidence that there is a case for the defendant to answer. And the judge agreed.

10. Then suddenly the AG decided not to continue with the case. The judge has no choice but to discharge the accused. However, the judge decided not to acquit the accused. So the decision by the judge is discharge without acquittal.

11. This means that the accused may be guilty. But he is free.

12. This is unique. Perhaps there has been no such case anywhere in the world. The Malaysian judiciary has established a world record.

13. Malaysians should be proud. Or should they?

LANGUAGE OF SCIENCE

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1. UMNO nationalists wanted the Malay language to be widely used and rank pari-passu with other world languages. But there was also a suspicion that the support for the Malay language was not because of nationalism but the desire for easy acquisition of educational qualification. Obviously using Malay as the medium of instruction was easier than English.

2. But a number of the Supreme Council members were more concerned that education should produce young Malaysians who could contribute to the development and progress of the nation.

3. The ideas thrown up ranged from maintaining Malay as the only medium to switching back to resuscitating the English schools.

4. In the end a hybrid solution was accepted. The medium would be Malay for all subjects except for science and mathematics.

5. Everyone agreed that the modern world of technology and innovation required good scientific knowledge. Besides science is not static. New knowledge is being presented all the time.

6. Mathematics is also seeing newer and more sophisticated application all the time.

7. By comparison geography and history may lead to research and new discoveries, but the basic data hardly ever change.

8. Research and development in science see new discoveries and totally new applications. Unless one has the capacity to follow what is happening in the scientific field, one will be left behind.

9. Research and development may be done in any language. But almost all research are translated into English for information and study by people of different languages in the world.

10. If a scientist wants to acquire the latest scientific knowledge, knowing English would make this possible. But if one has no command of English, then one has to wait for a translation to one’s own language.

11. This is tedious and time consuming. The translator must be conversant with the particular area of science, and understand well the English language and the Malay language. Not many people can have these attributes. Even if they do, the burden is such that they would not want to spend their life doing this work.

12. It must be obvious to everyone that today’s science is quite different from the science of only four decades ago. Not so very long-ago radio broadcast required a big building full of numerous expensive equipment and staff. Today a small gadget that can be carried in the pocket can both broadcast and receive radio and television messages.

13. From the big broadcasting station to the mobile phone in numerous system changes and power that was breath-taking has been achieved. The knowledge about broadcasting had changed repeatedly. New means of communication had been researched and developed until today wires are no longer required to send a message to the other side of the planet or to the moon and other planets.

ANWAR DAN ZAHID

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1. Datuk Seri Anwar di dalam satu temu-ramah bersama Bloomberg News beberapa hari lalu menyatakan bahawa keputusan menarik balik 47 kes rasuah terhadap Zahid Hamidi adalah sepenuhnya keputusan Peguam Negara.

2. Dia kata kes-kes terhadap Zahid dilakukan secara tergesa-gesa. Di masa yang sama Anwar cuba kaitkan nasihat saya kepada Zahid supaya bubarkan UMNO dan apabila Zahid tidak mahu, maka dia dihadapkan dengan kes-kes rasuah tersebut.

3. Pertamanya, saya nak jawab mengenai tuduhan kes itu dibuat secara tergesa-gesa.

4. Kes terhadap Zahid telah diangkat oleh Peguam Negara ketika itu kerana ianya telah menjadi isu panas semasa kempen pilihanraya seperti mana kes Najib dan 1MDB.

5. Peguam Negara ketika itu telah membuat penyiasatan dan mendapati terdapat kes untuk mendakwa Zahid.

6. Maka kes itu dibawa ke mahkamah. Selama empat tahun dengan puluhan saksi serta bukti-bukti dibentang, Hakim Mahkamah Tinggi berpuas hati pendakwa telah berjaya menimbulkan kes prima facie terhadap Zahid dan dia di arah untuk mempertahankan diri.

7. Amatlah tidak logik untuk seorang Hakim Mahkamah Tinggi berpuas hati bahawa ada kes prima facie jika pendakwa gagal memberi bukti yang kukuh dan hujahan yang baik.

8. Bagi saya, setelah diserang bertubi-tubi, kenyataan Anwar bertujuan untuk mempertahan keputusan pendakwa yang menarik balik kes terhadap Zahid dan di masa yang sama membuat andaian ada unsur menganiaya Zahid.

9. Kerana itu dia cuba kaitkan isu saya menyuruh Zahid bubar UMNO dan kerana tidak mahu, maka dia dituduh dengan kes-kes itu.

10. Jika saya telah salah-guna kuasa dan mengarah Pendakwa ketika itu untuk tekan Zahid, kenapa tidak seorang pun Menteri-Menteri kabinet atau pemimpin-pemimpin parti Pakatan Harapan, termasuk Anwar, mempersoal Zahid dihadapkan ke mahkamah.

11. Ramai Menteri-Menteri di dalam kabinet saya adalah dari PH dan PKR, termasuk juga isteri Anwar yang menjadi Timbalan Perdana Menteri.

12. Kalau mereka kata tidak berani berkata apa-apa, ia agak lucu kerana apabila berkait dengan serah jawatan PM kepada Anwar, mereka lantang dan bersemangat.

13. Mungkin mereka lupa, kesemua mereka menyokong proses undang-undang yang dilakukan terhadap Zahid (dan Najib) kerana itu adalah mengikut Rule of Law serta bukti Kerajaan PH ketika itu berjuang melawan rasuah.

14. Kesangsian terhadap kes-kes rasuah yang dilakukan Zahid hanya timbul setelah Anwar berjaya menjadi PM dengan sokongan Zahid.

15. Perkara kedua yang ingin saya sentuh ialah mengenai saya suruh Zahid bubar UMNO.

16. Benar saya suruh Zahid bubar UMNO kerana saya yakin dia akan guna UMNO sebagai alat, sebagai bahan rundingan atau bargaining chip untuk mengelak dirinya dari didakwa atas kesalahan-kesalahan rasuahnya.

17. Saya percaya dia cuba guna UMNO semasa Tan Sri Muhyiddin jadi PM untuk gugurkan kes-kesnya dan apabila Muhyiddin tidak setuju, Zahid tarik balik sokongan UMNO sehingga kerajaan itu jatuh.

18. Selepas itu dia cuba menerusi Ismail Sabri tetapi Ismail Sabri tidak berani nak lakukan kerana pendapat awam amat kuat terhadap Zahid. Kerana itu Ismail Sabri dipaksa bubar parlimen dan adakan pilihanraya lebih cepat.

19. Hari ini terbukti jangkaan saya benar. Dia telah guna UMNO untuk memasti Anwar jadi Perdana Menteri walaupun semasa berkempen di dalam PRU 15 dia telah mendesak penyokong UMNO supaya menolak Anwar dan DAP.

20. Malahan sebelum itu, menurut seorang pemimpin dan tukang cakap UMNO Ahmad Maslan, Zahid telah bersumpah laknat tidak akan sama sekali bekerjasama dengan Anwar dan DAP.

21. Saya tak berapa maklum apa maksud sumpah laknat kepada Zahid atau Ahmad Maslan, tetapi kefahaman saya ialah ianya bersumpah guna nama Allah dan sedia dilaknat jika sumpah itu di langgar.

22. Saya juga tak tahu jika sumpah laknat boleh ditarik balik kerana sepatutnya sebelum sumpah itu diungkap, orang yang melafazkannya sudah tekad dan tiada keraguan sama sekali dengan niatnya.

23. Yang jelas, kes-kes terhadap Zahid gugur dengan PM sekarang.

THE RINGGIT

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1. The Ringgit is depreciating. This may result in Malaysian exports becoming cheaper. But it also means the imports cost more. And this result in higher cost of living.

2. The answer may be to increase the minimum wage. UMNO youths are suggesting that the minimum wage should be RM2000/-. This will increase the cost of production and export prices. We may become less competitive.

3. But if there is an increase in productivity, the increase in the minimum wage will not increase the cost of production.

4. How do we increase productivity? We can do so by improving efficiency. We can also increase productivity by automation and robots.

5. Workers can be trained to operate automated machines and robots. They should also learn to service, maintain and repair machines.

6. But the continued devaluation of the Ringgit would increase cost. The gains through greater efficiency and investment in automation and robots would soon be lost.

7. Bank Negara and the Government is against fixing the exchange rate. This would be against international practice. We must practice international norms.

8. Many people believe the Ringgit is undervalued. The reason why it is depreciating is because currency traders are selling Ringgits and making a lot of profits from their trade.

9. Why should Malaysia help the currency traders to make money out of currency trading. Why should Malaysia accept being made poorer so the currency traders can make money.

10. I don’t think we should. I don’t think we should suffer from increasing poverty simply because we want to be loyal to international norms. I think we should give priority to our financial stability and our economy.

11. What I am suggesting is that we should fix the exchange rate as we did during the financial crises of 1997-1998. Remember how the devaluation of the Ringgit stopped. Remember how we recovered. And even other countries were able to avoid the depreciation of their currencies being manipulated by the currency traders.

12. There would be problems of course, as there were when we fixed the exchange rate before. But we had set up special committees to deal with refinancing banks, dealing with non-performing loans and payment of debts. The people who handle these problems are still around.

13. So why not consider fixing the exchange rate to solve the problem of the Ringgits. We have enough savings and reserves in foreign currency, including the USD to finance imports.

14. So why not?

THE WORLD’S FUTURE

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1. The world’s population is now 8 (eight) billion.

2. That is a lot. Imagine the waste produced by this huge number of people. Mountains of rubbish will appear everywhere.

3. Especially as the world has become smaller.

4. Not physically, but in ease of communication. Now the time taken for the journey from China to Malaya has been reduced to 3 hours. Before it took 3 months.

5. And when communication is easy, countries cannot be isolated. All countries are neighbours of every country.

6. What one country does affect other countries. This may lead to conflicts and the spread of diseases.

7. But in the past humanity living in communities develop common values.

8. A sense of belonging and brotherhood develops.

9. This leads to the founding of nations, to loyalty to the states.

10. As population grows, the administration of nations become more complex and difficult.

11. Laws and rules were made to deal with challenges to governance.

12. Abiding by the rules and laws stabilises and sustain the state.

13. But now there arise conflicts between nations as the community of nations become closer to each other.

14. Wars were fought.

15. Men were killed, wounded.

16. Towns destroyed. Countries razed to the ground.

17. Just as people and communities develop common values and set up nations, there arise a need for nations to develop common values which unite them.

18. Concepts of freedom and equality were invented.

19. But over the years these concepts were interpreted to mean the right to challenge all restrictions posed by old values.

20. With this nations become ungovernable again

21. To regain power the governments resorted to new ideologies and technologies.

22. The people counter with their technologies.

23. Nations became more and more ungovernable.

24. Centuries ago monarchies were replaced by democracies.

25. The people should rule themselves.

26. But how?

27. Systems were developed.

28. Leaders were elected by people.

29. The belief was that the people would choose the best people to lead.

30. The leaders had to be given power to rule.

31. But often the people do not choose the best people.

32. They choose people from their tribe, from their parties.

33. They chose the people who bribed them.

34. And so corrupt people win and form the Governments.

35. And corrupt Governments destroy democracy.

36. In the meantime the population of the nations keep on growing.

37. Numbers give them power.

38. The Government is again challenged.

39. Then the world itself would be attacked.

40. Not by creatures from other planets.

41. But by creatures in the planet.

42. They were small.

43. They take the form of virus.

44. And they attack the whole world.

45. But despite the League of Nations and the United Nations the world remains divided.

46. And each nation cannot tackle the problem by itself.

47. Just as principalities and states merge to become nation states, now nation states must merge, partially at least to deal with common problems.

48. If they fail then there would be more common problems which cannot be dealt with effectively.

DOKUMEN PALSU

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1. Terdapat dua perkongsian di media sosial menuduh saya pertamanya, mengarah tekanan dilakukan ke atas seseorang untuk membuat kenyataan palsu terhadap Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim.

2. Kedua, saya kononnya mengutus surat kepada Ehud Barak, PM Israel meminta bantuan kewangan untuk menghadapi pilihanraya.

3. Kedua-dua dokumen itu palsu dan telah diguna sejak penghujung 1990an sebagai propaganda untuk mempertahankan seorang pemimpin yang telah salah guna kuasa dan mempunyai masalah moral.

4. Kedua-dua dokumen itu kini dikitar semula dan dikongsi di media sosial oleh pemegang akaun tidak bernama. Seperti mana di tahun 1990an, propaganda tanpa nama dan strategi baling batu sembunyi tangan oleh mereka yang pengecut berterusan.

5. Saya telah nyata sebelum ini jika betul semua itu saya lakukan, buat laporan secara terbuka, perlihatkan diri dan jangan bersembunyi dengan akaun-akaun media sosial palsu atau guna nama samaran.

6. Saya bukan PM dan tak pegang apa-apa jawatan dan mereka yang dulu kata punyai berkotak-kotak dokumen tentang salah laku saya sehingga hari ini tidak tunjuk apa-apa bukti.

7. Yang ada cuma dokumen palsu yang dikeluar oleh “cybertroopers” yang kemudiannya disambut oleh penyokong-penyokong yang taksub.

8. Jika dokumen itu benar, kenapa perlu sebar melalui media sosial dan mengguna akaun palsu? Laporlah pada pihak berkuasa jika tulen.

9. Atau adakah ini hanya usaha untuk alih perhatian daripada peristiwa-peristiwa yang menggusarkan, yang mendedah reformasi cuma slogan bukan satu pegangan.

10. Cukup-cukuplah dengan sikap pathological liar dan mulalah berkata benar.

THE RULE OF LAW

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1. Laws made by man can be changed or reinterpreted.

2. Thus in the good old days in England stealing was punished by death by hanging from a gibbet in public view.

3. Today the death penalty cannot be given even for murder. That is the new rule of law.

4. The judiciary consist of the Attorney General and the judges. The decision of the first court may be appealed through a second. And the decision of the second court appealed through a third court.

5. Then the supreme head may modify the sentence or even pardon. But the guilt remains.

6. There is another judge not presiding over a court. This judge make his own decision based on whatever.

7. He may decide there is no case to answer. Even when the case is being heard, his decision prevails.

8. The judge may believe that there is guilt and refuse acquittal.

9. But the case cannot be heard.

10. That is the law. The rule of law has been adhered to.

11. Bravo Malaysia.

12. Your judiciary is the best in the world.

REFORMASI

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1. Semasa Anwar berada di luar Kerajaan jeritan “reformasinya” terdengar sepanjang masa seluruh dunia.

2. Kebebasan bersuara adalah hak asasi manusia.

3. Kerajaan pada masa itu dikatakan tidak demokratik, diktator.

4. Sekarang setelah jadi Kerajaan, rakyat dihalang bercakap.

5. Bercakap pasal apa?

6. Fasal masalah rakyatlah.

7. Apa dianya masalah rakyat?

8. Masalah bangsa

9. Masalah agama

10. Ha!! Itu tidak boleh

11. Itu racist.

12. Itu ektremis

13. Apa yang boleh.

14. Puji Kerajaan la.

15. Dokong kenyataan bahawa ini bukan lagi Tanah Melayu.

16. Melayu jangan sombong

17. Serahkan sahaja negara yang kamu selamat dari

i. Malayan Union

ii. Malaysian Malaysia

iii. Yang kamu berhempas pulas perjuang kemerdekaan

iv. 400 tahun dijajah

v. 60 tahun merdeka

vi. Terlalu lama

18. Inikah Reformasi?

19. Ya. Inilah Reformasi.