sorry uncle Kit, i doubt your fax will ever reach his brain…

So what’s new?

So Taib, listen to your lawyers.

BY JACK WONG

KUCHING: Chief Minister Tan Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud is suing a Malay daily, an online news portal and two Parti Keadilan Rakyat senior officials in Sarawak for making allegations of corrupt practices against him.

Speaker Datuk Mohd Asfia Awang Nassar informed the Sarawak State Assembly when the resumed Wednesday that Taib filed the suits against Utusan Malaysia and Malaysiakini in the Kuala Lumpur High Court on Tuesday.

Taib named as defendants MKini Dotcom Sdn Bhd, the publisher of Malaysiakini, and its chief editor Gan Diong Keng, also known as Steven Gan.

The defendants named in the lawsuit against Utusan Malaysia are its proprietor and publisher Utusan Melayu (Malaysia) Bhd, Utusan Online and group editor Datuk Mohd Khalid Mohd.

In the Kuching High Court, a suit was filed against PKR state liaison chief Wan Zainal Wan Sanusi and the party’s Stampin branch chairman See Chee How.

Mohd Asfia said the lawsuit against the PKR officials was related to the distribution of leaflets which contained articles from Malaysiakini and Japan Times.

In his personal statement to the assembly on Monday, Taib said legal action would be initiated against Japan Times and other media publications which had published false allegations against him, unless they retract the articles concerned, apologise, pay legal costs and damages.

He said the Japan Times had alleged that “1.1bil yen was paid to Sarawak officials as kickbacks or rebates and lubricant to facilitate the timber trade.”

Taib warned others against repeating similar allegations, otherwise “they can have their day in a court of justice to provide factual justification for making such false and malicious allegations or be condemned in damages.”

So what’s this all about racist remarks? Malaysian politicians especially when they are from UMNO have always been racist in their remarks. The world is not about to take notice.

I doubt if the Minister realizes that some Indians would take offense e.g. the Malayalis or the Gujeratis and the Punjabis are lighter skinned as opposed to Tamils like Samy Vellu. The latter has no more reason to object to the remark!

FuturePolitician has made the following remarks (in another thread):

“just spoke to a young chap from trengganu, well mannered mix parentage malay guy. He has mix parentage chinese and thai, he is a malay but really well manner, well spoken english and surviving in our harst business environment.”

So a Malay is not well-mannered, unable to articulate in English properly and unable to survive in a harsh business environment (I believe he is referring to resilience) Are we to take these remarks as ‘racist’?

It is his reference to lighter skinned Indians and darker skinned Indians that came close to being seen as racist. He should be chastised for not knowing enough about Indian culture and history and Indians generally, and in paying little regard to their sensitivity. What relevance has the issue of ‘lighter skinned Indians’ to do with ‘darker skinned Indians’ and the kind of government assistance they should be receiving?

UMNO Ministers in Malaysia are guilty of making remarks which could not only be interpreted as ‘racist’ but are racist, on almost a daily basis either in private or in public. But racism is institutionalized in Malaysia. Am I missing anything here??

This is just one more instance – except that words capable of taking on racial undertones were made away from the ‘capital of racism’ and in the ‘capital of the free world’ where racial discrimination is illegal.

It is not as if the likes of Sheena Moorthy has never heard anything like it before when she in Malaysia. Worse remarks are being heard in Parliament today.

The words chosen by the visiting Minister were not carefully chosen as was his attitude. Those remarks whilst not being blatantly racist do have racial undertones and are remarks we are used to hearing from UMNO politicians back home – but are, nevertheless, remarks which should be received for what they are i.e. remarks unwittingly made by the Minister which could be interpreted as such.

He should have chosen his words more carefully. I do not believe he intended his words to be received as such.

It is his thinking and his attitude that led to his wrong choice of words. But hey! Which Minister or MP is not guilty of that back in Malaysia. He is not alone.

Sheena Moorthy lives in the U.S. where racist remarks would have caused an uproar among the audience followed by members of the audience walking out of the meeting, conference or whatever. It is their First Amendment right to do so i.e. walk out as much as it is the right of the speaker to be racist in his remarks.

But here is a third world politician on a visit to the U.S. giving a talk to a closed audience of Malaysian students.

Let’s keep matters in perspective.

This is a case simply of bad behavior that cannot be condoned. There are numerous examples of similar bad behavior by MPs. What are we i.e. the people who put them where they are to do about it?

It is time MPs play their role they are supposed to play and represent their constituents in the country’s lower House.

Let the intended victim of those remarks demand an apology from the two. The two should apologize directly. There is no need for Parliament to be involved. No motion to censure needed. No ruling by the Speaker that any motion to be moved should have been done the same day.

Why have we let Parliament deteriorate to a circus that it is today?? Clowns would go being clowns if they continue to be goaded by the audience into doing so.

The westerner surely laugh at these Umno Youth Punks.

Do this is a recent practics??? Bodohland is a great aka for them.
Since when our UMNO party associate with black & underground society.
How pathetic !!!!

1. What racist remark? JJ was misqouted lah. Our minister won’t say such thing one.

2. The “bocor” thing was only a joke. Not need so serious lah. We must make parliament sessions more fun.

3. There was a directive to be modest and simple. But sometimes people in bolehland want to show off by having the biggest this and the longest that. What can we do? But of course the cronies also want to make some money also lah. Close one eye loh.

“PLEASE DO NOT DISTURB, SOMETHING IMPORTANT TO ATTEND TO”

“Hands on” gomen attitude