‘Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.’. Henry David Thoreau

” All great truths begin on blashemies.”. George Bernard Shaw.

(2) Slightly more than one third parlimentary seats : 74seats

(3) 2004 GE results …..(a) BN won 64% popular vote.

(b) translated into parlimentary seats: 91% of parlimentary seats which is equal to 199 seats.

With this information, work out in your own sweet time just how opposition can wrest 74seats??

We are not going to have that kind of GE result. This is 2007 or will be soon 2008, far far from 1969. Things are so different. Just look at the percentages of Malays, Chinese, and Indians then and now. Also, back then, public rallies were allowed during a longer election campaign period.

Since 1969, the incumbent BN has fine tuned the election process to its advantage and has control over all groups that have a direct influence in our lives – from the mass media, EC, to judiciary and others. BN also has the sole privilege to use May 13 all the time to threaten us. BN too has unlimited cash to win votes.

So, please stop dreaming and face reality or nightmare!

As some delegates in the ongoing Umno funfare declared: this is our house, if you are not happy with the nation’s policies, GO – ‘Go apply for citizenship in Singapore’! Good riddance!

What is mighty clear is that the goose is cooked.

Absolute control of the media – blackout on OPP in all forms of media. With no more ‘public rallies’ the OPP is reduced to a mere word and thereby it is already being sentenced to fight with no arms, hands and legs or even mouth. Once Parliament is dissolved, then it’s all BN show. So a short campaign is sufficient to BN.

Questionable independence of the EC – continuing delineation and lopsided sizes of constituencies is like continually changing the goalpost for the OPP.

The seemingly unending NEP has created a class of fatcats with wads of cash patronising the ‘folks’ and can now easily offer the RM50 or maybe RM200 for the vote. It does not hurt the fatcats a wee bit.

” ” votes have always been an issue but I heard it is also growing worse. Many can recall some years back how Lee San Choon snatched the Seremban seat from Chen Man Hin thanks to the truckloads of ” ” voters who appeared and disappeared at the right moments. You know what I mean.

The spectre of May13 – this has been consistently raised by BN at every GE (and they have the absolute right to remind the rakyat so) but is regarded as seditious if brought up by the OPP. Even worse, this spectre can also be made to grow into a ‘sneak preview’. Remember the so-called ‘looney’ Pvt who went a shooting rampage in KL so as to justify Ops Lalang? Everything is within BN’s powers.

I really do hope the articulation and debates in this forum do percolate down to the general public so all rakyat are aware of the downward path they are heading if BN is given the 2/3 majority once more. I wish all the OPP candidates well and hope they do not split votes among each other. Inshaallah (pardon me if the spelling is not right) the outcome of the GE would be remisniscent of that in 1969 when UMNO, MCA, MIC were comprehensively trounced. This time round a few others might have to be trashed too.

Cherry picking? Convention? Careful! Careful, there! You don’t want to incur the wrath of someone steeped in his conviction that what ills this society is the underdevelopment of “institutions” and everything is just posters “talking cock”!

Careful, or else you be accused of flip flopping like our Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton – or worse like you don’t know what you’re talking about or accused of being “unable of holding three variables” of “talking cock” and “need to grow up” ASAP.

Dissolution of Parliament to make way for elections – as opposed to disolution of Parliament because of an emergency – apparently has serious consequences. One is a matter of choice and timing and the other not. In both cases the MPs are no longer MPs since Parliament ceased to exist but the Ministers continue their work as Ministers. Bills before the House stop from being heard and will continue afresh when the new Parliament sits. It is important therefore, that Parliament is dissolved “for the purpose of making way for elections” and not for any other reason – like the Prime Minister or Deputy Prime Minister both feel Christmas is just around the corner and it would be nice if they could take some time off and go shopping at The Harrods in London way ahead of the elections.

Now for the $64 million question: Could the Agong withhold his consent in the latter situation when clearly there is an abuse of process??

The short answer to that question in my opinion is “Yes”.

But then again, having said that I may seem to be naive or wishful thinking. Things are also not going to get any better, if we just continue talking and looking after our own interest. Let’s face it, the society is now is driven and owned by materialism/ status/ wealth/ and power. These seem to be the important things in life, people have become selfish/ self centered, ruthless, cunning, and anything the mind can conceive. People can see the truth right before their eyes, but yet as long as it does not affect their interest, they do not care. Then there are those who complain, but never do anything or do not know what they can do. At the end of the day, we need solutions, not the revelations of more problems. I think as I began to write this response, I remember now what the gentleman said in his response, (my understanding in my own words) “it’s time for those who care (opposition political parties, Malaysians, and anyone who cares) to focus on solutions and telling people what can be done, or what you can do for your country; instead of telling them what the current government failed to do”.

Everytime I see a government project I think of “who is this time that the government is going to make a millionaire”. I have tried to shed that thinking from my head, and I realised if I want to do something about it, it may be possible. I could work myself into the government, be hardworking and indispensable to just one government department and make some changes somewhere in the civil service. It may be stupidity to some, but there’s no fast way to change. If I can convince 5 people to think like me, individuals of the younger generation, to believe in integrity, and they in turn do the same as I did. It may just be a glimmer of hope. I always wanted to join the police force and do some good; my parents have always said that I might just get myself killed for being a good cop. But without trying to sound like an extremist, if that’s the price to bring positive changes, I would just do it.

Well, I need to get back to my day job, that’s life I guess. I sit at my office desk; pour out my feelings and thoughts, and then what next? Nothing maybe or maybe if I just take a brave step. Maybe.

I love Malaysia.

Russian spacecraft (used): $$$
Transportation cost: $$$
A site to display the spacecraft: $$$
A grand ceremony: $$$

The pride of Malaysians elevated a little more: Priceless

How the Russians feel after convincing us to buy their trash: Hillarious!

Yes, all schools must be taught the way of the rocket…go DAP!

They also handed over the Jalur Gemilang, which Dr Sheikh Muszaphar brought to space, to Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi.

-OMG, public money was wasted in sending a Malaysian into space and now Umno is milking the two for Umno’s political future and mileage.

KJ, an unemployed guy but obviously a person who can decide national policies, said that rocket clubs will be set up in schools. Wow! Every school kid is going to know about rocket! DAP rocket?

As Malaysia is a constitutional monarchy, convention and precedent bar any refusal by the monarch to so dissolve Parliament when called upon to do so. Isn’t that well within the Agong’s Prerogative Powers? At least that’s the theory. As Malaysia is only a young ‘toddler’ taking her place in the community of nations only in 1957, there is not much of a convention and precedent we could fall on.