I had said at a media conference in Ipoh this morning that the Home Minister, Datuk Seri Syed Hamid Albar and Deputy Home Minister, Datuk Chor Chee Heung, should resign from their Cabinet positions for the three-month suspension of Harakah and Suara Keadilan as one of first decisions of Datuk Seri Najib Razak on being sworn in as the sixth Prime Minister yesterday was to immediately revoke their ban which had entered into its 11th day.
Now, I say that Hamid and Tan Sri Musa Hassan should be sacked as Home Minister and Inspector-General of Police respectively for failing within 24 hours of Najib’s premiership one of the three Najibian thematic slogans – “1Malaysia. People First. Performance Now.”
It is most disgraceful and testimony of gross incompetence and ineptitude that although Najib announced in his maiden address to the nation over television last night that his government had decided “with immediate effect” the release of 13 detainees from ISA detention, none of the 13 could be released today and the earliest they could regain their freedom is tomorrow.
B. Buvaneswary, the wife of detained Hindraf leader Ganapathi Rao, travelled all the way from her home in Shah Alam to Kamunting with their two children, Janani 1 and Gowri 4, to be at the Kamunting Detention Centre at 7 am this morning for his release, only to be disappointed because the papers for the release of the 13 had not arrived at the centre.
Musa Hassan released a statement in Kuala Lumpur at midday that the 13 would only be allowed to leave the Kamunting Detention Centre tomorrow as the documentation process for their release had to be completed first!
Is this what Najib meant by “Performance Now” in his maiden address to the nation last night?
Were the IGP and the Home Minister kept completely in the dark about Najib’s announcement of the “immediate release” of the 13 ISA detainees, learning only about it when the new Prime Minister’s maiden address was telecast live last night?
If so, it reflects a shambolic government with no notion whatsoever about “People First” or “Performance Now”!
When Najib announced the “immediate release” of the 13 ISA detainees in his direct telecast at 8 pm last night, I had expected the two Hindraf leaders, Ganabairau and R. Kenghadharan, and the other 11 ISA detainees to be released last night itself – especially when Najib ended his maiden speech with the flourish of urging Malaysians to “rise up to the challenge of building 1Malaysia. People First. Performance Now.”
Obviously, Najib forgot to ask the Cabinet and the public service to equally “rise up” to the triple challenge of “1Malaysia. People First. Performance Now.”
When Najib said “with immediate effect”, could it be so elastic as to be stretched not only overnight, but to be over 24, 36 or even 48 hours?
Najib should learn from the lessons of his predecessor Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, whose “cemerlang, gemilang, terbilang” slogan swiftly became a national joke. But Najib’s substitute of “1Malaysia. People First. Performance Now” is in danger of becoming a national joke within 24 hours – thanks to the Home Minister and the Inspector-General of Police!
Can Najib ensure that Ganabatirau, Kengaharan and the 11 others ISA detainees would be able to leave the Kamunting Detention Centre to breathe the air of freedom latest by 8 am tomorrow?
In fact, the government is guilty of unlawful detention of the 13 ISA detainees as they should be released “with immediate effect” by the time of Najib’s telecast at 8 p.m. last night.
Is the government going to pay the 13 ISA detainees compensation for illegal detention for 24, 36 or 48 hours to demonstrate the seriousness of Najib’s “Performance Now” slogan?
#1 by monsterball on Sunday, 5 April 2009 - 1:47 pm
hahahahahaha…TTDL-KL looking for rubbish talks.
Tong Sampah Universities in Malaysia…..so welknown…to Malaysians and all over the world.
What can you say to one who is so young and blind?
hi….TTDL-KL…..you win..I loose…OK?
Lets move on.
aiyayaya….this must mean MU will loose the match tonight.
I may may well withdraw my bets. Bad sign……..hahahahaha
I say….SHUT YOUR GAP UP!!!!
#2 by monsterball on Sunday, 5 April 2009 - 1:55 pm
One thing I have been doing as a commentator for 5 years……is parting knowledge to young and old…and exposing without fear….UMNO’s cunning mentalities and corruptions.
Thousand of my messages have been written.
One who is new as a commentator..know nothing should shut up and learn.
But if one is pro MCA….watch out the art of how to agree to disagree..by old timers and young fut….talking so much smarter than a man of all seasons.
#3 by mauriyaII on Sunday, 5 April 2009 - 4:13 pm
What documentaion crap is this IGP moron talking about? Could it be that the police, the Kamunting goons and the botak alblur were taken by surprise at the new PM’s announcement? Was it a spontaneous show of power on the part of the new PM? Whatever it is, does it take more than 24 hours to prepare “documentation” for “immediate release”?
Unless the said documentation is a long “confession” by the detainees to absolve all the crimes perpetrated on them under the guise of being a security threat to the nation. If they are to be released unconditionally then they only need to collect their belongings and sign in the log book at the Kamunting detention camp on their way out.
Most of the detainees should not have been incarcerated in that gulag in the first place. They were not terrorists or violent criminals. They were not tried in an open court and were not given the chance to defend themselves.
The Home Minister and the BN government acted as judge, jury and excecutioner and deprived the families the love, care and guidance of the man of the house.
Detaining people who oppose the wrongdoings of the government is the route taken by dictators who find that they do not have the evidence to present in a court of law. It is akin to silencing dissent by the malicious use of the draconian ISA which has no relevance today.
ISA was meant for the eradication of the communist menace. It is high time the ISA is REPEALED. There is no necessity for even a review. Just scrap it.
Archaic and sadistic rules and regulations as the ISA are used by obnoxious morons such as the retarded alblur who is at a loss when faced with dissent from peace-loving ordinary citizens.
#4 by anna brella on Sunday, 5 April 2009 - 9:59 pm
Each one of the released ISA detains must now sue the pants off the Home Minister, the IGP and the Malaysian Government, either individually or in a class action.
They must take the matter as far as it needs to go in Malaysia and if need be, outside to an international court of law.
What has been done so arbitrarily to these ISA detainees (who are all innocent Malaysian citizens) and to their families – and who are all supposed to be living in a democratic nation where their fundamental human rights and freedoms are guaranteed and protected by their democratic Constitution – is against all standards of civilised behaviour and justice, and even common standards of human decency, that exist within all civilised nations and societies today.
And yet, the Home Minister and IGP failed to grasp the nettle and understand priorities, and callously decided that it was somehow still “okay” to delay their release and extend these innocent people’s incarceration further because of some pointless, irrelevant paper-pushing exercise, which could have been done in five minutes if they had put their minds to it!
The Home Minister and the IGP have failed to act within the standards of normal professionalism, care and the urgency that was expected of them and clearly required in this important matter. Such a failure in carrying out their public duties is not acceptable. It is not only a dereliction of their public duty, but it is also against the public interest to allow such high ranking public officials to act in such a cavalier manner over such critically important matters to the Malaysian People.
“Imagine Power To The People” John Lennon.
#5 by AhPek on Sunday, 5 April 2009 - 10:05 pm
When I asked Imranj 78 to research on the number of times Malaysia and America amend their constitution,compare them and tell us why in Malaysia’s case we amend our constitution as often as we change our underwear, he saw it fit to lecture me that it is valid and legal since BN has the necessary 2/3rds majority which we all know and we are not disputing its legality.The true intent of the question if he had understood really is why is the need to mutilate the original Constitution.
In its 300 years of history the American Constitution has been amended 27 times.The 27th Amendment is the most recent amendment to the United States Constitution,having been ratified in 1992,more than 202 years after its initial submission in 1789.
Now to Malaysia’s case,the Constitutionhas been amended 42 times over the 48 years since Independence as of 2005.However the true number of individual amendments is around 650.There is no doubt that the true spirit of the original document has been diluted.It has in fact been so mutilated that the present Federal Constitution bears only a superficial resemblence to its original model!
#6 by AhPek on Sunday, 5 April 2009 - 10:10 pm
In following similar lines along what dawsheng has remarked recently,I have this to say.Some people are ignoramus.Some are knowledgeable whilst some think they are knowledgeable when in fact they are ignoramus
#7 by anna brella on Monday, 6 April 2009 - 3:30 am
For those who are interested, here is some research on ethnolinguistic groups in Malaysia taken from Wikipedia, link is also attached: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Malaysia
Twenty largest ethnolinguistic groups in Malaysia
Malay Peninsular 9,041,091 38.1%
Malay, East Malaysia 271,979 1.0%
Han Chinese, Hokkien 1,848,211 7.8%
Han Chinese, Hakka 1,679,027 7.1%
Han Chinese, Cantonese 1,355,541 5.7%
Han Chinese, Teochew 974,573 4.1%
Han Chinese, Mandarin 958,467 4.0%
Han Chinese, Hainanese 380,781 1.6%
Han Chinese, Min Bei 373,337 1.6%
Han Chinese, Min Dong 249,413 1.1%
Straits Chinese 236,918 1.0%
Tamils 1,743,922 7.4%
Banjarese (inc Dayaks) 1,237,615 5.2%
Iban 666,034 2.8%
Dusun 191,146 0.8%
Minangkabau 874,536 3.7%
Indonesian 772,558 3.3%
Filipino 442,933 1.9%
Tausug 201,797 0.9%
Nepalese 217,587 0.9%
TOTAL 23,717,466
SUMMARY:
Malay 9,313,070 39.3%
Chinese 8,056,268 34.0%
Indian 1,743,922 7.4%
Other 4,604,206 19.3 %
TOTAL 23,717,466
#8 by taiking on Monday, 6 April 2009 - 8:55 am
Dear anna,
Wow. Never occur to me to wiki the issue for statistical breakdown. For the sake of knowledge can you also find out the race compositon and their respective size in terms of numbers for the group of people who are identified formally as Malay?
TQ.
#9 by AhPek on Monday, 6 April 2009 - 9:01 am
According to CIA’s figures the population of Malaysia is 25,715,819 (July 2009 est).
The breakdown of various ethnic groups are as follows:
Malay50.4%,Chinese23.7%,indigeneous11%,Indian7.1%and others7.8%.
The figures from Wikipedia is definite suspect for the Malay population can’t be that low 39.3% and the Chinese population can’t be that high 34%
#10 by OrangRojak on Monday, 6 April 2009 - 11:16 am
anna brella has presented a summary that could permit arithmetic ‘sleight of hand’ if used as the basis for an argument.
The list of languages by head is interesting, but the summary is silly. I imagine the source figures for (for example) Hakka are not for some sort of official version of Hakka, but for speech that is mutually intelligible by a group identifying it as Hakka.
I have Hakka- and Hokkien-speaking in-laws, and I understand the two dialects are not mutually intelligible. You can’t summarise them as ‘Chinese’ in a list of mutually intelligible languages. The summary’s only real value is in indicating what ‘root’ the languages have.
Ah Pek’s question is about ethnicity. As ever, ethnicity, race, language and religion are not necessarily the same in the real world. It’s easy to be confused by what authority figures say to the contrary in Malaysia.