What has the Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak joined in the Umno-inspired hysteria and gunning for DAPSY chief and MP for Rasah Loke Siew Fook for insulting the Perak royalty and Islam when these allegations are completely groundless?
This morning, Najib directed the relevant authorities to investigate Loke.
In directing the relevant authorities to investigate Loke without any background or preliminary check as to whether the DAPSY chief had make such grave allegations on his blog, and talking about offences under the Sedition Act, Najib is acting most irresponsibly as Prime Minister as he was in fact helping to fan the Umno-inspired hysteria that there is a systematic attack on Islam and the royalty.
Loke has today lodged a police report at Dang Wangi Police Station, Kuala Lumpur, denying unfounded allegations and lies spread by certain blogs and SMS that he had made scurrilous and seditious statements in his blog insulting Islam and the Perak royalty.
This is clearly part of the latest gameplan of a master strategy by Umno to tarnish the image of DAP and DAP leaders as anti-Malay and anti-Islam in a larger political conspiracy to break up and destroy Pakatan Rakyat.
Now that Loke has openly denied the wild allegations, will Najib issue a public retraction of his directive to the relevant authorities to investigate Loke and censure the Umno leaders who had irresponsibly tried to gain political mileage from the lies, including Umno Ministers and Deputy Ministers like the Defence Minister, Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi, Deputy Minister for International Trade and industry Datuk Mukhriz Mahathir and Perak Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Zambry Abdul Kadir?
These Umno Ministers and leaders must be very desperate of publicity that they have to jump on lies and falsehoods to get into the news in the Barisan Nasional-controlled mass media.
Are Ahmad Zahid, Mukhriz and Zambry going to be gentlemen enough to publicly apologise to Loke for making baseless imputations and allegations against him, even to the extent of demanding that Loke be detained under the Internal Security Act and be charged under the Sedition Act?
#1 by Kathy on Tuesday, 11 August 2009 - 9:01 am
Just leave race and religion out of all the topics. Accept the fact that Malaysia is and always will be a multi-cultural country. PM should concentrate on important issues like economy, safety and security. Look at the big picture and not through a microscope.
#2 by Bigjoe on Tuesday, 11 August 2009 - 9:06 am
Actually this is GOOD intellectual question.
Najib has carefully crafted a certain generally acceptable public image apparently expensively paid for since he got into office basically because of his low mass popularity. Until now, he has send the troops and machining to do the dirty work..Why is he now stepping out to do the dirty work himself even just a little?
Is it a sign he has lost confidence in trying to gain the middle ground back? Is he slowly turning to the traditional right to gain traction? Are we seeing the same turn-left-turn-right switch that was successfully done by Mahathir BUT which Najib is failing at and now is completely lost at what to do?
I think it is and its a GOOD sign. The man is desperate now – his strategy is failing and his administration may be starting to fall apart..
The time is here to prepare PR for the final battle that is clearly coming.. Najib administration is unravelling and it will soon be apparent – exposed for the pretention it was always is. This battle will not be easy. It will be dirty, it will be hard, long and everything will be thrown into it.
#3 by OrangRojak on Tuesday, 11 August 2009 - 9:12 am
I’m sorry for the off-topic comment, but let’s not forget the ever-present danger of H1N1. Bernama has some important advice for all Malaysians if they want to stay Babiflu negative:
http://www.bernama.com/bernama/v5/newsindex.php?id=431369
#4 by Jaswant on Tuesday, 11 August 2009 - 9:25 am
People die of the flu every year in the tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands somewhere in the world. Soon they’ll have the vaccine. Then another type of flu comes along. And so it goes on.
#5 by Bigjoe on Tuesday, 11 August 2009 - 10:13 am
There is a serious crack in Najib adminstration…
http://www.malaysianinsider.com/index.php/malaysia/34802-umno-bets-on-race-appeal-to-bury-pakatan
#6 by ekompute on Tuesday, 11 August 2009 - 10:17 am
“Dr. V. M. Palaniappan said that such activities caused the body to develop friction heat which in turn, produced acid and made the body hyperacidised.
“Thus, the body becomes an easy target for H1N1 infection,” he told Bernama, emphasising however, that normal sexual union between members of the opposite sex was absolutely safe.”
http://www.bernama.com/bernama/v5/newsindex.php?id=431369
Very interesting. I think the doctor’s normal sexual union is not based on friction and therefore produces no frictional heat. Must be having a thumb-sized one, LOL.
#7 by k1980 on Tuesday, 11 August 2009 - 10:56 am
Utusan Malaysia journalist Noor Azam accused the DAP of manipulating Malay leaders in the Pakatan Rakyat opposition coalition and warned that should it come to power, “Malay special rights and the NEP are no more.”
http://www.asiasentinel.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1994&Itemid=178
#8 by SpeakUp on Tuesday, 11 August 2009 - 10:59 am
k1980 … its true all rights shall be equal … DSAI said it, one of the only few things he has ever said right.
Why is it that the Malays are so worried about a level playing field? I don’t get it … do we not want privileges to be given to the poor etc only like in so many other countries?
#9 by libertyone on Tuesday, 11 August 2009 - 11:07 am
so, who created the blog?
Does anyone know whether Loke actually got a blog or not?
#10 by ekompute on Tuesday, 11 August 2009 - 12:02 pm
Hahaha… don’t you know that UMNO leaders wants an uneven playing field so that they can become richer and richer? This NEP benefits them more than the average Malay. While as Mahathir says, many Malays still live in squatter houses, these people live in mansion. If they are really fighting for Malays, they should live like the average Malays… take out their loot and share share with the Malay community. But they loot and enjoy life and you call them what? I can’t think of a better word than “hypocrite”.
#11 by ekompute on Tuesday, 11 August 2009 - 12:09 pm
“Why has Najib condoned the Umno-inspired hysteria and gunning for Loke Siew Fook for insulting the Perak royalty and Islam when these allegations are completely groundless?”
Elementary, Mr. Watson… because he is the mastermind and he fools all of you into thinking that he is not part of the plot.
#12 by k1980 on Tuesday, 11 August 2009 - 12:12 pm
//Why is it that the Malays are so worried about a level playing field?//
Imagine the country to be a huge piece of pie (not cow pie lah) to be shared among the 25 million Malysian citizens. Now, if 10 million of the above can be labeled as pendatangs and thrust aside, hence ineligible to eat the above pie, the remainder 15 million would get bigger helpings. This is the basis of the NEP
#13 by SpeakUp on Tuesday, 11 August 2009 - 12:17 pm
ekompute … k1980 … it was meant to be a rhetorical question … heheheheehehee … thanks for the replies anyways.
#14 by ekompute on Tuesday, 11 August 2009 - 12:32 pm
To help Malays achieve the 30% share of corporate equity, non-Malays should divest their corporate assets in Malaysia and invest overseas. This will bring the figure down overnight. Let the Malaysian economy shrink by some 20%-30%, no problem… then UMNO will wake up and realize that it is the non-Malays that have hitherto being supporting the Malaysian economy. Have a “Buy Malaysian shares last” policy. Someone should start a company to help non-Malays invest in Singapore, China, and India… the latter two being two potentially high-growth economy. Then we can hear UMNO sing a different song… only more melodious this time, LOL.
#15 by ekompute on Tuesday, 11 August 2009 - 12:35 pm
Hi SpeakUp, I knew it was meant to be a rhetorical question. Some of my posts have been misinterpreted because I say A to mean B, and I thought readers should know, but they don’t seem to. Anyway, LKS is an old bird… he knows far far better than I do.
#16 by frankyapp on Tuesday, 11 August 2009 - 12:57 pm
Hi guys,you now don’t have to imagine how evil NR/Umno are.He has shown his true color and power.He turns lies to truth against his PR opponent and turns all true charges against himself and his cronies into lies.Just how strong and powerful he is,the IGP,the AG,the MACC,the CJ,the EC ,the PAC ,Utusan Melayu,NST,Star,etc ,all these and many more have to “kowTou” him .Something must be done to stop him before he destroys the country.
#17 by OrangRojak on Tuesday, 11 August 2009 - 12:58 pm
so worried about a level playing field?
They’re not worried about a level playing field.
They’re worried about a return to the playing field that made them change the rules the first time. When the NEP was dreamed up, one in-breeding community held a disproportionately large slice of k1980’s pie. Amidst all the cries of “Abolish NEP”, I never hear anything from Pakatan Rakyat to say what they’re going to do to allay genuine – in my opinion – fears that Malaysia will return directly to the pre-NEP playing field. That’s a major failing in PR’s manifesto, from my point of view.
Legislated racism is not the only racism in Malaysia. It’s the one that must be tackled first, but it’s only one side of a coin. It can’t just be taken away without leaving … an unbalanced coin (imagine I’ve offered an intelligent and helpful analogy). If PR really want to persuade NEP supporters (I mean the ones that are actually getting little from it, but believe something is needed for balance) that it’s an ugly and counter-productive system, then they have to offer a better solution to the pre-NEP problem.
#18 by ekompute on Tuesday, 11 August 2009 - 1:13 pm
OrangRojak is correct… PR does not have a strategy to win over those who have for years been having some kind of special privileges. The thing about human beings is that we will always justify… more so, when we are having an advantage. Who doesn’t want free money and special discounts? Criminal researches have shown that even criminals justify their crimes… they feel that they are never at fault, it’s society that forced them into crimes… So even if the Malays know that what is being practised in Malaysia is not consistent with Islamic values, so what? They will find one way or another to justify their positions. As we know, many so-called Malays come to Malaysia later than some non-Malays. But so what?
#19 by Winston on Tuesday, 11 August 2009 - 3:53 pm
BN “leaders” can talk whatever cock they want.
We’ll always give our vote to the PR!
#20 by Frank Tang on Tuesday, 11 August 2009 - 4:30 pm
I’m rather surprised that as a prime minister, he should make sure the charge against Loke is true before passing his comment. This is to avoid embarrassing his status as PM.
#21 by SpeakUp on Tuesday, 11 August 2009 - 5:46 pm
I read this with much interest:
http://jebatmustdie.wordpress.com/2009/08/11/kit-siang-look-at-your-own-backyard-first/
I wonder why LKS would write this article when someone else has shown that there is a bigger picture? Interesting what people and politicians will do to gain mileage.
Are we a fair nation anymore?