Raja Petra Kamaruddin’s Malaysia-Today website is not accessible.
Has it anything to do with the RM12.5 billion Port Klang Free Zone (PKFZ) documents, including Cabinet papers, on the website in the past three days?
New Straits Times reported today that investigations have been ordered into Malaysia-Today’s disclosures of secret official government documents showing how the Port Klang Free Zone issue had spiraled into disaster.
The Attorney-General Tan Sri Gani Patail was quoted as saying that if the document was genuine, action could be taken against the editor of the website under the Official Secrets Act.
The time has come for the Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak to honour his pledge of public accountability, transparency, integrity and good governance which must include a commitment to freedom of information and respecting the right of Malaysians to information about the entire process as to how Malaysia could be landed with a RM12.5 billion PKFZ scandal through three Prime Ministers, three Transport Ministers and four Port Klang Authority Chairmen.
To do this, it is essential that the Prime Minister should declassify all relevant PKFZ government documents, including Cabinet papers, to public scrutiny as there can be no security justification to continue to protect these information as “official secrets” under the Official Secrets Act.
This is why I said yesterday that the best Hari Raya present Najib can give the country is to declassify all government official documents, including Cabinet minutes and papers relating to PKFZ scandal to demonstrate his commitment to accountability, integrity and good governance.
Are there Ministers whether from Umno, MCA, MIC, Gerakan or the other BN component parties who are prepared to come forward publicly to support the call for the declassification of all official documents, including Cabinet papers, on the RM12.5 billion PKFZ scandal, for the country to move towards accountability, integrity and good governance?
#1 by veddy.lum74 on Friday, 18 September 2009 - 2:40 pm
you post fake documents,MACC or MCMC come after you;you post real docs,AG comes after you,there shouldnt be OSC anymore for PKFZ scandals as it is a national issues ‘funded’ by the Rakyat!
WE WANT TO KNOW WHO(S) APPROVED THE FUND AND WHO(S) SHALL BE PUNISHED SO THAT THINGS WILL NEVER EVER HAPPEN AGAIN!
i will [deleted] if the scandals didnt involve any of UMNO coridors of power during that approvals,espcially the FM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
#2 by Joshua on Friday, 18 September 2009 - 2:40 pm
Genuine or not, those 18 pages are grave concerned for those with skeletons.
So what else the Special Task Force on PKFZ can do if the secret documents are not exposed to the full to get to the root of the problem.
If STF fails, it mean more money down the drain now becoming bigger still.
Out go the illegal PM of N of Rahman.
Income IGGG soon.
pw:50 nissan
#3 by butul on Friday, 18 September 2009 - 2:45 pm
veddy.lum74 must have [deleted] steel to survive in UMNO led Malaysia.
#4 by BoycottLocalPapers on Friday, 18 September 2009 - 2:52 pm
In the past, all I could see is a blank white page (not status code error message) when I keyed in the URL in my browser.
However, I managed to access the website through Google cache. But today, I totally can’t access the website.
I noticed that for the past few months, the visitors to RPK’s website is dropping judging by the number of comments he received for his posts. In the past, the comments used to be very long.
If this blocking continues, I am afraid the wicked UMNO evil regime might win in the next general election.
This blocking makes me hate UMNO & MCA & MIC & Gerakan even more than ever.
#5 by OrangRojak on Friday, 18 September 2009 - 2:52 pm
No. Malaysia’s normal technique is to poison the local nameservers – Malaysia-Today’s records were poisoned at one point with the ‘localhost’ address, so your browser would query your own PC for the website – it didn’t reply, of course.
They’ve upgraded recently to (possibly) using a DNSBL – a Domain Name Service Block List
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNSBL
I think they have – because a site like faithfreedom.org is blocked using a ‘NXDOMAIN’ (Non-Existent Domain) record at the Malaysian nameservers, not a bogus localhost record.
RPK’s problem looks more like a fumble – the error message you see is from his own proxy cache (a program that does something very interesting for possibly no readers of this blog)
platform-m.com is RPK’s host, and ‘squid’ is a very popular open source proxy cache. I’ve seen it serving error messages a few times recently. Perhaps he’s just suffering from “can’t get the staff”.
#6 by butul on Friday, 18 September 2009 - 2:59 pm
BoycottLocalPapers. You could be wrong there. I am one of MT readers who now visit the site a little less often. Why? Because I have already made up my mind long ago to vote BN out in GE13.
#7 by donplaypuks on Friday, 18 September 2009 - 3:04 pm
You can access M2day at:
http://www.malaysia-today.net/2008/
Whenever you fail to access it, go to Google and then look for the latest URL to M2days website. They have to keep mobing it as the authorities keep shutting it down!
#8 by taiking on Friday, 18 September 2009 - 3:18 pm
True or false? To believe or not to believe rpk? Easy. Just declassify the docu and then reveal them.
#9 by undertaker888 on Friday, 18 September 2009 - 3:20 pm
Pa-tahi is using the Official Shit Act (OSA) to charge the editor of Malaysia Today? What the Fxxx.? He should be thankful to the editor or else the document maybe “loss” during investigation by the super tahi cover-up force.
It is funny that the govt can use all types of acts to interrogate or charge innocent people in a swift but stayed dead quiet or at super snail speed on PKFZ, TBH death, …
#10 by Godfather on Friday, 18 September 2009 - 4:01 pm
Of course the documents are true. The damning conclusion that we can draw from the documents is that is wasn’t just a Chinese conspiracy – between MCA and SDPP – but includes all branches of government, particularly the Ministry of Finance.
Remember that the letter of “acknowledgement” issued by the MoF to the rating agency confirming that the letters of support issued by the two transport ministers constitute valid and binding obligations on the government was signed by Nor Mohamed Yakcop. Then there was the more recent letter issued by the MoF to PKA directing PKA to release payments to Kuala Dimensi.
The Super Task Force is going to do a super sweep-under-the-carpet job. People – including those working in the government – are just fed up.
#11 by Kirii on Friday, 18 September 2009 - 4:28 pm
Yes,in fact they blocked us from accessing it.
I used Ultrareach and online proxy to access Malaysia-Today and I managed to visit the site.This already clearly shown that Streamyx and BN government conspired to block us.
I can’t accept this truth.Shitmyx provided us a lame service and yet they partner up with government.
It’s too bad.
They thought we are stupid but the truth is,all of us have basic ICT skills to unblock ourself.
This is the proof that I visited the site:
http://img36.imageshack.us/i/95698400.jpg/
http://img24.imageshack.us/i/44997791.jpg/
http://img27.imageshack.us/i/33489722.jpg/
Here are some proxy sites/software:
http://www.ultrareach.com/
http://www.zend2.com
Hope I helped you all.Thanks.
#12 by taiking on Friday, 18 September 2009 - 4:30 pm
I saw those scanned docu in MT. Honestly there was nothing there which aroused my suspicion on their authenticity. Umno is trapped in a die-die situation of their own creation. They relied on being opaque to hoodwink the people. The MSM basically reports nothing worthy of attention at all. So people turned to alternative media like MT. Because they disbelieved the MSM therefore they tend to accept the alternative media as correct. Ask them whether they think the revealed rahsia docu are genuine and the most likely is “yes”. Taking action against the editor of MT can only be translated in one way, i.e. snubbing the people in totality.
#13 by yhsiew on Friday, 18 September 2009 - 4:42 pm
Gani Patail was quoted as saying that if the document was genuine, action could be taken against the editor of the website under the Official Secrets Act.
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If Gani Patail takes action against the Malaysia-Today website editor, that means the published PKFZ Cabinet documents are genuine – this is how we can find out whether the documents are true.
#14 by Justitia on Friday, 18 September 2009 - 4:46 pm
Must be just a problem of accessing in M’sia only. I am able to access MT in Germany just now.
#15 by Cinapek on Friday, 18 September 2009 - 4:46 pm
“…If it is, action could be taken against the editor of the MalaysiaToday website, under the Official Secrets Act. …” so said the AG.
In Taiwan, if the ex President committed wrongdoings, they nail him and sentence him to life imprisonment. In Malaysia, the AG goes after the messenger to protect the wrongdoer.
#16 by zakirobi on Friday, 18 September 2009 - 4:50 pm
I tried the website and managed to open it, but when i tried to acess the postings, i was redirected back to the page that says the Malaysia today website is temp unavailable.
Anyone with another website to acess it?
#17 by Bobster on Friday, 18 September 2009 - 5:15 pm
Malaysia boleh!
Malaysian authorities going after whistleblowers and messengers …
Indeed AG just announced his great gift to the rakyat during this Raya season!
#18 by sheriff singh on Friday, 18 September 2009 - 5:21 pm
Wasn’t the document signed by one of the Ministers of Finance?
So why wasn’t he called up by MACC, Police, Special Task Force, PAC or whatever and whoever that is working on the PKFZ case?
Oh, wishful thinking. It will never happen.
#19 by walkman on Friday, 18 September 2009 - 5:30 pm
Greetings,
Lets make these into flyers, and distribute them like A Longs’ flyers. If Ah Longs are so good in promoting their illegal activities, why not use their marketing strategies in letting rakyat know about our government’s illegal activities?
#20 by OrangRojak on Friday, 18 September 2009 - 5:40 pm
Do you have a local equivalent for “up and down like a bride’s nightie”?
That’s m2day today. I’ve seen it momentarily today using my Dribblyx connection, and then it was gone again.
If you use LKS’ URL in his article, you nearly always get the silly page (which you can’t see, unless you use cURL) with the META refresh in it. The big page that that lamely redirects to loads sometimes, sometimes it doesn’t. It is now, while I’m typing, it was earlier, just after my previous comment.
It’s time to stop browsing from the jungle guys, sometimes things go wrong because someone trips over the power lead, or falls asleep on their keyboard – it’s not always Pink Lips!
Sheesh. What will you blame on him next? A punctured tyre?
#21 by Jaswant on Friday, 18 September 2009 - 5:48 pm
“The Attorney-General Tan Sri Gani Patail was quoted as saying that if the document was genuine, action could be taken against the editor of the website under the Official Secrets Act.”
The word is ‘should’ and not ‘could’.
Anybody caught breaking the law should face its consequences. A paranoid schizophrenic and a pedophile exposing himself to school children would have to be arrested before he can do more damage. What is the difference between him and someone who divulges information which comes under the purview of an Act like the OSA? Both break the law.
Anybody??
#22 by taiking on Friday, 18 September 2009 - 5:51 pm
Patail’s declared intention to go after the editor of MT for breach of official secrets is a clear indication that the exposed docu (a) exist and (b) are genuine.
Strange. How would he know? The police have not even commence any investigation work. The evidence collection (by benging witnesses and suspects) process isnt in motion yet. How would he know that he has in his hands a case involving breach of official secrets. Wow. The one 1Malaysia thingy is begining to make more and more sense to me.
#23 by Jaswant on Friday, 18 September 2009 - 5:56 pm
Selective prosecution may end up freeing the pedophile.
#24 by Jaswant on Friday, 18 September 2009 - 6:09 pm
“Patail’s declared intention to go after the editor of MT for breach of official secrets is a clear indication that the exposed docu (a) exist and (b) are genuine.”
The crescent and star on any flag signifies that it is a Muslim country. It is that obvious. But somebody using a handle because he wants – for reason or reasons only a demented mind like his would understand – desperately to be ‘one of us’ does not mean he is one of us. That is not obvious. I suppose it is the fear of rejection.
#25 by Stan on Friday, 18 September 2009 - 6:13 pm
To access the site, do the following:
Change your DNS to the OpenDNS (don’t use the one from Streamyx) -
OpenDNS config
Primary dns: 208.67.222.222
Secondry dns: 208.67.220.220
How to change DNS settings:
https://www.opendns.com/start/computer/
(a tip from a friend)
#26 by ENDANGERED HORNBILL on Friday, 18 September 2009 - 6:14 pm
The cat’s out of the bag.
The milk’s been spilt.
There is nothing Najib and his tuppence Cabinet can do about it. So much for UMNO’s ‘clean, accountable, transparent’ image.
The Cabinet has been dragged thru’ the mud, no thru real messy poop…by its own doing.
SYABAS, kitchen Cabinet. And goodbye BAgan Pinang.
#27 by sheriff singh on Friday, 18 September 2009 - 6:25 pm
But in a country where plagiarism is rampant, would it make any difference if someone copied it verbatim?
#28 by limkamput on Friday, 18 September 2009 - 7:19 pm
Sdr Lim, all roads lead to Rome, told you so long ago.
#29 by limkamput on Friday, 18 September 2009 - 7:29 pm
//“The Attorney-General Tan Sri Gani Patail was quoted as saying that if the document was genuine, action could be taken against the editor of the website under the Official Secrets Act.”//
One half baked so smugly said the word is should and not could.
To me the AG is correct; the word is could and not should as reported. There is always a discretion; that is what the AG is telling us. A half baked cannot get one thing right.
#30 by ekompute on Friday, 18 September 2009 - 8:13 pm
“Raja Petra’s Malaysia-Today website not accessible – any connection with disclosure of the PKFZ Cabinet documents?”
We can smell the syit in Najib’s pants. Yakkksssss, so smelly!
#31 by Jaswant on Friday, 18 September 2009 - 8:20 pm
It is called selective prosecution. Too much to expect a nincompoop to understand.
#32 by ekompute on Friday, 18 September 2009 - 8:22 pm
“The Attorney-General Tan Sri Gani Patail was quoted as saying that if the document was genuine, action could be taken against the editor of the website under the Official Secrets Act.”
I thought that is only provided that there is no illegality to what the government is doing. Should the Official Secrets Acts be used to protect criminals?
By the way, is Gani Patail beholden to UMNO for the post or is he really qualified? By “qualified”, I mean most knowledgeable to hold the post, not a questionable sheet of paper certification, without any sense of justice or of what is right and what is wrong.
#33 by Jaswant on Friday, 18 September 2009 - 8:28 pm
Today it could be over something the BN government does not want you to know. The next time it could be over a matter which is detrimental to the security of the country which everybody can agree and identify with and which is non-partisan. Don’t over tax that brain of yours.
#34 by Jaswant on Friday, 18 September 2009 - 8:33 pm
“I thought that is only provided that there is no illegality to what the government is doing. Should the Official Secrets Acts be used to protect criminals? ” ekompute
Good question. The breach it would appear is in the disclosure and not in what is being disclosed.
#35 by Jaswant on Friday, 18 September 2009 - 8:41 pm
The United States government classifies information and to disclose information labeled ‘classified’ would expose whoever discloses it to criminal sanctions.
#36 by yhsiew on Friday, 18 September 2009 - 8:45 pm
Malaysiakini (Chinese version) reported at 4.04PM that hackers were the culprits which prevented the Malaysia-Today website from being accessed.
#37 by limkamput on Friday, 18 September 2009 - 8:50 pm
//Good question. The breach it would appear is in the disclosure and not in what is being disclosed.//
would appear? you know or don’t know? If don’t know, just say so. no need to act smugly.
#38 by OrangRojak on Friday, 18 September 2009 - 9:04 pm
Can evidence that has been obtained in defiance of the Official Secrets Act be used legally? Or do we still have to pretend we don’t know what the document contains?
hackers were the culprits
It wasn’t hacked! It was available all the time, just not working very well. The absolute worst it could have been is a Denial Of Service Attack – but you don’t need to be a hacker for that. You can create one yourself by just publishing something large that everyone wants to see. It was just unreliable. Get over it. Some people saw it in good moments, some people saw it in bad. They formed a superstitious belief system around it and saw Najib’s hand. What do I know? Maybe blaming Najib for ‘following through’ when you break wind is a vote winner, but how low do we have to stoop?
#39 by Jaswant on Friday, 18 September 2009 - 9:15 pm
“It would appear” is a polite way of saying you know. We understate so as not to sound haughty. Something you will not understand, Kamput. So don’t try.
#40 by Jaswant on Friday, 18 September 2009 - 9:22 pm
“Smug” is a word that best describes you. Obviously.
#41 by Onlooker Politics on Friday, 18 September 2009 - 9:49 pm
The AG threatens to invoke Official Secrets Act to prosecute the MT Chief Editor for disclosing PKFZ related cabinet documents!
I wonder whether using the official power to protect the criminal by harrassing and hindering further investigation of an alleged criminal case will constitute a crime of abuse of power that is chargeable under the MACC Act!
#42 by spthang123 on Friday, 18 September 2009 - 10:03 pm
Now you can access Malaysia today. Go to Google and type Raja Petra Kamaruddin, a long list of URL will show. Select Malaysia Today- no hold barred,corridor of power and more.
you have to wait a little longer than before to get it. Be patient you will get it.
#43 by Jaswant on Friday, 18 September 2009 - 10:11 pm
If information is considered privileged, legality cannot attach to it despite its disclosure.
#44 by Jaswant on Friday, 18 September 2009 - 10:13 pm
The usefulness of such disclosure legal or otherwise is that it helps in the investigation.
#45 by Jaswant on Friday, 18 September 2009 - 10:23 pm
You may have confessed to your wife the fact that you murdered somebody, but such information between husband and wife is privileged at common law. Your wife may have told the police but they cannot use it in court. It will require Parliament to introduce the necessary statute to allow its admission into evidence. In the U.K. exceptions have been introduced via statute for sexual offences against inter alia children.
#46 by Jaswant on Friday, 18 September 2009 - 10:26 pm
The prosecution cannot call the wife to testify against the husband. For the prosecution to call the police officer to repeat what was said to him would be heresay and not admissible.
#47 by ENDANGERED HORNBILL on Friday, 18 September 2009 - 10:37 pm
The Najib and UMNO gang wouldn’t care a damn whatever happens and whether all you smart alecs discover the truth. As long as half the population doesn’t read the internet and remains ignorant enuf to vote for BN, the rest of u can go rot in hell for all they care!
That’s why we must continue to be enraged enuf to canvass far and wide for support to bring down BN. Condemnation must not begin and end on the internet only.
#48 by ekompute on Friday, 18 September 2009 - 10:59 pm
Sounds like the people are now the police, and the criminal they are trying to investigate is the government. This role reversal is nothing short of a comedy, the stuff that sitcoms are made of.
#49 by Jaswant on Friday, 18 September 2009 - 11:21 pm
“This is why I said yesterday that the best Hari Raya present Najib can give the country is to declassify all government official documents, including Cabinet minutes and papers relating to PKFZ scandal to demonstrate his commitment to accountability, integrity and good governance.” Kit
Any reason why the thief should disclose the location of his loot?
#50 by OrangRojak on Friday, 18 September 2009 - 11:35 pm
the criminal they are trying to investigate
This compnay no longer seems to exist in the UK – has it moved to Malaysia in time for the next election?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Paper_shredding_lorry.jpg