If the problem can be finally resolved, I am happy for the people of BMC. However, I still want to know why we have to come to this stage before steps are being taken. Why are citizens made to suffer, injured and went to lock up and hospital? What kind of governments are we having at various levels? Do we have policies on toll roads within the Klang Valley metropolitan area, housing developers’ right to build roads to their projects and citizens’ right to have toll free alternatives? Why every damn thing in this country is decided on piecemeal stand alone basis? Why every damn concession agreement is a secret subjected to OSA? What public interest and national security are we talking about here? If privatisation agreements have implication on public interests, then how can they be a secret? What perverted logic is this? And how can toll road agreements be a threat to national security? May be they have, but someone must explain to the people why it is a national security issue. Is it because some of our privatised highways are also fighter jets runways? I am just giving you some ideas to bs, but please don’t try to use it, Ministry of Work!

Cinapek,
CSR is a borrowed or ill gotten virtue. They scr*wed you unreasonably for extra RM100 million illegal profits and give RM1000 to charity with lots of photograph opportunities thrown in so that the Star and NSTP can publish it the next day for us suckers to see and praise. That is CSR, my friend.

We shall NOT say a word of thanks to Ong Tee Kiat, the Cabinet, the Work Ministry, Grand Saga or the Police. Show them middle finger may be. Imagine without March 8, do you think they will make the decision the way they did? Why must they make the people suffered so much before they get off from their big fat a**?

Having said that, I am also not happy with the way PK handles the situation. I still want PAS, PKR and DAP to show a more united front on issues of concern to the rakyat. Don’t be racist; don’t always think of your own political survival. If you people have consistently done the right things for the people, the people irrespective of race will support you. We must all together make racism out of fashion.

But we are watching closely. We are beginning to feel a sense of hopelessness no matter who govern this country. Please prove it to me that I am wrong.

“calling for it “to be out of fashion” would not make it go out of fashion! ”
“Let’s not be naive when it comes to racism. For as long as there are people of different races walking this planet there will always be racism. undergrad2”

Undergrad2, I repost here because of mistakes earlier.

You got nothing to do is it? Please read in context what I wrote lah. Why can’t PAS and PKR be more involved from the very beginning when this is a race- and religious-neutral issue? I am sure if PK showed a united front, the Federal government will be more responsive and the Police more circumspect.

I guess we can always talk about racism everywhere, but that does not justify us blatantly practising here. Yes, the U.S. after more than 200 years still has racism, no doubt about it. But you must understand the world has changed. Tolerance for racism two hundred years ago is different from tolerance for racism today. Even the Bible explicitly recognised master and slavery relationship. Are you saying we should therefore tolerate slavery today?

I expect higher standard from you when debating with me lah. If I said something sensible and if you choose not to praise me, you can always keep quiet. No need to “hentum” me all the time.

Godfather, not so simple, the federal govt may have to bail them out if the operator gets into “financial trouble”. Actually, I believe the operator of this toll road had already made all the money when they constructed the road.

Undergrad2, I did not try to conveniently leave anything out when responding to you. You know that this is not my style.

I don’t know – I don’t think my view is very much different from yours. I recognise racism is not going away and that is why I am appealing that politicians should make an effort to lessen it at least in areas where they can mutually agree like in this case (i.e. the toll road). There is nothing wrong or impractical to call for lessening of racism especially in our country where it is so institutionalised. The fact that there are racism still prevailing and very much alive in other countries older than us is beside the point. We must continue to harp on it so that those who want to resort to racism as an instrument to further their political career may be embarrassed to use it.

Bernadette, I don’t understand what is your point. If you care to elaborate, I will give you a response.

Start a campaign against the Deputy Minister of Home Affairs now. Make him resign. We no need a minister who speaks through his posterior.

That is why I have been campaigning – no toll within the Klang Valley Metropolitan area. I don’t care what would be the government’s argument. It is the responsibility of the government to provide roads as cities expand. If the government can’t afford, that government does not deserve to be there. We have paid enough taxes. Toll roads are sweet heart deals to enrich the well connected and their cronies. The government can afford to build those roads. There is no big deal – those big asses up there just have to travel less, abuse less, corrupt less, transfer less to good for nothing statutory bodies, GLCs, this tabung and that tabung. The money saved would be able to allow us to build twice the number of roads without imposing toll. This bloody toll thing within the city must go. It is nothing more than the rightist idea to suck the rakyat dry by this group of bloody parasite rent seekers.

Mahathir playing racial politics? What is new? He has been doing that all his life, since he first clashed with MM Lee in Malaysian Parliament when Singapore was part of Malaysia. It is not just Mahathir playing racial politics that we are concerned with. I think UMNO is now trying its level best to rejuvenate Malay supremacy to galvanise support among the Malays. I hope this attempt will fail. I hope ordinary Malays will see the baloney behind this strategy. Like addiction to opium, UNMO knows racist policy is bad for the future of this country, but out of expediency they will leverage it to the keel.

I know it is difficult. Who doesn’t. That is what we can do, hassle him, just like we hassle Kerismuddin.

Godfather, you mean like holocaust, it never happened?

limkamput Says: lawyers always need evidence. Here is one:

Yesterday at 11: 18.25
That is why I have been campaigning – no toll within the Klang Valley Metropolitan area. I don’t care what would be the government’s argument. It is the responsibility of the government to provide roads as cities expand. If the government can’t afford, that government does not deserve to be there. We have paid enough taxes. Toll roads are sweet heart deals to enrich the well connected and their cronies. The government can afford to build those roads. There is no big deal – those big asses up there just have to travel less, abuse less, corrupt less, transfer less to good for nothing statutory bodies, GLCs, this tabung and that tabung. The money saved would be able to allow us to build twice the number of roads without imposing toll. This bloody toll thing within the city must go. It is nothing more than the rightist idea to suck the rakyat dry by this group of bloody parasite rent seekers.