Sensible proposals by Pemuda Gerakan but at this juncture, is PM bother to look into such matters? The ambition of promoting political awareness and its importance among the younger generation and fostering a multi-racial party are something worth considering. Indeed as explained in my previous post, someone need to do things differently, well proposed.
Datuk Seri Syed Hamid Albar
Menteri Dalam Negeri
Blok D 2, Parcel D,
Pusat Pentadbiran Kerajaan Persekutuan,
62546 Putrajaya.
Tel: 03-88863000
Fax 03-88891613
Per: Pembebasan segera 71 tahanan ISA .
Tujuan saya menulis surat ini adalah ingin mendesak supaya 71 tahanan yang ditahan semenjak 2002 dibebaskan segera. Kebanyakan ditempatkan di Pusat Tahanan Kamunting di negeri Perak. Tuduhan seperti ahli Jemaah Islamiyyah (JI), Hindraf dan terlibat dalam aktiviti subversive menentang kerajaan. Walaubagaimanapun, tiada bukti kukuh telah dikemukakan untuk menyokong pertuduhan tersebut.
Semua tahanan ISA yang lain sepatutnya diberi perbicaraan yang adil mengikut piawaian antarabangsa dan hak untuk diwakili oleh peguam dan bertemu dengan ahli keluarga. Sekiranya tiada bukti dapat disabitkan, tahanan sepatutnya dibebaskan dengan segera. Menahan mereka tanpa satu had masa berdasarkan sangkaan semata-mata adalah jelas mencabul hak asasi.
Saya juga amat perihatin bahawa tahanan ISA dilaporkan telah didera secara fizikal dan ditakut-takutkan serta dipaksa tinggal di dalam sel penjara yang sempitdan dikenakan peraturan yang ketat. Saya meminta agar pihak tuan dapat memastikan tahanan dilayan mengikut piawai hak asasi manusia antarabangsa. Organisasi hak asasi manusia dan NGO sepatutnya diberi kebenaran dengan kadar segera akses kepada Pusat tahanan Kamunting.
Perkara yang lebih penting ialah, saya ingin mendesak supaya ISA di mansuhkan kerana ramai yang tidak berdosa telah menjadi mangsa kejahatan akta zalim ini.. Dan kini masih ramai lagi mereka yang ditahan tanpa pendakwaan atau diberi hak untuk diwakili oleh peguam. Penahanan itu dilanjutkan pada dua tahun berikutnya, semuanya hanya berdasarkan tuduhan yang berupa sangkaan semata-mata.
Jawapan segera dari pihak tuan amatlah dialu-alukan.
Yang ikhlas,
Andy Yong
bp Jawatankuasa Hak Asasi Manusia, BPM
“SUCCESS IS LOVING YOUR WORK AND FOCUSSING ALL YOUR ATTENTION ON WHAT YOU WANT TO ACHIEVE. VALUE YOURSELF TO ACT WITH HONESTY AND INTEGRITY, WITH WHAT YOU ARE RATHER THAN WHAT YOU HAVE“
Oh No! Is he taking out a gun?
We can feel that even with the contest within the same party, there are great intensity, exuberance, determination and plan. I understand that Obama’s campaign manager is a sharp, witty and hardworking chap. Why can’t we in Malaysia have the same attitude? My observation in the recent 12 GE at the Batu constituency was, hmmm how should I put it…chaotic of the machinery, campaign manager’s action uncertainty with a long list of designation attached on the operation centre but non of them participated actively. Nonetheless cheers to David Ang, Ricky, Alan Tang… (That’s why I said before it is the motive and passion to involve the right ones).
Ok let see US at present, the dispute played into Clinton’s contention that Obama cannot attract blue-collar, socially conservative voters that Democrats need in swing states like Ohio and Pennsylvania, to win the general election.
Her campaign also pushed the idea that Republicans would attack Obama as an out of touch, elitist liberal lacking the common touch, in much the same way as they did against the last two Democratic nominees Al Gore and John Kerry.
Earlier, in Pittsburgh, Obama hit back hard at Clinton.
“You’ve heard this kind of rhetoric before,” Obama told a coalition of manufacturing workers and firms.
“Around election time, the candidates can’t do enough for you,” he said.
“They’ll promise you anything, give you a long list of proposals and even come around, with TV crews in tow, to throw back a shot and a beer,” he said, accusing Clinton of being in thrall to corporate lobbyists not workers.
“Ask yourself, who are they going to be toasting once the election is over?”
Campaigning in Pennsylvania and Indiana at the weekend, Clinton spoke about how her father took her out and taught her how to shoot when she was a young girl, eyeing voters of rural areas where hunting is popular.
Obama sarcastically hit back that she was behaving like legendary US sharpshooter Annie Oakley.
The furor erupted after Obama said at a fundraiser in liberal California last week that some voters were embittered by years of economic decline and cast their votes on social issues instead of economic ones.
“So it’s not surprising then that they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations,” he said, according to a transcript published by Huffingtonpost.com.
Clinton has long led in the polls in Pennsylvania, largely due to support from working class voters and union members, but a respected poll by Quinnipiac University last week had her lead down to six points. Interestingly I wonder what will be their next agenda….
[Aplogise for late post today due to the LAW 283 exam paper at INTI this morning and some fellowships with the students]
Anwar Ibrahim said yesterday he has the support of enough defectors from the ruling coalition to seize power, although he will not act until he has a bigger majority. Indeed he is a shrewd politician, we do not really know what he has in mind…It seems like the political saga continues with much intensity as the election period or more exciting once Anwar decides to start scoring.
“Yes, we have enough MPs to topple the government,” he told reporters after a rally to celebrate the end of his ban from politics, which was broken up by police.
“We are saying here for the first time that we are ready (to rule the country),” he said. “But we will only enter when the majority is comfortable.
“When we take over we want to initiate the move. Do we want to be a government with a two- or five-seat majority?”
The Pakatan Rakyat opposition alliance claimed more than a third of parliamentary seats and five states from the Barisan Nasional coalition in stunning March general elections.
Anwar has said that government lawmakers from Sabah and Sarawak states on Borneo island have approached him about switching sides, but so far none have declared their intentions publicly.
“The situation in Malaysia is uncertain at the moment, people don’t know when the prime minister is going and who will succeed him, so we will respond to this,” Anwar said.
He said that rather than seizing government, the opposition’s priorities are to consolidate its gains and work with Sabah and Sarawak lawmakers “who agree with our new Malaysian agenda.”
“The priority now is to administer the Pakatan Rakyat states as incorruptible and financially transparent, fulfil our promises to the people and give meaning and essence to participatory democracy.”
Earlier, his speech to some 10,000 supporters was halted by police who shut down the rally celebrating the end of his political ban, a decade after he was sacked as deputy premier and hit with sex and corruption allegations.
“The police chief has asked us to stop so we are stopping, but remain peaceful because soon we will be running this country,” Anwar told the crowd.
Witnesses said there were some scuffles between police and supporters as the crowd dispersed.
Political gatherings are strictly controlled in Malaysia, and police had threatened to break up the event, held at a private club in central Kuala Lumpur, because they said it was illegal.
About 300 officers including riot police, backed up with water cannon trucks, formed a heavy security presence, but the event went ahead on schedule and Anwar spoke for an hour before the authorities intervened.
Anwar had been expected to re-enter parliament quickly through a by-election in one of the seats held by his Keadilan party, and to challenge Prime Minister Abdullah in a symbolic no-confidence vote soon after.
But in light of the stunning and unexpected gains, he has said he is in no hurry to act and will instead focus on building up the opposition. Time to consider migrating or to fight on? IT IS TIME FOR BN TO DO THINGS DIFFERENTLY AND NOT TO DANCE WITH THE OPPOSITION TUNE, THEY ARE ON THE GROUNDS WITH DIFFERENT STRATEGIES, BN IS INITIATING PLANS FOR LEADERSHIP SELECTION, WEBSITE, BLOGS CREATION AND CYBER ACTIONS WHICH ARE OUTDATED TO THEM. ALL BN LEADERS MUST BE INNOVATIVE NOW!
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