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- Anwar On The Temptation Of Power
- Rakaman Ceramah Perdana Dato Seri Anwar Ibrahim Di Parlimen Subang 20/11/2011
- UMNO-BN Using Police to Move Against Anwar Ibrahim Before 13th General Election
- Jemputan Forum dan Sidang Media “GST dan Inflasi”
- Skandal NFC: Tiada Pertanggungjawaban Dalam Menguruskqn Dana Awam
- BN Has Become an Unbearable Tyranny, True or False?
| Anwar On The Temptation Of Power Posted: 21 Nov 2011 05:35 PM PST Anwar Ibrahim's ease at finding parallels between seemingly contending beliefs and his comfort in paradox was in evidence at a forum in Kolkata over the weekend. Invited to an Indian Muslim NGO's silver jubilee conference themed 'Good Governance in a Globalising World', Anwar held forth on 'Governance and Ethics' in one segment of the three-day affair organised by the Institute of Objective Studies, a highly regarded research organisation with links to the International Institute of Islamic Thought and the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations. The thrust of Anwar's presentation revolved around the temptation of power to think that it is always twinned with virtue. He cited the admonitory wisdom of Caliph Umar Abdul Aziz, one of Prophet Muhammad's political successors, who appointed monitors to watch over his conduct. Anwar quoted Umar's rationale to his monitors: "Rulers usually appoint people to watch over their subjects. I appoint you to watch over me and my conduct." This oft-cited quotation from Umar helps the Malaysian opposition leader to dilate on another favorite oracular pronouncement: "Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary" – this one from the Christian theologian Reinhold Niebuhr. As long ago as his 1996 Budget speech to Parliament as finance minister, Anwar cited this cautionary wisdom as a check on the temptations of power to vanity, complacency and hypocrisy. Anwar told the audience during his segment of the conference that a critique of hubris was necessary to keep the apparatus of even democratic states from the temptations of extrajudicial procedures that result in injustice and the muzzling of dissent and opposition. Yet again, he held up as a guide for the restraint of power the maqasid shariah, the 12th century formulation of the Islamic jurist Al Shatibi, which posited the protection of life, property and the preservation of peace as the higher goals of syariah. Anwar said a holistic conception of the maqasid shariah was the guarantee against the rigid interpretation and application of syariah. Tagore's poetry Anwar said he was conscious that the venue of the conference, Jesuit St Xavier's College, was where Nobel literary laureate Rabindranath Tagore studied as a boy. "In this year of the 150th anniversary of his birth, I am reminded of Sir Rabindranath Tagore's gesture of returning his knighthood in protest against the Amritsar massacre of 1919," said Anwar who has cited Tagore (right) as one of the progenitors of the 'Asian Renaissance' espoused by the Malaysian leader since the mid-1990s. "Not only must power resist the temptation to think that it is always twinned with virtue, but fame must always be accompanied by solicitude for those who suffer from man's inhumanity to man," said Anwar in praise of Tagore who was born in Kolkata in 1841, received the Nobel for literature in 1913, and was knighted in 1915. Anwar said that in Tagore's poetry and short stories there was always the emphasis on freedom and reason and because he conveyed these ideas in mystic terms, he encountered much misunderstanding in the West. In expatiating on the philosophic identity of noble minds, Anwar quoted the following lines from Tagore's poetry: "Where the mind is without fear and He said that the lines conveyed the same sentiment embodied in Philippine national hero Jose Rizal's declaration in his book El Filibusterismo: "Within a few centuries, when humanity has become redeemed and enlightened, when there are no races, when all peoples are free, when they are neither tyrants nor slaves, colonies nor mother countries, when justice rules and man is a citizen of the world…" "These two men born in the same year in different countries on the same continent, articulators and strugglers for the liberation of not only their peoples but also of their continents, are the precursors of the Asian Renaissance through their lofty vision of the human pageant and of where it should eventuate. "Their dream was not only for human emancipation but also for man's ethical governance without which all struggle is futile and all striving meaningless," concluded Anwar. |
| Rakaman Ceramah Perdana Dato Seri Anwar Ibrahim Di Parlimen Subang 20/11/2011 Posted: 21 Nov 2011 05:25 PM PST
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| UMNO-BN Using Police to Move Against Anwar Ibrahim Before 13th General Election Posted: 21 Nov 2011 05:20 AM PST For the third time since 1998, the Barisan Nasional government is complicit in fabricating criminal charges in an attempt to end the political career of National Opposition leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim and halt political and economic reform in this country. UMNO-BN are using the police force to move aggressively against Anwar Ibrahim just as the general election is about to be called. On 16 November 2011, the opposition leader was ordered to report for police questioning, and was forced to attend Kepong police station instead of performing his duties as parliamentary opposition leader. A new criminal investigation had been launched against him based on a report made by one DSP Shanmugamoorthy who had investigated Anwar’s complaint of intimidation, blackmail and criminal defamation by the ‘Datuk T’ trio. Thus, from being an aggrieved complainant, the authorities have made Anwar the accused person. The entire investigation has been carefully orchestrated by the top police leadership, with the knowledge and complicity of the Attorney General. Unusually, investigation papers were already in the A-G’s hands even before Anwar was called in for questioning. More disturbingly, although the police report was lodged in September this year, Anwar was called in only last week. This indicates hidden hands manipulating the investigation and choosing a politically opportune time to move against Anwar. |
| Jemputan Forum dan Sidang Media “GST dan Inflasi” Posted: 21 Nov 2011 01:02 AM PST Sukacita diingatkan bahawa forum “GST dan Inflasi” yang telah Tajuk: ”GST dan Inflasi” Ahli Panel: Kami mengalu-alukan kehadiran saudara-saudari. Forum terbuka kepada |
| Skandal NFC: Tiada Pertanggungjawaban Dalam Menguruskqn Dana Awam Posted: 20 Nov 2011 09:07 PM PST KEADILAN mengalu-alukan siasatan yang akan dibuat oleh Jawatankuasa Kira-kira Negara (PAC) dan Polis Diraja Malaysia (PDRM) terhadap pelbagai urusniaga melibatkan National Feedlot Corporation Sdn Bhd (NFC) dan Projek Fidlot Kebangsaan, seperti yang diumumkan mutakhir ini. |
| BN Has Become an Unbearable Tyranny, True or False? Posted: 20 Nov 2011 08:14 PM PST In a genuine democracy, a government so badly run as the Barisan Nasional's could never have survived in power for more than 50 years. Malaysia has, in fact, been ruled by a succession of dictators since its independence from British rule in 1957. The BN is a party like Saadam's Ba'ath or Mubarak's National Democratic Party. It is a tyranny clumsily dressed up as a democracy. Tyrannies are fond of playing dress-up like this; note the word 'Democractic' in Mubarak's party. It was anything but that. North Korea's supreme leader calls his party The Workers Party. If he wanted to be honest, he would call it The Starving Workers Party. How did the BN manage to do this when in 1957 it was envisaged that Malaysia, and for that matter, later Singapore, would be run as democracies? The BN destroyed democracy in Malaysia by systematically emasculating every institution that was supposed to function as a check on it. This included the Police, the Judiciary, the Election Commission. The BN also turned the Fourth Estate into its own propaganda machine, rather than allow it to fulfill the critical role that it was supposed to play. With all this in place, the BN was free to do anything it liked. And it did. Taib in Sarawak Democracy cannot survive without its institutions, and in Malaysia it withered. The BN leaders were fond of asking people who were unhappy to show their dissatisfaction at the ballot box, while fully intending to rig every election. They were well aware that elections are only limited means to show discontent. Until 2008. In 2008, so massive was disaffection with the BN and its arrogant leaders, that Malaysians in Peninsular Malaysia by huge majorities voted for the opposition. Even the BN's large-scale cheating in the form of vote-buying and phantom voters could not stop the tide against it. It was a different scenario in East Malaysia, where Sarawakians are deprived of any right to choose their representatives by blatant, unashamed voter intimidation and vote-buying. Ballot boxes are thrown into rivers and replaced by new boxes pre-filled with 'votes' for the BN parties. Every government agency is involved in the rigging of the Sarawak election, even Tenaga Nasional, which organizes blackouts to facilitate cheating. Even telecoms companies are involved in cutting off coverage to serve the purposes of the BN. Instead of an elected government in Sarawak, Sarawakians have the corrupt, despotic rule of Taib Mahmud. Taib, a shriveled-up little old man, cuts a ridiculous figure when he appears with his decades-younger new wife, but has hung on to power for decades. Taib does not even bother to deny the billions amassed by his children all over the world, preferring to take a what-are-you-going-to-do-about-it approach. Taib continues to rule Sarawak today, despite the losses his coalition suffered at the recent Sarawak state elections. Meanwhile Sarawak's verdant forests are sold unsustainably for logs, its animals poached and its indigenous people like the Penan displaced from their life-giving forests. Vast tracts of Sarawak are now owned by the rapacious scions of Sarawak's Taib family. Sarawak bleeds as never before. In Sabah Sabahans, meanwhile, are cursed with leaders who are perpetually on sale, lacking only price-tags on their foreheads. Nowhere can you buy an election as easily as you can in Sabah. When the people of Sabah threw out the arrogant Harris Salleh and replaced him with Joseph Pairin Kitingan so many years ago; Sabah appeared to shine a beacon of light for the rest of Malaysia to follow. But that dream of freedom has long been suppressed by the machinations of the federal BN government. If there is any of the old Joseph Pairin left in him, it is time for him to make his stand against the BN, as must other Sabahans who love their land. Or Sabahans will only have once been warriors. Rampant graft Meanwhile, corruption runs rampant in the country, a black cloud enveloping all the land. The latest case of the NFC scandal, is brazen even by Malaysian standards. Taking a loan of RM250 million loan at a 2% interest from the government to 'develop' the cattle industry, Salleh Ismail then spends tens of millions buying condos in Bangsar. Cornered, he quotes false rates of return based on impermanent cash rebates given by the developer. Not a cent of this 'loan' has been paid back to the government to-date. For all intents and purposes, Malaysia is out-of-pocket for RM250 million and BN Minister Shahrizat Jalil's kin are richer by the same. Najib vs Anwar Najib Razak, the Prime Minister, grandstanding on Malaysia Day, announced that he would scrap the ISA. In the next breath, he announced that he would be replacing it with 2 new laws. Last week, the BN government arrested 13 people under the ISA, exposing Najib for a liar and a hypocrite. Instead of being ashamed, Najib will instead be tabling a 'Freedom of Assembly' bill in parliament next week. It will be a sham, to be certain. Anwar Ibrahim, whose multi-racial PKR holds together a coalition consisting of the Islamist PAS and the Chinese-based DAP, is Malaysia's best hope for freedom from the tyranny of the Barisan Nasional. And so, the BN continues to persecute him with blatantly fabricated charges, and tries to gag him on his speaking engagements. The BN wants to jail him before the elections, hoping that this will help them to win. It may well have the opposite effect. Economy implodes while Najib twiddles his thumb The economy is imploding, despite the false figures floated about by the BN. Inflation is spiraling, yet the BN claims it is at 3%. Any housewife, forced now to buy less of everything, could tell them different. Bank Negara claims the economy is doing well and then proceeds to clamp down on credit card and household loans, which will naturally affect both consumption and consumer confidence. Which will affect GDP negatively. It is a pity they do nothing about the RM400billion debt run up by the BN administration. Instead it is compounded by a deficit budget this year, courtesy of the numerically-challenged Najib Razak. In a free and fair election, the BN would have been thrown out of power in 2008. The election was, despite their losses, stolen by the BN. And so, for the past three years, Malaysians have suffered under the illegitimate rule of an increasingly despotic and corrupt BN. We can only hope that the next election will mark the end of the BN, the party that has poisoned the political, social and economic life of Malaysia for so long. |
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