Promoting Political Ghettoes of Conceit.

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Pendapat Abdul Khalid bahawa cadangannya itu akan dapat menjadikan para pelajar UiTM lebih mesra kepada masyarakat berbilang bangsa di luar kehidupan kampus, menyediakan mereka kepada suasana pekerjaan dan meningkatkan daya saing, kata Dr Ibrahim hanya merupakan pandangan dan bukannya fakta.
Naib Canselor itu berkata ini kerana pelajar UiTM merupakan antara graduan pilihan majikan terutama swasta baik dari dalam negara mahupun antarabangsa dan sebilangan daripada mereka kini menjadi pemimpin dalam sektor korporat.
- Bernama

Pemuda PAS akan membahaskan usul mewujudkan satu sekretariat bersama dengan badan-badan bukan kerajaan (NGO) yang memperjuangkan isu-isu Melayu dan Islam seumpama kumpulan pelobi Jawatankuasa Rayuan Pilihanraya Gabungan Persatuan China (Suqiu) dalam muktamarnya yang bermula esok.
-Malaysiakini

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It is interesting to note that PAS made a step in the right direction in attempting to create a political lobby group to look into the social/cultural interests of the Malay/Muslim community.
Some may view it as a "racist" agenda, on part of PAS politicians - but I believe that such a perception may not be too accurate.

It would possibly placate those whose political gurus have been stoking sectarian conflicts for the last 25 yrs, and assist them in dispelling their unfounded fears of being "dispossessed in their own land".
This would aid a great deal in helping the community to get out of the "ghetto/siege mindset" that is nurtured and promoted by racist politicians and "educationists". However, PAS would do well to inculcate universal ethical values into them, instead of focusing solely on the narrow "Islamist agenda" which happens to be both the strength and weakness at the same time.

Should this "united NGO" materialize with proper ethical values, Malaysia may just be able to move on to national politics, devoid of racist ideas/ideals. It is however quite possible that efforts towards this end may be sabotaged by "racist parties", who insist on following the beaten path of sectarian politics, so as to hold on to their fort despite their mediocrity, under the guise of "defending the race/religion".

It isn't surprising that the VC of UiTM had made the comments mentioned above, after having been in that one and only hallowed institution for all his life- after all, he apparently finished both his BA and MA within 3 yrs!! Moreover, all the theses and publications that he churned out were apparently UiTM-centric - so totally "impressive" indeed.

To pathetic academicians like Dr. Ibrahim, race takes precedence over all matters in "education" - students should be given the privilege of living in institutionalized educational ghettoes "to defend the race".
Apparently, it is how students should be instilled with "universal values", and then can go on to "succeed" in the cruel world out there, under the banner of "ketuanan melayu".

It's quite interesting to note his conviction that UiTM are much sought after in the private sector and internationally.
Call it what you may - but if that isn't conceit, I really don't know what the word means!!



"Poor" things - little Hadhari students and all....., we cannot expect better from "ghetto" inmates, I suppose.
Anyway, if racism fails to convince the people, we always have the option to make "Religion - The Politician's Playground", so as to reinforce the siege/ghetto mentality into the youngsters of today - and we don't have any shortage of political gurus on that front ....

When the "Means" is Priority over Outcome

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"Where is the life we have lost in the living?
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information ?
The cycles of heaven in twenty centuries
bring us farther from God and nearer to dust."
- T.S. Elliot
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Recently, there was a "mainstream" supported NGO protesting mob that caught the headlines, after having successfully subverted the rule of law.
In fact the mob almost appeared to be (unwittingly or was it by design?) assisted by those entrusted to protect/ uphold the rule of law, in "storming" the recent forum at the Bar Council.

It was quite obvious right from the start that certain "leaders" had chosen to misinform and misrepresent the objective of the forum, to their ardent fans .... and the Bar Council had unwittingly (or was it by design?) jumped headlong into a politically charged controversy.
Were members of the mob or the Bar simply proxies of "other forces"?
Probably God and some higher offices would be privy to such information ......

Without a doubt, the Bar Council had every right guaranteed under the Constitution, to hold the very necessary forum.
However, the timing and methods in used, would've had the pirates rub their hands in glee - knowing full well the "political opportunities" it gave rise to ....

The organisation of whole event was so totally ill-conceived, that it was doomed right from the start. It is quite a wonder that the erudite Bar Council President could not see, that without political clout/ patronage, the intelligentsia are nothing - for the mob don't see or listen to reason.
Malaysia Today had an article written by "Teh Tarik", which said that - "Bar Council is legally RIGHT but politically WRONG". That article pretty much summed up my sentiments about the whole "issue".

G.K. Chesterton once said, "What we need is a Leadership that is not only right where we are right, but right where we are wrong".
The picture above wherein the police silently observes an assertive mob, would however, definitely illustrate the malady that we are faced with as a "nation"....
Coupled with a report from MSM (Najib: Bar Council’s persistence caused extreme reaction) when politicians turn "mob justice" apologists and condemn the lawful party in the conflict - it speaks volumes about the credibility of the Bolehsian leaders.

Meanwhile, Rice & Bulbar Inc. are busy trying to convince the "bogeyman of the Muslim world" that we in Bolehsia practice "Rule of Law" under the guidance of Islam (at least when in politically beneficial to the pirates of the constitution, I guess).The fact that the Bar Council was "warned" by an unruly mob which is "subtly assisted" by the leaders, is I'm sure very convincing.
That the politicians support primitive responses to "perceived threats to Islam", is in itself a testimony to the "effectiveness" of the real people in power.
One would be hard pressed though, to seek out where in sacred literature, it is encouraged to make a mockery of human rights, the law and institutions of Justice ....

The "Neanderthal" response of "flight or fight", repeatedly becomes the the favoured option (over intelligent debate), under the under the current "Rule of Law", epitomised by the likes of Bung, KJ, Mr.Kris, Nazri and gang.
More and more, we see that when the leaders speak, it appears that their words lack any element of logic or common sense. Indecision, flip-flopping, racist statements, undermining of public order and justification of mob rule has today become the trend.
It almost appears that the leaders wish to push the nation into a state of chaos - slowly but surely, so as to justify "drastic action" in the near future.

[Before I go on, I'd like to say that when the sanctity of a theology is perverted through politicization, it is doomed to extinction
- it would then remain, only as a "Godless" shell of a religion devoid of spirituality, and serves only to shackle the minds of its deluded adherents/practitioners.
History will vouch for that indisputable fact.]
Having failed to play up the "Race Factor" for the sake of political expediency, "Religion" is today the hotbed of political manouvering by pirates competing for pop appeal.
A confused electorate infused with sentiments of pride, rage, chauvinism and disillusionment, then applaud the mindless mob who have subverted the constitution, and have the audacity to "warn the Bar Council" while "enforcers" and politicians coolly look on.

As mentioned before, in the post-5.13 ideology, Morality, Reality, and the Conscience has no place in the "grand design" of our political masters - in fact, it would be detrimental to the deceitful agenda of the pirates who propagate a Godless "social contract" (and not the Federal Constitution), which benefits only themselves.

"Sensitivities & perception" - These are the most potent and effective tools that are exploited so as to cover their guilt of incompetence and corruption, and hold the state at ransom. These two potent tools a manipulated so as to rile up the emotionally vulnerable electorate and so, subvert the constitution and rule of law that they love to preach.
With these, they can easily cover up their guilt of plunder under the guise of "national security" - and that's ultimately, the bottom line.

Guilt Concealed By Fear was the title of a post last year, in which the speaker (Ravi Zacharias) said,
"Guilt that is concealed seldom stops with the one who harbors that hurt.
Sooner or later that pain of fear and guilt is spread to others, particularly to those closest to us.
“Victimless” crimes are an illusion, for deceit is a monster that needs constant feeding.
It would be foolish for us to think that we can deal with guilt by somehow covering it up.
The moment that we cover our guilt we escalate the tension in our lives by adding the dimension of fear.
We may then become people who seem okay on the outside, but inside we are struggling to maintain the facade........
Carried to a different level, this same tendency underlies all our national preoccupation with one social or economic crisis after another.
No one seems willing to admit that at the heart of our malady is a mangled spirituality."

Contradictory signals are seen in the responses coming from the general Malay/Muslim electorate - on one hand they wish to rise to the occasion and create a "masyarakat madani", but on the other, they justify mob rule, and support the stifling of civilised debate on matters which are of national concern.
It is probably that they aren't quite as ready as previously thought by many, to come out of the "siege mentality" which has been drummed into them for 50 yrs - and embrace the "change" that they voted for on March 8.
Again & again they fall victim to the emotional manipulations of pirates who hold the nation at ransom.

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"So this is how liberty dies. With thunderous applause."
-George Lucas , Senator Amidala in Star Wars

"Lest the proponents of this "cooperation" forget, may I remind you - that the reason we oppose actions of a government isn't necessarily to vote it out, but to demand better governance."
-The PAS "Cooperation" and Vote.
( Note: The quote above, is actually meant for all parties on both sides of the fence, and not just for PAS per se).

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NEP : Trading Rights for "Peace and Prosperity"

[Note:Your petition to His Majesty the Yang DiPertuan Agong to register our concerns on the judicial appointments and to appeal for His Majesty’s intervention has been launched...... You can access the petition HERE.]
-Haris Ibrahim, The People's Parliament.
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"Change these stones to bread, and they'll follow you ...."
- The Devil

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Someone once said that everybody has a price - and that almost anyone would trade away his/her deepest convictions, at that certain price, so as to replace it with envy, pride, greed, lust and delusions of grandeur.

All of us will be tempted at one time or other, by those who rule, to trade away our rights and conscience for some fleeting comforts - real or imagined.
More often than not, in the absence of civil society and a social conscience, the people are often short-changed, and are comfortably oblivious to it.

As a result, one's perception of right and wrong becomes perverted, as the conscience grapples with the challenge of justifying one's evil actions, until it slowly dies off completely.
It happens, when the people trade away their souls out of pride.
The pirates are bound to exploit the corrupting power of this pride to their benefit - albeit, democratically.

Today, we have politicians who would deny us all rights, for all the wrong reasons - apparently out of fear of this or that, when it is they who tend to provoke these imagined fears, so as to benefit from it.

• ...Do not speak of the "social contract" - it may provoke racial tensions, and it's seditious.

• ...Do not throw away the NEP crutch- you should fear being dispossessed, and that you cannot compete with the "pendatang" industry.

• ...Do not question cronyism - it is in the interest of enriching not just the poor and the middle-class, but also the rich and connected (of a certain "politically defined race" only, though). It is to achieve "equitable distribution of wealth among races" through preferential licencing and opportunities for plunder in failed/mega projects. Only then can the rempits and makcik shout for joy that "their people" are "successful.

• ...Do not question when you are denied opportunities - it is part of "the social contract", and you're a "pendatang". You have to be eternally grateful that you're given the opportunity to serve "god's gift to mankind", who happens to have a fetish for the anally inclined.

• ...Do not speak of the legal implications of conversions (that's the latest)- you should fear the "sensitive" nature of the topic, lest it "provokes tension".

• ...Do not challenge the "authority" of the Government - we're "pantang dicabar"(and it isn't our culture)!

• ...Do not question Petronas accounts or the numerous "mega-concessions" - it is under OSA and trust us when we say that it is well managed. They only invest in F1 or send numerous 4WD troupes to god-forsaken deserts to test their oil.

This phenomenon is uniquely Malaysian ......
- do not speak, do not write, do not debate, do not ask, do not think - we just need to "keep the peace".
Is such a peace worth it, even if it strips you of all human dignity?
I'm not so sure myself - maybe it is .....
If so, what was so wrong about being a colony of the Brits? We certainly had plenty of "peace" and wealth was created by them in rubber , tin and trade ..... except for one unavoidable war.

Stalin once said that, "the common man is like the chicken whose feathers you have plucked out, and yet, would come to you for some warmth and food, despite the pain that you have inflicted upon it".
It was his idea that pain should be inflicted upon man, so as to get them to follow you in submission ....

The pain of 5.13, when citizens succumbed to blackmail and sold their souls to the devil, has got the nation in a stranglehold.
(yes - once again, it goes back to that fateful day, when high treason was committed by certain parties, who today use it as a scare tactic to intimidate a peace loving people)
One that's choking the lifeblood out of of this nation - through that cancerous "miracle" called NEP.
The "people were grateful" for the peace & bread, and they blindly followed despite the pain .... and the rest is history.

To some, the remedy for all the ills today is purely economic - hence everyone can be brought.
Values of Morality, integrity and conscience had no place in the grand design.
Only the price needs to be haggled over - sometimes it is chauvinistic rhetoric, sometimes it is lucrative/cheap contracts, and at other times it is just powerful political posts.
Often though, just chest-thumping patriotism and a glittering skyline to gawk at would do well enough to capture the imagination of the gawking "proles" - while the beneficiaries of "affirmative action for the rich" do shopping in London with the plunder of the nations wealth.
Everybody can and should be bought - it is how the politics of Malaysia works for the future, under the rule of "certain parties".

It was this NEP that was used as the vehicle to artificially create "the rich" of a certain "politically affiliated race" through the sins of envy, pride and greed. The "privileged rich" were used as heroes to inflate the racist pride & ego with plenty of hot air and mediocrity, instead of real industry.
The result, is what we have today - a state (no, not a nation - we do not deserve that stature/distinction as yet) which is rotting from the corruption that's been eating it from within for the last 25 yrs.

It is all about "giving enough" to some people, so that a certain "bogeyman"-race isn't victimised for their industry ..... and that "enough", is subject to the whims and fancy of the pirates.

Malaysia is today, like a beautiful woman driven to ecstasy on her first experimentation with drugs, and is now is about to burn-out after the fun, dreams and the delusions of grandeur are gone .... and the reality and pain of the addiction becomes a burden, and yet crawls back to her tormenters (ala the "Stockholm Syndrome").
She is a slave who gives in to the temptations of materialistic hedonism and the dependence, that is promoted by the "drug-barons" who hold her at ransom.
Lost in her stupor and corruption, reason and righteousness makes no sense - she'd give in to anything and anyone for sustenance, while peddling her seductive beauty ..... and "cold turkey" is a horrific prospect.

The "cold turkey" that we may have to endure for the next few years may indeed be painful, as the "drug-barons" and oligarchs of old would never give up without a fight .... not when the plunder has to stop, before they've had their fill.

Amidst all these, there is Hope once again in the hearts of the people (unlike previously), in the form of none other than Anwar Ibrahim himself.
In substance however, it is actually civil society and the awakening of the national conscience.
Caught unawares, pirates are grappling with it this "new phenomenon" and are trying hard to snuff it out at its infancy, through sheer intimidation and the occasional carrot.

It is not proposed here that the people take to the streets at their whim and fancy in rebellion, nor do I suggest that we start bearing arms against our brothers in the name of racism or religious chauvinism.
What we need is to start thinking and doing more to promote active debate, without getting worked up, filing sodomy charges or going MIA after making SDs.
But sadly, fear mongering, stifling dissent, inquiry & debate seems to be the the order of the day. It is the only way they seem to know how to respond to ideas- with the primitive "flight or fight" reaction, using threats of "instability" as an excuse.

There's this story about a conversation between a man and a young lady ....
The man propositioned to this attractive young lady for a million dollars.
The woman was shocked, and remained silent.
After some time, the young lady asked the man, "A million dollars ......?"
The man said "Yes", and was silent for a moment before he continued, "Excuse me Dear - I really don't have a million ..... but would settle for ten bucks?"
The young lady, in a huff, replied, "What do you think I am!!?"
And the man promptly replied, "I think we have established that - now, we are simply haggling over the price ...."

It remains to be seen, if we be that woman who is seduced by a million bucks and ends up being short-changed, or the proverbial "Stalin's chicken" that hobbles to his tormentor for warmth and food .....
And all these, while unblushing racist megalomaniacs speak of the fears of retribution- as "gratefulness", and brag about their "achievements" in building phallic monstrosities, and pseudo-entrepreneurs via "affirmative action" (for the rich mainly), and leaving "chicken feed" for the people .....

Faced with powerful "subversive elements", the ultimate price we pay for justice may well be the "Peace" as we know it.
Could this be the price of Justice and Democracy?

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"......., the Chinese were very grateful.
......... the Chinese votes were overwhelming, helping to give the BN party the 2/3 majority, despite Anwar's black eye".
"........ wealth distribution through affirmative action in the economic field had contributed towards eradicating the identification of race with economic function...."
- Mahathir, "Cronyism & the NEP", CheDet.com

The depravity of man is at once the most empirically verifiable reality, and at the same time, the most intellectually resistant fact.
- Malcolm Muggeridge

Let's Screw the Patriots and the Flag now, shall we?

"Meletakkan kalungan bunga di Tugu Peringatan sempena upacara sambutan Hari Pahlawan dan upacara-upacara lain adalah haram dan hendaklah ditinggalkan."

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"Hang the National Flag Upside Down as a sign of Protest~"
"It is wrong to lay flowers wreaths at the National Monument or salute at the ceremony, out of respect for our patriots who died for us.
Never mind that they shed their blood -
What matters is we get to dish out our drivel to you, while we are paid to break wind -
for which you have to be eternally thankful!"
- "A Small Sick mind"
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As I was waking around town yesterday, I found this very strange piece of "official document" on the road - it had a very official looking letterhead.
My friend told me that it belonged to a very sinister group that apparently influences the "national agenda".
They have put forward a new national agenda, and are trying to teach the people "The New Ethics & Morality" of Bolehsia, where you get free publicity for literally selling your high-profile ass, and your blog on the exploits of your ass gets free write-ups in the MSM.
[Is it any wonder that some guys even think it is cool to hang the flag inverted? Hell man, I'd understand if you hang some Mr.Kutty inverted by his jewels at the Merdeka square flagpole ... but the flag???? What did the flag do to you for gottsakes, man?]

Being a responsible blogger, to protect the Identity of the group and individual who signed the document, I have destroyed the document, after memorising it verbatim.
BTW, I'm hoping that a certainTunku A - (that foreign Malay bourgoisie who has a column in the MSM), and the MSM would help me get more hits.

After all the MSM has devoted so much space and write-up on a "ass-travels stories" blog, by a certain PsyFool (click here for "Frontpage 'News'"), while this Tunku A has questioned the blogs' credibility as opposed to the "uncensoring MSM" that pays him for breaking wind.

Anyway, to cut my rambling short, here goes the "secret circular" ~ .....
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Tuan/Puan/Datuk/ Nenek/Tan Sri/Tun,

Berikut adalah pakeliling arahan dari orang orang yang bijak-pandai seperti saya, yang tahu apa itu betul dan salah.
2. Kau orang tak tahu apa-apa - awak semua bodoh
[Keputusan berikut adalah muktamad (kecuali ada kontrak lah ya ....)]
3. Ini adalah supaya anda semua tidak terikut-ikut ajaran-ajaran sesat yang semakin berleluasa .....

1. Kita Tidak boleh Tabik sebagai tanda hormat kepada sesiapa atau apa-apa. Angkat sumpah atas nama Tuhan, takpe.... itu dikecualikan- itu Cukup halal.
   
2. Kita tak boleh "menyanjung tinggi"/tunduk/sujut/ "sembah" kepada sesiapa atau apa-apa saja, walaupun ia adalah kedudukan atau simbol yang patut di hormati.
3. Kita tidak boleh memberi tabik hormat kepada simbol-simbol kebangsaan, samada Bendera, Tugu negara, speaker Dewan, Hakim, Guru, General, captain boss kita atau apa-apa saja, kerana ini ada "unsur-unsur berhala" - dengarlah wahai orang yang beriman ....
4. Memberi salam hormat kepada orang tua, guru, Pegawai, Hakim sambil menunduk, adalah salah sama sekali.
5. Mereka tidak boleh dipaggil "Tuan", kerana sebagai manusia, kita sepatutnya tidak ada "Tuan". Tuan Kadi, ulamak dikecualikan, dan "Ketuanan Melayu" tu takpe.
   
6. Mulai hari ini, (berpandukan sentimen popular sekarang) anda dikehendaki "memberi buntut" kepada sesiapa atau apa-apa simbol sahaja, sebagai tanda hormat. Ini adalah satu sikap yang murni, kerana hanya tuhan sahaja yang patut diberi hormat dengan adat istiadat.
7. Perbuatan memberi hormat hendaklah dikutuk habis-habisan, lebih-lebih lagi kalau pemimpin kangkung kita yang berbuat demikian - ini akan menambah "kredibiliti" arahan sebegini.
8. Ada juga orang bijak pandai yang kini memulakan kempen "bendera terbalik" - ini juga satu nilai murni yang patut di alu-alukan. Besok kalau boleh, kita patut bagi buntut saja kepada Bendera kita.
9. Ini adalah satu nilai murni, dimana kita dapat protes terhadap semua kerja korup pemimpin.
   
10. Kita tidak patut tahu malu dalam memperkecil-kecilkan "simbol-simbol kenegaraan" - yang penting kita tak tahu malu memberi buntut .....
    

Sekian, Terima Kasih.

Majulah Sukan SodoMee Untuk Negara.

Yang menurut Perintah,

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The Spirit of Merdeka - The Hartal.

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In keeping with the "Spirit of Merdeka", my first post this month is dedicated to the early patriots.

They were quite a different "breed" of Leaders- from the "Etonesque" generation (mainly from a certain Kolek) of pretenders, usurpers and pirates (whose legacy in leadership, we now put up with) who were nurtured by Brits and came later.


Unlike the pirates, these patriots of old Truly Fought & Suffered for Independence against colonialism.

For more on the early patriots (long before UMNO or Umno Baru), please visit 10 Tahun, the blog.
The following was taken from "10 Tahun" on Facebook.
(My apologies for the "Lazy blogging")
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October 20th, 1947 was a historical day in the rakyat's constitutional struggle for independence from British colonialism.

On that day, the whole of Malaya and Singapore bore witness to the first political action that involved the united action of people of all races - the Malaya-wide hartal.

Two weeks before Hartal Day, PUTERA-AMCJA had released a "Hartal Manifesto" that called upon all those who regarded Malaya as their home to observe Oct 20, 1947 as a Day of Protest against the Revised Constitutional Proposals, by staging a Malaya-wide hartal on that day.

"October 20 has been selected as the Day of Protest because it is on that day that the British Parliament is scheduled to begin its autumn session, during which it is reported that a debate on the constitutional issue in Malaya will take place."

"On October 20, therefore, between the hours of 6 a.m. and midnight, all those who regard Malaya as their real home and who support the People's Constitution issued by PUTERA-AMCJA, are asked not to carry out their usual occupations, but to remain indoors throughout the day and night."

"You are asked for one day to cease work in order to demonstrate to the government that you reject the Revised Constitutional Proposals, and in order to carry our struggle for acceptance of the People's Constitution one step further."

"October 20 is the day on which the people of Malaya will be called upon to stage the greatest political demonstration that this country has ever seen."

Thus, on Oct 20, 1947, beginning from 6 a.m, the whole of Malaya underwent the hartal. Merchants shut their shops, labourers stopped going to the mines, factories, shipyards, and rubber plantations, farmers did not work their lands, fishing folk stayed ashore, housewives did not go to the markets, and the youth stayed away from amusement parks. Only colonial government offices, European stores and several other shops operated as usual.

It was estimated that the British colonial government suffered £4 million in losses from the nationwide strike that day.

According to the Putera-AMCJA, the hartal was also "a unique method of political education. It brought the constitutional issue into every home in the country, and confronted every man, woman and child with this issue. Even in the Government English schools, children in the fourth and fifth standards questioned their teachers about the hartal, asked about its nature and why the government was opposed to it".

My God- It's Your God!

(WARNING: This post contains an 18PG class of advertisement at the bottom)

The article on No Holds Barred by RPK entitled "My God is different from your God" was something that many saw as an "attack on Islam/ Malays" who are enamoured by the trappings of wealth, luxury and "privilege".

It didn't quite seem to be so to me - it was more of an attack on the philosophy and morality that has bred a generation of bigots and liars. A philosophy that breeds the idea and "ethics" of robbers .....

The following was my comment:

written by cruzeiro, July 31, 2008 | 20:17:03

It has nothing to do with religion, but everything to do with education.
It is the education that has been corrupted since the start of the NEP (aka 'social contract') and formation of Biro Tata Nincompoops - two immoral institutions that breeds corruption.

I'm sorry RPK - but I think you're hitting out at the "people of a race/religion", but not the institutions that breeds the corruption at the expense of justice and integrity.

The problem starts when these ideas of "crook" are stressed on via the "creed" of "Racial Supremacy" or "Religious Chauvinism".
They believe that they cannot be wrong - they are "Mr & Ms Right", and their fisrt name is "Always" - that is in God's name, mind you!

Children at a tender and impressionable age, are thought and programmed from elementary classes, that it's their right to come up tops - by hook or crook.

They are taught that it is okay to cheat - that it is their "God-given" privilege to cheat, as long as a man in robes and a serban says so in the name of "religion".
Or a kris-brandishing maniac who's an "acclaimed" leader by virtue of birth! Ethics and morality are lost on these guys.

When they are rewarded for dismal performance, with cooked up results (different standards used), given opportunities when the more desrving are denied - they are already bribed and corrupted! Any which way you look at it , any man who can say that he deserves to be rewarded for mediocrity by virtue of "birthright", when excellence isn't, is already corrupted.
We have a whole generation of them in Malaysia.

What else can we expect?
Integrity or excellence doesn't mean anything - it was never part of the curriculum.
The curriculum is twisted to have ego boosting and corrupting effect on the students! The result is "brain-dead" holier than thou automatons who have lost the ability to think.
Corruption is the "ideal lifestyle" that is sought to be emulated (..... just look at how they glorify gangsters and robbers with awards).

The Malays have been corrupted (not that 'others' aren't - but in Malays of 'high standing', it is quite 'endemic'), without even them realizing it - no matter how much they indulge in penances.

Even the Tok Guru "rebels" in certain parties, are willing to negotiate with the corruptors, based on these very ideals of corruption. As long as it is for the greater glory of "Islam-as-I-say-tion".
Their faith appears to be weak at best - they seem to thrive on the fears induced upon them by the corruptors.
One Guru even mentioned about some political leaders being killed, people being deprived of 'things' and oil royalties being stolen, as reasons to work with the devils.

I wonder who's corrupting whom ....

These guys should just concentrate on the Google Ad above, and forget everything else :
"Faraj Lebih Ketat Atasi faraj longgar dan berair.
Suami pasti puas.Dijamin. RM67.00"

As you said earlier, Pete - it all boils down to conscience and "shame".
When you have lost these two, you have lost all it means to be human.
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[the ad mentioned above was on the page ......... just couldn't help noticing it ;-D]

Mahfuz did it. Now Hadi/ Nasha - APOLOGIZE!

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"What we need is a Leadership that is not only right where we are right, but right where we are wrong".
- G.K. Chesterton.

"Lest the proponents of this "cooperation" forget, may I remind you - that the reason we oppose actions of a government isn't necessarily to vote it out, but to demand better governance."
-The PAS "Cooperation" and Vote.
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Admitting his mistake for issuing the denial, Mahfuz said he had received complaints and criticisms for his "lie" from party members and Pakatan Rakyat supporters.
"Due to the action of certain individuals in the name of Pas and without the knowledge of the central working committee as they did not inform in detail to the party, Pas directed me to issue a denial of such meetings and negotiations," he said.
"Therefore, with sincerity, I would like to apologise for my unintentional mistake. I call on the Pas leadership to be honest with members and supporters, and to work towards strengthening the current political coalition (Pakatan).
- http://themalaysianinsider.com/

"Dalam masa yang sama ,katanya, PAS masih sanggup mengadakan muqabalah bukannya muzakarah dalam keadaan PAS ditekan yang sangat kuat oleh Umno.
"Sebelum ini ada pemimpn PAS yang dibunuh,
ada pemimpin PAS di Terengganu difitnah ... dan lain-lain lagi," ujarnya.
- http://www.pas.org.my/pas/harakah/

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Dear Mr. President,
Firstly, allow me to "applaud" you on your "ability to convince" the people that it wasn't "mu-zakar-ah", but "muqabalah" - whatever that means.
No need to get defensive - we know what that means ......

Although I generally distrust politicians who double up as "Godmen" most (especially the ones with lots of "conservative attires"), I thought that you deserved the benefit of doubt.
However, you have chosen to remove all doubts, and prove me right!

[What was the "pressure" that was imposed upon you by Umno? Did they "blackmail" you over something?
The charges of "ada pemimpn PAS yang dibunuh" and "`dirompak' royati minyak," are quite grevious and could warrant a police report - was one made?]

Mahfuz, in humility (or maybe just common sense), has come out openly to apologize .... for the "misinformation"
- mind you, it was for "following orders" so as to adhere to the chain of command.
Who issued the order?
Being the President and the "commander-in-chief", you are now in the line of fire - do the honourable thing and Apologize.

The following are some excerpts from some of my past entries, I now dedicate to you - and I begin (and end) with the words of Ravi Zacharias .....
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"I wonder, if there were to be a portrait of my soul or your soul, how would it best be depicted?
Does not the conscience sting, when we think in these terms?
Though we have engineered many ways of avoiding physical consequences, how does one cleanse the soul?

Today we find a limitless capacity to raise the question of evil as we see it outside ourselves, but often hold an equal unwillingness to address the evil within us.
What do we do when we have committed a wrong that we are ashamed of?
What can we do with those wrongful deeds that we can’t seem to erase from our consciences?

One way that many people deal with guilt is to cover it up.
This can seem almost instinctive at times,
as if something inside us says, “Hide it. Forget about it. No one can know.”
But this puts us in a very precarious position, for not only are we dealing with guilt, but now we are dealing with the fear of being “found out.”
When we add fear to our feelings of guilt we are adding apprehension to the remorse we are struggling to conceal. Just as a blackmailer is never satisfied, so the one who lives in fear with guilt ends up blackmailing his or her own heart to pay the mind.
But the heart is never consoled, for the mind is never sufficiently paid.

Guilt that is concealed seldom stops with the one who harbors that hurt. Sooner or later that pain of fear and guilt is spread to others, particularly to those closest to us.
“Victimless” crimes are an illusion, for deceit is a monster that needs constant feeding. It would be foolish for us to think that we can deal with guilt by somehow covering it up.

The moment that we cover our guilt we escalate the tension in our lives by adding the dimension of fear. We may then become people who seem okay on the outside, but inside we are struggling to maintain the facade."
-Ravi Zacharias

".............."race or religion" based politics - this has been the curse that has been handed down to us by those who refused to accept and thus betrayed the the ideals that Dato' Onn Jaafar, the Father of UMNO, stood for.
They instead killed every opportunity to build a nation based on "Values and Principles".

They preferred to play the race game that would be a short cut to power consolidated upon those politically "victorious", ie the Muslim Malay race.......
How I wish I could hear the music of politicians shouting out against the subtle persecutions against the all Malaysians be they Muslim, Christian, Hindu, Buddhists or Animists, be they of BN or the Opposition.
-A Curse in the Malaysians' Embrace.
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"The spirit of Merdeka has been subverted by racists and the religious zealots over the years, and has been replaced by chauvinism – racial and religious..... Unfortunately, we are a society so paralyzed by symptomatic solutions one has to wonder whether we will learn anything from this mindless atrocity.......

Having failed in its shortcut to an economic miracle, the advocates of the system (clamouring for issues and a new agenda to perpetuate their greed and envy) the now choose to preach intolerance, “arabisation”, and religiosity in the name of God, to further isolate, and “drug into a stupor” a beautiful people that was once open to change.

Even if we aren't too accurate in our assessment, much of what has passed off for Islamisation by the govt was nothing more than frothy God-talk, mindless, thoughtless, and in its exploitation of people, heartless. The “one upmanship” practised by the various institutions that espouse religious chauvinism, is in fact a pathetic display of their failures and insecurities......
Malaysia today is a nation that has lost its conscience. "
"Where is the Spirit of Merdeka?"
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These R&R factors have been and will be the overriding factors in determining the direction that the nation takes in the next few years.
These next few years (probably 10-15 yrs) will determine what the future holds for all Malaysians.
As things are, the politicians, clerics and the people appear to lack the courage to face the truth and abandon the old feudal, racist and religiosity that is today being used to subvert the nation.
The future does not look too appealing, any which way we look at it.
The day when all else is lost, let us pray that there will still be hope.
- The Overbearing R&R Factor.
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The “sandiwara” of “strife” will be created again as was done repeatedly by the powers that be, since independence from British rule.
-A Malay Mindset For a Better Malaysia.

"It will not do to cling to the cause and wish the result away.
Reality does not play mind games.
What is more, to anesthetize the mind in order to abort what comes to birth when wrong ideas are conceived and borne in the womb of culture, will only kill the very life-giving force of the nation that nurtures the idea.
We must learn, in the words of one cultural commenter, to live as wise as serpents and as innocent as doves."
-Ravi Zacharias
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