La Revolution.

"The French Revolution. How shall we answer to the future generations?"


Amidst of this worsening political turmoil in Malaysia, I pledge my full support for reform to the better, freedom for the commoners and harsh judgment for the perpetrators.

Too much of power will eventually corrupt, too much of responsibility will eventually destruct. That is why those with great power are also liable to the law and only those reliable are given great responsibilities. The components of this balanced system complement each other and that is why it should be independent.

When an individual or a group of people with malafede political motivation/s attempt/s to transgress these limitations, we should not submit for there is too much to lose in imbalance, be it now or in the future.

Those who fathom this proposition are willing to go to great extent to restore the balance; the extent reached by Gandhi, Abraham Lincoln, John F. Kennedy and other great leaders of the past.

When leaders conspire, judiciary corrupts, atrocious libel being widespread, police force being a part of executive, there can only be one out of two reformative outcomes: having a revolution undertaken by the mass or having the corrupted at the international community’s point-blank.

I ask not for an allegiance to individual/s for the hearts of men are easily corrupted, only for fidelity and commitment to justice and future Malaysia.

Believe in restoration by natural selection!

Admin.

Olympic: One Million Ringgit for One Gold Medal.

"Is it worth it? (Until then, don't) let me work it"

http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/84985

Before implementing the ‘one million ringgit for one gold medal’ plan in this coming Olympic, the government should really have another look at the premises of those dissatisfied.

As David Miller put it in his book ‘Political Philosophy’; the obedience of the people in a democratic nation is what the government get in return for their promise of equal distribution of state benefits to the people, in a collectivistic manner.

The logic behind this argument is that the whole idea of governing is grouping individuals who want to govern and be governed under one flag, one system of independent foreign policies and with all the rights to name enemies and allies, the best of interests and the worse of interests, or in other words; a government by the people, for the people. Other than this, we name oppression or contra- rule of law.
Later on, David Miller provides an example of how this state benefits are to be fair and square:

“Looks can be deceptive, however. There are at least two difficulties
that have to be overcome if the fair play argument is going to justify
political obligation. The first is that we have to show that the
benefits the state provides really are benefits for everyone. What if
the laws protect property, but only some people are property
owners, for example? Or what if taxes are being used to fund art
galleries and many people care nothing for art? The argument can
work, however, so long as the whole package of benefits provided by
the state makes everyone better off, and so long as the benefits are
shared reasonably fairly among all the citizens whose compliance
makes the system of authority possible.”

1-The state’s benefit of 1 million ringgit for a gold medal is an offer only to the athletes.

2-This ‘package’ would not make everyone better off. It would likely cause an imbalance in social costs-benefits distribution, taking the recent oil price hike and the sky-rocketing inflation rate (5%) into consideration.

3-The athletes are one very small part of compliance to authority. These are the other major half in action:

1> Electricity tariff hike by TNB.
2> Speculation of price hike of natural gas.
3> Speculation of inflation increment to 5% by early next year.
4> Speculation of bus fare hike.
5> ‘Persatuan Pengusaha Lori’ decided to increase their standard charge to survive.
6> Speculation of another oil price hike in this coming august.
7> Fishermen having great difficulties.
8> Post office havoc across the country.
9> Bangi bank robbery.
10> 10 to 50% increase of paper price.
11> Pizza Hut (Taman Tun Dr. Ismail) robbery.
12> Seng Heng Selayang robbery.
13> Smuggling attempt of RM 356, 00.00 worth of diesel in Sabah.
14> …

We should now demand reasonable conscience from the government.

My two cents worth a little bit more.

Extraordinary Rendition

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"Do not fear, Dr. Michael Moore is here."

There are two documentary films which I would endorse youngsters to see, provided they are 18 and above (for the later). Both were released in the year 2007 and so they are contemporary;

The first is ‘Extraordinary Rendition’ starring Omar Berdouni and the second is ‘SiCKO’ by Michael Moore.

I agree that politics is incomplete without history. As we, humans, develop the richness of civilizations worth centuries of toil and hard work, we deprive ourselves of examples of achievements and failures of the past that we tend to believe in something so easy to perceive as Pasca-Modernism: a mere theory that casts the significance of philosophy, substantial utopian visions and ideal concepts, away. But forget not that improvements never end. Forget not the backbone of the people’s voluntary agreement to their nation; the ideal of being protected by law, enjoying safety and the state’s benefits. John Locke proposed this in his ‘Second Treatise of Government’ (1689).

But increasing offer to maintained demand would mean an elevation in quality. Maybe someday when we finally learned the importance of Identity or ‘Eigenschaft’, we would accept ourselves the way we are. These uncertainties of buts and maybes made us entrust our moral and physical developments to the hands of socialists, communists and markets, hence, the wars of ideology and destruction.

What is the one thing that contains ‘Eigenschaft’, history and facts and yet entertains the uncertainties and ideals? The answer is freedom of choice, freedom of speech and also freedom of fear that would constrain people from both the formers. Instead of having the fear being imposed by the government onto the people through maltreatments and practices of ‘Draconian Laws’, we need the government to feel this fear as a servant, for their own good. The fear of not entertaining a demand, the fear of taking illegal actions against protesters and the fear of perceiving wrongly or in short; the fear of wrong actions, inactions and perceptions. This is the one place marked by a solid monument; a free piece of land by the people, for the people and for the law: our own version of Speakers’ Corner, to distinguish right from wrong, critics from curses.

Before we move on to the details about the two films above, let us look at what happened due to oil price hike in the past few days:

1> Electricity tariff hike by TNB.
2> Speculation of price hike of natural gas.
3> Speculation of inflation increment to 5% by early next year.
4> Speculation of bus fare hike.
5> ‘Persatuan Pengusaha Lori’ decided to increase their standard charge to survive.
6> Speculation of another oil price hike in this coming august.
7> Fishermen having great difficulties.
8> Post office havoc across the country.
9> Bangi bank robbery.
10> 10 to 50% increase of paper price.
11> Pizza Hut (Taman Tun Dr. Ismail) robbery.
12> Seng Heng Selayang robbery.
13> Smuggling attempt of RM 356, 00.00 worth of diesel in Sabah.
14> …

Why is this oil price hike so significant to Malaysians? Why does it excite so many people upon taking its toll; thieves and good Samaritans alike? Remember ‘Vox Populi, Vox Dei’.

The fact is:

According to the ‘Receipts and Expenditures’ clause of the United States Constitution -Article I, Section 9, clause 7-, the government is required to publish a regular Statement and Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of all public Money. This resulted to the introduction of ‘black budget’.

“It was hard for me to acknowledge that in the end, we truly are all in the same boat, and that, no matter what our differences, we sink or swim together. That’s how it seems to be everywhere else. They take care of each other no matter what their disagreements. You know, when we see a good idea from another country, we grab it. If they build a better car, we drive it. If they make a better wine, we drink it. So if they come up with a better way to treat the sick, to teach their kids, to take care of their babies, to simply be good to each other, then what’s our problem? Why can’t we do that? They live in the world of ‘we’, not ‘me’. We’ll never fix anything until we get that one, basic thing right: empowerful forces hope that we never do, and that, we remain the only western country in the world without free universal health care. You know, if we ever did remove the choke-hold of medical bills, college loans, day-care and everything else that makes us afraid to step out of line, well, watch out. Because it will be a new day in America.” This was said by Michael Moore in the film SiCKO to compare American health care with that of the European. I took the freedom of quoting it to myself because I can’t find one in the net.

Apart from the ‘wine part’, I take the entire quote to be better than just sensible and universal enough to be put into life practice by the Muslims and the non-Muslims of Malaysia.

The fact is:

“Free college education, free medical care, government-issued nannies, I began to wonder; how do they pay for all this? And then I realized; they’re drowning in taxes.” This was said by Michael Moore to describe how heavenly it is in France.

Maybe Malaysia IS in a different context. Maybe we are in a developing, third-world country with limited resources. All the more reason for the government to manage these resources carefully. We can start by making regular accounts of ‘people’s companies’ such PETRONAS, publically available, or publically announcing our own ‘black budget’.


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"That belongs to me? Really?"

The fact is:

“Cuba is a little island in the Caribbean with little to no resources. We can do a lot to improve the people’s health. This does not happen in the United States. Why are we able to do and you are not? There’s something to notice here. Because the more a country produces, the richer it is, the better it should take care of its people.” This was said by Dr. Aleida Guevara, the daughter of late Che Guevara and also a Pediatrician, in the film SiCKO.

Does this happen in Malaysia? We need to ask ourselves that.

My two cents worth a little bit more.

22.06.2008

"Impossibility is not God. Impossibility is a miracle of God. Mind what you fear."

Fun with Roslan Aziz and Amin Iskandar.

http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/84615

Today, Roslan Aziz lauded his moronic side of reasoning by firing pemuda PAS with baseless critics. Like many other Malay artists who put on skimpy clothing, behave like they never knew Islam and yet give ‘Salam’ and say ‘Alhamdulillah’ before, during or after their stage performance, Roslan Aziz is just another joker perpetuating hedonism, another money craver who babbles. Here are some questions for you:

1-- Why should we listen to your nonsensicalities about politics when you didn’t even vote? Where is your conscience in that?

2-- Why should we listen to you talking about Islam when you don’t have the slightest idea about what you are talking? I must say that the misguiding remarks you made about religious people to the press are quite smooth. But using the ‘sanad’ as an example is cheap. You are just desperately trying to monger to the lot that you know something about Islam.

3-- Why shouldn’t politics be a part of Islam? This is the preliminary question and you don’t have any legitimate idea about it? Shame on you, calling yourself a Muslim. Be it Islam Hadhari or Hadharah Islamiah, from the government or the opposition, the fundamental task is to promote Islam as the way of life. But you were right all along. For people like you who are politically irresponsible, politics might just not be a part of life.

4-- ‘Put the blame on stupid artists who are dropouts’ and dictum on you, yourself. It is amazing how you managed to come up with the ‘mempertahankan nilai budaya’ basis when the many paradoxical premises in your remarks suggest that you might not be able to do so. Why did you say that you are not trying to oppose the qualities of Islam when obviously you are doing so? Just look at how Mas Idayu and Ella dress up. Never mind Malay music. Malays are defined mostly by their Islamic qualities since long, but not for you. You belong to the special case; of people who handpick the qualities of Islam which suit their desires, and dump the others.

5-- How did you connect music and development again? It is a universal truth that hedonism is counter-productive. Forget about the manifesto. That’s a long way of logics from you. Take your argumentum ad populum (‘Tidak ada konsert, di Kelantan ada juga anak luar nikah’) as an example. Not only that the two premises do not connect, you are saying that crowding up in front of a stage, waving hands while forgetting about the five prayers, having private parts of men and women alike, not private anymore and listening to toilet and even illicit jokes (of ‘Senario’) would NOT result in children imitating the jokes, youngsters fancy going to auditions and putting on trendy clothes than studying, ‘future mothers’ involving in pre-marital sex and others. How flawed is that? Savvy this new teaching of yours. Maybe you can come up with ‘ajaran Roslan Aziz’ or ‘ajaran Amin Iskandar’. I don’t know about the non-Muslims. But that is always the case for Muslims. Prove me wrong. ‘Mat rempit’, ‘bohjan’, ‘sumbang mahram’, ‘seks luar nikah’ (All these come in pair).

To me, you are just another political tool. It is true what John Locke proposed. Mental development is in levels. The basic level: people question about the authority of a government to collect taxes from them, to conscript them into services, etc. The higher level: people question the limit of the authority and the things which they have to forgo in exchange for basic needs such safety and prosperity. Your ‘two cents’ couldn't even pass the eligibility level (of becoming an idea).

'Seperti ketam mengajar anaknya berjalan'

CHANT OF ICARUS

Chant, my Thanatos,

And deafen;

The ears of Eros,

Drown passion in the dense darkness.

Dance, my Thanatos,

Grace my grave,

And I shall follow;

Into the abyss hollow,

Your time is near, I fear,

Remain,

Severe my pain.



Ahmad Kamil, 16/06/08.

Vox Dei

"The theory of expansion and contraction of the universe is remarkable. But the assumption that it is an ungoverned, infinite cycle, robs the meaning of life of moral and scientific senses, from mankind"


Guth’s elementary particle theory which relates itself to the truth of the existence of a beginning of the universe from nothingness or in other words; the creation of the universe, shattered the dreams of materialist scientists. This finding is in phase with that of Hawking’s and other great scientists of the past who were not in the state of denial nor in the state of being forcefully irresponsive.

Later on, we learnt that the God-given proofs are not sufficient for the perplexed reasoning of the materialists. With Tryon, Guth concluded that our existence on this life-supporting planet earth might just be a coincidence if examined in a larger scale because there exist no studies whatsoever to track the failures of life existence at other unsuitable planets in other galaxies of other universes.

The theory of Big Bang or ‘Urknall’ is itself; perfect. The creation of a vast universe from nothingness and its expansion at a short interval of time (what in German is described as ‘unvorstellbar’) and at a proportionate speed and the arrangements of protons, neutrons, electrons and photons which formed entities which matter and even correlate with each other, backed strongly by the background radiation or ‘Hintergrundgeraeusch’, is too complex and too perfect to be a coincidence.

The problem with examining something humongous as it is at a time is that you don’t really examine it. You might see a big picture but you don’t understand it. To examine it requires you to study the parts first and later put it together. Otherwise, mankind, collectively speaking, might end up doing the same mistake as Wilson and Penzias of the Bell Laboratory. Looking at the scientific universe and creations the way you look at Mona Lisa is a total fallacy.

Creationists are to me, able to see and conceive, the later which materialists lack. Basing their premises of reasoning on the theory of evolution would make them look more ridiculous for they formerly accepted the fact that arranging the constituents of a biological cell, say, to form one, would not give it the special ability of knowing that it is there or the sense of ‘Dasein’. So how can there possibly be a transition from an Ape or a Totenkopf to a human? So let’s reroute the subject of debate to about something which is not alive: the universe or the space and time.

Then again, the materialists tend to make the same mistake. What was the estimated range of amount of each protons, neutrons, electrons and photons right after the Big Bang? The answer is about 10^79 to 10^89. Should I be surprised by the tolerance of this estimation? This description of the transition period is vague and like other intermediates which materialists fail to explain, the uncertainty of the details increases with increment of the size of the frame of reference.

If sending Kobe and recently; Opportunity and Spirit (to Mars) has a lot to do with justifying anti-God scientific sentiments then it shall fail miserably because truth prevails and it takes on uncertain beliefs.

Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection is stupefyingly absurd.

'Zu viele Zufaelligkeiten um ein Zufall zu sein'

To kill a bird with two stones

By decreasing the amount of fuel subsidy and floating the oil price at the same time, our government might have triggered the crowd’s ego defense mechanism and now that all eyes are onto no. 1, it cannot get any uglier. Without an intelligent way out of this, we should expect the personification of ‘Google Syndrome’ through BN; the disallowing of full Boolean combinations in nested parenthesis. If the government fails to identify which ‘threats’ are and are not imminent, more oil strikes will follow.

‘Boleh Kerja Sambilan - Noraini Ahmad’ against ‘Pengkhususan’.

"The clock is ticking."

http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/84294

When will Malaysia have its very own à la English Reform group? It is obvious; the great need there is, to restructure our civil services and thus, give fresh, new meanings to them. Too much of our GDP is being spent on paying civil servants. It should be about quality and not quantity. This itsy-bitsy cancer pushed the government to forgo numerous needs of the majority and continues to do so with the help of ‘warm and humid’ decisions made by the government and just recently; the encouragement of civil servants to participate in 2nd works.

The Reform group is a London, United Kingdom based free-market think tank whose mission is to set out a better way to deliver public services and economic prosperity via private sector involvement and market de-regulation. This independent and non-partisan group believes that, by reforming the public sector and extending choice, high quality services can be made available for everyone. This group is famous for its statistics-populated reports.

How do we, Malaysians, envision the healthcare, education, transport system, streets and economy of future Malaysia? Is it high-standard, modern, efficient, safe, free, dynamic and competitive or vice versa? The actions that the government is favoring right now are directing us towards the worst. Is it or is it not a fallacy to perceive that more teachers will result in an elevation of education quality? Figures don’t lie but sometimes they are deceitful.

Take the State of Kedah for example. The education standard there is decaying and being reduced to not just intellectual but also moral abyss, not due to scarcity in amount of whole-hearted teachers but due to mismanagements; almost nepotistic, corruptions and of course; indolent and passive teachers, and the only mechanism which the government came up with to combat this malignant, there-to-stay plague is the various PTK tests which are not only unreliable but also discouraging in the sense that it oust experienced teachers who lack English conversational skills (additional values).

Why can’t we be like Ireland or our close neighbor; Australia. That vast a country/continent managed to allocate only about 35% of their GDP to sustain their world-renown civil services. Think about what good the other 65% of our GDP would do us, a GDP backboned by oil industry.

Stop encouraging civil servants to undertake 2nd, ‘side’ jobs, reduce the amount of civil servants gradually, lower taxes, invest the other 65% (or close to that) of our GDP in our very own RND and plant-projects of renewable energies and seize from insensibly ignoring the fact that we are running out of crude oil. After all, having civil servants selling ‘Kuih Raya’ and ‘Kain’ will never benefit the lot, some figures in CUEPACS, maybe. The Government cannot control the ‘drive’ in free trades.

Just my two cents.

Wan Aziz Datuk Seri Wan Mohamed, the constitutional monarchy and the rising oil price.

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King Chulalongkorn.


‘The King Never Smiles: A Biography of Thailand's Bhumibol Adulyadej’ is the title of the book by Paul M. Handley which out of many, describes to readers the survival stories of Thailand monarchs.

The book starts with a quote from Prince Chakrabongs’s letter in which he expressed to Rama VI his fear of the progressive pact. He noted that the content the conservative pact spares the monarchy with their Saturnalia of excess faith, is but temporary for at the end, democracy shall prevail.

The sustainability of Thailand monarchs owes mostly to the ‘flexibility’ which the band of kings (from Chulalongkorn to Bhumibol) bestowed upon the Ptolemaic model of politics which revolved only around Buddha-like kings.

It is amazing how these great kings worked their way to protecting the monarchy, avoid western interventions and ease the tension that was building up within the empire. Prince Prajadhipok pursued his education in medical study and Militarism in the US, the UK and in Germany. To be the king of all Thailand is the last thing he wanted because he was determined to serve as a doctor at a public hospital and the best for his son, was to his perspective, anywhere outside the clear-white, four walls of the palace.

About fifty years before that, the Mexicans were already bracing themselves for a reform known as ‘La Reforma’. The subjects of dissatisfaction: the absence of a nation state system which appreciates political, geopolitical, culture and ethnical values and the non-Liberal system.

The new constitution they drafted during ‘The Plan of Ayutla’ paved its way to be the Constitution of 1857.

This time around, Malaysia might just be entering its ‘Age of Enlightment’ or ‘Zeitalter der Aufklaerung’. When the people collectively notice a malignant cancer of malpractices within government sphere which worsen with time, they would strike in one of two manners or both: reform or/and revolution, depending on how ‘headstrong’ this cancer is.

Looking at Malaysia’s political barometer, a reform is most probable. In this reform, the reformists would shore capitalism and the non-reformists would completely transform it and neither would bring benefit to the monarchs be they constitutional or not. So the price of Wan Aziz Datuk Seri Wan Mohamed’s strategy in this case is the nationwide negligence to the need of a functioning monarchy, because in time, people will forget the bond between reform and religious, socialistic and Utopian sentiments.

Emphasize on nourishing good moral values among the youngsters by way of practice of the older generations and not on giving away pamphlets explaining about ‘Perlembagaan Malaysia’ or any information of close resemblance which are already in ‘Buku Teks Sejarah’.

We love our king.

Just my two cents.

Malaysia Today’s Quranic interpretations.

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In this article, I will try to answer the rhetorical question of RPK though it was not meant to elicit an answer.

RPK:

Verse 13, chapter Al-Hujurat of the Quran, can be translated to read: "O Mankind! We have created you from a male and female, and made you into nations and tribes, that you may know one another. Verily, the most honourable of you in the sight of Allah is he who has most righteous (taqwa) among of you. Verily, Allah is All-Knowing, All-Aware."

The Prophet Muhammad (S.A.W.) addressed the people signifying that concept during his last pilgrimage, saying: "O People! Your God is one; your father is one; no preference of an Arab neither over non-Arab nor of a non-Arab over an Arab or red over black or black over red except for the most righteous. Verily the most honoured of you is the most righteous."

‘Yes, I know, many Malaysia Today readers hate Tun Dr Mahathir. Nevertheless, as much as you may hate the Tun, we should not overlook the good things he has done or said even though you may hold the opinion that he did more bad than good. After all, the British were colonialists and there can be nothing good about colonialism. However, when the British left, they left behind a good education, administrative and legal system.’

E.F.E.L.:

No. Do you agree with me that in this present world of ever-increasing cognitive complexity, it is unfair to class humans into categories, based on their actions (because this instant it can be bad and the next instant it can be good). If you agree to that, you might as well agree to not categorize human’s actions (resulting from individual or crowd psychology) based on the outcomes (have you seen a kaleidoscope of Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin smiling to each other and then putting up a straight face – that’s what they call politics), and let alone criticize someone on the base of Argumentum ad Hominem.

I read Malaysia Today because I always go for two sides of the story but that does not make me a Tun’s hater, and the British did not leave behind a stable or even sound education, administrative and legal system. Let not your Welsh root cloud your mind on this.

I dare say that what they left behind for us are sly, western political and social traps and decoys into which aggressive, delusive and western-like people like you would fall for, that later they can intervene. Take the judiciary system for instant. Did the British pay any respect to Syariah Laws? How could you quote Quranic and Hadith verses at the start of your article just to later,indirectly belittle the Syariah Laws at the middle? Don’t get me wrong. I love your articles for they mostly make sense.

RPK:

‘ABIM says we should not whack the Muslims. And since, by law, Malays are Muslims then we should not whack the Malays as well. But is it okay for Malays to whack the non-Malays and non-Muslims?’

E.F.E.L.:

Here’s a taste of your own medicine:

In the name of Allah, most merciful, most compassionate.

“Summon to the way of your Lord with wisdom and good admonition…” (16:125)
And there is no limitation to that which means; if you whack ABIM with abrasive statements and using coarse words, you are NOT a good Muslim and if ABIM do so to the non-Muslims then the same applies to them.

All in all, it’s 2 to 1 because you also supposed that Malays consider it OK to whack the non-Malays and non-Muslims, and that, my friend, is being 'Zalim'.

RPK:

‘What if the non-Muslims were to say they do not recognize Islam or the Quran because Islam and the Quran have been distorted over the last 1,400 years? What if the non-Muslims were to say that Islam and the Quran have been changed and are no longer the original Islam and Quran that Prophet Muhammad introduced 1,400 years ago? If the non-Muslims say this then they would be committing a crime under the Sedition Act. The non-Muslims would face punishment because they are not sensitive to the feelings of the Muslims.’

E.F.E.L.:

In that case, Sedition Act might put people behind bars but the truth that Islam is itself, in its own nature; great, remains.

Here’s another remedy of yours:

In the name of Allah, most merciful, most compassionate.

“As for the Disbelievers, whether thou warn them or thou warn them not it is all one for them; they believe not.” (2:6)

So they can fire the critics all they want as long as they do not impose their freedom of speech and their freedom to disgrace onto everything regarding our religion from our beloved Prophet to the ‘enlightened ones’. You get the idea. Denmark, Holland and which country’s next? But through economic sanctions, we sent them, and will never tire in sending them a clear message;

Try to find anything wrong in these Gedankenexperiment of 2 premises and 1 conclusion:

1- I make fun of my grandmother all the time and draw illicit cartoons of her.

2- Michael has a grandmother just like me.

Conclusion: I can and will make fun of Michael’s grandmother and draw illicit cartoons of her and it is wrong for Michael to get mad.

RPK:

‘Justice, to the Muslims, is only what is good for the Muslims.’

E.F.E.L.:

Mind your words if you still consider yourself a Muslim. During the Crusades, the Crusaders of seven nations wiped out any Muslim land they passed through killing innocent children, women and the disabled and burning houses of worship and did the Muslim liberation armies do such thing? No. In fact they constrained themselves from doing so and their high moral values were, and remains the subject of fascination of western scholars, and that reflects the healthy qualities of Islam they once nourished.

This diabolic act were inherited by the British during their colonial days but we now know it with a term; ‘Dasar Bumi Terbakar’. Pond my word, hope those people are not Welsh.

I still hope we, Malays can progress and level with our Chinese friends.

Just my two 'pennies'.

Dasar Ekonomi Baru / New Economic Policy spice up.

On top of all, DEB/NEP was meant to reduce the socio-economic gap between races in Malaysia. It targeted 30% of Bumiputeras’ economic share (in all spectra) but ended up reaching an amount not even close to that. Since then, it was replaced by NDP but some of its policies continued up till the present day.

Provocative claims regarding the DEB/NEP exist as early as since the DEB/NEP was promulgated. Some say that DEB/NEP reduces the Chinese minority to second class citizens while others who prefer a more ‘professional’ way to put it claim that DEB/NEP is systematically marginalizing the Chinese. The problem with these firebrands is that they constantly use their conspiracy theories such stated above to foment even more conspiracy theories or such and make sure that these theories are discernible to every being. According to Royal Professor Ungku Aziz, ‘ketuanan Melayu’ is a theory but Social Contract is not. Do the math, put it in the case and you’ll get = DEB/NEP should not be slandered by ‘ketuanan Melayu’ and no one was reduced to second class citizen. But the lot just love theories and anomalies.

NEP is no new abbreviation, coined. The Russians came up with their version of NEP in 1921 to promote a better economic growth. They switched from a centralized to a semi-centralized form of economy. Vladimir Lenin defended the Russian government’s decision at that time by saying that Russia is not civilized enough to completely become a socialist country. Later on, the world witnessed the introduction of ‘Glasnost’ and ‘Perestroika’ but does that mean the Russians are to agree with the visionary notion of Hegel and Fukayama?

Malaysia is conceived by an Islamic form of economy. This form of economy, though forgotten, works in a beautiful and mysterious way in the sense that it is Laissez-faire and moral values, combined. Helping the poor and needy is a moral value.

In Islam, one should work hard to yield a good life and yet, there are concepts of ‘Zakat’ and ‘Sadaqah’ to assist those in dire need of chances, and resources in any constructive ways, and a macrocosmic part of so mentioned assistance knows no difference between a Muslim and a non Muslim.

As all of us agree to the idea that helping those in need is morally right and economical competitiveness is the fruit of a free market, a fine line is drawn between fraudulent acts and acts of charity, between just and unjust, between the need to dump an existing system or the need to alter it and between moral considerations and expediency, and best yet, it draws us together in pursuit of greater goods. Fight for open talks and debates, fight against hot air talks.

If again this issue be brought to public attention by uncivilized ways, maybe the Muslims in Malaysia are not yet Islamic enough or maybe the non Muslims are not yet high-minded enough.

Let’s all be sensibly Pareto-like, stop ‘plaguing’ the goods and start ‘curing’ the bads for roughly 20% of the input errors typically cause the lion's share of defects.

Just my two cents.

“Rich man’s war, poor man’s fight”

Level, level and some more levels.

Taken from:
http://www.berlin-de.com.br/de4_zert.htm

Meriam bt Ahmad Shaharudin's sound-alike misguided and misguiding.

http://www.malaysia-today.net/2008/content/view/8209/84/

Labeling other Muslims as Munafik and Fasik will only make the titles fit fine for you.

---> Khairul Arifin Mohd Munir was righteous when he asked the government to clarify the necessity for the Public Service Department (PSD) to increase the ratio of scholarships for non-Bumiputeras from 10 percent to 45 percent.

- It was his right just as good as yours, to seek answers from the government. This is general issue we’re talking.

---> Khairul Arifin Mohd Munir was right when he stated that the education quota issue was closely related to provisions in the UNCONDITIONAL federal constitution like Articles 153(2) and 153(3). This resulted from a fair trade between heads of different races whom so happen to be fathers of the young Malaysia, just in case you missed that.

- Amending the federal constitution is a possibility but NOT NOW. NOT UNTIL we have round table conclusions. In the near future? Let us pray! The faster the change means the faster the disadvantaged progress.

---> DEB/NEP is NOT racist.

- On the contrary to the belief of people who see such issue from an exploiter’s point of view, DEB/NEP was meant to narrow the social, political and mostly economical gaps of the three major races in Malaysia. On one side are the disadvantaged Malays, Indians and even Chinese (in rural areas) and on the other side are people contributing to the great imbalance (not necessarily evil).

- If you are talking about corrupted leaders who bag big cash and contribute to the misinterpretation of DEB/NEP then I suggest you make a new article with a new, fresh title. Stop congesting this one article of yours with perplexing facts of non-connectable premises.

- True, we came from the same great^(inf.) grandmother and grandfather, but your misguided version of equality is visionary. Question the modern history of America and Germany regarding citizenship and equality FIRST before you preach to rectify our constitution.

Last but not least, keep your hands off Islam and the Muftis and stop making invalid Fatwas. The Muftis might make mistakes for they are normal beings, but I don’t see how their mistakes, summed, can compete yours, such letting people call themselves Rasulullah in one of the articles fitted into your website (referring to Meriam bt Ahmad Shaharudin).

SPR, the need to prove transparency.

In the 3 elections of the past, both major and minor, SPR had been heavily criticized by the opposition coalition for allegedly lacking transparency. This is a very serious acquisition but SPR must be diplomatic. By doing so, SPR would at least clear the nebulous mind of the people and reflect its true identity of ‘an independent body by the people, for the people’.

Going back through the passage of history, we find reasons to take allegations of undemocratic acts as something to be reckoned with.

For example, we have Singapore.

In 1945 after the Japanese were chased out of Malaya and Singapore (or Syonan, if you will) by the British, the people started to itch. They saw independence as a ‘once and for all’ solution to the problems.

While the spirit of Nationalism burned in Malaya, Singaporeans at that time were conceived by the same idea, slightly different, led by their leader; David Marshall. It wasn’t too long until Lee Kuan Yew’s PAP came into scene. With the trendy hope of gaining independence, both these leaders decided with the lot to join Malaya not just for a speedy independence but also to take advantage of the communist clean-ups Malaya was on to, backed by the western pack strongly.

Some years before this union, British agreed to grant Singapore a ‘semi-autonomy’ which left Singapore’s defense and foreign affairs matters on the desk of British Colonial Office. Later, an election was held; an election British could not bear to lose (not especially to PAP) for the sake of keeping Malaya free from communist influence; a legacy inherited by the PAP left-wingers, but they did.

If the British were to use their everything to secure their vision of a democratic new world, the election wouldn’t have turn out so.

SPR is trustworthy, for the sake of peace. To pick up the gauntlet, we need a trustworthy and braver SPR.

Just my two cents.

"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."

affection

Awatif, cure my painful heart,

I’ve heard true love; generous,

I saw love scarcity; perilous.

Awatif, should I be selfish;

let I adore pettiness,

cast me away,

leave me astray.

Awatif, scorn my honesty;

and I pray; to you God Giveth;

and I pray; from me God taketh.

Awatif, beauty fades, life’s too short,

Awatif, you’re too kind, I can’t afford.

*Awatif is fictional

Ezam, update 30/05/2008.

As the UMNO crowd march Ezam and cheer his ‘use or being used’ political theory which contradicts numerous, previous statements of his, during his freelancing days, Anwar sits back and watches. It had always been the best of Anwar’s interest to not ‘crucify’ Ezam no matter how far he goes, and why is that?

Ezam, in the latest statement he made to the press, condemned the controversial act of ‘jumping ship’ by labeling it as unethical and ‘not so Statesman-like’, while creating a diversion for the mass from seeing ‘his own finger pointing to himself’ by stressing on the fact that no political party owned him, a priori, and that it is an act of faith to rejoin UMNO in its may-day.

What’s jingling in Ezam’s head? :

--->1< ISA and OSA are rightfully atrocious cruelties which the government, for their own sake, should revise.

- UMNO members stand tall by the latest decision of the federal government to not even amend ISA and OSA. Ezam’s act of reaffirming his stand regarding these issues might be taken as a desperate, though, smooth move to show the strength of his resolve when he has one.

--->2< Some PKR leaders who are ‘adequately fed’ are corrupted and this might just mark the point from which PKR shall fall.

- It was a big mistake for Ezam and his gang to use the term ‘adequately fed’. It shows how they are dissatisfied by not getting their 'cut' in PKR. There goes his shouting and screaming for the rights of people.

--->3< Pending issues; when will the ‘bribery inferno’ in UMNO be resolved? The Prime Minister still has some answering to make, and because I’d rather go public for bribery issues since the last time I checked, soft talk failed, Mohd Taib, Tun Dr. Mahathir, Mukhriz, DS Abdullah Ahmad Badawi and YB Khairy Jamaludin still need to come clean.

- If he is a man with undoubted credibility, he should have these 'allegations' of his be settled before he rejoins UMNO. If not, not only will he be seen as hypocritical by both the government and opposition, he might as well doubt the integrity of our Prime Minister and the BN camp the moment he shook hand with him.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=NdzVT-1NHeg&feature=related

--->4< I never thought of joining PAS, DAP and absolutely not PKR (for they, once, labeled me as a traitor). Because fighting for positions in a party, having party policies limit my freedom of speech and competing in an election are petty to me, what am I doing here at the parliament?

- Your confusion is none of UMNO’s concern. So no comment.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=u9gLgO9IhNA&feature=related

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=M8XXKCH8dmw&feature=related


Simple math = +might be up to something.

For those pain-staking years you put us through, we surely ‘thank’ you by greeting you with arms wide open.

“Terbang Tinggi”

You wish to know, what does it mean to fly high,

Slowly; your step,
try to climb to the highest of heaven,
like those who felt,
what it means to fly high,

His life, alienated;
the Musafir travels in a different world,
not boasting and not feeble,
for the best of a matter is moderate,

You shall not live on people's praise;
or die by their curse,
life is not the way you define it,
don’t be disappointed;
by whom you are,
and fly high in the heaven so wide,
accept yourself the way you are.

Do not despise the non-worthy,
do not hate the confused,
pity those who do not feel it,
do not fear your difference,

The difference between us is knowledge and behavior,
maybe then you will understand;
life is not the way you define it.

Ezam jumped ship.

Although Ezam, the former PKR front liner, seemed ‘calm and ready to drop bombs’ for UMNO, it would be unwise for us to label his crossover as not fishy. “I changed side because UMNO’s principles are changing for the better. Not about the people at the helm”, Ezam declared.

On the cautious side is Hishamuddin Tun Hussein with his ‘three questions’. Why should UMNO take this ‘special’ newcomer blindly? He displayed high-level atrocity and bought his way out of it with such insubstantial reasoning; for the changing fundamental principles of UMNO. From the time he abandoned UMNO and became UMNO’s nemesis, personified, until now; pasca PRU-12, the whole of UMNO worked hard, hand in hand, to preserve the qualities of UMNO which symbolizes solidarity, or in other word; to protect the principles of UMNO which they uphold. He, at the other end, dedicated his life to criticizing and burdening UMNO and digging UMNO’s backyard. Should he say that change of leadership inspired him to deliberately cross over, UMNO members would question; what took him so long to realize that improvements are in UMNO to stay?

It is not every day that you have high-profile figure from the opposition dropping by to say hello and submit the filled lifetime UMNO membership form, and directly to the PM too. But when it happens, you get the tickle deep within that renders you constantly inquiring; what exactly does this person stand for and upon what will his stand shatter? If it is a function of time, the question would be; how long will it take this person until he crosses again? This is no gimmick for when Ezam does that again, he would expose UMNO’s weak points to the opposition just as he did, only this time around, severer in degree of destruction it may cause.

Ezam is no new kid on the block. Right you are. But mind you, he had been accelerating his way in PKR towards power, nearly unbelievably, until new influential faces emerge, at least to Anwar’s recent policies, and that is just what he craves; power. This is Ezam in action and inaction.

UMNO should accept Ezam and even Anuar Shaari like honored house owner but the members should eye Ezam and his gang from now onwards.

Just my 2 cents.

“Optimismo es la logica de los estupidos”
“Optimism is the logic of fools”

Malaysian Updates (24.05.2008).

Tun is urging UMNO members who stand tall with him to quit UMNO and he is firing the first kickoff. Many criticized his action while fail to see the mechanism he is trying to work out. They say that his initiative is causing a run back effect that strengthens Abdullah’s camp and will win the Prime Minister his support like never before. Having learnt invaluable political experiences hard-knock style, it is not likely that Tun made a wrong decision. The pressure is immense. Malaysians are pushing their way to freedom or ‘Freiheit’, what German philosophers described as ‘Zufaller Grundsatz der Demokratie’ or the principle of democracy by coincidence, and they are full force.

The Prime Minister’s camp is right now quickly exhausting the strategies once devised by Tun to win supports. Meetings are being held across the country to discuss about issues such; the probabilities of 30 – 40 parliament members, crossing and what proof RPK has to drag DS Najib into the Altantuya murder case alongside Razak Baginda which is on his way to behind bars, and mind you, we are talking about number two in command, which totally matters to UMNO. But is it substantial?

Tun in the same scene, would not have entertained such claims. Tun in the same scene would have reformed UMNO for the taking. Because at the end of the day, people would have more faith in those who took bold action by quitting, then in those who faithfully supported UMNO’s left wing such Mukhriz’s bloc and finally in those who remained dormant which equals to none, this call by Tun is something to be reckoned with.

Remember the saying; ‘ Macht ist auch die Macht der Lüge gemeint’. At least lying to oneself.

Remember the rise and fall.