On Anwar says he is moving toward forming a new gov’t
Rayn Bonna: As a Sabahan, I abhor any move by any party, Barisan Alternative or BN, to coax MPs to jump. Sabahans know what it was like to have our mandate betrayed as what happened in the 1990s when Umno (yes, Umno) sweet-talked some Parti Bersatu Sabah assemblypersons into joining BN or abandoning ship resulting in the elections’ loser, BN, helming the state government.
Anwar Ibrahim was deputy prime minister and Umno deputy president then and we knew he, too, had a role in this disgraceful 'power grab'. Please don't repeat this heinous crime against the voters. If any MP or assemblyperson wants to defect then do the honourable thing. Resign and let the constituents decide again.
Do not take the voters for granted. Much would I like to see a new federal government because I've lost confidence in BN, still, the most important thing is to respect the decision of the voters.
Besides, we in Sabah do not trust our MPs especially those from Umno. They are corrupt. If you take them now, you'll lose in the next general election. Try us.
Dr Parvinder Kler: I hope that rumours of some BN East Malaysian politicians willing to jump ship over to the opposition has some credence. Mind you, I hope it does not occur because I have been witness to countless PBS assemblypersons jumping over to the BN during the opposition tenure in power. I feel that the public voted for the party, not the individual. It would be unfortunate if the public's will is ignored.
Nonetheless, such threats should make the Peninsular-centric BN government take notice. It is time for the politicians from Borneo to finally fight for our 20 points rights (or at least our useless Sabah representatives; the Sarawakians have managed to maintain a lot of their rights).
Sabah Umno is now a powerful representative in the government but continues to put the interests of Umno ahead of Sabahans. They are gutless in fighting for our rights - perhaps they need to realise that election-wise they represent Sabah, not Umno. They stood for seats in Sabah, to represent Sabahans. It is about time they do. And I hope that non-Umno representatives like Pairin, who was forceful in pushing our rights when he was in opposition, finally finds his voice again. It is very sad to see a politician bury his convictions in the name of maintaining power.
It would be better if the federal government actually begins by showing us some respect, though that will only occur if our BN representatives actually fight for our rights, and not for the maintenance of their own power base. I for one, am not holding my breath.
On Cabinet: East Malaysians left out again
Another Disappointed East Malaysian: This shows that the PM is biased against East Malaysians. He does not think that the East Malaysians are capable of taking up important portfolios. East Malaysia contributed to more than 40 percent to BN’s total number of seats so wouldn’t it be fair to give us one or two important portfolios?
We should teach the PM a lesson by pulling out our support and see if he can even retain his prime minister-ship and the federal government. One of the reasons that BN did very badly was because of Hishammuddun Hussein, being overly arrogant and having no regards as to how the Chinese, Indians and the East Malaysians felt whenever he did his keris thing. He should have been dropped from the cabinet, and the ministry given to an East Malaysian to head.
Umar Rentaka: Clearly Umno is bullying it's BN coalition partners. It won only 79 seats in Parliament; a mere 35.5% of the 222; yet it had grabbed 68% of the ministerial posts. When are these ‘partners’ going to wake up?
On Abdullah's new cabinet sworn in
Paul Yap: Why is Abdullah so stubborn? He dropped Rafidah - good. He never included his son-in-law - good. He brought back Shahrir - good. He brought in professionals - good. But why bring back Muhammad Muhammad Taib? Why bring back Shahrizat ? She lost. Is she so indispensable?
The new cabinet is brilliant in some areas yet so lacking in others. And why include Nazri? The man who forced us to show our People Power at the polls. C’mon Barisan, get your act together. Get your leader to come totally clean once and for all.
Zolkifli: I was very happy with the removal of Radzi and Tengku Adnan from being ministers. However, I am a bit puzzled as why Muhammad Muhammad Taib was pulled in back as a minister. This is not a good decision. I hate to say this but with his record while in government and Selangor MB, I think he should not be out there. He can be in Umno but not as a minister.
On 'Shocked' Rafidah will not quit
Ravindran Mailvaganam: Lim Kit Siang once commented that Rafidah Aziz has a dismal Parliament attendance record. We know that Rafidah has made innumerable trips overseas with a formidable retinue of officials in search of FDI and we are confident, therefore, that as a member of Parliament accountable to the taxpayer, Rafidah will be able to provide answers to the following
i) how much FDI was Malaysia able to garner as a result of these trips?
ii) what was the criteria she used in selecting the officials who accompanied her?
iii) Economist Tony Pua of the DAP is of the opinion that her trips overseas were not cost effective; that countries in the region like Vietnam were able to attract FDI in much larger amounts without all those expensive excursions which has come to characterise her tenure as the head of he International Trade and Industry Ministry.
If a panel of accountants and auditors without any partisan leanings find, after examining the records, that all of the FDI which she has reportedly attracted (to Malaysia ) could have been achieved without those journeys, would she reimburse the Federal Treasury - i.e. pay back the taxpayer - for the expenses incurred in making those trips?
On PM: Assets declaration will be made public
Meng: Pak Lah, surely by now you know that asking for a declaration of assets by your ministers is nothing more than an exercise in public relations. The rakyat are not stupid and certainly not impressed by this call for your cabinet ministers to declare their assets. We all know, including you, how easy it is to find proxies who are family members or close relatives and friends to be the beneficiary of ill gotten gains.
Therefore your call for this is nothing more than an exercise in public relations (PR) and if it is going to be another four years of PR and sloganeering, I think we are all well aware of the future, or lack of it, of BN and Umno in Malaysian politics.
On Gerakan wants Hindraf 5 released
Job Dhanaraj: Gerakan thinks that by pretending to care for the Hindraf detainees, it can recapture Penang. No way. The three component parties of the truly great Barisan Rakyat fielded all races in the recent elections. Gerakan, though claiming to be multiracial, never fielded even a single Indian candidate, giving the lame excuse that they could not find any suitable candidate.
They still do not want to accept defeat – instead they want to show that they are a ‘caring’ party. Beware Penang, of Gerakan. They want the government to release them in order to take credit for themselves.
On The 'fragile' pact to rebuild MIC
Nirmala Naidu: Why don’t these guys get it? After 50 years of marriage, when the ‘wife’ decides to walk, she decides to walk for good. We, the Indians, have been in a ‘marriage’ with MIC for 50 donkey years. We were faithful but MIC played us out - lock, stock and barrel. There is no going back. We have decided. Whatever MIC does, it is absolutely irrelevant to us.
During the past election, when we saw any MIC candidate, we booed them. When it was time to vote, we voted them out! We voted for a non BN candidate - the opposition. We don’t want to go back to MIC. We don’t want MIC anymore. We don’t need MIC. To hell with MIC.
We are now the Barisan Rakyat. We are Malaysians. For once in 50 years, we are united as Malaysians - not MCA, MIC or Umno. But pure Malaysians. And it really felt soooooooo good.
What the government was trying to promote with their ‘national unity’ and ‘Bangsa Malaysia’, was realised through the opposition. The opposition did it. And so now, we look forward to them to make good on their promises. Hidup Malaysia!
Barathi Tamil: A man without a stand. Now his supporters in dilemma. Who to support, Subra or MIC? Of course, we don’t want MIC, since Samy is still there But why is Subra sticking to Samy? This is what we don’t understand and don’t like it. Will Subra solve the Maika share issues as he promised. Is Subra being bought over by Samy?
I hope Subra is making a wise decision. He will start losing his supporters. We saw how Samy fought Subra but now Subra is with Samy. What a joke. All the best, Subra…
On Aliran: Return missing files
Peter Ooi: In the aftermath of defeat of BN in the general election, clearly there were two persons who stood tall among the losers. They are none other than Pak Lah and Koh Tsu Khoon. In spite of the thumping defeat, Pak Lah insisted that mega projects planned for states won by the opposition must go on. and Koh was gracious in defeat. In defeat he still did his duty to hand over his office to make sure everything was in order
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The same attitude could not be attributed to some state secretariat staff. Like rats they scrambled to clear their offices of dubious files or correspondences. To them, their duty ended when BN’s loss was announced. They did not have a care how the incoming government was going to carry out their business. In short, they were utterly selfish and did not bother about the welfare of the rakyat of the state.
On Bersih: Opposition could have won gov't
Teresa Kok Supporter: I wish to add that my wife and I also vote at different polling stations. Once upon a time, we voted in the same place ie, Ampang. Then, all a sudden, I was sent to vote in Overseas Union Garden ie, for Teresa Kok. So now my wife votes in Ampang while I vote in OUG. When my wife complained to her friends about my ‘transfer’, their question was, ‘Does your husband support the opposition?’ So now, you know why Teresa Kok won with the largest majority.
On Umno holds one-hour protest at Komtar
Muhammad Ali: I refer to the interviews of the demonstration’s leaders by Malaysian TV aired on prime time news that day. The TV stations should have been more sensible by not airing the interviews which would spread the ‘ugliness’ of the contents of the interviews. Previously, for the Hindraf or Bersih demos, our Malaysian TV did not interview the protestors.
By doing airing the interviews with the protestors, the protestors would get the impression of being glorified and this would send the wrong message to other people who might be encouraged to do the same.
I hope any senior leaders from the party responsible would discourage these kind of acts. I thought our Malaysian government didn’t condone street demonstrations.
On Blame cronyism for poor public transport
Charles F Moreira: An integrated public transit system is indeed needed in the Klang Valley and the rest of Selangor but hoping for the different competing private companies - crony or otherwise - to gladly link up into a seamless system is utopian.
Now that Selangor has an alternative government and the majority of Kuala Lumpur’s federal MPs are from the alternative parties, Selangor and Kuala Lumpur should form a state statutory body or state-owned enterprise - the Klang Valley Transit Authority - which will operate an integrated public transit system in the Klang Valley and hopefully duplicate it across towns and villages in Selangor, with trunk bus routes or light rail lines linking them all up in a single state-wide network.
It's nonsense that there are no buses plying the various sections of Petaling Jaya, so something along those lines needs to be done, not only for PJ but also for other parts of the state as well.
On Should Malaysiakini go free?
Garry Khoo: Every business must have revenue including those related to reg and culture such as mosque, temple or charity organisations. Without revenue means without quality. Malaysiakini, please think twice before you open up for free.
Thai Eng Lang: Firstly, allow me to thank Malaysiakini and all its dedicated staff for just being around and providing us with alternative news. Your staff are obviously doing their national service to the King and Nation and Rakyat. Malaysiakini has contributed much to the recent change in democracy in this nation of ours.
Should Malaysiakini be free for all? I say ‘no’. It should continue as it is, at least for the present, supported by those who believe that the truth is out there. If any group should be considered for free subscriptions it is those older than Malaysia with no independent incomes. These Warga Mas have contributed much to the nation already
James Tan: I will strongly tell you my firm view that Malaysiakini should remain a subscription service. I say this as a non-subscriber. I have benefitted immensely from Malaysiakini's reporting and free access.
Servers cost money especially expanding server capacities to cope with this great traffic upsurge. Your reporters need salaries like any other profession. It is deserved and earned, not charity. Bandwidth expansion, mirror sites all cost money
Being subscription-based is your business model. You bore the cost of launching Malaysiakini, with a low base readership revenue. You deserve the success of your business model now.
Chong Yu-nam: Congratulations and in IT business terms, your surge in traffic is a good problem to solve. As I have written before, I started with the RM15 monthly package to get coverage of the GE2008 and I was not disappointed. With the growing discontent over biased news coverage in NST and The Star, I expect subscriptions to Malaysiakini to increase.
Don't you think it's time to make Malaysiakini a public-listed company? I am willing to bet you guys make it big from now till the next GE. I do hope you guys solve your network issues soon so that you can accommodate more capacity.
Fairplay: I subscribed to Malaysiakini exactly after it has stopped providing free access recently. They have done a good job in providing un-biased reporting and we should be grateful that we have another source of information.
They rightfully deserve to be paid for doing their job and we should never take advantage of that. It is a tough job for the journalists, having to work the hours to bring you the news and these people has great passion in what they are doing.
I think people should stop having this ‘freebie’ mentality and learn to be more generous in giving. It is not good to always take from others, sometimes you need to give in order to receive more.
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