Isnin, 21 November 2011

Anwar Ibrahim

Anwar Ibrahim


UMNO-BN Using Police to Move Against Anwar Ibrahim Before 13th General Election

Posted: 21 Nov 2011 05:20 AM PST

For the third time since 1998, the Barisan Nasional government is complicit in fabricating criminal charges in an attempt to end the political career of National Opposition leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim and halt political and economic reform in this country. 

UMNO-BN are using the police force to move aggressively against Anwar Ibrahim just as the general election is about to be called. On 16 November 2011, the opposition leader was ordered to report for police questioning, and was forced to attend Kepong police station instead of performing his duties as parliamentary opposition leader. A new criminal investigation had been launched against him based on a report made by one DSP Shanmugamoorthy who had investigated Anwar’s complaint of intimidation, blackmail and criminal defamation by the ‘Datuk T’ trio. Thus, from being an aggrieved complainant, the authorities have made Anwar the accused person. The entire investigation has been carefully orchestrated by the top police leadership, with the knowledge and complicity of the Attorney General. Unusually, investigation papers were already in the A-G’s hands even before Anwar was called in for questioning. More disturbingly, although the police report was lodged in September this year, Anwar was called in only last week. This indicates hidden hands manipulating the investigation and choosing a politically opportune time to move against Anwar.
 
There is no doubt now that a massive new conspiracy is afoot to charge, try and imprison Anwar Ibrahim. In any real democracy, the opposition leader plays a key role in questioning and checking governmental action. The bringing of baseless, politically motivated criminal charges against the Leader of the Opposition is an outrage against the democratic norms that are the bedrock of our nation. UMNO-BN must cease this criminal abuse of state powers and institutions in order to undermine the opposition and cling on to political power. We call upon the BN government to drop all politically motivated investigations and prosecutions against Anwar Ibrahim and to participate in democratic politics by rational public debate and discourse.
 
N SURENDRAN
VICE PRESIDENT
KEADILAN

Jemputan Forum dan Sidang Media “GST dan Inflasi”

Posted: 21 Nov 2011 01:02 AM PST

Sukacita diingatkan bahawa forum “GST dan Inflasi” yang telah
diumumkan sebelum ini oleh Pejabat Penasihat Ekonomi Negeri Selangor
akan diadakan pada hari ini (Isnin 21 Nov). Butiran adalah seperti
berikut:

Tajuk: ”GST dan Inflasi”
Masa 8.00 malam -10.30 malam
Tarikh: 21 Nov 2011 (Isnin)
Tempat: Auditorium MPAJ, Menara MPAJ, Jln Pandan Utama, 55100 Pandan Indah

Ahli Panel:
YB Nurul Izzah, Ahli Parlimen Lembah Pantai
YB Dr Dzulkefly Ahmad, Ahli Parlimen Kuala Selangor
YB Tony Pua, Ahli Parlimen PJU
Sdr Rafizi Ramli, Ketua Eksekutif Pejabat Penasihat (hos)

Kami mengalu-alukan kehadiran saudara-saudari. Forum terbuka kepada
orang ramai dan masuk adalah percuma.

Skandal NFC: Tiada Pertanggungjawaban Dalam Menguruskqn Dana Awam

Posted: 20 Nov 2011 09:07 PM PST

KEADILAN mengalu-alukan siasatan yang akan dibuat oleh Jawatankuasa Kira-kira Negara (PAC) dan Polis Diraja Malaysia (PDRM) terhadap pelbagai urusniaga melibatkan National Feedlot Corporation Sdn Bhd (NFC) dan Projek Fidlot Kebangsaan, seperti yang diumumkan mutakhir ini.
 
Walau bagaimana pun, isu paling pokok adalah persoalan pertanggungjawaban awal yang bermula dari Kabinet dan menteri-menteri kanan Barisan Nasional yang terlibat menganugerahkan projek bernilai RM250 juta ini kepada sebuah syarikat yang tidak mempunyai kepakaran dan pengalaman langsung. Dana awam berjumlah RM250 juta pun disalurkan tanpa ada sebarang jadual pembayaran seperti mana kebiasaannya.
 
KEADILAN menyeru supaya Perdana Menteri, Dato' Seri Najib Tun Razak segera membuat kenyataan mengenai skandal ini, lebih-lebih lagi apabila Menteri Pertanian dan Industri Asas Tani YB Dato' Seri Noh Omar mengejutkan negara apabila mengesahkan bahawa kelulusan projek ini tidak dibawa ke peringkat kabinet. Sebaliknya, projek berjumlah RM250 juta ini khabarnya diluluskan oleh sebuah jawatankuasa bukan kabinet yang dipengerusikan oleh Perdana Menteri sendiri.
 
KEADILAN pada hari ini boleh mendedahkan bahawa unsur penyelewengan yang mungkin berlaku di dalam NFC dan syarikat-syarikat yang berkaitan melangkaui pendedahan yang mengejutkan rakyat Malaysia selama ini.
 
Contohnya, dalam tahun 2010 NFC membelanjakan RM31,580 untuk membiayai pakej umrah di atas nama Dato' Seri Mohamad Salleh Ismail dan Wan Shahinur Izran Mohamad Salleh. KEADILAN mempunyai bukti jelas bagaimana arahan agar pembayaran bagi pakej umrah menggunakan dana awam ini datangnya dari pejabat Pengerusi Eksekutif NFC sendiri.
 
Selain perbelanjaan bersifat peribadi yang tidak sepatutnya dibiayai dana awam seperti itu, lebih membimbangkan adalah pelbagai urusniaga dan pemindahan wang yang melibatkan syarikat-syarikat milik keluarga Dato' Seri Shahrizat Jalil di Singapura.
 
Justeru, KEADILAN menggesa supaya PAC dan PDRM menyiasat segala urusniaga di antara NFC, NMLC dan RFC dengan syarikat-syarikat berikut di Singapura:
 
Global Biofuture Pte Ltd (200822772H) – carian syarikat disertakan bMeatworks Singapore Pte Ltd (200923276Z) – carian syarikat disertakan bersama
 
Global Biofuture Pte Ltd terlibat di dalam urusniaga makanan dan bahan api. Semakan awal menunjukkan syarikat ini dalam proses menubuhkan pasaraya di Singapura dan disyaki juga terlibat sebagai ejen untuk mengimport lembu dari luar negara melalui Singapura untuk dibekalkan kepada NFC. Semakan KEADILAN menunjukkan sehingga akhir Jun 2010, Global Biofuture Sdn Bhd berhutang dengan RFC sebanyak RM939,495.
 
KEADILAN percaya bahawa sejumlah wang disalurkan dari pinjaman asal RM250 juta kepada pelbagai syarikat-syarikat peribadi milik keluarga Dato' Seri Shahrizat Jalil, termasuklah untuk menubuhkan dan membiayai Global Biofuture Pte Ltd di Singapura.
 
Meatworks Singapore Pte Ltd pula bertanggungjawab menguruskan beberapa restoran mewah milik keluarga Dato' Seri Shahrizat Jalil di Singapura. Semakan penyata kewangan menunjukkan bahawa pada akhir Jun 2010, Meatworks Singapore Pte Ltd berhutang dengan RFC sebanyak RM2,416,815.
 
Bukti-bukti awal ini sudah cukup untuk membolehkan satu siasatan terperinci dibuat untuk menentukan sama ada penyelewengan berlaku, apabila wang rakyat yang disalurkan untuk projek nasional berimpak tinggi digunakan bagi tujuan peribadi termasuklah membuka pelbagai syarikat milik keluarga yang menyimpang dari tujuan asal pinjaman diberikan.
 
Skandal ini akan terus terbongkar dan Perdana Menteri perlu tampil memberi penjelasan memandangkan beliaulah yang bertanggungjawab mengkaji cadangan projek dan meluluskan dana awam sebanyak RM250 juta.
 
 
 
YB SAIFUDDIN NASUTION ISMAIL
SETIAUSAHA AGONG KEADILAN
AHLI PARLIMEN MACHANG
 
YB HAJJAH ZURAIDA KAMARUDDIN
KETUA WANITA KEADILAN
AHLI PARLIMEN AMPANG
 
MOHD RAFIZI RAMLI
PENGARAH STRATEGI KEADILAN

BN Has Become an Unbearable Tyranny, True or False?

Posted: 20 Nov 2011 08:14 PM PST

Malaysia Chronicle

In a genuine democracy, a government so badly run as the Barisan Nasional's could never have survived in power for more than 50 years. Malaysia has, in fact, been ruled by a succession of dictators since its independence from British rule in 1957.

The BN is a party like Saadam's Ba'ath or Mubarak's National Democratic Party. It is a tyranny clumsily dressed up as a democracy. Tyrannies are fond of playing dress-up like this; note the word 'Democractic' in Mubarak's party. It was anything but that. North Korea's supreme leader calls his party The Workers Party. If he wanted to be honest, he would call it The Starving Workers Party.

How did the BN manage to do this when in 1957 it was envisaged that Malaysia, and for that matter, later Singapore, would be run as democracies? The BN destroyed democracy in Malaysia by systematically emasculating every institution that was supposed to function as a check on it. This included the Police, the Judiciary, the Election Commission. The BN also turned the Fourth Estate into its own propaganda machine, rather than allow it to fulfill the critical role that it was supposed to play. With all this in place, the BN was free to do anything it liked. And it did.

Taib in Sarawak

Democracy cannot survive without its institutions, and in Malaysia it withered. The BN leaders were fond of asking people who were unhappy to show their dissatisfaction at the ballot box, while fully intending to rig every election. They were well aware that elections are only limited means to show discontent.

Until 2008. In 2008, so massive was disaffection with the BN and its arrogant leaders, that Malaysians in Peninsular Malaysia by huge majorities voted for the opposition. Even the BN's large-scale cheating in the form of vote-buying and phantom voters could not stop the tide against it.

It was a different scenario in East Malaysia, where Sarawakians are deprived of any right to choose their representatives by blatant,  unashamed voter intimidation and vote-buying.

Ballot boxes are thrown into rivers and replaced by new boxes pre-filled with 'votes' for the BN parties. Every government agency is involved in the rigging of the Sarawak election, even Tenaga Nasional, which organizes blackouts to facilitate cheating. Even telecoms companies are involved in cutting off coverage to serve the purposes of the BN.

Instead of an elected government in Sarawak, Sarawakians have the corrupt, despotic rule of Taib Mahmud. Taib, a shriveled-up little old man, cuts a ridiculous figure when he appears with his decades-younger new wife, but has hung on to power for decades. Taib does not even bother to deny the billions amassed by his children all over the world, preferring to take a what-are-you-going-to-do-about-it approach.

Taib continues to rule Sarawak today, despite the losses his coalition suffered at the recent Sarawak state elections. Meanwhile Sarawak's verdant forests are sold unsustainably for logs, its animals poached and its indigenous people like the Penan displaced from their life-giving forests. Vast tracts of Sarawak are now owned by the rapacious scions of Sarawak's Taib family. Sarawak bleeds as never before.

In Sabah

Sabahans, meanwhile, are cursed with leaders who are perpetually on sale, lacking only price-tags on their foreheads. Nowhere can you buy an election as easily as you can in Sabah. When the people of Sabah threw out the arrogant Harris Salleh and replaced him with Joseph Pairin Kitingan so many years ago; Sabah appeared to shine a beacon of light for the rest of Malaysia to follow.

But that dream of freedom has long been suppressed by the machinations of the federal BN government. If there is any of the old Joseph Pairin left in him, it is time for him to make his stand against the BN, as must other Sabahans who love their land. Or Sabahans will only have once been warriors.

Rampant graft

Meanwhile, corruption runs rampant in the country, a black cloud enveloping all the land. The latest case of the NFC scandal, is brazen even by Malaysian standards. Taking a loan of RM250 million loan at a 2% interest from the government to 'develop' the cattle industry, Salleh Ismail then spends tens of millions buying condos in Bangsar.

Cornered, he quotes false rates of return based on impermanent cash rebates given by the developer. Not a cent of this 'loan' has been paid back to the government to-date. For all intents and purposes, Malaysia is out-of-pocket for RM250 million and BN Minister Shahrizat Jalil's kin are richer by the same.

Najib vs Anwar

Najib Razak, the Prime Minister, grandstanding on Malaysia Day, announced that he would scrap the ISA. In the next breath, he announced that he would be replacing it with 2 new laws. Last week, the BN government arrested 13 people under the ISA, exposing Najib for a liar and a hypocrite. Instead of being ashamed, Najib will instead be tabling a 'Freedom of Assembly' bill in parliament next week. It will be a sham, to be certain.

Anwar Ibrahim, whose multi-racial PKR holds together a coalition consisting of the Islamist PAS and the Chinese-based DAP, is Malaysia's best hope for freedom from the tyranny of the Barisan Nasional. And so, the BN continues to persecute him with blatantly fabricated charges, and tries to gag him on his speaking engagements. The BN wants to jail him before the elections, hoping that this will help them to win. It may well have the opposite effect.

Economy implodes while Najib twiddles his thumb

The economy is imploding, despite the false figures floated about by the BN. Inflation is spiraling, yet the BN claims it is at 3%. Any housewife, forced now to buy less of everything, could tell them different. Bank Negara claims the economy is doing well and then proceeds to clamp down on credit card and household loans, which will naturally affect both consumption and consumer confidence. Which will affect GDP negatively.

It is a pity they do nothing about the RM400billion debt run up by the BN administration. Instead it is compounded by a deficit budget this year, courtesy of the numerically-challenged Najib Razak.

In a free and fair election, the BN would have been thrown out of power in 2008. The election was, despite their losses, stolen by the BN. And so, for the past three years, Malaysians have suffered under the illegitimate rule of an increasingly despotic and corrupt BN.

We can only hope that the next election will mark the end of the BN, the party that has poisoned the political, social and economic life of Malaysia for so long.

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