Anwar Ibrahim |
- No pillow or blanket for Adam to sleep, says lawyer
- GST dulu ke atau gaji minima dulu Najib?
- PKR dakwa pegawai SPR buka beg kertas undi
- “Seharusnya Kami yang Menang”
- Wajarkah Anwar berundur?
- Ambiga: Bersih’s ‘People’s Tribunal’ a ‘moral force’ to investigate electoral fraud
- BLACK 505 – PERINGKAT NEGERI TERENGGANU
- Not everyone is as cowardly as you, Rafizi slams Zahid: Kedah rally is on, Mukhriz or not
| No pillow or blanket for Adam to sleep, says lawyer Posted: 21 May 2013 03:34 AM PDT Adam Adli Abdul Halim has been subjected to interrogation for two days in a row and was not even given a pillow or a blanket to sleep, said lawyer Fadiah Nadwa Fikri, who visited student activist today. Fadiah who met Adam Adli with his father, Abdul Halim Abdul Hamid, at the Jinjang police detention centre at 1.30pm today, had to wait a long time before they could see him.
“Halim and I were then led into a room where we met Adam Adli, who was behind a glass panel. We had difficulty communicating with him and for me, being his lawyer, it was difficult to ask for instructions,” Fadiah said. The lawyer said Adam told her that he was subject to continuous interrogation from 10am to 6pm on Sunday and Monday, with the police asking him the same questions over and over again. In between the interrogations, Adam said, there were short breaks. However, Fadiah said Adam chose to remain quiet, stopped answering the repetitive questions and told the interrogating officer to watch the video recording of his speech. No hint whether remand will end on Thursday The 24-year-old student, who has been suspended by Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris, had been remanded since Saturday under Section 4 of the Sedition Act for his speech at a post election forum organised by Solidariti Anak Muda Malaysia (SAMM) on May 13.
“However, we are glad to see that he is quite well,” the lawyer added. A candlelight vigil in support of Adam has been held outside the Jinjang police detention centre for the past two nights, and also in front of Universiti Sains Malaysia in Penang last night. Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak promised last year to repeal the Sedition Act 1948 and replace it with a National Harmony Act. Despite such promises, the sedition law is still being used against individuals such as Adam Adli. Others also facing sedition charges are DAP chairperson Karpal Singh and Hindu Rights Action Force (Hindraf) leader P Uthayakumar. |
| GST dulu ke atau gaji minima dulu Najib? Posted: 21 May 2013 02:35 AM PDT Telah berakhir tempoh Perdana Menteri Datuk Seri Najib Razak dan pentadbiran Umno-Barisan Nasional (UBN) untuk "berpantang" menahan nafsu amarah mereka "menggasak" rakyat negara ini. Lepas dia tibai etnik Cina dengan serangan "tsunami Cina" dan pelbagai kata kesat hulubalangnya yang dihamburkan ke arah rakyat termasuk kenyataan kurang cerdik menteri dalam negeri itu, kini giliran menteri di jabatan perdana menteri pula untuk "mendera" rakyat dengan pengumuman sistem cukai baru. Setelah memenangi kembali Puterajaya, dengan pilihanraya yang sangat dipertikaikan pelbagai pihak kerana sarat dengan penipuan, Najib sudah tidak segan-silu lagi untuk melakukan apa yang dianggapnya "agenda tertangguhnya". Cukai Barangan dan Perkhidmatan (GST) bakal dilaksanakan oleh kerajaan Najib dalam tahun 2013 ini dan telah diwawar oleh Datuk Seri Idris Jala kononnya akan menjana pendapatan RM27 bilion setahun. Apa tidaknya kalau mereka sanggup mencekik rakyat dengan kadar 7 peratus! Najib dan Idris Jala juga perlu terangkan kepada rakyat yang akan membayar cukai ini adalah rakyat bahkan semua lapisan rakyat termasuk yang kaya dan juga yang miskin atau berpendapatan rendah. Apabila mereka membeli barangan atau menggunakan perkhidmatan tersebut selagi barangan itu bukan dalam kategori "sifar cukai" atau "zero rated", bermaksud GST tetap dikenakan. Kadar GST sebanyak 7 peratus adalah sangat tinggi dan ini jelasnya adalah "janji Najib yang tidak ditepati" kerana kadar 4 peratus adalah angka yang disebut-sebut sejak awal GST diperkenalkan. Mungkin Najib telah kemaruk kerana baru sedar hutang kerajaan Pusat dah terlalu membengkak hampir 55 peratus KDNK kerana dirinya sendiri. Ataukah Najib mahu sahaja "mendera" rakyat yang tidak mengizinkannya untuk mendapat 2/3 majoriti diparlimen dan menawan kembali Selangor, negeri terkaya di Persekutuan Malaysia? Singapura, yang rakytanya mempunyai pendapatan per kapita hampir dua kali ganda dari kita pun memulakan kadar GST mereka pada kadar 3 peratus. Kerana kos perlaksanaan cukai baru ini adalah sangat tinggi, yang dianggarkan berbilion RM, contohnya Australia A$4 bilion (RM12 bilion) ketika memperkenalkan GST di negara itu, maka tekanan kenaikan harga barang dan perkhidmatan yakni inflasi, adalah tidak dapat dielakkan justeru sebab faktor kos permulaan sistem GST. Singapura, contohnya mengalami inflasi sebanyak 3 peratus untuk selama 3 tahun akibat dari perlaksanaan GST dan begitu juga dikesemua negara-negara yang melakasanakannya juga turut mengalami tekanan inflasi untuk beberapa tahun. Pakatan Rakyat secara prinsip tidak menolak sistem cukai penggunaan ini atau "consumption tax" ini tetapi mahukan beberapa syarat penting mesti dilaksanakan oleh kerajaan terlebih dahulu. Pakatan Rakyat mahukan rakyat teramai mempunyai pendapatan yang menasabah bagi mampu menjalani kehidupan yang lebih bermaruah atau "a dignified life". Bank Dunia sendiri telah mengisytiharkan bahawa gaji sebenar (real wage) rakyat Malaysia dengan mengambil kira faktor inflasi, hanya naik 2.8 peratus dalam satu dekad yang lalu. Gaji minima adalah satu kaedah memecah hambatan atau "bottleneck" peningkatan pendapatan rakyat. Sudah terlalu lama perlaksanaan "gaji minima" ditangguhkan Najib. Ini satu pengkhianatan! Najib masih berdolak-dalik seperti dulu juga. Memang Najib tak ada tulang belakang atau "spineless" dalam banyak hal. Pakatan Rakyat menuntut supaya dengan pembenterasan amalan rasuah, kronisme dan sesetengah jenis monopoli, oligopoli dan kartel, negara akan dapat meningkatkan pendapatan dari sumber penjimatan. Sekaligus kos saraan hidup rakyat akan dapat dikawal dan diperturunkan serentak mengizinkan rakyat meningkatan pendapatan dan "pendapatan boleh berbelanja" (disposable income). Pakatan Rakyat bercadang GST hanya dilaksanakan ketika pedapatan rakyat adalah pada paras yang lebih menasabah dan tidak seperti hari ini di mana 60 peratus dari isirumah mempunyai pendapatan kurang dari RM3,000 sebulan. Hari ini hanya 10 peratus sahaja mereka yang dalam pasaran kerja yang dikenakan cukai pendapatan kerana pendapatan yang rendah-sederhana. Kerajaan Najib UBN juga mestilah mendidik rakyat tentang konsep dan perlaksanaan GST ini kerana sememangnya sistem cukai ini rumit dan tidak mudah difahami. Ada yang menganggap bahawa rakyat atau pengguna akan dikenakan cukai sebanyak 28 peratus kalau kita mula dengan pengenalan 7 peratus kerana cukai yang dibayar pengimpot, pengilang, pemborong dan peruncit akhirnya akan dibebankan kepada pengguna. Fahaman ini adalah silap kerana GST adalah menggunakan sistem nilai-tambah atau "Value-Added Tax" ( VAT) seperti digunakan di beberapa negara seperti United Kingdom. Rakyat keliru bahkan ada akauntan juga tidak faham. Rakyat perlu difahamkan dengan betul. Meskipun GST, sebagai sistem cukai baru yang bakal menggantikan Cukai Jualan dan Perkhidmatan (SST) sebanyak 5 peratus itu adalah satu sistem yang lebih efisien dari segi pungutannya serta dapat mengurangkan "pengelakkan cukai" (tax evasion), namun ianya perlu mengambil kira syarat-syarat yang lain termasuk menurunkan cukai pendapatan dan cukai korporat supaya ianya tidak terlalu membebankan rakyat dan lebih menasabah. Terpaling penting ialah GST ini tidak dilaksanakan selagi sumber-sumber kebocoran dan pembaziran yang menelan berbilion RM setahun tidak ditangani. Tegasnya, Kerajaan Najib UBN jangan paksa dan dera rakyat dengan GST setelah rakyat ditipu untuk memberikan mereka kelebihan kerusi diparlimen sekali lagi dalam pilihanraya umum ke-13 yang lalu. PM Najib, kalau anda mahu madunya, jangan jolok sarangnya ya! |
| PKR dakwa pegawai SPR buka beg kertas undi Posted: 21 May 2013 02:33 AM PDT  Seorang pemimpin cabang Angkatan Muda Keadilan (AMK) mendakwa pegawai Suruhanjaya Pilihan Raya membuka beg mengandungi kertas undi yang disimpan di pejabat jajahan di Ketereh, Kelantan dalam kejadian pada 7 Mei tanpa kebenaran dari Mahkamah Tinggi. Ketua AMK Ketereh Mohd Sukirman Mustafa memberitahu Malaysiakini, beberapa orang anggota parti dan orang awam membuat laporan polis berhubung kejadian itu pada 16 Mei. Menurut Sukirman, pegawai SPR hadir bersama anggota polis dan mendakwa memperolehi arahan dari pegawai atasan untuk berbuat demikian, walau peraturan pilihan raya menetapkan bahawa beg kertas undi hanya boleh dibukan dengan perintah Mahkamah Tinggi. Bagaimanapun, pegawai yang membuka materi keselamatan di beg berkenaan tidak mengeluarkan apa-apa daripada beg yang disimpan di pejabat Majlis Daerah Ketereh. "Mereka hanya membuka beg dan menyelongkar sedikit, tapi tidak mengeluarkan apa-apa," kata Sukirman. Katanya cabang PKR di situ dimaklumkan oleh seorang individu yang memberitahu bahawa beg tersebut dibuka oleh pegawai SPR pada kira-kira jam 11 pagi pada 7 Mei. Sukirman berkata anggota PKR merakam gambar pegawai SPR tersebut yang membuka beg berkenaan dan kini menunggu penjelasan mengenai perkara itu daripada SPR. Parti berkenaan kini menimbang untuk mengemukakan kes tersebut ke mahkamah. |
| Posted: 20 May 2013 10:22 PM PDT Pakatan Rakyat, kata Anwar, meraih 53%. Barisan Nasional hanya 45%.
Tak ada yang mengejutkan dari Pemilihan umum Malaysia 5 Mei lalu. Kubu Barisan Nasional kembali menang. Di tengah protes yang terus bergulir ke rezim itu dalam satu dekade ini, terhitung sudah 56 tahun koalisi yang dipimpin UMNO ini menguasai pemerintahan Malaysia. Barisan Nasional meraih 133 kursi parlemen dari 222 kursi yang tersedia. Sementara pihak oposisi berhasil memperoleh 89 kursi. Tapi koalisi oposisi Pakatan Rakyat kali ini protes keras atas hasil pemilu itu. Mereka menuduh ada kecurangan yang dilakukan Najib Razak cs. Pemimpin oposisi Anwar Ibrahim lantas menggelar apel protes yang dihadiri 40 ribu pendukungnya di Stadion Kelana Jaya, 8 Mei. Anwar tentu saja meradang. Dalam wawancara khusus denganVIVAnews, Anwar mengatakan penghitungan komisi pemilu Malaysia telah dicurangi oleh rezim Najib Razak. Berdasarkan penghitungan independen, seharusnya yang menang adalah Pakatan Rakyat, bukan Barisan Nasional. Satu jurus curang yang dimainkan Najib, kata Anwar, adalah dengan mendatangkan para pemilih bayangan untuk ikut menyerbu kotak suara. Dia menduga mereka datang dari Bangladesh dan Myanmar. Lalu apa rencana Pakatan Rakyat selanjutnya? Berikut wawancara lengkapnya: Menurut anda, apakah pemilihan umum Minggu lalu telah berjalan bebas dan mewakili rakyat? Contohnya salah satu yang kami teliti sekarang, baik yang terperinci maupun yang mutakhir, di tanah Melayu kami meraih suara 53,03 persen. Sementara koalisi Barisan Nasional hanya memperoleh 45,07 persen suara. Tapi yang menang malah koalisi Barisan Nasional. Justru ini yang aneh. Sedangkan versi nasional menyatakan Pakatan Rakyat memperoleh angka 51 persen dan Barisan Nasional 47 persen. Angka 51 dan 47 ini versi siapa? Jadi seharusnya yang dinyatakan sebagai pemenang adalah koalisi oposisi? Apakah ada juga tenaga kerja asal Indonesia yang dimanfaatkan sebagai pemilih bayangan? Anda sebelumnya juga mengatakan ada kecurangan pada tinta pemilu? Bisa disebutkan di daerah mana saja yang terbukti ada kecurangan? Rencananya mau diserahkan ke siapa barang bukti kecurangan yang anda miliki? Kami akan mengeluarkan semua bukti ini ke media sosial karena di tingkat atas semua dikontrol oleh pemerintah. Rakyat saat ini marah sekali karena pemilu dicurangi oleh pemerintah, bekerja sama dengan komisi pemilu yang tidak bebas. Anda menuntut penghitungan suara pemilu. Betul begitu? Pada pemilu awal 30 April lalu, ada setengah juta pemilih yang memilih. Dan ini tidak dipantau sama sekali. Wakil partai oposisi tidak diberikan izin untuk memantau. Padahal yang memilih saat itu sekitar 30 persen (dari pemilih total). Jadi ini sudah ada penipuan. Menurut anda, dibandingkan pemilu lima tahun lalu, pemilu kali ini seperti apa? Dari sistem demokrasi yang ada di Indonesia, apa yang bisa dipelajari oleh Malaysia untuk pemilu lima tahun mendatang? Secara objektif ada ruang di mana kita harus mempelajari pemilu dari Indonesia. Walaupun saat ini masih ada permasalahan kesenjangan kaya dan miskin, korupsi, tapi secara institusi demokratis bisa dipelajari. Tapi pimpinan UMNO ini terlalu arogan. Bagi mereka Indonesia itu cuma soal TKI saja. Mereka seharusnya memiliki sikap yang lebih realistis menerima kenyataan bahwa Indonesia dari sudut pandang memantapkan demokrasi dan pengurusan pemilu yang jujur dan adil harus dipelajari pengalamannya. Malaysia seharusnya mengundang komisi pemilu Indonesia untuk memantau pemilu di Malaysia, tapi komisi pemilu di sini tidak bersedia. |
| Posted: 20 May 2013 10:16 PM PDT Satu tinjauan di lamat web yang direspon oleh beberapa belas ribu orang bersetuju supaya Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim berundur dari pimpinan utama Pakatan Rakyat dan ketua pembangkang di Parlimen. Itulah kira-kira sebagai reaksi setelah Pakatan tidak dapat kerusi selalyaknya bagi memenangi PRU 5 Mei lalu. Respon itu sesuai dengan kenyataan yang pernah Anwar buat bahawa dia akan berundur sekiranya Putrajaya tidak dapat ditawan. Maka itulah dituntut oleh responden. Responden bersetuju dia berundur kira-kira 80 peratus. Ia tinggi tetapi belum sampai 15,000 orang. Jika seluruh anggota Perkasa mengambil bahagian mungkin yang mahu dia berundur naik 100,000. Sekalipun Pakatan belum berjaya menguasai Putrajaya tetapi yang mengundinya di seluruh negara yang direkodkan oleh SPR hampir 51 peratus atau 5.5 juta tidak termasuk yang lesap, sedang BN yang diisytihar menang itu diundi oleh 5.2 juta saja. Perlembagaan tidak mengiktiraf undi popular sebagai pemenang, tetapi Pakatan telah menang dari segi demokrasi. Maka ada justifikasi Anwar tidak perlu berundur. Pakatan mengikut kekeliruan pengiraan undi tidak dapat kerusi secukupnya, sedang ia menang undi popular. Pakatan bukan tidak menang, cuma ia tidak dapat berkuasa. Keputusan muktamat sekarang menunggu apa mahkamah kata apabila sekitar 30 petisyen pilihan raya akan dikemukakan selepas ia diwartakan. Jika Anwar dalam situasi yang ada mengubah fikiran tidak berunsur tidak dikira dia tidak berpegang kepada janji. Janjinya kiranya Pakatan kalah serba serbi. Sekarang Pakatan tidak kalah serba serbi. Katakan Pakatan kalah serba serbi, Anwar seorang tidak boleh menentukan dia patut berundur atau mesti menerus usaha menawan Putrajaya. Anwar boleh menawarkan diri berundur tetapi pimpinan Pakatan dari segi moral berkuasa untuk bersetuju atau tidak bersetuju. Kalau Anwar mahu menjadi ketua atau calon Perdana Menteri, dia memerlukan persetujuan konsenses Pakatan. Kalau pimpinan Pakatan tidak setuju, maka dia tidak boleh jadi pemimpin. Dan apabila dia hendak berundur pula, dia tidak juga boleh buat keputusan sendiri. Dia kena dengar apa pimpinan PAS dan DAP kata. Apa jua keputusan yang Anwar hendak buat, dia mesti berunding dulu dengan pimpinan PAS dan Pakatan. Setakat ini kedudukan yang ada di tangan Pakatan Rakyat ialah Ketua Pembangkang di Parlimen. Jika mengikut parti mana yang banyak kerusi ia DAP. Anwar sendiri pun tidak boleh berkeras terus menjadi Ketua Pembangkang. Dia pun tahu Lim Kit Siang perlu ditanya dulu. Dia sudah menyatakan kesediaan untuk memberi kepada pihak yang lebih berhak. Tetapi Lim Kit Siang sudah menyatakan supaya Anwar wajar meneruskan kedudukan itu. Tiada di kalangan keluarga PR membantah Anwar meneruskan kempen menawan Putrajaya. Dengan Anwar dikehendaki mendengar apa kerabat Pakatan kata, bukan apa tinjauan laman web kata. Keupayaan Pakatan Selangor mencapai keputusan yang lebih baik dari PRU 2008 adalah bukti Pakatan dan pimpinan tiga serangkainya — Anwar, Abdul Hadi Awang dan Lim Kit Siang — adalah isyarat Pakatan belum ditolak dan mereka mesti meneruskan kempen yang belum selesai. |
| Ambiga: Bersih’s ‘People’s Tribunal’ a ‘moral force’ to investigate electoral fraud Posted: 20 May 2013 10:11 PM PDT Bersih 2.0's "People's Tribunal" may not have any legal standing but will serve as a "moral force" to investigate allegations of electoral fraud, said Datuk Ambiga Sreenavasan when defending the polls watchdog's final attempt at proving wrongdoing in the May 5 polls. The renowned civil rights activist told The Malaysian Insider that Bersih 2.0 will soldier on with its plan to set up the tribunal which, she said, should be announced in two or three weeks' time, despite earning condemnation from polls regulator Election Commission (EC). "It is true that it is not set up under any law or statute. That is why it is called the People's Tribunal," she said. "It will be an evidence-gathering tribunal and what we have is the moral force to examine the allegations. That is its main aim — to gather evidence," she added. On May 6, a day after the tumultuous 13th general election, Bersih 2.0 announced its plan to set up the tribunal to look into the hundreds of reports of alleged cheating that took place during the polls. The coalition of over 80 non-governmental organisations insisted that the polls results had favoured the ruling Barisan Nasional (BN) largely because of these irregularities, and said it would not recognise the outcome until it had verified all allegations of fraud. In the polls, BN continued its half-a-century unbroken rule and emerged victors yet again despite winning with a significantly smaller seat majority in the 222-seat Parliament.
The ruling pact snapped up 133 seats this time to Pakatan Rakyat's (PR) 89, failing yet again to recapture the coveted two-thirds parliamentary majority that it first lost in the 2008 general election. PR refused to accept its losses, however, pointing to the fact that it had won the overall popular vote by scoring 51 per cent of votes cast, while BN only took 48 per cent — an outcome reminiscent of the 1969 polls when the ruling pact first lost the popular vote. The federal opposition pact of PR has since confirmed plans to file election petitions to challenge the results in 27 federal seats where BN had won with marginal majorities, allegedly due to electoral fraud. PKR strategy director Rafizi Ramli has also said that the same complaints will be brought before Bersih 2.0's "People's Tribunal" where, he said, PR's evidence was likely to be treated with more seriousness than in any court of law. Ambiga told The Malaysian Insider that the tribunal will be presided over by a five-member panel, which will include individuals of repute and who will not be members of any political parties or even from Bersih 2.0 itself. She said the panel will likely come up with a set timeframe to conduct its probe, apart from deciding on appropriate terms of reference before commencing any hearing. "We will then expect some sort of recommendations or findings to be made. This will be presented to all the relevant authorities, including human rights bodies like Suhakam," she said. "For Bersih… our role is just to facilitate the setting up of the tribunal. Further to that, we will not get involved. It must be completely independent," she added. Ambiga also explained that the setting up of the tribunal was taking longer than originally planned due to the complexity of its scope of investigation, as well as the selection of its panel members. "We originally wanted to have it done by June but it looks impossible at this point. We should announce the panel within two or three weeks' time. "But as to when the panel will begin their hearings, that would be entirely up to the members to decide," she said. Despite widespread protests against its handling of the 13th general election, the EC has insisted that it had conducted the polls fairly and successfully, citing the higher turnout of voters at a whopping 84 per cent as evidence of voters' confidence in the Malaysian electoral system. "We have conducted a successful polls, there was an 85 per cent turnout… we have good job as you can see from the turnout," EC deputy chairman Datuk Wan Ahmad Wan Omar said last week. PR has been organising mammoth rallies across the country to prove voter dissatisfaction against the polls, which PR de facto chief Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim has insisted had been stolen from his pact. |
| BLACK 505 – PERINGKAT NEGERI TERENGGANU Posted: 20 May 2013 10:10 PM PDT 23 MEI 2013 (KHAMIS) 8.30 – 12.00 MALAM DEPAN PASARAYA MAIDIN KUALA IBAI, KUALA TERENGGANU |
| Not everyone is as cowardly as you, Rafizi slams Zahid: Kedah rally is on, Mukhriz or not Posted: 20 May 2013 08:23 AM PDT PKR strategy director Rafizi Ramli ridiculed his rivals in Umno for cowardice and being out of touch with the people over a spate of rallies that have taken the nation by storm. “Intimidation and fear tactics don’t work anymore. It only worked on Zahid Hamidi in 1998, that’s why he turned around within the first 2 weeks after the first demo. If Zahid Hamidi thinks everyone is like him, he is sorely out of touch with the public,” mocked Rafizi, who is also the newly-elected MP for Pandan. “You can see that despite several statements made by the authorities, the people are still coming out because this is a big issue. I would suggest that Zahid does not interfere in the job of the police. Let the police do their work professionally. We don’t need another Home Minister who makes the silliest comments.” Zahid’s U-turn of the decade! Rafizi was referring to Umno vice president Zahid Hamidi, who taking over as Home Minister from Hishammddin Hussein last week had promptly warned the Opposition and rally-goers that action would soon be taken against them. In the 1990s, Zahid was a staunch supporter of Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim, who had then been the Umno deputy president. Zahid had protested against Anwar’s jailing on trumped-up sodomy and corruption charges in 1998, but recanted and cut all ties with Anwar after former premier Mahathir Mohamad threw him into jail under the Internal Security Act. Zahid was released in 1999 after he reversed his stance and declared loyalty to the Umno leadership controlled by Mahathir. It is also worth noting that during the 53th Umno General Assembly in 1997, Zahid had lashed out against Mahathir, calling for an end to cronyism and nepotism in the government. In response, Mahathir publicized the names of those Malay/Bumiputeras who had received shares and high positions in government-linked corporations (GLCs) and these had included Zahid. Not your father’s country either : Stop the polemics and do your job! Apart from sabre rattling on the Blackout 505 rallies spearheaded by Anwar and his Pakatan Rakyat coalition, Zahid has also attracted public odium for himself and his Umno party for saying that those unhappy with the current political system in Malaysia should migrate. His brash comments sparked a wave of public condemnation and added impetus to the Blackout 505 movement to protest electoral fraud and to demand re-elections in seats where the Opposition claims it has accumulated evidence of vote-rigging and phantom voters. Zahid’s comments have also sparked a wave of “lu siapa” and “ini bukan negara bapa kau” (who are you to ask us to leave, this is not your father’s country) comments against him at the rallies. "This country is also not (Anwar's) father’s. It is neither my father's country nor his father's country," Zahid said in an outburst to the press earlier this morning. Although not a week has elapsed since he was picked to replace the controversial Hisham, who was slammed for stirring up hornets’ nests and creating racial tensions, it looks like Zahid may “outperform” his predecessor going by the fires he has lit in just the space of a few days. “If he has time, he should tackle the issue of false I.C.s and phantom voters. That is more in line with his job. He needs to know the boundaries and not interfere with the professional work of the police,” said Rafizi. Would anyone take heed of what Mukhriz says? The 36-year-old PKR leader also slammed Mukhriz Mahathir for disallowing a Blackout 505 rally scheduled for Tuesday night to be held at a stadium in Alor Setar. Mukhriz, who is Mahathir’s youngest son and newly-appointed chief minister of Kedah, had drawn flak for his high-handed action and accused of being “like father like son”. “It doesn’t surprise us at all because they have always behaved us this way. It doesn’t even register on our mind what he (Mukhriz) says or what kind of warnings he makes because we have stepped forward to a new Malaysia to a much more liberated Malaysia. What he thins belong to the past and I dont think a lot of people will take heed of what he says,” said Rafizi “We are more interested in maintaining professional relations with the police because public safety and public order is of utmost importance and we are sure that any rallies if done properly and with full cooperation with the police will have positive results as has taken place in the past two weeks.” New IGP and Blackout 505 in Kedah to proceed When asked if the new Inspector General of Police Khalid Bakar who last week took over from the retiring Ismail Omar would affacet Pakatan’s relations with the police, Rafizi said he would wait and see. Khalid has been widely condemned over many cases and he has even been caught red-handed trying to cover up mis-practices and wrong-doings such as in the Kugan Ananthan murder case as well as in trying to insinuate wrong-doing on the part of the Opposition to give Prime Minister Najib Razak’s administration a ‘boost’ in image. Such partisan conduct by the senior members of the police force has led to a tremendous loss of public confidence in the police, with most Malaysians having the perception that their cops were out to harm them or solicit bribes rather to protect them and maintain law and order. “We are more than willing to wait and see. I am more than willing to give the benefit of doubt to Khalid Bakar,” said Rafizi. He added that the Blackout 505 rally in Kedah would proceed and a new venue to be announced on the social media network soon. “I am sure 40 to 50,000 people will still come to Alor Setar or Pokok Sena, even if it has to be held in Mahfuz Omar’s house,” said Rafizi, referring to the Kedah PAS commissioner, who is helping to organize the event. |
“After waiting for some time, his father and I were allowed to meet Adam. Bersih co-chairperson Ambiga Sreenevasan, who was also present, was not allowed to see him.
Fadiah (right) said the meeting lasted less than 30 minutes and that she does not know whether the police will apply to extend Adam Adli’s five-day remand order, which expires on Thursday.
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