Indians will have to live with Samy.

The indian community who elected Samy Vellu to be the MIC President for the 11th term are a pathethic lot.It only serves to confirm the indians are like a flock of sheep who just dont know how to dump a leader who can no longer lead them out of their misery.

With the election of Samy Vellu as the MIC President for another term, majority of the indians who support him should not complain if they are further marginalised . They have made their choice and they will have to live with it for the next three years.If the indians cannot even help themselves by electing a leader who can look after their interest then dont expect others to help them.

After the last General Election in March where the MIC suffered one of the most humiliating debacles where even its President Samy Vellu lost his seat in sg. siput, one would have expected the long serving MIC President be booted out. But the MIC members seemed to rejoice in retaining their leader.

And if the Indians are unhappy with Pakatan selection of Manikumar as their candidate then they should just vote the MIC candidate Ganesan and let the B.N win the seat.The indians in Bukit Selambu should not resort to threats and blackmail that they will not support the PKR candidate because it was not their choice. If they really feel that MIC have done a better job of looking after their interest then they should just support the MIC candidate.

Those Indians who have vested interest in selecting their own candidates in Bukit selambu should just leave PKR. If they cannot abide by the decision of the Pakatan leaders then please leave the party. PKR cannot afford to have members exerting their threats merely because their vested candidates were not selected..Their attitude merely vindicate the suspicions that they are only after the Exco position and not to serve the constituents.Such candidates if elected would not hesitate to party hop if given monetary rewards.

If indeed the indians have made their choice of supporting MIC then PKR should no longer make any concession to selecting any more indian candidates for any seats that PKR are contesting. So far PKR have made alot of concession for the indians in PKR and it appear they are not being appreciated. we continue to hear threats from them and perhaps its time the PKR leader should evaluate their loyalty to the party.

Mahathir Is A Mamak

I was extremely shocked to read the article 'my father would have been proud' related by Mahathir in the nst, dated 21 march . In the article,Mahathir said his father was Mohamad Iskander and that he said ' my father was one of the few malays who ran away to school to get an education'.

Is our former P.M suffering from demntia to even forget his father's actual name?His father was a indian man from the southern Indian state of Kerala by the name of Mohamad a/l Kutty. Therefore genetically Mahathir whose father is indian and mother a malay would be classified as an indian.However our federal constitution says that any man who profess the religion of Islam, practices the custom and speaks Malay would be considered a malay.Therefore under the constitution definition he was a malay but in reality and factually he is an indian Man. But what surprise me and many Malaysians is why is he ashame of his own indian heritage so much so that he even declare that his father was a malay when that is not true.

In his speech at the PERKASA gathering he even lambasted the non malays for equating NEP policy to apartheid. In many of his speeches he has dwelled at lengths the rights and priveleges of the malays and pretending that he also belongs to the Bumiputras and therefore should perpetually be allowed to enjoy the priveleges and rights .

Mahathir is what we called a mamak in Malaysia. Many of them are really Indians who have converted to take advantage of the Bumiputras status.They are what we call fake malays or celup malays.When Penang was lost to the opposition a group led by a mamak stage a demonstration in protest.When Karpal was accosted by a group of UMNO youth members who wanted him to apologise for wanting to sue the Sultan of Perak the unruly group was led by a mamak. These Mamaks are really hypocrites pretending to be more malays than the original malays . Many of the Mamak have taken full advantage of their celup status and have become UMNO ministers. .

Unlike the Mamaks, the original Malays are refine and cultured . I have lived with them in Kelantan for 40 years and they are a civilised lot.They dont go round blaming the non -malays for their problems like the Mamaks opportunist. Two fine gentleman I like to mention is Zaid Ibrahim and Mustapha Mohamad and there are many of them too many to mention.

If Mahathir and his kind continue to call non-malays 'pendatangs' then he should examine his own heritage where his own father came from Kerala.Yes, he should not be ashamed to acknowledge his own Indian heritage and proclaim proudly that he is also a 'pendatng'.

Instead of spending his twilight years in graceful retirement this old man deems fit to foment hatred and ill will among the races.He should realise by now that he no longers holds any power and influence in the party that he once leads. That was evident when he could not even muster enough votes in the Division he once led to be chosen as a delegate in the last UMNO General assembly.

Ali Rustom, the Racist, Deserves to be charged for corruption

Mohd Ali rustam began his career in politics 18 years ago when he was a mere clerk with TNB. From a mere meter reader to his majestic rise to be the chief minister of Malacca, this UMNO politician should have been contented with his swift meteoric rise to the top echelon of UMNO leadership. Not satisfied with being the Chief Minister of this Malacca state, he contested in the last UMNO election and was surprisingly rewarded with the Vice- president Post with the most number of votes.

But the racist side of his character only surfaced when he was invited to be the guest of honour for the People's Progressive Party state convention.With unabashed pride he told his shocked audience that PPP and their members could leave the BN anytime.Yes he didn't mince his words. UMNO according to him had ruled for 50 years and they could continue to do so without any help from MCA, MIC, Gerakan and all the component parties from Sabah and Sarawak.Yes all those component parties could vanish and UMNO will still continue to rule the country. Such was the arrogance of this man.

Ordinary Malaysians can easily visualise what this man would say if he was elected to the pinnacle office of DPM and subsequently as a formality become the P.M of Malaysia.The words that would flow from his racist lips would be non-malays dont have to vote for B.N because UMNO can rule the country without any of your help.

Fortunately for Malaysians, providence might have played a significant part in depriving this racist man a pivitol role in the politics of this nation.With such a man at the helm of any nation, it would most likely the country would descend into chaos and anarchy.

MACC Chief should be Independent and impartial

MACC chief Commissioner Datuk Seri Ahmad Said Hamdam is either not familiar with his work in the agency or he must be acting hastily under the behest of someone in the corridors of power.There is absolutely no legal justification for him to investigate the Perak State assembly speaker decision to suspend seven Barisan Assemblymen last month.

His statement that ' there are elements of misuse of power ' by the speaker does not render him any authority to question the speaker's decision.Article 72 of the Fedral constitution prohibits any court of law to question the decision of the speaker in the federal and state legislature.In other words, whatever decision arrived at by the speakers in the Federal and State legislature is final and not subjected to any judicial review. If the MACC chief cannot even grasp and understand the basic fundamental provisions of the constitution which disllows him from questioning the speaker on his decision to suspend Zambry and his band of Excos then he should not be appointed as the MACC chief.It becomes questionable whether a man of his calibre should even be appointed as an MACC chief.

Now that the speaker in the Federal Parliament have also suspended the DAP M.P for Puchong, Gobind Deo for a year for saying that the DPM is involved in the murder of the Mongolian Model, why have the MACC chief not come forward to say that there was also element of abuse of power by the Parliament Speaker? Is the MACC chief implying that it is alright for the B.N speaker to suspend the opposition member but its not alright for the opposition speaker to suspend a B.N member? The MACC Chief cannot appear to be impartial if its action is only directed at the opposition speaker.It would perhaps be appropriate for the MACC chief to seek the advice of the Attorney-general dept before making a fool of himself.In fact the MACC chief's comments regarding the culpability of the Selangor M.B's purchase of 46 cows and the use of his Lexus car have already cast a serious aspersion on his impartiality.Therefore how can any one expect the MACC to investigate without fear or favour when its Chief have more than one occassion displayed its impartiality in favour of the B.N govt ?

Are Our Monarchs Immune from criticisms?

Why would honest abiding citizens suddenly revert to insulting a monarch who was once upon a time being revered as a model for the royal institution.?Instead of charging ordinary citizens for venting their anger at the sultans, which in their minds and perception had erred in his decision not to dissolve the State assembly, the Govt in particular should look into the cause for the sudden act of impropriety against the royal monarchs. Perhaps it would also be appropriate for the sultan in the light of this event to examine his role as to why his decision had elicited such a response from his erthswhile loyal subjects.

To charge and punish citizens for venting their anger at the source of the ire is merely to suppress their right to express their frustration and anger.Whereas in Thailand there is such a law as leste Majesty, can we also assume that there are also such laws preventing Malaysians from insulting our royalty?Is insulting the royalty tantamount to being seditious?

As citizens of the country are we to remain mute even though a wrong has been committed by the Sultan?Is there no avenue that citizens can ventilate their opinions and anger knowing fully well that the sultan had not acted in conformity with the express will of the people?

History is replete with examples how ordinary people have risen to dispose of their royalty who have acted contrary to the interest of its citizens.Queen Marie Antoinetee was guillotined during the French revolution, the Last czar of Russia and his family was executed and in more recent times, the shah of Iran had to go in exile to America when his regime was deposed by Ayatollah khomeini.Surely our royalty should acquaint themselves with these examples so that they will be wiser in their reign.

Why Did the sultan deliver Perak to the B.N?

Amidst the furore that is consuming the Perak political landscape,Perakians must be wondering at the deafening silence from the Royal household. Since bestowing the Perak govt to the B.N members, Sultan Azlan Shah, the Sultan of Perak has not come out to comment or defend his unpopular decision of not allowing M.B Nizar's request for the dissolution of the State assembly.Even Karpal Singh's appeal to the monarch to come out and say that royalty do not have immunity from being sued in their official capacity did not elicit any response.

The monarch's previous role as Lord president of the Judiaciary would have no problem in convincing the legal fraternity of his decision if indeed there was legal grounds for him to justify his act.Why then did he remain silent even until now?The regal monarch should have been aware of of the sweeping undercurrent of discontent with the B.N machinations which is riddle with corruption and which ended in the onminous defeat in the march 8th general election.

Surely an intelligent and well read man like the sultan would have read the political wind of discontent in Perak which led to the Pakatan Rakyat taking over the state.Then why in one careless moment did he took the unpopular course when he could have done the right thing for his Perak subjects who were crying for their voice to be heard?

There have been numerous speculations as to why he did what he did. Many of them have been unflattering and have only cast aspersion on his impeccable reputation which he had built during his impressive tenure as the Lord president of the Judiciary.

But the question remains and for history to find out why a man who had built a formidable reputation as a righteous man of Law would in one foolish moment sacrifice all his hard earned credentials to a tottering regime which will fall anyway.

Beware Pakatan of 'thy enemies in the Blanket'

Events of the past week and month have revealed one undeniable fact. The whole present government apparatus from the police, judiciary, attorney-general’s chambers and the civil service to the whole gamut of all BN government-appointed bodies are all infiltrated with their supporters and cronies.

Although Pakatan Rakyat may have taken over the five states, many of BN appointed people are still comfortably embedded in the government machineries. Many of them are lying low and waiting for just the right opportune moment to betray their newly-elected masters.

When Perak fell on Feb 5 as a result of the betrayal of the three Pakataan assembly persons, we saw the state secretary arrogantly chasing out the previously elected government from the state secretariat building when they were holding a press conference.

His rudeness and lack of respect for the deposed menteri besar was something we would least expect from a civil servant. But it typifies the behaviour of all those civil servants who were appointed by the previous BN government

.Further, when Pakatan Rakyat speaker of the Perak state assembly V Sivakumar called for an emergency state assembly meeting, the state legal advisor, Ahmad Kamal Mohd Shahid, immediately directed the house secretary not to send out notices for the emergency sitting.

This was obviously an attempt to block state representatives from being notified of the emergency sitting of the state assembly tomorrow. DAP Perak chairperson, Ngeh Koo Ham was correct to comment that, 'The legal advisor has no business to intervene in the process of the house' and that he has no authority to stop the notices being sent out.

In tandem with the legal adviser, the house secretary, Abdullah Antong Sabri, said that the calling of the emergency sitting was ‘illegal ‘because it did not obtain the consent of the sultan.

What transpires from these events remain very clear. The state secretary, the legal advisor and the house secretary are all Umno appointees and they will do all in their power to frustrate Pakatan’s recourse to seek a return of the Perak government.

And from this lesson learnt, Pakatan Rakyat in the remaining four states must cleanse their governments of all Umno appointees in the civil service and from all bodies associated with the previous regime.

It must be clear by now that the Umno appointees serving in the respective Pakatan state govermnents are waiting for an opportune time to betray their new masters. If the Pakatan state governments continue to place their trust in these Umno appointees, they will be doing it at their own peril.

Are Our Monarchs Immune from criticisms?

Why would honest abiding citizens suddenly revert to insulting a monarch who was once upon a time being revered as a model for the royal institution.?Instead of charging ordinary citizens for venting their anger at the sultans, which in their minds and perception had erred in his decision not to dissolve the State assembly, the Govt in particular should look into the cause for the sudden act of impropriety against the royal monarchs. Perhaps it would also be appropriate for the sultan in the light of this event to examine his role as to why his decision had elicited such a response from his erthswhile loyal subjects. To charge and punish citizens for venting their anger at the source of the ire is merely to suppress their right to express their frustration and anger.Whereas in Thailand there is such a law as leste Majesty, can we also assume that there are also such laws preventing Malaysians from insulting our royalty?Is insulting the royalty tantamount to being seditious? As citizens of the country are we to remain mute even though a wrong has been committed by the Sultan?Is there no avenue that citizens can ventilate their opinions and anger knowing fully well that the sultan had not acted in conformity with the express will of the people? History is replete with examples how ordinary people have risen to dispose of their royalty who have acted contrary to the interest of its citizens.Queen Marie Antoinetee was guillotined during the French revolution, the Last czar of Russia and his family was executed and in more recent times, the shah of Iran had to go in exile to America when his regime was deposed by Ayatollah khomeini.Surely our royalty should acquaint themselves with these examples so that they will be wiser in their reign.

Who was the Pathologist who had certified that Kugan had died of Fluid in his Lungs.

Now that the second post-mortem conducted by a pathologist from the Universiti Malaya Medical centre has shown that the victim died after being repeatedly beaten , surely the family and the public deseve to know why the initial post-mortem revealed that he had died due to fluid in his lungs.

The pathologist who conducted the initial post-mortem must be called to explain why his examiniation did not uncovered what was obviously a case of a man being held in custody and beaten to death.Certainly we would also like to know how he arrived at the conclusion that the man had died as a result of fluid in the lungs and not mentioning in his report that the man was repeatedly beaten to death .

Was the pathologist acting in concert with the police to conceal evidence of a felony being committed?If so then the pathologist can be charged with being an accessory to the commisiion of a murder. Further investigation should be conducted to see if there were any previous incidents of such cases where the same pathologist had given a misleading account of a post-mortem report.If he had done one misleading report it is most likely that he could be involved in a series of other fallacious reports on deaths in custody cases.

If at all he is found to have tampered evidence in order to help the police avoid any criminal prosecution for the custodial deaths, then he should be charged for abetment and accessory to murder.

What remains a mystery is why is there no attempt by the relevant authorities to seek an explanation from the first pathologist to explain his derecliction of duty which totally gave a misleading account as to the cause of death of Kugan.

Emergency Sitting a Threat to Zambry and company.

The Emergency sitting of the State assembly on the 3rd of march should not be viewed as a threat to national security but it is more likely a threat to M.B Zambry and his band of illegal Exco members. Zambry should realised that his position as M.B was as a result of the betrayal of three Pakatan rakyat state assemblymen and not based on the legitimate democratic will of the people.If ever there is a threat to National Security then Zambry's illegal takeover of the Perak state govt could be viewed as a serious threat to the peace and stabilty of the silver state.

Zambry has been going round to tell Perakians that he is the legitimate M.B of the state.If that is so then he should have no fear to call for a snap election so that his position can be legitimately determine by the democratic will of the Perak people. His reluctance to let his fate be determined by democratic election by calling for a snap election only serves to confirm the widespread belief that he is an illegitimate M.B installed through dubious means.

According to the Doctrine of separation of powers, the executive, the judiciary and the legislature are three separate independent branches of Govt.,each having its role in their own domain.Therefore it stands to reason that the Speaker in the Legislature has wide ranging powers to interpret the rules and standing orders as he deemed fit and his decision on such matters cannot be questioned in any court of law which has no jurisdiction to trespass in the Legislature proceedings.

It is totally shocking that the House secretary whose duty is to take orders from the Speaker deemed it fit to attempt to interpret the instructions of the speaker and concluded that the speaker had no authority to call for the emergency sitting.So under what authority is the House speaker acting and under whose instructions was he taking orders from when rightly and legally he should be taking instructions from his immediate boss who was the speaker.

Zambry and his illegal band of UMNO exco members should not pretend that they are the legitimate govt of the state and using the royal Institution to support their unpopular cause.Their hypocritical stance of respecting and protecting the royal institution when their true aim was to use the royal influence to perpetuate their agenda of ruling the state by illegitimate means.

UMNO Youth Police Report is Legal whereas Indian Police report is illegal

Can the Home Minister explain why 100 police reports made by UMNO Youth against KarpalSingh did not meet with any chemical laced water cannon whereas a handful of Indian reports were brutally met with baton carrying police and a chemical laced water cannon?

The Home Minister has once again shown it is incapable of meting justice equally to all Malaysians.UMNO youth and its members seemed to be given preferential treatment in whatever they do and there appears to be one separate set of law for them.

We have seen UMNO youth members holding demonstration without any permits, barging into the August Parliament to manhandle Parliamentarians and uttering seditious words with impunity. While others would be immediately punished for any such infringement of the law, we see police and authorities indifference to UMNO members breached of any laws.

Pakatan Rakyat will continue to benefit from the Home minister partial treatment of Malaysians.As long as Home Minister , Syed Hamid Albar is at the helm of this ministry Pakatan Rakyat will have an ally who will ensure the reign of Najib will be a short and undistinguish one.

Najib: You Lie , You Pay

Najib should be the last person to offer the threat that any one making a false report would be prosecuted. Can he tell us why till today,Bala the private Investigator who made two contradictory Statutory Declarations implicating him has never been brought to account for his purportedly false declarations? Is Najib implying that as long as the false report does not concern him then one could be prosecuted.

The Malaysian public deserves to know why no action was taken against Bala, the P.I who made the two Statutory Declarations implicating Najib?And perhaps he should also ask the police to investigate why Bala was not questioned as to the authencity of the two S.Ds. Surely in this case a false declaration has been made since two declarations were made and only one of them can only be the truth.

What is even more astonishing is that the S.Ds implicated the DPM, Najib.Any innocent person implicated in the S.D would be furious and would take stringent measures to clear his name.But instead there is a deafening silence from Najib who seems to treat the unfolding drama with disinterest. His action of swearing on the Koran that he was innocent only seem to convince the public that there is more to it than he would care to admit.

What even makes the whole unsavoury episode more interesting is the nonchalant manner in which the police is treating the disappearance of Bala, the private Investigator.No one seems to care and no one seems interested in finding out the truth as to the truth or falsity of either of his statutory Declarations.

Pakatan Rakyat should Field a malay candidate for Bkt. Selambau.

Pakatan Rakyat's leader should not follow B.N's selection of an Indian candidate for the Bukit Selambau state seat.Pakatan Rakyat will easily win this seat if it chooses a malay candidate by virtue of the 51% malay majority area.

B.N is likely to field an indian candidate from MIC and PKR should select a malay candidate to contest against him.As long as the malay candidate can look after the interest of all the races in the constitutuency I see no reason why we should follow B.N's quota of indian candidates to contest in certain areas.The political reality of the constituency dictate that a malay candidate stands a good chance of winning the seat and I am sure the majority of the chinese and Indian voters will support the PKR malay candidate.

PKR must moved away from B.N's race based ideology.It must demonstrate to Malaysians that a malay candidate from PKR can and without any problems look after the interest of chinese and indian welfare.This will be a refreshing departure from B.N's race based politics in particular and UMNO's race based allocation of seats to its miniority partners , MIC. in general.

If PKR is looking forward to that change then there is no other option but to have a malay candidate for the Bukit Selambau state seat.