Thursday, June 17, 2010

MELAYU KEMANA

By Dr. Mahathir Mohamad on June 17, 2010 8:08 AM

1. Melayu menentang Malayan Union kerana rancangan British ini akan memberi hak kepada sesiapa sahaja menjadi rakyatnya.

2. Melayu pada masa itu takut jumlah rakyat bukan Melayu yang rata-rata lebih kaya dan lebih terpelajar akan menguasai bukan sahaja ekonomi tetapi juga politik Malayan Union. Dengan ini akan terlucutlah kuasa Melayu ke atas negeri-negeri Melayu.

3. Sebab itu apabila mereka tewaskan Malayan Union, persekutuan yang menggantinya secara rasmi dinamakan Pesekutuan Tanah Melayu. Dalam Persekutuan ini 80 peratus lebih rakyatnya terdiri daripada orang Melayu. Kelebihan yang tinggi ini meyakinkan mereka yang nasib mereka akan ditentukan oleh mereka.

4. Dalam Pilihanraya 1955 mereka bersedia untuk memberi kawasan-kawasan yang majoriti pengundinya Melayu kepada calon kaum-kaum lain daripada parti-parti rakan dalam Perikatan. Dengan undi yang ada pada mereka, mereka tentukan calon-calon bukan Melayu ini mendapat kemenangan. Tujuan korban ini ialah untuk meyakinkan penjajah British yang orang Melayu tidak akan menindas kaum lain apabila berkuasa.

5. Dengan ini British pun memberi kemerdekaan pada tahun 1957, iaitu hanya dua tahun selepas korban yang dibuat oleh orang Melayu.

6. Atas tuntutan Sir Tan Cheng Lok supaya ditambah rakyat bukan Melayu, Kerajaan pimpinan Tunku Abdul Rahman bersetuju untuk mengurangkan peratusan rakyat Melayu daripada 80 peratus kepada 60 peratus dengan memberi kerakyatan tanpa syarat kepada penduduk bukan Melayu. Satu kontrak sosial dibuat supaya pengurangan ini diimbangkan dengan agihan kekayaan yang lebih saksama kepada orang Melayu. Bagaimana ini hendak dicapai tidak pula dijelaskan.

7. Pemimpin Melayu berpendapat dengan 60 peratus daripada warga negara terdiri daripada Melayu, mereka masih menjadi majoriti dan masa depan mereka terjamin. Angka ini tidak banyak berubah apabila terbentuknya Malaysia.

8. Dalam sistem demokrasi memanglah majoriti akan berkuasa. Tetapi yang tidak diambilkira oleh kepimpinan Melayu ialah Melayu akan berpecah dan bermusuh sesama sendiri. Apabila ini berlaku kelebihan jumlah mereka tidak lagi akan menjadi mereka kaum majoriti dalam negara.

9. Perpecahan bermula apabila ulama-ulama UMNO memisahkan diri mereka untuk menubuh Parti PMIP (Pan-Malayan Islamic Party). Pada mulanya PMIP tidak berjaya menghakiskan sokongan kepada pertubuhan utama orang melayu iaitu UMNO.

10. Kemudian kerana rebutan kepimpinan dalam UMNO, parti serpihan Semangat 46 ditubuh.

11. Walaupun Semangat 46 dibubar dan diserap semula kedalam UMNO tetapi ramai yang tidak dapat terima percantuman semula ini. Dengan itu sedikit sebanyak UMNO Kehilangan penyokong.

12. Kemudian Timbalan Presiden UMNO terpaksa disingkir daripada UMNO dan ianya berjaya dengan cara-cara tertentu mengheret keluar ahli UMNO untuk menyertai satu lagi parti Melayu. Perbuatan ini berjaya membahagikan orang Melayu kepada tiga buah parti, iaitu UMNO, PAS dan PKR.

13. Dengan adanya tiga buah parti, orang Melayu yang dahulu menjadi majoriti warga negara dengan jumlah 60 peratus daripada seluruh rakyat Malaysia sudah berpecah dan terbahagi kepada tiga kumpulan. Tidak ada satu pun daripada kumpulan ini yang disokong oleh majoriti rakyat. Ketiga-tiga mendapat sokongan tidak lebih daripada 30 peratus rakyat negara. Dengan perkataan lain orang Melayu sudah jadi puak minoriti dalam negara.

14. Sebagai puak minoriti mereka tidak mungkin lagi menjadi kuasa utama dalam parti-parti campuran yang disertai oleh mereka.

15. Mungkin mereka diletak sebagai pemimpin tertinggi dalam Kerajaan-Kerajaan Pusat dan Negeri. Tetapi mereka terpaksa mengikut telunjuk rakan-rakan mereka.

16. Kita lihat di Perak umpamanya apabila Kerajaan yang diketuai oleh Melayu dijatuhkan, kaum tertentu menganggap bahawa sebuah Kerajaan milik kaum itu yang dijatuhkan.

17. Mungkin di peringkat pusat juga akan ada ketua kepimpinan yang terdiri daripada Melayu tetapi duduk dibawah telunjuk orang lain.

18. Dengan ini besar kemungkinan Melayu secara sebenar sudah menjadi puak minoriti yang tidak berkuasa di negara sendiri. Kalau mereka berpendapat mereka akan diberi layanan yang baik apabila sudah tidak sebenar berkuasa, lihatlah sahaja nasib kaum mereka yang sudah menjadi kaum minoriti di negara jiran.

19. Masa sudah tiba untuk orang Melayu memikir dengan mendalam akan nasib masa depan mereka. Bersatu teguh, bercerai roboh. Pilihlah yang mana satu.

20. Saya akan dituduh "chanuvinist" dan "racist" kerana menyuarakan pendapat saya ini. Saya sanggup dilabel dengan apa sahaja label. Niat saya ialah untuk memperingati kita semua sebelum nasi jadi bubur. Berpecah dan berebutlah. Akhirnya yang dikendong akan berciciran dan yang dikejar tidak tercapai.

Wahai Melayu,

Kemana kamu?

Tuesday, June 15, 2010

This won't make the local papers





Solid Rock Church Jesus monument struck by lightning

MONROE — Charred remnants remained this morning, June 15, of the large Jesus statue iconic to Interstate 75 that was destroyed following an apparent lightning strike during a thunderstorm late Monday night.

Those at the scene at Solid Rock Church on Union Road this morning as the fog lifted around I-75 also described smoke damage to the Lawrence Bishop Music Theater located east of the statue. The theater also suffered fire damage, according to officials.

No firefighters were on scene this morning as the smell of smoke surrounded the area of the statue’s charred frame and the pond in front of it appeared murky, witnesses said.

No one was injured in the blaze and fire officials said they expect to have a damage estimate later this morning.

Keith Lewis of Middletown showed up at the church just after 7 a.m. with a camera in hand to take some shots of the remains. His wife, Stephanie, sent him.

“It has been a landmark in this area for a long time,” Lewis said. “She said she wanted picture of what was left.”

A guitarist, Lewis said he has learned to play comedian Heywood Banks’ song about the statue, “Big Butter Jesus,” and has also had his picture taking in front with his hands in the air.

Was the statue an oddity or inspiration to Lewis?

“Really a little of both,” he said, noting he doesn’t believe the nicknames were meant with any disrespect. “Kind of do hope they rebuild it.”

Monroe Fire Chief Mark Neu has called a news conference for 10 a.m. today at the church. He and Police Lt. Brian Curlis said officials have been swamped with calls from media across the Tri-State this morning about the blaze.

Neu said indications are lightening struck the right hand of the statue. 911 calls received by Monroe and Warren County dispatchers confirm witnesses saw the hand on fire first.

“It was fully involved when our guys got there,” Neu said. Firefighters were dispatched at 11:16 a.m. and were on the scene at 11:22 p.m.

The church was not damaged, but audio equipment housed in the music theater was damaged, Neu said.

“They had a lot of expensive audio equipment that was lost,” he said.

Earlier this morning and late Monday night, motorists were stopped along the highway and along Union Road in Monroe to watch the 62-foot King of Kings statue burn. The fire was reported at 11:15 p.m. Monday, June 14. Within minutes, all that was left was the steel frame of the statue at the church.

Church member Cassie Browning, 27, of Dayton, said she was driving north on I-75 on her way back from Tennessee when she and her family saw smoke and noticed the statue missing. “It meant so much to so many people,” Browning said. “The statue can be destroyed and gone, but Jesus can’t be.”

The fire spread to the attic area of the church’s adjacent amphitheater. There were no injuries, said Neu, who spoke just before 2:30 a.m. to media at the scene. It was a “hot fire,” he said, which made it more difficult to battle, but it was extinguished within about an hour.

In the late evening and early morning hours, social media sites such as Facebook fueled interest and onlookers: the curious, the incredulous and still others who just wanted to poke a little fun at the situation.

“God struck God, I like the irony. Jesus struck Jesus,” said Dawn Smith, 25, of Hamilton, who was among those standing outside the vehicles along Union Road. “I had to see it. What else are you going to do on a Monday night?”

Since its completion in 2004, the statue, which appeared to come out of a pond in front of the nondenominational megachurch, was known by multiple nicknames, including “Touchdown Jesus” because the arms and hands were raised upward. It also was known as “Big Butter Jesus” after comedian Heywood Banks referred to it as such and created a song about the statue, which he performed on radio’s popular “The Bob and Tom Show.”

The statue was constructed of wood and styrofoam over a steel framework that was anchored in concrete and covered with a fiberglass mat and resin exterior, according to the church. It was slated to undergo renovations this summer.

Also gathered along Union Road were Franklin twins and storm chasers Levi and Seth Walsh, who said they were out in the thunderstorm when they heard about the fire through a Facebook update.

“It sent goosebumps through my whole body because I am a believer,” said Levi Walsh, 29. “Of all the things that could have been struck, I just think that that would be protected. ... It’s something that’s not supposed to happen, Jesus burning,” he said. “I had to see it with my own eyes.”

“I can’t believe Jesus was struck,” said his brother, who noted the giant Hustler Hollywood sign for the adult store across the street was untouched. “It’s the last thing I expected to happen.”

Whether jostled by the incident, or ready to call out zingers, all agreed the statue is what makes that stretch of I-75 in front of the church special.

“It’s a landmark, so it’s going to make the drive different,” said Josh Bartram, 18, of Middletown.

Because the fire was sparked by lightning, Neu said there will be no further investigation.

Also lost in the fire was audio equipment stored in the attic that Neu said was to be used for a Fourth of July event at the church. No damage estimate will be available until 10 a.m. today, said Neu, who added that church leaders indicated to him they planned to replace and rebuild all that was lost in the fire.

Crews responded from Monroe, Middletown, Liberty Twp., Deerfield Twp. and Trenton, according to dispatchers.

Sunday, June 6, 2010

Beware the Hand that Feeds: Raja Petra Kamaruddin Compromised

This is a copied article extracted from Gopal Raj Kumar's site, minus any rights, yet. I just want to share with my visitors. Thank you.

April 16, 2010 ·
OH HOW THE MIGHT FALL

He now forages through the debris of his “great alliance of opposition to anything and everything that had life in it” for answers to his future (if he has any).

He opposed anything and everything that was beyond the pale of his peony intellect. He does all of this to find solace for his tormented soul, in the vain hope of a messianic return to Malaysia as the lost prince. But alls not lost. Raja Petra Kamaruddin does have supporters and support in Malayisia. But not all of it from from friends.

Raja Petra Kamaruddin, the vandal extraordinaire of Malaysian political graffiti and self indulgent political trash is once more desperately attempting to knit together a coalition of loosers. And unwittingly this man of principles has been and continues to be the beneficiary of the largesse of his bile and vitriol, his personal and political target of the past 2 years, one Najib Tun Razak now Prime Minister of Malaysia.

The good Raja has recently been found to be in the company of Hindraf’s Waythamoorthi and a coeterie of East Malaysian political warlords and nepotistic clansmen from Sabah and Sarawak meeting under the umbrella of treachery supplied by British Intelligence parading as their hosts. History is certainly not a strong point of either of these power hungry self acclaimed leaders of a bellicose, vocal and politically bankrupt policy neutral “elite of opposition forces”.

LESSONS OF HISTORY

The same hospitality as Raja and Wyathamoorthi enjoy today in relative comfort of the British Isles, was once supplied to Mahatma Gandhi all those years ago in an attempt to compromise the Great leader’s morality and to garner all the intelligence required by the British to protect their interests in the region. Gandhi had a purpose and a higher objective. Not Rajaa not Waythamoorthi. Its personal to the latter two.

To his credit Anwar Ibrahim has kept out of sight of these meetings demonstrating some degree of political experience and savvy. Not good enough though to form government. His credibility though is likely to suffer. It is ‘guilt by association’. He cannot now afford to cut them loose nor can he tinat himself and his purpose by any association with them. And here’s why.

Anwar is unfortunately himself facing his own trials and tribulations at home whilst trying to distance himself from what was once hoped to be a strong alliance of disgruntled politically aware and ambitious Malaysians. Not anymore.

The party is over. The music has stopped and Raja Petra Kamaruddin is out trying to carve out a niche for himself whilst making a complete fool of himself at private parties and functions preaching to the converted in the UK and other European cities. Malaysians with nothing better to do in London and its other major cities after school and work flock to be in these circles to be noticed not by him but by others present.

MACHIAVELLIAN NAJIB

Najib Razak may be perceived to be a fool and a lame duck Prime Minister by Raja Petra Kamaruddin. It is and will be Raja Petra Kamaruddin’s undoing. Najib Razak has been cleverly courting all opposition leaders (as this group see themselves (in exile) ) and that includes Raja Petra Kamaruddin and Waythamoorthi.

He Najib and the Malasyian government have sufficient material evidence on all the goings on the toing and froing from London to Singapore and Europe by each and every individual within this crass mixture of immature so called alternative leaders who fund their excesses at the expense of the gullible. the masses forking out ti maintain the luxurious jet set lifestyles of these two.

What’s perhaps not understood by Waythamoorthi and Raja Petra Kamaruddin is the Najib and his government have been indirectly funding their limited sojourns to south east Asia very cleverly. Come election time, revelations of their enjoyment of the largesse of their enemy (Najib Tun Abuld Razak’s government) it won’t be a story or a relationship they will be able to explain away to the people. And questions of the quality of the ‘leadership’ of these ‘babe’s in the wood’ would become more apparent to a tired following of imbeciles in Malaysia.

Raja Petra Kamaruddin has been actively and desperately negotiating guarantees for his personal comforts and his personal political ambitions to be realised, for his place in the sun with someone he refers to very unsubtely as a murderer of Altantuya. That’s the Raja Petra Kamaruddin morality. It will not happen. Raja Petra has allowed his vanity to rule his personality and his life. In doing so he has compromised every fibre of his integrity, political and personal.

Raja Petra Kamaruddin has shown little regard for the followers he milks through unofficial fund raising campaigns and income from his rag and graffitti sheet Malaysia Today. What he is clearly unaware of like his friend Waythamoorthi is that some of that money and advice they get come from Najib Tun Abdul Razak their nemesis in politics.

As for the crowd from Sabah and Sarawak, well their petty kingdoms and political ambitions are what interests them most. They need support to help them undo Malaysia so that they will then be at liberty to emulate the totalitarianism of the Sultan of Brunei with despotic tribal rule in their home turf.

The oil and Gas and the timber. Thats what the Sabah and Sarawak fight is about. Hidden between those noble aspirations of ‘independence and cultural identity” and the more sinister Chinese led claims to Kalimantan. It being (by their history) an ancient kingdom of their once far flung empire. That imperial ambition has never been lost. That claim however ridiculous remains. And there are Malays and Indians foolish enought to support it. with Raja and Waythamoorthi at the helm.

Syed Ali Khan (London)

Saturday, June 5, 2010

masok tong taik

Aku pernah dengar dalam ceramah satu parti yang unggul lah kann, dolu, dolu. Depa2 tu bukan main marah sangat dengan Anwar Ibrahim, sebab Pak Anwar tak join depa. Jadi depa kata, Pak Anwar join lawan depa seperti Pak Anwar nak masuk tong taik, nak basuh dari dalam.

Hang pa pernah dengar tak ayat2 seperti ini? Aku pernah, dan hangpaa semua boleh laa tanya sesiapa yg dok ikut penceramah2 zaman dolu2, yakni sekitar tahun 90an lahh, ada pernah dengar ka dak.

Macam2 depa kutok Pak ANwar, dasyat la depa ni kan, tapi sekarang, depa pulak dok junjong Pak ANwar.

Tapi macam tak lama laa depa nak junjong Pak Anwar.. hehehehe Mungkin Anwar pun cuba laa nak guna mesin basuh ajaib dia di ICG pulak, International Crisis Group.

apa persamaan ICG dengan UMNO? dua2 lubok duit.. hahahahahaa http://pilihan-anda.blogspot.com/2010/06/uppssanwar-terlepas-cakap.html