What's going on????

Zaid Ibrahim: Pleading the Agong not to appoint Najib Razak to be the next Prime Minister after Abdullah Badawi step down. Mahathir got upset and he said Zaid has no authority to plead to the Agong. I think Mahathir is wrong here because Malaysia is a democratic country and everyone has the right to speak. In this case, Zaid did not break any law, nothing seditious. Zaid is of the opinion that Najib carried too many negative burdens and perceptions to sit in the PM chair. Gut feeling except for UMNO members, and Mahathir, the rest of the nation is behind Zaid. As for me, I am all the way behind you, Zaid.

Mahathir Mohamed: Disagreeing with Zaid is one aspect and the other he also disagreed with UMNO Disciplinary Committee. He commented that UMNO failed to take the opportunity to clean the party of corruption. May I comment? If they took the opportunity, there would be no one left in UMNO. Even he himself had abandoned ship. This old man somewhat tend to disagree with everything. He further commented that the DC practiced double standards. I think he was damn upset that Khairy Jamaluddin just got away with a warning and whereas Ali Rustam was barred from contesting the VC President post. On this issue, I tend to agree with Mahathir. Mahathir openly preferred Muhyidin to be the next Vice President. This is dangerous and he may be up for a big surprise because Ali Rustam henchmen and Khairy ardent followers will gang up and returned Mat Taib instead. Oh NO!!. I dread to see this happen. The no spik inglish would become Deputy PM??? Help me God.

Tengku Razaleigh: Ali Rustam should step down as Ketua Menteri of Melaka after found guilty of money politic by UMNO DC. I concur with you, Ku Li. It is a mockery to the nation when Ali Rustam found guilty of money politic and he still hanging on to the post. His credibility is finished or pocik as what they say in Tamil. Hold on…..see below what Ali Rustam had to say.

Ali Rustam: Over TV3, he said that Guan Eng went to jail and now he is the Chief Minister of Penang. Anwar served six years in jail and now Anwar is the Opposition Leader in Parliament. No reason he should relinquish his post. This was one of the most stupid statement and rationale from a Senior UMNO Officials I ever heard. He should also said, Mandela went to Prison and he became the President of South Africa. Hello Ali Rustam ………both Anwar and Guan Eng had served their sentence and where they are now because they had passed their exemption period to stand for election. Guan Eng went to jail because of Rahim Tamby Chik misbehavior and he defended the right of a 14 year old Malay girl. Anwar went to jail because of Mahathir conspiracy. If they are involved with conspiring to money politic like you did, nobody would have returned them to office. You definitely made my blood pressure shooting up. Any bloody fool who watched the TV when you said that foolish statement would term your statement as “mangkok ayun” statement. I definitely love to have more people like you in UMNO for reasons only known to me.

Ahmad Said Hamdan (MACC): MACC is not involved in political party breach of ethics or discipline. Those are not criminal in nature. Therefore….MACC would not pursue from the outcome of UMNO DC. I shook my head several times in disbelief. I had already anticipated and I rest my case. You can do whatever you like. I know what to do. The hand that held the pencil and mark X on the ballot paper would determine your destiny.

Text copied from Tengku Razaleigh blog regarding the above matter:

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The MACC was properly instituted by an UMNO-led government. It was not designed to be used only against the Opposition and members of the public.

The disciplinary board has gathered enough evidence of Dato’ Seri Mohd Ali Rustam, Mr Khairy Jamaluddin, and eight other individuals being involved in “money politics” to mete out punishments ranging from suspensions to a warning.

But money politics is nothing but a euphemism for political bribery, and political bribery is a crime covered by the Penal Code. If you know of a crime but do not report it, you become an accomplice to the crime.

Similarly, if the Disciplinary Board has found Ali guilty of bribery, direct or indirect, it is legally required to report him and his agents to the MACC and to hand over all the evidence it has collected to the MACC and to the Registrar of Societies immediately. If the Board fails to report and submit all the evidence of corruption it has found, it risks making UMNO, as a party, accomplice to corruption, in which case the Registrar of Societies is required to act against it.
The disciplinary board is not a replacement for the Courts of Law. Its job is to investigate and punish violations of UMNO Code of Ethics. If in the process it comes upon legal violations, it must report them. In other words, the board is there to investigate ethics violations and not to provide UMNO a managed alternative to legal justice.

I don’t recall Parliament having passed an Act to exempt UMNO from the laws of the land. It’s not as if there is a misdemeanor of “money politics” for UMNO, and “corrupt practices” for everyone else.

Corruption is a cancer eating through the bones of our society. It is a crime whose victims are the unseen people it steals from, the fair processes it subverts and the institutions it destroys. It takes from the weak to give to the strong. It perverts justice, erodes trust and chokes idealism. It is destroying Malaysia. If UMNO closes an eye to it, UMNO makes itself the enemy of the Malays, their corruptor rather than their champion. There is no chance of our tackling this pestilence if our actions suggest that corruption is ok for some people some of the time.

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Me: I don’t want to say much, I just press the keys on my computer. That’s the only I can say my heart out. My beloved country is getting rojak now. Sometimes I ponder if I were them, would I be them? It’s already a virus. No anti virus available in the market right now except at the next 13th General Election.



To my generations, please learn from the political episode of March 2009.