Malaysia's True Metanoya

We are still sleeping. We do not hear the fires raging as we sit on our collective behinds
as this country is choking under the Establishment's sanctioned complacency. Sure enjoy life
and drown out the screams with pointless entertainment. Go about your ways and think it's
all alright while the system squeezes us dry with their racist, cronyist legislation. All it's not fine
here. Wake up and smell the bitter coffee.

Certainly no amount of clever politicking could save us all. Not even revolution could do the trick.
We've seen it time and time again that for all good idealogies (lest I repeat myself again, btw) are
doomed to failure with us humans. The cult of personality and the sacharine promises made by all leaders, whatever their political predisposition are... is the Archilies heel that kills a good movement. The stupidity of individual pride goes into their heads and BANG! You're very much
faced with the same enemy: a big dumb politician full of wind-bag rhetoric with nothing more to offer.

But DO NOT be cynical and give up. For all you Christians for change, look to Christ... look to Him to inspire your leaders to bring those who are corrupt. We now may get a lot of crap heaped us, we may be called crazy or naive. But what do those bitter old fogies know? They just sit in their fancy restaurants and spend our tax money on making private vacations to overseas or stuff their bloated faces with their french cuisine. Do not be content to be subject to these evil men. To all children of Christ, PRAY and ABIDE! SEEK His wisdom and revelation to make a difference!

It took a divine miracle to have the five states under Pakatan Rakyat. It's actually unheard off.
To those who have prayed this is sure proof we going from glory to glory. Bob Dylan once sang that the times are a-changing. I guess it's fair to me to say that he pretty much nailed it on this one. But to those who are in fear and in the dark... do not despair! Lest I sound like a broken record, I exhort you to pray and believe. Your prayers do carry weight and in all positiveness, from personal experience, it has and ALWAYS worked.

I know you all scoff at my outrageous exhortations. But to those who believe in a God. Why do you believe in Him the first place? If we knew how to sort it out in the first place, how come for all of human history did we screw up bad?; from the atrocity of religious war to plain racism (even here in our fair country!) My exhortation to you all is the change of the heart, not 2-dimesional behavior modification. I believe, in all sincerity...that only God's unmerited love for us can save us all, even from ourselves.

True love kills hate
True love kill hypocrisy
True love kills corruption
True love kills racism

Detention Without Trial: The Ultimate Obscenity

Detention Without Trial: The Ultimate Obscenity

If you thought Bung Mukhtar was obscene, well, this is even more so. This is the epitome of the BN/Umno's obscene rule.


The above is a picture (I scanned from Harakah) of ISA detainee Shahrial Sirin, detained for 7 years and counting, WITHOUT TRIAL, touching his eldest's daughter Aina Mardhiah's face for the last time as soon as he arrived from Kamunting, Perak at Sg Serai, Hulu Langat, at 9.40pm, on the 3rd of July.

The authorities intentionally delayed the decision to allow him to return home to visit his daughter who was in a coma at the Kajang Hospital after falling at her dilapidated house on the 2nd of July.

Aina died 3 1/2 hours before her father arrived.


Above is a picture of the father forced to say goodbye to his one of the remaining four children after burying his daughter...forced to go back to detention so soon after.

His wife Fatma is a strong woman. I can only imagine what she is forced to go through. And her kids...

I can't write anymore. I am crying. I feel really sad at the continually injustices being perpetrated on our fellow human beings... I know many of these detainees' wives, some even if just as acquaintances, and I am sorry I have not made the time to visit them.

Two of them are teachers at my kids' school. Norlaila, is outspoken, going all out in her pursuit to abolish the ISA. Her husband Mat Sah has been detained for over seven years too, and was recently handed another 2 year unjust extension without trial. Another teacher, just prefers to leave it to Allah SWT and His justice, and does not wish to come out in the open. She is a jovial woman on the outside. On the inside, only Allah knows. My daughter came home one day, and told me, "Umi, I saw Cikgu J praying dhuha in the library, and she started crying badly...she didn't know I was in the room...I am so sad, Umi."

What can we do too, but pray. Pray that Allah metes out His Justice to the past and present unjust leaders and helps to us bring change for the better to this country.

Please doa for Aina's family. They need it.

Aina is the one on the right...her mother's "tongkat" as her mum put it...she was among the brightest students in her school, Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Dusun Nanding..

(Source: http://moionlybetter.blogspot.com/2008/07/ultimate-obscenity.html)

Words fail me at this very moment. A man is denied visitation rights to be with his dying daughter.
Is this how they treat those who disagree and dissent? Is this how they treat a fellow human being who
is obviously aching to be with a suffering love one?

Is this how they to 'rehabilitate' them? To break their spirit second by second. To make them cynical
and bitter against the dreams that are good? Keep breaking them down with every possible malice and cruelty? Then they finally relent and cop-out. It's a tactic no better than those of Hitler or Stalin.

Keep this country in your prayers, people. We definitely need it.

Witness: I abstained from voting for ‘bonus’
By Churchill Edward

Self-declared BN supporter testifies against Chong

KUCHING: A self-declared supporter of the Barisan Nasional (BN) told the Election Court here yesterday that he abstained from voting in the last parliamentary polls because of the lure of the ‘Malaysia bonus of RM6,000 for those having a household income of RM6,000 per annum’.

SECOND WITNESS: Jukai going to the courtroom.

Merdrict Jukai Empaka from Tabuan Ulu along Foochow Road No.1 here said the bonus was stated in the Democratic Action Party (DAP) manifesto which he alleged was given to him on March 4, 2008.

Appearing before Judge Datuk Clement Allan Skinner, Jukai - the second witness in the election petition against Bandar Kuching MP Chong Chieng Jen - testified that supporters of the DAP gave him a copy of the manifesto at a coffee shop in Tabuan Jaya.

He brought the manifesto home, read it repeatedly and was attracted by the promise of the bonus of RM6,000, Jukai said when examined by the petitioner’s leading counsel Datuk Muhammad Shafee Md Abdullah.

The petitioner is Kho Whai Phiaw, a 64-year-old voter.

Jukai, 56, said even his wife abstained from voting in the last election due to the same reason as his.

He told the court that on polling day he and his wife were given a bottle of mineral water each by DAP supporters at the polling station at SK Tabuan Ulu.

He said the supporters then brought them to the ‘electoral clerk’ who then checked their names against the electoral roll.

He said the supporters asked them to vote for the DAP candidate, Chong, in return for money but they decided not to vote.

A week after the election, he said he went to look for Chong - who had won the election in Bandar Kuching - at the DAP office in Chong Lin Park to demand for the bonus.

Upon reaching the office, Jukai said he was told by a ‘lady clerk’ that Chong was not available, adding that after that visit he never returned there.

When cross-examined by Chong’s counsel Wong Ho Leng, Jukai said he was jobless and was living on the earning of his wife - which is about RM300 per month - and a RM15 commission for each work done for friends.

Wong asked: “You wanted to get RM6,000 for not voting, am I right?”

Jukai: “Yes.”

Jukai said he became a witness because Sarawak United People’s Party (SUPP) Youth vice chairman Sih Hua Tong had asked him to.

It was also Sih who introduced him to Shafee and another lawyer Frankie Tieh Kah Siang, he said.

But he regretted coming to court yesterday because of “these people” and that Wong’s line of questioning had caused his blood to boil and temper flare, he said.

Jukai, however, said he did not mean to threaten anyone and when inside the court he said: “… bullet cannot enter me (as) I am Iban”.

The witness kept silent several times when Wong asked him (Jukai) some pertinent questions, including whether he agreed to the suggestion that he was a liar.

But on some occasions he said: “If you (Wong) said I am a liar, I am a liar, lah.”

To another question by Wong, Jukai insisted that he came to court voluntarily but after the proceeding he would be telling Sih what had happened in the court.

Wong asked: “Are you telling me the truth? You have no money, you want money and yet you volunteered to come?”

Jukai: “That fellow (Sih) asked me to come together with this lawyer Datuk Shafee.”

He then handed to court Sih’s business card.

Wong asked: “When he asked you to come, did you ask him whether you would be paid or not?”

Jukai replied: “No such thing. He asked me to follow these people, introduced me to this lawyer.”

Wong: “I put it to you that you came to this court for one purpose only and that purpose is to earn some money.”

Jukai only kept silent and the court recorded that as “witness does not answer”.

Wong: “I put it to you that you came to court to lie.”

Jukai: “That was because of these people. Actually I don’t know… This is my first time.”

Wong: “Tell us who ‘these people’ are who had asked you to come to court?”

Jukai: “Sih Hua Tong. He introduced me to Datuk Shafee and Mr Frankie. If not because of that, you can never see my face appearing in court. I already am 56 years old.”

The witness also requested for a short stand-down twice to ease himself.

On another matter, Judge Skinner said he could not tolerate any interference with witnesses.

He was referring to an allegation by Shafee that Chong’s witness, Yong Kim Mui, harassed one of the petitioner’s witnesses namely Subramaniam, outside the courtroom yesterday.

Yong was alleged to have threatened Subramaniam by saying that if he (Subramaniam) was to lie in court, God will punish him; “they” will check his ballot paper and; that he may be facing 10 years’ imprisonment for perjury.

Shafee said such threat on his potential witness was clearly a contempt of court and he therefore urged Wong to take the matter seriously.

Wong then told the court that he undertook to talk to Yong so that he would not be talking to the petitioner’s witnesses anymore or go near them “should the complaint be the truth”.

Judge Skinner said: “In view of the assurance given by Mr Wong, I will leave it to him to advise Mr Yong of the very serious allegation that has been made. He should be informed that the court will not tolerate any interference with witnesses. I hope I will not need to take the matter any further.”

In the petition, Kho alleged that Chong, or with his knowledge or consent, had insinuated or made a warning, threat or intimidation of the infliction of fear and injury or harm to Chinese voters if they wanted to vote for BN candidate Alan Sim Yaw Yen.

The allegations stated in the pamphlet had compelled voters to vote for Chong or refrain from giving their votes to Sim, Kho said in the petition.

He also alleged that Chong was guilty of corrupt practice of bribery by making promise to give voters in Bandar Kuching a ‘Malaysia Bonus of up to RM6,000 or less per annum’ contrary to Section 10 (a) of the Election Offences Act 1954, in that Chong or with his knowledge or consent published and distributed ‘DAP 2008 Election Manifesto’ as advertisements for Chong in February 2008.

On April 28, Kho filed the petition at the High Court Registry seeking a court order to declare the result of the March 8 election in Bandar Kuching parliamentary constituency, null and void so that a by-election would be held.

In the March 8, 2008 parliamentary polls, Chong garnered 22,901 votes to defeat Sim by a 9,952-majority in a straight fight.

If he didn't bother to vote for Chong why did he come back for the bonus? Something does not add up here. If you'd ask me it smells like someone has a motive. It has been stated above that he was not well off and was in need of finance.

Now on a personal level, it really pisses me off when certain individual tries cause havoc, fueled with nothing only but corrupt materialistic intent. I can understand if he is desperate for financial support. But to stoop to such lowlife drama really makes me speechless.

They think they are doing themselves a favor by claiming themselves a slice of the financial pie. Probably a little publicity; to put themselves as the David against the Goliath. Perhaps they are no better than the persecutor Goliath... serving to the wiles of certain individuals, only to have themselves thrown out and cast aside like the snitches they are.

It is extremely upsetting that people act out their cynicism and greed by stooping to worm-like tactics to oppress and discredit. This is the symptom of the world; the so-called Darwinian need to kill or be killed. There is no hope for a tommorow. Rely on your strengths and cross your fingers for a miracle. If that's how life really is...why do we need faith? Why do we need God? If we are so smart as we claim...how come is there still suffering and grieviences in this world? By right our énlightement'should have saved us all.

We are indeed striving to a better place. But do not be faithless and stoop to the negatives to grab any gain. Yes, we would have the results. But for anything borned out of corruption will certainly die and collapse. What would seem like a little lie would fester forth into a damage where it would seem impossible to repair.

KICK OUT THE JAMS!

http://jelas.info/2008/07/08/strike-what-we-should-be-doing-in-face-of-the-political-ugliness-surrounding-us/

Indeed we need to stop complaining and take to the streets. For good men do more damage in their silence to engage present situation. As someone once said; ïf you are not turned on to politics, politics will turn on you" To remain placid and still have the gall to complain about it is akin to sitting in a burning house while all the while the door is clearly open.

Perhaps, that is the case... we probably do not know how to act out. Our hearts are still hard and cynical; declaring that it's all messed up and that. It is one thing to make aware the rights of the common the man. But the real battle is in the mind of Malaysians everywhere. True change comes from the heart.

And indeed we are on the brink of that....

For in this times more and more are seeking transparency and relevance in their governments. The people now are coming to a point of not sitting put and carrying on with their lives while society steadily burns to the ground with corporate greed and even more insidious cosumerism rotting out the mind of the masses. Cynics would declare this to be youthful idealism; a flash in the pan instance of youthful rebellion. But friends... DO NOT BE SWAYED. These ideas are God given! For all things from God are exceedinglly good!

Triumph (Glory to Glory )

Victory - http://harismibrahim.wordpress.com/2008/07/06/jangan-lupa-kena-ingat-rakyat-bersatu-takkan-kalah/

To tell you the truth, I was very much pleasantly surprised and humbled by this. The stunning
accounts of the rise of the Malaysian people taking to the streets in one act of peaceful protest
is awe inspiring. What's even greater was the fact that the powers that be were warily keeping
their distance from making any act of unnecessary violence. I guess all of us, those who have prayed, has their prayers answered in full. The power of God is upon all us in Malaysia. He definitely stopped evil in it's tracks.

But by no means this would be the last victory the rakyat will have. For definitely change is
now nearing to it's genesis. Look at America... it would seem that the traditional corruption
of lobbyist politics is now consigned to the chopping block with Obama. Although it's just my
optimist point of view but one has to notice the feeling in this here times; the fact something big
and grand is about to happen. The fact that this could be the defining moment in history itself.

But for all this, one must not look towards human leaders as a kind of demi-god that would make
fast reforms and changes. We are all prone to erroneous fallacy and corruption. To have everyonelook to God (the leaders as well) for a source of incorruptible wisdom is the only way. It may seen naively deistic but to me that is the only way. If humans can be corrupt... is it right for us to put total trust in them in the first place.

To all believers in Christ, keep our freedom fighters in prayer. They definitely need it.

Of Rats and Stooges:

http://www.theborneopost.com/?p=37835

http://themalaysianinsider.com/index.php/malaysian-news/34-malaysian-news/1375-voter-tells-friend-he-was-paid-rm1m


Question: If Kho Whai Phiaw, the man behind the litigation of Bandar Kuching
MP Chong Jien Jen for alleged corrupt election practices, is adamant in setting
the record straight? Why on earth would he had to make things worse for himself be
'sarcastically' declaring that he was paid of RM 1 billion. Obviously no man of
perfect coherence would do such a thing; for this only puts his motives in serious
question. Perhaps this is very much a story of someone trying his darndest to
cover his tracks. Talk about sheer cowardice...

A follow up on my previous post... the statement by the cop involved in the Altantuya
case has been retracted. Now... this smells fishy to me... I seriously don't know jack
even with the abundance of material online. But I just read this from Nat Tan.
If this is the case, it pretty makes some sense: http://jelas.info/2008/07/04/threatened-bribed-lied/

Cowardice and greed. I don't blame them. For the bigger snakes are playing them with
fear and bribery. They think they'll be in the benefit and the good books of the powers to be...
only discover later they would be played out like mere pawn pieces of a political chess game.

May the evil in this country be stopped in their tracks. Only the Lord brings true justice against
the liars.

Greeting Here In No Mans Land (Hope Awaits...)

Before I start ... news of importance - http://jelas.info/2008/07/03/statutory-declaration-proves-najib-knew-altantuya/

I had been pondering the situation for way too long. I guess this is the cream of all that is corrupt and decrepit about the system of things in this fair country. First of all I really salute folks like Nat Tan, Raja Petra as well as countless of others to take to the blogs to speak out the truth. It's very obvious even to the creeps in power that the dailies are nothing more but over-glorified bastions of shameless biased reporting. To tell you the truth, I can't bee certain that the exact sources for the attached address above to be credible. But the joke plainly is clearly getting old. The festeering of feudalist politics to the promises of democracy. And all we do is complain and do nothing....

I say this in remeberenace of the complacentcy of all of is in Sarawak. For so long we have been lapdogs and slaves to the 'ruling class' of old white hairs. The fact that we are making apologies as they strip us of our lands and livelyhood... what for do we have to do that?! Clearly we, are giving the thieves they key to our homes (and giving them a smile as well!)

But as much the powers that be dare to silence the whole lot of us, the inevitble would sure to come. I'm sure for all who believe in a higher power (me especially) dreams of retribution to all abusers. I have news for you: THE DAY WILL COME. We may plan revolutions and protests to
make the diffrence, rest assured the final coup de etat would be from God above. How he works, we can't explain... but it's either this: He Has the power to bring the corrupt to justice. He also has the power to actually change the hearts of the corrupt. Either way. Either path. But if He chooses to ignore the later; I have to say it's nobody's fault but him.

The sheer self-rightiousness and blind arrogance is the ultimate archiles heel that brings the giants down. Hitler, with his delusions of matrydom clouding his reason destroyed himself as well as the nation of Germany. Sukarno, relishing on fantasies being the next Che Guevara of the South East only ended being deposed from power. Absolute power corrupts. It's is only the notion of me, myself and I in the realm of reasoning. You are so full of yourself and your professional abilities, that you fail to notice the small cracks that would beyour ultimate demise.